Rick Merrill

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Creators	Title	Comments & References		Year	Source	Page	Categories
Gary Ouellet	Three-Second Wonder	crossing hands when turning over top cards, inspiration according to "JawDroppers!"	Inspired by Double Take (Harry Lorayne, 1979) Swindle Cut Aces (Father Cyprian, 1980) Related to Cross Over Aces (Al Smith, 1978) Sybil Cut Flush (Rick Merrill, 2005) Ace Cutting Sequence (Giancarlo Scalia, 2016) Messy Ace Production (Harapan Ong, 2018) Variations Three-Second Wonder (Gary Ouellet, 1992) Four-Second Wonder, Revised (Harry Lorayne, 2015) The Courtesy Flush (Craig Stegall, 2020) Breakless Aces (Patrik Stenberg, 2022) Breakless Aces (Patrik Stenberg, 2022) Also published here Three Second Wonder (Gary Ouellet, 1990)	Apr. 1987	Apocalypse (Vol. 10 No. 4)	1335	Cards / Effect Themes / Four-of-a-Kind & Aces Effects / Production & Appearance / All at once Cards / Effect Themes / Skill Demonstration / Magician cuts to the Aces / Tabled
Randy Wakeman	A Dime a Dozen		Variations Slip, Flip, Pop (Rick Merrill, 2005)	1989	Randy Wakeman Presents	87	Cards / Effect Themes / Skill Demonstration / Magician cuts to the Aces / Tabled
Jeff McBride	Kundalini Rising	spectator holds cased deck as card rises Tips and refinements	Variations Sybil Cut Rise (Rick Merrill, 2005) Also published here Genii, Vol. 51 No. 6, Dec. 1987	1991	Kundalini Rising	1	Cards / Effect Themes / Animation / Rising Card(s) / Miscellaneous Thread / Invisible Thread / Elastic Loop
David Acer	First Impressions	on approaching tables or groups The Types of Approach I. The Verbal Approach II. The Visual Approach III. The Combined Approach IV. When to Approach V. Your Goals	Related to Approaching a Table of Strangers (Rick Merrill, 2005)	Nov./Dec. 1991	The Magic Menu (Vol. 2 No. 8)	73	Articles / Theory & Essays
Chris Kenner	Long Gone Silver	three coin vanish and reproduction with wand	Variations Rune Klan's "Impromptu Hitman" with an Extra Punch (Rick Merrill, 2005)	1992	Totally Out Of Control	62	Coin / Effect Themes / Appearance & Vanish with Reproduction Routines / With Props / Wand
Jack Carpenter	The J. C. Pop-Out		Related to Pivot Production (Steve Draun, 1993) Piet Forton Production (Piet Forton, 1999) Slip, Flip, Pop (Rick Merrill, 2005)	1992	Modus Operandi	3	Cards / Sleights / Pop-out Productions / Tabled Cards / Sleights / Pop-out Productions / Two-Handed
Paul Gertner	Paul's Opener	card repeatably chosen, travels to pocket, corner torn off and still chosen as whole card and torn corner transforms	Variations The Restaurant Opener (Rick Merrill, 2005)	1994	Steel and Silver	87	Cards / Effect Themes / Illogical Things / Spectator keeps taking the same Card Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to Pocket / Single Card Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Two Cards / with mutilated card(s)
Ken Krenzel	The Million Penny Mystery	pencil vanish and appearance, clean	Related to The No-Sleeving Vanish (Rick Merrill, 2009)	1997	Ingenuities	100	Wand & Stick / Appearance & Production Wand & Stick / Vanish Pen & Pencil / Pen (& Cap) Manipulation Routines
Joshua Jay	Convincingly Clean Copper-Silver-Brass	Chinese coin changes to silver, then to copper, then vanishes	Variations The No-Sleeve Vanish (Rick Merrill, 2005) Also published here Convincingly Clean Copper/Silver/Brass (Joshua Jay, 1998)	1999	Magic Atlas	123	Coin / Effect Themes / Vanish Routines / Bare Handed Coin / Effect Themes / Transformation / Spellbound & visual Changes - Routines
Rune Klan	Impromptu Hit Man	with coin/pen transformations	Variations Rune Klan's "Impromptu Hitman" with an Extra Punch (Rick Merrill, 2005) Heart Up His Sleeve (Rick Merrill, 2009) Also published here Impromptu Hit Man (Rune Klan, 2022)	Mar. 2004	Magic (Vol. 13 No. 7)	93	Coin / Effect Themes / Transformation / Transformation Coin - Object Pen & Pencil / Pen (& Cap) Manipulation Routines Pen & Pencil / Transformation
Rick Merrill	Three Change	three silver coins are produced, they change to international coins and back	Inspired by "Ex-Troy-dinary" (Troy Hooser, DesTROYers, 2001)	Feb. 2005	Antinomy (Vol. 1 No. 1)	20	Coin / Gaffed / Two Copper One Silver set Coin / Effect Themes / Appearance & Vanish with Reproduction Routines / Bare Handed - Production only Coin / Effect Themes / Transformation / Wild Coins Coin / Gaffed / Shell
Rick Merrill	The French Drop Sequence			Feb. 2005	Antinomy (Vol. 1 No. 1)	21	Coin / Sleights / Shell Moves
Rick Merrill	Dedication			2005	Home Schooled	2	Articles / Intros & Epilogues
Rick Merrill	The Restaurant Opener	"A Cheeky Cheek-to-Cheek" short multiple selection routine with ambitious card sequence (card to mouth, unfolded) and triumph finale Opening locations and transpositions An Ambitious Sequence, Card to Pocket, and "For the Unambitious" Cheek to Cheek	Inspired by Paul's Opener (Paul Gertner, 1994) "Red Cheeks" (Troy Hooser, marketed effect)	2005	Home Schooled	4	Cards / Effect Themes / Turnover & Reverse / Triumph / Classic Effect (with or without selections) Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to impossible Location / Mouth Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Multiple Selection Routine Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Double Backer / Same Color
Rick Merrill	Life Lessons - Mr. Vocal is Stunned into Silence			2005	Home Schooled	9	Articles / Anecdotes
Rick Merrill	Approaching a Table of Strangers	"What to say and why to say it"	Related to First Impressions (David Acer, 1991)	2005	Home Schooled	10	Articles / Articles
Rick Merrill	The Standup Opener	six cards, deck ends up on floor after third selection, fourth from pocket, changes into fifth, last one in sock		2005	Home Schooled	11	Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to impossible Location / Shoe Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to Pocket / Single Card Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Multiple Selection Routine
Rick Merrill	The Classic Force	tips and handling		2005	Home Schooled	14	Cards / Sleights / Force / Classic Force
Rick Merrill	Slip, Flip, Pop	quick one-at-a-time revelation in pop-out position	Inspired by A Dime a Dozen (Randy Wakeman, 1989) Related to The J. C. Pop-Out (Jack Carpenter, 1992)	2005	Home Schooled	15	Cards / Sleights / Pop-out Productions / Tabled Cards / Effect Themes / Four-of-a-Kind & Aces Effects / Production & Appearance / All at once Cards / Effect Themes / Four-of-a-Kind & Aces Effects / Production & Appearance / One by One
Rick Merrill	Sybil Cut Rise	a card rises from one of the packets in Sybil cut display	Inspired by Kundalini Rising (Jeff McBride, 1991)	2005	Home Schooled	16	Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Flashy Location Cards / Effect Themes / Animation / Rising Card(s) / Miscellaneous Thread / Invisible Thread / Elastic Loop
Rick Merrill	Sybil Cut Flush	Ouellet's Ace production followed by Sybil cut with one Royal Flush cards at face of each packet	Related to Three-Second Wonder (Gary Ouellet, 1987)	2005	Home Schooled	20	Cards / Effect Themes / Four-of-a-Kind & Aces Effects / Spectator cuts to the Aces Cards / Effect Themes / Four-of-a-Kind & Aces Effects / Production & Appearance / All at once Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Solid
Rick Merrill	The Da Vander Code	impossible location, with stooge in audience that codes card		2005	Home Schooled	22	Cards / Principles / Stooge Cards / Principles / Coding / Using Assistant Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Challenge Locations / Challenge Single Card Location / Miscellaneous
Rick Merrill	Life Lessons - Flash Photography, Both Real and Imagined			2005	Home Schooled	23	Articles / Anecdotes
Rick Merrill	Rune Klan's "Impromptu Hitman" with an Extra Punch	coin and pen produced, both transpose and then vanish A Production, a Return, and a Reproduction The "Impromptu Hit Man" Sequence The Double Vanish	Inspired by Long Gone Silver (Chris Kenner, 1992) Impromptu Hit Man (Rune Klan, 2004) "Impromptu Hit Man" (Rune Klan, MAGIC, March 2004) Related to Heart Up His Sleeve (Rick Merrill, 2009)	2005	Home Schooled	24	Coin / Effect Themes / Transposition / Coin and Other object Coin / Effect Themes / Appearance & Vanish with Reproduction Routines / With Props / Pen Pen & Pencil / Pen (& Cap) Manipulation Routines Pen & Pencil / Vanish Pen & Pencil / Appearance & Production Pen & Pencil / Transposition
Rick Merrill	The Sleeving Technique	for pens	Also published here The Sleeving Technique (2009)	2005	Home Schooled	25	Sleeving Techniques Pen & Pencil / Vanish
Rick Merrill	The No-Sleeve Vanish	wrist watch band	Inspired by Convincingly Clean Copper-Silver-Brass (Joshua Jay, 1999) Also published here The No-Sleeving Vanish (Rick Merrill, 2009)	2005	Home Schooled	30	Pen & Pencil / Pen (& Cap) Manipulation Routines Pen & Pencil / Vanish
Rick Merrill	Home Schooled	"The vanish and reproduction of a Sharpie that transforms into a No. 2 pencil"	Also published here Home Schooled (Rick Merrill, 2009)	2005	Home Schooled	33	Pen & Pencil / Pen (& Cap) Manipulation Routines Pen & Pencil / Transformation
Rick Merrill	On Sleeving	"The evolution of an idea along with some advice" The History Thoughts on Sleeving Thoughts on the Shirt	Also published here On Sleeving (Rick Merrill, 2009)	2005	Home Schooled	34	Sleeving Techniques
Rick Merrill	On Competition		Also published here On Competition (Rick Merrill, 2009)	2005	Home Schooled	36	Articles / Articles
Rick Merrill	Life Lessons - Money Talks, or Perhaps it Tells?		Also published here Life Lesson #1: Money Talks, or Perhaps it Tells? (Rick Merrill, 2009)	2005	Home Schooled	38	Articles / Anecdotes
Rick Merrill	Thank You's			2005	Home Schooled	40	Articles / Intros & Epilogues
Dustin Stinett (reviewer)	The Rick Merrill Lecture	by Rick Merrill		July 2006	Genii (Vol. 69 No. 7)	92	Reviews / Videos & DVDs
Gene Taylor	In Closing...	on his friendship with Rick Merrill		Aug. 2006	Antinomy (Vol. 2 No. 3)	48	Articles / Columns
Dustin Stinett	Rick Merrill: A Home Schooled Prodigy			July 2007	Genii (Vol. 70 No. 7)	66	Articles / Biographical
David Acer	Home-Schooled Killers: Magic from Rick Merrill	Editor's Note (Richard Kaufman)		July 2007	Genii (Vol. 70 No. 7)	68	Articles / Articles
Rick Merrill	The Prodigal Cards	Part 1: Card Under Cardcase Part 2: Card in Cardcase No. 1 Part 3: Card in Cardcase No. 2 Part 4: Deck Under Cardcase Part 5: 51 Cards to Pocket (ish...) Part 6: Deck to Cardcase		July 2007	Genii (Vol. 70 No. 7)	68	Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card under Glass, Box, ... Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to Card Case Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to Pocket / Deck
Rick Merrill	Financial Marker	pen transforms into coin		July 2007	Genii (Vol. 70 No. 7)	77	Coin / Effect Themes / Transformation / Transformation Coin - Object Pen & Pencil / Transformation
Rick Merrill	Poor Man's Metamorphosis	one card in mouth face outwards, covered with top of shirt for transformation, transposes with tabled card, duplicate		July 2007	Genii (Vol. 70 No. 7)	79	Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Two Cards / Normal
Rick Merrill	Any Card at Any Number	twenty-six decks		July 2007	Genii (Vol. 70 No. 7)	83	Cards / Effect Themes / Number Effects / Any Card at Any Number
Gene Taylor	The Antinomy Perspective	A Card Giant Passes (Jack Parker) A Case of Reinvention The Search for Street Magic Continues... A Friend Makes the Cover of Genii (Rick Merrill) Why is Honesty Controversial? (Criss Angel)	Related to Spring Revolution (Brandon Burton, 2006) In Search of Street Magic (Jamy Ian Swiss, 2007)	June 2007	Antinomy (Vol. 3 No. 2)	2	Articles / Columns
Rick Merrill	Heart Up His Sleeve	series of vanishes and productions with a Sharpie pen and a coin A Production, a Return, and a Reproduction The "Impromptu Hit Man" Sequence The Double Vanish	Inspired by Impromptu Hit Man (Rune Klan, 2004) Related to Rune Klan's "Impromptu Hitman" with an Extra Punch (Rick Merrill, 2005)	2009	Sharpies & Coins	2	Coin / Effect Themes / Appearance & Vanish with Reproduction Routines / With Props / Pen Pen & Pencil / Pen (& Cap) Manipulation Routines
	The Sleeving Technique	for a pen	Also published here The Sleeving Technique (Rick Merrill, 2005)	2009	Sharpies & Coins	3	Sleeving Techniques Pen & Pencil / Vanish
Rick Merrill	The No-Sleeving Vanish	vanish and reproduction of a pen, watchband	Related to The Million Penny Mystery (Ken Krenzel, 1997) Also published here The No-Sleeve Vanish (Rick Merrill, 2005)	2009	Sharpies & Coins	8	Pen & Pencil / Vanish Pen & Pencil / Appearance & Production
Rick Merrill	Home Schooled	vanish and reproduction of a pen, which then changes into pencil	Also published here Home Schooled (Rick Merrill, 2005)	2009	Sharpies & Coins	11	Pen & Pencil / Vanish Pen & Pencil / Transformation
Rick Merrill	On Sleeving	The History Thoughts on Sleeving Thoughts o the Shirt	Also published here On Sleeving (Rick Merrill, 2005)	2009	Sharpies & Coins	12	Sleeving Techniques
Rick Merrill	Marker to Coin / Coin to Marker			2009	Sharpies & Coins	14	Coin / Effect Themes / Appearance & Vanish with Reproduction Routines / With Props / Pen Pen & Pencil / Pen (& Cap) Manipulation Routines
Rick Merrill	On Competition		Also published here On Competition (Rick Merrill, 2005)	2009	Competition	2	Articles / Theory & Essays Articles / Articles
Rick Merrill	Life Lesson #1: Money Talks, or Perhaps it Tells?	anecdote with Stephen Bargatze and Obie O'Brien	Also published here Life Lessons - Money Talks, or Perhaps it Tells? (Rick Merrill, 2005)	2009	Competition	4	Articles / Anecdotes
Rick Merrill	FISM Journal			2009	Competition	6	Articles / Articles
Rick Merrill	The Path NOT Taken - How an Act Evolves			2009	Competition	8	Articles / Articles
Rick Merrill	Life Lesson #2: Flash Photography, Both Real and Imagined			2009	Competition	10	Articles / Anecdotes
Rick Merrill	Life Lesson #3: Mr. Vocal is Stunned into Silence			2009	Competition	13	Articles / Anecdotes
Dustin Stinett (reviewer)	At the Table Live Lecture Serie: Rick Merrill	by Rick Merrill		Nov. 2014	Genii (Vol. 77 No. 11)	84	Reviews / Videos & DVDs

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