Theory & Essays
| Creators | Title | Comments & References | Year | Source | Page | AA | Categories | |
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| Professor Hoffmann | Concealing the Cause | 1876 | ||||||
| Professor Hoffmann | Chapter VI. Card Tricks Without Apparatus, and Chiefly Dependent Upon Sleight of Hand | 1889 | ||||||
| Professor Hoffmann | Chapter VII. Card tricks with Apparatus, or requiring Special Cards | 1889 | ||||||
| Erklärungen zu den vorstehenden Kunststücken | 1895 | |||||||
| Carl Willmann | Die Kartenschule | July 1895 |
Die Zauberwelt
(Vol. 1 No. 7)
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| Carl Willmann | Die Kartenschule | Aug. 1895 |
Die Zauberwelt
(Vol. 1 No. 8)
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| Friedrich W. Conradi-Horster | Die Kartenschule | Sep. 1895 |
Der Zauberspiegel
(Vol. 1 No. 1)
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| August Roterberg | On Display of Skill | 1897 | ||||||
| S. W. Erdnase | Confederacy | 1902 | ||||||
| S. W. Erdnase | Primary Accomplishments | 1902 | ||||||
| S. W. Erdnase | Uniformity of Action | 1902 | ||||||
| S. W. Erdnase | Display of Ability | 1902 | ||||||
| S. W. Erdnase | Greatest Single Accomplishment | 1902 | ||||||
| S. W. Erdnase | The Player without an Ally | 1902 | ||||||
| S. W. Erdnase | Card Tricks | 1902 | ||||||
| Carl Willmann | Briefkasten | Feb. 1902 |
Die Zauberwelt
(Vol. 8 No. 2)
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| Johann Nepomuk Hofzinser | Die drei Kräfte | Apr. 1902 |
Die Zauberwelt
(Vol. 8 No. 4)
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| Friedrich W. Conradi-Horster | Top Three Card Sleights | May 1904 |
Der Zauberspiegel
(Vol. 4 No. 5)
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| T. Nelson Downs | Flourishes and Fancy Sleights with Cards | 1909 | ||||||
| John Northern Hilliard | Card Tricks involving Sleight of Hand | 1909 | ||||||
| Ottokar Fischer | Anleitung zur Vorführung | 1910 | ||||||
| Charles T. Jordan | On Routining | 1922 |
The Four Full Hands
(Issue Four Full Hands of Card Tricks)
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| Victor Farelli | Five Points | 1936 | ||||||
| Victor Farelli | Almost in Confidence | 1936 | ||||||
| The Perpetual Almanac or Gentleman Soldier's Prayer Book | 1937 | |||||||
| The Master of the Playing Cards | 1938 | |||||||
| John Northern Hilliard | Cards. The Best Kind to Use | 1938 | ||||||
| John Northern Hilliard | A Few Words Anent the Joker | 1938 | ||||||
| John Northern Hilliard | Card Tricks with Apparatus and in Combination with Other Objects | 1938 | ||||||
| Charles Hopkins | 1 - Card correctly identified, but slips out of control. | 1940 | ||||||
| Charles Hopkins | 2 - Identification correct, but placement for climax is wrong. | 1940 | ||||||
| Charles Hopkins | 3 - Incorrect identification of selection card. | 1940 | ||||||
| Charles Hopkins | 4 - Card lost before identification. | 1940 | ||||||
| Charles Hopkins | 5 - The selector forgets what his card was. | 1940 | ||||||
| Charles Hopkins | 6 - When they refuse to tell. | 1940 | ||||||
| Charles Hopkins | 7 - For the extreme "hold out". | 1940 | ||||||
| Charles Hopkins | 12 - To meet an absolute refusal to tell. | 1940 | ||||||
| 16 - The "Crimp" as a Locator. | 1940 | |||||||
| Charles Hopkins | 22 - Out-in-the-open changes. | 1940 | ||||||
| Charles Hopkins | 24 - Using "locators" for "outs". | 1940 | ||||||
| Charles Hopkins | Methods For Counting And Spelling Effects | 1940 | ||||||
| 26 - New start from wrong turn-up. | 1940 | |||||||
| Charles Hopkins | 27 - The "220 Count" as an "out". | 1940 | ||||||
| Charles Hopkins | 28 - In performer's pocket. | 1940 | ||||||
| Charles Hopkins | 29 - Pocket index. | 1940 | ||||||
| Charles Hopkins | 30 - Card in wallet. | 1940 | ||||||
| Charles Hopkins | 33 - When force is missed. | 1940 | ||||||
| Charles Hopkins | 34 - Confusion as to suit and values. | 1940 | ||||||
| Charles Hopkins | 35 - Spectator's mind a complete blank. | 1940 | ||||||
| Charles Hopkins | 36 - Controlled returns. | 1940 | ||||||
| Charles Hopkins | 37 - Use of "Locators". | 1940 | ||||||
| Charles Hopkins | 44 - Pre-Arrangements. | 1940 | ||||||
| Charles Hopkins | 48 - Secret reflectors. | 1940 | ||||||
| Charles Hopkins | 49 - Wide and narrow decks. | 1940 | ||||||
| Charles Hopkins | 50 - The indexed pocket deck again. | 1940 | ||||||
| Charles Hopkins | Special Decks On Taps | 1940 | ||||||
| Jean Hugard | Card Magic | Sep. 1944 |
Hugard's Magic Monthly
(Vol. 2 No. 4)
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| R. M. Jamison | The Fair Sex and the Magician | July 1945 |
Hugard's Magic Monthly
(Vol. 3 No. 2)
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| Jean Hugard | Card Magic | Sep. 1945 |
Hugard's Magic Monthly
(Vol. 3 No. 4)
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| Jean Hugard | Card Magic | Nov. 1945 |
Hugard's Magic Monthly
(Vol. 3 No. 6)
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| Paul Curry | Thar She Blows! | July 1947 |
The Phoenix
(Issue 129)
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| Frederick Braue | Roundabout with Fred Braue | June 1947 |
Hugard's Magic Monthly
(Vol. 5 No. 1)
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| Arthur H. Buckley | Foreword to the Chapter Three - Card Magic | 1948 | ||||||
| Dariel Fitzkee | Chapter One | 1948 | ||||||
| Dariel Fitzkee | Chapter Two | 1948 | ||||||
| Dariel Fitzkee | Chapter Three | 1948 | ||||||
| Dariel Fitzkee | Chapter Four | 1948 | ||||||
| Dariel Fitzkee | Chapter Five | 1948 | ||||||
| Dariel Fitzkee | Chapter Six | 1948 | ||||||
| Sam Leo Horowitz | A Matter of Miracles | 1949 | ||||||
| Al Baker | Mental Card Tricks | 1949 | ||||||
| Al Baker | Cartomancy, or The Meaning of the Cards in a Deck | 1949 | ||||||
| Bill Simon | Handling | 1952 | ||||||
| Bill Simon | Unprepared Cards | 1952 | ||||||
| Bill Simon | Poker Cards vs. Bridge Cards | 1952 | ||||||
| Bill Simon | Shuffles and Cuts | 1952 | ||||||
| Lewis Ganson | Some Observations on Card Manipulation | 1954 | ||||||
| Edward Marlo | Vanishing Aces Theory | 1956 |
The New Phoenix
(Issue 338)
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| Jerry Andrus | Random Notes | 1956 | ||||||
| James Steranko | Chapter Seven - Cues on Cards | 1960 | ||||||
| Sam Randlett | Dirty Deck Routine | May 1960 |
Ibidem
(Issue 20)
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| Lin Searles | All the Sad Young Card Men | Oct. 1960 |
Ibidem
(Issue 22)
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| Charlie Miller | Card Tricks | 1961 | ||||||
| Charlie Miller | Intrigue Tricks | 1967 | ||||||
| David Bendix | Cardmanship | Fall 1969 |
The Hierophant
(Issue 1)
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| Johann Nepomuk Hofzinser | Card Problems | July 1970 |
Epilogue
(Issue 9)
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| Johann Nepomuk Hofzinser | Card Problems | Nov. 1970 |
Epilogue
(Issue 10)
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| Gaston "Gasbor" Borgeaud | Fantaisies au sujet du jeu de cartes | 1970 |
Hokus Pokus
(Vol. 31 No. 5)
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| Johann Nepomuk Hofzinser | Card Problems | Mar. 1971 |
Epilogue
(Issue 11)
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| David Bendix | Further Cardmanship - part two | Summer 1971 |
The Hierophant
(Issue 5-6)
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| Steve Spillman | Tested Tips on Trix | June 1971 |
Talisman
(Vol. 2 No. 14)
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| Philip T. Goldstein | "Card Tricks for People Who Don't Do Card Tricks ...and Some for Those Who Do!" | 1974 | ||||||
| Philip T. Goldstein | On Pick-a-Card Tricks | 1974 | ||||||
| Faucett Ross | Some Great Card Classics | 1975 | ||||||
| Peter Kane | Memory Jogger | 1975 | ||||||
| Charles T. Jordan | On Routining | 1975 | ||||||
| Jerry Andrus | General Comments | 1976 | ||||||
| Al Mann | A Tractate on Fabulous Card Effects for the Mentalist | 1976 | ||||||
| David Berglas | Card Magic | 1976 | ||||||
| Eddie Fields, Mike Schwartz | Spectator Won't Tell | 1976 | ||||||
| Bill Tarr | About Cards | 1976 | ||||||
| Karl Fulves | Fail/Safing The Experts | 1977 | ||||||
| Harry Lorayne | Sleight-of-Hand Effects and Routines | 1977 | ||||||
| Karl Fulves | 4 - Card Magic | 1977 | ||||||
| Karl Fulves | Concluding Observations | 1977 | ||||||
| Karl Fulves | A word about small packet tricks | 1978 | ||||||
| Karl Fulves | How To Invent Card Stuff | 1978 |
Interlocutor
(Issue 22)
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| Roger Smith | A Simple Routine | 1978 | ||||||
| Richard Kaufman | Introduction | 1979 | ||||||
| Karl Fulves | The Gambler's Third Lesson | 1979 | ||||||
| Karl Fulves | Mind Reading with Cards | 1979 | ||||||
| Karl Fulves | Miracles with Cards | 1979 | ||||||
| Simon Aronson | 3. Memorizing the Aronson Stack | 1979 | ||||||
| Steve Beam, Don Morris | Basic Sleights | 1979 | ||||||
| Father Cyprian | The Poetry of Magic | 1979 | ||||||
| Father Cyprian | The Poetry of Magic | 1980 | ||||||
| Andrew Galloway | Misdirection as Applied to Card Magic | 1980 | ||||||
| Ken De Courcy | Another Fallacy | 1980 | ||||||
| Ken De Courcy | Visibility | 1980 | ||||||
| Ken De Courcy | Climax | 1980 | ||||||
| Ken De Courcy | Pre-set Portability | 1980 | ||||||
| Ken De Courcy | The Borrowed Pack | 1980 | ||||||
| Ken De Courcy | Novelty | 1980 | ||||||
| Richard Kaufman | In Addition | 1981 | ||||||
| Karl Fulves | Establishing Shots | 1981 | ||||||
| Karl Fulves | Pass Partout | 1981 | ||||||
| Gary Ouellet | The Switch Syndrome | 1981 | ||||||
| Jon Racherbaumer | Technical Touches | 1982 | ||||||
| Stephen Minch | In Praise of the Lowly Flourish | 1982 | ||||||
| Bobby Bernard | Just a Thought on the "Charlie Chaplin Shuffle" | 1982 | ||||||
| Ross Bertram | Little Things Mark the Professional | 1983 | ||||||
| Ross Bertram | It Pays Off | 1983 | ||||||
| Stephen Minch | Bibliography of Other Blindfold Card Acts | 1984 | ||||||
| Rudolf Braunmüller | Unmoderne Kartenmagie | Jan. 1984 |
Intermagic
(Vol. 10 No. 3 & 4)
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| Robert Orben | Verhaltensregeln für Zuschauer von Kartenkünstlern | Nov. 1984 |
Intermagic
(Vol. 11 No. 2)
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| Frederick Braue | Effective Card Routine | 1985 |
The Fred Braue Notebooks
(Issue 2)
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| Charlie Miller | Audience Tricks Nominated by Charles Miller | 1985 |
The Fred Braue Notebooks
(Issue 2)
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| Roberto Giobbi | Deck External and Deck Internal Effects | 1987 | ||||||
| Jamy Ian Swiss | On Routining, Descriptive Scripts, and Card Tricks | 1987 | ||||||
| Darwin Ortiz | Introductory Comments | 1988 | ||||||
| Darwin Ortiz | Introductory Comments | 1988 | ||||||
| Jamy Ian Swiss | Price Tags | Mar. 1988 |
Magical Arts Journal
(Vol. 2 No. 2)
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| Ray Grismer | Gambling Expose vs. Gambling Demonstration | 1988 | ||||||
| Jon Racherbaumer | In Spades | Dec. 1990 |
The Olram File
(Issue 1)
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| Gary Ouellet | Close Up Hint | 1990 | ||||||
| Gary Ouellet, Walter E. Cummings | Close Up Hint | 1990 | ||||||
| Jon Racherbaumer | In Spades - Perhaps it was a dream? | June 1991 |
The Olram File
(Issue 6)
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| Jon Racherbaumer | No Access | Aug. 1991 |
The Olram File
(Issue 8)
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| Jon Racherbaumer | Cosmic Cardman's Handback | Aug. 1991 |
The Olram File
(Issue 8)
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| Eugene Burger | Are Card Tricks Card Magic | 1991 | ||||||
| T. Page Wright | Chapter 6 - Non-Sleight of Hand Card Mysteries | 1991 | ||||||
| T. Page Wright | Chapter 13 - Mental Effects with Cards | 1991 | ||||||
| T. Page Wright | Chapter 14 - Card Effects for Stage | 1991 | ||||||
| Al Smith | Almost Faking It | 1991 | ||||||
| Al Smith | Don't Get Lost in the Shuffle | 1991 | ||||||
| Jon Racherbaumer | On the Ace Assembly Plot & Open Travelers | Mar. 1991 |
Swipe
(Issue 1)
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| Jon Racherbaumer | Leftover Popover Hangovers | May 1991 |
Swipe
(Issue 2)
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| Stephen Hobbs | A Note on Credits and Sleights | 1992 | ||||||
| Jack Carpenter, Stephen Hobbs | Thoughts on Card Cheating | 1992 | ||||||
| Jon Racherbaumer | In Spades | Apr. 1992 |
The Olram File
(Issue 11)
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| Frederick Braue | On Practicing Sleights | 1992 |
The Fred Braue Notebooks
(Issue 6)
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| Gary Kurtz | Third Example: The order in which you have three cards chosen and revealed | 1992 | ||||||
| Steve Dusheck, James M. Klein | Card Magic | 1992 | ||||||
| Richard Kaufman | Inner-Workings | July 1992 |
Magic
(Vol. 1 No. 11)
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| Edward Marlo | Retro-Look | 1993 |
The Olram File
(Issue 15)
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| Edward Marlo, John Scarne | Scarne Review | 1993 |
The Olram File
(Issue 15)
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| Jon Racherbaumer | In Spades | 1993 |
The Olram File
(Issue 16)
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| Al Smith | A Musing | Jan. 1993 |
New Sorcerer
(Vol. 1 No. 4)
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| Vicente Canuto | La presentación en la magia | 1993 | ||||||
| John Northern Hilliard | First Draft: The Master of the Playing Cards | 1994 | ||||||
| Karl Fulves | Rome and Juliet Theme | 1994 | ||||||
| Gary Ouellet | Fine Tuning | 1994 | ||||||
| Roger Crosthwaite | Completing the Circle | 1994 | ||||||
| Christian M. Thurnes | Das Signieren von Karten | Nov. 1994 |
Intermagic
(Vol. 19 No. 1)
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| Simon Aronson | 3. Memorizing the Aronson Stack | 1994 | ||||||
| Larry Jennings | Jennings on Practice | Sep. 1994 |
Magic
(Vol. 4 No. 1)
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| Roberto Giobbi | The Art of Performing Magic with Cards | 1995 | ||||||
| Roberto Giobbi | A Brief History of Playing Cards | 1995 | ||||||
| Roberto Giobbi | Instruments and Tools | 1995 | ||||||
| Chad Long | Quick Thoughts... | 1995 | ||||||
| Karl Fulves | Practice Is Perfect | 1995 | ||||||
| Karl Fulves | What This Is Not | 1995 | ||||||
| Karl Fulves | Prelude | 1995 | ||||||
| Karl Fulves | Tricks with Cards | 1995 | ||||||
| Oliver Erens | Neue Karten-Terminologie | 1995 | ||||||
| Eugene Burger | 9. Are Card Tricks Card Magic? | 1995 | ||||||
| Roberto Giobbi | Outs for Disasters and Disturbances | 1996 | ||||||
| The Study of Card Conjuring | 1996 | |||||||
| Roberto Giobbi | The Study of Card Conjuring | 1996 | ||||||
| Tommy Wonder | Counting Cards, Unnatural Rhythms and Other Problems | 1996 | ||||||
| Michael Close | On Sleights | 1996 | ||||||
| Tom Stone | Pipedream NO. 2: Backstage with a Cardician | 1996 | ||||||
| Karl Fulves | Scarne's Secret | 1996 | ||||||
| Karl Fulves | Gambler's Den | 1996 | ||||||
| Jan Isenbart | Weltbester Kartentrick | 1996 | ||||||
| Ken Krenzel | Primordia Rerum: Magical Magic | 1997 | ||||||
| Roger Crosthwaite | Pebbles and Aces | 1997 | ||||||
| Adrian "Ramblar" Guerra | Scene Card Magic | 1997 | ||||||
| John Moehring | Cards, Cards, Cards | Sep. 1997 |
Magic
(Vol. 7 No. 1)
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| Roberto Giobbi | Words for Enthusiasts | 1998 | ||||||
| Jeff Busby | Chapter 11: Gambling Demos and Shuffles | 1998 | ||||||
| Chris Hampton | A Few Words About Deck Management | Nov./Dec. 1998 |
The Magic Menu
(Vol. 9 No. 50)
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| David Regal | Hailing the Great Discrepancy | 1999 | ||||||
| David Regal | The Oddity | 1999 | ||||||
| David Regal | Diamonds in the Rough | 1999 | ||||||
| Roger Crosthwaite | The Evolution of Think-a-Card | 1999 | ||||||
| Jerry Mentzer | Comments Regarding Self Working Card Tricks | 1999 | ||||||
| Barrie Richardson | Chapter VII: Mental Card Effects | 1999 | ||||||
| Fredric P. Lamazor | On Finger Moistening | 1999 | ||||||
| Roberto Giobbi | The Structure of Magic | 2000 | ||||||
| Barry Price | Introduction | 2000 | ||||||
| Jan Isenbart | The World's Greatest Card Trick | 2000 | ||||||
| Jerry Mentzer | Memory Jogger | 2000 | ||||||
| Paul Curry | A Card Revelation Tip | 2001 | ||||||
| Dan Buck, Dave Buck | Epilogue | 2001 | ||||||
| Eugene Burger | "Can You Tell Me The Best Card Tricks?" | Apr. 2001 |
Genii
(Vol. 64 No. 4)
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| Darwin Ortiz | Showing or Hiding Skill | 2002 | ||||||
| John Carney | The Classic Pass and Other Myths | 2002 | ||||||
| Ron Bauer | Sleight-of-Hand with Cards | 2002 | ||||||
| David Berglas | The Berglas Effect | 2002 | ||||||
| Jamy Ian Swiss | On Routining, Descriptive Scripts, And Card Tricks | 2002 | ||||||
| Al Baker | Mental Card Tricks | 2003 |
The Secret Ways of Al Baker
(Issue Mental Magic)
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| Al Baker | Cartomancy, or The Meaning of the Cards in a Deck | 2003 |
The Secret Ways of Al Baker
(Issue Mental Magic)
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| Roberto Giobbi | Lines and Bits: Humorous and Practical | 2003 | ||||||
| Roberto Giobbi | Die Struktur der Zauberkunst | 2003 | ||||||
| Joshua Jay | Personalized Playing Cards | Mar. 2003 |
Magic
(Vol. 12 No. 7)
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| Joshua Jay | In Defense of Card Magic | July 2003 |
Magic
(Vol. 12 No. 11)
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| Robert Cassidy | Mentalism with Playing Cards | 2003 | ||||||
| David Acer | Confessions of a Road Warrior #12: Five Card Mental Farce | 2004 | ||||||
| Wesley James | Anthropomorphization of Playing Cards | 2004 | ||||||
| Wesley James | Mental Magic | 2004 | ||||||
| Wesley James | Why Not? | 2004 | ||||||
| Wesley James | Breaking In the Cards | 2004 | ||||||
| Grace Ann Morgan | The Foundation of ProActive Control | 2004 | ||||||
| Grace Ann Morgan | ProActive Strategies | 2004 | ||||||
| Grace Ann Morgan | Fail-Safe Guidelines | 2004 | ||||||
| Steve Beam | To Memorize or Not to Memorize | 2004 | ||||||
| Ron Frost | Warning! | 2004 | ||||||
| Kostya Kimlat | Magic with Cards | 2004 | ||||||
| Kostya Kimlat | Flourishing Away: Combining Skill with Style | 2004 | ||||||
| Barrie Richardson | Chapter VII: Card Deceptions | 2005 | ||||||
| Barrie Richardson | Chapter X: Aha! Think of a Card | 2005 | ||||||
| "Magic" Christian Stelzel | The Sleights, Effects, and Routines | Nov. 2005 |
Genii
(Vol. 68 No. 11)
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| Jack Avis | Spectator learns a Trick | 2006 | ||||||
| Jack Avis | My List of Best Trouble-Free "Workers" | 2006 | ||||||
| Roberto Giobbi | The Genii Session | Jan. 2006 |
Genii
(Vol. 69 No. 1)
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| Roberto Giobbi | List of Basic Effects of Card Magic | July 2006 |
Genii
(Vol. 69 No. 7)
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| Roberto Giobbi | The Great Themes, Effects, and Tricks in Card Magic, Part One | Sep. 2006 |
Genii
(Vol. 69 No. 9)
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| Roberto Giobbi | The Great Themes, Effects, and Tricks in Card Magic, Part Two | Nov. 2006 |
Genii
(Vol. 69 No. 11)
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| Jon Racherbaumer | Of Diverse Petie Juggling Knacks: Mulling Over Moves | Aug. 2006 |
Antinomy
(Vol. 2 No. 3)
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