Hollingworth, Guy

Book

1999
Written by Guy Hollingworth
Work of Guy Hollingworth

311 pages (Hardcover), published by Mike Caveney's Magic Words
Illustrated with drawings by Guy Hollingworth
Language: English

85 entries

This publication has been reviewed by

Jamy Ian Swiss (Genii, Vol. 62 No. 10, Oct. 1999, p. 66)
Michael Close (MAGIC, Vol. 9 No. 1, Sep. 1999, p. 29)

Creators	Title	Comments & References		Page	Categories
Mike Caveney	Publisher's Note			7	Articles / Intros & Epilogues
Guy Hollingworth	Prologue			11	Articles / Intros & Epilogues
Guy Hollingworth	Voodoo Card	selection in deck behaves like isolated card that is torn and torched	Also published here The Voodoo Card (Guy Hollingworth, James Steranko, The Art of Astonishment — Book 3, 1996) also in: The Voodoo Card (Guy Hollingworth, Renovations, 2015) Inspired by Voodoo Card (James Steranko, Steranko on Cards, 1960)	14	Cards / Effect Themes / Sympathetic Effects / Miscellaneous
Guy Hollingworth	One	on close-up situation and vertical magic		19	Articles / Articles
Guy Hollingworth	Waving the Aces	visual turnovers, stand-up version	Also published here Waving the Aces (Guy Hollingworth, Notes on Card Tricks and Other Diversions, 1996) also in: Waving the Aces (Guy Hollingworth, Excerpts, 2000) Waving the Aces (Guy Hollingworth, Renovations, 2015) Variations Twisting the Aces (Fredric P. Lamazor, Card Sleight of Hand Innovations And Improvements, 1999) Waving the Aces (Guy Hollingworth, Quartet, 1999)	21	Cards / Effect Themes / Turnover & Reverse / Twisting the Aces / Standard Effect
Guy Hollingworth	Optical Alignment		Related to The Basic Move (José de la Torre, New Jumping Back, 1976) The Optical Toss (Larry Jennings, The Classic Magic of Larry Jennings, 1986) also in: The Optical Toss (Mr. Jennings Takes It Easy, 2020) … and 3 more Variations Coin Realignment Move (Jeremiah Zuo, Justin Hanes, Eric Jones, Institutes of A Coin Magic Fan, 2018) Optical Alignment Vanish (Alexander Hansford, Often Rarely That Simple, 2021)	21	Cards / Sleights / Switches / Single Card Switches / Miscellaneous
Jean Hugard	Leg Reversal			21	Cards / Sleights / Reverses / More for One Card or a few Cards / Passive
Guy Hollingworth	Addition as Deck is Put Away	extra card is palmed out and added to packet		25	Cards / Sleights / Additions / Miscellaneous Cards / Sleights / Additions / Using clothing
Guy Hollingworth	Waving the Aces II	visual turnovers, close-up version	Also published here Waving the Aces II (Guy Hollingworth, Notes on Card Tricks and Other Diversions, 1996)	31	Cards / Effect Themes / Turnover & Reverse / Twisting the Aces / Standard Effect
Guy Hollingworth	Optical Alignment Close-Up Handling			34	Cards / Sleights / Switches / Single Card Switches / Miscellaneous
Guy Hollingworth	Strip-Out Reverse	turning bottom card over as an outjogged one is stripped out		36	Cards / Sleights / Reverses / More for One Card or a few Cards / Active
Guy Hollingworth	Oil and Water	3&3, optical alignment		39	Cards / Effect Themes / Red Black / Separation / Oil & Water / One Back Color
Guy Hollingworth	Cherchez la Femme	Optical Alignment	Also published here Three Card Monte (Guy Hollingworth, Notes on Card Tricks and Other Diversions, 1996)	43	Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Three Card Monte / Packet Trick with Monte theme
Guy Hollingworth	The Hofsinzer Problem	outlined Routine, "Hofzinser" misspelled		44	Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Hofzinser & Victor Ace Problem
Guy Hollingworth	Two	on piano playing vs. magic		47	Articles / Articles
Guy Hollingworth	The Penetration of Four Cards through a Jacket	Aces lost, deck placed in jacket pocket, first three penetrate inner lining and are removed from held-out jacket, then full deck penetrates leaving last Ace behind		48	Cards / Effect Themes / Penetration / With Other Objects / Clothing
Guy Hollingworth	Waistband Ditch and Recovery	into lateral palm	Variations Lateral Ascanio Steal (Nancy Colwell, Lorem Ipsum, 2021)	48	Cards / Sleights / Ditching Cards / Clothing Cards / Sleights / Palming / Lateral Palm
Guy Hollingworth, Dan Garrett	Pivot Card Production	lateral palm	Related to The Knuckle Busting Ultra Garrett Spinning One-Hand Lateral Palm Platform Card Transformation (With Triple Change Option) (Dan Garrett, The Trapdoor — Volume Two, 1991) also in: One-Hand Swivel (O.H.S.) Card Change (Top 10, 1996) "CloseUp Connivery #2" Lecture Notes	55	Cards / Manipulation / Production & Appearance / Single Cards
Guy Hollingworth	Travellers	direct with one palm-off		62	Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to Pocket / Multiple Cards / Travelers
Guy Hollingworth	Fake Inside Pocket Removal	cards held with other hand inside jacket at its edge		63	Cards / Sleights / Cloths and Cards / Producing (palmed) Cards from Pocket
Guy Hollingworth	An Ambidextrous Interchange	selfworking		65	Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / The More Things Change (Pocket Interchange)
Guy Hollingworth	Outer Left Pocket Steal	gambler's cop or Bent Cop		67	Cards / Sleights / Cloths and Cards / Apparently putting Cards in Pocket
Guy Hollingworth	Outer Right Pocket Steal	lateral Palm		67	Cards / Sleights / Cloths and Cards / Apparently putting Cards in Pocket Cards / Sleights / Palming / Lateral Palm
Guy Hollingworth	Jacket Miracle Change	at Jacket edge as card is pushed into trouser pocket	Inspired by Miracle Change No. 1 (Edward Marlo, Miracle Card Changes, 1954)	68	Cards / Sleights / Palming / Tenkai Palm & Unit Grip Cards / Sleights / Cloths and Cards / Transfers & Displacements Cards / Sleights / Switches / Single Card Switches / Without Deck / In the Hands
Guy Hollingworth	Addition as Card is put in Breast Pocket	card pulled from inside jacket onto right-hand packet that holds edge of jacket		70	Cards / Sleights / Additions / Using clothing
Guy Hollingworth, Patrick Page	Sleeve-Pull Pocket Ditch	see page 84 for Patrick Page credit		72	Cards / Sleights / Ditching Cards / Clothing Cards / Sleights / Cloths and Cards / Loading the Pocket for later discovery
Edward Marlo, Guy Hollingworth	Snap Miracle Change	Miracle Change on speed, card ends up in Tenkai Palm		73	Cards / Sleights / Color Change / free handed
Guy Hollingworth	Tenkai Palm to Inner Jacket Pocket	load/ditch as cards are removed from breast pocket		74	Cards / Sleights / Ditching Cards / Clothing Cards / Sleights / Cloths and Cards / Loading the Pocket for later discovery
Guy Hollingworth	A "One Card" Routine	signed card is repeatedly put in one pocket and extracted from another	Variations Shrink Vanish (So Sato, The Secrets of So Sato, 2016)	78	Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Miscellaneous Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to Pocket / Single Card
Guy Hollingworth	Hugard Top Palm as Change		Related to The Loewy Palm Change (Aurelio Paviato, Studies in Deception, 2022)	79	Cards / Sleights / Palming / Classic Palm / Left Hand / Top Cards / Sleights / Switches / Single Card Switches / Without Deck / In the Hands
Dai Vernon	Tenkai Palm Switch			79	Cards / Sleights / Palming / Tenkai Palm & Unit Grip Cards / Sleights / Switches / Single Card Switches / Without Deck / In the Hands
Guy Hollingworth	Packet Travelers	selection vanishes from Ace packet and appears in pocket repeatedly, then only selection remains and Aces are found in different pockets, posed as a problem	Variations The Hollingworth Problem (Jeremiah Zuo, The Disclaimer, 2021)	84	Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to Pocket / Single Card Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to Pocket / Multiple Cards / Travelers
Guy Hollingworth	Three	how one comes up with new ideas		87	Articles / Articles
Guy Hollingworth	The Control of Chosen Cards	hidden paper clip	Related to Hook Paper Clip Control (Joe Berg, Here's Magic, 1930) The "Key" Card Forcing and Self-shifting Pack (Ellis Stanyon, Ellis Stanyon's Best Card Tricks, 1999)	89	Cards / Sleights / Controls / Single Card Controls / Miscellaneous Cards / Sleights / Controls / Multiple Card Controls / Spread Controls Cards / Sleights / Controls / Single Card Controls / Spread Controls Cards / Effect Themes / Paper Clip & Cards
Guy Hollingworth	Paper Clip Strike	hidden paper clip		94	Cards / Sleights / False Dealing / Special Third, Fourth,... Deal / Strike Cards / Effect Themes / Paper Clip & Cards
Guy Hollingworth	Jacket Addition	hidden paper clip & magnet		95	Cards / Sleights / Additions / Miscellaneous Cards / Sleights / Additions / Using clothing Cards / Effect Themes / Paper Clip & Cards
Guy Hollingworth	Jacket Ditching	using hidden paper clip & magnet		95	Cards / Sleights / Ditching Cards / Clothing Cards / Effect Themes / Paper Clip & Cards
Guy Hollingworth	An Ace Assembly	hidden paper clip, backfire	Also published here A Stationary Assembly (Guy Hollingworth, Notes on Card Tricks and Other Diversions, 1996) also in: Chapter Three (Guy Hollingworth, Opus, 1997) A Stationary Assembly (Guy Hollingworth, Excerpts, 2000)	96	Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Ace Assembly / Classic Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Ace Assembly / Reverse Cards / Effect Themes / Paper Clip & Cards Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Double Facer / Different Faces
Guy Hollingworth	The Homing Card	hidden paper clip		106	Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / Homing Card Cards / Effect Themes / Paper Clip & Cards
Guy Hollingworth	Cannibal Cards	hidden paper clip, three Aces vanish between Kings one by one, when fourth Ace is put between Kings, they change to four Aces		114	Cards / Effect Themes / Vanish / Cannibals Cards / Effect Themes / Paper Clip & Cards
Guy Hollingworth	Interval	on eccentric moves		121	Articles / Articles
Guy Hollingworth	Regarding the shift. One	several interesting shifts	Also published here Twin Turn Pass (Guy Hollingworth, Genii, 1999) Related to Unconventional Passes (Edward Marlo, Marlo's Magazine — Volume 5, 1984) The Anomalous Pass (Wesley James, Enchantments, 2004) Variations An Explanation of a Palm is Detailed (Ricky Smith, The Neat Review, 2019)	122	Cards / Sleights / Passes & Shifts / Two-Handed / Free Turn Passes
Lennart Green	Float Pass		Variations Rotator Shifts (Nancy Colwell, A New Angle, 2017)	122	Cards / Sleights / Passes & Shifts / Two-Handed / Free Turn Passes
Guy Hollingworth	Multiple Colour Change	consecutive changes, using his shift mechanics		128	Cards / Sleights / Color Change / On the Deck
Guy Hollingworth	Regarding the shift. Two	Deal Shift	Also published here The Deal Shift (Guy Hollingworth, MAGIC, 1997)	129	Cards / Sleights / Passes & Shifts / Two-Handed / Other Herrmann Style Passes Cards / Effect Themes / Penetration / Ambitious Card Theme / Sequences Cards / Sleights / Switches / Multiple Card Switches / Using the Deck
Guy Hollingworth	Methods of controlling & palming. One	multiple cards, all-around square-up cover	Also published here All-Around Square-Up Palm (Guy Hollingworth, Seminah 3, 2023) also in: All-Around Square-Up Palm (Guy Hollingworth, Evidence of a Well Spent Life, 2025) Variations Expertalk: Denis Behr on the Delayed TFC-Steal (Denis Behr, MAGIC, 2004) also in: Expertalk: Denis Behr on the Delayed TFC-Steal (Talk About Tricks, 2022)	133	Cards / Sleights / Palming / Tenkai Palm & Unit Grip Cards / Sleights / Palming / Classic Palm / Right Hand / Center
Guy Hollingworth	Regarding the shift. Three	Spring Shift		133	Cards / Sleights / Passes & Shifts / Two-Handed / Other Classic Style Passes
Guy Hollingworth	Riffle Convincer			134	Cards / Sleights / Controls / Insertions Cards / Sleights / Jog Techniques / Miscellaneous Cards / Sleights / Jog Techniques / Retaining & Setting a Jog / Hands
Guy Hollingworth	Methods of controlling & palming. Two	cards apparently replaced into different positions but really at the same, three handlings (riffle force, riffle forcing to oneself, spreading instead of riffling)	Related to Multiple Card Bluff Control (Guy Hollingworth, Drawing Room Deceptions, 1999)	138	Cards / Sleights / Passes & Shifts / Two-Handed / Bluff Passes Cards / Sleights / Controls / Multiple Card Controls / Cut Controls Cards / Sleights / Controls / Multiple Card Controls / Miscellaneous Cards / Sleights / Controls / Multiple Card Controls / Spread Controls
Guy Hollingworth	Methods of controlling & palming. Three	undercut cover		141	Cards / Sleights / Palming / Classic Palm / Right Hand / Replacement
Guy Hollingworth	Methods of controlling & palming. Four: Bent Cop	several applications, good angles compared to gambler's cop	Related to A Novel Palm (Arthur H. Buckley, Card Control, 1946) Gambler's Rest Grip of One or More Cards (Vanni Bossi, Escorial 1991 — The Erdnase Year, 1991) also in: Bent Card Palm (Escorial 1991 — The Erdnase Year, 1991) Stolen Goods (The Aretalogy of Vanni Bossi, 2016) … and 1 more Variations The Bent Cop Transfer (Helge Thun, MAGIC, 2005) also in: Bent Cop Transfer (Seminah 3, 2023) The Bent Cop Transfer (Evidence of a Well Spent Life, 2025)	143	Cards / Sleights / Palming / Other Positions
Guy Hollingworth	Bent Cop Colour Change			148	Cards / Sleights / Color Change / free handed
Guy Hollingworth	Regarding the switching of cards. One	Miracle Change at the table edge	Related to Pull Out Double Lift (Ken Simmons, Cards — With a Different Touch, 1981)	150	Cards / Sleights / Additions / Table Edge Cards / Sleights / Switches / Single Card Switches / Without Deck / Tabled & Mucks
Guy Hollingworth	Regarding the switching of cards. Two	lateral palm, two switches	Related to LP Application - The Bent Card Switch (Arie Vilner, Underhanded Delivery, 2009)	151	Cards / Sleights / Palming / Lateral Palm Cards / Sleights / Switches / Multiple Card Switches / Without Deck / In the Hands Cards / Sleights / Switches / Multiple Card Switches / Without Deck / Tabled & Mucks
Guy Hollingworth	Regarding false dealing. The bottom deal	with end grip take and one-handed version		159	Cards / Sleights / False Dealing / Bottom Deal / One-Handed Cards / Sleights / False Dealing / Bottom Deal / Push Out
Guy Hollingworth, Martin A. Nash	Regarding false dealing. The centre deal		Inspired by The Nash Multi-Center (Martin A. Nash, Sleight Unseen, 1979)	163	Cards / Sleights / False Dealing / Center Deal / from different positions
Guy Hollingworth	Regarding false dealing. The second deal	magician impress thing, using LePaul Spread		167	Cards / Sleights / False Dealing / Second Deal / Miscellaneous
Guy Hollingworth	Regarding the false shuffle.	in the hands strip-out shuffle with waterfall	Variations The Hollariz False Shuffle (Steve Bedwell, Thick Schtick!, 2000) The Moritzworth Shuffle (Moritz Mueller, Ransom Notes, 2021) … and 1 more	169	Cards / Sleights / Riffle Shuffle / Riffle in the hands / False
Guy Hollingworth	Single Cut Multiple Shift	using strip out from his false shuffle		177	Cards / Sleights / Controls / Multiple Shifts / Active / Cut Controls
Guy Hollingworth	Four	on presenting magic as real magic or tongue in cheek		179	Articles / Articles
Guy Hollingworth	A Gambling Routine	ends in New Deck Order, for an idea see also p. 28 of Behr reference	Also published here Reset Routine (Guy Hollingworth, Roger's Thesaurus, 1994) also in: A Square Deal (Guy Hollingworth, Notes on Card Tricks and Other Diversions, 1996) Related to A Center Deal Demonstration (Denis Behr, Pit Hartling, MAGIC, 2009) also in: Two More Tricks for Allen Kennedy: The First Routine (Handcrafted Card Magic — Volume 2, 2011) A Center Deal Demonstration (Talk About Tricks, 2022)	181	Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Poker / False Dealing Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Poker / Multiple Phase Routines Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Only for Special Stacks / New Deck Order Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Poker / Stacking / Overhand
	The Milk-build Shuffle	chop shuffle stacking		184	Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Overhand / Stacking
	Thumb Count Stacking			189	Cards / Sleights / Stacking / Stacking without Shuffling
Guy Hollingworth	A More Light-Hearted Routine	Ace cutting with increasing conditions		192	Cards / Effect Themes / Skill Demonstration / Magician cuts to the Aces / Tabled
Stephen Minch	Aces Over Teakettle			196	Cards / Effect Themes / Turnover & Reverse / Triumph / Topsy-Turvy Aces
Bruce Cervon	Pivot Revelation			200	Cards / Sleights / Pop-out Productions / Tabled
Guy Hollingworth	A "Call to the Colours" Routine	ending in New Deck Order	Variations God of Gamblers (Darwin Ortiz, Scams & Fantasies with Cards, 2002)	202	Cards / Effect Themes / Chaos & Order / Deck Cards / Effect Themes / Red Black / Separation / Call to the Colors
Guy Hollingworth	Arranging a Suit in Order Secretly	separation and biddle count		210	Cards / Sleights / Culling / Arranging the Order
Guy Hollingworth	Five	quoting "An Inspector Calls"		217	Articles / Articles
Guy Hollingworth	A Destroyed and Reproduced Card	Universal Card Scam, found in envelope or sealed pack	Variations Drawing to Impossible Location (Guy Hollingworth, Wayne Houchin, Remix, 2014)	219	Cards / Effect Themes / Torn & Restored / Destroyed & "Rediscovered" Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Into another deck / Sealed Deck Cards / Principles / Duplicates / Signed Duplicate
Guy Hollingworth	Universal Card Scam		Related to Slide-Less (Ann Y. Mous, The Phoenix, 1942) Remote Control (John Scarne, Rigmarole, 1994) … and 1 more	219	Cards / Principles / Duplicates / Signed Duplicate
Guy Hollingworth	A Card at Any Number	Universal Card Scam		230	Cards / Effect Themes / Number Effects / Card(s) at A Number(Numbers) Cards / Principles / Duplicates / Signed Duplicate
Guy Hollingworth	A Card Stab	Universal Card Scam, last card stabbed by Specator, signed		237	Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Stabbing Routines / with Knife on the table Cards / Principles / Duplicates / Signed Duplicate
Guy Hollingworth	Six	chapter intro		243	Articles / Intros & Epilogues
Guy Hollingworth	Three Cards Under a Box	last card in box	Inspired by Cases Loaded (Guy Hollingworth, The Trapdoor — Volume Two, 1993) Variations Boxed Surprise (Michael Powers, Tesseract, 2019) Card to Box Sequence (Joshua Jay, Particle System, 2024)	243	Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card under Glass, Box, ... Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to Card Case
Guy Hollingworth	Multiple Card Bluff Control	cards apparently replaced into different positions but really at the same, riffle forcing to oneself		244	Cards / Sleights / Controls / Multiple Card Controls / Miscellaneous
Guy Hollingworth	BoTop Change with Case	card in hand switched for card that is held under case in left hand		248	Cards / Sleights / Case Things / Card to Case Techniques Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to Card Case Cards / Sleights / Switches / Single Card Switches / BoTop & Bottop Change
Guy Hollingworth	A Triumph Routine	in the hands, two phases, face-up/face-down fan display in second phase where four-of-a-kind of selection ends up reversed	Variations EZ Triumph (Zenneth Kok, Ego, 2003) Back In Time (Joshua Jay, Particle System, 2024)	251	Cards / Effect Themes / Four-of-a-Kind & Aces Effects / Production & Appearance / As a Climax Cards / Effect Themes / Turnover & Reverse / Triumph / Classic Effect (with or without selections) Cards / Effect Themes / Turnover & Reverse / Triumph / Displays & Finesses
Guy Hollingworth	In-the-hands Triumph Shuffle		Also published here In-the-hands Triumph Shuffle (Guy Hollingworth, Particle System, 2024) Inspired by Explanation of False Shuffle (Dai Vernon, Stars of Magic, 1946) Variations The Moritzworth Triumph (Moritz Mueller, Ransom Notes, 2021)	252	Cards / Sleights / Riffle Shuffle / Riffle in the hands / False
Ken Krenzel	Mechanical Reverse			256	Cards / Sleights / Reverses / Half Pass
Guy Hollingworth	The Cassandra Quandary	card placed in envelope is actual later selection	Related to Speak of the Devil (Alan Brown, The Pallbearers Review, 1968) "Elimacard" (Karrell Fox, My Latest Book, 1988) … and 1 more Variations Appointment in Samarra (Darwin Ortiz, Scams & Fantasies with Cards, 2002) Casual Cassandra (Joshua Jay, Triptych, 2019) also in: Casual Cassandra (The Hermit*, 2022) … and 1 more	264	Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Forcing Deck Cards / Sleights / Force / Forcing from a Forcing Deck Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Off-beat Predictions Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Single Card
Guy Hollingworth	Hollow Envelopes Dummy Switch	switching half the deck as an envelope is brought out from a stack of envelopes		268	Cards / Sleights / Switches / Deck & Thick Packet Switches / In context of Routine Cards / Sleights / Switches / Deck & Thick Packet Switches / Technical / Miscellaneous Paper / Envelopes / Miscellaneous
Guy Hollingworth	Envelope Switch			270	Paper / Envelopes / Switching the Envelope
Guy Hollingworth	Epilogue	love-hate relation with magic		275	Articles / Intros & Epilogues
Guy Hollingworth	Reformation	including handling variations for some phases	Variations The Reparation (John Lovick, The Reparation, 1998) also in: The Reparation (Close-Up & Personal, 1999) The Reparation (The Performance Pieces & Divertissements of the Famous Handsome Jack, etc., 2016) Counterfeit (Wayne Houchin, Houchin: Counterfeit & Stigmata*, 2019) … and 1 more	278	Cards / Effect Themes / Torn & Restored / Piece by Piece

Data entered by Denis Behr, January 2004.

Drawing Room Deceptions