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* '''Circus Short Change Routine''' ([[Gordon B. Braun]]): ''[[The Linking Ring]]'' Vol. 33 No. 6 (August 1953, pp. 53-55).
 
* '''Circus Short Change Routine''' ([[Gordon B. Braun]]): ''[[The Linking Ring]]'' Vol. 33 No. 6 (August 1953, pp. 53-55).
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* '''...and One is $20''': [[Jay Malbrough]], ''[[The Magic of the Forks Hotel]]'' (ca. 1977, pp. 21-24).
  
 
* '''''Shorty: A Baffling Short Change Routine''''': [[Ray Grismer]], 1978; 1981 (with props).
 
* '''''Shorty: A Baffling Short Change Routine''''': [[Ray Grismer]], 1978; 1981 (with props).
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* '''Short Sheeted''' ([[Paul Cummins]]): [[Stephen Minch]], ''[[The New York Magic Symposium Collection 5]]'' (1986, pp. 131-134).
 
* '''Short Sheeted''' ([[Paul Cummins]]): [[Stephen Minch]], ''[[The New York Magic Symposium Collection 5]]'' (1986, pp. 131-134).
 
* '''Folding Money''' Steal ([[Dai Vernon]]): Stephen Minch, ''[[The Vernon Chronicles, Vol. 3: Further Lost Inner Secrets]]'' (1989, pp. 149-153).
 
* '''Folding Money''' Steal ([[Dai Vernon]]): Stephen Minch, ''[[The Vernon Chronicles, Vol. 3: Further Lost Inner Secrets]]'' (1989, pp. 149-153).
 
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* '''Count Van Klause''' ([[Roger Klause]]): ''[[Magic Man Examiner]]'', No. 3 (ca. 1992, p. 3).
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** ''[[Genii 2013 May|Genii]]'', Vol. 76 No. 5 (May 2013, p. 32).
 
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Revision as of 18:23, 26 January 2015

Shortchange Trick refers to the trick in which the performer apparently demonstrates how a con artist shortchanges unsuspecting marks, by counting the bills and then showing money has disappeared. Popular versions include George Starke's Hornswoggled and Bert Allerton's Bamboozle.

Publications

  • Hornswoggled: The Smash Finish (George Starke): Hugard's Magic Monthly, Vol. 2 No. 11 (April 1945, pp. 111-112).
  • Shorty: A Baffling Short Change Routine: Ray Grismer, 1978; 1981 (with props).
  • The Magician and the Flim-Flam Femme: Larry White, 1999 (with props).

Sleight-of-Hand Bill Steals

References