Watch This One!

A Collection of Choice Magical Effects with Small Objects

1947
Written by J. B. Bobo, James G. Thompson Jr.
Work of J. B. Bobo
124 pages (Hardcover), published by Lloyd E. Jones
Illustrated with drawings by J. B. Bobo
Language: English
77 entries
Cover photograph
Creators Title Comments & References Page AA Categories
J. B. Bobo Preface
11
John Braun Introduction
13
J. B. Bobo Multiple Card Control hindu shuffle control to bottom for one or multiple cards, crimp addition
Related toAlso published here 15
J. B. Bobo Friction Bottom Slip Cut
16
Shuffling around Key or Crimp
17
J. B. Bobo Bottom Up
  • Method I (tabled transfer cut from bottom card to top)
  • Method II (Hindu shuffle to bring bottom card to top)
 		18
J. B. Bobo Bottom Peek during center cut
 		21
J. B. Bobo Top Peek top buckle in open grip from top
 		23
J. B. Bobo Naming Top Card performer repeatedly knows top card after shuffle
 		24
U Peek, I Peek card in center is glimpsed at back end as spectator is looking at it from opening in front
 		25
J. B. Bobo Color Change with gambler's flat palm steal from back & presentation
 		27
Paul Ebling The Ebling Crimp one-handed with flesh of fourth finger
 		29
J. B. Bobo A New Key Card single rough-smooth pair
 		31
J. B. Bobo The Isolated Key corner dotted card in center as reference
 		32
J. B. Bobo Stop Card Trick
33
J. B. Bobo Milk Shuffle Key Placement card replaced during overhand shuffle
 		34
J. B. Bobo Found card selected with seemingly fair cutting procedure, key card
 		35
J. B. Bobo Bobo Locatrix card selected with seemingly fair cutting procedure, key card, location via "Trick that Cannot be Explained" type procedure
 		36
Shuffling with Key Card
37
J. Stewart Smith In His Hands
39
J. B. Bobo Telepathic Miracle key card placed next to thought-of card
Related to 40
J. B. Bobo Two Backward Cards performer stabs card reversed between two selections behind his back
 		42
Paul Ebling Behind His Back card chosen and returned behind performer's back, when he brings deck forward he instantly names card and it is reversed
 		45
Glimpsing Reversed Card in Center
46
J. B. Bobo Card to Pocket card instantly produced from pocket
 		46
J. B. Bobo Center Rear Palm Steal
47
J. B. Bobo Double Discovery performer stabs card reversed between two selections
 		48
J. B. Bobo Triple Thought spectator selects three cards and thinks of one of them, they're returned, performer finds thought-of card
 		49
J. B. Bobo The Invisible Deck classic Invisible Deck
 		51
J. B. Bobo "Out of this World" Followup - Effect Number 1 spectator finds card that was selected at other end of room
 		52
Red/Black Shuffle cards drawn singly in the center
 		53
J. B. Bobo "Out of this World" Followup - Effect Number 2 decks with colors separated is mixed, yet the colors stay separated
 		55
J. B. Bobo Red/Black Shuffle mixing in Charlier Shuffle position
 		55
Charlier Charlier Shuffle uncredited
 		57
J. B. Bobo Cards in Flight twelve cards, comedy presentation with child
 		58
J. B. Bobo Four Ace Routine (a) four piles build by shuffling and being stopped by spectator, Ace on top of each
(b) Aces lost, number cards selected and their value used to count down to Aces
(c) "Cutting the Aces"
 		65
Slip Force
67
J. B. Bobo Control to Second from Bottom Hindu shuffle
 		68
Slip Cut in the hands
 		69
One-Handed Slip Cut
70
J. B. Bobo Bobo System of Card Control
73
J. B. Bobo The Art of Sleeving
75
Delayed Action Sleeving
76
The "Pumpkin Seed" Vanish
77
Loading Sleeve from Inside Coat
79
Pulling up Sleeves after Sleeving
79
J. B. Bobo Chameleon Knives ungaffed, sleeving as switch
 		79
J. B. Bobo Color Changing Thimble sleeving
 		80
J. B. Bobo Coin to Ring featuring pumpkin seed vanish as switch
 		80
Through the Table coin on table, spectator presses performer's hand on top and it penetrates table, with a misdirection sleeving
 		81
Sleeve Switch under Handkerchief
82
J. B. Bobo Glass of Liquid Production appears under handkerchief, loaded from sleeve
 		83
The Catapult inertia sleeving
 		84
J. B. Bobo A New Switch
87
Wallace Lee The Ghost of a Coin
89
J. B. Bobo Bobo Vanish
90
J. B. Bobo Knee-zy Vanish coin travels from knee to knee, then vanishes
Variations 91
J. B. Bobo Sucker Vanish
92
J. B. Bobo Hand Load via Speed
93
Phil Huckabee The Penny-trating Coin one of two coins penetrates spectator's hand, penny/dime set
 		94
J. B. Bobo The Squirting Nickel use for hollow coin to squirt water from, heckler stopper
 		95
J. B. Bobo Mystery with a Shell Half short flurry, method to separate shell from coin
 		96
J. B. Bobo The Magic Mint nickel in the hand, half dollar appears, nickel transforms into another half dollar
 		97
Wallace Lee The Ghost of a Coin coin to glass disc in spectator's hand
 		99
J. B. Bobo, Phil Huckabee Peregrinating Quarters
101
J. B. Bobo The Inseparable Pair two phases
 		103
J. B. Bobo Drop Switch hands crossed
 		105
Harry McDaniel Chinese Money Mystery
Related to 106
J. B. Bobo, James G. Thompson Jr. Silver and Copper
  • Number One
  • Number Two
  • Number Three
  • Number Four (J. G. Thompson, Jr.)
 		108
J. B. Bobo Suggested Routine string of coin tricks
 		114
J. B. Bobo Match Penetration between thumb and first finger of both hands
 		115
Paul Fox Thimble Change-Over
116
Paul Fox Thimble Pop-Up thimble travels from hand to thumb
 		117
J. B. Bobo The Exploding Thimble vanish with sound effect
 		119
J. B. Bobo Throwing a Knot one handed knot, striking part of rope with index finger
Related to 120
J. B. Bobo Knots to You rope in hand, number named, that many knots appear, then one is blown off
Also published here 121
J. B. Bobo The Ring on the String
123
Data entered by Denis Behr, November 2015.