Turning Time Back

60 entries in Cards / Effect Themes / Illogical Things / Turning Time Back
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Stuart Towne, Don Diavolo The Time Formula fairly selected card (6 duplicates used) predicted via mirror writing, time traveling presentation
Related to 1940
The Jinx (Issue 96)
591
Edward Marlo The Time Machine 3&3, three reds and blacks are alternated, Ace of Spades put in center of one half, the other half shuffled upside-down, all things are undone when traveled back in time, writing of time written on a business card vanishes
Variations Sep. 1956
Ibidem (Issue 7)
2
Roy Walton Back Into Time similar to "Time Machine", see also p. 388
Related toVariationsAlso published here Sep. 1970
The Pallbearers Review Vol. 5-8 (Vol. 5 No. 11)
363
Roy Walton Travellers in Time red and black cards are separated, each half mixed face-up into face-down and top card placed into center, time machine plot, cards again on top, all cards face-down and mixed
VariationsAlso published here 1971
Cardboard Charades
22
Paul Harris The Time Machine using a black piece of cardboard as time machine three Kings vanish and reappear in deck
Also published here 1980
Close-up Fantasies — Book II
1
Peter Warlock Das Wicks' Thema time turned back, illustrated with
  • Triumph (cheek to cheek)
  • linking ropes
  • transposing balls in glasses
  • numbered dice
Inspired by
  • "Lost Time" (Charles Wicks, The Magic Wand)
Also published here
  • Pentagram, 1955
 May 1981
Intermagic (Vol. 8 No. 1)
33
Roy Walton Travellers in Time red and black cards are separated, each half mixed face-up into face-down and top card placed into center, time machine plot, cards again on top, all cards face-down and mixed
Also published here 1981
The Complete Walton — Volume 1
69
Larry Jennings, Roy Walton Morlock's Revenge red-black shuffle, Triumph, single ambitious phase, time-travel presentation
Inspired byVariations 1983
The New York Magic Symposium — Collection 2
56
Roberto Giobbi Die Zeitmaschine red-black shuffle, Triumph, single ambitious phase, time-travel presentation
Inspired byAlso published here 1987
Card Stories
16
Roy Walton Back Into Time similar to "Time Machine"
Also published here 1988
The Complete Walton — Volume 2
165
Jerry Sadowitz The Backward Card Trick "begins by revealing a card that has not yet been selected, after that things get even more perplexing."
 		1989
Cards on the Table
20
Gary Kurtz Hypothetical Possibilities ambitious card, signature vanishes and reappears, wallet
Variations 1990
Unexplainable Acts
11
Gary Kurtz Hypothetical Possibilities ambitious card, signature vanishes and reappears, wallet, revised handling
Inspired byAlso published here 1992
Prinzipien in der Praxis
7
Dan Fleshman Malini-Freeman Twist Time Machine meets Inversion
 		July/Aug. 1992
The Magic Menu (Vol. 2 No. 12)
130
Sid Fleischman The Wrong Way Card Trick card trick performed backwards, card first produced from pocket and shown, then lost, then selection made, it's another card that changes into original card, selection then produced from pocket
 		1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
114
Darwin Ortiz Time and Again
Inspired by 1995
Cardshark
86
Gary Kurtz Hypothetical Possibilities ambitious card, signature vanishes and reappears, wallet, revised handling
Also published here 1995
Lecture Notes 1995
14
Paul Cummins The Trick that never happened red and black cards are separated, each half mixed face-up into face-down and top card placed into center, time machine plot, cards again on top, all cards face-down and mixed
Inspired byAlso published here 1996
from a shuffled deck in use... Part One
7
Paul Harris The Time Machine using a black piece of cardboard as time machine three Kings vanish and reappear in deck
Also published here 1996
The Art of Astonishment — Book 2 (Issue Close-up Fantasies 1 & 2)
249
Stephen Clark Event Horizon "Impromptu Time Paradox"
sandwiched card turns out to be later selection, future trap
Related to 1997
The Fine Print (Issue 6)
132
Steve Freeman The Time Machine two-card transpo plus Ambitious Card theme
Related toVariations 1998
Card College — Volume 3
588
Michael Skinner Skinner's Time Trick Finesse
Inspired by
  • "The Time Machine" (Steve Freeman, Genii, Vol. 34 No. 7, 1981)
Also published here 		Nov. 2000
Genii (Vol. 63 No. 11)
25
Roy Walton Back Into Time red and black cards are separated, each half mixed face-up into face-down and top card placed into center, time machine plot, cards again on top, all cards face-down and mixed
Also published here 2001
Omerta
8
Paul Cummins The Trick That Never Happened red and black cards are separated, each half mixed face-up into face-down and top card placed into center, time machine plot, cards again on top, all cards face-down and mixed
Also published here May 2002
Magic (Vol. 11 No. 9)
80
Roberto Giobbi, Larry Jennings All's Well That Ends Well red-black shuffle, Triumph, single ambitious phase, time-travel presentation
Inspired byAlso published here 2003
Card College — Volume 5
1361
Edward Marlo, Ron Bauer Time Machine three reds and blacks are alternated, Ace of Spades put in center of one half, the other half shuffled upside-down, all things are undone when traveled back in time
Inspired by 2004
Time Machine
2
Ron Bauer Some Miscellany on Time Travel
2004
Time Machine
23
Jay Sankey Back In Time slop shuffle with time travelling presentation
Related toVariations 2004
Sankey Unleashed
1
Dan Buck, Dave Buck The Greek Time Machine face-up version of Steve Freeman's Time Machine
Inspired byVariations 2006
Sleightly Magical
28
Dan Buck, Dave Buck, Theron Schaub A Game with a Ghost card to pocket finale
Inspired by 2006
Sleightly Magical
28
Scott Robinson HG's Pocket two cards placed in pocket and returned to deck, they travel back into pockets, time travel presentation
Also published here 2010
Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 8
18
Dani DaOrtiz Time Moves in Reverse
  • DaOrtiz a la Carte!
number named, card counted to, it is torn and vanishes, found restored at same position minus one corner
Related to May 2012
Genii (Vol. 75 No. 5)
34
Gabi Pareras La Máquina del Tiempo time machine type effect, card placed in center transposes with card on top
 		2014
7 Efectos de Cartomagia
16
Benjamin Earl Selected Time Travel card changes into selection with time travel framing, with time traveling trick references
Inspired byAlso published here 2016
This is not a Box
7
Mike Pisciotta The Time Lord Time Machine with humorous prediction finale
Inspired byAlso published here 2017
The Workshop — The Notes of Mike Pisciotta
1
Mike Pisciotta Jokers Thru Time signed card type effect with four Jokers and four-for-one transposition
Related to
  • "Time Traveler" (Ramon Rioboo)
Also published here 		2017
The Workshop — The Notes of Mike Pisciotta
10
Michael Skinner Skinner's Time Trick Finesse
Inspired by
  • "The Time Machine" (Steve Freeman, Genii, Vol. 34 No. 7, 1981)
Also published here 		2017
Preserving Mystery
114
Ryan Schlutz Presentation Idea: Bill and Ted variation of "Before the Thought" in which thought-of card vanishes and reappears in wallet
Related toAlso published here 2018
False Anchors — Volume Three
23
Scott Robinson H. G.'s Pocket two signed cards are openly placed into different pockets and openly removed, then they magically travel back to pockets, time-travel theme
 		2018
Pure Imagination
187
Alberto de Figueiredo Back in Time back in time presentation, card in wallet vanishes and is selected by spectator, then it is signed vanishes from deck and appears back in wallet, Himber
 		2018
Veinticinco
197
Benjamin Earl Selected Time Travel card changes into selection with time travel framing, with time traveling trick references
Also published here 2019
Real Magic
19
Mike Pisciotta The Time Lord Time Machine with humorous prediction finale
Inspired byAlso published here 2019
As Within, So Without
1
Mike Pisciotta Jokers Thru Time signed card type effect with four Jokers and four-for-one transposition
Also published here 2019
As Within, So Without
7
Benjamin Earl M-Theory ambitious card, signature vanishes and reappears
Inspired by 2019
The Shift #2
23
Roberto Mansilla Volver al Presente card at named number is signed, vanishes among odd-backed four of a kind and appears back at initial position
Inspired by 2019
Çerca
119
Helder Guimarães Crossing the Mirror "Welcome to Wonderland"
signed selection out-jogged in tabled half, top card of other half shown and outjogged, the cards kind of transpose à la Time Machine effect
Inspired by
  • "The Time Machine" (Steve Freeman, Genii, Vol. 34 No. 7, 1981)
 2019
Secret Language — Volume 1
288
Ryan Plunkett The Time Machine top and bottom card shown, another card selected, all cards lost in the center, selection emerges from deck and top and bottom cards return as well
  • A Tapered Variant (version with stripper deck)
Inspired byVariations 2020
Distilled
85
Ryan Schlutz Presentation Idea: Bill and Ted variation of "Before the Thought" in which thought-of card vanishes and reappears in wallet
Also published here 2020
False Anchors
95
Nick Vlow DMC-12 handling for time machine, using Raise Rise
Inspired by
  • "The Time Machine" (Steve Freeman, Genii, Vol. 34 No. 7, 1981)
 2020
Magic for BLM
263
Larry Jennings Triumphantly Turning Back Time Time Machine, followed by Triumph
Inspired byRelated to 2020
Mr. Jennings Takes It Easy
245
Scott Robinson H.G.'s Pocket two cards placed in pocket and returned to deck, they travel back into pockets, time travel presentation, two pseudo-signed duplicates
Also published here 2020
The Session 2020
26
Paul Cummins The Trick That Never Happened red and black cards are separated, each half mixed face-up into face-down and top card placed into center, time machine plot, cards again on top, all cards face-down and mixed
Also published here 2022
Talk About Tricks (Issue 1)
80
Joshua Jay Expertalk: Joshua Jay on Triumph: Totally Triumph in the hands, turning back time presentation
Inspired byAlso published here
  • MAGIC, Nov. 2008
 2022
Talk About Tricks (Issue 2)
803
Chris Piercy One Step Further slop shuffle with time travelling presentation, ends in new deck order
Inspired byVariationsAlso published here
  • MAGIC, Dec. 2012
 2022
Talk About Tricks (Issue 2)
1166
Donavon Powell One Step Further Variation slop shuffle with time travelling presentation, ends in new deck order
Inspired byAlso published here
  • MAGIC, Feb. 2013
 2022
Talk About Tricks (Issue 2)
1187
Jerry K. Hartman Back to Back Into Time card out-jogged in center shown and pushed in, top two cards shown and placed together in center, then out-jogged cards are only one card and the pair back on top, asymmetric Time Machine
Inspired byAlso published here
  • MAGIC, May 2013
 2022
Talk About Tricks (Issue 2)
1206
Francesco Fontanelli The Time Machine top and bottom card shown, another card selected, all cards lost in the center, selection and top and bottom cards return again
Inspired by 2024
Lecture Notes
14
Roberto Giobbi Thinking About Time
2024
Unexpected Agenda (Issue July 12)
205
Joshua Jay Back In Time Hollingworth's in-the-hands Triumph with Sankey's time travelling presentation
Inspired byVariations 2024
Particle System
80
Joshua Jay Bigger Back in Time version with three selections that spell out the current time
Inspired by 2024
Particle System
86