Thumb Count

35 entries in Cards / Sleights / Counting Cards / Thumb Count

Creators	Title	Comments & References		Year	Source	Page	Categories
Jack Merlin	Thumb and Finger Counting			1927/28	Merlin's Master Manipulations	12	Cards / Sleights / Counting Cards / Thumb Count
Jack Merlin	First Method	thumb count with two hands		1927/28	Merlin's Master Manipulations	12	Cards / Sleights / Counting Cards / Thumb Count
Jack Merlin	Second Method	thumb count with one hand, also for finding a card in the center and turning it over on top		1927/28	Merlin's Master Manipulations	12	Cards / Sleights / Counting Cards / Thumb Count Cards / Sleights / Flourishes / Turnover of Cards
Jack Merlin	To Place a Selected Card in a Given Position in the Pack			1927/28	Merlin's Master Manipulations	12	Cards / Effect Themes / Number Effects / Card(s) at A Number(Numbers) Cards / Sleights / Counting Cards / Thumb Count
Jack Merlin	Vibrating Cards	three selection produced one handed from the middle of the deck, pulled out with the thumb one by one		1927/28	Merlin's Master Manipulations	13	Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Multiple Cards Cards / Sleights / Counting Cards / Thumb Count
Jack Merlin	Throwing a Card in the Air and Catching in the Pack at a Chosen Number			1927/28	Merlin's Master Manipulations	14	Cards / Effect Themes / Skill Demonstration / Miscellaneous Cards / Effect Themes / Number Effects / Miscellaneous Cards / Sleights / Counting Cards / Thumb Count
Jack Merlin	Telling the Amount of Cards Cut by a Spectator	performer knows amount of cards cut to, then asks for another number and cuts that number himself		1927/28	Merlin's Master Miracles	8	Cards / Effect Themes / Super-Senses / Packet thickness Cards / Sleights / Counting Cards / Thumb Count
William Larsen	The Riffle-Down	quickly getting break at any small number, preparing with two breaks	Variations A Cut At Any Number (T. Page Wright, Frank Shepard, 1933)	1933	Page Wright's Notebook	28	Cards / Effect Themes / Super-Senses / Packet thickness Cards / Sleights / Counting Cards / Thumb Count
Audley Walsh	Thumb Count Stacking			June 1936	The Jinx (Issue 21)	122	Cards / Sleights / Stacking / Stacking without Shuffling Cards / Sleights / Counting Cards / Thumb Count
Edward Victor	The "E.V." Invisible Double Lift	using a thumb count	Related to Thumb Count Double Lift (Edward Victor, Father Cyprian, 1980)	1937	Magic of the Hands	4	Cards / Sleights / Counting Cards / Thumb Count Cards / Sleights / Multiple Lift / Top / Breakless
	The Top Thumb Count			1940	Expert Card Technique	183	Cards / Sleights / Counting Cards / Thumb Count
Audley Walsh	Thumb Count Stacking			1943	Full Deck of Impromptu Card Tricks	7	Cards / Sleights / Stacking / Stacking without Shuffling Cards / Sleights / Counting Cards / Thumb Count
Bert Allerton	The Allerton Top Palm	featuring the thumb count		1946	Card Control	69	Cards / Sleights / Counting Cards / Thumb Count Cards / Sleights / Palming / Classic Palm / Right Hand / Top
	Thumb Count From Top			1948	The Card Expert Entertains	101	Cards / Sleights / Counting Cards / Thumb Count
	Note on the Double Lift	thumb count		1949	52 Amazing Card Tricks	56	Cards / Sleights / Counting Cards / Thumb Count Cards / Sleights / Multiple Lift / Top / Breakless
Edward Marlo	Throw in Location	thumb riffle estimation to nineteenth/twentieth position, two methods	Related to Mental Stab (Edward Marlo, 1962) Also published here Throw in Location, First Method (Edward Marlo, 1962) Throw in Location, Second Method (Edward Marlo, 1962)	1955	The New Phoenix (Issue 329)	125	Cards / Effect Themes / Skill Demonstration / Card is tossed next to Selection Cards / Principles / Placement Principles / Miscellaneous Cards / Sleights / Estimation / Natural Estimation Cards / Sleights / Counting Cards / Thumb Count
Edward Marlo	Marlo's Double Count	using partial secret incomplete faro condition to quickly place cards at wanted positions First Method (faro) Second Method	Related to Marlo's Double Count (Edward Marlo, 1970)	Winter 1969	The Hierophant (Issue 2)	69	Cards / Principles / Placement Principles / Miscellaneous Cards / Sleights / Counting Cards / Thumb Count Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Incomplete Faro
Edward Marlo	Marlo's Double Count	second procedure "Marlo's Double Count"	Inspired by Marlo's Double Count (Edward Marlo, 1969)	Spring 1970	The Hierophant (Issue 3)	164	Cards / Principles / Placement Principles / Miscellaneous Cards / Sleights / Counting Cards / Thumb Count Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Incomplete Faro
	Thumb Count			1972	The Living End	163	Cards / Sleights / Counting Cards / Thumb Count
	Double-Lift - Second Method	thumb-count		1976	Now you see it, now you don't!	30	Cards / Sleights / Counting Cards / Thumb Count Cards / Sleights / Multiple Lift / Top / Breakless
	Working Behind Your Back	how to minimize arm movement		1978	The second now you see it, now you don't!	79	Cards / Sleights / Handling Finesses Cards / Sleights / Counting Cards / Thumb Count
Walt Lees	Thumb Count	hand held upside down		1981	Four Professional Card Tricks	9	Cards / Sleights / Counting Cards / Thumb Count
Wallace Lee	Thumb Count	hand held upside down		1981	The Complete Cannibal Act	14	Cards / Sleights / Counting Cards / Thumb Count
	Thumb Count			1983	The New York Magic Symposium — Collection 2	71	Cards / Sleights / Counting Cards / Thumb Count
Ross Bertram	Subtle Thumb Count	as Double Lift get-ready		1983	Bertram on Sleight of Hand	93	Cards / Sleights / Multiple Lift / Get-Readys Cards / Sleights / Counting Cards / Thumb Count
T. Page Wright	Chapter 5 - The Riffle Count	intro		1991	Page Wright's Manuscript	162	Cards / Sleights / Counting Cards / Thumb Count
T. Page Wright	A Cut at Any Number	using thumb count (with right hand shielding the count) and several finesses like pre-established breaks, mis-hearing and so on		1991	Page Wright's Manuscript	162	Cards / Sleights / Break / Break Finesses Cards / Effect Themes / Super-Senses / Packet thickness Cards / Sleights / Counting Cards / Thumb Count
	Thumb Count	brief		1992	Show-Time at the Tom-Foolery	57	Cards / Sleights / Counting Cards / Thumb Count
Sid Fleischman	An Aside on the Thumb Count			1993	The Charlatan's Handbook	120	Cards / Sleights / Counting Cards / Thumb Count
Vicente Canuto	Contrar Cartas en Secreto	secret card counting techniques 1.- Por Extensión de la Baraja 2.- Con el Pulgar Derecho 3. Con el Pulgar Izquierdo		1993	Cartomagia Fundamental	127	Cards / Sleights / Counting Cards / Thumb Count Cards / Sleights / Counting Cards / Miscellaneous
Roger Crosthwaite	Rapid Thumb Count	rhythmic	Related to Side Riffle Estimation (Edward Marlo, 1962)	1994	Roger's Thesaurus	109	Cards / Sleights / Counting Cards / Dividers (forming packets of equal size) Cards / Sleights / Estimation / Natural Estimation Cards / Sleights / Counting Cards / Thumb Count
	Thumb Counting	plus suggestions for management of this technique		1995	Card College — Volume 1	197	Cards / Sleights / Counting Cards / Thumb Count
	Thumb Count	brief		2004	Mnemonica	355	Cards / Sleights / Counting Cards / Thumb Count
	Thumb Count			2009	The Magic of Fred Robinson	131	Cards / Sleights / Counting Cards / Thumb Count
Rafael Benatar	The Thumb Count			May 2024	Genii (Vol. 87 No. 5)	54	Cards / Sleights / Counting Cards / Thumb Count