Ulterior Motifs

1992
Written by Peter Duffie
Work of Peter Duffie
20 pages (Loose-leave collection), published by Selfpublished
No illustrations
Language: English
22 entries
Cover photograph
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Peter Duffie Author's Introduction
Peter Duffie Those Enigmatic Royals
Inspired byRelated to 1
Peter Duffie A Sense of Freedom four packets formed and turned over, in the end the sum of values is predicted
Inspired byAlso published here 2
Peter Duffie Message Understood spectator removes a number of cards and remembers card at that number, performer shows fans of cards to spectator who then names the selection, reverse fan
 		3
Peter Duffie Baker Street Branch an odd amount is chosen from six options, a packet is cut and a card value removed, then another value is selected with down/under deal and they add up to chosen amount
Inspired by
  • "Sherloct" (Phil Goldstein, Abracadabra #2410)
Also published here 		4
Peter Duffie Daley Basis two prediction cards placed on table, two signed cards are lost, then the four Kings are produced and brought to the two prediction cards which turn out to be the later selections
 		5
Peter Duffie The Two Way Syndrome
  • chosen values from packet with reverse faro procedure is ten matching the four Tens that have been chosen earlier
  • second effect in which a matching pair is produced from a packet
 		6
Peter Duffie Mixed Reaction Miraskill & Gilbreath, two phases
Also published here 7
Peter Duffie Foresee and Four Don't general card with four spectators, first three have the same selection secretly
 		8
Peter Duffie, Alex Elmsley Gilbreath Reset going through deck once after a riffle shuffle to reset the red/black alternating color order by taking pairs singly or at once
 		9
Peter Duffie Game, Reset, and Match deck riffle shuffled, twenty-six cards placed back-to-back to other half, pairs pulled off by taking top and bottom cards, pairs are distributed into piles on the table for red-black separation/matching surprise
Inspired by
  • "Regimentation" (Roy Walton, The Linking Ring, Oct. 1968)
 10
Peter Duffie A Moment in Time sandwich with Jokers and Ace of Spades is placed face down on table, card and its position in deck are remembered, later the sandwich cards show up in the deck again and the tabled sandwich has changed into three cards that complete a Royal Flush
Inspired by 11
Peter Duffie Thought Up spectator cuts, remembers card and replaces, card rises, faro, "is it one of these?"
Variations 12
Peter Duffie Hummerism twenty-four-card packet is shuffled face-up/face-down, then it is dealt into two piles and face-down and face-up cards are separated, prediction about same number of cards and odd/even separation are confirmed
 		13
Peter Duffie The Experts King placed between Jokers, a matching Ace appears to form a blackjack hand, repeated with other Kings
 		14
Peter Duffie Hosiandu spectator thinks of a suit, the Ace-King pair of that suit changes into two previous selections
 		15
Peter Duffie Four Play four spectators get five cards and only keep those of the suit that has more than one card in the hand, performer divines the suits
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Peter Duffie Advance Notice two spectators count a packet and remember the cards at that position, positions have been predicted
Inspired by
  • "Thought on a Mentally Selected Card" (Jack Yates, Pentagram, Oct. 1956)
Variations 		17
Peter Duffie An Unknown Quantity two spectators count a packet and remember the cards at that position, later the cards show up at the same position when dealing through two piles
Inspired by 17
Peter Duffie The Curators unknown card is sandwiched with Jokers in thirteen-card packet at unknown position, it turns out to be a card that has been selected from the deck later
Inspired by 18
Peter Duffie A Trick to Bore the A!*! Off People With four spectators think of number up to twenty, thirty, forty and fifty, spectators deal out a packet for each digit of their card, performer looks at remainder and announces the total of the four numbers
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Peter Duffie The Disoriented Sevens Sevens are lost by dealing cards on them and assembling them, reverse faros, the Sevens find a selection as well as a Royal Flush
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Data entered by Denis Behr, January 2025.