Ibidem

1955-1979
Written by P. Howard Lyons
Work of P. Howard Lyons, Various
1,028 pages (Stapled), published by Selfpublished
Illustrated with drawings by Pat Patterson Lyons
Language: English
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Edward Marlo Majority Fishing
11 Sep. 1957 10
Edward Marlo Mental and Physical
  • #3 of "3 Mental Effects"
card thought of, another selection placed next to it, both found
  • Additional Ideas for Mental and Physical Choice
    • 1. Force
    • 2. Marked Deck
    • 3. Stacked deck
    • 4. One way deck on faces
Inspired byRelated to 11 Sep. 1957 11
P. Howard Lyons Telephone Extension different handling for second phase of Marlo's routine
Inspired by 11 Sep. 1957 13
P. Howard Lyons Psi on the Telephone telephone version
Inspired by 11 Sep. 1957 13
Tom Ransom Piano Music piano card trick featuring a pure rhythm false count for six as seven, and eight as seven
Related to 11 Sep. 1957 14
Alex Elmsley A Letter from Alex intro to following tricks, presenting mathematical tricks
 		11 Sep. 1957 15
Alex Elmsley Royal Flush Control Variation
Inspired byRelated to 11 Sep. 1957 15
Alex Elmsley Through Darkest Peirce cards are dealt out multiple times to mix them, yet they are mated, relation to Sympathetic Cards
Inspired byRelated toAlso published here 11 Sep. 1957 16
Alex Elmsley Card Position Formula After Dealing calculating position of any card in a packet of any size, after dealing cards out
Also published here 11 Sep. 1957 18
Dariel Fitzkee, Tom Bowyer Trick Brain Tumors annotations to "The Trick Brain"
  • p. 289
  • p. 290
  • p. 293
 		11 Sep. 1957 18
Alex Elmsley Late Night Location spectator cuts off a pile, remembers bottom card and shuffles, packet returned and deck faro shuffled, selection found, stay stack with duplicates
Related toVariationsAlso published here 11 Sep. 1957 19
William P. Miesel 33 Up Ace-Two-Three rise from middle of deck to top individually
Inspired by 11 Sep. 1957 19
Alex Elmsley Choosey card chosen and lost, packet removed, spectator removes one card from it and it is selection or leads to it
Related toAlso published here 11 Sep. 1957 20
Dariel Fitzkee, Tom Bowyer Trick Brain Tumors annotations to "The Trick Brain"
  • p. 231
 		11 Sep. 1957 20
Alex Elmsley Work in Progress faro mathematics, defining Out- and In-Faro, then the Binary Translocations:
  • 1) to bring top card to any position with faros
  • 2) to bring card to top with 2^x cards
  • 3) edge-marked deck with 2^x cards, bringing any card to top
Related toAlso published here 11 Sep. 1957 21
Norbert Wiener Quote from "The Human Use of Human Beings"
 		11 Sep. 1957 21
P. Howard Lyons Ibidem
12 Dec. 1957 1
Edward Marlo Hummer-Marlo packet mixed with cato procedure by spectator under table, one card remembered, performer sorts all except selection, faro
Related to 12 Dec. 1957 2
Mel Stover Puzzle Solution: Bananastand
Related to 12 Dec. 1957 3
Edward Marlo The Backward Faro out-jogging every other card, with some properties, also for setting up for a "false" shuffle
Related toVariations 12 Dec. 1957 4
Jack Avis Tip for "Shears" invisible scissor sight gag
Related to 12 Dec. 1957 4
Edward Marlo The Faro Calculator getting into stack with faros, reverse-principle
Also published here 12 Dec. 1957 5
Quote from "In Search of the Miraculous" p. 372 from George Gurdjieff's "In Search of the Miraculous"
 		12 Dec. 1957 6
Alexander F. Kraus Sum Total Kruskal count procedure, challenge of having the face-up cards add up to 52, posed as a problem
Variations 12 Dec. 1957 7
Tom Ransom Puzzle Solution: Puzzle From The Future!
Also published here 12 Dec. 1957 7
L. Vosburgh Lyons Cubeb puzzle with cubes that have six different colors in different arrangements
Related toVariations 12 Dec. 1957 8
Reg Holden Stop and Go Ideas obedient ball
 		12 Dec. 1957 8
P. Howard Lyons Somerset card chosen and lost, performer removes a few cards, selection remains after elimination procedure
Inspired by 12 Dec. 1957 11
P. Howard Lyons Department Page
12 Dec. 1957 12
Royal Vale Heath Number Challenge two-digit number divided by three, left-over named to performer who then works out the number
Related to
  • "Zangbar Zackelback" (Wallace Lee, Genii, June 1958, p. 364)
Variations 		12 Dec. 1957 12
Jack Avis On the Seven-Principle
12 Dec. 1957 12
Alex Elmsley 1002nd Aces spectator can freely choose the leader packet
Related toVariationsAlso published here 12 Dec. 1957 13
Arthur Hastings Comments on the DFC Move Two Card Monte idea with a double facer and a regular card
Related to 12 Dec. 1957 13
Arthur Hastings Aces, Red & Black red and black Aces transpose, red Aces change to Kings
Variations 12 Dec. 1957 14
Jack Avis A Short Brownwave card selected with the "card at position of cut-off number"-procedure, deck then divided in two halves, both deal in unison and the selected card is at same position as card with a message
Inspired byVariations 12 Dec. 1957 15
Jack Avis A Simple Brownwave card selected with the "card at position of cut-off number"-procedure, deck then divided in two halves, both deal in unison and the selected card is at same position as card with a message
Inspired by 12 Dec. 1957 15
Jack Avis Delayed Brownwave card selected with the "card at position of cut-off number"-procedure, deck then divided in two halves, both deal in unison and at one point a prediction card appears with the message "count ten more cards", that's where the selection is
Inspired by 12 Dec. 1957 16
Norman Houghton OWOOOooo-o-o-o! routine with "wolf pack" (erotic images), spectator repeatedly selects the Joker in different ways, spectator names card which is taken out and given to spectator, performer takes named card out of his pocket and spectator has Joker again, another card is selected and given to the spectator in an envelope as souvenir (it's normal when he looks)
 		12 Dec. 1957 17
Norman Houghton The Run Under the Fan force card starts near the top under a break
 		12 Dec. 1957 19
Norman Houghton Production of Palmed Card from the Shirt Pocket only thumb and first finger enter pocket
Related to 12 Dec. 1957 19
P. Howard Lyons Stripper Trick picking-off-the-pip ends with cards from "wolf pack" (erotic images) with line "Now I'll take everything off"
 		12 Dec. 1957 19
P. Howard Lyons Martin Gardner Force Book comment that Martin Gardner's "Mathematics, Magic And Mystery" is a force book
 		12 Dec. 1957 20
Tom Ransom Magical Principles four diagrams, puzzle what they represent
Related to 12 Dec. 1957 20
P. Howard Lyons Ibidem
13 Mar. 1958 1
P. Howard Lyons Stough comments and "departments"
Related to 13 Mar. 1958 2
Alex Elmsley On the Presentation of Coincidence Effects
13 Mar. 1958 2
Ronald A. Wohl (Ravelli) Improved Clown Version fifty-one red cards, as a gag
Inspired by 13 Mar. 1958 2
Alex Elmsley Auto Prediction three cards are predicted written on another playing card
Related toVariationsAlso published here 13 Mar. 1958 3
Alex Elmsley 7-16 down under deal, Ace of Spades remains, game presentation
Related toVariationsAlso published here 13 Mar. 1958 4
Tom Ransom Puzzle: Fist Through Cigarette Paper walking through a playing card variation
 		13 Mar. 1958 4
Alex Elmsley Pierce Arrow unusual game in which one deals through twelve cards and tries to predict position of reversed card, actually "Peirce Arrow"
Inspired byRelated toAlso published here 13 Mar. 1958 5
Martin Gardner Two Puzzles
  • arranging seven cigarettes so they all touch
  • arranging four matches into a square that becomes smaller and smaller
Related to 13 Mar. 1958 5
Tom Ransom Heat-Sensitive Paper Comment challenge of finding magical applications
 		13 Mar. 1958 5
Edward Marlo Mental Disclosure
  • First Method (one of ten memorized cards thought of, fishing and showing piles and asking whether the card is among them)
  • Second Method (shuffled, one of nine, asking whether the card is among them)
Variations 13 Mar. 1958 6
Tom Ransom Sibling two prediction cards, spectator stabs a card reversed into deck behind his back, prediction cards predict the card above the stabbed card via suit and value, and also the one below
 		13 Mar. 1958 8
Mel Stover MelMath on mixing/controlled shuffling, especially with faro shuffles
Related to 13 Mar. 1958 9
Ronald A. Wohl (Ravelli) On Binary Translocations on having a formula for getting a card to the top with faro shuffles with not 2
Related to 13 Mar. 1958 10
Tom Crane On the Piano Music False Count spectator and performer count simultaneously
Related to 13 Mar. 1958 10
Ronald B. Edwards No Two Ways 2&2, presented as a puzzle in which the cards cannot be put in an alternating order from the faces and the backs simultaneously
Variations 13 Mar. 1958 11
Stewart James, H. E. Dudeney, Max Katz Nic's Trick two-digit number divided by three, left-over named to performer who then works out the number
Inspired by 13 Mar. 1958 12
Alexander F. Kraus Sum Total Kruskal count procedure, at the end all face-up cards add up to 52, solution to the problem
Inspired by 13 Mar. 1958 13
Tom Ransom Sum More Kruskal count procedure, at the end all face-up cards add up to 52
Inspired byRelated to 13 Mar. 1958 17
Max Katz Sum More Kruskal count procedure, at the end all face-up cards add up to 52
Inspired by 13 Mar. 1958 17
Norman Houghton Two Little Houghtons intro, two stripper deck tricks from "Entertainment Novelties"
 		13 Mar. 1958 18
Norman Houghton The Shower of Aces Aces lost in deck, deck held under handkerchief, Aces drop out and onto table
 		13 Mar. 1958 18
Norman Houghton Honest Weight performer cuts deck into three piles, performer tells number of cards in chosen packet by weight
 		13 Mar. 1958 18
Norman Houghton Hollow Mockery green silk changes into egg, then red silk is pulled from egg, magician's gag
 		13 Mar. 1958 19
P. Howard Lyons Ibidem
14 Sep. 1958 1
Edward Marlo Thoughts on Piano on the piano card trick
  • First Method (two roughed pairs)
  • Second Method
  • Third Method
 		14 Sep. 1958 2
Tom Ransom Australian Poker three cards placed on each Ace, packets combined, after down-under deal performer ends up with the Aces
Related toVariations 14 Sep. 1958 4
Thomas M. Harris On the Mind two-digit number divided by three, left-over named to performer who then works out the number (is this "Tom Harris"?)
Inspired byRelated to
  • "Zangbar Zackelback" (Wallace Lee, Genii, June 1958, p. 364)
 14 Sep. 1958 5
Yarborough Problem probability of getting no card higher than Nine in a quarter of the deck, quote from "Mathematics and Logic" by Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker
 		14 Sep. 1958 5
Ric Schonblum When You Can't Face It gag when a magician gets handed a "wolf pack" (erotic images), chosen card is still normal
 		14 Sep. 1958 7
Ronald A. Wohl (Ravelli) Tips from Ravelli: Brown Study tip for Brown Study (two spectators cut off a small pile, shuffle and remember the bottom card, all replaced and done with the performer's back turned, cards are found)
Related to 14 Sep. 1958 7
Ronald A. Wohl (Ravelli) Tips from Ravelli: Binary Translocations not necessary to shuffle perfect faros in certain cases
Related to 14 Sep. 1958 7
Norman Houghton No Two Ways (Second Way) 2&2, presented as a puzzle in which the cards cannot be put in an alternating order from the faces and the backs simultaneously
  • Third Way
Inspired by 14 Sep. 1958 8
Norman Houghton Angle Buckle for buckle count, buckling with left thumb at left edge
 		14 Sep. 1958 9
Gerald Kosky A Blue Prediction spectator selects only card with blue back, cross sum force
Also published here 14 Sep. 1958 10
Dariel Fitzkee, Tom Bowyer Trick Brain Tumors annotations to "The Trick Brain"
  • p. 248
  • p. 248
 		14 Sep. 1958 10
P. Howard Lyons For He's a Jolly Good Follow ten reds and ten blacks
 		14 Sep. 1958 11
P. Howard Lyons Reverse Stud hand with Aces changes into Royal Flush
Related to 14 Sep. 1958 12
Tom Bowyer A Letter to Faucett letter to Faucett Ross, Chester Miller, Dunninger
Related to 14 Sep. 1958 13
Chester "Dr. DeMille" Miller Phone Divination person phoned who calls any card, it is the only reversed card in the deck
 		14 Sep. 1958 13
Tom Bowyer Phone Book Test based on Grant idea, index
 		14 Sep. 1958 13
Tom Bowyer Book Riffle Force
14 Sep. 1958 14
Theodore Annemann Magic vs. Mindreading two decks, spectator puts one in pocket, from the other he selects a card mentally, card is spelled in both decks and the last card is the thought of, card also predicted
Also published here 14 Sep. 1958 14
Alex Elmsley Auto Discovery two cards are used to divine a very free selection that's pocketed by spectator, stacked
Also published here 14 Sep. 1958 15
Alex Elmsley Double Control transposing top card with selection at certain position with faro shuffles
VariationsAlso published here 14 Sep. 1958 15
Alex Elmsley Chance & Choice strange selection process involving down-under-deal, three cards
Also published here 14 Sep. 1958 16
P. Howard Lyons The Problem of A, B, C and D on a logic problem concerning lying
 		14 Sep. 1958 16
Alex Elmsley Mathematics & Mentalism one of sixteen cards thought of with its position, during reverse faros the spectator says in which half his card is, selection ends up on top (and force card brought to original position)
Related toVariationsAlso published here 14 Sep. 1958 17
P. Howard Lyons Why-Believe-Its taken from Ripley books
 		14 Sep. 1958 17
Alex Elmsley Switchy-Coo card a chosen number is reversed, then changes to previous selection
Also published here 14 Sep. 1958 18
P. Domain Whose World? with shuffled deck, Grant
 		14 Sep. 1958 19
P. Howard Lyons Ibidem
15 Dec. 1958 1
Edward Marlo Ladies Looking Glass Application
15 Dec. 1958 1
Edward Marlo Quick 3-Way three-alike display
Related toVariationsAlso published here 15 Dec. 1958 2
Edward Marlo In Lieu of the Hindoo Shuffle all alike display for deck
  • First Method (sequence of under-cuts and shows)
  • Second Method (swing cuts in the hands)
  • Third Method (swing cuts onto the table)
  • Fourth Method (packets cut from top to bottom with pull-down of bottom card)
  • Fifth Method (deck face up, packets dropped onto table face down with slip cut action)
  • Sixth Method (deck face up, slip cuts with face towards performer)
Related to 15 Dec. 1958 3
Edward Marlo Mini-Classic (1st method) selection lost, it is shown on top, bottom and reversed in center, the three cards are shown as all alike, card then taken from pocket, deck shown as all selection
 		15 Dec. 1958 5
Edward Marlo Mini-Classic (2nd method) three cards change into selection, then selection taken from pocket, card then taken from pocket, deck shown as all selection
Related to 15 Dec. 1958 6
Edward Marlo A Sixy Effect three cards change into selection (a Six), then selection taken from pocket, card then taken from pocket, deck shown as all selection, all four Sixes produced from pocket, puns in the patter
Related toVariations 15 Dec. 1958 7
Edward Marlo A Variation to a Sixy Effect variation of the ending with a pocket transfer sequence, passing a Nine as a Six
Inspired byRelated to 15 Dec. 1958 8
Edward Marlo Buffalo'd transposition with bluff display
Variations 15 Dec. 1958 9
P. Howard Lyons Everyone is a Magician quote from 1533 book Book One of "Gargantua and Pantagruel"
 		15 Dec. 1958 9
Edward Marlo Jack and Ace Transposition two extra phases after Dai Vernon's "The Jumping Jack", clean-up with pocket phase
Inspired by 15 Dec. 1958 10
Martin Gardner Puzzle Solution: Seven Cigarettes arranging seven cigarettes so they all touch
Related to 15 Dec. 1958 11
Edward Marlo Oil & Water - Water & Oil - Oil & Water intro
 		15 Dec. 1958 12
Edward Marlo First Routine: Using 3 jacks and 3 tens 3&3, extra card, three phases
Variations 15 Dec. 1958 12
Edward Marlo The Second B and R Routine 3&3, from the backs, three phases
 		15 Dec. 1958 14
Edward Marlo Sleightless Sleight oil & water fan with 3&3 is separated in display gesture, two cards switched/displaced
 		15 Dec. 1958 15
Edward Marlo All Face Up Oil and Water Routine 3&3, also suggestion of using three cards face up and three face down
 		15 Dec. 1958 16
Edward Marlo Add Note to P. M. handling with stay stack
Inspired by 15 Dec. 1958 17
Edward Marlo Progressive Miracle using the Half & Half Principle memorized deck as stay stack with calculations, Marlo calls "Stay Stack Principle" the "Half & Half Principle"
Inspired by 15 Dec. 1958 18
Edward Marlo To Tell the Truth deck faro shuffled, then one half placed face up and one face down on the table, face-up cards key the performer so he can name the face-down ones one by one, memorized deck as stay stack
 		15 Dec. 1958 18
Edward Marlo Calculating Removed Card from memorized deck, card removed and eight faros shuffled in total
Related to 15 Dec. 1958 19
P. Howard Lyons Ibidem
16 Mar. 1959 1
Bill Elliott 3 Card Monkey Business packet trick with story presentation, blank card finale, or card with green face
Inspired byVariationsAlso published here 16 Mar. 1959 3
Edward Marlo, Neal Elias, Bert Fenn Observation Test see also p. 1 for notes on presentation
Variations 16 Mar. 1959 5
Martin Gardner Piano Mover piano card trick, one double lift
Related to 16 Mar. 1959 8
P. Howard Lyons Phonograph Gag song normal on one side and backwards on the other side
 		16 Mar. 1959 8
Neal Elias Mental Count Three-spot card pushed in reversed in deck, it is next to peeked-at selection or used to count to it
  • Alternate Procedure (a card reversed in the center, it's the selection or leads to it)
  • Stab Trick - a variation (card stabbed to in paper-wrapped deck)
Variations 16 Mar. 1959 9
Neal Elias Center Key Card Shuffle red/black shuffle around center to retain key card there
 		16 Mar. 1959 9
Neal Elias Double Selection two cards peeked at in two halves are found, faro
Inspired byVariations 16 Mar. 1959 10
Martin Gardner Puzzle Solution: Matches arranging four matches into a square that becomes smaller and smaller
Related to 16 Mar. 1959 10
Tom Ransom You Did It!!! deck riffle shuffled once, dealt into two pile (one face up, one face down), one spectator follows the dealing of reds and blacks with the face-down pile and thus separates his cards
Inspired by
  • "Magnetic Colors" (Normal Gilbreath, Linking Ring)
Related to 		16 Mar. 1959 11
P. Howard Lyons Dream of a Dream cards dealt according to thought-of card, without reference book
Inspired by 16 Mar. 1959 13
Tom Ransom Puzzle: Big Casino
Related to 16 Mar. 1959 13
Edward Marlo The 8 Card Wonder: Effect #1 "Discovery of two freely chosen cards", two cards chosen with down-under deal from an eight-card packet
 		16 Mar. 1959 14
Edward Marlo The 8 Card Wonder: Effect #2 "Performer apparently finds four selected cards. Shows an idea in Re-Forcing", down-under deal with an eight-card packet
 		16 Mar. 1959 14
Edward Marlo The 8 Card Wonder: Effect #3 "As a double prediction effect.", down-under deal with an eight-card packet
 		16 Mar. 1959 15
Edward Marlo The 8 Card Wonder: Effect #4 "A two deck effect of a Do As I Do nature.", down-under deal with an eight-card packet
 		16 Mar. 1959 15
Edward Marlo The 8 Card Wonder: Effect #5 down-under deal double force with a nine-card packet
 		16 Mar. 1959 16
Edward Marlo Ten-Card Packet Triple Force down-under deal
 		16 Mar. 1959 17
Edward Marlo Reverse Faro Terminology
16 Mar. 1959 17
Tom Ransom From the Subliminal to the Ridiculous one-way forcing deck as gag force
 		16 Mar. 1959 18
Jack Stone Prell Centre Prell Shampoo
Related to 16 Mar. 1959 18
Norman Houghton Two Faces of Eve four blank cards shown, two pictures of women appear with humorous presentation
Inspired by
  • Paul Estee packet trick
Variations 		16 Mar. 1959 19
Theodore Annemann Double-Blank Display Sequence four cards apparently shown from both sides, diminishing turnovers
 		16 Mar. 1959 19
P. Howard Lyons Ring Off
Related to 16 Mar. 1959 20
P. Howard Lyons Down!!! coin dropped into two nested glasses, handkerchief cover, coin travels into bottom glass, secret third glass
Inspired by
  • Gene Shelly problem in "Future Magic" in Linking Ring
 16 Mar. 1959 21
P. Howard Lyons Ibidem
17 July 1959 2
Bill Elliott Layman's Choice two rings on a shoelace or string, chosen ring penetrates string
 		17 July 1959 3
Ronald B. Edwards Mazes-Phase Down variation that starts with two honest riffle shuffles (interlocking chains), suits separated, some dealing procedure that affects the red/black distribution
  • Phase II (dealing into chosen number of piles, sympathetic values)
Inspired byRelated to 17 July 1959 5
Arthur Hastings Two For The Show two selections are peeked at, one turns over, other is counted to, see "Fan Letter" for credit information
Inspired byRelated toVariations 17 July 1959 6
P. Howard Lyons Codicil deck cut into two piles, spectator looks at top cards, top cards are tabled, both transform and are brought from the pocket, with challenge presentation in which spectator must point to originally seen cards
Inspired by
  • "Never Bet on the Other Man's Game" (The Testament of R. W. Hull)
Variations 		17 July 1959 7
P. Howard Lyons Scarne Envelope Challenge
17 July 1959 8
Edward Marlo World's Best? spectator's chosen card ends up next to thought-of card, same card is reversed in a second deck
  • alternative method with memorized deck
 		17 July 1959 9
Edward Marlo Technical Variation of the Henry Christ Force cards turned over one by one and placed onto deck in out-jogged condition, three handling variations
  • Number 1
  • Number 2
  • Number 3
Inspired byVariations 17 July 1959 9
P. Howard Lyons Resurectionist Dept.
17 July 1959 12
Friedrich Wilhelm Frikell, W. H. Cremer The Unfaithful Knave counting sides in square
Also published here
  • "The Secret Out", W. H. Cremer, 1891
 17 July 1959 12
Edward Marlo Duts presentation for Kings and Aces transposition
Related to 17 July 1959 13
Edward Marlo The Worm Turns telling number directly in Einstein trick
Related to 17 July 1959 13
Ken Beale, Francis Carlyle Erl & Water 3&3, three-card spread in each hand, bottom card of right-hand spread switched with top card of left-hand spread in top change action
Inspired by 17 July 1959 14
Ken Beale Apartheid 3&3, one extra, with handling variation by P. Howard Lyons
Inspired byRelated to 17 July 1959 14
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 17 July 1959 15
Ken Beale Four Browners see following items
 		17 July 1959 16
Ken Beale Brown Transpo two selections made from two halves with "counting pile and remember card at that position" procedure, one counted from the top and one from the bottom, they change position
Inspired byVariations 17 July 1959 16
Ken Beale Brown Coincidence two cards are selected with the "card at position of cut-off number"-procedure, deck then dealt in two halves, both are dealt in unison and the selected cards are at the same position
Inspired byVariations 17 July 1959 16
Ken Beale Brown Out packet removed and counted, cards at that position remembered, performer finds card and names number
 		17 July 1959 17
Ken Beale Simple Coincidence two cards are selected with the "card at position of cut-off number"-procedure, deck then dealt in two halves, both are dealt in unison and the selected cards are at the same position
Inspired byRelated to 17 July 1959 18
P. Howard Lyons On Derek Vernon
Related to 17 July 1959 18
Neal Elias A Reversed Location two cards peeked at in two halves, halves shuffled together, one selection is reversed and the other found next to it, faros
Inspired by 17 July 1959 19
Mel Stover Puzzle: V. A. Hospital
Related to 17 July 1959 19
P. Howard Lyons Noughty Crosses prediction
Related to 17 July 1959 20
P. Howard Lyons Departments
  • Principles Only Department
  • Review Department
  • Additional Explanation Department
  • Stick It Department
 		17 July 1959 21
Edward Marlo Heat Crimp leaving a card in the heat so it warps
 		17 July 1959 21
Ronald B. Edwards Flat Flexible Folding Reversible Four Dimensional Die flexagon idea
 		17 July 1959 21
Sam Randlett Plunger Rise Set-Up faro with small packet into deck
Inspired by 17 July 1959 21
Ed Mellon, Robert Lund, Mel Stover, Glenn Davidson Letter Department
17 July 1959 22
P. Howard Lyons (reviewer) Slow Motion Poker Deals by Lin Searles 17 July 1959 22
P. Howard Lyons (reviewer) Houdini by Harry Houdini (written by William Lindsay Gresham) 17 July 1959 22
P. Howard Lyons Ibidem
18 Oct. 1959 1
Ronald B. Edwards 1/2 and 1/2 selection travels from one half to the other
 		18 Oct. 1959 2
The Compleat Gardner
18 Oct. 1959 3
Martin Gardner Hummering Off
  • Second Version
Related to 18 Oct. 1959 3
Martin Gardner Odd! Monty Hall discussion, bet with three cards
Variations 18 Oct. 1959 3
Martin Gardner Glass House both hands hold a glass and set it down reversed, really only one glass is turned over, two applications:
  • 1. old three-glass trick parity puzzle
  • 2. parity puzzle with six glasses
 		18 Oct. 1959 4
Martin Gardner Cardless but Glassy Hummer-inspired trick with rows of six glasses, some up some down
 		18 Oct. 1959 4
Martin Gardner Lull's Ars concentric movable circles with effect and prop categories to generate trick ideas, Trick Brain, "The Ars Magic Inventorium"
Inspired by
  • Ramon Lull, medieval Spanish mystic around 1300
 18 Oct. 1959 5
Martin Gardner Brewer's Gold ideas using Ken Beale's two ring and cord principle
Related to 18 Oct. 1959 5
Martin Gardner Pop Up Cube cryptic, perhaps production cube
 		18 Oct. 1959 6
Martin Gardner, Fred Kaps Capp's Cubes pencil line on sugar cube so two cubes look like three, "Kap's Cubes"
Variations 18 Oct. 1959 7
Martin Gardner Stick Up bar bet with bent paper clip and paper match, creator unknown
 		18 Oct. 1959 7
Bill Elliott Hyp Hip spectator cannot move his foot
 		18 Oct. 1959 8
L. Vosburgh Lyons, P. Howard Lyons Cubeb solution to puzzle with cubes that have six different colors in different arrangements
Inspired by 18 Oct. 1959 9
Mel Stover Puzzle Solution: V. A. Hospital
Related to 18 Oct. 1959 10
Edward Marlo Oil & Water Climaxes 4&4, reds and blacks instantly alternate, credit information
  • First Method
  • Second Method
  • Third Method
  • Fourth Method
  • Fifth Method
 		18 Oct. 1959 11
Edward Marlo Bottom Deal Count Credit Information
18 Oct. 1959 11
Edward Marlo Small Packet Displacement
Also published here 18 Oct. 1959 12
Edward Marlo M.S. Two Hand Loading Move displacements with buckling, see page 13 for credit information
 		18 Oct. 1959 14
Edward Marlo Using the Glide for Oil and Water credit information
 		18 Oct. 1959 16
Edward Marlo Double Deal Count in-the-hands
 		18 Oct. 1959 16
From Reason and Nature by Morris R. Cohen quote from that book
 		18 Oct. 1959 17
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 18 Oct. 1959 18
Russell "Rusduck" Duck Rusduck Thinks on the reverse faro
  • suit separation by going through the deck only once
  • reverse faros to pre-set a stack
  • poker deal application
Inspired byRelated to 18 Oct. 1959 19
Edward Marlo For The Magic Seven "The In Between Phase" (should be done between phases four and five of original routine)
selection reversed in face-up portion travels down into lower face-down portion into seventh position
Inspired by 18 Oct. 1959 21
Edward Marlo Spread Cull Placement from near top to specific position in lower half
 		18 Oct. 1959 21
Mel Stover Puzzle Solution: Big Casino
Related to 18 Oct. 1959 22
Bill Elliott The O. H. Puzzle layout puzzle with geometrical shapes
Also published here 18 Oct. 1959 23
Stewart James Quiz Biz stack with thirty-six cards, three cards are spelled to Kruskal-like and they are always an Ace, Two and Six, Quiz presentation
Variations 18 Oct. 1959 25
Stewart James Party Line stack with thirty-six wod cards, three cards are spelled to Kruskal-like and they are always the same three
Inspired by 18 Oct. 1959 26
Stewart James Skip Tracer same spelling principle, applied to murder mystery plot with clue cards
Inspired by 18 Oct. 1959 26
Quote from Menlo Park Reminiscences, Vol. 1 (Francis Jehl)
18 Oct. 1959 27
Stewart James The Message of Didah card chosen by spelling a random item, red and black cards in deck code the selection via morse alphabet
  • First Alternative
  • Second Alternative
 		18 Oct. 1959 28
Nathan Mendelsohn Whilst Demonstrating to the Company A Game at Poker, To Deal the Cards in Such a Manner that a Card Known to be at one Position from the Top will, at the Performer’s Pleasure, Be Found at any other rules about dealing in piles, see page 34 for more information on author
Related to 18 Oct. 1959 29
P. Howard Lyons They're Really Marked performer sorts deck into reds and blacks from the back, procedure to get a mixed-up one-way deck into the right configuration by dealing once from the back and once from the face, borrowed deck is apparently marked
 		18 Oct. 1959 30
Bicycle Rider Back One Way Marks
18 Oct. 1959 30
Norman Houghton Norm Houghton on phobias
18 Oct. 1959 30
Ken Beale Jackpott three Jacks deal (three Jacks are laid alternated with indifferent cards and come to the top), ending in full house and royal flush
Inspired by 18 Oct. 1959 31
Edward Marlo Business Card Prediction two cards predicted on business card which is inserted into deck, cards on either side are the predicted ones, duplicate business move, without prophecy move
Inspired by 18 Oct. 1959 32
P. Howard Lyons Neater Penetration odd-backed, two packets of four Aces each, thought Ace transposes
Inspired by 18 Oct. 1959 33
P. Howard Lyons Ibidem All-Marlo issue
 		19 Dec. 1959 1
Edward Marlo A Rough Prediction Open Prediction methods using a roughed forcing deck, performer deals
  • First Presentation (spectator stops as performer deals)
  • Second Presentation (spectator thinks of a number and then stops dealing at the number, "Did you think of number x?")
  • Third Presentation (spectator thinks of one of the indifferent cards, predicted card is next to it)
  • Fourth Presentation (two cards end up in the same position in two halves)
  • Fifth Presentation (prediction card made with another deck)
 		19 Dec. 1959 2
Edward Marlo Premonition Not card vanishes from deck and is reproduced from pocket, using deck of double facers with same card on each back (à la Hofzinser), spectator deals through double-faced deck, title taken from reprint
  • First Method (named card vanishes)
  • Second Method (touched card vanishes)
  • Third Method (touched card vanishes, using only a bank of double facers)
  • Fourth Method (named card which is marked and replaced vanishes)
Variations 19 Dec. 1959 4
Edward Marlo Flexible Move whole deck turned over under cover card, one-handed
Also published here
  • The Gen, Feb. 1959
 19 Dec. 1959 6
Edward Marlo Atomic Deck Card Vanish peeked card vanishes, using the Atomic Deck (mis-indexed double facer deck)
Related to
  • Joe Berg's Atomic Deck
 19 Dec. 1959 7
Edward Marlo Roughed Mene-Tekel Coincidence card thought of in blue deck matches card chosen from red deck
Related to 19 Dec. 1959 8
Edward Marlo R.R.B.M.T. "Roughed Red/Blue Mene Tekel"
card named from deck, an odd-backed prediction is produced from pocket, card case or wallet (or elsewhere)
Variations 19 Dec. 1959 9
Edward Marlo Timing Pocket Load inside pocket opened so spectator can reach in and remove card, card secretly thumbed into it before that
 		19 Dec. 1959 10
Edward Marlo Card from Case with dummy card glued in, as prediction, see step 11
 		19 Dec. 1959 10
Edward Marlo R.R.B.M.T. Handling with Wallet & Coins card chosen from deck, spectator covers any coin with it, an odd-backed prediction is produced from wallet and coin is predicted on rolled-up cigarette paper
Inspired by 19 Dec. 1959 11
Edward Marlo Vanishing Card Deck touched card vanishes, spectator counts through deck, it is found in pocket, using a bank of nine double facers
Inspired by 19 Dec. 1959 12
Edward Marlo Easy Vanishing Card fifty-one cards roughed on faces, one card on back
Also published here 19 Dec. 1959 15
Edward Marlo The Named Transposition named card travels from one deck to another, roughed deck, and roughed red/blue menetekel
Also published here 19 Dec. 1959 16
Edward Marlo The Named Reverse named card removed from blue deck, same card then shown reversed in red deck, roughed red/blue menetekel
Also published here 19 Dec. 1959 16
Edward Marlo The Illogical Routine Aces are stacked with faros multiple times, but each time come out in an unexpected hand for an unexpected number of players, Aces vanish as finale
Variations 19 Dec. 1959 18
Edward Marlo Technicolor Thought named card is only odd-backed card, it is shown to have transposed with the duplicate in a deck with another back color, roughed red/blue menetekel
 		19 Dec. 1959 20
Edward Marlo A Monte Vanish during a Three Card Monte the money card vanishes and appears in pocket, it then transposes with one of the other cards
 		19 Dec. 1959 21
Edward Marlo The Returning Jack four Aces and a black Jack, tabled cards change to red Kings then, with fake index cards, see also p. 44 for handling detail on count
  • Added Kicker (color changing backs kicker)
 		19 Dec. 1959 23
Edward Marlo The Three Roughskeeters three roughed cards
Inspired by 19 Dec. 1959 25
Edward Marlo Double Out Presentation any card named, it is either odd-backed or missing à la premonition, using Ed Marlo's marketed Phantom Deck
Related toVariations 19 Dec. 1959 27
Edward Marlo Rough/Smooth Memorized Deck pairs, deck can be shuffled, any removed card can be identified by other card of the pair, also as set-up for brainwave deck
 		19 Dec. 1959 28
Edward Marlo Vanishing Thought spectator names a card he sees, it vanishes
 		19 Dec. 1959 28
Edward Marlo Paging a Stranger red and blue deck, any card named, it is removed from one deck, when other deck is counted that card is seen missing and the removed card has a different back
Inspired byRelated to
  • "Stranger in Paradise" (Peter Warlock, marketed 1955)
Also published here 		19 Dec. 1959 29
Edward Marlo Double Out named card is either missing or odd-backed
Related toAlso published here 19 Dec. 1959 30
Mel Stover Puzzle: Junior Chemist puzzle with weights
Related to 19 Dec. 1959 31
Mel Stover Puzzle: Black Chinese Checkers
Related to 19 Dec. 1959 31
Edward Marlo New Touch Predictions using a deck with the same card on all the backs
 		19 Dec. 1959 32
Edward Marlo Double Touch Prediction handling with two prediction, using Joe Berg's Atomic Deck (mis-indexed double facer deck)
 		19 Dec. 1959 32
Edward Marlo Svengali's Double Prediction two predictions written on faces of two cards match selections
Variations 19 Dec. 1959 33
Edward Marlo Double Impromptu Touch two predictions written on faces of two cards match selections
Inspired by 19 Dec. 1959 34
Edward Marlo Roughly a New Approach intro on ideas with pairs of rough/smooth cards to form impromptu double facers or backers
 		19 Dec. 1959 35
Edward Marlo Two Card Monte DeLand's Two Card Monte with pairs of roughed cards
 		19 Dec. 1959 35
Edward Marlo The New Touch Predictions rough/smooth methods for Touch
  • 1st Method (red/blue roughed deck)
  • 2nd Method (one back color)
  • 3rd Method (Ultramental deck)
 		19 Dec. 1959 36
Edward Marlo The Spectator Coincidence physical selection matches mental (named from face-up spread) selection, using "Double Face Mente Tekel in red and blue cards", suggesting an SBS deck as well in intro
Inspired byVariations 19 Dec. 1959 38
Edward Marlo Tis Rough on Hofzinser
Variations 19 Dec. 1959 40
Edward Marlo The Rough Magician vs the Gambler
19 Dec. 1959 42
Edward Marlo Rough Handling
  • handling for a rough-smooth deck, overhand shuffling, also by spectator (Hull), description by Bill Simon, regular sleight demonstrations as throw-offs
  • handling of rough-smooth pairs
 		19 Dec. 1959 43
Edward Marlo Roughed False Dealing Demonstration fifth dealing with roughed Aces, also suggestion of using a paper clip
 		19 Dec. 1959 43
Edward Marlo Rough Markers roughed pairs, bottom cards are marked, divining removed cards by reading marks on bottom card of pair
 		19 Dec. 1959 44
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Data entered by Denis Behr, July 2023.