Hull-A-Palooza: 25 Devilish Strategies Of Divination by Jon Racherbaumer

From the Preface:

Conjurers (as entertainers) are agents of simulated magical phenomenon. And most theorists would likely agree that such simulations should be direct and powerful. For example, the phenomenon is prophesying a mentally selected card, begins when the agent writes down or verbalizes a prediction beforehand. Next, a spectator names a card and, finally, the named card matches the predicted card. This magical result, as just described, is almost tantamount to telling a person what they are thinking as they are thinking it. This is an ideal outcome.

Our literature is loaded with methods for predicting mentally selected cards. "Brainwave" is probably the most celebrated trick in this category. Better yet, its climax is not foreshadowed. That is, prior to asking a spectator to think of a card, the magician does not say a word about a prediction. He does not say, "I predict that you will think of such-and-such card." Nor does he say, "I'm writing down a prediction about something that will occur in the future." Instead, he asks a spectator to think of any card and then name it. Then he spreads the deck face down and reveals the face-up selection among 51 face-down cards.

Is there a weakness? Yes. Because the selection is revealed after the spectator names it, a skilled conjurer could somehow locate the named card and secretly reverse it. Paul Fox, however, nullified this possibility by revealing that the reversed card has a different colored back. This infers that the agent knew which card (out of 52 possibilities) would be chosen.

Yet skeptics may ask, "If it is possible to know which card out of 52 will be chosen, why not entirely dispense with the deck and place a single card face down on the table to represent a prediction?" Would this be better? Yes. Much better.

Perhaps this is what R. W. Hull ideally had in mind? This is certainly what I had in mind when writing this treatise.

• A QUEST FOR IDEAL SIMULATIONS
• R. W. HULL - A GLIMPSE
• FOREWORD
• MARVELOUS COINCIDENCE (August Roterbergu)
• PRE-DETERMINATION OF THOUGHT (Johann Hofzinser)
• A MENTAL CARD MYSTERY (R. W. Hull)
• THE THREE OF CLUBS (R. W. Hull)
• THE THREE OF CLUBS REVISITED (Edward Marlo)
• THE THREE OF CLUBS ALIAS "THE HYPNOTIC JOKER"? (Blanca Lopez)
• SIAMESE STRANGERS (Edward Marlo)
• ANOTHER VISIT (Edward Marlo)
• A BLUE THOUGHT (Edward Marlo)
• NEW APPROACH TO A REVISIT (Edward Marlo)
• UN-GAFFED APPROACH (Edward Marlo)
• A SANDWICH APPROACH (Edward Marlo)
• THE UNKNOWN CARD OR IT CAN'T BE (Edward Marlo)
• CLUBBLE (T. A. Waters)
• STRANGER SIAMESE STRANGERS (Jon Racherbaumer)
• HULL-SCAM (Jon Racherbaumer)
• HULL-A-BOO-BOO (Jon Racherbaumer)
• THE ALEMBIC ACE OF SPADES TRICK (Jon Racherbaumer)
• TEMPORALITY, HULL, VEESER, HAMMAN AND ALL THAT (Jon Racherbamer)

1st edition 2017, 100 pages.
word count: 28650 which is equivalent to 114 standard pages of text