24 entries in Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Thin Cards
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Frank Lane, U. F. Grant Reading Cards performer holds up cards one by one and names them, using cheap cards that can be seen through with strong light
1935 7
Joseph Ovette, Louis Lam A Tip on Slow Motion Card Vanish thin card stuffed in thumb tip, with other method by Louis Lam for thumb nail method
1940 11
Karl Fulves Straight-Deck Brainwave named card has different back color, different approaches:
  • Optica deck
  • 104 thin cards in roughed pairs
  • chemical backs
  • gaffed mat
Related to 1976
Interlocutor (Issue 8)
29
Thomas Alan Waters Disposition two decks in one box, thin cards
1984
Mind, Myth & Magick (Issue Cardiact)
535
Philip T. Goldstein Final Fred thin cards
Also published here 1985 8
Philip T. Goldstein Final Fred thin cards
1986 1
Philip T. Goldstein Final Fred thin cards
1990 2
Richard Osterlind, Nate Leipzig Expanding Leipzig's Secret using thin see-through cards
1999 89
Philip T. Goldstein Final Fred thin cards
2002 1
Christoph Borer Die Kartenlegerin chosen card has pentagram on back
Also published here 2002 14
Philip T. Goldstein Final Fred thin cards
2004 1
Philip T. Goldstein Final Fred thin cards
2004 1
Christoph Borer Kartenlegerin chosen card has pentagram on back
Also published here 2006 141
Max Maven Final Fred
Also published here 2009 1
Alex Ng Call the Number Deck has numbers written on the back, five random cards chosen, the sum of the numbers matches a prediction. When the numbers are placed together, it becomes a phone number, which when called causes the magician's phone to ring
Inspired by 2015 24
Alexander de Cova Any Card Called For card in envelope is named card, using Avalon envelope
2015 285
Andy (The Jerx) The Mad Libs Ploy Spectator randomly chooses words from a deck, predicts an illiusion that the magician's grandfather designed
2016 291
Bob Farmer Karmamatic one card chosen from face-up and one from face-down deck, both cards predicted written on another odd-backed card
2017 33
Bob Farmer Your Mind is Mine to Play With named card is only card with message on back
2017 34
Matt Baker Outlier card freely named by spectator, spectator then selects a card from the deck, rest of the deck is shown to be duplicates of another card, but the selected card is the named card, uses a Double Decker deck
Also published here 2019 242
Rhys "Morgan" Jones, Robert "West" Tay Thought of Cards Across ten reds and ten blacks, thought card travels across
Related to 2020 217
Joshua Jay The Trojan Deck using thin cards to add more cards using "The Trojan Box"
Related to
  • "The Trojan Deck" (Joshua Jay, marketed effect)
June 2022
Genii (Vol. 85 No. 6)
59
Joshua Jay Inferno equivoque-named card (range force) is predicted in match box with burn marks, optional appearing smoke, updated handling
Inspired by
  • "Inferno" (marketed 2013)
Variations
2022 37
Matt Baker The Misfit Deck any card named, it is found by spectator, all other cards are shown to be duplicates of another card
Related to
  • "Out of Sight" (Joshua Jay, marketed)
Also published here
2023 23