"Outs" Precautions and Challenges

For Ambitious Card Workers

1940
Written by Charles Hopkins
Work of Charles Hopkins
80 pages (Stapled), published by unknown publisher
Illustrated with drawings by Walter S. Fogg
Language: English
94 entries
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Charles Hopkins Preface
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Charles Hopkins Introduction
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Charles Hopkins Whose Fault When Things Go Wrong?
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Charles Hopkins The Psychology of Failure
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Charles Hopkins Use of "Sucker Gag" Technique
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Charles Hopkins Secret And Open Outs Difference between rectifying mistakes secretly (before audience knows about it) and openly (when the mistake is known to everyone)
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Charles Hopkins When Error Is Still Under Cover Techniques to get out of mistakes before audience catches on
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Charles Hopkins 1 - Card correctly identified, but slips out of control. Use of peeks, cut / pass to re-establish control.
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Charles Hopkins 2 - Identification correct, but placement for climax is wrong. For counting / spelling tricks (double/triple lifts, pilot card technique)
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Charles Hopkins When Error May Be Visible Techniques to get out of mistakes when audience knows
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Charles Hopkins 3 - Incorrect identification of selection card.
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Charles Hopkins 4 - Card lost before identification.
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Charles Hopkins 5 - The selector forgets what his card was.
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Charles Hopkins Either You Know You Are Wrong - Or Else...
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Charles Hopkins This Time You MUST Be Right Importance of rectifying the mistake clearly to end successfully
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Charles Hopkins Attitudes That Get Co-operation After finding wrong card, how to get selector to reveal the correct card for magician to try again
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Charles Hopkins 6 - When they refuse to tell. How to deal with "You are doing the trick... you tell me!"
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Charles Hopkins 7 - For the extreme "hold out". Extreme cases where audience will not name their selected card
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Charles Hopkins 8 - Use a thumb writer. How to use thumb writer to get out of sticky situations
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Charles Hopkins 9 - Impression methods. Using carbon paper to make a copy
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Charles Hopkins 10 - Pencil reading.
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Charles Hopkins 11 - Friendly mirrors. Using reflective surfaces
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Charles Hopkins 12 - To meet an absolute refusal to tell. Using the 220 Count method
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Charles Hopkins Old Ideas Brought Up To Date; Also, A Few New Ones Useful sleights to use for outs
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13 - The "Top Peek". While preparing for overhand shuffle
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14 - Fan Crimp. Crimping corner in a fan of cards
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15 - The "Deck Crimp".
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16 - The "Crimp" as a Locator. Uses for corner crimp
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17 - Fan jog. Control of card after inserting in fan
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18 - The quarter-bridge. Way to bridge the deck so spectator will cut within bank of cards.
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19 - Gambler's Bridge. Bridging the deck in the context of a cut
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20 - The "Change" Throw. The Throw Change
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Charles Hopkins Other Useful Standard Sleights
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Charles Hopkins Fit The Weapon To The Needs
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Charles Hopkins Getting Down To Brass Tacks--- And The Selected Card
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21 - Just a gag. Gag to reveal card by miscalling
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Charles Hopkins 22 - Out-in-the-open changes. Using top/bottom changes, or double lifts
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23 - Forced replacement of wrong card. Stab wrong card into pack to find right card
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Charles Hopkins 24 - Using "locators" for "outs". Use of short cards, scraped/nicked edges
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Charles Hopkins Methods For Counting And Spelling Effects How to deal with errors in counting/spelling tricks
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Charles Hopkins 25 - The "Pilot Card".
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26 - New start from wrong turn-up. An out if the card turned up at the end of count/spell is wrong
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Charles Hopkins 27 - The "220 Count" as an "out". Mentions the 220 Count
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Charles Hopkins "Outs" Productions From Pockets And Other Places
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Charles Hopkins 28 - In performer's pocket.
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Charles Hopkins 29 - Pocket index. Mentions pocket index gimmick in Jinx magazine, No. 82, p. 528, Pocket Prophecies.
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Charles Hopkins 30 - Card in wallet.
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Charles Hopkins 31 - Use of spectators for "outs"
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Charles Hopkins 32 - The "Eveready Life Saver" If card is lost without having peeked at it previously
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Charles Hopkins Apparatus Alibis Outs when apparatus is used to reveal cards, but goes wrong
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Charles Hopkins 33 - When force is missed.
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Charles Hopkins First Aid For Feeble Memories What to do if spectator forgets card
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Charles Hopkins 34 - Confusion as to suit and values.
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Charles Hopkins 35 - Spectator's mind a complete blank.
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Charles Hopkins "Outs" Compared with Challenges
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Charles Hopkins A Word of Caution
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Charles Hopkins Try To Keep As Much Control As Possible
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Charles Hopkins 36 - Controlled returns.
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Charles Hopkins 37 - Use of "Locators". Short cards, nicked edges, scraped edges, crimps
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38 - The "Gimmicked Cut". Use salt to mark the cut (credits it as "Sleight of Foot")
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39 - The "Cut Break". Way to preserve the break after the deck is cut
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40 - Estimating the cut.
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Max Holden 41 - The "Cut Force". basically Max Holden's Cross Cut Force
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42 - "Blindman's 'Bluff'." Way to glimpse a card when met with a heckler, even when deck is held behind back the entire time (card also chosen behind the performer's back)
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Charles Hopkins 43 - The "220 Count". Counting all the pips, sum up to 220 (ignore picture cards)
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Charles Hopkins 44 - Pre-Arrangements.
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Charles Hopkins How "Plenty of Rein" Trips Them
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Charles Hopkins 45 - Look for informal "readers". Check for telltale nicks/dirt/scrapes on cards
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46 - Scrapes and nicks. How to nailnick
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47 - Daubs.
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Charles Hopkins The Magician's Little Helpers Mechanical aids
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Charles Hopkins 48 - Secret reflectors.
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Charles Hopkins 49 - Wide and narrow decks.
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Charles Hopkins 50 - The indexed pocket deck again. Mentions 1939 Summer issue of The Jinx
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Charles Hopkins When Information-Getting Becomes Ticklish How to gain information not by pretending to confess to failure, but by proper methods in performance
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Charles Hopkins They Commit Themselves In Writing
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Charles Hopkins 51 - Pencil reading.
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52 - Billet switching.
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Charles Hopkins 53 - Billet index.
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54 - Pad impressions.
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Charles Hopkins 55 - Trick notebooks. Carbon paper in notebooks
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Charles Hopkins 56 - A "Case of Hambuggery" Annemann's "Mental Masterpiece"
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Charles Hopkins A Prophet In his Own Land
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Charles Hopkins 57 - Thumb writers.
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Charles Hopkins Special Decks On Taps
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Dai Vernon 58 - "Brain Wave Deck"
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59 - "New Era Instanto Deck" Performer can cut to any card desired, described in No. 115 Jinx.
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Charles Hopkins What Makes Audiences Get That Way Why do audiences heckle?
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Charles Hopkins Circumstances That Lead Up To Challenges
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Charles Hopkins Specific Handling of Various Situations
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Charles Hopkins The Heckler... Ding Bust His Buttons!
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Charles Hopkins For The Intelligent Analyst Type
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Charles Hopkins Troubles Arising Out of Pure Friendship
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Charles Hopkins More To Come?... Well, Maybe!
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Data entered by Harapan Ong, February 2016.