Telephone Book Test

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Creators	Title	Comments & References		Year	Source	Page	Categories
Theodore Annemann*	The Unknown Subject	apparently random name in phone book divined, person phoned names cards which are divined, uses ABC cards	Also published here The Unknown Subject (Theodore Annemann, Practical Mental Effects*, 1944)	1935	The Jinx (Issue Summer Extra 1935)	47	ABC Cards / Miscellaneous Cards / Effect Themes / Phone Effects / Person is called during performance Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test
Theodore Annemann*	Book Mentalism			1935	Complete One Man Mental and Psychic Routine	12	Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test
Robert Parrish	Telephone Telepathy	word chosen with cards		1937	You'd be Surprised	9	Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test
Robert Parrish	Telephone Telepathy Again	cards used for word selection, word can be predicted		1937	You'd be Surprised	11	Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Partial Stack (DONT USE THIS) Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test
John Mulholland	The Telephone Book Test			1938	Greater Magic	885	Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test
Oscar Weigle	Wrong Number	page force by pushing several cards in book at random positions		1939	Do That Again!	7	Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test
Theodore Annemann*	'Number, Please'	prediction of a name in a telephone book, the Accessory as a number force with counters		1939	The Incorporated Strange Secrets	11	Mental Magic / Effects / Prediction / Miscellaneous Numbers / Number Forces / Other Props Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test
Oscar "Oscarelli" Rey	Das fabelhafte Gedächtnis (Ein kleiner Stammtischscherz)	mathematical trick, 1089 to force name in phone book		1939	Hokus Pokus (Vol. 1 No. 3&4)	21	Numbers / Number Forces / Only Calculation Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test
Al Baker	Any Telephone Book Test	number adding	Also published here Any Telephone Book Test (Al Baker, The Secret Ways of Al Baker, 2003)	1941	Magical Ways and Means	89	Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test
Al Baker	The Number and Book Test	numbers on billets in changing bag	Also published here The Number and Book Test (Al Baker, The Secret Ways of Al Baker, 2003)	1941	Magical Ways and Means	90	Slate / Flaps & Moving Parts Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test
Alvin R. Plough	Gaglet	calculation and multiple outs		May 1943	The Phoenix (Issue 36)	148	Numbers / Number Forces / Only Calculation Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test
	Der Telephonbuch-Trick	french translation on page 5 "Le truc du téléphone"		1943	Hokus Pokus (Vol. 5 No. 3)	3	Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test
Paul Curry	Out of this Phone Book	book, opened freely, line is forced, Franklin V. Taylor's peek deck principle with a book	Also published here Out Of This Phone Book (Paul Curry, Miracles in Mentalism and Psychic Experimentation, 1945) also in: Out of This Phone Book (Paul Curry, Paul Curry's Worlds Beyond, 2001) Related to The Back Room (Bruce Elliott, The Phoenix, 1944) Pagency (Thomas Alan Waters, Mind, Myth & Magick, 1985) Variations The Magician, Dec. 2004 also in: The Devil's Dictionary (Curtain Call, 2011) Dictionary Test (Roberto Mansilla, Genii*, 2025)	Feb. 1944	The Phoenix (Issue 53)	216	Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test Book / Book Test / Sleights & Principles
Bruce Elliott*	The Back Room	idea for Curry's "Out of this Phone Book", eliminating the cards and presentation for card frame both by Audley Walsh	Related to Out of this Phone Book (Paul Curry, The Phoenix, 1944) also in: Out Of This Phone Book (Miracles in Mentalism and Psychic Experimentation, 1945) Out of This Phone Book (Paul Curry's Worlds Beyond, 2001)	Feb. 1944	The Phoenix (Issue 54)	220	Cards / Effect Themes / Penetration / With Other Objects / Glass (Window, Frame) Articles / Columns Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test
Theodore Annemann*	The Unknown Subject	apparently random name in phone book divined, person phoned names cards which are divined, uses ABC cards	Also published here The Unknown Subject (Theodore Annemann, The Jinx*, 1935)	1944	Practical Mental Effects	39	ABC Cards / Miscellaneous Cards / Effect Themes / Phone Effects / Person is called during performance Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test
Jack Trepel	Telephone Book Trick	two versions, second as two person telepathy		1945	My Best	211	Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test
Theodore Annemann*	The Test of the Tiber		Related to Anneman's "Test of the Tiber" (Theodore Annemann, Dr. Stanley Jaks, The Magic of Francis Carlyle*, 1975)	1945	My Best	280	Billet / Switches Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test
Paul Curry	Out Of This Phone Book	book, opened freely, line is forced, Franklin V. Taylor's peek deck principle with a book	Also published here Out of this Phone Book (Paul Curry, The Phoenix, 1944) also in: Out of This Phone Book (Paul Curry, Paul Curry's Worlds Beyond, 2001) Related to The Back Room (Bruce Elliott, The Phoenix, 1944) Pagency (Thomas Alan Waters, Mind, Myth & Magick, 1985) Variations The Magician, Dec. 2004 also in: The Devil's Dictionary (Curtain Call, 2011) Dictionary Test (Roberto Mansilla, Genii*, 2025)	1945	Miracles in Mentalism and Psychic Experimentation	20	Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test Book / Book Test / Sleights & Principles
Mel Stover*	Days of Force	calendar number force	Also published here Calendar (5) (Mel Stover, Hugard's Magic Monthly, 1951) Related to Date Sense (Walter B. Gibson, The Jinx, 1938) also in: Date Sense (Practical Mental Effects, 1944) Stover's Prediction (Mel Stover, Mathematics, Magic And Mystery, 1956) also in: Four on a Date (Syzygy, 1996) Calendar Prediction (Secret Agenda, 2010) … and 7 more Variations Stover's Prediction (Mel Stover, Mathematics, Magic And Mystery, 1956) also in: Four on a Date (Syzygy, 1996) Calendar Prediction (Secret Agenda, 2010) Ringo-Bingo (Stephen Tucker, Spell-Binder, 1982) … and 3 more	Feb. 1945	The Phoenix (Issue 77)	313	Calendar Numbers / Number Forces / Other Props Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test
Franklin V. Taylor, Joseph Dunninger	Black Magic	with playing cards and slit in book		Dec. 1946	The Phoenix (Issue 116)	465	Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test
Sam Pavloff	Glimpse the Future	playing card pushed in telephone book, moved around there and then name at the position read, predicted, pages fastened together with tape, for name correction of S. Pabloff see page 193		Jan. 1946	Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 3 No. 8)	183	Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test
George G. Kaplan	Do-As-I-Do Telephone Test	forcing a number with cards		1948	The Fine Art of Magic	209	Numbers / Number Forces / Playing Cards Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Number Forcing Stack Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test
Franklin V. Taylor	Looped	telephone book test, where card is put in book to chose page, method that extra card does not fall out		June 1948	The Phoenix (Issue 153)	613	Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test
Al Baker	A Telemirakel	ten cards from shuffled deck tabled in a row, random person called (really assistant who never hung up a previous call and secretly listens) who names four cards, the cards corresponding with the last four digits of the phone number in the ten-card row are those cards	Also published here A Telemirakel (Al Baker, The Secret Ways of Al Baker, 2003) Related to Charles Nyquist (The Sphinx Vol. 41 No. 3, May 1942, p. 53) Only the Best Telephone Trick in the World... ...ever, that's all! (Mark Elsdon, Mind Blasters, 2008)	1949	Mental Magic	21	Cards / Effect Themes / Phone Effects / Person is called during performance Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test
Sydney Bergson	Thought Anticipation			1954	Tarbell Course in Magic — Volume 6	203	Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test
Gene "Phantini" Grant	Psychic Phone Book Test	prediction of a selected name		1955	Phantini's Lost Book of Mental Secrets	11	Mental Magic / Effects / Prediction / Miscellaneous Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test
Amazing James Randi	The Torn Off-Centre	tips on the center tear (1) pieces never burned (2) when using a newspaper (3) when using a telephone book		Nov. 1955	Ibidem (Issue 4)	13	Paper / Center Tear Newspaper / Newspaper Test Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test
Jack Yates	Operator Calling	cards with names and telephone numbers, medium divines several numbers		1956	Minds in Duplicate	21	Mental Magic / Effects / Two Person Telepathy Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test Mental Magic / Effects / Divination / Miscellaneous
Tom Bowyer	Phone Book Test	based on Grant idea, index		Sep. 1958	Ibidem (Issue 14)	13	Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test
Tony Corinda	Tele-Directory Test	with assistand		1959	Book Tests	213	Propless / Coding / Using Assistant Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test
Tony Corinda	(7) The Third Man	two telephone books, with medium		1959	Two Person Telepathy	268	Mental Magic / Principles / Stooge Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test Mental Magic / Effects / Divination / Miscellaneous
Ned Rutledge	Payola	name from telephone book prediction, box with numbers to select name	Also published here Payola (Ned Rutledge, Intermagic, 1987)	1967	Between Two Minds	49	Mental Magic / Effects / Prediction / Miscellaneous Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test
George B. Anderson*	A Flash Prediction	roll of paper unrolled on stage as prediction, name in telephone book, number		1968	You, Too, Can Read Minds	42	Numbers / Prediction & Sum-Divination Mental Magic / Effects / Prediction / Miscellaneous Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test
Sam Schwartz	Telephone Number Prediction			1972	Tarbell Course in Magic — Volume 7	357	Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test
Billy McComb	We Go Mental	different approaches, pages glued together, card inserted to select page		1972	McComb's Magic — 25 Years Wiser	87	Book / Book Test / Routines Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test
Dr. Jacob Daley	Daley's Telephone Book Test	No. 304, telephone book page is torn up, center tear		1972	Jacob Daley's Notebooks	78	Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test
Nathan Stark	Clipped!	with paper clip, spectator puts clip in book, name in loop of clip is divined		1973	Magick (Issue 70)	347	Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test Paper Clip / Miscellaneous
John A. Novak	Last Man on Earth		Related to Calcu-Total! (John A. Novak, Magick, 1973)	1975	Magick (Issue 123)	612	Calculator Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test
Joseph Dunninger	Mind Power	needle pin through page of book, last name and city are predicted		1975	Magick (Issue 130)	647	Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test
Alan Shaxon	The Great Directory Test		Also published here Der grosse Telefonbuch-Test (Alan Shaxon, Das Alan Shaxon Seminar "1983", 1983) also in: Der grosse Telefonbuch-Test (Alan Shaxon, Alan Shaxon Lecture, 1994)	1976	Practical Sorcery	26	Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test
Barrie Richardson	One In A Million	miscall page force and paper clip force	Related to Fate (Bruce Elliott, The Phoenix, 1949) Variations One in a Half Million (Barrie Richardson, Theater of the Mind*, 1999)	Dec. 1977	Pabular (Vol. 4 No. 4)	498	Mental Magic / Principles / Dual Reality Mental Magic / Principles / Misreading & Miscalling Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test Paper Clip / Miscellaneous
Robert Cassidy	Beating the Book Test	a book test with three phases and three different methods The Pencil Point Prophecy The Impromptu Impression The Phone Book Finale A Brief Diversion		1977	Pseudo-Mentally Yours	15	Mental Magic / Principles / Impression Devices Book / Book Test / Routines Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test
Leslie Anderson	The Sixth Sign!	telephone book test, three numbers written on three pieces of papers or formed into three digit number, see also p. 1160 for corrections		1979	Magick (Issue 229)	1141	Paper / Add-a-Number Pad Mental Magic / Principles / Tells & Body Language Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test
	The Printed Word	No. 30, spectator cuts deck and takes two cards, values added and phone book opened on that page, 14-15 stack		1979	Self-Working Mental Magic	48	Numbers / Number Forces / Playing Cards Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Number Forcing Stack Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test
Frederick M. Shields	The Man Who Saw Tomorrow	with three telephone books		1981	Magick (Issue 281)	1401	Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test
Dr. Stanley Jaks	Hinter meiner Tafel	with number range force (using spectator's age) and three-way-out	Also published here "Behind My Blackboard" (The Gen, May 1959)	Dec. 1981	Intermagic (Vol. 8 No. 4)	154	Mental Magic / Principles / Multiple Out Numbers / Number Forces / Only Calculation Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test
Bob Farmer	Jadoo	telephone book test with specially composed telephone directory		Jan. 1983	Epoptica (Issue 3)	170	Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test
Alan Shaxon	Der grosse Telefonbuch-Test		Also published here The Great Directory Test (Alan Shaxon, Practical Sorcery, 1976) also in: Der grosse Telefonbuch-Test (Alan Shaxon, Alan Shaxon Lecture, 1994)	1983	Das Alan Shaxon Seminar "1983"	13	Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test
Al Mann	Wizard's Walk	telephone book test over the phone, mathematical principle	Related to "Arithmetical Whoopee" in Royal Vale Heath's "Math-E-Magic", 1953	1984	Phantom Voices	8	Propless / Phone Effects Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test
Robert Cassidy	Phone Book Test I	prediction of a name		1984	The Art of Mentalism	65	Mental Magic / Effects / Prediction / Miscellaneous Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test
Robert Cassidy	Phone Book Test II			1984	The Art of Mentalism	68	Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test
	A Name in Millions	No. 22, spectator looks at name in phone book, it is divined, bold		1985	Self-Working Paper Magic	45	Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test
Ned Rutledge	Payola	name from telephone book prediction, box with numbers to select name	Also published here Payola (Ned Rutledge, Between Two Minds, 1967)	Dec. 1987	Intermagic (Vol. 13 No. 2)	95	Mental Magic / Effects / Prediction / Miscellaneous Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test
Karl Fulves*	Unsolved Problems	person from phone book chosen, that instant the phone rings an it is this person, posed as problem		1988	Interlocutor (Issue 48)	202	Propless / Phone Effects Telephone Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test
Karl Fulves*	The Two-Phone Trick	two phone books, two spectators chose a name, they live on the same street, posed as problem		1988	Interlocutor (Issue 52)	261	Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test
Robert Lund	Letters	joke divination with Tulsa telephone directory		1988	Interlocutor (Issue 52)	263	Articles / Letters Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test
Stephen Tucker	Upper Right	impromptu		1989	Pabular (Vol. 8 No. 12)	2002	Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test
Diabelli	Buchtest			1991	Allerlei Experi-Mentales	40	Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test
Klaus Dörr	Ihre Telefonnummer bitte	page number named and card with number selected for position, performer names phone number etc.		1992	Seminar '92	7	Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test
Thomas Alan Waters	Hellaphone	spectator choses a number on a telephone, name is divined, not real phone numbers, first published in "New Invocation" No. 31, 1986		1993	Mind, Myth & Magick (Issue Magazine Miscellanea)	441	Cards / Principles / De Bruijn Sequence (Gray Code) Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test Mental Magic / Effects / Divination / Miscellaneous
Alan Shaxon	Der grosse Telefonbuch-Test		Also published here The Great Directory Test (Alan Shaxon, Practical Sorcery, 1976) also in: Der grosse Telefonbuch-Test (Alan Shaxon, Das Alan Shaxon Seminar "1983", 1983)	1994	Alan Shaxon Lecture	14	Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test
Michael Weber	Misdirectory	phone number of business ads in phone book divined, two phases		1994	Correctors Workshop		Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test
Ted Lesley	My Telephone Directory Test	three phases, with prediction finale, using a knife	Inspired by Kurt Teichmann's "Telephone Directory Test"	1994	Paramiracles	232	Mental Magic / Effects / Prediction / Miscellaneous Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test
Hans-Gerhard Stumpf	Ein Pseudotelepathisches Experiment	name in phone book is chosen with playing cards, phone rings and chosen person is calling		1995	Hokus Pokus (Vol. 57 No. 6)	151	Mental Magic / Effects / Prediction / Miscellaneous Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test
Gary Kurtz*	Effect #1 - A Simple, Straight-Forward Prediction	four dice rolled in opaque plastic cups, all four numbers predicted Additional Effects Telephone Book Test Check Burning Routine		1998	Psycho-Kinetic Dice	4	Bill / Banknight Theme & Variations Dice (small) / Gaffed Dice Dice (small) / Divination Mental Magic / Effects / Prediction / Miscellaneous Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test
Barrie Richardson	One in a Half Million	miscall page force and paper clip force	Inspired by One In A Million (Barrie Richardson, Pabular, 1977) Related to Fate (Bruce Elliott, The Phoenix*, 1949)	1999	Theater of the Mind	10	Mental Magic / Principles / Dual Reality Mental Magic / Principles / Misreading & Miscalling Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test Paper Clip / Miscellaneous
Paul Curry	Out of This Phone Book	book, opened freely, line is forced, Franklin V. Taylor's peek deck principle with a book, first peek book in literature	Also published here Out of this Phone Book (Paul Curry, The Phoenix, 1944) also in: Out Of This Phone Book (Paul Curry, Miracles in Mentalism and Psychic Experimentation, 1945) Related to The Back Room (Bruce Elliott, The Phoenix, 1944) Pagency (Thomas Alan Waters, Mind, Myth & Magick, 1985) Variations The Magician, Dec. 2004 also in: The Devil's Dictionary (Curtain Call, 2011) Dictionary Test (Roberto Mansilla, Genii*, 2025)	2001	Paul Curry's Worlds Beyond	153	Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test Book / Book Test / Sleights & Principles
Al Baker	Any Telephone Book Test	number adding	Also published here Any Telephone Book Test (Al Baker, Magical Ways and Means, 1941)	2003	The Secret Ways of Al Baker (Issue Magical Ways and Means)	223	Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test
Al Baker	The Number and Book Test	numbers on billets in changing bag	Also published here The Number and Book Test (Al Baker, Magical Ways and Means, 1941)	2003	The Secret Ways of Al Baker (Issue Magical Ways and Means)	224	Slate / Flaps & Moving Parts Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test
Al Baker	A Telemirakel	ten cards from shuffled deck tabled in a row, random person called (really assistant how never hung up a previous call and secretly listens) who names four cards, the cards corresponding with the last four digites of the phone number in the ten-card row are those cards	Also published here A Telemirakel (Al Baker, Mental Magic, 1949) Related to Only the Best Telephone Trick in the World... ...ever, that's all! (Mark Elsdon, Mind Blasters, 2008)	2003	The Secret Ways of Al Baker (Issue Mental Magic)	293	Cards / Effect Themes / Phone Effects / Person is called during performance Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test
Al Baker	With any Telephone Book Test		Also published here marketed 1931	2003	The Secret Ways of Al Baker (Issue Instructions)	595	Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test
Robert Cassidy	The Jaxian Phone Book Test	page is selected and name and number circled by spectator, then page is torn from book and name divined	Inspired by Jaks' Subtlest Secret (Dr. Stanley Jaks, The Phoenix, 1951) also in: Dr. Jaks geistreichstes Geheimnis (Dr. Stanley-Jaks und seine Geheimnisse, 1961) Dr. Jaks Subtlest Secret (The Incredible Dr. Jaks, 2014)	2004	The Artful Mentalism of Bob Cassidy	108	Mental Magic / Principles / Impression Devices Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test
Florian Severin	Kein Anschluss unter dieser Nummer	numbers written on pad and one selected to chose a page in telephone book, chosen name is predicted in envelope		2004	Thirteen Steps to Vandalism	26	Paper / Add-a-Number Pad Mental Magic / Principles / Multiple Out Mental Magic / Effects / Prediction / Standard Predictions (one or multiple items) Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test
Karl Fulves*	Little Black Book	page number chosen with playing cards, index of possible page numbers		2006	Prolix (Issue 1)	66	Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test
Docc Hilford	D0lc3 L1bra	"Dolce Libra"		2006	Tuamautef — The Book of Numbers Vol. 3	16	Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test
Joseph Dunninger, Doug Edwards	Dunninger's Directory	off-beat gimmick		2013	Nukes	93	Book / Book Test / Routines Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test
Tom Crosbie	Telephonopathy or "The Little Black Book Test"	knowing personal phone book by heart, names and corresponding numbers	Inspired by Mel Mellers' "Business Cards Warm Up"	2013	Just Be Croz	8	Propless / Memory Stunts / Miscellaneous Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test
Mike Caveney	The Phome Book	phone number prediction, using comedy prop foam book, hidden assistant		2013	Wonders	151	Mental Magic / Principles / Stooge Mental Magic / Effects / Prediction / Miscellaneous Comedy Magic & Comedy Props Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test
Dr. Stanley Jaks	Behind My Blackboard	questionnaire adds up to a number which leads to a name in a telephone book, number is predicted on a blackboard	Also published here "Behind My Blackboard" in "The Gen" May, 1959	2014	The Incredible Dr. Jaks	102	Mental Magic / Effects / Prediction / Miscellaneous Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test
Christoph Borer	Die Zeitungsvorhersage	prediction printed in newspaper, chosen name from telephone book, different ideas for method and presentation		2018	Mentale Notizen	143	Mental Magic / Effects / Prediction / Miscellaneous Mental Magic / Effects / Prediction / By Mail Book / Book Test / Telephone Book Test