5 publications by Unnamed Magician:
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Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Joe Berg The Card Behind spectator gives card to performer behind his back, performer names it, secretly placed in sleeve
1930 54
T. Page Wright One Way Location interlocking chain principle with one-way deck and key card
Variations
1933 13
Theodore Annemann* Call Me Up Sometime person calls during the show and names the card someone selected
Also published here
Variations
1934 2
Theodore Annemann* It Goes This Way one-way faces by scratch marks, see page 164 for comment by William Larsen
Related to
1935
The Jinx (Issue Summer Extra 1935)
42
Card Location Supreme one-way backs that must not be set in one direction, random one-way sequence codes position
Related to
Variations
1937 158
Walter B. Gibson* Key Location Medium finds selection in shuffled deck, coding using stacking principle
Variations
1940
The Jinx (Issue 121)
707
Martin Gardner* The Impossible Location No. 129, spectator cuts shuffled deck into three piles, shuffles all, selects a card and assembles deck which the performer locates
Related to
Variations
1950 249
Al Koran Double Thought spectator finds performer's card and the other way around, marked deck
Related to
Variations
1968 89
Eddie Fields Silent Transmission Telephone Mystery spectator deals cards over the phone, magician stops deal on selected card, Waikiki Location
Also published here
Related to
Variations
1968 30
Karl Fulves* Cards Jumping from Mug effect description, seen from an unnamed magician, posed as a problem
1987 15
Karl Fulves* Spin Cut onto Table description, seen from an unnamed magician, posed as a problem
1987 15
Nick Trost Lost and Found divided deck location with a riffle shuffle before the location
Also published here
  • Nick's Table Trix, 1956
Related to
1997 136
Eddie Fields Silent Transmission Telephone Mystery spectator deals cards over the phone, magician stops deal on selected card, Waikiki Location
Also published here
Related to
Variations
1997 68
Roger Crosthwaite One-Way Sequence Location selection made from and lost in table spread, random one-way sequence codes position
  • First Method
  • Second Method
Related to
Variations
1999 82
Theodore Annemann* Call Me Up Sometime person calls during the show and names the card someone selected
Also published here
Variations
2005 27
Harry Riser Behind the Back, One Way out-of-hand selection, performer stabs card reversed next to selection behind back
Also published here
  • MUM, June 1991
2006 65
Michael Powers Hide and Seek selection fairly lost, faro
Inspired by
  • "The Cardician is In!" (Doug Canning, Card Capers)
Related to
Variations
2006 108
Michael Weber Card Kindergarten memorized deck with easy rules
Also published here
Related to
2008 [11]
Michael Weber Card Kindergarten memorized deck with easy rules
Also published here
Related to
2009 [2]
Michael Weber The Card Kindergarten Stack memorized deck with easy rules
Also published here
Related to
2012 [4]
Karl Fulves* Linking Finger Rings credit information, describing the routine of an unnamed magician from the 1950s
2015
The Lowdown (Issue 1)
1
So Sato Bath Towel Mentalism two spectators with half the deck each exchange a card underneath large towel, performer divines them
Variations
2016 41
Denis Behr The Dark Force spectator reverses any card below table, forced
Related to
Variations
2018 41
Unnamed Magician Introduction
2024 1
Unnamed Magician The "Holy Grail" of Phone Effects freely chosen card is shuffled back into deck, order of all fifty-two cards read off to phoned medium which divines card
2024 2
Unnamed Magician Introduction
2024 1
Unnamed Magician The Exception borrowed deck in new deck order, packet from center is taken and one card remembered, everything shuffled, performer locates cards from the backs
  • Main Method (with a stacked borrowed deck)
  • Variant Method (with a non-stacked borrowed deck) (requiring shiner or assistant)
2024 2
Unnamed Magician Bonus Effect / Method deck wash-shuffled, card taken from face-down spread and replaced, performer deals through cards and stops at selection, random one-way sequence codes position
Inspired by
2024 18
Unnamed Magician Three Pile Location: A Classic Improved adding an honest riffle shuffle before locating the card(s) in classic 26th-card location, DURS Principle
  • Main Method (One Selection)
  • Variant Method (Two Selections)
2025 6
Unnamed Magician The Distance Unaffected by a Riffle Shuffle (DURS) Principle application of interlocking chain principle with one-way cards
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2025 22
Unnamed Magician Do It Yourself one-way faces by scratch marks
Related to
2025 29
Unnamed Magician Three Pile Location: On Steroids version of three pile location in which all three piles can be shuffled, and also the deck at the start, DDSD Principle
  • Variant Method
Inspired by
2025 30
Unnamed Magician The Divided Deck from a Shuffle Deck (DDSD) Principle on using one-way feature for divided deck effects
Related to
2025 43
Unnamed Magician The Secret Move seven suggested ways to turn a packet secretly end-for-end
2025 46
Unnamed Magician Three Pile Location: On Meth handling of 26th-card location in which the selection is placed onto center pile which can be cut
  • Variant Method (DURS Principle)
Inspired by
  • "The Sunken Key Again" (Geoffrey Scalbert, Abracadabra, Vol. 12 No. 310, 5. Jan. 1952)
2025 52
Unnamed Magician Dual Control divided deck two-card location with a riffle shuffle before the location, extension of Trost's "Lost and Found"
  • Variant Method 1 (DDSD Principle)
  • Variant Method 2 (DURS Principle) (for three selections)
  • Variant Method 3 (DURS Principle) (for four selections)
  • The Dual Control Principle
Inspired by
  • "Waikiki Card Location" (Bill Murata, marketed 1945)
Related to
2025 71
Unnamed Magician Rain Man spectator cuts off pile and counts it, loses it and shuffles deck, performer apparently remembers card and then names card at chosen number
  • Variant Method 1
  • Variant Method 2
Inspired by
  • "Wayneman" (Wayne Dobson, Marked 4 Life ebook, 2013)
2025 97
Unnamed Magician Simple Memorized Stack does not look shuffled
Related to
2025 109
Unnamed Magician Spectator Locates Magician's Card deck shuffled, performer and spectator each select a card from half the deck under the table, performer's selection is written down, they find each other's card
Inspired by
2025 114
Unnamed Magician Spectator Locates Magician's Card Again deck shuffled, performer and spectator each select a card from half the deck, performer's selection is written down, they find each other's card
Inspired by
2025 126
Unnamed Magician Spectator Locates Magician's Card Yet Again deck shuffled, performer and spectator each select a card from half the deck, they find each other's card by cutting under the table and taking top card
  • A Last Word on the "Spectator Locates Magician's Card" Plot (comments on the three methods)
Inspired by
2025 136
Unnamed Magician An Unfathomable Premonition three decks, spectator deals one deck and stops at any card to generate a value, the second deck is cut to generate a suit, the combined card is predicted with the third deck, 1-0-1 stack
  • Main Method (Three Decks)
  • Variant Method 1 (Two Decks)
  • Variant Method 2 (Two Decks)
2025 147
Unnamed Magician Behind the Back Location behind the performer's back the spectator cuts off a pile, remembers bottom card and loses packet in middle of rest, performer turns around, deck is shuffled by spectator, performer locates card behind his back
2025 172
Unnamed Magician Behind the Back Location Again behind the performer's back the spectator cuts off a pile and turns it face up onto the rest, remembers face card and removes it, turns face-up cards over again and selection is lost in the deck, performer turns around, deck is riffle shuffled by spectator, performer locates card behind his back
  • Variant Method (different selection procedure without back-top-back cut)
Inspired by
2025 182
Unnamed Magician, Joe Berg, Hideo Kato Peeking a Card from Behind the Back secretly peeking a card with deck held behind the back
  • 1. (sleeve method, Joe Berg)
  • 2. (placing card behind and turning over)
  • 3. (palm method, Hideo Kato)
  • 4. (open peek ruse)
  • 5. (phone/camera method)
Related to
2025 190
Unnamed Magician Behind the Back Location Yet Again behind the performer's back the spectator cuts the deck into three pile, remembers top card of middle pile and places selection in top pile and shuffles that, center pile is shuffled, all assembled, performer turns around, deck is shuffled, card located behind the performer's back
  • Main Method (Early Peek)
  • Variant Method (Late Peek)
Inspired by
2025 202
Unnamed Magician An Essay on "Behind-the-Back" Locations on other options and procedures
2025 218
Unnamed Magician Totally Impossible Location deck shuffled, packet cut off and shuffled, top or bottom card remembered and put into remaining pile, riffle shuffle before location, Waikiki
  • Main Method (One Selection)
  • Variant Method (Two Selections)
Inspired by
2025 224
Unnamed Magician To Waikiki and Beyond on the shuffle procedure used in the "Waikiki Card Location" and its connection to the Dual Control Principle
Related to
2025 231
Unnamed Magician Totally Impossible Location Again deck shuffled, packet cut off and shuffled and card chosen from it by cutting it and remembering the bottom card and replacing it, all assembled and riffle shuffled twice before location
  • Main Method
  • Variant Method (DDSD Principle)
Also published here
  • Variant Method as "In the Eye" (Christian Grace's "Magic Monthly" membership)
Inspired by
2025 236
Unnamed Magician The One Way for One-Way on using the one-way principle in locations
2025 248
Unnamed Magician Signed Behind the Back Location behind the performer's back the spectator shuffles a borrowed deck, cuts the deck into two piles and signs and remembers the top card of the bottom pile, all shuffled again, performer locates card behind his back, stranger key card
2025 251
Unnamed Magician Long Distance Telepathy: Under Test Conditions two decks, spectator deals one deck and stops at any card to generate a value, the second deck is cut to generate a suit, the combined card is divined by a phoned medium, 1-0-1 stack, range force
  • Main Method (Two Spectators)
  • Variant Method (One Spectator)
  • Further Variant Methods
Inspired by
2025 266
Unnamed Magician Long Distance Telepathy: Under Test Conditions Again spectator deals through deck and stops at any card, a medium is phoned and spectator removes five indifferent cards and tells them to medium which divines stopped-at card
Related to
2025 284
Unnamed Magician Long Distance Telepathy: Under Test Conditions Yet Again deck with two dozens drawings is shuffled and spread face up, spectator chooses any drawing, medium is phoned which divines the chosen design after the order of the deck is read off, not explained in book but in companion online pdf
  • Main Method (Playing Cards)
  • Variant Method (Picture Cards)
Related to
  • "Person to Person" (Stewart James, The Linking Ring, Aug. 1957, p. 77)
  • "Televoyance" (Lewis Jones, Person to Person, 1991)
2025 294
Unnamed Magician Concluding Remarks
2025 300
Unnamed Magician From the Desk of the Unnamed Magician
2025 306
Unnamed Magician Introduction
2025 2
Unnamed Magician The Perfect Force spectator reverses any card below table and looks at it before replacing it in the center, forced
Inspired by
Variations
2025 3
David Britland Variant Method spectator reverses any card below table and looks at it before replacing it in the center, forced
Inspired by
2025 13
Unnamed Magician Concluding Remarks
  • Crediting
2025 15
Unnamed Magician Introduction
2025 1
Unnamed Magician Bath Towel Mentalism: On Steroids two spectators with half the deck each reverse a card underneath the table, performer divines them, two-way forcing deck
  • Variant Method 1 (one spectator) (only one card is reversed in full deck and divined, one-way forcing deck)
  • Variant Method 2 (two spectators) (stack and half forcing deck)
Inspired by
2025 2