23 entries for Alan Nguyen

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Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Alan Nguyen Flurry Production coin vanishes and reappears, splits in two, vanish again, split in four
 		1990
Impossibilia
97
Larry Becker Ultimate Flashback book test using the flashback principle, with variations
  • The Original
  • To Have the Books Examined
  • Where are all the Gaffs?
  • The Basic Handling
  • The "Pointer" Phenomena
  • Coincidence
  • Three Down - Three to Go
  • Hoy Plus
  • The Elak Influence
  • The "How To"
Inspired byRelated to 1992
Stunners!
419
Steve Draun The Fan Glimpse
Variations 1993
Secrets Draun from Underground
31
Alan Nguyen The Double "I'm Not A Satanist On Sunday Evening" Book Test two spectators peek words from book, performer divines both
VariationsAlso published here Oct. 1993
Magic (Vol. 3 No. 2)
56
Alan Nguyen Book finger break obtaining little-finger break at page freely chosen
Also published here Oct. 1993
Magic (Vol. 3 No. 2)
57
Ted Lesley Mind Bender champagne glass on pile of books visibly bends, also glasses in hands of spectators are bent at the end
Related toVariations 1994
Paramiracles
277
Alan Nguyen Voodoo Redo spectator randomly chooses where three pins are pushed into a voodoo doll, performer has correctly predicted the locations on a second voodoo doll
Inspired by
  • "Voodoo II" (Christian Chelman, Capriconian Tales, 1993, p. 52)
 1995
Labyrinth (Issue 4)
4
Alan Nguyen Stabbing Force variation variation of knife force (credits it to Annemann?) using pin
 		1995
Labyrinth (Issue 4)
8
Alan Nguyen Rune Speller Fortune Teller spectator thinks of a human interest and rolls special "rune dice" (dice with multiple letters) depending on the letters of that word, performer knows what human interest he is thinking of
Inspired by
  • Name? (Lou Boudreau, Vibrations [PEA's newsletter], Aug. 1991)
 1995
Labyrinth (Issue 4)
11
Alan Nguyen Bender Ender spoon seems to move under cover of handkerchief, becomes bent
Inspired by 1995
Labyrinth (Issue 4)
16
Alan Nguyen On Books & Good Looks many trick ideas and techniques based around the Book Test theme:
  • Peek-to-Peek
  • Page Number Riffle Force
  • The Romantic Reader
  • The Silver Dollar Force
  • The Natural Anagram Principle
  • Peek Bank
 		1995
Labyrinth (Issue 4)
20
Alan Nguyen Peek-to-Peek two spectators think of words from book, performer divines both
Inspired by 1995
Labyrinth (Issue 4)
20
Alan Nguyen Book finger break obtaining little-finger break at page freely chosen
Also published here 1995
Labyrinth (Issue 4)
21
Alan Nguyen Page Number Riffle Force force a page number to turn to in another book
 		1995
Labyrinth (Issue 4)
24
Alan Nguyen The Romantic Reader revealing the gist of an entire page (not just a single word) of one or more spectators
Related to 1995
Labyrinth (Issue 4)
26
Alan Nguyen The Silver Dollar Force ploy to force a specific section or specific group of words on a page
 		1995
Labyrinth (Issue 4)
26
Alan Nguyen The Natural Anagram Principle narrowing down to a specific word that was thought of from a group of words (on a page)
Variations 1995
Labyrinth (Issue 4)
27
Alan Nguyen, Gene "Phantini" Grant Peek Bank fair choice of page for spectator (forcing bank), performer can divine thought-of word
Related to
  • Name? (Charles H. Miller, The Linking Ring, ca. 1960)
 1995
Labyrinth (Issue 4)
30
Alan Nguyen Over-Draun Challenge three spectators peek at cards and deck can be shuffled, performer divines them all, uses Draun's Fan Glimpse (see references)
Inspired by 1995
Labyrinth (Issue 4)
32
Alan Nguyen The Red-Black Stack full-deck OOTW, deck can be seen mixed right before, instantly resets
 		1995
Labyrinth (Issue 4)
35
Alan Nguyen Invisibility Watch spectator mimes selecting and returning a card reversed in an imaginary deck, deck becomes real and chosen card is reversed, a watch appears on performer's wrist (he had previously called attention to his "invisible watch")
 		1995
Labyrinth (Issue 4)
38
Bob Farmer Efficient Fishing
  • Overview: Two Fishing Rods
    • Binary Fishing
    • Majority Fishing
  • The Magic Combination
    • Combo Fishing
  • The Nguyen Anagram Revisited
    • Analysis
    • Conclusion
Inspired by 1995
Labyrinth (Issue 5)
17
Alain Nu Two Person Book Test
Also published here 2003
Tricks
98