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Walter B. Gibson* Date Sense numbers on calendar are added, matrix force
Also published here
Related to
Variations
 Feb. 1938
The Jinx (Issue 41)
279
Walter B. Gibson* Date Sense numbers on calendar are added, matrix force
Also published here
Related to
Variations
 1944
Practical Mental Effects
135
Mel Stover* Days of Force calendar number force
Also published here
Related to
Variations
 Feb. 1945
The Phoenix (Issue 77)
313
Mel Stover* Dice Stack Addenda climax for dice stacking routine, load of multiple dice and jumbo die
 		1946
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1946)
9
Mel Stover* Calendar (5)
  • Martin Gardner’s Encyclopedia of Impromptu Tricks
calendar number force, should be numbered as "Calendar (4)"
Also published here
Related to
Variations
 July 1951
Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 9 No. 2)
819
Mel Stover* T-E-L-E-M-A-T-H-Y "Telemathy", one or multiple cards thought of, then found after showing fans of cards with "is your card in here?" procedure twice, with cue sheet matrix
  • Special Effects (revelations when the card ends up at a position for down-under deal or similar)
Also published here
Variations
 June 1955
Ibidem (Issue 1)
14
Mel Stover* Herman the Hobo number puzzle with story about the maximum cigarettes one can smoke
Related to
 June 1955
Ibidem (Issue 1)
15
Stewart James Atlantic Avenue card thought of, then found after showing fans of cards with "is your card in here?" procedure twice, without the cue sheet
Inspired by
 Aug. 1955
Ibidem (Issue 2)
3
Mel Stover* Puzzle Solution: Herman the Hobo
Related to
 Aug. 1955
Ibidem (Issue 2)
6
Mel Stover* Betcha bet about multiplying a set of lengths by two, then dividing it by two again
 		Aug. 1955
Ibidem (Issue 2)
10
Mel Stover* Puzzle: Lewis Carroll puzzle about the length of a walk with general information about speed given
Related to
 Aug. 1955
Ibidem (Issue 2)
16
Mel Stover* Puzzle Solution: Lewis Carroll
Related to
 Nov. 1955
Ibidem (Issue 4)
22
Mel Stover* Relation to Ternary System 21 card trick with twenty seven cards, mathematical relation to ternary counting system
Variations
 1956
Mathematics, Magic And Mystery
39
Mel Stover* Gargantua's Ten-pile Problem 21 card trick but done with TEN BILLION PLAYING CARDS
Inspired by
 1956
Mathematics, Magic And Mystery
40
Mel Stover* Stover's Prediction four by four square drawn on calendar, four circles drawn (draw circle and cross out row and column each time), magician divines the sum, Matrix Force
Also published here
Inspired by
Related to
 1956
Mathematics, Magic And Mystery
49
Theodore DeLand DeLand's Paradox Geometrical Vanish of a playing card
Variations
 1956
Mathematics, Magic And Mystery
123
Mel Stover* Stover's Variations Geometrical Vanish / transformation of objects, face becomes beer mug or red pencil becomes blue pencil
Inspired by
 1956
Mathematics, Magic And Mystery
125
Mel Stover* Okosa card thought from sixteen-card packet, top eight shown and asked whether selection is there, faro, repeat, ...
Related to
 Apr. 1956
Ibidem (Issue 5)
6
Mel Stover* Puzzle: Sugar Lumps
Related to
 July 1956
Ibidem (Issue 6)
3
Mel Stover* Two Cues three different-colored envelopes and paper cards, spectator puts cards in envelopes so the colors do not match, envelopes distributed by spectator in two pockets and one left on table, performer picks up tabled envelope and divines location of all colored cards, Free Will
Variations
 July 1956
Ibidem (Issue 6)
4
P. Howard Lyons Ambiguous Cards three different-colored envelopes and paper cards, spectator puts cards in envelopes so the colors do not match, envelopes distributed by spectator in two pockets and one left on table, performer picks up tabled envelope and writes down the color distribution (with ambiguous statements)
Inspired by
 July 1956
Ibidem (Issue 6)
4
Mel Stover*, Tom Ransom, Norman Houghton Puzzle: Cubes arranging five objects to make a cube
Related to
 July 1956
Ibidem (Issue 6)
14
Mel Stover*, Tom Ransom, Norman Houghton Puzzle Solutions: Cubes
Related to
 Sep. 1956
Ibidem (Issue 7)
15
Mel Stover* OGNIB "Bingo in reverse", number grid, calculation with age, year of birth comes out
 		Sep. 1956
Ibidem (Issue 7)
17
Mel Stover* Puzzle Solution: Sugar Lumps
Related to
 Sep. 1956
Ibidem (Issue 7)
19
Mel Stover* Puzzle: Twin Matching number puzzle about percentages
Related to
 Dec. 1956
Ibidem (Issue 8)
9
Norman Houghton Puzzle Solution: Cubes
Related to
 Dec. 1956
Ibidem (Issue 8)
13
Mel Stover* The Irrisistible Force
Variations
 Jan. 1957
The New Phoenix (Issue 340)
171
Mel Stover* The Immovable Object ice in glass is moved to other glasses several times, while performer's back is turned, he then eliminates all empty glasses
Also published here
Related to
 Jan. 1957
The New Phoenix (Issue 340)
172
Mel Stover* Puzzle Solution: Twin Matching number puzzle about percentages
Related to
 Mar. 1957
Ibidem (Issue 9)
20
Mel Stover* Unanswerable Propositions
June 1957
Ibidem (Issue 10)
2
Mel Stover* Puzzle: Bananastand
Related to
 Sep. 1957
Ibidem (Issue 11)
5
Mel Stover* Puzzle Solution: Bananastand
Related to
 Dec. 1957
Ibidem (Issue 12)
3
Mel Stover* MelMath on mixing/controlled shuffling, especially with faro shuffles
Related to
 Mar. 1958
Ibidem (Issue 13)
9
Tom Ransom Puzzle: Big Casino
Related to
 Mar. 1959
Ibidem (Issue 16)
13
Mel Stover* Triptych spectator cuts deck in two piles, card cut to is placed aside, down-under-deal with both halves, the remaining cards match, and they also match the card placed aside, fourth card in wallet
Variations
 July 1959
Ibidem (Issue 17)
15
Mel Stover* Puzzle: V. A. Hospital
Related to
 July 1959
Ibidem (Issue 17)
19
Ed Mellon, Robert Lund, Mel Stover*, Glenn Davidson Letter Department
July 1959
Ibidem (Issue 17)
22
Mel Stover* Puzzle Solution: V. A. Hospital
Related to
 Oct. 1959
Ibidem (Issue 18)
10
P. Howard Lyons Stuff Page
  • proposition bet in which spectator writes nine different numbers on nine cards and turns them up one at a time, performer calls stop before the highest number is turned up
  • 5x5 magic squares
Related to
 Oct. 1959
Ibidem (Issue 18)
18
Mel Stover* Puzzle Solution: Big Casino
Related to
 Oct. 1959
Ibidem (Issue 18)
22
Mel Stover* Puzzle: Junior Chemist puzzle with weights
Related to
 Dec. 1959
Ibidem (Issue 19)
31
Mel Stover* Puzzle: Black Chinese Checkers
Related to
 Dec. 1959
Ibidem (Issue 19)
31
Mel Stover*, Leo Moser, P. Howard Lyons, Martin Gardner* A Short Shot proposition bet in which spectator writes nine different numbers on nine cards and turns them up one at a time, performer calls stop before the highest number is turned up
Related to
 May 1960
Ibidem (Issue 20)
19
Mel Stover* Remarks on Martin Gardner's Math, Magic and Mystery Japanese printing
 		June 1960
Ibidem (Issue 21)
16
Mel Stover* Twomula mathematics of down/under deal, binary formula
Related to
  • Nathan Mendelsohn in American Mathematical Monthly (Jan. 1950 & Aug./Sept. 1950)
 June 1960
Ibidem (Issue 21)
31
Ken Beale Trireme sixteen-card packet cut and dealt into two piles, top card of one pile pocketed, down-under-deal with both packets result in a card of the same value and the same suit of the pocketed card
Inspired by
 Oct. 1960
Ibidem (Issue 22)
17
Ken Beale Triplets spectator counts down to a number between twelve and twenty and pockets card, down-under deal with dealt packet results in mate, another card of that value is taken from pocket
Inspired by
 Oct. 1960
Ibidem (Issue 22)
17
Mel Stover* Puzzle: Magic Square dissecting a magic square into two smaller ones
 		May 1962
Ibidem (Issue 25)
31
Mel Stover* Dirty Old Mel small plate is locked into jacket in both sleeves, gag
 		Aug. 1963
Ibidem (Issue 29)
20
P. Howard Lyons, Mel Stover* On Various Puzzles
Related to
 Aug. 1963
Ibidem (Issue 29)
22
Mel Stover* Kiss number puzzle with weights and a scale, four pages long
 		Nov. 1964
Ibidem (Issue 30)
23
Mel Stover* Books in Print 1964, Erdnase listing with name "Samuel Erdnase"
 		Dec. 1965
Ibidem (Issue 31)
13
Bob Still And Then There Were None small-packet Brainwave posed as a problem, face-up three card monte
Inspired by
Related to
 Dec. 1966
The Pallbearers Review (Vol. 2 No. 2)
69
Mel Stover* Face-Up Monte credit information
Related to
 May 1967
The Pallbearers Review (Vol. 2 No. 7)
97
Mel Stover* Would You Believe 5? bridge problem
  • South to Make 3 No Trump Against Any Defence
 		July 1968
Ibidem (Issue 33)
8
Mel Stover* Penny Pick-up
July 1968
Ibidem (Issue 33)
16
Mel Stover* Beadless Abacus cardboard computer, layout with numbers, calculation routine
 		July 1968
Ibidem (Issue 33)
22
Karl Fulves* The Compleat Gamester proposition bets
  • Birthday Bet (see p. 292 for Mel Stover comment)
  • Red And Black (Martin Gardner)
  • License Plate Poker
  • Ace-Deuce-Jack Variations
  • Black And White
  • Coin Swindles
  • 3-Card Poker
  • Odds On Favorite (Omega Bet, card pushed in reversed and pairs dealt off)
Also published here
Related to
Variations
 July 1969
The Pallbearers Review (Vol. 4 No. 9)
272
George McLean, George Blake, Mel Stover* Etcetera
Nov. 1969
The Pallbearers Review (Vol. 5 No. 1)
292
Ronald A. Wohl (Ravelli) Swiss Checkers game/puzzle analysis
Related to
 Aug. 1969
Ibidem (Issue 34 & 35)
47
Edward Marlo, S. W. Erdnase Marnase False Cut also as slip cut
Also published here
Related to
Variations
 Apr. 1971
Kabbala — Volume 1 (Vol. 1 No. 4)
32
Mel Stover* Bill Fold
Apr. 1971
The Pallbearers Review (Vol. 6 No. 6)
416
Mel Stover* Winnipeg False Cut one simple cut
Also published here
Related to
Variations
 1972
Million Dollar Card Secrets
93
Mel Stover* Winnipeg Cut one straight cut
Also published here
Related to
Variations
 1973
Lecture Notes No. 1
13
Mel Stover* Chess Bet see also p. 782 for additional information
 		Jan. 1974
The Pallbearers Review (Vol. 9 No. 3)
701
Stephen Minch Fortunes of a Wise Fool based on an idea by Ed Mellon, matrix force
Related to
Variations
 1974
The Book of Thoth
41
Martin Gardner* Hyper Card posed as problem with illustration
Related to
 Aug. 1975
The Pallbearers Review (Vol. 10 No. 10)
1042
Mel Stover* Telemathy "Telemathy", one or multiple cards thought of, then found after showing fans of cards with "is your card in here?" procedure twice, with cue sheet matrix
  • Special Effects (revelations when the card ends up at a position for down-under deal or similar)
Also published here
Variations
 1976
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 37 No. 3)
69
Karl Fulves*, Kim Iles, Mel Stover*, P. Howard Lyons Hyper Card various ideas with the Hypercard
Related to
Variations
 1978
The Chronicles (Issue 1)
1067
Karl Fulves* Notes hypercard constructed from double facer with attached back piece
  • Elastrik
  • Oddments
Inspired by
 1978
The Chronicles (Issue 11)
1173
Karl Fulves* Hypercard on the idea of combining Hypercard with Moebius strip
Related to
 1979
Interlocutor (Issue 28)
108
Philip T. Goldstein*, Walter B. Gibson*, Maurice Kraitchik Rainbow Matrix number force with a magic square
Also published here
Inspired by
Related to
Variations
 1980
The Violet Book of Mentalism
8
Mel Stover* The Immovable Object ice in glass is moved to other glasses several times, while performer's back is turned, he then eliminates all empty glasses
Also published here
Related to
 1980
Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets
62
Tom Craven, Mel Stover*, Raymond Hafler, H. R. Benfer, Roysce Smith, Gerald Byrne, C. R. Tracy, John Cornelius, Paul Swinford Letters
1981
Interlocutor (Issue 46)
182
Mel Stover*, P. Howard Lyons, Karl Fulves* The Fifth Dimension No. 80, hyper card routine
Related to
 1981
Self-Working Table Magic
100
Mel Stover*, Neil See The One, Two, Three Winnipeg Cut
Inspired by
Related to
 1982
The Close-up Magic of Frank Garcia — Part II
35
Philip T. Goldstein*, Walter B. Gibson*, Maurice Kraitchik Rainbow Matrix number force with a magic square
Also published here
Inspired by
Related to
Variations
 1982
shuffled lecture
4
Thomas Alan Waters Matrix Number Force with cards
Related to
 1982
Mind, Myth & Magick (Issue Deckalogue)
223
Thomas Alan Waters Quintasense some tarot cards are selected via the matrix force, reading, written on paper matches the selected cards
Inspired by
Related to
 1982
Mind, Myth & Magick (Issue Grymwyr)
279
Stephen Tucker Ringo-Bingo Stover's Days of Force with bingo cards
Inspired by
Variations
 1982
Spell-Binder (Vol. 2 No. Special #2 (Xmas))
19
Philip T. Goldstein* Rethink Stover's Days of Force with bingo cards
Inspired by
 Apr. 1983
Spell-Binder (Vol. 2 No. 24)
468
Mel Stover*, Rudolf Braunmüller Die Mehrzweck-Zahlenforce using a grid
Inspired by
 Apr. 1983
Intermagic (Vol. 10 No. 1)
33
Mel Stover* Non-Transitivity with a Magic Slant
Aug. 1984
Epoptica (Issue 6)
391
Thomas Alan Waters Threesum triple prediction on selected playing cards, with Bingo chart (Stover's "irrisistible Force")
Inspired by
 1984
Mind, Myth & Magick (Issue Mynd)
557
Mel Stover* Yenta Outfiddled two cards selected by both spectator and performer from rainbow deck, Gemini Twins placement, backs and faces match, then some cards are removed and torn in halves, spelling "Last Two Cards Match", which is correct back and front
Variations
  • marketed 1984
 Apr. 1984
Precursor (Issue 4)
3
Stan Shultz Wipe Out! four by four square drawn on calendar with numbers from 1-16, four circles drawn (draw circle and erase row and column each time), Matrix Force
Related to
 May 1985
Magick (Issue 351)
1752
Philip T. Goldstein* Nymble three spectators write their names on blank cards and change them around, performer knows who has what name
Inspired by
 1986
Amperthand
4
Mel Stover* Calender Force
1986
Psychomancy
52
Mel Stover* Das Winnipeg-Falschabheben one simple cut
Also published here
Related to
Variations
 May 1986
Intermagic (Vol. 12 No. 2)
77
Philip T. Goldstein* Force Majeur matrix force for any number, approach to Mel Stover's "Irresistible Force"
Inspired by
 1987
Doth
9
Jeff Busby (reviewer) Illusory Reflex by Mel Stover* Feb. 1988
Epoptica (Issue 11)
534
Terri Rogers, Mel Stover* Off Key Magic key off chain
Also published here
 1988
More Secrets
40
Mel Stover* Answer to Stover's Equation Puzzle see page 546
 		Sep. 1989
Epoptica (Issue 12)
547
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
Terri Rogers, Mel Stover* Schlüssel-Magie key off chain
Also published here
 July 1989
Intermagic (Vol. 14 No. 4 & 5)
161
Mel Stover* Zebras three pieces of paper, zebra and clown design, layout puzzle (similar to riders on horses)
Related to
 1990
Swindle Sheet (Issue 3)
35
Tom Craven Armchair Golfer Mel Stover's Vanishing Pencil (version of the Magic Egg Puzzle), pencil on paper changes places with pencil on initialed paper
 		1992
The Trapdoor — Volume Two (Issue 44)
787
Mel Stover* Stover's Glass Bet bet about circumference being more than glass is tall
  • Reference Note
  • Karl Fulves Notes
Related to
 1992
Swindle Sheet (Issue 10)
116
Karl Fulves* Stover Glass Bet another hight-vs-circumference bet
Related to
 1992
Additives
2
Mel Stover* Now Hear This verbal puzzles
 		1993
Rigmarole (Issue 1)
3
Mel Stover* A Casbah Cavort spelling location with small packet and story presentation
 		1993
Rigmarole (Issue 1)
3
Jim Steinmeyer The Nine Card Problem small packet spelling discovery, no-touch
Also published here
Inspired by
  • "Remote Control" (Jim Steinmeyer, The New Invocation #43, Feb. 1988)
Related to
Variations
 May 1993
MAGIC (Vol. 2 No. 9)
56
Mel Stover*, Jim Steinmeyer A Cavort In The Casbah To Capture Ali The Dope Dealer presentation for Steinmeyer's effect
Inspired by
 June 1993
MAGIC (Vol. 2 No. 10)
54
Leo Boudreau The Mind's Eye: The Calendar Force calendar number force, selecting row and column by drawing numbers
Related to
 Feb. 1993
Vibrations (Vol. 15 No. 8)
10
Alex Elmsley Stack Transformations how faro shuffles affect a stack
Related to
 1994
The Collected Works of Alex Elmsley — Volume 2
307
Alex Elmsley The Restacking Pack stack whose value distribution is not affected by faro shuffles
Related to
Variations
 1994
The Collected Works of Alex Elmsley — Volume 2
309
Bob Farmer Mel Stover, They Want You Back On Your Planet
  • Flim-Flam
following scams received from Mel Stover
 		Apr. 1995
MAGIC (Vol. 4 No. 8)
86
Mel Stover* Spinner coin with scratched edge, head & tail of spinning coin can be divined by sound
 		Apr. 1995
MAGIC (Vol. 4 No. 8)
86
Mel Stover* False Odds bet about odd/even number of coins in hand
 		Apr. 1995
MAGIC (Vol. 4 No. 8)
86
Mel Stover* EquivoCoin odd/even word-play with three coins in hand
 		Apr. 1995
MAGIC (Vol. 4 No. 8)
86
Mel Stover* Home Run baseball bet
 		Apr. 1995
MAGIC (Vol. 4 No. 8)
86
Mel Stover* Cheating At Checkers
Apr. 1995
MAGIC (Vol. 4 No. 8)
87
Mel Stover* Hooked On Phonies word play cons
  • High Pressure Hose
  • Calendar Cons
  • Stranger That You Should Say That
 		Apr. 1995
MAGIC (Vol. 4 No. 8)
87
George Kirkendall Four on a Date sheet of calendar is selected and square drawn, some numbers are chosen, total predicted, Days of Force
Also published here
Inspired by
Related to
 1996
Syzygy (Vol. 2 No. 14)
150
Dr. E. Raymond Carlyle* Mindway Dream names of people and predictions written on cards, Stover's Days of Force as last number
Related to
 1996
Syzygy (Vol. 3 No. 6)
197
Mel Stover* Project A Picture certain number key sequence chosen by spectator on a calculator is divined
 		1998
Calculator Tricks
112
Karl Fulves* Introduction on alternative medicine, superstition, ufos, David Blaine, David Copperfield, Mel Stover's passing, Morey Bernstein's passing
Related to
 1999
The Fine Print (Issue 10)
294
Max Maven* Just for the Mel of It on Mel Stover, with gag for pyramid puzzle (adding third piece)
Related to
Variations
 Sep. 1999
Genii (Vol. 62 No. 9)
28
Mel Stover* Welcome to Melsville bonus insert after page 60, version of Sam Loyd's "Horse and Rider Puzzle"
 		Sep. 1999
Genii (Vol. 62 No. 9)
60
Karl Fulves* Database further comments and credit information on the referenced items, Electronic ESP
Related to
 2000
Latter Day Secrets (Issue 2)
45
Mel Stover* Stover's Game No. 90, eight cards in circle, glass moved around and cards are eliminated, final card predicted
Related to
 2001
New Self-Working Card Tricks
135
Jim Steinmeyer The Nine Card Problem small packet spelling discovery, no-touch
Also published here
Related to
Variations
 2002
Impuzzibilities
5
Mel Stover* left to right reading principle
2003
Tricks
69
Mel Stover* Nine Nine Nine gag routine with puns about the number nine
 		Jan. 2003
Genii (Vol. 66 No. 1)
27
Wesley James The Tabled Winnipeg Cut
Inspired by
 2004
Enchantments
294
Edward Marlo Marnase False Cut
Also published here
Related to
Variations
 2007
Marlo on Erdnase
49
Robert E. Neale The Card Presenting the Hyper Card
Inspired by
Related to
 2008
This Is Not a Book
229
Mel Stover* Calendar Prediction Mel Stover's "Days of Force" with calendar
Also published here
Inspired by
Related to
 2010
Secret Agenda (Issue Oct 20)
312
Nick Trost Rainbow Miracle two cards selected by both spectator and performer from rainbow deck, Gemini Twins placement, backs and faces match, they are also the only red-faced cards
Also published here
  • marketed 1984
Inspired by
Variations
 2011
Subtle Card Creations — Volume 3
765
Max Maven* Rainbow Matrix number force with a magic square
Also published here
Inspired by
Related to
Variations
 2015
The Black Book of Mentalism
[4]
Doug Canning Tile Force Variation on the matrix force. Number force with grid
Inspired by
Variations
  • Mathematical Recreations by Maurice Kraitchik, 1942.
 2015
Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 9
116
Nancy Colwell Narrow Minded approach with three selections, with discussion of think-a-card methods
Related to
 2020
Magic for BLM
89
Edward Marlo Marnase Cut straight cut
Also published here
Related to
Variations
 2021
Output (Issue 19)
3
Mel Stover* Winnipeg False Cut one simple cut
Also published here
Related to
Variations
 2021
Smokers
132
John Hostler* Sightlines card thought of from half of the deck, then found after showing fans of cards with "is your card in here?" procedure
Inspired by
 2023
Percolations
12
Roberto Giobbi Magic Square and Lucky Number matrix force handling
Inspired by
 2024
Unexpected Agenda (Issue Jan 28)
40