Ideas

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Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Theodore Annemann Wanted - A Card Routine Without Cards! invisible deck presentation for any named card to pocket, no method
Related to Sep. 1935
The Jinx (Issue 12)
60
Louis Lam It Pays to Advertise "Advertising stunts every magician must use", playing card with business information on front is forced via Svengali Deck
 		1935
Would You Believe It?
19
Laurie Ireland A Hanging Episode presentational idea, for card discoveries
 		1940
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1940)
13
E. R. Hall Using a Dart Board no effect, to select a card
 		1945
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1945)
19
Victor Farelli "Optical" Magic on afterimage optical illusions, using playing cards
 		May 1950
Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 7 No. 12)
663
Ronald B. Edwards An Oddity mathematical oddity
 		May 1957
The Cardiste (Issue 2)
12
Karl Fulves Card Problems - (3) doing a trick with an unusual structure in which first the performer demonstrates how the trick ends, then does it anyway, posed as problem
Related to 1976
Interlocutor (Issue 10)
38
Paul Harris The Pinochle Solution
Also published here 1979
Close-up Entertainer
169
Stephen Tucker Tuesday four Twos appear, pun Two's-Day = Tuesday, no method
Variations Feb. 1982
Spell-Binder (Vol. 1 No. 10)
191
John Brown Eject card that looks like the cassette recorder, pressing buttons to change something in the deck, presentation for ambitious card, rising card and other
 		1982
Spell-Binder (Vol. 2 No. Special #1 (Summer))
15
Paul Cummins Just One More deck is put in case and yet still found in magician's hand
 		1985
The New York Magic Symposium — Collection 4
81
Richard Bartram, Jr. Phert! idea when spectator's hand is covering cards / coins on the table, so they feel the magic moment, plate-lifter
 		1985
Close-Up of the Damned
4
Karl Fulves Marketable idea for jigsaw puzzle with cards
 		1988
Interlocutor (Issue 50)
232
Juan Tamariz Marking Full Deck whole deck is marked to exclude switching it
 		1989/91
Sonata
171
Harry Lorayne A Lorayne Storm naming an "accidentally" dropped card correctly
 		Feb. 1992
Apocalypse (Vol. 15 No. 2)
2039
Melvin Lehair The Gloving Touch card values and indices on glove, ideas with this prop like using it for the free selection of a card
 		Feb. 1994
Profile (Issue 18)
1
Paul Cummins Casebreak deck is put in case and yet still found in magician's hand
Variations 1996
from a shuffled deck in use... Part One
24
Paul Harris House Guest in card case there appears a doll-house scenery, just an idea
 		1996
The Art of Astonishment — Book 1 (Issue Conversations from the Edge)
305
Paul Harris The Pinochle Solution you figure it out
Also published here 1996
The Art of Astonishment — Book 2 (Issue Close-up Entertainer)
177
Paul Harris Butt of Course! idea for changing card the spectator sits on in mini-card
 		1996
The Art of Astonishment — Book 2 (Issue Misc. Pieces of Paul)
279
Harry Eng Eng's Bottles impossible objects:
  • Deck in Bottle
  • Ping (ping-pong ball in bottle)
 		1996
The Art of Astonishment — Book 2 (Issue Astonishing Friends)
303
Lee Asher Idea #1 taking deck out of cigarette packet
 		1998
Sex Sells
13
Lee Asher Idea #2 line for "What do you do for a living?" question
 		1998
Sex Sells
13
Paul Sorrentino Half and Half card gaff, split card to simulate two cards with torn corner
 		1998
The Trapdoor — Volume Three (Issue 70)
1462
Andi Gladwin Ripped Casebreak deck is put in case and yet still found in magician's hands
Inspired by June 2002
Ego (Vol. 1 No. 12)
25
Trevor Lewis Him
2010
Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 8
168
Pit Hartling Cartas Musicales idea, music has influence of order of cards
 		2010
El Manuscrito (Vol. 3 No. 13)
365
Mahdi Gilbert Word Generator idea of using the card index symbols as letters, some upside down or on its side
  • Routine Ideas
 		2013
MAG1-F3ST
[10]
Ryan Plunkett Notes Funny ideas
 		2016
Some Assembly Required
56
Roberto Giobbi, Karrell Fox, Jerry Andrus Card Configuration using cards to make interesting designs
 		2016
Hidden Agenda (Issue May 24)
148
Roberto Giobbi Splitting Cards object put in split card, idea
 		2016
Hidden Agenda (Issue July 19)
207
Christoph Borer Die Voodoo Queen a voodoo card is manipulated and the chosen card has the same modifications, effect idea without method
 		2024
Inventum
286
Kevin Ho The Baader-Meinhofzinser Phenomenon curiosity, hidden 8 in the negative space of the Eight of Diamonds, additional idea to produce the four Eights from the Eight of Diamonds
Also published here
  • "The Baader-Meinhofzinser Phenomenon" (Kevin Ho, Tricks, 2012)
 2024
Good Tricks For Bad People
16