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John Carey – Dice Dice Baby – review

Dice dice baby is a great collection of magic with dice, featuring John Carey. I’ll be honest, I don’t do much magic with dice, but there is something inherently pleasing about these familiar objects,...

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Conscious Magic Episode 5 – review

Conscious Magic Episode 5 is the latest in the highly successful Conscious Magic series of DVDs. Ran Pink and Andrew Gerard have carefully curated effects on these releases to provide strong magic and...

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Christopher W Barnes – Be More Funny – review

Be More Funny is the latest book from creative American magician Christopher W Barnes’ pen. As I read the book to review it I had a strange experience of deja vu. Around 18 months ago I found myself...

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Gary Jones – Life’s a Beach – Volume 1 – review

Life’s a Beach is the first volume in a forthcoming collection gathering some of the brilliant ideas of Gary Jones in print. It’s a 135-page paper backed collection produced by the wonderful folk at...

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John Archer – Collard 2 – review

Collard 2 is a cracking mentalism set piece from the clever mind of John Archer. I didn’t actually see the original version – so I’m unable to make direct comparisons with that – but will instead...

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Other Brothers – Words Beyond – review

Words Beyond is a clever new (ish!) book test from the Other Brothers. Of the making of book tests there seems to be no end – so what’s different about this one? Read on in our review to find out. What...

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Cameron Francis – Super Mega Card Miracles – review

Super Mega Card Miracles is the latest understated title from Cameron (!) featuring his best versions of some of his favourite effects. Let’s go straight into… …the tricks Dedoner I missed what the...

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George Parker – Performing Magic with Impact – review

Performing Magic with Impact is a difficult book to categorise. It makes a bold claim in its title? Does it deliver on the promise? Let’s get in to our review. Speaking from experience A great starting...

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John Bannon – Fire When Ready – review

Fire When Ready completes the ‘Bullet Trilogy’ from the excellent John Bannon. But I approached it with some trepidation since I was a little disappointed with the most recent Bannon releases (Dealing...

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Richy Roy – Maxims of a Magician – review

Maxims of a Magician is the second book by Richy Roy that we have reviewed here. You can read our review of The Wealthy Magician here. The Wealthy Magician was a very applied book – looking at the...

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Gary Jones – Life’s a Beach – Vol 2 – review

It doesn’t seem that long since we look at Life’s a Beach Vol 1 – but given how strong the material in that book was I was very excited to get my hands on Vol 2. So let’s get on with the review! After...

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Steven Palmer – Rogue – Review

Rogue has been sitting on my review pile for woefully long. As you may have noticed, there’s been a bit of a delay in reviewing recently due to other pressures. However, Steven Palmer’s new (ish!!) DVD...

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John Bannon – Buzzkill – review

John Bannon is the king of packet tricks and Buzzkill is a really fun little fooler with plenty of built in laughs. In essence you have four cards printed with cartoon flies, and four blank ‘fly...

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Ultimate Self Working Card Tricks Vol IV – review

The Ultimate Self Working Card Tricks series is one of the jewels in the Big Blind Media crown. It’s some years (2014) since we looked at the last volume in this series – though there have been some...

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Harapan Ong – Principia – review

Principia is a book I’ve been excited about reading for over a year. Unfortunately life circumstances have prevented me from spending any time within its beautiful covers… until now. So here, probably...

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John Carey – Sweet Simplicity – review

Sweet Simplicity is the latest in a number of John Carey releases we’ve reviewed here at Bicycle-Cards.co.uk.  There’s lots to like about this DVD from Big Blind Media full of straightforward close up...

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Steve Dela – Night Flight Deck – review

So Steve Dela’s Night Flight Deck landed through my letterbox this week.  “Do we really need another marked deck?” I hear you cry?  If you’d asked me before I might have been unsure, but these Night...

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Sorry for the radio silence

We realise that is has been a long time since we’ve posted here. We’ve not gone away, but pressures of work, family-life, and more recently the Covid-19 outbreak have combined to significantly reduce...

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George Parker – Performing Magic with Impact – review

Performing Magic with Impact is a difficult book to categorise. It makes a bold claim in its title? Does it deliver on the promise? Let’s get in to our review. Speaking from experience A great starting...

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