36 pages PDF with illustrations 
 
My goal for these lecture notes is to not only provide you with good material you’ll use but also to encourage you, by example, to add a few new tools to your magic toolbox. These tools may be some from these notes or others you’ve discovered. 
 
The tricks in these notes were all chosen for that specific reason. Every one of them uses some of my current favorite tools a strategy, technique or sleight I have used not only here but in other of my tricks and routines in a variety of ways. I spoke about them all in the lecture. It’s a bit too much to get into in a set of notes. That’s planned for my book.
 
Tricks include:
 
Whack to the Future - The magician challenges the spectator to a game of bluff and speed. The spectator ends up having no chance, because the magician moves so fast it almost feels like time travel. 
 
A Dicey Deal - After a spectator rolls a die and then rotates it to his heart’s content so that is final orientation is truly random a shuffled deck is dealt out per the dice resulting in amazing coincidences and a winning hand. 
 
Myth - Three cards are freely selected then found in a spectator shuffled deck … or were they?
 
DBAA - The magician starts with four odd cards: double-backers. After musing on how useless four double backers are, the magician decides a little magic can fix this. He changes the double-backers to four queens and causes a deck to appear. The queens vanish one-at-a-time until only one is left, which reproduces the other three queens in a flash. 
 
I Guarantee - Among other things, the Bicycle guarantee on the Joker guarantees a good card trick and this routine proves just that! 
Hassel(Less)Hoff - The best most direct approach to the Hofzinzer Ace problem ever published. John Bannon asked to include it in his new upcoming book. 
 
Close Hangers - a Curtis Kam CLASSIC Coin Trick! Well within the abilities of us mere mortals who don;t have “palms of steel” with a built in punch line!
 
Jim Ryan’s Cards Across - Jim Ryans classic trick. A reputation making routine. 
 
Jim Ryan’s Bill Tear - Jim’s handling finally taught correctly as part of a great new fun routine.