Chuck Smith

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Creators	Title	Comments & References		Year	Source	Page	Categories
Senor Charles Mardo	Mardo’s Egg Bag Routine	egg vanishes and reappears a few times, lemon is produced from bag	Related to The Egg Bag (Ross Bertram, 1978) Variations The Routine (Jeff Busby, 1982) The Chuck Smith Routine (Chuck Smith, 1982)	1945	Routined Magic	5	Egg / Transformation Food / Fruit Egg / Egg Bag Egg / Production & Appearance / Props
Paul LePaul	An Impromptu Rising Card Effect		Related to Thanks to LePaul (Chuck Smith, Paul LePaul, 2000) Variations Notes on "An Impromptu Rising Card Effect" (Karl Fulves, 1996)	1949	The Card Magic of Le Paul	190	Cards / Effect Themes / Animation / Rising Card(s) / Impromptu
Charles Smith	Knickle Head	nickel on forehead, has huge thumbtack/nail on back when removed	Variations Knickle Head (Chuck Smith, Don Alan, 2000) Also published here Knickle Head (Charles Smith, 1966)	Oct. 1954	The New Phoenix (Issue 318)	79	Coin / Effect Themes / Gags / Knickle Head
Dr. Stanley Jaks	Omar's Prophecies	treatise on the one-ahead triple prediction, sheets labeled with A, B & C Part II (replacing force with known data) Part III (on the selection of people, apparently random) Part IV (staging the routine) Part V (staging for Brainwave) Part VI (handling for the Billet Knife) Part VII (handling for Chuck Smith's M-T Pad)	Related to (2) The Billet Knife (Dr. Stanley Jaks, 1958) One Is Face Up (Dr. Stanley Jaks, 1959) Jaks bester Mentaltrick (Dr. Stanley Jaks, 1961) Variations Omar's Prognosis (Al Mann, Dr. Stanley Jaks, 1977)	1960	Omar's Prophecies	1	Knife & Paddle / Miscellaneous Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Brainwave type Effects Mental Magic / Principles / Impression Devices Mental Magic / Principles / Pre-Show Mental Magic / Effects / Prediction / Miscellaneous Mental Magic / Effects / Prediction / One Ahead Classic Triple Prediction
Scotty York, Chuck Smith	The Fabulous Red Snapper	bill ends up in a snapper		1975	Lecture	29	Bill / Traveling / Impossible Location / Miscellaneous
Chuck Smith	Moving Monte Switch	two cards moved around on table, one switched		1980	The Hierophant (Issue The Last Hierophant)	20	Cards / Sleights / Switches / Single Card Switches / Miscellaneous Cards / Sleights / Switches / Single Card Switches / Monte Throw & Switches
Chuck Smith	The Chuck Smith Routine	"High Class Moves & Patter" with shot glass production climax	Inspired by Mardo’s Egg Bag Routine (Senor Charles Mardo, 1945)	1982	Routines & Handlings for the Sterling Egg Bag	21	Glass / Production & Appearance Egg / Egg Bag
Chuck Smith	Hobson's Choice	deck vanish, acoustical illusion of riffling the deck with a single card	Also published here MUM, July 1980	1984	At The Table	141	Cards / Effect Themes / Vanish / Deck Cards / Sleights / Flourishes / Riffling and Sound Effects
Steve Beam	Lobotomy	when glasses are removed huge spike protruding from the glasses, gag	Related to Knickle Head (Chuck Smith, 1994)	1989	The Trapdoor — Volume Two (Issue 29)	516	Glasses
Chuck Smith	Introduction			1994	What If?		Articles / Intros & Epilogues
Chuck Smith	Harvest Time	bill torn, two coins produced from pieces, restored		1994	What If?	1	Bill / Torn & Restored Coin / Effect Themes / Appearance & Vanish with Reproduction Routines / With Props / Bill(s)
Chuck Smith	King of Club Entertainers			1994	What If?	2	Cards / Effect Themes / Gags & Curiousities / Story Deck
Chuck Smith	Bill Tube and Hank	silk through bill tube, especially for magicians since tube is ungaffed		1994	What If?	3	Silk & Handkerchief / Penetration of Other Objects Bill / Bill Tube
Chuck Smith	Linking Ropes	climax to linking ropes routine with several rope rings becoming one large ring		1994	What If?	5	Rope / Penetration / Linking Rings
Chuck Smith	Multiplying Rabbits	small rabbits finale without need to go to pockets	Also published here Rabbit Rare Bits (Chuck Smith, 1995)	1994	What If?	6	Spongeball / Routines
Chuck Smith	Brema Nut	nut through shoelace		1994	What If?	7	Rope / Penetration / Penetrations with Rings,... Clothing / Shoe & Shoelace Tools / Brema Nut
Chuck Smith	Chuck Smith's Ring Flight	ungaffed key ring		1994	What If?	8	Ring / Finger Rings / Traveling / Ring Flight
Chuck Smith	Imagination	card forced only with equivoque	Related to Smith's 52-Object Equivoque (Chuck Smith, 2005)	1994	What If?	9	Cards / Principles / Equivoque Cards / Effect Themes / Gags & Curiousities / Force and unusual Discovery Cards / Sleights / Force / Without Cards Cards / Sleights / Force / Psychological Forces / temporary category (content needs to be sorted)
Chuck Smith	Imaginary 21 Card Trick	in effect a card is chosen under table and named by magician	Variations Another Invisible 21-Card Trick (Doug Conn, 1996) Invisible 21-Card Trick (Doug Conn, 1997) Impossible 21 Card Trick (Doug Conn, 1999) Also published here Imaginary Twenty-One Card Trick (Chuck Smith, 1995) Imaginary 21 Card Trick (Chuck Smith, 2007)	1994	What If?	12	Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Twenty-One Card Trick Cards / Effect Themes / Divination & Mind Reading / Miscellaneous Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Other Stacks / Partial
Chuck Smith	Coin of Zo	one side of coin changes		1994	What If?	14	Coin / Effect Themes / Transformation / Miscellaneous
Chuck Smith	Fake Turnover	brief		1994	What If?	14	Coin / Sleights / Doubleface-display
Chuck Smith	Cards to Pocket	ten cards		1994	What If?	15	Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to Pocket / Multiple Cards / Up the Sleeve type
Chuck Smith	Blackjack Demo	featuring a "never lose"-stack for blackjack	Related to Fred Robinson's Blackjack Stack (Fred Robinson, 2000)	1994	What If?	17	Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Blackjack Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Gambling Stack / Full Deck
Chuck Smith	Squeeze-Out	coin through handkerchief in spectator's hand, shell		1994	What If?	18	Coin / Effect Themes / Penetration / Silk
Chuck Smith	Coin Through Handkerchief	in spectator's hand, shell		1994	What If?	19	Coin / Effect Themes / Penetration / Silk
Chuck Smith	Phone Trick			1994	What If?	20	Cards / Effect Themes / Phone Effects / For normal phone conversations
Chuck Smith	Knickle Head	"What If?" Bonus Page coin stuck to forehead, when removed a large tack is seen soldered to it	Related to Lobotomy (Steve Beam, 1989) Variations The Magic Coin (Ron Bauer, 1997)	1994	What If?	23	Coin / Effect Themes / Gags / Knickle Head
Chuck Smith	Juggler Vanish	"What If?" Bonus Page stack of loose coins vanishes after "elbow catch"		1994	What If?	23	Coin / Effect Themes / Vanish Routines / Elbow Catch
Chuck Smith	Rabbit Rare Bits	small rabbits finale without need to go to pockets	Also published here Multiplying Rabbits (Chuck Smith, 1994)	Jan. 1995	Magic (Vol. 4 No. 5)	62	Spongeball / Routines
Chuck Smith	Imaginary Twenty-One Card Trick	in effect a card is chosen under table and named by magician	Also published here Imaginary 21 Card Trick (Chuck Smith, 1994)	Feb. 1995	Magic (Vol. 4 No. 6)	58	Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Twenty-One Card Trick Cards / Effect Themes / Divination & Mind Reading / Miscellaneous Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Other Stacks / Partial
Michael Close (reviewer)	What If?	by Chuck Smith		July 1995	Magic (Vol. 4 No. 11)	81	Reviews / Books, Manuscripts, Notes
Doug Conn	Another Invisible 21-Card Trick	spectator pockets card, it is named	Inspired by Imaginary 21 Card Trick (Chuck Smith, 1994) Also published here Invisible 21-Card Trick (Doug Conn, 1997) Impossible 21 Card Trick (Doug Conn, 1999) Impossible 21 Card Trick (Doug Conn, 2007)	1996	MO — Modus Operandi (Issue 8)	9	Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Twenty-One Card Trick Cards / Effect Themes / Divination & Mind Reading / Miscellaneous Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Other Stacks / Partial
Ron Bauer	The Magic Coin	coin on forehead, has huge nail on back when removed	Inspired by Knickle Head (Chuck Smith, 1994)	1997	L.I.N.T. — Pocket Stuff for Close-Up Magicians	65	Coin / Effect Themes / Gags / Knickle Head
Doug Conn	Invisible 21-Card Trick	spectator pockets card, it is named	Inspired by Imaginary 21 Card Trick (Chuck Smith, 1994) Also published here Another Invisible 21-Card Trick (Doug Conn, 1996)	1997	Conn-Fidential	13	Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Twenty-One Card Trick Cards / Effect Themes / Divination & Mind Reading / Miscellaneous Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Other Stacks / Partial
Doug Conn	Impossible 21 Card Trick	spectator pockets card, it is named	Inspired by Must be 21 to enter (Chris Kenner, 1992) Imaginary 21 Card Trick (Chuck Smith, 1994) Also published here Another Invisible 21-Card Trick (Doug Conn, 1996)	1999	Tricks of my Trade	105	Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Twenty-One Card Trick Cards / Effect Themes / Divination & Mind Reading / Miscellaneous Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Other Stacks / Partial
Chuck Smith	Introduction			2000	Why Not?		Articles / Intros & Epilogues
Chuck Smith	Ring Ceremony	harness ring vanishes and reappears on spectator's thumb		2000	Why Not?	1	Ring / Other Rings (like Keyrings)
Chuck Smith	Cap and Pence			2000	Why Not?	3	Coin / Effect Themes / Penetration / Hand
Chuck Smith	Switch-A-Roo Monte	short monte sequence with color changing back kicker		2000	Why Not?	6	Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / Single Card / Back Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Three Card Monte / Packet Trick with Monte theme
Chuck Smith	Optical Display	to show two cards as three		2000	Why Not?	6	Cards / Sleights / False Count / Miscellaneous Cards / Sleights / False Count / Overcounts (as more than are there)
Chuck Smith	Cardrise	classic pinky rise but from the center		2000	Why Not?	8	Cards / Effect Themes / Animation / Rising Card(s) / Impromptu
Chuck Smith	On A Tear	general comments on the "Sucker Torn and Restored Napkin", followed by several handlings		2000	Why Not?	9	Paper / Torn & Restored Paper / Paper Napkin
Chuck Smith	Torn and Restored Napkin Opening	sucker		2000	Why Not?	9	Paper / Torn & Restored Paper / Paper Napkin
Chuck Smith	Magic Glue	sucker		2000	Why Not?	10	Paper / Torn & Restored
Chuck Smith	Chinese Paper Puzzle			2000	Why Not?	11	Paper / Torn & Restored
Chuck Smith, Nate Leipzig	Cigarette Paper Caper			2000	Why Not?	11	Cigarette & Cigar / Torn & Restored Cigarette Paper
Chuck Smith	Good Ole Days Paper Tear	sucker		2000	Why Not?	12	Paper / Torn & Restored
Chuck Smith	New Will-O-Th-Wisp	visual sequence with dollar coin and ball-point pen using the sleeve		2000	Why Not?	14	Coin / Effect Themes / Appearance & Vanish with Reproduction Routines / With Props / Pen Pen & Pencil / Pen (& Cap) Manipulation Routines
Chuck Smith	Sleeving Techniques	several tips on sleeving, retrieving sleeved objects and practice methods		2000	Why Not?	16	Sleeving Techniques Coin / Sleights / Sleeving
Chuck Smith	Finale Cards to Pocket	ten cards	Variations Steal Your Face: The Real Bicycle Thief (Aaron Fisher, 2009)	2000	Why Not?	18	Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to Pocket / Multiple Cards / Up the Sleeve type
Chuck Smith	Stand-Up Rub-a-Dub Vanish			2000	Why Not?	19	Cards / Sleights / Vanish / Rub-a-Dub-Dub
Chuck Smith	Small Packet BoTop Change			2000	Why Not?	20	Cards / Sleights / Switches / Single Card Switches / BoTop & Bottop Change
Chuck Smith	Chip Change	switch of tabled card with deck in one hand while positioning some chips on the table		2000	Why Not?	23	Cards / Sleights / Switches / Single Card Switches / Hole Card Switches Cards / Sleights / Switches / Single Card Switches / Miscellaneous
Chuck Smith	Introduction			2000	Tools Of The Trade		Articles / Intros & Epilogues
Chuck Smith	Practice			2000	Tools Of The Trade	2	Articles / Theory & Essays
Chuck Smith	Chuck Smith on the Double-Lift	unusual lift		2000	Tools Of The Trade	8	Cards / Sleights / Multiple Lift / Top / Break
Chuck Smith	Fan Force	methods using reverse and double fanning		2000	Tools Of The Trade	12	Cards / Principles / Instant Stooge Cards / Sleights / Force / Fan Force
Chuck Smith	The Regular Double-Fan	force application, also for half forcing deck		2000	Tools Of The Trade	12	Cards / Sleights / Force / Fan Force Cards / Sleights / Flourishes / Fans with tricky purpose Cards / Sleights / Force / Forcing from a Forcing Deck
Chuck Smith	The Regular Reverse Fan	double fan application		2000	Tools Of The Trade	14	Cards / Principles / Instant Stooge Cards / Sleights / Force / Fan Force Cards / Sleights / Flourishes / Fans with tricky purpose Cards / Effect Themes / Think a Card / limited Choice
Chuck Smith, Michael Skinner	Mighty Memory	third of deck stacked, multiple phases		2000	Tools Of The Trade	19	Cards / Effect Themes / Super-Senses / Memory / Miscellaneous Cards / Effect Themes / Super-Senses / Memory / Naming missing card(s)
Chuck Smith	Card Memory	a peg for all 52 cards		2000	Tools Of The Trade	23	Cards / Principles / Memory
Chuck Smith	To Dusty	dog finds card		2000	Tools Of The Trade	27	Animal / Dog Animal / Learned Animals Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Animal locates Card
Chuck Smith, Roger Klause, Steve Freeman	Game of 31	eight phases		2000	Tools Of The Trade	31	Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Other Games
Chuck Smith	Long Distance Card Trick	wrong card changes into selection and back		2000	Tools Of The Trade	37	Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / Single Card / Front
Chuck Smith	The Classic Pass			2000	Tools Of The Trade	41	Cards / Sleights / Passes & Shifts / Two-Handed / Classic Pass
Chuck Smith	Option Pass	also as a color change or small packet palm from bottom	Variations Otocyst (Ricky Smith, 2011)	2000	Tools Of The Trade	47	Cards / Sleights / Color Change / On the Deck Cards / Sleights / Passes & Shifts / Two-Handed / Cover Pass (Herrmann) Cards / Sleights / Passes & Shifts / Two-Handed / Free Turn Passes Cards / Sleights / Palming / Classic Palm / Right Hand / Bottom
Chuck Smith	Palm Pass			2000	Tools Of The Trade	51	Cards / Sleights / Passes & Shifts / Two-Handed / Miscellaneous
Chuck Smith	Push-Back Deal	kind of push-off second deal and x-th deal from top but with pre-established break		2000	Tools Of The Trade	55	Cards / Sleights / False Dealing / Second Deal / Push-Off Cards / Sleights / False Dealing / Special Third, Fourth,... Deal / Push-Off
Chuck Smith	Let's Fish	free from a third of the deck		2000	Tools Of The Trade	59	Cards / Principles / Fishing Cards / Effect Themes / Think a Card / free Choice (all 52 cards) Cards / Effect Themes / Think a Card / limited Choice
Chuck Smith, Paul LePaul	Thanks to LePaul		Inspired by An Impromptu Rising Card Effect (Paul LePaul, 1949)	2000	Tools Of The Trade	65	Cards / Effect Themes / Animation / Rising Card(s) / Impromptu
Chuck Smith	Moments to Remember	two cards freely selected, those cards with different back produced from pocket		2000	Tools Of The Trade	69	Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Multiple Card Prediction
Chuck Smith, Don Alan	Knickle Head		Inspired by Knickle Head (Charles Smith, 1954)	2000	In a Class by Himself — The Legacy of Don Alan	23	Coin / Effect Themes / Gags / Knickle Head
Michael Close (reviewer)	Tools of the Trade	by Chuck Smith		Nov. 2000	Magic (Vol. 10 No. 3)	39	Reviews / Books, Manuscripts, Notes
Fred Robinson	Fred Robinson's Blackjack Stack	blackjack stack for heads-up game	Related to Blackjack Demo (Chuck Smith, 1994) Also published here Blackjack (Fred Robinson, 2009)	2000	Virtual Miracles	[41]	Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Blackjack Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Gambling Stack / Full Deck
Jamy Ian Swiss (reviewer)	Tools of the Trade	by Chuck Smith		Sep. 2001	Genii (Vol. 64 No. 9)	73	Reviews / Books, Manuscripts, Notes
Jason Womack	Chuck Smith: Wiles of the West			Oct. 2001	Magic (Vol. 11 No. 2)	56	Articles / Biographical
Jamy Ian Swiss (reviewer)	The Ultimate Endless Chain Routine	by Chuck Smith		May 2003	Genii (Vol. 66 No. 5)	97	Reviews / Books, Manuscripts, Notes
Chuck Smith	Smith's 52-Object Equivoque		Related to Imagination (Chuck Smith, 1994)	Nov. 2005	Antinomy (Vol. 1 No. 4)	10	Cards / Principles / Equivoque Cards / Sleights / Force / Without Cards
Chuck Smith	Imaginary 21 Card Trick	in effect a card is chosen under table and named by magician	Also published here Imaginary 21 Card Trick (Chuck Smith, 1994)	2007	7-7-7	130	Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Twenty-One Card Trick Cards / Effect Themes / Divination & Mind Reading / Miscellaneous Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Other Stacks / Partial
Aaron Fisher	Steal Your Face: The Real Bicycle Thief	Tension, Focus, and Design in Card Magic only Kings in hand, they travel to different pockets On Chuck Smith's Final Card	Inspired by Finale Cards to Pocket (Chuck Smith, 2000) "Bicycle Thief" (Aaron Fisher, marketed item)	July 2009	Genii (Vol. 72 No. 7)	26	Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to Pocket / Multiple Cards / Travelers Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to Pocket / Multiple Cards / Up the Sleeve type
Ricky Smith	Otocyst	Palm replacement while turning the deck	Inspired by Option Pass (Chuck Smith, 2000)	2011	If An Octopus Could Palm	78	Cards / Sleights / Palming / Classic Palm / Right Hand / Replacement
Barrie Richardson	Mesmer's Pencil	Phase I - The Rise (pencil stands up on hand, small thread loop) Phase II - The Heavy Pencil (spectator cannot lift pencil off the performer's hand) Phase III - The Feather Test (variation of Phase II with feather on top, Chuck Smith idea)	Inspired by Pencil Pusher (Barrie Richardson, 1999)	2011	Curtain Call	13	Mental Magic / Effects / Special Powers Pen & Pencil / Miscellaneous Pen & Pencil / Animation Thread / Invisible Thread / Miscellaneous
Chuck Smith	Catch as Catch Can	spectator places red Aces reversed in one half, performer divines which half, spectator then shuffles the halves together, performer divines card shuffled between the Aces	Also published here MAGIC, Oct. 2004	2022	Talk About Tricks (Issue 1)	342	Cards / Effect Themes / Divination & Mind Reading / Miscellaneous

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