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E-ROUTINES

E-Routines offer you a way to purchase individual effects from Mark Leveridge Magic publications in an economical and fast way.

All E-Routines require virtually no specialised props.

There are currently 28 routines to choose from!

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Each E-Routine costs just £3.00. To order, simply decide which routine(s) you require from the list below and then click on the 'add to basket' button below the item to place your order. After the payment process you will be given a link to download your selection(s).

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Take advantage of our summer special offer this month by getting one free E-Routine for every two that you pay for. Order as follows:

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3. Submit your order.

4. You will immediately receive links for the two paid for routines so that you can download them straight away, and then your third free routine will arrive as an email attachment.

Please note: this offer applies only to E-Routines and NOT to Master E-Routines

Click on any of the following trick titles to read its details.

1. DIARY OF A NOBODY

2. PARTNERS

3. MISSING THE POINT

4. THE HOMING COIN

5. GNASHERS

6. THE UTILITY SWITCH ENVELOPE + PRE-VIEW

7. MY CARD, SIR 

8. SPIN OUT  

9. SIGNATURE PIECE

10. SKINT

11. IT PAYS TO BE A LADY

12. SIMPLEX HOPPING HALVES

13. CREDIT TRANSFER  

14. THE MAKE WEIGHT

15. THE SILI-COIN CHIP

16. NAME DROPPER

17. MUSCLES

18. EQUALLY EQUAL ROPES

19. CARD IN MIND

20. COPY RING

21. DEVIL'S ISLAND

22. TEARAWAY

23. DICEY FORFEITS

24. COUNTDOWN PREDICTION

25. THE ACROBATIC COIN

26. MAGNETIC ATTRACTION

27. ANIMAL ANTICS

28. INTUITION

   DIARY OF A NOBODY
(extracted from The Lecture Collection CD)
A few years ago this routine was sold separately as part of my marketed range and it proved popular. There are many versions of Danson's 'Diary Trick' and I like to think that my version has much to recommend it. A spectator is handed a diary and on looking through it will soon see that every date has a playing card written next to it. The spectator looks up her own birthday date and remembers the card written against it. A blue deck of cards is shown and there is seen to be one red backed card in it. This is the card that is in the diary next to the magician's birthday date. This odd backed card is left in the deck which is shuffled. Using the spectator's birthday date, cards are dealt from the face up deck. Firstly the correct number of cards to match her birthday day (i.e. 12th = 12 cards) and then one card for each month starting in January. The card that falls on the birthday month turns out to be the very same card as seen by the spectator against her birthday in the diary, and when this card is turned over, it is discovered to be the performer's own red backed birthday card as well! Only one diary and one deck is used. No difficult sleights. Back to list.

 PARTNERS
(extracted from The Lecture Collection CD)
In the right circumstances this is a really charming and different effect which is suitable for a close up show or a small cabaret where the audience consists of no more than about 40 people. Particularly apt for anniversary parties or weddings, the routine revolves around a married couple. A prediction is placed in view at the start. The husband and wife will each be asked two questions about their partner, and by way of reply, will get to choose at random one of four potential answers on each occasion. The questions and the potential answers are read out and often cause much amusement amongst the spectators who know the couple as the answers are either very apt or comically way off the mark. After each person has been asked two questions and selected responses, at first the chosen replies do not appear to paint a very happy picture of the couple! However, when the prediction is read out, not only has the performer correctly anticipated all four of the chosen responses, but the context in which these replies are now seen and understood makes the relationship between the couple seem perfectly charming! Back to list.

   MISSING THE POINT
(extracted from The Celebration Lecture CD [no longer available])
The magician displays a plastic card (I use my Magic Circle membership card but you could easily use any credit card or any other plastic membership card) and borrows a bank note which he wraps around it. Taking a thin knitting needle, he then pushes it right through the note and thus through the card. The note is shown both sides and the needle can be seen to have pierced right through. The needle is then pulled out and the card slipped out of its bank note cover and is seen to be completely unharmed yet the bank note still has the holes right through it! Back to list.

   THE HOMING COIN
(extracted from The Lecture Collection CD)
This is a very nice routine suitable for a close up show which uses simple props to produce some surprising magic. A matchbox drawer is shown empty and placed mouth down on the table. A coin is vanished and immediately appears under the box. The matchbox cover is then placed upright on the back of the drawer and the coin dropped inside. Immediately the drawer is lifted and the coin has penetrated through and under the drawer again. Finally the box is placed under a handkerchief and held by a spectator. The coin vanishes and is supposed to appear back inside the box. However, when the box is opened it is seen to be completely full of matches! Back to list.

   GNASHERS
(extracted from The Complete Magic Party)
I regularly use this routine in my children's magic shows and it is perfect for the 4-7 age range. All you will need to get the routine together are a few silks, a three way change bag and a pair of large wind up chattering teeth (available in most joke shops). There's loads of fun as the teeth, in an attempt to untie one of the hankies from a chain of three placed in the bag only manages to chew holes in it. At first your attempts to magically repair the hanky only makes it worse before finally all ends well. Lasts 5-6 minutes. Back to list.

   THE UTILITY SWITCH ENVELOPE + PRE-VIEW
(extracted from Forever Flapping Plus E-Book)
Over the years I have come up with a lot of different routines using my Utility Switch Envelope as it really is extremely versatile. This E-Routine will give you exact construction details of how to make it. All you need are a few small brown pay envelopes (available from good stationers) a pair of scissors, a small knife and some paper glue and you are in business. Once made, you can then go on to try PRE-VIEW, the routine also detailed here. Until recently available as a separate marketed item, this is a strong card effect in which a card peeked at in a deck instantly vanishes only to be found to be the very card placed sight unseen into an envelope BEFORE the second card was peeked at! Simple to use, this will open doors for other effects for you too. Back to list.

   MY CARD, SIR
(extracted from The Lecture Collection CD)
If you ever find yourself in the position of someone asking for your business card, this simple idea will enable you to produce your card in a memorable and magical way. In these situations it is important that the magic happens quickly, and that everything is presented in a clear and straightforward fashion, and this idea ensures that not only do you get to pass on your card, but that it is likely to be kept by the recipient. This handling could be worth bookings to you..... Back to list.

  SPIN OUT
(extracted from The Strolling Magician)
This is the card effect with which I start virtually every table or group that I entertain with close up. All you require is a regular deck, there is no set up and it plays for about three minutes. You have a card chosen and lost in the deck. You then box the cards and say that rather than find the card you will read the spectator's mind and reveal the card that way. Gradually you do just that, eventually naming correctly the selection. Then as a killer finish you pick up the card case, toss it up in the air and instantly the actual chosen card appears outside the box held at your fingertips. Back to list.

   SIGNATURE PIECE
(extracted from The 8th British Close Up Magic Symposium Book)
This is not only a neat and surprising magical effect, but it leaves you in the position to give away a business card at the finish. A playing card is chosen, signed and slipped face down into the centre of a face up deck. A small wallet is opened to show one face down card inside with the performer's name on the back. Turned over, this turns out to be the performer's business card. This is returned to the wallet. Moments later, the card FACES change places, with the selected card now being in the wallet with the magician's name on its rear, and the business card being found in the deck centre with the spectator's signature on it! Back to list.

   SKINT
(extracted from The Lecture Collection CD)
I have a real liking for coin and purse routines and this is a lovely direct and magical effect using three coins and a purse. The coins are tipped from the purse and one at a time they vanish in extremely convincing ways. Immediately they are all found back in the purse! No gimmicks, this routine teaches you two wonderful clean ways to do a complete coin vanish - it's worth it just for those two moves alone! Back to list.

   IT PAYS TO BE A LADY
(extracted from The Lecture Collection CD)
In the 1980's this was one of my most popular marketed items and many hundreds of them were sold. It is simple enough to make up and the E-Routine instructions will soon have you performing the routine. Basically it is a 3 card trick but with a difference. A story is told and as the cards are laid out on the table actual bank notes start to appear under the cards! First a £5, then a £10! Just when the audience expects a further note they are in for two further surprises in quick succession to bring the routine to a close. This is excellent magic! Back to list.

   SIMPLEX 'HOPPING HALVES'
(extracted from The Strolling Magician)
If you enjoy simple to do magic which never requires a re-set and which you can do anytime, anywhere, you will love this two stage routine using a 10p and a £2 coin. Both coins are borrowed from spectators and placed into your fist. The 10p is openly removed, shown freely and genuinely placed away in your pocket. Instantly it jumps back to your hand to join the £2. Then the £2 is removed, but instead of both coins reappearing in the hand, they both vanish and are produced from the pocket. Very clean handling, easy to do, no gimmicks as the coins are borrowed! Back to list.

   CREDIT TRANSFER
(extracted from Forever Flapping Plus E-Book)
This is really two tricks in one! A borrowed credit card is sealed in a small pay envelope. A paperback book is riffled through and a spectator calls stop. The envelope containing the credit card is dropped into the book to mark the place selected. A second book is shown to have an envelope already inside it and amazingly when checked, it is seen that the envelope is positioned between the same two pages as those chosen by the spectator for the first book! But there's more, because the performer then causes the credit card to jump from the envelope in the spectator's book across to the envelope inside his book! Back to list.

   THE MAKE WEIGHT
(extracted from The 7th British Close Up Magic Symposium Book)
The performer borrows a bank note from a spectator and explains that sometimes banks weigh piles of notes, just like they do with coins. Trouble is, sometimes the weight is not quite right and so they add a secret 'make weight' to redress the balance. With genuinely empty hands the note is taken and folded. Reaching with fingertips into the folds, the magician slowly extracts a small coin! Here's the make weight! Of course, you should never tamper with currency and so the coin is inserted back into the note which is immediately opened out and returned to its owner leaving the performer's hands completely empty again. Back to list.

   THE SILI-COIN CHIP
(extracted from The Lecture Collection CD)
Five chips or coins are displayed. Each has a coloured sticker attached to both sides and there are five different colours. The chips are placed out of sight inside a simple cloth bag and then the performer removes one and drops it into a brass box which is left in view. A spectator is invited to guess which colour the magician chose. Amazingly, no matter which one he chooses, the other four colours are removed from the bag leaving it genuinely empty (and examinable if required) and the selected coloured coin is tipped from the box! Back to list.

   NAME DROPPER
(extracted from The Strolling Magician)
This excellent card effect, suitable for table hopping magicians, requires no re-set and after each performance leaves the spectators with your business card. A spectator's name is written with a permanent marker pen on the back of a card freely named by him. When placed back to back with a card bearing the performer's details, the name is magically transferred to the business card leaving the original selection clean! Back to list.

   MUSCLES
(extracted from The Complete Magic Party)
This children's routine is one I use regularly in my own shows and all it requires is a pack of cigarette papers! The trick is simply the torn and restored cigarette paper, but the presentation makes this into a fun feature trick for youngsters. This must be the ultimate 'packs small plays big' type of effect! Back to list.

   EQUALLY EQUAL ROPES
(extracted from M.I.M.C. [now out of print])
Yes, you have read the title of this trick correctly! The Professor's Nightmare or Equally Unequal Ropes is a classic trick, but my Equally Equal Ropes  is a different slant on the original effect which is designed to catch out magicians or those who simply know the original trick. Great as an opening effect or as a compere item, in this version three different lengths of rope are stretched to the same length, and then instead of returning to their original state can be given out for examination all still equal! Great fun! Back to list.

   CARD IN MIND
(extracted from The Lecture Collection CD)
A powerful and baffling routine. A spectator examines a deck, shuffles it and then returns it to its case which is left in view. He then thinks of any card and writes it on a small square of paper which is folded and then has his initials put clearly on the outside. The magician attempts to read the spectator's mind and writes down a card name on another piece of paper and also a number which he says will hopefully be the card's position from the top of the shuffled deck. Another spectator reads out the magician's prediction - and the card name is the indeed the one the spectator thought of! And when the deck is dealt down to the performer's predicted number, the actual selected card is even in the predicted position! Back to list.

   COPY RING
(extracted from The Strolling Magician)
A wonderful effect for strolling magicians and table hopper's using a spectator's finger ring. An 'invisible' template of the size, shape and style of a borrowed ring magically fills out to become a visible solid exact replica of the original ring! However unfortunately, the loaned ring itself has become invisible! All ends well when the original ring is magically restored to its normal state. No re-set, this is amusing and magical. Back to list.

   DEVIL'S ISLAND
(extracted from The Lecture Collection CD)
This unusual mental effect can be used in a close up show or by scaling up the props, from a stage. A map of an island with 6 clearly marked locations is shown. Cards bearing the location names are slipped into envelopes, mixed and given out at random to members of the audience. A spectator selects any of the locations entirely freely and the magician's prediction correctly reveals which spectator is holding the chosen location. This effect won the International IBM 'Award Of Outstanding Merit' when it originally appeared in the Linking Ring magazine. Back to list.

   TEARAWAY
(extracted from The Lecture Collection CD)
A banknote is borrowed and a small piece of Post-It note paper folded around it's centre crease. The magician then proceeds to rip a chunk right out of the paper and of necessity also from the bank note underneath! The bank note can be shown both sides up very close and the damage is clear to see. Yet a moment later the note is opened out and shown to be completely restored while the Post-It note still has a large hole in it's middle! Back to list.

   DICEY FORFEITS
(extracted from The Complete Magic Party)
A terrific game which is ideal for groups of children of almost any age. There is lots of participation and fun with this game in which the children sit in a circle and then are chosen at random to do a forfeit. This is one of those games which you can play for as long as you need, as the children seem to love doing it. Simple to run, fun to do! Back to list.

   COUNTDOWN PREDICTION
(extracted from M.I.M.C. [now out of print])
A prediction Jumbo card is placed sight unseen in full view. A deck of cards is displayed and shuffled and a spectator freely selects a number of cards to use from the deck. These cards are eliminated one by one until only one remains. Despite the freedom of the handling and choices, the selected card matches the Jumbo prediction. Very easy to do, suitable for close up show or a stand up performance. Back to list.

   THE ACROBATIC COIN
(extracted from The British Close Up Magic Symposium - The First Decade)
A card is selected and shuffled back into the deck before being returned to the card box and given to a spectator to hold. A coin is placed under a handkerchief from where it vanishes and moments later, when the deck is carefully slid from its box, the coin is found sandwiched in the middle of the deck and resting on the back of the selected card. No gimmicks required, no re-set, great for strolling work. Back to list.

   MAGNETIC ATTRACTION
(extracted from The Lecture Collection CD) 
This is an easy to do matrix effect using four small coins and two borrowed credit cards. The four coins are placed out in a widely spread square formation and using the two credit cards as covers coins start to magically jump until all four coins end up under the one credit card! Virtually no sleight of hand, this is a clever and simple idea which looks great! Back to list.

   INTUITION
(extracted from The Lecture Collection CD) 
A routine suitable for those who work restaurants or private parties. 6 envelopes are given out to people round the table. 5 of the envelopes contain your business card, the 6th has a spectator's name written on the back of your card. The spectator eliminates any 5 envelopes and amazingly manages to leave the very one that contains the card with the name on the back! No gimmicks, straightforward to do. Back to list.