Age Cards Principle

44 entries in Numbers / Principles / Age Cards Principle
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Friedrich "Fritz" Hügli Gedankenlesen Age Cards / Calculator Cards
 		1927
Leichte Zauberei
154
Joseph Ovette The Buddha Whispers "has one of these the same value?"
Variations 1937
Encyclopedia of Card Tricks
350
Charles T. Jordan Demon's Divination "can you see your suit/value... here?", set-up
Related toVariations 1938
The Jinx (Issue Summer Extra 1938)
324
"Senator" Clarke Crandall Triple Divination card from a poker hand or group of cards remembered, divined with "can you see one of same value here?..."
  • Effect No. 1
  • Effect No. 2
  • Effect No. 3
 		1946
50 Tricks You Can Do, You Will Do, Easy to Do
22
Number Cards Set of cards with numbers, spectator thinks of a number and chooses cards that has the thought of number. Magician divines the number. Binary system
Variations 1956
Mathematics, Magic And Mystery
95
Window Cards More complex version of Number Cards with holes cut out in the card to be stacked up
Inspired byVariations 1956
Mathematics, Magic And Mystery
96
Sam Lloyd Sam Loyd's Version New version of window cards that reveal your age
Inspired by 1956
Mathematics, Magic And Mystery
100
Ben Maghy Experiment mit Gehirnsubstanz cards with numbers, spectator thinks of a card and removes all cards wich have the number on it, spectator quickly looks through the cards and sees which number appears on all cards, different presentation for classic effect calculator / age cards using bottles
Related to 1965
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 26 No. 6)
91
Robert E. Neale New Age Cards three cards with words on them, thought-of word divined, one of the cards vanishes
Related to Mar. 1972
Epilogue (Issue 14)
117
Gerald Kosky Psychic Memory calculator cards / age cards, using four cards and fifteen randomly named objects
 		1975
The Magic of Gerald Kosky
143
Ken De Courcy "Age Cards" Addition binary number cards, card named and number cards that total its position removed and added
 		1978
Jack's Pack
6
Philip T. Goldstein Racer's Edge fictitious horse race, Age Cards, reverse binary
Related toVariations 1980
The Violet Book of Mentalism
15
Jack Yates Accusation murderer, crime and witnesses selected from lists, all divined, Age Cards principle
Variations 1980
Accusation
1
Ken De Courcy Accusation - part 2 murderer, crime and witnesses selected from lists, all divined, Age Cards principle
Inspired by 1980
Accusation
7
Karl Fulves, Charles T. Jordan, Joseph Ovette, U. F. Grant The Buddha Bet "can you see your suit/value... here?", set-up
Inspired byRelated to 1981
Fourcast
12
Philip T. Goldstein Zen Poker streamlined "can you see your suit/value... here?", Age Cards credit information
Related toVariations 1984
Thequal
2
Paul Swinford Four Impressions one of sixteen cards thought of, packet extracted with sorting rod several times ("Is your card among those?"), Magic Age Cards
 		1986
The Cyberdeck
19
Paul Swinford The Discerning Joker one of sixteen cards thought of, packet extracted with sorting rod several times ("Is your card among those?"), Magic Age Cards, selection ends up on top and Joker at position of selection's value, Binarial Transposition
Related to 1986
The Cyberdeck
20
Philip T. Goldstein Seak pack of alphabet cards and pack with words lists used for word divination
Also published here 1994
Thabbatical
46
Karl Fulves Loaded cards with letters in scale layout, spectator thinks of a letter and says whether it would tip to left or right, binary, gray code, see also p. 26
Related to 1995
Underworld (Issue 1)
11
Karl Fulves Loaded credit notes
Related to 1995
The Fine Print (Issue 1)
3
Karl Fulves Down-Under Age Cards reporting a misplaced idea in which number cards are down-under dealt
 		1995
The Fine Print (Issue 1)
4
Maurice Kraitchik Age Cards Automaton
Also published here
  • Mathematical Recreations
 1996
The Fine Print (Issue 4)
68
Ken Schwabe Digit Eyes cards with numbers, spectator thinks of a card and removes all cards wich have the number on it, spectator quickly looks through the cards and sees which number appears on all cards, different presentation for classic effect of Age Cards / Calculator Cards
Related to 1996
Syzygy (Vol. 3 No. 10)
221
Philip T. Goldstein Seak pack of alphabet cards and pack with words lists used for word divination
Also published here 2001
San Jose Notes
6
Brother John Hamman Computer Deck spectator thinks of any card, deck mixed face-up/face-down and spread, performer asks whether spectator sees his card multiple times, Age Cards
 		Feb. 2001
Genii (Vol. 64 No. 2)
55
Tom Stone The Test various symbols are on four cards, one thought of, performer divines it, Age Cards, reverse binary
  • Variation
  • Advanced version
  • Future explorations
Inspired by 2003
Gravel
1
Karl Fulves Age Related four cards chosen, additional card placed in box, medium names hidden card after some of the others are called, inspired by Age Cards trick
 		2005
Combo II
6
Max Maven Seak pack of alphabet cards and pack with words lists used for word divination
Also published here 2011
Apple of My Eyes
5
Max Maven Seak pack of alphabet cards and pack with words lists used for word divination
Also published here 2011
Ideas by Max
5
Jim Steinmeyer "One Fortune" Think-of-a-Card
  • Conjuring
"is your card among those?", Age Cards
Inspired by
  • "The World's Thinnest Deck of Cards" (Jim Steinmeyer, marketed 1994)
Related to 		Feb. 2012
Genii (Vol. 75 No. 2)
24
Michael Weber, Tim Trono, Real Secrets Team Coupons spectator thinks of any food item from a couple of receipts and puts those away that don't contain it, performer predicted that item on a coupon card in his wallet, age cards
(PDF bonus effect from June 2012)
Inspired by June 2012
Real Secrets ()
1
Michael Weber, Tim Trono, Real Secrets Team Age Receipts spectator thinks of any food item from a couple of receipts and puts those away that don't contain it, performer divines the item, age cards
Related toVariations Apr. 2012
Real Secrets (Vol. 1 No. 2)
1
Jim Steinmeyer The Preternatural Stack: A Deck That Reads Your Mind
  • Conjuring
"is the same value/suit among those?", age cards
 		Dec. 2013
Genii (Vol. 76 No. 12)
38
Alexander de Cova Royal Ascot fictitious horse race, magic age cards
Inspired byRelated toAlso published here Jan. 2014
New Avantgarde Magic (Issue 14)
18
Alexander de Cova Royal Ascot fictitious horse race, magic age cards
Also published here 2015
Burners — Vol. 3
215
Bob Farmer Mind Casino card thought of from a grid of cards, Age Cards version
Inspired by May 2020
Genii (Vol. 83 No. 5)
72
Jim Steinmeyer The Deck That Knows deck on four strips of paper, Age Cards to find out thought-of card
Inspired by
  • trick (not named by JS) from "The Book of Secrets" (Walter Gibson, 1927)
 2020
Virtual Impuzzibilities
31
Jim Steinmeyer The Enigma Process Age Cards with lists of words
 		2020
Virtual Impuzzibilities
36
Jim Steinmeyer (Not a Princess.) Virtually a Princess
  • Conjuring
can be done over zoom if envelopes with card packets are sent out to spectators, performer then shows a packet of five cards and asks questions about matching characteristics to thought-of card
Also published here Feb. 2021
Genii (Vol. 84 No. 2)
48
Jim Steinmeyer Not a Princess No. 8, can be done over zoom if envelopes with card packets are sent out to spectators, performer then shows a packet of five cards and asks questions about matching characteristics to thought-of card
Also published here 2021
Bewildering Impuzzibilities
24
Geno Munari Geno Munari's Thought Wave card thought of, eight piles shown to spectator to ask whether he sees one of the same value etc., deck shuffled at the start, age cards
 		2022
Gagnon's Inner Sanctum
30
Jim Steinmeyer Merely Drivel
  • Conjuring
two spectators each think of a long/short word on large cue card boards, divined, age cards
 		Feb. 2023
Genii (Vol. 86 No. 2)
46
John Hostler Sightlines card thought of from half of the deck, then found after showing fans of cards with "is your card in here?" procedure
Inspired by
  • "Telemathy" (Mel Stover, Ibidem, June 1955)
 2023
Percolations
12