RANCHO CORDOVA, California, USA, May 12, 2026 — Stockholm, Sweden-based magician and creator Tom Stone has released Pixx, a new magic trick now available through Penguin Magic, USA.
The effect is a mentalism piece built around drawings and photographs. Audience members make a series of free choices from among cards with simple drawings. With no shuffling or rearrangement, the selected drawings and prediction photographs are then spread — and the objects on them, including their order, match perfectly.
Pixx is ready to perform straight out of the box. The cards feature full-color printing on thick, durable stock, and the audience’s choices do the work of secretly setting up the prediction. The magic trick uses a single sleight — one employed by professional magicians worldwide but manageable for a beginner — and includes a tutorial with instructor Erik Tait.
Stone, announcing the release on Instagram, described Pixx as “an almost self working little pocket miracle” — and noted that the effect began as an embellishment he developed for an idea originally conceived by the late Max Maven.
“Tom Stone has been frying people with magic for longer than I can remember and now he has a prediction trick that fits in your pocket and the spectator does almost all of the work,” says tutorial instructor Erik Tait. “Pixx uses simple and easy to grasp imagery and almost no sleight of hand and the clever principal makes the prediction for you. A picture tells a thousand words, but these pictures create a prediction that will blow your audience’s minds.”
Fellow magicians agree. R. Paul Wilson called it “fun, fascinating and fooling.” Alan Rorrison said he was “annoyed at how deceptive that is,” adding “this thing slays and looks so clean.” Abby Segal described it as “strong and self-contained — a worker for sure.”
Stone is the stage name of Thomas Bengtsson, 58, a Stockholm-based magician, author, and editor whose close-up work has earned him repeated engagements at the legendary Magic Castle in Hollywood and a spot as performer and speaker at the 2000 FISM World Championships of Magic in Lisbon, Portugal. In 2016, the Academy of Magical Arts awarded him the Creative Fellowship. He writes the bi-monthly “LodeStones” column for Genii magazine and is widely regarded as one of the magic world’s leading creative thinkers and lecturers.
Pixx is priced at $19.95 and is available now at penguinmagic.com.
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