Gerald Kosky

2 publications by Gerald Kosky:

The Magic of Tenkai (My Fifty Years In Magic, Arnold Furst, Gerald Kosky, 1974)
The Magic of Gerald Kosky (Gerald Kosky, 1975)

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Creators	Title	Comments & References		Year	Source	Page	Categories
	The Capital Q	back-count force with counters/coins or cards, as divination with partial stack	Also published here The Capital Q (More Magic, 1890) Related to New Tail of the Q (Edward Marlo, Ibidem, 1957) Variations Question of Charms (Gerald Kosky, The Magic of Gerald Kosky, 1975) Q-Tip (Michael Weber, Life Savers, 1991) … and 2 more	1889	Tricks with Cards	95	Coin / Effect Themes / Mental Stuff Cards / Sleights / Force / Count Forces Cards / Sleights / Force / Mathematical Forces Cards / Effect Themes / Divination & Mind Reading / Miscellaneous Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Memorized / Partial
	The Capital Q	back-count force with counters/coins or cards, as divination with partial stack	Also published here The Capital Q (Tricks with Cards, 1889) Related to New Tail of the Q (Edward Marlo, Ibidem, 1957) Variations Question of Charms (Gerald Kosky, The Magic of Gerald Kosky, 1975) Q-Tip (Michael Weber, Life Savers, 1991) … and 2 more	1890	More Magic	27	Coin / Effect Themes / Mental Stuff Cards / Sleights / Force / Count Forces Cards / Sleights / Force / Mathematical Forces Cards / Effect Themes / Divination & Mind Reading / Miscellaneous Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Memorized / Partial
Ziska	The Transposed Cards	done with full deck, performer divines the number of cards put form one half to another	Related to A Trick Without a Clue (Rolland Hamblen, Encyclopedia of Card Tricks, 1937) Variations Ziska Improved (Gerald Kosky, More Card Manipulations, 1940)	1909	The Art of Magic	49	Cards / Effect Themes / Number Effects / Miscellaneous Cards / Effect Themes / Number Effects / Row of Cards Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Numerical or Straight Stack / Partial
Dr. Jacob Daley	The Ultra Slate Message	silicate slate flaps	Also published here The Ultra Slate Message (Dr. Jacob Daley, Practical Mental Effects, 1944) Related to The Answer! (Dr. Jacob Daley, The Jinx, 1938) also in: The Answer (Practical Mental Effects, 1944) Daley's Spirit Effect Supreme (Jacob Daley's Notebooks, 1972) Qwhite (Thomas Alan Waters, Mind, Myth & Magick, 1985) Variations Impromptu Ultra Spirit Message (Gerald Kosky, Hugard's Magic Monthly, 1948) also in: Impromptu Ultra Spirit Message (The Magic of Gerald Kosky, 1975) Impromptu Ultra Spirit Message (Miracles of my Friends, 1982) The Four Blacks (Dr. Stanley Jaks, Who is this Dr. Jaks?, 1951) also in: Die vier schwarzen Karten (Dr. Stanley-Jaks und seine Geheimnisse, 1961) Four Blacks (The Incredible Dr. Jaks, 2014)	1936	The Jinx (Issue Winter Extra 1935/36)	88	Slate / Display Sequences & False Counts
	Business cards	of various artists, Lloyd E. Jones, Gerald Kosky, Fred Keating, Eddie Clever, T. Nelson Downs and more		Apr. 1936	The Jinx (Issue 19)	106	Business Cards Articles / Articles Articles / Business and Publicity
Dai Vernon	The Five Card Mental Force		Also published here 5 Card Mental Force (Dai Vernon, Magick, 1976) also in: The Five Card Mental Force (Dai Vernon, Cunning Card Miracles, 1999) Related to Psychological Locations (Ormond McGill, Dai Vernon, Psychic Magic — Vol. 1, 1951) Daisection (Thomas Alan Waters, Mind, Myth & Magick, 1982) … and 1 more Variations Vernon's F.C.M.F. (Gerald Kosky, The New Phoenix, 1964) also in: Vernon's F.C.M.F. (The Magic of Gerald Kosky, 1975) You Find One! (David Bornstein, The New Jinx, 1967) … and 6 more	1937	Encyclopedia of Card Tricks	30	Cards / Effect Themes / Think a Card / Five Card Mental Force
Walter B. Gibson*	Improved Super Memory	apparently twenty selections and their positions are remembered	Variations Tricky Mentalist without Cards (Gerald Kosky, The Phoenix, 1953) also in: Der trickhafte Mentalist (Intermagic, 2000) Tricky Mentalist - Without Cards (Gerald Kosky, Walter B. Gibson, The Magic of Gerald Kosky*, 1975)	1937	Encyclopedia of Card Tricks	175	Cards / Effect Themes / Super-Senses / Memory / Miscellaneous
Ziska	The Transposed Cards	number of cut off cards is divined by value of a card, set-up	Related to Ziska Improved (Gerald Kosky, More Card Manipulations, 1940)	1937	Encyclopedia of Card Tricks	192	Cards / Effect Themes / Number Effects / Miscellaneous Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Numerical or Straight Stack / Partial
William H. McCaffrey	The Jumping Match or Toothpick		Related to Strike One (James G. Thompson Jr., Verne Chesbro, William H. McCaffrey, Gerald Kosky, Top Secrets of Magic, 1956) also in: Streichholzereien (Intermagic, 1991)	1938	Greater Magic	830	Toothpick Match & Matchbox / Match / Animation
Gerald Kosky	"Nuts to You"	card travels into walnut	Also published here "Nuts to You" (Gerald Kosky, The Magic of Gerald Kosky, 1975)	May 1938	The Jinx (Issue 44)	301	Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to impossible Location / Miscellaneous Nut / Miscellaneous
Gerald Kosky	Swindle	unsolvable puzzle is solved behind back	Also published here Swindle (Gerald Kosky, The Magic of Gerald Kosky, 1975)	1938	The Jinx (Issue Summer Extra 1938)	324	Puzzle / Miscellaneous
Gerald Kosky	Predicto	spectator shuffles and cuts into three piles, performer predicts third card in pile he will choose, bad outs	Also published here Predicto (Gerald Kosky, The Magic of Gerald Kosky, 1975)	Dec. 1938	The Jinx (Issue 51)	356	Cards / Principles / Multiple Out Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / One Ahead Classic Triple Prediction Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Single Card
Gerald Kosky	An Easy Bottom Deal	stud off the back	Variations Tilted Fake Removal (Justin Higham, Dexterity Manual, 2008) also in: Tilted Fake Removal (Prophecy Moves and Effects*, 2012)	1939	More Card Manipulations (Issue 2)	15	Cards / Sleights / False Dealing / Bottom Deal / Strike
Gerald Kosky	Ziska Improved	number of moved cards & selection are divined by value of a card, set-up, marked locator	Inspired by The Transposed Cards (Ziska, The Art of Magic, 1909) Related to The Transposed Cards (Ziska, Encyclopedia of Card Tricks, 1937)	1940	More Card Manipulations (Issue 3)	40	Cards / Effect Themes / Number Effects / Miscellaneous Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Single Card Cards / Principles / Locator Cards / Pencil Dot or similar Marks Cards / Effect Themes / Number Effects / Row of Cards Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Numerical or Straight Stack / Partial
Jack Vosburgh	Pay Day	coins distributed to envelopes with mathematical procedure, predicted, see page 746 for correction	Also published here Pay Day (Jack Vosburgh, Practical Mental Effects, 1944) Related to The Three Chair Enigma - Or, the Lazy Mentalist Demonstration (Barrie Richardson, Pabular, 1979) also in: Chair-Voyance (Magick, 1987) The Lazy Mentalist (Theater of the Mind, 1999) Variations The Plot's the Thing (Gerald Kosky, The Phoenix, 1950) also in: The Plot's The Thing (The Magic of Gerald Kosky, 1975) Hugard's Magic Monthly, Vol. 12 No. 12, 1955 also in: Das Mörderspiel (Intermagic, 1980)	1941	The Jinx (Issue 128)	738	Numbers / Prediction & Sum-Divination Coin / Effect Themes / Prediction Games / Instruction Games Mental Magic / Effects / Distribution of Items divined or predicted / Miracle Divination (mathematical distribution)
L. Vosburgh Lyons	Call It A Puzzle	six discs with a different sign on each side are thrown and turned over while spelling a word, then one disc is hidden and performer turns back, he reveals which side is up on the hidden disc	Related to The 'snappy' Thirteen Cent Trick (Bob Hummer, 3 Pets, 1945) also in: The 'Snappy' Thirteen Cent Trick (Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets, 1980) Parity Coin (Tieneblas, Magick, 1975) Variations Under-Hand Coin (Gerald Kosky, The Phoenix, 1952) Heads or Tails (Karl Fulves, The Magic Book, 1977)	May 1942	The Phoenix (Issue 8)	29	Chip / Miscellaneous Mental Magic / Effects / Divination / Miscellaneous
Theodore Annemann*, Professor Hoffmann	It Goes Double	deck cut in half, top card on one packet is looked at and tells the top card of the other heap, repeated several times, as a finale both cards are named	Also published here It Goes Double (Theodore Annemann, The Best in Magic, 1956) Related to Outwaited (Gerald Kosky, The Phoenix, 1949) Name a Card (Harry Lorayne, The Magic Book, 1977) Variations The Calculating Deck (Harry Lorayne, The Magic Book, 1977) Cause an Effect (Karl Fulves, Latter Day Secrets, 1999)	Nov. 1942	The Phoenix (Issue 22)	93	Cards / Effect Themes / Divination & Mind Reading / Miscellaneous
Verne Chesbro, James G. Thompson Jr.	Popper Upper	match on business card covered by matchbook, penetrates it twice, match vanishes in the end	Related to Strike One (James G. Thompson Jr., Verne Chesbro, William H. McCaffrey, Gerald Kosky, Top Secrets of Magic, 1956) also in: Streichholzereien (Intermagic, 1991) Variations Penta-Match (Stewart Judah, The Pallbearers Review, 1975) also in: Streichholzereien (Intermagic, 1985)	Sep. 1943	The Phoenix (Issue 43)	176	Match & Matchbox / Matchbox & Matchbook Match & Matchbox / Match / Penetration Match & Matchbox / Match / Vanish Business Cards
Gerald Kosky	"Nuts to You"	card is selected and matching miniature card found in chosen in walnut		1943	Full Deck of Impromptu Card Tricks	42	Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to impossible Location / Miscellaneous Nut / Miscellaneous
Gerald Kosky	Touch-Me-Not	finding hidden object, fake, code		Apr. 1944	The Phoenix (Issue 59)	242	Propless / Coding / Using Assistant Mental Magic / Effects / Contact & Muscle Reading
Gerald Kosky	Impromptu Daub			June 1944	Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 2 No. 1)	54	Cards / Principles / Daub
Gerald Kosky	The Biter Bit	Magic Thrust as an out when someone challenges performer to find thought of card	Also published here Glide Out (Gerald Kosky, Inside Outs, 1979)	Oct. 1944	Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 2 No. 5)	74	Cards / Effect Themes / Think a Card / free Choice (all 52 cards) Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Stabbing Routines / Magic Thrust & Variations
Dr. Jacob Daley	The Ultra Slate Message		Also published here The Ultra Slate Message (Dr. Jacob Daley, The Jinx, 1936) Related to The Answer! (Dr. Jacob Daley, The Jinx, 1938) also in: The Answer (Practical Mental Effects, 1944) Daley's Spirit Effect Supreme (Jacob Daley's Notebooks, 1972) Qwhite (Thomas Alan Waters, Mind, Myth & Magick, 1985) Variations Impromptu Ultra Spirit Message (Gerald Kosky, Hugard's Magic Monthly, 1948) also in: Impromptu Ultra Spirit Message (The Magic of Gerald Kosky, 1975) Impromptu Ultra Spirit Message (Miracles of my Friends, 1982) The Four Blacks (Dr. Stanley Jaks, Who is this Dr. Jaks?, 1951) also in: Die vier schwarzen Karten (Dr. Stanley-Jaks und seine Geheimnisse, 1961) Four Blacks (The Incredible Dr. Jaks, 2014)	1944	Practical Mental Effects	192	Slate / Display Sequences & False Counts
Jack Vosburgh	Pay Day	coins distributed to envelopes with mathematical procedure, predicted	Also published here Pay Day (Jack Vosburgh, The Jinx, 1941) Related to The Three Chair Enigma - Or, the Lazy Mentalist Demonstration (Barrie Richardson, Pabular, 1979) also in: Chair-Voyance (Magick, 1987) The Lazy Mentalist (Theater of the Mind, 1999) Variations The Plot's the Thing (Gerald Kosky, The Phoenix, 1950) also in: The Plot's The Thing (The Magic of Gerald Kosky, 1975) Hugard's Magic Monthly, Vol. 12 No. 12, 1955 also in: Das Mörderspiel (Intermagic, 1980)	1944	Practical Mental Effects	241	Numbers / Prediction & Sum-Divination Coin / Effect Themes / Prediction Games / Instruction Games Mental Magic / Effects / Distribution of Items divined or predicted / Miracle Divination (mathematical distribution)
Gerald Kosky	Vanishing Aces	aces to spectators pocket, duplicates	Also published here Vanishing Aces (Gerald Kosky, The Magic of Gerald Kosky, 1975) also in: Vanishing Aces (Gerald Kosky, La Magia de Ascanio — Vol. 3, 1992) Variations Aces Vergas Style (Arturo de Ascanio, The Magic of Ascanio — More Studies of Card Magic, 2008)	1945	My Best	144	Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to Pocket / Spectator's Pocket
Gerald Kosky	Dollar Bill in Lemon	one half of a bill is burnt, other half found in chosen lemon	Also published here Dollar Bill in Lemon (Gerald Kosky, The Magic of Gerald Kosky, 1975)	1945	My Best	252	Bill / Traveling / Impossible Location / Fruit
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	Articles / Biographical
Bob Hummer	The 'snappy' Thirteen Cent Trick	two nickels and three pennies, spectator can turn one sort of coins over while performer's back is turned, revelation of which coins are turned over	Also published here The 'Snappy' Thirteen Cent Trick (Bob Hummer, Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets, 1980) Related to Call It A Puzzle (L. Vosburgh Lyons, The Phoenix, 1942) Under-Hand Coin (Gerald Kosky, The Phoenix, 1952)	1945	3 Pets	1	Coin / Effect Themes / Mental Stuff Mental Magic / Effects / Divination / Miscellaneous
Mike Trent*	Okito Goes Mental	billet in Okito Box	Also published here Hi, There, Theo! (George B. Anderson, Mike Trent, You, Too, Can Read Minds, 1968) Related to Psychic Okito Box (Bill Simon, The New Phoenix, 1954) Mystic Eyes (Gerald Kosky, Magick, 1976)	1946	Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1946)	6	Billet / Readings Billet / Switches Coin / Effect Themes / Coin Box Routines / Okito Box / Miscellaneous
Abril Lamarque	Telephonic Telepathy	code for telephone	Variations Telephonic Telepathy (Rowland D. Goodman, Abril Lamarque, Hugard's Magic Monthly, 1946) Telephonic Telepathy (Eddie Clever, Gerald Kosky, Hugard's Magic Monthly, 1946) … and 1 more	June 1946	Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 4 No. 1)	223	Cards / Effect Themes / Phone Effects / Medium at the Other end Cards / Principles / Coding / Using Assistant
Eddie Clever, Gerald Kosky	Telephonic Telepathy	letters with ideas by Clever and Kosky on Lamarque's routine	Inspired by Telephonic Telepathy (Abril Lamarque, Hugard's Magic Monthly, 1946)	Aug. 1946	Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 4 No. 3)	244	Cards / Effect Themes / Phone Effects / Medium at the Other end Cards / Principles / Coding / Using Assistant
Gerald Kosky	Telephonic Telepathy	Telepathy Made Easy		Nov. 1946	Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 4 No. 6)	265	Propless / Coding / Phone Cards / Effect Themes / Phone Effects / Medium at the Other end
Gerald Kosky	The Hop Ping Koyne Trick	Han Ping Chien with two coins, brief routine, see p. 360 for name corrections	Also published here The Hop Ping Koyne Trick (Gerald Kosky, The Magic of Gerald Kosky, 1975)	Sep. 1947	Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 5 No. 4)	350	Coin / Sleights / Transfers / Han Ping Chien
Jean Hugard	Hu-Gardenias	on Sigurd Nathan, Gerald Kosky		Sep. 1947	Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 5 No. 4)	353	Articles / Articles
Gerald Kosky	Matchaskill	miraskill with matches	Also published here Matchaskill (Gerald Kosky, The Magic of Gerald Kosky, 1975) Related to Strike One (James G. Thompson Jr., Verne Chesbro, William H. McCaffrey, Gerald Kosky, Top Secrets of Magic, 1956) also in: Streichholzereien (Intermagic, 1991)	Feb. 1948	The Phoenix (Issue 145)	581	Match & Matchbox / Match / Mental Stuff Cards / Effect Themes / Red Black / Miraskill & Variations
Frederick Braue	Roundabout with Fred Braue	on Gerald Kosky, Merv Taylor, Billy Muir, Gus Southall, Jean Valton, Paul Morris, Houdini, Groucho Marx, Bert Allerton, Lloyd Jones, Eddie Clever, Charles Jordan, Bill Holden and more		Aug. 1948	Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 6 No. 3)	452	Articles / Columns
Frederick Braue	Roundabout with Fred Braue	on Gerald Kosky, Merv Taylor, Billy Muir, Gus Southall, Jean Valton, Paul Morris, Houdini, Groucho Marx, Bert Allerton, Lloyd Jones, Eddie Clever, Charles Jordan, Bill Holden and more		Aug. 1948	Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 6 No. 3)	452	Articles / Columns
Gerald Kosky	Impromptu Ultra Spirit Message	using business cards	Also published here Impromptu Ultra Spirit Message (Gerald Kosky, The Magic of Gerald Kosky, 1975) also in: Impromptu Ultra Spirit Message (Gerald Kosky, Miracles of my Friends, 1982) Inspired by The Ultra Slate Message (Dr. Jacob Daley, The Jinx, 1936) also in: The Ultra Slate Message (Practical Mental Effects, 1944)	Nov. 1948	Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 6 No. 6)	478	Paper / Appearing Writing, Photos, ... Business Cards
Gerald Kosky	The Boomerang Card	card is apparently thrown and caught in the pack		1949	Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1949)	15	Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Flashy Location
Gerald Kosky	Outwaited		Related to It Goes Double (Theodore Annemann, Professor Hoffmann, The Phoenix, 1942) also in: It Goes Double (The Best in Magic*, 1956)	Oct. 1949	The Phoenix (Issue 187)	750	Cards / Effect Themes / Divination & Mind Reading / Miscellaneous
Paul Curry, Bill Woodfield	Pocketed	card to watch pocket, with reflex beginning	Also published here Pocketed (Paul Curry, Bill Woodfield, The Best in Magic, 1956) Inspired by Miscalled (Paul Curry, The Phoenix, 1947) Related to Letter from Gerald Kosky to Bruce Elliott (Gerald Kosky, The Phoenix, 1949)	Dec. 1949	The Phoenix (Issue 191)	764	Cards / Effect Themes / Skill Demonstration / Reflex (aka Whack Your Pack) Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to Pocket / Single Card Cards / Principles / Miscalling
Gerald Kosky	Letter from Gerald Kosky to Bruce Elliott	ideas on Pocketed	Related to Pocketed (Paul Curry, Bill Woodfield, The Phoenix, 1949) also in: Pocketed (The Best in Magic, 1956)	Dec. 1949	The Phoenix (Issue 193)	772	Articles / Letters
Frederick Braue	Roundabout with Fred Braue	on John Scarne, Paul Curry, Al Baker, Bruce Elliott, Think-a-Cards, Gerald Kosky, Stuart Cramer, Milbourne Christopher and more		May 1949	Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 6 No. 12)	541	Articles / Columns
Bruce Elliott*	The Back Room	on Dr. Stanley Jaks, Audley Walsh, Lee Noble, Bobby Baxter, a card to pocket and a rainbow deck gag by Gerald Kosky		June 1950	The Phoenix (Issue 205)	821	Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to Pocket / Single Card Articles / Columns
Gerald Kosky	The Plot's the Thing	two plots and routine for murder game	Also published here The Plot's The Thing (Gerald Kosky, Jack Vosburgh, The Magic of Gerald Kosky, 1975) Inspired by Pay Day (Jack Vosburgh, The Jinx, 1941) also in: Pay Day (Practical Mental Effects, 1944)	Dec. 1950	The Phoenix (Issue 217)	867	Games / Instruction Games Games / Murder Game Mental Magic / Effects / Distribution of Items divined or predicted / Miracle Divination (mathematical distribution)
Bruce Elliott*	The Back Room	on Senator Crandall, Gerald Kosky, Jacob Daley, Ken Beale		Dec. 1950	The Phoenix (Issue 219)	877	Articles / Columns
Gerald Kosky	A Printer's Dream	printing one side of three blank cards, using Vernon's Fake Turn Over Sleight		June 1950	Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 8 No. 1)	673	Paper / Appearing Writing, Photos, ... Business Cards
Bruce Elliott*	The Back Room	on Magicol, Larry Becker, Gerald Kosky, Orson Welles, Leslie Barrie, Tommy Martin, Bill Nord		July 1951	The Phoenix (Issue 234)	934	Articles / Columns
Gerald Kosky	Color-I-Tus	on perceiving reality, colored dots on a cards change, coin seems to be made from rubber	Also published here Color-I-Tus (Gerald Kosky, The Magic of Gerald Kosky, 1975) Inspired by Nixon's Chinese Coin Mistery	Nov. 1951	The Phoenix (Issue 243)	970	Coin / Effect Themes / Topological Effects / Miscellaneous Paper / Transformation
Dr. William Weyeneth	Tisch-Trick	coin is pushed through a small slit in a card, from "Hokuspokus" magazine, see p. 997 for idea by Gerald Kosky	Variations Hole the Coin (Cy Keller, Hen Fetsch, The Phoenix, 1952)	Jan. 1952	The Phoenix (Issue 247)	987	Coin / Effect Themes / Penetration / Cards
Bruce Elliott*	The Back Room	on Dai Vernon, Ed Stoddard, Sid Lorraine, Ralph Read, Knights of Magic, Dai Vernon, Dr. Braude, Gerald Kosky, Gershon Legman		Feb. 1952	The Phoenix (Issue 249)	997	Articles / Columns
Gerald Kosky	Under-Hand Coin	spectator puts some coins on the table and starts turning them over one by one then one coin is hidden and performer turns back, he reveals which side is up on the hidden coin	Inspired by Call It A Puzzle (L. Vosburgh Lyons, The Phoenix, 1942) Related to The 'snappy' Thirteen Cent Trick (Bob Hummer, 3 Pets, 1945) also in: The 'Snappy' Thirteen Cent Trick (Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets, 1980) Variations A Coin Tipp (Milton Tropp, The Phoenix, 1952)	July 1952	The Phoenix (Issue 260)	1039	Coin / Effect Themes / Mental Stuff Mental Magic / Effects / Divination / Miscellaneous
Milton Tropp	A Coin Tipp	simplified version of Under-Hand Coin	Inspired by Under-Hand Coin (Gerald Kosky, The Phoenix, 1952)	Sep. 1952	The Phoenix (Issue 264)	1055	Coin / Effect Themes / Mental Stuff Mental Magic / Effects / Divination / Miscellaneous
Gerald Kosky	Tricky Mentalist	thought-of card is spelled to		Mar. 1953	The Phoenix (Issue 276)	1103	Cards / Effect Themes / Think a Card / limited Choice Cards / Effect Themes / Spelling / Thought-of Cards
Bruce Elliott*	The Back Room	on Dai Vernon, Gerald Kosky, Friday Night Sodality, Martin Gardner, Peter Warlock		July 1953	The Phoenix (Issue 285)	1141	Articles / Columns
Gerald Kosky	Lapelled	coin produced under spectator's lapel, then it vanishes and is fairly produced from the same spot again	Also published here Münzenproduktion (Gerald Kosky, Intermagic, 1981)	Oct. 1953	The Phoenix (Issue 291)	1164	Coin / Gaffed / Sticky Coin / Effect Themes / Appearance & Vanish with Reproduction Routines / Bare Handed
Gerald Kosky	Tricky Mentalist without Cards	twenty signed cards are returned later to correct persons, Gibson's Super Memory with business cards, see p. 1177 for corrections	Also published here Der trickhafte Mentalist (Gerald Kosky, Intermagic, 2000) Inspired by Improved Super Memory (Walter B. Gibson, Encyclopedia of Card Tricks*, 1937)	Oct. 1953	The Phoenix (Issue 292)	1168	Propless / Memory Stunts / Miscellaneous Business Cards
Gerald Kosky	Gerald Kosky's Prediction			1954	Tarbell Course in Magic — Volume 6	216	Numbers / Prediction & Sum-Divination
Bill Simon	Psychic Okito Box	Okito Box for billet reading or Q&A	Related to Okito Goes Mental (Mike Trent, Ireland's Yearbooks, 1946) also in: Hi, There, Theo! (You, Too, Can Read Minds, 1968) Mystic Eyes (Gerald Kosky, Magick*, 1976)	Mar. 1954	The New Phoenix (Issue 303)	10	Billet / Secret Reading Methods & Peeks Coin / Effect Themes / Coin Box Routines / Okito Box / Miscellaneous Mental Magic / Effects / Q&A
Gerald Kosky	Beans	three beans are swallowed and brought back, then they travel from one hand to the other	Also published here Beans (Gerald Kosky, The Magic of Gerald Kosky, 1975)	May 1954	The New Phoenix (Issue 306)	22	Food / Beans
Gerald Kosky	How Many?	two in the hand one in the pocket with dice, involving blank and large die	Also published here How Many? (Gerald Kosky, The Magic of Gerald Kosky, 1975) also in: How Many? (Gerald Kosky, Two in the Hand and One in the Pocket, 1979) Wieviele? (Gerald Kosky, Intermagic, 2000) Variations Three Dice Monte (Gene Gordon, Onyx, 1998)	1954	Routined Manipulation Finale	69	Dice (small) / Transformation Dice (small) / Traveling Random Object / Two in the Hand, One in the Pocket
Edward Marlo	Bluff Ace Assembly		Also published here Bluff Ace Assembly (Edward Marlo, Special Effects, 1987) also in: Bluff Ace Assembly (Edward Marlo, A Final Farewell Lecture, 1992) Bluff Ace Assembly (Edward Marlo, Simplicity at Your Fingertips, 1993) … and 2 more Related to One At a Time Aces (Gerald Kosky, The Magic of Gerald Kosky, 1975) Speaking Volumes (John Cornelius, Genii, 2002) Variations Bluff Ace Assembly (Edward Marlo, Ireland's Yearbooks, 1955) also in: Bluff Ace Assembly (Special Effects, 1987) Bluff Ace Assembly (A Final Farewell Lecture, 1992) … and 3 more MUM, Dec. 1959 also in: K.B.V. Aces (Marlo on Erdnase, 2007) … and 8 more	1955	Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1955)	43	Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Ace Assembly / Slow Motion
Theodore Annemann*	It Goes Double	deck cut in half, top card on one packet is looked at and tells the top card of the other heap, repeated several times, as a finale both cards are named	Also published here It Goes Double (Theodore Annemann, Professor Hoffmann, The Phoenix, 1942) Related to Outwaited (Gerald Kosky, The Phoenix, 1949) Name a Card (Harry Lorayne, The Magic Book, 1977) Variations The Calculating Deck (Harry Lorayne, The Magic Book, 1977) Cause an Effect (Karl Fulves, Latter Day Secrets, 1999)	1956	The Best in Magic	102	Cards / Effect Themes / Divination & Mind Reading / Miscellaneous
Paul Curry, Bill Woodfield	Pocketed	card to watch pocket, slit, with reflex beginning	Also published here Pocketed (Paul Curry, Bill Woodfield, The Phoenix, 1949) Inspired by Miscalled (Paul Curry, The Phoenix, 1947) Related to Letter from Gerald Kosky to Bruce Elliott (Gerald Kosky, The Phoenix, 1949)	1956	The Best in Magic	169	Cards / Effect Themes / Skill Demonstration / Reflex (aka Whack Your Pack) Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to Pocket / Single Card Cards / Principles / Miscalling
James G. Thompson Jr., Verne Chesbro, William H. McCaffrey, Gerald Kosky	Strike One	longer routine with matchbooks and matches, matchbook appears, match penetrates card, color of head change color, paddle routine, prediction of amount of matches and eventually matches transform into salt	Also published here Streichholzereien (James G. Thompson Jr., Intermagic, 1991) Related to The Jumping Match or Toothpick (William H. McCaffrey, Greater Magic, 1938) Popper Upper (Verne Chesbro, James G. Thompson Jr., The Phoenix, 1943) … and 1 more	1956	Top Secrets of Magic	44	Match & Matchbox / Matchbox & Matchbook Match & Matchbox / Match / Penetration Match & Matchbox / Match / Transformation Match & Matchbox / Match / Mental Stuff Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Transformation
Gerald Kosky	Anyone for Bridge?	stacking bridge with faro shuffles or milk build shuffles	Also published here Anyone for Bridge? (Gerald Kosky, The Magic of Gerald Kosky, 1975) Variations Faro Fantasies (Russell "Rusduck" Duck, The Cardiste, 1957)	May 1957	The Cardiste (Issue 2)	15	Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Bridge Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Faro Stacking Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Only for Special Stacks / New Deck Order
Russell "Rusduck" Duck	Faro Fantasies	spectators get remembered hands again, poker and bridge deal	Inspired by Anyone for Bridge? (Gerald Kosky, The Cardiste, 1957) also in: Anyone for Bridge? (The Magic of Gerald Kosky, 1975) Related to Free Cut Poker Deal (Gene Finnell, Gene Finnell's Card Magic, 1973) Variations Déjà vu Poker (Darwin Ortiz, Scams & Fantasies with Cards, 2002)	June 1957	The Cardiste (Issue 3)	14	Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Bridge Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Faro Stacking Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Poker / Miscellaneous
Gerald Kosky	Poker Run-Up System	no jogs, no breaks, no milk build shuffle	Also published here Poker Run-Up System (Gerald Kosky, The Magic of Gerald Kosky, 1975)	Aug. 1958	The Cardiste (Issue 11)	4	Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Poker / Stacking / Overhand
Gerald Kosky	A Blue Prediction	spectator selects only card with blue back, cross sum force	Also published here A Blue Prediction (Gerald Kosky, The Magic of Gerald Kosky, 1975)	Sep. 1958	Ibidem (Issue 14)	10	Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Brainwave type Effects Cards / Sleights / Force / Mathematical Forces
Gerald Kosky	Prayer for the Dead	several spectators sit in a circle, one selects to be "dead", performer divines him		1959	More Miracles in Mentalism	29	Mental Magic / Effects / Living and Dead Test Games / Murder Game
Gerald Kosky	Total Prediction	clever prediction of a sum on back of the card where numbers are written		1960	Magic of the Mind	11	Numbers / Prediction & Sum-Divination
Robert A. Nelson	Gerald Kosky	short bio on Gerald Kosky		1961	Still More Miracles in Mentalism	54	Articles / Biographical
Gerald Kosky	En Rapport Psychic Thought	deck with names of famous people, selected name is found on named number and was predicted earlier		1961	Still More Miracles in Mentalism	54	Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Svengali Principle / Svengali Deck Mental Magic / Effects / Coincidence Mental Magic / Effects / Prediction / Miscellaneous
Gerald Kosky	Impromptu Card Rise Gimmik	not impromptu	Also published here Impromptu Card Rise Gimmick (Gerald Kosky, The Magic of Gerald Kosky, 1975)	Jan. 1961	The New Phoenix (Issue 353)	241	Cards / Effect Themes / Animation / Rising Card(s) / Miscellaneous
Gerald Kosky	Three and Four Alike	intro for Three Card Monte, all cards are the same then all different		Mar. 1961	The New Phoenix (Issue 355)	248	Cards / Sleights / False Display / All alike Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Three Card Monte / Packet Trick with Monte theme
Harry Lorayne	This is Mind-Reading?	two key cards, spectator shuffles, out of hands selection	Related to New Card Discovery (Encyclopedia of Card Tricks, 1937) Yore Finder (Gerald Kosky, Kabbala — Volume 2, 1973)	1962	Close-up Card Magic	86	Cards / Principles / Key Card / Key Card Principles Cards / Sleights / Controls / Spectator shuffles - Subtleties Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Challenge Locations / Challenge Single Card Location / Miscellaneous
Gerald Kosky	Double-Cut Poker Run-Up		Also published here Double-Cut Poker Run-Up (Gerald Kosky, The Magic of Gerald Kosky, 1975)	Mar. 1963	The New Phoenix (Issue 378)	339	Cards / Effect Themes / Skill Demonstration / Card Control Cards / Sleights / Stacking / Stacking without Shuffling Cards / Sleights / Crimps / Corner Crimp
Ernest W. Brady	The Shiekh's Bequest	mathematical problem, camels divided to sons, illustrated with cards	Also published here Die Erbschaft (Ernest W. Brady, Intermagic, 1984) Variations The Story Teller (Will Ayling, The Art of Close-Up Magic — Volume 2, 1969) Sholim Ali Kim (Gerald Kosky, The Magic of Gerald Kosky, 1975)	Aug. 1963	The New Phoenix (Issue 382)	357	Cards / Effect Themes / Gags & Curiousities / Gags Cards / Effect Themes / Gags & Curiousities / Verbal Magic
Gerald Kosky	Card Gag	card is seen attached to wrong card, both add up to value of selection	Also published here Card Gag (Gerald Kosky, The Magic of Gerald Kosky, 1975)	July 1963	The New Jinx (Vol. 2 No. 15)	64	Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Funny Locations Cards / Effect Themes / Gags & Curiousities / Gags Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Gag Cards
Gerald Kosky	Mystery Magazine Test		Also published here Mystery Magazine - Book Test (Gerald Kosky, The Magic of Gerald Kosky, 1975)	1964	Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1963-64)	7	Book / Book Test / Magazine Test
Gerald Kosky	Vernon's F.C.M.F.	outs for the Five Card Mental Force	Also published here Vernon's F.C.M.F. (Gerald Kosky, The Magic of Gerald Kosky, 1975) Inspired by The Five Card Mental Force (Dai Vernon, Encyclopedia of Card Tricks, 1937) also in: 5 Card Mental Force (Magick, 1976) The Five Card Mental Force (Cunning Card Miracles, 1999)	Jan. 1964	The New Phoenix (Issue 386)	371	Cards / Effect Themes / Think a Card / Five Card Mental Force
Gerald Kosky	Authors	cards with famous authors on them, spelling, author is divined	Also published here Authors (Gerald Kosky, The Magic of Gerald Kosky, 1975)	Nov. 1964	The New Phoenix (Issue 393)	401	Mental Magic / Effects / Divination / Miscellaneous
Gerald Kosky, Charles Hudson	Kosky Switch Variation			1964	Handle With Care	14	Cards / Sleights / Switches / Sandwich Changes
Gerald Kosky	Koin Kwickie	coin appears		Jan. 1965	The New Phoenix (Issue 394)	404	Coin / Sleights / Sleeving Coin / Effect Themes / Appearance & Vanish with Reproduction Routines / Bare Handed - Production only
Gerald Kosky	Penny-Thru	two effects with steel pennies and postcard with magnet, coin to glass and coin assembly		1966	Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1965-66)	12	Coin / Effect Themes / Penetration / Cards Coin / Effect Themes / Traveling / Matrix / Two Cards Coin / Gaffed / Magnetic
Gerald Kosky	"You Get It"	spectator removes selection from deck, in his pocket	Also published here "You Get It" (Gerald Kosky, The Magic of Gerald Kosky, 1975)	1967	Ultimate Secrets of Card Magic	235	Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Spectator locates Card / Miscellaneous
Gerald Kosky	Kosky Switch	no credit		1967	The Best of Benzais	58	Cards / Sleights / Switches / Sandwich Changes
George B. Anderson, Mike Trent	Hi, There, Theo!	billet in Okito Box, with clearer instructions than in the Yearbook	Also published here Okito Goes Mental (Mike Trent, Ireland's Yearbooks, 1946) Related to Psychic Okito Box (Bill Simon, The New Phoenix, 1954) Mystic Eyes (Gerald Kosky, Magick*, 1976)	1968	You, Too, Can Read Minds	39	Billet / Readings Billet / Switches Coin / Effect Themes / Coin Box Routines / Okito Box / Miscellaneous
Gerald Kosky	The Spirit Writes	writing appears on blank and marked card, using mechanical Card Box	Also published here The Spirit Writes (Gerald Kosky, The Magic of Gerald Kosky, 1975)	1969	HEX!	91	Paper / Appearing Writing, Photos, ... Cards / Props & Apparatus / Card Box (e.g. with Flap)
Gerald Kosky	The Magic Ring	ring and three colored stones, variation of two in the hand, one in the pocket, as a climax the ring has three stones set in it	Also published here Gypsy Ring (Gerald Kosky, The Magic of Gerald Kosky, 1975)	1969	The Art of Close-Up Magic — Volume 2	283	Stone & Rock Ring / Finger Rings / Transformation Random Object / Two in the Hand, One in the Pocket
Will Ayling	The Story Teller	oriental story	Inspired by The Shiekh's Bequest (Ernest W. Brady, The New Phoenix, 1963) also in: Die Erbschaft (Intermagic, 1984) Variations Sholim Ali Kim (Gerald Kosky, The Magic of Gerald Kosky, 1975)	1969	The Art of Close-Up Magic — Volume 2	289	Cards / Effect Themes / Gags & Curiousities / Gags Cards / Effect Themes / Gags & Curiousities / Verbal Magic Numbers / Puzzles & Bets
Gerald Kosky	Dupli Pad	special design of impression device		1970	Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1969-70)	112	Mental Magic / Principles / Impression Devices
Jules Lenier	Triangle Prediction	performer writes prediction, spectator draws five symbols on billets and choses one, see p. 32 for comment by Monroe Manning	Variations Triangle Prediction - A Reprise (Gerald Kosky, Talisman, 1971)	Mar. 1970	Talisman (Vol. 1 No. 1)	1	Propless / Equivoque Mental Magic / Principles / Forcing Mental Magic / Effects / Prediction / Standard Predictions (one or multiple items)
Jules Lenier	The Lair	on Maurice Fogel, Gerald Kosky, Gene Nielsen, Earl Keyser, Tel Smit		June 1970	Talisman (Vol. 1 No. 14)	58	Articles / Columns
Gerald Kosky	Jasonism Plus	based in a Eddie Joseph trick, thought of number to select card, cards dealt from top to bottom and performer stops at correct card, see also p. 94 for comment	Also published here Jaysonism Plus (Gerald Kosky, The Magic of Gerald Kosky, 1975) also in: Jaysonism 2 (Gerald Kosky, Magick, 1975)	June 1970	Talisman (Vol. 1 No. 17)	72	Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Single Card
Gerald Kosky	Jack Spade and the F.B.I.	story trick, card sandwiched between tow face down cards in the deck, travels between to face-up Aces, as a climax deck vanishes	Also published here Jack Spade and the F.B.I. (Gerald Kosky, The Magic of Gerald Kosky, 1975) Variations Minuscule Deck (Allan Ackerman, The Esoterist, 1971)	Nov. 1970	Talisman (Vol. 1 No. 36)	211	Cards / Effect Themes / Vanish / Deck Cards / Effect Themes / Sandwich & Co / Simple Sandwich Cards / Sleights / Lapping / Miscellaneous
Allan Ackerman	Minuscule Deck	prediction with deck vanish (and optional reproduction)	Inspired by Jack Spade and the F.B.I. (Gerald Kosky, Talisman, 1970) also in: Jack Spade and the F.B.I. (The Magic of Gerald Kosky, 1975) Variations Stand Up Miniscule (John Carney, Conjuror's Journal, 1979)	1971	The Esoterist	8	Cards / Effect Themes / Vanish / Deck Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Off-beat Predictions
Gerald Kosky	Transpose & Follow			Mar. 1971	Epilogue (Issue 11)	84	Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Follow the Leader Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Quartet transposes with Quartet
Reinhard Müller	3-Card Catch	one-handed sandwich throw	Also published here 3-Card Catch (Reinhard Müller, Epilogue, 1972) Related to 3-Card Catch (Gerald Kosky, Epilogue, 1973) Jumping Jacks (Edward Marlo, Kabbala — Volume 3, 1976) … and 6 more Variations Notes on 3 Card Catch (Jerry K. Hartman, The Pallbearers Review, 1971) Notes on 3 Card Catch (Harvey Rosenthal, The Pallbearers Review, 1971) also in: 3-Card Catch (Card Conspiracy — Vol. 2, 2003) 3-Card Catch Handling (Prolix*, 2012) … and 16 more	July 1971	The Pallbearers Review (Vol. 6 No. 9)	431	Cards / Sleights / Pop-out Productions / One-Handed Cards / Effect Themes / Sandwich & Co / Simple Sandwich
Gerald Kosky	To Believe in the Unbelievable	peeked card ends up in performer's pocket, then spectator plays part of magician and performer's card ends up in spectator's pocket		1971	Magick (Issue 17)	81	Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to Pocket / Single Card Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to Pocket / Spectator's Pocket Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Spectator locates Card / Spectator plays Magician
Gerald Kosky	Up in Flames	several pieces of paper, marked "fire proof" and one "up in flames", that paper burns when touched with a match	Also published here Up In Flames (Gerald Kosky, The Magic of Gerald Kosky, 1975)	1971	Magick (Issue 34)	168	Light & Fire / Flash Paper & Material
Gerald Kosky	Tele-Mental	five cards on table, thought of card starts to move	Also published here Tele-Mental (Gerald Kosky, The Magic of Gerald Kosky, 1975) Inspired by The Five Card Mental Force (Dai Vernon, Encyclopedia of Card Tricks, 1937) also in: 5 Card Mental Force (Magick, 1976) The Five Card Mental Force (Cunning Card Miracles, 1999)	1971	Magick (Issue 35)	172	Cards / Effect Themes / Think a Card / limited Choice Cards / Effect Themes / Animation / Miscellaneous Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Magnetic & Shimmed Card Cards / Sleights / Force / Psychological Forces / temporary category (content needs to be sorted)
Gerald Kosky	Portable Squared Circle			Jan. 1971	Talisman (Vol. 1 No. 44)	281	Apparatus & Dealer Props / Square and Circle
Ron Wilson	To Pay the Price	performer switches cards with spectators, yet is left with royal flush, uses four jokers	Also published here To Pay the Price (Ron Wilson, The Uncanny Scot, Ron Wilson, 1987) Related to To Pay the Price - A Reprise (Ron Wilson, Talisman, 1971) Variations All's Fair (Allan Slaight, Talisman, 1971) also in: All's Fair (Spins & Needles, 2008) Miesel Pays! (William P. Miesel, Talisman, 1971) … and 11 more	Jan. 1971	Talisman (Vol. 1 No. 47)	303	Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Poker / Miscellaneous
Gerald Kosky	Jokers Wild!	five hands are dealt and performer removes five Jokers from wallet, everybody can swap a card with a joker, performer ends up with winning hand, Himber wallet	Inspired by To Pay the Price (Ron Wilson, Talisman, 1971) also in: To Pay the Price (The Uncanny Scot, Ron Wilson, 1987) Related to Joker's Wild! (Gerald Kosky, The Magic of Gerald Kosky, 1975)	May 1971	Talisman (Vol. 2 No. 11)	81	Wallet Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Poker / "Magic" Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Poker / You just get the winning Hand.
Tenkai Ishida, Gerald Kosky	Tenkai's Chase It!!!	coin on trousers leg vanishes and appears again	Also published here Coin Chase (Tenkai Ishida, The Magic of Tenkai, 1974)	May 1971	Talisman (Vol. 2 No. 11)	83	Coin / Effect Themes / Appearance & Vanish with Reproduction Routines / With Props / Miscellaneous
Gerald Kosky	Triangle Prediction - A Reprise	performer writes prediction, spectator draws five symbols on billets, they are mixed in a glass and one is chosen	Inspired by Triangle Prediction (Jules Lenier, Talisman, 1970)	May 1971	Talisman (Vol. 2 No. 11)	85	Billet / Switches Mental Magic / Effects / Prediction / Standard Predictions (one or multiple items)
Gerald R. Blount	Blounty Speaking	on Del Dixon, Ron Wilson, Charlie Miller, Gerald Kosky		June 1971	Talisman (Vol. 2 No. 14)	112	Articles / Columns
Gerald Kosky	Mental Thought Pin-Up Girls	blank cards, pin up girls appear		1972	Tarbell Course in Magic — Volume 7	91	Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / Wild Cards
Gerald Kosky	Oriental "Decoder" Prediction	three cards		1972	Tarbell Course in Magic — Volume 7	93	Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Off-beat Predictions
Gerald Kosky	Coincidence ??	rough smooth	Also published here Coincidence (Gerald Kosky, The Magic of Gerald Kosky, 1975)	1972	Card Cavalcade	63	Cards / Effect Themes / Do as I Do / Two Decks Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Rough and Smooth Decks / Miscellaneous
Reinhard Müller	3-Card Catch	selection is found via Three Card Catch, two methods	Also published here 3-Card Catch (Reinhard Müller, The Pallbearers Review, 1971) Related to 3-Card Catch (Gerald Kosky, Epilogue, 1973) Jumping Jacks (Edward Marlo, Kabbala — Volume 3, 1976) … and 6 more Variations Notes on 3 Card Catch (Jerry K. Hartman, The Pallbearers Review, 1971) Notes on 3 Card Catch (Harvey Rosenthal, The Pallbearers Review, 1971) also in: 3-Card Catch (Card Conspiracy — Vol. 2, 2003) 3-Card Catch Handling (Prolix*, 2012) … and 16 more	Mar. 1972	Epilogue (Issue 14)	112	Cards / Sleights / Pop-out Productions / One-Handed Cards / Effect Themes / Sandwich & Co / Simple Sandwich
Gerald Kosky	Travel Agent	cards with names of travel destinations, people write their names under then and tear cards in halves, performer takes parts with the names and can allocate the correct destinations	Also published here Travel Agent (Gerald Kosky, The Magic of Gerald Kosky, 1975) also in: Travel Agent (Gerald Kosky, Miracles of my Friends, 1982)	1972	Magick (Issue 53)	261	Cards / Effect Themes / Divination & Mind Reading / Pseudo Psychometry Mental Magic / Principles / Marking Systems
Gerald Kosky	Tattle-Tale		Also published here "Tattle-Tale" (Gerald Kosky, The Magic of Gerald Kosky, 1975)	1972	The Living End	89	Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Multiple Cards
Gerald Kosky	Kosky's Card Discovery	No. 417, Poker Player's Picnic with four selections		1972	Jacob Daley's Notebooks	113	Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Multiple Cards Cards / Effect Themes / Four-of-a-Kind & Aces Effects / Spectator cuts to and turns over the Aces Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Spectator locates Card / Miscellaneous
Gerald Kosky	Extra Spice	Kosky Switch		1973	Super Subtle Card Miracles	186	Cards / Sleights / Switches / Sandwich Changes
Gerald Kosky	3-Card Catch	selection is found via Three-Card Catch, simplified procedure	Inspired by 3-Card Catch (Reinhard Müller, The Pallbearers Review, 1971) also in: 3-Card Catch (Epilogue, 1972) Related to 3-Card Catch (Reinhard Müller, The Pallbearers Review, 1971) also in: 3-Card Catch (Epilogue, 1972)	Mar. 1973	Epilogue (Issue 17)	156	Cards / Effect Themes / Sandwich & Co / Miscellaneous
Gerald Kosky	Yore Finder	two key cards and optional fishing, credit correction on page 65	Related to This is Mind-Reading? (Harry Lorayne, Close-up Card Magic, 1962)	May 1973	Kabbala — Volume 2 (Vol. 2 No. 5)	39	Cards / Principles / Fishing Cards / Principles / Key Card / Key Card Principles Cards / Sleights / Controls / Spectator shuffles - Subtleties Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Challenge Locations / Challenge Single Card Location / Miscellaneous
Gerald Kosky	Fishing Notes			May 1973	Kabbala — Volume 2 (Vol. 2 No. 5)	39	Cards / Principles / Fishing
Jay Ose, Gerald Kosky	Your Favorite Ace	named Ace produced with four different procedures, jukebox		Apr. 1973	The Pallbearers Review (Vol. 8 No. 6)	613	Cards / Principles / Multiple Out Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Single Card
Gerald Kosky	Tel-A-Prediction	person on phone names number from one to fifty-two, card is predicted		1973	Magick (Issue 68)	337	Cards / Effect Themes / Phone Effects / Person is called during performance Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Single Card Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Svengali Principle / Svengali Deck Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Rough and Smooth Decks / Miscellaneous
Gerald Kosky	The Bold One	single card prediction on paper		1973	Magick (Issue 85)	423	Cards / Sleights / Ditching Cards / Lapping Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Single Card
Gerald Kosky	On My Mind	card ends up at impossible location, Himber wallet	Inspired by The Five Card Mental Force (Dai Vernon, Encyclopedia of Card Tricks, 1937) also in: 5 Card Mental Force (Magick, 1976) The Five Card Mental Force (Cunning Card Miracles, 1999)	1973	Magick (Issue 87)	431	Wallet Cards / Effect Themes / Think a Card / Five Card Mental Force
Marconick	A Card Turn Over	card jumps out of tabled deck when hands are clapped, air pressure	Also published here Volte-face (Marconick, New Original Magic — Volume 3, 1979) Related to Applause Card Disclosure (Gerald Kosky, The Magic of Gerald Kosky, 1975) also in: Applause Card Disclosure (Veinticinco, 2018)	1973	Original Magic 5	9	Cards / Sleights / Pop-out Productions / Tabled
Bascom Jones	The Mystic Word	on Vic Perry, Gerald Kosky, Nathan Stark		1974	Magick (Issue 105)	524	Articles / Columns
Gerald Kosky	Contact Mindreading Made Easy	method learned by Ari De Leone		1974	Magick (Issue 107)	535	Mental Magic / Effects / Contact & Muscle Reading
Tenkai Ishida	Coin Chase	coin on trousers leg vanishes and appears again	Also published here Tenkai's Chase It!!! (Tenkai Ishida, Gerald Kosky, Talisman, 1971)	1974	The Magic of Tenkai	74	Coin / Effect Themes / Appearance & Vanish with Reproduction Routines / With Props / Miscellaneous
Gerald Kosky	Recollections	on Tenkai producing his own finger tips, fake cigarettes etc., sand bucket for miser's dream		1974	The Magic of Tenkai	142	Cigarette & Cigar / Miscellaneous Coin / Effect Themes / Appearance & Vanish with Reproduction Routines / Miser's Dream Articles / Articles Hand Gimmicks / Thumb & Finger Tip
Gerald Kosky	Kosky Switch			July 1975	Pabular (Vol. 1 No. 11)	133	Cards / Sleights / Switches / Sandwich Changes
Scotty York	Han Ping Chien Again	two phases, with three silver and three copper coins, see also Gerald Kosky's "Penetrating Coin" in "The Gen" (vol. 10 no. 11)		1975	Coins	21	Coin / Gaffed / Copper-Silver Coin / Effect Themes / Penetration / Table / All at once
Stewart Judah	No-Clue Locator		Also published here Ein Hinweisloses Kartenfinden (Stewart Judah, Intermagic, 1985) Inspired by "No Clue Card Miracle" (Gerald Kosky)	Winter 1975	The Pallbearers Review (Vol. 10 No. 10th Folio (Part Two))	855	Cards / Principles / Placement Principles / Automatic Placement Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Challenge Locations / Challenge Single Card Location / Miscellaneous
Gerald Kosky	Jaysonism 2	based in a Eddie Joseph trick, thought of number to select card, cards dealt from top to bottom and performer stops at correct card	Also published here Jasonism Plus (Gerald Kosky, Talisman, 1970) also in: Jaysonism Plus (Gerald Kosky, The Magic of Gerald Kosky, 1975)	1975	Magick (Issue 122)	609	Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Single Card
Gerald Kosky	Strike Out!	using only one spectator, list		1975	Magick (Issue 130)	648	Mental Magic / Effects / Living and Dead Test
Gerald Kosky	Dedication			1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	7	Articles / Articles
Gerald Kosky	Card Change	double held in right hand, card stolen by left hand holding the deck while doing an upward movement	Related to X-Change (Gerald Kosky, The Magic of Gerald Kosky, 1975) El Cambio de Clark Kent (Rafael Benatar, Cartas Certificadas, 1989) also in: The Clark Kent Card Change (Double-Card Technique, 1993)	1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	19	Cards / Sleights / Color Change / free handed Cards / Sleights / Multiple Lift / Unloads
Gerald Kosky	Computerized Deck	card remains after multiple anti-faros	Also published here Computer Discovery (Gerald Kosky, Pabular, 1978) Related to The Core (Pit Hartling, Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 7, 2006) also in: The Core (In Order to Amaze, 2016)	1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	21	Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Funny Locations Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Anti-Faro & Reverse Faro Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Numerical or Straight Stack / Full Deck Cards / Principles / Elimination Procedures / Reverse Faro down to One
Gerald Kosky	Computer Card Riser	with houlette		1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	24	Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Stripper Cards / Effect Themes / Animation / Rising Card(s) / Miscellaneous
Gerald Kosky	Kosky's Invisible Card Change	"or Card Photography by Magic", Kosky Switch in context of short routine		1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	26	Cards / Sleights / Switches / Sandwich Changes Cards / Effect Themes / Sandwich & Co / Transformation
Gerald Kosky	"No Clue"	automatic placement to any position in the deck, some cards cut and card at position remembered while back is turned, spectator then deals cards face-up until performer stops		1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	28	Cards / Principles / Placement Principles / Automatic Placement
Gerald Kosky	A Blue Prediction	spectator selects only card with blue back, cross sum force	Also published here A Blue Prediction (Gerald Kosky, Ibidem, 1958)	1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	29	Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Brainwave type Effects Cards / Sleights / Force / Mathematical Forces
Gerald Kosky	To Believe in the Unbelievable	card appears inside performer's jacket pocket, repeated with performer as magician, card appears inside his inside pocket		1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	30	Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to Pocket / Single Card Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to Pocket / Spectator's Pocket Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Spectator locates Card / Spectator plays Magician
Gerald Kosky	The Second Deal			1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	33	Cards / Sleights / False Dealing / Second Deal / One-Handed
Gerald Kosky	Spin-Away Card Deal	little finger shot		1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	36	Cards / Sleights / Shooting & Scaling Cards / Sleights / Flourishes / Flourish Deals
Gerald Kosky	Fancy One-Hand Deal	thumb shot		1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	37	Cards / Sleights / Shooting & Scaling Cards / Sleights / Flourishes / Flourish Deals
Gerald Kosky	Blanks, Backs, Faces	printing of nine blank cards		1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	38	Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / Packet Tricks Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / Printing & "Unprinting" Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Double Facer / Different Faces
Gerald Kosky	"Tattle-Tale"	several spectator select a card, cards placed inside spectators pockets and when "Tattle-Tale" card is placed inside those pockets, performer is able to name the selections	Also published here Tattle-Tale (Gerald Kosky, The Living End, 1972)	1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	40	Cards / Principles / One Ahead Cards / Effect Themes / Divination & Mind Reading / Miscellaneous
Gerald Kosky	The Bitter Bit - An Effective "Out"	performer is placing known card next to thought of card, as out for question "What card am I thinking of?"		1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	41	Cards / Effect Themes / Think a Card / free Choice (all 52 cards) Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Stabbing Routines / Magic Thrust & Variations
Gerald Kosky	"A Good Card Gag"	finding two cards which add up to selection		1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	42	Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Funny Locations Cards / Effect Themes / Gags & Curiousities / Gags Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Single Card
Gerald Kosky	Card Gag	card is seen attached to wrong card, both add up to value of selection	Also published here Card Gag (Gerald Kosky, The New Jinx, 1963)	1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	43	Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Funny Locations Cards / Effect Themes / Gags & Curiousities / Gags Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Gag Cards
Gerald Kosky	Psychic Touch	two decks, same cards are found		1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	44	Cards / Effect Themes / Do as I Do / Two Decks
Gerald Kosky	Applause Card Disclosure	card jumps out of tabled deck when hands are clapped, air pressure	Also published here Applause Card Disclosure (Gerald Kosky, Veinticinco, 2018) Related to A Card Turn Over (Marconick, Original Magic 5, 1973) also in: Volte-face (New Original Magic — Volume 3, 1979)	1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	45	Cards / Sleights / Pop-out Productions / Tabled
Gerald Kosky	Impromptu Card Rise Gimmick	strip glued on back of a card	Also published here Impromptu Card Rise Gimmik (Gerald Kosky, The New Phoenix, 1961)	1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	46	Cards / Effect Themes / Animation / Rising Card(s) / Miscellaneous Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Rising Card
Gerald Kosky	X-Change	double held in right hand, card stolen by left hand holding the deck while doing an upward movement	Related to Card Change (Gerald Kosky, The Magic of Gerald Kosky, 1975) El Cambio de Clark Kent (Rafael Benatar, Cartas Certificadas, 1989) also in: The Clark Kent Card Change (Double-Card Technique, 1993)	1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	47	Cards / Sleights / Color Change / free handed Cards / Sleights / Multiple Lift / Unloads
Gerald Kosky	Kings & Deuces	two Kings transpose with two Deuces at once		1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	49	Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Follow the Leader
Gerald Kosky	Floating Asrah Card	card floats in front of hand, ring as convincer		1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	51	Cards / Principles / Sticky Cards / Effect Themes / Animation / Floatation
Gerald Kosky	Fan-See Card Exchange	card outjogged in fan transforms in other card		1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	52	Cards / Sleights / Color Change / Out-jogged
Gerald Kosky	The Mark of Cards	fully edge-marked deck, Bee cards		1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	54	Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Marked deck / Edges & Bevel
Gerald Kosky	Presto	spectator cuts deck and remembers card, then four piles are dealt and spectator looks for pile with his card, word is spelled to find selection		1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	56	Cards / Principles / Spelling Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Challenge Locations / Challenge Single Card Location / No-Touch Locations
Gerald Kosky	Predicto	three piles are made, third card from top is predicted of chosen pile, with out	Also published here Predicto (Gerald Kosky, The Jinx, 1938)	1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	57	Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / One Ahead Classic Triple Prediction Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Single Card
Gerald Kosky	Three and Four Alike	three and four cards alike, turnover and placing on bottom of packet		1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	58	Cards / Sleights / False Display / All alike
Gerald Kosky	"You Get It"	spectator removes selection from deck, in his pocket	Also published here "You Get It" (Gerald Kosky, Ultimate Secrets of Card Magic, 1967)	1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	59	Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Spectator locates Card / Miscellaneous
Gerald Kosky	Transpose & Follow	four Aces changes to Kings one by one, followed b y a Follow the Leader sequence		1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	61	Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Follow the Leader Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Quartet transposes with Quartet
Gerald Kosky	More of the Pocket Princess	four cards removed from pocket change into Queens as kicker		1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	63	Cards / Effect Themes / Think a Card / Princess Card Trick (Five Cards) Cards / Effect Themes / Four-of-a-Kind & Aces Effects / Production & Appearance / As a Climax
Gerald Kosky	Coincidence	two decks, spectator and performer place decks behind backs and turn one card over	Also published here Coincidence ?? (Gerald Kosky, Card Cavalcade, 1972)	1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	65	Cards / Effect Themes / Do as I Do / Two Decks Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Rough and Smooth Decks / Miscellaneous
Gerald Kosky	Vanish and Recovery	selection is turned over in the deck and vanishes, reappearance at named number		1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	66	Cards / Effect Themes / Number Effects / Card found at total of Packet or named number Cards / Effect Themes / Vanish / Single Card Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Rough and Smooth Decks / Miscellaneous
Gerald Kosky	Subtlety	performer stops at selectio		1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	67	Cards / Principles / Key Card / Distant Key Card Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Stop Trick / Position indicated by Spectator
Gerald Kosky	Jack Spade and the F.B.I.	story trick, card sandwiched between tow face down cards in the deck, travels between to face-up Aces, as a climax deck vanishes	Also published here Jack Spade and the F.B.I. (Gerald Kosky, Talisman, 1970) Variations Minuscule Deck (Allan Ackerman, The Esoterist, 1971)	1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	68	Cards / Effect Themes / Vanish / Deck Cards / Effect Themes / Sandwich & Co / Simple Sandwich Cards / Sleights / Lapping / Miscellaneous
Gerald Kosky	21 Plus or Minus			1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	69	Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Twenty-One Card Trick
Gerald Kosky	Vernon's F.C.M.F.	out for Five Card Mental Force	Also published here Vernon's F.C.M.F. (Gerald Kosky, The New Phoenix, 1964) Inspired by The Five Card Mental Force (Dai Vernon, Encyclopedia of Card Tricks, 1937) also in: 5 Card Mental Force (Magick, 1976) The Five Card Mental Force (Cunning Card Miracles, 1999)	1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	71	Cards / Effect Themes / Think a Card / Five Card Mental Force
Gerald Kosky	Ne Exchange 'You Do As I Do'	using a riffle force		1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	72	Cards / Effect Themes / Do as I Do / Two Decks
Gerald Kosky	"Brain-Wave for Experts"			1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	73	Cards / Principles / Sticky Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Brainwave type Effects
Gerald Kosky	The Never Failing Card	card appears face up which leads to selection		1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	75	Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Single Card
Gerald Kosky	The Obedient Joker	Joker with different back is placed in the deck, card turns over and is found next to selection		1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	76	Cards / Principles / Sticky Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Single Card Cards / Effect Themes / Turnover & Reverse / Simple Card Turnovers
Gerald Kosky	Kosky's Control	handling after spectator peek		1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	77	Cards / Sleights / Controls / Single Card Controls / Fingertip Peek Controls Cards / Sleights / Crimps / Bridge (multiple Cards)
Gerald Kosky	Any Card Spell			1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	78	Cards / Effect Themes / Spelling / Any Card Called For Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Spelling Stack / Full Deck
Gerald Kosky	Psychic Spell	card is selected by riffling through the deck, two short cards		1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	80	Cards / Principles / Locator Cards / Short Cards / Short End Cards / Effect Themes / Spelling / Miscellaneous / Set-up
Gerald Kosky	I Spell Your Card	card is selected by riffling through the deck, two short cards		1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	81	Cards / Principles / Locator Cards / Short Cards / Short End Cards / Effect Themes / Spelling / Miscellaneous / Set-up
Gerald Kosky	Tricky Mentalist	six cards set-up		1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	82	Cards / Effect Themes / Spelling / Miscellaneous / Set-up
Gerald Kosky	Poker Run-Up System	two, three or four card stack four four to seven players, overhand shuffle	Also published here Poker Run-Up System (Gerald Kosky, The Cardiste, 1958)	1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	85	Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Overhand / Stacking
Gerald Kosky	Joker's Wild!	five hands are dealt and performer removes five Jokers from wallet, everybody can swap a card with a joker, performer ends up with winning hand, Himber wallet	Related to Jokers Wild! (Gerald Kosky, Talisman, 1971)	1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	86	Wallet Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Poker / "Magic" Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Poker / You just get the winning Hand.
Gerald Kosky	Double-Cut Poker Run-Up	stacking four Kings for five hands, using double undercut	Also published here Double-Cut Poker Run-Up (Gerald Kosky, The New Phoenix, 1963)	1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	87	Cards / Sleights / Stacking / Stacking without Shuffling Cards / Sleights / Crimps / Miscellaneous
Gerald Kosky	Anyone for Bridge?	stacking bridge hands with NDO and faro shuffles	Also published here Anyone for Bridge? (Gerald Kosky, The Cardiste, 1957) Variations Faro Fantasies (Russell "Rusduck" Duck, The Cardiste, 1957)	1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	88	Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Bridge Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Faro Stacking
Gerald Kosky	Topsy-Turvy Cutting of Aces	Aces cut from a deck shuffled face up into face down		1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	90	Cards / Effect Themes / Skill Demonstration / Magician cuts to the Aces / Miscellaneous
Gerald Kosky	One At a Time Aces	same external structure as Marlo's Bluff Ace Assembly	Related to Bluff Ace Assembly (Edward Marlo, Ireland's Yearbooks, 1955) also in: Bluff Ace Assembly (Special Effects, 1987) Bluff Ace Assembly (A Final Farewell Lecture, 1992) … and 3 more	1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	92	Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Ace Assembly / Slow Motion
Gerald Kosky	Vanishing Aces	aces to spectators pocket, duplicates	Also published here Vanishing Aces (Gerald Kosky, My Best, 1945) also in: Vanishing Aces (Gerald Kosky, La Magia de Ascanio — Vol. 3, 1992) Variations Aces Vergas Style (Arturo de Ascanio, The Magic of Ascanio — More Studies of Card Magic, 2008)	1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	94	Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to Pocket / Spectator's Pocket
Gerald Kosky, Jay Ose	Your Favorite Ace	named Ace is found		1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	96	Cards / Principles / Multiple Out Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Single Card
Gerald Kosky	Kosky's Coin Vanish	coin placed on outstretched and vertical palm, held with thumb of other hand		1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	98	Coin / Sleights / Vanish / Single Coin Vanishes / False Transfers - Put
Gerald Kosky	Another Coin Vanish	dropping coin in outside pocket, choreography		1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	99	Coin / Sleights / Vanish / Single Coin Vanishes / With Props
Gerald Kosky	The Hop Ping Koyne Trick	Han Ping Chien with two coins, brief routine	Also published here The Hop Ping Koyne Trick (Gerald Kosky, Hugard's Magic Monthly, 1947)	1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	100	Coin / Sleights / Transfers / Han Ping Chien
Gerald Kosky	Fake Han Ping Chein	coins through table, using extra coins		1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	102	Coin / Effect Themes / Penetration / Table / All at once
Gerald Kosky	Coin of the Realm	two in the hand one in the pocket, Silver coin climax		1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	104	Coin / Effect Themes / Traveling / Variations on "Two in the Hand, One in Pocket"
Gerald Kosky	How to Make Change	coin changes to small purse containing coins with same amount, catapult sleeving		1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	105	Sleeving Techniques Coin / Effect Themes / Transformation / Transformation Coin - Object
Gerald Kosky	Penetrating Coins	three pennies and three crowns assemble in one hand, through table type		1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	106	Coin / Sleights / Sleeving Coin / Effect Themes / Penetration / Table / All at once
Gerald Kosky, Jack Vosburgh	The Plot's The Thing	Instruction game, divination of removed items or murder Plot #1... The Big Robbery Plot #2... It's Murder	Also published here The Plot's the Thing (Gerald Kosky, The Phoenix, 1950) Inspired by Pay Day (Jack Vosburgh, The Jinx, 1941) also in: Pay Day (Practical Mental Effects, 1944) Len Belcher's "Anything You Say" in "Abracadabra" #243, 1950.	1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	110	Games / Instruction Games Games / Murder Game Mental Magic / Effects / Distribution of Items divined or predicted / Miracle Divination (mathematical distribution)
Gerald Kosky	Authors	using Authors game cards, chosen author can be spelled	Also published here Authors (Gerald Kosky, The New Phoenix, 1964)	1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	114	Games / Miscellaneous Mental Magic / Effects / Divination / Miscellaneous
Gerald Kosky	Calling Cards	name written on one of a handful of business cards, cards are turned over and spectator mentally spells name while performer taps cards, spectator stops at last letter and ends up on card with name on it		1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	116	Mental Magic / Effects / Coincidence Business Cards
Gerald Kosky	Torn Billet	sticking center piece on shirt sleeve		1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	118	Paper / Center Tear
Gerald Kosky	"The Total Is!"	eight disks with numbers on each side, spectator can turn them while performer's back is turned and then cover three chips, performer names numbers covered	Inspired by marketed 1941 by Sam Berland also in: Hummer's Poker Chip Baffle (Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets, 1980) Hummer's Poker Chip Mystery (Hummer's Odyssey, 2022)	1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	119	Chip / Miscellaneous Numbers / Principles / Hummer Subtraction Principle Mental Magic / Effects / Divination / Miscellaneous
Gerald Kosky	Crime Detector	several jobs are correctly assigned, Pseudo Psychometry with murder game plot		1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	122	Mental Magic / Effects / Psychometry Effects Mental Magic / Principles / Marking Systems Games / Murder Game
Gerald Kosky	Match Folder Gimac	matchbook to switch small objects		1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	124	Match & Matchbox / Matchbox & Matchbook
Gerald Kosky	The Sub - Conscious			1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	125	Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Rough and Smooth Decks / Mirage Forcing Deck Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Stop Trick / Position indicated by Spectator
Gerald Kosky	A Few Psychometry Ideas			1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	127	Mental Magic / Effects / Psychometry Effects Paper / Envelopes / Marked
Gerald Kosky	The Medium Knows	coding card to medium using pips of a Ten	Also published here Genii, Vol. 6 No. 12, Aug. 1942	1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	129	Cards / Principles / Coding / Using Assistant Cards / Effect Themes / Divination & Mind Reading / by Assistant
Gerald Kosky	Question of Charms	back-count force with charm bracelet	Inspired by The Capital Q (Tricks with Cards, 1889) also in: The Capital Q (More Magic, 1890)	1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	130	Jewelry Mental Magic / Effects / Divination / Miscellaneous
Gerald Kosky	To Lie or, Tell the Truth?	four rings in a box, two are removed and by asking one question performer knows which rings are selected, one has to lie		1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	131	Ring / Finger Rings / Miscellaneous Mental Magic / Effects / Liar Detection
Gerald Kosky	Tele-Mental	one of five thought of card starts to move by itself	Also published here Tele-Mental (Gerald Kosky, Magick, 1971) Inspired by The Five Card Mental Force (Dai Vernon, Encyclopedia of Card Tricks, 1937) also in: 5 Card Mental Force (Magick, 1976) The Five Card Mental Force (Cunning Card Miracles, 1999)	1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	133	Cards / Effect Themes / Think a Card / Five Card Mental Force Cards / Effect Themes / Animation / Miscellaneous Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Magnetic & Shimmed Card
Gerald Kosky	Travel	divination of chosen ships and cost of travel using charts and three spectators		1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	134	Mental Magic / Effects / Divination / Miscellaneous
Gerald Kosky	Travel Agent	cards with names of travel destinations, people write their names under then and tear cards in halves, performer takes parts with the names and can allocate the correct destinations	Also published here Travel Agent (Gerald Kosky, Magick, 1972) also in: Travel Agent (Gerald Kosky, Miracles of my Friends, 1982)	1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	137	Mental Magic / Effects / Psychometry Effects Mental Magic / Principles / Marking Systems
Gerald Kosky	Mentalist Question Cards	spectators gets stack of cards with questions, selected question is divined		1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	139	Mental Magic / Principles / Marking Systems Mental Magic / Effects / Divination / Miscellaneous
Gerald Kosky, Walter B. Gibson*	Tricky Mentalist - Without Cards	apparently twenty selections and their positions are remembered, using business cards and words	Inspired by Improved Super Memory (Walter B. Gibson, Encyclopedia of Card Tricks*, 1937)	1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	142	Propless / Memory Stunts / Miscellaneous Cards / Effect Themes / Super-Senses / Memory / Miscellaneous Business Cards
Gerald Kosky	Psychic Memory	calculator cards / age cards, using four cards and fifteen randomly named objects		1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	143	Mental Magic / Principles / Memory Numbers / Principles / Age Cards Principle Mental Magic / Effects / Divination / Miscellaneous
Gerald Kosky	The Dual Surprise	with "this is it" written on face, and different colored back		1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	145	Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Brainwave type Effects Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Svengali Principle / Svengali Deck Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Rough and Smooth Decks / Two Back Colors
Gerald Kosky	"I Predict"	names of horses are named and written on ten blank cards, chosen one is predicted	Inspired by Gerald Kosky's "Pieces of Ten" in "Genii", 1947.	1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	148	Cards / Principles / Elimination Procedures / Tantalizer Deal Mental Magic / Effects / Prediction / Standard Predictions (one or multiple items)
Gerald Kosky	Total Prediction	add-a-number prediction, prediction written on back of card where numbers are added		1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	150	Paper / Add-a-Number Pad Numbers / Prediction & Sum-Divination
Gerald Kosky	Offbeat Prediction	cards are cut face-up and face-down, prediction of two cards		1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	152	Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Multiple Card Prediction
Gerald Kosky	The Perfect Prediction	disguised method to force a forcing card of a Svengali deck		1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	154	Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Single Card Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Svengali Principle / Svengali Deck
Gerald Kosky	Another Prediction	cut deeper Force, all cards are face-down but one		1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	155	Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Single Card Cards / Sleights / Force / Cut Forces / Cut-Deeper Force
Gerald Kosky	Four Messages	six blank cards, display to hide four messages		1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	157	Cards / Sleights / False Display / Hiding Surfaces Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Double Facer / Same Both Sides (SBS)
Gerald Kosky	Impromptu Ultra Spirit Message	using business cards	Also published here Impromptu Ultra Spirit Message (Gerald Kosky, Hugard's Magic Monthly, 1948) also in: Impromptu Ultra Spirit Message (Gerald Kosky, Miracles of my Friends, 1982) Inspired by The Ultra Slate Message (Dr. Jacob Daley, The Jinx, 1936) also in: The Ultra Slate Message (Practical Mental Effects, 1944)	1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	159	Paper / Appearing Writing, Photos, ... Business Cards
Gerald Kosky	Surprise Prediction	prediction on slip of paper	Also published here Surprise Prediction (Gerald Kosky, Miracles of my Friends, 1982)	1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	160	Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Open Prediction Theme
Gerald Kosky	Jaysonism Plus	based in a Eddie Joseph trick, thought of number to select card, cards dealt from top to bottom and performer stops at correct card	Also published here Jasonism Plus (Gerald Kosky, Talisman, 1970) also in: Jaysonism 2 (Gerald Kosky, Magick, 1975)	1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	161	Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Single Card
Gerald Kosky	Silent E.S.P. Test	charts with names, spectator looks at a name and performer divines it, location method	Inspired by a routine (?) by Tom Seller's in "The Gen".	1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	163	Mental Magic / Effects / Divination / Miscellaneous
Gerald Kosky	Touch E.S.P.	divining reversed ESP card behind back		1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	165	Mental Magic / Principles / Marking Systems ESP Cards / Divination
Gerald Kosky	E.S.P.	cards placed inside envelopes are divined		1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	166	Cards / Effect Themes / Divination & Mind Reading / Miscellaneous Cards / Sleights / Estimation / Visual Estimation Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Cyclical & Tetradistic
Gerald Kosky	Easy Magazine Test	forcing a number using stapled magazine		1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	169	Numbers / Number Forces / Other Props Book / Book Test / Magazine Test
Gerald Kosky	1089 - Plus	using a variation of the 1089-force for a book test		1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	170	Numbers / Number Forces / Only Calculation Book / Book Test / Sleights & Principles
Gerald Kosky	Mystery Magazine - Book Test	using mystery magazines	Also published here Mystery Magazine Test (Gerald Kosky, Ireland's Yearbooks, 1964)	1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	171	Book / Book Test / Magazine Test
Gerald Kosky	Book Test A La Kosky	six books, duplicates with different cover ruse		1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	173	Book / Book Test / Routines
Gerald Kosky	The Dream	prediction of chosen pile, chosen word and relation of black cards in a pile to red cards in another pile		1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	174	Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Number Prediction Cards / Effect Themes / Red Black / Miraskill & Variations Mental Magic / Effects / Prediction / Standard Predictions (one or multiple items) Book / Book Test / Magazine Test
Gerald Kosky	Strike-Out	card with five diseases written on it is handed to spectator, one is selected and card placed inside envelope, name of disease vanishes		1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	177	Paper / Transformation Paper / Envelopes / Switching with single Envelope & Two-Way Envelopes
Gerald Kosky	Tape Recorder Prediction	prediction on tape of a number, a card and the relation between black and red objects (Miraskill)		1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	179	CD & Record Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Single Card Cards / Effect Themes / Red Black / Miraskill & Variations Mental Magic / Effects / Prediction / By Mail Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Rough and Smooth Decks / Mirage Forcing Deck
Gerald Kosky	Up In Flames	five pieces of paper, spectator selects one and writes "Up in flames" on it, when touched by match its the only one that burns	Also published here Up in Flames (Gerald Kosky, Magick, 1971)	1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	183	Paper / Mental Stuff Light & Fire / Flash Paper & Material
Gerald Kosky	The Spirit Writes	writing appears on card with famous person on it, Hypnotic card box	Also published here The Spirit Writes (Gerald Kosky, HEX!, 1969)	1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	184	Paper / Appearing Writing, Photos, ... Cards / Props & Apparatus / Card Box (e.g. with Flap)
Gerald Kosky	Over-The-Phone - Basic Code	magazine test with medium on telephone		1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	186	Propless / Coding / Phone Book / Book Test / Magazine Test
Gerald Kosky	Comprehensive Telephone Code	counting method		1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	189	Propless / Coding / Phone Cards / Effect Themes / Phone Effects / Medium at the Other end
Gerald Kosky	Telephone Telepathy			1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	191	Cards / Effect Themes / Phone Effects / Medium at the Other end Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Only for Special Stacks / Si Stebbins
Gerald Kosky	Telepathy Made Easy	assistant in other room while card is selected		1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	191	Cards / Principles / Coding / Using Assistant Cards / Effect Themes / Divination & Mind Reading / by Assistant
Gerald Kosky	Phone-Ey Intuition	person is called during show to name a number, predicted card is found at that position		1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	192	Cards / Effect Themes / Phone Effects / Person is called during performance Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Single Card Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Rough and Smooth Decks / Mirage Forcing Deck
Gerald Kosky	Piff-Paff-Poof Variation			1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	193	Safety Pin / Penetration / Linking Pins
Gerald Kosky	Mass Hypnotism	pseudo hypnotism act, audience is apparently hypnotised, things written on slates are different, scarfs are not knotted and cards are different then remembered		1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	194	Mental Magic / Effects / Hypnotism Slate / Flaps & Moving Parts Slate / Miscellaneous Silk & Handkerchief / Traveling / Twentieth Century Silks Cards / Props & Apparatus / Card Box (e.g. with Flap)
Gerald Kosky	Sholim Ali Kim	mathematical problem, camels divided to sons, using jewels	Inspired by The Shiekh's Bequest (Ernest W. Brady, The New Phoenix, 1963) also in: Die Erbschaft (Intermagic, 1984) The Story Teller (Will Ayling, The Art of Close-Up Magic — Volume 2, 1969)	1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	196	Numbers / Puzzles & Bets Jewelry
Gerald Kosky	Cassette Speaking	instruction and divination on cassette		1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	198	CD & Record Numbers / Calculating & Mental Arithmetic Games / Instruction Games Mental Magic / Effects / Prediction / Miscellaneous
Gerald Kosky	Super Money Passbook	check changes to money, using switching folder / Jacob's Ladder Instructions for Making the Folder		1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	201	Apparatus & Dealer Props / Changing & Switching Devices Bill / Transformation / Bill or Paper / Multiple / Props
Gerald Kosky	I Like Girls!	variation of the Marconick Die, different numbers from die can be shown then card is opened to show domino and pin up girl, movable spots		1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	204	Paper / Transformation Dice (large) & Blocks / Miscellaneous
Gerald Kosky	Thanks to John Hamilton	pile of blank cards, two words written on two cards and cards shuffled, spectator cuts deck behind back and cards with written words end up in same position	Also published here Thanks to John Hamilton (Gerald Kosky, Miracles of my Friends, 1982) Inspired by John Hamilton's "A Mini Miracle" in "The Linking Ring", October 1965.	1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	207	Mental Magic / Effects / Coincidence
Gerald Kosky	Calendar Magic Square	natural magic squares using a calendar, 3x3		1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	209	Numbers / Magic Square
Gerald Kosky	How Many?	Two in the hand with three dice, one blank die as climax	Also published here How Many? (Gerald Kosky, Routined Manipulation Finale, 1954) also in: How Many? (Gerald Kosky, Two in the Hand and One in the Pocket, 1979) Wieviele? (Gerald Kosky, Intermagic, 2000) Variations Three Dice Monte (Gene Gordon, Onyx, 1998)	1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	211	Dice (small) / Traveling Random Object / Two in the Hand, One in the Pocket
Gerald Kosky	Beans	three beans are eaten and reproduced from mouth, then vanish and appear again	Also published here Beans (Gerald Kosky, The New Phoenix, 1954)	1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	214	Food / Beans
Gerald Kosky	My Name's Mine	stack of business cards, one signed by spectator changes places with one signed by performer	Related to Fair Exchange (Gerald Kosky, The Magic of Gerald Kosky, 1975)	1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	215	Business Cards
Gerald Kosky	"Nuts to You"	miniature card found in walnut	Also published here "Nuts to You" (Gerald Kosky, The Jinx, 1938)	1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	216	Cards / Effect Themes / Gags & Curiousities / Force and unusual Discovery Nut / Miscellaneous

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