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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 Allow me to give you some Really Awful Advice!
  • "you're not a magician, you're an entertainer"
  • "there are no bad tricks"
  • "old tricks can be new to your audience"
  • "packs flat, plays big"
  • "open with a fast & flashy trick"
  • "it's about personality, not fooling them"
2012 2
Jim Steinmeyer Guy Jarrett Talks to You on Guy Jarrett
Related to 2012 8
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 Merlin Crusade "Doug Henning's Infamous Magical Musical Appeared 30 Years Ago."
May 2013
Genii (Vol. 76 No. 5)
56
David Britland (reviewer) Allow Me To Give You Some Really Awful Advice! by Jim Steinmeyer May 2013
Genii (Vol. 76 No. 5)
92
Jim Steinmeyer Dances with Equivoque
  • Conjuring
intro
Aug. 2013
Genii (Vol. 76 No. 8)
42
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
Eric Mead (reviewer) Ensuing Impuzzibilities by Jim Steinmeyer Oct. 2013
Genii (Vol. 76 No. 10)
102
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 Foreword
2013 9
Jim Steinmeyer Introduction on mathematical tricks
2014
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
David Britland (reviewer) The Science Behind The Ghost! by Jim Steinmeyer Jan. 2014
Genii (Vol. 77 No. 1)
86
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, Richard Kaufman The Genie on Broadway "Jim Steinmeyer Interviewed about Disney's News Musical", Aladdin
May 2014
Genii (Vol. 77 No. 5)
70
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 Too Dumb to Ask the Right Question stories about magic history
2014 3
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, Jay Alexander Client and Friend
Jan. 2015
Genii (Vol. 78 No. 1)
66
David Britland (reviewer) Treacherous Impuzzibilities by Jim Steinmeyer Jan. 2015
Genii (Vol. 78 No. 1)
82
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
John Lovick (reviewer) Devilish Impuzzibilities by Jim Steinmeyer July 2015
Genii (Vol. 78 No. 7)
78
John Lovick (reviewer) Nothing But Mystery by Jim Steinmeyer July 2015
Genii (Vol. 78 No. 7)
79
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 Introduction
2015 1
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
Jon Racherbaumer (reviewer) Magic: On the Edge - Trick-Soup For Dummies? by Jim Steinmeyer
Television Review: Jim Steinmeyer’s "Magic On The Edge", Fox Family Cable Network FAM-TV Friday, September 10, 1999
2016
Facsimile (Issue 5)
54
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)
28
Jim Steinmeyer The Boodle Box
  • Conjuring
wooden box as money printing machine, Japanese Handkerchief Box
Apr. 2016
Genii (Vol. 79 No. 4)
34
Jim Steinmeyer Princess Irene - A Brief Tribute to Royalty
Apr. 2016
Genii (Vol. 79 No. 4)
90
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)
24
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)
32
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)
32
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)
28
Jamy Ian Swiss (reviewer) Modern Art by Jim SteinmeyerAlso published here
  • Genii, March 1996
2017 23
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)
26
Jim Steinmeyer Cutting An Unwilling Spectator in Half
  • Conjuring
ribbon through spectator
Apr. 2017
Genii (Vol. 80 No. 4)
28
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)
26
David Regal (reviewer) Sending Best Wishes by Jim Steinmeyer July 2017
Genii (Vol. 80 No. 7)
99
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)
32
Jim Steinmeyer The Princess with a Pump
  • Conjuring
version with three people and seven cards each
Oct. 2017
Genii (Vol. 80 No. 10)
26
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)
28
Dustin Stinett (reviewer) Unexpected Impuzzibilities by Jim Steinmeyer Dec. 2017
Genii (Vol. 80 No. 12)
98
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 Introduction
2017
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)
26
Jim Steinmeyer Randy Sinnott: Battle to Battle
Mar. 2018
Genii (Vol. 81 No. 3)
76
Jim Steinmeyer Six Chairs, No Waiting
  • Conjuring
Also published here Apr. 2018
Genii (Vol. 81 No. 4)
48
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)
62
Peter Lamont, Jim Steinmeyer The Seeds Planted by Robert-Houdin "An Excerpt from The Secret History of Magic"
July 2018
Genii (Vol. 81 No. 7)
18
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)
34
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)
58
Jim Steinmeyer When Worlds Collide
  • Conjuring
two-part routine, two piles
Inspired by Feb. 2019
Genii (Vol. 82 No. 2)
44
Jim Steinmeyer The Steel Straitjacket
  • Conjuring
Apr. 2019
Genii (Vol. 82 No. 4)
38
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)
40
Jim Steinmeyer Surgical Cards Across
  • Conjuring
envelopes
Also published here Aug. 2019
Genii (Vol. 82 No. 8)
46
Jim Steinmeyer Fake Envelope Exchange miming exchanging two envelopes
Also published here Aug. 2019
Genii (Vol. 82 No. 8)
48
Jim Steinmeyer Psychological Rings
  • Conjuring
with spectator on stage
Oct. 2019
Genii (Vol. 82 No. 10)
44
Jim Steinmeyer The Deconstructed Card Duck
  • Conjuring
origami "duck" head to find card
Dec. 2019
Genii (Vol. 82 No. 12)
58
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
Jim Steinmeyer Afterword
2019 22
Scott Green Survivor spelling with four-card packet, remaining card predicted
Inspired by 2020 119
John Lovick (reviewer) Lost Morritt by Jim Steinmeyer Jan. 2020
Genii (Vol. 83 No. 1)
85
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)
48
Jim Steinmeyer The Lost Quatrain
  • Conjuring
presentation for Koran-type 1-0-1-stack stop trick prediction
Apr. 2020
Genii (Vol. 83 No. 4)
40
Jim Steinmeyer Had I But Suspected...
  • Conjuring
June 2020
Genii (Vol. 83 No. 6)
50
Jim Steinmeyer Fake Envelope Exchange miming exchanging two envelopes
Also published here June 2020
Genii (Vol. 83 No. 6)
51
Jim Steinmeyer In Memoriam: Roy Uwe Horn
July 2020
Genii (Vol. 83 No. 7)
10
Jim Steinmeyer The Lurker
  • Conjuring
stack of envelopes, interlocked flaps used as "impromptu rough/smooth"
Aug. 2020
Genii (Vol. 83 No. 8)
50
Jon Racherbaumer Facial Recognition
  • Exhumations
two of six cards chosen and found
Inspired by Sep. 2020
Genii (Vol. 83 No. 9)
41
Rob Zabrecky, Jim Steinmeyer The Room with Thread in Its Walls on the Houdini Séance room in the Magic Castle
Oct. 2020
Genii (Vol. 83 No. 10)
32
Jim Steinmeyer Syracuse Monte
  • Conjuring
with jumbo cards
Oct. 2020
Genii (Vol. 83 No. 10)
52
Jim Steinmeyer One-Finger Change double facer turned over behind another card one-handed
Oct. 2020
Genii (Vol. 83 No. 10)
52
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)
42
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)
44
Francis Menotti (reviewer) Virtual Impuzzibilities by Jim Steinmeyer Dec. 2020
Genii (Vol. 83 No. 12)
77
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 Introduction
2020 5
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 Mike Elizalde: The Magic, The Monsters
Jan. 2021
Genii (Vol. 84 No. 1)
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Tom Frame (reviewer) Curious Impuzzibilities by Jim Steinmeyer Jan. 2021
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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 (reviewer) With All Faults: Essays About Old Books by David Meyer June 2021
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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
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Jim Steinmeyer Hold-Out behind Paper Bag
Nov. 2021
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David Regal (reviewer) Ovations by Jim Steinmeyer Dec. 2021
Genii (Vol. 84 No. 12)
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Boris Wild Zoom 9 no-touch packet location with spelling
  • Variations of Choices
  • Variations of Revelations
  • Online Variations
Inspired by 2021 7
Jim Steinmeyer Introduction on procedural magic
2021 5
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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Jonathan Levit, Jim Steinmeyer, Benjamin Schrader When Houdini Comes Back on the Houdini Seance at the Magic Castle, Rob Zabrecky
Mar. 2022
Genii (Vol. 85 No. 3)
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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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Jim Steinmeyer Back in Town, The Poem
  • Conjuring
two spectators think of words in a poem, fishing divination
May 2022
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Jim Steinmeyer Monochopsis
  • Conjuring
two red-backed cards shown in blue-backed deck, two cards chosen face-up by stopping during dealing, they are the odd-backed selections
July 2022
Genii (Vol. 85 No. 7)
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Jim Steinmeyer Card Case as Card Stand to display cards up-right
July 2022
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Jim Steinmeyer Supressio Veri
  • Conjuring
two spectators think a card each from a half of the deck, performer predicted them, force by asking for a certain type of thought-of card (low red number card, black high card)
Inspired by Sep. 2022
Genii (Vol. 85 No. 9)
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Jim Steinmeyer A Short Lesson in Short Change
  • Conjuring

  • Part One, The False Count
  • Part Two, Two Transactions at the Same Time
  • Part Three, Careful Counting
Dec. 2022
Genii (Vol. 85 No. 12)
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Nathan Coe Marsh (reviewer) Brushstrokes Over Reality by Jim Steinmeyer Dec. 2022
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Tom Stone Post Nord signed postcard is supposed to travel from one postbox prop to another in a comedy of errors routine, eventually it found in a sealed envelope elsewhere
Inspired by
  • "The Efficiency Stamp" (Jim Steinmeyer, The Conjuring Anthology, 2006, p. 8)
2022 2
Jim Steinmeyer Houdini's Final Illusion on Houdini's "Walking Through the North Pole" illusion
Apr. 2022
PM2 (Issue 23)
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Jim Steinmeyer Brushstrokes Over Reality essay on magic and art
2022 1
Jim Steinmeyer Long Ago, Far Away borrowed credit card and silk travel from one glass with a cylindrical cover tube to another
2022 16
Jim Steinmeyer A Case of Collusion: Variation odd-backed card leaned against glass, spectator selects any card face up, they match, odd-backed rough-smooth menetekel
Inspired by 2022 18
Jim Steinmeyer The Zancig Paradox: Variation three spectators think a card each from a third of the deck which is put in a glass, performer locates them while deck is in glass, force by asking for a certain type of thought-of card (red number card, picture card, ...)
Inspired by 2022 20
Jim Steinmeyer Telesthesia: Variation 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
Inspired by 2022 23
Jim Steinmeyer Merely Drivel two spectators each think of a long/short word on large cue card boards, divined, age cards
Also published here 2022 25
Jim Steinmeyer The Vasty Deep five envelopes, one chosen with spelling elimination procedure, name predicted as framed photograph
Inspired byAlso published here 2022 27
Jim Steinmeyer Merely Drivel
  • Conjuring
two spectators each think of a long/short word on large cue card boards, divined, age cards
Also published here Feb. 2023
Genii (Vol. 86 No. 2)
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Joe M. Turner (reviewer) Jim Steinmeyer Masterclass by Jim Steinmeyer Mar. 2023
Genii (Vol. 86 No. 3)
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Jim Steinmeyer The Vasty Deep
  • Conjuring
five envelopes, one chosen with spelling elimination procedure, name predicted as framed photograph
Inspired byAlso published here Apr. 2023
Genii (Vol. 86 No. 4)
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Jim Steinmeyer The Poem What Reads Your Mind
  • Conjuring
poem is read to three spectators who each think of a word which is eventually divined
Also published here June 2023
Genii (Vol. 86 No. 6)
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Jim Steinmeyer The Tossed-Aside Deck
  • Conjuring
three spectators have a third of the deck each, red or black is chosen and each thinks of a number card of that color, multiple filter principle
Aug. 2023
Genii (Vol. 86 No. 8)
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Joshua Messado Everyone Loves Me four spectators have a packet of cards each, they spell a name and end up with an Ace each
Inspired by Sep. 2023
Genii (Vol. 86 No. 9)
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Jim Steinmeyer Lessons in Wonder
  • Conjuring
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 Oct. 2023
Genii (Vol. 86 No. 10)
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Jim Steinmeyer My First Thought
  • Conjuring
prediction opener with a word from a letter, anagrams, multiple out prediction on phone
Dec. 2023
Genii (Vol. 86 No. 12)
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Jim Steinmeyer That Seat is Taken
  • Conjuring
six chairs with envelopes, procedure to get six spectators sitting on them, the envelopes contain predictions on the choices including the only female spectator's name
Inspired byRelated to Feb. 2024
Genii (Vol. 87 No. 2)
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Jim Steinmeyer Everyone Lost Together
  • Conjuring
with five chairs with five predictions on them that match the spectators's seat choices
Related to Apr. 2024
Genii (Vol. 87 No. 4)
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