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Mel Stover Days of Force calendar number force
Related toVariations Feb. 1945
The Phoenix (Issue 77)
313
Mel Stover Dice Stack Addenda climax for dice stacking routine, load of multiple dice and jumbo die
1946
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1946)
9
Mel Stover T-E-L-E-M-A-T-H-Y "Telemathy", one or multiple cards thought of, then found after showing fans of cards with "is your card in here?" procedure twice, with cue sheet matrix
  • Special Effects (revelations when the card ends up at a position for down-under deal or similar)
VariationsAlso published here June 1955
Ibidem (Issue 1)
14
Mel Stover Herman the Hobo number puzzle with story about the maximum cigarettes one can smoke
Related to June 1955
Ibidem (Issue 1)
15
Stewart James Atlantic Avenue card thought of, then found after showing fans of cards with "is your card in here?" procedure twice, without the cue sheet
Inspired by Aug. 1955
Ibidem (Issue 2)
3
Mel Stover Puzzle Solution: Herman the Hobo
Related to Aug. 1955
Ibidem (Issue 2)
6
Mel Stover Betcha bet about multiplying a set of lengths by two, then dividing it by two again
Aug. 1955
Ibidem (Issue 2)
10
Mel Stover Puzzle: Lewis Carroll puzzle about the length of a walk with general information about speed given
Related to Aug. 1955
Ibidem (Issue 2)
16
Mel Stover Puzzle Solution: Lewis Carroll
Related to Nov. 1955
Ibidem (Issue 4)
22
Mel Stover Relation to Ternary System 21 card trick with twenty seven cards, mathematical relation to ternary counting system
Variations 1956 39
Mel Stover Gargantua's Ten-pile Problem 21 card trick but done with TEN BILLION PLAYING CARDS
Inspired by 1956 40
Mel Stover Stover's Prediction four by four square drawn on calendar, four circles drawn (draw circle and cross out row and column each time), magician divines the sum, Matrix Force
Also published here 1956 49
Theodore DeLand DeLand's Paradox Geometrical Vanish of a playing card
Variations 1956 123
Mel Stover Stover's Variations Geometrical Vanish / transformation of objects, face becomes beer mug or red pencil becomes blue pencil
Inspired by 1956 125
Mel Stover Okosa card thought from sixteen-card packet, top eight shown and asked whether selection is there, faro, repeat, ...
Related to Apr. 1956
Ibidem (Issue 5)
6
Mel Stover Puzzle: Sugar Lumps
Related to July 1956
Ibidem (Issue 6)
3
Mel Stover Two Cues three different-colored envelopes and paper cards, spectator puts cards in envelopes so the colors do not match, envelopes distributed by spectator in two pockets and one left on table, performer picks up tabled envelope and divines location of all colored cards, Free Will
Variations July 1956
Ibidem (Issue 6)
4
P. Howard Lyons Ambiguous Cards three different-colored envelopes and paper cards, spectator puts cards in envelopes so the colors do not match, envelopes distributed by spectator in two pockets and one left on table, performer picks up tabled envelope and writes down the color distribution (with ambiguous statements)
Inspired by July 1956
Ibidem (Issue 6)
4
Mel Stover, Tom Ransom, Norman Houghton Puzzle: Cubes arranging five objects to make a cube
Related to July 1956
Ibidem (Issue 6)
14
Mel Stover, Tom Ransom, Norman Houghton Puzzle Solutions: Cubes
Related to Sep. 1956
Ibidem (Issue 7)
15
Mel Stover OGNIB "Bingo in reverse", number grid, calculation with age, year of birth comes out
Sep. 1956
Ibidem (Issue 7)
17
Mel Stover Puzzle Solution: Sugar Lumps
Related to Sep. 1956
Ibidem (Issue 7)
19
Mel Stover Puzzle: Twin Matching number puzzle about percentages
Related to Dec. 1956
Ibidem (Issue 8)
9
Norman Houghton Puzzle Solution: Cubes
Related to Dec. 1956
Ibidem (Issue 8)
13
Mel Stover The Irrisistible Force
Variations Jan. 1957
The New Phoenix (Issue 340)
171
Mel Stover The Immovable Object ice in glass is moved to other glasses several times, while performer's back is turned, he then eliminates all empty glasses
Related toAlso published here Jan. 1957
The New Phoenix (Issue 340)
172
Mel Stover Puzzle Solution: Twin Matching number puzzle about percentages
Related to Mar. 1957
Ibidem (Issue 9)
20
Mel Stover Unanswerable Propositions
June 1957
Ibidem (Issue 10)
2
Mel Stover Puzzle: Bananastand
Related to Sep. 1957
Ibidem (Issue 11)
5
Mel Stover Puzzle Solution: Bananastand
Related to Dec. 1957
Ibidem (Issue 12)
3
Mel Stover MelMath on mixing/controlled shuffling, especially with faro shuffles
Related to Mar. 1958
Ibidem (Issue 13)
9
Tom Ransom Puzzle: Big Casino
Related to Mar. 1959
Ibidem (Issue 16)
13
Mel Stover Triptych spectator cuts deck in two piles, card cut to is placed aside, down-under-deal with both halves, the remaining cards match, and they also match the card placed aside, fourth card in wallet
Variations July 1959
Ibidem (Issue 17)
15
Mel Stover Puzzle: V. A. Hospital
Related to July 1959
Ibidem (Issue 17)
19
Ed Mellon, Robert Lund, Mel Stover, Glenn Davidson Letter Department
July 1959
Ibidem (Issue 17)
22
Mel Stover Puzzle Solution: V. A. Hospital
Related to Oct. 1959
Ibidem (Issue 18)
10
P. Howard Lyons Stuff Page
  • proposition bet in which spectator writes nine different numbers on nine cards and turns them up one at a time, performer calls stop before the highest number is turned up
  • 5x5 magic squares
Related to Oct. 1959
Ibidem (Issue 18)
18
Mel Stover Puzzle Solution: Big Casino
Related to Oct. 1959
Ibidem (Issue 18)
22
Mel Stover Puzzle: Junior Chemist puzzle with weights
Dec. 1959
Ibidem (Issue 19)
31
Mel Stover Puzzle: Black Chinese Checkers
Dec. 1959
Ibidem (Issue 19)
31
Mel Stover, Leo Moser, P. Howard Lyons, Martin Gardner A Short Shot proposition bet in which spectator writes nine different numbers on nine cards and turns them up one at a time, performer calls stop before the highest number is turned up
Related to May 1960
Ibidem (Issue 20)
19
Mel Stover Remarks on Martin Gardner's Math, Magic and Mystery Japanese printing
June 1960
Ibidem (Issue 21)
16
Mel Stover Twomula mathematics of down/under deal, binary formula
Related to
  • Nathan Mendelsohn in American Mathematical Monthly (Jan. 1950 & Aug./Sept. 1950)
June 1960
Ibidem (Issue 21)
31
Ken Beale Trireme sixteen-card packet cut and dealt into two piles, top card of one pile pocketed, down-under-deal with both packets result in a card of the same value and the same suit of the pocketed card
Inspired by Oct. 1960
Ibidem (Issue 22)
17
Ken Beale Triplets spectator counts down to a number between twelve and twenty and pockets card, down-under deal with dealt packet results in mate, another card of that value is taken from pocket
Inspired by Oct. 1960
Ibidem (Issue 22)
17
Bob Still And Then There Were None small-packet Brainwave posed as a problem, face-up three card monte
Inspired byRelated to Dec. 1966 69
Mel Stover Face-Up Monte credit information
Related to May 1967 97
Karl Fulves The Compleat Gamester proposition bets
  • Birthday Bet (see p. 292 for Mel Stover comment)
  • Red And Black (Martin Gardner)
  • License Plate Poker
  • Ace-Deuce-Jack Variations
  • Black And White
  • Coin Swindles
  • 3-Card Poker
  • Odds On Favorite (Omega Bet, card pushed in reversed and pairs dealt off)
Related toVariationsAlso published here July 1969 272
George McLean, George Blake, Mel Stover Etcetera
Nov. 1969 292
Edward Marlo, S. W. Erdnase Marnase False Cut also as slip cut
Related toVariationsAlso published here Apr. 1971
Kabbala — Volume 1 (Vol. 1 No. 4)
32
Mel Stover Bill Fold
Apr. 1971 416
Mel Stover Winnipeg False Cut one simple cut
Related toVariationsAlso published here 1972 93
Mel Stover Winnipeg Cut one straight cut
Also published here 1973 13
Stephen Minch Fortunes of a Wise Fool based on an idea by Ed Mellon, matrix force
Related toVariations 1974 41
Mel Stover Chess Bet see also p. 782 for additional information
Jan. 1974 701
Martin Gardner Hyper Card posed as problem with illustration
Related to Aug. 1975 1042
Mel Stover Telemathy "Telemathy", one or multiple cards thought of, then found after showing fans of cards with "is your card in here?" procedure twice, with cue sheet matrix
  • Special Effects (revelations when the card ends up at a position for down-under deal or similar)
Also published here 1976
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 37 No. 3)
69
Karl Fulves, Kim Iles, Mel Stover, P. Howard Lyons Hyper Card various ideas with the Hypercard
Related toVariations 1978 1067
Karl Fulves Notes hypercard constructed from double facer with attached back piece
  • Elastrik
  • Oddments
Inspired by 1978
The Chronicles (Issue 11)
1173
Karl Fulves Hypercard on the idea of combining Hypercard with Moebius strip
Related to 1979
Interlocutor (Issue 28)
108
Philip T. Goldstein, Walter B. Gibson, Maurice Kraitchik Rainbow Matrix number force with a magic square
Inspired byRelated toVariations 1980 8
Mel Stover The Immovable Object ice in glass is moved to other glasses several times, while performer's back is turned, he then eliminates all empty glasses
Also published here 1980 62
Tom Craven, Mel Stover, Raymond Hafler, H. R. Benfer, Roysce Smith, Gerald Byrne, C. R. Tracy, John Cornelius, Paul Swinford Letters
1981
Interlocutor (Issue 46)
182
Mel Stover, P. Howard Lyons, Karl Fulves The Fifth Dimension No. 80, hyper card routine
Related to 1981 100
Mel Stover, Neil See The One, Two, Three Winnipeg Cut
Inspired by 1982 35
Philip T. Goldstein, Walter B. Gibson, Maurice Kraitchik Rainbow Matrix number force with a magic square
Inspired byRelated to 1982 4
Thomas Alan Waters Matrix Number Force with cards
Related to 1982
Mind, Myth & Magick (Issue Deckalogue)
223
Thomas Alan Waters Quintasense some tarot cards are selected via the matrix force, reading, written on paper matches the selected cards
Inspired byRelated to 1982
Mind, Myth & Magick (Issue Grymwyr)
279
Stephen Tucker Ringo-Bingo Stover's Days of Force with bingo cards
Inspired byVariations 1982
Spell-Binder (Vol. 2 No. Special #2 (Xmas))
19
Philip T. Goldstein Rethink Stover's Days of Force with bingo cards
Inspired by Apr. 1983
Spell-Binder (Vol. 2 No. 24)
468
Mel Stover, Rudolf Braunmüller Die Mehrzweck-Zahlenforce using a grid
Inspired by Apr. 1983
Intermagic (Vol. 10 No. 1)
33
Mel Stover Non-Transitivity with a Magic Slant
Aug. 1984
Epoptica (Issue 6)
391
Thomas Alan Waters Threesum triple prediction on selected playing cards, with Bingo chart (Stover's "irrisistible Force")
Inspired by 1984 557
Stan Shultz Wipe Out! four by four square drawn on calendar with numbers from 1-16, four circles drawn (draw circle and erase row and column each time), Matrix Force
Related to May 1985
Magick (Issue 351)
1752
Mel Stover Calender Force
1986 52
Mel Stover Das Winnipeg-Falschabheben one simple cut
Also published here May 1986
Intermagic (Vol. 12 No. 2)
77
Philip T. Goldstein Force Majeur matrix force for any number, approach to Mel Stover's "Irresistible Force"
Inspired by 1987 9
Jeff Busby (reviewer) Illusory Reflex by Mel Stover Feb. 1988
Epoptica (Issue 11)
534
Terri Rogers, Mel Stover Off Key Magic key off chain
Also published here 1988 40
Bob Hummer, Stewart James, Mel Stover, Karl Fulves Immovable Object No. 78, six numbered glasses, coin moved from glass to glass
1989 107
Terri Rogers, Mel Stover Schlüssel-Magie key off chain
Also published here July 1989
Intermagic (Vol. 14 No. 4 & 5)
161
Mel Stover Zebras three pieces of paper, zebra and clown design, layout puzzle (similar to riders on horses)
Related to 1990
Swindle Sheet (Issue 3)
35
Tom Craven Armchair Golfer Mel Stover's Vanishing Pencil (version of the Magic Egg Puzzle), pencil on paper changes places with pencil on initialed paper
1992 787
Mel Stover Stover's Glass Bet bet about circumference being more than glass is tall
  • Reference Note
  • Karl Fulves Notes
Related to 1992
Swindle Sheet (Issue 10)
116
Karl Fulves Stover Glass Bet another hight-vs-circumference bet
Related to 1992 2
Mel Stover Now Hear This verbal puzzles
1993
Rigmarole (Issue 1)
3
Mel Stover A Casbah Cavort spelling location with small packet and story presentation
1993
Rigmarole (Issue 1)
3
Jim Steinmeyer The Nine Card Problem small packet spelling discovery, no-touch
Inspired by
  • "Remote Control" (Jim Steinmeyer, The New Invocation #43, Feb. 1988)
Related toVariationsAlso published here
May 1993
Magic (Vol. 2 No. 9)
56
Mel Stover, Jim Steinmeyer A Cavort In The Casbah To Capture Ali The Dope Dealer presentation for Steinmeyer's effect
Inspired by June 1993
Magic (Vol. 2 No. 10)
54
Leo Boudreau The Mind's Eye: The Calendar Force calendar number force, selecting row and column by drawing numbers
Related to Feb. 1993
Vibrations (Vol. 15 No. 8)
10
Alex Elmsley Stack Transformations how faro shuffles affect a stack
Related to 1994 307
Alex Elmsley The Restacking Pack stack whose value distribution is not affected by faro shuffles
Related toVariations 1994 309
Bob Farmer Mel Stover, They Want You Back On Your Planet
  • Flim-Flam
following scams received from Mel Stover
Apr. 1995
Magic (Vol. 4 No. 8)
86
Mel Stover Spinner coin with scratched edge, head & tail of spinning coin can be divined by sound
Apr. 1995
Magic (Vol. 4 No. 8)
86
Mel Stover False Odds bet about odd/even number of coins in hand
Apr. 1995
Magic (Vol. 4 No. 8)
86
Mel Stover EquivoCoin odd/even word-play with three coins in hand
Apr. 1995
Magic (Vol. 4 No. 8)
86
Mel Stover Home Run baseball bet
Apr. 1995
Magic (Vol. 4 No. 8)
86
Mel Stover Cheating At Checkers
Apr. 1995
Magic (Vol. 4 No. 8)
87
Mel Stover Hooked On Phonies word play cons
  • High Pressure Hose
  • Calendar Cons
  • Stranger That You Should Say That
Apr. 1995
Magic (Vol. 4 No. 8)
87
George Kirkendall Four on a Date sheet of calendar is selected and square drawn, some numbers are chosen, total predicted, Days of Force
Inspired byAlso published here 1996
Syzygy (Vol. 2 No. 14)
150
Dr. E. Raymond Carlyle Mindway Dream names of people and predictions written on cards, Stover's Days of Force as last number
Related to 1996
Syzygy (Vol. 3 No. 6)
197
Mel Stover Project A Picture certain number key sequence chosen by spectator on a calculator is divined
1998 112
Karl Fulves Introduction on alternative medicine, superstition, ufos, David Blaine, David Copperfield, Mel Stover's passing, Morey Bernstein's passing
Related to 1999
The Fine Print (Issue 10)
294
Max Maven Just for the Mel of It on Mel Stover
Related to Sep. 1999
Genii (Vol. 62 No. 9)
28
Mel Stover Welcome to Melsville bonus insert after page 60, version of Sam Loyd's "Horse and Rider Puzzle"
Sep. 1999
Genii (Vol. 62 No. 9)
60
Karl Fulves Database further comments and credit information on the referenced items, Electronic ESP
Related to 2000 45
Mel Stover Stover's Game No. 90, eight cards in circle, glass moved around and cards are eliminated, final card predicted
Related to 2001 135
Mel Stover left to right reading principle
2003 69
Mel Stover Nine Nine Nine gag routine with puns about the number nine
Jan. 2003
Genii (Vol. 66 No. 1)
27
Wesley James The Tabled Winnipeg Cut
Inspired by 2004 294
Robert E. Neale The Card Presenting the Hyper Card
Inspired byRelated to 2008 229
Mel Stover Calendar Prediction Mel Stover's "Days of Force" with calendar
Related toAlso published here 2010
Secret Agenda (Issue Oct 20)
312
Nick Trost Rainbow Miracle two cards selected by both spectator and performer from rainbow deck, Gemini Twins placement, backs and faces match, they are also the only red-faced cards
Inspired by
  • "Yenta Outfiddled" (Mel Stover, Precursor, No. IV, April 1984)
VariationsAlso published here
  • marketed 1984
2011 765
Doug Canning Tile Force Variation on the matrix force. Number force with grid
Inspired byVariations
  • Mathematical Recreations by Maurice Kraitchik, 1942.
2015 116
Nancy Colwell Narrow Minded approach with three selections, with discussion of think-a-card methods
Related to 2020 89
John Hostler Sightlines card thought of from half of the deck, then found after showing fans of cards with "is your card in here?" procedure
Inspired by 2023 12