Conjuring Credits

The Origins of Wonder

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Bluff Card to Pocket

R. W. Hull, in his “A Trick Exposed, But How?” in Eye-Openers, 1932, p. 16, ends by palming off a random card and producing it from the pocket as a specific card. He doesn't show its face, but the audience, in theory, takes it for granted that it is the card claimed and anticipated, as it comes late in the routine, after the magician's abilities have been proved. This can be seen as a precursor to the less daring bluff Card to Pocket in Carlyle's “Homing Card” from Stars of Magic, 1947, p. 61 of the 1961 compilation book. Dai Vernon said Jimmy Grippo claimed to have taught the latter to Carlyle.