Call to the Colors

32 entries in Cards / Effect Themes / Red Black / Separation / Call to the Colors
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
John Scarne The Scarne Puzzle original six-card version
Related to 1949 Controlled Miracles 21
Bill Simon Call to the Colors
Related toVariationsAlso published here 1952 Effective Card Magic 79
Dai Vernon Black and Red Puzzle Small packet version (false dealing)
 		1967 Ultimate Secrets of Card Magic 37
Gene Maze Shades Of Bill Simon six reds and six blacks
Variations 1973 Wonderful Routines of Magic — The First Addendum 43
Edward Marlo Bluff Call to Colors "Group Count"
Variations 1977 Marlo's Magazine Volume 2 226
Edward Marlo Miracle Call to Colors
1977 Marlo's Magazine Volume 2 229
Martin A. Nash Colors On The March see p. 449 for additional crediting
Also published here 1977 Any Second Now 275
Frederick Braue The Braue Handlings twelve cards, seconds and bottoms
  • Six and Six alternating
  • Alternating to Pairs
  • Alternating to Triplets
  • Pairs to Alternating
  • Pairs to Triplets
  • Triplets ot Alternating
  • Triplets to Pairs
  • Alternating to Six Red, Six Black
 		1978 Fred Braue on False Deals 16
Frederick Braue A Routine
1978 Fred Braue on False Deals 18
Gustave Southall The Gus Southall Routine from a letter, 1961-01-10
optional stripper deck finale
 		1978 Fred Braue on False Deals 20
Martin A. Nash Colors on the March
Also published here 1980 Colors on the March 8
Martin Gardner MG Trio #1 six red cards and black cards in two rows, collected alternating, suddenly they are in pairs r-r, b-b, ...
Related to 1989 Prototype 19
Martin Gardner MG Trio #2 variation of previous trick
Related to 1989 Prototype 20
Edward Marlo No False Colors
1990 That's It 17
John Scarne Triple Knockout order of four red and four black cards changes, using bottom deal
 		1991 Swindle Sheet (Issue 8) 88
Al Smith Colours On Demand
  • Cutting The Colours
  • Dealing The Colours
  • Deckspertise
 		1991 Hot Stacks & Cold Decks 9
Bill Simon Call to the Colors (Llamar a los Colores) translation by Jesús Etcheverry
VariationsAlso published here 1992 La Magia de Ascanio — Vol. 3 150
Alex Elmsley What a Party! adding faro principles
 		1994 The Collected Works of Alex Elmsley — Volume 2 369
Gene Maze Control of the Colors using center deal, Spade Flush finale
Inspired by 1994 Gene Maze And The Art Of Bottom Dealing 132
Jack Avis Another Call, Another Place bottom deals instead of second deals
Related toVariations 1994 Roger's Thesaurus 186
Bob King Subway
Inspired by 1995 Opening Night Magic 8
René Lavand Why Do the Colors Alternate Themselves? (A Call to the Colors)
1998 The Mysteries of my Life 53
Guy Hollingworth A "Call to the Colours" Routine ending in New Deck Order
Variations 1999 Drawing Room Deceptions 202
Doug Conn Long Distance Call to the Colors with full deck separation climax
 		1999 Tricks of my Trade 90
Hideo Kato Call To The World
Inspired by Apr. 1999 Genii (Vol. 62 No. 4) 45
Davide Costi Alternating the Colors (Presentation) emphasis on the presentation, Ascanio's version of Bill Simon's "Call the colors"
Inspired by 2004 Close-Up Elegance by Davide Costi 67
Wesley James Etude for Dealers credit information on the plot, four Aces kicker
 		2004 Enchantments 249
Juan Tamariz Colors on Parade
  • To Reassemble the Stack
  • A Good Routine
  • Another Routine
  • Scarne's Concept
  • Alternated Sequence from normal Mnemonica Order
  • Color Separation (with a Divination)
Inspired by 2004 Mnemonica 186
Jack Avis Another Call - from Another Place bottom dealing instead of seconds
Related to 2006 Rara Avis 22
Andi Gladwin Red/Black to the Future
Also published here 2006 Sometimes it's Hard to be a Cardman 34
Arturo de Ascanio Alternating the Colors three phases
Inspired byRelated to 2008 The Magic of Ascanio — More Studies of Card Magic 64
Andi Gladwin Red/Black to the Future
Inspired byAlso published here 2020 The Boy Who Cried Magic 159