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  • # '''The Famous Needle Trick''', A Thimble Act ...k Handkerchief, The Phantom Cigarette, The Vanishing Cigarette, The Dollar Bill in the Cigarette, Catching Cigarettes in the Air, An Odd Cigarette Vanish,
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  • The trick has spawned many variations, leading to elaborate routines developed by Lar *''The Soft Chop-Chop or You Don't Have to be Chinese to do this Trick'' by [[Frank Garcia]] in The [[Encyclopedia of Sponge Ball Magic]], 1976. p
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  • | number = 11 *66 Three In One, A “Tip Top” Card Trick
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  • ...8, No. 5, October 1978]], magician-of-the-month, The Amazing Mr. Marlo, by Bill Simon, page 10, Marlo Books, page 34 * [[Tricks With Daub]] (1945) with [[Bill Gusias]]
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  • |Stars of magic #11 Video All stars ...erical values of the eight cards make up the serial number of the borrowed bill. Uses the often misunderstood PH throw pillow switch…
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  • #It is not a once-in-a-while trick. If the instructions are followed, it cannot fail. ...the performer from first to last, at any time before, during or after the trick.
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  • | birth_day = June 11, ...top card to again reveal the original card. Houdini watched Vernon do the trick seven times, each time insisting that Vernon "do it again". Finally Houdini
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  • **Magic City Library of Magic - Bill Tube No. 8 (1991) **Magic City Library of Magic - Spring Flowers No. 11 (1991)
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  • ...rgh Lyons]], [[Peter Warlock]], [[Martin Gardner]], [[Faucett W. Ross]], [[Bill Simon]], [[Tom Bowyer]], [[Elmer Biddle]], [[William Miesel]], [[Alex Elmsl * 39 - No. 11 (Stewart James)
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  • ...[Genii 1964 November]]</ref><ref>Obit [[Genii 1989 May|Genii, Vol. 52, No. 11, May 1989]],Charles Earle Miller 1909–1989 by John Thompson, page 745</re ...of mine picked up a deck of cards and said he was going to show me a faro trick. I took out a gun and shot him." Charlie Miller - The [[Pallbearers Review]
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  • ...went through what was apparently a "hidden message" phase. In issues #10, 11, 13, and 14 (and probably many others) hidden messages could be found by lo Bill Madsen published [[New Jinx]] many years later, starting in the 1960s.
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  • ...nts operated a small restaurant. A customer sneaked out without paying his bill, but left behind a few small tricks. With these, Karrell began his magic ca * [[For My Next Trick]] (1986)
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  • ===Two - PAUL SWINFORD issue - November 5, 1980 - Pages 11-22 === * The Princess Trick Revisited
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  • '''Wild Card''' is a packet trick card routine. Eight cards of the same value are placed on the table, some ...handling carried no credit and Garcia was accused of stealing Peter Kane's trick. In fact, Garcia used only Kane's idea of doing the routine with double-fac
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  • * "Danbury Delusion" ([[Bill Simon]]): ''[[Effective Card Magic]]'' (1952, p. 83) ...Card is Revealed" ([[John Braun]]): ''[[The Linking Ring]]'', Vol. 39, No. 11 (January 1960, p. 65)
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  • <td valign=top>Cards & Dice (Bill Miesel)</td> <td valign=top>3rd Flight (Bill Miesel)</td>
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  • * Hot Pocket - [[John Lovick]]; various handlings of a one-handed card trick * A $100 Dollar Bill Switch Routine - Steve Mayhew
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  • <td valign=top>Clipped (Bill Dunbaugh)</td> <td valign=top>Hand Made (Bill Severn)</td>
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  • | editors = Bill Madsen ...magicians that followed years after [[Theodore Annemann]]'s [[Jinx]] by [[Bill Madsen]]. It ran from May 1962 until April 1968 for 72 issues. It was publi
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  • ...he Jack-Less – Joe Givan Clean Cut Rope Trick – Mitch Williams Coin To Bill – Alphonso PERFORMANCE Monty Hall Goes Close-Up – Jay Sankey Trick Photography – Richard Sanders One Every Minute – Rudy T. Hunter Five Hu
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  • ''"The pass is not absolutely essential to card conjuring and any trick can be performed without using it."'' **The Malone Shift ([[Bill Malone]])
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  • * The Yankee Magic Collector #11 (co-editor with [[Ed Hill]]) (2004) * The Yankee Magic Collector #11 (2004)
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  • * Page 11: '''Utility Switch''' * Page 32: '''Gone''' ([[Bill Simon]])
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  • '''Magicana''' was a magic newsletter started by [[Bill Woodfield]] in 1946 as a ''"A Trade Paper for Magicians"'' when he was 18 ...field then made the same deal with Bill Larsen Sr. for [[Genii]] magazine. Bill promised total editorial Freedom and Magicana started running inside of Gen
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  • ...ury. Goldston uses two boomerang shapes with boy scouts drawn on them. The trick is presented as a guessing game, proving the spectator wrong after they poi ...he official registers does, however, not reveal any patent issued for this trick. Irrespective of their patent claims, this original version has been copied
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  • *5. Dunninger's Mental Card Trick by Joseph Dunninger *6. Behind the Back Card Trick by Carmine Laino
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  • 11 Better Yet Box Rod And Rings Challenge 13 New (?) Reverse Card Trick
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  • *9 The Five Pellets and Cards Trick *9 Judah's Improvement on his Pellet Trick
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  • ...owyer", by Sid Lorraine, page 20</ref> <ref>The Linking Ring, Vol. 30, No. 11, January 1951, "Tom Bowyer Commemoration", by Sid Lorraine, page 19</ref>
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  • ** Wesley James, ''[[Stop Fooling Us!]]'' (1990, pp. 11-14). * '''ETC.''' ([[Ed Marlo]]): ''[[Kabbala]]'', Vol. 1 No. 11 (July 1972, p. 89).
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  • * '''Shorty''': Ray Grismer, 1978. ([[Shortchange Trick]]) * '''Foxiest''': Ray Grismer, 1981. (Five-Person [[Princess Trick]])
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  • ...e window, Ron Bauer walked through the door of his first magic shop at age 11, and he was hooked. He trained in Portland, Oregon, under [[Ted and Marie H ...Kalush]]'s New York City Conference 1994'' by [[Lance Pierce]], 1996, pp. 11-12</ref> When [[Lance Pierce]] published a private book containing all the
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  • | align="right"|11-12 | "The Continuous Spelling Trick"
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  • | number = 11 *Page 07: Capping the Bill (Miscellaneous Props) by [[Stewart Hanley]]
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  • *Page 10-11: Cards by William W. Larsen, Sr. & T. Page Wright *Page 15: Thoughts are Things - The Stull Rising Card Trick (Article) by [[Dariel Fitzkee]]
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  • *Page 78: The Bottle, the Lemon and the Bill (Miscellaneous Props) by Irving Joslyn *Page 86: A "Different" Shadow Trick (Miscellaneous Props) by Robert Skull
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  • *Page 80: Indian Rope Trick Flopped (Article) by Rex, the Ace Magician *Page 82: An Easy Trick (Cards) by Fritz Braue
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  • ...zvani used small pincushions that looked like tomatoes, Benson adapted the trick using [[sponge balls]]. The Benson Bowl also included a sponge ball vanish [[Don Alan]] is often connected to the trick; he became well known for his [[Don Alan Bowl Routine]].
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  • ...Holdup Trick, silk to Match Box, the Pip Card, Ink bottle and Turnip, bill Trick. Oswald Rae had a great line of patter and making wonderful impressions du ...primarily to entertainments for private parties.<ref>The Linking Ring Vol. 11, Mar 1931 - Feb 1932, BRITISH RING PERSONALITIES, No. 1—OSWALD RAE, p. 1
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  • *Page 08 (Mail) ''Messages'' by Dan E. Mayers, Luis Iglesias, Bill Perron *Page 11: (News) ''Knights at the Magic Castle'' by Jules Lenier
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  • ...n 1963 as "Bill-Fooled." He sold a similar case for cigarettes called "The Trick-a-Rette Case." ** Harry Lorayne, ''[[The Himber Wallet Book]]'' (1998, pp. 7-11).
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  • * Page 25: Bill Larsen Sr. on Annemann *Page 22: Genii Speaks by Bill Larsen Jr
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  • * Page 123: MATRIX COIN TRICK by [[Alvin Schneider]] * Page 133: MILT LARSEN . . . WHERE DID HE GO RIGHT? by Brother Bill
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  • * Page 11: As Others See Us (Article) by Mister Snips * Page 17: Messages What an Excellent... (Mail) by Bill Broecker
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  • | number = 11 *Page 73: Traveling Tales (Article) by [[Bill Goldman]]
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  • ...and Ceremony]] at [[Harry Houdini]]'s funeral.<ref>[[Magic Magazine]] Vol. 11, No. 8 (April, 2002)</ref> * Bill Tearing Trick (The Sphinx, Vol. 38, No. 08, October 1938, page 194)
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  • | number = 11 ** Pocket Knife Trick - Magicana 729
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  • *11 Now Performing in New York and Boston *84 [[Finding Dariel Fitzkee: The Man with the Trick Brain]] by [[David Goodsell]]
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  • | number = 11 * The Hindu Rope Trick 355
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  • *Page 84: Cigarette to Dollar Bill Trick by Tommy Woo [[Category: Genii 1943|11]]
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  • * [[Bill Tube]] No. 8 (1991) * [[Spring Flowers]] No. 11 (1991)
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  • ...lly, a tumbler placed mouth up in the box inverts itself trapping a signed bill inside a pair of nested pill boxes. ...out of the Spirit Cabinet and put it under a handkerchief as an impromptu trick.
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  • [[Magicana]] was a magic newsletter started by [[Bill Woodfield]] in 1946 as a "A Trade Paper for Magicians," and became part of **The Jennings Tapes: The Airport Coin Trick ([[Larry Jennings]])
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  • ...at the last issue you received was [[Genii 1984 November|Volume 48, Number 11, November, 1984]]. This issue is Volume 48, Number 12, June, 1985 and like * Page 872: A TRICK WITH A KICK By the late [[Glenn Gravatt]]
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  • | number = 11 *Page 804: THE VANISHING SODA STRAW By Bill Ragsdale
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  • | number = 11 **I Found an Amazing... by Bill Campbell, III
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  • *Page 449: Cover subject: [[Bill Larsen Jr.]] and [[Dorothy Larsen|Dorothy Anne Larsen]] *Page 459: The Trickeries of Bill Larsen (Trick Review) by William W. Larsen, Sr.
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  • ...ner' principle used in Seductive Switch is used with currency to provide a bill switch gimmick. *31 Improv Nightshades (New Stuff) Sunglasses drawn on a dollar bill flip up to show George's eyes.
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  • *[[The Trick That Cannot Be Explained]], created by [[Dai Vernon]], is published *[[Matrix]], a card an coin trick, is developed by [[Al Schneider]]
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  • *11 Now Performing in New York, Boston, and Chicago *14 The Genii Session: The Einstein Card Trick by [[Roberto Giobbi]]
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  • *The Trick that Fooled Houdini (Dai Vernon) * Fantastic String Trick
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  • ...magazine within a magazine", [[Magicana]], a magic newsletter started by [[Bill Woodfield]] in 1946 and was distributed within [[Genii]] starting in 1948. == New Series trick index ==
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  • *11 Now Performing in New York and Boston *81 The Amazing Twenty Dollar Bill Trick by Hal Spear and Paul Romhany
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  • | number = 11 *Page 25: Skinner's Time Trick Finesse
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  • * 11 Foreword by Richard Kaufman **45 Cornered Bill In Cigarette (Derek Dingle)
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  • ...howbiz after a dozen years to become a banker.<ref>Cover, The Sphinx, Vol. 11, No. 12, February 2013, John J. Grdina, page 231</ref><ref>Cover, [[New Top ...Ring, Vol. 40, No. 8, October 1960]], Case of the Unanswered Question, by Bill Weldon, pp. 30</ref>
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  • Hartley was a trick shot artist for Pawnee Bill's Wild West Show and a ...urdette Harrison, Chas. Hasek, R. C. Hayden, Chris Franke, [[Jean Foley]], Bill Wilson ([[Will de Seive]]), Tony Mascaro, [[Sam Margules]], [[Jack Gwynne]]
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  • 6 The Great Gun Trick ([[John Henry Anderson]]) 11 The Philadelphia and Lichtenberg affair
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  • 11 Find the Pellet 21 Houdini Escape Trick
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  • * An Historical Note on the Dr . Elliott Top Palm 11 * Tenkai's Phoenix Bill Vanish 193
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  • ...of Baal in Babylon, proving to King Cyrus how they had deceived him with a trick. <ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bel_and_the_Dragon Bel_and_the_Dragon]< ...how these wonderful things are done.' The programme was repeated and each trick in its turn exposed. <ref>241. DOCTOR NIX AND HIS MAGICAL EXPOSURES ON FILM
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  • ...2005 issue, he became the writer and editor of Genii's [[Magicana]] (i.e., trick) section. While the bulk of his published work is close-up magic, he has pu ...release his most popular tricks, including a version of the classic [[Fred Trick]] (a.k.a. "Phil") plot called '''Nomen Omen''' (1990), which in turn proved
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  • ...Billiard Table", "Watch the Watch" or "Watch it" , "The Three Cannon Ball Trick" ...Ernest Valentine) in a Theatrical, Musical and Variety Agency, located at 11 Nassau Street, Shaftesbury Avenue, under the style of Valentine's Agency; a
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  • *Page 11: Relation of English Money to American by Goodliffe *Page 21: The Trickeries of Bill Larsen - The Torn and Restored Newspaper Trick
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  • *Page 11: A Trick With A Cigarette by Leslie Gilbertson *Page 09: Genii Speaks by Bill Larsen, Jr
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  • *11 The Two Card Location *11 Card And Ribbon (Hummer/Berland)
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  • | number = 11 *Page 861: The Repeat Bill Trick by [[Tom Bowyer]]
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  • | number = 11 * The Trick of the Vanishing Aces … by Ponsin (November 1941)
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  • ...ks, the most popular first, with the total votes following the name of the trick: * [[Four Ace Trick]] (63)
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  • | number = 11 *Page 672: Glass Casket and Box Trick
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  • [[File:DieBoxAd.jpg|right|thumb|Dice Box, a popular trick during the Civil War era]]There were many magicians around during the years * [[Canada Bill Jones]] - (?-1880) was the nickname of William Jones, a noted confidence a
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  • '''The Trick that Fooled Einstein''' is the name most often given to the prediction effe ...cription of a show with the effect, no name or title given, Magic Circular 11/1956</ref>
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  • ...der]], [[Bob Fitch]], [[Eric DeCamps]], [[Doug Brewer]], [[Eric Jones]], [[Bill Citino]], [[Scott Robinson]], [[Dan Watkins]], [[Victor Trabucco]], [[Jean 7. Impossible 4 Coin Trick v 1 (Rubinstein)
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  • * Page 11 "Old Chestnut" * Page 22 "Cut the Bill"
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  • ...least somewhat as clever and amusing as the trick. Sometimes, performing a trick for friends or doing a little show is a person's only chance to be clever i '''Description:''' This is a simple trick with three "lucky coins" that becomes gradually more puzzling until the sur
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  • '''''[[SWITCH: Unfolding the $100 Bill Change]]''''' by [[John Lovick ]](copyright 2006 by [[Murphy's Magic Suppli ...y became, and is likely to remain, THE go-to source regarding this classic trick.
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  • *** Page 8: ''Switches Depending on a Trick'' *** Page 8: ''During the Trick''
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  • ...erton]]'s '''Bamboozle'''. See the [[$11 Bill Trick]] for versions of that trick with a Shortchange Theme. ...he Smash Finish''' (George Starke): ''Hugard's Magic Monthly'', Vol. 2 No. 11 (April 1945, pp. 111-112).
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  • ...ncluding [[Charles Bertram]], [[Nate Leipzig]], and [[Dai Vernon]]. An old trick, it has been adapted more recently using a pencil, a pen, and a spoon. * '''Three Methods of Working the Finger Ring on Wand Trick''': [[U. F. Grant]], ''[[Secrets]]'' (1928).
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  • ...y [[Edward Victor]], in which the magician announces he wants to perform a trick with eleven cards, and asks an audience member to count them onto his hand. ...led '''Fred Kaps' Currency'''. It became popularly known as the [[$11 Bill Trick]].
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  • | author = Bill Miesel * Page 9: '''Joe's Trick''' ([[Ed Eckl]])
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  • | author = Bill Miesel ** Page 2: Moe's Look at a Card Trick
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  • '''Skullo-cation''' is a trick by [[Bill Nord]], first sold around 1948. The performer places several cards in the m ...] as having said, "Bill Nord's Skullo-cation is the most terrific close-up trick I've seen."
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  • *40 A Reliable Prediction: 1089 trick *57 Sample Trick Walk-Through
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