Thought Cards Across

107 entries in Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) Across / Thought Cards Across
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Adolphe "Magicus" Blind Gedankenlesen und Zauberei half the deck sealed in envelope, two or three cards thought of from other half, they travel into envelope to the first half, half the deck consists of double facers
Related toAlso published here
  • "Divination et Escamotage" (L'Illusionniste, Feb. 1904, p. 211)
 Mar. 1904 Der Zauberspiegel (Vol. 4 No. 3) 35
Charles T. Jordan Diabolical Transposition two thought cards across with two decks, stacked, siamesa
VariationsAlso published here 1921 The Four Full Hands (Issue Four Full Hands of Card Tricks) 22
Dr. Jacob Daley, Theodore Annemann The Acme Thought Card Pass with envelopes
 		1936 The Jinx (Issue 16) 80
David Devant The Triangle Trick twenty-six double facers
Also published here 1937 Encyclopedia of Card Tricks 133
Charles T. Jordan Diabolical Transposition two thought cards across with two decks, stacked
Also published here 1937 Encyclopedia of Card Tricks 210
L. Vosburgh Lyons The Impromptu Passing one thought-of card, envelopes
 		1937 The Jinx (Issue Winter Extra 1936/37) 179
David Devant The Triangle twenty-six double facers
Also published here 1938 Greater Magic 441
Unknown Hardin Plus Devant fifteen double facers, two methods
 		1940 Expert Card Technique 351
Henry Hardin King's Kards fifteen double facers
 		1940 The Jinx (Issue 104) 627
George Armstrong Hegira two cards travel, envelopes and card changing tray
 		1942 The Phoenix 1-50 (Issue 13) 49
George Armstrong Hegira II impromptu version
 		1942 The Phoenix 1-50 (Issue 13) 53
L. Vosburgh Lyons Impromptu Passing one thought-of card, envelopes
 		1943 Full Deck of Impromptu Card Tricks 52
Dr. Jacob Daley, Theodore Annemann ACME Thought Card Pass with envelopes
 		1943 Full Deck of Impromptu Card Tricks 53
Stewart James Pockethereal two spectators remember card and position in twenty-card packet
Variations 1948 Show Stoppers with Cards 5
Dai Vernon Penetration of Thought odd-backed, two packets of four aces each
Related toVariations 1957 The Dai Vernon Book of Magic 51
Unknown The Balsamo Card Trick three thought-of cards travel from packet to packet in envelope, double-facers
Related to 1959 Feke Card Tricks 25
David Devant The Triangle twenty-six double facers
Also published here 1959 Feke Card Tricks 26
Peter Warlock Thought of Card Across unprepared
 		1967 Ultimate Secrets of Card Magic 193
Charlie Miller, Michael F. Zens The Zens Card Trick with two selections
 		1967 Charlie Miller Lecture Notes 19
Peter Kane Transportation of a Thought odd-backed
 		1967 A Card Session with Peter Kane 15
Alan Shaxon Three Cards Fly Again with handkerchief
Related toAlso published here 1970 My Kind of Magic 28
Edward G. Brown The Twelve Card Thought Transition
Variations 1973 The Card Magic of Edward G. Brown 39
Roy Walton, Charles T. Jordan Colour Me Jordan two decks, mentally selected cards appear in other halves of the deck which are in spectators pockets
Inspired byAlso published here 1973 Card Script 35
Paul Curry Teleport two thought of cards travel from one half to the other one by one, twenty-four duplicates
Related to
  • "Telepathy" (Jean Hugard, Sphinx, June 1935, p. 101)
Also published here 		1974 Paul Curry Presents 78
Emil Loew Educated Envelope switch envelope, thought-cards-across application
Related to July 1974 The Pallbearers Review Vol. 9-10 (Vol. 9 No. 9) 753
Roy Walton Gefärbter Jordan two decks, mentally selected cards appear in other halves of the deck which are in spectators pockets
Also published here Nov. 1975 Intermagic (Vol. 3 No. 1&2) 12
Edward Marlo Mental Card Across unprepared
 		1976 Marlo's Magazine Volume 1 65
Nick Trost Transposed Aces with Repeat Four blue backed Aces and four red backed Aces on table, named Aced transposes between the two packets, twice
 		1976 Subtle Card Magic — Part One 21
Edward Marlo The Black Thought from black to red packet
Related to 1977 Marlo's Magazine Volume 2 238
Roy Walton Jordan Plus Colour two thought cards across with two odd-backed decks, odd-backed siamesa
Inspired byAlso published here 1978 The Spread Half-Pass 33
Simon Aronson Odd-Backed Thought Card Across #1
Also published here 1978 The Card Ideas of Simon Aronson 70
Simon Aronson Odd-Backed Thought Card Across #2
Also published here 1978 The Card Ideas of Simon Aronson 75
Simon Aronson Red See Passover
Also published here 1978 The Card Ideas of Simon Aronson 78
Philip T. Goldstein Penetration of Blank four kings and four blank cards
Inspired byAlso published here 1979 Snow 2
Roy Walton, Charles T. Jordan Colour Me Jordan two decks, mentally selected cards appear in other halves of the deck which are in spectators pockets
Also published here 1981 The Complete Walton — Volume 1 128
Philip T. Goldstein Exile
Inspired byAlso published here 1982 Exile 1
Jerry K. Hartman Last Licks with envelopes and ten duplicates
Also published here 1983 The New York Magic Symposium — Collection 2 83
Edward Marlo Leipzig Improved? two mental selections
Variations 1983 The Card Puzzle 20
Charles T. Jordan Speaking of Pink Elephants ad from 1916 with color changing deck, glued pairs, later 1919 variation with glued pairs and also normal cards in between like in Menetekel, also with spelling and across phase
 		1983 A History of the Brainwave Principle 15
Robertson Keene Thought Cards Across
Inspired byAlso published here
  • Magician Monthly, June 1930
 1983 A History of the Brainwave Principle 45
Alan Shaxon Und wieder wandern drei Karten with handkerchief
Also published here 1983 Das Alan Shaxon Seminar "1983" 17
Larry Jennings The Purloined Thought thought-of card from one half to other half
Variations 1984 The Collected Almanac (Vol. 2 No. 17 & 18) 163
Jon Racherbaumer Neo-Brownian Movement two odd-backed quartets
Inspired byAlso published here
  • MUM, Sep. 1980
 1984 At The Table 160
Jerry K. Hartman Thought Through packet handling
Inspired byAlso published here 1985 The Collected Almanac (Vol. 3 No. 31, 32 & 33) 322
Frederick Braue, Jean Hugard FB Adaptation of Hugard's Telepathy card travels to other half, twenty-six duplicates (1937)
Inspired by
  • "Telepathy" (Jean Hugard, Sphinx, June 1935, p. 101)
 1985 The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 1) 28
Frederick Braue, Jean Hugard Telepathy card travels to other half, twenty-six duplicates (1937)
Inspired by
  • "Telepathy" (Jean Hugard, Sphinx, June 1935, p. 101)
 1985 The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 1) 29
Larry Jennings Anastasia
Variations 1987 Neoclassics 31
Thomas Alan Waters Zensory using Phantini's Delusion deck, two decks with different backs
Related to
  • "Delusion Deck" (Gene Grant, Phantini's Incredible Mental Secrets, 1980, marketed 1957)
 May 1987 Magick (Issue 390) 1948
Roy Walton Jordan Plus Colour two thought cards across with two odd-backed decks, odd-backed siamesa
Also published here 1988 The Complete Walton — Volume 2 146
Brother John Hamman Thought Cards Across double ended cards
Inspired by
  • "The Triangle" (Our Magic, p. 280)
 1989 The Secrets of Brother John Hamman 134
Gerd Winkler (M)ein Zwei-Männertrick
1989 German Card Top Twenties 47
Juan Tamariz The Travelling Cards two cards across, gaffed, seven peek deck cards
Related toVariations 1989/91 Sonata 237
Philip T. Goldstein Exile marketed in 1982
Related toAlso published here 1990 Focus 79
Philip T. Goldstein Penetration of Blank four Kings and four blank cards
Also published here 1990 Focus 81
Edward Marlo Biddling Brown in the Round
Inspired byVariations 1990 Cardfixes 71
Alex Elmsley Thoughts In Transit chosen ace travels from ace packet to odd-backed ace packet
Inspired by 1991 The Collected Works of Alex Elmsley — Volume 1 80
T. Page Wright Thought-Of Cards Across two spectators get six cards each, packet switch application, also in spectator's pocket instead of into packet between his hands
 		1991 Page Wright's Manuscript 107
Jerry K. Hartman Thought Through packet handling
Inspired byAlso published here 1991 Card Craft 449
Jerry K. Hartman Across Purposes II with envelopes and ten duplicates
Also published here 1991 Card Craft 654
Edward Marlo Bold Leaper unfinished explanation
Related to 1992 The Olram File (Issue 11) 16
Edward Marlo Bold Leaper number at thought-of position remembered, sticky palm transfer
 		1993 The Olram File (Issue 15) 3
Alan Shaxon Und wieder wandern drei Karten with handkerchief
Also published here 1994 Alan Shaxon Lecture 20
Simon Aronson Odd-Backed Thought Card Across #1
Also published here 1994 Bound to Please 69
Simon Aronson Odd-Backed Thought Card Across #2
Also published here 1994 Bound to Please 73
Simon Aronson Red See Passover
Also published here 1994 Bound to Please 76
Larry Jennings The Six/Four Count Card Across
1997 Jennings '67 77
Ellis Stanyon New Precipitation No. 3, two thought-of cards travel from one half to another, one half is all double facers
Related to 1999 Ellis Stanyon's Best Card Tricks 123
Ellis Stanyon The "Cagliostro" or "Balsamo" Card Trick No. 4, three thought-of cards travel from packet to packet in envelope, double facers or diagonally divided cards
Related to 1999 Ellis Stanyon's Best Card Tricks 124
Ellis Stanyon Will 'o the Wisp No. 18, three cards from one plate to another, with blank and normal cards
 		1999 Ellis Stanyon's Best Card Tricks 137
Ellis Stanyon New Precipitation No. 54, "Third Method", with Dr. Ford B. Rogers's peek pairs
Related to 1999 Ellis Stanyon's Best Card Tricks 187
Unknown Kartenwanderung with change bag
 		1999 Intermagic (Vol. 23 No. 2) 67
R. Paul Wilson Thinking it Over two methods
Also published here 2001 Crash Course in Brain Surgery 2
Paul Curry, Michael F. Zens, David Devant Out of the Past deck is separated in halves, two cards thought of and one is selected, performer puts one card from the half into the other, first card is missing, second spectator touches a card, that is put into the other half and also his card is missing, third card invisibly travels into the other half
Inspired byAlso published here
  • "Genii" vol. 7 no. 4, 1942
 2001 Paul Curry's Worlds Beyond 102
Paul Curry Teleport two thought of cards travel from one half to the other one by one, twenty-four duplicates
Also published here 2001 Paul Curry's Worlds Beyond 106
R. Paul Wilson Thinking it Over two methods
Also published here 2002 Constant Fooling 1 32
Alexander de Cova Kartenwanderung
Also published here 2003 Gambit 9
Wesley James Blushing Leaper "beta", thought-of card has odd back
Inspired by 2004 Enchantments 418
Wesley James Brownian Movement The Sequel, "final"
Inspired by 2004 Enchantments 423
Dave Campbell Three Cards Across three selections, could be thought of
Related to 2004 The Dave Campbell Legacy 43
Peter Duffie, Aldo Colombini, Robin Robertson Killer Cards Across three cards one by one, using Killer Count
  • Variation (three mentally selected cards)
 		2004 Killer Koncepts 2
Peter Duffie, Robin Robertson Thought Card Across using Raised Interlock Principle
 		2004 Diamonds from Coal 68
Jay Sankey Divine thought-of card travels from one half to the other, half pass
 		2004 Sankey Unleashed 25
Michael Powers Red Rover
Inspired by 2006 Power Plays 27
John Carey Thought of Cards Across spectator’s thought-of card in six-card packet travels to other spectator’s six-card packet, leaving first one with five cards and other one with seven
 		2007 Thought of Cards Across Project 2
Gary Jones Thought of Cards Across Plus spectator’s thought-of card in ten-card packet travels to other spectator’s ten-card packet, leaving first one with nine cards and other one with eleven, as kicker a second thought-of card goes across leaving eight and twelve
 		2007 Thought of Cards Across Project 5
Christopher Williams Thought of Cards Across spectator’s thought-of card in one ten-card packet travels to another ten-card packet, leaving first one with nine cards and other one with eleven, as kicker a second thought-of card goes across leaving eight and twelve
 		2007 Thought of Cards Across Project 8
Alexander de Cova Kartenwanderung
Also published here 2007 Seminar 2007 6
Arturo de Ascanio The Trick of the Wise odd-backed, two packets of four Kings each
Inspired by 2008 The Magic of Ascanio — More Studies of Card Magic 294
Fred Robinson Passing Thought
2009 The Magic of Fred Robinson 209
Edward Marlo Biddling Brown in the Round
Inspired by 2009 Ten Card Mysteries Anneman Would Have Loved 36
Charles T. Jordan, Steve Beam Diabolical Transposition comments on Jordan's effect
Inspired by 2010 Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 8 98
Steve Beam X-Men two spectators think of a card in a packet that travels into other packet
Inspired by 2010 Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 8 99
Steve Beam X-Men II two spectators think of a card in a packet that travels into other packet
Inspired by 2010 Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 8 102
Steve Beam X-Men III two spectators think of a card in a packet that travels into other packet, odd-backed variation
Inspired by 2010 Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 8 103
Ramón Riobóo X-Men IV two spectators think of a card in a packet that travels into other packet, odd-backed variation
Inspired by 2010 Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 8 106
Tomas Blomberg Brownian Bridge two packets, performer takes a card from the first one and places it into the other, turns to be the thought of card and is placed at the thought of number
Inspired by 2014 Blomberg Laboratories 208
Alexander de Cova Voyager
Also published here 2015 Burners — Vol. 2 193
Jared Kopf E.G. Brown Revisited originally from MUM
Inspired byRelated to
  • MUM (March 2008)
Variations 		2016 Nothing but the Family Deck 33
Jared Kopf, Mike Squires E.G. Brown Revisited - Variation using double backer
Inspired by 2016 Nothing but the Family Deck 36
Bob Farmer Crossing Over card travels from blue to red deck
Related to 2017 The Bammo Gaffus Maximus 74
R. Paul Wilson Thinking It Over ten red and ten black cards, one travels across
Also published here 2017 Think Again 10
Bob Farmer Brain Bamboozler Wave one card from red deck to blue deck
 		2018 The Bammo Brain Bamboozler 12
Iñaki Zabaletta Viajeras Pensadas
Inspired by 2019 ¿Quién es Iñaki Zabaletta? 71
Rhys "Morgan" Jones, Robert "West" Tay Thought of Cards Across ten reds and ten blacks, thought card travels across
Related to 2020 Parlour Tricks 217
Andi Gladwin Thought Experiment
Inspired by 2020 The Boy Who Cried Magic 241
Steve Reynolds Switchless Packet Switch Switchless Switch as full packet switch
Inspired by
  • Fifth Peel (Ed Marlo, MUM, Dec. 1959, p. 284)
  • "Switchless Switch" (1956 Card Annual)
 2021 Output (Issue 17) 5
Wolfgang Moser 3 Karten auf Reisen two selected and one thought-of card travel
Inspired by
  • "Nichts Injektion" (Perkeo, Das Danz Buch)
 2021 Seminar 2021 12