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Thought Card to Pocket several duplicates
Related to 1935 16
Theodore Annemann (reviewer) "Outs" Precautions and Challenges by Charles Hopkins 1940
The Jinx (Issue 113)
672
Charles Hopkins Think-a-Card thought-of card to pocket, ten-card set-up
Related to 1940 39
Charles Hopkins Preface
1940 5
Charles Hopkins Introduction
1940 10
Charles Hopkins Whose Fault When Things Go Wrong?
1940 15
Charles Hopkins The Psychology of Failure
1940 16
Charles Hopkins Use of "Sucker Gag" Technique
1940 17
Charles Hopkins Secret And Open Outs Difference between rectifying mistakes secretly (before audience knows about it) and openly (when the mistake is known to everyone)
1940 18
Charles Hopkins When Error Is Still Under Cover Techniques to get out of mistakes before audience catches on
1940 18
Charles Hopkins 1 - Card correctly identified, but slips out of control. Use of peeks, cut / pass to re-establish control.
1940 19
Charles Hopkins 2 - Identification correct, but placement for climax is wrong. For counting / spelling tricks (double/triple lifts, pilot card technique)
Related to 1940 19
Charles Hopkins When Error May Be Visible Techniques to get out of mistakes when audience knows
1940 20
Charles Hopkins 3 - Incorrect identification of selection card.
1940 20
Charles Hopkins 4 - Card lost before identification.
1940 21
Charles Hopkins 5 - The selector forgets what his card was.
1940 21
Charles Hopkins Either You Know You Are Wrong - Or Else...
1940 21
Charles Hopkins This Time You MUST Be Right Importance of rectifying the mistake clearly to end successfully
1940 22
Charles Hopkins Attitudes That Get Co-operation After finding wrong card, how to get selector to reveal the correct card for magician to try again
1940 22
Charles Hopkins 6 - When they refuse to tell. How to deal with "You are doing the trick... you tell me!"
1940 23
Charles Hopkins 7 - For the extreme "hold out". Extreme cases where audience will not name their selected card
1940 23
Charles Hopkins 8 - Use a thumb writer. How to use thumb writer to get out of sticky situations
1940 24
Charles Hopkins 9 - Impression methods. Using carbon paper to make a copy
1940 25
Charles Hopkins 10 - Pencil reading.
1940 26
Charles Hopkins 11 - Friendly mirrors. Using reflective surfaces
1940 26
Charles Hopkins 12 - To meet an absolute refusal to tell. Using the 220 Count method
Related to 1940 26
Charles Hopkins Old Ideas Brought Up To Date; Also, A Few New Ones Useful sleights to use for outs
1940 27
Charles Hopkins Other Useful Standard Sleights
1940 36
Charles Hopkins Fit The Weapon To The Needs
1940 36
Charles Hopkins Getting Down To Brass Tacks--- And The Selected Card
1940 37
Charles Hopkins 22 - Out-in-the-open changes. Using top/bottom changes, or double lifts
1940 38
Charles Hopkins 24 - Using "locators" for "outs". Use of short cards, scraped/nicked edges
1940 39
Charles Hopkins Methods For Counting And Spelling Effects How to deal with errors in counting/spelling tricks
1940 39
Charles Hopkins 25 - The "Pilot Card".
1940 39
Charles Hopkins 27 - The "220 Count" as an "out". Mentions the 220 Count
Related to 1940 42
Charles Hopkins "Outs" Productions From Pockets And Other Places
1940 42
Charles Hopkins 28 - In performer's pocket.
1940 43
Charles Hopkins 29 - Pocket index. Mentions pocket index gimmick in Jinx magazine, No. 82, p. 528, Pocket Prophecies.
Related to 1940 43
Charles Hopkins 30 - Card in wallet.
1940 44
Charles Hopkins 31 - Use of spectators for "outs"
1940 44
Charles Hopkins 32 - The "Eveready Life Saver" If card is lost without having peeked at it previously
1940 45
Charles Hopkins Apparatus Alibis Outs when apparatus is used to reveal cards, but goes wrong
1940 46
Charles Hopkins 33 - When force is missed.
1940 46
Charles Hopkins First Aid For Feeble Memories What to do if spectator forgets card
1940 47
Charles Hopkins 34 - Confusion as to suit and values.
1940 47
Charles Hopkins 35 - Spectator's mind a complete blank.
1940 48
Charles Hopkins "Outs" Compared with Challenges
1940 51
Charles Hopkins A Word of Caution
1940 52
Charles Hopkins Try To Keep As Much Control As Possible
1940 53
Charles Hopkins 36 - Controlled returns.
1940 53
Charles Hopkins 37 - Use of "Locators". Short cards, nicked edges, scraped edges, crimps
1940 54
Charles Hopkins 43 - The "220 Count". Counting all the pips, sum up to 220 (ignore picture cards)
Related toAlso published here 1940 60
Charles Hopkins 44 - Pre-Arrangements.
1940 61
Charles Hopkins How "Plenty of Rein" Trips Them
1940 63
Charles Hopkins 45 - Look for informal "readers". Check for telltale nicks/dirt/scrapes on cards
Related to 1940 63
Charles Hopkins The Magician's Little Helpers Mechanical aids
1940 66
Charles Hopkins 48 - Secret reflectors.
1940 66
Charles Hopkins 49 - Wide and narrow decks.
1940 67
Charles Hopkins 50 - The indexed pocket deck again. Mentions 1939 Summer issue of The Jinx
1940 67
Charles Hopkins When Information-Getting Becomes Ticklish How to gain information not by pretending to confess to failure, but by proper methods in performance
1940 68
Charles Hopkins They Commit Themselves In Writing
1940 69
Charles Hopkins 51 - Pencil reading.
1940 69
Charles Hopkins 53 - Billet index.
1940 71
Charles Hopkins 55 - Trick notebooks. Carbon paper in notebooks
1940 71
Charles Hopkins 56 - A "Case of Hambuggery" Annemann's "Mental Masterpiece"
1940 71
Charles Hopkins A Prophet In his Own Land
1940 72
Charles Hopkins 57 - Thumb writers.
1940 72
Charles Hopkins Special Decks On Taps
1940 73
Charles Hopkins What Makes Audiences Get That Way Why do audiences heckle?
1940 74
Charles Hopkins Circumstances That Lead Up To Challenges
1940 75
Charles Hopkins Specific Handling of Various Situations
1940 76
Charles Hopkins The Heckler... Ding Bust His Buttons!
1940 76
Charles Hopkins For The Intelligent Analyst Type
1940 77
Charles Hopkins Troubles Arising Out of Pure Friendship
1940 78
Charles Hopkins More To Come?... Well, Maybe!
1940 79
Charles Hopkins So That's the Way You Want It! card behind back, performer knows selected card
1945 16
Russell "Rusduck" Duck Ribbon Spread card is hidden, spectator and performer remove a card each from the face up deck, when all cards are removed the missing card is named, as Rusduck
VariationsAlso published here Feb. 1945
The Phoenix (Issue 77)
314
Hugh Carroll, Charles Hopkins Out!
May 1950
The Phoenix (Issue 202)
808
Edward Marlo Second Method imperfection, nailnick, edgemark
Related to 1956 6
Charles Hopkins Hopkin's Spread Prediction (a la Vernon) No. 405, very short description of The Trick That Cannot Be Explained
1972 110
Charles Hopkins, Steve Beam, Don Morris Card Index using a card index as an Out
Related to 1979 13
Charles Hopkins The 220 Count counting all the pips, sum up to 220 (ignore picture cards), with variations (Rusduck)
Also published here 1979 14
Charles Hopkins Hopkin's 220 System any number card thought-of
Related to 1982 8