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David Devant Devant's Handkerchief Trick producing three white handkerchiefs, paper tube, they change to red, green and yellow, one vanishes in glass tube and appears knotted between other two, description edited by Devant himself
Variations 1903 303
Tom Sellers The Joker Speller ten card packet, values are spelt out one by one, but when spectator tries it, he always gets the joker
Variations 1937 60
Howard Albright Perfect Card Divination free thought of card, stacked, "has one of these the same value?"
Variations 1937 217
Michael F. Zens Zens' Miracle Pocket to Pocket Trick three chosen cards, envelopes, repeating set-up deck
Related toVariations 1937 298
Fred Culpitt The Doll's House
Variations 1938 958
C. Method Using One Girl of Sawing a Woman in Half
Variations 1938 986
Sid Fleischman Drunken Cocktail liquid travels from straw to straw
Variations Feb. 1940
The Jinx (Issue 79)
518
William Larsen, T. Page Wright L. W. Restoring the Rope loop hidden in hollow handle of knife
Related to 1941 ca. 185
U. F. Grant "Million Dollar" Bill Mystery two bills are torn, one half of each vanish and appear in envelope
Related toVariationsAlso published here 1943/27 112
Ottokar Fischer The Cords of Phantasia two ropes are penetrated by silks, grandmother's necklace
Variations 1945/27 357
Harlan Tarbell Orange and Die die and orange change places, prop magic
Variations 1948/27 251
Eddie Joseph Staggered - Prime Presentation two decks, one card is selected and both decks dealt until same card is found in other deck, card found at same position as mate of selection is named and its mate is not found in other deck but in envelope, repeated with written prediction inside card case
Related toVariations 1949 1
Walter B. Gibson Switcheroo No. 54
Variations 1950 96
Eddie Joseph India Calling spectator has two piles and after some counting a card is lost, names of all cards read off to performer who names selection
Variations 1950 10
Eddie Joseph The "Tobba" Mystery spectator removes some cards and remembers card at same position, deck cut, then performer counts basically whole deck before revealing card and number
Variations 1950 2
Eddie Joseph Who Knows the Card? card chosen with counting procedure ends up and number named at beginning
Variations 1950 3
Eddie Joseph Memory Phenomenal card and its position named as apparent memory demonstration
Variations 1950 8
Stanley Collins Morritt's Purse Trick purse palm
Variations 1952 334
C. James McLemore Stop-Go two balls are tied to two strings and hanging down, they swing back and forth on command
Variations 1954/27 32
Harold Denhard Denhart Ring on the Rope rope tied to both wrists, rubber ring links to rope
Variations 1954/27 164
The Three Heaps start with three heaps of matches, magician can (without looking) form a single pile of matches equal a number called out by spectator
VariationsAlso published here 1956 55
Al Koran The Gold Medallion prediction of number on medallion
Related toVariations 1968 11
Bill Severn, Pete Biro Rising Card from Envelope pencil with rubber band
Related toVariationsAlso published here 1972 121
Tony Corinda The Powers Of Darkness ring penetrates spectator's arm, while he has his eyes closed
Variations Dec. 1975
Pabular (Vol. 2 No. 4)
186
Karrell Fox Instant Replay - Card to Pocket last card can be seen visibly crawling over chest
Related to 1979 249
Bruce Bernstein Impossible Bank Nite five envelopes, one contains bill, numbered envelopes, instructions which one shall not be burnt
VariationsAlso published here 1985 28
Jim Steinmeyer Surrounded Seeing Through known as Doug Henning's "Man Without a Middle"
1991 33
Jim Steinmeyer Houdini's Rope walking through a rope with a stand apparatus
1991 13
Jim Steinmeyer Neon girl penetrates barrier of lit neon light tubes
1991 21
Jim Steinmeyer Perforation girl in box penetrated by multiple long knifes
1991 31
Jim Steinmeyer The Artist's Daydream person appears in black cabinet with easel look
Inspired by
  • "The Artist's Dream"
1991 43
Jim Steinmeyer India Rubber both hands of woman go through a large cloth, they move further apart than seems possible
1991 53
Jim Steinmeyer Though a One-Inch Hole rope around woman's waist, other end of rope through wall of box, under cover she moves mysteriously inside box
1991 61
Jim Steinmeyer Small Packages die grows in stages inside cardboard carton, then woman appears inside
Inspired by
  • Buatier de Kolta's Growing Die Illusion
1991 71
Jim Steinmeyer Hot Air girl lies on three upright modelling balloon, two are popped and she "floats" on one balloon
1991 81
Jim Steinmeyer The Lady in the Puzzle person trapped in puzzle box which is taken apart and reassembled
1991 93
Jim Steinmeyer The Two-Sided Triangle two "thought-of" playing cards vanish from packet held by performer and appear in envelope hanging from a ribbon
1991 107
Jim Steinmeyer Knot Unexpected loop in back of knife
Related to 1991 109
Jim Steinmeyer Black Confetti black confetti poured in glass and covered with black silk, white confetti in another glass changes into black and black confetti changed to white under silk
Also published here 1991 112
Jim Steinmeyer Needles magnet on wine bottle
1991 116
Jim Steinmeyer San Fernando Monte jumbo cards that are openly folded in half
1991 119
Jim Steinmeyer Smoke and Fire signed bill to cigar
Also published here 1991 123
Gary Kurtz The Peanut Can "Application #4"
number of peanuts in jar predicted
Inspired by 1991 12
Jim Steinmeyer The Incessant Newspaper
  • Conjuring
Apr. 1992
Magic (Vol. 1 No. 8)
46
Jim Steinmeyer The Efficiency Stamp
  • Conjuring
signed postcard travels
May 1992
Magic (Vol. 1 No. 9)
22
Jim Steinmeyer The Lustig Money Machine
  • Conjuring
money printing in envelope
Inspired by June 1992
Magic (Vol. 1 No. 10)
22
Jim Steinmeyer The Jelly Bean Jar
  • Conjuring
number of jelly beans in jar predicted
Variations July 1992
Magic (Vol. 1 No. 11)
43
Jim Steinmeyer Making Time
  • Conjuring
leaf travels from frame to diary, then leaf becomes fresh again and diary is now blank, time traveling theme
Sep. 1992
Magic (Vol. 2 No. 1)
44
Jim Steinmeyer Cigars Sala Bim
  • Conjuring
smoke travels to glass presentation, cigars change to flowers
Oct. 1992
Magic (Vol. 2 No. 2)
41
Jim Steinmeyer Held Up
  • Conjuring
wallet, watch and flower at lapel
Nov. 1992
Magic (Vol. 2 No. 3)
42
Ken Simmons Who's Lying? lie speller
Inspired by
  • Automatic Speller Placement Principle (Jim Steinmeyer, The New Invocation #43)
Variations
1993 28
Jon Racherbaumer Dunbury Lie Speller - Eighteen-Card Version
Inspired by 1993 30
Wayne Kyzer Raw Deal card is found by spelling different characteristics of the selection
Inspired by 1993 19
Tom Craven Super Speller not with full deck
Inspired by
  • "Remote Control" (Jim Steinmeyer, The New Invocation #43, Feb. 1988)
1993 22
Roy Walton The Fixer eighteen-card packet mixed face-up/face-down, bottom card noted, spelling procedure, card found
Inspired by
  • "Remote Control" (Jim Steinmeyer, The New Invocation #43, Feb. 1988)
Variations
1993
Rigmarole (Issue 4)
39
Alan Wakeling Psychic Blackjack cards are named by assistant, used in a blackjack game, John Mulholland code
VariationsAlso published here 1993 117
Alan Wakeling China: The Egg on Fan with comments by Jim Steinmeyer
Related to 1993 136
Alan Wakeling France: The Original Hip Steal silks appear from holes in painting palette, wine glass appears on palette as finale (Hip Steal), "Silks from Newspaper" gimmick, with comments by Jim Steinmeyer
Related to 1993 137
Jim Steinmeyer The Tassel Of Abundant Enterprise
  • Conjuring
Chinese Stick/Pom pon stick type effect with one stick and three threads going through it
Jan. 1993
Magic (Vol. 2 No. 5)
45
Jim Steinmeyer Smaller and Smaller
  • Conjuring
Feb. 1993
Magic (Vol. 2 No. 6)
40
Jim Steinmeyer The Vicarious Cocktail
  • Conjuring
liquid travels from paper-covered glass to glass, Foo Can Cock­tail Shaker, stand-up and close-up version
Inspired by Mar. 1993
Magic (Vol. 2 No. 7)
41
Jim Steinmeyer The Plate Glass Mystery
  • Conjuring
person pierced by glass plates in box
Inspired by
  • P. T. Selbit's glass plate illusion
May 1993
Magic (Vol. 2 No. 9)
51
Jim Steinmeyer The Nine Card Problem small packet spelling discovery, no-touch
Inspired by
  • "Remote Control" (Jim Steinmeyer, The New Invocation #43, Feb. 1988)
Related toVariationsAlso published here
May 1993
Magic (Vol. 2 No. 9)
56
Jim Steinmeyer Remote Control small packet spelling discovery, no-touch
Also published here
  • The New Invocation #43, Feb. 1988
May 1993
Magic (Vol. 2 No. 9)
57
Bob Farmer Nine Card Problem Handling alternative intro
Inspired by May 1993
Magic (Vol. 2 No. 9)
57
Jim Steinmeyer A Lesson In a Lesson In Magic
  • Conjuring
silks vanish in rolled-up magazine, then they reappear tied together, attached hidden moveable container
June 1993
Magic (Vol. 2 No. 10)
45
Mel Stover, Jim Steinmeyer A Cavort In The Casbah To Capture Ali The Dope Dealer presentation for Steinmeyer's effect
Inspired by June 1993
Magic (Vol. 2 No. 10)
54
Jim Steinmeyer Understanding The Bermuda Triangle counting trick with triangle formation of objects
VariationsAlso published here Aug. 1993
Magic (Vol. 2 No. 12)
53
Jim Steinmeyer The "Ten-Boys" Poker Deal demo with ten cards, repeat poker deal
VariationsAlso published here Dec. 1993
Magic (Vol. 3 No. 4)
56
Jack Dean Guessin' Gumballs! jar filled with chewing gum balls, spectator estimates number of balls and is correct, slip inside jar
Inspired byRelated to 1994
Syzygy (Vol. 1 No. 5)
21
Jim Steinmeyer Headline Prediction
  • Conjuring
a small chest is mailed in advance
Related to Jan. 1994
Magic (Vol. 3 No. 5)
47
Jim Steinmeyer Headline Prediction: The Sequel
  • Conjuring
two more prediction chests
Related to Feb. 1994
Magic (Vol. 3 No. 6)
53
Jim Steinmeyer The Short-Change Repeat
  • Conjuring
bills are counted in separat glasses, bills vanish one by one, then they are torn and halves appear one by one
Mar. 1994
Magic (Vol. 3 No. 7)
53
Peter Duffie Ten Again Ten cards, spectator ends with winning hand (not ten card poker deal)
Inspired byAlso published here Mar. 1994
Magic (Vol. 3 No. 7)
66
Jim Steinmeyer Linking Five Rings
  • Conjuring
May 1994
Magic (Vol. 3 No. 9)
62
Jim Steinmeyer Popping Corn un-popped corn changes to popcorn in paper bag
June 1994
Magic (Vol. 3 No. 10)
56
Jim Steinmeyer Squeeze-Away Milk "Poor Man's Milk Pitcher", squeeze bottle
June 1994
Magic (Vol. 3 No. 10)
56
Jim Steinmeyer Baking Cookies cookies baking in dove pan
June 1994
Magic (Vol. 3 No. 10)
56
Jim Steinmeyer The Coins & Glass
  • Conjuring
with threaded coin
July 1994
Magic (Vol. 3 No. 11)
51
Jim Steinmeyer Onward & Upward
  • Conjuring
deck in case and case held only by ribbon, cards rise
Inspired by
  • "Hathaway Rising Cards"
Sep. 1994
Magic (Vol. 4 No. 1)
67
Jim Steinmeyer Opening With An Egg
  • Conjuring
egg bag routine with sucker element
Oct. 1994
Magic (Vol. 4 No. 2)
63
Jim Steinmeyer Eclectic Horticulture
  • Conjuring
presentation for Square Circle Production, growing plant
Nov. 1994
Magic (Vol. 4 No. 3)
71
Jim Steinmeyer Chinese Food
  • Conjuring
take-away box with raw rice and fortune cookie, half of borrowed dollar bill, rice and crushed cookie dumped in paper bag, rice is back in box and the half bill in restored cookie
Dec. 1994
Magic (Vol. 4 No. 4)
61
Doug Canning Telephone Lying spelling lie detector over the phone
Inspired by
  • "Remote Control" (Jim Steinmeyer, The New Invocation #43, Feb. 1988)
Related to
1995 14
Jim Steinmeyer Modern Art "a new variation on a classic illusion"
1995 6
Jim Steinmeyer Hospitality "many drinks from a simple container"
any drink called for from milk carton
1995 21
Jim Steinmeyer Shadow Theatre "an amazing and surprising disappearance"
vase appears in shadow cabinet, then person vanishes
1995 28
Jerry K. Hartman Eight Card Solution two versions:
  • two spectators each note a card from a small packet, each one follows an elimination procedure until down to one card, each spectator finds his card
  • single-spectator version (p. 249)
see also final notes in Card Craft reference for "an extended analysis of this procedure"
Inspired byRelated toAlso published here 1995 248
Jim Steinmeyer, Marvyn Roy Marvyn Roy's Bill In The Light Bulb
  • Conjuring
Feb. 1995
Magic (Vol. 4 No. 6)
63
Jim Steinmeyer The Inside-Out Production
  • Conjuring
production box on legs with moveable load chamber
Mar. 1995
Magic (Vol. 4 No. 7)
61
Gene Castillon A Stitch In Nine spelling discovery with eighteen cards
  • A Two-Deck Version
Inspired byAlso published here
  • The Nine- Card Problem Recycled (treatise by Gene Castillon)
Dec. 1995
Magic (Vol. 5 No. 4)
70
Jim Steinmeyer, Paul Harris, Looy Simonoff Uncanny chop cup routine with can which is resealed at the end
1996
The Art of Astonishment — Book 1 (Issue Las Vegas Close-Up)
225
Wyman Jones, Paul Harris Galaxy two piles
Related toAlso published here 1996
The Art of Astonishment — Book 3 (Issue Magical Arts Journal)
253
Bob King, Jim Steinmeyer, Jon Racherbaumer Tele-Mental
Also published here 1996 23
David Harkey Found In Bermuda counting trick with triangle formation of little paper planes, the paper planes vanish and are found in purse
Inspired by May 1996
Magic (Vol. 5 No. 9)
66
Jim Steinmeyer Ten Cards Up The Sleeve
  • Conjuring
Oct. 1996
Magic (Vol. 6 No. 2)
81
Jim Steinmeyer Card Vanish from Fan card sticking out of small-packet fan vanishes visually
Oct. 1996
Magic (Vol. 6 No. 2)
83
Jim Steinmeyer, Orson Welles Dowsing and Divining
  • Conjuring
dowsing for water with several Foo Cans in a row (Orson Welles)
Nov. 1996
Magic (Vol. 6 No. 3)
73
Jim Steinmeyer Music Box Divination one of six songs chosen and one of six music boxes, they match
Nov. 1996
Magic (Vol. 6 No. 3)
74
Jim Steinmeyer The Psychic Trust
  • Conjuring
borrowed bill put in one of four numbered envelopes, spectator burns three of them by himself
Also published here
  • New Invocation, Oct. 1983
Dec. 1996
Magic (Vol. 6 No. 4)
79
Harry Lorayne, Jim Steinmeyer Spel(l)egant small packet
Related to Apr. 1997
Apocalypse (Vol. 20 No. 4)
2773
Alexander de Cova Peanuts peanut jar, spectator estimates number of peanuts and is correct
Inspired byVariationsAlso published here 1997 9
Peter Duffie Backfire Poker Ten cards, spectator ends with winning hand (not ten card poker deal)
Inspired byAlso published here 1997 154
David Solomon Steinmeyer's Nine Card Problem with Seven Cards
Inspired byRelated to
  • "Remote Control" (Jim Steinmeyer, The New Invocation #43, Feb. 1988)
Variations
1997 19
Jim Steinmeyer The Perforated Brick
  • Conjuring
brick is covered an pierced with stick, yet unharmed
Inspired by
  • Karl Germain's "Block" effect (The Secrets of Karl Germain)
Jan. 1997
Magic (Vol. 6 No. 5)
79
Jim Steinmeyer Rice And Water
  • Conjuring
rice bowls routine
  • Phase One: Rice Diminishes
  • Phase Two: Rice Multiplies
  • Phase Three: Water
Mar. 1997
Magic (Vol. 6 No. 7)
75
Jim Steinmeyer A Case of Collusion odd-backed card leaned against glass, spectator selects any card face up, they match, odd-backed rough-smooth menetekel
VariationsAlso published here Apr. 1997
Magic (Vol. 6 No. 8)
79
Jim Steinmeyer Sextabulous six cards chosen from one deck, and six from a second deck, the two packets are placed face-to-face in a glass, six pairs shown matched
Apr. 1997
Magic (Vol. 6 No. 8)
81
Jim Steinmeyer Strange Power
  • Conjuring
glass-fronted box with three light bulbs inside, center one red, all bulbs light white, then all red, secret glass walls
Also published here
  • Strange Power and Other Problems for Magicians, 1992 lecture notes
May 1997
Magic (Vol. 6 No. 9)
77
Jim Steinmeyer The Five Senses
  • Conjuring
"powers of darkness" type routine with spectator sitting on a chair and a cup of salt
  • Phase One: The Salt Disappears
  • Phase Two: Using Your Senses
  • Step Three: Versus Five Senses
Inspired byAlso published here
  • Strange Powers and Other Problems for Magicians, 1992 lecture notes
July 1997
Magic (Vol. 6 No. 11)
77
Jim Steinmeyer Voodoo Economics
  • Conjuring
torn and restored bills in envelopes with Grandmother's Necklace principle
Aug. 1997
Magic (Vol. 6 No. 12)
78
Jim Steinmeyer The One-Man Band
  • Conjuring
routine for the Afghan/Möbius bands, with fabric
Sep. 1997
Magic (Vol. 7 No. 1)
71
Jim Steinmeyer The Purse Trick
  • Conjuring
one-vs-two asymmetric coin transposition between two purses
Inspired by Oct. 1997
Magic (Vol. 7 No. 2)
81
Jim Steinmeyer Coin Switch with Purse as coin(s) are placed in purse
Oct. 1997
Magic (Vol. 7 No. 2)
83
Jim Steinmeyer Contagious Red
  • Conjuring
in a paper tube, several things change to red: silk, light bulb, cd
Inspired byAlso published here
  • Reminding and Deceiving, 1997 lecture notes
Dec. 1997
Magic (Vol. 7 No. 4)
79
Alexander de Cova Peanuts peanut jar, spectator estimates number of peanuts and is correct
Inspired byRelated to 1998 28
Peter Duffie Phone Zone No. 2 card location over phone
Inspired by 1998 10
Jim Steinmeyer The Pickpocket Challenge
  • Conjuring
short-change routine with change bag, bills wrapped up in handkerchief and put in change bag transposes with blank paper bills, change bag credit information
Jan. 1998
Magic (Vol. 7 No. 5)
75
Jim Steinmeyer The Thespian Card
  • Conjuring
three cards put aside, then three cards chosen and lost, the three cards from the beginning are shown to be indifferent, then they change into the selections and back, then one of the cards changes into all three selections one by one and back to an indifferent card, card with half card flap
Feb. 1998
Magic (Vol. 7 No. 6)
79
Jim Steinmeyer Any Idiot's Silk Trick
  • Conjuring
perverse magic information (Charles Waller), silk put in paper tube is cut, silk is supposed to restore but paper restores instead
Related toAlso published here
  • The Vicissitude of Black Confetti, 1989 lecture notes
Apr. 1998
Magic (Vol. 7 No. 8)
83
Jim Steinmeyer The Return Of The Century
  • Conjuring
confetti put in glass on a stand, three different-colored tied silks placed in a box, their order changes, then center silk vanishes and appears in glass, Reverse Twentieth Century Silks, using Silk Cabby and Handkerchief Pedestal props
May 1998
Magic (Vol. 7 No. 9)
79
Jim Steinmeyer The Psych-Writer prediction of two letter, number with two odd digits and time, featuring nail writing through carbon paper
June 1998
Magic (Vol. 7 No. 10)
75
Jim Steinmeyer Expecting A Coincidence five decks are mixed together in clear plastic change bag, five spectators each choose the same card
Also published here
  • Strange Power and Other Problems for Magicians, 1992 lecture notes
June 1998
Magic (Vol. 7 No. 10)
77
Jim Steinmeyer The Balloon Rack five different colored balloons in a stand, four are eliminated and float up to the ceiling, the last one is not filled with helium but air
June 1998
Magic (Vol. 7 No. 10)
77
Jim Steinmeyer Phun With Physics
  • Conjuring
silk put in metal box vanishes and travels to pocket, repeated with two silks that travel to join a third one that has been in a glass, using Demon Hank Box
July 1998
Magic (Vol. 7 No. 11)
75
Jim Steinmeyer Frozen Confetti
  • Conjuring
confetti becomes restored tissue paper in cup
Sep. 1998
Magic (Vol. 8 No. 1)
77
Jim Steinmeyer Fantastic Cords
  • Conjuring
Inspired by Oct. 1998
Magic (Vol. 8 No. 2)
77
Jim Steinmeyer, Bill Taylor Houdini's Grandmother
  • Conjuring
close-up version of Grandmother's Necklace
Nov. 1998
Magic (Vol. 8 No. 3)
85
Jim Steinmeyer The Doll And The Doll's House
  • Conjuring
Inspired by Feb. 1999
Magic (Vol. 8 No. 6)
89
Jim Steinmeyer The Hypnotized Stack
  • Conjuring
deck is screwed together at one corner into a block, spectator names any number for the Ace of Hearts and it is found at that position
Related to Mar. 1999
Magic (Vol. 8 No. 7)
79
Jim Steinmeyer The Trilby Deck deck shuffled face-up/face-down and spread on the table, spectator chooses a face up and a face down card, in another deck a single face-down card matches one selection, and the other selection has a large X on its back
Mar. 1999
Magic (Vol. 8 No. 7)
80
Bill Taylor The Shuffled Prediction deck shuffled, spectator chooses a pair of cards and then one of them, it is predicted
Related toVariations Mar. 1999
Magic (Vol. 8 No. 7)
81
Jim Steinmeyer The Video Mix
  • Conjuring
two video cassettes penetrate each other
Inspired by
  • Karl Germain's Block Effect
Apr. 1999
Magic (Vol. 8 No. 8)
77
Jim Steinmeyer Apples and Oranges
  • Conjuring
piano card trick version with fruit, extra orange vanishes
July 1999
Magic (Vol. 8 No. 11)
83
Jim Steinmeyer The Accomodating Kettle
  • Conjuring
accommodating typo
Aug. 1999
Magic (Vol. 8 No. 12)
81
Jim Steinmeyer The Three-Space Mystery
  • Conjuring
tubes penetrate cabinet with person inside, mirror
Sep. 1999
Magic (Vol. 9 No. 1)
81
Jim Steinmeyer The Indian Rope Excuse
  • Conjuring
packet trick with large cards with Indian rope trick drawings
Oct. 1999
Magic (Vol. 9 No. 2)
87
Bob King, Jim Steinmeyer, Jon Racherbaumer Telemental
Also published here 2000 20
Doug Canning Name It spectator cuts off some card and goes through procedure of spelling
Inspired by 2000 99
Alan Wakeling, Jim Steinmeyer Cheater's Poker Ace assembly with packets in signed envelopes in pockets, stooge switches envelopes in his pocket
Variations July/Aug. 2001
Mr. Gadfly (Vol. 1 No. 2)
3
Jim Steinmeyer The Nine Card Problem small packet spelling discovery, no-touch
Also published here 2002 5
Jim Steinmeyer The Full Deck Problem Nine Card Problem version with deck
Variations 2002 8
Jim Steinmeyer Dimes & Pennies calculation stunt with coins
2002 10
Jim Steinmeyer A Quarter to Nine calculation stunt with coins
2002 11
Jim Steinmeyer The One O'clock Mystery spelling hours to arrive at one, Kruskal
Related toVariations 2002 12
Jim Steinmeyer The Three Mystery spelling numbers to arrive at three, Kruskal
2002 14
Jim Steinmeyer The King Mystery spelling values to arrive at King, Kruskal
2002 14
Jim Steinmeyer Understanding the Bermuda Triangle counting trick with triangle formation of objects
Also published here 2002 15
Jim Steinmeyer The "Ten Boys" Poker Deal demo with ten cards, repeat poker deal
Also published here 2002 18
Jim Steinmeyer, George Sands The Five Card Mix forcing a card from five, see also George Sands "Prime Time"
Related toVariations 2002 21
Jim Steinmeyer Automatic Poker ten cards are "mixed" by spectator, then red-black separated or poker deal, Pseudo-CATO
Related to 2002 23
Jim Steinmeyer Three Card Monte spectator mixed three cards according to instructions, possible over phone, mathematical
2002 25
Jim Steinmeyer Teleportation in spectator's hands
Inspired by 2002 27
David Berglas Are You Sitting Comfortably? seven chairs, six spectator select one, all are predicted on the back of the chairs, "My Chair" for performer and a rose attached to the chair where the only woman sits, not explained
Variations 2002 334
Jim Steinmeyer Playing for Keeps
  • Conjuring
with five spectators on stage and burning of the envelopes, instructions on the envelope for spectators
Inspired by Sep. 2002
Magic (Vol. 12 No. 1)
94
Jim Steinmeyer Two Dictionary Test
  • Conjuring
calculations to arrive at word, range force
Oct. 2002
Magic (Vol. 12 No. 2)
74
Jim Steinmeyer The Stapled Card as Escape Artist
  • Conjuring
card travels into envelope and is stapled to it, "Two-Envelope Feeder"
Dec. 2002
Magic (Vol. 12 No. 4)
104
Jim Steinmeyer the princess Caraboo deck
Also published here 2003 7
Jim Steinmeyer Into the next World two piles
Related toVariationsAlso published here 2003 12
Jim Steinmeyer Advanced teleportatation "teleportation"
VariationsAlso published here 2003 14
Jim Steinmeyer An open & Shut prediction using two decks
Also published here 2003 16
Edward Marlo, Jim Steinmeyer Card Vanish in Spread when spread is turned over
Also published here 2003 18
Jim Steinmeyer the soft-shoe Monte jumbo cards, gimmick with thread-connected sliding cards
2003 19
Jim Steinmeyer the allergic Card trick
Also published here 2003 25
Alan Wakeling, Jim Steinmeyer one rule of Matrix poker sixteen card matrix, cards chosen, they're predicted
2003 28
Jim Steinmeyer through the Trapdoor two cards penetrate each other, warp finale
2003 30
Jim Steinmeyer Through the Trap Door two folded cards penetrate each other and change folding orientation
Nov. 2003
Genii (Vol. 66 No. 11)
72
Jim Steinmeyer Smoke and Fire signed bill to cigar
Also published here Nov. 2003
Genii (Vol. 66 No. 11)
76
Jim Steinmeyer The Surrounded Seeing Through Illusion for Doug Henning seeing through a person in a stand set-up
Nov. 2003
Genii (Vol. 66 No. 11)
79
Jim Steinmeyer The Cut-and-Restored Instructions
  • Conjuring
presentation for Clippo
Related to Jan. 2003
Magic (Vol. 12 No. 5)
84
Jim Steinmeyer Napkins for Actors
  • Conjuring
torn and restored napkin routine
Feb. 2003
Magic (Vol. 12 No. 6)
92
Jim Steinmeyer Pushing the Envelope
  • Conjuring
spectator decides on order of three envelopes that are clipped on a ribbon, order is predicted in the envelopes
Apr. 2003
Magic (Vol. 12 No. 8)
82
Jim Steinmeyer The Princess Caraboo Deck
  • Conjuring
Also published here May 2003
Magic (Vol. 12 No. 9)
82
Jim Steinmeyer Building a Better Slot Machine
  • Conjuring
three spectators on stage select slot machine symbols and an amount of money, symbols are predicted in three (flip) books and money on a poker chip (Koran medaillon)
Inspired by June 2003
Magic (Vol. 12 No. 10)
92
Jim Steinmeyer The Allergic Card Trick
  • Conjuring
Also published here Aug. 2003
Magic (Vol. 12 No. 12)
82
Jim Steinmeyer Fan Mail
  • Conjuring
two bills are torn, one half of each vanish and appear in envelopes, handling with change bag
Inspired by Sep. 2003
Magic (Vol. 13 No. 1)
94
Jim Steinmeyer Deceptivity
  • Conjuring
performer comes out with paper bag, card named, deck taken out of bag and named card is only odd-backed with "Your Card" written on its back
Oct. 2003
Magic (Vol. 13 No. 2)
92
Jim Steinmeyer The Great Silverware Scam
  • Conjuring
Piano Card Trick with forks and knives
Related toVariationsAlso published here Dec. 2003
Magic (Vol. 13 No. 4)
108
Chris Wasshuber Zodiac twelve Zodiac sign cards in circle, spelling procedure always leads to Aquarius
Related to Jan. 2004
Genii (Vol. 67 No. 1)
27
Jim Steinmeyer I Know What You're Thinking
  • Conjuring
spectator thinks of a three-digit number, three gag predictions pulled out of an envelope and on their back are the three digits
Jan. 2004
Magic (Vol. 13 No. 5)
86
Jim Steinmeyer True Tales from the Newsstand
  • Conjuring
Sam the Bellhop type routine with news magazines instead of cards
Mar. 2004
Magic (Vol. 13 No. 7)
102
John C. Wagner, Jim Steinmeyer Packet Lie Detector #2
Inspired by 2005 26
Cushing Strout Variations on "The Nine Problem" Small packet spelling discovery, no-touch, gives different ways to present it (tarot cards etc.)
Inspired by 2005 9
Cushing Strout Further Than That and the Lie Detector Combine Further Than That with lie detector plot

Also includes variation based on The Nine Card Problem, and Alex Elmsley's Tell Me Three Times
Inspired by 2005 20
Bob King The Edge Ace assembly with packets in signed envelopes in pockets, stooge switches envelopes in his pocket
Inspired by 2005 4
Jim Steinmeyer The King's Coronation spelling thing with Kings packet, Clubs is forced, no-touch
Related toVariations 2006 1
Jim Steinmeyer Automatic Palmistry hand spelling stunt, left or right divined
Also published here 2006 3
Jim Steinmeyer The Princess in a Crowd fifteen card matrix trick, no-touch
Variations 2006 5
Jim Steinmeyer, Stewart James Coins in a Strange Land mathematical spelling trick with row of four coins, based on Stewart James "Stranger in a Strange Land"
2006 8
Jim Steinmeyer Piles of Money mathematical spelling trick with row of four coins
2006 9
Jim Steinmeyer, Stewart James Five Cards on the March mathematical spelling trick with row of five coins, based on Stewart James "Stranger in a Strange Land"
Variations 2006 10
Jim Steinmeyer The Lesser Dictionary Test book test over the phone, numbers and counting
Related to 2006 12
Jim Steinmeyer "Five Fiends" Play Blackjack with ten card packet and stack
2006 14
Jim Steinmeyer The Great Silverware Scam Piano Card Trick with forks and knives
Also published here 2006 18
Jim Steinmeyer The Thirteen Card Dilemma no sleights
2006 22
Alex Gutierrez The Great Spellini named is found in a small packet by spelling characteristics of the card
Inspired by
  • "Remote Control" (Jim Steinmeyer, New Invocation #43, Feb. 1988)
2006 19
Marty Kane Spelling Bee Round only thirteen cards used, three phases
Inspired byRelated to 2006 24
Ramón Riobóo Signed Deal small packet spelling discovery
Inspired by
  • Jack Yates' "Miracle Mix-up"
Related to
2006 45
Marty Kane Sevendipity four spectators get a part of a suit each and spell numbers several times, all end up with a Seven
Inspired by 2006 191
Jim Steinmeyer An Open and Shut Prediction using two decks
Also published here Feb. 2006
Genii (Vol. 69 No. 2)
24
Edward Marlo, Jim Steinmeyer Card Vanish in Spread when spread is turned over
Also published here Feb. 2006
Genii (Vol. 69 No. 2)
25
Jason Mauney Scamming the Silverware Piano Card Trick with forks and spoons, with vanishing spoon
Inspired by 2006 42
Gene Castillon "Odd Chance" 21 Card Trick two selections
Inspired by 2007 140
Alan Wakeling France silks appear from holes in painting palette, wine glass appears on palette as finale, "Silks from Newspaper" gimmick
  • Notes (Jim Steinmeyer)
Related to Sep. 2007
Genii (Vol. 70 No. 9)
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Alan Wakeling China
  • Notes (Jim Steinmeyer)
Related to Sep. 2007
Genii (Vol. 70 No. 9)
64
Alan Wakeling Persia silks appear, change and fuse in changing fez
  • Notes (Jim Steinmeyer)
Sep. 2007
Genii (Vol. 70 No. 9)
65
Alan Wakeling Japan routine for Candle Tube, match to flower, fan and candle transpose
  • Notes (Jim Steinmeyer)
Sep. 2007
Genii (Vol. 70 No. 9)
67
Alan Wakeling Switzerland watch appears in hand, vanishes from silk, reappears in pocket, vanishes again, reappears in cigarette case, cane vanishes in hat and alarm clock appears in hat
  • Notes (Jim Steinmeyer)
Sep. 2007
Genii (Vol. 70 No. 9)
69
Jim Steinmeyer Devil's Handkerchief Construction
Sep. 2007
Genii (Vol. 70 No. 9)
70
Alan Wakeling Arabia cotton pad put in envelopes, it later smells like one of three chosen perfumes
  • Notes (Jim Steinmeyer)
Sep. 2007
Genii (Vol. 70 No. 9)
71
Alan Wakeling Holland white and black tissue paper are torn and restored into chef's hat and apron, borrowed ring and some more ingredients put in a dove pan, ring appears in cake
  • Notes (Jim Steinmeyer)
Sep. 2007
Genii (Vol. 70 No. 9)
73
Alan Wakeling Spain flowers appear at end of sword, then a flower bouquet, then deck is sprung in the air and all four Aces are impaled by performer
  • Notes (Jim Steinmeyer)
Sep. 2007
Genii (Vol. 70 No. 9)
80
Alan Wakeling New York cocktail shaker appears from silk, four stacked glasses appear from silk, four different drinks are poured from shaker, long pocket
  • Notes (Jim Steinmeyer)
Sep. 2007
Genii (Vol. 70 No. 9)
82
Alan Wakeling Ireland routine with clay pipes
  • Notes (Jim Steinmeyer)
Sep. 2007
Genii (Vol. 70 No. 9)
84
Alan Wakeling Scotland uv paint produces glowing assistant, and glowing skull which answers questions with his jaw (talking skull)
  • Notes (Jim Steinmeyer)
Sep. 2007
Genii (Vol. 70 No. 9)
86
Jerry K. Hartman A Golden Fleecing Ace Assembly where all four packets are each sealed in separate envelopes, spectators choose which one magician should hold onto, when they are opened, all Aces are gone from their envelopes and magician’s envelope contains them
Inspired by 2007 228
Jim Steinmeyer The Language of Illusion: The Invisible Man on Robert Harbin's "The Invisible Man"
Jan. 2008
Genii (Vol. 71 No. 1)
42
Jim Steinmeyer The Four Envelope Test card verbally chosen (range force), then one of four envelopes chosen, it contains the card while the other three have Jokers
Also published here Mar. 2008
Genii (Vol. 71 No. 3)
16
Jim Steinmeyer, Max Maven Two-Way Envelope Handling
Also published here Mar. 2008
Genii (Vol. 71 No. 3)
18
Jim Steinmeyer Two Strangers On The Same Train "Three Tricks with The Crystal Card"
free selection signed on back, large X travels from another card to face of signed card
July 2008
Genii (Vol. 71 No. 7)
106
Jim Steinmeyer Hallucination "Three Tricks with The Crystal Card"
instead of a planned transposition the signature transposes from one card to another
July 2008
Genii (Vol. 71 No. 7 Special Genii Supplement)
1
Jim Steinmeyer The Time Traveller "Three Tricks with The Crystal Card"
card is signed, then signature vanishes, card becomes blank, then signature reappears on blank card
July 2008
Genii (Vol. 71 No. 7 Special Genii Supplement)
2
Jim Steinmeyer A Trick for Lillian origami paper put in envelope, design selected from stack of cards, paper in envelope transforms into that origami figure
2009 12
Jim Steinmeyer Flapless Envelope Principle credit information
2009 12
Jim Steinmeyer Pasteboard Under Glass using Okito's Substitution Principle with hollow stack of envelopes
Inspired by
  • Card in Bottle in "This Magic Stuff" (Robert Harbin, Abracadabra, Vol. 6 No. 138, Sep. 1948, p. 115)
Also published here
2009 14
Jim Steinmeyer Par Two ball in glass, covered with silk, ball penetrates through silk, glass with hole
Inspired by
  • "The Penetrating Ball" (Robert Harbin, Something New in Magic, 1929)
2009 16
Jim Steinmeyer The Inside-Out Lantern for productions
Inspired by
  • "Inside-Out Production Box" (Jim Steinmeyer)
  • "Upside-Down Production Box" (Robert Harbin)
2009 17
Jim Steinmeyer The Three Book Experiment mathematical calculations to arrive at page number
Inspired by
  • "The Great Book Test" (The Magic of Robert Harbin)
  • U. F. Grant's marketed book test
Also published here
2009 18
Jim Steinmeyer The Four-Three Screen folding screen, was left out of his book "Technique & Understanding"
Dec. 2009
Genii (Vol. 72 No. 12)
43
Jim Steinmeyer Linking Three Finger Rings "A Practical and Professional Routine for the Himber Ring"
2009 87
Jim Steinmeyer The Straitjacket Escape "Patter for a Classic Escape"
2009 91
Jim Steinmeyer The Magazine Test "A Presentation and Mnemonic List for a Famous Memory Feat"
memorizing magazines
2009 95
Jim Steinmeyer One Hundred Mental Pictures for the Magazine Test
2009 99
Jim Steinmeyer Timmy & The Spirit Slates "A Ghost Story with Spirit Slates"
words appear on slates to a told ghost story, ambigrams
2009 103
Jim Steinmeyer The Torn Newspaper Prediction "A New Routine and Handling for a Classic Mental Effect"
pieces added from jacket
Related to 2009 105
Jim Steinmeyer The Full Monte "A Card Trick On the Stage"
extra-large jumbo cards, set down on three chairs
2009 111
Jim Steinmeyer Triumph Sudoku "A Formula for a New Puzzle and a New Performance"
Sudoku skill demonstration à la Magic Square
2009 121
Jim Steinmeyer Toccata for Light Bulb & Paper Bag "The Ghost in the Machine"
turned-on light bulb on stand is seen through a glass box, vanishes and appears in a paper bag held by the performer, repeat, then paper bag vanishes and appears over bulb, then repeat with paper bag inside bulb
2009 133
Jim Steinmeyer The New Orleans Formula "Producing Miracles under Duress"
strategy for the production of a large item (washer & dryer, even car) in a huge box/booth, apparent live camera footage from within the box shown on monitors, production as surprise ending of a short mental routine with a person inside the booth
2009 145
Jim Steinmeyer The Shadow Play Solution "De-Emphasizing the Apparatus"
person appears behind large white cloth with lamp behind it
2009 153
Jim Steinmeyer The Fabric Cabinet Solution "Practical Apparatus for Everyday Stages"
person appears in cloth cabinet
2009 159
Jim Steinmeyer The Cocoon Redux "Apparatus Disguised as No Apparatus"
person appears in light-weight cloth cabinet
Inspired by
  • Buatier de Kolta's Cocoon (1887)
2009 165
Jim Steinmeyer The Unexpected Illusion "A New Effect and Speculations on a Legendary Mystery"
person vanishes on a board that is held by two assistants, mirror
Inspired by
  • "The Flight of Venus" (Houdini)
2009 171
Jim Steinmeyer Two-Dimensional Rehearsal paper cut-out of person becomes real person, using bridge system
2009 177
Jim Steinmeyer Transformation person to another person, using bridge system
2009 180
Jim Steinmeyer A Dress Possessed dress floats, lady appears inside wearing it, using bridge system
2009 180
Jim Steinmeyer Find the Joker giant three card monte with performer dressed as clown, changes position behind giant cards, then is changed into another person and can appear somewhere else, using bridge system
2009 182
Jim Steinmeyer By No Means "Self-Levitation"
using The Bridge System and fake leg for self-levitation
2009 183
Jim Steinmeyer, De Yip "Louie" Loo The Travel "Based on De Yip Loo's Original Effect"
person standing in box, ten swords pushed in at the left side, all slid to right side one by one to slice person which emerges unharmed
2009 191
Jim Steinmeyer The Paranormal "Levitation as a Challenge"
with patter and four spectators on stage
2009 199
Jim Steinmeyer The Four-Fold Screen and Platform "Simplify...Simplify"
bold
Inspired by
  • Abbott's Bryce's Screen
2009 209
Jim Steinmeyer The Infinity Cabinet "Reflecting Forward"
giant book, person appears from it, openly used mirror surfaces
2009 215
Jim Steinmeyer Trouble "A Dissected Box"
person in square box, box is opened accordion/zig-zag like, person comes out unharmed
2009 221
Jim Steinmeyer Cube-ism "Apparatus that Comes and Goes"
person in box in front of a folding painting, vanishes and re-appears
2009 229
Jim Steinmeyer Pandora's Box "Tip-Over, Surrounded"
2009 249
Jim Steinmeyer Long Division "The Return of Method C"
Inspired by 2009 275
Jim Steinmeyer Quantum Mechanics "Making Sense of a Classic Construction"
middle section of person lying on a board vanishes
Inspired by
  • Selbit, Man Without a Middle
2009 285
Tom Stone Math vs. Magic four spectators with a fourth of the deck do some dealing/spelling procedure and end up with an Ace on top, based on Jim Steinmeyer's "Nine Card Problem"
Also published here 2009 6
Tom Stone The Pianist's Cutlery Piano Card Trick with silverware
Inspired byRelated toAlso published here 2009 8
Tom Stone Calculated Aces four spectators with a fourth of the deck do some dealing/spelling procedure and end up with an Ace on top, based on Jim Steinmeyer's "Nine Card Problem"
Also published here 2010 32
Tom Stone Concerto for Cutlery Piano Card Trick with silverware
Related toAlso published here 2010 113
Richard Bangs Suit Yourself Surpassed spectator distributes four of a kind into his pockets, magician knows order, out of hands
Related toVariations 2010 69
Marty Kane Cursed by an Evil Spell after spelling on fingers a number is divined
Inspired byAlso published here 2010 220
Jim Steinmeyer Eleven Roads to Heaven eleven cards, one selected with dealing procedure, located, no-touch
2010 1
Jim Steinmeyer Fingertip Mindreading Verbal Magic counting trick with fingers on one hand
Related toVariations 2010 3
Jim Steinmeyer The Password Fallacy nine card spelling trick using thought-of word to locate card
2010 6
Jim Steinmeyer A Universal Password twelve card spelling trick using thought-of word to locate card
2010 8
Jim Steinmeyer The Magician who Fools Himself one card across, using fourteen cards, no sleights, spectator handles cards and performer is in audience
Also published here 2010 11
Jim Steinmeyer Number, Number, Number Ace through Six, counting trick which forces eleven
2010 15
Jim Steinmeyer A Trip Around the World spelling trick with six cards with names of cities on them, one is forced
2010 19
Jim Steinmeyer Force Six circle layout to force six
2010 23
Jim Steinmeyer Force Ten circle layout to force ten
2010 24
Jim Steinmeyer Deal Three spectator "mixes" ten card packet
Inspired by 2010 25
Jim Steinmeyer Enigmatic Poker spectator "mixes" fifteen card packet face-up/face-down, dealflipdropcut
Related to 2010 26
Jim Steinmeyer Enigmatic Tarot upside-down mixing procedure with packet, no-touch, dealflipdropcut
2010 29
Jim Steinmeyer Ten in Concert
Inspired by
  • Bob Escher's handling
2010 32
Jim Steinmeyer Three Part Harmony
  • Conjuring
Mental Epic type routine with three cardboards on chairs
Also published here Apr. 2010
Genii (Vol. 73 No. 4)
30
Jim Steinmeyer The Khardova Deck
  • Conjuring
partial rough-smooth
Related toVariations May 2010
Genii (Vol. 73 No. 5)
36
Jim Steinmeyer Vampire Crossing
  • Conjuring
June 2010
Genii (Vol. 73 No. 6)
42
Jim Steinmeyer Zens Koan with envelopes
Inspired by July 2010
Genii (Vol. 73 No. 7)
16
Jim Steinmeyer Flapless Envelope Switch
July 2010
Genii (Vol. 73 No. 7)
18
Jim Steinmeyer Solid Water
  • Conjuring
milk bottle is turned upside down and water stays inside
Aug. 2010
Genii (Vol. 73 No. 8)
44
Jim Steinmeyer, Mark LeBerthon Khardova and Over Again ... further suggestion
Inspired by Aug. 2010
Genii (Vol. 73 No. 8)
46
Jim Steinmeyer Mrs. Houdini Steps Out
  • Conjuring
assistant bound with ropes, rope pulled away and assistant is instantly free
Also published here Oct. 2010
Genii (Vol. 73 No. 10)
44
Jim Steinmeyer Negative Speller
  • Conjuring
using messages on blank cards
Inspired byAlso published here Nov. 2010
Genii (Vol. 73 No. 11)
32
Jim Steinmeyer Pasteboard Under Glass
  • Conjuring
card to bottle, bottle switch
Dec. 2010
Genii (Vol. 73 No. 12)
46
Steve Mayhew A Bird in the Hand audience selects finger through counting procedure - middle finger
Inspired byRelated to 2011 13
Harry Lorayne Nine To Twelve a few cards including selection taken and a series of tricks performed
  • Reverse Faro Ending
  • Spel(l)egant
  • No-Force Lorayne Force
  • Telekinesis
Related to 2011 98
Jim Steinmeyer Sonata for Brick and Glassware
  • Conjuring
brick and glass transpose in paper bags
Inspired by Jan. 2011
Genii (Vol. 74 No. 1)
32
Jim Steinmeyer The Three Book Experiment
  • Conjuring
mathematical calculations to arrive at page number
Also published here Feb. 2011
Genii (Vol. 74 No. 2)
26
Jim Steinmeyer Buried Treasure
  • Conjuring
coin in wool, presentation-heavy
May 2011
Genii (Vol. 74 No. 5)
36
Jim Steinmeyer Rings for Kids
  • Conjuring
June 2011
Genii (Vol. 74 No. 6)
26
Jim Steinmeyer The Upside-Down Lantern
  • Conjuring
silk production from lantern prop with hidden chamber
July 2011
Genii (Vol. 74 No. 7)
32
Jim Steinmeyer The Tuzot Sensu Mystery
  • Conjuring
Also published here Aug. 2011
Genii (Vol. 74 No. 8)
34
Jim Steinmeyer Cue Card Mentalism
  • Conjuring
large cue cards with GAPS, WOW, APPLAUSE, ... shown, one chosen and predicted
VariationsAlso published here Oct. 2011
Genii (Vol. 74 No. 10)
28
Jim Steinmeyer A Most Mysterious Case
  • Conjuring
shrinking card case
Nov. 2011
Genii (Vol. 74 No. 11)
30
Jim Steinmeyer X Marks the Spot Square Circle type box to produce a person
Dec. 2011
Genii (Vol. 74 No. 12)
44
Jim Steinmeyer "One Fortune" Think-of-a-Card
  • Conjuring
"is your card among those?", Age Cards
Inspired by
  • "The World's Thinnest Deck of Cards" (Jim Steinmeyer, marketed 1994)
Related to
Feb. 2012
Genii (Vol. 75 No. 2)
24
Jim Steinmeyer Dining Out
  • Conjuring
Also published here Mar. 2012
Genii (Vol. 75 No. 3)
24
Jim Steinmeyer Half a Cup of Coffee
  • Conjuring
performer holds two cups, one is half full the other empty, he pours some into the empty cup and now both are half full, more phases, double-walled coffee shop plastic cups
Inspired by
  • "Drinka Pinta" (The Magic of Robert Harbin)
Apr. 2012
Genii (Vol. 75 No. 4)
32
Jim Steinmeyer Tin-Can Telephone
  • Conjuring
verbal force of Nine of Hearts, card is found in tin can phone
Related toAlso published here June 2012
Genii (Vol. 75 No. 6)
22
Jim Steinmeyer Mr. Morritt Planted Roses
  • Conjuring
appearing rose bush from tube prop
Aug. 2012
Genii (Vol. 75 No. 8)
24
Jim Steinmeyer Your Act in Review
  • Conjuring
prediction in nest of envelope
Oct. 2012
Genii (Vol. 75 No. 10)
34
Jim Steinmeyer Cue Card Mentalism large cue cards with GAPS, WOW, APPLAUSE, ... shown, one chosen and predicted
Also published here 2012 12
Jim Steinmeyer Into the Next World two piles
Also published here 2012 13
Jim Steinmeyer The Tuzot Sensu Mystery
Also published here 2012 16
Jim Steinmeyer Dining Out
Also published here 2012 19
Jim Steinmeyer Negative Speller using messages on blank cards
Also published here 2012 22
Jim Steinmeyer Eight Cards Espial no-touch selection with Ace through Eight of Clubs packet, selection named in the end
2013 1
Jim Steinmeyer Seven Cards Examined no-touch selection with Ace through Seven of Hearts packet, selection named in the end
2013 3
Jim Steinmeyer Equivoque: The Cardless Cantico verbal force of Nine of Clubs
Related toAlso published here 2013 8
Jim Steinmeyer Equivoque: The Full Deck Fandango verbal force of Seven of Clubs with deck using spelling
Also published here 2013 12
Jim Steinmeyer Equivoque: The Tin Can Phone nine of Hearts forced, using cans with string
2013 14
Jim Steinmeyer, Eddie Joseph Flummoxed three phases, single-deck approach for Eddie Joseph's "Staggered" stack
Inspired by 2013 18
Jim Steinmeyer Oe Fortune Serves Eight binary sorting stack
2013 23
Jim Steinmeyer The Tuzot Sensu Mystery
Also published here 2013 30
Jim Steinmeyer Cue Card Mentalism six cards with words, via spelling one of them is forced
VariationsAlso published here 2013 37
Jim Steinmeyer Dining Out value of food selected from diner menu predicted
Also published here 2013 39
Jim Steinmeyer, Alberto de Figueiredo The Torn Newspaper Prediction Force
Related to 2013 74
Jim Steinmeyer, Wayne Dobson The Nine Card Problem small packet spelling discovery, no-touch
Inspired by 2013 21
Jim Steinmeyer Intellectual Property
  • Conjuring
presentation with four blow books
Jan. 2013
Genii (Vol. 76 No. 1)
30
Jim Steinmeyer Stand Up For McDonald
  • Conjuring
stand-up with glasses
Also published here Mar. 2013
Genii (Vol. 76 No. 3)
40
Jim Steinmeyer Packet Half Pass
Also published here Mar. 2013
Genii (Vol. 76 No. 3)
42
Jim Steinmeyer Tiny Séance
  • Conjuring
three-phase routine with ringing cowbell, spectator has eyes closed, Powers of Darkness type situation
May 2013
Genii (Vol. 76 No. 5)
24
Jim Steinmeyer The Cardless Cantico verbal force of Nine of Clubs
Also published here Aug. 2013
Genii (Vol. 76 No. 8)
42
Jim Steinmeyer The Small Packet Samba forces Six of Clubs, verbal force employing a few cards
Aug. 2013
Genii (Vol. 76 No. 8)
43
Jim Steinmeyer The Full Deck Fandango verbal force of Seven of Clubs with deck using spelling
Also published here Aug. 2013
Genii (Vol. 76 No. 8)
44
Jim Steinmeyer La Forza Del Destino
  • Conjuring
one card chosen from paper bag with cards, it is missing in second deck and found inside a bottle
Also published here Oct. 2013
Genii (Vol. 76 No. 10)
28
Jim Steinmeyer The Preternatural Stack: A Deck That Reads Your Mind
  • Conjuring
"is the same value/suit among those?", age cards
Related to Dec. 2013
Genii (Vol. 76 No. 12)
38
Jim Steinmeyer Wishing & Making it So any card thought of, counting procedure with small packet, over phone
2014 1
Jim Steinmeyer, Eddie Joseph Chicagoism packet, spelling, also over phone
Inspired by
  • "Jasonism" (Eddie Joseph, Sphinx Sept. 1946)
2014 5
Jim Steinmeyer, Eddie Joseph Thirty-Fiveism card at thought-of number remembered, second card chosen
Inspired by
  • "Astral Sense" (Eddie Joseph, Card Magic of the Mind, Abbott's, 1952)
2014 8
Jim Steinmeyer The Whammy ace assembly over phone
2014 12
Jim Steinmeyer, Eddie Joseph Hacer lo Imposible two selections in two piles show up at same position, hands-off
Inspired by
  • "Impossible" (Eddie Joseph, 1952)
2014 17
Jim Steinmeyer The Zodiac Wheel sign spelled out on printed layout, final destination known or predicted
2014 21
Jim Steinmeyer, Eddie Joseph Invoking Margery
Inspired by 2014 22
Jim Steinmeyer, Eddie Joseph Presque Vu card chosen via counting procedure ends up at number previously named
Inspired by 2014 24
Jim Steinmeyer The Treasure Map
Inspired by
  • trick in Mathematical Recreations and Essays (W. W. Rouse Ball, 1892)
2014 27
Jim Steinmeyer Negative Speller values spelled to in packet, spectator always gets a fun message instead of right value
Also published here 2014 29
Jim Steinmeyer Elementary! cards with victim, weapon and murderer, choice predicted
Also published here 2014 35
Jim Steinmeyer Mystery in Abstract
  • Conjuring
one of several large cards with Droodles chosen with George Sands' Prime Time principle, humorously predicted
Related to Feb. 2014
Genii (Vol. 77 No. 2)
26
Jim Steinmeyer "Elementary!"
  • Conjuring
cards with victim, weapon and murderer, choice predicted
Also published here Apr. 2014
Genii (Vol. 77 No. 4)
32
Jim Steinmeyer The Drawing Power
  • Conjuring
cards across with borrowed business cards
June 2014
Genii (Vol. 77 No. 6)
30
Jim Steinmeyer Hamlet, Jack of Denmark
  • Conjuring
Also published here Aug. 2014
Genii (Vol. 77 No. 8)
28
Jim Steinmeyer The Petite Illusion
  • Conjuring
on the Cane Cabinet
Oct. 2014
Genii (Vol. 77 No. 10)
38
Jim Steinmeyer A Hole in Your Head
  • Conjuring
hole in hand optical illusion with tube, then ribbon penetrates hand visually
Inspired by
  • "The Penetrating Ribbon" (Gordon Howatt, The Restless Spook, 1940s)
Dec. 2014
Genii (Vol. 77 No. 12)
34
Jim Steinmeyer The Vicissitude of Black Confetti black confetti poured in glass and covered with black silk, white confetti in another glass changes into black and black confetti changed to white under silk
Also published here 2014 2
Jim Steinmeyer Pasteboard Under Glass using Okito's Substitution Principle with hollow stack of envelopes
Also published here 2014 3
Jim Steinmeyer A Case of Collusion odd-backed card leaned against glass, spectator selects any card face up, they match, odd-backed rough-smooth menetekel
Also published here 2014 5
Jim Steinmeyer Co-Conspirators spectator and performer both have a deck and alternately deal and stop anytime and place the card at that point in a glass, in the end there are three matches
Also published here 2014 7
Jim Steinmeyer Cue Card Mentalism large cue cards with GAPS, WOW, APPLAUSE, ... shown, one chosen and predicted
Also published here 2014 9
Jim Steinmeyer Gobbledygook large cue cards shown, one chosen and predicted
Inspired byAlso published here 2014 11
Jim Steinmeyer The Cardless Cantico verbal force of Nine of Clubs or Six of Clubs
Also published here 2014 13
Jim Steinmeyer The Emperor's New Deck deck is shown blank on both sides, on normal card is shown and set aside, it eventually is shown to be a named card, twenty-six blank-backed red cards
  • Variation: The Emperor & The Instant Stooge
Also published here 2014 15
Jim Steinmeyer Just Thinking full deck stack, "do you see a card of the same value here?" (binary divination)
Inspired by 2015 1
Jim Steinmeyer The Three-Ball Test three imaginary colored balls are distributed by spectator, performer knows which color is where
Also published here 2015 4
Jim Steinmeyer The Irresistible Force from three cards (Six, Seven, Queen) the Seven is forced via elimination counting procedure
Variations 2015 7
Jim Steinmeyer Irresistible Shopping cards with food items printed on them, spelling procedure, three items predicted
2015 9
Jim Steinmeyer Deepest Sympathy seven cards arranged by spectator match prediction, hands-off, dealflipdropcut
Related to 2015 12
Jim Steinmeyer, Eddie Joseph The Luckier Number card shows up at number that is named at beginning
Inspired by 2015 15
Jim Steinmeyer, Eddie Joseph The Lost and the Found with incomplete deck
Inspired by 2015 18
Jim Steinmeyer, Eddie Joseph, Alan Stockwell A Study in Scarlet and Black as phone effect
Inspired by 2015 21
Jim Steinmeyer Travel Expands the Mind forcing city with postcards and spelling
2015 24
Jim Steinmeyer Raw Sentiment another word force with spelling
2015 28
Jim Steinmeyer Mystery in Abstract pile of drawing, all eliminated except one, this is predicted
2015 31
Lewis Jones A Word in Your Ear Book test using a dictionary.
Related to 2015 136
Jim Steinmeyer Gobbledygook
  • Conjuring
large cue cards shown, one chosen and predicted
Inspired byAlso published here Feb. 2015
Genii (Vol. 78 No. 2)
32
Jim Steinmeyer The Apport
  • Conjuring
necklace appears on spectator's hand under (gaffed) handkerchief
Apr. 2015
Genii (Vol. 78 No. 4)
26
Jim Steinmeyer The Top Secret Envelope
  • Conjuring
envelope with a hole is threaded onto two ropes and removed under a cloth cover
Inspired by
  • "The Plastic Pendant" (Gordon Howatt, Let's Make Magic)
June 2015
Genii (Vol. 78 No. 6)
28
Jim Steinmeyer The Emperor's New Deck
  • Conjuring
deck is shown blank on both sides, on normal card is shown and set aside, it eventually is shown to be a named card, twenty-six blank-backed red cards
  • Variation: The Emperor and The Instant Stooge
Also published here Sep. 2015
Genii (Vol. 78 No. 9)
40
Jim Steinmeyer The Affirmative Code
  • Conjuring
cards or objects in room are divined by assistant, code for twenty-six letters and numbers
Inspired by Dec. 2015
Genii (Vol. 78 No. 12)
36
Michael Weber, Tim Trono Single Digit Prediction Verbal Magic counting trick with fingers on one hand
(Real Secrets Bonus sheet)
Inspired by Jan. 2015
Real Secrets (Vol. 3 No. 34)
3
Jim Steinmeyer The Nickel Under Your Foot presentation for mathematical number force leading to the date on a coin
2015 2
Jim Steinmeyer The Six Chair Concert six chairs with plaques at the back, procedure to get five spectators sitting on them, the plaques contain predictions on the choices
Inspired byRelated to 2015 2
Jim Steinmeyer Fingertip Mentalism Verbal Magic counting trick with fingers on one hand
Related to 2015 5
Jim Steinmeyer The Three Ball Test three imaginary colored balls are distributed by spectator, performer knows which color is where
Also published here 2015 6
Jim Steinmeyer The "Passing Fancy" Deck verbal force of Nine of Clubs or Six of Clubs
Also published here 2015 7
Jim Steinmeyer Lessons in Wonder Powers of Darkness combined with PK Touches, performer stands behind spectator and feels different touches than the audience sees
  • Part One: Perception
  • Part Two: The Spirit on your Shoulder
  • Part Three: The Spirit on your Head
  • Part Four: Heightened Perception
Also published here 2015 9
Jim Steinmeyer The Magician Who Fools Himself one card across, using fourteen cards, no sleights, spectator handles cards and performer is in audience
Also published here 2015 12
Jim Steinmeyer The Empty Bag three spectators feel different things in a paper bag which is then shown empty
2015 13
Jim Steinmeyer The Anomaly ends of a rope are tied to performer's wrist, yet he forms a knot in the rope under cover
Inspired by 2015 14
Jim Steinmeyer The Adept rope-tied assistant is covered and then suddenly wears a jacket, Gypsy Rope Tie version
2015 16
Jim Steinmeyer An Audience on Mars spectators chose between an ear or the nose according to instructions, nose is forced
Also published here 2015 18
Jim Steinmeyer The Last Card Up the Sleeve
  • Conjuring
card visibly creeps over vest, elastic pull
Related to Feb. 2016
Genii (Vol. 79 No. 2)
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Jim Steinmeyer The Boodle Box
  • Conjuring
wooden box as money printing machine, Japanese Handkerchief Box
Apr. 2016
Genii (Vol. 79 No. 4)
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Jim Steinmeyer The Second City
  • Conjuring
three spectators write down cities on billets, two billets are torn up, in the end all cities are divined, a stooge does a center tear
Inspired by
  • "Sheer Information" (R. Macaire, New Invocation)
June 2016
Genii (Vol. 79 No. 6)
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Jim Steinmeyer My Word
  • Conjuring
princess card trick with word cards, word chosen from one of several quotes by spectators, divined with matrix principle by reading several quotes and seeing who hears his word
Also published here Aug. 2016
Genii (Vol. 79 No. 8)
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Jim Steinmeyer Epidemic
  • Conjuring
packet of cards with a pink dot on the back of each is shown, card chosen, it gets lots of pink dots on them, using apparatus box
Inspired by
  • Metamorpho Spots, 1960s
Oct. 2016
Genii (Vol. 79 No. 10)
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Jim Steinmeyer Poetry in Motion
  • Conjuring
order of six envelopes chosen by spectators, they form a poem in the right order
Also published here Dec. 2016
Genii (Vol. 79 No. 12)
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Adrian Vega, Jim Steinmeyer Código Secreto lie detector with two sets of eight cards
2017 55
Jim Steinmeyer, Leo Reed Stairway to Heaven No. 2, forcing a verse from any bible
2017 5
Jim Steinmeyer The Poker Face No. 3, two of six cards chosen and found
Inspired by
  • "Which One Do You Like?" (Toro Suzuki, Tenyo trick)
Variations
2017 8
Jim Steinmeyer Pure Evil No. 4, packet cut off, force card moved to total of cut-off cards by reverse-counting, reverse-count-placement
Variations 2017 10
Jim Steinmeyer Four-Card Monte No. 5, Queen and three other cards mixed according to rules, Queen eventually found
2017 13
Jim Steinmeyer A Helping Hand No. 6, card constructed by spectator from two other cards, forced
2017 14
Jim Steinmeyer An Audience on Mars No. 7, spectators chose between an ear or the nose according to instructions, nose is forced
Also published here 2017 15
Jim Steinmeyer Your Friends in Oz No. 8, character chosen from a story is divined/verbally forced
Also published here 2017 17
Jim Steinmeyer The Awful Words Trick No. 9, word cards, one forced by spelling
Inspired by 2017 19
Jim Steinmeyer Fresh Fish Now No. 10, word cards, one forced by spelling
Inspired by 2017 23
Jim Steinmeyer My Word! No. 11, word chosen from one of several quotes by spectators, divined with matrix principle by reading several quotes and seeing who hears his word
Also published here 2017 26
Jim Steinmeyer Mad Marketing
  • Conjuring
six people on chair get into the predicted order, advertising presentation
Also published here Feb. 2017
Genii (Vol. 80 No. 2)
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Jim Steinmeyer Cutting An Unwilling Spectator in Half
  • Conjuring
ribbon through spectator
Apr. 2017
Genii (Vol. 80 No. 4)
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Jim Steinmeyer The Read Letter
  • Conjuring
spectators think of a word in a line of a recited poem, then of a letter in that, the letters are divined
Also published here June 2017
Genii (Vol. 80 No. 6)
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Jim Steinmeyer, C. James McLemore Cirque de Puce
  • Conjuring
two rings are tied to two strings and hanging down, they swing back and forth on command, trained flea circus presentation
Inspired by Aug. 2017
Genii (Vol. 80 No. 8)
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Jim Steinmeyer The Princess with a Pump
  • Conjuring
version with three people and seven cards each
Oct. 2017
Genii (Vol. 80 No. 10)
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Jim Steinmeyer Affairs of the Heart
  • Conjuring
long heart-shaped paper strip is repeatedly cut and restored, ends with mis-made hearts of two colors, clippo
Dec. 2017
Genii (Vol. 80 No. 12)
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Áriston, Rafael O. Fontao Superimpossible prediction of position where selection ends up, nine cards are mixed by spelling cards
Related to 2017 75
Jim Steinmeyer Your Friends in Oz character chosen from a story is divined/verbally forced
Also published here 2017 1
Jim Steinmeyer My Word! princess card trick with word cards, word chosen from one of several quotes by spectators, divined with matrix principle by reading several quotes and seeing who hears his word
Also published here 2017 1
Jim Steinmeyer Automatic Palmistry hand spelling stunt, left or right divined
Also published here 2017 4
Jim Steinmeyer 3-Part Harmony Mental Epic type routine with three cardboards on chairs
Also published here 2017 4
Jim Steinmeyer The Read Letter spectators think of a word in a line of a recited poem, then of a letter in that, the letters are divined
Also published here 2017 7
Jim Steinmeyer The Great Silverware Scam Piano Card Trick with forks and knives
Also published here 2017 9
Jim Steinmeyer Mad Marketing six people on chair get into the predicted order, advertising presentation
Also published here 2017 10
Jim Steinmeyer Poetry in Motion order of six envelopes chosen by spectators, they form a poem in the right order
Also published here 2017 11
Jim Steinmeyer Mrs. Houdini Steps Out assistant bound with ropes, rope pulled away and assistant is instantly free
Also published here 2017 13
Jim Steinmeyer Free Lunch price of lunch put together from a printed menu is predicted
2017 16
Jim Steinmeyer Symbolically Mentalism
  • Conjuring
forcing a symbol on a 4x4 grid
Feb. 2018
Genii (Vol. 81 No. 2)
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Jim Steinmeyer Six Chairs, No Waiting
  • Conjuring
Also published here Apr. 2018
Genii (Vol. 81 No. 4)
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Jim Steinmeyer The Ambitious Young Executive
  • Conjuring
small-packet ambitious card routine for stage, with cards in bulldog clips on a wooden rod, on which the ambitious card turns upwards ("rises")
Inspired by
  • "A Brand New Rising Cards" (Jack Hughes)
June 2018
Genii (Vol. 81 No. 6)
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Jim Steinmeyer How to Pull a Rabbit Out of a Hat
  • Conjuring
packet trick with four jumbo cards with images
Aug. 2018
Genii (Vol. 81 No. 8)
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Jim Steinmeyer Advanced Teleportation
  • Conjuring
Also published here Oct. 2018
Genii (Vol. 81 No. 10)
26
Jim Steinmeyer Co-Conspirators
  • Conjuring
spectator and performer both have a deck and alternately deal and stop anytime and place the card at that point in a glass, in the end there are three matches
Also published here Dec. 2018
Genii (Vol. 81 No. 12)
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Jim Steinmeyer When Worlds Collide
  • Conjuring
two-part routine, two piles
Inspired by Feb. 2019
Genii (Vol. 82 No. 2)
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Jim Steinmeyer The Steel Straitjacket
  • Conjuring
Apr. 2019
Genii (Vol. 82 No. 4)
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Jim Steinmeyer Your Friends in Oz
  • Conjuring
character chosen from a story is divined/verbally forced
Also published here June 2019
Genii (Vol. 82 No. 6)
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Jim Steinmeyer Surgical Cards Across
  • Conjuring
envelopes
Also published here Aug. 2019
Genii (Vol. 82 No. 8)
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Jim Steinmeyer Fake Envelope Exchange miming exchanging two envelopes
Also published here Aug. 2019
Genii (Vol. 82 No. 8)
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Jim Steinmeyer Psychological Rings
  • Conjuring
with spectator on stage
Oct. 2019
Genii (Vol. 82 No. 10)
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Jim Steinmeyer The Deconstructed Card Duck
  • Conjuring
origami "duck" head to find card
Dec. 2019
Genii (Vol. 82 No. 12)
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Jim Steinmeyer The 4 Envelope Test card verbally chosen (range force), then one of four envelopes chosen, it contains the card while the other three have Jokers
Also published here 2019 1
Jim Steinmeyer, Max Maven Two-Way Envelope Handling
Also published here 2019 2
Jim Steinmeyer A Tin Can Phone verbal force of Nine of Hearts, card is found in tin can phone
Also published here 2019 4
Jim Steinmeyer Standing Up For McDonald stand-up with glasses
Also published here 2019 6
Jim Steinmeyer Packet Half Pass
Also published here 2019 8
Jim Steinmeyer Hamlet, Jack of Denmark
Also published here 2019 9
Jim Steinmeyer La Forza del Destino one card chosen from paper bag with cards, it is missing in second deck and found inside a bottle
Also published here 2019 10
Jim Steinmeyer The Unthinkable Stack "is the same value/suit among those?", age cards
Related to 2019 12
Jim Steinmeyer Surgical Cards Across envelopes
Also published here 2019 13
Jim Steinmeyer Fake Envelope Exchange miming exchanging two envelopes
Also published here 2019 15
Jim Steinmeyer The Poem What Reads Your Mind printed poem shown to three spectators who each think of a word which is eventually divined
Also published here 2019 16
Jim Steinmeyer Verse and Obverse spectator chooses word from poem with his forced
2019 18
Jim Steinmeyer Six Chairs, No Waiting
Also published here 2019 19
Jim Steinmeyer Imaginary Creatures verbal story "force" of Loch Ness Monster
2019 20
Jim Steinmeyer A Pretend Magic Show verbal force of "elephant" with longer story
Also published here 2019 21
Scott Green Survivor spelling with four-card packet, remaining card predicted
Inspired by 2020 119
Jim Steinmeyer That Thing in the Envelope
  • Conjuring
ribbon goes through an envelope, finger ring is thrown in and penetrates onto ribbon
Feb. 2020
Genii (Vol. 83 No. 2)
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Jim Steinmeyer The Lost Quatrain
  • Conjuring
presentation for Koran-type 1-0-1-stack stop trick prediction
Apr. 2020
Genii (Vol. 83 No. 4)
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Jim Steinmeyer Had I But Suspected...
  • Conjuring
June 2020
Genii (Vol. 83 No. 6)
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Jim Steinmeyer Fake Envelope Exchange miming exchanging two envelopes
Also published here June 2020
Genii (Vol. 83 No. 6)
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Jim Steinmeyer The Lurker
  • Conjuring
stack of envelopes, interlocked flaps used as "impromptu rough/smooth"
Aug. 2020
Genii (Vol. 83 No. 8)
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Jon Racherbaumer Facial Recognition
  • Exhumations
two of six cards chosen and found
Inspired by Sep. 2020
Genii (Vol. 83 No. 9)
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Jim Steinmeyer Syracuse Monte
  • Conjuring
with jumbo cards
Oct. 2020
Genii (Vol. 83 No. 10)
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Jim Steinmeyer One-Finger Change double facer turned over behind another card one-handed
Oct. 2020
Genii (Vol. 83 No. 10)
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Jon Racherbaumer Nothing More to Prove
  • Exhumations
selection lost, spectator cuts off and pockets some cards, performer and spectator deal simultaneously, performer gets a message card "You have just run out of cards", selection found in pocket, reverse-count-placement
Related to
  • "Out of Cards - Way Out!" (Stanton Carlisle, New Pentagram, 1987)
Variations
Dec. 2020
Genii (Vol. 83 No. 12)
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Jim Steinmeyer The Rosetta Deck
  • Conjuring
one spectator thinks of a low card from one half, another from a high card in the other half, both divined, specially divided deck stack
Also published here Dec. 2020
Genii (Vol. 83 No. 12)
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Jim Steinmeyer One Exceptional Card card selected from five-card packet, found after some counting procedure
2020 3
Jim Steinmeyer, Walter B. Gibson Two-Way Switch two cards remembered with their positions in twenty-card packet, they eventually are found at opposite positions
Inspired by 2020 4
Jim Steinmeyer Three Wishes spectator finds performer's card after some counting and down-under deal
Inspired by
  • Scarne's Miracle Card Finder
2020 6
Jim Steinmeyer The "I Forgot of Something"
2020 9
Jim Steinmeyer Blunt Force mixing process that only apparently mixes cards, ten cards end up in phone number order
2020 11
Jim Steinmeyer Excessive Force fourteen cards are apparently mixed according to spectator's wishes, but end up in order
2020 13
Jim Steinmeyer The Nine Card Enchantment top and bottom cards change places after spelling three words
2020 16
Jim Steinmeyer Thurston's Coin two rows of coins or other objects, some are removed, final number divined by performer
2020 17
Jim Steinmeyer A Pretend Magic Show verbal force of "elephant" with longer story
Also published here 2020 19
Jim Steinmeyer The Instructions What Make it Work printed instruction sheet shown to three spectators who each think of a word which is eventually divined
2020 20
Jim Steinmeyer The Poem What Reads Your Mind printed poem shown to three spectators who each think of a word which is eventually divined
Also published here 2020 27
Jim Steinmeyer Close Quarters performed over phone, four coins on table, spectator turns coins over and eliminates coins, final outcome and orientation divined
2020 6
Jim Steinmeyer Crime Doesn't Pay three spectators on other end of phone, instruction game with bunch of coins, performer know which spectator has which coins
Related to
  • adapted from a (not named by JS...) trick from "The Book of Secrets" (Walter Gibson, 1927)
2020 7
Jim Steinmeyer Welcome Change three piles of coin, some mixing, then number of coins in a pile is known by performer without looking
Inspired by 2020 10
Jim Steinmeyer Zeitgeist three piles of cards, some mixing, then number of cards in a pile is known by performer without looking
Inspired by 2020 12
Jim Steinmeyer Subversive Math
2020 14
Jim Steinmeyer Tour de Force forcing one of ten cards, mathematical
2020 17
Jim Steinmeyer The Lie That Tells the Truth
Inspired by 2020 18
Jim Steinmeyer Red-Scarlet spectator has four red and four black cards, with some spelling and counting he eventually arrives at alternating cards, can be done over phone
2020 21
Jim Steinmeyer French Dressing 3&3, no-touch oil & water
2020 23
Jim Steinmeyer Four Your Next Trick performer doesn't touch the cards, spectator locates performer's thought-of card
2020 26
Jim Steinmeyer Hoodwinked no-touch version
Inspired by
  • trick (unnamed by JS) in "Magic with Cards" (Garcia & Schindler)
2020 28
Jim Steinmeyer The Deck That Knows deck on four strips of paper, Age Cards to find out thought-of card
Inspired by
  • trick (not named by JS) from "The Book of Secrets" (Walter Gibson, 1927)
2020 31
Jim Steinmeyer Virtual Applause cards with word "Applause" chosen (with spelling) from four different cards
2020 33
Jim Steinmeyer The Enigma Process Age Cards with lists of words
2020 36
Jim Steinmeyer (Not a Princess.) Virtually a Princess
  • Conjuring
can be done over zoom if envelopes with card packets are sent out to spectators, performer then shows a packet of five cards and asks questions about matching characteristics to thought-of card
Also published here Feb. 2021
Genii (Vol. 84 No. 2)
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Jim Steinmeyer Ovation
  • Conjuring
from four cards with messages one is forced with spelling procedure
Inspired byAlso published here Apr. 2021
Genii (Vol. 84 No. 4)
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Jim Steinmeyer Five Coincidences
  • Conjuring
cards counted into glass on a cardboard piece, spectator stops five times and those cards are placed against the bookmark, the five cards are four Threes and a Two with a third pip drawn on it, rest of cards shown to be double-backed
June 2021
Genii (Vol. 84 No. 6)
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Jim Steinmeyer Invisible Himber
  • Conjuring
rubber cement on edges of a paperback
Related to
  • "Invisible Gimmick"/"Compound X" (Richard Himber, marketed 1960)
Aug. 2021
Genii (Vol. 84 No. 8)
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Jim Steinmeyer Telesthesia
  • Conjuring
four Queens are signed and lost after shuffle in paper bag, then quadruple stop trick, each time the card is placed in a glass, they are the Queens again
  • Part One: Control
  • Part Two: Steal
  • Part Three: Say Stop
  • Part Four: Revelations
Variations Nov. 2021
Genii (Vol. 84 No. 11)
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Jim Steinmeyer Hold-Out behind Paper Bag
Nov. 2021
Genii (Vol. 84 No. 11)
44
Boris Wild Zoom 9 no-touch packet location with spelling
  • Variations of Choices
  • Variations of Revelations
  • Online Variations
Inspired by 2021 7
Jim Steinmeyer, Alex Ramon Ovations No. 1, from four cards with messages one is forced with spelling procedure, done with many spectator simultaneously
Inspired byAlso published here 2021 6
Jim Steinmeyer, Robert Ramirez Match, Match, Match, Match No. 2, packet cut off, four-of-a-kind found after some pile-dealing, value has been predicted, reverse-count-placement
Inspired by 2021 9
Jim Steinmeyer Out! No. 3, spectator cuts off some cards, performer and spectator deal simultaneously, performer gets a message card "Out Of Cards Now" and the spectator indeed has no more cards, reverse-count-placement
Inspired by 2021 11
Jim Steinmeyer, Charles J. Pecor Pecor's Clock No. 4, card with message "Your Time" ends up on chosen number in clock layout, reverse-count-placement
2021 13
Jim Steinmeyer Just Ten Cards No. 5
Inspired by
  • Bob Escher's handling
2021 15
Jim Steinmeyer Traveling Companions No. 6, spelling days, countries, ... in eleven-card packet to arrive at the four Queens
2021 17
Jim Steinmeyer The Rosetta Deck No. 7, one spectator thinks of a low card from one half, another from a high card in the other half, both divined, specially divided deck stack
Also published here 2021 19
Jim Steinmeyer Not a Princess No. 8, can be done over zoom if envelopes with card packets are sent out to spectators, performer then shows a packet of five cards and asks questions about matching characteristics to thought-of card
Also published here 2021 24
Jim Steinmeyer Fastest, Neatest No. 10, spelling trick with packet, first letter of value used to spell "fastest" and "neatest"
Inspired by
  • routines in Jim Scott's "Spellbinders, for Teachers and Entertainers"
2021 30
Jim Steinmeyer Will I Be Lucky? No. 11, spelling trick with packet, finding lucky Ten of Hearts
Inspired by
  • routines in Jim Scott's "Spellbinders, for Teachers and Entertainers"
2021 32
Jim Steinmeyer Missing Pieces
  • Conjuring
presentation for two geometric vanish puzzles side by side
Jan. 2022
Genii (Vol. 85 No. 1)
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Jim Steinmeyer The Zancig Paradox
  • Conjuring
three spectators think a card each from a third of the deck, performer locates them in his pocket, force by asking for a certain type of thought-of card (red number card, picture card, ...)
Inspired by
  • "Knock 'em Dead" (Guy Jarrett, Jarrett, 1981, p. 171)
Variations
Mar. 2022
Genii (Vol. 85 No. 3)
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