Bill Taylor

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Creators	Title	Comments & References		Year	Source	Page	Categories
Alex Elmsley	7-16	down under deal, Ace of Spades remains, game presentation	Related to Souvenir (Ken Beale, 1961) Einstein's Card Trick (Richard Vollmer, Roberto Giobbi, 2010) The Einstein Card Trick Variation (Roberto Giobbi, Richard Vollmer, 2010) Variations 7-16 (Bill Taylor, 1974) Solomon's Math Challenge (David Solomon, Gene Castillon, 2018) Also published here 7-16 (Alex Elmsley, 1991)	Mar. 1958	Ibidem (Issue 13)	4	Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Single Card Cards / Principles / Elimination Procedures / Down-Under Deal
Bill Taylor	To the Point	deck on cork board, spectator throws dart, hit card matches prediction, for clarification see p. 372	Variations Modern Dart (Philip T. Goldstein, 1979)	June 1970	The Pallbearers Review Vol. 5-8 (Vol. 5 No. 8)	342	Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Off-beat Predictions Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Single Card Games / Darts
Karl Fulves	Parablox	paper box used to take props from it, at the end it changes to solid block of wood, posed as problem, see also p. 402 for solution by Bill Taylor	Related to "Boxes or Blocks" (The Magic Wand, June-Sep 1933) Variations Solution to Parablox (Sid Lorraine, 1971) Parablox (Alexander de Cova, 2003) Parabloxx (Alexander de Cova, 2015)	Nov. 1970	The Pallbearers Review Vol. 5-8 (Vol. 6 No. 1)	374	Wood Apparatus / Paper Carton
Gene Finnell	Checkerboard Game	betting game with 4x4 checkerboard and cover cards that cover all except one square, performer always wins, see also p. 486 for comment by Bill Taylor	Variations The N.C. Game (Roy Walton, 1972)	June 1971	The Pallbearers Review Vol. 5-8 (Vol. 6 No. 8)	423	Games / Miscellaneous
Bill Taylor	7-16	down-under deal, spectator's and performer's remaining cards predicted, game presentation	Inspired by 7-16 (Alex Elmsley, 1958) Also published here The Game of 7-16 (Bill Taylor, 1977)	Apr. 1974	The Pallbearers Review Vol. 9-10 (Vol. 9 No. 6)	723	Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Multiple Card Prediction Cards / Principles / Elimination Procedures / Down-Under Deal
Bill Taylor	Ballondurchdringung mit Hilfe einer unpräparierten Hülle - (2)	penetration of balloon with ungaffed cover tube		Nov. 1976	Intermagic (Vol. 4 No. 1)	17	Balloon / Penetration
Bill Taylor	The Game of 7-16	down-under deal, spectator's and performer's remaining cards predicted, game presentation	Also published here 7-16 (Bill Taylor, 1974)	1977	The Magic Book	69	Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Multiple Card Prediction Cards / Principles / Elimination Procedures / Down-Under Deal
Philip T. Goldstein	Modern Dart	card is chosen by tossing a dart, five-way	Inspired by To the Point (Bill Taylor, 1970)	1979	The Yellow Book of Mentalism	18	Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Forcing Deck Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Single Card Billet / Index Games / Darts
Paul Swinford	Magnetic Coincidence	selection by spectator and performer are found next to each other by stop procedure, marked and half forcing deck, gilbreath	Related to The Shuffled Prediction (Bill Taylor, 1999)	1980	Arcane (Issue 2)	15	Cards / Principles / Gilbreath Principle Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Forcing Deck Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Stop Trick Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Marked deck / Backs
Michael Weber, Mike Caveney, Bill Taylor	The Vacuum Cleaner Illusion	woman is transported from a box into a bag through the tube of a vacuum cleaner		1981	Magicomedy	151	Illusions / Traveling Illusions / Topological Effects
Jim Steinmeyer, Bill Taylor	Houdini's Grandmother	Conjuring close-up version of Grandmother's Necklace		Nov. 1998	Magic (Vol. 8 No. 3)	85	Rope / Penetration / Grandmother's Necklace aka. Cords of Phantasia
Bill Taylor	The Shuffled Prediction	deck shuffled, spectator chooses a pair of cards and then one of them, it is predicted	Related to Magnetic Coincidence (Paul Swinford, 1980) Sventalism And Other Svengali Effects (Jim Steinmeyer, 1999) Variations The Bellweather (Norman Gilbreath, 1999)	Mar. 1999	Magic (Vol. 8 No. 7)	81	Cards / Principles / Gilbreath Principle Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Single Card Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Svengali Principle / Svengali Deck
Norman Gilbreath	The Bellweather	do-as-I-do type procedure in which spectator and performer both shuffle a deck and deal it in pairs, then select one of the two cards, they match	Inspired by The Shuffled Prediction (Bill Taylor, 1999)	May 1999	Magic (Vol. 8 No. 9)	75	Cards / Principles / Gilbreath Principle Cards / Effect Themes / Do as I Do / Two Decks Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Svengali Principle / Svengali Deck
Bill Taylor	Hard as a Rock	egg balanced upright on glass, after comedy vanish sequence egg is shown real, then content poured in newspaper where it vanishes	Also published here Genii, Vol. 28 No. 12, Aug. 1964, p. 454	2002	The Encyclopedia of Egg Magic	98	Egg / Miscellaneous Newspaper / Liquid in Newspaper Egg / Vanish / Props Egg / Defying Gravity
Bill Taylor	Alternate Count/Display	intro switch for reset		2003	Variations Revisited	22	Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Reset & Variations Cards / Sleights / Switches / Multiple Card Switches / Using a Packet

15 entries for Bill Taylor