Geometrical Vanish

42 entries in Puzzle / Geometrical Vanish
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Martin Gardner Where Does the Easter Bunny Go? puzzle
 		1952 The Phoenix 251 — 300 (Issue 252) 1009
Martin Gardner Geometrical Vanishes - Part 1 chapter intro
 		1956 Mathematics, Magic And Mystery 114
Unknown The Line Paradox Line vanishes when paper is shifted
 		1956 Mathematics, Magic And Mystery 114
Sam Lloyd Sam Loyd's Flag Puzzle Geometrical Vanish, cut an American flag into two pieces, rearrange to form onto thirteen stripes instead of fifteen
 		1956 Mathematics, Magic And Mystery 117
Unknown The Vanishing Face Geometrical Vanish of a face
 		1956 Mathematics, Magic And Mystery 118
Sam Lloyd "Get Off The Earth" Geometrical vanish of a Chinese warrior by rotating paper globe
 		1956 Mathematics, Magic And Mystery 118
Theodore DeLand DeLand's Paradox Geometrical Vanish of a playing card
Variations 1956 Mathematics, Magic And Mystery 123
Martin Gardner The Vanishing Rabbit Geometrical vanish of a rabbit
Inspired by 1956 Mathematics, Magic And Mystery 125
Mel Stover Stover's Variations Geometrical Vanish / transformation of objects, face becomes beer mug or red pencil becomes blue pencil
Inspired by 1956 Mathematics, Magic And Mystery 125
Unknown The Checkerboard Paradox Geometrical vanish of a square on a checkerboard
 		1956 Mathematics, Magic And Mystery 129
William Hooper Hooper's Paradox Rectangle rearranged to apparently increase the area
 		1956 Mathematics, Magic And Mystery 131
Unknown Square Variation Area of square changes after pieces are rearranged
 		1956 Mathematics, Magic And Mystery 132
Martin Gardner Fibonacci Series About the mathematics behind geometrical vanishes where the area of a shape changes. Based on work by V. Schlegel, E.B. Escott and Lewis Carroll
Related to
  • V. Schlegel, Zeitschrift fur Mathematik und Physik, Vol. 24, p. 123 (1879)
  • E. B. Escott, Open Court, Vol. 21, p. 502 (1907)
Variations 		1956 Mathematics, Magic And Mystery 134
Harry Langman Langman's Version Rectangle changes in area when pieces are moved around, related to Fibonacci series
Inspired by 1956 Mathematics, Magic And Mystery 137
Paul Curry Curry's Paradox Various geometrical vanishes of squares in rectangles and squares
Variations 1956 Mathematics, Magic And Mystery 139
Martin Gardner Curry Triangles Geometrical vanishes with triangles
Inspired by 1956 Mathematics, Magic And Mystery 145
Unknown Four-piece Squares Cut square into four pieces, rearrange to get hole
 		1956 Mathematics, Magic And Mystery 151
Paul Curry Three-piece Squares Cut square into three pieces, rearrange to get hole
 		1956 Mathematics, Magic And Mystery 153
Paul Curry, Martin Gardner Two-piece Squares Cut square into two pieces, rearrange to get hole
 		1956 Mathematics, Magic And Mystery 153
Martin Gardner Curved and 3-D Forms Discusses the possibilities of geometrical vanishes with 3-D shapes
 		1956 Mathematics, Magic And Mystery 155
L. Vosburgh Lyons Triangulation tiling puzzle
Related to
  • p. 70 for credits
 Dec. 1966 The Pallbearers Review Vol. 1-4 (Vol. 2 No. 2) 72
Karl Fulves Five Into Four Five of diamonds is cut in fourth and puzzled together so a center section is missing, face changes to Four of diamonds
Related toVariations 1971 The Book of Numbers 42
Mitsunobu Matsuyama Paradox geometrical puzzle with a playing card that makes a full card face-down, but a piece is left over when assembled face-up
  • The Turnover Tactic
  • Business Card Variation
  • Reference File
Variations 1979 The Chronicles (Issue 18) 1235
Paul Curry The Disappearing Rabbit
Variations 1980 Curioser 2
Karl Fulves Rabbit Reunion Curry's effect with 2 rabbits vanishing one by one
Inspired by 1980 Curioser 6
Karl Fulves Notes By Karl Fulves on Curry's effect
Related to 1980 Curioser 9
Karl Fulves The Moving Pip pip missing on card that is cut in pieces, when re-arranged pip moved
Related to 1980 Curioser 9
Karl Fulves Powerdox rectangle puzzle, two pieces one by one removed but still a rectangle
Inspired by 1980 Curioser 10
Martin Gardner Euclid's Vanish number of objects drawn on a slate changes from seven to six, sliding part
Variations 1980 Curioser 11
Karl Fulves The Geometric Slate three-way multiple out prediction
Inspired by 1980 Curioser 12
Karl Fulves Dice on Slate idea in which dice drawn on slate become real
 		1980 Curioser 12
Martin Gardner The Vanishing Rabbit No. 16, rabbit changes into egg via geometrical vanish
 		1980 The Children's Magic Kit 16
Terri Rogers A Jigsaw Puzzle card puzzle as a revelation, Four of Hearts instead of Five of Hearts
Inspired by 1981 Babel (Issue 2) 20
Unknown The Paradox No. 41, paper with numbers cut up, can be arranged so that center misses
 		1983 Self-Working Number Magic 66
Karl Fulves Counterfit "Penny Papers", making seven dollar bills from six
 		1985 S-C — Contemporary Money Magic (Issue 3) 52
Masao Atsukawa Fair Exchange two jigsaw puzzles fit face down but not face up
 		1986 The New York Magic Symposium — Collection 5 90
Tom Craven Armchair Golfer Mel Stover's Vanishing Pencil (version of the Magic Egg Puzzle), pencil on paper changes places with pencil on initialed paper
 		1992 The Trapdoor — Volume Two (Issue 44) 787
Michael Weber Personality Analysis paper pieces with words, one vanishes
 		1994 Correctors Workshop
Karl Fulves Lucky Lollipop No. 29, lollipops on three pieces of paper, number changes when papers are rearranged
 		1995 Easy Magic 40
Ali Bongo Here's Some Magic You Can Do vanishing Leprechaun / Disappearing Dwarf / Hat puzzle, Bongo design
 		2002 Lecture Notes — Geneva 2002 13
Richard Kaufman Genii Speaks on geometrical vanishes, tenth Los Angeles History Conference, Jim Steinmeyer, Guy Hollingworth, The Magic Circle, Nintendo's "Master of Illusion", Tony Giorgio, Aaron Fisher, Harry Lorayne, Disneyland, Haunted Mansion, Kostya Kimlat, Raymond Crowe
 		Jan. 2008 Genii (Vol. 71 No. 1) 12
Tomas Blomberg Torn Uncut Card Sheet uncut sheet which contains all the cards of the deck, magician rearranges the pieces of the sheet to make a previously selected card disappear from it, "52 on 1 Gag"
Inspired by 2014 Blomberg Laboratories 130
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