73 entries for Tom Bowyer

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S. W. Erdnase The Diagonal Palm-Shift mention of top palm, bottom palm and multiple shift on page 141
Also published here
Related to
Variations
 1902
The Expert at the Card Table
137
Theodore Annemann*, Tom Bowyer Impromptu Frame Ups card divination with instant stooge
 		Mar. 1935
The Jinx (Issue 6)
22
Tom Bowyer Publicity Trick back of business card with playing card back changes color
 		May 1935
The Jinx (Issue 8)
31
Tom Bowyer Klondyke Poker poker deal from new pack order
 		1937
Encyclopedia of Card Tricks
373
Tom Bowyer The Restless Dozen twelve cards counted in strange way, then every second card is turned over, then half the cards together
 		1937
The Jinx (Issue Winter Extra 1936/37)
180
Tom Bowyer Eight Bits cut newspaper pieces are folded and change into bills, then back, gag scissors that cannot be opened
 		1937
Money Magic
53
Tom Bowyer, S. W. Erdnase Indetectable improvement (?) on DPS
Inspired by
 Jan. 1938
The Jinx (Issue 40)
264
Tom Bowyer For a Dime weird traveling effect in which a 6H becomes a 6H with black hearts pips
 		Jan. 1938
The Jinx (Issue 40)
268
Theodore Annemann* Flat Rabbit Gag "I left him in the suit when I had it pressed!"
Related to
 June 1939
The Jinx (Issue 57)
402
Tom Bowyer "My Card, Sir!" double blank card changes into business card
 		1941
The Jinx (Issue 131)
752
Tom Bowyer Indetectable Shift-Palm improvement (?) on DPS
Related to
 1943
Full Deck of Impromptu Card Tricks
78
Tom Bowyer Match Vanish after lighting a cigarette
 		Apr. 1944
Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 1 No. 11)
46
Tom Bowyer Routine with a Svengali Deck different effects with a svengali deck, reverse, spelling, counting, all alike
 		June 1944
Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 2 No. 1)
54
Tom Bowyer The Upside Down Six six spot turns into nine spot
Variations
 Dec. 1944
Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 2 No. 7)
87
Tom Bowyer The Color-Changing Hat and Gloves
Also published here
 1945
My Best
288
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
R. M. Jamison The Upside Down Six Six spot turns into Nine spot, with jumbo cards and card has number written on it
Also published here
Inspired by
 Jan. 1945
Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 2 No. 8)
95
Tom Bowyer Psychological Stop Trick
Jan. 1948
Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 5 No. 8)
390
Frank Joglar* Backstage on Sam Horowitz, Jay Marshall, Fu Manchu, Robert Harbin, Eugene Hellman, Alli Mona, Louis McBride, Sid Lorraine, Tom Bowyer and more
  • News of the Necromancers
  • See-Through Sorcery
  • Harbin
  • Personal Preferences
  • Black Magic
  • Albenice
  • Memory Book
  • "Cagliostro"
  • Tom Bowyer
 		Dec. 1949
Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 7 No. 7)
612
P. Howard Lyons Infallible Coincidence deck cut, half the cards counted into a pile, cards turned up simultaneously, one match occurs which is previously announced by value and position
Inspired by
  • "The Frequent Miracle" (Tom Bowyer, The Sphinx, Vol. 39 Nr. 3, p. 67, 1940)
 June 1955
Ibidem (Issue 1)
16
Tom Bowyer Flat Rabbit Gag Comment
Related to
 Aug. 1955
Ibidem (Issue 2)
4
Tom Bowyer Maybe Make Three shuffled deck cut in half, performer takes three values out of one half, three cards chosen freely from other half, most of the time some values match, proposition bet
Related to
 Aug. 1955
Ibidem (Issue 2)
5
Dariel Fitzkee, Tom Bowyer Trick Brain Tumors annotations to "The Trick Brain"
  • p. 22
  • p. 24
 		Nov. 1955
Ibidem (Issue 4)
4
Dariel Fitzkee, Tom Bowyer Trick Brain Tumors annotations to "The Trick Brain"
  • p. 25
  • p. 36
  • p. 65
 		Nov. 1955
Ibidem (Issue 4)
12
Dariel Fitzkee, Tom Bowyer Trick Brain Tumors annotations to "The Trick Brain"
  • p. 112
 		Nov. 1955
Ibidem (Issue 4)
16
Dariel Fitzkee, Tom Bowyer Trick Brain Tumors annotations to "The Trick Brain"
  • p. 36
 		Apr. 1956
Ibidem (Issue 5)
5
Dariel Fitzkee, Tom Bowyer Trick Brain Tumors annotations to "The Trick Brain"
  • p. 75
  • p. 77
 		Apr. 1956
Ibidem (Issue 5)
7
Dariel Fitzkee, Tom Bowyer Trick Brain Tumors annotations to "The Trick Brain"
  • p. 206
  • p. 289
  • p. 301
 		Apr. 1956
Ibidem (Issue 5)
17
Tom Bowyer Follow the Leader Method brief outline
 		July 1956
Ibidem (Issue 6)
13
Tom Bowyer One Way the Hard Way out-of-the-room selection, spectator has to remove a card from tabled spread, walk somewhere and replace card from other side, described by Faucett Ross
Related to
 Sep. 1956
Ibidem (Issue 7)
7
Dariel Fitzkee, Tom Bowyer Trick Brain Tumors annotations to "The Trick Brain"
  • p. 68
 		Sep. 1956
Ibidem (Issue 7)
12
Dariel Fitzkee, Tom Bowyer Trick Brain Tumors annotations to "The Trick Brain"
  • p. 210
page number is guessed
 		Dec. 1956
Ibidem (Issue 8)
30
Dariel Fitzkee, Tom Bowyer Trick Brain Tumors annotations to "The Trick Brain"
  • p. 206
 		Mar. 1957
Ibidem (Issue 9)
3
Tom Bowyer A One-Man Impossibility? spectator with cloth over him divines chosen cards, cue sheet and force, originally published under Bowyer's stage name "T. Van Russell"
Also published here
  • marketed 1923
Variations
 Mar. 1957
Ibidem (Issue 9)
7
Tom Bowyer "Sucker" Effect spectator under cloth apparently divines cards, rest of audience plays along, originally published under Bowyer's stage name "T. Van Russell"
Also published here
  • marketed 1923
 Mar. 1957
Ibidem (Issue 9)
7
Dariel Fitzkee, Tom Bowyer Trick Brain Tumors annotations to "The Trick Brain"
  • p. 27
 		Mar. 1957
Ibidem (Issue 9)
11
Dariel Fitzkee, Tom Bowyer Trick Brain Tumors annotations to "The Trick Brain"
  • p. 104
  • p. 167
 		Mar. 1957
Ibidem (Issue 9)
17
Dariel Fitzkee, Tom Bowyer Trick Brain Tumors annotations to "The Trick Brain"
  • p. 74
 		Mar. 1957
Ibidem (Issue 9)
21
Dariel Fitzkee, Tom Bowyer Trick Brain Tumors annotations to "The Trick Brain"
  • p. 176
 		Mar. 1957
Ibidem (Issue 9)
22
Dariel Fitzkee, Tom Bowyer Trick Brain Tumors annotations to "The Trick Brain"
  • p. 231
  • p. 237
 		June 1957
Ibidem (Issue 10)
5
Dariel Fitzkee, Tom Bowyer Trick Brain Tumors annotations to "The Trick Brain"
  • p. 115
 		June 1957
Ibidem (Issue 10)
12
Dariel Fitzkee, Tom Bowyer Trick Brain Tumors annotations to "The Trick Brain"
  • p. 181
 		June 1957
Ibidem (Issue 10)
14
Dariel Fitzkee, Tom Bowyer Trick Brain Tumors annotations to "The Trick Brain"
  • p. 177
 		June 1957
Ibidem (Issue 10)
17
Dariel Fitzkee, Tom Bowyer Trick Brain Tumors annotations to "The Trick Brain"
  • p. 289
  • p. 290
  • p. 293
 		Sep. 1957
Ibidem (Issue 11)
18
Dariel Fitzkee, Tom Bowyer Trick Brain Tumors annotations to "The Trick Brain"
  • p. 231
 		Sep. 1957
Ibidem (Issue 11)
20
Richard H. Barnett Patter for the Tom Bowyer Repeat Bill Trick
1958
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1958)
21
Dariel Fitzkee, Tom Bowyer Trick Brain Tumors annotations to "The Trick Brain"
  • p. 248
  • p. 248
 		Sep. 1958
Ibidem (Issue 14)
10
Tom Bowyer A Letter to Faucett letter to Faucett Ross, Chester Miller, Dunninger
Related to
 Sep. 1958
Ibidem (Issue 14)
13
Tom Bowyer Phone Book Test based on Grant idea, index
 		Sep. 1958
Ibidem (Issue 14)
13
Tom Bowyer Book Riffle Force
Sep. 1958
Ibidem (Issue 14)
14
Dr. Stanley Jaks A Letter from Jaks reaction to Tom Bowyer letter
Related to
 Aug. 1963
Ibidem (Issue 29)
30
Norman Houghton Letter: Gambling Proposition (previous stage name: Lorne DeBlois), probabilities of "Maybe Make Three"
Related to
 Dec. 1965
Ibidem (Issue 31)
4
Tom Bowyer Comment on Annemann Annemann saying GABBATHA
 		Aug. 1969
Ibidem (Issue 34 & 35)
20
Stewart Judah, Tom Bowyer Stewart Judah's Svengali Deck Routine
1976
Subtle Card Magic — Part One
26
Tom Bowyer Un Cambio de Color de Sombrero y Guantes
Also published here
 1977
Magicolor
96
Danny Korem, Tom Bowyer A Way Out three cards chosen from spectator match three cards chosen from performer, risky
 		1980
The Hierophant (Issue The Last Hierophant)
18
Tom Bowyer Probabilistic Power of Thought two shuffled decks, a match is likely
 		1981
Origins
16
Tom Bowyer Svengali Routine selection made, card divined, then it turns over, then appears at named number and at randomly spelled card, spectator stabs next to it
 		1985
The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 4)
28
S. W. Erdnase The Diagonal Palm Shift reprinted from reference
Also published here
Related to
Variations
 1989
The Multiple Shift
34
Tom Bowyer Tom Bowyer's Trick one of five cards, multiple out
 		1994
More Greater Magic
1237
Tom Bowyer The "Stop" Trick psychological force
 		1994
More Greater Magic
1238
Ted Lesley The More Frequent Miracle two people deal cards from shuffled decks until two cards match, matching card is predicted reversed in third deck, repeated by reversing new card and cutting other two decks
Inspired by
  • Tom Bowyer's "The Frequent Miracle" in "The Sphinx" Vol. 39, Nr. 3. P. 67. 1940.
 1994
Paramiracles
37
R. M. Jamison Die umgedrehte Sechs Six spot turns into Nine spot, with jumbo cards and card has number written on it
Also published here
Inspired by
 1995
Intermagic (Vol. 19 No. 4 & 5)
154
Tom Stone Pipedream NO 1: The Exceptionally Infrequent Miracle three people deal ABC cards, first three letter word is predicted
Related to
  • Tom Bowyer's "The Frequent Miracle" in "The Sphinx", 1940. Vol.39. P. 67.
 1996
The Warpsmith Returns
17
Tom Bowyer One-Way Reversal see section "Attribution"
Related to
 Mar. 1999
MAGIC (Vol. 8 No. 7)
76
Al Baker September 13, 1936 to Tom Bowyer
 		2003
The Secret Ways of Al Baker (Issue Letters)
785
Lewis Jones Value for Money betting game trick, dealing through cards and naming values in a row, every hit costs a dollar, spectator has some hits and performer has none
Inspired by
  • Tom Bowyer's "The Frequent Miracle" in "The Sphinx" Vol. 39, Nr. 3. P. 67. 1940.
 2006
Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 6
148
Tomas Blomberg Freakish Miracle #1 two decks with names of playing cards on the backs, shuffled and one dealt face up and one face down, card matches with writing on the back of other card and they also match when both cards are turned over
Inspired by
  • Tom Bowyer's "The Frequent Miracle" in "The Sphinx" Vol. 39, Nr. 3. P. 67. 1940
 2006
Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 7
15
S. W. Erdnase The Diagonal Palm Shift reprint of original description
Also published here
Related to
Variations
 Mar. 2009
Genii (Vol. 72 No. 3)
33
Sid Lorraine, Tom Bowyer Digging into the Past thought off cards are divined by placing them on table, duplicate
 		2012
The F.F.F.F. Book
150
Christian Scherer Ein Kindheitstraum six bill repeat, pocket method
Also published here
Inspired by
  • Tom Bowyer's "six Bill Repeat"
 2014
Schlaglichter
337
Tomas Blomberg The Freakish Miracle Frequent Miracle type of effect, using three decks with their backs openly marked, two deck dealt through until a match occurs, match at same position in third deck but on other side of card
Inspired by
  • "The Frequent Miracle" (Tom Bowyer, The Sphinx, Vol. 39 No. 3, May 1940)
 2014
Blomberg Laboratories
120
Reynard Vulpes Neurowire spectator with paper bag over his head divines symbol, number, card, instant stooge, then paper balls over the head situation in which rest of audience is instant stooged
Inspired by
 2026
Out of the Blue (Vol. 1 No. 1)
8