Verbal Magic by Juan Tamariz

The best interactive magic book of all time is back in print — and it's never been more valuable. Perfect for everything from live shows to Zoom.

"Juan Tamariz is a master of many aspects of card magic, and one of his unique areas of mastery is the ability to take card routines that rely on simple and often sleight-free methods, that produce effects that are largely intellectual rather than visceral or visual, and yet put them across effectively and make them connect with people. 'Verbal Magic' is a unique instruction manual for how to make such material work for remote audiences at a distance — whether over the radio, in virtual performance, or over the telephone. This is not just a collection of such material, but it is a guide to how to transform such material into actual real-world performance." — Jamy Ian Swiss

"The material in Verbal Magic is capable of affecting all kinds of audiences in ways traditional magic rarely attains — remarkable material." — Stephen Minch

When it happens in their hands — It's an old adage of conjuring: The strongest magic happens in the hands of the audience. A lesser-known corollary to this is: The more that happens there, the stronger the magic. So what if it all happened in their hands? What if the magician wasn't even in the room? What if only his voice were guiding them... from the radio — or the television — or from far away — and the magic happened while they did everything!

That is what Spain's greatest magician, Juan Tamariz, asked himself. And from this question sprang a body of magic that has astonished vast audiences in Spain and Latin America when performed on radio and television, on stage and close up. It is magic that has fooled both the public and master magicians.

Using only a few playing cards, pieces of paper and other common objects as props, audiences are led through a variety of entertaining processes that lead to their utter amazement. Through clever principles, old and new, combined with cunning psychology and ground-breaking strategies, Juan Tamariz makes magic happen in everyone's hands. He fools people into amazing themselves!

This book collects over forty such tricks and presentations, all refined and tested through professional performance. Gema Navarro, under the guidance of Juan Tamariz, has meticulously transcribed presentations from tapes of numerous radio broadcasts. The transcripts are so detailed, they first let the reader fool himself, and then give him the information necessary to entertain and astonish his audiences — and the tools to devise many other effects that happen entirely in their hands and heads.

So open this book and join the amazed. Then share the amazement and fun with your audiences, whether they are listening to the radio, watching television or in the room with you.

Details: 176 pages · Deluxe hardcover · Nominee for Book of the Year, Penguin Magic Awards 2020