262 entries in Cards / Sleights / False Count / Undercounts (as less than are there)
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
A. J. Showing Five as Four counting off cards one by one, last one is double
Dec. 1904
Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 10 No. 12)
182
Charles T. Jordan Count Steal right hand counts cards from deck in left hand one by one, packet stolen at one point from bottom, also as undercount on p. 19
Also published here 1920 18
Charles T. Jordan Count Transfer as cards are counted into right hand with faces towards audience, one card is moved there behind the scenes
1921
The Four Full Hands (Issue Four Full Hands of Card Tricks)
18
Undercount off the top of the deck into right hand
1931 22
Undercount off the top of the deck into other hand
1933 13
Tommy Tucker The New False Count Principle using the Glide
1933 15
Laurie Ireland A False Count to be Used when Dealing Off the Deck featuring push-off
Related to 1935
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1935, "New Card and Coin Manipulation")
8
Eddie Joseph False Count glide position, similar to a Biddle steal
1939 12
Glide False Count for six-card repeat
1939 36
d. As a False Table Count on a tabled packet with double deal
1940 16
Buckle Count
1940 255
A False Count count off more cards from the deck as pretended
1940 415
To Deal Four as Three
1940 415
False Table Deal buckle undercount on the table
1940 416
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
Tom Sellers A False Count
1941 10
Eddie Joseph Undercount last block counted as one
1941 11
Al Baker Undercount from left-hand dealing position into right hand one on top of the next, double push
Also published here 1941 3
Buckle Count
1942 21
Pick-Up False Count
1943/27 205
Glide False Count
1943/27 207
John Booth The Booth False Count
1943/27 224
Stanley Collins Glide False Count based on Collins' four ace routine - sleight
1943/27 227
The False Count for Less
1946 55
Arthur H. Buckley The Count (Second Method)
1946 91
Buckle Count
Dec. 1946 275
Dai Vernon, Charlie Miller Buckle Count see credit on page 50
1947 48
Buckle Count
1948 58
Frederick Braue Fan False Count glide
1948 11
Dai Vernon The False Count buckle count
1949
Stars of Magic (Vol. 5 No. 3)
82
To deal four cards as three off the top of the deck into the right hand
1950 6
Buckle Count brief
1950 6
The "Buckle Count"
1950 100
Buckle Count onto table
1950 10
Edward Marlo The Group Count for More off the top of the deck
1953 29
Edward Marlo Double Count Handling for More cards counted reversed to bottom
1953 31
Edward Marlo One-Hand Buckle Count brief
1953 37
Dai Vernon Display Count
1954
Stars of Magic (Vol. 12 No. 1)
159
The Buckle Count
1954 17
The Buckle Count
1954 202
Six Card Repeat Count
1954/27 72
Buckle Count
1954/27 73
"Senator" Clarke Crandall One Handed Buckle Count
1954/27 80
Cy Endfield The Buckle Count
1955 58
Dai Vernon The Buckle False Count
1957 57
Unlimited Count bottom card starts reversed
1957 4
Edward Marlo Double Buckle Vanish card vanishes from packet
  • With all Five Cards Face Down
  • With all Cards Face Down
  • With all Cards Face Up
  • To Show all Cards and Reverse the Selection During the Process
  • Devilish Miracle Handling
  • The Triple Buckle Vanish
June 1957
Ibidem (Issue 10)
15
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
Everett Lyda Five Card Super Vanish card vanishes from five-card packet and returns, buckle count
1957 15
Buckle Count
1958 20
Glide False Count
1958 29
Tom Crane On the Piano Music False Count spectator and performer count simultaneously
Related to Mar. 1958
Ibidem (Issue 13)
10
Edward Marlo Second Example in example: twelve as nine
1959 39
Matt Schulien Undercount palm-off or block
1959 86
Dai Vernon The Push-off Count
1960 84
Dai Vernon The Buckle Count
  • To count cards onto the table.
  • To count cards into the other hand.
1960 86
Undercount to Table/Spectator's Hand
1961 145
Buckle False Count also as Ace production
1961 46
Push-Off Count into fan configuration
1962 54
Unlimited Count bottom card starts reversed
1964 1
Dai Vernon Spreading Six Card as Five
1967 165
John Booth Six Card Repeat Count buckle count
1970 8
Allan Ackerman Counting Four as Three
1970 30
Reverse Biddle Steal add card from bottom of deck as you peel cards off top
1970 19
Dr. Jacob Daley False Count To Add Cards No. 529, cards fairly counted off deck, then packet added with palm action, not enough details
1972 149
Sam Leo Horowitz Horowitz's Glide Count For 4 Ace Trick No. 605, Collins type
Related to 1972 168
Max Malini Malini's Card Vanish No. 708, dropping two cards together in count to table
Also published here 1972 190
Undercount Off the Deck
July 1973
Epilogue (Issue 18)
168
Push-Off Count
1973 9
Jack Chanin True or False
Also published here 1974 99
Karl Fulves Seven As Four false count which ends in a fan of three doubles and a single card
July 1974
Epilogue (Issue 21)
200
Karl Fulves The Phantom Count four as three, five as four, ...
1975 128
Francis Carlyle Francis Carlyle False Count tips on the Carlyle false count, not learnable from that description
Related to 1975 23
The Push-Over False Count
1975 170
John Booth, Dai Vernon Push-Off Count brief
1976 2
Harvey Rosenthal Optical Count
1976
Epilogue (Issue Special No 4)
293
Gambler's Count Vanish Glide False Count
1976
Epilogue (Issue Special No 4)
295
Fred Robinson More For Less
Jan. 1976
Pabular (Vol. 2 No. 5)
207
The Buckle Count
1976 85
False Count buckle count with unusual take
1976 46
Edward Marlo F.O.E. (Faked Out Elmsley) kind of bluff thing
1977 123
Buckle Count
1977 84
Doug Alker Three Card Buckle
Jan. 1977
Pabular (Vol. 3 No. 5)
351
Eric Mason Caboodle 5/4 count, showing them all as double backers
Related to Sep. 1977
Pabular (Vol. 4 No. 1)
461
Jeff Busby Elmsley Count Variation
1977 10
Jack Chanin True or False
Also published here 1977 38
The Elmsley Count - Added Comment Elmsley Count as overcount or undercount
1977 45
Buckle Count
1977 65
Edward Marlo Buckle Count triple buckle
1977 80
Ken Krenzel The Pressure Hideout
1978 31
Ken Krenzel Last Card Push
Related to 1978 247
Paul Harris Las Vegas Leaper Count spectator counts himself
1978 113
Jeff Busby 6-as-5 Count Elmsley type
1978 1070
Karl Fulves Omega Count seven as five
1978 1097
Pablo Domenèch The False Count double push off, four as three
Also published here 1978 115
Karl Fulves Contact 5-as-4 using card with hole
1979 12
Das Buckle-Zählen
Aug. 1979
Intermagic (Vol. 6 No. 2)
56
Edward Marlo Counting More Cards as Less first false count
1980 127
Edward Marlo Fourth False Count
1980 130
Push-Off Double Deal from small packet
1980 67
Push Off False Count thirteen as twelve
1980 6
Karl Fulves Outjogged 5-as-4 Count
1980 11
Jack Avis Siva Count five as four
1980 6
The Buckle Count
1980 158
Push Off False Count
1980 159
Buckle Count Explained
1980 26
Biddle Count for over- or under-counting a packet
1980 26
The Slide Back Count similar to Carlyle's version
Related to 1981 12
Dai Vernon The Buckle Count
1981 13
Karl Fulves 7-as-5 Count
1981 59
Buckle Count brief
1981 4
Cy Endfield Buckle Count Variation cards end up in reversed order
Also published here
  • "The Buckle Count" in "The Gen" Vol. 8. No. 5, p. 147
1981 3
The Basic Count card drawn into left hand one by one, last card is thick block
1981 36
Michael Skinner Block Pushoff Technique
1982 39
Karl Fulves 5-as-5 Count with bill openly between cards
1982 23
Christian Scherer Der Scherer Count 1. Die Entwicklung des Scherer count
2. Grundhaltung und Grundgriff
3. Der Scherer count
4. Der Scherer count Variation I
5. Der Scherer count Variation II
1982 3
Christian Scherer Der Scherer Spread
  • 1. Die Entwicklung des Scherer spread
  • 2. Grundhaltung und Grundgriff
  • 3. Der Scherer spread
  • 4. Der Scherer spread Variation I
  • 5. Der Scherer spread Variation II
  • 6. Der Scherer spread Variation II als Falschzählmethode (as false count)
  • 7. Der Scherer spread Variation III
  • 8. Der Scherer spread von 6 als 4 Karten
  • 9. Das Ablegen der Karten aus dem Scherer spread (lay down)
  • 10. Anmerkungen zur Handhabung von spreads und counts
Related to 1982 23
John Ramsay False Count
1982 52
Edward Marlo Non-Saliva Vanish
1983 40
Harry Lorayne "Gem" False Count x cards as x-1, based on Gemini Count
June 1983
Apocalypse (Vol. 6 No. 6)
787
Edward Marlo Marlo Count Displacement five as four, card extracted with buckling at penultimate count, originally from TOPS
1983
Facsimile (Issue 1)
12
Edward Marlo Olram's Hidden Count five as four, one hidden and not displaced
VariationsAlso published here 1984
Edward Marlo The Olram Count Olram Subtlety as false count
1984 301
Edward Marlo Marlo Count Displacement five as four, card extracted with buckling at penultimate count, originally from TOPS
1984 340
Harry Lorayne "Gem" False Count x cards as x-1, based on Gemini Count
Oct. 1984
Apocalypse (Vol. 7 No. 10)
979
Leaper Count spectator counts himself, cards start reversed
1984 4
Edward Marlo Olram's Hidden Count five as four, one hidden and not displaced
Also published here 1984 133
Unlimited Undercount with jumbo cards
1984 12
Edward Marlo "Trite" But All Right four red cards into 4 black cards, including two false count techniques
Jan. 1985
Apocalypse (Vol. 8 No. 1)
1011
Ken Krenzel Pressure Hideout
July 1985
Apocalypse (Vol. 8 No. 7)
1089
To Count Off Five Cards as Four from deck
1985 24
Charlie Miller False Counts off the deck (1939)
  • Four as Three
  • Two as Three
1985 30
Charlie Miller Charles Miller Notes: 3.15.40 - To Deal Four as Three (1940)
1985 1
Frederick Braue Braue Three-Card Show four as three
1985 1
Bucle False Count Onto Table
1985 11
Block False Count push-off
1985 11
Push-Off Undercount on spectator's hand
1985 10
Larry Jennings E.J. Count Elmsley Jennings Count, counting x as x-1 using double push off
1986 172
Larry Jennings All Fair Show five as four in twisting routine
1986 199
Nick Pudar Versatile Count under- or overcount
Oct. 1986
Apocalypse (Vol. 9 No. 10)
1265
Edward Marlo Extra Card Take when taking cards off the top of the deck
1986 30
Edward Marlo Marlo Count five as four, top and bottom pulled together on first count
1986 17
David Regal Triple Buckle Handling
1987 32
Edward Marlo The Razor's Edge covering thick edge
1987 109
Edward Marlo The Sail Count from deck to table
1987 112
Ken Simmons Deal and Take
Related to 1987 53
Ken Krenzel Pressure Hide-Out
1988 103
Stephen Minch Push-Off Count and Pull-Down Move credit information
Related to 1988 22
Gene Maze Snap Spread four as two or four as three
Aug. 1988
Apocalypse (Vol. 11 No. 8)
1529
Paul Harris Las Vegas Leaper Count spectator does counting
1988
Magical Arts Journal (Vol. 2 No. 9-12 Paul Harris: The Act)
47
Edward Victor Undercount from Top of Deck with sound
1988 49
Brother John Hamman The Undercount cards counted off top of deck, a card is counted back
1989 38
Edward Marlo Push-Off False Count off the to of deck, to reposition card
1989 9
Bill Wisch Top Secret Count false counts off the top of the deck, over, under, hiding cards
Variations 1989 39
Bill Wisch Six Card Repeat Count
1989 41
Edward Marlo Undercount to Table small packet counted onto table one by one, hiding one card
1989 23
Gary Kurtz Zarrow's Triple Buckle
1990 58
Buckle Count
1990 19
Gary Ouellet The Paradise Count
  • The Paradise Count
  • The Starting Position
  • The Top Pull-Up
  • The Bottom Push-Down
  • The Bottom Pull-Down
1990 87
Four as Three Count off the top of the deck
Also published here 1990 4
Buckle-Count
1990 15
Biddle False Count three as five
June 1991
The Minotaur (Vol. 3 No. 2)
6
Der Buckle Count
Dec. 1991
Intermagic (Vol. 16 No. 4 & 5)
194
Push Off False Count
Dec. 1991
Intermagic (Vol. 16 No. 4 & 5)
195
Stanley Collins Collins Aces Packet False Count
1991 123
T. Page Wright New Collins Aces Packet False Count from dealing position
1991 124
T. Page Wright A False Count from end grip, reverse biddle steal
1991 132
Michael Close Steranko Outdone handling for the last double card
Related to 1991
Magic Man Examiner (Vol. 1 No. 3)
2
Jon Racherbaumer What About the Buckle Count? credit essay referring to notes by Stephen Minch
Related to Apr. 1992
The Olram File (Issue 11)
8
Arturo de Ascanio Dos Juegos con la Cuenta de "Pasa Paquete" om the Buckle Count (Las Cuentas de "Pasa Paquete" y "Deja Paquete")
1992 56
Steve Draun Finessed Clayton Rawson Fan Concealment not a count
1993 96
Rafael Benatar As a False Count featuring the Pivoting Double
1993 9
Jon Racherbaumer, Stephen Minch More on the Buckle Count corrections and additions to the article, quotes from correspondence with Stephen Minch
Inspired by Sep. 1993
The Olram File (Issue 13)
6
Edward Marlo Side-Jog Pull-Down in example twelve cards counted as nine
1993
The Olram File (Issue 15)
15
バックルカウント (Buckle Count)
1993 87
テーブル上へのバックルカウント (Buckle Count above a table)
1993 88
ダブルバックルカウント (Double Buckle Count)
1993 150
Dai Vernon Die "Buckle - Zählmethode"
1993 17
Vicente Canuto La Cuenta Bucle buckle count
1993 237
Vicente Canuto La Cuenta por Empuje push-off count
1993 239
Elmer Biddle Cuenta Biddle Biddle Steal, as a steal and a false count
1993 259
Karl Fulves Practicing Push-Off Count see box
1994 14
5-as-4 Count brief
1994 86
Dai Vernon Vernon's Fake Count off the top of the deck, starting with block
Related to 1995 196
Edward Marlo A Marlo Extra utility false count, or vanishing card in packet, reversed cards and pulldown, stud turnover to bottom
Related to 1995 148
Edward Marlo No Break Multiple Pull Down Buckle with jog as preparation
Related to 1995 149
Buckle Count
1995 24
The Buckle Count
1996 318
The Push-off Count
1996 319
Paul Harris Las Vegas Leaper Count spectator does counting
1996
The Art of Astonishment — Book 1 (Issue Las Vegas Close-Up)
185
Paul Harris Las Vegas Leaper Count spectator counts
1996
The Art of Astonishment — Book 3 (Issue Magical Arts Journal)
243
Michael Close The Last Card Push handling the last block in an undercount
Related toAlso published here 1996 67
Pablo Domenèch False Count double push off, four as three
Also published here 1996 14
Pablo Domenèch False Count while placing cards on each Ace
1996 28
Pablo Domenèch Cuenta por Doble Retencion double push-over from a small packet
1996 171
Pablo Domenèch Cuenta por Triple Retencion double push-over from a small packet
1996 175
Pablo Domenèch Cuenta 5 Como 4
1996 200
Peter Duffie Oversiter two eight-card packets, two cards travel across, Biddle counts
1996 7
Nick Trost Seven Card Count Variation of Six Card Repeat, credit information
Related toVariationsAlso published here
  • The Linking Ring, Feb. 1955
1997 19
Karl Fulves Flat Count
1997 112
Buckle Count brief
1997 5
Edward Marlo The Sail Count from deck to table
1997 31
Alexander de Cova 2. Buckeln oder Buckle comments
1998
Intermagic (Vol. 22 No. 2)
50
Ken Krenzel Pressure Fan Hide-Out
1999 16
The Buckle Count
1999 48
The Modified Buckle Count
1999 54
Max Malini Malini's Card Vanish dropping two cards together in count to table
Also published here Nov. 1999
Genii (Vol. 62 No. 11)
32
Justin Higham Count-Action Bottom Deal cards counted from left-hand dealing position into right-hand dealing position
  • Necktied Version
  • Count-Action Double Deal
  • As a Switch
Also published here 1999 25
Buckle Count
2001 175
Harry Lorayne Counted Out selection appears in middle of four-card packet, with five-as-four count
Inspired byVariationsAlso published here 2001 315
Ken Krenzel Pressure Hideout
2002 161
Verbal Backwards Counting 12-11-10-9-8-7-6
2002 27
Al Baker Undercount from left-hand dealing position into right hand one on top of the next, double push
Also published here 2003
The Secret Ways of Al Baker (Issue Magical Ways and Means)
143
Daryl Martinez Daryl's Diminishing Count DDC
basic Rising Crime Display, counting into left hand from end grip, double lift on last card
Related to 2003 38
Four as Three Count off the top of the deck
Also published here 2003 6
Karl Fulves False Count Note credit information on holding the last two cards together
Related to
  • "Magic and Its Professors" (1902, Evans)
2004 372
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
Steve Beam Killer Count method to false count packet for any number, with Hamman Count
Also published here 2004 1
Buckle Spread and Count
2004 156
Michael Close Last Card Push handling the last block in an undercount
Also published here 2005 120
Jack Avis Flip-Up Put Back Count - A Utility Move every card angled up with the left thump
  • First, the Method of Counting
  • To Count Less
  • As a Force
  • The Double Deal Double Lift
  • Double Deal
2006 154
Ken Krenzel Finesse on the Killer Count handing cards to the spectator
Inspired by 2006 213
Father Cyprian Pivot Count credit?
"...the Pivot Count, a move explained by Father Cyprian many years ago in one of his lecture notes."
2007 287
Dai Vernon, Buckle Count
2008 254
Arturo de Ascanio Take and Tap push-off count, five as four cards, spread display
2008 139
Steve Beam Unbuckled Count third finger buckle applied to buckle count
Related to 2008 15
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
Arturo de Ascanio Buckle Count Subtlety
Also published here Feb. 2008
Genii (Vol. 71 No. 2)
15
Ken Krenzel Last Card Push
Related to Oct. 2008
Genii (Vol. 71 No. 10)
18
Fred Robinson Fred Robinson's False Count e.g. five as four on the table
2009 144
Fred Robinson In the Hands False Count
2009 148
Ken Krenzel Tabled Lift False Count counting cards from tabled deck into hand
2009 9
Joseph K. Schmidt The SC Count glide undercount
2009
Prolix (Issue 6)
374
Arturo de Ascanio An Ascanian Buckle Count Subtlety
Also published here 2010
Secret Agenda (Issue Nov 10)
334
Harry Lorayne Counted Out selection appears in middle of four-card packet, with five-as-four count
Also published here 2011 144
Dai Vernon The Buckle Count
2011 39
Gabi Pareras Cuenta Bucle del meñique buckling bottom card of deck or small packet
  • Separación del meñique
  • La cuenta
2012 86
Gabi Pareras Cuenta en abanico taking cards from top and showing them, hiding one in process
  • Con acción de mostrar
  • Con acción de dar (Joaquin)
2012 89
Dai Vernon Buckle Count
2013 19
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
Block Push-Off False Count packet counted, second to last card push-off
2015 27
Pull-Down Undercount
2015 22
John Lovick Buckle Count Tip
2016 46
Sylvan Barnet Back Count three as four counted from deck, first one stolen back
Related to
  • Genii (July 1944)
2016 192
Das Buckle Zählen
2016 32
Edward Marlo Count 1 off the deck, with sucker element
2017
Facsimile (Issue 6)
16
Edward Marlo Count 2 buckle count, last card snaps off fingers
2017
Facsimile (Issue 6)
17
Jon Racherbaumer Buckle Count Credit Information Charlie Miller should get credit, according to Vernon
2017
Facsimile (Issue 6)
30
Paul Harris Vegas Leaper Count spectator counts
Dec. 2017
Genii (Vol. 80 No. 12)
59
Buckle Count
2018 60
Daniel Rhod Intervisual Count five as four, brief
2019 68
Dai Vernon Buckle Count
2020 43
Larry Jennings First Method: Bounce Double double turned over unto tabled packed, it bounces off other hand's finger, packet display application which hides several cards
2020 180
Larry Jennings The Rhythm Count (With Five Cards) five as four
2020 286
Larry Jennings The Rhythm Count (With Six Cards) six as four
2020 290
Arturo de Ascanio "Passing packet count" push-off count
2020 93
Arturo de Ascanio Loose Count four as three cards, hiding bottom card
2020 132
Gordon Lift Addition scoop up addition type
2021 25
Andrew Frost Double Deal also for false counting
2022 84
Dai Vernon False Count Move push-off count handling, from private lecture notes by Ernest Shattock
2022 74
Laurie Ireland Card at Any Number Count block deal
Related to 2022 177
Push-Off Count with comment that buckle count is bad
Also published here
  • Genii, Nov. 1962
Aug. 2023
Genii (Vol. 86 No. 8)
31