Move-A-Card

41 entries in Cards / Effect Themes / Super-Senses / Memory / Move-A-Card
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Paul Stadelman Phenomenal Memory memory demonstration, cards moved from half to half
Also published here
  • 1933 book by Paul Stadelman
 1946
50 Tricks You Can Do, You Will Do, Easy to Do
35
James Steranko Fantasy Card Routine Chapter Thirteen
  • Oneway Faces (not pointer cards, but uneven printing)
  • The Division (spectator cuts to a card behind the performer's back and replaces)
  • The Afterthought (selection from in-the-hands spread)
  • The Bisection (two selections by cutting of small packets and remembering bottom cards)
  • The Retention (fake memory demonstration, move-a-card)
  • The Abstraction (one of three cards thought of, OOSOOM)
  • Fantasy Notes
 		1960
Steranko on Cards
93
Paul Stadelman Phenomenal Memory deck cut in two halves, card placed from one half to the other face down
 		1966
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1965-66)
82
Harry Lorayne Lorayne's Move-A-Card, A La Moe
1971
Reputation-Makers
88
Jimmy Grippo A Phenomenal Memory selection is shuffled in the deck and deck spread face-up, spectator places selection at different position while performer looks away, then card is found
 		1981
The Magic of Jimmy Grippo
23
Karl Fulves Commitment cards apparently memorized, spectator exchanged two cards and those are found
 		1982
Card Counting
15
David Regal Dave's Move-A-Card deck crimp
Related to 1987
Star Quality — The Magic of David Regal
171
Vanni Bossi Vanii Bossi's Move a Card, a la "Moe" memorizing red-black patterns
 		1992
Escorial 1992 — The Marlo Year
18
Juan Tamariz, Moe Seidenstein, Jimmy Grippo A Phenomenal Memory performer apparently remembers a whole spread and thus identifies a chosen card that has been moved from its position
 		1995
Card College — Volume 1
145
William P. Miesel Letters on Move A Card, Bob Ecklund
Related to 1996
The Fine Print (Issue 3)
56
Barrie Richardson Barrie's Move a Card memorizing every other card in one half
Also published here
  • Club 71, Christmas 1988
 1999
Theater of the Mind
104
Barrie Richardson Close-up Memory Demonstration move-a-card, then a number is named and performer names card at that position (faced deck)
Related toVariationsAlso published here
  • Club 71, Winter 1987
 1999
Theater of the Mind
107
Jerry Mentzer Move a Card alternating one-way backs
 		2000
Card File Two
59
Moe's Move A Card reprint of ad
Also published here
  • Linking Ring, July 1932
 2000
Discoverie (Issue 3)
34
Karl Fulves More Moe card counting in one half and fishing
Related to 2000
Discoverie (Issue 3)
34
Harry Lorayne Location Divide one suit every fourth card, one card moved and located
 		2001
Personal Collection
587
Lewis Jones Move over again, Moe with drop stack type arranging of color pattern
Inspired by
  • "Move over, Moe" (Lewis Jones, Imp Romp 2)
 2002
Ahead of the Pack
141
Pit Hartling Unforgettable three phase memory routine, faro
Related toVariationsAlso published here 2003
Card Fictions
78
Karl Fulves The Line Up apparent memory system for about twelve cards, move-a-card application for small packet
  • The System
  • A Refinement
  • Line Up - The Method
  • The Poison Method
 		2003
Off The Books (Issue 6)
90
Steven Youell Sonar Detection spectator displaces his card, performer listens to riffle and names card, with out when spectator lies
 		2004
Weapons of Mass Destruction
56
Karl Fulves Eminent Domain strategy in which red cards in bottom half are clocked, and black cards in top half, card moved from half to half can be identified, see also p. 73
 		2005
Clockwork
32
Karl Fulves Max Moe two cards are moved, see also p. 67
VariationsAlso published here 2005
Clockwork
36
Karl Fulves Moe By Phone and further references for the plot
 		2005
Clockwork
67
Moe Seidenstein Moe's Move A Card advertisement reprinted from Linking Ring, July 1937
 		2005
Combo II
86
Karl Fulves After Moe
2005
Combo II
86
Barrie Richardson Synergistic Memory Demonstration first phase is "HIP ESP" (color sequence called off), then a number is named and performer names card at that position (faced deck)
Inspired by 2005
Act Two
308
Karl Fulves Moe's Memory two cards are moved
Also published here Oct. 2005
Genii (Vol. 68 No. 10)
36
Karl Fulves After Moe any red and black cards are exchanged
 		2005
Discoverie (Issue 10)
132
Benjamin Earl Pseudo Moe pseudo version of Moe's Move-A-Card
 		2007
Seeing with Photo-Electric Eyes
16
Karl Fulves Moe-mentous two cards exchanged in twelve-card packet
Related to 2007
Word Play
53
Karl Fulves Maximo
Inspired by 2007
Prolix (Issue 3)
154
Jon Racherbaumer Moe's 21 move-a-card with twenty-one cards
 		2007
7-7-7
100
Gary Middleton Pointing at Moe
2007
Miraculous Minds
74
David Regal Scratched scratch one-way marks
  • Other Avenues (uses for one-way face marks)
 		2008
Approaching Magic
188
Claude Impériale Bluff Counting move a card with card counting presentation and optional deck switch
 		2010
Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 8
126
Benjamin Earl Pseudo Moe "In a Glimpse"
 		Oct. 2010
Gambit (Issue 2)
16
Karl Fulves Jump Count
Inspired by 2011
Prolix (Issue 9)
609
Pit Hartling Unforgettable three phase memory routine, faro
Also published here 2012
The F.F.F.F. Book
117
Brian Brushwood Ten-Second Memorized Deck selection riffle-shuffled into deck, deck apparently memorized, card moved, two key cards
 		May 2015
MAGIC (Vol. 24 No. 9)
41
Denis Behr Photographic Memory
  • First Phase - Move-a-Card
  • Second Phase - The Missing Card
  • Third Phase - Half the Deck (spectator takes phone picture of order, after shuffling the order the performer can still recite it correctly)
Inspired by 2018
Handcrafted Card Magic — Volume 3
59
Pit Hartling Updated Handling alternatives for all three phases
Inspired by 2018
Card Fictions (2018 edition)
98