Charles T. Jordan: Collected Tricks

Book
1975
Written by Karl Fulves*, Charles T. Jordan
Work of Charles T. Jordan
320 pages (Spiralbound), published by Selfpublished
Illustrated with drawings by Joseph K. Schmidt
Language: English
346 entries
Cover photograph
250 per page
Creators Title Comments & References Page AA Categories
Charles T. Jordan Ultimo deck in which every other card is a long-short pair glued face-to-face on one end, for applications see following entries
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Variations
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Charles T. Jordan 1. The Reversed Card chosen card turns over, using Jordan's Ultimo deck
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Charles T. Jordan Turnover Choreography card is chosen and both hands turn the packet in their hands over (they have backs at the bottom)
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Charles T. Jordan 2. Reverse by the Wholesale every other card is reversed, they all turn over face down again, using Jordan's Ultimo deck
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Charles T. Jordan 3. Mind Reading chosen card is instantly named, using Jordan's Ultimo deck
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Charles T. Jordan 4. The Spelling Trick chosen card is spelled out, using Jordan's Ultimo deck
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Charles T. Jordan 5. Odd or Even spectator cuts and performer knows whether it's an odd or even number of cards, using Jordan's Ultimo deck
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Charles T. Jordan 6. Card Appears at Chosen Number using secret deck-turnover and Jordan's Ultimo deck
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Charles T. Jordan 7. Naming a Card at Chosen Number spectator names small number and card at that position is named by performer, using Jordan's Ultimo deck
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Charles T. Jordan Improvements on Ultimo see following three effects
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Inspired by
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Charles T. Jordan A. The Flush Trick deck riffle shuffled twice, performer removes ten red and ten black cards which he mixes again, spectator then deals the packet into three piles twice and puts the packet under a newspaper, performer then reaches under newspaper and produces a flush in a named suit, interlocking chains, in the end the Ultimo deck is ringed in
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Charles T. Jordan B. Fifteen Card Trick prediction in hat, spectator shuffles and remembers the first red card, it matches prediction
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Charles T. Jordan C. The Spelling Cards three cards are spelt to
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Karl Fulves* A Few Suggestions on Ultimo simplified routine
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Charles T. Jordan The Spook Card card vanishes from small packet, five peek cards
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Charles T. Jordan "Speaking of Pink Elephants!" named card changes back color, then the whole deck, card spelled to, card travels from one half to the other, red-blue peek deck cards
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Charles T. Jordan A Unique Reverse thought-of picture card reverses itself in the deck, using cards glued back-to-back at one end with one cut short
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Variations
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Charles T. Jordan Pedro Monte three cards shown in fan and turned over, spectator cannot find card
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Charles T. Jordan The Contrary Clock chosen card from clock layout transposes with Joker in pocket, duplicates in pocket
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Variations
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Charles T. Jordan A New Force Deck unnecessarily gaffed deck for faced-deck countdown
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Karl Fulves* Coin Magic chapter intro
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Charles T. Jordan Dates borrowed coins in hat, performer announces year and finds coin by touch, repeated, one ahead
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Charles T. Jordan, Louis Haley New Coin Trick "ala Hang Ping Chien, With Apologies"
six coins under handkerchief on table transpose with die underneath table, coins with wax surface
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Charles T. Jordan Coin Up Sleeve coin dropped in sleeve and extracted from elbow
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Charles T. Jordan The Newest Coin Up Sleeve coin dropped in sleeve and pulled through fabric at elbow
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Charles T. Jordan Duplex Date Reading naming dates on borrowed coins
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Variations
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Charles T. Jordan Coin Switch one of two coins
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Charles T. Jordan The Negligee Coin Vanish coin vanishes under handkerchief, dummy coin sewn into tie
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James J. Moren Coin Divination spectators put row of half dollars on table, performer divines date on every one, one ahead
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Shuttle Pass
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Charles T. Jordan Another Date-Reading Trick coins collected in head, date announced and coin instantly removed with that date, repeated, coin rubbed with soap
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Downs or Thumb Palm
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Charles T. Jordan The Dollar and the Sucker dollar changes into chip in stiff paper
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Charles T. Jordan New Date Reading impression on foil stuck to thumb
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Charles T. Jordan A Cleancut Coin Maneuver false transfer with back palm
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Charles T. Jordan The Vanishing Coin coin dropped into glass under handkerchief cover vanishes, no glass disc
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Charles T. Jordan The Latest Vanishing Coin from Envelope
214
Karl Fulves* Mental Magic chapter intro
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Charles T. Jordan Jordan's Whispering Envelope card placed in envelope is divined, see-through envelope for only black cards
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Charles T. Jordan The Book Mystery page selected with knife stab, word counted to according to time on watch, word predicted, this book is a forcing book in which the fourteenth word on every page is "magician"
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Charles T. Jordan The Yogi's Force sixteen names or items written on a sheet of paper, it is folded and torn into sixteen strips, one chosen, it is forced, using secret second sheet behind that is folded and stolen away
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Charles T. Jordan The Mesmerized Clock alarm clock set at any time by spectator and covered with napkin, hour divined
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Charles T. Jordan Mephisto's Prediction position of selection is predicted
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Charles T. Jordan The Impromptu Mindreader sixteen words written on numbered papers, one chosen and divined, with memory system for sixteen items
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Charles T. Jordan Coluria thirty-two-deck of cards is cut and dealt into six piles, two remaining cards pocketed, colors of top cards code bottom cards and cards in pocket, done out-of-room
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Variations
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Charles T. Jordan Satan's Trance No. 26, four cards removed from thirty-two-card deck and put in envelope, lights out, when lights are back on the names of cards are written on envelope
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Variations
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Dr. Ford Rogers Rough-Smooth as Haptic Cue
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Charles T. Jordan Change Your Mind? one of two cards thought-of, replaced, deck dealt into two piles (some face-up, some face-down), performer picks out correct card, four groups are marked with dots
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Variations
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Charles T. Jordan Spelling Any Card Called For full deck stack
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Variations
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Charles T. Jordan The Card and Number Mystery spectator deals piles, selects one, adds values, counts down to number and the card there is predicted
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Charles T. Jordan A Complete "Silent Thought Transmission" Act medium divines various pieces of information, bills, dice, playing cards and names, placement on table code
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Charles T. Jordan, Theodore Annemann* Telethot also "Telethought", design duplication with medium, eight slips of paper, Jordan's Yogi Force, medium divines seven of the designs, then eighth one duplicated with spectator
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Charles T. Jordan Yogi's Force further description with squares, drawings by Schmidt
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Charles T. Jordan Premier Book Test using deck of cards to force page number, 14/15 stack
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Charles T. Jordan Stop and Think odd/even system for divided deck
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Louis Haley Haley's Whispering Envelope split corner that can be opened to glimpse index of card
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Charles T. Jordan Four to One Detection similar to the 21 card trick, with sixteen cards, different layout & redistribution
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Charles T. Jordan The Assistance Card Trick follow up to last trick, card is selected and put in pocket, performer goes through the cards once and knows the missing one, clocking mod 13
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Charles T. Jordan Telepathic Foresight chosen ad from magazine predicted
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Karl Fulves* Silk Magic chapter intro
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Charles T. Jordan Simplex Handkerchief Production silk stolen from rubber band fastened around cuff buttons when rolling back sleeves
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Dr. Edward G. Ervin A Silk Production from Empty Hands four silks, colors named and corresponding silks produced
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Charles T. Jordan Four-in-One Silks four silks are produced from one silk
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Charles T. Jordan The Spectral Seamstress name of person is magically sewn on handkerchief
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Charles T. Jordan A Handkerchief Hint foil in double handkerchief so it can be handled as bundle when balled up
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Karl Fulves* Miscellaneous chapter intro
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Charles T. Jordan The Mystic Knife penknife dropped in glass under handkerchief cover, vanishes, reproduced from pocket
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Charles T. Jordan The Bewitched Umbrella spectator cannot lift umbrella from performer's hand, thread
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Charles T. Jordan Paper Tearing Supreme
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Charles T. Jordan The Lemon and Potato Trick potato in stemmed glass is covered with a handkerchief, it transposes with a lemon
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Charles T. Jordan The Ubiquitous Poker Chips three hats and three red, blue and white chips are distributed, they assemble
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Downs Palm
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Charles T. Jordan The "Full-View" Color-Changing Thimble wax
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Charles T. Jordan The Letter-Mailing Mystery stack of chips with numbers, set of envelopes, envelope and postage chosen with stack of chips are divined
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Charles T. Jordan A Clean Ball Production empty glass put in paper tube, ball rolls out, wax
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Charles T. Jordan A Manipulative Opening card, thimble and billiard ball are produced
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Charles T. Jordan The Painless Needle Trick thread wound around needles, they are suddenly threaded, second packet of needles is shown as sucker gag but it is also threaded
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Charles T. Jordan Pipes! production of two pipes
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Charles T. Jordan Mind Over Matter pool trick shot, only works when done with eyes closed (apparently)
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Charles T. Jordan The Psychic Ring Release under cover of coat
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Charles T. Jordan The Poker Chip Release center of two threaded poker chips with a hole penetrate string
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Charles T. Jordan The Acme Ring Release ring knotted on cord, released under handkerchief
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Charles T. Jordan The Lemon and Potato Trick potato in stemmed glass is covered with a handkerchief, it transposes with a lemon
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Charles T. Jordan The Cord Restored with borrowed stiff cord
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Charles T. Jordan A Pair of Mathematical Diversions
267
Charles T. Jordan The Sucker Match Trick match in handkerchief is broken and restored, new method
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Charles T. Jordan The New Rope and Ring Release three rings off rope
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Charles T. Jordan The Magic Square Ace through Nine in 3x3 magic square
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Charles T. Jordan A New Ring Release inside paper box
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Charles T. Jordan Exposition String Restoration extra loop
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Karl Fulves* Appendix chapter intro
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Charles T. Jordan A Neat Card Detection only with Bicycle backs from the old days and a printing irregularity
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  • The Sphinx, Aug. 1916
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Charles T. Jordan The Legerdemaniacs short story
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  • The Sphinx, Sep. 1916
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Charles T. Jordan The Legerdemaniacs "(Concluded from September Sphinx)"
short story
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  • The Sphinx, Oct. 1916
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Charles T. Jordan Advertisements many reprinted advertisements from page 277 to 315
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Karl Fulves* Alphabetical Index
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Data entered by Denis Behr, July 2024.