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Paul Curry New View deck in new deck order, spectator has the deck behind the back and puts one card reversed in the middle of the deck, exactly in order
Variations Feb. 1947
The Phoenix (Issue 120)
481
Tom Ransom Racing Aces! four Aces marked with an X on the back, covered each with three cards, Aces vanish and appear in pocket, vanishing ink
June 1951
The Phoenix (Issue 232)
928
Tom Ransom New(er) View impromptu version of the Curry effect
Inspired by July 1951
The Phoenix (Issue 233)
931
Tom Ransom No Bop Balloon needle through balloon
July 1954
The New Phoenix (Issue 312)
51
P. Howard Lyons, Tom Ransom, Norman Houghton Divination of Two Mentally Chosen Cards two selections made from two halves with "counting pile and remember card at that position" procedure
Inspired byVariations Nov. 1955
Ibidem (Issue 4)
5
Stewart James An Addition and a Teaser
Inspired byRelated to Nov. 1955
Ibidem (Issue 4)
6
Tom Ransom Crazy Tom Ransom Reads Books two number puzzles
  • The Huckster
  • Color Poker
Nov. 1955
Ibidem (Issue 4)
7
Tom Ransom Brown Study two spectators cut off a small pile, shuffle and remember the bottom card, all replaced and done with the performer's back turned, cards are found
Inspired byRelated to Apr. 1956
Ibidem (Issue 5)
5
Tom Ransom Puzzle: Shear Madness puzzle about cutting out a Greek cross of a folded paper with one cut
Related to Apr. 1956
Ibidem (Issue 5)
9
Tom Ransom Puzzle Solution: Shear Madness
Related to July 1956
Ibidem (Issue 6)
14
Mel Stover, Tom Ransom, Norman Houghton Puzzle: Cubes arranging five objects to make a cube
Related to July 1956
Ibidem (Issue 6)
14
Tom Ransom Redundant two cards chosen from two halves, both dealt simultaneously, one face up and one face down, face-up spectator thinks stop and performer stops at card, second selection is at same position in face-down pile
Related to
  • "Simultaneous Coincidence" (Reading Is Believing, Trevor Hall)
July 1956
Ibidem (Issue 6)
15
Tom Ransom Tom Ransom Letter quotes from a letter
July 1956
Ibidem (Issue 6)
22
Martin Gardner Flexa Tube Puzzle flexagon-related puzzle about folding a tube inside out in a certain way
Related to Sep. 1956
Ibidem (Issue 7)
13
Mel Stover, Tom Ransom, Norman Houghton Puzzle Solutions: Cubes
Related to Sep. 1956
Ibidem (Issue 7)
15
Norman Houghton Puzzle Solution: Cubes
Related to Dec. 1956
Ibidem (Issue 8)
13
Tom Ransom Suicide Build progressive poker deal, from five to two hands
Related toVariations Sep. 1957
The Cardiste (Issue 4)
7
Tom Ransom On the Stay-Stack System cards do not have to be cut in center for the faro, handling idea
Sep. 1957
The Cardiste (Issue 4)
15
Tom Ransom Flexa-Tube Solution
Related to Mar. 1957
Ibidem (Issue 9)
12
Tom Ransom Mixmaster 4&4, no extra cards
Mar. 1957
Ibidem (Issue 9)
23
Tom Ransom A Puzzle From The Future! puzzle about which year a company was founded
Also published here Sep. 1957
Ibidem (Issue 11)
7
Tom Ransom Piano Music piano card trick featuring a pure rhythm false count for six as seven, and eight as seven
Related to Sep. 1957
Ibidem (Issue 11)
14
Alexander F. Kraus Sum Total Kruskal count procedure, challenge of having the face-up cards add up to 52, posed as a problem
Variations Dec. 1957
Ibidem (Issue 12)
7
Tom Ransom Puzzle Solution: Puzzle From The Future!
Also published here Dec. 1957
Ibidem (Issue 12)
7
Tom Ransom Magical Principles four diagrams, puzzle what they represent
Related to Dec. 1957
Ibidem (Issue 12)
20
Russell "Rusduck" Duck, Jean Hugard Color Separation separating suits and stacking deck in the hands, see Tom Ransom's idea in No. 6
Related to Feb. 1958
The Cardiste (Issue 5)
9
P. Howard Lyons Stough comments and "departments"
Related to Mar. 1958
Ibidem (Issue 13)
2
Tom Ransom Puzzle: Fist Through Cigarette Paper walking through a playing card variation
Mar. 1958
Ibidem (Issue 13)
4
Tom Ransom Heat-Sensitive Paper Comment challenge of finding magical applications
Mar. 1958
Ibidem (Issue 13)
5
Tom Ransom Sibling two prediction cards, spectator stabs a card reversed into deck behind his back, prediction cards predict the card above the stabbed card via suit and value, and also the one below
Mar. 1958
Ibidem (Issue 13)
8
Tom Crane On the Piano Music False Count spectator and performer count simultaneously
Related to Mar. 1958
Ibidem (Issue 13)
10
Tom Ransom Sum More Kruskal count procedure, at the end all face-up cards add up to 52
Inspired byRelated to Mar. 1958
Ibidem (Issue 13)
17
Tom Ransom Australian Poker three cards placed on each Ace, packets combined, after down-under deal performer ends up with the Aces
Related toVariations Sep. 1958
Ibidem (Issue 14)
4
Ronald A. Wohl (Ravelli) Tips from Ravelli: Brown Study tip for Brown Study (two spectators cut off a small pile, shuffle and remember the bottom card, all replaced and done with the performer's back turned, cards are found)
Related to Sep. 1958
Ibidem (Issue 14)
7
Tom Ransom You Did It!!! deck riffle shuffled once, dealt into two pile (one face up, one face down), one spectator follows the dealing of reds and blacks with the face-down pile and thus separates his cards
Inspired by
  • "Magnetic Colors" (Normal Gilbreath, Linking Ring)
Related to
Mar. 1959
Ibidem (Issue 16)
11
Tom Ransom Puzzle: Big Casino
Related to Mar. 1959
Ibidem (Issue 16)
13
Tom Ransom From the Subliminal to the Ridiculous one-way forcing deck as gag force
Mar. 1959
Ibidem (Issue 16)
18
Mel Stover Puzzle Solution: Big Casino
Related to Oct. 1959
Ibidem (Issue 18)
22
Neal Elias Down & Out sixteen-card packet is sorted into four fours-of-a-kind with down-under-deal
Inspired by May 1960
Ibidem (Issue 20)
20
Tom Ransom Puzzle: Ounces & Mugs number puzzle with number of ounces that fit in mugs
June 1960
Ibidem (Issue 21)
4
Tom Ransom Puzzle: Drawn and Thirded drawing a figure without leaving the paper
June 1960
Ibidem (Issue 21)
5
Tom Ransom 1784 Evening-Post Quote Request looking for details of a game
June 1960
Ibidem (Issue 21)
14
Tom Ransom A SwyMove on a head/tail game with two coins, briefly explaining a controlled coin toss off a match box
Oct. 1960
Ibidem (Issue 22)
21
Tom Ransom Puzzle Solution Follow-up: Knight’s Tour
Oct. 1960
Ibidem (Issue 22)
21
Ronald A. Wohl (Ravelli) Sum Fun more on the mathematics of the Kruskal count procedure, forcing number 52, at the end all face-up cards add to force number
  • Numeric Cycle
  • Spelling Cycle
  • Ending a Cycle
  • Inducing a Cycle
  • Backward Cycle
Inspired byRelated to Mar. 1961
Ibidem (Issue 23)
25
J. W. Sarles Posi-Negative Cards Magnetic Colors variation
Related toVariationsAlso published here May 1967 99
Allan Slaight Build Down progressive poker deal with ten card poker deal finale, see also p. 340 & 342
Inspired byRelated to
  • "The Psychological Loser" (Daniel Dobson, Tokyo Trickery by Takinshi Nemoto, Magic Inc.)
VariationsAlso published here
Mar. 1970 325
Ken Beale Poker down under deal packet trick with poker theme
  • Canberra Poker
  • New South Wales
Related to Sep. 1973 655
Edward G. Brown The Two Pile Trick two selections made from two halves with "counting pile and remember card at that position" procedure
Related toVariationsAlso published here 1973 74
Tom Ransom New Charlier Pass lift instead of drop, some credit information
Apr. 1979
Apocalypse (Vol. 2 No. 4)
189
Bob Farmer, Tom Ransom Chart #1 & Chart #2
1987/1988 20
Richard Kaufman Column No 6 Tom Ransom, Jeff Busby, getting endorsements from Dai Vernon
Related to Feb. 1991
Opus (Vol. 3 No. 8)
11
Peter Duffie Epitaph for a Card Cheat one-at-a-time reduction of hands
Inspired byRelated to 1995 156
Karl Fulves Follow Me No. 3, spectator follows dealing pattern of performer, backs marked for color
Related to 1997 7
Tom Ransom Hologramagic Seven of Spades torn in half, one half torn in half again, and so on, to get smaller and smaller pieces, each piece shows a full miniature Seven of Spades on its face
1997 72
Tom Ransom Origins origins of the Changing Pictures from previous entry
Feb. 1997
Magic (Vol. 6 No. 6)
62
Michael Close (reviewer) Wit and Wizardry: The Magic of Norm Houghton by Norman Houghton (written by Tom Ransom) June 1998
Magic (Vol. 7 No. 10)
27
Oscar Weigle, Robert E. Ragatz, John Davit, Joe M. Marks, Tom Ransom, Rick Schulz, Gary Diliberto, Cushing Strout, Tom Arledge, Jack Browne, Russell T. Barnhart Messages
Feb. 2000
Genii (Vol. 63 No. 2)
14
Tom Ransom The Real Work On One-Way Faces gag
Jan. 2003
Genii (Vol. 66 No. 1)
80
Tom Ransom Duped Again possibilities for pseudo duplicates
  • 1. Push-In Duplicate
  • 2. Multiple Push-In Duplicates
  • 3. Jacker Duplicate
  • 4. Reverse Duplicates
  • 5. Full Numeral Duplicate
  • 6. Pip Duplicates
  • 7. Automatic Pip Duplicates
  • 8. Visible Color Change
Jan. 2003
Genii (Vol. 66 No. 1)
80
Tom Ransom Card Sense (By Computer) the twenty Royal Flush cards are used for a divination of poker hand and hole cards, using a paper computer with strips to find out about the cards
Jan. 2003
Genii (Vol. 66 No. 1)
81
Tom Ransom Two Card Monte with two odd-backed ace of spades
2010 111
Tom Ransom Flustration Monte with two odd-backed ace of spades
2010 114