127 entries in Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Think Stop Trick
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Charles T. Jordan The Dealing Dovetail Detection No. 5, card is found after lots of real shuffling
1919/1920 25
Charles T. Jordan The Bare-Faced Detection No. 13, card chosen by cutting, found with the faced towards the spectators at all times
Related to 1919/1920 45
Charles T. Jordan The Impenetrable Stop Trick performer tells spectator to stop when before he deals selection
Related toVariationsAlso published here 1921
The Four Full Hands (Issue Four Full Hands of Down to the Minute Magical Effects)
25
William Larsen, T. Page Wright Curious Card Reading card fairly chosen and lost while performer has his back to spectator, it is found, repeat and card is simply named by performer, confederate in audience codes card
1928 2
Eric F. Impey A New Method of Card Location card chosen and replaced, spectator deals cards face-up, performer stops him at selection, key card from different deck
1928 3
Eric F. Impey Stop (Simplified Version)
Inspired by 1928 7
Theodore Annemann A Card is Found Once More
Related toVariations 1934 9
Theodore Annemann The Challenge of the Year long distance location, one-way backs, no-touch reversal
Related toAlso published here 1934 15
The Moving Finger
1935 11
George Pearce Pearce's Triple Card Mystery No. 5, three piles of same amount of cards made, top cards remembered, deck assembled and performer finds all three
1935 8
Charles T. Jordan Impenetrable Stop Trick performer tells spectator to stop when before he deals selection
Also published here 1937 85
A Count Down Mystery with out-of-hand key card placement
1937 87
Tone Control key card location
1937 88
Melrose card vanishes and reappears with "think stop" procedure, sticky substance on finger
1937 108
Diachylon Stop Trick
1937 109
Diachylon Super Color Change card found with think stop procedure, back changes, sticky card
1937 110
Theodore Annemann Think Stop one-way backs
1937 144
The Deck That Isn't for insiders, one-way backs with red in one way and black the other
1937 145
Theodore Annemann A Card is Found Once More one-way backs
Related to 1937 147
Theodore Annemann Challenge of the Year long distance location, one-way backs
Related toAlso published here 1937 157
Theodore Annemann A Miracle out-of hand selection, one-way back
1937 163
Al Baker Think "Stop" wax pellet
Related toVariations 1937 323
Val Evans Multeffect Cards long-short paired deck used for a routine of eighteen different effects
Related toVariations 1937
The Jinx (Issue Winter Extra 1936/37)
177
John Northern Hilliard A "Think Stop" Trick
Variations 1938 239
William H. McCaffrey "Think Stop" one way deck
1938 496
Oscar Weigle The Challenge Blindfold Card Routine genuinely blindfolded
Effect No. 1: think stop
Effect No. 2: performer stops while dealing
Effect No. 3: spectator reads cards and performer detects card by voice
Effect No. 4: performer stops spectator's deal and even names card
Also published here 1939 43
Hen Fetsch In the Mind performer really blindfolded
  • think stop with one selection
  • think stop with three selections
  • a chosen card is named
Also published here 1940
The Jinx (Issue 88)
554
James G. Thompson Jr. Than Which No Whicher one of the kings is chosen, cards dealt and performer says stop when the king is reached
Jan. 1943
The Phoenix (Issue 26)
107
Hen Fetsch In the Mind performer really blindfolded, routine with three parts
  • think stop with one selection
  • think stop with three selections
  • a chosen card is named
Also published here 1944 254
Professor El-Tab Silent Stob think stop with two cards
1945 82
Hen Fetsch In the Mind reprint
Related to 1945 84
T. Page Wright, William Larsen The L.W. Stop Mystery spectator thinks of any card in half the deck, all shuffled together and pocketed, spectator removes cards one by one and performer stops him at selection
VariationsAlso published here 1945 95
Jean Hugard Solomon's Seal six cards stack, presentation with a drawn star, cards are laid on the corners of the star and spectator thinks stop
Apr. 1945
The Phoenix (Issue 82)
332
Paul Morris Just Think Stop!
May 1945
Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 2 No. 12)
118
On the Beam
Related to Mar. 1946
Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 3 No. 10)
201
Stewart James On the Beam credits for "On the Beam"
Related to Sep. 1946 251
Paul Curry Two Minutes from Now spectator thinks stop at his selection when performer names the cards, position is predicted too
May 1947
The Phoenix (Issue 125)
504
J. B. Bobo Stop Card Trick
1947 33
Eddie Joseph Heart Throb spectator thinks of number between five and twenty and remembers card at that position, another card is chosen, both found while spectator deals through the deck
Also published here 1947 2
Think Stop
1948 229
Charles Nyquist, Edward Dart The Stopper Mind Reading Trick No. 117
Related to 1950 227
Al Koran Effect No. 2. "Stop - By Power of Thought" performer blindfolded
1952 74
W. F. "Rufus" Steele You Tell Them Everything spectator pockets some cards and remembers a card at the same position as the number of pocketed cards, performer stops dealing at selection and names number of pocketed cards
1952 33
Jack Avis All Fair Impromptu Spell mental spelling, imperfect card principle
1955
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1955)
18
Oscar Weigle Challenge Blindfold Routine genuinely blindfolded
Effect No. 1: think stop
Effect No. 2: performer stops while dealing
Effect No. 3: spectator reads cards and performer detects card by voice
Effect No. 4: performer stops spectator's deal and even names card
Also published here 1956 13
Tom Ransom Redundant two cards chosen from two halves, both dealt simultaneously, one face up and one face down, face-up spectator thinks stop and performer stops at card, second selection is at same position in face-down pile
Related to
  • "Simultaneous Coincidence" (Reading Is Believing, Trevor Hall)
July 1956
Ibidem (Issue 6)
15
James Steranko Fantasy Card Routine Chapter Thirteen
  • Oneway Faces (not pointer cards, but uneven printing)
  • The Division (spectator cuts to a card behind the performer's back and replaces)
  • The Afterthought (selection from in-the-hands spread)
  • The Bisection (two selections by cutting of small packets and remembering bottom cards)
  • The Retention (fake memory demonstration, move-a-card)
  • The Abstraction (one of three cards thought of, OOSOOM)
  • Fantasy Notes
1960 93
Charlie Miller Fifteen Card Trick Routine - 14
1961 24
Harry Lorayne Stop! estimation of place spectator cuts to
Related toVariations 1962 64
James G. Thompson Jr., Ned Rutledge Perfecz Poker Face performer stops at named card
1967 33
Eddie Joseph Heart-Throb spectator thinks of number between five and twenty and remembers card at that position, another card is chosen, both found while spectator deals through the deck
Also published here 1969 60
Think Stop
1972 3
At Second Spectator's Number using the glide
1972 45
Simon Aronson Some People Think interlocking chains
Also published here Aug. 1973
Kabbala — Volume 2 (Vol. 2 No. 8)
58
Jerry K. Hartman Irresistible Force packet of cards are dealt through face up singly and spectator says stop when he wants and his card is dealt facedown, spectator sees they are the Diamonds in order, his card is turned up and it is the Joker, see also “Irresistible Prediction” p. 58
Related toAlso published here 1974 22
Jerry K. Hartman Irresistible Prediction packet of ten cards, spectator names one as the “open prediction” and packet is shuffled, spectator stops as magician deals through packet and stopped-at card is the prediction, see also “Irresistible Force” p. 22
1974 58
Roger Smith Stop - A Mental Spell spectator thinks stop during spelling
Also published here 1975 1
Carlhorst Meier Experiment 1: Die Übertragung eines "Stop" Befehls performer blindfolded, card chosen and lost, performer deals through cards and stops at selection
Nov. 1976
Intermagic (Vol. 4 No. 1)
40
Harry Lorayne It's Impossible! automatic placement, position of card predicted, or other ideas:
  • Spell a Name
  • Lie Detector
  • Think Stop
1977 146
Jerry K. Hartman More Than One Way "There's More Than One Way To Spin A Cut."
two decks in reverse order
Inspired byRelated toAlso published here 1978
The Chronicles (Issue 12)
1184
Simon Aronson Four Stop Intersection four spectators cut to cards, all shuffled, performer deals through cards face up and stops at selections
Also published here 1978 100
Stop Mental
1980 76
Roger Smith Stop - A Mental Spell spectator thinks stop during spelling
Also published here 1980 2
Simon Aronson, David Solomon Doublestop two selections, two piles, spectator thinks stop on his selection in one pile and second selection is at same position in other pile
Inspired byVariations 1982 5
Daryl Martinez A Few More Ideas ideas for previous "Magician Fooler"
1982 2
Think Stop key card
1982 25
Other Uses - Prearranged Decks
  • Lie Detector
  • Think Stop
  • Gossiping Queen (whispering)
1982 34
Thomas Alan Waters Attaploy cards put in breast pocket, with Jack Hughes' Attaboy
1984
Mind, Myth & Magick (Issue Cardiact)
530
Hornswoggled No. 54, twenty-one cards are removed and a card chosen with a counting procedure
1984 78
Stephen Minch Think Stop No. 1, card selected, performer deals face-up through cards, stops at selection, performer genuinely blindfolded
1984 9
John Cornelius Eyes Tell No Lies risky
Sep. 1986
Magical Arts Journal (Vol. 1 No. 2)
18
Edward Marlo The Incomplete Stop spectator deals and performer stops him at selection
1988 19
Simon Aronson Mix and Match two decks riffle shuffled together and divided into two halves, one chosen from one half, performer shouts stop when the other one is dealt, the cards match
Related to 1990 59
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 1991 67
T. Page Wright The Force with outs
1991 93
William Larsen, T. Page Wright The L. W. Stop Mystery spectator thinks of any card in half the deck, all shuffled together and pocketed, spectator removes cards one by one and performer stops him at selection
Also published here 1991 293
Jerry K. Hartman There's More than One Way to Spin a Cut two decks in reverse order
Also published here 1991 488
Jerry K. Hartman Irresistible Force packet of cards are dealt through face up singly and spectator says stop when he wants and his card is dealt facedown, spectator sees they are the Diamonds in order, his card is turned up and it is the Joker
Also published here 1991 526
Jerry K. Hartman Hot Spell thought of card is mentally spelled, duplicates
Related to 1991 662
Gary Plants No Way Out spectator removes any thought-of card from twenty-card packet, it is lost in deck and then found as spectator counts through the cards
Also published here June 1992
The Minotaur (Vol. 4 No. 2)
1
John Northern Hilliard "Think , 'Stop!'" Card Tricks three methods, double backer and tactile key cards
1994 1211
Basil Horwitz Out of Hand & Out of Sight Experience blindfolded think stop
1994 69
Jean Boucher Psi-Touch cards shuffled behind back
Inspired by 1994
Syzygy (Vol. 1 No. 6)
27
Simon Aronson Some People Think interlocking chains
Also published here 1994 3
Simon Aronson Four Stop Intersection four spectators cut to cards, all shuffled, performer deals through cards face up and stops at selections
Also published here 1994 92
Simon Aronson Doublestop Simplified two selections, two piles, spectator thinks stop on his selection in one pile and second selection is at same position in other pile
  • Key Method
  • "No Key" Method
Inspired by 1995 79
Simon Aronson The Trained Deck selection cut into deck, three chosen cards added, selection at this position, repeated, then selected card is spelled by spectator in his head while performer deals, performer stops at selection, Multiple Card Sum Stack
Related to 1995 123
Eddie Clever No Way! out-of-hand selection procedure with center cut, spectator reads off values and performer stops at selection
VariationsAlso published here
  • "Unseen" (Magic in the Modern Manner, Orville Meyer, 1949)
Oct. 1997
Onyx (Issue 1)
21
Eddie Fields Tell A Phony "Fields' Version of a Classic"
divination of playing card over the phone with dealing procedure
Inspired byVariations 1997 111
Karl Fulves A Magical Effect think stop, then in next effect the color of all cards in top third are named
1998 2
Oscar Weigle Eine Blind-Kartenroutine genuinely blindfolded
Also published here 1998
Intermagic (Vol. 22 No. 3)
108
Christian Scherer Sensitive Finger five phases blindfold routine with sense of touch presentation
  • 1. finger print, by touch
  • 2. think stop
  • 3. rising card under handkerchief, magnetism presentation
  • 4. card identity divination
  • 5. location of selection
Inspired byRelated to 1999 9
Ellis Stanyon The Margin and Pip Discovery No. 18, "Houdin's Dream", one-way by margin or by one-way faces
  • Improved Version (Think Stop presentation)
1999 10
Jerry Mentzer Think Stop Standard key card location, spectator thinks "stop" and magician stops on their selection
1999 5
Steve Bedwell Stacked Thoughts three selections divined, one found with "think stop" procedure when cards are spread in front of spectator's eyes
2000 22
Karrell Fox Foxy "The Perfect Miracle" performer deals blindfolded through deck, stops at selection
Also published here 2000 163
R. Paul Wilson Think Stop
2001 6
Justin Higham Spectator's Stop Trick selection glimpsed
2001 19
Tony Bartolotta Without a Clue No. 80, some cards hidden, card cut to and lost, found by performer
2001 120
Jade Womb Miracle performer is pregnant woman, unborn baby kicks to indicate "stop" as spectator deals to locate card
Also published here Aug. 2002
Genii (Vol. 65 No. 8)
32
Al Baker Think "Stop"
Also published here
  • Elliott's Last Legacy, 1923, p. 114
2003
The Secret Ways of Al Baker (Issue Contributions)
519
Al Baker Stop Trick tactile key card
2003 740
Jade Expecting a Miracle performer is pregnant woman, unborn baby kicks to indicate "stop" as spectator deals to locate card
Also published here 2003 285
John Bannon Dead Reckoning floating key
Inspired byVariations 2004 88
Karl Fulves Stopped Clock spectator and performer remove a card, shuffled back in, performer deals and stops at both cards, domain theory
2005 23
Jack Avis A Presentation
2006 177
Steve Beam, Doug Canning Digging Deeper two selections, silently spelled and spectator think stop
Inspired by
  • Paul Hallas' "Magic" in "Son of Totat"
2006 31
Steve Beam Even Deeper two selections, silently spelled and spectator think stop
2006 34
Steve Beam Journey to the Center impromptu version of Digging Deeper
2006 35
Bruce Cervon, Roberto Giobbi Think Stop!
Inspired by
  • Bruce Cervon's routine in “Genii" Vol. 50, No. 8, February 1987, page 577
2006 104
Asi Wind Somebody Stop Me spectator cuts to card and loses it, then deals the cards, performer stops him at selection, no-touch
VariationsAlso published here 2007 2
Jerry K. Hartman Northern Light two phases:
  • spectator thinks of a card in deck based on a freely thought-of number, he deals through deck and magician stops him on correct card
  • magician brings out a pre-written prediction and it’s read aloud, spectator deals to original thought-of number and the card matches the prediction
Inspired byAlso published here 2007 265
Jerry K. Hartman Keynoted two cards selected and lost in fair manner with magician’s back turned, magician divines both cards or knows when to stop as cards are dealt
Variations 2007 359
Gordon Bean Count One Way three piles made with counting and adding digits (using Billy O’Connor's procedure), then top card of one pile chosen without performer looking and lost, performer knows pile and stops spectator as he deals through pile at his card
2011 42
Philip T. Goldstein Spelling the Future think Stop, then card is spelled and leads to a card which performer has predicted
2012 111
Joseph Barry Don't Stop Thinking stop trick at thought-of card, think stop, then spectator stops at performers card
2014 20
Paul Vigil Think Stop performer counts mentally backwards, spectator says stop, then performer names number which is position of card
2014 243
Jorge "The Jack" Garcia A Think-Stop Trick
Inspired byAlso published here 2014 22
Patrick G. Redford Stop Poker Tells performer deals through deck face up and, without looking, knows when he has arrived at selection
VariationsAlso published here
  • “Stop Poker Tells" (Patrick G. Redford, Square, 2010, n. p.)
2014 89
Keith Fields Stop Revelation for Stage presentation idea for "Stop Poker Tells"
Inspired by 2014 97
Jorge "The Jack" Garcia A Think and Stop Card Trick
Inspired byAlso published here 2015 43
Alexander de Cova Die Augenbindenroutine example for blindfold card act, not many details
  • Eröffnung - Das Verbinden der Augen
  • Phase I - Sense of Touch
  • Phase II - Gedachtes Stopp
  • Phase III - Sans Staccus
  • Phase IV - Separating the Colors
  • Phase V - Sensitive Fingertips
  • Phase VI - A Stab in the Dark
  • Phase VII - Reading the Cards
2015 195
R. Paul Wilson Think Stop
2017 16
Johnny Thompson The Genii Stop Trick spectator thinks of card in half the deck, spectator deals cards one by one after naming his card, performer stops the deal at selection
Inspired by
  • "L. W. Stop Mystery" (Wright & Larson, Genii, Vol. 1 No. 1)
2018 127
Asi Wind Somebody Stop Me spectator cuts to card and loses it, then deals the cards, performer stops him at selection, no-touch
Also published here 2018 45
Sylvain Juzan Double Stop with two selections, faro, two methods
2021 67
Gary Plants No Way spectator removes any thought-of card from twenty-card packet, it is lost in deck and then found as spectator counts through the cards
Also published here 2023 7