Head & Tail

40 entries in Coin / Effect Themes / Head & Tail
  
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Unknown Juggling knacks by confederacie, and how to know whether one cast crosse or pile by the ringing heads or tails divined repeatedly, stooge with verbal code and psychology
 The Discoverie of Witchcraft (Issue XXX) 191
Unknown A Florin being spun upon the Table, to tell blindfold whether it falls head or tail upwards coin gaffed
 Modern Magic 159
Unknown The "Heads and Tails" Trick coins turn over in a stack of coins, double-faced coin
 Modern Magic 182
Unknown Head or Tail showing whatever the spectator wants, double-sided coin & shell
 More Magic 171
Unknown Kopf oder Wappen performer can tell whether coin lands heads or tails without looking, different sound
 Der Zauberspiegel (Vol. 2 No. 3) 41
Eddie Joseph Heads or Tails spectator is always wrong, coin held on edge until spectator commits
 How Gamblers Win 16
Dai Vernon Heads or Tails routine for "glass through table"
Variations Select Secrets 35
Eddie Joseph To Make Coin Turn Over in Closed Hand
Coin and Money Magic 46
Eddie Joseph The One Way Rattle coin shaken in match box, knowing which coin is up
 Coin and Money Magic 54
Laurie Ireland A Close-up Trick for a Bar coin vanishes and reappears in "heads or tails" game
 Bull's-Eye Coin Tricks 23
Eddie Joseph The Coin Toss six methods for controlled head or tail toss
  • The First Method
  • The Second Method
  • The Third Method
  • The Fourth Method
  • The Fifth Method
  • The Sixth Method
 Coin and Money Magic 81
Eddie Joseph Matching the Coin coins brought out heads or tails to match spectator's actions or wishes, by feel
 Coin and Money Magic 85
Karrell Fox, Roy Kissell The Topsy Turvy Coins five coins alternated heads up/tails up arrange to all heads up
 Modern Coin Magic 81
Unknown, Walter B. Gibson Heads or Tails? Determine whether hidden coin is heads or tails after spectator has turned over the coins randomly, provides variation by Walter Gibson using pieces of colored cardboard
 Mathematics, Magic And Mystery 61
Tony Corinda (2) Sound Reading Applied to Action - Not Writing coin dropped in which box, coin lands head or tails up
 Pencil, Lip, Sound, Touch and Muscle Reading 39
Al Thatcher Numismatrick! coins on table are turned over one is covered and heads/tails is divined
Variations The New Phoenix 351-400 (Issue 373) 319
Ken Krenzel Koin-A-Kinesis performer predicts head or tails as often as desired
 The Pallbearers Review Vol. 1-4 (Vol. 4 No. 8) 261
Karl Fulves A Remarkable Bet heads and tails bet with three coins, presentation for Walter Penney's coin flipping paradox
 Epilogue (Issue 10) 77
Jerry Mentzer Heads or Tails? penny grows to dollar-sized penny during heads & tails game
 Super Cents 6
Fred Robinson, Bob Hamilton Where There's Smoke
  • bar bet with a match box
  • matchbox and coin, divine if heads or tails, stooge
  • match in hand, matchbox balanced on back of the hand, box is tossed and match ignited
  • remove flame from lighter to light cigarette, gag
 Pabular (Vol. 4 No. 10) 588
Dick Turpin Turpin's Turnip heads tails game under a hat, eventually a turnip and a full glass of liquid appears, see also "The Modern Magic Manual"
Related to Pabular (Vol. 6 No. 9) 902
Steve Beam Polish Heads or Tails coin covered, performer can uncover coin and always win, using Pancake Coin
 Steve Beam On Coins — Volume I 26
Rhett Bryson Who Lost? coin vanishes with heads-or-tails game
 Steve Beam On Coins — Volume II 38
Larry Jennings The Toss of a Coin controlling heads or tails
 The Collected Almanac (Vol. 3 No. 28, 29 & 30) 299
Karl Fulves Improbable "Penny Papers", probability question
 S-C — Contemporary Money Magic (Issue 6) 104
Larry Jennings Heads I Win, Tails You Lose under bill
 The Classic Magic of Larry Jennings 54
Karl Fulves Quarter Bet No. 1, quarter under half dollar changes into dime, heads or tail presentation
 Self-Working Coin Magic 1
John Scarne Heads I Win one of two coins turns over on back of hand with wave of hand
Related to Underworld (Issue 4) 43
Paul Harris The Shape of Astonishment impression of coin in foil changes from heads to tails
 The Art of Astonishment — Book 3 (Issue New Stuff) 13
Karl Fulves Heads or - ? "Unsolved Mysteries"
new coin design, heads or tail percentage, posed as a problem
 The Fine Print (Issue 10) 331
Unknown Coin Toss controlling a heads-or-tails-toss
 Why Not? 5
Karl Fulves Headstrong ungaffed coin always comes up heads, then is shown as two-headed
 Prolix (Issue 3) 152
Dan Buck, Dave Buck Rigged Method to control a coin flip
 Organic 14
Robert E. Neale Counterfeit Bar bet with American penny (heads or tails), a bit of a gag with a strange ending
 This Is Not a Book 293
Tomas Blomberg Four Heads coin flipped four times, bet is that it shows head every time
 Blomberg Laboratories 318
Tomas Blomberg Two-Upped con game with tossing of two coins
 Blomberg Laboratories 319
Marc Kerstein Siri Knows Your Coin Tosses spectator tosses coin three times and performer's iPhone's Siri announces the result
 Tricks With Your Phone 18
Paul Vigil ICON Redux "A Multi-Phase Mental Coin Routine"
  • Phase 1: Spinning is Everything (heads or tails predicted)
  • Phase 2: A Penny for your Thoughts (coin after elimination process predicted)
  • Phase 3: Heads Up (date on a chosen coin predicted)
  • Phase 4: Eye-Con (coin bends)
  • Phase 5: A Supplementary Continuation
  • Phase 6: Folie à Plusieurs
  • Afterthoughts
  • Further Thoughts (incorporating Yigal Mesika's "Electric Touch")
  • Notes
 Icons 1
Michael Powers Flipped Out three imaginary coins, chosen one predicted and also whether it is heads or tails up
Inspired by
  • "Positive Negative" (Phil Goldstein, Syzygy #1, 1994, also Videomind 1997)
 Tesseract 286
John Lovick Eliminate the Negative three imaginary coins, chosen one predicted and also whether it is heads or tails up
Inspired by
  • "Proof Positive" (David Parr, Magic, Oct. 2005)
Related to
  • "Positive Negative" (Phil Goldstein, Syzygy #1, 1994)
 Elixir (Vol. 3 No. 1 Part 2 (Spring #2)) 233