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Issue 186
- Magical News and reviews around the world with Geoff Maltby
- Eddie Dawes reviews the magazines.
- John Rhodes keeps us up to date with who has been doing what and where.
- Al Smith suggests some magical consignees to Room 101.
- Alan Ward discusses a special form of line art.
- Magical diary—put your club on the map.
- Your contributions can win prizes
- Unclassified ads. Buy, sell, swop or announce.
- Ian Keable and Walt discuss the good professor Hoffman
- Alexander Allen adds yet another novel card revelation to the cannon.
- Peter Duffie presents an easy to do 'Lie Detector' that cannot fail, and which, with good management, allows the spectator to handle the cards for the whole trick.
- Max Maven moves on to a variation of his effect in the last issue. The four aces are used for a couple of preliminary tricks to see if they are up to the task of locating a selected card. They are; and they do.
- Stephen Tucker and Andrew Hawkes continue the theme they began in November.
- Ian Adair has a business-packed routine about jockeys in search of a horse.
- Peter D'Arcy discusses running Children's parties
- Ali Cardabra employs an old optical illusion to produce a coin in a new way.
- Ian Adair has devised a new style book test using highlighter pens.
- Werner Miller offers two versions of an ÈSP coincidence where the performer and a spectator finish up holding the same symbol.
- A clever Jumbo prediction by Ian Adair
- Barrie Richardson has developed a new method of billet reading, which is devilish in its ingenuity and simplicity. For mentalists, this will be the plum item of the whole issue.
- Malcolm Yaffe shares a superb routine combining the production of liquid with a lévitation. Straight out of his professional show. This is a real gem and surety is not to be missed.
Issue 187
- News and what's on in the world of magic with Geoff
- Walt Lees TV or not TV Magic on and off the Telly
- Al Smith muses on why audiences can be so impatient sometimes and not others.
- John Rhodes keeps us abreast of who has been doing what.
- Magical Societies what where and when
- JJ's Wagon and fishing line & beermats!
- A sneak preview of next issue
- Barrie Richardson explains the memory system he has developed to enable him to determine which cards have been removed from a shuffled pack.
- Steve Jones with Droodlesp
- Ali Cardabra will be tying himself and everyone else in knots.
- Ian Adair's ever fertile mind has come up with three more commercial and entertaining paper-tearing presentations.
- A Tales of two cities with James Ward
- Ian Adair paddles into a novel variation of the classic Elusive Rabbits.
- Alan Ward explains his presentation of a silly sausage to make you think. Not magic but something different for your children's shows.
- Ian Adair produces a Happy Birthday message on the screen of an obviously non-electronic computer.
- Peter d'Arcy completes his series with some more fun and games.
- Peter Kane's best coincidence
- The Full Monte by Tom Batchelor
- Peter Duffie presents a pseudo gambling-explanation in which four completely blank cards transpose with four kings that are in your wallet.
- Walt Lees is missing a card
- Stephen Tucker submits Vic Bridle's take on the "T of S" prediction that he has been pursuing of late.
- Werner Miller has two placed back into the pack, the other one not. The first is located and the second named. Not one, but three methods are described.
Issue 188
- Geoff with news on the current magical scene
- Steve Jones recounts amusing things children have said during his shows.
- Malcolm Yaffe announces that he is giving up card tricks
- Eddie Dawes surveys his Collector's Corner and some novel Christmas cards
- John Rhodes filling his regular spot with magical news and comment from the lay press.
- Have your say on our letters page
- Walt Lees reviews a book that has not been on the Telly
- JJ and friends
- Kennedy's magical dictionary
- Steve Zudeck's puzzle
- Unclassified ads
- Al Smith Through his window
- Steve Jones presents the oddly titled A Tease of S!
- Peter Duffie says: "It's in the stars!" as from a packet of cards, two spectators each remember one by a free choice. After allowing them to test their psychic powers, he divines both choices.
- Peter Kane describes some ingenious faro faradiddling.
- Werner Miller has a joker sandwiched between two face-up jacks on top of a packet. After a shuffle, a previously selected card is found sandwiched between the jacks, and the joker is on the bottom.
- Alan Ward goes every step
- Chris Wardle matches 3 cards
- Ali Cardabra gambles with cards and dice
- Ian Adair's Floppy Flower Show, a fun-filled Just Chance, angled towards the young.
- Ian Adair introduces a mystery involving a children's card game, he also offers a paddle trick aimed at the same age group and a floppy flower show!
- Tom Batchelor is into spinning coins and gives several methods as well as a couple of ideas using this principle.
- Barrie Richardson comes up with yet another ingenious way of peeking messages written on a folded billet.
- Alan Ward explains that gambling is sweet F.A.
- Ron Chatbum with a wordy prediction
- Steve Jones calls a magician a liar, and proves it!
- Steve Zudeck challenges us with another of his magical jumble puzzles
Issue 189
- News roundup with Geoff
- Letters
- Eddie Dawes collects his thoughts. Auctions and books come within his purview.
- John Rhodes keeps us up to date on who is in the lay news and why.
- Kennedy Smith's humorous "dictionary" reaches the letter C.
- Alan Ward suggests that there really might be such a thing as real magic.
- JJ with a curious tale of being in an unexpected place at an unexpected time by an unsuspecting magician.
- Walt looks at magic on the Television and on (or in) the tested printed page
- Steve Zudeck compiles another Magic Jumble Code.
- Buy sell or swop in the unclassified column.
- Put your society on the magical map right here.
- Al Smith mumbles about pocket magical close-uppers.
- Ian Adair updates the classic Wipe-out Card Revelation from Tarbell to use modern props in a stand-up performing situation.
- Tom Batchelor gives us the Prince Charles Card Trick.
- Peter Duffie says it is as Easy as ABC. A routine in which you and a spectator join forces to reveal how many red and black cards a second spectator holds.
- Werner Miller offers his variant on Karl Fulves' Gemini Twins effect.
- Peter Kane's Faro Five
- Malcolm Yaffe generously describes his cherished Dark Arts Box
- Ian Adair offers us his Passe Passe Paddles effect.
- Ali Cardabra works creatively with elastic bands and a borrowed ring to create Bandoff Ring
- Ron Chatburn has given Steve Zudeck's 'A Journey through Britannia' (from the November 2006 issue) an international flavour with his United Nations.
- Barrie Richardson finally releases a superb demonstration of mind control, which has been a favourite of his for many years. Barrie at his best, and regular readers know how good that is!
- Vic Bridle's Droodlegate
- James Ward's delayed effect stand-up
- Ian Adair narrates the romantic story of Mr Blue and Miss Pink.
Issue 190
- All of the latest magical news and doings compiled for you by Geoff
- Letters
- Journal Review conducted by Eddie Dawes
- More Letters
- Buy, Sell or swop in our free unclassified adverts column
- Magical Diary, put your club or society on the magical map
- Kennedy Smith's amusing magical dictionary continues
- Alan Ward speculates on the magical possibilities of smoke rings
- Steve Zudeck sets another of his fiendish puzzles
- Walt Lees reviews TV and books in TV or not TV
- John Rhodes with all the magic news from the lay press
- Sneak preview of the next issue
- Tom Batchelor explains his approach to the legendary Centre Deal
- Malcolm Yaffe offers 'Strip Teaser'
- Peter Duffie gives one of his solutions to the so-called Hofzinser Card Problem
- Peter Kane's Lazy Gambler is a highly entertaining piece of visual card chicanery
- Wemer Miller has his own take on Peter Duffle's Free Will
- Stephen Tucker offers an effect devised in conjunction with Andrew Hawkes
- Gift Box prediction from Ali Cardabra
- IQWORD by Steve Jones
- Ian Adair with three items. First is a silk and wand effect, second has a musical Happy Birthday theme. Finally some funny bunny business with a live rabbit
- Barrie Richardson reveals the workings of his Mesmer's Pencil, an effect which has fooled some of magic's leading practitioners
- Ron Chatburn takes us on a grand world tour, using place names in an interesting experiment
- James Ward offers his version of the classic Ted Danson Diary effect
- Nu Spell-a-die from Arun Bonerjee
Issue 191
- Geoff brings to you all of the latest news from the magical bush telegraph
- Annual Competition the results and winners declared
- Eddie Dawes escorte us around this year's Magic Collectors Association's Weekends Chicago
- Kennedy Smith's sleightly tongue in cheek magical dictionary reaches the letter D
- Eddie Dawes explains just what you missed in the rest of the magical press .
- Steve Zudeck has another of his ingenious Magical Jumble Codes for you to solve.
- Geoff has set a magic word Suduko puzzle for you to solve
- Malcolm Yaffe and glitches
- Buy, or sell in unclassified ads
- What, where & when, your Society is on the Magical Map
- Alan Ward's knowledge of science provides an ingenious way to make water apparently defy gravity.
- Ian Adair offers his Drop Dead paper tear with a patter story of unrequited love. He also suggests an improvement on the age-old Silk Pedestal prop.
- Ali Cardabra comes up with a stunningly visual, up to date card revelation using your mobile phone!
- Three Blind Mates by Watt Lees
- Ian Adair uses a steel tape measure as a very funny way to find a chosen card.
- Peter Duffie sharpens a short sharp shock with his updated variation of the colour-changing pack.
- Peter Kane has a faroised version of R. W. Hull's classic Card Puzzle effect
- Tom Batchelor discloses his method of switching a five-card poker hand during piay.
- Werner Miller makes three predictions, all of which seem weak… until the final surprise revelation!
- Ian Adair combines a silk Blendo with a surprise rabbit production in a startling piece of magic.
- Barrie Richardson with an extremely effective cabaret method for performing a Living & Dead Test
- Arun Bonerjee presents his ingenious Month of Birth
- Walt Lee's review column
Issue 192
- Geoff Maltby with all the latest Magical News from around the world
- Eddie Dawes brings all the latest from the collecting world.
- Henrique with more from his world
- Malcolm Yaffe considers magical comedy
- John Rhodes keeps us up to date with who's in the lay news.
- Kennedy Smith's dictionary reaches the letter F.
- Alan Ward releases another curiosity from his files.
- Peter Duffie offers an effect where you openly reverse any card in a shuffled pack. A spectator now freely selects any card and loses it in the middle of the pack. Your reversed card locates the selection.
- Peter Kane explains a startling visual change of a selected card into a banknote.
- Werner Miller shows how, from an ESP pack with varicoloured symbol sets all five symbols of one set are filtered out by spelling.
- Barrie Richardson recounts the stranger's trick and tells you how to do it. A real fooler which will make people wonder if you really are in league with the Devil.
- James Ward gives a demonstration of transmitting a real card by email.
- Ali Cardabra has a really unique coins across.
- Steve Jones proffers a card effect with the unlikely title of Westminster Abbey!
- Walt Lees offers George's trick
- Walt offers his very own sixty second deal
- Ian Adair describes two versions of a fishy paper tear with a red herring. He also offers a clever tip with a bottomless glass and, for good measure, a see-through Massai Tube.
- Aran Bonerjee presents New Era Esp
- James Ward offers Mind Mate
- James Wardle's Initial Success
- Jim Breedon turns rags to riches
