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Theodore Annemann An Alternate Detection alternating one-way backsRelated toVariationsAlso published here SH-H-H--! It's A Secret 11
Bob Hummer A Card in Flight!! card vanishes from deck and reappears at other side of windowRelated toAlso published here The Jinx 1-50 (Issue 14) 66
Bob Hummer Clubs/Spades Gaff used to make a card vanish The Jinx 1-50 (Issue 14) 66
Bob Hummer The Puzzling Speller progressive set-upRelated toAlso published here The Jinx 1-50 (Issue Winter Extra 1935/36) 83
Charles T. Jordan Premo Detection one-way backs, alternatingRelated to Encyclopedia of Card Tricks 143
Unknown Impromptu Detection scratching as edge marksRelated toAlso published here
  • Charles T. Jordan's "An Impromptu Detection" in "Collected Tricks" p. 39
 Encyclopedia of Card Tricks 307
Bob Hummer Breaking the Spoon spoon apparently broken vanishes After the Dessert 14
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 discRelated toVariations The Phoenix 1-50 (Issue 8) 29
Bob Hummer A Card in Flight! card vanishes from deck and reappears at other side of window Full Deck of Impromptu Card Tricks 25
Bob Hummer Clubs/Spades Gaff used to make a card vanish Full Deck of Impromptu Card Tricks 25
Milbourne Christopher, Bob Hummer Under Cover ideas with a matchbook, as an ambush for a list, for a shiner, to pick up daub, picking up a coinAlso published here The Phoenix 51-100 (Issue 53) 218
Warren Wiersbe, Bob Hummer Double Separation packet shuffled face-up face-down, then statement over condition made and colors separated, inspired by trick from "Half-A-Dozen Hummers"Inspired by Mental Cases With Cards 11
Bob Hummer Hot Head with flash paper under cover of a hatAlso published here The Phoenix 151-200 (Issue 174) 699
Bruce Elliott The Back Room on Martin Gardner, Bert Allerton, Bob Hummer The Phoenix 151-200 (Issue 192) 769
Bruce Elliott The Back Room on Dai Vernon, Jack Chanin, Bill Simon, Milbourne Christopher, Bob Hummer, Dr. Stanley Jaks, Robert Harbin The Phoenix 151-200 (Issue 193) 773
Bob Hummer, John Scarne Sensitive Fingertips No. 17, Performer unmixes a packet of cards that has been shuffled face up/down. Shown to have odd number of cards in packet Scarne on Card Tricks 36
Bob Hummer Topsy-Turvy Deck No. 26, Deck of face up/down cards split into two by performer, each half has equal number of face up cards Scarne on Card Tricks 49
Bruce Elliott The Back Room on Harry Blackstone, Martin Gardner, Dr. Jaks, Audley Walsh, Bobby Baxter, gag by Bob Hummer The Phoenix 201 - 250 (Issue 212) 849
Bob Hummer The Stubborn Card No. 46 Scarne on Card Tricks 81
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 coinInspired byRelated toVariations The Phoenix 251 - 300 (Issue 260) 1039
Edward Marlo, Bob Hummer Cardician's Dream counting procedure with value of thought of card, etc, see page 196 for creditsRelated to The Cardician 130
Jay Marshall The Birdcage on marriage of Jay Marshall and Frances Ireland, Silhouette of Francis Ireland by Dai Vernon, Dr. Stanley Jaks, Bob Hummer, Fred Keating, The American Magician, Jay Palmer, Karrell Fox, Lloyd Jones, Frank ChapmanRelated to The New Phoenix 301-348 (Issue 313) 56
Jay Marshall The Bird Cage on Harlan Tarbell, Walker Fleming, Gerrie Larsen, Bill Magini, Chap's Scrapbook, Jean Hugard, Senator Crandall, Bob Orben, Frank Werner, Bob Hummer The New Phoenix 301-348 (Issue 319) 85
Jack Yates Devil's Die spectator thinks of a number between one and six, a die is put under performer's hand and without looking at it the performer shows three sides of the die several times and asks if the selected number is visible, number is eventually divinedInspired byRelated to Minds in Close-Up 11
Jay Marshall The Bird Cage on Tommy Vanderschmidt, Milbourne Christopher, Norman Jensen, Chandu, John Gambling, Frakson, Sam Berland, Dai Vernon, Cardini, Bob Hummer The New Phoenix 301-348 (Issue 304) 16
Jay Marshall The Birdcage on Bob Hummer, John Platt, Frank Garcia, Roy Benson, Al Keller, Gene Gordon The New Phoenix 301-348 (Issue 310) 40
Bob Hummer Change kind of one-handed second deal, Downs ChangeAlso published here Cy Endfield's Entertaining Card Magic - Part II 38
Bob Hummer Matching the Colors Deck shuffled face up and face down, magician can separate into two piles containing the same number of face up cards. Alternative is to shuffle red and black cards. Mathematics, Magic And Mystery 17
Bob Hummer, Oscar Weigle Hummer's Reversal Mystery CATO trick, magician can name correctly number of face up cards after cut and turn over procedure. Oscar Weigle variation: colors are also separatedVariations Mathematics, Magic And Mystery 17
Bob Hummer The Little Moonies CATO trick, uses cards with drawing of either smiling/frowning face. Two cards are marked on the back and after mixing, shown to be the only ones frowning while other cards are smilingInspired by Mathematics, Magic And Mystery 19
Joseph Diez Gergonne From Gergonne to Gargantua Chapter intro, describes Gergonne's Pile Problem, which is basically the 21 card trick using twenty seven cardsRelated toVariations Mathematics, Magic And Mystery 33
Bob Hummer Hummer's Die Mystery Magician uses dice to divine number thought of by spectator, principle is similar to 21 card trick / Gergonne's Pile Problem. spectator thinks of a number between one and six, a die is put under performer's hand and without looking at it the performer shows three sides of the die several times and asks if the selected number is visible, number is eventually divinedInspired byRelated to Mathematics, Magic And Mystery 45
Bob Hummer Change kind of one-handed second deal, Downs Change Unconventional Magic 3
Bob Hummer Hummer's Checker Trick Spectator moves three checker pieces around on the board via spelling, magician can divine the starting positions of the checker pieces Mathematics, Magic And Mystery 62
Bob Hummer Hummer's Three-object Divination Three objects switched around, spectator then thinks of one and switches the other two, magician can divine thought of object (Mathematical 3 card monte 1951)Variations Mathematics, Magic And Mystery 63
Jack Yates Yates' Four-Object Divination Three matches facing one way and one match facing the opposite way. After moving matches around, magician correctly can divine which is the reversed match without lookingInspired by Mathematics, Magic And Mystery 66
Bob Hummer Hummer Tricks Hummer's Poker Chip Trick: numbered poker chips, magician can divine sum of the numbers on three concealed poker chips Mathematics, Magic And Mystery 111
Bob Hummer, Al Koran Note Under Cups three cups, bill hidden under one and the cups exchanges after a pattern Blindfolds & X-Ray Eyes 140
Bob Hummer Interlocked Production Also published here Inner Secrets of Card Magic 63
Bob Hummer Visual Change Also published here Inner Secrets of Card Magic 53
Bob Hummer, Harry Lorayne Hummer Addition spectator reverses some cards, below table magician reverses more so named total is achieved, as kicker all are one color My Favorite Card Tricks 30
Peter Alexis Red Magic spectator places some red cards in his left and right jacket pockets, performer divines numberRelated toVariationsAlso published here The Pallbearers Review Vol. 1-4 (Vol. 2, No. 8) 103
Ray Grismer, Bob Hummer Computer Cards cards dealt according to thought-of card, simplifiedInspired byRelated to The Pallbearers Review Vol. 1-4 (Vol. 3, No. 2) 145
Harry Lorayne, Bob Hummer Mental Photography blank deck, spectator thinks of any card and goes through some dealing procedure, thought of card appears, all others blank, card index Deck-Sterity 105
Roy Walton, Bob Hummer Daydream with dealing procedureInspired by The Pallbearers Review Vol. 1-4 (Vol. 3, No. 4) 160
Karl Fulves Babel television exposure, hypnotism, Bob Hummer wants to correspond The Pallbearers Review Vol. 1-4 (Vol. 3, No. 5) 164
Robert Page, Bob Hummer Hummer of a Trick! face-up and face-down cards separated by performer behind backInspired by The Pallbearers Review Vol. 1-4 (Vol. 3, No. 10) 197
Robert Page All But One CATO red black separation routine, p. 241 for further referenceRelated to The Pallbearers Review Vol. 1-4 (Vol. 3, No. 10) 197
Rick Johnsson, Harry Lorayne, Walter Rollins Colors Revealed after a riffle shuffle, the spectator sorts deck in multiple stage in colors and pockets piles in six different pockets, performer knows number of cards in each pocketRelated toAlso published here Epilogue (Issue 6) 45
John Hamilton Computer Cards card thought-of, counting procedure with deck by spectator, see also p. 402 for suggestion by Leslie MayInspired by The Pallbearers Review Vol. 5-8 (Vol. 5, No. 10) 355
Karl Fulves Colorvision Plus Math color vision cube turned on table by spectator according to instructions, color divined, see also p. 340 & 373Related to The Pallbearers Review Vol. 5-8 (Vol. 5, No. 4) 322
Edward Marlo Stolen Hours Related to On the Clock Effect 18
Bob Hummer Bottom Placement Load credited to Hummer Card Cavalcade 157
Roy Walton Isolator card selected, cards dealt in two piles by spectator, colors separated except selection, faroVariations Epilogue (Issue 19) 175
Karl Fulves 5-Card Reader five cards, packet handling of Hummer's "Mindreader's Dream"Inspired by Notes From Underground 43
Oscar Weigle Color Scheme with face-up/face-down mix of twenty cards behind spectator's backRelated toVariationsAlso published here The Pallbearers Review Vol. 9-10 (Vol. 9, No. 6) 724
Jeff Busby 2nd Thot spectator remembers card and its position from top ten cards, Klondike shuffleInspired byRelated to The Pallbearers Review Vol. 9-10 (Vol. 9, No. 8) 746
Paul Swinford Octo octahedral die with symbols, chosen symbol divinedInspired by The Pallbearers Review Vol. 9-10 (Vol. 9, No. 12) 809
Karl Fulves The 12¢ Solution "Math Trix"
twelve pennies, two dice, pocket watch, dice total divined along with dates on chosen coin and setting on watch		Inspired byRelated to The Pallbearers Review Vol. 9-10 (Vol. 10, No. 12) 1059
Jack Avis Siva's Nightmare one-way deckInspired by Epilogue (Issue 24) 226
Karl Fulves Hummer, Jaks on compiling a book about Bob Hummer's and Stanley Jaks's work Interlocutor (Issue 8) 27
Ray Grismer Computer Mind No. 34Related to Self-Working Card Tricks 54
Bob Hummer Personality No. 60, eight-card packet, spectator reverses cards and shuffles, at the end, three are one way and five the other which was predicted, doesn't work always Self-Working Card Tricks 91
Larry Becker The New Math Miracle six cards with numbers on both sides in envelopes, shuffled and turned over by spectator, total is divinedInspired by World of Super Mentalism 29
Bobby Bernard, Bob Hummer The Hummer Coin Penetration Bernard's Lesson on Coin Magic 22
Karl Fulves Type Casting face-up/face-down prediction of number of cards, weird, CATO relatedRelated to Four Color Problems 23
Paul Harris Quarter Caper three half dollars are produced from quarter and vanish againInspired by
  • Bob Hummer effect from "Professional Magic Made Easy" (Bruce Elliott)
 Close-up Entertainer 86
Bob Hummer Hummer's Little Stranger spectator places some red cards in his left and right trouser and jacket pockets, performer divines numberRelated to Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 6
Bob Hummer Hummer's 18 Card Mystery spectator takes eighteen cards and turns over the top two cards and cuts the pile, that step is repeated as often as he likes, then the performer takes the cards behind his back and divines the amount of reversed cardsRelated toVariations Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 7
Bob Hummer Hummer's Swindle spectator takes sixteen cards and turns over the top two cards and cuts the pile behind his back, that step is repeated as often as he likes, then the performer takes the cards behind his back and without looking reverses all cards back in order Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 7
Bob Hummer The Lonely Card CATO routine, cards turned face up, performer takes packet behind back and reverses all cards except selectionRelated toVariations Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 7
Bob Hummer The Little Moonies CATO routine, cards with moon faces printed on them, one way they are smiling held the other way the are sad, spectator marks two cards on the pack and cuts them in the deck, performer takes cards behind back, all moons are in smiling orientation except marked two Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 8
Bob Hummer The Magic Separation face-up and face-down cards are shuffled, performer separates cards behind back so one pile consists of same amount of face up cards as the other (1940)Variations Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 9
Bob Hummer Face Up Prediction spectator and performer turn cards over in the deck, number of reversed cards is predicted (1940) Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 9
Bob Hummer Lite-Ning Addition spectator removes an ace or a two face down, then a three or a four and so on, total of added values is divined (1940) Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 10
Bob Hummer Two Card Transpo one marked card in performer's inner pocket, one in the deck (1940) Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 10
Bob Hummer Jacket Load while opening jacket, card can be stolen and loaded to inside pocket Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 10
Bob Hummer Two Card Locaction behind back, with knife stabbed in the deck (1940) Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 11
Samuel Berland, Bob Hummer Card and Ribbon ribbon with gummed sticker in pocket, selection vanishes from deck and is found attached on ribbon (1940) Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 11
Bob Hummer Five Card Baffle one of five cards is divined, off-beat method Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 12
Dai Vernon, Bob Hummer Escape of the Jack signed black jack in pocket changes places with sandwiched black jack on table Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 13
Bob Hummer One of Fifty-Two one way principle, alternated arrangement, one card's position is changed and separation in two pilesRelated to Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 14
Bob Hummer Personality Test face-up/face-down prediction of number of cards, weird, CATO related, personality type presentationRelated to Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 14
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 overRelated to Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 15
Bob Hummer The Moon Die Mystery number from one to six is thought of, three sides of a die are shown to spectator and he is asked if he sees his number, repeated three times and number is divined, without performer ever looking at the diceRelated toVariations Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 15
Bob Hummer The Four G Men card is divined, name of cards printed on four cards, with newspaper black art (1941) Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 17
Bob Hummer The Card on the Window Pane same as A Card in Flight, not explained here (1941)Related toAlso published here
  • "The Card on the Window Pane" in "Six More Hummers"
  • "The Card on the Window Pane" in "Ireland's Yearbook 1952"
 Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 18
Bob Hummer Double Thought two cards are located, edge marked deck with razor blade (1941) Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 18
Bob Hummer A Rare Coin Stunt coin in closed fist, other hand on top, quick upward motion and coin lies on top of fist (1941)VariationsAlso published here Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 19
Bob Hummer A Possible Impossibility deck under handkerchief, packet cut and shuffled, bottom card remembered and packet replaced on deck, card is located, nail edge mark of entire deck (1941)Related to Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 19
Bob Hummer Imagination spectator throws invisible die and deals deck in that amount of packets, back of performed turned divines amount of packets (1941) Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 21
Bob Hummer Hummer's Bible Trick bible book test, prediction of word, with playing cards (1944)Variations Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 22
Bob Hummer Hummer's Magazine Test with playing cards (1944) Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 23
Bob Hummer By Mail packet extracted from case, bottom card remembered and shuffled Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 23
Bob Hummer Take Your Hat Off same as Hot Head, not explained (1944)Also published here Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 23
Bob Hummer Impossible Location impossible location, with hair (1944) Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 24
Bob Hummer Do As I Do with hair (1944) Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 24
Bob Hummer Latest Miser's Dream Gag verbal ambiguity, getting spectator's money (1944) Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 24
Bob Hummer Thotograhy spectator remembers card and its position from top ten cards, Klondike shuffle, marked key card with needle scratchVariations Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 25
Bob Hummer Hummer's Magic Carpet divination of a four letter word from a list, with handkerchief and alphabet cards (1945)Related to Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 25
Bob Hummer Fantastric single card location, back turned for procedure, 10/9/8 count with more succesfull match Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 26
Bob Hummer The Whispering Spirit packet is cut and substracted from a unknown calculation (age x nine), amount of cards in packet is divined when result is named (1941) Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 28
Bob Hummer Hummer's Great Discovery card is remembered from a packet by thinking of a number, found with down-under-deal, back of performer is turned (1939)
- Method Using 9's System
- Method Using Any Number		 Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 29
Bob Hummer This Is It twenty cards in a row, spectator selects amount of matches and signs the corresponding card on the the face, on the back of the card is written "This is It" and the correct number of selected matches (1943)Inspired byRelated to Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 30
Bob Hummer Dial a Date Deal two rows of eight cards are dealt on the table, some face up and some face down, spectator selects a name on a sheet and turns cards over corresponding to the number next to the name, performer's back is turned and when he looks at cards name can be divinedVariations Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 31
Bob Hummer Politicians Puzzle 6x6 checkerboard, three checkers put on three D's for Democrats or three R's for Republican, spectator can spell a word with the three checkers, moving them for each letter, back is turned and politics can be divined Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 3
Bob Hummer Mom and Pop Puzzle six checkers on a checkerboard, mom and pop are spelled several times, when performer turns over last spelled word is divinedVariations Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 34
Bob Hummer Hummer Card Mystery several cards removed from deck, and some put in pocket, when performer gets balance of cards he knows how many cards are in pocket Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 34
Bob Hummer, Al Koran Mathematical 3 Card Monte bill under one of three cups, back of performer is turned and after some changes in the order of the cups, performer divines cup with bill Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 35
Bob Hummer Thoto one card location, cards marked with pin behind backVariations Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 36
Bob Hummer Kilroy Gets Around message appears on card, mathematical procedure Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 36
Karl Fulves, Bob Hummer Lone Impromptu cards mixed face-up and face-down, performer rightens them behind back except for selectionInspired by Color Quik 29
Bob Hummer Something New living and dead test, spectator writes two names of living and one of dead person on playing cards, divination of which is which Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 37
Bob Hummer Stop - Thief!!! cards with license numbers on them, deck of playing cards used to divine the number (1943) Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 37
Bob Hummer Hummeristic message appears on blank card, by rubbing ashes on it
#1: The Ashes Reveal
#2: Ghost Force
#3: Transference of Thought
#4: A Magic Business Card
#5: Ghost Envelope		 Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 38
Bob Hummer It's Murder with rotatable disk, spectator selects murder and victim while performer's back is turned, both are divinedVariations Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 40
Bob Hummer The Gremlins cards with red and blue gremlins are shuffled, behind back performer sorts the card in two packets so amount of red gremlins in one packet is the same as blue gremlins in the other packet Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 41
Bob Hummer Mind Reader's Dream cards dealt according to thought-of card, with Dreambook to transfer number to card (1952)Variations Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 42
Bob Hummer Mindreader's Dreambook booklet to translate numbers into playing cardsRelated to Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 45
"Senator" Clark Crandall Crandall on Hummer on Bob HummerAlso published here
  • "Crandall on Hummer" in "The New Tops" 6, 7 & 8 in 1964
 Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 49
Bob Hummer 3-Card Monte mathematical three card monte (1951) Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 59
Bob Hummer, Al Koran 3-Cup Monte bill under one of three cups, back of performer is turned and after some changes in the order of the cups, performer divines cup with bill Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 60
Paul Swinford, Bob Hummer Silver and Gold various parity effects (six routines) inspired by Bob Hummer's work with numbered chips and small metal cups Arcane (Issue 2) 17
Bob Hummer Voodoo Fortune Telling cards with questions on one side and different pictures of zombies on the other side, one question is selected and cards separated several times while checking different features of the zombies, eventually a four digit number is evaluated and leads to the answer of the question in a book, system is explained with playing cards Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 73
Bob Hummer Hummer's Mathematical Shell Game with four cups or four shells and two dice Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 78
Bob Hummer Hummer's Whirling Card Related to Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 84
Bob Hummer Hummer's Forcing Deck using hinged cards Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 84
Bob Hummer Hummer's Ring and Cord ring off and on string with handkerchiefAlso published here
  • a part of Martin Gardner's column in "Hugard's Magic Monthly"
 Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 85
Karl Fulves The Hummer Book on the "Bob Hummer Collected Secrets" book and missing pages Interlocutor (Issue 43) 172
Bob Hummer Interlocked Card Production method to interlock fingersAlso published here Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 86
Bob Hummer Bob Hummer's Visual Change Also published here Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 87
Bob Hummer Hummer Card Change with handkerchief, hand turned over and card put on silkAlso published here Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 89
Bob Hummer Think a Word disc to select an spell any card, card is divined, back turned (1964) Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 91
Jeff Busby Thotography II Inspired byRelated to Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 93
Bob Hummer Night Moves Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 94
Howard Lyons It's Murder - No Book no book method, with rotatable disk, spectator selects murder and victim while performer's back is turned, both are divinedInspired by Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 96
Bob Hummer Mother Goose Force to force a page, based on the Miraskill ideaRelated to
  • Martin Gardner's "Mother Goose Mystery"
 Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 99
Bob Hummer A Hummer Letter to Martin Gardner Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 103
Karl Fulves Murder, Inc. a red card in a packet is designated as killer and its position remembered, then black card with same value cut at same position, performer divines it allInspired byRelated to The Chronicles (Issue 25) 1314
Martin Gardner Introduction on Bob HummerRelated to Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets iii
Bob Hummer A Card in Flight! card vanishes from deck and reappears at other side of windowAlso published here Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 1
Bob Hummer Clubs/Spades Gaff used to make a card vanish Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 1
Bob Hummer The Puzzling Speller progressive set-upAlso published here Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 1
Bob Hummer Graphite Matchbox Daub idea for preparing a matchbox to access daub at all timesAlso published here Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 2
Bob Hummer Hot Head with flash paper under cover of a hatAlso published here Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 2
Bob Hummer Salty Dimes coin vanish with salt shaker, instead of vanish coin multipliesAlso published here Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 3
Bruce Elliott Under Cover Bruce Elliott's remark of independently inventing the Graphite Matchbox DaubAlso published here Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 3
Bob Hummer Hummer's Poker Chip Baffle six poker chips with numbers on each side, spectator can turn them while performer's back is turned and then cover three chips, performer names numbers coveredVariations Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 4
Jon Racherbaumer Third Thot card that falls on thought-of position is chosen, later named, ten memorized cards, faroInspired by The Lost Pages of the Kabbala 25
Karl Fulves, Oscar Weigle, Bob Hummer The Borgia Cup No. 53, three cups, poisoned glass is found Self-Working Table Magic 64
Bob Hummer, Unknown Million-Dollar Mystery No. 9, twelve coins on table, spectator can remove some and coins with heads and tales up are divined, blindfoldedRelated to Self-Working Table Magic 13
Max Abrams Max Abrams version for puzzling speller and highlighting mistake in original descriptionRelated to Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 112
Bill Coomer Bill Coomer idea for the Mindreader's DreambookRelated to Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 113
Tom Hunter Tom Hunter some ideas on ThotoInspired by Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 114
Jeff Busby Jeff Busby on a picture of Bob Hummer Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 118
Bob Hummer, Martin Gardner Paper Clip Discovery chosen cards found to be paper clipped together with a message on themAlso published here
  • "Paper Clip Discovery" in Martin Gardner's "Cut the Cards" 1942
 Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 118
Richard Durham Richard Durham letter written by Bob Hummer to C. Verne, with lot of biographical details Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets 120
Mark Lefler Whirling Card card shoots out of deck and floats into handRelated to Lecture III 16
Thomas Alan Waters, Bob Hummer Grayze divination of a card, five cards on the table, covered with a handkerchiefRelated to Mind, Myth & Magick (Issue Mindscript 3: The Symbol Test) 420
Stephen Tucker Stitches in time Triumph effect with pseudo-Bob-Hummer presentation/procedure, spectator "unmixes" deck themselves via long mathematical/Hummeresque procedureInspired by The Card-Mad-gic of Stephen Tucker 3
Bob Hummer, Meir Yedid Visual Change Variation with multiple cards Stage Stuff 40
Philip T. Goldstein Diskette reading with layout with coinsInspired by Fifth 5
Bob Hummer Slap Coin No. 9, coin in closed fist, other hand on top, quick upward motion and coin lies on top of fistAlso published here Self-Working Coin Magic 12
Bruce Elliott Slap Coin Variation several coins penetrate from inside fist to topInspired by Self-Working Coin Magic 13
Bob Hummer, Jack Yates Time Will Tell No. 74, twelve coins on table in circle layout, spectator removes six coins, some head/tail matchingRelated to Self-Working Coin Magic 102
Bob Hummer, Stewart James, Mel Stover, Karl Fulves Immovable Object No. 78, six numbered glasses, coin moved from glass to glass Self-Working Coin Magic 107
Bob Hummer Hummering I No. 59, ring onto rope Self-Working Rope Magic 125
Bob Hummer Hummering II No. 60, ring onto rope Self-Working Rope Magic 127
Philip T. Goldstein Octext spectator choses one of eight words and removes its letters from alphabet deck, divined with pendulum, binary coding via card removal from deck, for correction see referenceInspired byRelated to New Sorcerer (Vol. 1, No. 1) 6
Karl Fulves Face Value cards shuffled face-up/face-down, cards dealt into performers hand until he calls stop, number of face-down cards then equals face-up cardsInspired byRelated to Deceptive Practices 25
Bob King, Bob Hummer Hum-Dinger three cards and a Queen removed, spectator thinks of one of the three cards which are returned to deck, Queen whispers performer the selection The Breather 2 10
Bob Hummer The Magic Separation face-up/face-down mixed packet behind performer's back, two piles formed with same number of up and down cards, brief Crooked Tales 21
Bob Hummer, Gregory Wilson Coin Production flipping invisible coin in the air and catching it on the back of the hand, where it becomes visibleInspired by L.I.N.T. - Pocket Stuff for Close-Up Magicians 115
Peter Duffie Still Scheming Play it Straight Triumph type of effect with CATO procedure, use half a deckInspired by Effortless Card Magic 144
Karl Fulves 37 Threes "Dot Com - Tricks and stunts with numbers"
small packet, spectator cuts and turns over pairs, then two red Threes are only reversed cards, comedy prediction is shown to fit		Related to The Fine Print (Issue 10) 348
Karl Fulves Die Box Construct "Dot Com - Tricks and stunts with numbers"
five cards, coin moved around on it while the performer turns his back, sucker prediction in which the cards transform for it to become true		Inspired by The Fine Print (Issue 10) 352
Bob Hummer, Noel Stanton Pivot Change here credited to Hummer Close-Up & Personal 113
Milton Kort Going, Going, Going, gnioG, Gone Coin through hand four times, then vanishes (sequences include those by Felicien Trewey, Jose Frakson)Inspired by Kort 151
Karl Fulves, Bob Hummer Psychic Map No. 69, fifteen cards in matrix layout on table, some are turned over, covered with newspaper, performer reaches underneath and adjusts, when newspaper is removed all face-up cards are red and vice versa New Self-Working Card Tricks 104
Karl Fulves, Bob Hummer Scrambled Stud No. 27, spectator remembers card and its position in ten-card packet, two hands dealt but selection and its mate face-down My Best Self-Working Card Tricks 56
Karl Fulves, Ralph W. Hull, Bob Hummer Eyeless Vision No. 59 My Best Self-Working Card Tricks 134
Wesley James A Vision or a Dream? "final", thought of card, spectator does some procedure according to value and suit of card, at the end all cards are blank except selectionInspired by Enchantments 438
Roberto Giobbi, Bob Hummer Dollar Deal red-black betting game, bill is inserted in deck and pairs taken, color that comes with bill can be predicted Hidden Agenda (Issue Apr 16) 111
John Lovick My Dream of Mind Reading blank deck finale, credit informationInspired byVariations The Performance Pieces & Divertissements of the Famous Handsome Jack, etc. 115
Joshua Jay On "My Dream of Mind Reading" thoughts on this and Bob Hummer's "Mindreader's Dream" The Performance Pieces & Divertissements of the Famous Handsome Jack, etc. 117
Anton van Helden On "My Dream of Mind Reading" blank deck finale, thought-of card is only printed oneInspired by The Performance Pieces & Divertissements of the Famous Handsome Jack, etc. 118