237 entries in Cards / Sleights / False Count / Overcounts (as more than are there)
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
False Count overcounting by starting to verbally count once the first few cards have been counted off
Sep. 1896
Der Zauberspiegel (Vol. 2 No. 1)
15
Snapping Sound False Count six as seven in example
1902 89
False Count seven as eight, using snap sound
1909 49
Stanley Collins False Count removing four as three cards from the deck, milking extra card
1915 27
Snap False Count cards over-counted from top of deck
1937
The Jinx (Issue Winter Extra 1936/37)
179
Laurie Ireland The False Count also off the top of the deck
1938 12
Francis Carlyle The Carlyle False Count I. To Count a Number of Cards Showing Less Than There Are.
II. To Count a Number of Cards as More Than They Really Are.
Related toVariations 1940 15
Eddie Joseph Overcount packet counted from hand to hand
1941 10
Snap False Count cards over-counted from top of deck
1943 52
Direct False Count
1943/27 201
Slip-Over False Count
1943/27 203
Put-Back False Count counting cards off a pack
1943/27 204
Palm-Over False Count into spectator's hand
1943/27 206
Jack Hecht Over-Hand False Count using lift shuffle
1943/27 209
The False Count
1945/27 162
Arthur H. Buckley The False Count for More
Related to 1946 53
Arthur H. Buckley The False Count for More with sound
1948 152
The False Count
1948 134
Arthur H. Buckley The False Count
1948 143
Dr. Jacob Daley Laydown False Count
1950
Stars of Magic (Vol. 7 No. 1)
103
Dr. Jacob Daley Snap False Count
1950
Stars of Magic (Vol. 7 No. 1)
105
To deal two cards as three off the top of the deck into the right hand
1950 6
Edward Marlo Sleight of Tongue False Count bold
1953 46
Edward Marlo The False Count
Related to 1953 94
Norman Osborn Double Count also "Unlimited Count", five as six with six different faces, double facer
Related toVariationsAlso published here 1953 5
Edward Marlo, Norman Osborn Improved Double Count five as six with six different faces, double facer, see also page 16 for variation
1953 8
Edward Marlo False Fan Group Count off the top of the deck
1953 28
Edward Marlo Impromptu Double Count e.g. seven as ten, cards counted reversed to bottom
1953 30
Method 1 a fake-take count
1954 16
Cy Endfield False Count
1955 60
Cy Endfield, Bill Simon There's Five Aces! four Aces are counted as five as a gag
Related toAlso published here 1955 44
Tom Ransom Piano Music piano card trick featuring a pure rhythm false count for six as seven, and eight as seven
Related to Sep. 1957
Ibidem (Issue 11)
14
Tom Crane On the Piano Music False Count spectator and performer count simultaneously
Related to Mar. 1958
Ibidem (Issue 13)
10
Snap False Count
1959 86
Dai Vernon First False Count seven as ten, faces shown each time, two taken back instead of taking one on one counting action
Related to 1960 63
Dai Vernon Second False Count with fake take, scrapping sound
1960 64
Eddie Joseph Peel Overcount cards peeled off packet held in glide position, bottom cards stolen back
1969 16
George Sands Sandslide false count
1971 ca. 16
Bob Stencel Counting Four as Five
Related to Dec. 1972 578
Jerry K. Hartman Four-as-Five Count cards counted one at a time, taking them from top and moving to bottom
1972 64
Dai Vernon Vernon's False Count No. 39, cryptic, sounds like the ruse of showing the faces of the cards while doing an over-count, perhaps the referenced count
Related to 1972 15
Dr. Jacob Daley Daley's Out And In Alternate False Count No. 270
1972 67
Karl Fulves The Four As Five Count
1973 23
Karl Fulves Four As Five
Related to 1973 104
Karl Fulves Variation On The Count variation on "Four As Five"
1973 106
Jeff Busby Four As Five four as five with one concealed
Nov. 1974
Epilogue (Issue 22)
208
Francis Carlyle Francis Carlyle False Count tips on the Carlyle false count, not learnable from that description
Related to 1975 23
Edward Marlo, Norman Osborn, Jon Racherbaumer Unlimited Count Variation and Display six as seven
1976
Kabbala — Volume 3 (Vol. 3 No. 10)
132
Paul Harris Snap Count audible, two as three
Also published here 1976 20
Biddle Move as Overcount
1977 18
The Elmsley Count - Added Comment Elmsley Count as overcount or undercount
1977 45
Ross Bertram False Count
1978 74
Edward Marlo Unlimited Count
1979 36
Edward Marlo The Flexible Count here as an overcount, also for interlaced vanish
1979 77
Alex Elmsley Three as Four Elmsley Count
1979 77
Edward Victor Eye Count
Feb. 1979
Pabular (Vol. 5 No. 2)
639
Willane False Counting for Eleven Card Trick
1979
The Chronicles (Issue 14)
1202
Edward Marlo Couting Less as More first false count
1980 124
Edward Marlo To Count Less Cards as More second false count
1980 128
Edward Marlo Third False Count
Variations 1980 129
Edward Marlo Fifth False Count
1980 132
Edward Marlo Sixth False Count only one move needed, re-loading count
1980 134
Edward Marlo False Count for the Interlaced Vanish
1980 139
Edward Marlo Seventh False Count
1980 140
Edward Marlo The Marfoe Count (Jan. 1977) - First Count three as four, hiding one
1980 147
Edward Marlo Second Count Marfoe Count, three as four, optionally hiding one
1980 148
Edward Marlo Third Count Marfoe Count, three as five, hiding one
1980 150
Edward Marlo Fourth Count Marfoe Count, three as five, hiding one
1980 151
Edward Marlo Fifth Count Marfoe Count, three as five
1980 151
Edward Marlo Sixth Count Marfoe Count, three as five
1980 152
Edward Marlo Seventh Count Marfoe Count, three as six
1980 153
Edward Marlo O.K. - Let's Play - Game #1-5 actually Switchless Switch handling, overcount and show the Kings from top of the deck
1980 278
Edward Marlo Game #6 - Slip Count show and take Kings from deck while only having three
1980 283
Four as Five Count end grip
1980 29
False Counting Three Cards as Four
1980 8
Description of the Three as Four Elmsley
1980 43
Biddle Count for over- or under-counting a packet
1980 26
Removing Less Cards from Deck
1981 48
Two-as-Three Count showing sandwich, only two cards
1981 19
Al Smith Overcount in Pairs taking a single card at one point
1981 13
Francis Carlyle, Derek Dingle Carlyle False Count Variation
VariationsAlso published here 1982 216
Jon Racherbaumer, Ken Krenzel The Dissolving Departure with optical illusion to show two as three
1982 44
Edward Marlo Additional Ideas - Broken Count Broken Elmsley Count and more broken counts
Variations 1982 22
2/3 Count Elmsley type
1982
Spell-Binder (Vol. 2 No. Special #1 (Summer))
2
Edward Marlo False Count to Table using deal cop
1983 76
Paul Harris Two as Three Count
1983 46
Paul Harris The P.H. Cheapshot Count three snaps heard, two as three
1983 46
Edward Victor Eye Count
June 1983
Spell-Binder (Vol. 3 No. 26)
496
Edward Marlo The Olram Count Olram Subtlety as false count
1984 301
4 as 5 Elmsley Count
1984 14
Norman Osborn, Philip T. Goldstein Unlimited Count Variation
1984 20
Unlimited Overcount with jumbo cards
Related to 1984 12
Edward Victor Victor Count Variation
May 1985
Pabular (Vol. 8 No. 10)
1291
Overcount from Deck from deck into hand one by one
Related to 1985 12
Charlie Miller False Counts off the deck (1939)
  • Four as Three
  • Two as Three
1985 30
Nick Pudar Versatile Count under- or overcount
Oct. 1986
Apocalypse (Vol. 9 No. 10)
1265
Ray Kosby Interlaced Vanish Count
1986 11
Elmer Biddle Das Biddle-Falschzählen
Also published here
  • Genii, Apr. 1947
May 1986
Intermagic (Vol. 12 No. 2)
78
Dai Vernon, Dr. James William Elliott The Perfect-Pitch False Count recontructing Dr. James Elliot
Related to 1987 90
Paul Harris Snap Count two as three
1987 155
Edward Victor The Eye Count
1987 155
Edward Marlo Flipover Count two double facers as four different cards
1987 28
Modified Jordan Count four as five
1987 63
Edward Marlo The False Count five as seven, five as six, four as five
1988 62
Larry Jennings Three as Four Count one by one on table
1988 49
Paul Harris Overcount Off the Deck
1988
Magical Arts Journal (Vol. 2 No. 9-12 Paul Harris: The Act)
47
Francis Carlyle, Paul Harris The False Count
1988
Magical Arts Journal (Vol. 2 No. 9-12 Paul Harris: The Act)
50
End Grip Overcount with Biddle steal
1988 32
Edward Marlo Marlo Flexible Count
1988 37
Brother John Hamman Overcount Variations see following pages as well
1989 130
Brother John Hamman The Countback
1989 150
Karl Fulves Up The Ladder "swindle count in which any small number of cards can be counted as any larger number, and any number of cards can be concealed"
1989 14
Karl Fulves Overcount Off the Deck here two as three
1989 25
Bill Wisch Top Secret Count false counts off the top of the deck, over, under, hiding cards
Variations 1989 39
Randy Wakeman Overcount with Packet
1989 25
Ellis Stanyon Stanyon Count three-as-four Elmsley count
1989 72
Alex Elmsley Everchange Count four as five while hiding one
Also published here May 1989
Inside Out (Issue 6)
14
Edward Marlo 4-as-5 Count
Also published here
  • Sticks & Stones #13, 1978
May 1989
Inside Out (Issue 6)
16
Juan Tamariz, Francis Carlyle Note III - False Count Tamariz' version of Carlyle's false count
Inspired by 1989/91 243
Edward Marlo The Olram Count
Related to 1990 30
Edward Marlo, Norman Osborn Unlimited Display
1990 4
Simon Aronson Upjog Upset Unlimited Count
Inspired by 1990 65
Edward Victor Eye Count
1990 70
Ellis Stanyon Stanyon Count
1990 74
Edward Marlo, Norman Osborn Unlimited Display Sequence
1990 84
Edward Marlo Unlimited Count
1990 96
Alex Elmsley Everchange Count four as five while hiding one
VariationsAlso published here 1991 74
Alex Elmsley Neverchange Count four as five, hiding one
1991 81
Eric de la Mare de la Mare False Count four as five, variation of Stanyon Count
Also published here 1991 232
Norman Osborn, Edward Marlo Unlimited Display
1991 6
Paul Harris P.H. Snap Count audible, two as three
1991 22
Edward Marlo Unlimited Count
1992 12
Biddle Steal Count
Dec. 1992
The Minotaur (Vol. 4 No. 4)
7
Ellis Stanyon Two-as-Three Count
1992 72
Mac King, Mark Aspiazu Howdy! I'm Mac King and This is My Count five as six (for example), with snapping sound
Related to Sep. 1992
Magic Man Examiner (Vol. 1 No. 4)
12
Elmer Biddle ビドルムーブによるフォールスカウントI (Biddle Move as a False Count I)
1993 89
Elmer Biddle ビドルムーブによるフォールスカウントII (Biddle Move as a False Count II)
1993 89
Elmer Biddle Cuenta Biddle Biddle Steal, as a steal and a false count
1993 259
Paul Harris P.H. Snap Count audible, two as three
1994 98
Alex Elmsley 5 as 6 False Count
1994 219
Alex Elmsley Everchange Count Variation
Inspired by 1994 464
Brother John Hamman Hamman Count two as three
Dec. 1994
The Minotaur (Vol. 6 No. 4)
13
Alex Elmsley Everchange Count four as five while hiding one
1994 175
Edward Marlo 4-as-5 Count four as five while hiding one, Everchange Count handling
Inspired byAlso published here
  • Sticks and Stones No. 13, 1978
1994 177
Jack Avis Upright Count
Inspired by
  • "Perfect False Count" (Brian MacCarthy, Modern Sleights, 1934, p. 10)
1994 179
Cy Endfield, Bill Simon Endfield-Simon Count four as five
Also published here 1994 182
Jack Avis Flip Up Put Back Count cards counted off the top of the deck, left thumb flips the cards up one by one
  • The Genuine Count
  • The False Count
  • The Force
1994 188
Eric de la Mare De La Mare Count four as five
Also published here 1994 217
Bob King Slide Count cards taken from left dealing position into right fingertips, card stolen back
1995 8
Verbal Backwards Counting
1995 6
Paul Harris Snap Count
1995 64
Jerry K. Hartman, Brother John Hamman Simplified Undercount
1995 138
Paul Harris Snap Count audible
1995 ca. 8
Paul Harris P.H. Snap Count audible, two as three
1996
The Art of Astonishment — Book 1 (Issue The Magic of Paul Harris)
53
Bill Malone Las Vegas Leaper Count II spectator counts himself
1996
The Art of Astonishment — Book 1 (Issue Las Vegas Close-Up)
188
Paul Harris Snap Count one as two
1996 59
Paul Harris Overcount from Deck
Related to 1996
The Art of Astonishment — Book 3 (Issue Magical Arts Journal)
243
Francis Carlyle, Paul Harris The Carlyle False Count
1996
The Art of Astonishment — Book 3 (Issue Magical Arts Journal)
246
Edward Victor EYE Count
1996 128
Peter Duffie Oversiter two eight-card packets, two cards travel across, Biddle counts
1996 7
Mac King, Mark Aspiazu Copdiddle Count five as six (for example), with snapping sound
Related to Aug. 1996
Magic (Vol. 5 No. 12)
76
Larry Jennings The Six/Four Count verbal false count
1997 74
Larry Jennings The Alpha Count one as two
Also published here 1997 182
Norman Osborn Unlimited Count
1997 110
Karl Fulves Front Loading Osborn's Unlimited Count handling
1997 120
Ron Bauer The Take-Back Count Switch
Inspired by 1997 139
Edward Marlo Covered False Count
1997 32
Ellis Stanyon Three-as-Four Count
1997 27
Roger Crosthwaite The Pull-Back False Count
Inspired byRelated to 1997 39
Bob White, J. B. Bobo A False Count for example five as six
Also published here 1997 9
Paul Harris False Click Count here used to count off two (really one) cards from a packet
Oct. 1997
Onyx (Issue 1)
26
The Over-count off the top of the deck
1998 606
Karl Fulves Takeaway seven-as-nine count, a Three taken away, only six cards remain
1998 270
Ellis Stanyon The False Count No. 5, card moved back
1999 33
Ellis Stanyon The False Count No. 8, slipping card back
1999 295
Ellis Stanyon The False Count (Second Method) No. 9, with sound effect
1999 295
False count face-down card below three face-up Aces is shown as a face-down card between four Aces
1999
Labyrinth (Issue 11)
17
Chuck Smith Optical Display to show two cards as three
2000 6
Terry LaGerould The Fool's Count cards counted from top to bottom, rotation
2001 23
Francis Carlyle Walking Finger Count
Apr. 2001
Magic (Vol. 10 No. 8)
76
Armando Lucero The Full Circle False Count e.g. four as five, each card pivoted
Also published here Aug. 2001
Magic (Vol. 10 No. 12)
81
Four as Five Count one card outjogged
2002 131
Lewis Jones Stainless steal cards dealt into right hand off the top of the deck, cards secretly stolen back to deck
2002 31
Ross Bertram Ross Bertram's false count
2003 151
Psychological False Count "six plus four is ten"
2003 14
Two-as-Four Count with two cards
2003 14
Francis Carlyle Walking Finger Count
2003 17
Paul Harris Snap Count audible, two as three
Also published here 2003 23
Steve Beam Killer Count method to false count packet for any number, with Hamman Count
  • Variation #1 - Even Cards
  • Variation #2 - Even Cards
  • Variation #3 - Beamsley Count
  • Large Numbers
VariationsAlso published here 2004 58
Lewis Jones Omega False Count
2004 146
Steve Beam Killer Count method to false count packet for any number, with Hamman Count
Also published here 2004 1
Two-As-Three Count
2004 44
Derek Dingle The False Count
Also published here 2004 25
Bob White, J. B. Bobo A False Count for example five as six
  • White's Comments
Also published here 2005 24
Francis Carlyle Walking Finger Count
2006 160
Ron Bauer Audible Count
2006 37
Arturo de Ascanio Ascanio's In-Transit Count snap overcount, thumb in between cards
Also published here 2006 94
Ken Krenzel Finesse on the Killer Count handing cards to the spectator
Inspired by 2006 213
Nick Pudar The Pudar Count
2007 106
False count “over-count” five cards as six
2007 3
Edward Victor E-Y-E Count
2008 79
Steve Beam Counter Measures - The Killer Count method to false count packet for any number, with Hamman Count
  • Even Number
  • Variation #1 - Even Number
  • Variation #2 - Even Number
  • Finesse
  • Large Numbers
  • Boomerang (Doug Canning)
  • The Hamman Switch
Also published here 2008 23
Edward Marlo Unlimited Count
Mar. 2008
Antinomy (Vol. 4 No. 1)
20
Francis Carlyle, Steve Beam Push-off Overcount off the top of the deck
2009 24
Biddle Overcount
2009 30
John Guastaferro Overturned Counts cards are turned over while counted one by one
1. Overturned Elmsley
2. Overturned Stanyon
2010 77
Psychological False Count 14-13-12-... and x makes y
Also published here 2010 13
Steve Reynolds Bluff Count Cop three as four while tabling every card
  • True Bluff Count
Inspired by 2010 17
Al Schneider False Count from top of deck
2011 458
E-Y-E Count to show two as three
2013 60
Biddle Overcount
2013 77
Paul Harris P.H. Snap Count
Also published here 2014 171
Edward Victor The EYE count
2014 176
Two-as-Four EYE Count
2014 219
Two for Four Count
2014 14
Arturo de Ascanio Ascanio's In-Transit Count
2014 99
Norman Osborn Double Count counting a double faced card twice to show four of a kind
Also published here 2014 105
Steve Beam Killer Count method to false count packet for any number, Hamman Count look
Also published here Oct. 2014
Genii (Vol. 77 No. 10)
26
Victor Farelli Double Push-Off
Related to 2015 21
Less-as-More Count
2015 22
Psychological False Count 14-13-12-... and x makes y
Also published here 2015 12
Dai Vernon Perfect-Pitch False Count
Related to 2016 34
So Sato Vertical Three as Four Count Elmsley Count alternative
2016 87
Edward Marlo Count 7 Carlyle count like
2017
Facsimile (Issue 6)
22
Brother John Hamman Countback
Oct. 2018
Elixir (Vol. 2 No. 1 (Summer #2))
96
Two as Four count
2018 62
Psychological False Count "six plus four is ten"
Oct. 2018
Genii (Vol. 81 No. 10)
26
Five as Six Count simple overcount
2020 247
Steve Reynolds Loose Ends: Meddler's Bluff Vanish four cards shown as seven, using bluff pass
Inspired by
  • "Meddler's Assembly" (Steve Reynolds, Cosmic Sport, 2001)
Related to
2020
Output (Issue 9)
17
Larry Jennings The Alpha Count with sound
Also published here 2020 520
Arturo de Ascanio Ascanio's In-Transit Count snap overcount, thumb in between cards
Also published here 2020 131
Dai Vernon On the False Count from private lecture notes by P. Howard Lyons
2022 88
Norman Osborn Double Count counting a double faced card twice to show four of a kind
Also published here 2022 655
Brent Braun The Eleven-Finger Count eleven cards are counted, one vanishes leaving only ten, verbal false count (showing a six-spot instead of counting the number six)
Variations Apr. 2023
Genii (Vol. 86 No. 4)
62
Armando Lucero The Full-Circle False Count e.g. four as five, each card pivoted
Also published here 2024 31
Edward Marlo Two-as-Four Display Subtlety only two card are briefly shown as four
2024 66
Allan Ackerman Revolution Count Variation Kings shown as eight cards
Inspired by 2024 81