Simplicity, Audacity and Bluff by Val Andrews

This could very well be Val Andrew’s most important work. He describes with several great examples and historical effects, how one can entertain and amaze employing nothing but simple audacious ruses or outright bluffs. If there is a showman in you, you will love these effects and ideas. If you rather rely on your bottom deal and classic pass, then you will probably not be able to appreciate the value of this information.

Taking advantage of the situation

The uses of a “magician” as an assistant

On the use of “stooges”

Giving the cue…

A bluff-pass

Two bluff card rises

Bluff wand vanishes

Cope Cecil’s vanishing wand addition

The last word on the Radio-Die or Colour Block

Billy McComb and the Silk-Change

Koran’s most outrageous trick

Impromptu audacity

Dante on audacity

Blackstone’s misdirection superb

Bob Harbin bluffs the exposing Journalist

Rabbit production – no apparatus

Bluff ala Dunninger

“The Hot Seat”

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