Peter Duffie Range of Magic

Peter first became fascinated by magic at the age of eight after his uncle showed him some magic tricks using cards, coins, matches and chalk. But it was the cards that held his deepest interest, and so began a learning process that continues to the present day.

Peter's chief mentor was, and still is, Roy Walton. Others whom he met and had a profound influence on his path include, Gordon Bruce, Andy Galloway, Tommy Frederick, Fred Robinson, Dave Campbell, Eric Mason, Ken Brooke, Peter Kane, Alex Elmsley, Pat Page, Phil Goldstein, Gene Maze, Richard Kaufman and Dai Vernon.

A past winner of the Scottish Conjuror's Association Close-up competition and the IBM Zina Bennett Cup, Peter considers competitions "good fun but meaningless."

His early association with Jerry Sadowitz led to a series of books, beginning with Alternative Card Magic (1982). It started with two young men - a manuscript - and no publisher. Peter is grateful that Martin Breese saw in the material what others didn't, and took the chance. All five Duffie/Sadowitz books have recently been reprinted by Martin Breese in a single collection titled CardZones - a handsome cloth-bound tome. While the material dates back to the 1980's, Peter is proud of this collection. 

The 1990's saw a new direction with the release of Imagine, a self-produced manuscript of near-self-working card tricks. This was followed by Obsession, Ulterior Motifs, and so it went on, and indeed, Peter continues to release new booklets to this day. 

In the mid-90's, a chance encounter with Richard Kaufman at a Blackpool convention led to a publishing contract being signed. Duffie's Card Compulsions was published in 1995 by Kaufman & Greenberg. This was followed by Five Times Five (Scotland) and Effortless Card Magic.

Peter is currently in partnership with the clever Californian magician Robin Robertson PhD. Together they created over 200 new effects and have released three books: Card Conspiracy Vols.1 & 2 plus Diamonds from Coal.

All of Peter's own publications are now available as e-books on the internet, while others are available from this website. His popular Alternative Magic site is crammed with free tricks, free videos and articles. 


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Bleached!

You show three regular playing cards and one that is completely blank. The idea is like 'Find The Lady' - they have to find the blank. After a series of mind-boggling maneuvers, during which the blank proves to be elusive, the blank prints into a regular card. You now have 4 regular cards! Finally, all 4 cards lose their ink to become blanks! No false counts... they are really blank! Very easy to do; resets in one second. Comes complete with the special cards 

Price £8.00


That's Amore

Another wonderful card trick by Peter Duffie! We have customers that call just to ask when the next Peter Duffy effect will be coming out and so.... here it is! You give the four Kings to a spectator. You cut the deck saying that you'll now cut to one of the Queens. The spectator's task is to try to pick the King that will be the perfect mate for the Queen you cut to. Remove the top card of the deck and the spectator picks ANY King. The two cards prove to be the King and Queen of Clubs! This is successfully repeated with the remaining Kings and Queens. Then a big surprise occurs... on the back of the four Queens four hearts appear. With special cards and hearts. Use your own deck.

Price £8.00


Ghost Flight

A new release by our friend Peter Duffie that card lovers will have a ball with. Hand out eight cards which are blank on both sides, then hand out four regular cards of the same value. Lay a piece of cardboard down that has been examined. Sandwich each playing card between two blank cards. Pick up each packet and the card has disappeared and now there are three blank cards! (No false counts!) All four regular cards disappear one by one and reappear under the cardboard! Great routine. Comes with the cards and routine.


Price £10.00


Discovery Pack

Another new incredible Peter Duffie routine! And so easy! Aldo fools everyone when he performs it… including magicians! You begin by stating that you have written down a prediction. One spectator merely THINKS of a card while another FREELY CUTS to a card. The first spectator removes the card he is thinking of. He now spells the name of this card by dealing a card for each letter. When he turns over the card at that position it is the OTHER spectator’s card! Amazing! Remember, you said that you wrote a prediction. Ask the first spectator to turn over his mental selection and, written on the back, is the name of the second spectator’s card. Complete with the deck and routine. No rough and smooth, no moves, always ready. 

Price £12.00


Yikes!

A knock-out card trick anyone can do. Make blank cards match the cards dealt by a spectator! 

This great card trick comes with seven gimmick cards and detailed instructions.

Price £8.00


The Universal

A blank-faced card (the Universal Card) takes on the image of cards selected from a deck. This version happens away from the deck, and has a punch finish when writing appears on the Universal Card, stating, "Look in the Envelope!" Inside an envelope is a duplicate of the final selection.

 

Price £10.00


Diablo

Try to Keep the Truth Unseen
But You'll Never
Beat the Lie Machine

A card is selected from any deck - say the QC. You introduce an Occult Board - a plastic laminated card with 16 squares printed on it. In each square is printed a word, either, 'YES' or 'NO.' A second board is laid on the table - this simply contains a list of questions that you will ask. The underside of each board is seen to be covered in question-marks - this is merely design, though an appropriate one - because you now ask the spectator a series of questions about his card. To each question, he can LIE or tell the TRUTH, while moving over the Occult Board in any direction. No matter how he answers, the Occult Board exposes the truth (YES or NO) every time. Finally, the board is turned over and in place of the question-marks seen earlier, mysterious writing has now appeared revealing the full name of the chosen card - "Queen of Clubs."

NO SKILL REQUIRED
COMES WITH FULL APPARATUS
USE ANY DECK
REPEAT WITH A DIFFERENT CARD

Price £10.00


Dead Reckoning

A Magic Effect that KILLS!

Two spectators each choose a card from your deck. You explain that you will conduct a psychic TEST. At that, you show 4 large plastic-coated cards with letters printed on them. One side clearly spells the word TEST. For the test, you say, you will also call upon your invisible assistant from the spirit world. Of course, being from the spirit world, she must be DEAD. So said, you turn the cards over and show that the other side of the cards clearly spells the word DEAD. You place two cards on one spectator’s palm, and the the remaining two cards on the other spectator’s palm. When the cards are separated, mysterious writing is seen to have replaced the letters – the names of both selections are now written on the cards! Everything can be examined.

VERY EASY TO DO!
COMES WITH FULL APPARATUS
USE ANY DECK

Price £10.00


Dazed!

Watch a video demo HERE

Two cards (can be selected from your deck) are placed face up on the table. You now show four misprinted cards that have backs on both sides – except for one, which has a back and blank face. “I’ll put this aside for now as this can be a rather dangerous card...I‘ll explain later,” you say. This leaves you with three cards – backs both sides, which you show once more.

You now add the first selection to the packet and suddenly all the cards print with faces of the selection! You repeat this with the second selection to cause all the cards to print to duplicates of this card!

Finally you pick up the “dangerous card” with the blank face. “This,” you state, “is an eraser!” You now prove this to be so because, suddenly, all the cards turn blank!

EASY TO DO!
COMES WITH SPECIAL CARDS
MADE IN BICYCLE STOCK
FULLY ILLUSTRATED WITH PHOTOGRAPHS

Price £10.95


Applications

Stock No. - 1182

The work produced by Peter Duffie is considered to have had a profound influence on card magic! In this handsome, large format hard-backed book, Peter explains over twenty excellent entertaining and practical new card routines and moves, all of which can be performed using an unfaked and normal deck. 60 pages, 25 illustrations.

Price £15.75


Card Conspiracy Vol.1  
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Duffie & Robertson

In this book you will find twin thoughts smoothly blended to produce an outstanding collection of card material. All types of card magic are covered in a subtle and elegant manner, and without the use of knuckle breaking sleights. I recommend this book highly-Roy Walton

If you want R&D with card tricks, try Robertson and Duffie. Three years late, two top thinkers, one great book. Your audiences won't have a theory about this conspiracy.-Steve Beam

Peter Duffie has been blessed with the talent to create fresh ideas and apply them to new and practical effects. On the other hand, he can take an old effect and add a new twist to it, thereby making the climax of the effect stronger. Combine this talent with that of Robin Robertson, and I'm envious of the results.-Gene Maze

Peter Duffie is one of the world's most skillful and creative cardmen. Card Conspiracy, his latest book, co-authored with Robin Robertson, offers a wide variety of card magic that will no doubt appeal to all card workers, whatever their tastes.-Harvey Rosenthal

Peter and Robin are serious students of card magic. Their separate work is great, this work together is incredible. GREAT material, refreshing and usable.-Aldo Colombini

 

Price £19.95


Card Conspiracy Vol.2  
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Duffie & Robertson

 

Even bigger than Vol.1 - 170 pages

14 Chapters - 70+ tricks

150+ illustrations by Joseph K. Schmidt.

Full index for both volumes.

Price £19.95


Diamonds from Coal  
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Duffie & Robertson

 

Large Format

158 Pages

75 tricks

150+ illustrations by Joseph Schmidt

Price £19.95


Subtle Miracles

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Peter Duffie is one of the world's most creative cardmen and Subtle Miracles gathers together some of his most inventive work. Many of these effects were marketed as exclusive manuscripts and are now brought together for the first time, together with a selection of brand new routines using equally clever methods.

Seventeen ingenious card miracles are featured in this collection, including:

Impulse
Two cards transpose under impossible conditions. The finish in which one card has a hole cut through the centre  and yet still changes places with the second card has been described as, "Not Possible!"

Tarradiddle
A completely self-working Lie Detector trick. The spectator can tell the truth or lies but the deck will always find him out. What's more, you don't even know the identity of the selected card yourself until the pack reveals it!

Flashpoint
The ultimate Holey Point of Departure. A chosen card disappears from between two blank cards. The card is visible right up until the last moment through holes cut in the middle of the blanks. Yet it disappears without a trace and the blanks are handed out for examination.

Choca Block
A completely hands-off cards across with an extremely clever method. Two selected cards disappear from a box on the table and reappear in a packet of cards held by the spectator. At no time does the performer touch anything! And it's completely self-working too.

All Clear
You Do As I Do with a twist. Under the fairest of conditions the magician and spectator chose identical cards, twice! But the kicker comes when the rest of the deck is shown to be completely blank. No gimmicks. No switches. Everything examined. Easy to do.

Plus: 

Pure Devilry, in which a diary predicts two selected cards; 
Clear Thought
, a no questions asked revelation of a though-of card;
Polythene Pam
, a monte routine the spectator cannot lose and
Dichotomy
, a prediction effect with a finish that is simply beyond belief. 

Plus eight further knock-out routines!

Price £22.50