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Sam Leo Horowitz A Psychological Discovery two-pile-stop trick with Eight/Nine alternating set-up
Also published here
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Variations
1938 549
Jack McMillen Mind Mirror one suit on top, two honest riffle shuffles
Also published here
Variations
1940 223
Mercury Fold fourths, mention of Malini's "Card to Mouth"
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Variations
1940 304
Ultima Thule Location from fanned deck, with outs
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Variations
1940 331
Charlie Miller Mental Selectivity five cards
Variations
1940 336
Jack Vosburgh Double Dollar bill folded so that it looks like two bills, then it actually doubles
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1940
The Jinx (Issue 122)
711
Riffle Shuffle one suit on top, two honest riffle shuffles
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Variations
1946 49
Shuffle Location one suit on top, two honest riffle shuffles
Also published here
Variations
1952 52
Alex Elmsley Choosey card chosen and lost, packet removed, spectator removes one card from it and it is selection or leads to it
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Variations
Sep. 1957
Ibidem (Issue 11)
20
Tony Corinda Zarkamorta II. - The Ceremony of Reincarnation page is torn from a magazine and a word selected by randomly sticking a pin in that page, the page is burnt and reappears back in the book, with a hole in the chosen word and burnt edges
1959 201
Edward Marlo Technicolor Prediction spectator turns over one card behind back, reversed card was predicted and has different colored back, several methods
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1962
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1962)
64
Jack McMillen Ein netter Kartentrick one suit on top
Also published here
Variations
1969
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 30 No. 3)
57
Sam Leo Horowitz 8's & 9's
Also published here
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Variations
Dec. 1971 471
Dr. Jacob Daley Daley's Spread It Card Trick No. 323, prediction packet on table, card chosen, tabled packet contains card of same color, suit and also actual selection
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Variations
1972 84
Sam Leo Horowitz Horowitz's Mental Stop No. 602, two-pile-stop trick with Eight/Nine alternating set-up
Also published here
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Variations
1972 167
Allan Ackerman Hofzinser Card Pass to a Full Bottom Palm perpendicular culling
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Variations
1978 27
Bruce Bernstein Telepathy and Clairvoyance three numbers on three billets are divined or predicted
Also published here
Variations
1981 17
Television Dice No. 9, card chosen by dice roll and it ends up at position of the rolled dice
Variations
1984 12
George Pierce, Charles T. Jordan, Karl Fulves* Flying Colors No. 14, deck riffle shuffled twice by spectator, yet it separates into colors
Variations
1984 21
Edward Marlo Undiscovered Possibilities - 1st Effect stripper deck, missing card is named, memorized stack
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1988 182
Roy Walton* Palmist's Prophecy number of cards chosen from top of deck is predicted via sum of playing card values
  • The Repeat
Also published here
  • Linking Ring, June 1973
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Variations
1988 80
Juan Tamariz The Cascade Shuffle - Total False Shuffle in Cascade with two strip out variations
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Variations
1989/91 77
John Bannon Play It Straight (Triumph) ordered suit reversed & distributed as finale
Also published here
  • "Cosmic Debris" (John Bannon lecture notes, 1987)
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Variations
1990 1
Alex Elmsley Choosey card chosen and lost, packet removed, spectator removes one card from it and it is selection or leads to it
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Variations
1991 368
Steve Dusheck Very Dry one of ten numbered discs chosen, it is predicted, writing on back with dry erase marker
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  • marketed ca. 1982
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1993 96
Jim Krenz TPC In Card Case
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Variations
1994 24
Jim Krenz Skinned And Covered case load from perpendicular control
Also published here
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Variations
May 1995
MAGIC (Vol. 4 No. 9)
59
Tommy Wonder The Tamed Card using double facers, sticky card, no table required
Variations
1996 183
Gary Kurtz* The Ultimate Chairs Prediction four chairs, mixture with banknight effect, colors in envelopes match backs of chairs
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Variations
1997 1
Chan Canasta Audience Involvement psychological riffle force
Variations
2000 75
Chan Canasta Cards in Pockets report of divination by Canasta, similar to "An Experiment in Remote Control", "Do you want to change your mind?"
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Variations
2000 91
Simon Lovell Super Play It Straight! wrong suit is turned over, then changes into correct one, or change with two selection, half the deck is double backers
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2000 37
Simon Aronson Prior Commitment two Jokers whisper positions of two selections in the deck, the numbers are then shown to have been predicted on the back of the Jokers
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Variations
2001 3
Peter Duffie, Robin Robertson Coincidence - With a Twist card chosen from red-backed deck, same card is reversed in blue-backed deck, they transpose
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2003 62
Simon Aronson Prior Commitment two Jokers whisper positions of two selections in the deck, the numbers are then shown to have been predicted on the back of the Jokers
Also published here
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Variations
2003 3
Dani DaOrtiz Almas Gemelas deck spread on the table and one chosen and turned face up, when squared and spread again the other three cards with the same value are face up at various places as well
Also published here
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Variations
2004 18
Dani DaOrtiz Dados Imaginarios card at number, with invisible dice, with variations
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Variations
2004 36
Barrie Richardson Rounders stripper deck in which the diagonally opposite corners are shortened, for divided deck, either fine or large preparation as discarded casino cards
Also published here
  • Concepts & Deceptions Lecture Notes, 1999
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Variations
2005 48
Asi Wind Time is Money two bills placed in spectator's hand, one travels underneath his watch, folding one bill so it looks like two
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Feb. 2005
MAGIC (Vol. 14 No. 6)
78
David Oliver (reviewer) Time Is Money by Asi Wind Aug. 2006
Genii (Vol. 69 No. 8)
99
John Lovick* (reviewer) Time is Money by Asi Wind Aug. 2006
MAGIC (Vol. 15 No. 12)
35
Asi Wind Magic Evolution
2007 1
Asi Wind Somebody Stop Me spectator cuts to card and loses it, then deals the cards, performer stops him at selection, no-touch
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Variations
2007 2
Asi Wind Dishonesty what to do when the spectator lies about his card, Haunted Deck as example
2007 7
Asi Wind Red & Black after one riffle shuffle, some cards are dealt and the colors divined by performer
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2007 9
Asi Wind Out of the Blue (or red) cased deck on table, card named, it's only odd-backed card in the deck
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Variations
2007 14
Asi Wind Box Cover Shift cutting the deck at specific spot during removal from case, displacing single card
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2007 16
Asi Wind Cased Glimpse with deck in case
2007 16
Asi Wind The Oxygen of Suspense on suspense in presentation
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2007 21
Asi Wind A.A.C.A.A.N ungaffed
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2007 23
Asi Wind Box Shift cutting the deck at specific spot during removal from case, two handlings
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2007 23
Asi Wind Subliminal on negative suggestions
2007 29
Asi Wind Transportation in Three Phases biddle trick, thought-of card vanishes from packet and reappears reversed in deck
Also published here
Inspired by
  • "Transcendent" (Elmer Biddler, Genii, April 1947, p. 241)
2007 32
Asi Wind Last Words
2007 36
Dani DaOrtiz Twin Souls deck spread on the table and one chosen and turned face up, when squared and spread again the other three cards with the same value are face up at various places as well
Also published here
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Variations
2007 26
Dani DaOrtiz Imaginary Dices card at number, with invisible dice
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Variations
2007 32
Karl Fulves* 2Crds2Dcks two cards chosen from red deck, blue deck spread and same two cards are reversed, both transpose and have the back color from the other deck
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2008
Prolix (Issue 5)
330
David Regal, Stacy Robinson, Kimberly Wyatt, Jonathan Levit, Rocco Silano, Asi Wind, Derek Hughes, Murray SawChuck, David Kaye, Christopher Reid, Gene Maze Interview with Celebracadabra People
June 2008
Genii (Vol. 71 No. 6)
67
Michael Weber, U. F. Grant Half-a-Cheek on the Photocopier "(Triumphotocopy)", staging for Cheek to Cheek in which deck is placed on photocopier
Variations
2009 [3]
John Bannon Play It Straight (Triumph) "a/k/a 'The Bannon Triumph'"
ordered suit reversed & distributed as finale
Also published here
  • "Cosmic Debris" (John Bannon lecture notes, 1987)
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Variations
2009 56
Danny Orleans (reviewer) Switcher by Asi Wind Jan. 2010
Genii (Vol. 73 No. 1)
78
Jamy Ian Swiss (reviewer) Chapter One by Asi Wind May 2010
Genii (Vol. 73 No. 5)
74
Peter Duffie (reviewer) Chapter One by Asi Wind Mar. 2010
MAGIC (Vol. 19 No. 7)
81
Brad Henderson (reviewer) Switcher by Asi Wind June 2010
MAGIC (Vol. 19 No. 10)
82
Ken Niinuma Kick Back Straight wrong suit is turned over, then changes into correct one
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Sep. 2010
MAGIC (Vol. 20 No. 1)
67
Denis Behr Shuffled ACAAN handling of two-deck version in which the spectator can shuffle his deck
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Inspired by
Variations
2011 55
Richard Kaufman Genii Speaks Edwin Dawes, Asi Wind
Mar. 2011
Genii (Vol. 74 No. 3)
10
Denis Behr Eight Cards Ahead handling of two-deck version in which the spectator can shuffle his deck
Also published here
Inspired by
Variations
2011 4
Bruce Bernstein Telepathy and Clairvoyance three numbers on three billets are divined or predicted
Also published here
Variations
2012 21
Asi Wind Box Shift
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2013 155
John Bannon The Bannon Triumph "a/k/a Play it Straight Triumph"
ordered suit reversed & distributed as finale
Also published here
  • "Cosmic Debris" (John Bannon lecture notes, 1987)
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Variations
2013 285
John Bannon The Bannon Triumph (a.k.a. Play it Straight Triumph) "a/k/a 'The Bannon Triumph'"
ordered suit reversed & distributed as finale
Also published here
  • "Cosmic Debris" (John Bannon lecture notes, 1987)
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Variations
Oct. 2013
MAGIC (Vol. 23 No. 2)
70
John Lovick* Asi Wind: A Mighty Wind
Apr. 2015
Genii (Vol. 78 No. 4)
52
Asi Wind Asi on Performance
Apr. 2015
Genii (Vol. 78 No. 4)
57
Joe M. Turner (reviewer) Three Card Routines by Asi Wind June 2015
Genii (Vol. 78 No. 6)
81
Armando Cheung The Most Impossible Stop Trick Fair stop trick
Inspired by
2016 46
Joe M. Turner (reviewer) Catch 23 by Asi Wind Nov. 2016
Genii (Vol. 79 No. 11)
101
Javier Natera Asi Wind portrait of Asi Wind
  • El pintor
  • Si opinión
2016
El Manuscrito (Vol. 8 No. 32)
1115
Asi Wind El Suspenso del Oxigeno on suspense in presentation
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2016
El Manuscrito (Vol. 8 No. 32)
1122
Asi Wind Transposición en Tres Fases biddle trick, thought-of card vanishes from packet and reappears reversed in deck
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2016
El Manuscrito (Vol. 8 No. 32)
1123
Asi Wind Royo y Negor after one riffle shuffle, some cards are dealt and the colors divined by performer
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2016
El Manuscrito (Vol. 8 No. 32)
1125
Asi Wind Preface
2018 ix
Asi Wind Time is Money two bills placed in spectator's hand, one travels underneath his watch, with idea from Nimrod Harel, see also p. 156 for suggestion of using two different bills
Also published here
Inspired by
  • "Two for the Price of One" (131 Magic Tricks for Amateurs, Will Dexter, 1958)
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2018 1
Asi Wind A.W.A.C.A.A.N.
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2018 17
Asi Wind Cased Glimpse
2018 21
Asi Wind Box Shift deck secretly cut as it is removed from case
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2018 21
Asi Wind Out of the Blue cased deck on table, card named, it's only odd-backed card in the deck
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Variations
2018 31
Asi Wind Box Cover Shift cutting the deck at specific spot during removal from case, displacing single card
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2018 33
Asi Wind True Colors after one riffle shuffle, some cards are dealt and the colors divined by performer
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2018 37
Asi Wind Anti-Faro Handling of True Colors employing Christian Engblom's Anti-Faro
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2018 41
Asi Wind Half-Stack Gilbreath getting into half deck red-black alternated stack from shuffled deck for Gilbreath application
2018 42
Asi Wind Somebody Stop Me spectator cuts to card and loses it, then deals the cards, performer stops him at selection, no-touch
Also published here
Variations
2018 45
Asi Wind Setting Center Key Card
2018 48
Asi Wind S.A.C.A.A.N. thirteen-card set-up
Inspired by
Variations
2018 51
Asi Wind A Coin Trick two spectators cut to two cards, prediction (e.g. date on coin) gives position of one card from the bottom and the other from top
Inspired by
2018 57
Asi Wind Double Exposure deck shuffled face-up/face-down, smartphone picture taken of fanned deck, later only one card is reversed on that picture
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Variations
2018 63
Asi Wind, Arthur Chavaudret, Shimshi, Amir Lustig Endnotes further ideas for Double Exposure
2018 69
Asi Wind Face-up/Face-Down Classic Force classic forcing from a face-up/face-down shuffled deck
2018 70
Asi Wind Catch 23 chair prediction effect without chairs, combined with bank night
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2018 73
Asi Wind The Trick that Never Ends spectator cuts to his named card, features a final choice which card the spectator wants, includes impromptu handling
Variations
2018 81
Asi Wind Torn, Marked, Stabbed, Crumpled, Burned & Restored Page page is torn from a magazine and a word selected by randomly sticking a pin in that page, the page is burned and reappears crumpled back in the book, with a hole in the chosen word and burned edges, printed flash paper
2018 87
Asi Wind Book Switch with a book shell
2018 88
Asi Wind Pegasus Page Handling brief outline
2018 94
Asi Wind Make No Mistake two cards chosen, performer finds two close cards, transferring a pip makes both cards the selections
2018 97
Asi Wind Crossing Over biddle trick, thought-of card vanishes from packet and reappears reversed in deck
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2018 103
Asi Wind Reverse Engineer spectator names a card and reverses a card below the table, it is the named card
Inspired by
  • Derren Brown effect from "Tricks of the Mind"
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2018 109
Asi Wind Supervision spectator takes two cards behind his back and pockets them, performer names cards and spectator correctly names which is in which pocket
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2018 113
Asi Wind Stripper Ploy find out which card is missing with stripper deck
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2018 116
Asi Wind Folded Under Pressure fourths, fan cover
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2018 121
Asi Wind Lazy Seconds Force dealing bunches instead of single cards
2018 125
Asi Wind Not-so-Straight Triumph two cards chosen, cards shuffled face-up/face-down, all cards straighten out except first suit in order, then second suit in order
Inspired by
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2018 129
Asi Wind Strip-Out False Shuffle
2018 131
Asi Wind S.C.A.A.N. chosen card at any number
Inspired by
2018 137
Asi Wind Lucky 13 thirteen cards chosen, they are named suit in order
Inspired by
  • "Suit Selection" (Hofzinser)
2018 143
Asi Wind Verbal Suit Force
2018 145
Asi Wind Echo two decks, card chosen and reversed, same card turns over in other deck, they transpose
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2018 149
Asi Wind Afterword
2018 155
David Solomon Holiday Thought one of five cards
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2018 82
Kainoa Harbottle (reviewer) Repertoire by Asi Wind (written by John Lovick*) Aug. 2018
Genii (Vol. 81 No. 8)
106
Matt Baker, Barrie Richardson Banned For Life variation on Shuffle Bored, done as a real time skill demonstration of card counting for casino cheating. Magician can tell number of cards face up, number of red cards, and the total sum of the values of the red cards

Includes a magician-fooler method using "Rounders" gaffed cards, idea by Barrie Richardson, which is basically stripper deck but with rounded corners
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2019 159
Asi Wind 3-D Telepathy three spectators write on billets, one chosen and content divined, then other two divined
Also published here
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2019 1
Asi Wind Double Digits Force forcing two one-digit numbers by riffling through cards and spectator names two values he sees
Also published here
Inspired by
2019 7
Asi Wind Noah spectator cuts to card and another one choses its mate, two spectators then count to a card in half the deck each under the table and they match, then three cards are mated in the deck at once, then whole deck
Also published here
2019 11
Asi Wind Stay Stack Set-up Trick setting up a stay stack during a location
Also published here
Inspired by
  • "Impromptu Deaf Nor Stupid" (Juan Tamariz, Magic from my Heart, DVD 1)
2019 12
Asi Wind Gang of Four slop shuffle triumph, in second phase a card is chosen from the face-down spread, when deck is gathered and re-spread, all mates turned over
Also published here
Inspired by
2019 27
Alexander Hansford About the Contributors mini bios and contact information for all eight contributors, Eric Hu, Vera Tobin, Tatanka Tan, Tony Chang, Éireann Leverett, Ricky Smith, Benjamin Pratt, Asi Wind
2019
The Neat Review (Issue 2 - New York City 2019)
13
Alexander Hansford Asi Wind intro
2019
The Neat Review (Issue 2 - New York City 2019)
178
Asi Wind, Alexander Hansford Time, Art and Magic - In Conversation with Asi Wind
2019
The Neat Review (Issue 2 - New York City 2019)
181
Patrick Kun Modern Biddle
  • Left-Handed (Jeff Prace)
biddle trick version, spectator holds the five cards and a photo is taken of him with the fan, then card vanishes from packet and reappears in deck, card also vanishes on photograph
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Apr. 2019
Genii (Vol. 82 No. 4)
58
Asi Wind Acknowledgements
2021 iv
Asi Wind Prologue
2021 1
Asi Wind First Impressions on pre-show versus stooging, moral versus artistic choices
2021 3
Asi Wind Selecting Targets choosing the spectator
2021 9
Asi Wind Approaching Targets
  • Justification
  • Walk-Around
2021 11
Asi Wind Tools
2021 17
Asi Wind Obtaining Information
  • Center Tears
  • Peeks
  • Billet Switches
  • Peek Wallets
  • Impression Devices
  • Apps
  • Playing Cards
  • Research
2021 18
Asi Wind Book Impression Device Handling
2021 20
Asi Wind Forcing
  • Playing Cards
  • Blank Cards
  • Svengali Pads
  • Numbers
  • Apps
2021 21
Asi Wind, Max Maven* Song/Movie Force with names on cards
Related to
  • "Cinementalism" (Max Maven, Penguin Lecture 2019)
2021 22
Asi Wind Scripting
  • Pre-Show Script - Drawing Duplication
  • Show Script - Drawing Duplication
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2021 25
Asi Wind Camouflage
  • Pre-Show Script (Excerpt)
  • Show Script (Excerpt)
  • Randomness (on selecting spectators)
  • Shifting Focus (Nimrod Harel, Joshua Jay)
  • The Challenge (Luke Jermay)
  • Changing Your Mind (Luke Jermay, Nimrod Harel)
  • Have We Ever Met Before?
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2021 33
Asi Wind Assisted Pre-Show
  • Assistant's Pre-Show Script
  • Mentalist's Show Script
2021 45
Asi Wind Unusual Pre-Show
  • Incomplete Pre-Show
  • Open Pre-Show
  • Half-Open Pre-Show
  • Candid Pre-Show (Nimrod Harel)
  • Expandable Pre-Show
  • Eavesdropping
  • Across Time and Space (Michael Skinner's conversation notebook)
  • Pre-Order
2021 51
Asi Wind An Ounce of Prevention
  • Cue Sheet
  • Preventing Exposure
  • Overuse
  • Missing Targets
  • Unchangeables
2021 63
Asi Wind Video & TV
2021 69
Asi Wind Virtual Pre-Show
2021 73
Asi Wind WikiTest as Virtual Pre-Show handling for Marc Kerstein's app
2021 76
Asi Wind Scripts
2021 79
Asi Wind Book Test
  • Pre-Show Script
  • Show Script
2021 79
Asi Wind Think of a Name
  • Pre-Show Script
  • Show Script
2021 84
Asi Wind, Max Maven* A Brief History credit information
2021 89
Asi Wind Interviews
2021 93
Asi Wind, Max Maven* Max Maven
2021 95
Asi Wind, Penn Jillette Penn Jillette
2021 109
Asi Wind, Luke Jermay Luke Jermay
2021 123
Asi Wind Final Words
2021 141
Asi Wind Epilogue drawing duplication anecdote
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2021 145
Yu Huihang Co-Inky-Dink Spectator and magicians each hold half the deck behind their backs, turn over one card and place in the middle. Both cards are mates
Inspired by
2021 37
Asi Wind Foreword
2021 xi
John Graham Final Sale number prediction on price tag of jacket, spectator guess price correctly
Also published here
Inspired by
  • On Sale (John Graham, Apocalypse, 1997)
  • "Priceless" (Richard Sanders, Michel Huot, marketed 2016)
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Variations
2021 115
Dani DaOrtiz Soul Mates randomly selected card is placed face up in deck, its three mates magically turn face up in deck
Also published here
Inspired by
  • “an effect by my great friend Juan Manuel Marcos… published in several magazines…”
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Variations
2021 131
David Britland (reviewer) Before We Begin by Asi Wind Feb. 2022
Genii (Vol. 85 No. 2)
79
Carl Mercurio (reviewer) Asi Wind's Inner Circle by Asi Wind Dec. 2022
Genii (Vol. 85 No. 12)
34
Asi Wind Time is Money two bills placed in spectator's hand, one travels underneath his watch, folding one bill so it looks like two
Also published here
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2022 371
Ken Niinuma Kick Back Straight wrong suit is turned over, then changes into correct one
Also published here
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2022 973
Alex Elmsley By a Narrow Margin
  • Exhumations (Jon Racherbaumer)
card chosen and lost, packet removed, spectator removes one card from it and it is selection or leads to it
Also published here
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Variations
Sep. 2023
Genii (Vol. 86 No. 9)
58
John Graham, Asi Wind Acknowledgements
2023
John Graham, Asi Wind Greetings
2023 1
John Graham, Asi Wind How to Lose Friends & Influence Yourself ten bullet poins
2023 3
John Graham Final Sale number prediction on price tag of jacket, spectator guess price correctly, with introductory discussion about the effect by John Graham and Asi Wind
  • Final Sale (Original)
Also published here
Inspired by
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Variations
2023 5
John Graham, Asi Wind Final Sale (Extended) number prediction on price tag of jacket, spectator guess price correctly, number appears to be printed
Inspired by
Related to
  • marketed ca. 1982
    • also in: Very Dry (Dusheck's Mental Magic, 1993)
  • "Predicta" (Gilbert Raimond, marketed)
2023 21
John Graham, Asi Wind Sweet Sixteen cards mixed face-up/face-down together with spectators, one chosen, memory demonstration by naming all face-up cards, then Triumph with selection, Cheek-to-Cheek meets Shuffle-Bored, with introductory discussion about the effect by John Graham and Asi Wind
Inspired by
  • "Cheek to Cheek" (U. F. Grant)
2023 25
Asi Wind Anybody & Nobody deck with random marks on the side, spectator removes bunches of cards so two piles are made, one has "Nobody" written on the edges, the other a chosen first name, no faros, Rounders corner stripper deck, with introductory discussion about the effect by John Graham and Asi Wind
  • Getting the Name (Three Methods)
    • 1. Pre-Show
    • 2. With an Assistant (no pre-show)
    • 3. iCurveball (no pre-show, no assistant)
Also published here
Inspired by
  • no-faro Unshuffled on television by Nimrod Harel
2023 39
Asi Wind The Strip-out Technique for Rounders corner stripper deck
Related to
  • Concepts & Deceptions Lecture Notes, 1999
2023 47
John Graham, Asi Wind A Conversation
2023 61
John Graham, Asi Wind Until We Meet Again
2023 75
Asi Wind Preface
2024 xiii
Asi Wind Tamed Name spectator's name written on blank card multiplies on other blank cards
Inspired by
2024 1
Asi Wind Mental Fan Force card thought of from fanned deck, with outs and strategies
Inspired by
2024 15
Asi Wind XY Deck stripper deck in which the diagonally opposite corners are shortened, for divided deck, refined handlings
  • Preparing a XY Deck
  • Strip-out Method One
  • Strip-out Method Two
  • One-handed Strip-out
  • Learning the Strip-out
Inspired by
  • Concepts & Deceptions Lecture Notes, 1999
2024 23
Asi Wind Reds and Blacks spectators shuffle deck, yet cards shown separated into red and black cards, rounders
2024 31
Asi Wind Instant Shuffle-Bored rounders
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2024 34
Asi Wind Anybody and Nobody deck has scribblings on the edge, someone thinks of a person's name, spectator divides the deck into two sections with elimination process, not chosen cards spell NOBODY on the edges when cards are squared up, chosen cards spell the chosen name, rounders
  • Getting the Name (Three Methods)
    • 1. Pre-show
    • 2. With an Assistant (No Pre-show)
    • 3. iCurveball (No Pre-show, No Assistant)
Also published here
Inspired by
  • "The Big Tiny" (Nimrod Harel, Paul Harris's True Astonishments box, 2009)
2024 36
Asi Wind Double-Digit Force forcing two one-digit numbers by riffling through cards and spectator names two values he sees
Also published here
Inspired by
2024 47
Asi Wind Card to Box handling of Jim Krenz's card case load (odd crediting)
  • The Card Box Load
  • Fine-Tuning
Inspired by
2024 53
Asi Wind, Allan Ackerman Perpendicular Cull card culled into perpendicular position
2024 55
Asi Wind Stacked & Marked named card to card case
2024 60
Asi Wind Ambitious Ending card to case as finale
2024 62
Asi Wind Under & Inside named card appears under the card case, then inside it
2024 62
Asi Wind Last Second card to case with roughed Mene-Tekel
2024 65
Asi Wind Think Twice two named cards to case, one after the other, for when the spectator changes his mind
2024 66
Asi Wind It All Adds Up number of cards chosen from top of deck is predicted via sum of playing card values in case
Inspired by
  • Linking Ring, June 1973
2024 67
Asi Wind C2B Prediction four chosen cards placed in case, another card chosen and signed, cased packet contains card of same color, suit, value and also actual selection
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2024 69
Asi Wind Timing Force to Edge Mark nailnicked key
2024 71
Asi Wind All In thought-of card to case, using risky fan force
2024 73
Asi Wind Card to Wallet using Jim Krenz's card case load to load a wallet
Inspired by
2024 74
Asi Wind Stage Handling doing Jim Krenz's card case load with case on spectator's hand
Inspired by
2024 75
Asi Wind Noah spectator cuts to card and another one choses its mate, two spectators then count to a card in half the deck each under the table and they match, then two cards are mated in the deck at once, then whole deck
Also published here
2024 79
Asi Wind Stay Stack Set-up Trick setting up a stay stack during a location
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2024 81
Asi Wind Gang of Four slop shuffle triumph, in second phase a card is chosen from the face-down spread, when deck is gathered and re-spread, all mates turned over
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Inspired by
2024 91
Asi Wind Phoning it In two cards chosen with performer out of room and phoning the spectator, suit of one and value of other used to make up a card, that card is predicted in phone case
2024 101
Asi Wind Ex Nihilo card chosen from an invisible deck is found folded under spectator's watch
2024 107
Asi Wind Meant to Be card named with the help of several spectators that are selected by tossing a crumpled up ball around, card is the only odd-backed card in the deck, all other cards are blank, card is also predicted on crumpled up ball, index in back of table
Inspired by
  • "Killer Prediction" (Cody Fisher, marketed)
2024 117
Asi Wind First Gimmicked Deck rough-smooth deck to show any picture card reversed and odd-backed with all other cards blank
2024 120
Asi Wind Second Gimmicked Deck gaffed case with twelve-card index, card from index transferred to deck as it is removed
2024 123
Asi Wind 3D Telepathy three spectators write on billets, one chosen and content divined, then other two divined
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Inspired by
2024 137
Asi Wind Center Burn billet placed in clip and burned
2024 145
Asi Wind Afterword
2024 149
Adam W. Elbaum Something Old: AWE Struck named card is predicted written on post-it note in wallet
  • OG Version
  • The Post-it Note Addition
  • Other Presentation Ideas (with idea by Asi Wind)
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Inspired by
  • "A.W.E. Struck" (Adam W. Elbaum, marketed)
2024 [2]
Adam W. Elbaum Something Blue: Out of the Blue (My Handling) cased deck on table, card named, the cards have first names on their back and the named one has the spectator's name written on its back
  • Additional Presentational Ideas (If You Don't Know the Spectator's Name Ahead of Time)
    • Funny Descriptions Approach
    • Two-Deck Solution With Secret Writing
    • Rainbow Casino (named card has an odd-back that has been chosen from a rainbow deck)
Inspired by
2024 [18]
Asi Wind Box Cover Shift cutting the deck at specific spot during removal from case, displacing single card
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Related to
2024 [22]
James Alan (reviewer) Repertoire II by Asi Wind Mar. 2025
Genii (Vol. 88 No. 3)
67
Carl Mercurio (reviewer) A Revealing Portrait: Asi Wind Promises More Than Magic - and Delivers by Asi Wind July 2025
Genii (Vol. 88 No. 7)
12
James Alan (reviewer) Second Wind: A Book of Old Magic Made New by Asi Wind Aug. 2025
Genii (Vol. 88 No. 8)
64
Asi Wind Preface
2025 5
Asi Wind Royal Gemini card chosen and pocketed, later two more cards are chosen and placed in deck by spectators, the two cards and the ones next to them along with the pocketed card make up a royal flush
2025 10
Asi Wind Cut to the Chase selection lost in one half, found at position that corresponds to value cut to in another pile, two-pile trick with Six/Seven alternating set-up, optional handling with edge-marked deck
Related to
2025 19
Asi Wind Face Value card chosen and pocketed, another card chosen and lost, value of pocketed card is used to count to selection
Inspired by
2025 27
Asi Wind Diception card chosen by roll of an invisible die, cards cut and mixed face-up/face-down, counting the face-down cards the selection ends up at the position corresponding to the die roll
Inspired by
2025 33
Asi Wind Modified Cut-Deeper Force see also comments on p. 41
2025 37
Asi Wind Color Correction deck riffle shuffled by spectator, cut into thirds, one third is openly sorted into colors and the others are also magically sorted
Inspired by
2025 45
Asi Wind Play It by Ear card chosen and inserted into the middle, deck riffled before performer's ear, performer divines card
2025 51
Asi Wind Mind Trip spectator selects a card and gives deck a riffle shuffle, card travels to pocket, no set-up
Inspired by
2025 59
Asi Wind Afterword
2025 67
Ken Niinuma Kick Back Straight wrong suit is turned over, then changes into correct one
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Related to
2025 35
Asi Wind Foreword
2025 7