21 entries in Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / Single Card / "The Bet"-Theme
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Touch and Go stranger card
1940 375
Clyde Cairy Dick Tracy Card Trick almost the same as Fingerprint Card Trick
Related to
1945 11
Paul LePaul An Unexpected Climax deck split into two and each half placed inside pocket, two selections are found, first selection changes to third selection as climax
Variations
1949 155
Edward Marlo Startling Climax two cards selected, first found in pocket, transforms in second card
Inspired by
1970 121
Larry Jennings Final Touch
1975
Epilogue (Issue Special No 3 (Part 1))
268
Daryl Martinez The High-Priced Spread featuring the one-handed Ascanio spread
1982 18
Larry Jennings The Bet
1986 22
Dai Vernon The Fingerprint Card Trick
Related to
Variations
1987 136
Jerry K. Hartman Reprocessed Elimination
Jan. 1992
Apocalypse (Vol. 15 No. 1)
2025
Gene Maze Out of Five
Feb. 1992
Apocalypse (Vol. 15 No. 2)
2033
Larry Jennings ファイナルタッチ (Final Touch)
1993 143
Roberto Giobbi Die Wette
Also published here
Variations
1993 10
Larry Jennings, Roberto Giobbi A Sure Bet magician finds wrong card which then changes into spectator's choice
Also published here
Variations
1998 565
Lewis Jones Pokerface spectator stabs card into deck, five cards taken from there, then sucker element as selection is apparently discarded
Inspired by
  • "Near Miss" (Steve Pressley)
2006 100
Matthew Dowden Underage Gambling two cards removed, neither of which is selection, one changes into selection
Also published here
Inspired by
July 2009
MAGIC (Vol. 18 No. 11)
65
Patrick Page, Roberto Giobbi And Yet It Is! apparently wrong card found, changes to correct one
Inspired by
  • "The Unknown Solider's Card Trick" (Patrick's Pages of Magic, Lecture Notes 1973)
Related to
  • "The Three to Two of Spades" (Ken de Courcy, Ken on Kards - Card Magic for Non-Card Men)
2016 119
Roy Walton* Near Enough four cards with selection, cards eliminated via down-under deal, selection is seen eliminated but yet last card is selection, sucker
Variations
2016 1
Jack Carpenter Near Enough, Yet So Far Away five cards with selection, cards eliminated via down-under deal, selection is seen eliminated but yet last card is selection, other four cards change into Queens, sucker
Also published here
Inspired by
2017 51
Jack Carpenter Near Enough, Yet So Far Away five cards with selection, cards eliminated via down-under deal, selection is seen eliminated but yet last card is selection, other four cards change into Queens, sucker
Also published here
Inspired by
Sep. 2018
Genii (Vol. 81 No. 9)
86
Matthew Dowden Underage Gambling two cards removed, neither of which is selection, one changes into selection
Also published here
Inspired by
2022 870
Tim Conover, Eric Anderson "FingerPrint Card Trick" handling that retains order of deck
Related to
2025 48