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Jerry K. Hartman Covered, Up selection is lost in deck and deck wrapped in handkerchief, spectator forcibly sets wrapped deck down on table and selection is found face up on top of deck
Inspired byAlso published here 2007 144
David Britland (reviewer) A Tribute to Robert Harbin - Two Lectures by Jim Steinmeyer by Jim Steinmeyer June 2009
Genii (Vol. 72 No. 6)
86
David Britland (reviewer) 101108 by Marc Spelmann June 2009
Genii (Vol. 72 No. 6)
86
David Britland (reviewer) Quintet by Jack Kent Tillar June 2009
Genii (Vol. 72 No. 6)
87
David Britland (reviewer) Limited by Daniel Garcia June 2009
Genii (Vol. 72 No. 6)
88
David Britland (reviewer) Modern Art and Other Mysteries by Jim Steinmeyer Oct. 2009
Genii (Vol. 72 No. 10)
78
David Britland (reviewer) Gibecière, Summer 2009 by Stephen Minch Oct. 2009
Genii (Vol. 72 No. 10)
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David Britland (reviewer) Ken Krenzel's Relaxed Impossibilities by Ken Krenzel (written by Stephen Minch) Oct. 2009
Genii (Vol. 72 No. 10)
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Nick Trost Exchange Poker spectator can switch cards around between hands
  • Phase One - Four of a Kind
  • Phase Two - Royal Flush
Inspired byRelated to 2009 415
Benjamin Earl Student of the Game brief variation
Inspired by Oct. 2010
Gambit (Issue 2)
16
Steve Reynolds Monkey in the Box bold open loading, case flicked out between two halves
Related toAlso published here 2010 26
Richard Kaufman Genii Speaks Rich Bloch, David Britland, Richard Timothy Sullivan
Feb. 2010
Genii (Vol. 73 No. 2)
10
David Britland Cardopolis 1: The Bogus Effect reverse Svengali
Feb. 2010
Genii (Vol. 73 No. 2)
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David Britland (reviewer) David Nixon: Entertainer with the Magic Touch by David Nixon (written by Edwin A. Dawes)
co-author Stephen Short
Feb. 2010
Genii (Vol. 73 No. 2)
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David Britland (reviewer) The Book of Forgotten Secrets by Stephen Minch Feb. 2010
Genii (Vol. 73 No. 2)
77
David Britland (reviewer) Ade Duval, Silken Sorcerer by Ade Duval (written by David Charvet) Feb. 2010
Genii (Vol. 73 No. 2)
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David Britland (reviewer) Duke Tricks with Cards by Burton S. Sperber Feb. 2010
Genii (Vol. 73 No. 2)
79
David Britland The Last Game
  • Cardopolis
multiphase routine, with card swapping
Also published here Apr. 2010
Genii (Vol. 73 No. 4)
18
David Britland The Chalice from the Palace
  • Cardopolis
five glasses, one with "poison"
Inspired by
  • "Borgia's Banquet" (Cyril Tomlinson, Abracadabra, Vol. 28, No. 704)
Related to
June 2010
Genii (Vol. 73 No. 6)
35
David Britland (reviewer) Gibecière, Winter 2010 by Stephen Minch June 2010
Genii (Vol. 73 No. 6)
77
David Britland (reviewer) Hellis in Wonderland by Will Houstoun June 2010
Genii (Vol. 73 No. 6)
77
David Britland (reviewer) Illusionarium: Lost Secrets from Magic's Golden Era by Adrian Plate June 2010
Genii (Vol. 73 No. 6)
78
David Britland (reviewer) The Larsen Mental Mysteries by William Larsen June 2010
Genii (Vol. 73 No. 6)
79
David Britland (reviewer) Card College Lightest by Roberto Giobbi June 2010
Genii (Vol. 73 No. 6)
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David Britland The Trick That Baffled Babbage 2.0
  • Cardopolis
card cut to, remembered and replaced, ends up at a chosen number, mis-spelled "Babbabe" in title
Inspired by Aug. 2010
Genii (Vol. 73 No. 8)
42
David Britland Progressive Jacks Plus
  • Caropolis
selection lost, red Jacks cut face up in deck, then black Jacks put together in deck, a sandwich of all four Jacks with one selection is found in center
Inspired byVariationsAlso published here
  • England Up Close, Peter Duffie ebook
Oct. 2010
Genii (Vol. 73 No. 10)
14
David Britland Easy Collectors
Inspired by Oct. 2010
Genii (Vol. 73 No. 10)
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David Britland (reviewer) CAAN Craft by Jerry K. Hartman Oct. 2010
Genii (Vol. 73 No. 10)
84
David Britland (reviewer) Grand Illusions by Jonathan Pendragon Oct. 2010
Genii (Vol. 73 No. 10)
85
David Britland (reviewer) The Goldston Journals by Will Goldston Oct. 2010
Genii (Vol. 73 No. 10)
86
David Britland (reviewer) The Magigram Magazine Oct. 2010
Genii (Vol. 73 No. 10)
86
Edouard-Joseph Raynaly, David Britland Raynaly's Card at Any Number
  • Cardopolis
two-deck handling
Dec. 2010
Genii (Vol. 73 No. 12)
14
Harry Lorayne Royal Impossibility Royal Flush cards lost and found again, losing by cutting them into the deck with crimp and cuts
Related toAlso published here 2011 171
David Britland The Trick That Cannot Be Explained
  • Cardopolis
top card is predicted after a spectator's shuffle
Feb. 2011
Genii (Vol. 74 No. 2)
36
David Britland The Trick That Can Be Explained Will de Sieve card
Inspired by
  • "Kismet Connection" (Ted Lesley, Para Miracles)
Feb. 2011
Genii (Vol. 74 No. 2)
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David Britland (reviewer) Classic Correspondence from Egyptian Hall Museum by Mike Caveney Feb. 2011
Genii (Vol. 74 No. 2)
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David Britland (reviewer) Subsequent Impuzzibilities by Jim Steinmeyer Feb. 2011
Genii (Vol. 74 No. 2)
89
David Britland (reviewer) Above the Fold by Rich Aviles Feb. 2011
Genii (Vol. 74 No. 2)
89
David Britland (reviewer) Magic Shows by Ian Keable-Elliott Feb. 2011
Genii (Vol. 74 No. 2)
90
David Britland (reviewer) Destroyers by Troy Hooser (written by Joshua Jay) Feb. 2011
Genii (Vol. 74 No. 2)
90
David Britland (reviewer) Moments by Troy Hooser (written by Joshua Jay) Feb. 2011
Genii (Vol. 74 No. 2)
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David Britland Cyclic Aces
  • Cardopolis
Aces are cut to fairly, using crimp
Related toVariationsAlso published here
  • Sorcerer, Issue 2, 1988
Apr. 2011
Genii (Vol. 74 No. 4)
14
David Britland Vernon's Aces Ride Again tabled cut control sequence with crimp
Related toVariationsAlso published here
  • Cardopolis Blog, April 2005
Apr. 2011
Genii (Vol. 74 No. 4)
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David Britland A Four Star Discovery cut control with crimp while four spectators say stop during riffling
Apr. 2011
Genii (Vol. 74 No. 4)
15
David Britland Luis & The Magicians on Luis de Matos
May 2011
Genii (Vol. 74 No. 5)
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David Britland Going Deeper
  • Cardopolis
intro on the Depth Illusion
June 2011
Genii (Vol. 74 No. 6)
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David Britland Front Tilt
Related to
  • "Awkward Ace" (Edward Vitor, Further Magic of the Hands, 1946)
June 2011
Genii (Vol. 74 No. 6)
18
David Britland (reviewer) The Berglas Effects by David Berglas (written by Richard Kaufman) June 2011
Genii (Vol. 74 No. 6)
81
David Britland (reviewer) The Lives of a Showman by Mark Lewis June 2011
Genii (Vol. 74 No. 6)
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David Britland A Look at Two New Books on Magic and the Mind
July 2011
Genii (Vol. 74 No. 7)
73
David Britland (reviewer) Paranormality by Richard Wiseman July 2011
Genii (Vol. 74 No. 7)
73
David Britland (reviewer) Sleight of Mind by Stephen Macknik (written by Susana Martinez-Conde)
written by Macknik and Conde
July 2011
Genii (Vol. 74 No. 7)
73
David Britland Zennerism
  • Cardopolis
Inspired byAlso published here
  • Cardopolis Blog, Feb. 2005
Aug. 2011
Genii (Vol. 74 No. 8)
22
David Britland So Special
  • Cardopolis
using double deal turnover
Oct. 2011
Genii (Vol. 74 No. 10)
14
David Britland (reviewer) Rameses: The Forgotten Star by Albert "Rameses" Marchinski (written by Christopher Woodward) Oct. 2011
Genii (Vol. 74 No. 10)
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David Britland (reviewer) The Elusive Moth by Adele Friel Rhindress Oct. 2011
Genii (Vol. 74 No. 10)
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David Britland (reviewer) Tug's Tales by Tug Wilson (written by Christopher Brinson) Oct. 2011
Genii (Vol. 74 No. 10)
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David Britland (reviewer) Al Koran: The Unique Years by Al Koran (written by Martin Breese) Oct. 2011
Genii (Vol. 74 No. 10)
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David Britland The Card Magic of Dani DaOrtiz
Nov. 2011
Genii (Vol. 74 No. 11)
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David Britland Second Sight
  • Cardopolis
one spectator choses card, another a number and another either red or blue, all are predicted in humorous way after first getting them wrong
Dec. 2011
Genii (Vol. 74 No. 12)
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David Britland An Impossible Location first the location fails, then it works
Inspired by Dec. 2011
Genii (Vol. 74 No. 12)
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David Britland The Last Game multiphase routine, with card swapping
Also published here Mar. 2011
Antinomy (Vol. 4 No. 3)
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Darwin Ortiz, David Britland Tabled Control Sequence using crimp, see also p. 150
Inspired by 2012 4
Persi Diaconis, Ron Graham The Magic of De Bruijn Sequences Deck tossed out, deck is freely cut and five cards are selected, magician correctly divines them all, also describes the mathematics behind De Bruijn sequences
Inspired byVariations 2012 18
David Britland René Lavand
Feb. 2012
Genii (Vol. 75 No. 2)
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David Britland (reviewer) Adelaide Herrmann: Queen of Magic by Margaret Steele Feb. 2012
Genii (Vol. 75 No. 2)
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David Britland (reviewer) Tricks of the Trade by Graham M. Jones Feb. 2012
Genii (Vol. 75 No. 2)
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David Britland (reviewer) Special Effects by Harry Lorayne Feb. 2012
Genii (Vol. 75 No. 2)
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David Britland (reviewer) The Open Prediction Project by Thomas Baxter Feb. 2012
Genii (Vol. 75 No. 2)
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David Britland Sudden Impact
  • Cardopolis
card selected, performer cuts deck into three packets with a mate on each that matches selection
Inspired by Mar. 2012
Genii (Vol. 75 No. 3)
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David Britland Jackrobats
  • Cardopolis
with extra card, first packet then in the deck
Also published here May 2012
Genii (Vol. 75 No. 5)
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David Britland (reviewer) Fast and Loose by Harry Anderson June 2012
Genii (Vol. 75 No. 6)
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David Britland (reviewer) 7-7-7: The 21 Card Trick by Jon Racherbaumer June 2012
Genii (Vol. 75 No. 6)
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David Britland (reviewer) The Essential Sol Stone by Sol Stone (written by Stephen Hobbs) June 2012
Genii (Vol. 75 No. 6)
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David Britland Science Friction
  • Cardopolis
featuring a one-handed push-off to the front
July 2012
Genii (Vol. 75 No. 7)
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David Britland Miguel Angel Gea: The Essence of Magic
July 2012
Genii (Vol. 75 No. 7)
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David Britland Rorschach Revelations
  • Cardopolis
Rorschach images chosen from several cards with them are duplicated
Inspired by
  • Chandu's Psychoanalysis
Sep. 2012
Genii (Vol. 75 No. 9)
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David Britland Woody's Wonderland on Woody Aragon
Sep. 2012
Genii (Vol. 75 No. 9)
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David Britland (reviewer) Unreal by Bruce Bernstein Oct. 2012
Genii (Vol. 75 No. 10)
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David Britland (reviewer) The Show Doctor by Jeff McBride Oct. 2012
Genii (Vol. 75 No. 10)
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David Britland (reviewer) The Nine of Diamonds by Mark Beecham
and Neil Stirton
Oct. 2012
Genii (Vol. 75 No. 10)
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David Britland (reviewer) The FFFF Book by Obie O'Brien Oct. 2012
Genii (Vol. 75 No. 10)
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Dani DaOrtiz Sobre David Britland brief intro on David Britland
2012
El Manuscrito (Vol. 5 No. 21)
665
David Britland Chan Canasta - Un hombre excelente on Chan Canasta
2012
El Manuscrito (Vol. 5 No. 21)
665
David Britland Straight to the Point
  • Cardopolis
one of five, mathematical
Inspired by Feb. 2013
Genii (Vol. 76 No. 2)
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David Britland Super Memory Remembered
  • Cardopolis
remembering thirty objects written on cards
Inspired by
  • Arthur W. Roots, The Magic Wand, issue 254
Apr. 2013
Genii (Vol. 76 No. 4)
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David Britland (reviewer) Allow Me To Give You Some Really Awful Advice! by Jim Steinmeyer May 2013
Genii (Vol. 76 No. 5)
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David Britland (reviewer) Will Goldston The Man and the Legend by Will Goldston (written by Fergus Roy) May 2013
Genii (Vol. 76 No. 5)
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David Britland (reviewer) Milbourne Christopher, The Man and His Magic by Milbourne Christopher (written by William V. Rauscher) May 2013
Genii (Vol. 76 No. 5)
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David Britland (reviewer) Frankly Disillusioned by Dean Metcalfe May 2013
Genii (Vol. 76 No. 5)
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David Britland (reviewer) The Triskadequadra Principle by John Hostler May 2013
Genii (Vol. 76 No. 5)
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David Britland The Problem with Premonition
  • Cardopolis
envelope brought out, card selected and shuffled back, any number named and counted to, card is not there, it has vanishes and is now in envelope with the number written on its back
Inspired by Aug. 2013
Genii (Vol. 76 No. 8)
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David Britland Simon Drake's Museum Of Amazing Illusions
Sep. 2013
Genii (Vol. 76 No. 9)
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David Britland (reviewer) Japan Ingenious by Steve Cohen
and Richard Kaufman
Sep. 2013
Genii (Vol. 76 No. 9)
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David Britland (reviewer) The Ultimate Sphinx by Various
Conjuring Arts Research Center
Sep. 2013
Genii (Vol. 76 No. 9)
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David Britland David Williamson: Not So Ridiculous
Dec. 2013
Genii (Vol. 76 No. 12)
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David Britland Computer Deck
  • Cardopolis
three cards are pushed into deck and push out another card
Related toVariations Jan. 2014
Genii (Vol. 77 No. 1)
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David Britland (reviewer) The Science Behind The Ghost! by Jim Steinmeyer Jan. 2014
Genii (Vol. 77 No. 1)
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David Britland (reviewer) Nukes by Doug Edwards Jan. 2014
Genii (Vol. 77 No. 1)
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David Britland (reviewer) Days Of Wine And Magic by John Derris Jan. 2014
Genii (Vol. 77 No. 1)
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David Britland (reviewer) Mathematical Card Magic by Colm Mulcahy Jan. 2014
Genii (Vol. 77 No. 1)
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David Britland Computer Revelation
  • Cardopolis
plunger revelation of selection by pushing cards through the deck, three mates are found as well
Inspired by Apr. 2014
Genii (Vol. 77 No. 4)
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David Britland Paul Daniels: Bravura
Apr. 2014
Genii (Vol. 77 No. 4)
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David Britland (reviewer) Numbers, Cards and Time by Carlos Vinuesa May 2014
Genii (Vol. 77 No. 5)
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David Britland (reviewer) The Time Travel Manual by Josh Zandman May 2014
Genii (Vol. 77 No. 5)
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David Britland (reviewer) Cerebrate by Richard Mark (written by Marc Salem)
co-authored
May 2014
Genii (Vol. 77 No. 5)
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David Britland (reviewer) Seventeen Secrets by James Alan May 2014
Genii (Vol. 77 No. 5)
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David Britland The Trick That Didn't Fool Einstein
  • Cardopolis
credit information
  • History of a Mystery
  • A Novel Card Effect
  • The Repeat
  • Finally
Related to June 2014
Genii (Vol. 77 No. 6)
24
David Britland Adamathica: ACAAN for 1921
  • Cardopolis
intro, on Bertram Adams's "Adamathica"
Aug. 2014
Genii (Vol. 77 No. 8)
24
David Britland The Trick that Baffled Babbage four cards pocketed unseen, any card thought of from remaining cards, it ends up at position indicated by the four cards (values added) after dealing procedure
Inspired by
  • "Adamathica" (Bertram Adams, marketed 1921)
Aug. 2014
Genii (Vol. 77 No. 8)
24
David Britland (reviewer) Calculated Chaos by Chris Westfall Sep. 2014
Genii (Vol. 77 No. 9)
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David Britland (reviewer) True Mysteries II by Fraser Parker (written by Gavin O'Rourke-Soccorso)
co-authored
Sep. 2014
Genii (Vol. 77 No. 9)
81
David Britland (reviewer) Close Culls by Harapan Ong Sep. 2014
Genii (Vol. 77 No. 9)
83
David Britland Return to Oil and Water
  • Cardopolis
4&4
Nov. 2014
Genii (Vol. 77 No. 11)
26
David Britland The Last Game
Inspired byAlso published here 2015 245
David Britland (reviewer) The Vernon Companion by Michael A. Perovich Jan. 2015
Genii (Vol. 78 No. 1)
82
David Britland (reviewer) Treacherous Impuzzibilities by Jim Steinmeyer Jan. 2015
Genii (Vol. 78 No. 1)
82
David Britland (reviewer) The Sense of Wonder by Robert E. Neale Jan. 2015
Genii (Vol. 78 No. 1)
83
David Britland (reviewer) Charles Dickens Magician by Ian Keable-Elliott Jan. 2015
Genii (Vol. 78 No. 1)
84
David Britland Fool's Mate
  • Cardopolis
spectator signs a card on the back and performer writes prediction underneath, card stabbed face-up into deck by spectator, it is next to prediction
Inspired byRelated to Feb. 2015
Genii (Vol. 78 No. 2)
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David Britland Joshua Jay: Some Steps Along The Way
Feb. 2015
Genii (Vol. 78 No. 2)
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David Britland Bobby Bernard's Principle X
  • Cardopolis
description of challenge location in which spectator cuts the deck, looks at bottom card, and shuffles before and after
Apr. 2015
Genii (Vol. 78 No. 4)
29
David Britland (reviewer) The Bammo Ten Card Deal Dossier by Bob Farmer May 2015
Genii (Vol. 78 No. 5)
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David Britland (reviewer) Piddington's Secrets by Martin T. Hart May 2015
Genii (Vol. 78 No. 5)
85
David Britland (reviewer) Classic Fantastic by Paul Vigil May 2015
Genii (Vol. 78 No. 5)
86
David Britland (reviewer) Confictura by Thomas Moore May 2015
Genii (Vol. 78 No. 5)
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David Britland Another Not So Open Prediction
  • Cardopolis
June 2015
Genii (Vol. 78 No. 6)
21
Tomas Blomberg Joseph Kerr prediction written on back of Joker, it is cut in deck and ends up next to predicted card
Related to July 2015
Genii (Vol. 78 No. 7)
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David Britland (reviewer) Alan Shaxon - The Sophisticated Sorcerer by Alan Shaxon (written by Scott Penrose, Stephen Short) Aug. 2015
Genii (Vol. 78 No. 8)
78
David Britland (reviewer) The Yankee Magic Collector Issue 14 by Andrew J. Pinard Aug. 2015
Genii (Vol. 78 No. 8)
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David Britland (reviewer) The 80's Called... They Want Their Magic Book Back, Vol. 1 by Jonathan Friedman Aug. 2015
Genii (Vol. 78 No. 8)
80
David Britland Secret of The Cards
  • Cardopolis
secret juice-like one-way marking on all Haines's ESP decks
Also published here
  • Center Tear magazine by Trevor McCombie
Oct. 2015
Genii (Vol. 78 No. 10)
20
David Britland (reviewer) Inspirations: Performing Magic with Excellence by Lawrence Hass Nov. 2015
Genii (Vol. 78 No. 11)
81
David Britland (reviewer) Psycrecy 1 by Steve Drury Nov. 2015
Genii (Vol. 78 No. 11)
83
David Britland Revisiting Annemann's Nightmare
  • Cardopolis
selected card vanishes and turns out to be card previously removed on which prediction is written
Inspired by Dec. 2015
Genii (Vol. 78 No. 12)
26
David Britland Peek Force Card credit information
Dec. 2015
Genii (Vol. 78 No. 12)
26
David Britland The Case of the Missing Hats
  • Cardopolis
adding an extra card for cleaner initial display
cards with magicians and with hats, story trick
Inspired by Mar. 2016
Genii (Vol. 79 No. 3)
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David Britland (reviewer) Impromptu by Martin Gardner (written by Todd Karr) Apr. 2016
Genii (Vol. 79 No. 4)
103
David Britland (reviewer) An Essay on Magic by Robert E. Neale Apr. 2016
Genii (Vol. 79 No. 4)
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David Britland (reviewer) Conjurors, Cardsharps and Conmen by Bernard Reid Apr. 2016
Genii (Vol. 79 No. 4)
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David Britland Calculating Cards III
  • Cardopolis
chosen card is spelled to with a phrase announced at the beginning, 26th location
Inspired by
  • "Calculating Cards II" (Gerry Lee, The Magic Wand #255)
May 2016
Genii (Vol. 79 No. 5)
20
David Britland, Billy O'Connor Billy O'Connor's Two Card Discovery
  • Cardopolis
card stabbed in deck by spectator next to two selections, short card
Inspired by July 2016
Genii (Vol. 79 No. 7)
24
David Britland Billy O'Connor
July 2016
Genii (Vol. 79 No. 7)
24
David Britland Thoughts on Hummer's Monte
  • spectator cuts three packets, bottom card of one packet is remembered and other two piles switched
  • repeat phase with Svengali deck
Inspired by Sep. 2016
Genii (Vol. 79 No. 9)
26
David Britland Lesley Hazlitt
Oct. 2016
Genii (Vol. 79 No. 10)
11
David Britland (reviewer) Mentalissimo by John Bannon Oct. 2016
Genii (Vol. 79 No. 10)
102
David Britland (reviewer) The Secrets of So Sato by So Sato (written by Richard Kaufman) Oct. 2016
Genii (Vol. 79 No. 10)
104
David Britland (reviewer) Super Sized Silly by David Kaye Oct. 2016
Genii (Vol. 79 No. 10)
105
Roy Walton Cascade rainbow back finish
Related toVariations 2016 239
John Cottle (reviewer) Phantoms of the Card Table by David Britland (written by Gazzo Macee) Sep. 2017
Operandi (Issue 3)
15
David Britland Spin Change
  • Cardopolis
face-up out-jogged card is spun around and it changes
Feb. 2017
Genii (Vol. 80 No. 2)
30
David Britland Katherine Mills: Magic & Mind Games
Feb. 2017
Genii (Vol. 80 No. 2)
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David Britland (reviewer) Only My Apocalypse by Harry Lorayne Feb. 2017
Genii (Vol. 80 No. 2)
101
David Britland (reviewer) Ye Olde Magic Magazine by Marco Pusterla Feb. 2017
Genii (Vol. 80 No. 2)
103
David Britland A Good Guess
  • Cardolopis ("Simply Stebbins")
deck is freely cut and four cards are selected from that spot, magician correctly divines them all
Inspired by Apr. 2017
Genii (Vol. 80 No. 4)
32
Richard Wiseman, David Britland The Transparent Man on Robert Harbin's illusion idea with glass sheets
Related to
  • "The Transparent Man" (Robert Harbin, Something New In Magic, 1929)
Apr. 2017
Genii (Vol. 80 No. 4)
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David Britland (reviewer) Less is More by Benjamin Earl June 2017
Genii (Vol. 80 No. 6)
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David Britland (reviewer) Real Ace Cutting by Benjamin Earl June 2017
Genii (Vol. 80 No. 6)
100
David Britland (reviewer) Real Coin Magic by Benjamin Earl June 2017
Genii (Vol. 80 No. 6)
101
David Britland Return to Oil and Water
  • Cardopolis
4&4
Inspired by Aug. 2017
Genii (Vol. 80 No. 8)
46
David Britland Phase Six
  • Cardopolis
three cards cut to and reversed in one deck, it is dealt through in unison with another deck and matches occur at the selection
  • Signed Phase
  • Single Phase
  • Additional Predictions
Inspired by Jan. 2018
Genii (Vol. 81 No. 1)
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David Britland Max: The Making of a Maven
Feb. 2018
Genii (Vol. 81 No. 2)
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David Britland, Philip T. Goldstein Another Fine Mesh
  • Cardopolis
two selections vanish between three odd-backed Kings, then one King finds the selections in deck on either side, ungaffed handling
Inspired byAlso published here
  • Sorcerer No. 8
Mar. 2018
Genii (Vol. 81 No. 3)
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David Britland (reviewer) Anthony Owen's Secrets by Anthony Owen Apr. 2018
Genii (Vol. 81 No. 4)
90
David Britland (reviewer) Artful Deceptions by Allan Zola Kronzek Apr. 2018
Genii (Vol. 81 No. 4)
92
David Britland (reviewer) The St. James' Guide, or the Sharper Detected Apr. 2018
Genii (Vol. 81 No. 4)
93
David Britland Blind Coincidence Revisited
  • Cardopolis
performer and spectator reverse a card in half the deck under the table, they are mates
Inspired by May 2018
Genii (Vol. 81 No. 5)
46
Alexander de Cova Rene Lavand's Trick
  • Notizen
one-handed cutting to the Aces
Inspired by July 2018
Genii (Vol. 81 No. 7)
70
David Britland Easy Poker
  • Cardopolis
five-card hand is chosen, spectator removes one card and takes another one, it completes a Royal Flush
Inspired byVariations Aug. 2018
Genii (Vol. 81 No. 8)
30
David Britland (reviewer) Richard Potter: America's First Black Celebrity by John A. Hodgson Sep. 2018
Genii (Vol. 81 No. 9)
101
David Britland (reviewer) Here Is Real Magic: A Magician's Search for Wonder in the Modern World by Nate Staniforth Sep. 2018
Genii (Vol. 81 No. 9)
102
David Britland (reviewer) Spun Into Gold: The Secret Life of a Female Magician by Romany Romany Sep. 2018
Genii (Vol. 81 No. 9)
104
David Britland Offworld
  • Cardopolis
two piles, credit information
Related toAlso published here Oct. 2018
Genii (Vol. 81 No. 10)
34
David Britland Laura London: Magic Saved My Life
Dec. 2018
Genii (Vol. 81 No. 12)
34
David Britland Alien
  • Cardopolis
red-backed card takes on identity of three blue-backed selections, then is shown to be the Joker, packet handling, Universal Card Plot
Related to Dec. 2018
Genii (Vol. 81 No. 12)
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Justin Higham, Richard Vollmer, Christian Gambin Impressionistic Ace Controls four Aces cut into deck one by one, end up together on top
  • Method One (Vollmer & Marlo, tabled, two crimps)
  • Method Two (Higham, tabled, two crimps)
  • Method Three (Gambin, tabled, two crimps)
  • Method Four to Eleven (Higham, some tabled, some with hands & tabled, one, two or no crimps, some with overhand shuffles)
Inspired byRelated toVariations 2019
The Neat Review (Issue 1 - London 2019)
40
Allan Ackerman Surprise Bluff Aces color changing back kicker of Aces
Inspired byAlso published here 2019 75
David Britland (reviewer) Empire of Enchantment: The Story of Indian Magic by John Zubrzycki Jan. 2019
Genii (Vol. 82 No. 1)
100
David Britland (reviewer) Only Ideas: Your How-To Guide to Creating Magic by Rory Adams Jan. 2019
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David Britland (reviewer) Distilled: 100% Pure Self-Working Card Magic by Ryan Matney Jan. 2019
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David Britland (reviewer) Beat'em, Cheat'em, Leve'em Bleedin' by Bob Farmer Jan. 2019
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David Britland, Jesse Demaline Sympathetic Cards from Pocket
  • Cardopolis
three cards chosen from one deck, performer locates duplicates of those cards from another deck in his pocket
Inspired by
  • "Sympathetic Cards from Pocket" (Jesse Demaline, The Magic Wand, issue 254)
Feb. 2019
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David Britland Reverse Mene Tekel Deck spectator cuts deck, gives half to performer, reverses top card into center, performer does same, spectator's card is divined and the reversed cards are mates
Inspired by
  • "Sight Unseen" (Ron Escott, marketed 1973)
Feb. 2019
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David Britland Pool Shark
  • Cardopolis
deck of cards in bulldog clip at end of pool table, ball strikes the deck and selection jumps out, seen on old British Pathé film by A.N. Redmond (Newman Mond), 1930s, also splitting the deck into four piles to find the Aces with a pool strike
Apr. 2019
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David Britland (reviewer) The Magic Rainbow by Juan Tamariz May 2019
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David Britland (reviewer) Cheat! The Sequel by Bob Farmer May 2019
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David Britland NIFTRIK: An S.H. Wimbrough Mystery
  • Cardopolis
on an unknown challenge location
Related to June 2019
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David Britland Shuffle Cut Aces
  • Cardopolis
using pick-up from wrong packets
Inspired by Aug. 2019
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David Britland (reviewer) Sideshow Showman by Jon Gresham Sep. 2019
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David Britland (reviewer) Elixir, Volume 2, Issue 1, Summer by Mike Helmer Sep. 2019
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David Britland (reviewer) Elixir, Volume 2, Issue 2 Winter by Mike Helmer Sep. 2019
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David Britland Mickey's Aces
  • Cardopolis
Collins Aces, reappearance of Aces in poker deal
Inspired by Oct. 2019
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David Britland Topas: Virtuoso
Nov. 2019
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David Britland Three Malini Mysteries
  • Cardopolis
Dec. 2019
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David Britland Trevor Hall's Direct Mind Reading
  • Cardopolis
guessing the method of Hall's effect, one card thought of from a spread and one chosen by cutting, both divined
Inspired by
  • "Direct Mind Reading" (Trevor Hall, marketed 1956)
Feb. 2020
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David Britland (reviewer) The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini by Joe Posnanski Feb. 2020
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David Britland (reviewer) Ernest Sewell and the London Magical Co. by Philip David Treece Feb. 2020
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David Britland (reviewer) Subtle Card Creations Volume 7 by Nick Trost Feb. 2020
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David Britland, Joe Dignam Joe Dignam's Card Through Table
  • Cardopolis
Apr. 2020
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David Britland Voo-Duo
  • Cardopolis
"Two cards linked by uncanny forces"
card in one half is touched and turned over, mate turns over in other half
Also published here June 2020
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David Britland Deck Version of Mexican Turnover Switch deck is turned face up around selected card
Also published here June 2020
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David Britland (reviewer) The Illusioneer by Carlos Vaquera June 2020
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David Britland (reviewer) The Code by Fenik June 2020
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David Britland (reviewer) Cards Against Reality by Lorenz Schär June 2020
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David Britland (reviewer) Plots & Methods by Michał Kociołek June 2020
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David Britland (reviewer) Ten Card Deal Dossier and Addendum by Bob Farmer June 2020
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David Britland Jimmy Findlay's Red Black Speller
  • Cardopolis
eight cards are mixed (four red and four black), spectator spells "red" or "black" repeatedly and thus separates the colors
Inspired by
  • "Eight Aces" (Jimmy Findlay, The Budget, Dec. 1947)
Related to
Aug. 2020
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Roberto Mansilla Chatting with Britland
  • Artifices
five-card hand is chosen, spectator removes one card and takes another one, it completes a Royal Flush
Inspired byVariations Oct. 2020
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David Britland The Vanishing
  • Cardopolis
card thought of, it vanishes and appears in the pocket
  • The Spectator Thinks of a Card
  • Reversing the Block
  • A Casual Interrogation
  • Deep Fishing
Oct. 2020
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David Britland (reviewer) The Darkest Corner: Ben Hart by Ben Hart (written by Neil Kelso) Oct. 2020
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David Britland (reviewer) Magical Musings by Ian Brennan Oct. 2020
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David Britland (reviewer) Suzy Wandas: The Lady with the Fairy Fingers by Suzy Wandas (written by Christ Van Herwegen, Kobe Van Herwegen) Oct. 2020
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David Britland The Weird Inn Revisited
  • Cardopolis
puzzle with Ace through Ten and rhyming patter, Ten Rooms paradox
Inspired by Dec. 2020
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David Britland Slay Belles
  • Cardopolis
Feb. 2021
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David Britland (reviewer) Master of Deception by John-Ivan Palmer Feb. 2021
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David Britland (reviewer) Plotting Astonishment by Theron Christensen Feb. 2021
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David Britland (reviewer) Resigned to Miracles by Peter Gröning Feb. 2021
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David Britland (reviewer) Semi-Automatic Card Tricks XII by Steve Beam Feb. 2021
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David Britland Double Dealing Dr. Daley's Last Trick
  • Cardopolis
Related to
  • "Daley's Last Breath" (Jerry Sadowitz, The Crimp #73, Aug. 2008)
Apr. 2021
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David Britland, Jerry K. Hartman Predator
  • Cardopolis
three cards chosen, a blank card becomes a duplicate of each one (Universal Card), it becomes a double backer and a Joker next
Inspired byAlso published here
  • Sorcerer #3, 1988
June 2021
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David Britland (reviewer) The Four Treasures by Harapan Ong June 2021
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David Britland (reviewer) Nick Trost's Subtle Card Creations, Volume 8 by Nick Trost June 2021
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David Britland (reviewer) Confronting Magic by Steve Cohen June 2021
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David Britland Three Impossibilities
  • Cardopolis
three cards chosen, two are divined and for the third the performer produces a card of same value and one of same suit
Aug. 2021
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David Copperfield, Richard Wiseman, David Britland David Copperfield's History of Magic on the Copperfield Museum and the new book about the collection
Oct. 2021
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David Copperfield, Richard Wiseman, David Britland The Pastry Chef "Robert-Houdin's Magical Automata"
excerpt from David Copperfield's History of Magic
Oct. 2021
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David Copperfield, Richard Wiseman, David Britland The Queen of Magic "Adelaide Herrmann's Dress"
excerpt from David Copperfield's History of Magic
Oct. 2021
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David Copperfield, Richard Wiseman, David Britland Notes on Steam Engines, Pumps, Boilers Hydraulic, and Other Machinery "Max Malini's Peculiar Paraphernalia"
excerpt from David Copperfield's History of Magic
Oct. 2021
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David Britland Quick Slick
  • Cardopolis
4&4
Inspired by Oct. 2021
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David Britland (reviewer) Heroes of Magic by John Fisher Oct. 2021
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David Britland (reviewer) The Century of Deception by Ian Keable-Elliott Oct. 2021
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David Britland (reviewer) The Conjurer's Conundrum by Jamy Ian Swiss Oct. 2021
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David Britland Master of the Game
  • Cardopolis
four Kings put on top and two hands of four cards each dealt, one hand contains all Kings, repeated with same result and Aces in other hand
Also published here Dec. 2021
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David Britland Revisiting Al Koran
  • Al Koran and Jacko (monkey glove puppet)
  • Song and Sorcery
  • The Word's Fastest Mind Reader
Feb. 2022
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David Britland The Gold Medaillon on television footage of Al Koran performing the routine
Related to Feb. 2022
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David Britland Jackpot Coins credit information, Al Koran, divination of amount of selected matches
Inspired by Feb. 2022
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David Britland (reviewer) Max Malini: King of Magicians, Magician of Kings by Max Malini (written by Steve Cohen) Feb. 2022
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David Britland (reviewer) Before We Begin by Asi Wind Feb. 2022
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Nathan Coe Marsh (reviewer) David Copperfield's History of Magic by David Copperfield (written by David Britland, Richard Wiseman) Mar. 2022
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David Britland Cecil Keech: A Winning Bet
  • Cardopolis
card cut to, performer divines both the card and its position
Inspired by
  • description of Cecil Keech effect, 1930s
Variations
Apr. 2022
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Richard Wiseman, Will Houstoun, David Britland The Story of Story Decks credit information
May 2022
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David Britland A Trick for Ted Lesley
  • Cardopolis
card cut to, performer predicted both the card and its position, using Will de Sieve crimped card
Inspired by June 2022
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David Britland (reviewer) Radio Psychics: Mind Reading and Fortune Telling in American Broadcasting (1920-1940) by John Benedict Buescher June 2022
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David Britland (reviewer) A First Look at Second Sight by Bob Loomis June 2022
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David Britland Sandwitch
  • Cardopolis
four Ace production, using Three-Card Catch
Related to Aug. 2022
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David Britland Raynaly's Sandwich
  • Cardopolis
card lost, sandwich cards on top and bottom, with pass they come to center to sandwich selection, historical story presentation
Nov. 2022
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David Britland (reviewer) Ionia: Magician Princess Secrets Unlocked by Charles Greene III Nov. 2022
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David Britland (reviewer) Taylor-Made Magic: The Life of Merv Taylor by Merv Taylor (written by Leo Behnke) Nov. 2022
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David Britland (reviewer) Mosaic by Perseus Arkomanis Nov. 2022
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Bob Farmer Inspired By Hummer list of effects using the Hummer Addition/Subtraction Principle
  • The Total Is! 1976 (The Magic of Gerald Kosky)
  • The New Math Miracle 1978 (Larry Becker, World of Super Mentalism)
  • Numeral-oh-gee 1979 (Amazing Randi, Apocalypse)
  • Stunumbers 1983 (Shigeo Futagawa, Self-Working Number Magic)
  • Stargazer 1986 (David Britland, Psychomancy)
  • Prediction 1991 (Shigeo Futagawa)
  • A Sense Of Freedom 1992 (Peter Duffie, Ulterior Motifs)
  • Numb...bers 1994 (Peter Duffie, Cards In Principle)
  • Bird Watcher 1997 (Tenyo)
  • Card Conspiracy 2003 (Peter Duffie, Robert Robertson)
  • Speed Dating 2011 (Michael Weber, Tim Trono)
  • Real Secrets Jelly Bean Estimator 2012 (Michael Weber, Tim Trono)
  • Lotto Envelopes 2012 (Michał Kociołek)
  • Papa’s Theatre 2013 (Gaëtan Bloom, Full Bloom Volume One)
  • Doubling Down 2015 (Steve Beam, Semi-Auotomatic Card Tricks Vol. 9)
  • Card At Any Sum 2017 (Ryan Schlutz, False Anchors)
  • Lucky You 2019 (Michał Kociołek, Plots & Methods)
  • Flat Dice 2019 (Michael Breggar)
  • RNG 2020 (Ryan Schlutz, False Anchors Volume Four)
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Marc Trudel (reviewer) David Copperfield's History of Magic by David Copperfield (written by Richard Wiseman, David Britland) 2022
Conundrum (Issue 1)
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Kyle MacNeill There's Always A Catch two selections, one found with 3-Card Catch, other one by picking off a pip and thus producing an Ace
Inspired byAlso published here
  • MAGIC, Apr. 2013
2022 1200
Jean-Pierre Vallarino Progressive Aces progressive assembly with only one, two, three and four cards in each Ace pile respectively, each Ace is successively lost in deck before being revealed in next pile together with the other Ace(s) already in that pile, Vallarino's approach to David Britland's idea of combining Lorayne and Krenzel (see references)
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David Britland Take It or Leave It
  • Cardopolis
two cards chosen from cut-off packet are pocketed, then piles are made from the packet, one spectator has all red cards, a red card in pocket and red has been predicted for him, other with black
Related to Jan. 2023
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David Britland Plenty of Fish
  • Cardopolis
card fished out of paper bag with magnet at string, paper clip attached to card
Inspired by
  • "Novelty Fishing Trick" (U. F. Grant, 1933)
  • "Cardangle" (Henri De'Seevah, marketed 1941, Linking Ring June 1943)
Mar. 2023
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David Britland (reviewer) Bamboozlers Volume 4 by Diamond Jim Tyler Mar. 2023
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David Britland (reviewer) Death from a Top Hat by Clayton Rawson Mar. 2023
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David Britland (reviewer) Magic Bookplates by Jim Alfredson, Bernhard Schmitz Mar. 2023
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David Britland Roundabout
  • Cardopolis
elongated "Four-Card Trick" (Alex Elmsley) with story presentation
Inspired byAlso published here May 2023
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David Britland But They Didn't Stop There
  • Cardopolis
Inspired by July 2023
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David Britland (reviewer) Vallarino by Jean-Pierre Vallarino (written by John Lovick) July 2023
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David Britland (reviewer) Instructions for Miracles by Friedrich Roitzsch July 2023
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David Britland (reviewer) Mastering False Shuffles & Cuts by Michael Close July 2023
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David Britland Spellstack
  • Cardopolis
ten chosen cards, performer arranges them so that they can be spelled out in original order as they had been chosen
Inspired by Sep. 2023
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David Britland Analyzing Erdnase
  • Cardopolis
conversation about the book with an AI assistant, suggesting an influence from the non-existent book by C. G. Green "Artifice, Ruse and Subterfuge at the Card Table" (1897), invented by the AI
Nov. 2023
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David Britland (reviewer) Personal Magic: The Secret Books of Eric Lewis Vol. 1 by Eric C. Lewis Nov. 2023
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David Britland (reviewer) The Psychology of Magic by Alice Pailhès (written by Dr. Gustav Kuhn) Nov. 2023
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David Britland In Memoriam: David Berglas
Jan. 2024
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David Britland, Gustave Gerard Laureyns Think Once, Look Twice
  • Cardopolis
twenty-one card trick version with full deck, dealing in seven piles twice, card ends up in a named position
Inspired by
  • untitled item by Gustave Gerard Laureyns in The Sphinx, Oct. 1913
Jan. 2024
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David Britland Revisiting The Invisible Deck
  • Cardopolis
on the invisible deck, see following items
Mar. 2024
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Patrick Page Thought-Card Reverse spectator is shown the deck and he thinks of a card, it is then shown reversed
Variations Mar. 2024
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David Britland Card to Pocket two spectators are shown the deck and one thinks of a spot and one of a court card he sees, one turns over and one travels to the pocket
Inspired by Mar. 2024
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David Britland Ultra Reverse Simplified deck put in a bag, spectator removes card, when deck is spread, its mate is reversed
Inspired by Mar. 2024
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David Britland A Routine Without Cards! on the invisible deck theme, credit information
Related to Mar. 2024
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David Britland (reviewer) Sleightly Absurd by Charlie Frye Mar. 2024
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David Britland (reviewer) Personal Magic - The Secret Books of Eric Lewis Volumes 2 and 3 by Eric C. Lewis Mar. 2024
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David Britland (reviewer) Subtle Card Creations Volume 9 by Nick Trost Mar. 2024
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