Visual Estimation

85 entries in Cards / Sleights / Estimation / Visual Estimation
  
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Unknown The Lost Found performer removes sets of four cards from behind back and asks whether selection is among them, once the spectator says yes the card is located, estimation of position of cardRelated to New Era Card Tricks 71
Ben-Zur Unglaublich, aber wahr! deck shuffled, spectator cuts anywhere and remembers bottom card and replaces top half, performer removes sets of four cards from behind back and asks whether selection is among them, once the spectator says yes the card is located, estimation of packet thicknessRelated to Der Zauberspiegel (Vol. 4 No. 7) 106
T. Nelson Downs Fourth Method spectator peeks at a card in his own hands and it is found, estimation and stack, "the bungling and unobserving performer will meet his Waterloo in this experiment" The Art of Magic 152
Laurie Ireland Thought Reading Extraordinary spectator cuts to any card, performer reads mind from distance, estimation & memorized deck Ireland Writes a Book 18
Tom Sellers Cut spectator and performer each have half the deck, performer wins at cutting the high card Magical Pleasantries 20
Theodore Annemann Another Sympathetic Mystery two decks, spectator selects card from one, performer finds duplicate in other deck, stacked, estimation, fishingRelated to SH-H-H--! It's A Secret 26
Laurie Ireland A Most Unusual Experiment in Which a Chosen Card Appears Instantly at Any Number in the Deck from 10 to 45 Related to Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1935, "New Card and Coin Manipulation") 10
Unknown You Selected the - estimation Encyclopedia of Card Tricks 46
Unknown Easy Card Divination Encyclopedia of Card Tricks 180
Tommy Tucker The Card Miracle - Certain: 1. Tucker's Version spectator cuts anywhere and remembers bottom card, estimation, card is on top or in pocket in this handlingRelated to Encyclopedia of Card Tricks 37
Percy Abbott 2. Abbott's version. "The Certain Card Trick." spectator cuts anywhere and remembers bottom card, estimation, dealing out in packets and asking in which one it isVariations Encyclopedia of Card Tricks 37
T. Nelson Downs 3. The Nelson Downs Original. spectator cuts anywhere and remembers bottom card, estimation, card is on top or in pocket in this handlingRelated to Encyclopedia of Card Tricks 38
William Larsen Cut in Detection estimated floating key card Encyclopedia of Card Tricks 39
Ben Erens Superlative Speller estimation to follow position, maneuvering selection to approximately 12 Encyclopedia of Card Tricks 45
Theodore Annemann Another Sympathetic Mystery two decks, spectator selects card from one, performer finds duplicate in other deck, stacked, estimation, fishingRelated to Encyclopedia of Card Tricks 214
Percy Abbott The Certain Card Trick Expert Card Technique 403
Unknown 40 - Estimating the cut. "Outs" Precautions and Challenges 56
Louis Lam Amazo card cut to is revealed, with a deck with 32 cards Fast Ones 4
Bob Hummer The Whispering Spirit packet is cut and subtracted from a unknown calculation (age x nine), amount of cards in packet is divined when result is namedAlso published here The Whispering Spirit 1
Arthur H. Buckley Four Chances - A Novel Card Location Experiment No. 13 - position where spectator cuts to is estimated Card Control 163
Warren Wiersbe Miracle Peek spectator cuts anywhere and remembers card, estimation, fishing, stack Mental Cases With Cards 27
Edward Marlo Estimation Faro bringing cards together with faro shuffle, not 100% The Multiple Shift 30
Charlie Miller Fifteen Card Trick Routine - 4 card chosen from and replaced in spread, fair, found via stop trick The Magic of Charles Earle Miller 12
Edward Marlo The Comparison Method comparing two packets, cited as Mechanical Estimation, but it's rather visual Estimation 2
Edward Marlo Visual Retention Estimate estimating visual size instead of number Estimation 20
Edward Marlo Estimation Demonstration or Practice several packets, number of cards is estimated Estimation 23
Harry Lorayne Stab-Two between two selections, estimation Close-up Card Magic 39
Harry Lorayne Stop! estimation of place spectator cuts to Close-up Card Magic 64
Harry Lorayne Three for the Money Three-spot as multiple out indicator cardVariations Close-up Card Magic 106
Edward Marlo No Key - Faro Aces without key cards and countingRelated to Faro Controlled Miracles 5
Edward Marlo Marlo Miracle Aces classic faro ace cutting ("estimation aces"), last ace found at named numberRelated toVariationsAlso published here Faro Controlled Miracles 44
Harry Lorayne Pseudo Memory #2 apparently order of shuffled deck is rememberedRelated toVariations My Favorite Card Tricks 65
Dai Vernon A Mental Discovery apparently deck is remembered, then position of selection namedRelated to Expanded Lecture Notes 38
James G. Thompson Jr. Tangible Intangible presented as thought-of card The Pallbearers Review Vol. 5-8 (Vol. 7 No. 6th Folio) 493
Robert (Bob) Hess Focal Point one of ten cards, OOSOOMInspired by
  • Hull's "Mental Discernment"
Variations		 The Pallbearers Review Vol. 5-8 (Vol. 8 No. 7) 625
Gene Finnell Centering placing a selection so that it is half the deck away from a key card
1. By Estimation
2. By an "over and under" shuffle
3. variation
4. variation of 2.		 Gene Finnell's Card Magic 40
Edward Marlo A Three Packet Estimation multiple card control via estimation, spelling application mentioned The Unexpected Card Book 238
Karl Fulves Spellblind using Stevens Control, estimation speller Riffle Shuffle Technique - Part Two 107
Lenny Greenfader Think of Any Card spectator removes five cards, one of which is selection Afterthoughts 84
Harry Lorayne Straight On spectator cuts anywhere, magician names card, some cards set in center, estimation as out, Vernon's?! Quantum Leaps 162
Unknown Another way to do the same, having yourself indeed never seen the card. Richard Kaufman's transcription of Reginald Scot's card sectionRelated to CardMagic 64
André Robert Tele "Vision" using estimationVariations Apocalypse Vol. 1-5 (Vol. 3 No. 4) 335
Bob Hummer The Whispering Spirit packet is cut and substracted from a unknown calculation (age x nine), amount of cards in packet is divined when result is named (1941)Also published here Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 28
Edward Marlo, Martin A. Nash Marlo Miracle Aces classic faro ace cutting ("estimation aces"), last ace found at named numberInspired by Colors on the March 4
John Henderson Three Plus estimated stab and multiple out Apocalypse Vol. 1-5 (Vol. 4 No. 11) 563
Joe Dignam ESTImateOn spectator thinks of a card and performer removes mate Spell-Binder (Vol. 1 No. 3) 40
Karl Fulves 4-Ever spectator cuts, remembers card and replaces, faroRelated to Fourcast 16
Unknown Out of Possession Location visual estimation and stack with multiple outInspired by The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 1) 23
John C. Wagner Estimation #1 spectator thinks of card in ribbon spread deck The Commercial Magic of J.C. Wagner 97
Harry Riser Estimation Help jogged corner short The Vernon Chronicles - Volume 1 7
John C. Wagner The Wagnerian Miracle spectator cuts anywhere and remembers bottom card, performer names position, estimation The Commercial Magic of J.C. Wagner 109
Unknown Heart Beats estimating position of selection More Greater Magic 1215
John Northern Hilliard, Unknown Card Locations and Detection three methods, estimation More Greater Magic 1244
Mike Schwartz Stab Stab Stab deck rests on edge on table, performer stabs joker quickly into side a few times, last time next to selection Rigmarole (Issue 9) 105
Roger Crosthwaite The Kilburn Cut estimation cut to locate a card à la Marlo Roger's Thesaurus 13
Dai Vernon The Cutting Edge estimation principle for estimating difference of two piles Classic Sampler 80
Harry Riser The Instant Speller spelling to a selection from shuffled deck The Feints and Temps of Harry Riser 30
Karl Fulves No Contact Location spectator cuts and remembers face card, dealt into four pilesRelated to Blocking Off 79
Unknown The Spread cards spread face-up on table, spectator thinks of one, performer estimates The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 8) 16
Frederick Braue Braue Nikola Fish estimation and fishing The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 8) 16
Al Koran Miracle Card Stab exact center Vis à Vis 123
Roger Crosthwaite Focused Television card thought of, spectator removes five cards one of which must be selection, it is foundInspired byRelated to Arcardia 75
Roberto Giobbi Visual Estimation advice on practicing Card College - Volume 4 879
Unknown An Application Card College — Volume 4 879
Unknown Location Using Outs with a technical solution to replace fishing Card College - Volume 4 880
Roberto Giobbi Impossibility estimationRelated to Card College - Volume 4 889
Tom Gagnon Automatic Ace Cutting by dribbling, good poker hand is foundInspired byVariations Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 3 35
Steve Beam Competition Cutting by dribbling, good poker hand is foundInspired by Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 3 37
Karl Fulves, Charles T. Jordan Conceal and Reveal No. 28, three spectators cut off a pile and look at the bottom card, three piles made and spectators remove cards from each packet, selection must be one, performer reveals all My Best Self-Working Card Tricks 58
Karl Fulves Repeat After Me two decks, spectator cuts and remembers face card, then replaces, cuts behind back, both decks spread face-up, performer and spectator each push out three cards, one must be selection, performer's cards are added and counted down to in his deck, it matches spectator's selectionInspired by
  • "He Only Thinks" (Eddie Clever, Magic In The Modern Manner, Orville Meyer, 1949)
Related to		 Off The Books (Issue 3) 21
Steven Youell The Off Center Shuffle getting a glimpsed selection to the top Weapons of Mass Destruction 58
Harry Riser Shuffle Estimation estimated seventeenth placement during overhand shuffle, a Three used to locate selectionAlso published here
  • MUM, May 1990
 Secrets of an Escamoteur 81
Harry Riser Orafitse "Esti-Faro", Three value finds selectionAlso published here
  • MUM, Jan. 1996
 Secrets of an Escamoteur 110
Tom Stone Quick Memo edge marked cards in memorized stack, spectator peeks at card which is divined Maelstrom 148
Harry Lorayne 3-4-1 three piles, spectator moves his selected card from pile to pile, performer divines piles and names card Special Effects 95
Patrick Page Guesstimation spectator cuts a packet and remembers card, card is found, three variations Magic Page by Page 112
John Born The Perfect Pick Spectator picks random card, names three cards (one of them is the card), magician divines which is the card selected Seeking the Bridge 15
John Born Seeking the Bridge (The Bridging Principle) Divine three cards selected via riffle peek, provides different methods

Technique 1: with peek
Technique 2: with force
Technique 3: no peek, no force
Technique 4: estimation		Variations Seeking the Bridge 23
John Born, Jed B. Smith Slugged Memory demonstration for a game of poker, tracking a memorized slug Seeking the Bridge 91
Edward Marlo, Michael Close, Andrew Wimhurst, Patrick Lehnen Jive Aces with whole deck under box kickerInspired by Lecture Notes 11
Joseph Barry E-CAN fairly peeked-at card, at position named by spectator Reverie 11
Tomas Blomberg Estimated Sunken Key two selected cards by spectator and magician, spectator deals the deck in six piles, two possible endings:
first ending: both cards are next to each other in the same pile
second ending: both cards are in the same position in different piles		Inspired by Blomberg Laboratories 134
Pit Hartling, Denis Behr Memory Maven Variation method variation of Pit Hartling's effectInspired by Quarterly (Issue 5 (Winter 2017)) 28
Harry Lorayne Three Does It Three-spot as multiple out indicator card JawDroppers! Two 239
Johnny Thompson Expert Estimating the Aces Inspired by The Magic of Johnny Thompson (Issue 1) 141