58 entries in Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Rough and Smooth Decks / Mirage Forcing Deck
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Eric F. Impey Perfectos "A New Principle in Card Magic"
card chosen, wrong card changes into selection, half-waxed pairs, back card is force card
Also published here 1928 1
Eric F. Impey Stabbing Location
1928 1
Eric F. Impey Card at Number card at small number is forced card, cards dealt face up
1928 1
Ralph W. Hull The Mirage Principle svengali pack with rough-smooth principle and cards are short and also narrow
1937 253
Ralph W. Hull Mirage Deck deck changes in duplicates of selection, svengali/mirage deck
1937 253
Ralph W. Hull The Eye Popper svengali/mirage deck
1937 254
Orville Wayne Meyer Phoned Thots mirage deck
Dec. 1939
The Jinx (Issue 70)
478
Jack Vosburgh Double Edged Sword of Might two card prediction, one-ahead, mirage deck
1940
The Jinx (Issue 122)
713
Eddie Joseph A Remarkable Coincidence two cards chosen from two decks match, repeat, two-way Mirage decks
1942 71
U. F. Grant Any Number over Telephone rough-smooth forcing deck, a person called who should name any odd number
Related to Dec. 1948 13
Lewis Ganson "How Right You Are!" routine with mirage deck, with roughing fluid formula
  • The "Rough and Smooth" Pack
  • To Show the Cards All Different
  • To Shuffle the Cards (overhand)
  • The Force
  • To Take Two Cards as One
  • The Routine (see following items)
1950 29
Lewis Ganson Phase 1 stop trick
Related to 1950 32
Lewis Ganson Phase 2 six heaps made, spectator puts coin on one, on top is his selection
Related to 1950 33
Lewis Ganson Phase 3 card stabbed in newspaper-wrapped deck
Also published here 1950 34
Lewis Ganson Climax card appears on back of spectator
Also published here 1950 34
Jochen Zmeck Mein Rauh-Glatt-Forcierspiel as Jochini, stripper & rough/smooth forcing deck
Also published here
  • in "Die Zauberkunst"
1957
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 18 No. 2)
486
Edward Marlo A Rough Prediction Open Prediction methods using a roughed forcing deck, performer deals
  • First Presentation (spectator stops as performer deals)
  • Second Presentation (spectator thinks of a number and then stops dealing at the number, "Did you think of number x?")
  • Third Presentation (spectator thinks of one of the indifferent cards, predicted card is next to it)
  • Fourth Presentation (two cards end up in the same position in two halves)
  • Fifth Presentation (prediction card made with another deck)
Dec. 1959
Ibidem (Issue 19)
2
Edward Marlo Svengali's Double Prediction two predictions written on faces of two cards match selections
Variations Dec. 1959
Ibidem (Issue 19)
33
Jochen Zmeck Mein Rauh-Glatt-Forcierspiel partially roughed Svengali deck, mirage
1962 10
Walter Wenger Die Drei Wünsche spectator finds his card after making several choices, mirage type deck, ends clean
Also published here
  • Magie, Vol. 36 No. 4, April 1956
1962 13
Jochen Zmeck, Ralph W. Hull Schneller als das Auge ambitious phases with mirage deck, also as double ambitious phase
1962 14
Al Koran Erfüllte Gedankenwünsche two cards selected and spectators find them with small number or stop, two-card mirage deck, partial rough-smooth
1962 23
Roy Johnson Predictafors card at named number is predicted, 1-0-1 mirage deck
1970 21
Sam Dalal Double Vision two cards predicted on paper slips, using ballpoint pen with pencil lead, mirage deck
Also published here
  • Magigram (Rough-Smooth part, by Sam Dalal)
June 1974 743
Robert Parrish Mental Opener spectator names number and that card is counted to face-up, number and card predicted, mirage deck, miscalling number
Summer 1974
The Pallbearers Review Vol. 9-10 (Vol. 9 No. 9th Folio)
763
Eric Williams Forcing from Mirage Deck counting face-up
Summer 1974
The Pallbearers Review Vol. 9-10 (Vol. 9 No. 9th Folio)
763
Gerald Kosky The Sub - Conscious
1975 125
Gerald Kosky Tape Recorder Prediction prediction on tape of a number, a card and the relation between black and red objects (Miraskill)
1975 179
Gerald Kosky Phone-Ey Intuition person is called during show to name a number, predicted card is found at that position
1975 192
Will Dexter Forcing from a Forcing Deck comments
July 1978
Intermagic (Vol. 5 No. 2)
61
Karl Fulves The Svengali Principle explaining the principle, with reproduced ad by Burling Hull from 1909
  • short ends
  • short corners
  • scallop shorts (& combined cuts)
  • roughed Svengali deck
1983 10
Eric F. Impey Perfectos half-waxed pairs, back card is force card
Also published here 1983 42
Scotty York The Sawed Deck two jumbo decks are used, one card is selected from a red deck and placed in an envelope, other deck is sawed in two with a toy saw and two halves are selected, card in envelope is a split-faced card matching both halves, credit information
Inspired by
  • "Banana Split" (Repro Magic marketed item)
Also published here
1988 1
Scotty York The Skill Compatibility Test two jumbo decks are used, one card is selected from a red deck and placed in an envelope, other deck is sawed in two with a toy saw and two halves are selected, card in envelope is a split-faced card matching both halves
Also published here 1993 9
Richard Bartram, Jr. Point of Thought spectator thinks of a card and removes this with two others from a deck, performer removes card with arrow from second deck, it points to thought-of card and matches it
VariationsAlso published here
  • Mystification
1993 200
Richard Bartram, Jr. Point of Thought two decks, performer removes card with arrow on back which points on selection in other deck, when card is turned over it is the same card, with Pop-Eyed Eye-Popper deck
1993 41
Norman Barlow The Polygraph Pack performer deals through cards and names them, he lies at chosen card and spectator spots the lie
1995
Syzygy (Vol. 1 No. 17)
77
Karl Fulves Full Disclosure performer deals, Mirage deck
1996 11
Tony Binarelli You Think... It's Gone two decks, spectator says stop anytime while dealing through one deck, that card is noted, when opening the other case, only that one card is inside, partial mirage deck
Also published here Apr. 1999
Genii (Vol. 62 No. 4)
38
Paul Hallas The Distance Burning card chosen and burned/torched a bit, in a prediction deck the same card has burn marks, voodoo
Inspired by
  • "The Fire Ritual" (Paul Hallas, marketed item)
Feb. 2002
Ego (Vol. 1 No. 9)
15
Robert Cassidy The Triple Prediction gambling theme, using die, dart and cards
2004 63
Wonder Man Fred, Barrie Richardson Any Card At Any Number variation on Richardson routine, using fingers of spectator to form a number
Inspired by 2004 233
Bob Ostin The Green Die Mystery selection is shuffled in the deck, die is thrown and spectator as many times as he wants, selection is found at total
Related to
  • "The Green Die Mystery" in "Club 71" Autumn 2003.
2005 61
Bob Ostin Two Routines For The Pecking Bird forcing stack and rough and smooth solutions
2005 69
Carl Montada Die Macht es Unterbewusstseins "Auch bekannt als ACAN - (Any Card At Any Number)"
2008 14
Carl Montada Weitere Ideen zum Svengali oder Mirage Deck spectator stops at his selection
2008 17
Andy Nyman Charade stop trick with two halves, stopped-at cards are mates, then performer stops at a selection
Apr. 2009
Genii (Vol. 72 No. 4)
53
David Acer Nomen Omen names written on backs of every card, one card chosen from front and one from back, other side of each card predicted
Also published here
  • first marketed 1990 by Camirand Academy of Magic
2011 59
David Britland The Trick That Cannot Be Explained
  • Cardopolis
top card is predicted after a spectator's shuffle
Feb. 2011
Genii (Vol. 74 No. 2)
36
Tony Binarelli You Think... It's Gone two decks, spectator says stop anytime while dealing through one deck, that card is noted, when opening the other case, only that one card is inside, partial mirage deck
Also published here Nov./Dec. 2012
Genii (Vol. 75 No. 11 & 12)
170
Mike Caveney The Split Deck deck chopped in half, card chosen from both halves, they match
Inspired by
  • Bob Haskell's "Split Deck"
2013 49
Eric Richardson Switch-Blade spectator stabe knife into deck, performer divines card at that position and its position, then stabs to it in napkin-wrapped deck, Pop-Eyed Popper deck
Related to
  • "Rizzio's Dagger" (Tom Hawbecker, Hugard's Magic Monthly, Mar. 1953)
Apr. 2015
Genii (Vol. 78 No. 4)
36
Mike Pisciotta The Rashomon Effect three spectators select cards, they turn out to be the same, half Mirage deck
Also published here 2016 28
Mike Pisciotta The Rashomon Effect three spectators select cards, they turn out to be the same, half Mirage deck
Also published here 2019 15
David Britland Trevor Hall's Direct Mind Reading
  • Cardopolis
guessing the method of Hall's effect, one card thought of from a spread and one chosen by cutting, both divined
Inspired by
  • "Direct Mind Reading" (Trevor Hall, marketed 1956)
Feb. 2020
Genii (Vol. 83 No. 2)
52
Roberto Giobbi The Trick That Can Be Explained sure fire
2021 109
John Graham Buffalo John combination of Million Dollar Bill Mystery, Barcode Gag, Before Your Eyes prediction on dry-erase board, bill transformation in Himber wallet, Hat Tear, $100 bill switch
Inspired byRelated to 2021 153
Eugene Burger Jumbo Card Prediction reproduced unpublished instructions from 1991, partial mirage deck
Related to 2021 43