Corner Short

166 entries in Cards / Principles / Locator Cards / Short Cards / Corner Short
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Theodore Annemann The Last of the Think Stop Tricks two cards, think stop by selecting number between one and ten, duplicates
 		1934
SH-H-H--! It's A Secret
28
Theodore Annemann The Migrating Pasteboard card travels from red half to black half, corner-short stranger card
 		1935
The Jinx (Issue Summer Extra 1935)
44
Softened Corner corner bent back and forth until soft/broken, short card substitute
 		1937
Encyclopedia of Card Tricks
395
Theodore Annemann Composite Routine spectator remembers card and its position, performer places card in pocket, turns out to be selections, three phases with different methods
 		May 1937
The Jinx (Issue 32)
206
Forcing a Corner-Shorted Court Card
1938
Greater Magic
333
The Short Card discussing Types of Short Cards, Cutting a Short Card
 		1938
Greater Magic
364
Impromptu Short Card broken corners
 		1938
Greater Magic
464
Ralph W. Hull The Tuned Deck six phases, two corner shorts
Related to 1938
Greater Magic
517
Dr. Jacob Daley Short Card Anecdote
Feb. 1940
The Jinx (Issue 79)
516
Eddie Joseph "I Get The Aces" Aces shuffled into deck by spectators, red or black Aces produced as chosen
 		1941
How Gamblers Win
4
Theodore Annemann Impromptu Tricks Using A "Short" Card general remarks
A. Trimmed End
B. Broken Corner
C. Corner Short
 		1943
Full Deck of Impromptu Card Tricks
40
Theodore Annemann Composite Routine spectator remembers card and its position, performer places card in pocket, turns out to be selections, three phases with different methods
 		1943
Full Deck of Impromptu Card Tricks
44
Theodore Annemann The Migrating Pasteboard card travels from red half to black half, corner-short stranger card
 		1943
Full Deck of Impromptu Card Tricks
45
Henry Christ Lies! Lies! Lies! corner short or one-way back
 		1943
Full Deck of Impromptu Card Tricks
48
Corner Short Peek Force
1945
Future Reverse
12
J. B. Bobo The Isolated Key corner dotted card in center as reference
 		1947
Watch This One!
32
George G. Kaplan The Corner-Short
1948
The Fine Art of Magic
4
George G. Kaplan The Secret Gadget using nail-clip to short corners
 		1948
The Fine Art of Magic
5
George G. Kaplan Advantages of the Corner-Short Procedure general comments on the use of corner shorts
 		1948
The Fine Art of Magic
5
George G. Kaplan Locating the Corner-Short, and the Delayed-Action Control using the corner-short
 		1948
The Fine Art of Magic
6
George G. Kaplan The Pencil Dot mark for the corner-short
 		1948
The Fine Art of Magic
6
George G. Kaplan Avoiding Contrasts how to address the problem of white edges after cutting corners short
 		1948
The Fine Art of Magic
8
To Bring the Corner-Short to the Top of the Pack
1948
The Fine Art of Magic
8
George G. Kaplan The Kaplan Fan Cut method to bring corner short to the top
 		1948
The Fine Art of Magic
9
George G. Kaplan To Bring the Corner-Short to the Bottom of the Pack two methods
 		1948
The Fine Art of Magic
11
George G. Kaplan To Control a Selected Card by Means of the Corner-Short Hindu shuffle
 		1948
The Fine Art of Magic
12
George G. Kaplan The Kaplan Control of a Glimpsed Card by Means of the Corner-Short
1948
The Fine Art of Magic
12
George G. Kaplan Retaining Control of several Glimpsed Cards by Means of the Corner-Short
1948
The Fine Art of Magic
14
George G. Kaplan Controlling Three Selected Cards by Means of the Corner-Short Hindu Shuffle handling
 		1948
The Fine Art of Magic
16
George G. Kaplan To bring a Prearranged Packet above a Chosen Card by Means of the Corner-Short
1948
The Fine Art of Magic
18
George G. Kaplan Obtaining a Desired Packet Instantly by Means of the Corner-Short
1948
The Fine Art of Magic
19
George G. Kaplan Using the Corner-Short to Retain a Prearranged Deck in Order using corner-short as divider
 		1948
The Fine Art of Magic
19
George G. Kaplan Out-of-the-Room Selection using the corner-short
 		1948
The Fine Art of Magic
42
George G. Kaplan The X-Ray Location newspaper over scattered cards using the corner-short
 		1948
The Fine Art of Magic
43
George G. Kaplan Double-Back Corner-Short Location out of the room selection
Related to 1948
The Fine Art of Magic
44
George G. Kaplan Mind-Reading with Two Subjects two card location using the corner-short
 		1948
The Fine Art of Magic
46
George G. Kaplan The "Impossible" Discovery odd/even separation with corner-short as divider
 		1948
The Fine Art of Magic
46
George G. Kaplan The Twenty-Sixth Card Location - Using a Corner-Short
1948
The Fine Art of Magic
47
George G. Kaplan Au Naturelle magician says "stop" at a card whose value is used to count to selection, "Natural Card" (see next item)
 		1948
The Fine Art of Magic
48
George G. Kaplan The Topsy-Turvy Fan using odd/even separation and corner-short
 		1948
The Fine Art of Magic
51
George G. Kaplan The Captain Kidd Card (First Version) card lost, spectator deals through cards and performer stops him at a card whose value indicates position of selection, Natural Key
 		1948
The Fine Art of Magic
101
George G. Kaplan The Lie Detector
Variations 1948
The Fine Art of Magic
110
The Deck Switch selection found in pocketed deck
 		1948
The Fine Art of Magic
184
George G. Kaplan The Medium´s Card Test 14/15 forced from one deck, card at that position in second deck has been predicted
 		1948
The Fine Art of Magic
185
George G. Kaplan Yogi Spelling Test four groups of six progressive spelling sequences
 		1948
The Fine Art of Magic
186
George G. Kaplan The Eighteen-Cards Spelling Trick one of eighteen cards thought of and then revealed with spelling procedure
 		1948
The Fine Art of Magic
188
George G. Kaplan The Triple Spelling Trick with the corner-short
 		1948
The Fine Art of Magic
191
George G. Kaplan The Three-Billet Test No. 1 card chosen and two thought of, all written on billets, performer divines them
 		1948
The Fine Art of Magic
193
Don Alan Corner Riffle Force by Timing
Also published here 1951
Close-Up Time wit Don Alan
6
Don Alan Card in the Egg card is selected and miniature version found in plastic egg, all cards in deck are the same as climax
Variations 1951
Close-Up Time wit Don Alan
9
Audley Walsh Audley's Best edge-marked deck, featuring Audley Walsh's memorized deck order with mnemonics
 		Dec. 1952
The Phoenix 251 — 300 (Issue 270)
1078
Edward Marlo Broken Corner corner short substitute, Note 1
 		1956
Fingertip Control
22
Salwaro Leitkarten various locator cards, key cards
 		1956
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 17 No. 3)
424
Russell "Rusduck" Duck Flip Deck cutting to any named card, gaffed deck
Related to Sep. 1957
The Cardiste (Issue 4)
13
Peter Warlock No Guesswork card inside envelope finale
Inspired by
  • Edward G. Brown's "Three Guesses" in "The Sphinx" Vol. 42. 1943. P. 59.
 1959
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1959)
38
George Blake Devil Divination one of six cards, spectator looks for his card in two halves
  • The Added Revelation
  • A Synopsis
Inspired by
  • Hull's "Mental Discernment"
 1959
Devil Divination
1
Norman Osborn Double Choice
1962
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1962)
71
Edward Marlo Tapping on Table to locate a type of short card
 		1964
The Patented Shuffle (Issue 5 I Shuffled the Cards)
10
Dai Vernon The Corner Short tapping on table for locating corner short
Related to 1967
Ultimate Secrets of Card Magic
150
Victor "Astor" Jamnitzky Das Forcieren einer Karte riffle force to corner-shorted card
 		1967 (ca.)
The Astor-Deck
6
Ed Balducci Cut Deeper Force with a short card to set-up
 		1968
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1967-68)
99
J. B. Bobo Triple Threat Card dotted, corner short, edge marked
Related to
  • Genii, Aug. 1947, p. 368
 July 1968
The Pallbearers Review Vol. 1-4 (Vol. 3 No. 9)
194
Rolf Andra Ein kartenmagisches Rätsel after some dealing card ends up at known position
 		1969
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 30 No. 2)
34
Edward Marlo Reverse Fingertip Control forcing thick or short card, riffled from the back to the front, two methods
 		1970
Advanced Fingertip Control
64
Edward Marlo Tapping on Table to locate corner short, see also references where Vernon credits a San Francisco gambler
Related to 1970
Advanced Fingertip Control
64
Edward Marlo Incredible Fingertip Location two fingertip peeked at cards are located with lots of shuffling by spectator, corner short (Marlo Key Card)
 		1970
Advanced Fingertip Control
65
Edward Marlo Triple Fingertip Control corner short card (Marlo Key Card)
 		1970
Advanced Fingertip Control
66
Edward Marlo Marlo Key Card two corner shorts, punch, crimp, edge mark, see page 156 for additional observations
Related to 1970
Advanced Fingertip Control
69
Edward Marlo Corner Short Control multiple cards one by one using Marlo Key Card, tabled shuffles
 		1970
Advanced Fingertip Control
104
Edward Marlo Pre-Determined Four - Fourth Effect A Fingertip Peeked card vanishes, waxed corner short
 		1970
Advanced Fingertip Control
107
Rolf Andra Der Zauberkreis selection is located using a card to count to it, cards are placed in a circle configuration
 		1971
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 32 No. 3)
42
Roger "Hervey" Vuille Le Coin Coupe on the corner short
  • Confection d'un coin coupé
  • Repérage du coin coupé
  • Remarques
 		1972
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 33 No. 1)
9
Roger "Hervey" Vuille Tour avec le Coin Coupé card at number from bottom of the deck, glide
 		1972
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 33 No. 2)
36
Victor Farelli, Rolf Andra Ein verblüffender "Reverso"-Trick three selections end up reversed in the deck
 		1972
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 33 No. 3)
42
Roger "Hervey" Vuille Encore le Coin Coupé wrong card changes into selection
 		1972
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 33 No. 3)
48
Roger "Hervey" Vuille Toujours Le Coin Coupé performer selects same card as spectator, stripping packet from center to select a card
 		1972
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 33 No. 4)
69
Jochen Zmeck Ein Super-Kartenfinden three packets made, spectator looks at bottom card of one packet and shuffles everything together with performer's back turned, three different short cards
 		1972
Sieben mal Drei
10
J. B. Bobo Triple Threat Card dotted, corner short, edge marked
 		Oct. 1973
Intermagic (Vol. 1 No. 2)
34
Philip T. Goldstein On the Corner Short advantages, finding it, controlling a selection with it
 		1974
Card Tricks for People Who Don't Do Card Tricks
2
Theodore Annemann Snapped Corner corner broken but attached
 		1974
Card Tricks for People Who Don't Do Card Tricks
3
Karl Fulves Technicolor Cards performer cuts to four Aces, but they have different back color, then he cuts to correct Aces but then deck changes color
  • The Magician Cuts to the Aces
  • The Gambler Cuts to the Aces
Inspired byRelated toVariations 1974
New Stars of Magic (Vol. 1 No. 6)
1
Roger Smith IF Cover Up Control #3 same with corner short key
 		1975
The Faro Sorcery Trilogy — Number 1
5
Roger Smith Faro Shuffling With a Short Card
1975
The Faro Sorcery Trilogy — Number 1
13
Roger Smith The Short Card Faro Force peek force in IF condition, faking IF control
 		1975
The Faro Sorcery Trilogy — Number 1
13
Bernard Bilis Everywhere Everywhere and Nowhere variation, five cards shown to be the same card before changing into five selections
 		1976
Close Up, French Style
11
Hannes Höller Kurze Karte several methods of short cards, corner shorts
 		1978
Einfach Wunderbar — Wunderbar Einfach
130
Jack Yates, Ken De Courcy Notes by the Editor
  • Keep the Sequence
  • False Shuffles and Cuts
  • With Two People
  • Short Corner
 		1978
Jack's Pack
5
Ken De Courcy As a Location System using the stack as an open index, with optional corner shorts at regular intervals
 		1978
Jack's Pack
7
Short Corner
1978
The second now you see it, now you don't!
37
Wayne Wall Signed, Sealed, Stabbed and Delivered card is selected and name written on an envelope. Envelope is placed inside spiral-bound deck, deck in order, missing card is selection
 		1979
The Card Book
3
Thomas Alan Waters LeNormand's Legacy question is written on a blank tarot card, card lost in the deck and a reading is given
Related to
  • T. A. Waters in "Genii" Vol. 28, No. 1, 1963
 1981
Mind, Myth & Magick (Issue Omnimancy)
99
Thomas Alan Waters LeNormand's Legacy II question is written on a blank tarot card, card lost in the deck and a reading is given, different handling
 		1981
Mind, Myth & Magick (Issue Omnimancy)
101
Roger Crosthwaite The Crosthwaite Key Card with ink dot
 		1981
The Commercial Card Magic of Roger Crosthwaite
22
Roger Crosthwaite Multiple Card Control with the Crosthwaite Key Card
 		1981
The Commercial Card Magic of Roger Crosthwaite
23
Peek Force corner short
 		1981
Polished Polish Prestidigitation
3
Stephen Tucker Cover Blown Christ Force without cover card, starting with top card secretly reversed above eye-level, also as key placement
 		1984
May the Force Be with You!
5
Stephen Minch Divination No. 4, spectator stops during riffle, the card is divined by performer, performer genuinely blindfolded
 		1984
Eyeless in Gaza
14
Riffle Force to break or to corner short card
 		1984
Eyeless in Gaza
15
Dai Vernon On the Corner-Short locating a corner short card and other things
Variations 1987
The Vernon Chronicles — Volume 1
2
Tapping on Table by some San Francisco Gambler, locating corner short
Related to 1987
The Vernon Chronicles — Volume 1
2
Bruce Cervon Two Corner Short Controls overhand and riffle shuffle, using corner short
 		1987
The Vernon Chronicles — Volume 1
5
Harry Riser Estimation Help jogged corner short
 		1987
The Vernon Chronicles — Volume 1
7
Tom Gagnon Faro Control corner short next to selection unaffected by faro shuffle
 		1987
The Vernon Chronicles — Volume 1
7
Norman Osborn The Magic Step Ladder card selected and found with four packets between fingers
Related to Apr. 1988
Inside Out (Issue 4)
4
Edward Marlo Memo-Deck Index memorized deck with corner short key cards as pocket index
 		Apr. 1992
The Olram File (Issue 11)
1
Frederick Braue Card to Wallet duplicate
 		1992
The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 6)
18
Vanni Bossi A Faro Subtlety faro with corner-shorted cards, stacking application with fewer shuffles
 		1992
Escorial 1992 — The Marlo Year
10
Vanni Bossi Three Original Key Cards different types of thinned-out corners
  • First Type
  • Second Type
  • Third Type
 		1992
Escorial 1992 — The Marlo Year
15
Doug Canning UNCANNY deck in pocket and one card after the other is removed, spectator mentally spells his card and last letter matches selection
 		1993
Semi-Automatic Card Tricks
132
Eddie Fechter Peek Control with a Corner Short Card
1993
Fechter
37
The Little-finger Count plus many applications
 		1995
Card College — Volume 1
201
John Riggs In-Decks tactile aid to locate any card
 		1995
Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 2
111
Thomas Fraps Pips Desease cards are removed from case and are shown blank while pips fall from case, pips are replaced and blank cards turn into to normal deck
Inspired by 1995
Continental Close Up
1
Corner Short Riffle Force corner short
 		1996
The Books of Wonder — Volume 1
48
Karl Fulves Lifting at Corner Short without riffling
 		1996
Blocking Off
27
Karl Fulves Side Effects gaffed deck with various shortened cards, cutting to any card of tabled deck
Related to 1996
Blocking Off
32
Karl Fulves Cheat Deck card thought (one person suit, another value), stacked and five cards corner shorted
 		1996
Blocking Off
47
Karl Fulves Short End short card as key
 		1996
Blocking Off
118
Karl Fulves No-Break Cull using thick or short card
 		1996
Blocking Off
119
Karl Fulves Notes On The Date Deck
  • The Last Ten Years
  • Short Cuts
  • Open Dates
 		1997
Day For Any Date
30
Doug Edwards Estimation Proof Cut to number of cards chosen by spectator multiple times, also able to cut to Ace
Related to 1997
Doug Edwards Packs a Wallop!
163
René Lavand Remembering My Credentials (Resolution) selection ends up at named position
 		1998
The Mysteries of my Life
109
The "Ae-Di-Tse-Tal" Forcing Pack No. 10, "Latest Idea" backwards, every other card corner short
(a) Mind Reading
(b) To Cut an Odd or Even Number
 		1999
Ellis Stanyon's Best Card Tricks
196
Roberto Giobbi Everywhere and Nowhere three indifferent cards and the deck change into spetator's selection and then back to normal, two duplicates
 		2000
Card College — Volume 4
827
Don Alan Corner Riffle Force by Timing
Also published here 2000
In a Class by Himself — The Legacy of Don Alan
201
Norman Osborn Double Choice two cards chosen with Charlie Cut procedure, one put back, performer knows which one
Inspired by 2000
Discoverie (Issue 2)
24
Philip T. Goldstein O a word deck and ABC cards are used, chosen word is divined
 		2003
Saint Louis Notes
6
Doug Canning Midnight Speller counting and spelling, to find selection
Variations 2004
Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 5
168
Karl Fulves Fake Counting non-clocking method with riffle shuffled stack to name a freely removed card, expanded text from 1982 edition includes a (corner) short card that stay next to a card during riffle shuffles
Related to 2005
Card Counting (2005 edition)
58
Dai Vernon, Charlie Miller Vernon and Miller on the Corner Short
Also published here
  • MUM, Dec. 2001
 2006
Secrets of an Escamoteur
27
Harry Riser Second to None
Related toAlso published here
  • MUM, June 2005
 2006
Secrets of an Escamoteur
33
Harry Riser The Dictionary Definition
Related toAlso published here
  • MUM, March 2002
 2006
Secrets of an Escamoteur
71
Harry Riser The Spectator-Management Control
Also published here
  • MUM, Jan. 2002
 2006
Secrets of an Escamoteur
74
Harry Riser The Impossible Faro Shuffle Card Control
Inspired byAlso published here
  • MUM, Jan. 2002
 2006
Secrets of an Escamoteur
95
Miguel Gómez La carta apuñalada two phase routine, knife stabbed in wrapped deck piercing selection
 		2007
El Placer de la Magia
108
Bill Abbott Corner Short Control
2008
Cocktail Card Magic
16
Allan Slaight, Max Maven Speechless Stratagem calculation method for a divination using Eight Kings stack
Inspired by
  • "Silent Subterfuge" (Stewart James, The James File, 2000)
Also published here
  • The James File, 2000
 2008
Spins & Needles
142
Edward Marlo Christ Almighty double location, corner-short edge-marked double backer
Also published here Oct. 2009
Genii (Vol. 72 No. 10 (The Jinx - 75 Years))
16
Patrick Dessi Quid de la carte clé? on various key cards
  • Les cartes redimensionnées
    • La carte courte
    • La carte étroite
    • La carte épaisse
  • Les cartes amputées
    • La carte au pouce
  • Les cartes déformées
    • La carte doublement cornée
 		2009
Le chapelet Periodo-Aperiodique C-PAP
91
Edward Marlo Christ Almighty double location, corner-short edge-marked double backer
Also published here 2009
The Jinx — 75 Years
16
Alberto de Figueiredo El Vínculo spectator cuts and remembers a card, other spectator remembers a card he sees while deck is dribbled from hand to hand, same card
 		2013
Magia Demente
19
Key Card Placement with corner short
 		2013
Magia Demente
21
Dribble Force with corner short, think of a seen card
 		2013
Magia Demente
24
Axel Hecklau Karte unter Schachtel
Inspired by 2013
Evolution
22
Paul Vigil The More the Merrier multiple selection routine with eight cards, ends with Triumph
 		2014
Classic Fantastic
5
The SCaM Card on the "Shortened, Crimped and Marked Card"
Related to 2014
Classic Fantastic
15
The Short on the corner short
 		2014
Classic Fantastic
16
Gabi Pareras Triunfo Blanco all cards but selection turn into blank cards as kicker
 		2014
El Libro de los Triunfos
21
Bob Farmer, Steve Mayhew Bolo Jonah methods for marking the Jonah card
  • Marked Cards
  • Short and Long Cards
  • Snap Crimp (Mayhew)
Related to 2015
The Bammo Ten Card Deal Dossier
30
Karl Fulves Short Takes notes on short card applications
  • card is removed and substituted with Joker, missing card named after shuffling
  • cutting to a crimp or short card (see also p. 15)
  • shuffling with short cards
Related to 2015
The Lowdown (Issue 1)
11
Karl Fulves Riffle Shuffle Short shaved corners designed for riffle shuffle work
 		2015
The Lowdown (Issue 1)
14
Karl Fulves Shorty intro to short card applications
 		2015
Errata (Issue 1)
32
Karl Fulves U-Thrust spectator stabs odd-backed Joker in deck between two previously chosen cards
 		2015
Errata (Issue 1)
32
Vanni Bossi Cornered three locator cards
  • The Incised Corner
  • The Thin Corner
  • The Jointed Corner
 		2016
The Aretalogy of Vanni Bossi
65
Edward Marlo Corner Short Peek Force
Related to 2017
In Search of the "perfect" Rise
21
Tom Gagnon Clipped Exchange card from pocket transposes with paper clipped in hand, duplicate
 		2019
Gagnon Unfiltered
122
Steve Forte Center Deal Any Card Called card in center named by spectator which is then dealt out
 		2020
Gambling Sleight Of Hand — Volume 2
944
Steve Forte First-Finger Corner Short Location first finger riffles upward in dealing grip
 		2020
Gambling Sleight Of Hand — Volume 2
944
Alexandra Duvivier Four Ace Production in-the-hands production sequence
 		July 2021
Elixir (Vol. 3 No. Special Duvivier Issue)
18
Jimmy Ichihana Short Cut Thumb Stab cards dribbled into left hand, left thumb reaches into cascade and drags out a card that is flipped onto top face up
 		June 2022
Elixir (Vol. 3 No. Florida Issue Part One)
12
Jimmy Ichihana Short Cut To Winning Go Fish mates to the cards from a six-card poker hand are found by performer, first two single cards, then rest via Biological Shuffle by Paul Harris
Inspired by June 2022
Elixir (Vol. 3 No. Florida Issue Part One)
14
Bob Farmer Corner Rounding on corner rounders
 		2022
Bammo Tricks of the Trade
8
Francisco Mousinho Doctor's Recipe "An A.C.A.A.N. in Dr. Hofzinser's Memory"
card thought of, spectator removes it, shows it and it is lost, cards shuffled in groups with counting of packets to generate a number, card ends up at that number
 		2022
Shrouded Soul
101
Francisco Mousinho Riffle Shuffle Peek card over corner-short card during in-the-hands riffle shuffle split
 		2022
Shrouded Soul
107
Tom Gagnon Veeser-Gagnon Bluff Multiple Shift #3 Aces corner shorted
Inspired by 2022
Gagnon's Inner Sanctum
164
Tap Jog tapping deck onto table on a corner to jog out corner-shorted cards
 		2022
Gagnon's Inner Sanctum
166