Thirty Card Mysteries

second edition from 1920 used
Book
1919/1920
Written by Charles T. Jordan
Work of Charles T. Jordan
80 pages (Stapled), published by Selfpublished
Illustrated with drawings by Eli Benneche
Language: English
56 entries
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Charles T. Jordan Preface
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T. Nelson Downs Introduction
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Charles T. Jordan Chapter I - Trailing the Dovetail Shuffle to its Lair "(with sidelights on one or two other shuffles)"
interlocking chain principle with up to three riffle shuffles
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Charles T. Jordan Close Range Mind Reading No. 1, cards riffle shuffled once, low values removed, remaining thirty-two cards dealt into two piles, one card moved over and located, interlocking chains
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Charles T. Jordan Long Distance Mind Reading No. 2, card trick performed via mail, deck riffle shuffled once and cut in two halves, one card moved from one half to the other and either half mailed back
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Charles T. Jordan Allowing a Spectator to Shuffle general comments
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Charles T. Jordan The Premo No. 3, card located after three riffle shuffles, interlocking chains, optional with marked deck or blindfolded
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Charles T. Jordan A Novel Detection No. 4, spectator counts down cards and remembers the last one, halves riffle shuffled together, interlocking chains
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Charles T. Jordan The Dealing Dovetail Detection No. 5, card is found after lots of real shuffling
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Charles T. Jordan Back and Front Count Sorting
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Divided Deck Riffle Shuffle deck dealt into two piles and those are shuffled together
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Charles T. Jordan Red/Black Shuffle running single cards in the center
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Charles T. Jordan The Rolling-off-a-Log Detection No. 6, card removed is found out, unusual presentation with card rolled to tube, card counting with only one suit
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Variations
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Charles T. Jordan The Full Hand No. 7, four spectators select four cards each, those sixteen cards are riffle shuffled by performer and dropped in hat, performer takes out the cards of each spectator without looking
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Charles T. Jordan Perfect Riffle Shuffle without details, four shuffles for sixteen cards to recycle, "Mr. Downs, however, can handle a full pack of 52 cards with the degree of dexterity necessary to restore its original order."
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Charles T. Jordan Chapter II - Tricks of an Impromptu Nature "(requiring little or no skill)"
chapter intro
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James J. Moren With the Mind's Eye No. 8, card chosen while the performer is blindfolded, performer deals through cards and stops at and names selection
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Palmed-Card Glimpse
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Charles T. Jordan The Simplicity Speller No. 9, card selected and cut into deck, long phrase with selection spelled, spelling to twenty-sixth card
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Bridge half the deck by squeezing left hand
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  • Bridge (Charles Jordan's Best Card Tricks, 1992)
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Charles T. Jordan The Trio No. 10, also "The Thirty-first Mystery", updated from first edition, three cards predicted, new deck opened and three selected which match prediction, three duplicates palmed to deck, for original method see 1975 reference
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Faced-Deck Switch deck secretly turned over
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Charles T. Jordan Odd or Even No. 11, spectator cuts off pile and spectator divined whether it's an odd or even number
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Charles T. Jordan The Escape No. 12, card travels from rubber-banded half to other half, cards are secretly propelled to other half
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Charles T. Jordan The Bare-Faced Detection No. 13, card chosen by cutting, found with the faces towards the spectators at all times
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Charles T. Jordan The Twentieth Century Puzzle No. 14, chosen cards are returned into deck one by one and divined
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Charles T. Jordan Telepathic Control No. 15, card chosen after some dealing is divined
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Charles T. Jordan Multiple Card Glimpse during in-the-hands riffle shuffle
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Charles T. Jordan Chapter III - Feats Requiring More or Less Manipulative Ability chapter intro
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Charles T. Jordan The Single-Card Reverse No. 16
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Charles T. Jordan Shuffle Reverse at the end of an overhand shuffle
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Half Pass everything under top card, no details
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  • Half Pass (Charles T. Jordan: Collected Tricks, 1975)
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Charles T. Jordan The Half-Pack Reverse No. 17
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Charles T. Jordan Half Reverse Cut bottom half is flipped over with left thumb as top half is cut to table
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Charles T. Jordan The Alternate Reverse No. 18, every other card is openly reversed, they all right themselves again
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Charles T. Jordan Two Halves Exchange
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Charles T. Jordan The Pack that Cuts Itself No. 19, rubber-banded deck cuts itself at selection, duplicate
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Charles T. Jordan The Impossible Journey No. 20, selection comes to top in rubber-banded deck, executing classic pass with rubber banded deck
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Charles T. Jordan Our Friends, the Aces No. 21, Conus-type gag phase, Aces vanish from three piles, but there are Jokers in fourth pile, they change back to Aces, duplicate Ace and four Jokers
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Wedge Break
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Charles T. Jordan Count Steal right hand counts cards from deck in left hand one by one, packet stolen at one point from bottom
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Charles T. Jordan Leave it to the Aces No. 22, Aces pushed in deck, named Ace lies next to selection, using Diagonal Palm Shift
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Charles T. Jordan The Phantom Aces No. 23, four Aces are alternated in color, spectator cannot take two of same color
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Charles T. Jordan Jordan Count
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Charles T. Jordan Chapter IV - Feats Requiring Previous Preparation chapter intro
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James J. Moren The Message from Mars No. 24, deck reduced to thirty-two cards and dealt into two piles, top card of one of the piles chosen and predicted in pocket
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James J. Moren Inside Pocket Bluff item removed from vest pocket, looks like inside pocket
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Simple Deal Force bottom cards are force card, dealt into two piles, top cards are now force cards
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Charles T. Jordan Coluria No. 25, thirty-two-deck of cards is cut and dealt into six piles, two remaining cards pocketed, colors of top cards code bottom cards and cards in pocket, done out-of-room
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Charles T. Jordan Satan's Trance No. 26, four cards removed from thirty-two-card deck and put in envelope, lights out, when lights are back on the names of cards are written on envelope
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Dr. Ford Rogers Rough-Smooth as Haptic Cue
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Charles T. Jordan Change Your Mind? No. 27, one of two cards thought-of, replaced, deck dealt into two piles (some face-up, some face-down), performer picks out correct card, four groups are marked with dots
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Charles T. Jordan Spelling Any Card Called For No. 28, full deck stack
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Charles T. Jordan The Card and Number Mystery No. 29, spectator deals piles, selects one, adds values, counts down to number and the card there is predicted
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Charles T. Jordan The Card and Bag Mystery No. 30, Joker is put in envelope and pierced with thread inside a bag, it transposes with a selection, duplicate
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Charles T. Jordan Adios
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Data entered by Denis Behr, March 2018.