Shoot The Works by Ed Marlo

Details: The greatest book on dice work ever written for the magician.

A complete manual of dice manipulation from the magic angle. Reputation making tricks. A wealth of content, including the Great Dice Stack in which four dice on the table are covered with a dice cup. Performer slides cup in a swinging motion, with its mouth against the table, then lifts it, and the dice are piled in a perfect upright stack! Featured by the famous John Paul, John Platt and many other close up men.

Also includes dice transposition, a dice and hat routine, holdout, They’re Loaded, 3 dice and a coin, etc. Complete analysis of Dice Control on soft and hard surfaces. Complete explanation of Soup and Crooked Dice of every kind, including detection and switches. Gambling Demonstration Routine, lecture outline, suggested program, expose, explanation of terms.

Contents (from book):

1 Foreword

2 Section 1
2 Four Dice and Two Hats: with jumbo die climax
5 Through the Table: dice penetrate table and appear under hat
6 Three Dice and a Hat: dice are invisibly tossed into the air and heard dropping into hat
7 A Dice and a Hat: variation of above
7 Dice Transposition: three white dice transfer one at a time to hand with three red dice
9 Triple Dice Routine: two in the hand one in the pocket routine

11 Section II
11 It’s Old But It’s New: Tony Platt
12 The Dice Stack
14 – The Basic Move
15 – Stacking Multiple Dice
16 – Desired Number On Top
16 – Vanishing Dice
17 Pick and Drop: dice can be dropped out one at a time from inverted cup
18 Four of a Kind: shake out four of a kind
18 – The Farmer Shake
21 Hold Out Methods
22 Tony Platt Hold Out
24 They’re Loaded: fice aces the easy way
24 Foo Dice Cup: like a Foo Can
26 Chinese Dice Box: control dice shakes

27 Section III
28 Three Dice and a Coin: one die transfers to the other hand with help of a coin
28 The Thumb Twister: spots change on a die with routine using mis-spotted dice
31 Dice Control
31 – Dice Control on a Hard Surface
33 – Marlo’s Control
33 – Dice Control on a Soft Surface
34 Soup!: a special dice liquid comedy bit
35 Crooked Dice
35 – Set No. 1 Tops and Bottoms or Horses
35 – Set No. 2 Shapes or Buffed Dice
36 – Set No. 3 Trip Dice
36 – Set No. 4 Filled or Loaded Dice
37 – Set No. 5 Tapping Dice
37 – Set No. 6 Paint Work
37 – Set No. 7 Capped Transparent Dice
38 – Set No. 8 Magnetic Dice
38 Advice to Service Men
39 Rules for Detecting Crooked Dice
40 Dice Switches
40 – 1. The One Hand Switch
41 – 2. Money Switch
42 – 3. Cuff Switch
42 – 4. Table Swtich
42 – 5. Single Dice Switch
43 The Dice Switch Routine
44 Gambling Demonstration Routine
45 Explanation of Terms
46 The Hand Behind the Dice Cup
47 Round Dice – A Novelty
49 Other Book by Edward Marlo

• Publisher: Magic Inc.
• Pages: 48
• Location: Chicago, IL, USA
• Dimensions: 5″x8″
• Date: 1943, 1981
• Binding: softbound

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