Missing Almost Every Thing

2024
Written by Alexander Hansford
Work of Alexander Hansford
217 pages (Hardcover), published by The Neat Review
Illustrated with photographs
Language: English
26 entries
Cover photograph
Creators Title Comments & References Page Categories
Alexander Hansford Upcoming Events "Ritual Lying"
 		7
Alexander Hansford Intro on how much he practiced as a kid
 		10
Alexander Hansford Right Hander Look Here written from left-handed perspective
 		18
Alexander Hansford Whilst Out Of Sight (A Reset) Jacks placed in four pockets, Aces in hand change to Jacks, Aces shown in pockets, all eight cards lost, Jacks travel to four pockets once more
  • Alternative (better) Andy Frost Ending (Andrew Frost)
  • Alternative Fully Clean Transposition
 		20
Alexander Hansford Packet Switch partial switch with two fours-of-a-kind
 		24
Alexander Hansford Knoxville Layout Variation showing four Jacks and putting them into four different pockets
Inspired by 26
Deep Classic Palm first finger free
 		30
Alexander Hansford, Giancarlo Scalia Elmsley Count Substitute showing cards one by one with lifts
 		32
Alexander Hansford Spectator Cuts Their Thoughts spectator thinks of a card while deck is riffled before his eyes and cuts deck into four piles, the four-of-a-kind matching the selection is found on top (last one misses and its value is used to count to fourth card)
Variations 52
Visual Riffle Force in-jog
 		56
Alexander Hansford & In Every Way Imaginable variation with four spectators involved in finding the four-of-a-kind
Inspired by 76
Alexander Hansford Thought Of Card To Pocket thought-of (and removed by the spectator before it is lost again) card travels to pocket, it is placed under the card case and vanishes from there to again travel into the pocket along with its three mates, deck vanishes and found in pocket
 		84
Alexander Hansford Easy Cull Handling four three-of-a-kind
Inspired by 90
Glenn Morphew, Alexander Hansford Rub-a-Dub Deluxe under Case apparently placing the card under the case
Inspired by 96
Alexander Hansford Sudden Travelling Light signed cards, only one palm
 		116
Armpit Transfer card brought to arm pit from behind back
 		130
Neal Elias On the Card to the Pocket palmed card transferred to inside pocket, finesse by Arthur Chavaudret
Also published here 138
Alexander Hansford Eight Year General Card odd-backed card put in back pocket, four Jacks change one by one into a signed selection, then back to Jacks, signed card is the odd-backed card in the back pocket
Inspired by
  • "Hessian" (Alexander Hansford, Dan & Dave Buck, 2016)
 144
Alexander Hansford Open Deck Switch one deck in hand, another deck is picked up with same hand, they are secretly exchanged
 		147
Alexander Hansford Five-as-Four Fan-Out
153
Alexander Hansford Lateral Palm Steal Transformation bottom card of a double stolen, as transformation
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Alexander Hansford Remorse Less Miracle Triumph using Reinhard Müller's subtle tabled turnover of one half before the shuffle
Inspired by 178
Alexander Hansford Chairman of the Bored deck shown in new deck order, then shuffled and later shuffled face-up/face-down, shuffle-bored prediction
Related to 190
Alexander Hansford Aspect of Eternity / Gathering Dust under-the-spread force variation, reverse-spread under an in-the-hands spread, card traveling into another deck application, or transposition
 		200
Alexander Hansford Credits
212
Alexander Hansford Bibliography and Video
216
Data entered by Denis Behr, December 2024.