764 entries in Cards / Sleights / Color Change / On the Deck
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
C. H. Wilson The Vizard pass and Change No. 7, similar position to No. 2, as color change of bottom card
Inspired by 1877 7
Single-handed Pass, No. 3 as color change
Also published here 1889 9
Die Volte, mit den Fingerspitzen einer Hand auszuführen "Die Kartenschule von Carl Willmann"
  • Aeltere Methode
Related to Nov. 1895
Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 1 No. 11)
162
Das Colorieren der Karten right thumb goes behind deck and steals card
Dec. 1895
Der Zauberspiegel (Vol. 1 No. 4)
51
Kolorieren der Karten
1896 14
August Roterberg The Color Change intro
1897 24
First Method "The Color Change"
thumb goes under deck and pulls bottom card out
Related to 1897 24
Second Method "The Color Change"
variation of First Method
1897 25
Third Method "The Color Change"
left first finger pushes out bottom card to the front
Related to 1897 27
Fourth Method "The Color Change"
one-handed, thumb pivots card back which ends up perpendicular sticking out towards back (demonstrated by Ed Marlo on video footage)
Related to 1897 28
Visible Transformation as deck is dropped on table, air pressure turnover
1897 43
Das Kartenstehlen - VII. Methode "Die Kartenschule von Carl Willmann"
left first finger pushed cards back which are stolen into right hand thumb palm, also as (repeated) color change
Apr. 1897
Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 3 No. 4)
52
Deck Turnover Change as hand moves up and down
Apr. 1897
Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 3 No. 4)
53
Das Kartenstehlen "Die Kartenschule von Carl Willmann"
elevated dealing position, left first finger pushes bottom card against right fingers into palm, as color change preparation
Related to May 1898
Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 4 No. 5)
68
Das Verwandeln der ersten Karte des Spieles "Die Kartenschule von Carl Willmann"
face card of deck changes, one-handed, also to transfer one card from face to back or vice versa or in the center
Related to Apr. 1899
Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 5 No. 4)
52
Die Verwandlung einer Karte "Die Kartenschule von Carl Willmann"
palm replacement color change
Related to Sep. 1900
Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 6 No. 9)
131
S. W. Erdnase The Open Shift color change mention on page 134
Related toVariations 1902 132
S. W. Erdnase The S.W.E. Shift color change mention on page 136
Related toVariations 1902 134
S. W. Erdnase Transformations. Two Hands intro
1902 151
S. W. Erdnase First Method "Transformations. Two Hands"
Houdini/Erdnase Change
Related toVariationsAlso published here 1902 151
Second Method "Transformations. Two Hands"
left first finger pushes out bottom card to the front
Related toVariations 1902 152
Third Method "Transformations. Two Hands"
deck on left fingers, right hand covers face, left thumb pushes back card up into right hand
1902 153
S. W. Erdnase Fourth Method "Transformations. Two Hands"
handling variation of Third Method
Variations 1902 153
Fifth Method "Transformations. Two Hands"
right thumb goes under deck and pulls bottom card out
Related to 1902 154
Transformations. One Hand - First Method one-handed, thumb drags face card to the back
Variations 1902 156
S. W. Erdnase Second Method "Transformations. One Hand"
one-handed, thumb pushes back card to the face
Variations 1902 158
To Change the Front Card of Pack
1902 62
Nate Leipzig Slap Change
1909 221
Johann Nepomuk Hofzinser Air Drop Transformation two cards back to back
1910 42
Charles T. Jordan The Demon Color Change No. 3, multiple consecutive changes, second and rear cards remain the same, using glued triple cards
VariationsAlso published here 1920 7
Charles T. Jordan Double Facer Color Change front card drops to fingers under cover of other hand to perpendicular position, turned over
Also published here 1920 9
S. W. Erdnase, Harry Houdini The Slip-Slide Change Houdini / Erdnase Color Change
1927/28 15
Jack Merlin Change Over Palm Change
Related to 1927/28 15
Jack Merlin Improved Change with Erdnase Bottom Palm, First Method, bottom card changes
1927/28 17
Jack Merlin Under the Thumb Change left thumb across top card
Related to 1927/28 17
Jack Merlin Change Making Palmed Card Disappear sucker moment, palming cards of and showing the problem of changes, in the end hand is empty
1927/28 18
Oswald Rae Multiple Slap Color Change
1928 4
Color Change from classic palm, loading and unloading palmed card, to show palm empty
Related to 1928 5
Friedrich "Fritz" Hügli Die plötzlich sich verwandelnde gezogene Karte transformation of face-down top card, faced deck
1930 65
Ralph W. Hull A Trick Exposed, But How? color change apparently exposed, but card turns out to have vanished and is brought from pocket
1932 16
The Hinge Change Herrmann/Hofzinser type set-up
Variations 1933 31
The Book Change
1933 33
Tom Sellers An Excellent Card Change
1934 7
Cardini The Cardini Snap Color Change
Related toVariations 1934 46
New Palm of Top Card and a Color Change
Related to 1934 47
Laurie Ireland To Fully Restore the Card last corner
1935
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1935, "New Card and Coin Manipulation")
4
Laurie Ireland Color Change see also page 24
1935
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1935, "New Card and Coin Manipulation")
24
Gerald Fulton Color Change
1936 145
Edward Victor The "E.V." Colour Change from back of deck to sort of thumb clip palm
1937 2
Tenkai Ishida The Tenkai Color Change
Variations 1938 212
Sam Leo Horowitz The Horowitz Color Change
1938 213
Fred Heaman A Visible Transformation Two of Clubs to Two of Spades
Variations 1938 491
The Visible Color Change
1938 29
The Roll Down Color Change credit information
1938 30
Color Change with Fingers Wide Apart
1938 31
Charles Bertram The Charlier Pass - Color Change
1940 45
Trewey The Color Change
1940 161
The Impossible Color Change left thumb across top card
Related to 1940 163
The Covinous Color Change nice choreographed to show hands empty
1940 164
Karl Germain The Flash Card Change deck in glass
Variations 1940
The Jinx (Issue 98)
603
Edward Victor The E. V. Semi-Circular Color Change card stolen from back of deck into gambler’s flat palm type of grip and deposited on face
1940 ca. 9
Edward Victor Reverse Back-slip card is slipped off bottom onto face of top half, used to make top half’s face card change, delayed change and instantaneous change
1940 ca. 12
Joseph Cottone The Dip Color Change
Also published here 1941 21
Joseph Cottone The Snap Color Change Herrmann Pass
1941 22
Joseph Cottone Visible Color Change Snap Change on face of pack
1941 24
Tom Sellers A Novel Colour Change
1941 7
The Phantom Pip picking up the pip... and putting it back on
1942 172
Paul Fox Back Hand Color Change using back palm
1942 174
Open Finger Color Change using clip palm
1942 175
Slap Change
1942 177
Push Up Color Change
1942 178
Thumb Steal Color Change palm off can be used to produce fans (context), thumb palm
1942 179
Charles A. Leedy Slip Up Color Change
Related to 1942 180
Eddie Joseph The E. J. Color Change with Cards color change sequence in which the face card is palmed one-handed before it is seen
1942 17
Warren Wiersbe The W. W. Color Change
1944 7
Bengalis Manipulation's Ecke card on face changes and card palmed in process, similar to Cardini change,followed by french translation "Le coin des manipulateurs - La chiquenaude"
May 1945 9
Color Change (Instantaneous) sometimes called Cardini Change
1946 142
Color Change (Second Method)
1946 142
Nate Leipzig The Slap Change
1946
Early Marlo (Issue Marlo's Discoveries)
49
Frank Dobrina Challenge Color Change card stolen from back
Dec. 1946 279
Color Change
1946 20
J. B. Bobo Color Change with gambler's flat palm steal from back & presentation
1947 27
E. H. Borden A New Color Change
Mar. 1947
Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 4 No. 10)
305
Color Change
1948 166
The Changing Card
1948 168
The Side Steal Color Change
1948 128
The Color Change face-card of small packet small packet
1948 134
Dai Vernon Paintbrush Color Change
1949
Stars of Magic (Vol. 5 No. 2)
77
Paul LePaul The Color-Change (Side Steal Method) side-steal method
Variations 1949 39
Push-Up Change
1949 188
Dai Vernon The Peregrinating Pip pip is transfered from Five to Two
Related toAlso published here 1950 457
Dai Vernon Softy! angles
June 1951
The Phoenix (Issue 231)
922
Trewey The Trewey Color Change card stolen from back added to face
  • Variation
Mar. 1951
Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 8 No. 10)
766
Jean Hugard The "J. H." Method
Mar. 1951
Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 8 No. 10)
766
M. T. Coogan The Delayed Color Change from classic palm, loading and unloading palmed card, to show palm empty while pushing up sleeve
Related to Mar. 1951
Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 8 No. 10)
766
Arthur Punnar The "Swivel" Color Change
Mar. 1951
Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 8 No. 10)
766
Max Malini Malini's own Color Change Erdnase second method
Related to 1952
Stars of Magic (Vol. 11 No. 1)
154
Al Leech Spot Remover picking off the pip
Related to 1952 28
Edward Victor Karten-Kolorieren color change, card is pushed with first finger in thumb palm of other hand
1952
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 13 No. 5)
58
Audley Walsh "Dammit" wrong card is tossed onto deck and changes into correct one, back-to-back double
1952 39
Bottom Steal Color Change classic
1953 11
Al Leech The Color Change general comments, side steal method
1954 23
Al Leech From The Center side steal from center for a color change
1954 24
Cy Endfield Color Change as a vanish from a small packet
1955 34
Tony Kardyro T. K's Flash "Color Change" Cardini Change
Related to 1955 22
Edward Marlo Pressure Fan Palm as Color Change
1956 28
Edward Marlo Clip Steal Color Change
Variations 1957 25
Dai Vernon The Svengali Colour Change color change using Tenkai Palm
1957 74
Dai Vernon "Pick Off Pip" picking
Related toVariations 1957 101
Cliff Green, Dai Vernon The Multiple Colour Change color change
1957 104
Tenkai Ishida Tenkai's Colour Change
1959 43
Al Altmann Double Colour Change
1959 45
Dai Vernon "Picking off the Pip"
Related toVariations 1959 47
Dai Vernon Erdnase Plus Vernon
Related to 1959 49
Dai Vernon "No Palm" Colour Change color change
Related toVariations 1959 50
Dai Vernon Pinch Colour Change
1959 51
Dai Vernon French Drop Colour Change
1959 52
Carmen D'Amico D'Amico's Variation: A. As a Color Change exchanging top two cards
1959 74
James Steranko Steranko's Shadow Steal
  • card into right hand Lateral Palm as top half is replaced
  • as direct control to top
  • as color change from center to top
Related toVariations 1960 22
James Steranko Steranko's Center Steal Change card from injog position into right hand clip between right second and third finger and on top of deck
Inspired byRelated to 1960 28
Dai Vernon Some Useful Notes on Palming (e) using Rear Palm
1961 46
Charlie Miller Slap Color Change comment
1961 44
Charlie Miller Rubbing Off the Spot
1961 61
Edward Marlo The K. M. Move Brush Change see page 23 for credits
1962 18
Max Malini Colour Change Erdnase's second method
Inspired by 1962 65
Edward Marlo Clip Palm Transformation
1962 27
Nate Leipzig Colour Change with description of palming bottom card in right hand
1963 22
Nate Leipzig Bottom Card Change
1963 169
Al Leech Pseudo Color Change no palming
1965 35
Al Leech Paint Brush card is changed into mate
Variations 1965 41
Paul Stadelman Explaining the Color Change with sucker element
1966
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1965-66)
80
Walter Baker Fan Pass Transformation actually not visual
1967 118
Harry Lorayne New-Fangled Color Change fan is brushed over pile in other hand
1967 35
Edward Marlo For the Informed card on deck is shown singly before and after transformation, three methods (tabled and ala Erdnase/Houdini Change)
Also published here Mar. 1968
Epilogue (Issue 2)
13
Wilfrid Jonson Ultima charlier pass color change
1969 18
Jack Merlin Brush Color Change
1969 16
Bill Spooner Spooner's Swift Switch face card levered away with Kelly Bottom Placement action and hidden behind left hand, snaps back for color change, wink change
1969 55
Nate Leipzig, Wallace Lee Nate Leipzig Color Change
1969 73
Color Change card stolen towards front from back
1969 101
Edward Marlo Marlo on the Charlier Pass covering the pass, as Color Change
Also published here Spring 1970
Hierophant (Issue 3)
136
Martin Gardner "Wink Change"
Related toVariationsAlso published here Fall-Spring 1971
Hierophant (Issue 5-6)
290
Gene Nielsen Emanon
1971 17
Arthur Finley Ace Vanish face-up with palmed cover card, also as color change
Variations Dec. 1971 472
Roger Smith Multiple Snap Change Interlude series of changes, snap over change and two other changes
Feb. 1971
Necromancer (Vol. 1 No. 7)
7
Up Up Up Change Tenkai palm
1972 43
Frank Garcia Ambitious Card - 3. paintbrush change
1972 49
Colour Change standard, with small packet
1972 66
Bob McAllister Bet-A-Dollar Color Change as bill is slid over face of card, half card gaff
Variations 1972 114
Standard Color Change unloading palmed card
1972 161
Palm Color Change standard, brief
1972 45
Dr. Jacob Daley Daley's Version of Hugard's Riffle Spring Card Discovery No. 220, cards spring in other hand and top card changes (palmed off secretly)
Inspired by
  • Jean Hugard's Riffle Spring Card Discovery
1972 54
Max Malini Malini's Color Change Move No. 711
Also published here 1972 191
Max Malini Malini's Color Change Subtlety No. 712, card can be removed singly after change
Also published here 1972 191
Colour Change two halves stepped on top of each other
1973 137
Art Altman Squeeze Change
1973 151
Frank Garcia Surprise Color Change double card is pushed in and out of deck, changes
1973 153
Jerry K. Hartman New Wave Change face card changes when one handed fan is waved over it
Related to 1973 15
Ellison Poland Color Change Caper wink change handling, face card changes under cover of fan
Related to 1973 7
Martin Gardner The "Wink" Change
Also published here July 1974
Epilogue (Issue 21)
194
Tenkai Ishida Surprise Color Change
1974 36
Tenkai Ishida Tenkai Card (Color) Change
1974 54
Martin A. Nash The Quick Change Artist
1975 65
Harry Lorayne Ultra Potpourri applications for the Ultra Move, also with both hands
Inspired by 1975 31
Jack Miller Miller Change
1975
Epilogue (Issue Special No 2)
250
Karl Fulves Simplex Color Change fan waved over face of card, it changes
1975 159
Cardini Card Change One handed fan used to change indifferent card to selection
Variations 1975 216
Roy Walton The Paint Brush Change
  • As a Colour Change and Appearance
Related toVariationsAlso published here 1975 12
Jerry K. Hartman Revolution-ary Change Color Change
VariationsAlso published here 1975 55
Charles T. Jordan The Demon Color Change multiple consecutive changes, second and rear cards remain the same, using glued triple cards
Also published here 1975 179
Charles T. Jordan Double Facer Color Change front card drops to fingers under cover of other hand to perpendicular position, turned over
Also published here 1975 179
Philip T. Goldstein Paintbrush Change with double facer, two transformations
1976 9
Nate Leipzig Slap Change
1976 38
Jerry Andrus Startling Color Change
Variations 1976 59
David Berglas Spot On wrong card changes to selection, when performer shakes deck
1976 35
A New Changing Card back card stolen
1976 80
Joseph Cottone, Edward Marlo Cased Cottone Color Change
1977 134
Edward Marlo Wrist Stroke Changes - Second Method multiple change
1977 145
Edward Marlo Face Up Startler card face up in hand changes
Related toVariations 1977 259
Martin A. Nash Paintbrush Change Variation
1977 202
Karl Fulves Recalled top card of one half changes into named Ace when covered with fanned other half, other three Aces vanished, sleeving
1977 39
Dai Vernon, Juan Tamariz Con la Palma Vacia
Related to 1977 62
Dai Vernon Imposible thumb on the deck
1977 64
Tormentoso Cardini change
1977 65
Arturo de Ascanio El Pincel paintbrush change
1977 67
¡Resorte!
1977 68
Abanicando color change with fan
1977 70
Jack Miller Jack Miller Change Herrmann Pass
1978 166
Looy Simonoff Flippant
Variations Sep. 1978
Apocalypse (Vol. 1 No. 9)
103
John Cornelius The Winter Change
VariationsAlso published here Sep. 1978
Apocalypse (Vol. 1 No. 9)
105
Russell T. Barnhart The Summer Change
Oct. 1978
Apocalypse (Vol. 1 No. 10)
114
Hannes Höller Kartenkolorieren aus dem gemischten Spiel color change of a card, using Stripper Deck
1978 42
Trevor Lewis All Change color change, using a one-handed top palm with the second card from top, see p. 37 for credit information and variation by Stephen Tucker
Related to
  • Notes (David Britland, 1979)
  • Deane Moore's "The Clip Palm" in "Genii" Vol. 11, Nr. 10, 1947. P. 305.
Also published here
  • "Color Change" in "Abra" Nr. 1578, 1976. P. 352.
1978
The Talon (Issue 2)
17
José de la Torre Improved Palm Color Change first finger of left hand pushed out bottom card into right palm
1978 47
José de la Torre One-Hand Palm Color Change
1978 51
José de la Torre Reverse Card Color Change starts by palming a previously reversed card
1978 54
José de la Torre Side Steal Color Change
1978 56
José de la Torre Jose's Instant Color Change fingers close and open for instant change, white on white
Variations 1978 59
José de la Torre Interesting Variations of the Instant Color Change covering only parts of the card, white on white
  • 1st Variation
  • 2nd Variation
  • 3rd Variation
  • 4th Variation: Two Fingers Color Change
Inspired by 1978 72
Steve Dusheck Dusheck's Color Change featuring unusual steal
Also published here 1978 124
Martin A. Nash Second Look as top card is trown to table
1979 411
Dai Vernon Dai-verse Color Change turning deck over above bottom card
Also published here Jan. 1979
Apocalypse (Vol. 2 No. 1)
145
Dai Vernon Straighten Out rightening reversed card from bottom to top
May 1979
Apocalypse (Vol. 2 No. 5)
196
Dennis Marks Toss Change bottom card of deck changes
Nov. 1979
Apocalypse (Vol. 2 No. 11)
268
Harry Lorayne The Relativity Color Change card can be dealt off immediately
1979 104
Paintbrush Change
1979 4
Karrell Fox A "Dis-Arming" Color Change
1979 101
Earl Nelson The Changing of the Card card changes under coin, Tosheroon
Also published here 1979 124
Edward Marlo As a Color Change palm replacement as a color change
1980 88
Edward Marlo A Color Change using card clip
Related toVariationsAlso published here 1980 104
J. C. Doty Lickety-Split Color Change
Aug. 1980
Apocalypse (Vol. 3 No. 8)
377
Father Cyprian Quick Change
Variations 1980 43
Edward Marlo The Marnase Change and Vanish
  • As a Vanish
  • As a Change
Variations 1980
Hierophant (Issue The Last Hierophant)
23
Jon Racherbaumer Kicky Variant
1980
Hierophant (Issue The Last Hierophant)
25
Edward Marlo Charlier Pass as Color Change
1980
Hierophant (Issue The Last Hierophant)
65
Faucett Ross, Kevin Davie Card Change
Inspired by Apr. 1980
Pabular (Vol. 6 No. 4)
828
Paul Lesser There It Is
Apr. 1980
Pabular (Vol. 6 No. 4)
828
Paintbrush Change
1980 3
Edward Marlo Wriste Stroke Change
1980 83
Cheap Shot Change
1980 105
Rovi Rovi Colour Change
1980 34
John F. Mendoza S-T-R-E-T-C-H Stretched
  • The Startling Appearance of Two Selected Cards
  • Color Change
Inspired by 1980 36
John F. Mendoza, Patrick Page One Handed Face Change
Related to 1980 43
Arturo de Ascanio El Pincel The Paintbrush Change, with small packet
1980 8
Jeff White Fan Change
Also published here 1980 18
Al Smith P.C. Change
Related toVariationsAlso published here 1980 24
Jeff White Fanning the Change
1980 18
Edward Marlo Marlo's Wrist Turn color change, brief
1980 24
Edward Marlo Color Change Pass with rubber banded deck
1981 88
Danny Korem Slow Motion Marnase Change outjogged erdnase
Oct. 1981
Kabbala — Volume 2 (Vol. 2 No. 10)
74
Edward Marlo Convincing Jogged Change outjogged erdnase
Inspired byAlso published here Oct. 1981
Kabbala — Volume 2 (Vol. 2 No. 10)
78
Don England Visual Retention Color Change white on white principle
1981 1
Don England, Martin Gardner The Blink Change streamlined version
Inspired by 1981 38
Paintbrush Change
1981 51
Color Change with a small packet
1981 21
Ken Simmons A Color Change two methods
Inspired by 1981 20
Cheap Shot Change
1981 152
Cardini Cardini Snap Change
Related to 1981 27
Frank Csuri Frank Csuri explanation of card change mentioned by Gardner in the Introduction, Csuri variation
Inspired by
  • August Roterbeg's "Card Tricks and How to do them" 1902.
Related to
1981 110
Joseph K. Schmidt Joseph K. Schmidt other variation by Schmidt on the Roterberg change
Inspired by
  • August Roterbeg's "Card Tricks and How to do them" 1902.
1981 111
John Brown Changling
Inspired by Sep. 1981
Spell-Binder (Vol. 1 No. 5)
77
Dai Vernon The Paintbrush Change
Also published here 1981
The Talon (Issue 7)
100
Al Smith, Wayne Dobson Twitch Switch "P.C. Change"
Also published here 1981
The Talon (Issue 7)
107
Steve Beam Rapid Transit card appears face-up on top of deck (one-hand top palm as change), is taken and vanished, reappears reversed in center
Also published here 1981 15
Steve Beam Flash Change
Also published here 1981 18
Roy Walton The Paint Brush Change
  • As a Colour Change and Appearance
Also published here 1981 155
Karl Germain The Flash Card Change deck in glass, with handkerchief
1981 ca. 3
Edward Marlo A Change For The Better flicker type, bottom deal
Inspired byRelated to 1982 14
Edward Marlo A Still Better Way flicker type, greek deal
Related to 1982 16
Edward Marlo The Aerial Change clip palm
1982 17
Jon Racherbaumer The Open Erdnase Change
1982 26