Issue #25 opens with Annemann falling off a boat at a magician’s picnic and billing the suit to the Jinx expense account. The effects include a flag production with no gimmick, a sleightless ambitious card built around a short card, a coin divination that works because Canadian nickels are magnetic, and a stack-based book test with a built-in out.

Effects Covered

[1:06] 21st Century Silks — Lorne Dubois A flag appears knotted between two ordinary silks with no switch and no sympathetic silk gimmick. One corner of a duplicate flag is prepared to match one silk and rolled tightly inside it — the visible knot at the start is real, just tied around the hidden corner.

[2:14] Editorial — Theodore Annemann Annemann fell overboard at a magician’s picnic and is billing the new suit to the Jinx. He praises the debut issue of The Genie while noting its editor publicly sided against him in the ongoing Gravitt piracy dispute. A substantial section covers nightclub magicians being pressured into unpaid extra work — his advice: refuse it, and you’ll probably keep the job anyway. A Nebraska magic club has removed Blackstone from their membership over his exposure series, a move Annemann clearly approves of.

[4:23] The Modern Eye Popper — Dick Madden A sleightless ambitious card built around a short card that makes every double lift automatic. The selected card keeps returning to the top through multiple visual phases, with one genuine double lift saved for the end.

[5:28] Numus Matagic — Stuart James Five coins — four American nickels and one Canadian — are sealed in envelopes and mixed. The performer identifies the Canadian one every time from behind his back. The secret is genuine physics: Canadian nickels of the era were magnetic. A strong magnet under the coat does the detecting. Jay notes the comments at jinxnavigator.com list which years the Canadian nickels were actually magnetic.

[6:47] Letters — Theodore Annemann Period correspondence from the era — at jinxnavigator.com under Issue #25.

[7:02] The Word on the Page — Theodore Annemann A stack-based book test using the 1415 stack. Four cards lifted from anywhere in the spread always produce one of only two possible words, and Annemann’s handling includes a verbal out — starting to spell one word and smoothly switching to the other backwards if the first turns out wrong.

[8:20] Cards in the Cases — John Braun and Theodore Annemann Two stacked decks, never crossing hands. The performer places a card at a position in the blue deck before the helper selects from the red — and the card at that position in the blue deck matches exactly. The performer never touches the deck the helper selects from.

[9:50] Outro Links and a preview of Issue #26 — featuring R.M. Jamison’s Here or There.