Center Tear

15 entries in Cards / Effect Themes / Think a Card / Center Tear
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Dr. Lazlo Rothbart Kartenclairvoyance divination of playing card
 		1944
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 6 No. 1)
10
Herbert Hood A Mental Test Revamped thought-of card divined via center tear
Also published here 1944
Practical Mental Effects
310
U. F. Grant Fire Reading center tear, center piece sticks to card
 		Mar. 1949
Grant's Inner Circle Magazine (Vol. 1 No. 5 & 6)
10
Tommy Vanderschmidt In the Suit thought of card is reversed, spectator selects a paper with a suit and writes value inside
 		Aug. 1953
The Phoenix (Issue 287)
1147
Art Spring Divining Cup numbered slips with information written by spectators in cup, performer divines contents, slips secretly burned via flash paper
 		Oct. 1970
The Pallbearers Review (Vol. 5 No. 12)
367
Joseph K. Schmidt Center Tear spectator writes card in center of square paper, cut into four pieces and puzzled together so a center section is missing, can be presented as pseudo center tear, see p. 527 for comment by L. Vosburgh Lyons
Inspired by Feb. 1971
The Pallbearers Review (Vol. 6 No. 4)
398
Dr. Jacob Daley Daley's Wrinkle For A Good Trick No. 209, spectator divines the card the performer is thinking of, center tear
 		1972
Jacob Daley's Notebooks
50
Billet Trick Mindreading No. 454, card peeked, another one thought of (or something else), both written on billets and divined
 		1972
Jacob Daley's Notebooks
128
Al Mann The Mag-Eye Move while performer tears billet, message is read, with variation
Related to 1981
Phanta-Graphs
13
Marconick Another Mystery Box coin placed on box and hand appears to grab coin, miniature card on hand, using freely named card
 		1982
Fortune Magic — Volume 7
42
Edward Marlo Tears Without Tears instant Reading
 		1983
Marlo without Tears
158
Edward Marlo Tears Without Tears 2 instant Reading
 		1983
Marlo without Tears
312
Jas Jakutsch JaJa Center Tear no-steal technique
 		1999
Completely Mental — Vol. 1
5
Paul Curry Alias Sherlock Holmes center tear presentation, revealing the word by analyzing the burnt paper
 		2001
Paul Curry's Worlds Beyond
143
Terry Godfrey Party Partners spectator writes down card, partner finds it by eliminating 51 cards, PATEO
 		2003
Syzygy (Vol. 5 No. 17)
427