Tricks With Prepared Cards

Holmes' Conjuring Serial No. 3

1913
Written by Donald Holmes
Work of Donald Holmes
31 pages (Paperback), published by Donald Holmes
Illustrated with photographs and drawings
Language: English
25 entries
Cover photograph
Creators Title Comments & References Page AA Categories
Donald Holmes Foreword
1
Dr. Ford Rogers Rogers' "Incomprehensibility" top and bottom half have different finishes, spectator thinks stop as performer deals
Related to 3
The Key Card - Warring celluloid or metal piece sticking out the middle of one end
Also published here 4
Key Card Cut Force performer haphazardly cuts anywhere (really at key) and spectator takes that card as selection
 		6
Donald Holmes Effect No. 1 four chosen cards are placed in four envelopes and mixed, performer divines all cards in the envelopes
 		6
The "Reversed Card" Principle one-way backs
 		7
Donald Holmes Effect No. 1. The Prediction card chosen by elimination process with packets, it's predicted in an envelope
 		8
Resealed Deck comment
 		9
Donald Holmes The "Self-Shifting" Pack
  • First Method (long-short Menetekel)
  • Second Method (no short cards but one-way backs, "improved method")
  • Suggestions (having multiple cards selected and bringing the duplicates to top)
 		9
Donald Holmes Effect No. 1 card chosen, performer divines it and it travels to pocket
 		12
Donald Holmes Effect No. 2 three cards chosen and replaced, deck put in hat and mixed (lateral mixing motion), performer removes selections from hat one by one
 		12
Donald Holmes The "Self-Forcing" Pack
  • To Force One Card (Svengali deck)
  • To Force Two Cards (triples in which the force cards are cut at different corners)
  • To Force Three Cards (like previous one with no indifferent cards)
 		13
Dr. Ford Rogers Rogers' "Ever Ready" Forcing Pack short forcing cards glued on long indifferent cards
VariationsAlso published here 15
Dr. Ford Rogers Rogers' Rising Cards thread runs through hole in the deck
Variations 16
Dr. Ford Rogers Rogers' Obedient Card combination of the two previous gaffed decks, spectator inserts finger as deck is riffled and remembers card, it is divined and rises from deck
Inspired by 18
Donald Holmes Holmes' "Mystery" Problem card chosen from Svengali deck, deck dealt into two piles and card replaced in indifferent half, multiple deals to control card to seventeenth position, card and position are predicted, clean-up switch of half the deck
 		19
Donald Holmes Holmes' Four Ace Trick
22
David Devant The "Triangle" Trick - First Method thought-of cards across from one half to the other, halves tied with ribbons, half the deck double facers
 		24
Donald Holmes The "Triangle" Trick - Second Method thought-of cards across from one half to the other, halves tied with ribbons, half the deck peek cards
Related to 26
Donald Holmes Another "Marvelous Coincidence" two decks, number counted to in one deck and dealing stopped in other deck, the cards match
Inspired by
  • "A Card Mystery" (Donald Holmes, contributed to Magic)
Related toAlso published here 		27
Donald Holmes Card on Glass card on top of glass is invisible for audience when they look on edge
Also published here 28
Donald Holmes Double-Dealing Placement Force handling in which a card is added
 		28
Missing Corner Second Deal whole corner is missing
Also published here 28
Donald Holmes A New Chameleon Pack deck shown mixed, then cut in half, one half shown all red and other all black
Related to 29
Donald Holmes A New X-Ray Trick stacked deck, multiple cards removed, half shuffled, cards divined one by one and each removed
 		30
Data entered by Denis Behr, December 2024.