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Jon Racherbaumer Hearsay Assay challenge location with ten-card packet
 		July 2020
Genii (Vol. 83 No. 7)
50
Jon Racherbaumer, Al Leech Incredulity Assured
  • Exhumations
the word "unbelievable" is spelled to find selection
Related to Aug. 2020
Genii (Vol. 83 No. 8)
49
Jon Racherbaumer Facial Recognition
  • Exhumations
two of six cards chosen and found
Inspired by Sep. 2020
Genii (Vol. 83 No. 9)
41
Jon Racherbaumer It's All About You
  • Exhumations
spectator chooses one of six cards, under the table he turns a card face up, it is his selection, repeat
 		Oct. 2020
Genii (Vol. 83 No. 10)
50
Jon Racherbaumer I Never Touched the Cards
  • Exhumations
card is inserted by spectator in packet behind his back and then packeted, performer names selection and it reverses
Inspired by Nov. 2020
Genii (Vol. 83 No. 11)
53
Jon Racherbaumer In Memoriam: Paul William Cummins
Dec. 2020
Genii (Vol. 83 No. 12)
9
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
Jamie Masterson Hamman Switch Variation for Signed Card routine
Related to 2020
Shadow & Shake
25
Larry Jennings Smith’s Myth Turns Over with Jon Racherbaumer suggestion
Inspired by 2020
Mr. Jennings Takes It Easy
465
Edward Marlo He Did It Again! one of six cards is chosen by spectator, spectator reverses his selection in the packet himself, then the cards are mixed and he chooses it again
Inspired by
  • Jon Racherbaumer routine in New Pentagram, Sept. 1979, Vol. 11 No. 7
 July 2021
Elixir (Vol. 3 No. Special Chicago Issue #1)
35
Jon Racherbaumer Wow x Four biddle trick handling, card selected from five tabled cards vanishes and reappears reversed in deck
 		July 2021
Elixir (Vol. 3 No. Special Chicago Issue #1)
55
Steve Reynolds A Night In N'Awlins
Inspired by 2021
Output (Issue 18)
1
Steve Reynolds Look! Another Illusion packet changes two times
Inspired by 2021
Output (Issue 18)
6
Jon Racherbaumer The Last Card Trick of Ed Marlo marker moved on 3x3 grid of cards
Inspired by
  • "Precognition with Cards" (Martin Gardner, Hugard's Magic Monthly, Oct. 1961)
 2021
Output (Issue 19)
25
Jon Racherbaumer One-Way Stop
  • Exhumations
two-card location, faro
Inspired byAlso published here
  • M-U-M, Nov. 1983
 Jan. 2021
Genii (Vol. 84 No. 1)
46
Jon Racherbaumer Thrust and Countdown spectator pushes card reversed into deck behind back, its value is used to count to selection
 		Jan. 2021
Genii (Vol. 84 No. 1)
46
Jon Racherbaumer Hull-Bullish
  • Exhumations
card on table turns out to be any card named, involving another selection
Inspired by Feb. 2021
Genii (Vol. 84 No. 2)
45
Jon Racherbaumer Exhumations
Mar. 2021
Genii (Vol. 84 No. 3)
36
Jon Racherbaumer Apparitional Card on Ceiling
  • Exhumations
face-up/face-down packet, selection vanishes, reappears face up
Inspired by Apr. 2021
Genii (Vol. 84 No. 4)
42
Brother John Hamman Prepping for O.O.T.W.
  • Exhumations (Jon Racherbaumer)
Also published here
  • The New Tops, 1972
 May 2021
Genii (Vol. 84 No. 5)
42
Jon Racherbaumer The Whispering Lady
  • Exhumations
spectator cuts to a card and loses that pile within the rest, it's located
Inspired by
  • unnamed Hideo Kato effect
 June 2021
Genii (Vol. 84 No. 6)
58
Jon Racherbaumer A Miltonian Mash Up
  • Exhumations
using the Swindle Switch and DealFlipDropCut
 		July 2021
Genii (Vol. 84 No. 7)
50
Jon Racherbaumer Mindful Monte
  • Exhumations
chosen card named at the end
Inspired by Aug. 2021
Genii (Vol. 84 No. 8)
47
Jon Racherbaumer Higgledy-Piggledy We Go
  • Exhumations
same as "Why Am I Here?"/"Strike Three And Out"
 		Sep. 2021
Genii (Vol. 84 No. 9)
39
Jon Racherbaumer The Card You Picked Before You Took the One You Chose
  • Exhumations
Inspired by
  • Fred Braue, The Gen, 1962
 Oct. 2021
Genii (Vol. 84 No. 10)
52
Jon Racherbaumer The Blind Leading the Blind
  • Exhumations
performer finds spectator's touched selection while spectator finds performer's thought-of selection
Inspired by Nov. 2021
Genii (Vol. 84 No. 11)
41
Don May Easy Affinity
  • Exhumations (Jon Racherbaumer)
piles are made, spectator chooses one pile and remembers top card, rest shuffled, performer takes three cards out and uses them to divine the selection, the three cards change to match the selection
Inspired byAlso published here Dec. 2021
Genii (Vol. 84 No. 12)
41
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
Bewildering Impuzzibilities
11
Edward Marlo Ed Marlo's Dunbury Delusion write-up by Vynn Boyar
Inspired byRelated to
  • MUM, Sep. 1965
  • "First Road" of "Three Roads to Dunbury" (Inside Tracks, Jon Racherbaumer, 1992)
 2022
Output (Issue 21)
3
Jon Racherbaumer The Hat's Late-Night Square Up
  • Exhumations
intro to magic square items with cards
 		Jan. 2022
Genii (Vol. 85 No. 1)
59
Jon Racherbaumer When Too Much is Just Enough
  • Exhumations
two cards and number of cards in pile predicted, rest of deck blank
Inspired by Feb. 2022
Genii (Vol. 85 No. 2)
48
Jon Racherbaumer Baby Hummer Redux
  • Exhumations
Inspired by
  • "Baby Hummer" (Charles Hudson, The Linking Ring, Dec. 1967)
 Mar. 2022
Genii (Vol. 85 No. 3)
39
Marc Serin A Hofzinser Homage
  • Exhumations (Jon Racherbaumer)
deck shuffled face-up/face-down, Aces found with double Hofzinser toss and deck shown rightened
Also published here Apr. 2022
Genii (Vol. 85 No. 4)
41
Jon Racherbaumer Counting on Lothar
  • Exhumations
card lost, three backwards counts done, cards added to count to selections, Natural Card
Related to May 2022
Genii (Vol. 85 No. 5)
54
Jon Racherbaumer, Tony Slydini The Closer You Watch, The Less You See
  • Exhumations
three coins picked up and set back down with ten-to-one count, spectator cannot duplicate it
Related to June 2022
Genii (Vol. 85 No. 6)
47
Jon Racherbaumer Hummer Blanks Out
  • Exhumations
card thought of via 10-20 force to get the value Nine, then any suit, blank deck finale except the thought-of nine
 		July 2022
Genii (Vol. 85 No. 7)
47
Jon Racherbaumer Right Side Up
  • Exhumations
deck cut in half, performer and spectator choose a card from their halves and put them into other half, deck assembled, both selections are reversed
  • David Solomon suggestion to avoid miscalling
Related to Aug. 2022
Genii (Vol. 85 No. 8)
43
Jon Racherbaumer Snychro-Nicely
  • Exhumations
half the deck handled by spectator, half by performer, three mates show up, cut deeper
 		Sep. 2022
Genii (Vol. 85 No. 9)
51
Jon Racherbaumer Mathematician vs. Psychic vs. Magician
  • Exhumations
sixteen-card packet, spectator choses card and its position, it's divined, in repeat it is the only odd-backed card
Inspired byAlso published here Nov. 2022
Genii (Vol. 85 No. 10-11)
92
Dai Vernon Dai-Ja-Vue
  • Exhumations (Jon Racherbaumer)
spectator names a number between five and ten, card of that value produced and selection found at that number
Related to
  • "Peerless Card Divination" (Vaudeville Magic, David L. Lustig, 1920)
Also published here 		Dec. 2022
Genii (Vol. 85 No. 12)
43
Paul Cummins Tap A Lack one thought-of card by performer and one by spectator, performer finds spectator's card and vice versa
Inspired byVariationsAlso published here 2022
Talk About Tricks (Issue 1)
415
Jon Racherbaumer Helter-Skelter Poker
  • Exhumations
poker deal with ten face-up and ten face-down cards shuffled together
Inspired by
  • "Carbon Footprint" (Paul Gordon, Gold Dust)
Also published here 		Jan. 2023
Genii (Vol. 86 No. 1)
42
Jon Racherbaumer A Dexterous Demo
  • Exhumations
packet cut off and counted, card at that position in rest remembered, performer takes deck under table with one hand and has any number named, card brought to that position
 		Feb. 2023
Genii (Vol. 86 No. 2)
45
Jon Racherbaumer Autonomously Sly
  • Exhumations
on the John S. Frazee Shuffle Force (spectator shuffles top card to bottom in small packet overhand shuffle)
Related to Mar. 2023
Genii (Vol. 86 No. 3)
44
Jon Racherbaumer Numbskull's Number Game
  • Exhumations
card located with value of performer's supposed selection
Inspired by Apr. 2023
Genii (Vol. 86 No. 4)
43
Jon Racherbaumer Clean Sweep Thought Penetration
  • Exhumations
odd-backed, two packets of four Aces each, thought Aces transpose, repeat
Inspired byAlso published here May 2023
Genii (Vol. 86 No. 5)
44
Jon Racherbaumer In Memoriam: Harry Lorayne
June 2023
Genii (Vol. 86 No. 6)
11
Bert Fenn Bar Spin Revealment
  • Exhumations (Jon Racherbaumer)
card spins face up on smooth surface and changes, from 1949 notebook
 		June 2023
Genii (Vol. 86 No. 6)
39
Jon Racherbaumer, William Goldman Locus-Abruptus
  • Exhumations
spectator stops face-up dealing anytime, takes packet, loses top and bottom cards and takes top one, it appears at named number eventually, self-force, reconstructed from Bill Goldman performance
 		July 2023
Genii (Vol. 86 No. 7)
52
Bruce Cervon, Dai Vernon Counting on the Foreseeable
  • Exhumations (Jon Racherbaumer)
card and number are predicted by two cards (value and suit, then values added to count to selection)
Also published here Aug. 2023
Genii (Vol. 86 No. 8)
47
Alex Elmsley By a Narrow Margin
  • Exhumations (Jon Racherbaumer)
card chosen and lost, packet removed, spectator removes one card from it and it is selection or leads to it
Also published here Sep. 2023
Genii (Vol. 86 No. 9)
58
Don May Simpleton's Affinity
  • Exhumations (Jon Racherbaumer)
piles are made, spectator chooses one pile and remembers top card, rest shuffled, performer takes three cards out and uses them to divine the selection, the three cards change to match the selection
Inspired byAlso published here Oct. 2023
Genii (Vol. 86 No. 10)
61
Bob Karlbach Ring a Bell?
  • Exhumations (Jon Racherbaumer)
four packets made according to card values, eventually the spectator's phone number shows up
Also published here Nov. 2023
Genii (Vol. 86 No. 11)
49
Jon Racherbaumer Deceptive Perception Plus
  • Exhumations
ten blue-backed cards, one red-backed selection, back-condition reverses
Inspired byAlso published here Dec. 2023
Genii (Vol. 86 No. 12)
53
Jon Racherbaumer Almost No Miraskill Required
  • Exhumations
starts with dealing off twenty-six cards face up, several prediction phases
Related to Jan. 2024
Genii (Vol. 87 No. 1)
51
Al Leech Homespun Spell
  • Exhumations (Jon Racherbaumer)
card and its position remembered, then it is checked that it is no longer at its position, card found by spelling the spectator's name
Also published here Feb. 2024
Genii (Vol. 87 No. 2)
47
Dani DaOrtiz Fluke or Fortuity?
  • Exhumations (Jon Racherbaumer)
two cards are placed aside, spectator cuts off some cards, spectator says stop during running cut for a further packet, all have the same number, faro
 		Mar. 2024
Genii (Vol. 87 No. 3)
38
Edward Marlo Double-Edged Outcome
  • Exhumations (Jon Racherbaumer)
Overkill type effect from 1968 notes, odd-backed kicker (either the selection or deck is perceived to have changed)
 		Apr. 2024
Genii (Vol. 87 No. 4)
41
Jon Racherbaumer Subtle Mental Reverse
  • Exhumations
card chosen from small packet, it turns over in packet, then packet is placed in deck and it turns over
 		May 2024
Genii (Vol. 87 No. 5)
42
Vernon Utility Move Handling cards pushed back without interlock condition, right thumb covers action
Also published here
  • Jon Racherbaumer's Card Finesse, 1982 (no specific reference given)
 2024
All In — Volume 1
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