A Magazine of Innovation: Edited by
A Magazine of Innovation: Edited by
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
Miscellaneous Magic
Miscellany
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
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INDEX P R E C U R S O B I U M I I
Compiled by-
Ron Z o l l w e g
Miscellaneous Magic
Miscellany
Reviews Tricks
Astro Discs I: The Dark Side of the Moon (Jim Magus) (W.P.M.) XXVI, 24
Calculator Sensation (Bob King) (W.P.M.) XXXII, 26
Daub (Del Copley) (W.P.M.) XXVII, 24
Dental Dam - Patent Application (E.E.) XXVII, 24
Hand 0' Doom (Bob Farmer) (W.P.M.) XXVIII, 14
Mechanical Two Card Monte (Bob King) (W.P.M.) XXXV, 2
Mobile Hole (Bob King) (W.P.M.) XXXII, 26
Progressive Rebound (Bob King) (W.P.M.) XXXII, 26
Wild Card Monte (Bob King) (W.P.M.) XXXV, 2
Reviews Books, Magazines, etc.
In Meaoriaa
D O B Cervas. Ed Eckl XL, 21
William P. Miesel XL, 2
Del Copley. Ed Eckl XXXII, 14
Sid Lorraine. Ed Eckl XXVI, 24
P. Howard Lyons. Ed Eckl XXI, 50
William P. Miesel XXI, 4
Robert K. Weill XXI, 49
Ron Wohl (Ravelli) XXI, 24
Ed Mario. Ed Eckl XXXIII, 30
Reaeaberances of the Forks. Ed Eckl XXII, 20
Dai Vernon. Ed Eckl 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 - Precau-
tions - 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
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Green, Geoffrey-
Faro 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;
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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; Self-
Stacking 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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I N D E X P R E C U R S O R I U M I I I
Compiled by
Ron Z o l l w e g
Miscellaneous Magic
Miscellany
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; Serpen-
tine 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 Miscel-
lany); 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 Transposi-
tion; 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 Predic-
tion; 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 One-
Hand Force and Control; Oracle Anew, Reviews (see Reviews)
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.
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INDEX PRECURSORIUM IV
Compiled by
Ron Zollweg
1
Double Hofzinser. Michael DeMarco LXII, 15
Double or Nothing. Michael DeMarco LXXV, 9
Double Simplex Lie Speller. Marty Kane LXI,7
Down/Under Deal with Multiple Cards. Hideo Kato LXXIX, 10
Dowsing Card Trick, The. Warrren Stephens LXX,9
Editor's Note. William P. Miesel LXIV, 20
Eight, Nine, Ten, Jack Trick. Marty Kane LXIII, 15
Einstein Card Trick, The. Al Thatcher LXIII, 20
EvenDeceivin'. Marty Kane LXX, 12
Experimenting with SOC. Gary Ward LXVIII, 15
Fantasy, A. Mike Rogers LXXX,3
Fearsome Foursome, The. William P. Miesel LXV, 14
Field Poker Divination. Matthew Field LXXX, 17
Final Card, The. Hideo Kato LXXIV,21
Finding Four Cards with a Pair of Dice. William P. Miesel LXIX, 20
Fingertip Vision. Hideo Kato LXXIV, 3
Five Star Coincidence. Tom Hubbard LXL2
Follow-up to the Pop-Up. John Andrew Greget LXXII, 21
Found and Found. Tom Hubbard LXX, 17
Four-Gone Conclusion. William P. Miesel LXXII, 22
Four The Hard Way. Michael DeMarco LXII, 10
"F" Train. Michael DeMarco LXV, 11
Going Up. Tom Hubbard LXXVI, 21
Government Deal, The. Aldo Columbini LXXVI, 13
Happy Couples. Hideo Kato LXVIII, 11
Head-To-Head Poker. Michael DeMarco LXII, 12
Hideo Kato's Magic Spell. Hideo Kato LXXIV, 5
Identity Crisis. Warren Stephens LXXIX, 8
Initialed Card,The. Neal Elias LXX, 7
Initialed Card, The. Dr. Stanley Jaks LXX, 6
Initialed Card, The. Dr. Jaks and Neal Elias LXVII, 23
Insured Card to Wallet. Ron Zollweg LXXVII, 3
Jackpot. Michael DeMarco LXIX, 18
Joker Between, The. Joe Rindfleisch and Mark DeSousa LXVI, 9
Kan't Kill a King. Joshua Jay LXVI, 18
Killer's Pair. Marty Kane LXXX, 10
Lead-in to the Signed Card. Tom Hubbard LXXIX, 22
Mac-Moe-Mem. Gary Plants LXI,3
Magic. Al Thatcher LXXII, 19
Magic Spell, The. Barry Govan LXXV, 15
Magnetic Searcher. Hideo Kato LXXIV, 15
Matchable Cards. Nick Trost LXVII, 15
Matchable Cards (The Third Method). William P. Miesel LXVII, 18
Matchable Cards (Fourth Method). William P. Miesel LXVII, 20
Match Between Magicians. Marty Kane LXVI, 7
Memory Genius. Hideo Kato LXXIV, 8
Mentally Challenged Magnetic Searcher. Ezra Tawil LXXVII, 16
Muppet Magic. Marty Kane LXIX, 5
N-x-M (Rectangle Divination). Reinhard Muller LXXV, 2
Narrow Margin. Aldo Columbini LXVIII, 20
LXXI, 11
Nice Dice. Allan Slaight
2
No Chance to Reconstruct. Tom Craven LXX, 19
North Pole Rigamarole. Marty Kane LXVII, 12
Odds Against, The. Karl Fulves LXXI, 14
Only to Me. Russ Polizzi LXXVIII, 20
Playing Cards and Dollar Bills. William P. Miesel LXXVI, 15
Poker Dice and Cards. Stewart James LXXI, 2
Poker Dice and Cards II. William P. Miesel LXXI, 5
Poker Dice and Cards III. William P. Miesel LXXI, 7
Poker Exhange. Michael deMarco LXXII, 5
Predestined 13. Hideo Kato LXXX, 19
Quine's Keeper-Finder. Tom Craven LXIV, 3
Rank Prank. Marty Kane LXXX, 11
Remember and Disremember. William P. Miesel LXV, 17
Resourceful Card Shark, The. Michael DeMarco LXIV, 11
Reversa-Skill. Al Thatcher LXXV, 5
Scoop-Up Changes. Dan Block LXI, 5
Search and Destroy. Russ Polizzi LXXVI, 4
Seed to Flowers or Culling the Aces. Hideo Kato LXXII, 13
Seven Card Monte. William P. Miesel LXXV, 16
Sleight of Eyes. Hideo Kato LXXIV, 10
Spectator Cuts to the Poker Aces. Michael DeMarco LXVIII, 4
Spectator Split. Joshua Jay LXIX, 9
Spelled Invisible Toss. Marty Kane LXXIX, 15
Spelled It and Dealt It. Marty Kane LXXII, 16
Spelling Secrets To Each Other. Marty Kane LXXVIII, 17
Splitting Elimination. Hideo Kato LXXVII, 18
Still Predicting. Tom Hubbard LXVII, 8
Stud Poker Discovery. Neal Elias LXXII, 20
Thanks Again Norman. Tom Hubbard LXXVIII, 8
They Went Up the Elevator. William P. Miesel LXXIII, 17
T-G-G-P. LouGallo LXXVIII, 2
T-G-G-P. MikeGallo LXXVIII, 5
T-G-G-P. Gary Plants LXXVIII, 6
Third Man Theme. Jon Rachaerbaumer LXX, 2
Three Assistants. Tom Hubbard LXVI, 17
Three Times Three Square Divination Revisited. William P. Miesel LXV, 2
Time For the Wizard. Patrick Wilson LXVIII, 6
Top Dog Monte. Gary Ward LXIX, 11
Top Floor Please. Michael DeMarco LXII, 22
Tops and Bottoms Poker Deal. Neal Elias , Lynn Searles, Stewart James LXXIX, 23
Totally Unexpected Prediction. William P. Miesel LXIV, 9
Tracking a Selection Through the Wilderness. Harry G. Franks LXIV, 15
Trick Cards. Neal Elias LXI, 22
Trick With a Weak Ending. Marty Kane LXXV, 7
Up Thru the Deck. Harry Hirschvogel LXIX, 4
We Seven, All Alone. Jon Rachenbaumer LXXIII, 3
Who Ate Who . William P. Miesel LXXX, 6
Whose Card? Tom Hubbard LXXV, 11
Wild Bill and the Dead Man's Hand. Dan Block LXXIII, 8
Wise Up. Phil Goldstein LXX, 4
You Can Count On the Aces. Michael DeMarco LXVII, 2
Cards ... Special Decks and/or Cards
Miscellaneous Magic
Miscellany
In Memoriam
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;
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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
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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
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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 )
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INDEX PRECURSORIUM V
Compiled by
Ron Zollweg
Cards...Regular Deck
Miscellaneous Magic
Miscellany
Reviews...Conventions, Lectures
The Buffalo Magic Gathering (Oct. 16-18, 2003). Ron Zollwe^ LXXXIX, 25
Review of 6th Annual Buffalo Bash. Ed Eckl LXXXI, 6
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;
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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
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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; Get-
Ready 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)
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