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Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Eric F. Impey Another Effect on the Same Principle spectator cuts to same cards as have been selected from different deck, Instanto deck
Related to 1928 6
Billy O'Connor To Make Cards "Slippery"
1933 75
Billy O'Connor A Card with a Certain Number of Pips six cards in a row, one value forced
1933 32
Riffle Trick No. 1, spectator riffle shuffles once, cuts to a card and remembers a suit, then memorizes the first card of that suit from the face
Also published here 1935 1
Victor Farelli Poker and Brag four Aces produced in "magic gambling" routine via dealing procedure
Inspired by
  • "After the Four Ace Trick" (Billy O'Connor, The Magic Wand, June-Sept 1935)
1936 33
Billy O'Connor The Limit Four Ace Trick seven Aces are used
1937 295
Billy O'Connor A Memory Feat naming any card at any number
1937 365
Billy O'Connor The Bill in the Envelope burned bill reappears in empty envelope, number checked
1937 29
Billy O'Connor Two Card Discovery card stabbed in deck by spectator next to two selections, short card
Variations 1938 469
Billy O'Connor Instanto cutting to any named card, gaffed deck
Related to 1940
The Jinx (Issue 115)
677
Billy O'Connor Rising Cards using "Instanto" deck
1940
The Jinx (Issue 115)
678
Billy O'Connor Cutting Off any Number of Cards using "Instanto" deck
1940
The Jinx (Issue 115)
680
Connor Everready Pencil Trick vanish and production of a pencil
1940
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1940)
4
Billy O'Connor Introduction
1946 6
Billy O'Connor Mix - Cut and Look spectator riffle shuffles once, cuts to a card and remembers a suit, then memorizes the first card of that suit from the face
Also published here 1946 9
Billy O'Connor O'Connor's Four-Ace Trick 10-20 force to find four Aces one by one
1956 20
T. O'Connor Sloane The Mysteries of Nine Number forces using the number nine (e.g. 1089), includes variation by T. O'Connor Sloane using money
Related to 1956 163
Russell "Rusduck" Duck Flip Deck cutting to any named card, gaffed deck
Related to Sep. 1957
The Cardiste (Issue 4)
13
Billy O'Connor Ten-Twenty Force
1971 38
Jimmy Connor Tap-A-Card mental spelling as performer taps on random card, selection at final letter
1972 11
Fred Robinson Oasis on the 26th Blackpool Convention, Fred Kaps, Gordon Bruce, Bob Read, Andrew O'Connor, Bert Graham, Paul Daniels, Ken Brooke, Ken Dodd
Jan. 1978
Pabular (Vol. 4 No. 5)
520
Rudolf "Don Curano" Künzli Ken Brooke - Blackpool und One-day Voncention on the Ken Brooke celebration show and the Blackpool convention, Terry Herbert, Danny Ray, Joe Riding, Andrew O'Connor, David Hemingway, Carl Franz & Pat, Philippe Fialho, Mark Raffles, Ken Brooke, Don Curano, Al Goshman, Mark Haslam, Shaun McCree, Gaeton Bloom, Rovi, Ron MacMillan, Wayne Dobson, Henk Meesters, Phoa Yan Tiong, Roger John & Cynthia, Terri Rogers, Vito Lupo, Finn Jon
1980
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 41 No. 2)
77
Peter Wilker Preisträger 1981 on the Magic Castle Awards, Marco the Magi, Le Grand David, Gene Gordon, Ken Brooke, Daryl, Andrew O'Connor, Daniel Huguenin, Crisco
1982
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 43 No. 1)
1
Steve Beam 6801 Prediction comedy prediction with a twist, 1089 force
Related to 1986 222
Bob Farmer, Max Maven Fifty Years Ago in Magic
  • Flim-Flam
on the Billy O’Connor's backcount force in "One Card 10/20 Poker", back and forth letters between Max and Bob
Related to Sep. 1995
Magic (Vol. 5 No. 1)
70
Karl Fulves Thoughts Of Others card written down by a spectator is though of during riffling by other spectator, O'Connor's Instanto Pack
Related to 1996 11
Karl Fulves Side Effects gaffed deck with various shortened cards, cutting to any card of tabled deck
Related to 1996 32
Jack Avis, Billy O'Connor O'Connor Caper two cards predicted and mates via count-back force (10-20 force), credit information
Inspired by
  • Billy O'Connor trick in The Magic Wand
1998 131
Mark Mason, Vic Connor Hindu Rope Surprise rope floats and dances, invisible thread reel
2000 8
Cardini Name-O-Card cutting to any named card
Related to 2003 296
Karl Fulves Speller Notes
  • A. on locating previous trick
  • B. Instanto Deck and any card spelling
  • C. short routine to spell any named card impromptu, face-up counting and turnover pass
  • D. cutting as deck is dumped from case
Related to 2006
Prolix (Issue 2)
100
Billy O'Connor The Flip Flop Cut
Also published here
  • "But Not To Play" (Wilfred Jonson)
2007 45
Anthony Owen, Pete McCahon, Andrew O'Connor, Richard Pinner Recaffinated Coffee performer pours coffee, milk and sugar into a cup and drinks it, then items are spitted out from mouth seperately
Also published here 2007 25
Billy O'Connor Ten-Twenty Force
2008 127
Billy O'Connor Ten-Twenty Force
2008 292
Mickey O'Connor Surviving China Franz Harary
Dec. 2011
Genii (Vol. 74 No. 12)
67
Larry Jennings Countback Aces spectator cuts deck in half, both halves counted, digits added and that many card counted off to form four piles in total, Aces are on top
Inspired by
  • “After the Four Ace Trick” (Billy O’Connor, The Magic Wand, June-Sep. 1935, p. 85)
Variations
2011 32
William Goodwin Random Locations four spectators count a packet, add digits and then count to a card, using Billy O’Connor's procedure as placement/force, faro
2011 39
Gordon Bean Count One Way three piles made with counting and adding digits (using Billy O’Connor's procedure), then top card of one pile chosen without performer looking and lost, performer knows pile and stops spectator as he deals through pile at his card
2011 42
Billy O'Connor Ten-Twenty Force
Also published here
  • The Magic Wand, June-Sep. 1935, "After the Four Ace Trick"
2011 821
Doug Edwards, Billy O'Connor, Cardini Billy O'Connor's Instanto Deck how to build an Instanto deck, more ideas
Related to 2013 63
Jon Racherbaumer On the Slant
  • Paraphemalia (Steven Connor, 2011)
  • Mastermind (Maria Konnikova, 2013)
  • Mastery (Robert Greene, 2012)
Mar. 2013
Genii (Vol. 76 No. 3)
12
David Britland, Billy O'Connor Billy O'Connor's Two Card Discovery
  • Cardopolis
card stabbed in deck by spectator next to two selections, short card
Inspired by July 2016
Genii (Vol. 79 No. 7)
24
David Britland Billy O'Connor
July 2016
Genii (Vol. 79 No. 7)
24
Anthony Owen, Pete McCahon, Andrew O'Connor, Richard Pinner Recaffeinated Coffee performer pours coffee, milk and sugar into a cup and drinks it, then items are spitted out from mouth seperately
Also published here 2017 224
Remy Connor ACME small bills drawn on blank cards, bill appears
June 2022
Elixir (Vol. 3 No. Florida Issue Part Two)
128