Jack McMillen

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Creators	Title	Comments & References		Year	Source	Page	Categories
Jack McMillen	The Prophecied Leaper	prophesied, selection made in one half, it travels into cased half at predicted position	Variations Four Deep (Bill Simon, Jack McMillen, Effective Card Magic, 1952) Version of Jack McMillen's Prophesied Leaper (Charlie Miller, The Magic of Charles Earle Miller, 1961)	1928	The L. W. Card Mysteries	19	Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Number Prediction Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Packet to Packet
Jack McMillen	Gaffed Stabbing Force	partial card glued on guarantee card which is stabbed in deck, card next to it remembered	Related to Credit Card Force (Tom Sellers, The Jinx, 1940)	1928	The L. W. Card Mysteries	20	Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Forcing Gaff Cards / Sleights / Force / Stabbing Force / Miscellaneous
Jack McMillen	Card pushed through pack changes	with gimmick		1933	Page Wright's Notebook	9	Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / Tunnel Effect
Jack McMillen	The J.M. Rising Card	plunger, reprinted from Genii, Sept 1936		1937	Encyclopedia of Card Tricks	328	Cards / Principles / Plunger Principle Cards / Effect Themes / Animation / Rising Card(s) / Impromptu
	The Pencil-Line Detection	one-way via edge mark	Related to "Mental Mysteries with Cards" (Larsen & Wright, 1942) also in: Astral Vision (The Secret of the Palmettos, 1998) Tip for Use with a Stacked Deck (Jack Avis, Rara Avis, 2006)	1938	Greater Magic	65	Cards / Principles / One Way / Edgemarked Cards / Principles / Locator Cards / Edgemarked
Jack McMillen	Method No. 11. The "Plunger" Rising Cards	with or without handkerchief, including an easier variation with wax		1938	Greater Magic	400	Cards / Principles / Plunger Principle Cards / Principles / Sticky Cards / Effect Themes / Animation / Rising Card(s) / Impromptu
Jack McMillen	The Continuous Spelling Trick	spelling random cards from shuffled deck		1938	More Card Manipulations (Issue 1)	16	Cards / Effect Themes / Spelling / Random Cards
	Gamblers' False Cut - Retaining Bottom Stock	tabled, straight cut, bottom cards slid back to bottom	Also published here Gamblers' Stack (Jack McMillen, The Fred Braue Notebooks, 1985) Related to Tabled Tilt Pass (Edward Marlo, Marlo's Magazine — Volume 5, 1984) Bottom-Slug Hops (Steve Forte, Gambling Sleight Of Hand — Volume 1, 2020) Variations One-Handed Gambler's False Cut (Tom Gagnon, Gagnon Unfiltered, 2019) Cutting Action Gambler's False Cut (Tom Gagnon, Gagnon Unfiltered, 2019) … and 2 more	1940	Expert Card Technique	79	Cards / Sleights / Cuts / False Cut / Partial / Bottom Stock
Jack McMillen	The Witchcraft Card Rise	from behind, bent, interesting	Also published here Eerie Card Rise (Jack Merlin, The Living End, 1972)	1940	Expert Card Technique	212	Cards / Effect Themes / Animation / Rising Card(s) / Impromptu
Jack McMillen	Mind Mirror	one suit on top, two honest riffle shuffles	Also published here Riffle Shuffle (50 Tricks You Can Do, You Will Do, Easy to Do, 1946) also in: Shuffle Location (The Last Word on Cards, 1952) Ein netter Kartentrick (Jack McMillen, Hokus Pokus, 1969) Related to The Mind Mirror (Jack McMillen, Jean Hugard, Frederick Braue, The Stripper Deck, 1941) Speaking Volumes (David Regal, John Archer, Genii, 2003) Variations "Mind Mirror" Resilvered (Jerry L. Christensen, Magick, 1971) Reflected Thoughts (Andrew Galloway, Profile, 1992) also in: Reflected Thought (Apocalypse, 1994) … and 5 more	1940	Expert Card Technique	223	Cards / Principles / Riffle Shuffle Concepts / Partial Stack Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Challenge Locations / Challenge Single Card Location / Miscellaneous Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Other Stacks / Partial
Jack McMillen	McMillen's Card from Pocket	card apparently removed from inside pocket with hand holding deck, really from deck	Also published here McMillen's Card from Pocket (Jack McMillen, Labyrinth, 1997) Related to McMillen's Card from Pocket (Jack McMillen, Modus Operandi, 1992) also in: McMillen's Card from Pocket (MAGIC, 1992)	1940	Expert Card Technique	314	Cards / Sleights / Cloths and Cards / Producing (palmed) Cards from Pocket
Tom Sellers	Credit Card Force	on another card	Related to Gaffed Stabbing Force (Jack McMillen, The L. W. Card Mysteries, 1928) The Credit-Card Force (Tom Sellers, Vanni Bossi, Edward Marlo, Davide Costi, Card College — Volume 4, 2000) also in: Credit Card Force (MAGIC, 2002) Credit Card Force (Talk About Tricks, 2022)	Feb. 1940	The Jinx (Issue 79)	517	Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Forcing Gaff Cards / Sleights / Force / Stabbing Force / Miscellaneous
Charlie Miller, Jack McMillen	The Triple Discovery	three cards, twenty-sixth key	Variations Key to the Draw (Ron Bauer, L.I.N.T. — Pocket Stuff for Close-Up Magicians, 1997)	1941	More Card Manipulations (Issue 4)	29	Cards / Principles / Key Card / Distant Key Card Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Challenge Locations / Challenge multiple Card Location
Jack McMillen, Jean Hugard, Frederick Braue	The Mind Mirror	with stripper deck	Related to Mind Mirror (Jack McMillen, Expert Card Technique, 1940) also in: Riffle Shuffle (50 Tricks You Can Do, You Will Do, Easy to Do, 1946) Shuffle Location (The Last Word on Cards, 1952) … and 1 more	1941	The Stripper Deck	16	Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Stripper Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Challenge Locations / Challenge Single Card Location / Miscellaneous Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Numerical or Straight Stack / Partial
Jack McMillen	The "J. M." Rope Trick	with metal ring		1941 ca.	Abbott's Encyclopedia of Rope Tricks	311	Rope / Cut & Restored
Jack McMillen	The J.M. Rising Card	with handkerchief, plunger	Variations Plunger Rise Set-Up (Sam Randlett, Ibidem, 1959)	1945	My Best	64	Cards / Principles / Plunger Principle Cards / Effect Themes / Animation / Rising Card(s) / Impromptu
James G. Thompson Jr.	Biographical Sketches of Contributors	Theo. Annemann Charles Arbuthnot George E. Arrowsmith Roger Barkann Sylvan Barnet Joseph L. Barnett Raymond L. Beebe Eugene Bernstein J. B. Bobo John N. Booth Tom Bowyer Vynn Boyar Joan Brandon Fred Braue John Braun Lu Brent R. C. Buff Clyde F. Cairy Loring Campbell Jack Chanin Frank Chapman Forest V. Chesbro Milbourne Christopher Eddie Clever Stanley Collins Mystic Craig Thomas J. Crawford John J. Crimmins, JR. Paul J. Curry Del Monte Harry Dobrin Ronald B. Edwards Bruce Elliot Professor El-Tab Dr. E. G. Ervin Dr. Henry Ridgely Evans Val Evans "Hen" Fetsch Thomas B. Fitzgerald Dariel Fitzkee Sid Fleischman Joseph Harman Fries Martin Gardner Teral Garrett Walter B. Gibson Arnold L. Grubin Nelson C. Hahne Hathaway Royal V. Heath Charles H. Hopkins Jean Hugard Mark Jacobs R. M. Jamison F. H. Jeudevine Maurice Kains George G. Kaplan George Karger Joseph A. Karson Wilbur Kattner Gerald Lynton Kaufman Howard B. Kayton, M.D. The Great Kolar Gerald Kosky Abril Lamarque William W. Larsen Sid Lorraine Art Lyle L. Vosburgh Lyons Richard F. Madden Greer Marechal, JR. George McAthy William H. McCaffrey Jack McMillen Harry Mendoza Orville Meyer John W. Mifflin Chester Morris Paul Morris Frederick Mosteller Robert A. Nelson C. A. George Newmann Grady S. Nicholson Dr. Cecil E. Nixon Charles Walter Nyquist Dell O'Dell Tom Osborne George Harrison Pittman Julien J. Proskauer Clayton Rawson Ralph W. Read Dolf Rudin Herb Rungie Ned Rutledge James J. Sanders Lucille Pierce Saxon Sigmar - The Magician Jerry Sorensen Willard S. Smith George Starke Dr. Raymond V. Stone, SR. (RAMO) Harlan Tarbell DR. Franklin Taylor J. G. Thompson, JR. Jack F. Trebel M. Van Reese Jack Vosburgh Audley Valentine Walsh Peter Warlock Herman L. Weber Bob Weill William H. Wilson Tommy Windsor Howard H. Wise Ed. Wolff Michael F. Zens		1945	My Best	347	Articles / Biographical
	Riffle Shuffle	one suit on top, two honest riffle shuffles	Also published here Mind Mirror (Jack McMillen, Expert Card Technique, 1940) also in: Shuffle Location (The Last Word on Cards, 1952) Ein netter Kartentrick (Jack McMillen, Hokus Pokus, 1969) Related to The Mind Mirror (Jack McMillen, Jean Hugard, Frederick Braue, The Stripper Deck, 1941) Speaking Volumes (David Regal, John Archer, Genii, 2003) Variations "Mind Mirror" Resilvered (Jerry L. Christensen, Magick, 1971) Reflected Thoughts (Andrew Galloway, Profile, 1992) also in: Reflected Thought (Apocalypse, 1994) … and 5 more	1946	50 Tricks You Can Do, You Will Do, Easy to Do	49	Cards / Principles / Riffle Shuffle Concepts / Partial Stack Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Challenge Locations / Challenge Single Card Location / Miscellaneous Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Other Stacks / Partial
Jack McMillen	Mirror of the Mind	suit together		1948	The Royal Road to Card Magic	34	Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Challenge Locations / Challenge Single Card Location / Miscellaneous Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Other Stacks / Partial
Dai Vernon, Jack McMillen	Just Injog	plunger Aces, handling	Also published here Pentagram, Vol. 9 No. 8, May 1955 also in: Just Injog (Dai Vernon, Mr. Gadfly, 2002)	Dec. 1949	The Phoenix (Issue 191)	763	Cards / Principles / Plunger Principle Cards / Effect Themes / Four-of-a-Kind & Aces Effects / Production & Appearance / One by One
Jack McMillen, Charles Nyquist	Pimpernel			Jan. 1950	The Phoenix (Issue 195)	779	Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Brainwave type Effects
Otis Manning, Phil Sevush, Charles Nyquist, Jack McMillen	The Eight Ace Routine	No. 95, multi-phase routine using 2 duplicate sets of aces		1950	Scarne on Card Tricks	179	Cards / Effect Themes / Red Black / Separation / by Magician / Sense of Touch (or other) Cards / Effect Themes / Chaos & Order / Complete Matching / Packets
Bill Simon, Jack McMillen	Four Deep	card travels to other packet at same position	Inspired by The Prophecied Leaper (Jack McMillen, The L. W. Card Mysteries, 1928)	1952	Effective Card Magic	131	Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Packet to Packet
	Shuffle Location	one suit on top, two honest riffle shuffles	Also published here Mind Mirror (Jack McMillen, Expert Card Technique, 1940) also in: Riffle Shuffle (50 Tricks You Can Do, You Will Do, Easy to Do, 1946) Ein netter Kartentrick (Jack McMillen, Hokus Pokus, 1969) Related to The Mind Mirror (Jack McMillen, Jean Hugard, Frederick Braue, The Stripper Deck, 1941) Speaking Volumes (David Regal, John Archer, Genii, 2003) Variations "Mind Mirror" Resilvered (Jerry L. Christensen, Magick, 1971) Reflected Thoughts (Andrew Galloway, Profile, 1992) also in: Reflected Thought (Apocalypse, 1994) … and 5 more	1952	The Last Word on Cards	52	Cards / Principles / Riffle Shuffle Concepts / Partial Stack Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Challenge Locations / Challenge Single Card Location / Miscellaneous Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Other Stacks / Partial
Sam Randlett	Plunger Rise Set-Up	faro with small packet into deck	Inspired by The J.M. Rising Card (Jack McMillen, My Best, 1945)	July 1959	Ibidem (Issue 17)	21	Cards / Principles / Plunger Principle Cards / Effect Themes / Animation / Rising Card(s) / Impromptu
Jack McMillen, Judson S. Brown, T. Page Wright	Fifteen Card Trick Routine - 11, 12, 13			1961	The Magic of Charles Earle Miller	22	Cards / Effect Themes / Turnover & Reverse / Simple Card Turnovers Cards / Effect Themes / Sandwich & Co / Simple Sandwich
Charlie Miller	Version of Jack McMillen's Prophesied Leaper	selection vanishes from one half and reappears in other at predicted position, stranger card	Inspired by The Prophecied Leaper (Jack McMillen, The L. W. Card Mysteries, 1928)	1961	The Magic of Charles Earle Miller	26	Cards / Principles / Sticky Cards / Principles / Stranger Card Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Packet to Packet Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Single Card
Jack McMillen	Unthreading Needles in Mouth			July 1966	The Pallbearers Review (Vol. 1 No. 9)	46	Needle / Swallowing
Jack McMillen	Ein netter Kartentrick	one suit on top	Also published here Mind Mirror (Jack McMillen, Expert Card Technique, 1940) also in: Riffle Shuffle (50 Tricks You Can Do, You Will Do, Easy to Do, 1946) Shuffle Location (The Last Word on Cards, 1952) Related to The Mind Mirror (Jack McMillen, Jean Hugard, Frederick Braue, The Stripper Deck, 1941) Speaking Volumes (David Regal, John Archer, Genii, 2003) Variations "Mind Mirror" Resilvered (Jerry L. Christensen, Magick, 1971) Reflected Thoughts (Andrew Galloway, Profile, 1992) also in: Reflected Thought (Apocalypse, 1994) … and 5 more	1969	Hokus Pokus (Vol. 30 No. 3)	57	Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Challenge Locations / Challenge Single Card Location / Miscellaneous Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Other Stacks / Partial
Jerry L. Christensen	"Mind Mirror" Resilvered		Inspired by Mind Mirror (Jack McMillen, Expert Card Technique, 1940) also in: Riffle Shuffle (50 Tricks You Can Do, You Will Do, Easy to Do, 1946) Shuffle Location (The Last Word on Cards, 1952) … and 1 more	1971	Magick (Issue 19)	93	Cards / Principles / Locator Cards / Pencil Dot or similar Marks Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Challenge Locations / Challenge Single Card Location / Miscellaneous
Jack McMillen	Plunger Principle			1972	Million Dollar Card Secrets	30	Cards / Principles / Plunger Principle
Jack Merlin	Eerie Card Rise	from behind, bent	Also published here The Witchcraft Card Rise (Jack McMillen, Expert Card Technique, 1940)	1972	The Living End	120	Cards / Effect Themes / Animation / Rising Card(s) / Impromptu
Jack McMillen	Plunger Rising Card	context of routine allows for natural setup		1972	Packet Magic	49	Cards / Principles / Plunger Principle Cards / Effect Themes / Animation / Rising Card(s) / Impromptu
Jack McMillen	Plunger Principle			1975	Card Cavalcade 3	135	Cards / Principles / Plunger Principle
Jack McMillen, Francis Carlyle	Impromptu Jack McMillen Rising Card			1975	The Magic of Francis Carlyle	75	Cards / Principles / Plunger Principle Cards / Effect Themes / Animation / Rising Card(s) / Impromptu
Jack McMillen	The Barbary Coast Scam	two red aces are separated in the deck and end up together, two versions, with a stooge seemingly heckling the performer		1981	Sleights & Swindles	1	Cards / Effect Themes / Coincidence / Miscellaneous
Jack McMillen	Shade Work	apparently deck is marked, three cards are named without turning over, then mark is shown to be different colored back		1981	Sleights & Swindles	2	Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Cards are apparently marked Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / Single Card / Back
Jack McMillen	The Old Gambler	elevator trick with three cards, last card through table		1981	Sleights & Swindles	4	Cards / Effect Themes / Penetration / With Other Objects / Table Cards / Effect Themes / Penetration / Elevator / Deck
Jack McMillen, Judson S. Brown	From Another Deck	with two decks, one packet is cut and turned over, value of card on the face is used to count to a card, performer finds the card in second deck or in a pocket		1981	Sleights & Swindles	6	Cards / Principles / Multiple Out Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Only for Special Stacks / New Deck Order Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Challenge Locations / Challenge Single Card Location / No-Touch Locations
Jack McMillen	Witchcraft Updated			1981	Sleights & Swindles	7	Cards / Effect Themes / Animation / Rising Card(s) / Impromptu
Jack McMillen	The Voodoo Card Rise	top card lowers		1981	Sleights & Swindles	8	Cards / Effect Themes / Animation / Rising Card(s) / Impromptu
Jack McMillen	Quick Silver	two copper and two silver coins, silver coin travel in the hand with copper coins one by one, then at once		1981	Sleights & Swindles	9	Coin / Effect Themes / Traveling / Hand to Hand / Normal
Senor Charles Mardo, Jack McMillen	Coin, Ring and Silk	coin in handkerchief, secured with ring, penetrates fabric		1981	Sleights & Swindles	10	Coin / Effect Themes / Penetration / Silk Coin / Effect Themes / Penetration / Ring while wrapped in Handkerchief
Jack McMillen, Charles Nyquist	The San Francisco Shuffle	deck is separated by red an black, performer and spectator give the deck a riffle shuffle and colors do not mix, Tamariz "accidental Zarrow Set-up"		1981	Sleights & Swindles	11	Cards / Sleights / Riffle Shuffle / Riffle on the table / False / Divided Deck Cards / Effect Themes / Red Black / Miraskill & Variations
Charles Nyquist, Jack McMillen	The Drop Shuffle	spectator pushes messy halves together, rosetta shuffle	Related to The Drop Shuffle (Charles Nyquist, Jack McMillen, 8 Effects and a Sleight, 2012)	1981	Sleights & Swindles	11	Cards / Sleights / Controls / Spectator shuffles - Subtleties Cards / Sleights / Riffle Shuffle / Riffle on the table / Real
Jack McMillen	"Don't Ever Bet On A Sure Thing"	three card monte with a switch		1981	Sleights & Swindles	13	Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Three Card Monte / Authentic (more or less)
Jeff Busby (reviewer)	Sleights & Swindles	by Jack McMillen		May 1982	Epoptica (Issue 1)	16	Reviews / Books, Manuscripts, Notes
Al Smith (reviewer)	Sleights and Swindles	by Jack McMillen		1983	Pabular (Vol. 7 No. 10)	1122	Reviews / Books, Manuscripts, Notes
William Larsen, Jack McMillen	Poker Deal	performer knows other player's hole cards, then gets aces (1937)		1985	The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 1)	25	Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Poker / Miscellaneous Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Poker / You just get the winning Hand.
Jack McMillen	Card Control	delayed jog in overhand shuffle control (1937)		1985	The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 1)	25	Cards / Sleights / Controls / Single Card Controls / Shuffle Controls Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Overhand / False / Partial
Jack McMillen	McMillen Push-Off	(1937)		1985	The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 2)	10	Cards / Sleights / Multiple Lift / Push-Off
Jack McMillen	Gamblers' Riffle Stack	riffle glimpsing cards (1937)		1985	The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 2)	10	Cards / Sleights / Riffle Shuffle / Riffle on the table / Culling Cards / Sleights / Riffle Shuffle / Riffle on the table / Stacking Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Poker / Stacking / Riffle Stacking
Jack McMillen	Gamblers' Stack	tabled, straight cut, bottom cards slid back to bottom	Also published here Gamblers' False Cut - Retaining Bottom Stock (Expert Card Technique, 1940) Related to Tabled Tilt Pass (Edward Marlo, Marlo's Magazine — Volume 5, 1984) Bottom-Slug Hops (Steve Forte, Gambling Sleight Of Hand — Volume 1, 2020) Variations One-Handed Gambler's False Cut (Tom Gagnon, Gagnon Unfiltered, 2019) Cutting Action Gambler's False Cut (Tom Gagnon, Gagnon Unfiltered, 2019) … and 2 more	1985	The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 2)	11	Cards / Sleights / Cuts / False Cut / Partial / Bottom Stock
Jack McMillen	Astro-Vision	spectator reverses his card by himself (1937)		1985	The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 2)	16	Cards / Principles / One Way / Miscellaneous Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Challenge Locations / Challenge Single Card Location / Miscellaneous
Jack McMillen	Disguised One-Way Deck	reds one way, blacks the other		1985	The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 2)	16	Cards / Principles / One Way / Miscellaneous
Jack McMillen	Card Reversal - A Peek	reversed card easily glimpsed when riffled through deck		1985	The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 2)	17	Cards / Sleights / Glimpse / Center without mark-off
Jack McMillen	Card Reversal - Another Peek	glimpsing card that is reversed in center as cards are dealt off from top		1985	The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 2)	17	Cards / Sleights / Glimpse / Top or near Top Cards / Sleights / Glimpse / Center without mark-off
Jack McMillen, Judson S. Brown	Telltale Color	card of different color glimpsed during riffle shuffle, reprinted from The Sphinx (March 1934)		1987	Riffle Shuffle Methods	14	Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Divided Deck Cards / Principles / Riffle Shuffle Concepts / Full Stack Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Challenge Locations / Challenge Single Card Location / Miscellaneous Cards / Sleights / Glimpse / Center without mark-off
William Larsen, Jack McMillen, T. Page Wright	The L.W. False Shuffle	from Genii, February 1937, with finesse by McMillen		1987	Riffle Shuffle Methods	22	Cards / Sleights / Riffle Shuffle / Riffle in the hands / False Cards / Sleights / Riffle Shuffle / Riffle on the table / False / Zarrow type Shuffles
Rudy Coby	The Tsunami Card Rise	relativity principle, based on a Jack McMillen idea		1990	Spectacle	9	Cards / Effect Themes / Animation / Rising Card(s) / Impromptu
Jack McMillen, Ken Krenzel	Plunger Rise	with method for getting into it		1990	Close-up Impact!	110	Cards / Principles / Plunger Principle Cards / Effect Themes / Animation / Rising Card(s) / Impromptu
Jack McMillen	Incomplete Shuffle Subtlety	starting a Zarrow type shuffle with secret incomplete shuffle (cards sticking out randomly), spectator can do and feel final square up		1991	Page Wright's Manuscript	91	Cards / Sleights / Controls / Spectator shuffles - Subtleties Cards / Sleights / Riffle Shuffle / Riffle on the table / False / Zarrow type Shuffles
Jack McMillen	The Spring Force	cards sprung on table until spectator says stop, palm, for credit see page 8		1991	Page Wright's Manuscript	98	Cards / Sleights / Force / Stop Force
Jack McMillen	The Improved Knife Force	break, for credit see page 8		1991	Page Wright's Manuscript	99	Cards / Sleights / Force / Stabbing Force / Miscellaneous
Jack McMillen, T. Page Wright	The McMillen Change	face card of right-hand half is pushed into left-hand half, switched for dummy card, two handlings, also as Tunnel effect		1991	Page Wright's Manuscript	109	Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / Tunnel Effect Cards / Sleights / Switches / Single Card Switches / Miscellaneous
Jack McMillen	A Cut at Any Number Throughout the Deck	cutting to any named number up to fifty-two, for credit see page 8		1991	Page Wright's Manuscript	167	Cards / Effect Themes / Super-Senses / Packet thickness
Jack McMillen	A Card Reversed at Any Number	creative half pass use, for credit see page 8		1991	Page Wright's Manuscript	170	Cards / Effect Themes / Number Effects / Card(s) at A Number(Numbers) Cards / Effect Themes / Turnover & Reverse / Simple Card Turnovers
Jack McMillen	A Quick Reverse	demonstration phase		1991	Page Wright's Manuscript	204	Cards / Effect Themes / Turnover & Reverse / Simple Card Turnovers
Jack McMillen	Push-In Change	from pack in illustration, unclear		1991	Page Wright's Manuscript	205	Cards / Sleights / Switches / Single Card Switches / Push-In Change
Jack McMillen	Instant Speller	spectator stabs to a card with a knife, that card is spelled to without further manipulation		1991	Page Wright's Manuscript	220	Cards / Effect Themes / Spelling / Miscellaneous / Impromptu
Jack McMillen	The J. M. Rising Card			1991	Page Wright's Manuscript	259	Cards / Principles / Plunger Principle Cards / Effect Themes / Animation / Rising Card(s) / Impromptu
Jack McMillen	McMillen's Card from Pocket	card apparently removed from inside pocket, really from deck	Also published here McMillen's Card from Pocket (Jack McMillen, MAGIC, 1992) Related to McMillen's Card from Pocket (Jack McMillen, Expert Card Technique, 1940) also in: McMillen's Card from Pocket (Labyrinth, 1997)	1992	Modus Operandi	31	Cards / Sleights / Cloths and Cards / Producing (palmed) Cards from Pocket
Andrew Galloway	Reflected Thoughts	card thought of in fan, its value used to select another card, both found, interlocking chain principle	Also published here Reflected Thought (Andrew Galloway, Apocalypse, 1994) Inspired by Mind Mirror (Jack McMillen, Expert Card Technique, 1940) also in: Riffle Shuffle (50 Tricks You Can Do, You Will Do, Easy to Do, 1946) Shuffle Location (The Last Word on Cards, 1952) … and 1 more Variations Doppelganger (Roy Walton, Profile, 1992) Deliberation (Peter Duffie, Profile*, 1992) … and 1 more	Apr. 1992	Profile (Issue 7)	1	Cards / Effect Themes / Think a Card / limited Choice Cards / Principles / Riffle Shuffle Concepts / Partial Stack Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Numerical or Straight Stack / Partial
Jack McMillen	Bluff Card from Pocket	using flourish count, top card of deck		1992	Pasteboard Presentations	114	Cards / Sleights / Cloths and Cards / Producing (palmed) Cards from Pocket
Jack McMillen	McMillen's Card from Pocket	card apparently removed from inside pocket, really from deck	Also published here McMillen's Card from Pocket (Jack McMillen, Modus Operandi, 1992) Related to McMillen's Card from Pocket (Jack McMillen, Expert Card Technique, 1940) also in: McMillen's Card from Pocket (Labyrinth, 1997)	Nov. 1992	MAGIC (Vol. 2 No. 3)	54	Cards / Sleights / Cloths and Cards / Producing (palmed) Cards from Pocket
Andrew Galloway	Reflected Thought	card thought of in fan, its value used to select another card, both found, interlocking chain principle	Also published here Reflected Thoughts (Andrew Galloway, Profile, 1992) Inspired by Mind Mirror (Jack McMillen, Expert Card Technique, 1940) also in: Riffle Shuffle (50 Tricks You Can Do, You Will Do, Easy to Do, 1946) Shuffle Location (The Last Word on Cards, 1952) … and 1 more Variations Doppelganger (Roy Walton, Profile, 1992) Deliberation (Peter Duffie, Profile*, 1992) … and 1 more	Mar. 1994	Apocalypse (Vol. 17 No. 3)	2334	Cards / Effect Themes / Think a Card / limited Choice Cards / Principles / Riffle Shuffle Concepts / Partial Stack Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Numerical or Straight Stack / Partial
Jack McMillen	Card-from-Pocket Extraction	from deck bluff		1994	The Collected Works of Alex Elmsley — Volume 2	215	Cards / Sleights / Cloths and Cards / Producing (palmed) Cards from Pocket
Jack McMillen, Judson S. Brown	Telltale Color	card of different color glimpsed during riffle shuffle, with references	Related to The Sphinx (March 1934) Variations Color Double (Karl Fulves, Blocking Off*, 1996)	1996	Blocking Off	12	Cards / Principles / Riffle Shuffle Concepts / Full Stack Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Challenge Locations / Challenge Single Card Location / Miscellaneous Cards / Sleights / Glimpse / Center without mark-off
Karl Fulves*	Color Double	riffle glimpse exercise, Telltale Color with two cards Conditions (additional exercises)	Inspired by Telltale Color (Jack McMillen, Judson S. Brown, Blocking Off, 1996)	1996	Blocking Off	16	Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Divided Deck Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Challenge Locations / Challenge multiple Card Location Cards / Sleights / Glimpse / Center without mark-off
Ron Bauer	Key to the Draw	three cards, twenty-six key	Inspired by The Triple Discovery (Charlie Miller, Jack McMillen, More Card Manipulations, 1941)	1997	L.I.N.T. — Pocket Stuff for Close-Up Magicians	20	Cards / Principles / Key Card / Distant Key Card Cards / Principles / Locator Cards / Pencil Dot or similar Marks Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Challenge Locations / Challenge multiple Card Location
Jack McMillen	McMillen's Card from Pocket	card apparently removed from inside pocket with hand holding deck, really from deck	Also published here McMillen's Card from Pocket (Jack McMillen, Expert Card Technique, 1940) Related to McMillen's Card from Pocket (Jack McMillen, Modus Operandi, 1992) also in: McMillen's Card from Pocket (MAGIC, 1992)	1997	Labyrinth (Issue 7)	16	Cards / Sleights / Cloths and Cards / Producing (palmed) Cards from Pocket
Jeff Busby	Chapter 4: Magicians and Edge Work	on edge work in print, DeLand's Wonder Pack, credit information Cutting Any Card Called Downs' Work One-Way Edge Marking Tarbell's Work Hilliard's Omnibus Exploration Crimp Edge Work Jack McMillen's Work J.G. Thompson Jr.'s Method Walsh's Method Merlini's Method Kosky's Method Marlo's Edge Reader Gene Grant's Method Karroll Priest's Method The "Cardini" Deck Burton's Devil's Deck Variant No Playing Cards - Strictly for the Mentalist	Related to Marlo Edge Reader - Putting in the Work (Edward Marlo, Riffle Shuffle Finale, 1967)	1998	The Secret of the Palmettos	27	Cards / Principles / One Way / Edgemarked Cards / Principles / Locator Cards / Edgemarked Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Marked deck / Edges & Bevel
Jack McMillen	Astral Vision	edge-marked diagonal line, card location after riffle shuffle, mechanical interlocking chain principle, with more details and corrections by Jeff Busby	Also published here "Mental Mysteries with Cards" (Larsen & Wright, 1942) Related to The Pencil-Line Detection (Greater Magic, 1938)	1998	The Secret of the Palmettos	31	Cards / Principles / One Way / Edgemarked Cards / Principles / Locator Cards / Edgemarked Cards / Principles / Riffle Shuffle Concepts / Full Stack Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Challenge Locations / Challenge Single Card Location / Miscellaneous
Jeff Busby	One-Way Glass	card selected out-of-hands from shuffled deck, performer names position of selection, almost no-touch, out-of-hand reversal method	Inspired by "Mind Mirror" (Jack McMillen, "Mental Mysteries with Cards", Larsen & Wright, 1942)	1998	The Secret of the Palmettos	62	Cards / Principles / One Way / Edgemarked Cards / Principles / One Way / Miscellaneous Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Challenge Locations / Challenge Single Card Location / No-Touch Locations
Jeff Busby	Riffle Shuffle Convincer	combination of tabled faro with Zarrow to apparently shuffle twice and have a fair squaring action (optionally by spectator) after the Zarrow with still incompletely squared deck	Inspired by Jack McMillen concept from "L. W. False Shuffle" (William Larsen Sr., T. Page Wright, Genii, Feb. 1937) Related to Svengali-ish Convincer (Justin Higham, Dexterity Manual, 2008) Pre-Faroed Shank Shuffle (Justin Higham, Highlights, 2015)	1998	The Secret of the Palmettos	113	Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Table Faro Cards / Sleights / Riffle Shuffle / Riffle on the table / False / Zarrow type Shuffles
Charles Nyquist, Jack McMillen	San Francisco Shuffle	deck dealt into two piles randomly, piles pushed together messily (almost rosetta-style), retains separation without misses	Also published here Genii, Vol. 14 No. 3, Nov. 1949	2000	Off The Books (Issue 1)	1	Cards / Principles / Riffle Shuffle Concepts / Divided Stack Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Miscellaneous Cards / Sleights / Controls / Spectator shuffles - Subtleties
Jack McMillen	The MacMillan Slip	covered slip cut after double lift, top card remains side-jogged	Variations The MacMillen-James Slip (Wesley James, Onyx, 2000)	June 2000	Onyx (Issue 11)	10	Cards / Effect Themes / Penetration / Ambitious Card Theme / Sequences Cards / Sleights / Cuts / Slip Cuts / Top / Hands
Wesley James	The MacMillen-James Slip	slip cut with top card side-jogged, switched for second card	Inspired by The MacMillan Slip (Jack McMillen, Onyx, 2000)	June 2000	Onyx (Issue 11)	10	Cards / Effect Themes / Penetration / Ambitious Card Theme / Sequences Cards / Sleights / Cuts / Slip Cuts / Top / Hands
Jason England	The Third Shuffle	three honest shuffles by spectator	Also published here The Third Shuffle (Jason England, Jammin' With the Fellas, 2009) Inspired by Mind Mirror (Jack McMillen, Expert Card Technique, 1940) also in: Riffle Shuffle (50 Tricks You Can Do, You Will Do, Easy to Do, 1946) Shuffle Location (The Last Word on Cards, 1952) … and 1 more	May/June 2001	Mr. Gadfly (Vol. 1 No. 1)	8	Cards / Principles / Riffle Shuffle Concepts / Partial Stack Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Challenge Locations / Challenge Single Card Location / Miscellaneous Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Other Stacks / Partial
Jack McMillen	Card at Number	changing moment of bottom deal		2002	The Book of Secrets	225	Cards / Effect Themes / Number Effects / Card(s) at A Number(Numbers)
Dai Vernon	Just Injog	Nostalgia's A Breese! plunger Aces handling	Also published here Just Injog (Dai Vernon, Jack McMillen, The Phoenix, 1949) also in: Pentagram, Vol. 9 No. 8, May 1955	Jan./Feb. 2002	Mr. Gadfly (Vol. 2 No. 1)	60	Cards / Principles / Plunger Principle Cards / Effect Themes / Four-of-a-Kind & Aces Effects / Production & Appearance / One by One
David Regal, John Archer	Speaking Volumes		Related to Mind Mirror (Jack McMillen, Expert Card Technique, 1940) also in: Riffle Shuffle (50 Tricks You Can Do, You Will Do, Easy to Do, 1946) Shuffle Location (The Last Word on Cards, 1952) … and 1 more	June 2003	Genii (Vol. 66 No. 6)	77	Articles / Columns
Micah C. Lasher	The NYC Trick	spectator thinks of major street in New York City to spell to a selection, Mind Mirror procedure (one suit on top, two honest riffle shuffles), street divined at the end	Also published here The NYC Trick (Micah C. Lasher, Talk About Tricks, 2022) Inspired by Mind Mirror (Jack McMillen, Expert Card Technique, 1940) also in: Riffle Shuffle (50 Tricks You Can Do, You Will Do, Easy to Do, 1946) Shuffle Location (The Last Word on Cards, 1952) … and 1 more	Sep. 2004	MAGIC (Vol. 14 No. 1)	83	Cards / Principles / Riffle Shuffle Concepts / Partial Stack Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Challenge Locations / Challenge Single Card Location / Miscellaneous Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Other Stacks / Partial Mental Magic / Effects / Divination / Miscellaneous
Roberto Giobbi, Jack McMillen	Muscle Reading	one suit on top, two honest riffle shuffles	Inspired by Mind Mirror (Jack McMillen, Expert Card Technique, 1940) also in: Riffle Shuffle (50 Tricks You Can Do, You Will Do, Easy to Do, 1946) Shuffle Location (The Last Word on Cards, 1952) … and 1 more	2006	Card College Light	49	Cards / Principles / Riffle Shuffle Concepts / Partial Stack Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Challenge Locations / Challenge Single Card Location / Miscellaneous Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Other Stacks / Partial
Jack McMillen	Slip Slide Sleight (Modified)			2009	Route 52	18	Cards / Sleights / Cuts / Transfer- & Displacement Cuts
Jason England	The Third Shuffle	three honest shuffles by spectator	Also published here The Third Shuffle (Jason England, Mr. Gadfly, 2001) Inspired by Mind Mirror (Jack McMillen, Expert Card Technique, 1940) also in: Riffle Shuffle (50 Tricks You Can Do, You Will Do, Easy to Do, 1946) Shuffle Location (The Last Word on Cards, 1952) … and 1 more	2009	Jammin' With the Fellas	4	Cards / Principles / Riffle Shuffle Concepts / Partial Stack Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Challenge Locations / Challenge Single Card Location / Miscellaneous Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Other Stacks / Partial
Judson S. Brown, Jack McMillen	Tell-Tale Color Glimpse	glimpsing odd-colored card while riffling		2010	Secret Agenda (Issue July 8)	203	Cards / Sleights / Glimpse / Center without mark-off
Jack McMillen, T. Page Wright	McMillen-Wright Rising Cards	plunger	Also published here Genii Vol. 1 No. 1, William W. Larsen, 1936	2010	Prolix (Issue 7)	480	Cards / Principles / Plunger Principle Cards / Effect Themes / Animation / Rising Card(s) / Miscellaneous
Justin Higham*	Mirror of the Mind(reader)	one suit on top	Inspired by Mind Mirror (Jack McMillen, Expert Card Technique, 1940) also in: Riffle Shuffle (50 Tricks You Can Do, You Will Do, Easy to Do, 1946) Shuffle Location (The Last Word on Cards, 1952) … and 1 more	2011	Clairvoyant, Mental Topper and The Mind-Reader's Dream	38	Cards / Effect Themes / Think a Card / Mindreader's Dream & Value Dealing
Jack McMillen, Roberto Giobbi	On McMillen's Card Control		Inspired by Control in "Jack McMillen" (Michael Landes) Related to On McMillen's Card Control (Jack McMillen, Roberto Giobbi, Hidden Agenda, 2016) The Spectator Takes a Card (Aurelio Paviato, Studies in Deception, 2022)	2012	Confidences	90	Cards / Sleights / Controls / Single Card Controls / Shuffle Controls
Charles Nyquist, Jack McMillen	The Drop Shuffle	spectator pushes messy halves together, rosetta shuffle (but retains a small stock on top)	Related to The Drop Shuffle (Charles Nyquist, Jack McMillen, Sleights & Swindles, 1981)	2012	8 Effects and a Sleight	32	Cards / Sleights / Controls / Spectator shuffles - Subtleties Cards / Sleights / Riffle Shuffle / Riffle on the table / Real
Tony Cabral	Suit Pocket	selection travels to pocket, full suit is also taken from pocket	Inspired by Suit Revelation (Andrew Wimhurst, Low Down Dirty Tricks, 1999) Related to "Card to Pocket with Kicker" (Jack McMillen ebook, p. 144)	2012	The Brown Shoes Lecture Notes	11	Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Location with kicker Cards / Effect Themes / Chaos & Order / Suit Appearance Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to Pocket / Multiple Cards / Miscellaneous
Jack McMillen	Pocket Bluff Removal	no-palm		2015	F for Fiction	17	Cards / Sleights / Cloths and Cards / Producing (palmed) Cards from Pocket
Jack McMillen	Production from Pocket	top card of deck apparently extracted from pocket		2016	The Performance Pieces & Divertissements of the Famous Handsome Jack, etc.	110	Cards / Sleights / Cloths and Cards / Producing (palmed) Cards from Pocket
Jack McMillen, Roberto Giobbi	On McMillen's Card Control		Related to On McMillen's Card Control (Jack McMillen, Roberto Giobbi, Confidences, 2012)	2016	Hidden Agenda (Issue June 16)	172	Cards / Sleights / Controls / Single Card Controls / Shuffle Controls
Jack McMillen, Roberto Giobbi	Variation with an Injog Shuffle		Inspired by Control in "Jack McMillen" (Michael Landes)	2016	Standup Card Magic	59	Cards / Sleights / Controls / Single Card Controls / Shuffle Controls
Jack McMillen	Tip-Over Addition			2018	The Magic of Johnny Thompson (Issue 1)	109	Cards / Sleights / Switches / Single Card Switches / Tip-Over Switch
Jack McMillen	Covered Slip Cut	slip cut with card under side-jogged top card(s)		2020	Mr. Jennings Takes It Easy	214	Cards / Sleights / Cuts / Slip Cuts / Top / Hands
Micah C. Lasher	The NYC Trick	spectator thinks of major street in New York City to spell to a selection, Mind Mirror procedure (one suit on top, two honest riffle shuffles), street divined at the end	Also published here The NYC Trick (Micah C. Lasher, MAGIC, 2004) Inspired by Mind Mirror (Jack McMillen, Expert Card Technique, 1940) also in: Riffle Shuffle (50 Tricks You Can Do, You Will Do, Easy to Do, 1946) Shuffle Location (The Last Word on Cards, 1952) … and 1 more	2022	Talk About Tricks (Issue 1)	333	Cards / Principles / Riffle Shuffle Concepts / Partial Stack Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Challenge Locations / Challenge Single Card Location / Miscellaneous Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Other Stacks / Partial Mental Magic / Effects / Divination / Miscellaneous
Aurelio Paviato	The Spectator Takes a Card	A Study of Natural Selection motivations for taking back the selection and inserting it oneself for the control	Related to On McMillen's Card Control (Jack McMillen, Roberto Giobbi, Confidences, 2012)	2022	Studies in Deception	67	Cards / Sleights / Controls / General Comments Cards / Sleights / Controls / Single Card Controls / Fan Controls Cards / Sleights / Controls / Multiple Shifts / General Comments
Paul Chosse	Paul Chosse on Jack McMillen			2024	Unexpected Agenda (Issue Oct. 5)	290	Articles / Biographical
Asi Wind	Mind Trip	spectator selects a card and gives deck a riffle shuffle, card travels to pocket, no set-up	Inspired by Mind Mirror (Jack McMillen, Expert Card Technique, 1940) also in: Riffle Shuffle (50 Tricks You Can Do, You Will Do, Easy to Do, 1946) Shuffle Location (The Last Word on Cards, 1952) … and 1 more Mental Selectivity (Charlie Miller, Expert Card Technique, 1940)	2025	Second Wind	59	Cards / Principles / Key Card / Distant Key Card Cards / Principles / Key Card / Key Card Principles Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to Pocket / Single Card

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