109 entries for Tom Craven

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Bob Hummer Little Stranger spectator places some red cards in his left and right trouser and jacket pockets, performer divines numbers
Related toVariationsAlso published here 1945
Little Stranger
1
Martin Gardner Poker Problem open drawing of cards, solution on p. 1104
Related to Feb. 1953
The Phoenix (Issue 275)
1101
John Quine Quine's Key Placement
Variations 1972
Card Cavalcade
104
Jerry L. Christensen Pyramid Aces
Related to Aug. 1977
Pabular (Vol. 3 No. 12)
447
Tom Craven Pyramid Variation
Related to Nov. 1977
Pabular (Vol. 4 No. 3)
490
Jerry K. Hartman Goody Two Choose two selections, divided deck
Related toVariationsAlso published here Jan. 1978
Apocalypse (Vol. 1 No. 1)
8
Tom Craven Goody Goody two cards are counted to according to values in shuffled deck
Inspired byAlso published here Oct. 1979
Apocalypse (Vol. 2 No. 10)
262
David Hoy, Tom Craven Psi-Handkerchief five different colored handkerchiefs in five glasses, prediction of one color
 		1979
Magick (Issue 226)
1129
Tom Craven Shadows psychological force, prediction of one ESP card
 		1979
Magick (Issue 238)
1188
Tom Craven 'Z' Test! numbers on a bingo sheet are crossed out until one remains, number is divined
 		1979
Magick (Issue 244)
1218
Tom Craven Propel-A-Coin coin is flipped and caught on back of hand, changes to different coin, lapping
 		June 1980
Apocalypse (Vol. 3 No. 6)
355
Tom Craven Head to Head puzzle/bet, head-to-head poker game, cards are openly chosen, yet performer wins
Related to Sep. 1980
Apocalypse (Vol. 3 No. 9)
393
Tom Craven Tally-Ho One-Way one-way feature on Tally-Ho Circle backs
 		May 1981
Apocalypse (Vol. 4 No. 5)
489
Tom Craven Only Four shell
 		Nov. 1981
Apocalypse (Vol. 4 No. 11)
556
Tom Craven, Mel Stover, Raymond Hafler, H. R. Benfer, Roysce Smith, Gerald Byrne, C. R. Tracy, John Cornelius, Paul Swinford Letters
1981
Interlocutor (Issue 46)
182
Tom Craven Poof! pellets wrapped in aluminium foil and held over flame, paper with dead name vanishes inside foil
 		1981
Magick (Issue 288)
1438
Jim Sutton, Tom Craven Poor Man's Pencil Thru' Quarter paper napkin cover
 		May 1982
Apocalypse (Vol. 5 No. 5)
635
Tom Craven Double-Crosser sucker situation with obvious second deal
 		Sep. 1982
Apocalypse (Vol. 5 No. 9)
683
Tom Craven Open Coins Across shell
Inspired byVariations Nov. 1982
Apocalypse (Vol. 5 No. 11)
697
Jeff Busby (reviewer) 16th Card Book by Tom Craven Oct. 1982
Epoptica (Issue 2)
85
Harry Lorayne Tom Craven mini bio
 		1982
Best of Friends
158
Tom Craven Three By Two pair of mates find three selections
 		1982
Best of Friends
159
Tom Craven Incomplete Faro Jog Control
Related to 1982
Best of Friends
193
Tom Craven Rising Sandwich card peeked at in bottom half appears between sandwich cards in top half
 		1982
Best of Friends
441
Tom Craven Mental Nick spectator cuts small packet and counts cards, then he remembers card at that position in deck
 		1982
Fork Full of Appetizers
5
Tom Craven What? A Knot? convincing false knot with gimmicked rope
 		Apr. 1983
Apocalypse (Vol. 6 No. 4)
763
Tom Craven "Drop-Count" Revelation using faro
Variations Dec. 1983
Apocalypse (Vol. 6 No. 12)
858
Tom Craven New/Easy Ring Load using handkerchief
 		Jan. 1984
Apocalypse (Vol. 7 No. 1)
874
Doug Canning, Tom Craven Straight Slam spectator shuffles, yet top thirteen cards are straight from ace to king, gilbreath
 		Apr. 1984
Apocalypse (Vol. 7 No. 4)
908
Doug Canning, Tom Craven Straight Prediction spectator shuffles and deals a bit and ends up with five cards: Ten-high straigt, predicted
 		Apr. 1984
Apocalypse (Vol. 7 No. 4)
908
Bob Farmer Transfer Cut from bottom to center, tripple cut in the hands
Inspired by 1984
Fork Full of Appetizers — Book 2
83
Tom Craven Four Coins and a Purse four coins travel into purse one by one
Inspired by 1984
Fork Full of Appetizers — Book 2
99
Last October No. 61, spectator pockets some cards and buries a selection in rest, card on top after some counting
Variations 1984
More Self-Working Card Tricks
90
Harry Lorayne Tom Craven mini bio
 		1985
Best of Friends — Volume II
520
Tom Craven Expanded 10-20 Force for two cards
Variations 1985
Best of Friends — Volume II
521
Tom Craven Blank(et) Prediction
1985
Best of Friends — Volume II
524
Tom Craven Spin Change wrong card is tossed and splits into two selections in the air
 		1985
Best of Friends — Volume II
527
Tom Craven Your Choice...Or Mine? prediction of chosen cigarette brand, several cigarette boxes used
 		Jan. 1985
Magick (Issue 344)
1719
Tom Craven The Match miniature card of selection is found in matchbox
 		1986
The Trapdoor — Volume One (Issue 15)
254
Ben Harris Two Out of Four Isn't Bad order of the shuffled Aces is divined, using Ace of Spades printing defect noticed by Tom Craven
Inspired by
  • Tom Craven, Precursor #8
 Aug. 1986
New Directions (Issue 3)
16
Peter Kougasian Let's Face it interesting lead in
Variations May 1988
Apocalypse (Vol. 11 No. 5)
1489
Tom Craven Your Card/My Card blank cards with text transpose while sandwiched
 		Dec. 1988
Apocalypse (Vol. 11 No. 12)
1583
Tom Craven Unclosed Prediction Effect Variation
 		Aug. 1989
Apocalypse (Vol. 12 No. 8)
1672
Tom Craven Heads or Tails? coin is scooped up with a card and put in other hand, transformation / switch
 		Feb. 1989
The Minotaur (Vol. 1 No. 1)
3
Tom Craven End Over Aces four Ace cutting, in the hands
 		Sep. 1989
The Minotaur (Vol. 1 No. 3)
1
Tom Craven Swing Cut Set-Up
Sep. 1989
The Minotaur (Vol. 1 No. 3)
1
Tom Craven The Hinge Move half the packet turnover flourish with tricky purpose
 		Sep. 1989
The Minotaur (Vol. 1 No. 3)
3
Tom Craven End Over Extra End Over Aces, with location of selection as the climax
 		Sep. 1989
The Minotaur (Vol. 1 No. 3)
4
John Quine, Tom Craven Roadrunner Aces
Dec. 1990
Apocalypse (Vol. 13 No. 12)
1864
Tom Craven Signed Wallet to Card Case
1991
Card to Wallet
159
Steve Beam Leftovers on National Magic Day, Tom Craven, John Riggs, Bob Sheets idea for Yedid's Finger Fantasies, Barry Wood idea for the no-tear paper
 		1991
The Trapdoor — Volume Two (Issue 36)
660
Tom Craven Down The Ladder value of selected card is used to count down to it
 		Mar. 1992
Apocalypse (Vol. 15 No. 3)
2044
Tom Craven In-and-Out Force
May 1992
Apocalypse (Vol. 15 No. 5)
2073
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
Jim Sisti (reviewer) Color Prediction Chips by Tom Craven Nov./Dec. 1992
The Magic Menu (Vol. 3 No. 14)
150
Steve Beam Leftovers on opening lines, Tom Craven, Paul Critelli
 		1993
The Trapdoor — Volume Two (Issue 49)
900
Tom Craven Super Speller not with full deck
Inspired by
  • "Remote Control" (Jim Steinmeyer, The New Invocation #43, Feb. 1988)
 1993
Semi-Automatic Card Tricks
22
Tom Craven The Custom Card Trick card is found and spelled to at impossible conditions, possible over phone
Inspired by 1993
Semi-Automatic Card Tricks
24
Tom Craven The Cascade self-working handling of "Drop-Count" Revelation
Inspired by 1993
Semi-Automatic Card Tricks
92
Dennis Marks Power Drain battery is drained and filled up again, using a battery tester
Related to
  • "Brain Drain" (Moshe Botwinick aka Marc Salem, Invocation #63, June 1991)
  • "Free of Charge" (Tom Craven, The Linking Ring, Vol. 71 No. 9, Sep. 1991)
 Sep. 1993
Vibrations (Vol. 16 No. 3)
1
Grace Ann Morgan The Perfect Stopper spectator deals card on table and can stop anywhere, performer knows / names card
Variations 1994
The Trapdoor — Volume Three (Issue 51)
940
Steve Beam Leftovers on Barry Wood, Tom Craven, Dick Dale, Gary Hipp, magician's image, BayWatch, Houdini
 		1994
The Trapdoor — Volume Three (Issue 51)
944
Tom Craven Blind Side named number is counted to, card is noted and rest of the cards are blank
Inspired by 1994
The Trapdoor — Volume Three (Issue 52)
959
Steve Beam Leftovers on long distance calls, Seinfeld, Impact / Multiple Impact, tricks with computers, Don Morris, FFFF, picture with Derek Dingle and Obie O'brien, handling detail for Steve Beam's "Quadruple Prediction" from Semi-Automatic Card Tricks by Billy McDonnell, Wayne Kyzer, John Moran, Tom Craven
Inspired by 1994
The Trapdoor — Volume Three (Issue 53)
992
Aldo Colombini The Killer noose formed with a rope only tightens when spectator who is holding the selection pulls it
Inspired by
  • Tom Craven effect
 1994
The Close-Up Magic of Aldo Colombini
57
Aldo Colombini Las Vegas deck shuffled face-up/face-down by cutting piles on the table, two cards end up reversed sandwiching the selection
Inspired by
  • Tom Craven effect
Related to 		1994
The Close-Up Magic of Aldo Colombini
61
Steve Beam Leftovers on Tom Baxter, Bruce Fricker, Jon Racherbaumer, Stephen Minch, Steve Pressley, Doug Canning, Tom Craven, Scott Robinson, John Riggs
Related to 1995
The Trapdoor — Volume Three (Issue 56)
1072
Tom Craven The Approach approaching a table when doing restaurant magic
 		1995
The Trapdoor — Volume Three (Issue 58)
1104
Tom Craven Joking Queens four blank cards, some change into a queen, then all change into jokers
 		Dec. 1995
The Minotaur (Vol. 7 No. 4)
4
Tom Craven The Pairable some cards are cut from a shuffled deck, two cards are removed to form a card, then card is produced
 		1995
Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 2
114
Tom Craven Bounce Control I after spectator's peek
Variations 1995
Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 2
190
Tom Craven Bounce Controll II after incomplete faro peek
 		1995
Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 2
192
Tom Craven Doppel-Entdecker two cards are counted to according to values in shuffled deck
Also published here Mar. 1995
Intermagic (Vol. 19 No. 2)
61
Tom Craven Keeper Finder
Sep. 1996
Apocalypse (Vol. 19 No. 9)
2698
Tom Craven Plugging the Keyhole
1996
The Trapdoor — Volume Three (Issue 61)
1192
Steve Beam Leftovers on John Riggs, Jeff White, Tony Biscardi Joke, Steven Youell/Grace Ann Morgan, David Copperfield, Mike Gallo, Tom Craven, Dave Michael Evans
 		1996
The Trapdoor — Volume Three (Issue 61)
1196
Tom Craven King Butt (As in "butt shuffle")
1996
The Trapdoor — Volume Three (Issue 62)
1215
Tom Craven Keeper of the Keys
Inspired by Sep. 1996
The Minotaur (Vol. 8 No. 3)
5
Steve Beam Leftovers on Apocalypse, The Minotaur, Chris "Doc" Dixon, Tom Craven, Joe Mogar, Earle Oakes, Mike Beam ring gag, Ed Marlo
 		1997
The Trapdoor — Volume Three (Issue 66)
1342
Tony Bartolotta Gang Related deck cut, top two cards removed and placed in center, corner of next card torn off, performer stabs it into the center behind his back, between selections, three-way force deck, for details see Informant reference
Related to 1997
Underworld (Issue 6)
84
Karl Fulves Commuter Cards "Unsolved Mysteries"
two-deck travelers, spectator distributes Aces in his pockets, performer makes Aces vanish from his deck and pulls them out of matching pockets, posed as a problem
Variations 1997
The Fine Print (Issue 6)
147
Steve Beam Leftovers on John Moran, Tom Craven, The Trapdoor in Review
 		1998
The Trapdoor — Volume Three (Issue 70)
1482
Ron Eastin, Arnold Farmer, Tom Craven Letters
Related to 1998
The Fine Print (Issue 7)
201
Tom Craven Solution to Commuter Cards two-deck travelers, spectator distributes Aces in his pockets, performer makes Aces vanish from his deck and pulls them out of matching pockets
Inspired by 1998
The Fine Print (Issue 7)
201
Ken De Courcy The IRS Divination sum divination
Inspired by
  • a book test by Tom Craven in "The Linking Ring" January, 1995.
 Feb. 1998
Mind & Magic Magazine (Vol. 1 No. 8)
11
Jason Alford Sandwich Spread odd-backed sandwich cards place in different positions, they instantly come together to trap selection
Inspired byVariationsAlso published here 1998
Thinking & Wondering
8
Tom Craven Hummer - Odd Back Basic Hummer, but selected card is reversed and also odd-backed
Also published here 1999
Cunning Card Miracles
41
Tom Craven Hummer Clean-up Clean-up for Baby Hummer (1 2 3 4 turnover)
Also published here 1999
Cunning Card Miracles
44
Tom Craven, Steve Beam Plugging the Keyhole presentation for Bounce Control
Inspired by 2000
Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 3
210
Tom Craven Unclosed Prediction
Inspired by 2000
Card File Two
5
Tom Craven Hummer Clean-Up four cards, selection is only one reversed after some procedure
Inspired by
  • "Baby Hummer" (Charles Hudson, Linking Ring)
Also published here 		2000
Card File Two
69
Tom Craven Hummer - Odd Back selection also has odd back
Inspired by
  • "Baby Hummer" (Charles Hudson, Linking Ring)
Also published here 		2000
Card File Two
70
Tom Craven All Backs Routine five cards, Royal Flush ending
 		2000
Card File Two
151
Steve Beam, Tom Craven Plugging the Keyhole #2
2001
The Underhand Shuffle
20
Reinhard Müller Feeling the Same court cards and a Joker are shuffled, a four of a kind is chosen and cards put in spectator's pocket, a pile is handed to the performer and he is able to announce how many of chosen quartet are in that pile and if the Joker is there as well
Inspired by
  • Tom Craven's "Selected Suit Divination" in Tony Miller's "Channel One" Vol. 3, #10. 2003
Related to 		2006
Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 6
59
Tom Craven Selected Suit Divination suit chosen, cards put in pockets of spectator and on packet handed to performer who is then able to announce how many cards of named suit are inside the pile
Related to 2006
Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 6
63
Tom Craven Raising Baby Hummer selection is reversed, variation with odd-colored back
  • Off-Color Baby Hummer
Inspired by
  • Charles Hudson's "Baby Hummer" in "The Linking Ring" December, 1967.
 2006
Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 6
72
Harry Lorayne Tom Craven mini bio
 		2007
Best of Friends — Volume III
451
Tom Craven The 27-Card Trick
2007
Best of Friends — Volume III
452
Tom Craven Psychic Cards four cards predicted at positions named by spectator, but after every number is named the deck is shuffled by performer (!!)
 		2007
Best of Friends — Volume III
455
Tom Craven, Bob King Name That Card any number card
 		2007
Best of Friends — Volume III
459
Jamy Ian Swiss (reviewer) The Second 16th card Book by Tom Craven, Paul Gordon May 2007
Genii (Vol. 70 No. 5)
110
Nick Trost The Couple's Lucky Number two cards are forced via number procedures
Inspired by 2008
Subtle Card Creations — Volume 1
46
Tom Craven Double Barreled two cards found via Oracle elimination
 		2010
Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 8
190
Steve Beam The Trapdoor Issue #51 on Doug Canning, Tom Craven, John Riggs, Steven Youell/Grace Ann Morgan
 		2012
The Trapdoor — Volume Three (Issue Addendum)
iii
Steve Beam The Trapdoor Issue #66 on The Minotaur, Tom Craven, Ed Marlo
 		2012
The Trapdoor — Volume Three (Issue Addendum)
xxvii
Tom Craven All Backs Routine small packet All Backs, cards change to Royal Flush
 		2012
The F.F.F.F. Book
61
Michael Powers Open Mate Prediction card at named position matches prediction card
Inspired by
  • Tom Craven trick in Card Corner, Linking Ring, Feb. 2010
 2019
Tesseract
51
Scott Baird The FUJ Shuffle "Faro Utility Jog"
card peeked in incomplete faro condition, water fall square-up, then card can be glimpsed and controlled, with Si Stebbins application idea
Related toVariations Jan. 2022
The Hermit (Vol. 1 No. 1)
36