Bob Hummer
(USA: fl. 1930s - 50s)
Publisher. Semi-pro magician. A notable eccentric. Invented Hummer Card Mystery (by 1940), Fantastric (by 1941), Parity Principle, Whirling Card (by 1944), and Poker Chip Trick (by 1947).
Wrote Half-a-Dozen Hummers (1940, 12pp), Six Trix for 1944 (1944, 7pp), Little Stranger (c1945, 4pp), Thotography (c1945, 4pp), Mathematical 3-Card Monte (1951), Three Pets (1953), and Face-up Face-down Mysteries (c1945, 3pp). Tricks in Jinx and Ireland's YB: 1952. See Karl Fulves (ed), Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets (1980, 109pp).
Coauthors: Devin Knight
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Poker Chip MysteryBob Hummer Six poker chips, bearing the numbers 0 to ten are examined and mixed by a spectator. The spectator lays them on a table with no interference from the mentalist. While the performer's back is turned, the spectator turns over some chips. Three more are turned over and covered with a playing card, business card, or beer coaster. The performer turns around and, with no false moves or skulduggery, announces the total of the chips beneath the cards. It's that clean. And, surprisingly, it can be instantly repeated, with a different result.
Just the thing for parties, get-togethers, and bars, while... | 2020 / 8 / 22 | $6.00 to wish list | ||
Hummer's Great DiscoveryBob Hummer A spectator secretly counts off any number of cards, selects one and mixes it in the packet, which you now take for the first time. You mix them some more, and then she deals them face down, alternately to you and herself. She continues dealing until she is left holding just one card. She turns it over and - it's her selected one!
May be repeated as often as desired. No sleight of hand, markings, duplicates or guess work. Work it with a borrowed deck. Highly endorsed by Le Paul, Carl Lyle, Frazee, Lu Brent, and others. Only in this revised and expanded edition do you not only get three... | 2020 / 3 / 16 | $6.00 to wish list | ||
Another Dozen HummersBob Hummer Here are 12 more unique, mind-blowing Bob Hummer stunts for magicians and mentalists. Includes four separate effects and manuscripts, edited into a single compilation.
From the brilliant mind of Bob Hummer comes this tasty second helping of mental and magic effects using cards, coins, a magazine and even an ungimmicked Bible. These offerings were originally sold in manuscript form and are now out of print. Now you can get them all in this updated and corrected compilation. Each of these miracles seems utterly impossible, yet they work every time. CONTENTS
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Three PetsBob Hummer From the brilliant mind of Bob Hummer comes a triple helping of mental mysteries that are as much fun for you to perform as they are for your audience to experience them. One effect uses cards, another coins, and the last uses a single, unprepared die.
Personality Test - This is a nice "ice breaker" effect with cards that sets the stage for the mental demonstrations yet to come. Captures your spectator's attention and leaves her hungry to see more. The 'Snappy' Thirteen-Cent Trick - Who knew that thirteen cents could be this much fun? A spectator sets out two nickels and three pennies... | 2019 / 6 / 8 | $6.00 to wish list | ||
A Baker's Dozen HummersBob Hummer Here's a compendium of 13 of Bob Hummer's unique, mind-blowing stunts for magicians and mentalists. A baker's dozen mentalism and magic effects using cards and coins. Each one seems utterly impossible, yet they work every time.
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The Whispering SpiritBob Hummer An entertaining mental feat with a borrowed deck of cards. From the brilliant mind of Bob Hummer comes a divination mystery that seems impossible, yet you do it every time. The performer takes the spectator on an adventure with a borrowed deck and a dead person's age (which is furnished by anyone in the room). In some uncanny manner, the "Whispering Spirit" aids the performer in solving the mystery. The performer does not need to touch the deck while they are in the spectator's hands. There are no setups, stacks or cyclical rotations. The cards may be borrowed. The cards are not marked.... | 2018 / 12 / 1 | $4.00 to wish list | ||
Improved Little StrangersDevin Knight & Bob Hummer Using your own deck or a borrowed deck, you turn your back to the spectator. The spectator can shuffle the deck while your back is turned. The spectator removes the top 15 cards from the pack just as they come. From those 15 cards he is to remove all the black cards and put them in his front left pants pocket. The remaining red cards, he counts and then places them in his right front pants pocket.
Next, he takes a few more cards from the remaining deck, the number to correspond the number of red cards in his right pants pocket. If he placed 7 cards there, he would remove from the deck face... | 2018 / 2 / 10 | $7.00 to wish list | ||
FantastricBob Hummer From the title, you'd guess that this is a fantastic trick. It's not. It's a true miracle of psychic entertainment! Here is an incredible mental miracle involving a deck of playing cards, which may be borrowed.
A spectator shuffles the cards as much or as little as she desires. She deals a number of cards onto the table (a free choice). The performer does not need to touch the deck while they are in the spectator's hands. The performer now turns his back, or leaves the room entirely. The spectator removes any number of cards from the pile on the table and places them in the card box, out... | 2018 / 1 / 16 | $6.00 to wish list |
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