Harris, Ben

second 1981 edition used

Book

1980
Written by Ben Harris
Work of Ben Harris

44 pages (Stapled), published by Ben Harris Magic Publications
Illustrated with drawings
Language: English

17 entries

Creators	Title	Comments & References		Page	Categories
Ben Harris	Dedication			2	Articles / Intros & Epilogues
Woody Meltcher	Introduction			3	Articles / Intros & Epilogues
Ben Harris	Author's Note			5	Articles / Intros & Epilogues
Ben Harris	Elevated Thought	thought-of (peeked or riffle-thought-of-forced) card appears on top of deck		8	Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Single Card Cards / Effect Themes / Penetration / Using Cards
Ben Harris	Backwards Center Deal Switch	card injogged and held onto instead of top card as deck is moved forward		9	Cards / Sleights / Switches / Single Card Switches / Miscellaneous Cards / Sleights / False Dealing / Center Deal / Strike Cards / Sleights / Switches / Single Card Switches / Top Change
Ben Harris	Super Slice	case has open slit in it, card put in and another card as blade used to push through it, card inside shown folded in half, blade then transposes with card inside	Related to Rubber Twins (Ben Harris, Bands of Gold, 1987) Variations Twice the Slice (Ben Harris, Genii, 2002)	11	Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Two Cards / with mutilated card(s)
Ben Harris	Simplified Matrix	card torn in quarters, they assemble in matrix fashion, then card is restored	Inspired by "Jigsaw" (Paul Harris, Patrick Snowden, Paul Harris Reveals Some Of His Most Intimate Secrets, 1976) Matrix Torn and Restored Card (John C. Wagner, 7 Secrets, 1978)	15	Cards / Effect Themes / Torn & Restored / At once Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Matrix like Effects
Ben Harris	Coin Fantasy	four coins produced from between two cards	Inspired by Four the Hard Way (Earl Nelson, Al Schneider, Variations, 1979) also in: Four the Hard Way (Variations Revisited, 2003)	20	Coin / Effect Themes / Appearance & Vanish with Reproduction Routines / With Props / Cards
Ben Harris	Coin Bullet		Inspired by Coined Card (Earl Nelson, Variations, 1979) also in: Coined Card (Variations Revisited, 2003)	25	Cards / Effect Themes / Penetration / With Other Objects / Coin Cut & Variations
Ben Harris	Coin Slide-off Vanish	coin slid off deck, dropped onto injogged cards in lapping fashion		26	Coin / Sleights / Vanish / Single Coin Vanishes / With Props
Ben Harris	Ribbon-Spread Turnover with Coin	coin hidden between cards	Related to An Opening Effect: Prematrix (Vanni Bossi, Vanni Bossi Lecture Notes, 1995) also in: Cards and Coins (Opus, 1995)	28	Cards / Sleights / Flourishes / Table Spreads
Ben Harris	Incision	deck in case, selection penetrates case and is apparently removed through a slit which then heals again		30	Cards / Effect Themes / Penetration / With Other Objects / Card Case
Ben Harris	Slip Locators	sandwich cards find selection and then change into selections		33	Cards / Effect Themes / Sandwich & Co / Miscellaneous Cards / Effect Themes / Sandwich & Co / Transformation
Ben Harris	Slip Change	Bilis Switch, bottom card of three-card sandwich is switched for top card of deck as center card is drawn onto deck	Also published here The Strip-Out Switch (Ben Harris, Crossroads, 2000) also in: The Slip Change (Ben Harris, Random Acts of Magic, 2004)	33	Cards / Sleights / Switches / Sandwich Changes Cards / Sleights / Switches / Single Card Switches / Top Change
Ben Harris	Blendsation	card blendo between sandwich cards	Inspired by Cardician's Blendo (Paul Harris, Las Vegas Close-Up, 1978) also in: Cardician's Blendo (The Art of Astonishment — Book 1, 1996)	38	Cards / Effect Themes / Topological Effects / Card Blendo
	Description of the Three as Four Elmsley			43	Cards / Sleights / False Count / Elmsley Count Cards / Sleights / False Count / Overcounts (as more than are there)
Ben Harris	Final Words			44	Articles / Intros & Epilogues

Data entered by Denis Behr, August 2019.

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