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Audley Walsh The Card Phenomenon banks, automatic placement, see page 172 for improvement by Charles Larsen
July 1936
The Jinx (Issue 22)
130
A Card and A Number Automatic Placement procedure
1937 177
C. O. Williams The Card from the Pocket card at thought of position is remembered and found, lazy man
Related toVariations 1937 342
Joseph Dunninger Nomenclature three random names are spelled, selection found, automatic placement procedure
Related toVariationsAlso published here Oct. 1939
The Jinx (Issue 64)
450
Marseno Marseno serviert einen steinalten Trick in neuem Gewand automatic placement, packet removed and card removed at position corresponding to number of packet
1941
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 3 No. 2&3)
4
Walter Behm Es ist immer die zwölfte! automatic placement and crosses made with cards, equivoque elimination
1954
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 15 No. 3)
186
Edward Marlo Automatic Placement cut off, count, remember card at position in reminder
Related to 1955
The New Phoenix (Issue 329)
126
Edward Marlo Automatic Placement with several applications following
Related toVariations 1958 47
Edward Marlo Variants on Automatic Placement
1958 48
Edward Marlo Faro Foolers: First Fooler as many cards as one likes, automatic placement
1958 49
Edward Marlo Second Fooler with two selections in two halves of one deck, automatic placement
1958 50
Edward Marlo Third Fooler two cards, faro and automatic placement
1958 51
Edward Marlo Fifth Fooler twenty-sixth card is forced with procedure similar to automatic placement
1958 52
Edward Marlo Variation on Automatic Placement two variations
1958 55
Jack Avis Hidden Power card selected via Automatic Placement procedure moves to named number
Variations May 1968 177
Paul Swinford The Automatic Joker two cards chosen via automatic placement procedure found on either side of Joker, faro
Inspired by 1971 6
Dr. Jacob Daley Daley's Two Pile Trick No. 134, suggestion of using a glide, but trick is not referenced, "Two Pile Trick" of that time with automatic placement does not seem to fit
1972 37
Dr. Jacob Daley Daley's Variation Of Poker A'la Leipzig And Finnerman Effect No. 275, "eliminating seconds", blindfold poker deal with shuffle placement after each hand is returned instead of false deal
Related to 1972 68
Edward Marlo Mathematical Marlo automatic placement, card and amount of cut-off cards is divined
1974 75
Edward Marlo Automatic Placement Double Control, Plus One
1974 89
Gerald Kosky "No Clue" automatic placement to any position in the deck, some cards cut and card at position remembered while back is turned, spectator then deals cards face-up until performer stops
1975 28
Gerald Kosky Automatic Placement Handling no-touch
1976 76
Harry Lorayne It's Impossible! automatic placement, position of card predicted, or other ideas:
  • Spell a Name
  • Lie Detector
  • Think Stop
1977 146
John C. Wagner Mentally by Two faro, automatic placement
Variations 1978 33
Edward Marlo Effect two cards, using double automatic placement
1979 364
Edward Marlo Double Info Control automatic placement procedure
1979 366
Edward Marlo Flexible Force using automatic placement procedure, Penelope Principle
1979 369
Norman Houghton Thirty-Two using automatic placement principle
Related to July 1979
Apocalypse (Vol. 2 No. 7)
225
Jon Racherbaumer Reflex Spell selection by cutting off a number of cards and remembering card at that position, automatic placement
1982 356
Larry Jennings Impossible automatic placement, "impossible" is spelled
Related toAlso published here 1982 5
Brother John Hamman Automatic Placement Variation
1984 12
Michael Close, Stewart James Derby Downs "Waltz Time Stewart James - Three Variations by Michael Close", two selections found by 10D, using automatic placement variation, faro shuffle, based on "Place and Show" from New Tops
1984
Epoptica (Issue Yearbook)
283
Michael Close, Stewart James Prose Duplex based on "Inverse Duplex" from New Tops, strange prediction effect involving numbers, automatic placement for two selections
1984
Epoptica (Issue Yearbook)
285
Automatic Placement Force
1985 104
Ken De Courcy Hammanesque card chosen with Automatic Placement procedure, travels between two paper plates
Inspired by 1985 5
Larry Jennings Impossible automatic placement
Also published here 1986 44
Roger Crosthwaite Plus One, Minus Two two cards are located by cutting, third is found sandwiched between them
Inspired by 1989 45
Harry Lorayne The Detective Card two routines, second one uses Automatic Placement
1990 145
Alex Elmsley Returned to the Nest two decks, using automatic placement like selection procedure
1991 325
Alex Elmsley The Clock Runs Down automatic placement
1991 376
Ken Simmons Who's Lying? lie speller
Inspired by
  • Automatic Speller Placement Principle (Jim Steinmeyer, The New Invocation #43)
Variations
1993 28
Rudolf Braunmüller Goethes Hexeneinmaleins number remembered, that many cards removed, automatic placement, rhyme to find card
Inspired by
  • George F. Miller's "Anti-Clock Location"
June 1993
Intermagic (Vol. 18 No. 1)
35
Vicente Canuto, Richard Vollmer La Cuenta Atrás deck cut into for piles, automatic placement using cross sum of cut packet
1993 64
Alex Elmsley Spell by the Numbers automatic placement
1994 349
Stephen Minch Automatic Placement - Credit Information
1994 349
Gavin Ross Power Game card chosen with automatic placement procedure, deck cut, performer announces to look for Ace of Diamonds while dealing through both piles simultaneously, they appear at the same position
Inspired by May 1996
Magic (Vol. 5 No. 9)
63
Larry Jennings Impossible Divination No. 2 automatic placement
1997 20
Jack Birnman My Spectator, The Clairvoyant fair selection (automatic placement), added value of three selections determines position of first selection
Related to Winter 1998 133
Larry Jennings Dissertation on an Old Trick, Part I
  • The Jennings Tapes
various handlings for the automatic placement procedure
  • Version No. 1
  • Version No. 2
  • Version No. 3
Also published here Sep. 1999
Genii (Vol. 62 No. 9)
46
Larry Jennings Dissertation on an Old Trick, Part II
  • The Jennings Tapes
various handlings for the automatic placement procedure
  • Version No. 4
  • Version No. 5
  • Version No. 6
Also published here Nov. 1999
Genii (Vol. 62 No. 11)
58
Peter Duffie Psychic Math card selected with automatic placement procedure is found via counting of two values (sum/difference)
Related to Nov. 2000
Magic (Vol. 10 No. 3)
84
Karl Fulves, Jack Avis Hidden Power No. 8, card selected via Automatic Placement procedure moves to named number, with prediction of another card at a position
Inspired by 2001 17
Harry Lorayne That's Impossible automatic placement procedure, then brought to any named number
VariationsAlso published here 2001 471
Karl Fulves Quiz Show card chosen with automatic placement procedure, ten-card groups looked at one by one, selection vanished, it is found as one of the cards placed aside at the beginning
2001
Discoverie (Issue 5)
68
Gavin Ross Free Choice card chosen from twenty-card packet with automatic placement procedure, it then vanishes from the packet, reappears reversed
Feb. 2002
Ego (Vol. 1 No. 9)
17
Roberto Giobbi, Richard Vollmer That Is the Question automatic placement and cross sum force, cards dealt in form of a question mark
Related to 2006 141
Alex Elmsley Spell it automatic placement
2007 39
Bruce Cervon odd combination automatic placement
2007 40
Paul Gordon (Gr)eight! automatic placement
Variations 2007 362
Harry Lorayne That's Impossible automatic placement procedure, then brought to any named number
Also published here Jan. 2008
Genii (Vol. 71 No. 1)
26
Roberto Giobbi Fully Automatic Aces performer produces two Aces, other Aces are found by spectator, Gemini Twin placement
2008 13
Edward Marlo Automatic Replacement
2009 23
Roberto Giobbi A Mathematical Control automatic placement handling
2010
Secret Agenda (Issue Mar 18)
87
Roberto Giobbi Automatic Key-Card Placement out-of-hands
2010
Secret Agenda (Issue Oct 24)
317
Edward Marlo Automatic Placement
2012 74
Harry Lorayne Miracle Class spelling "miracle class" after automatic placement procedure
Related to 2015 221
Jon Racherbaumer The Extremely Hidden Count Down
  • Exhumations
card selected via Automatic Placement procedure moves to named number, includes the divination of the selection and the number of cards the spectator initially cut off
Inspired byAlso published here May 2020
Genii (Vol. 83 No. 5)
50
Larry Jennings Dissertation on an Old Trick various handlings for the automatic placement procedure
  • Version No. 1 (An Old Trick)
  • Version No. 2
  • Version No. 3
  • Version No. 4
  • Version No. 5
  • Version No. 6
Also published here 2020 460
Larry Jennings Impossible automatic placement, "impossible" is spelled, credit information on the effect
Also published here 2020 483
Claude Impériale Automatic Placement Card to Pocket card at thought-of position travels to pocket, two handlings
Inspired by Nov. 2022
The Hermit (Vol. 1 No. 11)
506
George McBride Under Cover Placement Automatic Placement combined with sunken key, faro
  • Note (sandwich effect)
2022 88