Puzzle

95 entries in Cards / Effect Themes / Gags & Curiousities / Puzzle
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
To Arrange Twelve Cards is Rows, in such a manner that they will Count Four in every Direction puzzle
 		1876
Modern Magic
58
To Place the Aces and Court Cards in Four Rows, in such a manner that neither Horizontally nor Perpendicularly shall there be in either Row two Cards alike either in Suit or Value puzzle
 		1876
Modern Magic
58
Die Karte als Geduldspiel layout puzzle with cut-up card pieces
Also published here
Related to
 May 1897
Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 3 No. 5)
77
Die Karte als Geduldspiel solution to puzzle
Also published here
Related to
 June 1897
Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 3 No. 6)
93
Die Karte als Geduldspiel layout puzzle with cut-up card pieces
Also published here
Related to
 1900
Magische Gesellschaftsspiele — I. Teil
15
Ein Kartenscherz layout puzzle with four playing cards
 		1900
Magische Gesellschaftsspiele — I. Teil
18
Wie werden zwölf Kartenblätter so gelegt, dass man immer vier in jeder Reihe von rechts nach links und von oben nach unten zählen kann? layout puzzle with 12 playing cards
 		1900
Magische Gesellschaftsspiele — I. Teil
18
To Pass Yourself through a Playing-Card non-magical stunt
 		1902
The Modern Conjurer
298
Friedrich "Fritz" Hügli Aufgabe für Sechsundsechzig Spieler card game puzzle
 		1930
Zauberkunststücke
96
Friedrich "Fritz" Hügli Die sichtbaren Bilder puzzle, arranging four cards in a special way
 		1930
Zauberkunststücke
96
Theodore Annemann* Contest Dept. square layout, mini-sudoku-type puzzle
 		1939
The Jinx (Issue Winter Extra 1938/39)
373
The Odd Estate puzzle with a story about a will
 		1941
The Jinx (Issue 128)
739
Edwin Leist-Bernini Magische Tips aus meiner Sammlung: Zwei Kartenprobleme / Deux problèmes avec des cartes two puzzles with cards
Related to
 1943
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 5 No. 2)
5
Edwin Leist-Bernini Magische Tips aus meiner Sammlung solution to posed problems using cards
Related to
 1943
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 5 No. 3)
13
Magnetizing A Card Sticking a playing card to a wall with static electricity
 		1949
Tricks and Stunts With Playing Cards
8
The Five Touching Cards Challenge audience to arrange five cards so that each card is touching the other four
 		1949
Tricks and Stunts With Playing Cards
8
An Amusing Card Catch Five cards arranged on table. Remove two cards, add three cards to get the same arrangement of cards
 		1949
Tricks and Stunts With Playing Cards
9
The Six-Card Lift Interlock six cards together so they can be picked up together
 		1949
Tricks and Stunts With Playing Cards
10
The Old Army Game Which two Jacks were rejected by the American Army? (one-eyed)
 		1949
Tricks and Stunts With Playing Cards
10
A Surprising Card Deal Down Under Deal on eight cards, result in a row of cards alternating face card and spot card
 		1949
Tricks and Stunts With Playing Cards
11
One Card Under The Other How to hold a card under a King on the table, without moving the King
 		1949
Tricks and Stunts With Playing Cards
12
The Master Aim How to drop a card into a hat without the card fluttering away
 		1949
Tricks and Stunts With Playing Cards
12
To Make Four Fives Equal 16 Lay four Fives on the table so they total sixteen
 		1949
Tricks and Stunts With Playing Cards
13
The Thirty-Card Race Spectator and magician pick up one to six cards from a pile of thirty, last person to take a card wins, magician always wins
 		1949
Tricks and Stunts With Playing Cards
13
The One-Two-Three Card Race fifteen cards, take turns taking one, two or three cards, takes the last card is loser. Magician always wins
 		1949
Tricks and Stunts With Playing Cards
14
Making a Card Invisible Challenge: make a card invisible to one person, but visible to everyone else
 		1949
Tricks and Stunts With Playing Cards
14
Standing A Card On Edge
1949
Tricks and Stunts With Playing Cards
15
Coin On Card Stunt Balance card and coin on finger, flick card out under the coin
 		1949
Tricks and Stunts With Playing Cards
16
Card Cross Stunt Six cards used, form two rows of cards with four cards in each row
 		1949
Tricks and Stunts With Playing Cards
17
All In Order Down Under Deal on thirteen cards, get Ace to King in order
 		1949
Tricks and Stunts With Playing Cards
18
What's On Your Mind? Six cards dealt to two people, each person get three cards - spectator always gets three Queens (spectator always thinking about women?)
 		1949
Tricks and Stunts With Playing Cards
19
The Elevens Stunt Mathematical stunt, place three cards on table, numbers can always be divided by eleven
 		1949
Tricks and Stunts With Playing Cards
20
Changing The Rows
1949
Tricks and Stunts With Playing Cards
41
The Add-To-18 Puzzle
1949
Tricks and Stunts With Playing Cards
42
Three-In-A-Row
1949
Tricks and Stunts With Playing Cards
43
The Sixteen-Card Puzzle
1949
Tricks and Stunts With Playing Cards
43
Alternate Cards
1949
Tricks and Stunts With Playing Cards
43
The Five-Kings Puzzle
1949
Tricks and Stunts With Playing Cards
43
The Noble Lords and the Commoners
1949
Tricks and Stunts With Playing Cards
44
Tricky Triangle
1949
Tricks and Stunts With Playing Cards
45
Face-Up
1949
Tricks and Stunts With Playing Cards
46
The Star Puzzle
1949
Tricks and Stunts With Playing Cards
46
The Jealous Kings
1949
Tricks and Stunts With Playing Cards
46
The Hourglass Puzzle
1949
Tricks and Stunts With Playing Cards
47
The Eighteen-Card Circle
1949
Tricks and Stunts With Playing Cards
48
A Card Brain-Twister
1949
Tricks and Stunts With Playing Cards
49
How Can This Be?
1949
Tricks and Stunts With Playing Cards
49
Card Pickup Puzzle
1949
Tricks and Stunts With Playing Cards
50
Turn Over All But One
1949
Tricks and Stunts With Playing Cards
51
The Give-and-Take Puzzle
1949
Tricks and Stunts With Playing Cards
51
Odd Or Even?
1949
Tricks and Stunts With Playing Cards
52
The Twenty-Four Card Puzzle
1949
Tricks and Stunts With Playing Cards
52
Silly Sam's Pack of Cards
1949
Tricks and Stunts With Playing Cards
54
The Reverse-Order Puzzle
1949
Tricks and Stunts With Playing Cards
54
Card Leapfrog Puzzle
1949
Tricks and Stunts With Playing Cards
55
Put-Them-In-Order Puzzle
1949
Tricks and Stunts With Playing Cards
56
Ace-Two-Three-Four Puzzle
1949
Tricks and Stunts With Playing Cards
57
Stuart P. Cramer Card Counting Puzzle ten cards in a circle, turning over cards, puzzle
 		Mar. 1949
Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 6 No. 10)
518
Bruce Elliott* The Back Room on Frank Garcia, Puzzle by Charlie Arbuthnot, Dunninger, Carlo Menotti, Fred Keating, Martin Gardner, Bill Simon, Jean Hugard, Robert Harbin, Art Lyle, Frank Joglar
 		Feb. 1950
The Phoenix (Issue 196)
785
Eddie Fields Card Puzzle turning over eight cards
 		1951
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1951)
34
Max Katz Tower of Hanai puzzle with playing cards, based on Tower of Brahma
 		May 1953
The Phoenix (Issue 280)
1120
Dr. William Weyeneth Ein amüsanter Tisch-Scherz bar bet, turning over a card without touching it, apparently by "Musti"
 		1955
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 16 No. 3)
305
Russell "Rusduck" Duck "Sneaky Pete" Repeat mathematical puzzle, cards as objects, story
Inspired by
  • Jack LeDair's "Tricks for Trouper" in "Abracadabra" April, 6/1946
 May 1957
The Cardiste (Issue 2)
9
Paul Curry The Case of the Missing Hat cards with magicians and with hats, story trick
Related to
Variations
 1965
Magician's Magic
248
Karl Fulves* The Compleat Gamester proposition bets
  • Birthday Bet (see p. 292 for Mel Stover comment)
  • Red And Black (Martin Gardner)
  • License Plate Poker
  • Ace-Deuce-Jack Variations
  • Black And White
  • Coin Swindles
  • 3-Card Poker
  • Odds On Favorite (Omega Bet, card pushed in reversed and pairs dealt off)
Also published here
Related to
Variations
 July 1969
The Pallbearers Review (Vol. 4 No. 9)
272
Juan Tamariz Sensación-Ases McDonald's Aces routine, then three Aces travel to pocket and three cards found reversed in the deck form jumbo card of selection
 		1970
Trucky-carto-magia
63
Norman Osborn Card Layout Puzzle for solution see p. 427
 		May 1971
The Pallbearers Review (Vol. 6 No. 7)
418
Paul Curry "Dirty Tricks" story trick, cards with donkeys (democrats) and elephants (republicans), missing hat puzzle, one card vanishes among four other cards
Related to
 1976
"Dirty Tricks"
1
Playing-Card into Chain constructing a linked chain of playing cards out of a single card with cutting
 		1978
Interlocutor (Issue 27)
105
Larry Becker Pyramid Power pyramid power presentation, prediction of single card
Variations
 1979
The Best of Larry Becker's World of Super Mentalism Book II
17
E. Leslie May A 'P.S.' or Pyramid Suggestion pyramid power presentation, prediction of tarot card
Inspired by
 Sep. 1979
Psychic Entertainers News & Information Service (Issue 14)
4
Karten collection of three bar bets and puzzles with cards
 		Mar. 1980
Intermagic (Vol. 7 No. 1)
17
Coasters betting game with Ace through Seven or seven numbered coaster
Variations
 1981
Octet
47
Terri Rogers A Jigsaw Puzzle card puzzle as a revelation, Four of Hearts instead of Five of Hearts
Inspired by
 1981
Babel (Issue 2)
20
Terri Rogers Marvellous idea for Tucker's Jigsaw, unsolvable puzzle, four pieces of a card
 		1982
Spell-Binder (Vol. 2 No. Special #2 (Xmas))
10
David Britland Seconds Out...
Inspired by
 Oct. 1983
Spell-Binder (Vol. 3 No. 30)
585
Catch Questions No. 59
 		1983
Self-Working Number Magic
79
Ernest W. Brady Die Erbschaft mathematical problem, camels divided to sons, illustrated with cards
Also published here
Variations
 Jan. 1984
Intermagic (Vol. 10 No. 3 & 4)
115
Reaching through a Playing Card No. 29
 		1985
Self-Working Paper Magic
54
The Other Genius Test No. 34, card frame and other pieces have to be taken apart, puzzle
 		1985
Self-Working Paper Magic
59
Bob Farmer Square of Cards square layout, task to arrange then so the sides add up to the same total
 		Nov. 1994
MAGIC (Vol. 4 No. 3)
75
Bob Farmer Deck Indirect wording puzzle about which cards are in the box
 		Dec. 1994
MAGIC (Vol. 4 No. 4)
64
Bob Driebeek Wie man seine Freunde zum Narren hält - oder besser: Wie man sich Feinde macht cards with magicians and with hats, story trick
Inspired by
 1996
Aenigmas Rätsel
45
Gerald Lynton Kaufman Rätsel gefällig? - 2. truth/liar puzzle with three cards on table
 		1998
Intermagic (Vol. 22 No. 1)
16
Mickey MacDougall Mississippi Heart Hand puzzle with trump hand, see p. 113 for solution
 		1999
Arcardia
102
Mel Bennett Coasters winning strategy for betting game with Ace through Seven or seven numbered coaster
Inspired by
 2000
Charlatan (Issue 2)
13
Paul Curry The Case of the Missing Hat cards with magicians and with hats, story trick
Related to
Variations
 2001
Paul Curry's Worlds Beyond
327
Juan Tamariz The Case of the Nine Magic Hats of La Corona Curry's "The Case of the Missing Hat" using twenty cards and ten objects
Related to
 2008
Verbal Magic
58
Román García El Juego que Yo no le Haria a René logic puzzle illustrated with cards, magical / transposition ending
 		2010
Nanomagias
113
Tom Crosbie The Golden Peanut! (A Fun bit of Business) bar bet, card has to be flicked from card box so it bounces from wall and is caught
 		2013
Just Be Croz
134
Ramón Riobóo Spanish Curry A card vanishes from a group of cards.
Related to
 2015
Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 10
81
David Britland The Case of the Missing Hats
  • Cardopolis
adding an extra card for cleaner initial display
cards with magicians and with hats, story trick
Inspired by
 Mar. 2016
Genii (Vol. 79 No. 3)
22
David Britland The Weird Inn Revisited
  • Cardopolis
puzzle with Ace through Ten and rhyming patter, Ten Rooms paradox
Inspired by
 Dec. 2020
Genii (Vol. 83 No. 12)
56
Roberto Giobbi Nine of Diamonds Puzzle connecting all the Diamond pips with four lines
 		2024
Unexpected Agenda (Issue May 27)
159
Roberto Giobbi The Problem of the Seventeen Card Camels number puzzle of seventeen camels that have to be distributed amongst three sons, illustrated with cards
 		2024
Unexpected Agenda (Issue Dec. 22)
369