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The 13 pages that link to Misdirection, each with the reason it gives.

• Harry HoudiniRelated: Houdini's escape presentations relied on controlling what spectators noticed and when.

• PunchlineRelated: Misdirection prepares the contrast that makes many punchlines surprising.

• Close-up magicRelated: A shift in attention can hide the move that makes an effect possible.

• Street magicRelated: Briefly redirecting attention can conceal the sleight that makes a street effect possible.

• Penn & TellerRelated: Their illusions use attention control while their humor often exposes how easily perception can be steered.

• Dai VernonRelated: Vernon treated audience attention as part of the method, not merely its cover.

• David BlaineRelated: Street settings make control of spectators’ attention essential to concealing sleight of hand.

• Ricky JayRelated: His effects depended on directing attention as carefully as he controlled the cards.

• Norm MacdonaldRelated: Many of his jokes delayed or displaced the punchline instead of resolving the setup conventionally.

• Uri GellerRelated: It is one ordinary mechanism magicians use to make object manipulation appear inexplicable.

• Mandrake the MagicianRelated: It links Mandrake’s theatrical persona to the techniques of real magicians.

• Steven FrayneRelated: Misdirection helps explain how audiences can miss the mechanics of a performance.

• Tommy CooperRelated: His timing and movement helped conceal how each trick was staged.