Albert Cohn

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Creators	Title	Comments & References		Year	Source	Page	Categories
Joseph Dunninger	Nomenclature	three random names are spelled, selection found, automatic placement procedure	Related to Combination (Albert Cohn, 1940) Variations Mental Dice (Karl Fulves, 2001) Also published here Nomenclature (Joseph Dunninger, 1950)	Oct. 1939	The Jinx (Issue 64)	450	Cards / Principles / Placement Principles / Automatic Placement Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Challenge Locations / Challenge Single Card Location / Miscellaneous Cards / Effect Themes / Spelling / Miscellaneous / Impromptu
Albert Cohn	Combination	dealing trick	Inspired by Nomenclature (Joseph Dunninger, 1939)	1940	The Jinx (Issue 91)	568	Cards / Principles / Placement Principles / Automatic Placement Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Single Card Cards / Principles / Elimination Procedures / Down-Under Deal
Albert Cohn	Betcha	holding a burning paper match upside down for 50 seconds		Apr. 1943	The Phoenix (Issue 32)	132	Match & Matchbox / Match / Puzzle Games / Bar Bets & Puzzles
Albert Cohn	Mental Marvels	with general comments on mentalism, two numbers thought of and divined (psychological forces), last number or word always is right	Related to Psychological Forces (1956) A Mind for Figures (1979)	Dec. 1945	Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 3 No. 7)	171	Mental Magic / Effects / Divination Mental Magic / Principles / Psychological Forces & Probability Forces Pen & Pencil / Nail Writer & Swami Numbers / Number Forces / Psychological
Albert Cohn	An alternative test	name that a spectator thinks of is predicted		Dec. 1945	Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 3 No. 7)	180	Pen & Pencil / Nail Writer & Swami Mental Magic / Effects / Prediction / Standard Predictions (one or multiple items)
Albert Cohn	Second alternative	change in spectator's pocket is predicted, one off, perhaps spectator has left a penny in the pocket	Related to European Chit-Chat (Ted Lesley, 1993) Spare Change (Ted Lesley, 1994)	Dec. 1945	Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 3 No. 7)	180	Pen & Pencil / Nail Writer & Swami Mental Magic / Effects / Prediction / Standard Predictions (one or multiple items)
Albert Cohn	The Homing Card	using Ovette / Kelly Move to add card to case		Aug. 1946	Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 4 No. 3)	241	Cards / Sleights / Case Things / Loading a Card at the Outside of the Case
Paul LePaul, Louis Zingone, Edward Marlo, Albert Cohn, James F. Herpick	Buckle Up	No. 105, performer finds face-up selection among face-down cards sight unseen	Variations Strange Gift (Ryan Schlutz, 2017)	1950	Scarne on Card Tricks	200	Cards / Effect Themes / Super-Senses / Sense of Touch / Card Identity Cards / Sleights / Crimps / Bridge (multiple Cards)
	Psychological Forces	Psychological forces with psychologically appealing numbers (37, 68)	Related to Mental Marvels (Albert Cohn, 1945)	1956	Mathematics, Magic And Mystery	173	Mental Magic / Principles / Psychological Forces & Probability Forces Numbers / Number Forces / Psychological
Albert Cohn	Quasi-Mental	you know top card of cut deck, bold		1972	Million Dollar Card Secrets	64	Cards / Principles / One Ahead Cards / Effect Themes / Divination & Mind Reading / Miscellaneous
Sam Aaronson	Cups and Balls	see also p. 780 for note by Mike Rogers, p. 863 for Al Cohn credit by Richard Stride, p. 1053 for comment by Milton Tropp	Related to Cups & Balls (Albert Cohn, 1976)	Aug. 1974	The Pallbearers Review Vol. 9-10 (Vol. 9 No. 10)	778	Cup / Cups & Balls / Two & Three Cups Routines / Routines
Albert Cohn	Under the Jacket Move	holdout edge of jacket		1976	The Encyclopedia of Sponge Ball Magic	28	Spongeball / Sleights / Subtleties
Albert Cohn	Al Cohn's Spongeball Routine			1976	The Encyclopedia of Sponge Ball Magic	97	Spongeball / Routines
Albert Cohn	Spongeball to Rubber Nut			1976	The Encyclopedia of Sponge Ball Magic	196	Nut / Transformation Spongeball / Transformation
Albert Cohn	Cups & Balls	five phases, see p. 1053 for comment by Milton Tropp	Related to Cups and Balls (Sam Aaronson, 1974)	1976	The Pallbearers Review Vol. 9-10 (Vol. 10 No. Close-Up Folio #6)	940	Cup / Cups & Balls / Two & Three Cups Routines / Routines
Albert Cohn	Sponge Balls	traveling into spectator's hand claimed by Cohn, see p. 1328 for further comment on the history (quote from Expert Manipulation Finale, Ganson)		1979	The Chronicles (Issue 21)	1268	Spongeball / Routines Spongeball / Traveling
Albert Cohn	False Transfer			1979	The Chronicles (Issue 21)	1268	Spongeball / Sleights / Vanish
	A Mind for Figures	No. 10, psychological force of two numbers, "It will work most of the time"	Related to Mental Marvels (Albert Cohn, 1945)	1979	Self-Working Mental Magic	13	Numbers / Prediction & Sum-Divination Mental Magic / Principles / Psychological Forces & Probability Forces Numbers / Number Forces / Psychological
Ted Lesley	European Chit-Chat	idea for confabulation, money in spectator's pocket is missed, more money found in other pocket	Related to Second alternative (Albert Cohn, 1945) Spare Change (Ted Lesley, 1994) Money in Your Pocket (Ted Lesley, 1995)	Apr. 1993	Vibrations (Vol. 15 No. 10)	11	Articles / Columns Mental Magic / Effects / Prediction / Confabulation
Ted Lesley	Spare Change	prediction of amount of coins spectator has in wallet, missing a coin in spectator's pocket is added to match prediction	Related to Second alternative (Albert Cohn, 1945) European Chit-Chat (Ted Lesley, 1993) Also published here Money in Your Pocket (Ted Lesley, 1995)	1994	Paramiracles	109	Coin / Effect Themes / Mental Stuff Mental Magic / Effects / Prediction / Miscellaneous
Ryan Schlutz	Strange Gift	spectator gives twelve cards to performer, he knows number of red cards and sorts them under table	Inspired by Buckle Up (Paul LePaul, Louis Zingone, Edward Marlo, Albert Cohn, James F. Herpick, 1950) Also published here Strange Gift (Ryan Schlutz, 2020)	2017	False Anchors — Volume One	14	Cards / Effect Themes / Red Black / Separation / by Magician / Sense of Touch (or other) Cards / Sleights / Crimps / Bridge (multiple Cards)

21 entries for Albert Cohn