56 entries for Unnamed Magician

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Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Joe Berg The Card Behind spectator gives card to performer behind his back, performer names it, secretly placed in sleeve
Related to 1930
Here's Magic
54
T. Page Wright One Way Location interlocking chain principle with one-way deck and key card
Related toVariations 1933
Page Wright's Notebook
13
Theodore Annemann Call Me Up Sometime person calls during the show and names the card someone selected
Related toVariationsAlso published here 1934
SH-H-H--! It's A Secret
2
Theodore Annemann It Goes This Way one-way faces by scratch marks, see page 164 for comment by William Larsen
Related to 1935
The Jinx (Issue Summer Extra 1935)
42
Card Location Supreme one-way backs that must not be set in one direction, random one-way sequence codes position
Related toVariations 1937
Encyclopedia of Card Tricks
158
Walter B. Gibson Key Location Medium finds selection in shuffled deck, coding using stacking principle
Variations 1940
The Jinx (Issue 121)
707
Martin Gardner The Impossible Location No. 129, spectator cuts shuffled deck into three piles, shuffles all, selects a card and assembles deck which the performer locates
Related toVariations 1950
Scarne on Card Tricks
249
Al Koran Double Thought spectator finds performer's card and the other way around, marked deck
Related toVariations 1968
Al Koran's Professional Presentations
89
Eddie Fields Silent Transmission Telephone Mystery spectator deals cards over the phone, magician stops deal on selected card, Waikiki Location
Related toVariationsAlso published here 1968
The Artful Dodges of Eddie Fields
30
Karl Fulves Cards Jumping from Mug effect description, seen from an unnamed magician, posed as a problem
 		1987
Secret Session — Part One
15
Karl Fulves Spin Cut onto Table description, seen from an unnamed magician, posed as a problem
 		1987
Secret Session — Part One
15
Nick Trost Lost and Found divided deck location with a riffle shuffle before the location
Related toAlso published here
  • Nick's Table Trix, 1956
 1997
The Card Magic of Nick Trost
136
Roger Crosthwaite One-Way Sequence Location selection made from and lost in table spread, random one-way sequence codes position
  • First Method
  • Second Method
Related toVariations 1999
Collected Card Notes
82
Harry Riser Behind the Back, One Way out-of-hand selection, performer stabs card reversed next to selection behind back
Related toAlso published here
  • MUM, June 1991
 2006
Secrets of an Escamoteur
65
Michael Powers Hide and Seek selection fairly lost, faro
Inspired by
  • "The Cardician is In!" (Doug Canning, Card Capers)
Related toVariations 		2006
Power Plays
108
Michael Weber Card Kindergarten memorized deck with easy rules
Related toAlso published here 2008
Incredibly Difficult Things With Cards Made (substantially) Easier
[11]
Karl Fulves Linking Finger Rings credit information, describing the routine of an unnamed magician from the 1950s
 		2015
The Lowdown (Issue 1)
1
Denis Behr The Dark Force spectator reverses any card below table, forced
Related toVariations 2018
Handcrafted Card Magic — Volume 3
41
Unnamed Magician Introduction
2024
The "Holy Grail" of Phone Effects
1
Unnamed Magician The "Holy Grail" of Phone Effects freely chosen card is shuffled back into deck, order of all fifty-two cards read off to phoned medium which divines card
 		2024
The "Holy Grail" of Phone Effects
2
Unnamed Magician Introduction
2024
The Exception
1
Unnamed Magician The Exception borrowed deck in new deck order, packet from center is taken and one card remembered, everything shuffled, performer locates cards from the backs
  • Main Method (with a stacked borrowed deck)
  • Variant Method (with a non-stacked borrowed deck) (requiring shiner or assistant)
 		2024
The Exception
2
Unnamed Magician Bonus Effect / Method deck wash-shuffled, card taken from face-down spread and replaced, performer deals through cards and stops at selection, random one-way sequence codes position
Inspired by 2024
The Exception
18
Unnamed Magician Three Pile Location: A Classic Improved adding an honest riffle shuffle before locating the card(s) in classic 26th-card location, DURS Principle
  • Main Method (One Selection)
  • Variant Method (Two Selections)
 		2025
Midnight Sessions
6
Unnamed Magician The Distance Unaffected by a Riffle Shuffle (DURS) Principle application of interlocking chain principle with one-way cards
Related to 2025
Midnight Sessions
22
Unnamed Magician Do It Yourself one-way faces by scratch marks
Related to 2025
Midnight Sessions
29
Unnamed Magician Three Pile Location: On Steroids version of three pile location in which all three piles can be shuffled, and also the deck at the start, DDSD Principle
  • Variant Method
Inspired by 2025
Midnight Sessions
30
Unnamed Magician The Divided Deck from a Shuffle Deck (DDSD) Principle on using one-way feature for divided deck effects
Related to 2025
Midnight Sessions
43
Unnamed Magician The Secret Move seven suggested ways to turn a packet secretly end-for-end
 		2025
Midnight Sessions
46
Unnamed Magician Three Pile Location: On Meth handling of 26th-card location in which the selection is placed onto center pile which can be cut
  • Variant Method (DURS Principle)
Inspired by
  • "The Sunken Key Again" (Geoffrey Scalbert, Abracadabra, Vol. 12 No. 310, 5. Jan. 1952)
 2025
Midnight Sessions
52
Unnamed Magician Dual Control divided deck two-card location with a riffle shuffle before the location, extension of Trost's "Lost and Found"
  • Variant Method 1 (DDSD Principle)
  • Variant Method 2 (DURS Principle) (for three selections)
  • Variant Method 3 (DURS Principle) (for four selections)
  • The Dual Control Principle
Inspired by
  • "Waikiki Card Location" (Bill Murata, marketed 1945)
Related to 		2025
Midnight Sessions
71
Unnamed Magician Rain Man spectator cuts off pile and counts it, loses it and shuffles deck, performer apparently remembers card and then names card at chosen number
  • Variant Method 1
  • Variant Method 2
Inspired by
  • "Wayneman" (Wayne Dobson, Marked 4 Life ebook, 2013)
 2025
Midnight Sessions
97
Unnamed Magician Simple Memorized Stack does not look shuffled
Related to 2025
Midnight Sessions
109
Unnamed Magician Spectator Locates Magician's Card deck shuffled, performer and spectator each select a card from half the deck under the table, performer's selection is written down, they find each other's card
Inspired by 2025
Midnight Sessions
114
Unnamed Magician Spectator Locates Magician's Card Again deck shuffled, performer and spectator each select a card from half the deck, performer's selection is written down, they find each other's card
Inspired by 2025
Midnight Sessions
126
Unnamed Magician Spectator Locates Magician's Card Yet Again deck shuffled, performer and spectator each select a card from half the deck, they find each other's card by cutting under the table and taking top card
  • A Last Word on the "Spectator Locates Magician's Card" Plot (comments on the three methods)
Inspired by 2025
Midnight Sessions
136
Unnamed Magician An Unfathomable Premonition three decks, spectator deals one deck and stops at any card to generate a value, the second deck is cut to generate a suit, the combined card is predicted with the third deck, 1-0-1 stack
  • Main Method (Three Decks)
  • Variant Method 1 (Two Decks)
  • Variant Method 2 (Two Decks)
Variations 2025
Midnight Sessions
147
Unnamed Magician Behind the Back Location behind the performer's back the spectator cuts off a pile, remembers bottom card and loses packet in middle of rest, performer turns around, deck is shuffled by spectator, performer locates card behind his back
 		2025
Midnight Sessions
172
Unnamed Magician Behind the Back Location Again behind the performer's back the spectator cuts off a pile and turns it face up onto the rest, remembers face card and removes it, turns face-up cards over again and selection is lost in the deck, performer turns around, deck is riffle shuffled by spectator, performer locates card behind his back
  • Variant Method (different selection procedure without back-top-back cut)
Inspired by 2025
Midnight Sessions
182
Unnamed Magician, Joe Berg, Hideo Kato Peeking a Card from Behind the Back secretly peeking a card with deck held behind the back
  • 1. (sleeve method, Joe Berg)
  • 2. (placing card behind and turning over)
  • 3. (palm method, Hideo Kato)
  • 4. (open peek ruse)
  • 5. (phone/camera method)
Related to 2025
Midnight Sessions
190
Unnamed Magician Behind the Back Location Yet Again behind the performer's back the spectator cuts the deck into three pile, remembers top card of middle pile and places selection in top pile and shuffles that, center pile is shuffled, all assembled, performer turns around, deck is shuffled, card located behind the performer's back
  • Main Method (Early Peek)
  • Variant Method (Late Peek)
Inspired by 2025
Midnight Sessions
202
Unnamed Magician An Essay on "Behind-the-Back" Locations on other options and procedures
 		2025
Midnight Sessions
218
Unnamed Magician Totally Impossible Location deck shuffled, packet cut off and shuffled, top or bottom card remembered and put into remaining pile, riffle shuffle before location, Waikiki
  • Main Method (One Selection)
  • Variant Method (Two Selections)
Inspired by 2025
Midnight Sessions
224
Unnamed Magician To Waikiki and Beyond on the shuffle procedure used in the "Waikiki Card Location" and its connection to the Dual Control Principle
Related to 2025
Midnight Sessions
231
Unnamed Magician Totally Impossible Location Again deck shuffled, packet cut off and shuffled and card chosen from it by cutting it and remembering the bottom card and replacing it, all assembled and riffle shuffled twice before location
  • Main Method
  • Variant Method (DDSD Principle)
Inspired byAlso published here
  • Variant Method as "In the Eye" (Christian Grace's "Magic Monthly" membership)
 2025
Midnight Sessions
236
Unnamed Magician The One Way for One-Way on using the one-way principle in locations
 		2025
Midnight Sessions
248
Unnamed Magician Signed Behind the Back Location behind the performer's back the spectator shuffles a borrowed deck, cuts the deck into two piles and signs and remembers the top card of the bottom pile, all shuffled again, performer locates card behind his back, stranger key card
 		2025
Midnight Sessions
251
Unnamed Magician Long Distance Telepathy: Under Test Conditions two decks, spectator deals one deck and stops at any card to generate a value, the second deck is cut to generate a suit, the combined card is divined by a phoned medium, 1-0-1 stack, range force
  • Main Method (Two Spectators)
  • Variant Method (One Spectator)
  • Further Variant Methods
Inspired by 2025
Midnight Sessions
266
Unnamed Magician Long Distance Telepathy: Under Test Conditions Again spectator deals through deck and stops at any card, a medium is phoned and spectator removes five indifferent cards and tells them to medium which divines stopped-at card
Related to 2025
Midnight Sessions
284
Unnamed Magician Long Distance Telepathy: Under Test Conditions Yet Again deck with two dozens drawings is shuffled and spread face up, spectator chooses any drawing, medium is phoned which divines the chosen design after the order of the deck is read off, not explained in book but in companion online pdf
  • Main Method (Playing Cards)
  • Variant Method (Picture Cards)
Related to
  • "Televoyance" (Lewis Jones, Person to Person, 1991)
  • "Person to Person" (Stewart James, The Linking Ring, Aug. 1957, p. 77)
 2025
Midnight Sessions
294
Unnamed Magician Concluding Remarks
2025
Midnight Sessions
300
Unnamed Magician From the Desk of the Unnamed Magician
2025
Midnight Sessions
306
Unnamed Magician Introduction
2025
The Perfect Force
2
Unnamed Magician The Perfect Force spectator reverses any card below table and looks at it before replacing it in the center, forced
Inspired byVariations 2025
The Perfect Force
3
David Britland Variant Method spectator reverses any card below table and looks at it before replacing it in the center, forced
Inspired by 2025
The Perfect Force
13
Unnamed Magician Concluding Remarks
  • Crediting
 		2025
The Perfect Force
15