Absolute Madness by Craig Petty

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If you are even slightly involved in the magic community, you have surely heard the name Craig Petty. Craig has been one of the most active creators of magic tricks in recent years. We’ll just mention the Atomic Deck, Savant Deck, and The Big Blind.

Absolute Madness is something new for Craig. It is his first magic book.

What does it offer? Tricks with cards, coins, and other objects. The book also includes several essays in which Craig discusses learning magic, creating magic, and marketing.

Which effect do you get to learn?

• Across: A thought of cards across with no extra cards or gimmicks.
• Awesome Sandwich: A selected card appears between two queens multiple times right before the four aces are produced.
• Back Off: An ambitious card routine built into a packet trick that also features a stunning All Backs sequence.
• Final Twist: A mashup of John Bannon and Dai Vernon where a twisting of the aces causes a deck shuffled face up and face down to right itself.
• Designed Dupe: A multi-phase drawing duplication effect perfect food walkaround performances.
• Lloyd: Trevor Duffy’s Phil Effect gets an extra prediction and the ability to shuffle the deck.
• Cross: A progressive sandwich trick in which marked cards work their way through the deck to find a selected card with no sleight of hand required.
• Movie: A movie prediction in a deck of cards featuring a secret so diabolical it will make it into the repertoire of mentalists around the world.
• Sharp: A crazy visual Sharpie marker and coin routine with a marker growing to impossible size and a jumbo coin finish your audience will never see coming.
• Through The Looking Glass: Paul Harris’ classic effect Twilight, where coins appear from a mirror, can now be done walk-around and table side.
• Virtual Coin Assembly: Coins drawn on cards jump from card to card before becoming real coins.
• Into The Void: David Roth’s Portable Hole effect becomes performable table-side by a standing performer for the first time ever.
• Triple Double Jumbo Threat: A visual feast of three coins vanishing, appearing, teleporting, and becoming multiple jumbo coins. No audience is ever the same after seeing this.
• Triple Split: An impossibly clean production and vanish of three coins from bare hands.
• Craig’s Medallion: The cleanest handling of Koran’s medallion. A prediction on the back of a coin held under guard by a spectator that you’ll love performing.
• Thud: A coin becomes a ball bearing, almost like you are playing with liquid mercury. The steel ball grows to impossible sizes and is how Craig gets huge reactions from his walk-around audiences.
• Gadabout Bearings: Small ball bearings teleport and transport in size right before the spectator’s eyes.
• The Big Family Show Sponge Ball Routine: If you need to hold the attention of a room of kids and adults alike, this is the sponge ball routine you are going to want to learn.
• Balled Up: An impromptu sponge ball routine with rolled-up napkins becomes impossible when one napkin vanishes and is found inside the other napkin the spectator has been holding since the beginning of the trick.