Counting on Deception by Larry Barnowsky

Counting on Deception offers a captivating array of original magic tricks that will leave your audience in awe without the need for complex sleight of hand. Many effects utilize subtle mathematical concepts that work behind the scenes. Inside, you’ll discover magic involving cards, coins, balls, salt, cups, predictions, crayons, an abacus, The Periodic Table, and much more.

This book features #80 weight gloss enamel paper, with options for cloth or leather binding, a four color dust jacket, and colored end papers. It contains 44 chapters, 256 pages of content, and over 400 high-quality black and white photos to facilitate learning. The printing quality matches that of The Book of Destiny and Kingdom of the Red.

Experience the Nine Shuffle Paradox, where despite shuffling the cards in nine different ways, the colors are perfectly sorted. In the Fifteen Card Poker Deal, your spectator can cut and mix the cards, yet the magician still deals a royal flush.

With Impromptu Pascal’s Pyramid Prediction, after a fair shuffle, ten cards form the base of an addition pyramid, and the sum at the top matches a sealed prediction exactly.

Underhanded Deception is a double prediction effect where the spectator deals cards face-up and face-down under the table, yet the magician accurately predicts the number of face-up cards and reveals all four aces.

Perform Mind Reading Cards to instantly know the number your spectator is thinking of. In Abracadabacus, after a significant historical year is chosen, the predicted date magically appears as numbers on an abacus.

Astound your audience with The 39th Card, where the spectator fairly cuts the deck and selects six cards.