Something to have at your fingertips! This technique of Arturo Di Ascanio is an indispensable part of the magician's knowledge. Here is the principle: you show four red cards and, when you want, you can make a black card appear!  

A must. This very versatile technique will allow you to create your own effects. It allows you to show eight cards when you only have four.  

How to find a chosen card in an original way. A flash and surprising trick, to amuse your fingers once again... and your spectators!  

Four thieves, symbolized by the Aces, pass one by one through the deck, then when they are caught by the gendarmes (symbolized by the cards in the rest of the deck), vanish... and gather in the packet chosen by the spectator! The saga of the gendarmes and the thieves, "Renélys style"!  

Here is a false shuffle technique that cannot be ignored, invented by Herb Zarrow. Dominique Duvivier presents here the classical handling of this essential technique, but also some of his own handlings and different applications. He also discusses another false shuffle: the Erdnase Shuffle. It's up to you!  

Your audience will experience a collective hypnosis exercise... that will go further and further! Three spectators will live an extraordinary experience... but what could be more normal, since they are under the hypnotic influence of the magician!  

Pairs of cards are assembled according to the instructions of different members of the audience. The audience's options and choices are completely free. Despite these crazy conditions, the two cards making up each pair turn out to be identical! The trick was shot live at the Double Fond.  

The deck is shuffled by one spectator and one card is chosen by another. When this spectator shuffles again to lose his card, it is clear that a mysterious card is between two red kings! And then you will think: "No! It's not possible! ». Well, "Yes it is!". It is indeed the chosen card: it is no longer in the deck! Dominique Duvivier shares here with you a particularly baffling technique of his own. Even when we see the explanation, we remain amazed!  

Here's Beatles Nervous Breakdown live excerpt from a show by Dominique Duvivier played at Double Fond. Enjoy what you see and if you want to know more you will find this trick elsewhere on the platform in studio version with the explanation and the possibility to buy everything you need for the trick. The perfect mental and small packet trick! Dominique presents a small package, in which there is a card with one of the four Beatles on one side and the four kings on the other. He then asks the spectator to think of one of the four kings. Freely, without forcing of any kind, the chosen king will be the ONLY king face up among the cards face down. Then he shows the other cards that are supposed to be the other kings, but not at all: they are the other three Beatles! The effect is devastating!  

Like Dustin Hoffman in "Rain Man", you want to show your exceptional instant memorization skills. After thoroughly shuffling your deck of cards, you announce that you have memorized the position of the red and black cards; but in demonstrating this, you fail miserably! But surprise, you say that half of the cards are red-backed, and the other half are black-backed; and that in truth, the cards have been sorted by their backs!!!  

A mysterious and very flash effect: you have only one card, but it changes three times! To be seen again and again, to amuse your fingers... and your spectators!  

A card is freely chosen, then lost in the deck. The magician then produces the four Aces. Then, after a little "magic interlude" where the four Aces mysteriously switch place, a fifth card appears between them: it is of course the spectator's one!  

The freely chosen card turns mysteriously face up in the middle of the deck in a flash. A striking trick with a big impact!  

Le Double Fond opened its doors on June 1st 1988. This exceptional archive allows you to discover Dominique Duvivier and Gaetan Bloom in one of their first shows in those days; this show was split into four parts.  

The magician places three "Gold" coins in a row on one side of the table, and three "Silver" coins on the other side. The three "Gold" coins will travel one by one to join the "Silver" coins, without any apparent contact! The method used is interesting: minimum handling, maximum effect!  

Spellbound is one of the great classics in coin magic. A half dollar turns into a Chinese coin and vice versa; the effect is repeated several times. Both hands look completely empty throughout the routine. Only regular coins, no gimmick. Visual and clean!