248 entries in Cards / Principles / Thread Work
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
La Carte Dansante (The dancing card) selection appears on the wall, goes left and right and up until the card vanishes and appears again, thread and duplicate
1784 13
A Card having been withdrawn and replaced, to call it from the Pack, and to make it come to you of its own accord thread, tabled rising card from spread
1876 117
The Rising Cards (La Houlette) "Several Cards having been drawn, returned, and Shuffled, to make them rise spontaneously from the Pack"
some variations in apparatus explained
1876 125
Professor Alberti Alberti's Rising Cards hair and wax
1889 121
The Rising Cards (La Houlette) various thread methods (including "Sand Riser"), routine and pseudo-mistakes
1889 211
Professor Alberti The Rising Cards - Alberti's Method thread attached during routine, free selection
1890 91
Edwin T. Sachs Edwin Sachs' Method metal houlette on top of bottle
1890 93
Buatier de Kolta de Kolta Rising Cards brief, for correction see reference
Related to 1890 94
Prof. Duprez Ribbon Rising Cards glass houlette suspended on ribbons
1890 95
The Walking Card named card moves from spread out cards on table
1890 126
Einen Thaler durch ein Kartenspiel wandern zu lassen No. 7, deck placed on glass, coin dropped on top appears in glass, assistant pulls off bottom card which is attached to a thread
1895 9
Die gehorsamen Karten No. 23, three selections jump out of deck held in one hand one by one into other hand, thread across stage
1895 28
Dasselbe Kunststück in anderer Ausführung No. 24, card rises out of deck in glass
1895 30
Der Zauberwurf No. 26, deck thrown in deck, cards remain together until deck hits floor
1895 32
Die wandernde Karte No. 46, card moves around on table and follows performer
1895 55
Ein ganzes Kartenspiel in freier Hand verschwinden zu lassen No. 50, deck cut in half with pivot point on pull, fan looks like normal deck, thread into sleeve
1895 59
Der Kartensteiger auf dem Rücken einer Person No. 1, deck attached to back of spectator, three cards rise out of it one by one, dealer's item by C. L. Wüst from Frankfurt
Related to 1895 86
Die Karte als Luftkönigin No. 10, card floats out of deck, across stage, into glass, and back, everything is then examined
1895 99
Die gehorsamen Karten two or three cards selected and lost, one by one they rise out of deck and float into other hand, solo version
Jan. 1895
Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 1 No. 1)
7
Der Karten-Jongleur card balances on hat or elsewhere, thread
Related to 1896 71
Friedrich W. Conradi-Horster The Flying Card card thrown in air comes back, on thread tied to ceiling
Related to 1896 73
Friedrich W. Conradi-Horster Der Kartenturm severals cards placed upright on table to tower/house
1896 76
Die neue Eckkarte corner torn off, thrown back and it visibly restores
Related toAlso published here 1896 138
Friedrich W. Conradi-Horster Die thatsächlich verschwindende Karte card pull into sleeve
1896 183
Einfacher Kartensteiger deck shell
1896 207
Der Kartensteiger im Glase
Related to 1896 208
Mysteriöses Kartensteigen cards rise out of deck and float in air
Related to 1896 211
Friedrich W. Conradi-Horster Die Kartenmagneta two selections, deck in a glass, one selection rises out of deck and floats to other glass and in midair changes to second selection
Related to 1896 213
Carl L. Curiel Der Kartenfang in der Luft thread attachment into sleeve, also for production of other items
Mar. 1896
Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 2 No. 3)
41
Die Eckkarten second method, corner torn off, thrown back and it visibly restores
Also published here Aug. 1896
Der Zauberspiegel (Vol. 1 No. 12)
177
The Hypnotised Card deck cuts itself at chosen card on table, hair
1897 68
The Queen of the Air card rises from pack and floats to glass goblet on other side of stage, transforms in midair
Related to 1897 69
The Terpsichorean Card card stands upright on table, then even dances to music
Related to 1897 92
The Obedient Card
Related to 1897 111
The Balanced Card on hat, thread
Related toAlso published here 1897 146
The Cards and Mirror deck thrown on mirror, three selections stick to it
1897 171
The Flying and Obedient Card wide distance boomerang card, thread
Related to 1897 194
The Cards Rising Through The Air selected cards rise from pack and float into performer's hand
Related to 1897 205
The Rising Cards and Tumbler solo or with assistant
Related to 1897 209
The Hand of Cagliostro model of hand used in rising card presentation
VariationsAlso published here 1897 217
Francis King Die Karte im Glase card thought of and card chosen and lost, they are the same, it travels into a handkerchief-covered glass
Feb. 1897
Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 3 No. 2)
21
Der Ringzieher "Einige Hilfsmittel der Magie"
reel, vanishing a finger ring, vanishing a card
Mar. 1897
Der Zauberspiegel (Vol. 2 No. 7)
97
Die mysteriöse Geisterhand wax puppet hand pulls cards out of deck à la rising cards
Related to Dec. 1897
Der Zauberspiegel (Vol. 3 No. 6)
88
Carl Willmann Die Einwirkung des Luftzuges auf eine Karte thread attached with wax to borrowed deck
May 1898
Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 4 No. 5)
69
Die Kartenbrücke No. 3, deck spread out between hands about fifty cm, stays suspended, secret rubber band/thread set-up
1900 65
Friedrich W. Conradi-Horster Die Kartenfontaine No. 4, card fountain from bare hand
Also published here 1900 67
Eduard W. Lufa "Ihnen fliegen alle Herzen zu!" eight cards noted down and wrapped in handkerchief, eight Heart cards, the packets transpose, packed of divided cards (connected with a thread for security so it is not fanned to widely)
Nov. 1900
Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 6 No. 11)
164
Carl Willmann Thread Rising Card without assistant
Nov. 1900
Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 6 No. 11)
176
L. Graham Lewis Novel Discovery of a Chosen Card table with deck on top tilted, only selection remains on table, thread with wax
1902 71
The Rising Card Trick assistant
1902 113
Howard Thurston The "Thurston" Rising Cards card floats into hand, two methods (with or without reel)
1902 119
Howard Thurston Thurston's Kartensteiger floats out of deck into hand
Related to May 1902
Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 8 No. 5)
67
Carl Willmann Der Kartensteiger im Glas
Aug. 1902
Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 8 No. 8)
115
Fortuné Hechinger Zu Thurston's Kartensteiger different thread hookup
Related to Oct. 1902
Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 8 No. 10)
147
Carl Willmann Der Kartensteiger auf der Flasche houlette construction on top of bottle
Oct. 1902
Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 8 No. 10)
149
Phantome Variation zur "Steigenden Karte" deck placed between two vest buttons, card rises out perpendicularly sideways, duplicate rises from within vest
Oct. 1903
Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 9 No. 10)
148
Carl Willmann Die Königin der Luft I. card rises sideways out of deck that is held in one hand and floats across to other hand
Nov. 1903
Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 9 No. 11)
164
Carl Willmann Die Königin der Luft II. two glasses on two chairs, deck put in one, card rises and floats across into other glass and back
Dec. 1903
Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 9 No. 12)
179
Friedrich "Fritz" Hügli III. Aus dem papierenen Königreich card is balanced on hat, deck is divided into two glasses and card floats from glas to glas, two cards are placed under two plates and the cards change places, selection is placed inside a book and performer shows envelope with miniature duplicate with correct page number and part of the text on that page written on it
  • 1. Die Karten-Balance
  • 2. Die Karte als Königin der Luft (with assistant)
  • 3. Die Kartenwanderung
  • 4. Eine magische Hypnose
1903 80
Die magnetischen Karten three cards taken and apparently magnetised, they cling to each other, making a row of three cards that is held at the top, threads across back
Apr. 1904
Der Zauberspiegel (Vol. 4 No. 4)
53
L. Graham Lewis Novel Discovery of a Chosen Card deck placed on table, table tilted forwards, only selection remains on table, wax on thread
1904 44
The Rising Card Trick several selections
1904 81
Howard Thurston The "Thurston" Rising Cards five cards rise out of deck and float into hand one by one
  • First Method
  • Second Method for Stage
1904 88
T. Nelson Downs The Tattling of Toto six selections, penny in glass jumps up and down to communicate with performer
Inspired by
  • French magazine "The Illusioniste"
1909 184
Buatier de Kolta De Kolta's Rising Cards three selections
Related to 1909 191
Buatier de Kolta De Kolta's New Rising Cards three selections, card fountain finale
Related toVariations 1909 194
Prof. Duprez, Harry Stork The Rising Cards in the Swinging Houlette
1909 198
Howard Thurston, J. N. Thornton The Thurston Rising Cards
1909 202
John Northern Hilliard Anywhere Rising Cards
1909 204
Resurrection of the Cards four selection burnt, ashes in glass, restored cards "walk" out of glass
1909 207
Martin Chapender Chapender's Rising Cards
1909 208
Hugh Mulloy Mulloy Rising Cards
1909 210
Morgan H. Winans Winans' Rising Cards
1909 210
Further Rising Card Methods without Assistant
1909 210
Obliging Bouquet "one of Alexander Herrmann's masterpieces", selections rises out of real flower bouquet held by spectator
1909 211
Johann Nepomuk Hofzinser Die drei Kräfte three chosen cards vanish from deck, arrive in pocket, deck vanishes (in topit type space) and appears in pocket, three selections rise one with corner torn off that visible restores, a card is shot with pistol into candle
Also published here 1910 196
Al Baker Al Baker's Rising Cards
Also published here 1933 14
Tom Sellers New Magnetic Card card adheres to pencil
1935 23
J. F. Orrin The Pocket Rising Card card rises from breast pocket, thread, Menetekel Deck
1937 259
The Animated Card card "walks" out of deck, thread and stripper deck
1937 266
Dr. Edward G. Ervin Rising Card from Tumbler weighted thread gimmick
1937 69
Method No. 1 cards freely chosen, no assistant, from glass
1938 370
M. Laissus Method No. 2 cards freely chosen, no assistant, from glass
1938 374
Method No. 3 cards freely chosen, no assistant, from glass
1938 375
Method No. 4. The Book Houlette cards freely chosen, no assistant, from book
1938 376
, Robert Heller Method No. 1. Packet of Duplicate Cards Concealed on the Table Duplicates of Forced Cards Rise, several variations and presentational ideas:
  • With an Assistant and without
  • By Fanning the Deck
  • Pip Change
  • Addressing the Queen
  • Card Rises Reversed then Turns Around
  • The Blank Card Gag
  • The Broomstick Rise (by Robert Heller)
  • With a Silk in the Glass
1938 377
Method No. 2. Threaded Packet from Vest Pocket Duplicates of Forced Cards Rise, No Assistant
1938 380
Method No. 3. With a Borrowed Pack Duplicates of Forced Cards Rise, No Assistant
1938 381
Method No. 4. Card Rise Spontaneously from the Vest Pocket Duplicates of Forced Cards Rise, No Assistant
1938 382
Method No. 5. Chosen Card Rises from Pack Held in the Hand Duplicates of Forced Cards Rise, No Assistant, hole through whole deck
1938 382
Buatier de Kolta, Harry Stork Method No. 6. The All Rising Cards all cards jump out of class, card fountain, discussion of methods with details for some
  • Buatier DeKolta
  • Harry Stork
  • third method
1938 383
Method No. 7. The Swinging Rising Cards Duplicates of Forced Cards Rise, No Assistant, houlette is attached at string and swings back and forth
1938 385
Method No. 8. The Joker Rising Card Trick ABC cards rise that spell out JOKER
1938 386
Method No. 9. The Celebrity Rising Card Trick ABC cards rise that spell out a chosen celebrity
1938 386
Professor Alberti Method No. 1. The "Alberti" Method Hair and Wax Pellet
1938 387
Adrian Plate Method No. 2. Adrian Plate's Method Hair and Wax Pellet
1938 388
Method No. 3. Card Rising from Hand to Hand Hair and Wax Pellet, card floats through air to other hand
1938 389
Method No. 4. From a Glass Hair and Wax Pellet, card floats through air from glass to hand
1938 390
Method No. 5. Tube and Thread Hair and Wax Pellet, tube with thread in it (weight on one end) is hidden in clothing
1938 391
Method No. 6. The Wand and Rising Card Hair and Wax Pellet, hollow wand with thread in it (weight on one end)
1938 391
Donald Holmes The Holmes Spindle little mechanism that's attached to rim of glass
1938 404
Harlan Tarbell The "Sandu" Rising Cards trickling sand principle as mechanism, in glass on table
1938 407
Henry Gordien The Gordien Rising Cards gramophone motor attached to table, thread
1938 408
The Hand Houlette houlette and cards ungaffed, one gimmicked card
1938 410
Howard Thurston The "Thurston" Rising Cards The Aerial Cards, floating across stage with named cards (assistant)
1938 412
A Method for Parlor The Aerial Cards, floating card
1938 413
A Second Method The Aerial Cards, floating card, no assistant
1938 413
The Queen of the Air The Aerial Cards, card floating from one table to another
1938 414
Dr. Jacob Daley The Card Windlass or Reel handling for the gaffed method (windlass or Thornton Reel), originally from "Art of Magic"
1938 426
Theodore Annemann, Holden The Rising Card credits see p. 461
Nov. 1939
The Jinx (Issue 66)
459
Theodore Annemann, Thirteen of Magic Authentical rubber banded deck stands on edge during rise
Dec. 1939
The Jinx (Issue 73)
487
Tom Sellers New Rising Cards deck wrapped in newspaper, duplicates
1939 8
Jean Hugard The Rising Cards and Glass Bottle deck placed in cut-open glass bottle, selections rise one by one while bottle is held by spectator
1939 22
Jean Hugard The Hugard Rising Cards three cards
1940 201
Charlie Miller The Mesmerised Cards thread & wax
1940 205
R. M. Jamison The Cards Rise Again two cards, thread, houlette
1941 37
Al Baker The Swinging Rising Cards "The Baker Method for Club Work"
with hanging houlette
Also published here 1941 31
Jean Hugard The Aerial Cards - Jean Hugard Method three cards rise out of the deck and float into other hand
1942 23
Keith Clark Rising Card from the Pocket from breast pocket
1942/27 241
Rising Cards from Glass Goblet three cards, with loop moves, variation with assistant (page 249)
1942/27 243
Al Baker Rising Cards from Goblet - Al Baker Method different hook up
1942/27 249
Henry Gordien Rising Cards from Goblet - Henry Gordien Method different hook up
1942/27 250
Howard Thurston Howard Thurston Rising Cards cards rise and float into hand
1942/27 250
Paul Fox, Harlan Tarbell Superba Rising Cards four cards rise and float into hand
Related to 1942/27 255
Buatier de Kolta De Kolta Card Fountain all cards except one jump out of glass, thread
1942/27 259
Tom Sellers Two Card Rise
1943 21
Bob Hummer Bob Hummer's Whirling Card
VariationsAlso published here 1943 2
Bob Hummer Impossible Location impossible location, with hair
Also published here 1944 7
Bob Hummer Do As I Do with hair
Also published here 1944 7
Peter Warlock My Best Rising Cards chair thread set-up
1945 66
Modern Rising Cards from Envelope packet of cards is put in envelope, selection rise from it
1945/27 135
Enchanted Cards and Envelope three cards are put in envelope and rise from it
1945/27 139
Bewitched Rising Cards and Envelope three cards are put in envelope and rise from there
1945/27 142
Myterious Bookmarks - Rising Cards from Book three cards are put in different places in a book and rise from there
1945/27 145
Harlan Tarbell Rising Cards Through Hat cards are put in glass under hat, selections rise through hat into view
1945/27 150
Rising Cards out of Hat selections rise out of hat
1945/27 152
Harlan Tarbell Haunted House Rising Cards deck put in small house, selections rise through chimney...
1945/27 154
George G. Kaplan The Kaplan Rising Cards several cards rise from a houlette
1948 124
Bill Simon Cig-Card-Rise from cigarette case
Nov. 1948
The Phoenix (Issue 164)
659
Audley Walsh King of (Nite) Clubs rising card routine, as climax a puppet rises from deck with outstreched arms
1948/27 60
Maurice Kump The Hommade Magician
  • Hair (for thread work)
  • Thumbtips
  • Slates
  • Carbon
1950
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1950)
1
Al Baker The Balancing Card card stands upright on performer's palm, thread
Also published here 1951 13
Al Baker The Card from the Hat thread
Also published here 1951 14
Al Baker The Deck that Cuts Itself
Also published here 1951 16
Al Baker The Simplex Rising Cards thread
Also published here 1951 18
Al Baker Miscellaneous Hair Tricks
  • cup moves on the table
  • animated bill
  • remote haunted deck
  • rising coin/card from glass
  • throwing a loose deck of cards to a spectator over some distance
  • balancing cane/umbrella
Also published here 1951 22
Clifford Bruce Cheescake Card Trick card travels from one sock to the other
1956
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1956)
38
Bruce Elliott The Card in wallet - Again thread with wax
1956 166
Dai Vernon The Rising Card
1959 27
Al Baker The Pack that Cuts Itself
1959 30
Dai Vernon, Al Baker The Walking and Jumping Card card "walks" out of a hat and jumps out of it
1959 33
Alan Alan Rising Card cards in case
1967 165
George Blake Thread Case Holdout
Sep. 1967 122
Don Nielson Rising Cards probably not serious
Mar. 1968 164
Edward Marlo The Emerging Card or Fingertip Rise fingertip peeked at card rises, thread, dated 1964, see page 155 for additional observations
1970 99
Alan Alan Rising Card loop from sleeve
1972 108
Mike Rogers The Zany Gaff deck placed on table, covered with handkerchief, selection comes face up to top, magnetic thread gimmick between hands
Dec. 1972
Kabbala — Volume 1 (Vol. 1 No. 12)
93
Billy McComb Frolics with the Hummer Whirling Card
  • A Variation
  • A Don't! - If You Unravel Your Own!
  • A Miracle!
  • You're All Set!
  • Light Weight - But Great!
  • True Story!
Inspired by 1972 51
Donna Delbert The Travelling Card card floats from hand to hand
1972 166
Dr. Jacob Daley Daley's Thread Gag No. 163, cryptic note on thread hook-up for rising cards
1972 41
Dr. Jacob Daley Daley's New Horizontal Card Rise No. 252, card rises out of deck forward with deck held flat
1972 63
Paul Fox Paul Fox's Button Trick No. 380, might be about his rising card method?!
Related to 1972 104
Roterberg New Era No. 691, on hat, thread
Also published here 1972 187
Roterberg Caglistro Hand No. 694, model of hand used in rising card presentation
Also published here 1972 187
Dick Zimmerman Crystal Card Box deck in clear box, selection comes out of the deck, pushes the lid open and falling on the table
1973 11
Cardini Cardini's Rising Card floats up into hand, write-up by Milton Tropp
Related to 1976
The Pallbearers Review Vol. 9-10 (Vol. 10 No. Close-Up Folio #6)
937
Karl Fulves Other Applications of sleeving
  • Hofzinser Ace Problem with Aces in spectator's pocket
  • Rising Card Hook-up
  • Sticky Tape at outside of Sleeve
  • Sleeving into Envelopes
1977 47
Paul Fox, Danny Dew The Paul Fox Rising Cards (Danny Dew Version)
1978 142
Karrell Fox Instant Replay - Card to Pocket last card can be seen visibly crawling over chest
Related to 1979 249
Rick Johnsson Yours, Mine & Ours with "My Card" & " Your Card" written on blank cards
Aug. 1980
Pabular (Vol. 6 No. 8)
887
Bob Hummer Impossible Location impossible location, with hair
Also published here 1980 24
Bob Hummer Do As I Do with hair
Also published here 1980 24
Bob Hummer Hummer's Whirling Card
Related toAlso published here 1980 84
Ross Bertram, Edward Marlo The Haunted Deck plastic on thread
1983 97
Gaëtan Bloom One-Card Card Castle card stands on its edge, uncredited
1983 190
John Kennedy Animated Card Location three selections, one rises from pocket, second shoots from deck, last rises from deck and floats into hand
1983 12
Mark Lefler Whirling Card card shoots out of deck and floats into hand
Related to 1983 16
Karl Fulves More Shuffle Problems
  • Previous Erdnase
  • Dollar Deal
  • Haunted Transfer
  • Markers
1984 150
Pascal Monmoine Card Through the Table from a Distance signed card, spectator lights a piece if pyropaper on the deck, the card flutters beneath the center of the table to the floor
May 1984
Pabular (Vol. 8 No. 6)
1229
Danny Korem The Acrobatic Haunted Card thread set-up between two fingers
1985 141
Martin Lewis The Impossible Miniature Card Rise Two cards rise, mini deck used, sealed by inverted glass on tray
1985 62
Frederick Braue FB Adaptation Thayer Rising Cards with houlette and thread (1937)
1985 27
John Northern Hilliard Hilliard Rising Cards
1985 28
Dai Vernon, Charlie Miller The Rising Cards three cards (1940)
1985 3
Frederick Braue Braue Impromptu Rising Cards selection peeked (1959)
1985 15
Frederick Braue Platform Rising Cards finger tip for end of thread (1959)
1985 17
Eugene Burger Sylvia's Cards a bizarre presentation for the rising cards
1987 91
Karl Fulves, Al Baker Haunted thread
1987 40
Karl Fulves Close Up Riser set-up with thread is done entirely on the table
1987 42
John Carney Natural Selection empty hand catches card, thread
Also published here 1987
Lecture Notes Collection (Issue Carney Up Close)
9
Karl Fulves Hangout deck face up on table, spectators cut anywhere and remember cards while the magician's back is turned, located
1987 11
John Carney Natural Selection empty hand catches card, thread
Also published here 1987 9
David Britland Elastic Thread on invisible elastic thread
1988 20
Ricardo Baccarini Materialization Mental card appears under paper
1989
Pabular (Vol. 8 No. 12)
2005
Jerry Mentzer Card Rise from Wallet Magical Lee card rises from wallet
1991 153
John Carney Natural Selection empty hand catches card, thread
Also published here 1991 107
Will Ayling The Rising Cards extract from Dean's "Hocus Pocus", version with a hair
1991 6
Howard Thurston Howard Thurston Rising Cards cards in glass, selection jumps out, different versions
Related to 1991 6
The Duplicate Stack Method
1991 9
Buatier de Kolta De Kolta's Rising Cards
Related to 1991 10
Walter Wandman Rising Cards from Opera Hat three selections rise from hat, gimmick
1991 10
Will Ayling Jumbo Rising Cards with houlette, card rises from envelope, similar to Jim Hooper's "Nemo Jumbo Rising Cards"
1991 18
A Novel Presentation extract from Roterberg
Related to 1991 23
Ellis Stanyon The Wonderful Floating Card Trick selection floats from deck into other hand
1991 23
Will Ayling, Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin Moving Pip Card moving pip in conjunction with rising cards, anecdote of De Kolta's daughter manufacturing multi pip cards
1991 26
Karrell Fox Simply Thurston
1991 96
Edward Wase Production of Three Cards production of cards that come from sleeve with thread pull
1992 8
Steve Dusheck A Moving Experience five cards on a stand, chosen one falls over
1993 99
Steve Dusheck Universal Gimmick hook-up for invisible thread that can be attached to clothing, with weight to pull back thread, with applications:
  • rope floats to hand
  • third tassel gag for Chinese sticks
  • rising card with card floating to hand
  • as pull, match or coin vanish
Inspired byVariations
  • "Invisible Thread Retractor" (Steve Dusheck, marketed 1978)
Also published here
  • marketed in 1968
1994 74
Robert Parrish Do the Spirits Return? rapping hand answers questions, rising cards with the hand, card stands upright
Inspired byRelated to 1995 25
Michael Kaminskas Heli-Card card rises from deck then it is signed and is spinned in the air, Steve Fearson Hookup
1996 19
Jon LeClair Animator Rising Card
1997 131
Jon LeClair Static Card card stands on hand on edge
Inspired by
  • "Standing Card" (Gaëton Bloom)
1997 135
Jon LeClair Whirling Card
Inspired by 1997 137
Jon LeClair Impromptu Animated Deck with borrowed deck, tabled or in the hands
1997 145
Nicholas Einhorn Spooked deck on floor, card jumps out at the end
  • History
  • Preparation
  • Performance
  • Clean-up
1998 6
Nicholas Einhorn Warning! on thread work
1998 16
Easy Riser out-of-hands in glass
1998 25
Phil Kannen Free Float card rises out of cased deck held by spectator
1998 29
Ron Bauer, Edward Marlo The Mechanical Deck using Marlo's gimmick on thread, done as a kind of side-ways card rise
1999 2
Ellis Stanyon Balancing Any Card on a Hat No. 11, card moves in hat and then stands
1999 160
Ellis Stanyon The Simple Throwing of a Card No. 14, card boomerangs back, thread attached
Variations 1999 162
Ellis Stanyon The Electric Pack of Cards No. 48, floating spread between hands
1999 184
Ellis Stanyon The Animated Card No. 17, card rises out of tabled spread
1999 211
Baltazar Fuentes Two Intuitions card spectator cuts to is predicted with three mates, another previously tabled card turns out to be later signed selection
Inspired by 2000 23
Baltazar Fuentes Styrofoam Switch card on table is apparently picked up with another card and switched, it is actually on a string with styrofoam cube at the end and pulled into lap quickly
2000 27
Simon Lovell Business Card Flash! blank card tabled, coin on top, flash paper on coin, ignited and card visibly prints, pull into lap, also with playing card
Also published here
  • video "The Office Animal"
2000 139
Johann Nepomuk Hofzinser The Three Powers three chosen cards vanish from deck, arrive in pocket, deck vanishes (in topit type space) and appears in pocket, three selections rise one with corner torn off that visible restores, a card is shot with pistol into candle
Also published here 2002 146
John Carney Ascension four selections, one rises underneath silk, one floats into hand, fountain for last card
2002 300
John Carney Variations with a Hat card out of head, then card fountain without motor or thread
2002 314
Al Baker Al Baker's Rising Cards
Also published here 2003
The Secret Ways of Al Baker (Issue Al Baker's Book)
78
Al Baker The Swinging Rising Cards "The Baker Method for Club Work"
with hanging houlette
Also published here 2003
The Secret Ways of Al Baker (Issue Magical Ways and Means)
168
Al Baker The Balancing Card card stands upright on performer's palm, thread
Also published here 2003
The Secret Ways of Al Baker (Issue Pet Secrets)
361
Al Baker The Card from the Hat thread
Also published here 2003
The Secret Ways of Al Baker (Issue Pet Secrets)
362
Al Baker The Deck that Cuts Itself
Also published here 2003
The Secret Ways of Al Baker (Issue Pet Secrets)
365
Al Baker The Simplex Rising Cards thread
Also published here 2003
The Secret Ways of Al Baker (Issue Pet Secrets)
367
Al Baker Miscellaneous Hair Tricks
  • cup moves on the table
  • animated bill
  • remote haunted deck
  • rising coin/card from glass
  • throwing a loose deck of cards to a spectator over some distance
  • balancing cane/umbrella
Also published here 2003
The Secret Ways of Al Baker (Issue Pet Secrets)
371
Al Baker Card-Rising Wand
Also published here
  • The Sphinx, Vol. 9 No. 2, April 1910
2003 617
Peter Pit, Persi Diaconis The Card on the Back card appears on performer's back
Also published here
  • Genii, July 1981
Nov. 2007
Genii (Vol. 70 No. 11)
23
Fred Robinson The Rising Cards à la Fred using wooden box and thread gimmick, described by Patrick Page
2009 172
Al Baker, Eric Evans Al Baker Meets Hofzinser's Ghost ITR (Spider Pen) method
Inspired by 2012 31
Kiko Pastur Ases Soplados Aces are blown out of the deck on by one, two from spread, one in squared deck and one while cards are dribbled
2014 23
Jim Steinmeyer The Last Card Up the Sleeve
  • Conjuring
card visibly creeps over vest, elastic pull
Related to Feb. 2016
Genii (Vol. 79 No. 2)
28
Alexander de Cova Comedy Karte an Decke deck tossed towards ceiling, no card sticks, selection levitates from floor to performer's hand
2016 191
Denis Behr Haunted Herbert haunted deck into three directions, ends relatively clean
  • Tabled Handling
  • In-the-Hands Handling
Inspired by
  • "The Haunted Pack" (Edward Victor, Further Magic of the Hands, 1946)
Related to
2018 74
John Carney Natural Selection empty hand catches card, thread
Also published here 2020 285
David Regal A Card Rises
  • Material Concessions
from case with half the deck in it
  • When Seated
  • If Standing
  • If Strolling
July 2022
Genii (Vol. 85 No. 7)
52
Luke Jermay The Hummingbirds three cards are selected and rise from deck in a glass one by one (one with transparent silk over glass, one without cover, one with glass bell jar cover)
  • The Audience Experience
  • The Gimmick
  • Performance Props
  • The Setup
    • With a Borrowed Deck
    • Another Approach
  • Handling
    • First Phase
    • Second Phase
    • Third Phase
  • Script Examination
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