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Paul Rosini A Futile Lesson in Magic spelling lesson with thirteen cards, see page 650 for missing set-up
Related to 1940
The Jinx (Issue 105)
631
George Karger The Uninvited Joker No. 128, performer spells to cards, but when the spectator tries, he always ends up with the joker
Related toVariations 1950 247
P. Howard Lyons, Tom Ransom, Norman Houghton Divination of Two Mentally Chosen Cards two selections made from two halves with "counting pile and remember card at that position" procedure
Inspired byVariations Nov. 1955
Ibidem (Issue 4)
5
Peter Warlock No Guesswork card inside envelope finale
Inspired by
  • Edward G. Brown's "Three Guesses" in "The Sphinx" Vol. 42. 1943. P. 59.
1959
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1959)
38
Ken Beale Brown Transpo two selections made from two halves with "counting pile and remember card at that position" procedure, one counted from the top and one from the bottom, they change position
Inspired by July 1959
Ibidem (Issue 17)
16
Peter Warlock Thought of Card Across unprepared, à la Edward G. Brown
1967 193
Claude Crowe, Al Altmann, J. W. Sarles, John Hudak, Edward G. Brown Etcetera on critisicm
Jan. 1967 76
Edward G. Brown, Paul Rosini A Futile Lesson in Open Spelling Ace to Ten are spelt out from packet one by one
Related to 1968 75
Edward G. Brown A Routine for the Cups & Balls
Related to Apr. 1969 251
Edward G. Brown Cups & Balls part 2, see p. 265 for further references
Related to May 1969 259
Edward Marlo The Spectator's Deal spectator removes ten cards and deals them, performer receives Royal Flush
Related to Fall-Spring 1971
Hierophant (Issue 5-6)
241
Trevor H. Hall Introduction on Edward G. Brown
1973 1
Edward G. Brown The Spelling Trick Ace to Ten are spelled to, several times a Seven turns up instead of the card, last card turns into Seven again as a surprise after it was discarded
Related toVariations 1973 24
Edward G. Brown Everywhere and Nowhere
Variations 1973 27
Edward G. Brown All Alike Display with multiple lifts and palming, showing three cards as the same, while hiding one
1973 34
Edward G. Brown The Poker Hand ten cards are chosen and two poker hands formed, without looking at the cards, the spectator selects a hand, performer's hand is a royal flush
Related toVariationsAlso published here 1973 36
Edward G. Brown Packet Switch
Also published here 1973 38
Edward G. Brown The Twelve Card Thought Transition
Variations 1973 39
Edward G. Brown Packet Switch while showing cards one by one to the spectator
1973 41
Edward G. Brown The Cards up the Sleeve twelve cards
1973 43
Edward G. Brown Palming Preparation preparing amount of cards to be palmed, while counting them
1973 47
Edward G. Brown A 'Brown' Version of the Three Card Trick eight phases, in one the winning card is marked with a pencil, then all cards are losing / winning cards
Variations 1973 52
Edward G. Brown Pictures and Pips with twelve picture and twelve number cards, in two tumblers
1973 56
Edward G. Brown The Four Ace Trick
1973 60
Edward G. Brown Card Transfer à la Vernon transfer
1973 62
Edward G. Brown Two Coincidence Tricks
  • first is a Do as I do variation with two decks
  • second is a prediction, three selected cards match three cards in glass with different back design
1973 64
Edward G. Brown Mutus, Nomen Dedit, Cocis
Also published here 1973 69
Edward G. Brown The Two Pile Trick two selections made from two halves with "counting pile and remember card at that position" procedure
Related toVariationsAlso published here 1973 74
Edward G. Brown Two Tricks with Three Heaps
Also published here 1973 81
Edward G. Brown, Ralph W. Hull The Intelligence Quotient Test Improved several phases, first ace has to be guessed, the three cards are added with the same suit and suit has to be guessed
Inspired by
  • Ralph W. Hull's "Intelligence Quotient Test" in "The Testament of Ralph W. Hull" 1945
1973 84
Edward G. Brown The Detective Card Trick selection is at same position as face up card in other half
Also published here 1973 96
Edward G. Brown The Diminishing Cards
1973 99
Edward G. Brown The Military Problem four packets, with kings on the bottom, first followed with three aces, second with three deuces, third with three threes and fourth with an ace, two and a three, organize themselves
Variations 1973 106
Edward G. Brown, Trevor H. Hall Modernism in Mentalism and the Clueless Card Trick comments about think-a-card effects
Inspired by
  • Ralph Hull's "Modernism in Mentalism"
1973 115
Edward G. Brown The Clueless Card Trick twenty-sixth card location
Related toVariations 1973 120
Edward G. Brown Conjuring for Conjurers a lecture given in 1934
1973 125
Edward G. Brown Lecture without a Name lecture from 1939, views on originality, theory, magic in general
1973 131
Edward G. Brown A Brief Analysis of the Principles of Mental Magic lecture from 1942, thorough categorization of various principles of mental magic
1973 140
Edward G. Brown, Colin Donister Misdirection lecture from 1943, written by Colin Donister
1973 166
Edward G. Brown Forcing lecture from 1945
1973 173
Edward G. Brown The Classical 'Fan' Force
1973 181
Edward G. Brown The Cut different ways to force a card by cutting a deck
1973 183
Edward G. Brown A Knife or Reversed Card Inserted in the Pack with variations
1973 185
Edward G. Brown The Card at a Selected Number to force a card, with variations
1973 187
Edward G. Brown Say Stop riffle forces and other forces, where the spectator has to say stop
1973 188
Edward G. Brown The Card Chosen by Elimination
1973 190
Edward G. Brown The Cards Spread on Tray or Table
1973 190
Edward G. Brown The Peek spectator opens the deck somewhere, force
1973 191
Edward G. Brown The Name of a Card is Written name of cards written on paper, force, different methods
1973 191
Edward G. Brown A Card Named by an Assistant to force a card
1973 191
Edward G. Brown A Card Thought of by an Assistant think of a card forces, while riffling through the cards, different methods
1973 192
Edward G. Brown A Card Chosen by Calculation various mathematical forces
1973 192
Edward G. Brown A Card Chosen by the Throw of a Die or Other Implement of Apparent Chance
1973 193
Edward G. Brown The Performer Draws a Card from the Pack Held by a Spectator
1973 194
Edward G. Brown The Top Card is Used After a Shuffle
1973 194
Edward G. Brown The Use of the First Red Card, Black Card or Picture Card
1973 194
Edward G. Brown The Card Is Chosen by a Series of Complex Cuts and Movements
1973 194
Edward G. Brown The Card Is Chosen from a Shuffled Pack in a Hat or Bag
1973 195
Edward G. Brown The Force Card Is Substituted for a Chosen Card by Means of Apparatus
1973 195
Edward G. Brown The Use of Special Forcing Packs
1973 195
Edward G. Brown, Bruce Posgate Sleights and Subtleties lecture from 1947, reported by Bruce Posgate
1973 198
Rudolf Braunmüller Die Mathemagischen Kartenwunder des Edward G. Brown intro
Dec. 1978
Intermagic (Vol. 5 No. 4)
134
Edward G. Brown Ein Kartenklassiker im Modernen Gewand
Also published here Dec. 1978
Intermagic (Vol. 5 No. 4)
134
Edward G. Brown Der Zweipäckchen Trick
Also published here Dec. 1978
Intermagic (Vol. 5 No. 4)
137
Edward G. Brown Zwei Dreipäckchen Tricks
  • Variante 1
  • Variante 2
Also published here Dec. 1978
Intermagic (Vol. 5 No. 4)
139
Edward G. Brown Die Detektivkarte selection is at same position as face up card in other half
Also published here Dec. 1978
Intermagic (Vol. 5 No. 4)
140
Peter Warlock Epitaph für Brown
Inspired by
  • Edward G. Brown's "Three Guesses" in "The Sphinx", May 1943, p. 59.
Also published here
  • Pentagram, Nov. 1953
Dec. 1979
Intermagic (Vol. 6 No. 3 & 4)
137
John Ramsay Ramsay Reminiscences on Professor Morgan, Charlier, Old Malabar, Barnum, Magic Circle, Will Goldston, J. O'Neill Fisher, Charles Morrit, Horace Goldin, Chung Ling Soo, P. T. Selbit, Lewis Davenport, Dr. Byrd-Page, Walford Bodie, Allam Shaw, Nate Leipzig, Ernest Thorn, Max Sterling, Bob Gysel, Will Blyth, Dai Vernon, Max Holden, John Mulholland, Jack Salvin, G. W. Hunter, Edward G. Brown, Victor Farelli, The Flying Sorcerers, FISM 1950, Slydini, Francis Carlyle, FISM 1958, John Howe, Milbourne Christopher
1982 73
The Clueless Card Trick No. 47, two cards chosen by spectators, performer finds them
Inspired byRelated to 1984 61
Jon Racherbaumer Neo-Brownian Movement two odd-backed quartets
Inspired byAlso published here
  • MUM, Sep. 1980
1984 160
Daryl Martinez, Edward G. Brown Thin Ambitions with three card packet
Inspired by 1985/87 24
Juan Tamariz Blown Away "Neither Blind Nor Silly"
Inspired byRelated toVariationsAlso published here July 1987
Apocalypse (Vol. 10 No. 7)
1369
Dai Vernon Vernon On Edward G. Brown's "Poker Hand Mystery" Mr. Lucky Effect
Inspired byRelated to 1988 169
Edward G. Brown E.G. Brown Display
Related to 1988 179
David Williamson He Who Spelt It, Dealt It spectator succeeds whereas magician fails
Inspired byRelated toVariationsAlso published here 1989 54
Edward Marlo Biddling Brown in the Round
Inspired byVariations 1990 71
Alex Elmsley Brownwaves I two cards are selected with the "card at position of cut-off number"-procedure, deck then divided in two halves, both deal in unison and the selected cards are at the same position
Related toVariations 1991 333
Darwin Ortiz Mr. Lucky spectator chooses all the cards in play
Related toVariations 1995 167
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
Steve Bryant Everywhere and Nowhere Goes Hollywood
Inspired by 1997 6
Bob White Revisiting E. G. Brown's Spelling Trick Ace to Ten are spelled to, several times a Seven turns up instead of the card, last card turns into Seven again as a surprise after it was discarded
Inspired byAlso published here 1997 26
Wesley James Blushing Leaper "beta", thought-of card has odd back
Inspired by 2004 418
Wesley James Brownian Movement The Sequel, "final"
Inspired by 2004 423
Peter Duffie, Robin Robertson Military Card Trick
Inspired by 2004 57
Eric Mead (reviewer) Edward George Brown - A Magical Life by Edward G. Brown (written by Paul Gordon) June 2005
Genii (Vol. 68 No. 6)
98
Michael Powers Red Rover
Inspired by 2006 27
Edward Marlo Biddling Brown in the Round
Inspired by 2009 36
David Williamson Perverse Open Spelling spectator succeeds whereas magician fails
Inspired byAlso published here 2012 279
Tomas Blomberg Brownian Bridge two packets, performer takes a card from the first one and places it into the other, turns to be the thought of card and is placed at the thought of number
Inspired by 2014 208
Jared Kopf E.G. Brown Revisited originally from MUM
Inspired byRelated to
  • MUM (March 2008)
Variations
2016 33
Andi Gladwin The Forgotten Edward G. Brown
Sep. 2018
Genii (Vol. 81 No. 9)
40
Edward G. Brown The Poker Hand ten cards are chosen and two poker hands formed, without looking at the cards, the spectator selects a hand, performer's hand is a royal flush
  • Notes by Andi Gladwin
Also published here Sep. 2018
Genii (Vol. 81 No. 9)
44
Edward G. Brown Packet Switch
Also published here Sep. 2018
Genii (Vol. 81 No. 9)
44
Tom Frame (reviewer) The Card Magic of Edward G. Brown by Edward G. Brown (written by Trevor H. Hall, Andi Gladwin) Aug. 2019
Genii (Vol. 82 No. 8)
91
Andi Gladwin Thought Experiment
Inspired by 2020 241
Andy Choy Corsican Monte three cards chosen from three piles by counting a small packet and remembering the card at that position, medium names positions of the selections
Inspired by Nov. 2023
The Hermit (Vol. 2 No. 11)
1098