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Oscar Weigle Color Scheme No. 47, Cards mixed face up/down, spectator separates face up/down, as well as red/black
Also published here
  • 1949 manuscript
Related to
  • marketed 1943
    • also in: This Is It (Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets, 1980)
Variations
 1950
Scarne on Card Tricks
83
Dai Vernon Packet Out Of This World packet chosen from deck, with strip-out addition
 		Feb. 1952
The Phoenix (Issue 248)
993
Dr. Jacob Daley Rouge et Noir five red cards and five black cards are shuffled, spectator separates the cards by color
Related to
Variations
 Aug. 1953
The Phoenix (Issue 287)
1146
Ronald B. Edwards Out of this Country ten-card ESP packet dealt into two piles by spectator, it is separated into two full sets
  • Method I (secret switching in pocket)
  • Method II (double facer and backer)
 		Nov. 1964
Ibidem (Issue 30)
9
Robin Robertson Out of the Cosmos five red cards and five black cards are shuffled, spectator separates the cards by color, using Robin's Card Exchange
Related to
 1964
Handle With Care
22
Roy Walton* Divided We Stand kind of small-packet OOTW
Also published here
Inspired by
Related to
 Mar. 1970
Epilogue (Issue 8)
61
Jerry K. Hartman Small World spectator mixes four reds and four blacks, chooses a color and hands you four cards, he separates all four of one color
Inspired by
 1970
Secret Subtraction
16
Karl Fulves* Someone Like You eight-card packet, spectator tries red-black separation, the score of hits and misses is looked up in an index of possible scores, on the correct score the spectator is described in detail
Related to
 Mar. 1971
The Pallbearers Review (Vol. 6 No. 5)
407
Edward Marlo Rouge et Noir four red, four blacks
 		Nov. 1972
Kabbala — Volume 1 (Vol. 1 No. 11)
85
Jerry K. Hartman Guess Hue Out-of-this-World type of effect with four reds and four blacks
Inspired by
Variations
 1972
Packet Magic
54
Charles "Cicardi" Scott Emotions using cards with the words "quick" and "dead"
 		1973
Magick (Issue 91)
452
Roy Walton* Choosy Choice spectator guesses suits correctly
Also published here
Inspired by
Variations
 1973
Card Script
28
Edward Marlo, Karl Fulves* Lose or Win Proposition sixteen cards, pair arrangement
Inspired by
Related to
 1974
The Unexpected Card Book
92
Edward Marlo The Gaffed Proposition sixteen cards
Inspired by
 1974
The Unexpected Card Book
96
Edward Marlo, Karl Fulves* Favorite Routine and Procedure sixteen cards
Inspired by
 1974
The Unexpected Card Book
97
Oscar Weigle Color Scheme with face-up/face-down mix of twenty cards behind spectator's back
Also published here
  • 1949 manuscript
Related to
  • marketed 1943
    • also in: This Is It (Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets, 1980)
Variations
 Apr. 1974
The Pallbearers Review (Vol. 9 No. 6)
724
Karl Fulves* Addenda handling variation
Inspired by
 Apr. 1974
The Pallbearers Review (Vol. 9 No. 6)
725
Martin Gardner*, Clayton Rawson* Further Ideas
Inspired by
 Apr. 1974
The Pallbearers Review (Vol. 9 No. 6)
726
Ronald B. Edwards Even Money World
Inspired by
 June 1974
The Pallbearers Review (Vol. 9 No. 8)
745
Jerry K. Hartman Guess Hue 2 three handlings for the “Guess Hue” plot (see reference):
  • (a) four reds and four blacks are blindly sorted by spectator
  • (b) variation of above
  • (c) six reds and six blacks
Inspired by
 1974
Super Dupes
53
Roy Walton* Earthbound with ten cards
Variations
 May 1975
Pabular (Vol. 1 No. 9)
103
Roy Walton* Feinschmecker Auswahl spectator guesses suits correctly
Also published here
Inspired by
Variations
 Nov. 1975
Intermagic (Vol. 3 No. 1 & 2)
10
Roy Walton* Denary Deceit packet out of this world with the help of a ten
Also published here
 Sep. 1976
Pabular (Vol. 3 No. 1)
309
Out of this World Variation small packet
 		1977
Card Cavalcade Four
99
Jerry K. Hartman Tintuition Spectator correctly separates reds and blacks for five randomly selected cards
Inspired by
 1978
Loose Ends
48
Philip T. Goldstein* Earth-Ward! ten cards, seated
Inspired by
Variations
 1978
Magick (Issue 203)
1011
Karl Fulves* Rouge et Noir small packet approaches
  • New Noir
  • Rouge I
  • Rouge II
  • Cheaters
 		1979
Four Color Problems
11
Barry Wiley Earth-Ward III out of this world type, with business cards
Inspired by
Related to
 1979
Magick (Issue 226)
1127
Karl Fulves* Blackgammon "Believed to be the simplest approach in the published literature to the effect where the spectator guesses the colors."
Also published here
Variations
 1980
The Chronicles (Issue 28)
1342
Roy Walton* Choosy Choice spectator guesses suits correctly
Also published here
Inspired by
Variations
 1981
The Complete Walton — Volume 1
125
Roy Walton* Divided We Stand kind of small-packet OOTW
Also published here
Inspired by
Related to
 1981
The Complete Walton — Volume 1
219
Jerry K. Hartman Hue View using twenty cards
Also published here
 Jan. 1982
Apocalypse (Vol. 5 No. 1)
582
David (Foote) Drake Out of this Alphabet abc card variation, first red black separation then also consonants and vowels
 		1982
Fork Full of Appetizers
64
Peter Duffie The Outer Limits
Variations
 1984
Close-Up to the Point
24
Juan Tamariz, Bernard Bilis Mini Fuera de Este Mundo with ten cards, divided in half, dated to 1976
 		1984
Magia Potagia — Volume III
74
Jon Racherbaumer Spectator Rouge Et Noir
Inspired by
 Nov. 1986
Inside Out (Issue 1)
8
Roy Walton* Denary Deceit packet out of this world with the help of a ten
Also published here
 1988
The Complete Walton — Volume 2
77
Daryl Martinez Out of this Hemisphere twenty-card packet version, spectator puts one color on table and other color to bottom, red cards marked
  • The Cards (replacing marks with stripper, one-way or crimp)
  • Totally Impromptu
 		1989
Out of this Hemisphere
1
Daryl Martinez From the Back performing the effect face-up and having the backs from two different decks
 		1989
Out of this Hemisphere
5
Ken Krenzel Handling for Out of this Hemisphere added to later printing than 1989 (no year given)
 		1989
Out of this Hemisphere
8
"Zigee the good Gypsy" Verdad Setting up for the routine
1989
Out of this Hemisphere
10
Karl Fulves* Astral Mind
1989
Easy-to-Do Card Tricks for Children
34
Jerry K. Hartman The Whole World in his Hands small packet
Related to
Variations
 June 1990
Apocalypse (Vol. 13 No. 6)
1799
Ken Krenzel Ruse et Noir eight cards OOTW
Inspired by
 1990
Close-up Impact!
76
Justin Higham* Direct Proposition
Inspired by
 1990
Inside Out (Issue Special No. 1)
12
Richard Webster Pointing the Bone out of this world, using pictures of aborigine, dead or alive, erasable pen
 		Apr. 1991
Magick (Issue 454)
2269
Jerry K. Hartman Hue View using twenty cards
Also published here
 1991
Card Craft
381
Jerry K. Hartman World Class
Related to
Variations
 1991
Card Craft
386
Philip T. Goldstein* Tempathy using cards with words which either fall in category hot or cold
 		May 1992
Magick (Issue 471)
2355
Jerry Fulton Red Herring sucker problem of having spectator separate a small packet into reds and blacks
 		1993
Rigmarole (Issue 3)
32
Alex Elmsley Halfway to Heaven not all cards
 		1994
The Collected Works of Alex Elmsley — Volume 2
51
Aldo Colombini Half a World Away predicting two mistake cards
Inspired by
 1994
The Close-Up Magic of Aldo Colombini
162
Jerry K. Hartman Out of Earthbounds six red and six black mixed, performer removes cards that spectator stops him on until two piles are formed, colors are separated
Inspired by
Variations
 1995
After Craft
187
Robert E. Neale Parable of the Great Feast
Also published here
 1995
Magic and Meaning
158
Michael Skinner Rouge et Noir small packet OOTW
 		1996
Classic Sampler
84
Rough-Smooth World roughed red-black pairs
 		1996
The Fine Print (Issue 4)
89
Nick Trost Red or Black - Which? small packet
Inspired by
Related to
Variations
 1997
The Card Magic of Nick Trost
28
Alex Elmsley Underworld nine cards
Related to
Variations
 1997
Alex Is At It Again
1
Oscar Weigle Kleinpäckchen-Out of this World I
Variations
 1997
Intermagic (Vol. 21 No. 4 & 5)
182
Rudolf Braunmüller Kleinpäckchen-Out of this World II
Inspired by
 1997
Intermagic (Vol. 21 No. 4 & 5)
183
Hideo Kato Call To The World
Inspired by
 Apr. 1999
Genii (Vol. 62 No. 4)
45
Steve Beam Reconstruction with torn cards
Inspired by
Related to
  • Nick Trost's "Red or Black - Which?" in "The New Tops" 8/9 1972.
 2000
Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 3
173
Tony Chaudhuri Feminine Side see "Informant" reference for credit claim
Related to
 2001
Feminine Side
1
Roy Walton* Double Think No. 21, more or less classic with about twenty cards
 		2001
New Self-Working Card Tricks
34
Karl Fulves* Blackgammon No. 23, two packets are faced, spectator sorts the cards into red and black
Also published here
Variations
 2001
My Best Self-Working Card Tricks
46
Aldo Colombini It's A Small World using about half the deck
Also published here
Inspired by
  • "World Class" (J. K. Hartman)
  • "Tomorroworld" (Ron Ferris)
Related to
 Aug. 2001
Ego (Vol. 1 No. 3)
5
Jim Steinmeyer Automatic Poker ten cards are "mixed" by spectator, then red-black separated or poker deal, Pseudo-CATO
Related to
Variations
 2002
Impuzzibilities
23
Jamie Badman Oil & Water World "From what I hear, Mr. Gadfly is going to get bigger, brighter, and better very soon."
4&4, three phases
 		Jan./Feb. 2002
Mr. Gadfly (Vol. 2 No. 1)
58
Peter Duffie, Robin Robertson Double Rouge et Noir with two spectators
Inspired by
 2003
Card Conspiracy — Vol. 1
33
Aldo Colombini It's A Small World using about half the deck
Also published here
Inspired by
  • "World Class" (J. K. Hartman)
  • "Tomorroworld" (Ron Ferris)
Related to
 2004
Latter Day Secrets (Issue 9)
342
Peter Duffie, Robin Robertson Guessing Colors selection ends up in odd-colored pile, pseudo-CATO
 		2004
Diamonds from Coal
92
Paolo Cavalli C. K. C. Planet Earth dated 2003, with prediction of amount of wrong cards, performed as mind control spectators get cards offered and they can take them or refuse them
Inspired by
 2005
Sigma
14
Karl Fulves* A Few Good Cards "Unexplained"
five red cards in black half, spectator finds them from the back, posed as a problem, with effect variations
Variations
 2006
Prolix (Issue 1)
60
Jerry K. Hartman Hunt For Red five red cards in black half, spectator finds them from the back, solution
Inspired by
 2006
Prolix (Issue 2)
98
Nick Trost Ultimate "Even Money" - Improved not all cards are dealt
Inspired by
 2008
Subtle Card Creations — Volume 1
14
Lennart Green Index Intuition spectator shuffles, first separation with small packet, then Kennedy's with rest
Also published here
Inspired by
  • "Red and Black" (John Kennedy, Genii, Vol. 52 No. 9, Mar. 1989)
 2008
The Green Northern Lights Magic
13
Andy Nicholls Out of the Ordinary impromptu out of this world, wrong cards predicted
Related to
 2008
Mind Blasters
56
Andrew Brown The Living and the Dead photos sorted into living and dead people (written on back)
Inspired by
 2008
Mind Blasters
114
David Regal Luck
  • Part One - Cutting the Deck (Cut-to-High-Card effect)
  • Part Two - Color Sensitivity
  • Part Three - The Ten Card Poker Deal
 		2008
Approaching Magic
97
Herb Zarrow Impromptu Out of This World application of Zarrow Block Addition
 		2008
Zarrow: A Lifetime of Magic
37
Ken Krenzel Strange Hummer red-black separation by spectator beneath table with ten-card packet, suggests CATO as false trail
 		2009
Relaxed Impossibilities
211
Robert E. Neale Parable of the Great Feast
Also published here
 2009
Magic and Meaning [Expanded]
158
Lewis Jones Color Fast spectator chooses all losing color, performer winning color, kind of small packet OOTW
 		2010
Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 8
135
R. Paul Wilson Australian Curry II few-cards OOTW version
Inspired by
 2010
Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 8
189
Jeff McBride, Ramón Riobóo Color Guard fourteen cards
Inspired by
 2010
Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 8
214
Rob Zabrecky Another World Out of this World done with photographs of Harry and Bessie Houdini
 		2011
An Exploration at the Intersection of Magic and Theatre
65
Jeff Pierce, Ryan Schlutz The Untouchables
  • number of reds in one pile equals blacks in other pile
  • small packet OOTW with two spectators
  • two-card location with red black separation of packet
Inspired by
 2011
Making the Cut
119
Christoph Borer Ads of this World out of this world with advertising brochures, one have a cross the other a check mark
Related to
 2012
Endlose Möglichkeiten
4
Michael Skinner Rouge Et Noir seven red and seven black cards are shuffled together, spectator separates them
Also published here
  • Genii, Feb. 1971
 Nov./Dec. 2012
Genii (Vol. 75 No. 11 & 12)
126
Michael Weber, Tim Trono Intuition red and black squares torn from perforated card, spectator separates colors, finish with tapestry folding where one all reds end up one way and black the other way
 		Oct. 2012
Real Secrets (Vol. 1 No. 7)
1
Jay Sankey Confession OOTW with packet of cards, some with X on it
Also published here
  • 22 Blows to the Head DVD, ca. 2003
 2012
The Definitive Sankey — Volume 3
1422
Patrick G. Redford* Tiny World Spectator correctly separates three red cards from three black cards
Related to
 2013
Small World
8
Patrick G. Redford* Small World Spectator correct separates five red cards from five black cards
Related to
Variations
 2013
Small World
14
Patrick G. Redford* Mad World - a variation Variation on Small world, changes the timing of the switch
Inspired by
Related to
Variations
 2013
Small World
21
Patrick G. Redford* Unexpected World Variation on Mad World - magician predicts the mistake made in the color separation
Inspired by
Related to
 2013
Small World
32
Nick Trost Another Royal Marriages Routine Kings and Queens removed, spectator pairs them twice, then performer does so under table
  • Phase One - Opposites Attract (Fulves)
  • Phase Two - Color Scheme (Weigle)
  • Phase Three - Matching Kings and Queens
  • Phase Four - Separating Kings and Queens
Inspired by
  • "The Sympathetic Kings and Queens" in Hatton and Plate's "Magicians' Tricks: How They Are Done", 1910
  • 1949 manuscript
  • … and 1 more
Related to
 2013
Subtle Card Creations — Volume 4
611
Tomas Blomberg, Jack Parker Chase The Red Out Of This World type of effect, uncommon method
Inspired by
Related to
 2014
Blomberg Laboratories
211
Lennart Green El Poder de la Intuición spectator shuffles, first separation with small packet, then Kennedy's with rest
Also published here
 2014
El Manuscrito (Vol. 7 No. 30)
1050
Karl Fulves* Even Money Proposition brief outline
Related to
 2015
The Bammo Ten Card Deal Dossier
115
Bill Simon The Four Queens Procedure eight unknown cards, spectator picks four, all Queens are in one pile
Also published here
  • "The Four Queens" (Bill Simon, Mathematical Card Magic, 1964)
Variations
 2015
The Bammo Ten Card Deal Dossier
275
Christoph Borer Die Reiseprospekte out of this world with travel brochures, one have a cross the other a check mark
Also published here
Related to
 2016
21
30
Roy Walton* Daisy Chain with eight cards
 		2016
The Complete Walton — Volume 3
24
Harapan Ong The Incomplete Strip-Out stripping cards out from a tapered deck with an unsquared deck
  • Shuffle stacking sandwich demo: shuffling selection between two Jokers
  • Full deck red-black separation
  • Oil and Water: Spectator separates the colors themselves
 		2017
A New Angle
151
Christoph Borer Die Wünschelrute spectator separates some cards into red and black with a dowsing rod
Also published here
 2018
Mentale Notizen
241
Roberto Mansilla Back to the World using the colors of the backs, cutting cards as markers
 		2019
Çerca
135
Nick Trost Revolving Rummy performer and spectator each select seven cards, performer gets perfect run of Clubs
Inspired by
 2019
Subtle Card Creations — Volume 7
1660
Nick Trost "Even Money" - Simplified
Inspired by
 2019
Subtle Card Creations — Volume 7
1784
Andrew Musgrave It's a Topsy-Turvy World, Jane twelve cards
 		Mar. 2020
Genii (Vol. 83 No. 3)
74
Nick Trost Another "Even Money" with packet
Inspired by
 2020
Subtle Card Creations — Volume 8
1812
Nick Trost Coordinated Colors
  • Phase One - Color by Touch (small packet shuffled face-up/face-down, performer names number of reds and blacks and sorts them)
  • Phase Two - Color Scheme (cards mixed face up/down, spectator separates face up/down, as well as red/black)
Inspired by
 2020
Subtle Card Creations — Volume 8
1876
Edward Marlo On Rouge et Noire comment
Related to
 2021
Output (Issue 16)
14
Brother John Hamman Prepping for O.O.T.W.
  • Exhumations (Jon Racherbaumer)
Also published here
  • The New Tops, 1972
 May 2021
Genii (Vol. 84 No. 5)
42
David Britland Take It or Leave It
  • Cardopolis
two cards chosen from cut-off packet are pocketed, then piles are made from the packet, one spectator has all red cards, a red card in pocket and red has been predicted for him, other with black
Related to
 Jan. 2023
Genii (Vol. 86 No. 1)
54
Jon Racherbaumer Finale: Odd Yet Predictable
  • Exhumations
eight cards are separated into color by spectator, "Bill Simon's 64 Principle"
Inspired by
  • "Men from the Boys" (Colm Mulcahy)
Related to
 Dec. 2024
Genii (Vol. 87 No. 12)
49
Lennart Green Lennart Green's Out of This World spectator shuffles, first separation with small packet, then Kennedy's with rest
Also published here
 2024
Unexpected Agenda (Issue Dec. 18)
364
Christoph Borer Travel Brochures out of this world with travel brochures, one have a cross the other a check mark
Also published here
Related to
 2024
Forged by Fire
64
Christoph Borer The Dowsing Rod spectator separates some cards into red and black with a dowsing rod
Also published here
 2024
Forged by Fire
217
Justin Higham* Poker World introduction on Power Poker plot and its relation to mini Out Of This World
 		2025
The Effects of Saturday
24
Justin Higham* O.D.D. Rouge et Noir "Open Double Deal"
  • Marker-Card Versions
    • Method A
    • Method B
Inspired by
 2025
The Effects of Saturday
30
Justin Higham* 6. Visual Retention Poker
  • First Version
  • Second Version
 		2025
The Effects of Saturday
32
Justin Higham* 8. OHBD Poker "One Hand Bottom Deal"
  • OHBD Rouge et Noir
  • False-Deal Rouge et Noir
    • First Method
    • Second & Third Methods
 		2025
The Effects of Saturday
36
Justin Higham* Even Money Colours
Inspired by
 2025
The Effects of Saturday
67