A MAGAZINE OF INNOVATION EDITED BY
WILLIAM P. MIBSEL
PUBLISHED BY
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I N D E X
P R E C U R S O R I U M
Compiled by Ron Zollweg
Being an Index of t h e F i r s t Twenty I s s u e s of PRECURSOR.
Cards
Regular Deck
Aces of the Ancient. William P. Miesel Aces Out of Another Dimension. Michael Skinner Al Thatcher Lie-Speller, The. Al Thatcher Al Thatcher on Estimation. Al Thatcher Another Dunbury. Danny Smith Automatic Zen. Bob King A Better Count To the Aces. Ed Mario Beware the Doppelganger. Warren Stephens Bottom to Top Undercut. Ed Mario Color Triumph. William P. Miesel Compass Rose. Michael DeMarco Computerized Lie Detector. Gary Plants Convention Aces. Bob King Conus Aces, The. Michael Skinner Count Down Delight. Lou Gallo Cue Tips. Reg Holden Delayed Key Card, The. Howard Schwarzman Die Vination. Dom Cervas Distant Relatives. Phil Goldstein Doppelganger, The. Ron Zollweg Double Count-Down. William P. Miesel Double Predict-a-Count. Al Thatcher Drug Store Deck, The. Reg Holden Face-Up Transposition. Jim Patton Figmental. J. K. Hartman Foreseeing Is Deceiving. J. K. Hartman Further Mysteries of the Locked Room. William P. Miesel Galloping Aces. Shawn Greer Glorpy Principle, The. Michael DeMarco Good Four King Trick, A. Mel Stover Grand Theft. Bob King Half-Aced Cuts. J. K. Hartman Impromptu Christ Prediction. William P. Miesel Interface. Phil Goldstein Joker Is a Joke, The. William P. Miesel
VII, 17 XX, 5 XVI, 15 XVII, 10 XIX, 17 XIV, 16 XVIII, 18 XV, 17 XVIII, 3 IV, 9 XIII, 18 XVII, 4 XVI, 17 XX, 12 II, 13 XI, 19 XIX, 15 XIV, 20 X, 13 VIII, 10 VIII, 11 X, 11 XII, 6 VIII, 7 XI, 3 XI, 5 III, 6 IX, 14 XVI, 9 XII, 3 XV, 19 XVII, 8 XI, 7 VI, 4 IV, 18
Keen Vibrations. William P. Miesel Kicked with a Royal Flush. William P. Miesel Kings Go Fourth. Allan Slaight K-M Collectors. Michael DeMarco Locked Room Hotel Mystery. Jon Racherbaumer Magnetic Aces. Richard Cook March to the Ambush. Michael DeMarco Metamorphosis Card Trick, The. Danny Smith Millenium Backs, The. William P. Miesel Mind and Mirror Memory. Bob King Missing Lady, The. Lou Gallo Mona Lisa Card Trick, The. Michael Skinner Multiple Effect, A. Ed Mario Multi-Triumph Ease. John W. McClure Mutt and Jeff Card Trick, The. Warren Stephens Nate Leipzig!s Slap Aces. Michael Skinner No Force Impossible Spell Down. Justin Higham No Is Once Enough. P. Howard Lyons No Shuffle Aces. Ed Mario Patent Transposition, A. Jim Patton Perverse Discovery. David Drake Pinochle and Aces. Nick Trost Porous Wallet, A. William P. Miesel Prophecy on Rye. Jon Racherbaumer Quadruple Count Down. Al Thatcher Quadruple Match-Up. Al Thatcher Razzle-Dazzle. Wynn Mertz Razzle-Dazzle (Second Method). William P. Miesel Red Card, The. Ron Zollweg Red Card Squared. William P. Miesel Reset with a Twist. Chris Kenner Revised Impossible Countdown. Ed Mario Sensitive Fingers. Neal Elias Sham Mnemosyne. Al Thatcher Spectator Counts to the Aces. Bill Kalush Spectator Cuts to the Aces. William P. Miesel Stabbed Coincidence. Jim Patton Submarine Aces. William P. Miesel Substitution Trunk Card Mystery, The. William P. Miesel Subway. Michael DeMarco Sympathetic Switch, A. Jim Patton Tinker's Whim. J. K. Hartman Top of the Heap, The. William P. Miesel Triplets. William P. Miesel Triple Sandwich. Dom Cervas Triple Sandwich. Dom Cervas Turbo Charged Deck, The. Bill Kalush Unconventional Aces. Ed Mario With Mirrors. Dom Cervas You're the Gambler. Karl Fulves
IX, 11 XII, 19 VI, 15 XII, 12 III, 3 XVII, 6 X, 6 VI, 11 I, 10 XX, 15 XII, 10 XX, 4 II, 3 XVI, 12 XIV, 4 XX, 10 XVI, 19 XV, 7 XVIII, 17 XIX, 13 V, 6 XVII, 14 Sp II, 4 V, 4 IV, 6 VIII, 18 X, 3 X, 5 XIX, 3 XIX, 11 XIV, 12 XVIII, 8 V, 13 XII, 17 XVII, 16 V, 18 VIII, 6 Sp I, 2 V, 9 XV, 13 VII, 8 XI, 4 XVII, 12 Sp III, 5 VI, 20 X, 19 XV, 11 XVIII, 11 IV, 15 XV, 9
Cards:
Partial Deck or Packet
Count Down. Stephen Tucker Four Card Monte. Bob King Magnetic Aces. Richard Cook More on "The Red Card Prediction". Miesel, Craven, Stover Posikron. Karl Fulves Red Card, The (Second Methos). William P. Miesel Thick Six. David Drake
Cards:
Sp III , 2 XVI, 4 XIX, 4
XI, 9
Sleights and Other Miscellaneous Information
Action Lapping. David Ben Bicycle Aces. Tom Craven Bringing the Selection from the Bottom to the Top Without Disturbing the Order of the Deck. William P. Miesel Controlling Two Cards During a Riffle Shuffle. Wm. P. Miesel Cover-Up Lapping Switch. William P. Miesel Flycaster. Phil Goldstein Han Ping Chien Cards. Warren Stephens Multiple Card Control. William P. Miesel One Card Tilt Finesse. Eric T. Dockery Peek Controls. Neal Elias Peek Force and/or Control. Neal Elias Riffle Shuffle as a Control, The. William P. Miesel Tahoe Key, The William P. Miesel & Nick Trost Using a Riffle Shuffle to Bring the Bottom Card to the Top. William P. Miesel Versatile Side Jog Switch. Jim Pattori
Cards:
XVII 5 18 XIII 9 10
IV, 12 VIII, 4 III, 16 III, 14 V, 17 XVI, 2 Sp II , 5 I, 4 XIII, 6 I, 12 VIII, 14 III, 12 I, 2 III, 15 VII, 4
Special Decks of Packets
Another Un-Card Routine. Al Thatcher Bounce Back. William P. Miesel ESP Prediction, An. Nick Trost Four Card Red Card. Nick Trost Hold Out. Bob King Image Takers, The. Justin Higham Jumbo Split. Nick Trost Lots of Lots. Tom Craven Magnetic Aces. Richard Cook Mini-Match. Nick Trost More Replacers. Ed Mario Personalized Aces. Jeff Busby Polaroid Cards. William P. Miesel Replacer. Phil Goldstein Sound of One Man Rapping: Variations on Zen Poker Technicolor Change. Earle Oakes
XIX, 10 XIII, 4
Bob Farmer
I, 8 XIX, 6 XX, 19 XIV, 18 VIII, 20 XIII, 8 XVII, 6 XIV, 18 XV, 3 IX, 8 VI, 6 XIII, 3 XI, 11 XIV, 14
Technicolor Change. Nick Trost Tic-Tac-Total. Phil Goldstein Triple Decker. Bob King Triple Size-Up. William P. Miesel Turbo Charged Deck, The. Bill Kalush Turns Out. Bob Taylor Un-Cards. Nick Trost Wild Card with a Kicker. Nick Trost Wild Prediction in Wallet. William P. Miesel William P. Miesel Wild Tic - Wilder Tac - Wildest Toe. Yenta Outfiddled. Mel Stover
X, 17 XXX, 9 XX, 17 XII, 8 XV, 11 XVI, 7 XIX, 7 XIII, 16 I, 5 I, 16 IV, 3
Miscellaneous Magic Clippo Ideas. Ed Eckl Die Vination. Dom Cervas Dime in Bottle. Ed Eckl Eckl's Karate Coin. Ed Eckl Fifty Percent Interest. Warren Stephens Flexible Prediction Plot, A. Ed Mario Gag Balloons. Ed Eckl Get Off the Earth. Ron Zollweg Jewelry Should be Examined. Michael DeMarco Del Copley Loading Two Coins into a Purse Without Talking. Moon Die-Vination. Del Copley My Forex 7. Paul Critelli Okito Box Without Coins. Warren Stephens Ring and Ribbon Penetration. Warren Stephens Short and Sweet. David Ben Sugar Transposition. Ed Eckl Torn & Restored Soda Straw Wrapper. Michael Skinner er Wanderful?. Ed Eckl Woofle-Duster Coin Vanish. Ed Eckl Worse Habits. David Ben
IV, 9 XIV , 20 VII , 20 II, 12 XIII, 14
IX, 4 x, 14 VI, 19 XIV , 9 IV, 10 x, 15 IX, 17 II, 10 VI, 9 v, 11 XII, 9 XX, 8 VI, 17 Sp III, 4 VII , 12
Miscellany Harry!s Laws. Ed Eckl IV, 14; V3 VI, 14; VII, 7; Letter about Michael Skinner, A. Bob King Memorial to Fletcher. Ed Eckl Memory Metal. William P. Miesel Prestidigiteckls. Ed Eckl II, 15; IV, 11 Some "Moe" Information. William P. Miesel Story for Xmas, A ... Transcribed from the First Book of GINesis. Ed Eckl Ed Eckl Strange Stranger - Strained Stranger. Ed Eckl Three Card Twenty-One Card Trick, The. Word Play. Ed Eckl VI, 10; VIII, 9;
Sp II, 7 XX, 14 VII, 21 Sp II, 8 Sp II, 7 XIV, 2 VI, 20 V, 19 V, 15 XII, 18
You Don't Have to be Crazy. Your Favourite Card Trick.
William P. Miesel Ed Eckl
Sp II, 2 II, 16
Burger, Eugene: THE CRAFT OF MAGIC (E.E.) Burger, Eugene: INTIMATE POWER (E.E.) Busby, Jeff: Arcane (E.E.) Goldstein, Phil: AMPERTHAND (W.P.M.) Goldstein, Phil: DOTH (W.P.M.) Goldstein, Phil: MIND GAMES (E.E.) Goldstein, Phil: THEQUAL (W.P.M.) Harris, Ben: New Directions (W.P.M.) Kaufman, Richard: Richard's Almanac (W.P.M.) King, Bob: Changing of the Cards (W.P.M.) King, Bob: Psychic Trivia (W.P.M.) Trost, Nick: Rainbow Miracle (W.P.M.)
VI, 3 II, 19 IX, 16 XI, 2 XVI, 2 VI, 5 VII, 2 IX, 2 IX, 2 XVII, 20 XVII, 20 VIII, 3
Reviews
Contributors Ben, David Action Lapping; Short and Sweet; Worse Habits Busby, Jeff Personalized Aces Cervas, Dom Die Vination; Triple Sandwich; With Mirrors Copley, Del Loading Two Coins into a Purse Without Talking; Moon Die-Vination Cook, Richard Magnetic Aces Craven, Tom Bicycle Aces; Lots of Lots; More on "The Red Card11 Critelli, Paul My Forex 7 DeMarco, Michael Compass Rose; The Glorpy Principle; Jewelry Should Be Examined; K. M. Collectors; March to the Ambush; Subway Dockery, Eric T. One Card Tilt Finesse Darke, David Perverse Discovery; Thick Six Eckl, Ed Clippo Ideas; Dime in Bottle; Eckl's Karate Coin; Gag Balloons; Harry's Laws; Memorial to Fletcher; Prestidigiteckls; A Story for Xmas ... Transcribed from the First Book of GINesis; Strange Stranger - Strained Stranger; Sugar Transposition; The Three Card Twenty-One Card Trick; Wanderful?; Woofle-Duster Coin Vanish; Word Play; Your Favourite Card Trick
Elias, Neal Peek Controls; Peek Force and/or Controls; Sensitive Fingers Farmer, Bob The Sound of One Man Rapping: Variations on Zen Poker Fulves, Karl Posikron; You're the Gambler Gallo, Lou Count Down Delight; The Missing Lady Goldstein, Phil Distant Relatives; Flycaster; Interface; Replacer; Tic-Tac-Total Greer, Shawn Galloping Aces Hartman, J, K. Figmental; Foreseeing is Deceiving; Half-Aced Cuts; Thinker!s Whim Higham, Justin The Image Takers; No Force Impossible Spell Down Holden, Reg Cue Tips; The Drug Store Deck Kalush, Bill Spectator Counts to the Aces; The Turbo Charged Deck Kenner, Chris Reset with a Twist King, Bob Automatic Zen; Convention Aces; Four Card Monte; Grand Theft; Hold Out; A Letter about Michael Skinner; Mind and Mirror Memory; Triple Decker Lyons, P. Howard No Is Once Enough McClure, John W. Multi-Triumph Ease Mario, Ed A Better Count to the Aces; Bottom to Top Undercut; A Flexible Prediction Plot; More Replacers; A Multiple Effect; No Shuffle Aces; Revised Impossible Countdown; Unconventional Aces Mertz, Wynn Razzle-Dazzle Miesel, William P. Aces of the Ancient; Bounce Back; Bring the Selection from the Bottom to the Top without Disturbing the Order of the Deck; Color Triumph; Controlling Two Cards During a Riffle Shuffle; Cover Up Lapping Switch; Double Count Down; Further Mysteries of the Locked Room; Impromptu Christ Prediction; The Joker is a Joke; Keen Vibrations; Kicked with a Royal Flush; Memory Metal; The Millenium Backs; More on the Red Card Prediction; Multiple Card Control; Polaroid Cards; A Porous Wallet; Razzle-Dazzle (Second Method); The Red Card (Second Method); Red Card Squared; The Riffle Shuffle as a Control; Some "Moe1 Information; The Substitution Trunk Card Trick; The Substitution Trunk Card Mystery; Submarine Aces; Spectator Cuts the Aces; The Top of the Heap; Triplets; Triple Size-Up; Using a Riffle Shuffle to Bring the Bottom Card to the Top; Wild Prediction in Wallet; Wild Tic - Wilder Tac - Wildest Toe; You Don't Have to be Crazy
Pat ton, Jim Face-Up Transposition; A Patent Transposition; Stabbed Coincidence; A Sympathetic Switch; Versatile Side Jog Switch Plants, Gary Computerized Lie Detector Oakes, Earle Technicolor Change Racherbaumer, Jon Locked Room Hotel Mystery; Prophecy on Rye Schwarzman, Howard The Delayed Key Card Skinner, Michael Aces Out of Another Dimension; The Conus Aces; The Mona Lisa Card Trick; Nate Leipzigfs Slap Aces; Torn and Restored Soda Pop Wrapper Slaight, Allan Kings Go Fourth Smith, Danny Another Dunbury; The Metamorphosis Card Trick Stephens, Warren Beware the Doppelganger; Fifty Percent Interest; Han Ping Chien Cards; The Mutt and Jeff Card Trick; Okito Box Without Coin; Ring and Ribbon Penetrat ion Stover, Mel A Good Four King Trick; More on the "Red Card Prediction"; Yenta Outfiddled Taylor, Bob Turns Out Thatcher, Al The Al Thatcher Lie-Speller; Al Thatcher on Estimation; Another Un-Card Routine; Double Predict-a-Count; Quadruple Count Down; Quadruple Match-Up; Sham Mnemosyne Trost, Nick An ESP Prediction; Four Card Red Card; Jumbo Split; Mini Match; Pinochle and Aces; The Tahoe Key; Technicolor Change; Un-Cards; Wild Card with a Kicker Tucker, Stephen Count Down Zollweg, Ron The Doppelganger; Get Off the Earth; The Red Card
Our thanks to Ron for putting together this impressive index of the first twenty issues of PRECURSOR covering the time span of June 1983 to June 1988. We hope he!ll come through again when we complete our second twenty issues. Please note that copies of all back issues are presently available. William P. Miesel and Ed Eckl October 1989
A MAGAZINE OF INNOVATION WILLIAM P. MIESEL
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INDEX
P R E C U R S O B I U M
I I
Compiled byRon Z o l l w e g
Being an Index of the Second Twenty Issues of PRECURSOR.
Cards
Regular Deck
Ace-Sembly. Michael DeMarco Aces to the Pocket Plus. Brother John Hamman AcroPacket. Phil Goldstein Al's Masterpiece. Al Thatcher Ambitious Card Routine. Warren Stephens An Effect to Clean Up. Ed Mario An Easy Kaps Ring Box. Brother John Hamman An Open Letter. Karl Fulves Arise. Norm Houghton Bar None. Paul W. Cummins Blakjak. Martin Kane Cardician's Dream Perfected. Al Thatcher Cardician's Transposition. Michael DeMarco Case Card ala Fingertip Control. William P. Miesel Cash Register Trick, The. Nick Trost & William P. Miesel Centrificial Square, The. Del Copley Ching & Chang. Ron Wahl (Ravelli) Choozee. Paul Swinford Clock 'N' Spell. Martin Kane Closed Caption. Phil Goldstein Come Back Surprise. Ed Mario Commercial Universal. Paul W. Cummins Count Down, The. Al Thatcher Counterspell. Phil Goldstein Count Me In. Gary Plants Cumbo's Delusion. Joseph Cumbo Dazzle Aces. Bob King Deeper Mystery, A. Michael Skinner "Diception" Version. Phil Goldstein Dice Will Tell - More. Nick Trost Die-scovery. William P. Miesel Digiskill. Michael DeMarco Diversion in Inversion, A. Bennett J. Zollolo Eliminator, The. Nick Trost Elvis and His Fans. Martin Kane Faro Triumph. Geoffrey Green Filling Station. Phil Goldstein Flexible Dunbury. Del Copley Free & Easy 10-Hand Poker Stack. Bob King Fresh Gil-Breath of Spring, A. Nick Trost From Inversion to Completion. William P. Miesel Further Thought on Aero Packet, A. Jack Birnman
XXXI, 4 XXVIII, 12 XXIX, 6 XXXVII, 21 XXVII, 8 XXIV, 7 XXVIII, 10 XXI, 20 XXI, 8 XXXVII, 2 XXXVI, 16 XXVI, 21 XXXVII, 4 XXVI, 10 XXVIII, 22 XXXII, 13 XXIII, 15 XXXII, 22 XXXIX, 19 XXX, 21 XXIV, 3 XXXVIII, 7 XXXIV, 20 XXXIX, 9 XXV, 17 XXVIII, 20 XXXVII, 19 XXXIII, 8 XXX, 9 XXXIV, 18 XL, 3 XXXIX, 10 XXXII, 17 XL, 10 XXXVII, 15 XXVII, 18 XXX, 8 XXIII, 20 XXIV, 11 XXXI, 21 XXXIV, 22 XXXII, 19
Gambler's Touch. Bob King XXVI, 13 XXXI, 13 Geiger Counter Plus, The* John Quine XXVII, 4 Gilbreath Can Be a Bore, Ed Mario XXXIX, 12 Impossible Location #8. Gary Plants XXVI, 12 Impressionist, The. Norm Houghton XXI, 24 Impromptu Quiz Biz. Ronald Wohl (Ravelli) XXXV, 3 Laid-Back Location, Jon Racherbaumer XXV, 3 Letter from Ed Mario (Re: Miesel's "Please Cut the Cards") XXVII, 27 Looks Like Math. William P. Miesel XXXIII, 26 Magnetic Card. Dom Cervas XXI, 31 Majority Rule. Jeff Busby XXXIII, 22 Making Waves. Bob King XXIII, 13 Mathematical Card Trick, A. Gary Plants XXI, 29 Mexican Open, The. William P. Miesel XL, 24 More on Psi-Probe. Frank J. Beasley XXV, 9 My Card - Your Card. Jeff Busby XXIII, 17 No Is Still Once Enough. Frank Beasley XXXVIII, 21 Oh No, Not Another Version (of Triumph). Bill Okal XXVIII, 2 Oil & Water from Ed Mario's "That's It" Lecture XXXIII, 24 Old But Easy. Ron Zollweg XXI, 35 One No Is Once Enough Is Not Enough. Bob Farmer XXXVI, 24 Outstanding. Bob King XXVI, 15 Penny Paradox, The. Nick Trost Please Cut the Cards. William P. Miesel (see letter from Mario) XXIV, 8 XXXIX, 15 Prose and Poetry. David Drake XXXVIII, 9 PSI Probe. Leo Boudreau XXII, 3 Push-Thru Speller. Gary Plants XXXI, 18 R. J. C. Ace Cutting. Del Copley XXIX, 10 Repeating Christ Force. Nick Trost XXXVIII, 20 Repeat Triumph. Bob King XXI, 38 Rephlections. Phil Goldstein XXIX, 12 Replacing Replacer. Anthony Brahms XXXIII, 28 Retarded Aces. William P. Miesel SP IV, 2 Retarded Aces II. William P. Miesel XXIII, 8 Revised - Half Aced Cuts. J. K. Hartman XXXIX, 16 Room For Improvement. William P. Miesel XXXV, 9 Royal Cards Across. Eric Dockery XXXVII, 18 Second-Center-Bottom Simulation. Gary Plants XXXI, 11 Self-Stacking Gambling Demonstration. Al Thatcher XXXVIII, 18 Session Prediction. Dan Block XXIX, 3 Siamese Minds (Method #1). Ed Mario XXIX, 4 Siamese Minds (Method #2). Ed Mario XXIX, 18 Signed Card to Card Case. William P. Miesel XXVIII, 6 Simple Students. Ed Mario XXX, 5 Skimmer. Phil Goldstein XXXIII, 3 Snap Over Aces. Eddie Fechter XXXIII, 4 Snap Over Aces (Lou Gallo's presentation). Lou Gallo XXXII, 15 Spectator Spells a Friend's Name. Howard G. Port XXXV, 6 Spellfound. Phil Goldstein XXI, 16 Spell of P. H. L., The. Allan Slaight XL, 20 Spell of the Oracle, The. Marty Kane XXIV, 9 Splayed Speller. Phil Goldstein XXII, 14 Still Another Duxbury. Ed Mario XXI, 10 Still Mixing Oil and Water. Ed Mario XXII, 16 Take Your Choice. Ed Mario XL, 22 Taking the Psi-copath of Least Resistance. Bob Farmer XXXIII, 12 35. Lou Gallo XL, 6 Three Chances. Don Cervas
Trio. Norm Houghton Two Card Monte. Bill Okal Up Down and All Around. David Drake Visual Signed Transposition, A. Jamie Kurtz Weight Guess Plus. Bob King Welcaro. Michael DeMarco West Virginia Match-Up. Gary Plants Window of Opportunity. David Ben You Got the Right One Baby. Al Thatcher You Shuffle - I Shuffle. Ed Mario Cards
Special Decks or Packets
Clear-Vu Transposition (three methods). William P. Miesel Encased. Michael DeMarco Four Greek Kings, The. Ed Eckl Four Li'l Lasses, The. Ed Eckl Gardner's Path. Martin Gardner Just a Mirage. Dick Cook Magic Castle Card Transposition, The. Jim Patton Maybe The Cards Match. Darwin Ortiz Poker Wild Card. Meir Yedid Princess Plus. Bob King Sympathetic Cards, The. Ron Zollweg Sympathetic Decks, The. Leo Boudreau Transpo-Halvo. Stewart Judah Transpo-Halvo. Paul Swinford Transpo-Halvo. Nick Trost Will The Cards Match. David Drake Will The Cards Match (second method). William P. Miesel Cards
XXII, 8 XXXIII, 18 XXXV, 21 XXXIX, 23 XXVII, 20 XXXV, 19 XL, 18 XXIX, 20 XL, 14 XXVII, 6
XXIII, 4 XXXVI, 12 Sp IV, 8 XL, 5 XXI, 19 XXXVIII, 5 XXVI, 4 XXVIII, 16 XXXIX, 21 XXV, 7 XXI, 40 XXXIX, 6 XXXVI, 18 XXXVI, 18 XXXVI, 18 XXVI, 18 XXVI, 19
Sleights and Other Miscellaneous Inforaation
After the Lift. William P. Miesel Bo-Top Sandwich Switch. Pete Lentini Bottom Slip Cut to the Table. Warren Stephens Cased Finger Tip Control. Eric Dockery Controlling a Key Card. Paul Critelli Countback, The. Bro. John Hamman David Ben's Diagonal Palm Shift. David Ben Faro Rules. Leo Boudreau G. P. Card Control. Gary Plants Hobson's Choice (force). Stewart James Interlocked Glide ("Comeback Surprise"). Ed Mario Let's Take a Breather. Norm Houghton Non-Such Glide (in "A Close-Up Homing Card"). Neal Elias Pivot Bottom Palm. Thomas Gaudette Repeating Christ Force. Nick Trost Re: The Repeating Christ Force. William P. Miesel Schwarzman Pick-Up Finesse. Howard Schwarzman Sleights for Southpaws (Glimpse, Peek). Lou Gallo Swing Away Change. Norm Houghton Tabled Double Lift. Warren Stephens Three as Two. Warren Stephens Zero Second Stack, The. Bill Kalush
XXVIII, 19 XXXV. 7 XXXIV, 21 XXVI, 7 XXXI, 9 XXVIII, 10 XL, 13 XXXVII, 12 XXXVI, 4 XXI, 6 XXIV, 3 XXXVIII, 16 XXI, 14 XXXI, 24 XXIX, 10 XXXII, 21 XXV, 11 XXXIII, 9 XXII, 18 XXVIII, 18 XXXVIII, 19 XXVIII, 15
Partial Deck or Packet Ace-Stounding Quickie, An. Evert Chapman Ambivalence. Phil Goldstein Black and Blue. J. K. Hartman Blood Shot. Michael DeMarco Boil the Water. Michael DeMarco Close-Up Homing Card, A. Neal Elias Colors Across. John McClure Complete It. Ed Mario Crux Deluxe. Jon Racherbaumer Deliberate Oil and Water. Paul Cummins Do Be Do Be. David Drake Dunn Elevator, The. Bill Dunn Even Money - The Ultimate Version. Nick Trost Exodice. Phil Goldstein Homing Card. Earle Oakes Husband and Wife Card Trick Michael DeMarco Jo Number. Phis Goldstein Michael DeMarco King Still Can Do No Wrong, The Limitless Ambitions. William P Miesel New Ambitions. Eric Dockery Overly Ambitious. Jack Birnman Overly Ambitious. Ed Mario Psychloid. Phil Goldstein Square-Rigged. Justin Higham T-H-I-S Card Trick. Ed Eckl Upwardly Mobile Magician, The. Norm Houghton Which Is Which?. Norm Houghton Wild Aces. Eric Dockery
XXV, 19 XXXVI, 5 XXII, 11 XXIX, 16 XXXII, 3 XXI, 14 XXIV, 18 XXV, 4 XXI, 45 XXXIX, 3 XXI, 39 XXXIII, 15 XXXIV, 22 XXX, 13 XXIII, 9 XL, 16 XXX, 6 XXXVIII, 3 XXXIV, 14 XXXIV, 3 XXXVI, 7 XXXIV, 8 XXX, 7 XXIII, 18 XXI, 46 XXVII, 14 XXII, 9 XXII, 5
Miscellaneous Magic Bare Handed Xerox. Del Copley Big Balls. Del Copley Breaking a Guinness Record. Mel Stover Breaking the Bar Sword. Warren Stephens Coin Trick, A (?). Ed Eckl Decamerone. Michael DeMarco Dice Will Tell-More. Nick Trost Envelope Hold Out (Signed Card to Envelope). Warren Stephens Flipping a Cup. Ed Eckl G. W. Hunter Puzzle Knot Routine. Warren Stephens Improving the Odds. Howard Port Inflation. Frank J. Beasley Introduction to a Coin Assembly, An. Milt Kort Jaywalker Transposition. Dick Cook Klik-Klak-Blox (a routine). Gene Gordon Last Coin Through the Table. Warren Stephens Loading a Cup. Warren Stephens Loony Suffragette. Norm Houghton Magic Flan, The. Ed Eckl Matrix in the Hands. Michael O'Dowd Medium Gets the Message, The. Sid Lorraine My Answer. Stewart James Nightclub Psychometry. David Ben Nuloca. Phis Goldstein
XXII, 18 XXXIV, 18 XXI, 7 XXIV, 16 XXXII, 21 XXVII, 12 XXXIV, 18 XXXVII, 10 XXVI, 6 XXXVI, 10 XXXI, 16 XXII, 10 XXI, 23 XXV, 12 XXXIII, 5 XXXI, 17 XXVI, 6 XXIV, 14 XXXII, 7 XXXVIII, 13 XXI, 21 XXI, 5 XL, 13 XXVIII, 17
XXXV, 16 XXIX, 14 XXXII, 10 XXXII, 10 XXXII, 24 XXX, 15 XXIII, 14 XXI, 43 XXXV. 14
Outs - Precautions - Challenges. David Ben Predicting the Change. Warren Stephens Run-Upmanship. Phil Goldstein Silver-Brass Transposition. Dave Neighbors Sweeping the Telepathway. Jerry Mentzer Telepathway. Phil Goldstein Trick for Ed, A. Bob King Vanishing Pencil, A. Warren Stephens Washer Dryer Coin. Warren Stephens Miscellany
XXII, 13 Abuse of Words. Ed Eckl XXIX, 11 Cannibal Cook Book. Ed Eckl XXIV, 10 Comments on Goldstein's Splayed Speller. Ed Eckl XXVIII, 11 Comments on Hamman's Kaps Ring Box. William P. Miesel XXXI, 3 Comments on Last Act at FFFF 1991. Ed Eckl. XXXII, 16 Comments on Port's Spectator Spells. Ed Eckl XL, 12 Golfacts ... and Fictions. Ed Eckl XXXV, 24 Harry ... In Retrospect. Ed Eckl XXVII, 19 History of the Faro Shuffle. Ed Eckl XXIX, 9 Long Remembered Card, A. Ed Eckl Natterings. Ed Eckl XXIII, 2; XXIV, 13; XXV, 6, 8, 10; XXVI, 3, 17; XXIX, 15; XXXII, 18, 21; XXXIV, 5, 13, 24; XXXVI, 6; XXXVII, 20; XXXVIII, 12; XXXIX, 2, 8, 12, 14; Sp IV, 7 XXXII, 9 Open Note to Steve Beam. Ed Eckl Sp IV, 7 Two Letters to Ann Landers. William P. Miesel Reviews
Conventions and Lectures
Bob King's Lecture (E.E.) CEMK, 1991 (E.E.) CEMK, 1992 (E.E.) Columbus Magi-Fest, 1993 (W.P.M.) FFFF, 1989 (E.E.) NYCAN, 1991 (E.E.) SAM, 1990 (E.E.) Saturday Night at the PRECURSOR Suite, FFFF, 1991 That's It (Ed Mario lecture) (W.P.M.) Yankee Gathering IV, 1992 (E.E.) Reviews
(E.E.)
XXXI, 23 XXXIII, 23 XXXV11, 22 Sp IV, 9 XXIII, 21 XXXIII, 17 XXVIII, 24 XXXI, 10 XXVIII, 2 XXXVII, 22
Tricks
Astro Discs I: The Dark Side of the Moon (Jim Magus) Calculator Sensation (Bob King) (W.P.M.) Daub (Del Copley) (W.P.M.) Dental Dam - Patent Application (E.E.) Hand 0' Doom (Bob Farmer) (W.P.M.) Mechanical Two Card Monte (Bob King) (W.P.M.) Mobile Hole (Bob King) (W.P.M.) Progressive Rebound (Bob King) (W.P.M.) Wild Card Monte (Bob King) (W.P.M.)
(W.P.M.)
XXVI, 24 XXXII, 26 XXVII, 24 XXVII, 24 XXVIII, 14 XXXV, 2 XXXII, 26 XXXII, 26 XXXV, 2
Reviews
Books, Magazines, etc.
Beam, Steve: Trapdoor (W.P.M.) Butler, Dan, & Ronnie Ramin: STRANGE HAPPENINGS (W.P.M.) Carlisle, Stanton: MENTALISM INNER SECRETS (W.P.M.) Erdnase: REVELATIONS (Notes by Dai Vernon) (W.P.M.) Goldstein, Phil: FIFTH (W.P.M.) Goldstein, Phil: THAVANT (W.P.M.) James, Stewart: STEWART JAMES IN PRINT (E.E.) Kaufman, Richard: SHOWTIME AT THE TOM-FOOLERY (E.E.) Kay, Susan: PHANTOM (E.E.) King, Bob: MAGICIAN FOOLERS (W.P.M.) King, Bob: MORE MAGICIAN FOOLERS (W.P.M.) Magic Video Network Tape (Hank Lee, 1991) (E.E.) Magic Video Network Tape (NYCAN, 1990) (E«E.) Maven, Max: MAX MAVEN'S BOOK OF FORTUNE TELLING (E.E.) Mentzer, Jerry: CARD TO WALLET: THE BOOK (W.P.M.) Mentzer, Jerry: FECHTER: THE MAGIC OF EDDIE FECHTER (E.E.) Neale, Robert E : TRICKS OF THE IMAGINATION (W.P.M.) Ortiz, Darwin: ANNOTATED ERDNASE (W.P.M.) Punx: FAREWELL PERFORMANCE (W.P.M.) Punx: FOURTH DIMENSIONAL MYSTERIES (W.P.M.) Rawson, Hugh: WICKED WORDS: A TREASURY ... (E.E.) Whaley, et al: THE MAN WHO WAS ERDNASE (W.P.M.)
XXVI, 3 XXXIV, 2 XXVII, 2 XXXII, 25 XXVI, 23 XXXI, 2 XXVI, 20 XXXVI, 17 XXXII, 26 XXVI, 23 XXVII, 3 XXXII, 26 XXXIII, 29 XXXVIII, 15 XXXI, 3 XXXIX, 24 XXXVI, 2 XXXII, 25 XXXIII, 30 XXVIII, 23 XXVIII, 5 XXXII, 25
In Meaoriaa D O B Cervas. Ed Eckl William P. Miesel Del Copley. Ed Eckl Sid Lorraine. Ed Eckl P. Howard Lyons. Ed Eckl William P. Miesel Robert K. Weill Ron Wohl (Ravelli) Ed Mario. Ed Eckl Reaeaberances of the Forks. Ed Eckl Dai Vernon. Ed Eckl
XL, 21 XL, 2 XXXII, 14 XXVI, 24 XXI, 50 XXI, 4 XXI, 49 XXI, 24 XXXIII, 30 XXII, 20 XXXVI,3
Contributors Beasley, Frank J. Inflation; More on PSI Probe; No Is Still Once Enough Ben, David David Ben's Diagonal Palm Shift; Night Club Psychometry; Outs - Precautions - Challenges; Window of Opportunity Birnman, Jack A Further Thought on Acropacket; Overly Ambitious Block, Dan Session Prediction Boudreau, Leo Faro Rules; PSI Probe; The Sympathetic Decks Brahms, Anthony Replacing Replacer
Busby, Jeff Majority Rule; My Card - Your Card Cervas, Dom Magnetic Card; Three Chances Chapman, Evert An Ace Stounding Quickie Cook, Dick Jay Walker Transposition; Just a Mirage Copley, Del Barehanded Xerox; Big Balls; Centrifical Square; Flexible Dunbury; R.J.C* Ace Cutting Critelli, Paul Controlling a Key Card Cumbo, Joseph Cumbo's Delusion Cummins, Paul w. Bar None; Commercial Universal; Deliberate Oil & Water DeMarco, Michael Ace-Sembly; Blood Shot; Boil the Water; Cardician's Transposition; Decamerone; Digiskill; Encased; Husband and Wife Card Trick; The King Still Can Do No Wrong; Welcaro Dockery, Eric Cased Finger Tip Control; New Ambitious; Royal Cards Across; Wild Aces Drake, David Do Be Do Be; Prose and Poetry; Up, Down, and All Around; Will the Cards Match Dunn, Bill The Dunn Elevator Eckl, Ed A Coin Trick(?); Flipping a Cup; Four Greek Kings, The; Four Li'l Lasses, The; Golfacts ... and Fictions; Harry ... In Retrospect; The Magic Flan; Natterings; T-H-I-S Card Trick •.. Reviews: Bob King Lecture; CEMK 1991; CEMK 1992; FECHTER; FFFF 1989; MAX MAVEN'S BOOK OF FORTUNE TELLING; MVN Video Tapes (2); NYCAN 1991; Patent for Dental Dam Trick; PHANTOM; SAM 1990; SHOWTIME AT THE TOMFOOLERY; STEWART JAMES IN PRINT; WICKED WORDS; Yankee Gathering 1992 Elias, Neal A Close-Up Homing Card; Non-Such Glide Farmer, Bob One No Is Once Enough Is Not Enough; Taking the Psy-copath of Least Resistance Fechter, Eddie Snap Over Aces Fulves, Karl An Open Letter Gallo, Lou Presentation for Fechter's Snap Over Aces; Sleights for Southpaws; 35 Gardner, Martin Gardner's Path Gaudette, Thomas Pivot Bottom Palm Goldstein, Phil Acropacket; Ambivalence; Closed Caption; Counterspell; Diception Version; Exodice; Filling Station; Hypothe-Tekel; Jonumber; Nuloca; Psychoid; Rephlections; Run-Upmanship; Skimmer; Spellfound; Splayed Speller; Tele-Pathway Gordon, Gene Klik-Klak-Blox Routine 8
Green, GeoffreyFaro Triumph Hamman, Bro. John Aces To the Pocket Plus; An Easy Kaps Ring Box; The Countback Hartman, J. K. Black and Blue; Revised Half Aced Cuts Haxton, Francis Nonsuch Glide Higham, Justin Square Rigged Houghton, Norm Arise!; The Impressionist; Loony Suffragette; Swingaway Change Trio; Let's Take a Breather; The Upwardly Mobile Magician; Which Is Which? James, Stewart My Answer; Hobson's Choice Judah, Stewart Transpo-Halvo Kalush, Bill The Zero Second Stack Kane, Martin Blakjak; Clock 'n' Spell; Elvis and His Friends; The Spell of the Oracle King, Bob Dazzle Aces; Free and Easy 10 Hand Poker Stack; Gambler's Touch; Making Waves; Outstanding; Princess Plus; Repeat Triumph; A Trick for Ed; Weight Guess Plus Kort, Milt An Introduction to a Coin Assembly Kurtz, Jamie A Visual Signed Transposition Lentini, Pete Bo-Top Sandwich Switch Lorraine, Sid The Medium Gets the Message McClure, John Colors Across Mario, Ed An Effect to Clean Up; Come Back Surprise; Complete It; Gilbreath Can Be a Bore; Interlocked Glide (in "Come Back Surprise"); Comments about Miesel's "Please Cut the Cards"; Oil and Water; Overly Ambitious; Siamese Minds (Methods #1 and #2); Simple Students; Still Another Dunbury; Still Mixing Oil and Water; Take Your Choice; You Shuffle - I Shuffle Mentzer, Jerry Sweeping the Tele-Pathway Miesel, William P. After the Double Lift; Case Card ala Finger Tip Control; The Cash Register Trick; Clear-Vu Transposition (3 methods); Die-Scovery; Fro* Inversion to Completion; Limitless Ambition; Looks Like Math; The Mexican Open; Please Cut the Cards; re-The Repeating Christ Force; Retarded Aces; Retarded Aces II; Room for Improvement; Signed Card to Card Case; Two Letters to Ann Landers; Will the Cards Match (second method) ... Reviews: ANNOTATED ERDNASE; Astro Discs I; CARD TO WALLET: THE BOOK; Columbus Magi-Fest 1993; Del Copley's Daub; three books on Erdnase; FAREWELL PERFORMANCE; FIFTH; FOURTH DIMENSIONAL MYSTERIES; Bob Farmer's "The Hand of Doom"; MAGICIAN FOOLERS; MORE MAGICIAN FOOLERS; Bob King's "Calculator Sensation", "Mechanical Two-Card Monte", "Mobile Hole", "Progressive Rebound", and "Wild Card Monte"; MENTALISM INNER SECRETS; REVELATIONS; Mario's "That's It" lecture; STRANGE HAPPENINGS; 9
THAVANT; THE MAN WHO WAS ERDNASE; Trapdoor; TRICKS OF THE IMAGINATION Neighbors, Dave Silver-Brass Transposition Oakes, Earle The Homing Card O'Dowd, Michael Martix in the Hands Okal, Bill Oh No, Not Another Version (of Triumph); Two Card Monte Ortiz, Darwin Maybe the Cards Match Patton, Jim The Magic Castle Card Transposition Plants, Gary Count Me In; G'. P. Card Control; Impossible Location #8; A Mathematical Card Trick; Push-Thru Speller; Second-Center_Bottom Simulation; West Virginia Match-Up Port, Howard Improving the Odds; Spectator Spells a Friend's Name Quine, John The Geiger Counter Plus Racherbaumer, Jon Crux Delux; Laid Back Location Schwarzman, Howard Schwarzman Pick-Up Finesse Skinner, Michael A Deeper Mystery Slaight, Allan The Spell of P.H.L. Stephens, Warren Ambitious Card Routine; Bottom Slip Cut to the Table; Breaking the Bar Sword; Envelope Holdout (Signed Card to Envelope); G. W. Hunter Puzzle Knot Routine; The Last Coin Through the Table; Loading a Cup; Predicting the Change; Tabled Double Lift; Three as Two; A Vanishing Pencil; Washer Dryer Coin Stover, Mel Breaking a Guinness Record Swinford, Paul Choozee; Transpo-Halvo Thatcher, Al Al's Masterpiece; Cardician's Dream Perfected; The Count Down; SelfStacking Gambling Demonstration; You Got the Right One Baby Trost, Nick Cash Register Trick; Dice Will Tell - More; The Eliminator; Even Money The Ultimate Version; A Fresh Gil-Breath of Spring; The Penny Paradox; Repeating Christ Force; Transpo-Halvo Weill, Robert K. Addendum on P. Howard Lyons Wohl, Ron (Ravelli) Ching and Chang; Impromptu Quiz Biz; on P. Howard Lyons Yedid, Meir Poker Wild Card Zollweg, Ron Old But Easy; The Sympathetic Cards Zottolo, Bennett J. A Diversion in Inversion
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Cards
Regular Deck
Ace Cutting Assembly. Joe Rindfleisch Ace Cutting Discovery. Dan Block Aces - One is Four. Dan Block Allerchrist Fix. Jon Racherbaumer Amalga-Mate. Peter Duffie Another Miracle Deal. Gary Plants Any Face Will Do As Long Aldo Colombini Australian Aces Revisited. Tom Craven Australian Combo. Ron Zollweg Australian Doubles. Marty Kane Between the Palms of the Queens. Pete Lentini Biddle-Biddle with a Fiddle and a Diddle in the Middle. Pete Lentini Bones about It. Nick Trost Boomerang Aces. Gene Maze Buffalo Tunnel. Mike Gallo Cash Register Trick, The. William P. Miesel Center-Top Double. J. P. Lewis Choice. Tom Hubbard Clip-Two-Mania. Russ Polizzi Compute One Up. Marty Kane Cooked Deck, The. Joe Rindfleisch D. D. Aces. Gene Maze Defects. Ken McCreedy Doenitz. Michael DeMarco Do Not Joke Around. Aldo Colombini Double Ha-Lo Aces from Hell, The. Jamie Kurtz Double Sticker Prediction. Al Thatcher Down with the Depth Deception. Pete Lentini Elevator Salesman, The. Ron Zollweg Encased Collectors. William P. Miesel Extraction. Joe Rindfleisch Eyes In My Fingers. Bob Farmer Follow My Lead II. William P. Miesel Four For Two. Tom Hubbard Four Is Twelve. Joe Rindfleisch Four Packet Shuffle. Dan Block, Lou Gallo, William P. Miesel, Nick Trost, Ron Zollweg French Card Trick, The. William P. Miesel Fuse Ruse. Marty Kane Future Card, The. George Haag Good Buys. Tom Hubbard Homing Ace, The. Joe Rindfleisch
LII, 26 LVI I, 8 LVI, 13 LIV, 5 LV, 14 XLVII, 13 LIV, 25 LVIII, 5 LVI, 20 LVIII, 15 XLVII, 7 XLVIII, 3 LIV, 14 XLII, 19 XLVI, 3 LIX, 14 LIII, 20 LVI, 21 LVI, 9 XLIX, 20 LII, 7 XLII, 5 LV, 11 XLV, 13 XLVII, 19 XLIII, 18 XLIII, 7 XLVI, 18 LVIII, 21 XLIV, 22 XLVII, 3 L, 4 XLVII, 20 LIII, 15 LII, 12 XLV, 3 LVII, 20 LI, 5 LVIII, 19 LIII, 15 LII, 19
I'll Take It. William P. Miesel I Never Cheat. Harry Franke I Saw Your Card. Joe Rindfleisch It Never Leaves Your Sight. William P. Miesel Ix-Mix. Phil Goldstein Jacks Are Better. Allan Slaight Jacks 'n' Five. Martin S. Kane J.E.D. Spells the Truth. Marty Kane J.E.D. Spells the Truth - Twice. Marty Kane Joker Predicts, The. Michael DeMarco Just a Quic-Key. Tom Craven Lie Detector Telephone Trick. Al Thatcher Lie Speller for Magicians. Marty Kane Location by Separation. Tony Econ Luck Has Nothing to do With It. Mario Gottuso Marked Cards. Gene Maze Matcho. Tony Miller Mating Season. Gene Maze Mazing Progressive Aces. Gene Maze More on the Allerchrist Card Trick. Tom Hubbard Most Incomprehensible Divination, The. Al Thatcher Multiple Gemini. Al Thatcher Odd Ball Poker. Gene Maze Odd/Even. Al Thatcher 0'Henry Gambler, The. Dan Block One At a Time Collectors. Gary Plants On the Palm of His Hand. Dan Block Ovette Opener. Karl Fulves Pass the Basket. Michael DeMarco Peek Prediction. Al Thatcher Playing Card Slot Machine. William P. Miesel Plunger Coincidence. Chet Pocket Transpo. Ken McCreedy Poker Exchange. Nick Trost & William P. Miesel Precursor Collectors. Kevin King & Michael Powers Quine's Keeper. Tom Craven Rate of Exchange. Michael DeMarco Remember and Forget. William P. Miesel Remember and Forget. Reinhard Muller Return Trip. Gene Maze Reunion. Dan Block Revisiting "Out of This World". Anthony Brahms & William P. Miesel Royal Assembly. Bob Farmer Run-Up Ace Spell. William P. Miesel Salt Load. Tom Gagnon Sense of Touch. Joe Rindfleisch Serpentine Submarine. Michael DeMarco Sherlock Does It Twice! Aldo Colombini Simple Case of Dealing, A. Gene Maze Slap It Up. Hippie Torrales Slop Count. David Drake Spectator Predicts, The. Howard Schwarzman Speedy Cardzalez. Joe Rindfleisch Spell It Out. Lou Gallo Spell the Name. Aldo Colombini Super Flush. Dan Block Tally~Ho Model 9 Computer. Ed Eckl
XLVII , 23 LIII, 18 LII, 30 LV, 4 XLV, 23 LX, 11 XLV, 19 XLVII , 18 LV, 17 XLVI, 16 LIII, 21 XLVII , 23 LX, 7 LVI, 6 LIII, 19 XLII, 16 LX, 16 XLII, 20 XLII, 10 LVI 11, 25 LIV, 11 LV, 7 XLII, 22 LVI, 17 XLVI, 6 XLIII , 15 LIV, 19 LV, 3 XLIV, 13 XLIV, 17 LIX, 17 XLIX, 23 LIII, 16 LVI 11, 18 LVI I, 11 LIII, 22 XLIII , 12 LIX, 9 LVI 11, 11 XLII, 2 XLIX, 5 XLVIII, 1 L, 13 LIX, 6 LX, 3 LII, 16 XLV, 11 LI, 7 XLII, 17 LVI I, 6 XLIX, 11 LVI I, 14 XLV, 21 LVI I, 3 XLVIII, 2 XLIX, 7 LIX, 3
Ten Mate. Joe Rindfleisch Timely Variations. Phil Goldstein Transilient Aces. Dan Block Trick That Fooled Einstein, The. Harry Franke Triple Filling. Phil Goldstein Triple Nimble. Marty Kane Triple Threat Plus One. Pete Lentini Twisting Hofzinser. Nick Trost Two For One. Tom Hubbard Two For the Money. Tom Hubbard Ultraclean Triumph. Joe Rindfleisch Undercover Collectors. Randi Di Marco Virgo Triplets. William P. Miesel Visual Cut, The. Gordon Boyd Wild Sandwich. Phil Goldstein Work In Progress, A. Marty Kane Would You Be Surprised. Edward de Lysbye Cards
LI I, 15 XLI, 19 LX, 19 LV, 21 LIII , 3 XLII I, 9 XLV, 6 LVI, 4 LIII , 14 LIV, 7 LI I, 23 LVI II, 6 XLII I, 14 LVI, 14 XLIX , 14 LIII , 6 XLVI I, 16
Special Decks and/or Cards
Alien's Archives. Pete Lentini A P s Monstrosity. Al Thatcher (see LI, 2 for correction) Burning Thoughts. Ed Hill Card Case Revelation: A Lesson In Psychology. Joe Rindfleisch Card To Case Once More, The. David Solomon Color Out of Place, The. Phil Goldstein Cooked Deck, The. Joe Rindfleisch Doc Dixon's "Reshuffled". Doc Dixon Do Not Joke Around. Aldo Colombini Hand-Out. Phil Goldstein It Never Leaves Your Sight. William P. Miesel It's All the Same to Me. Ed Eckl I've Got Your Number. Nick Trost Melancardly Blues, The. Marty Kane Miracle Pairing. Gary Plants Most Incomprehensible Divination, The. Al Thatcher Move A Card. Jerry Mentzer Obie's Opener. Obie O'Brien Open Prediction, The. Tony Miller Oracle Anew. Ron Zollweg Rate of Exchange. Michael DeMarco Repartee. Phil Goldstein Shueffle. Phil Goldstein Signed, Sealed, and Numbered. Tom Craven Signed, Sealed, and Transformed. William P. Miesel Steprint. Phil Goldstein Trick That Fooled Einstein, The. Harry Franke World's Greatest, The. Mel Stover World's Greatest, The. Mel Stover and William P. Miesel
XLIV XLIX
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LI, 20 XLVIII , 1 XLIV 9 LI, 14 LII, 7 LVI I 15 XLVI I, 19 XLI, 18 LV, 4 LIX, 12 XLVI 8 LIV, 18 XLVI II , 2 LIV, 1 1 XLV, 9 XLII I, 2 LX, 18 LVI I 19 XLIII, 12 LX, 22 XLIX 3 XLVI II , 7 XLVIII , 9 XLI, 5 LV, 21 LVI, 3 LVI II, 2
Sleights and Other Miscellaneous Information Ace Switch Out. Joe Rindfleisch An Advantage Tabled Slip Cut. Michael O'Dowd Card Thru the Hand. Wije (Wijendran Namasivayam)
LI, 3 XLVIII, 17 XLIV, 11
Center-Top Double. J. P. Lewis Compute One Up. Marty Kane David Ben's Diagonal Palm Shift. David Ben Drop From a Double. Tom Hubbard E.S.P. Glimpses. Warren Stephens Fitted Force. J. K. Hartman Half-Back Pass, The. Kevin King Just a Quic-Key. Tom Craven Keying In on the Push-Thru. David Ben "Master Move" from the Rear, The. Warren Stephens Matcho. Tony Miller Notes On the Cross-Cut (force). Tom Hubbard One-Hand Force and Control, The. Ron Zollweg One Hand Steal. Michael O'Dowd On the Palm of His Hand. Dan Block Open Prediction, The. Tony Miller Ovette Opener. Karl Fulves Reverse Switch. Joe Rindfleisch Salt Load. Tom Gagnon Side Steal Technique. Michael O'Dowd Slap It Up. Hippie Torrales Simple Cut Control. Gordon Boyd Tabled Card Switch. David Ben Tenkai Switch, A. Tony Miller Whipswitch. J. K. Hartman World's Fastest Reverse from a Spectator Peek. Dan Block You Take It from Here. Norm Houghton
LIII, 20 XLIX, 20 XLIV, 3 LX, 24 LI, 9 XLVIII, 24 LIII, 13 LIII, 21 XLVI, 20 XLVI, 21 LX, 16 LIV, 10 LI, 13 LV, 15 LIV, 19 LX, 18 LV, 3 XLIX, 14 LX, 3 LIV, 22 LVII, 6 XLIII, 17 XLV, 24 LX, 16 LVIII, 3 XLVII, 6 XLIV, 24
Partial Deck or Packet (Regular Cards) Buffalo Tunnel. Mike Gallo Collins Conceit. Karl Fulves Do11 face. Ken McCreedy Four is Twelve. Joe Rindfleisch From the Pages of Bill Simon. Gene Maze Harry's Perfek Speler. Ed Eckl Homing Ace, The. Joe Rindfleisch I Am Not Joe King. Mel Stover and Martin Gardner Inside Out. William P. Miesel Ix - Mix. Phil Goldstein Lie Speller for Magicians. Marty Kane Mixtant II. Tom Hubbard Reunion. Dan Block Royal Assembly. Bob Farmer Royally Wild. Joe Rindfleisch Sherlock Does It Twice. Aldo Colombini Slop Count. David Drake Twisting Hofzinser. Nick Trost
Cards
XLVI, 3 LIV, 3 LI, 18 LII, 12 XLII, 6 LIX, 8 LII, 19 XLIII, 4 LI, 17 XLV, 23 LX, 7 LV, 19 XLIX, 5 L, 12 XLVI, 10 LI, 7 XLIX, 11 LVI, 4
Packets, Special Cards
Devils and Angels. Bob Farmer ESPelling. Phil Goldstein Fields Poker Hustle. Bob Farmer Five Star Coincidence. William P. Miesel Joker Changes, The. Ed Eckl
L, 23 XLI, 10 L, 17 LIX, 20 LV, 13
Juxt In Time. Phil Goldstein Packet Messiah- Bob Farmer Print Mint. Barry Govan Rindfleisch Wild Card, The. Joe Rindfleisch Self-Contained. Phil Goldstein Seven Card Monte. Paul Swinford Two-Two-Twain. Ed Eckl Ultimate Done Deal, The. Bob Farmer
XLI, 7 L, 8 LIV, 24 LII, 3 XLI, 17 XLIX, 16 LIX, 18 L, 2
Miscellaneous Magic Al's Monstrosity. Al Thatcher Correction > All In a Flap. Warren Stephens Clip-Two-Mania. Russ Pollizzi Coins Across - Assistant to Assistant. Michael O'Dowd Coins as Cards. David Drake Dice Stack Finale. Warren Stephens Dime & Penny & Other Work. Howard Schwarzman Dollar Plus Tax, A. Warren Stephens Five Star Coincidence. William P. Miesel Fooling with the Prayer Vase. Warren Stephens If This Works You Get the Credit. Harry Franke Impromptu Dime Slide. Warren Stephens Matchbox Rattle Box. Warren Stephens Modern Cup and Ball Routine. Hal Levy Mutilated Cigarette. Joe Rindfleisch Poker Chip Chicanery. Paul Swinford Quick Trip to China. David Neighbors Repeat Copper-Silver Transposition. Joe Rindfleisch Silver-Copper-Brass. David Neighbors Single Die Holdout. Dan Block Sympathetic Duo. Gary Ward Tally-Ho Model 9 Computer. Ed Eckl Terry's Target or The Veckey Touch. Terry Veckey Wrap-It. Aldo Colombini
XLIX, 21 LI, 2 LIV, 16 LVI, 9 XLIV, 19 LVI, 7 LVIII, 8 LI, 11 LV, 9 LIX, 20 LVII, 11 LX, 14 LX, 9 XLIII, 11 XLVII, 8 LII, 29 XLVIII, 15 LVII, 9 LII, 10 LIII, 10 LVIII, 9 LX, 4 LIX, 3 XLIX, 10 LIII, 9
Miscellany Boy, Did I Stir Up Trouble! Ed Eckl Georgio Letters: A Critique, Barry Govan It's Referenced. Ed Eckl Loc Cit. Ed Eckl Mumblings. Ed Eckl
Natterings.
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Ten Commandments for Cardicians, The. William P. Miesel You Know You've Done Too Many Card Tricks .... Harry Hirschvogel
LI, 24 LI, 21 LVI, 23 LIX, 23 LIII, 24 LIV, 29 LV, 23 XLI, 3 XLIII, 24 XLIV, 2 XLIV, 21 XLIV, 23 XLV, 18 LVIII, 14 LX, 26 LIX, 24
Reviews - Conventions & Lectures David Ben's Presentation - "The Conjuror". William P. Miesel FFFF 1996. Ed Eckl FFFF 1997. Ed Eckl First Annual Buffalo Get-Together (1996). Ron Zollweg Magic Collectors' Weekend (1996) Ed Eckl Paul Cummins' Lecture "From a Shuffled Deck". William P. Miesel Stewart James Get-Together 1993. William P. Miesel
LVI, 24 LV, 2 LIX, 7 LVII, 24 LIV, 29 LVII, 2 XLI, 1
Reviews - Books, Magazines, Tricks, Etc. BY FORCES UNSEEN - TOE INNOVATIVE CARD MAGIC OF ERNEST EARICK (Ernest Earick). William P. Miesel CARDFILE (Jerry Mentzer). William P. Miesel CHEATING AT BLACKJACK (Dustin D. Marks). William P. Miesel CHEATING AT BLACKJACK SQUARED (Dustin D. Marks). William P. Miesel CLOSE-UP FILE (Jerry Mentzer). William P. Miesel EDDIE FEOTTER - AN INTERVIEW (booklet and audiotape, produced by Jerry Mentzer) Ed Eckl IBIDEM, Vol. 1 (reprint by Richard Kaufman) Ed Eckl Impossibilities and Miltiades (Hooker Rising Cards) (performed by John Gaughan) William P. Miesel Shogun Wallet Ron Zollweg THABBATICAL (Phil Goldstein) William P. Miesel THE UNDERGROUND MAN (Lou Gallo) William P. Miesel WORKING THE TABLES (David Drake) Ed Eckl
XLII, 24 XLVI, 2 XLVII, 2 LIV, 30 XLVI, 2 XLVIII, 28 XLIV, 12 XLIII, 20 LVI, 2 XLV, 2 LV, 24 LVII I, 26
Contributors Ben, David David Ben's Diagonal Palm Shift; Keying In on the Push-Thru; Tabled Card Switch Block, Dan Ace Cutting Discovery; Aces - One Is Four; Four Packet Shuffle; The O'Henry Gambler; On the Palm of His Hand; Reunion; Single Die Hold-Out; Super Flush; Transilient Aces; World's Fastest Reverse from a Spectator Peek Boyd, Gordon Simple Cut Control; The Visual Cut Brahms, Anthony Revisiting Out of This World Chet Plunger Coincidence Colombini, Aldo Any Face Will Do As Long...; Do Not Joke Around; Sherlock Does It Twice; Spell the Name; Wrap-It Craven, Tom Australian Aces Revisited; Just a Quic-Key; Quine's Keeper; Signed, Sealed and Numbered de Lysbye, Edward Would You Be Surprised
DeMarco, Michael Doenitz; The Joker Predicts; Pass the Basket; Rate of Exchange; Serpentine Submarine Di Marco, Randy Undercover Collectors Dixon, Doc Doc Dixon's "Reshuffled" Drake, David Coins as Cards; Slop Count Duffie, Peter Amalga-Mate Eckl, Ed Boy, Did I Stir Up Trouble!; Harry's Perfek Speler; It's All the Same to Me; It's Referenced; The Joker Changes; Loc Cit; Mumblings (see Miscellany); Natterings (see Miscellany); Reviews (see Reviews); The Tally-Ho Model 9 Computer; Two-Two-Twain Econ, Tony Location By Separation Farmer, Bob (Robert) Devils and Angels; Eyes In My Fingers; Fields Poker Deal; Packet Messiah; Royal Assembly; The Ultimate Done Deal Franke, Harry If This Works You Get the Credit; I Never Cheat; The Trick That Fooled Einstein Fulves, Karl Collins Conceit; Ovette Opener Gagnon, Tom Salt Load Gallo, Lou Four Packet Shuffle; Spell It Out Gallo, Mike Buffalo Tunnel Gardne r, Mar tin I Am Not Joe King Goldstein, Phil The Color Out of Place; ESPelling; Ix-Mix; Hand-Out; Juxt In Time; Repartee; Self-Contained; Shueffle; Steprint; Timely Variations; Triple Filling; Wild Sandwich Gottuso, Mario Luck Has Nothing To Do With It Govan, Barry Georgio Letters: A Critique; Print Mint Haag, George The Future Card Hartman, J. K. Fitted Force; Whipswitch Hill, Ed Burning Thoughts H i r s chvoge1, Harry You Know You've Done Too Many Card Tricks ... Houghton, Norman You Take It From Here Hubbard, Tom Choice; Drop From a Double; Four For Two; Good Buys; Mixtant II; More on the Allerchrist Card Trick; Notes on the Cross-Cut (force); Two for One; Two for the Money
Kane, Marty (Martin S.) Australian Doubles; A Work In Progress; Compute One Up; Fuse Ruse; Jacks 'n' Five; J.E.D. Spells the Truth; J.E.D. Spells the Truth - Twice; Lie Speller for Magicians; The Melancardly Blues; Triple Nimble King, Kevin The HaIf-Back Pass; Precursor Collectors Kurtz, Jamie The Double Ha-Lo Aces from Hell Lentini, Pete Alien's Archives; Between the Palms of the Queens; Biddle-Biddle With a Fiddle and a Diddle In the Middle; Down With the Depth Deception; Triple Threat Plus One Levy, Hal Modern Cup and Ball Routine Lewis, J. P. Center Top Double Maze, Gene Boomerang Aces; D.D. Aces; From the Pages of Bill Simon; Marked Cards; Mating Season; Mazing Progressive Aces; Odd Ball Poker; Return Trip; A Simple Case of Dealing McCreedy, Ken Defects; Doll face; Pocket Transpo Mentzer, Jerry Move a Card Miesel, William P. The Cash Register Trick; Encased Collectors; Five Star Coincidence; Follow My Lead II; Four Packet Shuffle; The French Card Trick; Inside Out; It Never Leaves Your Sight; Playing Card Slot Machine; Poker Exchange; Remember and Forget; Reviews (see Reviews); Revisiting Out Of This World; Run-Up Ace Spell; Signed, Sealed, and Transformed; The Ten Commandments for Cardicians; Virgo Triplets; The World's Greatest Miller, Terry Matcho; The Open Prediction; A Tenkai Switch Mliller, Reinhard Remember and Forget Namasivayam, Wijendran (See: Wiji) Neighbors, David Quick Trip to China; Silver-Copper-Brass O'Brien, Obie Obie's Opener O'Dowd, Michael An Advantage Tabled Slip Cut; Coins Across - Assistant to Assistant; One Hand Steal; Side-Steal Technique Plants, Gary Another Miracle Deal; Miracle Pairing; One At a Time Collectors Polizzi, Russ C1i p-Two-Man i a Powers, Michael Precursor Collectors Rachenbaumer, Jon Allerchrist Fix Rindfleisch, Joe Ace Cutting Assembly; Ace Switchout; Card Case Revelation: A Lesson in Psychology; The Cooked Deck; Extraction; Four Is Twelve; The Homing Ace; I Saw Your Card; Mutilated Cigarette; Repeat Copper-Silver Transposition; Reverse Switch; The Rindfleisch Wild Card; Royally Wild; Sense of Touch; Speedy Cardzalez; Ten Mate; Ultraclean Triumph
Schwarzman, Howard Dime and Penny and Other Work; The Spectator Predicts Slaight, Allan Jacks Are Better Solomon, David The Card To Case - Once More Stephens, Warren All In a Flap; Dice Stack Finale; A Dollar Plus Tax; E.S.P. Glimpses; Fooling With the Prayer Vase; Impromptu Dime Slide; The "Master Move" From the Rear; Matchbox Rattle Box Stover, Mel I Am Not Joe King; The World's Greatest; The World's Greatest II Swinford, Paul Poker Chip Chicanery; The Seven Card Monte Thatcher, Al Al's Monstrosity; Lie Detector Telephone Trick; Double Sticker Prediction; The Most Incomprehensible Divination; Multiple Gemini; Odd/Even; Peek Prediction Torrales, Hippie Slap It Up Trost, Nick Bones About It; Four Packet Shuffle; I've Got Yout Number; Poker Exchange; Twisting Hofzinser Veckey, Terry Terry's Target or The Veckey Touch Ward, Gary Sympathetic Duo Wiji (Wijendran Namasivayam) Card Thru the Hand Zollweg, Ron Australian Combo; The Elevator Salesman; Four Packet Shuffle; The OneHand Force and Control; Oracle Anew, Reviews (see Reviews)
With PRECURSOR XLVI, we inaugurated a new cover, due to the talents and generosity of Earle Oakes, Thanks, Earle, from Bill and Ed.
Thanks to Ron Zollweg for this index comprising the third twenty issues of PRECURSOR Magazine encompasing the period from August 1993 to September 1997, This is Ron's third index, thus tabulating all sixty PRECURSORS to date. William P. Miesel and Ed Eckl October 6, 1997
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Compiled by Ron Zollweg
Being an Index of the Fourth Twenty Issues of PRECURSOR.
Cards . . . Regular Deck Ace Interlude. Michael DeMarco Aces After Daley. Neal Elias Aces in Progress. Michael DeMarco Adult Show, The. Tom Hubbard Adverse Adventure. Michael DeMarco An Ambitious Slider. Tom Hubbard Anniversary Card, The. Mike Gancia Bets. KenMcCreedy Boards and Bones. Dan Block Cards and Cubes. Michael DeMarco Cards and Dice That Can't Be Explained. William P. Miesel Cards, Dice, and Kruksal. William P. Miesel Carrying on with the Magnetic Searcher. Tom Craven Case Count. Michael DeMarco Climax Estimation. Al Thatcher Colorful. Tom Craven Clutter Cut, The. Joshua Jay Confusing Sevens. Aldo Columbini Compressed Poker. Phil Goldstein Computerized Card Discovery. Warren Stephens Computerized Card Discovery. William P. Miesel Count of Coincidence. Michael DeMarco Create a Date. Marty Kane Cutting In. Tom Hubbard Cut-Rate. J.KHartman Deal Spiel. Marty Kane Diception. Michael DeMarco Die and Go Down Under. Marty Kane Die and Go Down Under II. Marty Kane Dogging the Princess. Jon Racherbaumer Don't Forget. Hideo Kato Draw and Quarter Those Aces. J.K. Hartman Drop and Catch. Hideo Kato Double Down/Under Elimination. William P. Miesel Double Gilbreath, A. Tom Hubbard 1
LXXIII, 11 LXXIII, 20 LXXVII, 9 LXIII, 17 LXII, 2 LXXII, 9 LXXVIII, 19 LXI, 16 LXXIX, 3 LXII, 19 LXXI, 19 LXXI,21 LXXVI, 3 LXXVI, 8 LXXIX, 19 LXVI, 5 LXVIII, 19 LXIX, 16 LXIV, 7 LXXV, 13 LXXV, 13 LXXIX, 5 LXVIII, 3 LXIV, 20 LXXII, 7 LXIV, 13 LXXI, 12 LXXI, 16 LXXI, 16 LXIX, 3 LXXIV, 6 LXVIII, 15 LXXIV, 13 LXXIX, 12 LXXX,8
Double Hofzinser. Michael DeMarco Double or Nothing. Michael DeMarco Double Simplex Lie Speller. Marty Kane Down/Under Deal with Multiple Cards. Hideo Kato Dowsing Card Trick, The. Warrren Stephens Editor's Note. William P. Miesel Eight, Nine, Ten, Jack Trick. Marty Kane Einstein Card Trick, The. Al Thatcher EvenDeceivin'. Marty Kane Experimenting with SOC. Gary Ward Fantasy, A. Mike Rogers Fearsome Foursome, The. William P. Miesel Field Poker Divination. Matthew Field Final Card, The. Hideo Kato Finding Four Cards with a Pair of Dice. William P. Miesel Fingertip Vision. Hideo Kato Five Star Coincidence. Tom Hubbard Follow-up to the Pop-Up. John Andrew Greget Found and Found. Tom Hubbard Four-Gone Conclusion. William P. Miesel Four The Hard Way. Michael DeMarco "F" Train. Michael DeMarco Going Up. Tom Hubbard Government Deal, The. Aldo Columbini Happy Couples. Hideo Kato Head-To-Head Poker. Michael DeMarco Hideo Kato's Magic Spell. Hideo Kato Identity Crisis. Warren Stephens Initialed Card,The. Neal Elias Initialed Card, The. Dr. Stanley Jaks Initialed Card, The. Dr. Jaks and Neal Elias Insured Card to Wallet. Ron Zollweg Jackpot. Michael DeMarco Joker Between, The. Joe Rindfleisch and Mark DeSousa Kan't Kill a King. Joshua Jay Killer's Pair. Marty Kane Lead-in to the Signed Card. Tom Hubbard Mac-Moe-Mem. Gary Plants Magic. Al Thatcher Magic Spell, The. Barry Govan Magnetic Searcher. Hideo Kato Matchable Cards. Nick Trost Matchable Cards (The Third Method). William P. Miesel Matchable Cards (Fourth Method). William P. Miesel Match Between Magicians. Marty Kane Memory Genius. Hideo Kato Mentally Challenged Magnetic Searcher. Ezra Tawil Muppet Magic. Marty Kane N-x-M (Rectangle Divination). Reinhard Muller Narrow Margin. Aldo Columbini Nice Dice. Allan Slaight 2
LXII, 15 LXXV, 9 LXI,7 LXXIX, 10 LXX,9 LXIV, 20 LXIII, 15 LXIII, 20 LXX, 12 LXVIII, 15 LXXX,3 LXV, 14 LXXX, 17 LXXIV,21 LXIX, 20 LXXIV, 3 LXL2 LXXII, 21 LXX, 17 LXXII, 22 LXII, 10 LXV, 11 LXXVI, 21 LXXVI, 13 LXVIII, 11 LXII, 12 LXXIV, 5 LXXIX, 8 LXX, 7 LXX, 6 LXVII, 23 LXXVII, 3 LXIX, 18 LXVI, 9 LXVI, 18 LXXX, 10 LXXIX, 22 LXI,3 LXXII, 19 LXXV, 15 LXXIV, 15 LXVII, 15 LXVII, 18 LXVII, 20 LXVI, 7 LXXIV, 8 LXXVII, 16 LXIX, 5 LXXV, 2 LXVIII, 20 LXXI, 11
No Chance to Reconstruct. Tom Craven North Pole Rigamarole. Marty Kane Odds Against, The. Karl Fulves Only to Me. Russ Polizzi Playing Cards and Dollar Bills. William P. Miesel Poker Dice and Cards. Stewart James Poker Dice and Cards II. William P. Miesel Poker Dice and Cards III. William P. Miesel Poker Exhange. Michael deMarco Predestined 13. Hideo Kato Quine's Keeper-Finder. Tom Craven Rank Prank. Marty Kane Remember and Disremember. William P. Miesel Resourceful Card Shark, The. Michael DeMarco Reversa-Skill. Al Thatcher Scoop-Up Changes. Dan Block Search and Destroy. Russ Polizzi Seed to Flowers or Culling the Aces. Hideo Kato Seven Card Monte. William P. Miesel Sleight of Eyes. Hideo Kato Spectator Cuts to the Poker Aces. Michael DeMarco Spectator Split. Joshua Jay Spelled Invisible Toss. Marty Kane Spelled It and Dealt It. Marty Kane Spelling Secrets To Each Other. Marty Kane Splitting Elimination. Hideo Kato Still Predicting. Tom Hubbard Stud Poker Discovery. Neal Elias Thanks Again Norman. Tom Hubbard They Went Up the Elevator. William P. Miesel T-G-G-P. LouGallo T-G-G-P. MikeGallo T-G-G-P. Gary Plants Third Man Theme. Jon Rachaerbaumer Three Assistants. Tom Hubbard Three Times Three Square Divination Revisited. William P. Miesel Time For the Wizard. Patrick Wilson Top Dog Monte. Gary Ward Top Floor Please. Michael DeMarco Tops and Bottoms Poker Deal. Neal Elias , Lynn Searles, Stewart James Totally Unexpected Prediction. William P. Miesel Tracking a Selection Through the Wilderness. Harry G. Franks Trick Cards. Neal Elias Trick With a Weak Ending. Marty Kane Up Thru the Deck. Harry Hirschvogel We Seven, All Alone. Jon Rachenbaumer Who Ate Who . William P. Miesel Whose Card? Tom Hubbard Wild Bill and the Dead Man's Hand. Dan Block Wise Up. Phil Goldstein You Can Count On the Aces. Michael DeMarco
LXX, 19 LXVII, 12 LXXI, 14 LXXVIII, 20 LXXVI, 15 LXXI, 2 LXXI, 5 LXXI, 7 LXXII, 5 LXXX, 19 LXIV, 3 LXXX, 11 LXV, 17 LXIV, 11 LXXV, 5 LXI, 5 LXXVI, 4 LXXII, 13 LXXV, 16 LXXIV, 10 LXVIII, 4 LXIX, 9 LXXIX, 15 LXXII, 16 LXXVIII, 17 LXXVII, 18 LXVII, 8 LXXII, 20 LXXVIII, 8 LXXIII, 17 LXXVIII, 2 LXXVIII, 5 LXXVIII, 6 LXX, 2 LXVI, 17 LXV, 2 LXVIII, 6 LXIX, 11 LXII, 22 LXXIX, 23 LXIV, 9 LXIV, 15 LXI, 22 LXXV, 7 LXIX, 4 LXXIII, 3 LXXX, 6 LXXV, 11 LXXIII, 8 LXX, 4 LXVII, 2
Cards ... Special Decks and/or Cards Anna Graham's Magic Spells. Marty Kane Another Late Session. Bob King Another Rotten Spelling Trick. Warren Stephens Delayed Restoration, The. Gary Ward Delayed Restoration, The (another handling) William P. Miesel DeMarco's Universal. Michael DeMarco Empathus. Thomas Mosier Face To Face Coincidence. Nick Trost Forensic Discovery. Warren Stephens Harry's Pie in the Deck. Harry Hirshvogel Jack Be Quick. Michael DeMarco Magic Words of Anna Graham, The. Marty Kane Matchable Cards. Nick Trost Matchable Cards (second Method). William P. Miesel Matchable Cards (Third Method)., William P. Miesel Matchable Cards (Fourth Method). William P. Miesel Much Further Than That. Al Thatcher Odd Man Out. Stewart James Pennsylvania On New Year's Eve. William P. Miesel People's Princess. Jon Racherbaumer Shuffle Non-Bored. Hideo Kato Tag-Team Restoration. Gary Ward Totally Unexected Prediction. William P. Miesel Whose Card?. TomHubbard X-Tract. Phil Goldstein
LXXVI, 10 LXIX, 7 LXXX, 15 LXIV, 5 LXIV, 5 LXII, 4 LXX, 15 LXV, 19 LXXII, 17 LXX, 22 LXI, 18 LXXIII, 5 LXVII, 15 LXVII, 16 LXVII, 18 LXVII, 20 LXXVI, 19 LXXI, 9 LXXVII, 21 LXXII, 3 LXXIV, 17 LXIX, 6 LXIV. 9 LXXV, 11 LXXVII, 6
Sleights and other Information Commentary. EdEckl Cut Still Deeper Force. Dan Block Deal Down Sleight, The. Jamie Kurtz Devious Reversal You'll Always Need, A. David Ryan Different Switch, A. William P. Miesel Don't Forget. Hideo Kato Dowsing Card Trick, The. Warren Stephens Drop from a Double (Additional credits). William P. Miesel Eerie Table Change, The. Russ Polizzi End for End. KenMcCready False Charlier, A. Joshua Jay Flip Move, The. Dan Block Hideo Kato's Magic Spell. Hideo Kato Magnetic Searcher. Hideo Kato Okito Coin Box Clean-Up. Tom Hubbard Quine's Keeper-Finder. Tom Craven Revolution Change, The. Russ Polizzi Three Alike. William P. Miesel 4
LXVIII, 18 LXXVII, 15 LXV, 4 LXVIII, 22 LXXVII, 16 LXXIV, 6 LXX, 9 LXV, 2 LXIII, 21 LXV, 8 LXII, 25 LXVIII, 12 LXXIV, 5 LXXIV, 15 LXXVII, 14 LXIV, 3 LXVII, 5 LXXVII, 22
Cards- Packets (Regular Cards) Another Twist or Two. Tom Hubbard Blue Jays. David Drake Cumulative Thought. Hideo Kato Die and Go Down Under. Marty Kane Dogging The Princess. Jon Racherbaumer Easy Opener. Michael DeMarco Field Poker Divination. Matthew Field Four Red Cards, The. Michael DeMarco Government Deal, The. Aldo Columbini Lie Down Under Here. Marty Kane Lollapalooza Wallop. Dan Block Pangbora Returns. Michael DeMarco Playing Cards and Dollar Bills. William P. Miesel Poker Dice and Cards II. William P. Miesel Seven Card Monte. Neal Elias Seven Card Monte. Ed Mario Sign and Mark. Hideo Kato Six Mix. Michael DeMarco Spectator Split. Joshua Jay Subtle Ace Routine. David Drake Subtle Prediction Revisited. David Drake Third Man, The. Marty Kane 3x3 Square Divination. Reinhard Muller 3x3 Square Divination (Second Presentation). William P. Miesel You Name It - 1 Got It. Tom Hubbard
LXI, 25 LXIII, 9 LXXIII, 7 LXXI, 16 LXIX, 3 LXVI, 3 LXXX, 17 LXII, 7 LXXVI, 13 LXXVII, 11 LXXVI, 6 LXX, 10 LXXVI, 15 LXXI, 5 LXVI, 23 LXVI, 22 LXXIV, 20 LXIII, 7 LXIX, 9 LXIV, 17 LXVI, 15 LXV,6 LXIII, 12 LXIII, 14 LXV, 15
Cards- Packets (Special Cards) Gypsy Curse. Dan Block On the Lily Pond. Shaun Robison Ring Around the Cross. William P. Miesel Tarot's Curse, The. Ed Loveland
LXIII, 3 LXVI, 12 LXXIX, 17 LXXVII, 15
Miscellaneous Magic Be Safe - Test Your Money. Harry Frank Calendar Cards. Al Thatcher Collecting Quarters. Karl Fulves Did I Screw That Up. Warren Stephens Die Elimination. Nick Trost Harry's Oil and Water Dice. Harry Hirshvogel Harry's Torn and Restored Dollar. Harry Hirshgvogel, 5
LXI, 10 LXI, 13 LXXX, 21 LXV, 9 LXXIII, 10 LXIX, 22 LXXIV, 14
Invisible Coin Across. Shaun Robison Nickels to Dimes. Jerry Mentzer North Pole Rigamarole. Marty Kane Not So Classy Classic, A. Warren Stephens Quick Hang. David Neighbors Stately Match-Up. William P. Miesel Time For the Wizard. Patrick Wilson
LXVIII, 7 LXVI, 11 LXVII, 12 LXVII, 11 LXIX, 14 LXXVIII, 14 LXVIII, 6
Miscellany Additional Credits - On Reversa-Skill. Karl Fulves Conch-A- Doodle Do. Ed Eckl Credit on Okito Box. Howard Schwarzman Harry's Mighty Domino (Time Waster). Ed Eckl Harry's Pop-Eyed Key Card. Harry Hirshvogel Mister Taylor - The Dramatic Ventriloquist. William P. Miesel Original Manila Folder. Ed Eckl Quarterlies. Ed Eckl
Stupidity with a Tiny Closepin . Ed Eckl UYOD. Harry Hirshvogel Vladimir Who? Ed Eckl
LXXVI, 2 LXXV, 24 LXIX, 2 LXIII, 26 LXVII, 22 LXXX, 22 LXIV, 22 LXIX, 8 LXX, 14 LXXII, 20 LXXIII, 2 LXXIV, 4 LXXVII,21 LXXVIII, 3 LXXX, 9 LXXII, 12 LXVIII, 24 LXXV, 8
Reviews... Conventions, Lectures Fifth Annual Buffalo Get-Together. Ed Eckl Second "Shuffle Off To Buffalo. Ron Zollweg Yankee Gathering #8. Ed Eckl
LXXVII, 24 LXII, 26 LXXVII, 24
Reviews . . . Books, Magazines, Tricks, Etc. Abracadabra by Nathan Schiffman. William P. Miesel Arcadia by Roger Crosthwaite. William P. Miesel Blackstone: A Magician's Life by Daniel Waldron. Ed Eckl Card Magic of Nick Trost, The. William P. Miesel Coming of the Fairies, The by A.C. Doyle. Ed Eckl Eddie Fechter Book. Ed Eckl 6
LXVII, 23 LXXIII, 24 LXX, 24 LXV, 20 LXV, 12 LXI, 26
No Tricks by Michael Finny (CD). Ed Eckl Idiom Savant by Jerry Dunn. Ed Eckl Kort: The Magic of Milt Kort. Ed Eckl Magical Interlude, A by Ron Zollweg. Ed Eckl Porcelain God by Julie. L Horan. Ed Eckl Ron Bauer Private Studies, Ron Zollweg SIDE SHOW by Howard Bone with Daniel Waldron. Ed Eckl Trickery Treats by J.K. Hartman. William P. Miesel We Remember Blackstone (Video). Ed Eckl
LXXIII, 4 LXII, 25 LXXII, 23 LXXVI, 24 LXI, 17 LXXIX, 9 LXXIX, 24 LXXVII, 22 LXIV, 24
In Memoriam David Drake (1931-1998). Ed Eckl David Drake (1931-1998). William P. Miesel Ray Mertz . Ed Eckl Mike Rogers. William P. Miesel
LXVI,21 LXVI, 24 LXXIX, 18 LXXX, 1
Contributors Block, Dan Boards and Bones; Cut Still Deeper Force; Flip Move,The; Gypsy Curse;; Juggle with Some Dice; Lollapalooza Wallop VI; Scoop-Up Change; Wild Bill and the Dead Man's Hand Columbini,, Aldo Confusing Sevens; Government Deal; Narrow Margin Craven, Tom Carrying on With The Magnetic Searcher; Colorful; No Chance to Reconstruct; Quine's Keeper DeMarco, Michael Ace Interlude; Aces in Progress; Adverse Adventure; Cards and Cubes; Casecount: Count of Coincidence; DeMarco's Universal; Diceptive; Double or Nothing; Double Hofzinser; Easy Opener; Four the Hard Way; Four Red Cards, The; "F'Train; Head To Head Poker; Jack Be Quick; Jackpot; Pangborn Returns; Poker Exchange; Resourceful Card Shark, The; Six Mix; Spectator Cuts to the Poker Aces; Top Floor, Please; You Can Count on the Aces DeSousa, Mark The Joker Between Drake, David Blue Jays; Subtle Ace Prediction; Subtle Ace Prediction Revisited Elias, Neal Aces After Daley; Initialed Card; Seven Card Monte; Stud poker Discovery; Tops And Bottoms Poker Deal; Trick Cards Eckl, Ed; Commentary; Quarterlies; Obits: David Drake, Ray Mertz; Reviews; (Books): Blackstone; Coming of the Fairies; Eddie Fechter Book; Idiom Savant; Kort; Magical Interludes; Porcelain God; SIDE SHOW; Convention Reports: Fifth Annual Buffalo Get-Together; Yankee Gathering VIII. Videos & CD: No Tricks; We Remember Blackstone; 7
Tricks: Conch-A-Doodle Do; Harry's Mighty Domino Timewaster; The Original Manila Folder; Stupidity with a Tiny Closepin; Vladimir Who? Field, Matthew Field Poker Divination Franke, Harry Be Safe - Test Your Money; Tracking a Selection Through the Wilderness Fulves, Karl Additional Credits on Re versa-Skill; Collecting Quarters; The Odds Against Gallo, Lou T-G-G-P Gallo, Mike T-G-G-P Gancia, Mike The Anniversary Card Goldstein, Phil Compressed Poker; WiseUp; X-Tract Govan, Barry Magic Spell, The Greget, John Andrew Follow-Up to Pop-Up Hartman, J.K. Cut Rate; Draw and Quarter Those Aces Hirshvogel, Harry Harry's Oil and Water Dice; Harry's Pie In the Deck; Harry's Pop-Eyed Key Card; Harry's Torn and Restored Dollar; Up Through the Deck; UYOD Hubbard, Tom Adult Show,The; An Ambitious Slider; Another Twist or Two; Cutting In; Double Gilbreath, A; Five Star Coincidence; Found and Found; Going Up; Lead-in To the Signed Card; Okito Coin Box Clean-Up; Still Predicting; Thanks Again Norman; Three Assistants; Whose Card?; You Name It -1 Got It Jaks, Stanley Initialed Card; Initialed Card (With Neal Elias) James, Stewart Odd Man Out; Poker Dice and Cards; Tops and Bottoms Poker Deal Jay, Joshua The Clutter Cut; False Charlier, A; Kan't Kill a King; Spectator Split Kane, Marty Anna Graham's Magic Spells; Create A Date; Deal Spiel; Die and Go Down Under; Double Simplex Lie; Eight, Nine, Ten, Jack Trick; Even Deceiven'; Killer's Pair; Lie Down Under Here; Magic Words of Anna Graham, The; Match Between Magicians; Muppet Magic; North Pole Rigamarole; Rank Prank; Spelled Invisible Toss; Spelled It and Dealt It; Spelling Secrets To Each Other; Trick With a Weak Ending; Third Man, The Kato, Hideo Cumulative Thought; Don't Forget; Down/Under Deal With Multiple Cards; Drop and Catch; Final Card, The; Fingertip Vision; Happy Couples; Hideo Kato's Magic Spell; Magnetic Searcher; Memory Genius; Predestined 13; Seed to Flowers; Shuffle Non-Bored; Sign and Mark; Sleight of Eyes; Splitting Elimination King, Bob Another Late Session 8
Kurtz, Jamie Real Down Sleights,The Loveland, Ed Tarot's Curse,The McCreedy, Ken Bets; End for End Mario, Ed Seven Card Monte Mentzer, Jerry Nickels to Dimes Miesel, William P. Obits: David Drake; Mike Rogers Remembered; Reviews: Abracadabra (Schiffman); Arcadia (Crosthwaite); The Card Magic of Nick Trost; Trickery Treats (Hartman); Misc.: Mister Taylor - The Dramatic Ventriloquist; Tricks: Cards and Dice That Can't Be Explained; Cards, Dice, and Kruksal; Computerized Card Discovery; Delayed Restoration (another handling); Different Switch, A; Drop From a Double; Double Down/Under Elimination; Editor's Note; Fearsome Foursome, The; Finding Four Cards with a Pair of Dice; Four-Gone Conclusion; Matchable Cards (3 methods); Who Ate Who?; Pennsylvania On New Years Eve; Playing Cards and Dollar Bills; Poker Dice and Cards (3 methods) ; Remember and Disremember; Ring Around the Cross; Seven Card Monte; Stately Match-Up; They Went Up the Elevator; Three Alike; Three Times Three Divination (2 versions); Totally Unexpected Mosier, Thomas Empathus Mtiller, Reinhard Rectangle Divination (NxM); Three Times Three Square Divination Neighbors, David Quick Hang Plants, Gary Mac-Moe-Mem; T-G-G-P Polizzi, Russ Eerie Table Change, The; Only To Me; Revolution Change,The; Search and Destroy Racherbaumer, Jon Dogging the Princess; People's Princess; Third Man Theme; We Seven; All Alone Rindfleisch, Joe The Joker Between Robison, Shaun Invisible Coin Aces; On the Lily Pad Rogers, Mike A Fantasy Ryan, David A Devious Reversal You'll Always Need Schwarzman, Howard Credit on Okito Box Move Slaight, Allan Nice Dice Stephens, Warren Another Rotten Spelling Trick; Computerized Cards; Did I Screw That Up; Dowsing Card, The; Forensic Discovery; Identity Crisis; Not So Classy Classic,A Tawil, Ezra Mentally Challenged Magnetic Speller 9
Thatcher, Al Calendar Cards; Climax Estimation; Einstein Card Trick,The; Magic; Much Further Than Further Than That; Reversa-Skill Trost, Nick Die Estimation; Face to Face Coincidence; Matchable Cards; Predictable Elimination Ward, Gary Delayed Restoration, The; Experimenting with SOC; Tag-Team Restoration; Top Dog Monte Wilson, Patrick Time For the Wizard Zollweg, Ron Insured Card to Wallet; Ron Bauer Private Studies; Second "Shuffle Off To Buffalo"
With Issue LXV of Precursor, we moved to a new format using proportional fonts. After due calculations, we determined that issues since that one contain about 30% more material per issue than before. We still average 24 pages per issue, and our illustrations are certainly not the best, but we feel they are getting marginally better.
Thanks to Ron Zollweg for this index comprising of issues LXI to LXXX, the fourth twenty issues of Precursor. This is Ron's fourth index, thus tabulating all 80 Precursors to date.
Many, many thanks to Ron's wife, Martie, who transcribed the material onto disk using Microsoft Word. This is a tough job, because it's not like writing prose, and so many of the Roman numerals begin to look alike. ( I put the first three indices into the computer, so I can really appreciate the work that went into the operation. Thanks, Martie. ee )
And thanks to all of our contributors and our loyal subscribers. William P. Miesel and Ed Eckl 08 JAN 02
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INDEX PRECURSORIUM V Compiled by Ron Zollweg Being an Index of the last Twenty Issues of PRECURSOR
Cards...Regular Deck About Face. William P. Miesel Aces After Daley. Neal Elias Alaskan Poker. Jon Rogers All The Thirteens. Hideo Kato Almost Perfect Blackjack Hand, The . Dan Block Alternate Aces. Neal Elias Alternate Aces Plus. Herb Zarrow Any Player - Any Hand. Tony Econ Astro-Logical. Marty Kane Australian Count Down. Reinhard Muller Bob's Delusion. Bob King Beer Mat Trick, The. William P. Miesel Bicycle. Al Thatcher Bicycle-Poker. Cushing Strout Bi-Color Transposition . William P. Miesel Bi-Phonery II. Tom Craven & Doug Canning Blackjack or Rummy?. William P. Miesel Card Counter, The. Al Thatcher Cards in General. Paul Gordon Casting A Spell. William P. Miesel Cinnamon & Licorice. Reinhard Muller Close Relative. Russ "Raven" Polizzi Coercion. David Jockisch Collecting-Up in the Air. Gary Plants Creativity and Mario's Mental Topper. Paul Gordon Cross Locators. Hideo Kato Cutting High Card. Tony Econ Dealing With an Old Codger. Marty Kane Death Card, The. Tom Batchelor Delayed Double Revelation. Bob King Diary Trick, The. Cushing Strout Diminishing Duck & Deal. Reinhard Muller Direct Cut. Hideo Kato "Do As I Do" A La Gergonne. Hideo Kato Double-Double Agent. Marty Kane Dream Away. Paul Gordon Echo of a Miracle, An. Al Thatcher 1
XCIX, 15 XCVII, 21 XCV, 12 LXXXII, 20 LXXXI, 5 LXXXVII, 16 LXXXIX, 16 LXXXVI, 10 XCIV, 2 LXXXIV, 9 LXXXIII, 18 XCV, 21 XCI, 22 XCIV, 14 22
XC, 15 XCIII, 17 XCI, 18 XCVIII, 18 XCII,21 LXXXIX, 10 XCII, 14 XCVII, 16 LXXXIV, 5 C, 10 LXXXII, 8 LXXXVI, 6 LXXXI, 3 XCII, 9 LXXXVII, 3 LXXXVII, 12 LXXXIII, 22 XC, 11 LXXXII, 18 LXXXV, 20 XCIX, 13 XCVII, 3
Elevator Tag. Ed Eckl Elimination Location with Ace Separation. Al Thatcher Emotional Lies. Ezra Tawil Erdnase Four Card Stack-Plus. Tony Econ Excaveat. Phil Goldstein Extra Spicy Surprise, The. William P. Miesel Fake Reverse-Reverse Redux. Wesley James Faro Four. William P. Miesel Faro Location. Charlie Hudson Fast and Loose. Robin Robertson Fault Lines.. Robin Robertson Five Card Thot. Neal Elias Flash Catch Aces. Nick Sacco Flip-Flop Collectors. Randy DiMarco Forethought. Peter Tappan Fourking Over Weigh Too Much Four-Way Mental Speller. Al Thatcher Get Out and Get Under. Lou Gallo & Bill Miesel Get-Ready For The Revolving Aces. Al Thatcher High Roller. SumitDua Houdini's Best Trick. Chris Kosuta Hour Power. Marty Kane How I Cheated the Cheaters. Dan Block Impromptu Stunner II. Bob King Impromptu Two Card Transpo. Al Thatcher Irv-Al-Me. Mike Amico It's All Just Semantricks. Marty Kane Jazz Aces-Doubled. William P. Miesel Kato's Field Poker Divination. Hideo Kato Kind-A...Sort-A Ace Production & Transposition. Eric Dockery Kings-A Selection-The Cardcase, The Last Word, The. Al Thatcher Leprechauns. Tom Craven Leprechauns. William P. Miesel Let's Cut For a Million Dollars. Tom Batchelor Linguistricks. Marty Kane Matching Wits. Bob King Men in Black. Marty Kane Metamorphosis. Robin Robertson MIB II. Max Maven Miniskill. Bob King Mini Triumph. Hideo Kato Miracle Quad-Prediction. Al Thatcher More Sandwiches. William P. Miesel More Thoughts on Quine's Keeper . Tom Craven New Deck Demo. Tony Econ New Deck Triumph Stock. Tony Econ New Year's Eve Bridge Deal. Tony Econ Numerological Discovery. William P. Miesel
C,20 XCI, 11 LXXXIV, 16 LXXXVI, 8 XCII, 2 XCIX,20 LXXXVIII, 9 LXXXIV, 23 XCII, 19 XCIII, 5 C,3 LXXXI, 17 XCIII, 10 LXXXVIII, 24 XCIII, 13 XCVI, 7 XCI, 15 XCV, 10 XCI, 6 XCVII, 11 XCIII, 15 LXXXI, 15 LXXXIV, 7 XCV, 5 XCI, 13 LXXXIV, 3 XCIII, 6 LXXXI, 20 LXXXIII, 10 XCVI, 9 LXXXVIII, 18 XCVI, 2 LXXXVII, 14 LXXXVII, 15 XCIV, 10 XC,7 LXXXV, 2 XCVII, 5 XCII, 6 XCIX, 3 XCIII, 2 LXXXII, 22 XC,7 XCVI, 15 XCIX, 11 LXXXVI, 14 LXXXVI, 11 LXXXVI, 13 LXXXIX, 18
Out-Jog Packet Switch and Three EffectsTouch Poker- Touch Revelation- Touch Aces, An. Herb Zarrow Out of Control Prediction. Tom Hubbard Parse Farce. Marty Kane Partner, The. Hideo Kato Pop Over Sandwich. Noel Stanko Predict-A-Pair. Al Thatcher Predominant Seven. Nick Trost Predominant Seven (Third Handling). William P. Miesel The Pre-Selected Selection. Chris Kosuta Pseudo Brain Wave. Gary Plants Pseudo Greek. Bob King Psychic Queen. Hideo Kato Punken Gambler. Paul Cummins Rail Bender Transposition. William P. Miesel Red-Black Finally. Robin Robertson Repeat Triumph. Bob King Reversal of Fortunes. William P. Miesel Royal Gathering. Robin Robertson Royal Government Deal. Robin Robertson S-D/A/B-G Location. Paul Gordon Self-Help Groups. Marty Kane Shiffle Shuffle. Dan Block Spreading and Staggering. Robin Robertson Spud. Phil Goldstein Spud II. William P.. Miesel Static Stick. Hideo Kato Step by Step. Bill Goodwin Sticky Thumb. Hideo Kato Supreme Card Sharp, The. Tony Econ Tattle-Tale Cards. Al Thatcher Technicolor Poker Deal. Tony Econ Technicolor Stack Routine, The. Tony Econ Ten-Ace Anyone? . Marty Kane Three Ace Effect, A. Ed Mario Three Ace Effect #2, A. Neal Elias Tips on the Breather Crimp. Al Thatcher To Each His Own. Al Thatcher To Match or Not to Match. Dom Cervas & Bill Miesel Torn & Restored Signed Card. Walt Rolling Tough Aces. Herb Zarrow Trapped in a Tunnel. Bill Goodwin Trick That Never Fails, The. Paul Cummins Trinity Affinity. Robin Robertson Triple Miracle Divination. Al Thatcher Two Card Prediction. Hideo Kato Ultra Impromptu. J. K. Hartman Using your Sixth Sense. Marty Kane Very Clean Hofzinser. Nick Trost Victor & Loser. Marty Kane 3
LXXXVIII,7 LXXXVII, 7 XCV, 3 LXXXII, 6 LXXXVII, 23 XCI,9 LXXXVII, 19 LXXXVII, 22 XC, 12 C,2 LXXXIV, 15 LXXXII, 12 LXXXVIII, 11 XCV, 23 XC, 13 LXXXI, 7 XCVI, 19 XCIX, 9 XCIX, 17 XCVIII, 9 XCII, 8 LXXXV, 8 XCIII, 4 LXXXII, 4 LXXXIII, 23 LXXXII, 14 LXXXVIII, 3 LXXXII,21 LXXXVI, 2 XCIX, 2 LXXXVI, 20 LXXXVI, 24 C,4 XCIII, 19 XCIII, 21 XCI, 3 XCI, 5 XCVII, 22 XC, 16 XC, 9 XCVIII, 4 LXXXV, 6 C, 15 XCI, 25 LXXXII, 15 XCIX, 6 XCIX, 3 XCVII, 19 LXXXIV, 18
Washington l/41y. Tom Craven Weekling. Phil Goldstein Who Signed Your Card. William P. Miesel Winning Hand Poker Deal. Tony Econ You Name It- I'll Flush It. Gary Plants You Think of a Card. Tom Craven Zoo Story . Marty Kane
LXXXII, 2 LXXXV, 4 XCIV, 21 LXXXVI, 16 LXXXVIII, 21 XCVI, 14 C, 13
Cards—Special Decks and/or Cards An Evil Card Trick...Well, No. Ed Eckl Another Late Night Session. Bob King Bicycle to Sword. Cushing Strout Challenge Cards to Pocket, The. Bob King Capturing Saddam. William P. Miesel Have a Heart. Norman L. Gilbreath Iraqi Most Wanted Card Trick. Nick Trost Kangaroo Aces. Cushing Strout Lyin' King. Tom Craven Marked Numerology. William P. Miesel Much Further Than Further Than That. Al Thatcher Orson Welles Meets Anna Graham. Marty "Citizen" Kane Perceptive Power of the Queens. Cushing Strout Royal Flush High Jinx. Marty Kane Thatcherism. Al Thatcher Two-Faced Prophecy. J. P. Lewis Underground Location. Marty Kane
LXXXIV, 21 XC, 3 XCV, 8 XCIV, 12 LXXXVIII, 28 LCII, 17 LXXXVIII, 26 XCIV, 4 C, 18 LXXXI, 12 XCI, 19 LXXXIX, 21 C,7 LXXXVII, 5 XCVIII, 2 XCII, 11 XCVIII, 9
Sleights and Other Information Another Breather Crimp Control. Eric Dockery An Out-Jog Packet Switch. Herb Zarrow Charlier Slip Cut Force. Tom Batchelor Covered Visual Snap Change. Harvey Rosenthal Fake Reverse-Reverse Redux. Wesley James Five Card Plus Twist Move. Reinhard Muller A Glimpse After a Peek. Pete Lentini Jog Switch. Robin Roberetson Make-Believe Tilt. Pete Lentini The Non-Turnover-Turnover Pass. Mike Rogers One Final Note on Turnovers. Frank Lane Second From Top-Bo-Top. Pete Lentini Slip Sleight Variant. Reinhard Muller Spinning Cuts. Hideo Kato The Texas Spread. Gary Ward Vanish & Reproduction. Dan Block
XCVI, 9 LXXXVII, 7 XCIV, 9 XC, 5 LXXXVIII, 9 XCIV, 6 XCVII, 2 XCIX, 10 XCV, 7 XCV, 19 XCV, 22 XCVI, 5 XCVIII, 22 LXXXII, 6 LXXXV, 21 LXXXIII, 12
Cards-Packets (Regular Cards)
Ambitious Sevens & Eights. Al Thatcher Australian Anytime. Mel Stover & William P. Miesel Circular Red Prediction. Hideo Kato Cuban Eights. Mike Amico Minature Follow The Leader. Neal Elias My Arrangement. William P.Miesel Reds and Blacks and Jacks. Robin Robertson Three Political Parties on a Train or Excess Baggage. Tom Batchelor To Set Up the Spelling Bee. Al Thatcher Twist-Turn-Shake-Rattle & Roll. William P. Miesel
XCI, 20 LXXXIX, 7 LXXXII, 10 LXXXI, 10 XCVIII, 20 XCVI,21 XCVIII, 16 XCVIII, 13 XCI, 14 XC, 18
Cards-Packets (Special Cards) Agronomix. Phil Goldstein One Good Turn Deserves Another. William P. Miesel Piano Concerto. Bob King Ramasee Ramblings. Marty Kane Underground Location. Marty kane
LXXXIII, 19 LXXXIX, 22 LXXXIX, 5 LXXXIII, 14 XCVIII, 9
Miscellaneous Magic Absolute Astonish Mint. Matt Episcopo A+B (B-100+) Book Test. Tom Craven Aye, Aye../Any. Harry Hirschovogel Bi-Phonery II. Tom Craven & Doug Canning Book Marker. Russ "Raven" Polizzi The Card Lottery Prediction. Tom Batchelor The Diary Trick. Cushing Strout Forethought. Peter Tappan Harry's Catch-up Prediction. Harry Hirschvogel Kiss & Tell. Peter Tappan Leprechauns. Tom Craven Leprechauns. William P. Miesel Lot of ESP, A. Tom Craven Mentally By Two-Revisited. Chad Ecklof Never Say Diary. Phil Goldstein Pendulum Power. Chris Kosuta & Bill Miesel Predominant Seven. Nick Trost Predominaant Seven (Third Handling). William P. Miesel Sato by Kato. Hideo Kato Split Group Coding. (Mentalism) Hideo Kato
XCVII, 9 XCV, 18 XCIX, 19 XC, 15 XCIII, 8 XCVI, 11 LXXXVII, 12 XCIII, 13 LXXXVII, 18 LXXXIII, 3 LXXXVII, 14 LXXXVII, 15 LXXXIX, 15 XCV, 15 LXXXIX, 13 XCIV, 18 LXXXVII, 19 LXXXVII, 22 C, 16 LXXXV, 15
Thot By Wire (Mentalism). Karl Fulves Two Pennies to Rub Together. Tom Batchelor Ultimate Squeaker, The. Gary Ward
LXXXV, 12 XCVII, 6 LXXXIV, 11
Miscellany A Belated Credit. William P. Miesel Biography of Hideo Kato. Max Maven Creativity. Paul Gordon From the Past. Ed Eckl Further Reference: Dan Block & Dice ; Marty Kane & Ramasee Ramblings More 1/4-lies. Ed Eckl My Bicycle Dream. Harry Hirschvogel NCAExam. Ed Eckl NCA Exam, Part 2. Ed Eckl Quarter Lies. Ed Eckl Three Tuxedos, The Le Grand David Show and Me. Ed Eckl The 18th. Quarterly. Ed Eckl
XCIV, 17 LXXXII, 3 C, 10 XCVI, 13 LXXXIV, 2 LXXXIV, 6 XCII, 26 XC, 10 XCI, 24 LXXXI, 16 LXXXVIII, 6 LXXXIV, 20
Reviews...Conventions, Lectures
The Buffalo Magic Gathering (Oct. 16-18, 2003). Ron Zollwe^ Review of 6th Annual Buffalo Bash. Ed Eckl
LXXXIX, 25 LXXXI, 6
Reviews...Books, Magazines, Tricks, Etc.
The Breather 3 by Bob King. William P. Miesel Cardsdotcom by Aldo Colombini. William P. Miesel First Aid Lines by Aldo Colombini. Ed. Eckl Fredric P. Lamazor's Card Excursion Modules. William P. Miesel Kellar's Wonders by Nick Caveney & William P. Miesel. Jim Alfredson L-O-L (Laughing Out Loud) by Aldo Colombini. Ed Eckl Make 'em Laugh and Funny Stuff by Aldo Columbini. Ed Eckl Mario in the United Kingdom by Paul Gordon. William Miesel New Card Controls by Neal Elias. William P. Miesel Phil Goldstein's Redivider. William P. Miesel Semi-Automatic Card Tricks by Steve Beam. William P. Miesel Thomas J Shimeld's Walter B. Gibson & The Shadow. Ed Eckl Up In Smoke by Larry Jennings. William P. Miesel 6
XCIV, 11 XCIV, 24 XCVIII, 23 LXXXIX, 2 LXXXIX, 26 XCVIII, 23 XCVI, 18 XCVIII, 24 LXXXI, 2 LXXXVII, 2 XCII, 25 LXXXVII, 4 XCVII, 24
In Memoriam Farewell Precursor. William P;. Miesel I Remember Jay Marshall. William P. Miesel I Remember Lou Gallo. William P. Miesel I Remember Neal Elias (1921-2005). William P. Miesel Remembering Al Thatcher. William P. Miesel Remembering Bob Read. EdEckl
C, 24 XCVI, 24 XCIII, 24 XCIX, 24 XCVIII, 2 XCIX, 14
Contributors Alfredson, Jim Review^Bookj Kellar's Wonders by Mike Caveney & William P. Miesel Amico, Mike Cuban Eights; Irv-Al-Me Batchelor, Tom The Card Lottery Prediction; Charlier Slip Cut Force; Death Card, The; Let's Cut for a Million Dollars; Three Political Parties on a Train, or Excess Baggage; Two Pennies to Rub Together; Block, Dan Almost Perfect Blackjack Hand, The; How I Cheated the Cheaters; Shiffle Shuffle; Vanish & Reproduction Craven, Tom A+B (B-100+) Book Test; Bi-Phonery II; Leprechauns; A Lot of ESP; More Thoughts on Quine's Keeper; Washington 1/4 Ly; You Think of a Card; Lyin1 King Cummins, Paul Punken Gambler; The Trick That Never Fails DiMarco, Randy Flip-Flop Collectors Dockery, Eric Another Breather Crimp; Kind-A...Sort-A Ace Production & Transposition Dua, Sumit High Roller Eckl, Ed An Evil Card Trick...Well, No; The 18th Quarterly; EDcetera; Ed's Magical Mumblings; From Ed's Drawers; Elevator Tag; From The Past; More 1/4 lies; Natterings; NCA Exam; NCA Exam Part 2; Quarterlies; Stough; Three Tuxedos, The Le Grand David Show and Me; Reviews; First Aid Lines by Aldo Colombini; L-O-L (Laughing Out Loud) by Aldo Colombini; Make 'em Laugh and Funny Stuff by Aldo Colombini; Thomas J. Shimeld's Walter B. Gibson and The Shadow; Convention Reports: Review of 6th Annual Buffalo Bash; Obits: Remembering Bob Read Ecklof, Chad Mentally By Two-Revisited Econ, Tony Any Player - Any Hand; Cutting High Card; Erdnase Four Card Stock-Plus; 7
New Deck Demo; New Deck Triumph Stock; New Year's Eve Bridge Deal; Supreme Card Sharp, The; Technicolor Poker Deal; Technicolor Stack Routine, The; Winning Hand Poker Deal Elias, Neal Aces After Daley; Alternate Aces; Five Card Thot; Minature Follow the Leader; New Card Controls; Three Ace Effect #2, A Episcopo, Matt Absolute Astonish-Mint Fulves, Karl Thot By Wire Gallo, Lou Get Out and Get Under Gilbreath, Norman L. Have A Heart Goldstein, Phil Agronomix; Excaveat; Never Say Diary; SPUD; Weekling Goodwin, Bill Step by Step; Trapped in a Tunnel Gordon, Paul Dream Away; Cards in General; S-D/A/B-C- Location ,Creativity and Mental Topper Hartman, J.K. Ultra Impromtu Hubbard, Tom Out of Control Prediction Hudson, Charlie Faro Location Hirschvogel, Harry Aye-Aye...'Arry; Harry's Catch-up-Prediction; My Bicycle Dream Jockisch, David Coercion James, Wesley Fake Reverse-Reverse Redux Kane, Marty Astro-Logical; Dealing With an Old Codger; Double-Double Agent; Drink Think; Fourking over Weigh Too Much; Hour power; Linguistricks; It's All Just Semantricks; Men in Black; Parse Farce; Ramasee Ramblings; Royal Flush High Jinx; Self-Help Groups; Ten-Ace Anyone? Orson Welles Meets Anna Graham; Underground Location; Using Your Sixth Sense; Victor & Loser; Zoo Story Kato, Hideo All The Thirteens; Circular Red Prediction; Cross Locators; Direct Cut; "Do As I Do" A la Gergonne; Kato's Field Poker Divination; Mini Triumph; Partners, The; Psychic Queen; Sato by Kato, Spinning Cuts; Split Group Coding; Static Stick; Sticky Thumb; Two Card Prediction King, Bob Another Late Night Session; Bob's Delusion; The Challenge Cards To Pocket; Delayed Double Revelation; Impromptu Stunner II; Matching Wits; Miniskill; Piano Concerto; Pseudo Greek; Repeat Truimph Kosuta, Chris Houdini's best Trick; Pendulum Power; The Pre-Selected Selection 8
Lane, Frank One Final Note on Turnovers Lentini, Pete A Glimpse After a Peek; Make-Believe Tilt; Second From Top-Bo-Top Lewis, J.P. Two-Faced Prophecy Mario, Ed Three Ace Effect, A Maven, Max Biography of Hideo Kato; MIB II Miesel, William P. Obits: I Remember Jay Marshall; I Remember Lou Gallo; I Remember Neal Elias (1921-2005); Remembering Al Thatcher; Reviews: The Breather 3 ( Bob King); Cardsdotcom (Aldo Colombini); Farewell Precursor; Fredric P. Lamazor's "Card Excursion Modules"; Mario in the United Kingdom (Paul Gordon); Semi-Automatic Card Tricks (Steve Beam); "Up in Smoke" (Larry Jennings); Tricks: About Face; Bi-Color Transposition, Beer Matt Trick, The; A Belated Credit; Blackjack or Rummy?; Capturing Saddam; Casting A Spell; Extra Spicy Surprise, The; Faro Four; Jazz Aces-Doubled; Leprechauns; Marked Numerology; More Sandwiches; My Arrangement; Numerological Discovery; One Good Turn Deserves Another; Phil Goldstein's Redivider; Predominant Seven (Third Handling); Rail Bender Transposition, A; Reversal of Fortunes,A; Spud II; To Match or Not to Match; Twist-Turn-Shake-Rattle and Roll; Who Signed Your Card Muller, Reinhard Diminishing Duck & Deal; Australian Count Down; Cinnamon & Licorice; Five Card Plus Twist Move; Slip Sleight Variant Plants, Gary Collecting-Up in the Air; You Name It - I'll; Pseudo Brain Wave Polizzi, Russ "Raven" Book Marker; Close Relative Robertson, Robin Fast and Loose; Fault Lines ; Metamorphosis; Jog Switch; Red-Black Finally; Reds and Blacks and Jacks; Royal Gathering Royal; Trinity Affinity; Government Deal; Spreading and Staggering Rollins, Walt Torn & Restored Signed Card Rogers, Jon Alaskan Poker Rogers, Mike The Non-turnover-Turnover Pass Rosenthal, Harvey Covered Visual Snap Change Sacco, Nick Flash Catch Aces Stanko, Noel Pop Over Sandwich Stover, Mel Australian Anytime
Strout, Cushing Bicycle-Poker; Bicycle to Sword; The Diary Trick Kangaroo Aces; Perceptive Power of the Queens Tappan, Peter Forethought; Kiss & Tell Tawil, Ezra Emotional Lies Thatcher, Al Ambitious Sevens & Eights; Bicycle; Card Counter, The; Echo of a Miracle; Elimination Location with Ace Separation; Four-Way Mental Speller; GetReady for the Revolving Aces; Impromptu Two Card Transpo; Last Word, The; Miracle Quad-Prediction; Much Further Than Further Than That; Predict-A-Pair; Tattle-Tale Cards; Tips on the Breather Crimp; Thatcherism; To Set Up the Spelling Bee; To Each His Own; Triple Miracle Divination Trost, Nick Iraqi Most Wanted Card Trick; Predominant Seven; Very Clean Hofzinser Trabucco, Vic Kings-A Selection , The Cardcase Ward, Gary The Texas Spread; The Ultimate Squeaker Zarrow, Herb Alternate Aces Plus; An Out-jog Packet Switch; Out- Jog Packet Switch and Three Effects- Touch Poker- Touch Revelation- Touch Aces, An; Touch Aces Zollweg, Ron Convention Report: The Buffalo Magic Gathering (Oct. 16-18, 2003)
Our thanks to Ron Zollweg for this final index compromising issues LXXXI to C, the last twenty issues of Precursor. This is Ron's fifth index, thus tabulating all 100 Precursors. And my special thanks to Martie Zollweg, Ron's wife, for transcribing the material onto disk. This is not an easy job, and after a bit, most all of the Roman numerals start to look the same. This is certainly not like typing text! Many, many thanks, Martie. (ee) And thanks to all of our contributors and our loyal subscribers.
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