Wonderful Routines of Magic — The Second Addendum

1994
Written by Ellison Poland
Work of Ellison Poland
191 pages (Hardcover), published by Selfpublished
Illustrated with drawings by Ellison Poland
Language: English
87 entries
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Bill Spooner Introduction
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Ellison Poland Foreword, Acknowledgements, Credits and Apologies
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Ellison Poland Slough-Off Control (SOC) cuts and a faro shuffle, card remains in second position throughout repeated faros
Inspired byRelated to
  • "Faro Slough Offs" (Jimmy Nuzzo, New Tops, Dec. 1965)
 1
Slap Location drop in-jog when two packets are slapped together
Also published here 1
Gene Maze Slough-Off Control to Bottom
3
Ellison Poland Tabled Slough-Off Control with controlled riffle shuffle
 		4
Ellison Poland Slough-Off Mathematics how top few cards move during Slough-Off Control
 		5
Ellison Poland Slough-Off Speller
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Ellison Poland To Place A Card At Any Position In The Deck using Slough-Off Faro
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Ellison Poland Deep Keys using Slough-Off Faro
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Ellison Poland Si-Slough divining a selection by glimpsing next card during faro slough-off
 		10
Ellison Poland Si Stebbins Set-Up with Faros three faros instead of two
Inspired by 11
Peter Duffie King For A Day Kings lost, named King spelled to, spelling piles have other Kings on top, slough-off faro
 		12
Peter Duffie Thought Up Plus spectator cuts, remembers card and replaces, card rises, faro, "is it one of these?"
Inspired by
  • "Thought Up" (Peter Duffie, Ulterior Motifs, 1992)
Variations 		14
Ellison Poland A Mental Case cards cut off top and bottom to show no key cards are in use
Inspired by 17
Ellison Poland The "Out" Of Last Resort out for lost card or finding thought-of card, lots of questions "is it one of these?", faro
Inspired by 19
Peter Duffie The Impromptu Imposition suit and value of selection found by cuts, selection is then spelled to
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Peter Duffie The Future Packet number of cards cut off by spectator is predicted via the sum in another packet
Inspired byVariations 25
Ellison Poland A Variation of Diaconis' "Les Cartes"
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Ellison Poland Grandson of IBGTH out-jogged card is removed from squared deck and switched for top card, or for bottom card
Inspired by 31
Ellison Poland Monte-Finale money card vanishes, suggesting different tabled switches
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Rick Johnsson The IBGTH Switch while turning card over on table, brief
Also published here 34
Ellison Poland Sobo - So What??? using special flexible sobo glue to make hinge gaff
 		36
Ellison Poland Put And Take card (double) inserted in center, bottom card stolen in Tenkai palm, replacement on top, also as steal of card from bottom of small packet, see p. 40 for different get-into
Inspired byRelated to 37
Ellison Poland Ambitious Aces Aces on table, three cards on each, all packets inserted into deck one by one, Aces are on top
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Ellison Poland Idea bringing wanted cards together as hands are collected
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Ellison Poland Tenkai Palm of Bottom Card of Deck
40
Ellison Poland The Garden Path several cards including selection are tabled, selection is later indifferent card and found somewhere else
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Ellison Poland A Casual Glimpse during in-the-hands riffle shuffle
 		45
Ellison Poland Making Paper on marking cards, with system for Bicycle New Fan Back
 		46
Ellison Poland Marked Matcho No. 2 two decks
Related to 49
Ellison Poland, George Vaughn Boisvin A Pitchman's Spiel presentation for card fans, color changes, productions, diminishing cards
Inspired by 51
Ellison Poland Another Solution To Curry's Open Prediction Problem
Inspired by 55
Dan Tong The Final Transposition two quarters and two half dollars transpose one by one, then all coins travel into one hand
Inspired by 58
Ellison Poland In And Out card penetrates another
Related to
  • Will Goldston's stand-up version in 1923
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Edward Marlo Miracle Card Change No. 1
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Ellison Poland Colors By The Numbers No. 1 six colored chips with numbers turned over by spectator, orientation and number of a hidden chip divined
Inspired byRelated toVariations 64
Ellison Poland Colors By The Numbers No. 2 six colored cards with numbers turned over by spectator and inserted in envelopes, numbers divined
Inspired by 71
Marking by Paper Grain can be differentiated by feel inside envelope
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Peter Duffie A Shade Inexplicable cards numbered in red from One to Eight on one side and in black on the other side, total of some numbers divined with remaining cards
Inspired byAlso published here 78
Tony Econ The Econ Poker Deal Aces apparently stacked for performer in two shuffles, Aces are seen to be dealt to another hand, performer ends up with Straight Flush, faro
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Tony Econ Econ's Triple Coincidence card reversed in a deck, card selected in other deck, same card found at same position, cards found to be of the other decks
Also published here 85
Ellison Poland A Gambler's Switch as hand is waved over single tabled card, transposition application
Inspired by 87
Harry Milliken No Seconds Dunbury
Inspired by 90
Fred Robinson Overhand Run Technique running groups of two, three, four cards
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Ellison Poland Jack Of Diamonds Joker is supposed to find card, it changes into selection of which there is now a duplicate
Inspired by
  • routine in The Linking Ring, Feb. 1993
 93
Gary Ward Ward's Control
Inspired by 96
Gary Ward Thunk Cards one of four blank cards changes into duplicate of selection and back to blank
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Bernard Bilis One Hand Card Spread double pivots out of center of four-card packet
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Gene Maze No Cover Aces Number One seven card assembly
Related to 101
John Benzais JB Kard Kop Unit Grip
 		102
Gene Maze Maze Basic Switch Benzais Cop as switch
Related toVariations 104
Gene Maze Blackjack Switch Variation
Inspired by 104
Gene Maze Sandwich Aces three Aces are sandwiched between two cards each, they assemble to a leader packet one by one
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Gene Maze Maze Basic Switch Variation Benzais Cop as switch
Inspired by 107
Gene Maze Partial Lapping Switch
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Gene Maze No Cover Aces Number Two
Related to 111
Gene Maze Overhand Shuffle Palm perpendicular position, cards shuffled to bottom and palmed off
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Gene Maze Maze Basic Switch Variation
Inspired by 113
Gene Maze No Name Coincidence spectator and performer deal and stop at one card, they match
 		115
Gene Maze Steal into Unit Grip Kelly Bottom Placement type action to get bottom card into Tenkai Palm
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Gene Maze The False Kick-Back Cut one-handed, tabled, pulling out bottom half
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Gene Maze Optical Illusion Cut straight cut
Related to 121
Gene Maze Jog Conversion in-jog to side-jog
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Ellison Poland Ubiquitous Readers performer names cards from their back one by one, consecutive switches
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Gene Maze After The Peek card angle-jogged out and deck spread diagonally
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Gene Maze No Cover Assembly Number 3 seven card assembly
Related to 130
Gene Maze More Of The Same - With Kicker transformation kicker
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Gene Maze Old Wine setting and corner crimping a key card under the spread
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Gene Maze Soft Deck softening a deck except the Aces
 		140
Steve Pressley New Wave Aces
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Dan Tong Pad Vanish card on close-up pad vanishes when covered with both hands, levered up into Tenkai Palm
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Dan Tong Pad Vanish Applications
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Dan Tong Color Change or Transformation application of Pad Vanish
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Dan Tong A Transposition two and two cards, table, application of Pad Vanish
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Dan Tong New Way Top Change card in right hand is Tenkai palmed as it is brought to the deck, switched for top card
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Dan Tong Swivel Side Steal from center into Tenkai palm
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Dan Tong Stealth Whirley-Bird Card one half is spread randomly into a mess on the table, the other half is fanned, the spectator select a card, put back in fan, it travels to tables cards
Inspired by 155
The Psychic Pulse strange animation of two toothpicks in the hand
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Peter Duffie Off Your Box three coins travel from box to hand one by one, then all are put in pocket and reappear in box
Inspired byRelated to 161
David Roth Bottom Load coin apparently inserted in box but slid underneath
Also published here 162
Peter Duffie, Jack Gottlob Up And Over Move one coin hidden in lid as coin box is opened
Also published here 164
Gordon Bruce Han Ping Chien Box with coin box
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Steve Hook Ortho-Repeatic Jumbo COin jumbo coin vanish an reappears at right knee, in repeat at other knee
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Steve Hook Silver Thief coin under playing card transposes with coin in hand twice, then the one from the hand travels to join the one under the card
Inspired by 171
Charles J. Pecor Odd Coin From Birmingham international, four different coins
Inspired byAlso published here
  • Pecor's lecture notes "Off The Wall With The Wizard", 1975
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Aaron Black Black's Coin & Silk Routine four coins produced, they vanish, then are tossed invisibly into silk one by one, they vanish again, silk is knotted and coins appear therein
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Data entered by Denis Behr, January 2022.