Up in Smoke and Other Tantalizing Mysteries

A Lecture on the Card Magic of Larry Jennings

Book
1990
Written by Robert Parker
Work of Larry Jennings
34 pages (Spiralbound), published by Selfpublished
No illustrations
Language: English
39 entries
Cover photograph
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Larry Jennings Magician Makes Good three mates of selected card appear face up in deck
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 3
Under-the-spread Force from bottom of deck
 		3
Larry Jennings Gambler’s Kings to Magician’s Pockets Kings change to Aces, Kings produced from different pockets,
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Inspired by
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Variations
 4
Larry Jennings LJ Pivot Bottom Palm
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 5
Larry Jennings Rhythm Count Variant done with six cards instead of four, see also p. 25
 		5
Dai Vernon Double Lift Unload the Vernon Unload, done here with a quadriple lift, uncredited
 		5
Morris Loewy Loewy Palm brief
 		6
Dave Rumfelt Fake Breast Pocket Extraction card comes off top of deck
 		6
Larry Jennings Tahoe Triumph Triumph plot, shuffled on table
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Inspired by
 7
Herb Zarrow Zarrow Shuffle brief
 		8
Larry Jennings New Outstanding Triumph no table
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Inspired by
 9
Dai Vernon Creeping Reverse
10
Ken Krenzel, Larry Jennings Partial Mechanical Reverse with half the deck, while holding the other half in dealing position
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 10
Larry Jennings LJ Display cutting display
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 10
Larry Jennings Up in Smoke only four cards in hand, they vanish with a puff of cigarette smoke and reappear in four pockets, two methods
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 12
Joe Berg Berg Palm from small packet
 		12
Gambler's Cop
12
Larry Jennings Bare-Handed Bottom Palm single card vanish
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 13
Dai Vernon Hand-to-Hand Transfer classic to classic
 		13
Dai Vernon Strip-out Addition
14
Jokers and Jacks four Jokers and four Jacks transpose one by one
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 16
Stanley Collins Tip-Over Change brief
 		16
Broken-Up Elmsley Count first (?) two cards are tabled after being counted
 		17
Larry Jennings A Handy Transformation four cards change to single card (selection) in spectators hands
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 18
Larry Jennings Snap Palm for small packet
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 18
Larry Jennings The Psychological Side-Step indifferent card is apparently tossed into deck next to selection, but changes to selection itself
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 19
Larry Jennings LJ Angle Steal
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 20
Larry Jennings Hip Pocket Prediction value of prediction card chosen by spectator indicates position of selection
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 22
Johann Nepomuk Hofzinser Hofzinser Spread Cull
22
Larry Jennings Flawed Transposition Aces and Kings removed, transposition begins, all eight cards become Kings
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 23
Larry Jennings Rhythm Count see also p. 5
 		25
Larry Jennings Oil and Water 4&4, all black finale
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Variations
 26
Alex Elmsley Elmsley Count some fine details
 		26
Cliff Green Imperceptible Get-Ready to buckle multiple cards, done with packet, brief, uncredited
 		27
Larry Jennings Extended Elmsley Count sequence to show the reds and blacks mixed
 		29
Charles T. Jordan Jordan Count brief
 		30
Ray Kosby, Larry Jennings, Dai Vernon K. J. V. Oil and Water 4&4, four phases, with mixing phase
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Robert Parker Index of Important Sleights
34
Robert Parker References
34
Data entered by Yehuda Rauch, April 2021.