337 entries for Bob Hummer

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Theodore Annemann An Alternate Detection alternating one-way backs
Related toVariationsAlso published here 1934
SH-H-H--! It's A Secret
11
Bob Hummer A Card in Flight!! card vanishes from deck and reappears at other side of window
Related toAlso published here Nov. 1935
The Jinx (Issue 14)
66
Bob Hummer Clubs/Spades Gaff used to make a card vanish
 		Nov. 1935
The Jinx (Issue 14)
66
Bob Hummer The Puzzling Speller progressive set-up, dealing placement
Related toAlso published here 1936
The Jinx (Issue Winter Extra 1935/36)
83
Charles T. Jordan Premo Detection one-way backs, alternating
Related to 1937
Encyclopedia of Card Tricks
143
Charles T. Jordan Impromptu Detection scratching as edge marks
Related toVariationsAlso published here
  • Charles T. Jordan's "An Impromptu Detection" in "Collected Tricks" p. 39
 1937
Encyclopedia of Card Tricks
307
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, see Collected Secrets for variations
Related toVariationsAlso published here 1940
Half-A-Dozen Hummers
3
Bob Hummer Face Up Prediction spectator and performer turn cards over in the deck, number of reversed cards is predicted
Related toVariationsAlso published here 1940
Half-A-Dozen Hummers
4
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
Related toVariationsAlso published here 1940
Half-A-Dozen Hummers
5
Bob Hummer Two Card Transpo one marked card in performer's inner pocket, one in the deck
Also published here 1940
Half-A-Dozen Hummers
6
Bob Hummer Jogged Card to Inside Pocket injogged card, deck held in right hand, card secretly transferred to inner right pocket
 		1940
Half-A-Dozen Hummers
6
Bob Hummer Replacement In-Jog top half placed on lower half, top card of bottom half in-jogged
 		1940
Half-A-Dozen Hummers
6
Bob Hummer Two Card Location behind back, with knife stabbed in the deck
Also published here 1940
Half-A-Dozen Hummers
8
Samuel Berland, Bob Hummer Card and Ribbon ribbon with gummed sticker in pocket, selection vanishes from deck and is found attached on ribbon
Also published here 1940
Half-A-Dozen Hummers
9
Bob Hummer Breaking the Spoon spoon apparently broken vanishes
Also published here 1941
After the Dessert
14
Bob Hummer The Whispering Spirit packet is cut and subtracted from a unknown calculation (age x nine), amount of cards in packet is divined when result is named
Also published here 1941
The Whispering Spirit
1
Bob Hummer The Four G Men card is divined, name of cards printed on four cards, with newspaper black art
Also published here 1941
Six More Hummers
3
Bob Hummer The Card on the Window Pane card through window
Related toAlso published here 1941
Six More Hummers
5
Bob Hummer Clubs/Spades Gaff used to make a card vanish
 		1941
Six More Hummers
5
Bob Hummer Double Thought two cards are located, edge marked deck with razor blade
Also published here 1941
Six More Hummers
7
Bob Hummer A Rare Coin Stunt coin in closed fist, other hand on top, quick upward motion and coin lies on top of fist
VariationsAlso published here 1941
Six More Hummers
11
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
Also published here 1941
Six More Hummers
12
Bob Hummer Imagination spectator throws invisible die and deals deck in that amount of packets, back of performed turned divines amount of packets
Also published here 1941
Six More Hummers
14
Bob Hummer Fantastric single card location, back turned for procedure, secret 10/9/8 count to find indicator card
Also published here 1941 (ca.)
Fantastric
1
Bob Hummer And Now an Improvement single card location, back turned for procedure, variation in the secret 10/9/8 count to always get a matching card
Also published here 1941 (ca.)
Fantastric
2
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 disc
Related toVariations May 1942
The Phoenix 1-50 (Issue 8)
29
Martin Gardner, Bob Hummer Paper Clip Discovery chosen cards found to be paper clipped together with a message on them
Also published here 1942
Cut the Cards
12
Bob Hummer A Card in Flight! card vanishes from deck and reappears at other side of window
 		1943
Full Deck of Impromptu Card Tricks
25
Bob Hummer Clubs/Spades Gaff used to make a card vanish
 		1943
Full Deck of Impromptu Card Tricks
25
Bob Hummer Bob Hummer's Whirling Card
VariationsAlso published here 1943
Hummer's Whirling Card
2
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 coin
Also published here Feb. 1944
The Phoenix 51-100 (Issue 53)
218
Bob Hummer To All Who are Winning the War with Hummer's Magic
1944
Six-Trix for 1944
2
Bob Hummer Hummer's Bible Trick bible book test, prediction of word, with playing cards
Also published here 1944
Six-Trix for 1944
3
Bob Hummer Hummer's Magazine Test with playing cards
Also published here 1944
Six-Trix for 1944
5
Bob Hummer By Mail (nail) packet extracted from case, bottom card remembered and shuffled
Also published here 1944
Six-Trix for 1944
6
Bob Hummer Take Your Hat Off (This will burn 'em up) with flash paper under cover of a hat
Also published here 1944
Six-Trix for 1944
6
Bob Hummer Impossible Location impossible location, with hair
Also published here 1944
Six-Trix for 1944
7
Bob Hummer Do As I Do with hair
Also published here 1944
Six-Trix for 1944
7
Bob Hummer Latest Miser's Dream Gag verbal ambiguity, getting spectator's money
Also published here 1944
Six-Trix for 1944
8
Bob Hummer Thot-Ography spectator remembers card and its position from top ten cards, Klondike shuffle, marked key card with needle scratch, see Collected Secrets for more references
Also published here 1945
Thotography
1
Bob Hummer Personality Test face-up/face-down prediction of number of cards, weird, CATO related, personality type presentation
VariationsAlso published here 1945
3 Pets
1
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 over
Also published here 1945
3 Pets
1
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 dice
Also published here 1945
3 Pets
2
Bob Hummer Forward
1945
Little Stranger
1
Bob Hummer Little Stranger spectator places some red cards in his left and right trouser and jacket pockets, performer divines numbers
Related toVariationsAlso published here 1945
Little Stranger
1
Warren Wiersbe, Bob Hummer Double Separation packet shuffled face-up face-down, then statement over condition made and colors separated
Inspired byVariations 1946
Mental Cases With Cards
11
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 cards, see Collected Secrets for links to variations
Also published here 1946
Face Up Face Down Mysteries
1
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
Also published here 1946
Face Up Face Down Mysteries
2
Bob Hummer The Lonely Card CATO routine, cards turned face up, performer takes packet behind back and reverses all cards except selection
VariationsAlso published here 1946
Face Up Face Down Mysteries
2
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
Also published here 1946
Face Up Face Down Mysteries
3
Bob Hummer Thoto (The World's Smallest Trick) one card location, cards marked with pin behind back
Also published here 1947
3 Trix New Easy To Do
1
Bob Hummer Kilroy Gets Around message appears on card, mathematical procedure
Also published here 1947
3 Trix New Easy To Do
1
Bob Hummer Something New (and easy to do) living and dead test, spectator writes two names of living and one of dead person on playing cards, divination of which is which
Also published here 1947
3 Trix New Easy To Do
2
Bob Hummer Instruction Sheet for Improved It's Murder with rotatable disk, spectator selects murder and victim while performer's back is turned, both are divined
Related to 1947
It's Murder!
1
Bob Hummer Hot Head with flash paper under cover of a hat
Also published here Apr. 1949
The Phoenix 151-200 (Issue 174)
699
Bruce Elliott The Back Room on Martin Gardner, Bert Allerton, Bob Hummer
 		Dec. 1949
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
Related to Dec. 1949
The Phoenix 151-200 (Issue 193)
773
Ein neuer absonderlicher Kartentrick 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, same as Hummer's Magic separation
Related to 1949
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 10 No. 1)
5
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
Also published here 1949
52 Amazing Card Tricks
47
Bob Hummer Face-Up Prediction spectator and performer turn cards over in the deck, number of reversed cards is predicted
Also published here 1949
52 Amazing Card Tricks
48
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
 		1950
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
 		1950
Scarne on Card Tricks
49
Bob Hummer The Stubborn Card No. 46
 		1950
Scarne on Card Tricks
81
Bruce Elliott The Back Room on Harry Blackstone, Martin Gardner, Dr. Jaks, Audley Walsh, Bobby Baxter, gag by Bob Hummer
 		Sep. 1950
The Phoenix 201 — 250 (Issue 212)
849
Peter A. McDonald Which Way? almost the same as Lonley Card
Inspired by 1950
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 11 No. 5)
35
Bob Hummer Hummers Mathematical 3 Card Monte mathematical three card monte
Related toVariationsAlso published here 1951
Mathematical 3 Card Monte
1
Bob Hummer The Four G Men card is divined, name of cards printed on four cards, with newspaper black art
Also published here 1952
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1952)
3
Bob Hummer The Card on the Window Pane card through window
Also published here 1952
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1952)
3
Bob Hummer Clubs/Spades Gaff used to make a card vanish
 		1952
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1952)
4
Bob Hummer Double Thought two cards are located, edge marked deck with razor blade
Also published here 1952
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1952)
4
Bob Hummer A Rare Coin Stunt coin in closed fist, other hand on top, quick upward motion and coin lies on top of fist
Also published here 1952
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1952)
5
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
Also published here 1952
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1952)
5
Bob Hummer Imagination spectator throws invisible die and deals deck in that amount of packets, back of performed turned divines amount of packets
Also published here 1952
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1952)
6
Fred Fletcher Mentalexicon word is divined, with alphabet cards and a range of sixteen words
Related toVariationsAlso published here May 1952
The Phoenix 251 — 300 (Issue 255)
1019
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 coin
Inspired byRelated toVariations July 1952
The Phoenix 251 — 300 (Issue 260)
1039
Bob Hummer Mind Reader's Dream cards dealt according to thought-of card, with Dreambook to transfer number to card
VariationsAlso published here 1952
Mind Reader's Dream
1
Bob Hummer Five Card Baffle one of five cards is divined, off-beat method
VariationsAlso published here 1952
The Last Word on Cards
57
W. F. "Rufus" Steele The Baffle Follow-Up one of five cards is divined
Inspired by 1952
The Last Word on Cards
58
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 politicians can be divined
Also published here 1952 (ca.)
Politicians Puzzle
1
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 divined
Also published here 1952 (ca.)
Politicians Puzzle
2
Edward Marlo, Bob Hummer Cardician's Dream counting procedure with value of thought of card, etc, see page 196 for credits
Related toVariations 1953
The Cardician
130
Fay Smith Follow Up on Hummer's Rare Coin Stunt coin penetrates from back of the hand into fist, reversed Hummer effect
Inspired by 1953
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1953)
14
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 divined
Inspired byRelated to 1954
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
 		Apr. 1954
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
 		June 1954
The New Phoenix 301-348 (Issue 310)
40
George Sands An Oddity paper slips with numbers on each side are arranged by the spectator, see 2022 reference for credit information
Related toAlso published here July 1954
The New Phoenix 301-348 (Issue 312)
50
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 Chapman
Related to Aug. 1954
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
 		Nov. 1954
The New Phoenix 301-348 (Issue 319)
85
Bob Hummer Change kind of one-handed second deal, Downs Change
Also published here 1955
Cy Endfield's Entertaining Card Magic — Part II
38
Bob Hummer D-D-D 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 divined
Related to 1955 (ca.)
D-D-D
1
Bob Hummer Change kind of one-handed second deal, Downs Change
 		1956
Unconventional Magic
3
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.
 		1956
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 separated
Variations 1956
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 smiling
Inspired byAlso published here 1956
Mathematics, Magic And Mystery
19
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 divined
Related to 1956
Mathematics, Magic And Mystery
45
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
 		1956
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 1956
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 looking
Inspired byAlso published here 1956
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
 		1956
Mathematics, Magic And Mystery
111
Ronald A. Wohl (Ravelli) Der "Sex"-Test eight cards, Cato under table, only Queen among Jacks and Kings ends up reversed
Inspired by 1956
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 17 No. 3)
444
Bob Hummer, Al Koran Note Under Cups three cups, bill hidden under one and the cups exchanges after a pattern
Inspired by 1958
Blindfolds & X-Ray Eyes
140
Bob Hummer Visual Change
Also published here 1959
Inner Secrets of Card Magic
53
Bob Hummer Interlocked Production
Also published here 1959
Inner Secrets of Card Magic
63
Bob Hummer Bild und Rücken 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, see Collected Secrets for variations
Also published here 1959
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 20 No. 2)
811
Harry Lorayne Hummer Addition spectator reverses some cards, below table magician reverses more so named total is achieved, as kicker all are one color
Inspired byAlso published here 1965
My Favorite Card Tricks
30
Bob Hummer Entre Acte - Löffelbrechen spoon apparently broken vanishes
Also published here 1966
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 27 No. 3)
47
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
Variations 1967
Deck-Sterity
105
Peter Alexis Red Magic spectator places some red cards in his left and right jacket pockets, performer divines number
Related toVariationsAlso published here June 1967
The Pallbearers Review Vol. 1-4 (Vol. 2 No. 8)
103
Ray Grismer, Bob Hummer Computer Cards cards dealt according to thought-of card, simplified
Inspired byRelated toVariations Dec. 1967
The Pallbearers Review Vol. 1-4 (Vol. 3 No. 2)
145
Al Koran Note Under Cup bill put under one of three cups, performer know which one
Inspired byVariations 1968
Al Koran's Professional Presentations
127
Roy Walton, Bob Hummer Daydream with dealing procedure
Inspired byVariations Feb. 1968
The Pallbearers Review Vol. 1-4 (Vol. 3 No. 4)
160
Karl Fulves Babel television exposure, hypnotism, Bob Hummer wants to correspond
 		Mar. 1968
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 back
Inspired byVariations Aug. 1968
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 reference
Related to Aug. 1968
The Pallbearers Review Vol. 1-4 (Vol. 3 No. 10)
197
Bob Hummer Hummering ring onto rope
Also published here 1968
Abbott's Encyclopedia of Rope Tricks — Volume II
141
Rick Johnsson, 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 pocket
Inspired byRelated toVariationsAlso published here July 1969
Epilogue (Issue 6)
45
Karl Fulves Colorvision Plus Math color vision cube turned on table by spectator according to instructions, color divined, see also p. 340 & 373
Related to Feb. 1970
The Pallbearers Review Vol. 5-8 (Vol. 5 No. 4)
322
John Hamilton Computer Cards card thought-of, counting procedure with deck by spectator, see also p. 402 for suggestion by Leslie May
Inspired by Aug. 1970
The Pallbearers Review Vol. 5-8 (Vol. 5 No. 10)
355
Edward Marlo Stolen Hours
Related to 1971
On the Clock Effect
18
Bob Hummer Bottom Placement Load credited to Hummer
 		1972
Card Cavalcade
157
Billy McComb Frolics with the Hummer Whirling Card
  • A Variation
  • A Don't! - If You Unravel Your Own!
  • A Miracle!
  • You're All Set!
  • Light Weight - But Great!
  • True Story!
Inspired by 1972
McComb's Magic — 25 Years Wiser
51
Bob Hummer 12) Hummer Move No. 427-12, convex crimp during shuffle
 		1972
Jacob Daley's Notebooks
119
Roy Walton Isolator card selected, cards dealt in two piles by spectator, colors separated except selection, faro
VariationsAlso published here Nov. 1973
Epilogue (Issue 19)
175
Karl Fulves 5-Card Reader five cards, packet handling of Hummer's "Mindreader's Dream"
Inspired by 1973
Notes From Underground
43
Oscar Weigle Color Scheme with face-up/face-down mix of twenty cards behind spectator's back
Related toVariationsAlso published here Apr. 1974
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 shuffle
Inspired byRelated to June 1974
The Pallbearers Review Vol. 9-10 (Vol. 9 No. 8)
746
Paul Swinford Octo octahedral die with symbols, chosen symbol divined
Inspired by Oct. 1974
The Pallbearers Review Vol. 9-10 (Vol. 9 No. 12)
809
Jack Avis Siva's Nightmare one-way deck
Inspired by July 1975
Epilogue (Issue 24)
226
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 Oct. 1975
The Pallbearers Review Vol. 9-10 (Vol. 10 No. 12)
1059
Gerald Kosky "The Total Is!" eight disks with numbers on each side, spectator can turn them while performer's back is turned and then cover three chips, performer names numbers covered
Inspired by 1975
The Magic of Gerald Kosky
119
Karl Fulves Hummer, Jaks on compiling a book about Bob Hummer's and Stanley Jaks's work
 		1976
Interlocutor (Issue 8)
27
Ray Grismer Computer Mind No. 34
Related to 1976
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
 		1976
Self-Working Card Tricks
91
Karl Fulves The Parity Principle four objects used
Inspired by 1977
The Magic Book
135
Bobby Bernard, Bob Hummer The Hummer Coin Penetration
1978
Bernard's Lesson on Coin Magic
22
Larry Becker The New Math Miracle six cards with numbers on both sides in envelopes, shuffled and turned over by spectator, total is divined
Inspired by 1978
World of Super Mentalism
29
Karl Fulves Type Casting face-up/face-down prediction of number of cards, weird, CATO related
Related toAlso published here 1979
Four Color Problems
23
Paul Harris Quarter Caper three half dollars are produced from quarter and vanish again
Inspired by
  • Bob Hummer effect from "Professional Magic Made Easy" (Bruce Elliott)
Also published here 		1979
Close-up Entertainer
86
Karl Fulves 5-4 spectator turns cards over from a packet of 18 cards, behind back performer splits packet and knows relation of face-down and face-up cards in each half
Related toAlso published here Sep. 1979
The Talon (Issue 5)
61
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
 		1980
Arcane (Issue 2)
17
Karl Fulves Lone Impromptu cards mixed face-up and face-down, performer rightens them behind back except for selection
Inspired by 1980
Color Quik
29
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 all
Inspired byRelated to 1980
The Chronicles (Issue 25)
1314
Karl Fulves The Hummer Book on the "Bob Hummer Collected Secrets" book and missing pages
 		1980
Interlocutor (Issue 43)
172
Martin Gardner Introduction on Bob Hummer
Related to 1980
Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets
iii
Bob Hummer A Card in Flight! card vanishes from deck and reappears at other side of window
Also published here 1980
Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets
1
Bob Hummer Clubs/Spades Gaff used to make a card vanish
 		1980
Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets
1
Bob Hummer The Puzzling Speller progressive set-up, dealing placement
Also published here 1980
Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets
1
Bob Hummer Graphite Matchbox Daub idea for preparing a matchbox to access daub at all times
Also published here 1980
Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets
2
Bob Hummer Hot Head with flash paper under cover of a hat
Also published here 1980
Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets
2
Bob Hummer Salty Dimes coin vanish with salt shaker, instead of vanish coin multiplies
Also published here 1980
Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets
3
Bruce Elliott Under Cover Bruce Elliott's remark of independently inventing the Graphite Matchbox Daub
Also published here 1980
Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets
3
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
Also published here 1980
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 covered, for credit information see 2022 Bob Farmer reference
Related toVariationsAlso published here 1980
Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets
4
Bob Hummer Hummer's Little Stranger spectator places some red cards in his left and right trouser and jacket pockets, performer divines numbers
Related toAlso published here 1980
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 cards
Related toVariationsAlso published here 1980
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
Also published here 1980
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 selection
Related toVariationsAlso published here 1980
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
Also published here 1980
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)
Related toVariationsAlso published here 1980
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
VariationsAlso published here 1980
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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)
Also published here 1980
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Bob Hummer Two Card Transpo one marked card in performer's inner pocket, one in the deck
Also published here 1980
Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets
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Bob Hummer Jacket Load while opening jacket, card can be stolen and loaded to inside pocket
 		1980
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Bob Hummer Two Card Locaction behind back, with knife stabbed in the deck
Also published here 1980
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Samuel Berland, Bob Hummer Card and Ribbon ribbon with gummed sticker in pocket, selection vanishes from deck and is found attached on ribbon
Also published here 1980
Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets
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Bob Hummer Five Card Baffle one of five cards is divined, off-beat method
Also published here 1980
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Dai Vernon, Bob Hummer Escape of the Jack signed black jack in pocket changes places with sandwiched black jack on table
 		1980
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Bob Hummer One of Fifty-Two one way principle, alternated arrangement, one card's position is changed and separation in two piles
Related to 1980
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Bob Hummer Personality Test face-up/face-down prediction of number of cards, weird, CATO related, personality type presentation
Related toVariationsAlso published here 1980
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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 over
Related toAlso published here 1980
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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 dice
Related toVariationsAlso published here 1980
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Bob Hummer The Four G Men card is divined, name of cards printed on four cards, with newspaper black art
Also published here 1980
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Bob Hummer The Card on the Window Pane same as A Card in Flight, not explained here
Related to 1980
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Bob Hummer Double Thought two cards are located, edge marked deck with razor blade
Also published here 1980
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Bob Hummer A Rare Coin Stunt coin in closed fist, other hand on top, quick upward motion and coin lies on top of fist
VariationsAlso published here 1980
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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
Related toAlso published here 1980
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Bob Hummer Imagination spectator throws invisible die and deals deck in that amount of packets, back of performed turned divines amount of packets
Also published here 1980
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Bob Hummer Hummer's Bible Trick bible book test, prediction of word, with playing cards
VariationsAlso published here 1980
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Bob Hummer Hummer's Magazine Test with playing cards
Also published here 1980
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Bob Hummer By Mail packet extracted from case, bottom card remembered and shuffled
Also published here 1980
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Bob Hummer Take Your Hat Off same as Hot Head, not explained
Also published here 1980
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Bob Hummer Impossible Location impossible location, with hair
Also published here 1980
Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets
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Bob Hummer Do As I Do with hair
Also published here 1980
Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets
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Bob Hummer Latest Miser's Dream Gag verbal ambiguity, getting spectator's money
Also published here 1980
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Bob Hummer Thotograhy spectator remembers card and its position from top ten cards, Klondike shuffle, marked key card with needle scratch
VariationsAlso published here 1980
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Bob Hummer Hummer's Magic Carpet divination of a four letter word from a list, with handkerchief and alphabet cards
Related toVariations 1980
Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets
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Bob Hummer Fantastric single card location, back turned for procedure, 10/9/8 count with more succesfull match
Also published here 1980
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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
Also published here 1980
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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
  • Method Using 9's System
  • Method Using Any Number
 		1980
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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
Inspired byRelated to 1980
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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 divined
Related toVariations 1980
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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 divined
VariationsAlso published here 1980
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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
 		1980
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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
Variations 1980
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Bob Hummer Thoto one card location, cards marked with pin behind back
VariationsAlso published here 1980
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Bob Hummer Kilroy Gets Around message appears on card, mathematical procedure
Also published here 1980
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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
Also published here 1980
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Bob Hummer Stop - Thief!!! cards with license numbers on them, deck of playing cards used to divine the number
 		1980
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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
 		1980
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Bob Hummer It's Murder with rotatable disk, spectator selects murder and victim while performer's back is turned, both are divined
Variations 1980
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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
 		1980
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Bob Hummer Mind Reader's Dream cards dealt according to thought-of card, with Dreambook to transfer number to card
VariationsAlso published here 1980
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Bob Hummer Mindreader's Dreambook booklet to translate numbers into playing cards
Related to 1980
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"Senator" Clarke Crandall Crandall on Hummer on Bob Hummer
Also published here
  • "Crandall on Hummer" in "The New Tops" 6, 7 & 8 in 1964
 1980
Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets
49
Bob Hummer 3-Card Monte mathematical three card monte
Also published here 1980
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
 		1980
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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
 		1980
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Bob Hummer Hummer's Mathematical Shell Game with four cups or four shells and two dice
 		1980
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Bob Hummer Hummer's Whirling Card
Related toAlso published here 1980
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84
Bob Hummer Hummer's Forcing Deck using hinged cards
 		1980
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Bob Hummer Hummer's Ring and Cord ring off and on string with handkerchief
Also published here
  • a part of Martin Gardner's column in "Hugard's Magic Monthly"
 1980
Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets
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Bob Hummer Interlocked Card Production method to interlock fingers
Also published here 1980
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Bob Hummer Bob Hummer's Visual Change
Also published here 1980
Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets
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Bob Hummer Hummer Card Change with handkerchief, hand turned over and card put on silk
Also published here 1980
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Bob Hummer Think a Word disc to select an spell any card, card is divined, back turned (1964)
 		1980
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Jeff Busby Thotography II
Inspired byRelated to 1980
Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets
93
Bob Hummer Night Moves
1980
Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets
94
P. 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 divined
Inspired byRelated to 1980
Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets
96
Bob Hummer Mother Goose Force to force a page, based on the Miraskill idea
Related to
  • Martin Gardner's "Mother Goose Mystery"
 1980
Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets
99
Bob Hummer A Hummer Letter to Martin Gardner
 		1980
Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets
103
Karl Fulves Gremlins No. 10, ten red-green double-faced paper cards, spectator shuffles, performer separates the cards behind his back so that the same number of green cards is in both piles
Inspired by 1980
The Children's Magic Kit
10
Gerald Kosky Ein ESP Test im Stillen two cards with list of names, two thought of and divined
Inspired by
  • Tom Sellers effect from The Gen, based on a Bob Hummer principle
Also published here
  • Hugard's Magic Monthly, Vol. 18 No. 12, 1960
 Nov. 1980
Intermagic (Vol. 7 No. 3)
96
Ken De Courcy The Red and Black Computation spectator places some red and black cards in his left and right trouser and jacket pockets, performer divines numbers, with selected card
Inspired by 1980
Cards in Cabaret
21
Jon Racherbaumer Third Thot card that falls on thought-of position is chosen, later named, ten memorized cards, faro
Inspired by 1981
The Lost Pages of the Kabbala
25
Bob Hummer, Million-Dollar Mystery No. 9, twelve coins on table, spectator can remove some and coins with heads and tales up are divined, blindfolded
Related to 1981
Self-Working Table Magic
13
Bob Hummer Mental Die No. 28, die under hat, divination of number
Also published here 1981
Self-Working Table Magic
32
Karl Fulves, Oscar Weigle, Bob Hummer The Borgia Cup No. 53, three cups, poisoned glass is found
 		1981
Self-Working Table Magic
64
Max Abrams Max Abrams version for puzzling speller and highlighting mistake in original description
Related to 1981
Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets
112
Bill Coomer Bill Coomer idea for the Mindreader's Dreambook
Related to 1981
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Tom Hunter Tom Hunter some ideas on Thoto
Inspired by 1981
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Jeff Busby Jeff Busby on a picture of Bob Hummer
 		1981
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Bob Hummer, Martin Gardner Paper Clip Discovery chosen cards found to be paper clipped together with a message on them
Also published here 1981
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Richard Durham Richard Durham letter written by Bob Hummer to C. Verne, with lot of biographical details
 		1981
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Thomas Alan Waters, Bob Hummer Grayze divination of a card, five cards on the table, covered with a handkerchief
Related to 1983
Mind, Myth & Magick (Issue Mindscript 3: The Symbol Test)
420
Mark Lefler Whirling Card card shoots out of deck and floats into hand
Related to 1983
Lecture III
16
Stephen Tucker Stitches in time Triumph effect with pseudo-Bob-Hummer presentation/procedure, spectator "unmixes" deck themselves via long mathematical/Hummeresque procedure
Inspired by 1984
The Card-Mad-gic of Stephen Tucker
3
Bob Hummer Das Traum-Buch
Also published here Jan. 1984
Intermagic (Vol. 10 No. 3 & 4)
97
Bob Hummer, Rudolf Braunmüller Immer bereit, Anruf genügt! pin-up girl cards, sixteen cards, list with numbers, chosen card/girl eventually divined with layout on table
 		Jan. 1984
Intermagic (Vol. 10 No. 3 & 4)
119
Bob Hummer, Meir Yedid Visual Change Variation with multiple cards
 		1986
Stage Stuff
40
Bob Hummer Ringe two impromptu magic items and gags with rings
 		Dec. 1986
Intermagic (Vol. 12 No. 3 & 4)
137
Terri Rogers Hummerous Phoney Telepathy over phone
Inspired byAlso published here 1988
More Secrets
30
Peter Kane Kane's Variant mathematical monte with five objects and without turning back
  • The Basic Principle
Inspired byVariations 1988 ca.
Kane's Variant
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Philip T. Goldstein Diskette reading with layout with coins, binary
Inspired byAlso published here 1989
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 fist
Also published here 1989
Self-Working Coin Magic
12
Bruce Elliott Slap Coin Variation several coins penetrate from inside fist to top
Inspired by 1989
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 matching
Related to 1989
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
 		1989
Self-Working Coin Magic
107
Bob Hummer Infallible
Also published here 1989
Easy-to-Do Card Tricks for Children
12
Terri Rogers Hummeristische Tele-Fon-Pathie over phone
Inspired byAlso published here July 1989
Intermagic (Vol. 14 No. 4 & 5)
155
Roy Johnson Incredible Dreamer with blank deck
Inspired byAlso published here 1989
Silver Special
90
Bob Hummer Hummering I No. 59, ring onto rope
Also published here 1990
Self-Working Rope Magic
125
Bob Hummer Hummering II No. 60, ring onto rope
 		1990
Self-Working Rope Magic
127
Jon Racherbaumer What About Hummer's Number? cards shuffled face-up/face-down with some procedure, result predicted
Inspired by 1990
Cardfixes
44
Karl Fulves Mathemonte without a key card that must be recognized, prediction "we will pick the same card"
Inspired byRelated to 1991
Swindle Sheet (Issue 4)
48
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 cards
Inspired byRelated to 1992
Deceptive Practices
25
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 reference
Inspired byRelated to Mar. 1992
New Sorcerer (Vol. 1 No. 1)
6
Ken Simmons Bluff Presentation for 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, three phases
Inspired by 1992
Choice Effects — Number One
12
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
 		1993
The Breather 2
10
Peter Duffie Principles and Deceptions "An Easy Trip Through The Arithmetical Principles Of Card Magic - Part 4"
  • Two Unique Principles of Bob Hummer
  • Principle One
  • Principle Two (CATO)
 		Oct. 1993
Profile (Issue 16)
6
Peter Duffie Hummer of a Trick Variation some cards mixed face-up/face-down by spectator, performer takes one section under the table briefly, in the end there are the same number of face-up cards in two piles
Inspired by Oct. 1993
Profile (Issue 16)
6
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
 		1994
Crooked Tales
21
Ellison Poland Colors By The Numbers No. 1 six colored chips with numbers turned over by spectator, orientation and number of a hidden chip divined
Inspired byRelated toVariations 1994
Wonderful Routines of Magic — The Second Addendum
64
Peter Duffie Still Scheming Play it Straight Triumph type of effect with CATO procedure, use half a deck
Inspired by 1997
Effortless Card Magic
144
Bob Hummer, Gregory Wilson Coin Production flipping invisible coin in the air and catching it on the back of the hand, where it becomes visible
Inspired by 1997
L.I.N.T. — Pocket Stuff for Close-Up Magicians
115
Jack Avis Nu Way Shell Game props changed to four white cards with colored spots
Inspired by 1998
Vis à Vis
66
Milton Kort Going, Going, Going, gnioG, Gone Coin through hand four times, then vanishes (sequences include those by Felicien Trewey, Jose Frakson)
Inspired by 1999
Kort
151
Bob Hummer, Noel Stanton Pivot Change here credited to Hummer
 		1999
Close-Up & Personal
113
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 1999
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 1999
The Fine Print (Issue 10)
352
Roy Johnson Der unglaubliche Träumer with blank deck
Inspired byAlso published here 1999
Intermagic (Vol. 23 No. 1)
17
Bob Hummer Face-Up Prediction spectator and performer turn cards over in the deck, number of reversed cards is predicted
Also published here 2000
Off The Books (Issue 2)
8
Ralph W. Hull Last Word Prediction number of face-up cards predicted
Inspired byAlso published here
  • "The Testament of Ralph W. Hull" (Trevor Hall, 1945)
 2000
Off The Books (Issue 2)
8
Jerry Mentzer Revisiting the Dream
Inspired by 2000
Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 3
75
Jerry Mentzer, Al Thatcher Cardician's Dream (Improved)
Inspired by 2000
Card File Two
41
Karl Fulves The 4th Die two white dice rolled, same total arranged with two red dice, one red die left open and the other three are covered, performer removes two card which, when added to the red die, add up to the same total as the three hidden dice
Inspired byVariations 2000