Working Alone

1994
Written by Danny Archer
Work of Danny Archer
20 pages (Stapled), published by Selfpublished
Illustrated with drawings by Tony Dunn
Language: English
26 entries
Cover photograph
Creators Title Comments & References Page AA Categories
Danny Archer Working Alone introduction
 		1
Danny Archer Balls routine with small rubber balls that appear, vanish and change
 		2
Sleeve recovery obtaining object from sleeve
 		2
Danny Archer Invisible ball production imaginary ball is tossed in air and becomes real as it bounces on floor
 		2
Spider Vanish with thumb palm, brief
 		2
Thumb-Palm Change to change one ball into another, brief
 		3
Changeover Palm secretly transfer palmed ball from one hand to other in action of openly transferring another ball
 		3
Spellbound Color Change brief
 		3
French Drop variation slightly different grip
 		3
Shuttle Pass used as a color change, brief
 		4
Danny Archer Copper Silver Shuffle copper coin and silver coin transform and transpose with each other, examinable at end
Also published here 5
Palm to Palm Change
6
Danny Archer The Archer Shuffle full-deck false shuffle, cards are riffled in hands, waterfalled, and stripped out
Also published here 7
Danny Archer Play It by Ear coin and pen, pen vanishes, coin vanishes, coin reappears in shoe
 		9
Danny Archer Quiz Show a Jack is openly placed in card case, card is selected and lost in deck, red Aces are placed in card case as well, black Aces sandwich a card in deck which turns out to be the Jack, in card case is selection with red Aces
 		11
Ditching bottom card of packet onto top of deck
 		11
Card add-on from bottom of deck onto tabled packet as it is picked up
 		11
Danny Archer Point It Out card selected from packet and returned and shuffled while magician’s back is turned, he finds selection, using special glasses to see spectator’s fingerprints
Also published here 13
Danny Archer Mental Monopoly triple prediction of Monopoly game, predicting a game piece, property and sum of money,
  • variation to allow actual free choice of property (p. 17)
  • variation for close-up situations (p. 17)
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PATEO Force
15
Bill Simon Simon Prophecy Move
16
Cross-Cut Force
16
Fake envelope dump card loaded on outside of envelope appears to dump out together with other objects that are actually inside
 		17
Danny Archer Out Foxed five spectators think of cards, magician reveals them correctly
Inspired by 18
Fishing technique
19
Miscall fishing ploy for two cards, to always appear to be correct
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Data entered by Yehuda Rauch, April 2022.