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Hocus Pocus Junior Conveyance of Cards and Dice mentioning card tricks and principles without details
- divided cards
- advantage dice by cutting off a strip
- "nipping" (punch?), corner crimp, dots		 The Art of Legerdemain Discovered 51
Theodore Annemann The Mind in Retrospect SH-H-H--! It's A Secret 16
Theodore Annemann A Couple of Cards Get Together two selections come together on top despite the spectator's overhand shuffleRelated to SH-H-H--! It's A Secret 20
Theodore Annemann A Couple of Cards Get Together two selections come together on top despite the spectator's overhand shuffle, pencil dot cardRelated to Encyclopedia of Card Tricks 82
Glenn G. Gravatt Mental Vision four cards chosen and divined, pencil dot card Encyclopedia of Card Tricks 82
Gerald Kosky Ziska Improved number of moved cards & selection are divined by value of a card, set-up, marked locatorInspired byRelated to More Card Manipulations (Issue 3) 40
Martin Gardner Preposterous Full Deck of Impromptu Card Tricks 63
Edward Marlo In Lieu of Pencil daub on borrowed deck as alternative to pencil dotted key card Tricks with Daub 9
Royal Vale Heath "Magic Square" Magic card selection in combination with magic square, total of square indicates position in the rest of the deck Hugard's Magic Monthly - Volumes I, II, III and IV (Vol. 2 No. 9) 103
H. Levenson Amazing Coincidence two rows of eight cards, selection is found in the named column Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1946) 4
J. B. Bobo The Isolated Key corner dotted card in center as reference Watch This One! 32
Unknown The Pencil Dot mark for the corner-short The Fine Art of Magic 6
Ken Krenzel, Don Costello Miracle named card turns over The Phoenix 151-200 (Issue 169) 678
William Ruesskamp 15 to 30 The Phoenix 151-200 (Issue 175) 700
Aage Darling Vibrato performer is blindfolded, thought of card is found I'll Read Your Mind 9
Lu Brent Unbelievable Coincidence Spectator and magician each think of a card and write it down, each pull out a card from the deck, turns out they find each other's card Fifteen Star Card Effects 5
Lu Brent Autographic Minds Spectator and magician each select and sign a card, lost in the deck, later manage to find each other's signed card Fifteen Star Card Effects 8
Ned Rutledge, James G. Thompson Jr. Mental Scales spectator deals amount of cards on the table, stops and remembers next card, performer cuts same amount and locates selection Between Two Minds 7
Henry Christ, James G. Thompson Jr. The 203rd Force continued on p. 198Related to The Pallbearers Review Vol. 1-4 (Vol. 3 No. 9) 194
J. B. Bobo Triple Threat Card dotted, corner short, edge markedRelated to
  • Genii, Aug. 1947, p. 368
 The Pallbearers Review Vol. 1-4 (Vol. 3 No. 9) 194
Jerry L. Christensen "Mind Mirror" Resilvered Inspired by The Compleat Magick — Volume I (Issue 19) 93
Edward G. Brown The Performer Draws a Card from the Pack Held by a Spectator The Card Magic of Edward G. Brown 194
North Bigbee Depth - Perception jumbo ESP cards, matching The Compleat Magick - Volume 1 (Issue 86) 429
Carl Newton Inspiration from the French two cards selected from ten-card packet, cards in row on card stand and a piece of tissue in front of each, tissue touched with cigarette, bright flashes at selectionsRelated to The Pallbearers Review Vol. 5-8 (Vol. 8 No. 5) 603
Unknown D) having force card marked on back, e.g. one-way deck New and Novel Knowledge 38
Glenn G. Gravatt Secret Back Mark dot on top card as something is written on another card jogged on top of that card Self-Working Card Tricks 20
Punx Der Mann mit dem goldenen Arm presentation for Vernon's Cutting the Aces, only productionInspired byRelated to Setzt Euch zu meinen Füssen... 63
Erhard Liebenow The Card In the Center Liebenow's card peelingRelated to Liebenow On Cards 7
Daryl Martinez Double-Dazzling Triumph two selections, deck shuffled face up into face down, two cards are reversed, indicator cards to find selections, then deck is separated into red and black cardsVariations Double-Dazzling Triumph 1
Larry Becker PSI-Stebbins shuffled deck, packet of card is divined and last card predicted, jumbo cardsInspired by
  • Ken de Courcy's and Billy McComb's "Cabaret Card Divination"
Related to		 The Best of Larry Becker's World of Super Mentalism Book II 7
Jack Vosburgh Scrambled Thoughts No. 11, Ace, Two and Three held by three spectators, two spectators exchange cards with back turned, performer knows which Self-Working Mental Magic 16
Bill Coomer Card-X prediction of multiple cards The Compleat Magick — Volume III (Issue 245) 1222
Dai Vernon, Bob Hummer Escape of the Jack signed black jack in pocket changes places with sandwiched black jack on table Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 13
Mike Hilburger No Skill Four Ace Assembly spectator shuffles cards with deck and when sixteen cards dealt again, aces on bottom Fork Full of Appetizers 21
Christian Scherer Unmöglich selection in deck, four aces, named one turns into selection and ace is found in card case Card News '82 90
Hans E. Trixer Everyplace with all blank faces kicker Fork Full of Appetizers - Book 2 59
Jan Torell Meine Standard-Forcier-Methode Rund um den Zaubertisch 12
Karl Fulves On the Lam No. 57, number prediction on card gives position of later selectionInspired by More Self-Working Card Tricks 82
Harry Houdini Houdini's Secret No. 64, from Houdini's notebooks, two cards selected by counting to numbers, both predicted, one-ahead More Self-Working Card Tricks 94
Stephen Tucker The Chase forcing subtlety for forcing deck, removing pencil-dotted indifferent cards from spread Spell-Binder (Vol. 3 No. 35) 680
Unknown Key Cards pencil marks, or reversed card in one-way deck The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 1) 9
Daryl Martinez Out of this Hemisphere twenty-card packet version, spectator puts one color on table and other color to bottom, red cards marked
- The Cards (replacing marks with stripper, one-way or crimp)
- Totally Impromptu		 Out of this Hemisphere 1
Robert E. Neale The Hanging No. 57, one spectator is murderer, chosen with cards, noose tied from rope, it tightens only at guilty spectator Self-Working Rope Magic 120
Alex Elmsley Weight with small packet, marked key cardRelated to The Collected Works of Alex Elmsley — Volume 1 366
Karrell Fox A Couple of Card Miracles - The Perfect Miracle (performer deals blindfolded through deck, stops at selection)
- Pulse-Stop (performer holds spectator's wrist while going over spread to find selection)		Also published here Goodies 67
Unknown A Good Card Trick marked key card Tarbell Course in Magic — Volume 8 89
Richard Bartram, Jr. Point of Thought two decks, performer removes card with arrow on back which points on selection in other deck, when card is turned over it is the same card, with Pop-Eyed Eye-Popper deck Mystification 41
Stephen Bargatze This and That funny presentation, words on cards "nothing", "something", "it", "this" and "that" The Trapdoor — Volume Three (Issue 58) 1113
Karl Fulves Two By Four shuffled deck, performer shuffles and cuts three piles, then names bottom cards, then new bottom cards are aces Blocking Off 62
Ron Bauer Devilish Trickery L.I.N.T. - Pocket Stuff for Close-Up Magicians 133
Nick Trost Miracle Match Up similar to Gemini Mates in plot, two methodsInspired by
  • "Prospero" (Peter Warlock, The Magigram, February 1980)
 The Card Magic of Nick Trost 177
Nick Trost Showdown three phase Ten Card Poker Deal routine, last phase is stud poker. Includes Tom Hubbard's handling at the end.Related toVariationsAlso published here The Card Magic of Nick Trost 216
Nick Trost Twenty-Deck Poker Deal Poker with twenty cardsRelated to
  • "The Hokey-Poker Deck" (Jim Lucier, The New Tops, March 1978)
 The Card Magic of Nick Trost 245
Karl Fulves Parallel Time two decks, red-backed JS on face of blue-backed deck, spectator inserts JS in center behind her back but it's back on face, repeated with other deck, repeated but it now jumps back to other deck, "ambitions card done with the deck in the spectator's hands" The Vampire Papers 94
Ron Bauer Key to the Draw three cards, twenty-six keyInspired by L.I.N.T. - Pocket Stuff for Close-Up Magicians 20
Frank Csuri Double Back Think double lift on deck The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 8) 15
Doug Canning Marked Up Masterpiece faro and twenty-six key The Trapdoor - Volume Three (Issue 63) 1245
Karl Fulves Time & Dice "Three tricks"
Ace through Six, spectator switches two cards and turns all over according to dice roll, divined		 Underworld (Issue 7) 97
Karrell Fox Foxy "The Perfect Miracle" performer deals blindfolded through deck, stops at selectionAlso published here Card File Two 163
Unknown The New Deal No. 17, jonah My Best Self-Working Card Tricks 35
Karl Fulves, William P. Miesel Cutting the Aces No. 26 My Best Self-Working Card Tricks 53
William Alstrand, Karl Fulves Fooling the Experts No. 14, procedure with cuts and deals in which spectator forces a card on himself New Self-Working Card Tricks 23
Unknown Cloned Thoughts No. 15, spectator and performer chose same card after each other, free selection from small packet, weird procedure New Self-Working Card Tricks 24
Karl Fulves Tea-Time Mystery No. 52, two cards from two decks are divined and then transpose New Self-Working Card Tricks 77
Tony Bartolotta, Martin Gardner Synchronism No. 56Related to New Self-Working Card Tricks 83
Karl Fulves Calculated Cut No. 5, two selections located, small packet cut off and card at that position rememberedInspired by My Best Self-Working Card Tricks 11
Karl Fulves, Gene Finnell Choices No. 11, two cards removed, one put back without looking and one remembered, performer finds both, Klondike shuffle My Best Self-Working Card Tricks 23
Karl Fulves Stop or Else! No. 24, "Stop or else" written on Joker My Best Self-Working Card Tricks 49
Karl Fulves, Howard A. Adams Metal with Memory No. 25, three coins arranged and cards dealt according to their value, three Aces are found My Best Self-Working Card Tricks 51
Karl Fulves, Bob Hummer Scrambled Stud No. 27, spectator remembers card and its position in ten-card packet, two hands dealt but selection and its mate face-down My Best Self-Working Card Tricks 56
Ron Bauer Chick Trick wind-up toy chicken finds selections, credit informationInspired by
  • "The Hoppy" (Ron Bauer, New Tops, March 1982)
 Chick Trick 1
Doug Canning Dealer's Choice sone card location Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 4 154
Glenn G. Gravatt Pencil Dotting a Card during previous trick while writing a prediction Off The Books (Issue 4) 50
Tony Bartolotta The Real Difference spectator removes two cards and selects a card, two differences of card values calculated to count down to selectionRelated to Off The Books (Issue 4) 50
Ron Bauer Second Finger Top Deal jacks shuffled into deck, yet shown on top, then dealt to partner as fake false dealing demoInspired by
  • "I Won't Play Cards With Him" (Bill Larson, Sr.)
 Second Finger Top Deal 2
Basil Horwitz ESP Incredible Memory Test five ESP cards are signed and put back in deck, performer reverses the cards behind back The Mental Magick of Basil Horwitz - Volume 5 36
Basil Horwitz Body Language Challenge Poker Test spectator can select cards from half the deck to build best possible poker hand, performer selects without looking and has a royal flush The Mental Magick of Basil Horwitz - Volume 5 39
Jack Avis A Presentation Rara Avis 177
Karl Fulves Flip Switch strip-out switch handling, with repeat Prolix (Issue 2) 102
Jack Avis A Dotty Location location with four distributed marked key cards Rara Avis 48
Stephan Kirschbaum Any Card at (almost) any Number spectator shuffles cards, half forcing deck Der Stoff aus dem die Wunder sind 45
Karl Fulves Any Two performer and spectator name cards, spectator two positions, the positions are counted to with Gemini Twins placement (!) and two Jokers, Jokers end up next to named cards Prolix (Issue 8) 508
Doug Edwards Make Your Mind a Blank blank deck, spectator thinks of any card and goes through some dealing procedure, thought of card is divinedInspired by Nukes 55
John Lovick My Dream of Mind Reading blank deck finale, credit informationInspired byVariations The Performance Pieces & Divertissements of the Famous Handsome Jack, etc. 115
Paul Vigil Prepare to Enter setting up for the act
- Paraphernalia
- Main Deck Setup
- Pocket Management		 The Doors of Deception 1
Allan Hagen Locator Marks for Rider Back, Aristocrats 727, Arrco, New Fan Back Serendipity 16
Ryan Schlutz Counterpoint using group shuffle to place selection at certain position, with or without sticky tape False Anchors - Volume Two 25
Ryan Schlutz 6 Covers 6 hands-off selection and riffle shuffle by spectatorInspired by
  • "All Expenses Paid" (Jim Krenz)
Related to		 False Anchors - Volume Two 41
Thomas Otto Joker Prediction off beat prediction, spectator selects card which is not a joker, all cards but one are jokers Mentale Notizen 110
David Solomon A Blah-Day Clock clock layout dealt at the start, blank card finaleInspired by
  • "The Fateful Month" (Ramón Riobóo, Thinking the Impossible)
 Solomon's Secrets 127