652 entries for Jeff Busby

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Jeff Busby (reviewer) Fifth International Yellow Pages 1987-1989 by Wittus Witt Feb. 1988
Epoptica (Issue 11)
533
Jeff Busby (reviewer) New Acrobatic Matches by John Kennedy Feb. 1988
Epoptica (Issue 11)
533
Jeff Busby (reviewer) Illusory Reflex by Mel Stover Feb. 1988
Epoptica (Issue 11)
534
Jeff Busby (reviewer) Suparings by Roy Johnson Feb. 1988
Epoptica (Issue 11)
534
Jeff Busby (reviewer) And the Winner is...! by Jack Dean Feb. 1988
Epoptica (Issue 11)
535
Jeff Busby (reviewer) Fantastic Elastic Pin by Phil Postma Feb. 1988
Epoptica (Issue 11)
535
Jeff Busby (reviewer) New Design of 3 1/2 of Clubs by Ricki Dunn Feb. 1988
Epoptica (Issue 11)
536
Jeff Busby (reviewer) The Elusive Lifesavers by Edgar W. Ralston Feb. 1988
Epoptica (Issue 11)
536
Jeff Busby (reviewer) Ultra Mint Coins by Tom Burgoon Feb. 1988
Epoptica (Issue 11)
537
Jeff Busby (reviewer) Ultra Slice by Tom Burgoon Feb. 1988
Epoptica (Issue 11)
537
Jeff Busby (reviewer) Ultra Glass by Tom Burgoon Feb. 1988
Epoptica (Issue 11)
537
Jeff Busby (reviewer) Ultra Ball by Tom Burgoon Feb. 1988
Epoptica (Issue 11)
538
Jeff Busby (reviewer) Ripped Revelation by Tom Burgoon Feb. 1988
Epoptica (Issue 11)
538
Jeff Busby (reviewer) Comedy Crush Tray by Tom Burgoon Feb. 1988
Epoptica (Issue 11)
538
Jeff Busby (reviewer) Daryl's Ambitious Card Omnibus by Daryl Martinez (written by Stephen Minch) Feb. 1988
Magical Arts Journal (Vol. 2 No. 1)
3
Jeff Busby (reviewer) Simply Amazing by Ronald J. Dayton Feb. 1988
Magical Arts Journal (Vol. 2 No. 1)
3
Jeff Busby (reviewer) Animated Matchbook by John Kennedy Feb. 1988
Magical Arts Journal (Vol. 2 No. 1)
3
Jeff Busby (reviewer) Pizza To Go by Feb. 1988
Magical Arts Journal (Vol. 2 No. 1)
3
Jeff Busby (reviewer) A New Look at Some Classic Close-Up by Bill Okal Mar. 1988
Magical Arts Journal (Vol. 2 No. 2)
3
Jeff Busby (reviewer) Illusory Reflex by Magic Tech Mar. 1988
Magical Arts Journal (Vol. 2 No. 2)
3
Jeff Busby (reviewer) Tsunami by Bob Farmer Mar. 1988
Magical Arts Journal (Vol. 2 No. 2)
3
Jeff Busby (reviewer) The Enchanted Stradivarius by Daniel Cros
see also vol.2 issue 3, page 12, for complain letter		Related toVariations Mar. 1988
Magical Arts Journal (Vol. 2 No. 2)
3
Jeff Busby (reviewer) The Pull Book by Patrick Page Apr. 1988
Magical Arts Journal (Vol. 2 No. 3)
3
Jeff Busby (reviewer) Journey Into Hypnotism by Richard Osterlind Apr. 1988
Magical Arts Journal (Vol. 2 No. 3)
3
Jeff Busby (reviewer) The Encyclopedia of Magic and Magicians by Thomas Alan Waters Apr. 1988
Magical Arts Journal (Vol. 2 No. 3)
3
Jeff Busby (reviewer) The Card Match Levitation by Howard Schwarzman Apr. 1988
Magical Arts Journal (Vol. 2 No. 3)
3
Daniel Cros A Letter from Daniel Cros regarding the review by Jeff Busby
Inspired byVariations Apr. 1988
Magical Arts Journal (Vol. 2 No. 3)
18
Jeff Busby Jeff Busby Responds regarding Daniel Cros's letter
Inspired byRelated to Apr. 1988
Magical Arts Journal (Vol. 2 No. 3)
19
Jeff Busby (reviewer) 52 Lovers by José Carroll Sep. 1989
Epoptica (Issue 12)
547
Jeff Busby (reviewer) Slow-Motion Magic by René Lavand Sep. 1989
Epoptica (Issue 12)
548
Jeff Busby (reviewer) The Magic Way by Juan Tamariz Sep. 1989
Epoptica (Issue 12)
549
Jeff Busby (reviewer) The Five Points in Magic by Juan Tamariz Sep. 1989
Epoptica (Issue 12)
549
Jeff Busby (reviewer) The Inner Circle Audio Series 1: Making Magic Memorable by Michael Ammar Sep. 1989
Epoptica (Issue 12)
550
Jeff Busby (reviewer) Magical Arts Journal by Paul Harris (written by Michael Ammar) Sep. 1989
Epoptica (Issue 12)
550
Jeff Busby (reviewer) Magical Arts Journal by Michael Ammar Sep. 1989
Epoptica (Issue 12)
551
Jeff Busby (reviewer) Magical Arts Journal by Michael Ammar Sep. 1989
Epoptica (Issue 12)
551
Jeff Busby (reviewer) Real Mental Magic: Technique and Performance by Ormond McGill Sep. 1989
Epoptica (Issue 12)
553
Jeff Busby (reviewer) Mentalists' Roundtable #2 by Richard Webster Sep. 1989
Epoptica (Issue 12)
554
Jeff Busby (reviewer) Deja Voodoo by Bob Farmer Sep. 1989
Epoptica (Issue 12)
554
Jeff Busby (reviewer) King of Cold Readers by Bascom Jones Sep. 1989
Epoptica (Issue 12)
555
Jeff Busby (reviewer) Television for the Mentalist by Scott Davis Sep. 1989
Epoptica (Issue 12)
558
Jeff Busby (reviewer) Cards on the Table by Jerry Sadowitz Sep. 1989
Epoptica (Issue 12)
558
Jeff Busby (reviewer) Punchline by Timothy Wenk Sep. 1989
Epoptica (Issue 12)
559
Jeff Busby (reviewer) John Dahms Wand by John Dahms Sep. 1989
Epoptica (Issue 12)
559
Jeff Busby (reviewer) The Unconquered Card by Mike Rogers Sep. 1989
Epoptica (Issue 12)
560
Jeff Busby (reviewer) The Mike Rogers Chop Cup by John Dahms, Mike Rogers Sep. 1989
Epoptica (Issue 12)
561
Jeff Busby (reviewer) Perfected Professional Punch by Ray Grismer Sep. 1989
Epoptica (Issue 12)
562
Jeff Busby (reviewer) The Punch Letters by Ray Grismer Sep. 1989
Epoptica (Issue 12)
562
Jeff Busby (reviewer) What's My Sign/Choose A Planet/Think of a Sign or Planet by Ray Grismer Sep. 1989
Epoptica (Issue 12)
563
Jeff Busby (reviewer) Spending Spree by Jack Dean Sep. 1989
Epoptica (Issue 12)
563
Jeff Busby (reviewer) The Bingo Effect by Jack Dean Sep. 1989
Epoptica (Issue 12)
564
Jeff Busby (reviewer) The Dean Dictionary by Jack Dean Sep. 1989
Epoptica (Issue 12)
564
Jeff Busby (reviewer) The Voice of the Prophet by Jack Dean Sep. 1989
Epoptica (Issue 12)
564
Jeff Busby (reviewer) Forgone Conclusion by Jack Dean Sep. 1989
Epoptica (Issue 12)
564
Jeff Busby (reviewer) E.S.P. Money Saver by Sid Lorraine Sep. 1989
Epoptica (Issue 12)
565
Jeff Busby (reviewer) Leather Fire Wallet/Himber Wallet by Harry Anderson Sep. 1989
Epoptica (Issue 12)
565
Jeff Busby (reviewer) Miracle of the Eighties by A. Berkeley Davis Sep. 1989
Epoptica (Issue 12)
565
Jeff Busby (reviewer) Third Sight by A. Berkeley Davis Sep. 1989
Epoptica (Issue 12)
566
Click! Click! Alan Shaxon vanishing a cane, Rocco Silano, Jeff Busby's Thaumaturgist (on Richard Kaufman's Genii column)
 		May 1989
Opus (Vol. 2 No. 9)
3
Jeff Busby Omega Count
1990
Focus
28
Jeff Busby Foreword
1990
Mad Fax and other Mysteries
vii
Jeff Busby Four As Four Count same objective as Jordan Count
 		1990
Headhunter
3
Richard Kaufman Column No 6 Tom Ransom, Jeff Busby, getting endorsements from Dai Vernon
Related to Feb. 1991
Opus (Vol. 3 No. 8)
11
David Britland (reviewer) The Man Who Was Erdnase by S. W. Erdnase (written by Jeff Busby, Bart Whaley) Aug. 1991
Opus (Vol. 3 No. 11)
9
Karl Fulves (reviewer) The Man Who Was Erdnase by S. W. Erdnase (written by Jeff Busby, Bart Whaley) 1991
Nerdnase
1
Jeff Busby, Edward Marlo Neo-Jordan Count
Related to 1992
Card Finesse II
53
Jeff Busby Dear Fred Braue Notebooks Subscriber apology for delay, 1986 is given in later copyright notice, but everything starting with page 7 was printed in 1992
 		1992
The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 6)
Jeff Busby The Unpublished Hugard-Braue Book - Version One background information, supposed to be a book that follows Expert Card Technique and Royal Road to Card Magic
 		1992
The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 6)
20
Jeff Busby (reviewer) Ascanio by Arturo de Ascanio
Review of The Psychology of Palming 		1992
La Magia de Ascanio — Vol. 6
68
Jeff Busby Discrepancy Deal Force
Related to Sep. 1993
MO — Modus Operandi (Issue 3)
16
Jeff Busby Card From Pocket Finesse to pivot card away from hand, trouser pocket
 		1994
Workers Number 4
50
Peter Duffie Principles and Deceptions "An Easy Trip Through The Arithmetical Principles Of Card Magic - Part 6"
additions and corrections by Jeff Busby and Max Maven on previous columns, idea of cutting between a red or black pair in Gilbreath tricks
Related to Feb. 1994
Profile (Issue 18)
11
Jeff Busby A Lift Tip
1995
Arcane (Issue 14)
204
Martin Gardner, Jeff Busby Two Quick Tricks & Associated Ideas: A Reversal Method a card turns over, based on cut deeper force
 		1995
Arcane (Issue 14)
210
Martin Gardner, Jeff Busby Additional Methods & Handlings card turns over
 		1995
Arcane (Issue 14)
210
Jon Racherbaumer Busby Follies Redux
  • letter to Jeff Busby as reply to Busby's review of "Wild Card Kit", 1992-07-05
  • letter to T. A. Waters (on Busby and "Card Finesse II"), 1993-03-12
  • note to Lou Gallo on Steve Beam comment on Marlo's Mental Reverse in "The Trapdoor"
 		1996
Facsimile (Issue 4)
23
David Michael Evans Bob Hope's Magic Special - "Don't Shoot, I'm not Jeff Busby" humorous poem
 		1996
The Trapdoor — Volume Three (Issue 61)
1178
Jeff Busby Auto-Twist & Isolated Aces
1996
Auto-Twist & Isolated Aces
1
Jeff Busby (reviewer) Magie Duvivier by Dominique Duvivier (written by Jon Racherbaumer)
brief 		1996
Auto-Twist & Isolated Aces
1
Dominique Duvivier Auto-Twist no sleights
Variations 1996
Auto-Twist & Isolated Aces
2
Jeff Busby Isolated Aces four spectators chose a card each that are put in glass, they're the Aces, Aces in glass are covered with handkerchief and an Ace turns over in packet, repeated for all Aces
  • Phase One: The Spectators Select the Four Aces
  • Phase Two - Five: The Aces Reverse
Inspired by 1996
Auto-Twist & Isolated Aces
7
Jeff Busby History and Background on the Germain Flash Card Change and Sympathetic Cards
Related to 1996
Auto-Twist & Isolated Aces
9
Jeff Busby Last Words
1996
Auto-Twist & Isolated Aces
17
Jeff Busby Snap Finesse double snaps off fingers
 		1996
Miracles with Cards
121
Joseph K. Schmidt (reviewer) The Man Who Was Erdnase by Jeff Busby
comments on the book 		1996
Underworld (Issue 3)
33
Jim Sisti My Turn on Harry Lorayne, Jeff Busby
 		Jan./Feb. 1996
The Magic Menu (Vol. 6 No. 33)
376
Jeff Busby Introduction
1998
The Secret of the Palmettos
vii
Jeff Busby Chapter 1: Historical Prelude on Walter Scott, Eddie McGuire
  • The "Work" Circulates
  • The Phantom's Manuscript Resurfaces
  • A Problem Posed
 		1998
The Secret of the Palmettos
1
Jeff Busby Chapter 2: New Light on a Legend on Walter Scott, Eddie McGuire
  • What Really Happened That Night
  • Building the Legend
  • Background to Collusion
  • "The Battle of the Century"
  • The Phantom Goes Public
  • A Letter from Charlie Miller
 		1998
The Secret of the Palmettos
9
Jeff Busby Chapter 3: The Work and Its Background on the gambling history of edge work, credit information
  • End Marking
  • The Evolution of Gambler's Edge Work
  • The Real Work
  • Johnson Tips It
  • Edge Work for Sale
edge work vs bevel edge work
Related to 1998
The Secret of the Palmettos
21
Jeff Busby Chapter 4: Magicians and Edge Work on edge work in print, DeLand's Wonder Pack, credit information
  • Cutting Any Card Called
  • Downs' Work
  • One-Way Edge Marking
  • Tarbell's Work
  • Hilliard's Omnibus Exploration
  • Crimp Edge Work
  • Jack McMillen's Work
  • J.G. Thompson Jr.'s Method
  • Walsh's Method
  • Merlini's Method
  • Kosky's Method
  • Marlo's Edge Reader
  • Gene Grant's Method
  • Karroll Priest's Method
  • The "Cardini" Deck
  • Burton's Devil's Deck Variant
  • No Playing Cards - Strictly for the Mentalist
Related to 1998
The Secret of the Palmettos
27
Jack McMillen Astral Vision edge-marked diagonal line, card location after riffle shuffle, mechanical interlocking chain principle, with more details and corrections by Jeff Busby
Related toAlso published here
  • "Mental Mysteries with Cards" (Larsen & Wright, 1942)
 1998
The Secret of the Palmettos
31
Jeff Busby Chapter 5: The Texans and The Secret on the one-way feature of the Texan '45 Palmetto deck
  • Discovering the Secret of the Palmettos
  • Understanding the Work
  • A First Exercise
  • Putting in the Work
  • The Advantages of the Texan
 		1998
The Secret of the Palmettos
40
Jeff Busby Chapter 6: Basic Concepts and Handling
1998
The Secret of the Palmettos
53
Jeff Busby Tilt Check spotting the position of an edge-marked key card
 		1998
The Secret of the Palmettos
53
Jeff Busby Basic Cut Location cutting to an edge-marked key card
 		1998
The Secret of the Palmettos
54
Jeff Busby What About a Little Finger Break? on getting a break at an edge-marked key card with the left fourth finger and generally advising against it
 		1998
The Secret of the Palmettos
56
Jeff Busby If You Miss corrections for previous Basic Cut Location
 		1998
The Secret of the Palmettos
57
Jeff Busby Thousands of Tricks on different locator cards, and the option of doing that material with an edge-marked card
 		1998
The Secret of the Palmettos
58
Jeff Busby A One-Way Street on the one-way principle, credit information, and the option of doing that material with an edge-marked one-way deck
 		1998
The Secret of the Palmettos
60
Jeff Busby One-Way Glass card selected out-of-hands from shuffled deck, performer names position of selection, almost no-touch, out-of-hand reversal method
Inspired by
  • "Mind Mirror" (Jack McMillen, "Mental Mysteries with Cards", Larsen & Wright, 1942)
 1998
The Secret of the Palmettos
62
Jeff Busby Dumping the Work shuffling a one-way edge-marked deck to lose the orientation
 		1998
The Secret of the Palmettos
64
Jeff Busby Chapter 7: Controls and Placements intro on key cards
 		1998
The Secret of the Palmettos
65
Jeff Busby As a Substitute for a Top or Bottom Key using edge-marked card instead of a standard key
Related to 1998
The Secret of the Palmettos
65
Jeff Busby Bottom Key Placement peek and running cut, key starts on bottom
Inspired by 1998
The Secret of the Palmettos
66
Jeff Busby Top Key Placement peek and running cut, key starts on top
 		1998
The Secret of the Palmettos
68
Jeff Busby Double Control two times peek and running cuts, key card ends up between both selections
 		1998
The Secret of the Palmettos
68
Jeff Busby Shuffle Throwoff shuffling around edge-marked key card, riffle or overhand
 		1998
The Secret of the Palmettos
69
Jeff Busby Mental and Physical two chosen cards are located in different ways
 		1998
The Secret of the Palmettos
70
Jeff Busby Chapter 8: That "Freely Selected" Card intro on forcing cards
 		1998
The Secret of the Palmettos
72
Jeff Busby Another Historical Side Trip credit information on peek forces with edge-marks
Related to 1998
The Secret of the Palmettos
73
Jeff Busby The Force at Your Fingertips credit information on precursors for fingertip peek force with edge-marked force card
Related to 1998
The Secret of the Palmettos
75
Jeff Busby Basic Fingertip Force with edge-marked force card and timing
 		1998
The Secret of the Palmettos
77
Jeff Busby Using the Texan Key to Force Other Cards forcing card above or below edge-marked card, or ranging force from small memorized stack
Related to 1998
The Secret of the Palmettos
79
Jeff Busby Chapter 9: Expanding the Principles
1998
The Secret of the Palmettos
81
Jeff Busby On-the-Fly Speller distant edge-marked key
 		1998
The Secret of the Palmettos
81
Jeff Busby Two Fly Don't Bother Me two edge-marked keys
 		1998
The Secret of the Palmettos
82
Jeff Busby Super Fly card fingertip peeked at, then named and spelled to, two edge-marked keys
 		1998
The Secret of the Palmettos
83
Jeff Busby Red/Black Fishing red card and black picture card
 		1998
The Secret of the Palmettos
85
Jeff Busby Strictly Mental fingertip-peeked at card is divined
 		1998
The Secret of the Palmettos
86
Jeff Busby More Aspects more on fishing and Al Koran type deck, credit information, Richard Osterlind's Radar Deck
 		1998
The Secret of the Palmettos
86
Jeff Busby Chapter 10: The Texan Card Stab intro with credit information
 		1998
The Secret of the Palmettos
89
Jeff Busby Pack Stabber I selection stabbed to in rubber-banded deck with bill wrapped around
Inspired by 1998
The Secret of the Palmettos
92
Jeff Busby Pack Stabber II card stabbed to in bill-wrapped deck, value then is used to count to selection
Related toVariations 1998
The Secret of the Palmettos
94
Jeff Busby Pack Stabber III card stabbed to in bill-wrapped deck, value then is used to count to selection, fair conditions
Inspired by 1998
The Secret of the Palmettos
95
Jeff Busby Chapter 11: Gambling Demos and Shuffles intro on gambling demonstrations in general
 		1998
The Secret of the Palmettos
97
Jeff Busby In Lieu of the Punch using edge-marked cards instead of punched cards, credit information, Walter Scott
Related to 1998
The Secret of the Palmettos
98
Jeff Busby On the Miracle Ace Cutting
1998
The Secret of the Palmettos
100
Jeff Busby The Texans and Shuffle Work on using (bevel) edge-work in riffle shuffle context
Related to 1998
The Secret of the Palmettos
102
Jeff Busby Zarrow Shuffle Controls on Karl Fulves and his claims and slants regarding Jeff Busby
Related to 1998
The Secret of the Palmettos
103
Jeff Busby The Five Card Mental Force selection procedure for Mental Reverse type tricks in which one of five face-down tabled cards is chosen
Related to 1998
The Secret of the Palmettos
105
Jeff Busby Fingerprint Detection credit information, location with fingerprint presentation, adapting previous selection method
Related to 1998
The Secret of the Palmettos
106
Jeff Busby Recycling Shuffle stock control with edge-marked key card
Related to 1998
The Secret of the Palmettos
107
Jeff Busby Automatic Block Transfer edge-marked key combined with Zarrow
 		1998
The Secret of the Palmettos
108
Jeff Busby Chapter 12: Shuffles, Subtlety, and Math
1998
The Secret of the Palmettos
110
Jeff Busby The Hi-Lo Stack intro on High-Low separated deck combined with Gilbreath principle
 		1998
The Secret of the Palmettos
110
Jeff Busby Magnetic Blackjack High-Low separated deck combined with Gilbreath principle
Related to 1998
The Secret of the Palmettos
111
Jeff Busby Riffle Shuffle Convincer combination of tabled faro with Zarrow to apparently shuffle twice and have a fair squaring action (optionally by spectator) after the Zarrow with still incompletely squared deck
Inspired by
  • Jack McMillen concept from "L. W. False Shuffle" (William Larsen Sr., T. Page Wright, Genii, Feb. 1937)
Related to 		1998
The Secret of the Palmettos
113
Jeff Busby Vernon Triumph Shuffle Handling
1998
The Secret of the Palmettos
113
Jeff Busby About the Tabled Riffle Faro credit information and comments
Related to 1998
The Secret of the Palmettos
121
Jeff Busby The Gray Code credit information, comments on the possibility to combine gray code stack work with one-way edge-marked cards
 		1998
The Secret of the Palmettos
122
Jeff Busby Afterword
1998
The Secret of the Palmettos
124
Jamy Ian Swiss (reviewer) Secrets of the Palmettos by Jeff Busby July 1999
Genii (Vol. 62 No. 7)
59
Karl Fulves Carbon Copy No. 59, two sets of Aces from two decks, shuffled with down/under and klondike, same order in the end
Related to 2001
New Self-Working Card Tricks
88
Justin Higham Svengali-ish Convincer Zarrow/Shank shuffle convincer with unsquared deck (deck left in slight reverse faro condition)
Related toVariations 2008
Dexterity Manual
12
Persi Diaconis Stay Stack Dealing Property
Related to Summer 2015
Quarterly (Issue 3)
35
Justin Higham Pre-Faroed Shank Shuffle Zarrow/Shank shuffle convincer with ribbon spread before square-up (deck left in slight reverse faro condition)
Inspired byRelated to 2015
Highlights
3
Frank Shields Ambitious Card Bit card appears face-up on tabled deck
from a letter by Ed Marlo to Jeff Busby (June 8, 1979)
Related to 2017
Facsimile (Issue 6)
4
Johnny Thompson, Jeff Busby The Whispering Queen queen tossed in deck, value of card there is used to count to selection, Ace to Ten set-up
 		2018
The Magic of Johnny Thompson (Issue 1)
195
Karl Fulves, Jeff Busby Omega Count five as five, hiding cards
 		May 2020
Elixir (Vol. 3 No. 1 Part 2 (Spring #2))
246
Steve Forte (reviewer) Whaley et al - The Man Who Was Erdnase by S. W. Erdnase (written by Bart Whaley, Jeff Busby) 2020
Gambling Sleight Of Hand — Volume 2
728
Mike Helmer An Encounter With Busby visiting the abandoned Jeff Busby store
  • Idaho - May 2010
 		2020
Leaves (Vol. 1 No. 3)
8
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