After the deserved success of Freedom of expression and semi-automatic Vol.1, find Dani DaOrtiz in this second volume of the new collection of Tricks semi-automatic.

Dani DaOrtiz will introduce you to his vision of the effects without preparation and once again shares many valuable psychological subtleties that will make Tricks the simplest of surprising and impossible to trace effects.

Summary by Dani DaOrtiz!
Thirteen by the Dozen: Here's one of my Tricks favorites. An effect with multiple twists and turns, based on a very deceptive method of giving three different spectators “think” cards… and keeping these three “thought” cards under control and in a completely unsuspected way.

Noon exactly: I have a lot of fun presenting this effect. This is a new version of Dai Vernon’s classic “trick that cannot be explained”. In this case, the common thread is to be able to choose a card, lose it in the game in a specific place and find it in a magical, clear and safe way. As happens with these kinds of effects, by presenting it many times, we tend to lose in spontaneity and improvisation what we gain in new ideas. The one I am going to explain to you serves as an outcome.

Mental choice: Here's a method I sometimes use to find the identity of a card thought up by a spectator. And even stronger, when one spectator thinks of family and another of value. And yet, we have a way of finding and identifying it. How ? everything is explained in the book.

The stabbed game: Unlike the classic version of the card with a knife, here the deck is literally pierced by the knife, thus cutting exactly where the chosen card is located. Imagine, for example, that you are presenting a routine for the appearance of aces and that the last one of them resists your searches. You then grab the knife that was “by chance” on the table and you stick it in the back of the deck, cutting exactly on the fourth ace. I will explain the simple version to you, where you find with a stab a card chosen and signed then lost in the game.

Funny coincidence: This effect seems both very magical and fun to me. It requires two decks of cards, which can be shuffled before starting, and even borrowed. A spectator takes or “thinks” about a card then he is asked to turn his head, so as not to see what is going to happen on the table.

Page Coincidence: This is an effect that I have been introducing ever since I created it many years ago in an attempt to reinterpret one of Patrick Page's classic effects. I had the chance to discuss it with him a long time ago during the prestigious FFFF congress.

By touch: I will present to you my research on the theme of estimation, with an idea that came to me some time ago and thanks to which the spectator himself carries out the “dirty work” of controlling his chosen card. In doing so, I am going to tell you about a very easy card memorization system that can help you out of many situations.

Choose and think: Here is one of my favorite effects. Those who know me know that I have always spent a lot of time playing with the concept of a thought map. What I'm going to explain to you now is an idea that we had with my good friend Jorge Luengo, when we were looking for a clear and direct way to learn the identity of a purely thought card.

Elastic Metamorphosis: I have been exhibiting this effect for many years. To tell the truth, I think it was one of the first effects that I published in the first edition of my book Mi Baraja personal, before completely transforming it for a new publication. I'm using it again here in its new version, simpler and easier to make.

ACAAN direct (Vernon-DaOrtiz): I have always been surprised that this effect, in its original version, went unnoticed by the magic community and even that its own author, Dai Vernon, only devoted a few lines to it in the third volume of the Vernon Chronicles. Since I discovered the original effect, it is one of the versions that I have continued to present to audiences of magicians. Thanks to its purity, this trick is always very successful. As I have practiced it a lot for years, what I am going to describe to you here is a personal adaptation (otherwise, it would not have its place in this book) from a technical point of view, which allowed me to make it, at least in my hands, more natural and simpler.

On the spot: Here is an impromptu effect on a coincidence of time which I am particularly proud of and which I take great pleasure in presenting. It must be said that card spinning, carried out in poor weather, has never given me such good results.

The thrown card : A simple and classic effect. A card is chosen and then lost in the deck. The magician then takes any card, which he throws face up at any place in the deck. When the deck is spread out in a ribbon, it turns out that the thrown card is right above the chosen card, as if he had found it in an inexplicable way.

About Lorayne : Here is one of these effects that I always give as an example when I want to talk about estimation. For several years, I presented as is the original version of this effect, which I had read in Magia con Cartas [Spanish edition of Close-Up Card Magic] by Harry Lorayne, a book given to me by my friend Gabriel Pareras, several decades ago now...

Forward somersault : Here is a classic lead time effect which uses a very classic forcing. You need two decks with different colored spines, which you can bring yourself or, if you are performing in front of fellow magicians, you can borrow one of the two.

These Tricks semi-automatics do not resemble or resemble Tricks mathematics or puzzles. They will leave your viewers amazed and curious for an explanation!

Their presentation, including rhythm, gaze and use of words, is an integral part of the technique.

Book Features

• Size 16 x 24 cm
• 140 pages
• Color book
• Four-color hard cover
• Sewing binding
• 3rd opus of the Dani Daortiz collection (after Freedom of expression, Tricks semi-automatic Vol.1, Marchand de truc editions)