618 entries in Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Spectator locates Card
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Jon Armstrong The Lucky Chip spectator locates a chosen card with a chip, selection is predicted on back of chip
Inspired byAlso published here 2011 58
Darwin Ortiz Test Your Luck spectator stabs random card next to named card
Related toVariationsAlso published here 2012 255
Darwin Ortiz Sorcerer's Apprentice spectator and performer locate each other's cards
Related toVariations 2012 277
Roberto Giobbi The Fine Print spectator finds selection with guarantee card
2012 155
Allan Ackerman A Cull for R. B. "for Rafael Benatar" (for named-cards notion), spectator pushes performer's favorite card in deck between two previously named cards
Also published here 2012 53
Michał Kociołek You Know Better from a shuffled deck, three spectators find the mates of their cards, apparently by intuition, "Gemini Twins" with three cards
Inspired byAlso published here 2012 6
John Born Numerical Reverse Revisited Card peeked, lost, magician divines card, and spectator then magically predicts the location of the card
Inspired by 2012 49
Justin Higham Half-Bluff Location performer and spectator each choose a card, one card in deck touched, selections are on either side
2012 10
Justin Higham Shared Prophecy spectator and performer each name a card, joker is stabbed between them by spectator
  • Shuffled-Deck Version
Variations 2012 12
David Redondo La Copa Adivina selection is found by placing a glass on spread cards partial forcing stack
2012 41
Patrick Lehnen Tamar-X spectator cuts to his named card
2013 8
Axel Hecklau Karte unter Schachtel
Inspired by 2013 22
Carlos Vinuesa I Will Make Two Piles and You Will Touch One card freely selected from shuffled borrowed deck, after spectator returns it and shuffles, magician makes two piles and discards one until two cards are left, the one touched by the spectator is the chosen one
2013 80
Dominique Duvivier Premonition-Telepathy spectator finds a chosen card, then divines one
June 2013
Genii (Vol. 76 No. 6)
86
Justin Higham Named-Card Stab with method to get named card openly under control while removing the Ace of Spades
Variations 2013 28
Father Alex Finally You're a Psychic two spectators each select a card, third spectator pulls out two cards, turns out to be the selections, uses dual reality
2014 14
Joseph Barry Another Ruse for Magicians... spectator shuffles, card is on top or at least under control
Also published here 2014 17
Joseph Barry Don't Stop Thinking stop trick at thought-of card, think stop, then spectator stops at performers card
2014 20
Paul Vigil From Your Pocket, Sir deck put in spectator's pocket, spectator pulls out selection, credit information
Inspired by 2014 245
Joseph Barry Another Ruse for Magicians... spectator shuffles, card is on top or at least under control
Also published here 2014 7
Tomas Blomberg Matest -Phase one- two spectators select the same card
-Phase two- ungaffed handling for Doc Eason "Anniversary Waltz"
2014 66
Tomas Blomberg Matest Inverted -Phase one- two spectators select the same card, which was signed at the back
-Phase two- second card is selected and signed at the face, signature travels from the first card to the second one
2014 68
Tomas Blomberg Time After Time three spectators mix a selection in a third of the deck each, it ends up on top eventually
Inspired byAlso published here 2014 283
G The Eye (天眼) Spectator stops on and finds magician's card
2014 62
Simon Aronson Two-fer spectator locates four selections, and also four Aces as a surprise
2014 81
John Carey Straight Down The ... spectator chooses card to complete a Straight which then changes into a Royal Flush
Jan. 2014
Genii (Vol. 77 No. 1)
42
Caleb Wiles Fully Automatic Card Trick
  • Ringside
instructions on some of the cards tell the spectator what to do to locate his selection, Aces show up as well
Feb. 2014
Genii (Vol. 77 No. 2)
32
Caleb Wiles Spin the Wheel, Make the Deal
  • Ringside
signed card chosen and lost, a tiny suitcase used to locate it, card predicted on back of suitcase, selection found folded inside
Inspired by May 2014
Genii (Vol. 77 No. 5)
42
James Alan Card Under Irony selection lost, spectator choses card from tabled spread, mate of selection appears under phone and spectator found selection
Nov. 2014
Genii (Vol. 77 No. 11)
44
Patrick G. Redford Card Counter performer divines card, then spectator does so with multiple cards
Also published here
  • “Card Counter” (Patrick G. Redford, Square 2010, n. p.)
2014 99
Patrick G. Redford Variation #1: Two Person Simulated Thought of Card at Number one spectator thinks of card, other spectator deals and stops at it, dual reality
2014 119
Helder Guimarães Extending the Luck card chosen, coin used to narrow deck down to one card, on back of coin is corner that matches selection, single card is missing this corner suddenly
Inspired byRelated toAlso published here 2015 47
Steve Beam Dicey Location selected card is found by having a spectator roll a dice to generate three random numbers
Related toAlso published here 2015 62
Steve Beam Deep Down Dicey Location Four Dice are rolled to arrive at a random number where a selected card can be found in the deck.
Related to 2015 63
Harry Lorayne Spread Control (Magician's Choice) three selections, packets on table, one chosen, it contains the selections
Related to 2015 135
Eric Stevens Happenstance Magician divines chosen card, spectator names exact position of the card, then manages to locate the card amongst a few packets
2015 21
Jerry K. Hartman Crossed Thoughts deck shuffled, spectator chooses a card as performer deals through cards, then a second card is freely thought of and writes it on the back of the first selection, performer does same procedure afterwards and the selection matches the spectator's thought of card written on the back and vice versa
Sep. 2015
Genii (Vol. 78 No. 9)
47
Karl Fulves Club Double with Ace through Ten of Clubs in a row, performer writes both cards on billet upside down in reverse order
2015
The Lowdown (Issue 1)
19
Pit Hartling Thought Exchange performer and spectator each glimpse a card in one half, they locate each other's cards, half stack
Inspired byRelated to 2016 70
Pit Hartling Just Like That performer and spectator each think of a card, they locate each other's cards
VariationsAlso published here 2016 112
Made-to-measure Magic - The Problem deck spread on table, length named and measure, card at that position is selection, posed as problem
Variations 2016
Hidden Agenda (Issue May 31)
155
Roberto Giobbi Made-to-measure Magic - A Solution deck spread on table, length named and measure, card at that position is selection
Inspired by 2016
Hidden Agenda (Issue Aug 31)
251
Roberto Giobbi, Theodore Annemann The Three Roses red-backed card put in blue-backed deck, deck in glass, card named in three stages, it's odd-backed card
Inspired by 2016 166
John Wilson The Parabola spectator cuts to his selection, breather
2016 9
Christoph Borer Pendulum spectator finds selection of other spectator with a pendulum
Also published here 2016 217
Steve Beam Dicey Location selected card is found by having a spectator roll a dice to generate three random numbers
Also published here 2016 15
Roy Walton A Rajah Sundial spectator locates card in small packet
2016 158
John Cottle, Joseph Barry 2 Way Out two outs for lost selection
Dec. 2017
Operandi (Issue 2)
18
Michał Kociołek You Know Better from a shuffled deck, three spectators find the mates of their cards, apparently by intuition, "Gemini Twins" with three cards, additional handling for five cards (Royal Flush)
Inspired by
  • "Four-Sided Gemini" (John Bannon, Destination Zero, 2015)
Also published here
2017 19
Ricky Smith The Odds Against Us spectator cuts at his card, then it travels to envelope
Also published here 2017 45
Harry Lorayne One Locates Two spectator puts locator card between two selections, Lorayne Force application
2017 249
Ondřej Pšenička Diplopia on Steroids Diplopia done with Butterfly Cards, magician and spectator each pick of a card, then find each other's card, uses Butterfly cards
Inspired by 2017 82
Robert Ramirez Casting the Spell No. 1, performer and spectator each select a card, one spells to the other
2017 3
Chris Rawlins Drop Card spectator with eyes closed locates a selection with elimination process, stopping over tabled spread multiple times
  • Another Approach (gaffed method)
Also published here
  • "Drop Card" (Mind Experiments, Chris Rawlins, 2010)
2017 47
Helder Guimarães Extending the Luck card chosen, coin used to narrow deck down to one card, on back of coin is corner that matches selection, single card is missing this corner suddenly
Also published here Aug. 2017
Genii (Vol. 80 No. 8)
54
Johnny Thompson Card on the Seat spectator is sitting on card signed by performer
2018 107
Asi Wind The Trick that Never Ends spectator cuts to his named card, features a final choice which card the spectator wants, includes impromptu handling
Variations 2018 81
Asi Wind Reverse Engineer spectator names a card and reverses a card below the table, it is the named card
Inspired by
  • Derren Brown effect from "Tricks of the Mind"
Related to
2018 109
Steve Beam The Simple Truth spectator tries to guess selection, similar to the lie speller plot
2018 80
Harry Lorayne Spread Control Impossibility three cards lost, three three-card packets on table, spectator choses one, it has all three selection
2018 119
Harry Lorayne Two To Reverse two cards pushed reversed into other half, they turn out to be previous selections, Rosini's Double Reverse
Inspired byRelated to 2018 202
Jon Racherbaumer What Could Possibly Go Wrong? spectator makes four piles and finds selection and its mates, "applies Phil Goldstein's handling-extension of Billy O'Conner's Count-Back Force"
Feb. 2018
Genii (Vol. 81 No. 2)
51
Alexander de Cova Remote Control odd-backed unknown card signed on back is chosen from face
Inspired by 2018 105
Matt Baker Casablanca spectator names card, then removes a card an pockets it, performer as well, spectator has predicted performer's selection with previously named card and performer divines spectator's card
Inspired byRelated toAlso published here 2019 31
Matt Baker Location Sensing Device Magician locates spectator's card, and vice versa
Inspired by 2019 40
Matt Baker Subconscious Shuffle Tracking Magician cuts to spectator's selection, then spectator stops and finds their own selection, then magician cuts to the three other mates
2019 176
Matt Baker Outlier card freely named by spectator, spectator then selects a card from the deck, rest of the deck is shown to be duplicates of another card, but the selected card is the named card, uses a Double Decker deck
Also published here 2019 242
Yves Carbonnier Melchisédech fifteen minute card act, selections are found, quartet changes into other, gun trick, card to lemon
2019 166
Yves Carbonnier 1. Le Spectateur de Trop spectator finds three selections
2019 169
Iñaki Zabaletta Homenaje a Le Paul with Cambio al Voltear
Inspired by 2019 97
Helder Guimarães Synchronicity "An Act of Pure Luck"
  • First and Second Phase: spectator and performer each select a card from half the deck and find each other's cards, spectator via Tantalizer
  • Third Phase: cards at chosen position in both halves match, then whole deck is mated
Inspired by 2019 432
Patrick G. Redford Perspicacity Spectator can determine which card has been added into another deck after a quick flick
2019 52
Patrick G. Redford Stab Your Mate Joker is stabbed next to selection, next to mate of selection, and spectator is also able to do it
Inspired by 2019 212
Andi Gladwin Aura three selections lost, first found by performer in face-down spread, second with deck in performer's pocket, third by spectator who reaches into pocket
Related to 2020 221
Ben Train 192020 selection lost, spectator reverses a card under the table, its value used to count to selection
2020 260
Steve Reynolds Smokey Mates two cards chosen, prediction is used to find a card and matches the card, both card change into second selection and its mate
2020
Output (Issue 7)
1
Jim Steinmeyer Three Wishes spectator finds performer's card after some counting and down-under deal
Inspired by
  • Scarne's Miracle Card Finder
2020 6
Jim Steinmeyer Four Your Next Trick performer doesn't touch the cards, spectator locates performer's thought-of card
2020 26
Larry Jennings The Nopen Prediction (No. 1) spectator stops at his own card during biddle count
2020 530
Edward Marlo He Did It Again! one of six cards is chosen by spectator, spectator reverses his selection in the packet himself, then the cards are mixed and he chooses it again
Inspired by
  • Jon Racherbaumer routine in New Pentagram, Sept. 1979, Vol. 11 No. 7
July 2021
Elixir (Vol. 3 No. Special Chicago Issue #1)
35
Edward Marlo, Steve Reynolds Marlo's Stop Trick for Daley: A Speculation dribble stop and one-handed top palm
2021
Output (Issue 16)
15
Jon Racherbaumer The Blind Leading the Blind
  • Exhumations
performer finds spectator's touched selection while spectator finds performer's thought-of selection
Inspired by Nov. 2021
Genii (Vol. 84 No. 11)
41
Michał Kociołek Synch performer and spectator each have half the deck, shuffle it and cut it into four piles, both remember a card from one pile and assemble the packets, the halves are exchanged and dealt, both stop at each others cards
Inspired by 2021 8
Moritz Mueller Just the Two of Us
  • Den Weg nach Hause finden
  • Ein Sonderfall
2021 44
Ryan Goh Double Thot spectator finds performer's card and vice versa
Inspired byRelated to 2021 59
Eugene Burger The Marked Card card marked with sticker on back, psychological face-up spread force
Inspired by 2021 276
John Graham, Theodore Annemann A Card in Hand card changes in spectator's hand, stabbing presentation
Inspired by 2021 3
John Graham Business Card Prophesy two cards selected and lost, card touched in spread and the two cards next to it are the selections, touched card changes into selection from previous trick
Inspired by 2021 6
John Graham Discovery card lost, spectator deals some cards and then re-deals those cards into four piles, on top of chosen pile is his selection, on top of the remaining three piles are three previous selections
Inspired by
  • "Ace Discovery" (Hen Fetch, Impromptu Card Routine, 1956)
2021 9
Justin Higham Shuffled Three Location spectator names cards, performer removes Three of Spades, spectator riffle shuffles and cuts Three into deck which is used to locate selection, with method to get named card openly under control while removing the Three of Spades
Inspired by 2021 6
Max Malini Standard Sleights various quick locations
2022 293
Dai Vernon Nameless four cards chosen, spectator shuffles and takes out four cards which are shown as the selections, from private lecture notes by Ernest Shattock
Related to 2022 74
Paul Cummins Tap A Lack one thought-of card by performer and one by spectator, performer finds spectator's card and vice versa
Inspired byVariationsAlso published here 2022 415
Tom Frame Single Handedly spectator peeks at card, performer goes under table with one hand with deck, then card is reversed, repeat with spectator having the performer peek at a card
Also published here
  • MAGIC, Aug. 2006
2022 526
Tony Binarelli Millennium Supermentalism a spectator finds another spectators's selections, jumbo index mixed with normal index
Inspired byAlso published here
  • MAGIC, Aug. 2007
2022 644
John Carey Cut Off Point
Also published here
  • MAGIC, Feb. 2010
2022 926
Joshua Jay Expertalk: Josh Jay on Aces by Proxy spectator shuffles and takes out any four cards, they are previous selections, switch handling
Inspired byRelated toAlso published here
  • MAGIC, May 2011
2022 1031
Paul Vigil Diplopia one thought-of (and removed) card by performer and one by spectator, performer finds spectator's card and vice versa
Inspired byAlso published here 2022 1076
John Carey Sub-Conscious
Also published here
  • MAGIC, Feb. 2012
2022 1096
Joshua Jay Think As I Think spectator and performer each think of a card and find each other's card
Also published here 2022 1250
Deane Stern Free Choice five cards removed from face-down spread, one chosen and lost, spectator finds it again, other cards are shown to be Aces
Inspired by 2022 60
Juan Tamariz A Suit to Order several spectator select cards, all are from same suit and in order
Related to 2022 18
Joshua Jay Think as I Think spectator and performer each think of a card and find each other's card
Also published here 2022 60
Juan Tamariz Another Suit to Order several spectators select cards, all are from same suit and in order
Related to 2022 15
Alex Elmsley By a Narrow Margin
  • Exhumations (Jon Racherbaumer)
card chosen and lost, packet removed, spectator removes one card from it and it is selection or leads to it
Also published here Sep. 2023
Genii (Vol. 86 No. 9)
58
Scott Baird Tap-a-Stack one selected card by performer and one by spectator, performer finds spectator's card and vice versa
Inspired by Jan. 2023
The Hermit (Vol. 2 No. 1)
585
Michał Kociołek Synergic one selected card by performer and one by spectator, performer finds spectator's card and vice versa, no faces looked at by performer other than his selection
  • with slight variation by Scott Baird
Inspired by
  • "Kismet" (The Classic Magic of Michael Vincent, DVD, 2009)
Jan. 2023
The Hermit (Vol. 2 No. 1)
592
John Carey Empowered spectator peeks a card, performer thinks of one, performer places his card on table, then spectator names his guess for performer's card, performer takes out spectator's card, both shown
  • A Note from Scott
Inspired by Jan. 2023
The Hermit (Vol. 2 No. 1)
616
Cameron Francis Cardnection spectator touches a card which is reversed, it turns out to be a previous selection
Mar. 2023
The Hermit (Vol. 2 No. 3)
682
Iain Moran Magician's Nephew performer and spectator cut to each other's card
Inspired byAlso published here
  • on DVD Zen Magic
Mar. 2023
The Hermit (Vol. 2 No. 3)
694
Matt Baker Casablanca spectator names card, then removes a card an pockets it, performer as well, spectator has predicted performer's selection with previously named card and performer divines spectator's card
Also published here 2023 9
Matt Baker The Misfit Deck any card named, it is found by spectator, all other cards are shown to be duplicates of another card
Related to
  • "Out of Sight" (Joshua Jay, marketed)
Also published here
2023 23
Helge Thun Das Tuch des Todes four signed Kings lost in deck, the are found again with the help of a handkerchief, with management of divided cards for subsequent routines
  • Erste Kartenproduktion (card rises from handkerchief-covered deck and floats up)
  • Zweite Kartenproduktion (card through handkerchief with cased deck)
  • Dritte Kartenproduktion (cased deck put in handkerchief, spectator reaches in and locates card)
  • Vierte Kartenproduktion (card appears on face of deck in glass with handkerchief cover)
2023 29
Ricky Smith The Odds Against Us spectator cuts at his card, then it travels to envelope
Also published here 2023 65
Francesco Fontanelli Think As I Do performer and spectator each think of a card and lose it, they locate each other's cards, impromptu
Inspired by 2024 17
Allan Ackerman A Cull for R. B. "for Rafael Benatar" (for named-cards notion), spectator pushes performer's favorite card in deck between two previously named cards
Also published here 2024 57
Allan Ackerman, Baltazar Fuentes An Ungaffed Ted do as i do type location often done with marked cards, memorized deck
Also published here 2024 171
Allan Ackerman The Spell of Sachs any card named, spectator spells any name and finds card thought of by performer, when spelling again the named card
Inspired by
  • "To Cause a Card to Appear in Any Position in the Pack" (Sachs, Sleight of Hand, 1885)
2024 193