A Teen's Routines

Updated and Expanded

1999
Written by Joshua Jay
Work of Joshua Jay
44 pages (Spiralbound), published by Selfpublished
Illustrated with photographs
Language: English
18 entries
Cover photograph
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Joshua Jay Introduction
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Joshua Jay A Discreet Displacement card is added on top of selection in action of stripping it out, done at chest height
  • The Sleight
  • The Control
  • The Force
Also published here 10
Joshua Jay Two-Card Transposition Displacement Discreet Displacement application
Also published here 11
Joshua Jay A Discreet Displacement "Red Hot Mama" Red Hot Mama effect done with Discreet Displacement move
Also published here 11
Joshua Jay A Discreet Displacement Ace Location four spectators touch four random cards, shown to be Aces, and all Aces have different colored backs as a surprise ending
Also published here 12
Joshua Jay Pulling My String short rope stretched into long rope by stomping down on it with foot
Also published here 14
Joshua Jay Paradise Aces deck is riffled shuffled but not squared, deck is then cut into four piles and then each squared, Aces on the bottom of each packet, with variations
  • Paradise Aces Plus
  • Paradise Aces Royal
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Joshua Jay Button Buster small button enlarges, then attaches permanently onto magician's shirt
Also published here 18
Joshua Jay Shrunken Revelation Jennings Revelation with four Kings, then the Kings shrink into mini cards
Also published here 20
Joshua Jay Watch This rubber band visibly linked onto watchband
Also published here 24
Joshua Jay Trumped Triumph ends with kicker after Triumph effect in which all the cards of the same suit appear reversed distributed in the deck
Inspired byAlso published here 26
Joshua Jay Psychometry and Me magician able to match nametags to five spectators based on their names alone
Also published here 28
Joshua Jay Losing Diamonds selection (Two of Diamonds) made and lost. Ten of Diamonds shown, given a flick, flurry of red diamonds fly out, leaving the Two of Diamonds
Also published here 32
Joshua Jay Change For a Ten bill transformed into paper quarter roll, then forty Quarters appear inside paper roll
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Joshua Jay Open Assembly Ace Assembly with Open Travelers revelation, T-Formation, three cards on three Aces and leader Ace alone
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Joshua Jay Ascanio Spread Variation with display
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Stanley Collins Collins Ace Vanish
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Joshua Jay Sanitized Penetration magician wears a rubber glove, coin penetrates glove twice
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Data entered by Lorenz Schär, May 2025.