P. Howard Lyons

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Creators	Title	Comments & References		Year	Source	Page	Categories
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 It's Murder - No Book (P. Howard Lyons, 1980)	1947	It's Murder!	1	Mental Magic / Effects / Divination Games / Instruction Games Games / Murder Game
P. Howard Lyons	Further Data on the Foregoing Trick	credit information on "Follow The Leader" plot		1962	Early Vernon	43	Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Follow the Leader
P. Howard Lyons	P. Howard Lyons Routine	selection vanishes from card box and other card appears on its place, selection is found reversed in the deck, is torn and finally restored in the card box		1962	Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1962)	54	Cards / Effect Themes / Torn & Restored / At once Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Miscellaneous Cards / Props & Apparatus / Card Box (e.g. with Flap)
Amazing James Randi	Houdini's Grandma	tied on chair with ropes, chains on wrists	Also published here P. Howard Lyons' "Ibidem"	1968	Abbott's Encyclopedia of Rope Tricks — Volume II	110	Escapes / Bound
P. Howard Lyons	Interlock Steal	unloading cards under top cards		Nov. 1970	Epilogue (Issue 10)	74	Cards / Sleights / Switches / Special Techniques for stealing Cards back to Deck Cards / Sleights / Transfers / Interlock
Gene Finnell	A Card Game Paradox		Related to Toronto Dice (P. Howard Lyons, 1971)	July 1971	Epilogue (Issue 12)	91	Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Other Games Numbers / Principles / Nontransitivity
P. Howard Lyons	Toronto Dice	note	Inspired by A Card Game Paradox (Gene Finnell, 1971)	Nov. 1971	Epilogue (Issue 13)	99	Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Other Games Cards / Effect Themes / Dice & Cards Numbers / Principles / Nontransitivity
Martin Gardner	Hyper Card	posed as problem with illustration	Related to Hyper Card (Karl Fulves, Kim Iles, Mel Stover, P. Howard Lyons, 1978)	Aug. 1975	The Pallbearers Review Vol. 9-10 (Vol. 10 No. 10)	1042	Paper / Topological Effects
Karl Fulves, Kim Iles, Mel Stover, P. Howard Lyons	Hyper Card	various ideas with the Hypercard	Related to Hyper Card (Martin Gardner, 1975) Hypercard (Karl Fulves, 1979) The Fifth Dimension (Mel Stover, P. Howard Lyons, Karl Fulves, 1981) Variations Notes (Karl Fulves, 1978) The Card (Robert E. Neale, 2008)	1978	The Chronicles (Issue 1)	1067	Paper / Topological Effects Business Cards
Karl Fulves	Notes	hypercard constructed from double facer with attached back piece Elastrik Oddments	Inspired by Hyper Card (Karl Fulves, Kim Iles, Mel Stover, P. Howard Lyons, 1978)	1978	The Chronicles (Issue 11)	1173	Paper / Topological Effects Cards / Effect Themes / Topological Effects / Miscellaneous Articles / Columns Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Double Facer / Different Faces
Karl Fulves	Hypercard	on the idea of combining Hypercard with Moebius strip	Related to Hyper Card (Karl Fulves, Kim Iles, Mel Stover, P. Howard Lyons, 1978)	1979	Interlocutor (Issue 28)	108	Paper / Topological Effects
Bob Hummer	It's Murder	with rotatable disk, spectator selects murder and victim while performer's back is turned, both are divined	Variations The 12¢ Solution (Karl Fulves, 1975) Murder, Inc. (Karl Fulves, 1980) It's Murder - No Book (P. Howard Lyons, 1980)	1980	Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets	40	Mental Magic / Effects / Divination Games / Murder Game
P. Howard Lyons	Mind Reader's Dream Variation	without Dreambook, calculation method		1980	Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets	42	Cards / Effect Themes / Think a Card / Mindreader's Dream & Value Dealing
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 by It's Murder (Bob Hummer, 1980) Related to Instruction Sheet for Improved It's Murder (Bob Hummer, 1947)	1980	Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets	96	Mental Magic / Effects / Divination Games / Murder Game
P. Howard Lyons	One-Speed Reverse			1981	Milennium Aces	91	Cards / Sleights / Reverses / More for One Card or a few Cards / Active
Mel Stover, P. Howard Lyons, Karl Fulves	The Fifth Dimension	No. 80, hyper card routine	Related to Hyper Card (Karl Fulves, Kim Iles, Mel Stover, P. Howard Lyons, 1978)	1981	Self-Working Table Magic	100	Paper / Topological Effects
Stewart James, P. Howard Lyons	An Obvious Card	thought of card to wallet, twice, Bombshell wallet	Variations Bombshell Twins (Jon Racherbaumer, 1994)	Jan. 1984	Epoptica (Issue 5)	277	Cards / Effect Themes / Think a Card / free Choice (all 52 cards) Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to impossible Location / Wallet
Bob Farmer, P. Howard Lyons	Five Card Versions	"One No Is Once Enough Is Not Enough" spectator thinks of one of five cards, majority fishing (one no)	Variations Mental Vibrations (Harry Lorayne, 2001) Also published here Five Card Versions (Bob Farmer, P. Howard Lyons, 2017)	1987/1988	Tsunami	12	Cards / Principles / Fishing Cards / Effect Themes / Think a Card / limited Choice
P. Howard Lyons	Steal	unloading cards under top cards		1992	The Collected Almanac (Issue )	xxxviii	Cards / Sleights / Switches / Special Techniques for stealing Cards back to Deck
P. Howard Lyons	Slipduc Displacement	exchanging middle cards of four card packet, context (Ibidem #9)		1992	Modus Operandi	15	Cards / Sleights / Miscellaneous / Miscellaneous
Larry Jennings, P. Howard Lyons	Steal-Back	credit information		1994	Steel and Silver	106	Cards / Sleights / Switches / Special Techniques for stealing Cards back to Deck
Jon Racherbaumer	Bombshell Twins	free selection travels into Bendix Bombshell wallet twice	Inspired by An Obvious Card (Stewart James, P. Howard Lyons, 1984)	1994	Facsimile (Issue 2)	15	Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to impossible Location / Wallet
P. Howard Lyons	Slipduc		Also published here "Slipduc" (P. Howard Lyons, Ibidem, Vol. 9, March 1957, [p. 181 in reprinted Ibidem Vol. 1])	1994	Labyrinth (Issue 2)	4	Cards / Sleights / Culling / Arranging the Order
P. Howard Lyons	Ace Steal	credit information		1995	Cardshark	34	Cards / Sleights / Switches / Special Techniques for stealing Cards back to Deck
P. Howard Lyons	Slipduc	with four cards		1995	Labyrinth (Issue 5)	8	Cards / Sleights / Culling / Arranging the Order
Milton Kort	Seven Come Eleven	"Dot Com - Tricks and stunts with numbers" solution to Hull problem "Make 11 out of four 7s"	Inspired by Dot Com... (Karl Fulves, Derek Lever, Ralph W. Hull, Nate Leipzig, 1997) Related to The Sevens Puzzle (Karl Fulves, 1998) More Sevens (Mel Bennett, 1998) Still More 7's (Robert K. Stevenson, 1998) Sevens from Elevens (P. Howard Lyons, 1999)	1997	The Fine Print (Issue 6)	165	Numbers / Puzzles & Bets
P. Howard Lyons	Sevens from Elevens	"Dot Com - Tricks and stunts with numbers"	Related to Seven Come Eleven (Milton Kort, 1997) Ibidem #29	1999	The Fine Print (Issue 10)	345	Numbers / Puzzles & Bets
Harry Lorayne	Mental Vibrations	spectator thinks of one of five cards, majority fishing (one no), with lead-in effect	Inspired by Five Card Versions (Bob Farmer, P. Howard Lyons, 1987/1988) Variations Mental Vibrations (Harry Lorayne, 2018)	2001	Personal Collection	129	Cards / Principles / Fishing Cards / Effect Themes / Think a Card / limited Choice
P. Howard Lyons	On the Si Stebbins System	x-ahead system		Jan. 2003	Genii (Vol. 66 No. 1)	76	Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Only for Special Stacks / Si Stebbins
P. Howard Lyons	Confusion	selected card placed in flap box changes, selection appears reversed in deck and is torn up and placed in box where it restores		Jan. 2003	Genii (Vol. 66 No. 1)	77	Cards / Effect Themes / Torn & Restored / At once Cards / Props & Apparatus / Card Box (e.g. with Flap) Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Double Facer / Different Faces
P. Howard Lyons	That's What I Call Direct!	spectator holds card on his head, face towards him, polaroid photo is taken and the card has turned over on photo		Jan. 2003	Genii (Vol. 66 No. 1)	77	Photograph Cards / Effect Themes / Turnover & Reverse / Miscellaneous Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Double Facer / Same Both Sides (SBS)
Eric Mead (reviewer)	Ibidem 3/Aziz and Beyond	by P. Howard Lyons, Max Maven		Feb. 2003	Genii (Vol. 66 No. 2)	78	Reviews / Books, Manuscripts, Notes
P. Howard Lyons	Faro Credit	faro reference, "An-Adept" (1850)		2006	Rara Avis	32	Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / General Comments
Robert E. Neale	The Card	Presenting the Hyper Card	Inspired by Hyper Card (Karl Fulves, Kim Iles, Mel Stover, P. Howard Lyons, 1978) Related to Moves (Robert E. Neale, 2008) Hyperflexagon (Robert E. Neale, 2008) Hoaxcard (Robert E. Neale, 2008)	2008	This Is Not a Book	229	Paper / Topological Effects
P. Howard Lyons	Slipduc	switching center to cards when hands separate		Oct. 2010	Genii (Vol. 73 No. 10)	73	Cards / Sleights / Culling / Arranging the Order
Bob Farmer, P. Howard Lyons	Five Card Versions	"One No Is Once Enough Is Not Enough" spectator thinks of one of five cards, majority fishing (one no)	Also published here Five Card Versions (Bob Farmer, P. Howard Lyons, 1987/1988)	2017	The Bammo Tarodiction Toolbox ()	79	Cards / Principles / Fishing Cards / Effect Themes / Think a Card / limited Choice
P. Howard Lyons	Slip-duc	displacement of center two cards in four-card packet		2020	Mr. Jennings Takes It Easy	325	Cards / Sleights / Miscellaneous / Miscellaneous
P. Howard Lyons	Vernon Lecture	notes from Vernon's lecture on December 29, 1952, Toronto		2022	Dai Vernon: The Spirit of Magic	80	Articles / Articles
Dai Vernon	Peek Divination	card peeked at, performer takes deck behind back and eventually divines card, glimpsing second face-up card, from private lecture notes by P. Howard Lyons		2022	Dai Vernon: The Spirit of Magic	82	Cards / Effect Themes / Divination / Mind Reading / Miscellaneous
Dai Vernon	Riffle Divination	card put back in secretly reversed deck, card glimpsed during riffling as only face-up card, from private lecture notes by P. Howard Lyons		2022	Dai Vernon: The Spirit of Magic	82	Cards / Effect Themes / Divination / Mind Reading / Miscellaneous Cards / Sleights / Glimpse / Center without mark-off
Dai Vernon	Palming Subtleties	what to do with the palming hand, from private lecture notes by P. Howard Lyons		2022	Dai Vernon: The Spirit of Magic	82	Coin / Sleights / Palming / Subtleties Cards / Sleights / Palming / Tips for Misdirection, Cover & Angles
Dai Vernon	Flat Palm Replacement	from private lecture notes by P. Howard Lyons		2022	Dai Vernon: The Spirit of Magic	82	Cards / Sleights / Palming / Gambler's Flat Palm Cards / Sleights / Palming / Replacements (all positions except Classic Palm)
Dai Vernon	Collins Aces Tips	from private lecture notes by P. Howard Lyons		2022	Dai Vernon: The Spirit of Magic	82	Cards / Effect Themes / Vanish / Collins Ace Routine
Dai Vernon	Silk and Silver	vanish, reproduction, gaffed idea with double silk and coin in between layers, from private lecture notes by P. Howard Lyons	Related to Silk and Silver (Dai Vernon, 1987)	2022	Dai Vernon: The Spirit of Magic	83	Coin / Effect Themes / Appearance & Vanish/Reproduction Routines / Bare Handed Coin / Effect Themes / Appearance & Vanish/Reproduction Routines / With Props / Handkerchief
Dai Vernon	New Theory Second Deal	stop trick application, from private lecture notes by P. Howard Lyons		2022	Dai Vernon: The Spirit of Magic	83	Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Stop Trick Cards / Sleights / False Dealing / Second Deal / Push-Off
Dai Vernon	Face-up Second Deal Control	card shown and apparently dealt onto table one-handed, New Theory Second Deal, from private lecture notes by P. Howard Lyons		2022	Dai Vernon: The Spirit of Magic	84	Cards / Sleights / Controls / Single Card Controls / Miscellaneous Cards / Sleights / False Dealing / Second Deal / One-Handed
Dai Vernon	Slow-Motion Classic Pass	showing bottom, then lowering deck again and doing slow classic pass, from private lecture notes by P. Howard Lyons		2022	Dai Vernon: The Spirit of Magic	84	Cards / Sleights / Passes & Shifts / Two-Handed / Other Classic Style Passes
Dai Vernon	Pick-Up Classic Pass	management of classic pass instantly after picking up deck after cut, from private lecture notes by P. Howard Lyons		2022	Dai Vernon: The Spirit of Magic	84	Cards / Sleights / Passes & Shifts / Two-Handed / Other Classic Style Passes
Dai Vernon	Chosen and Thought-of Card Location	one card chosen out-of-hand (key card), other only thought of, both found from second deck, from private lecture notes by P. Howard Lyons		2022	Dai Vernon: The Spirit of Magic	84	Cards / Principles / One Ahead Cards / Effect Themes / Think a Card / free Choice (all 52 cards) Cards / Principles / Key Card / Key Card Placements Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Challenge Locations / Challenge multiple Card Location
Dai Vernon	Top Card Peek	unclear description, from private lecture notes by P. Howard Lyons		2022	Dai Vernon: The Spirit of Magic	85	Cards / Sleights / Glimpse / Top or near Top
Cardini	Reverse Fan Comment	from private lecture notes by P. Howard Lyons		2022	Dai Vernon: The Spirit of Magic	85	Cards / Sleights / Flourishes / Fan
Dai Vernon	On the Purse Palm	from private lecture notes by P. Howard Lyons		2022	Dai Vernon: The Spirit of Magic	85	Coin / Sleights / Palming / Palm Positions
Dai Vernon	Gali Gali Palm	coin tossed from hand to hand before it vanishes, from private lecture notes by P. Howard Lyons		2022	Dai Vernon: The Spirit of Magic	85	Coin / Effect Themes / Vanish Routines / Bare Handed
Dai Vernon	Toss Out Switch	from private lecture notes by P. Howard Lyons		2022	Dai Vernon: The Spirit of Magic	85	Coin / Sleights / Switches / Simple Switches
Dai Vernon	Opening for Five Coins and a Glass	from private lecture notes by P. Howard Lyons		2022	Dai Vernon: The Spirit of Magic	85	Coin / Effect Themes / Appearance & Vanish/Reproduction Routines / With Props / Glass
Dai Vernon	Face-Up Ambitious Card Phase	sucker elements, from private lecture notes by P. Howard Lyons		2022	Dai Vernon: The Spirit of Magic	86	Cards / Effect Themes / Penetration / Ambitious Card Theme / Sequences
Dai Vernon	Ace Trick Sucker Opening	from private lecture notes by P. Howard Lyons		2022	Dai Vernon: The Spirit of Magic	86	Cards / Effect Themes / Four-of-a-Kind/Aces Effects / Conus Aces
Dai Vernon	Misdirection for Charlier Pass	from private lecture notes by P. Howard Lyons		2022	Dai Vernon: The Spirit of Magic	86	Cards / Sleights / Passes & Shifts / One-Handed
Dai Vernon	On Using a Bridge	from private lecture notes by P. Howard Lyons		2022	Dai Vernon: The Spirit of Magic	86	Cards / Sleights / Crimps / Bridge (multiple Cards)
Dai Vernon	Count from the Bottom	without right thumb but left fingers instead, from private lecture notes by P. Howard Lyons		2022	Dai Vernon: The Spirit of Magic	86	Cards / Sleights / Counting Cards / Counts from the Bottom
Dai Vernon	Three Card Monte	routine, from private lecture notes by P. Howard Lyons		2022	Dai Vernon: The Spirit of Magic	86	Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Three Card Monte / Authentic (more or less)
Dai Vernon	Fluttering Finger Gesture while Palming	from private lecture notes by P. Howard Lyons		2022	Dai Vernon: The Spirit of Magic	87	Cards / Sleights / Palming / Tips for Misdirection, Cover & Angles
Dai Vernon	No-Switch Switch	coins for stack, simply opening the other hand after some talking, from private lecture notes by P. Howard Lyons		2022	Dai Vernon: The Spirit of Magic	87	Coin / Sleights / Switches / Multiple Coins Coin / Effect Themes / Penetration / Spectator's Hand (Stack of Coins)
Dai Vernon	Three Spectators get Same Card	sequence with second deal, from private lecture notes by P. Howard Lyons		2022	Dai Vernon: The Spirit of Magic	87	Cards / Principles / Smith Myth
Dai Vernon	Deck Rightening	when everything is reversed except top card, apparent accident of dropping a card, from private lecture notes by P. Howard Lyons		2022	Dai Vernon: The Spirit of Magic	88	Cards / Sleights / Turnover Cards / Sleights / Reverses / Miscellaneous
Dai Vernon	On Tricks in Which no Cards are Remembered	from private lecture notes by P. Howard Lyons		2022	Dai Vernon: The Spirit of Magic	88	Cards / Principles / Theory & Essays Cards / Sleights / Culling / Arranging the Order
Dai Vernon	Method for the McMillan Rising Card	with handkerchief, top card moved down slowly, from private lecture notes by P. Howard Lyons		2022	Dai Vernon: The Spirit of Magic	88	Cards / Effect Themes / Animation / Rising Card(s) / Impromptu
Dai Vernon	On the Houdini Color Change	from private lecture notes by P. Howard Lyons		2022	Dai Vernon: The Spirit of Magic	88	Cards / Sleights / Color Change / On the Deck
Dai Vernon	On the Leipzig Card Stab	from private lecture notes by P. Howard Lyons	Related to Card Stab (Nate Leipzig, 1952)	2022	Dai Vernon: The Spirit of Magic	88	Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Stabbing Routines / In the Deck
Dai Vernon	On the False Count	from private lecture notes by P. Howard Lyons		2022	Dai Vernon: The Spirit of Magic	88	Cards / Sleights / False Count / Overcounts (as more than are there)
Dai Vernon	On Telegraphing	and naturalness, top change example, from private lecture notes by P. Howard Lyons		2022	Dai Vernon: The Spirit of Magic	89	Cards / Principles / Theory & Essays Cards / Sleights / Switches / Single Card Switches / Top Change
Dai Vernon	On Passes	comments on classic pass, one-hand pass, riffle pass, from private lecture notes by P. Howard Lyons		2022	Dai Vernon: The Spirit of Magic	89	Cards / Sleights / Passes & Shifts / One-Handed Cards / Sleights / Passes & Shifts / Two-Handed / Classic Pass Cards / Sleights / Passes & Shifts / Two-Handed / Riffle Pass Cards / Effect Themes / Penetration / Ambitious Card Theme / Sequences
Dai Vernon	Applause Pose	after five-card manipulation routine, applause gag, from private lecture notes by P. Howard Lyons		2022	Dai Vernon: The Spirit of Magic	89	Cards / Manipulation / Tips Articles / Joke

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