33,981 entries in Cards / Sleights
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Edward Victor Spread Switch card isolated in spread is pulled by fingers to the right and left thumb pushes out next card, see next trick for another application
Related toVariations 1940 ca. 23
One-handed Top Card Reverse under cover
1940 ca. 25
Edward Victor Face-up Spread Switch switch a face-down card in face-up spread, related to "Spread Switch" p. 23
1940 ca. 25
A False “Riffle Shuffle”
Related toAlso published here 1940 ca. 26
Edward Victor Multiple Card Palm Behind Handkerchief brief, Palm covered by handkerchief being shaken by both hands
1940 ca. 31
Side-jog to Break left thumb pushes over top card of lower half so break can be taken beneath it when top half is replaced
1940 ca. 37
Back-slip Cut brief
1940 ca. 37
Card Reverse in Middle bold, under cover of body turn
1940 ca. 37
Edward Victor ”Sighting” A Card in the Pack selection is second from bottom, bottom card is Glided back to get glimpse, bottom cover card is “convincer” for audience
1940 ca. 40
Control Card to Second from Bottom obtain break below top card of left spread, selection on bottom of right spread, square deck and Pass to break
1940 ca. 41
Edward Marlo Backpalm
1941 6
Hank Nowoc Flesh Color Corned Cards for back palming
1941 17
Edward Marlo Two Types of Fans for production
1941 18
Edward Marlo Count Down Force
1941
Early Marlo (Issue Amazing, Isn't It?)
28
Edward Marlo No Palm Aces to Pocket featuring bottom placement at coat edge move, lapel load
Related toVariations 1941
Early Marlo (Issue Amazing, Isn't It?)
32
Simple Packet Switch addition from face
1941
Early Marlo (Issue Amazing, Isn't It?)
33
Edward Marlo Marlo - Vernon sandwiched card with card at chosen position
Variations 1941
Early Marlo (Issue Amazing, Isn't It?)
42
Packet Turnover under misdirection
1941
The Jinx (Issue 132)
758
Herbert Hood A Thought Out-Thought free selection divined, marked & stacked
VariationsAlso published here Apr. 1941
The Jinx (Issue 136)
776
Cross Cut Force with time misdirection
1941
The Jinx (Issue 138)
786
Oscar Weigle One Up cards shuffled face-up/face-down by spectator, two methods (stripper and deck switch)
June 1941
The Jinx (Issue 141)
796
Arthur Monroe Hypocritical Memory deck switch in mirror glass
Dec. 1941
The Jinx (Issue 151)
884
Jean Hugard Hugard Card Control center clip overhand shuffle
1941 6
The Bottom Palm Simplified with general comments
Related to 1941 7
Jean Hugard To Shuffle or Not To Shuffle thoughts on controls & delays, two methods for delaying control
1941 9
Frederick Braue Rightening the Bottom Cards cutting cover
1941 11
The Riffle Force with break
1941 11
The Count Force technical
1941 12
L. Vosburgh Lyons The Lyons Force cutting through handkerchief
1941 14
Glimpse through Handkerchief
1941 15
Deane Moore Double Lift Substitute
1941 16
Deane Moore Card Control No ? ? ? to bottom, card apparently pushed through deck and put back on top
Related to 1941 17
Frederick Braue The Cut Pass
1941 18
Dr. H. Walter Grote The Grote Instantaneous Palm
1941 20
Joseph Cottone The Dip Color Change
Also published here 1941 21
Joseph Cottone The Snap Color Change Herrmann Pass
1941 22
Joseph Cottone Visible Color Change Snap Change on face of pack
1941 24
Klondyke Shuffle milk shuffle
1941 30
William Larsen, T. Page Wright Nerve Force bold, just handing cards out
1941 38
Joseph Cottone Auto-Location
1941 40
Joseph Cottone Throwing One-Handed Bottom Deal
1941 43
Joseph Cottone The Jumping Joker selection flys out of deck
1941 43
Bert Allerton Allerton Switch top card drawn back
Related to 1941 45
The Diminishing Cards - Sleight of Hand Method
1941 48
Jean Hugard, Frederick Braue The Hugard-Braue Strip Shuffle controlling cards to bottom in stripper deck
1941 4
A Reversed Card as a Key Card
1941 7
Jean Hugard, Frederick Braue The Hugard-Braue Cut Control
1941 7
Sighting the Card at the Bottom hindu shuffle glimpse
1941 8
Jean Hugard, Frederick Braue Hugard-Braue False Strip Shuffle fake hindu shuffle, only cut
1941 8
To Control Two or More Cards as four-Ace Control
1941 8
Slip Cut
1941 9
The Stripper Jog Control controlling reversed card in stripper deck
1941 9
Jean Hugard, Frederick Braue The Hugard-Braue Stripper Force hindu shuffle & stripper deck
1941 10
The Stripper Undercut bringing reversed card in stripper deck to top via undercut
1941 10
The Stripper Running Cut bringing reversed card in stripper deck to top via running cut
1941 11
The Stripper Glide stripper deck
1941 11
Jean Hugard, Frederick Braue The Hugard-Braue Stripper Change automatic second deal with stripper deck
1941 12
The Stripper Cut controlling reversed cards to top in stripper deck
1941 12
Jean Hugard, Frederick Braue The Slop Reverse
1941 14
Dai Vernon, Jean Hugard, Frederick Braue Stripper Strip Out Addition
1941 24
Double Under-Cut see step 4
1941 27
Stripper Switch with actual stripper deck
1941 31
Tom Sellers A Good Prediction spectator inserts a knife into the deck, card is forced
1941 7
Tom Sellers A Novel Colour Change
1941 7
Tom Sellers A Different Pass with palming
1941 7
Tom Sellers A False Count
1941 10
Bob Hummer The Whispering Spirit packet is cut and subtracted from a unknown calculation (age x nine), amount of cards in packet is divined when result is named
Also published here 1941 1
Eddie Joseph Riffle Glimpse & Heel Break card in center remembered and kept under control with heel type break
1941 3
Eddie Joseph Heel Break Riffle Force one-handed
1941 3
Eddie Joseph Slip Riffle Force one-handed
Related to 1941 4
Eddie Joseph Top Card Glimpse during riffling
1941 4
Eddie Joseph Push-Through Jog four cards at different positions are hit into deck and come out at inner end
1941 6
Eddie Joseph Monte Switch fan of three cards, apparently top card tabled but second card taken instead
1941 8
Eddie Joseph Two Card Switch optical monte type switch, two cards pushed against each other as they are turned face down
1941 9
Eddie Joseph Cutting the Pack named number of cards cut off, estimation and false count
1941 10
Eddie Joseph Overcount packet counted from hand to hand
1941 10
Eddie Joseph Undercount last block counted as one
1941 11
Eddie Joseph Aces found in Pocket Switch deck switch during effect in which Aces are located with deck in pocket
1941 12
Milk Build Stack
1941 13
Dr. William Weyeneth Un de mes trucs card location, secretly placing a coin on selection
July 1941
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 3 No. 7)
6
Hans "Severus" Ernst Die Historia von den 15 Christen und den 15 Türken
  • Der Vater mit den Stradivariousgeigen
trick for counting puzzle, every fifth is eliminated, eight cards and only red remain on the table
Aug. 1941
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 3 No. 8)
2
Tony Kardyro To Bring Selected Card Second From Top thick key card
1941 7
Tony Kardyro To Bring Selected Card Second From Bottom thick key card
1941 7
Tony Kardyro Mental Card Discovery card next to thick card can be glimpsed when riffling through deck
1941 8
Val Evans Pocket Deck Switch during location in pocket
1941 5
Val Evans Pseudo Stacking Aces pushed into deck next to already stacked cards with marks on their backs
1941 21
Al Baker Palm Replacement context of cards across
Also published here 1941 2
Al Baker Undercount from left-hand dealing position into right hand one on top of the next, double push
Also published here 1941 3
Johann Nepomuk Hofzinser Bottom Palm no credit
Also published here 1941 5
Al Baker Slipping the Cut - Table Method "Baker Improvement"
Draw Shift variation
VariationsAlso published here 1941 29
Al Baker Concentration spectator crimps his card without knowing
Also published here 1941 84
Paul Curry Next! the selected card is found next to a card with the message "Your card will be next"
Also published here 1941 5
Henry Christ Christ Force
1941 5
Paul Curry Follow Me two decks, two cards match after Henry Christ cutting procedure
Also published here 1941 7
Paul Curry Turn of the Century Location setting short double backer as key card, out-of-hand selection procedure
Related toVariationsAlso published here 1941 8
Paul Curry Force & Vanish with Henry Christ Force double facer
Also published here 1941 8
Paul Curry Switch under Coat behind back
1941 16
Under-the-Spread Force with odd-backed card, bottom card
Also published here 1941 19
Paul Curry Turnover Half Pass as deck is turned over
Related toVariations 1941 24
Paul Curry Bottom Palm
Related toAlso published here 1941 25
Paul Curry The Turn-Over Change
1941 27
Double Side Move with piece of cardboard
1941/27 181
Guide to Card Positions basic terminology
1941/27 193
The Simplified Pass control to top via overhand shuffle, Mahatma Control
1941/27 195
Another False Shuffle riffle shuffle to preserve top card, basic
1941/27 196
Double Card Lift
1941/27 196
Flap Insertion separating card from rest while closing case
1941/27 197
Glimpse Envelope to glimpse single card in envelope
1941/27 200
The Slip Change slipping card from one half to other with left fingers
1941/27 203
Palming of a Card
1941/27 207
Hindu Shuffle as all alike display
1941/27 209
Fan Force
1941/27 215
Tenkai Ishida Optical Revolve
Related toVariations 1941/27 216
The Regular Pass
1941/27 247
The Modern Pass kind of wrist turn action
1941/27 250
How to use the Foregoing Passes tips
1941/27 251
How to Get A Card Placed in Middle of Deck to "Bottom" of Deck pass or riffle shuffle
1941/27 252
The "Side-Steal" Pass
1941/27 253
Peek Handling old fashioned
1941/27 253
G. W. Hunter The G.W. Hunter Shuffle
1941/27 254
The Wiggle-Woggle Shuffle simple
1941/27 254
The Riffle False Shuffle no cover longitudinal Zarrow
1941/27 255
Shuffle to Control "Top" Card running it singly
1941/27 256
Shuffle to Control "Bottom" Card milk
1941/27 257
Shuffle to Control "Top" and "Bottom" Cards
1941/27 257
To Control "Top" and "Bottom" Cards by Riffle Shuffle
1941/27 257
"Pack in Hands" False Cut tabled or not, three packets
1941/27 258
The Three Way Table Cut
1941/27 259
Another Three-Cut Variation
1941/27 259
The Four-Way Cut
1941/27 259
Another Four-Way-Cut
1941/27 260
"Top" Card Control Fan Cut
1941/27 260
"Bottom" Card Control Fan Cut
1941/27 261
"Top" Card Control Clip Cut hindu style
1941/27 261
"Bottom" Card Control Clip Cut hindu style
1941/27 261
The Force using an angled step
1941/27 262
In Case of Emergency
1941/27 263
Double Force with Knife using forcing deck with alternating order
1941/27 264
The Mathematical Force recount
1941/27 264
Forcing Bottom Card under the spread-force from bottom
1941/27 265
Force Behind Performer's Back bold
1941/27 267
The Riffle Force short card
1941/27 268
Riffle Force with Unprepared Cards
1941/27 270
Forcing one of Four Cards on Table three method, one with die
Related to 1941/27 271
Forcing One of Four Cards by Using Deck
1941/27 273
False Pip Change one pip is snapped off
1941/27 290
Dai Vernon "Topping The Deck"
Related toVariationsAlso published here 1941/49 7
Dai Vernon Wedge Cull for a displacement
1941/49 14
Dai Vernon The Optical Monte
1941/49 17
Edward Marlo Marlo's Count Down Flourish
Variations 1942 5
Edward Marlo Age Old Card Control certain crimp
Related to 1942 6
Edward Marlo Imitation of Scarne thumb digs in deck and drags card out
1942 7
One-Hand Slip Cut to table
Also published here 1942 11
Edward Marlo Nu Presentation for Bob Hummer's Jumping Card, selection shoots out of still-held deck across bar surface and stops in front of spectator
Related toVariations 1942 22
Martin Gardner, Edward Marlo Gardner-Marlo Poker Routine
Related toVariations 1942 28
Edward Marlo Setting Up in Front of Spectator strategy
1942 7
Edward Marlo Double Vanish and Recovery two cards vanish from face of two halves when rubbed together, reappear in deck
Related toVariationsAlso published here 1942 8
Edward Marlo Marlo's Running Cut in-the-hands swing cut running cut, also as top stock control
Related toVariations 1942 14
Edward Marlo Marlo's Lessinout System of Cull and Stock Shuffles without injogs or outjogs
  • Lessinout Cull
  • Lessinout Stack
VariationsAlso published here 1942 14
Tip-Over Switch
1942 17
Edward Marlo Card to Card Case palmed onto case and removed
Related toVariations 1942 19
Buckle Count
1942 21
Tom Sellers A Card Flourish bent-in-half palm
1942 7
Jean Hugard Introduction comments on overhand shuffling
1942 2
The Overhand Shuffle
  • The Grip
  • The Shuffle
  • Protruding Cards
  • Forming a Break
  • Shuffling to the Break
  • Dropping a Packet
  • Determining Intervals
  • Culling, Stocking
1942 3
Determining Intervals distances between cards
1942 4
Frederick Braue The Stock Shuffle I. To Place One Card in Position to Fall to the Dealer in a Five-Handed Game
II. To Stock Two Cards to Fall to the Dealer in a Five-Handed Game
III. To Stock Three Cards to Fall to the Dealer in a Five-Handed Game
VariationsAlso published here 1942 5
Frederick Braue The Odd-Number Stock Shuffle
  • Two-Card Odd-Number Stock
  • Three-Card Odd-Number Stock
1942 12
Frederick Braue The Cull Shuffle
  • Two-Card Cull Shuffle
  • Three-Card Cull Shuffle
1942 16
Frederick Braue The Cull-Stock Shuffle
  • To Cull-Stock One Card
  • To Cull-Stock Two Cards
  • Three Card Cull-Stock Shuffle
1942 21
Single Card Color Change double, excelsior steal and unload
1942 7
Henry Christ The Perfect Card Location setting double back key card, "by no means new", for impromptu method see footnote
Related toVariations 1942 8
Arthur Punnar Cull Placement of card next to named card
1942 13
Double Card Laydown here on floor
1942 15
Paddle Move with a Card with a squared mirror
Related to 1942
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1942)
23
Clayton Rawson Card Switch
Related to Mar. 1942
The Phoenix (Issue 3)
10
Deal Change
Apr. 1942
The Phoenix (Issue 6)
23
Walter B. Gibson Topper
Also published here Apr. 1942
The Phoenix (Issue 7)
27
Clement de Lion Die Force Improvement one of four cards with rolling of die, see 202 Method of Forcing for original
June 1942
The Phoenix (Issue 12)
45
Lu Brent One Ahead Peek spectator peeks a card, which is glimpsed boldly
June 1942
The Phoenix (Issue 12)
46
Lu Brent False Face Glimpse bold glimpse
June 1942
The Phoenix (Issue 12)
47
George Armstrong The G.A. Card Changing Tray
July 1942
The Phoenix (Issue 13)
51
Clayton Rawson No Corpse for the Coffin crimping selection, then "There It Is" with unload for transformation of wrong card into selection
Inspired byVariations July 1942
The Phoenix (Issue 14)
58
Wilbur T. Kattner Ry for Mystery preparing OOTW while performing
Aug. 1942
The Phoenix (Issue 16)
65
Deal Change
Aug. 1942
The Phoenix (Issue 16)
67
Lu Brent Self-Shuffle observing spectator's riffle shuffle, following the card
Related to Sep. 1942
The Phoenix (Issue 18)
77
Bruce Elliott Force forcing an ace with a special lighter
Oct. 1942
The Phoenix (Issue 21)
89
Theodore Annemann Glimpse glimpsing a card while transferring it from the deck on the palm
Nov. 1942
The Phoenix (Issue 22)
93
Gaglets when forcing one card, let him grab two and take one back
Dec. 1942
The Phoenix (Issue 24)
101
Eddie Joseph Part One - Some Sl(e)ight Changes in Some Standard Sleights intro, on naturalness
1942 7
Eddie Joseph Card Palming
1942 8
Eddie Joseph Palming Cards on the Feet
  • First Method
  • Second Method
  • Third Method
1942 8
Eddie Joseph How to Return Palmed Card into the Pack card transferred to other hand behind back while spectator is shuffling and replaced with other hand
1942 11
Eddie Joseph Palming Cards at a Table one-handed as tabled deck is pushed forward
1942 11
Eddie Joseph The Slip
Inspired by 1942 11
Eddie Joseph Bottom Dealing left hand moves away at bottom deal, bottom cards slanted out
1942 12
Eddie Joseph The Side Steal card not palmed, only held with tips of fourth finger and thumb
1942 13
Eddie Joseph The Top Change left thumb does not push card off, back of right first finger does
1942 13
Eddie Joseph To Turn a Card Over in the Pack during overhand shuffle
1942 14
Eddie Joseph The Riffle Location card hit through deck so it come out at inner end, located via short-card riffle then
1942 16
Eddie Joseph Replacement Steal top half replaced and bottom card of top half side palmed into right hand
1942 16
Eddie Joseph Palm Take Switch card apparently take from deck in left hand, card from right palm taken instead
1942 16
Eddie Joseph The Corner Riffling Location deck riffled and card replaced, gap seen
1942 16
Eddie Joseph The E. J. Color Change with Cards color change sequence in which the face card is palmed one-handed before it is seen
1942 17
Eddie Joseph Your Thought Read spectator cuts anywhere and remembers face card, which is divined
1942 18
Eddie Joseph Think of a Number three numbers counted to, cards predicted or divined, bluff count force (original top card)
1942 19
Eddie Joseph Gesture Glimpse top card pushed off and back as hand gestures to spectator
1942 19
Eddie Joseph High Card Force having only one high card in center of deck, spectator remembers highest card of bunch drawn from center
Related to 1942 25
Eddie Joseph Gone Right Through top card of tabled deck lapped with handkerchief
1942 27
Eddie Joseph Simple Stabbing Force just taking cards above break
1942 29
Eddie Joseph End Grip Stop Force block taken when spectator says stop
1942 35
Eddie Joseph Envelope Load and Switch card loaded into envelope from top of deck, card apparently put into envelope but left on top of deck
1942 37
Eddie Joseph The Renegade deck tossed from hand to hand, selection jumps back into throwing hand on its own
1942 57
Eddie Joseph Psychological Riffle Peek Force in-jogged card affects slight pause at force card
1942 57
Eddie Joseph Torn Quarter Switch as fan with four quarters is handled
1942 59
Eddie Joseph Handling Double Cards which are then leaned against glasses
1942 63
Eddie Joseph Shirt Ditch double card shown, face card ditched in shirt with body turn
1942 64
Eddie Joseph Fan Close Turnover
1942 70
Eddie Joseph Extra-Sensory Detection spectator thinks of a card with deck in his hands, risky
1942 77
Eddie Joseph Two Old Horses in New Harness "Cards to Pocket", using rubber band around wrist to hold cards
1942 90
Jonny Kartenkunst frisch gewagt ist halb gewonnen bold way to force a card, cut packet and remember top card of top half
Sep. 1942
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 4 No. 9)
2
Jonny Eine Karte sympathisiert spectator finds other spectator's selection by dealing deck into two piles and eliminating one, repeated until one card remains
Sep. 1942
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 4 No. 9)
2
Jonny Geist Nummer XYZ three numbers named and cards counted to table, bottom cards are selections
Sep. 1942
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 4 No. 9)
2
Edward Marlo Double Vanish and Recovery two cards vanish from face of two halves when rubbed together, reappear in deck
Also published here 1942 7
Martin Gardner Card Vanish Sequence Hide-Out Principle, deck shown in sections, card to vanish is reversed
Related to 1942 14
Jean Hugard Handkerchief Cut Force deck secretly turned over under handkerchief
1942 20
Martin Gardner A New False Cut straight swivel cut to table as false cut
1942 21
Martin Gardner Fan Glimpse card ends up angle-jogged after square up
1942 23
Joe Berg Face-up Spread Force risky
1942 23
Hindu Force
1942 28
Top Card Glimpse wrist turned and top card angled
1942 32
Back and Front Hand Palming vanish and production with pivot
1942/27 157
Back Palm
1942/27 158
To Produce Card single card from back palm
1942/27 160
To Produce Cards in a Fan from back palm
1942/27 161
Paul Fox Simplified Back and Front Hand Palm
1942/27 161
The Phantom Pip picking up the pip... and putting it back on
1942/27 172
Paul Fox Adding Cards to Back of Deck while front is exposed
1942/27 174
Paul Fox Back Hand Color Change using back palm
1942/27 174
Open Finger Color Change using clip palm
1942/27 175
Slap Change
1942/27 177
Push Up Color Change
1942/27 178
Thumb Steal Color Change palm off can be used to produce fans (context), thumb palm
1942/27 179
Double Card Change both on the deck
1942/27 179
Charles A. Leedy Slip Up Color Change
Related to 1942/27 180
Top Card Change - Method 1
1942/27 181
Top Card Change - Method 2 different dynamic than method 1
1942/27 182
Top Card Change - Method 3 old style with finger change
1942/27 182
Top Card Change - Method 4 end grip
1942/27 183
Modern Card Change variation with side jogged double
1942/27 183
Single Hand Card Change toss change
1942/27 184
Cardini Bottom Dealing - Method 1 mentioning of standard bottom deal effects
1942/27 185
Bottom Dealing - Method 2
1942/27 186
Audley Walsh Bottom Dealing - Method 3
1942/27 187
Cardini Second Dealing - Method 1
1942/27 189
Second Dealing - Method 2
Variations 1942/27 190
Second Dealing - Method 3
1942/27 191
Joe Berg Second Dealing - Method 4 end grip take
1942/27 192
Second Dealing - Method 5 end grip take
1942/27 193
Dealing Bottoms end grip take
1942/27 193
The Ribbon Drop
1942/27 194
The Cascade
1942/27 194
Cascade Production from Boy's Nose
1942/27 196
Charlier The One-Handed Cut
1942/27 196
Richard Himber Double Detection magician determines facing cards in a by a spectator faced deck
Variations 1942/27 205
Second From Bottom Glimpse
1942/27 206
Tom Sellers Double Fan for Fan Workers splitting a fan in two
1943 11
Tom Sellers A Useful Card Flourish palm transfer while holding cards
1943 15
Tom Sellers The Shooting Card from pack
1943 25
Multiple Hindu Shuffle Control
1943 3
The Monte Throw
1943 5
Re-Counting Force
1943 9
Jean Hugard, Frederick Braue A Quick Discovery card shoots out of deck in open step configuration
1943 10
Right Hand Bottom Palm brief
1943 11
Throw Change Palm
1943 12
Double Lift Reverse
1943 13
Snap Crimp
1943 18
Folding a card sixth, palm
1943 19
Jean Hugard, Frederick Braue Lazy Man's Deal gag deal, deck comes up to right hand
1943 27
Jean Hugard, Frederick Braue The Open Cull
1943 27
Jean Hugard, Frederick Braue Top Change - Double Lift doing double lift after top change as convincer
1943 27
Jean Hugard, Frederick Braue False Cut straight cut
1943 28
Jean Hugard, Frederick Braue Dealing Thirds second deal & saliva
Related to 1943 28
Dave Price The Dave Price False Cut
Related toVariations 1943 29
Jean Hugard, Frederick Braue Apparent Reversal of the Whole Pack really only top card turned over
1943 29
Jean Hugard, Frederick Braue Look-See glimpse of selection as it is chosen via riffle & stop
1943 29
Jean Hugard, Frederick Braue, Charlie Miller The Lockgrip Strip Shuffle overhand shuffle, for credit to Charlie Miller see reference
Related to 1943 30
Frederick Braue Cards to Pocket Palm
1943 31
Jean Hugard, Frederick Braue A New Top Change
Related to 1943 32
Roger Barkann, Richard Himber Duolette device for switching decks
Feb. 1943
The Phoenix (Issue 29)
119
Bruce Elliott Changing Tray Substitute
Feb. 1943
The Phoenix (Issue 29)
119
Art Lyle Bottom Deal Second
Feb. 1943
The Phoenix (Issue 29)
120
Bruce Elliott The Back Room on a show by the IBM ring NYC, John Scarne, Jimmy Grippo, how to soften a deck for back palming, two newspaper clippings from Dunninger
Related to Mar. 1943
The Phoenix (Issue 31)
130
Art Lyle Slip Cut
June 1943
The Phoenix (Issue 37)
153
Walter B. Gibson Pick Me Up number between one and thirty is named, an indicator card is inserted at that position and the card card named
Related to Aug. 1943
The Phoenix (Issue 41)
169
Francis Carlyle Carlyle's Card idea by Fred Braue on page 214, see reference, for credit information see also "Informant" reference
Related toVariationsAlso published here Nov. 1943
The Phoenix (Issue 48)
196
Audley Walsh Strip-Out Addition precursor
1943 6
Audley Walsh Thumb Count Stacking
1943 7
Dai Vernon Up and Down selections end up at predicted positions, anti-faro trick
1943 8
Stuart P. Cramer Les Cartes Par Hasard card thought of from the middle while riffled, multiple out after dealing into four piles
1943 17
Theodore Annemann Alignment Move
1943 37
False Cut
1943 39
Snap False Count cards over-counted from top of deck
1943 52
Gambler's Throw Switch weird
1943 62
Martin Gardner Red/Black Overhand Shuffle
1943 69
Orville Wayne Meyer P&L Metal Card Box Switch
1943 72
Theodore Annemann Peek Force Card glued long short card
1943 74
Clayton Rawson The Force That Couldn't Be Done spectator cuts, bottom pile secretly turned over
1943 76
Lin Searles The "So Simple" Force portion cut and turned over, then deck secretly turned over
1943 77
Tom Bowyer Indetectable Shift-Palm improvement (?) on DPS
Related to 1943 78
Reverse Count Switch cards counted off into right hand from top of deck, starting with block
June 1943 1
Half Pass brief
Aug. 1943 10
Paul Morris Are You Sure? - A Quick Trick with a Novel Finish four Jacks are cut to, then one Jack transforms into selection
Also published here Dec. 1943 26
Riffle Shuffle Control with bridge
Dec. 1943 26
Bottom Slip Cut hands to table
Dec. 1943 26
Jean Hugard The Back Palm as a Secret Sleight on the history and several techniques
a. The vanish
b. The reverse palm
c. Transfer a card from regular palm to the front palm
d. To back palm a card directly from the deck
Tricks using the back palm as a secret sleight
Dec. 1943 29
The Crystal Casket chosen card travels to glass which was shown empty and is wrapped in handkerchief
Dec. 1943 31
A Hat and a Card card penetrates hat
Dec. 1943 31
Impromptu Rising Card
Dec. 1943 32
A Surprise Handshake cards are produced after handshake with spectator
Dec. 1943 32
The "Plant" Switch stooge goes in corner to select a card which is divined by performer
1943 1
The Hat Switch deck dropped in hat and dropped out again
1943 1
The Black-Out Switch forced card found with lights out, stuck to spectator's forehead
1943 2
Howard Thurston The Thurston Switch deck switch with assistant, here in context of rising card trick
1943 3
The Half-Deck Switch deck switched one half at a time, with back turned towards audience
1943 4
The Egg-Bag Switch no motivation given
1943 5
The Chinese Switch with tray and assistant
1943 6
Brooks' Card Trick Herbert Brooks?, several cards selected and they travel into pocket after spectators shuffled them in themselves, narrow deck
1943 6
A Handkerchief Switch as deck is set down and handkerchief picked up
1943 8
Another Handkerchief Switch as handkerchief is removed from pocket
1943 9
The Side Coat-Pocket Switch deck put in pocket and selection removed by sense of touch, deck switch
1943 9
The Paper Switch with a pile of paper sheets as cover
1943 10
"One More Trick" Switch
1943 11
The Hip-Pocket Switch deck placed behind back for some reason
1943 11
Combination Coat and Vest-Pocket Switch when turned to the side a bit
1943 12
Rising-Card-Box Switch switch after rising card effect
1943 12
Change-Bag Switch no motivation given
1943 12
An Easy Box Switch as some large box is moved from one place of the table to another
1943 13
Another Box Switch as some large box is moved away, box has secret opening at back
1943 13
Black-Art Switch using servante in table
1943 14
The Card Servante servante behind chair, as chair is moved around
1943 14
The Vest-Pocket Switch as spectator shows chosen card around and back is turned
1943 15
Another Vest-Pocket Switch deck apparently placed from hand to hand while turned to side
1943 15
Standard Card-Tray Switch tray secretly turned over
1943 16
The Writing-Tablet Switch under cover of writing something with a writing pad
1943 16
Dr. Lazlo Rothbart Forcer handling for classic force, followed by french translation "Une bonne methode de forcer la carte"
1943
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 5 No. 1)
10
Oscar "Oscarelli" Rey Ka Wü Zü number is divined by stapling three dice and using matches, followed by french translation "Kawuetue"
1943
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 5 No. 1)
14
Cross Cut Force
1943/27 76
Under Handkerchief Force
1943/27 77
Paul LePaul Le Paul's Pass
1943/27 181
Arthur H. Buckley Side-Bottom Pass side steal to bottom
1943/27 183
Frank Kelly Frank Kelly's Bottom Placement
1943/27 184
Tommy Dowd Card in the Pocket inside pocket, using Kelly bottom placement
Related toAlso published here 1943/27 188
Simplex Card to Pocket loading indifferent or x card into inside pocket
1943/27 191
Dai Vernon Multiple Card Pass to top
  • To Bring the Aces to the Bottom of the Deck
  • To Reverse the Aces in the Center of the Deck
VariationsAlso published here 1943/27 192
Direct False Cut straight cut
1943/27 195
Richard Himber Himber's False Cut
1943/27 196
Under-Cut False Cut
1943/27 197
Paul Rosini Paul Rosini's False Cut
1943/27 197
Paul Rosini E-Z Three-Way False Cut
1943/27 199
Joe Berg Joe Berg's False Cut three way
1943/27 200
Direct False Count
1943/27 201
Slip-Over False Count
1943/27 203
Put-Back False Count counting cards off a pack
1943/27 204
Pick-Up False Count
1943/27 205
Palm-Over False Count into spectator's hand
1943/27 206
Glide False Count
1943/27 207
Jack Hecht Over-Hand False Count using lift shuffle
1943/27 209
Arthur H. Buckley Novelty Straight Count
1943/27 210
Simple Card Fan
1943/27 212
Simple Reverse Fan
1943/27 212
Modern Card Fan pressure fan
1943/27 214
One Handed Closing of Fan
1943/27 215
Paul LePaul Enlarging a Card Fan moving pressure point
1943/27 216
Modern Reversed Card Fan pressure fan
1943/27 216
John Scarne John Scarne's Master Change card put in envelope changes
Related toVariations 1943/27 217
John Booth The Booth False Count
1943/27 224
Pull Down Move
1943/27 224
Stanley Collins Glide False Count based on Collins' four ace routine - sleight
1943/27 227
Stealing Card from Case
1943/27 239
The End Stab
1943/27 289
Mexican Turnover
1944 2
Slip Cut
1944 5
Warren Wiersbe Multiple Control Procedure riffle shuffles
1944 6
Warren Wiersbe The W. W. Color Change
1944 7
Card Reverse
1944 11
Warren Wiersbe The Hindu "Slop Shuffle"
1944 12
Warren Wiersbe Multiple Master Palm Steal from top of deck
1944 14
Warren Wiersbe Master Palm Switch
1944 15
Warren Wiersbe Perpendicular Hideout cards under four-card-spread
1944 15
The Brain Guys, Charles T. Jordan Brain Guys & Jordan (Double Prediction) two cards remembered from twenty, in the hands antifaro, prediction of places
Mar. 1944
The Phoenix (Issue 56)
229
James G. Thompson Jr. One Way to One-Way using slop shuffle for orientating a borrowed deck which has a one-way feature
May 1944
The Phoenix (Issue 60)
244
James G. Thompson Jr. Fantasy in Red and Black slop shuffle red black separation, card location, lead in for a red black riffle shuffle set-up
May 1944
The Phoenix (Issue 60)
245
Red-Black Riffle Shuffle
May 1944
The Phoenix (Issue 60)
245
Red-Black Overhand Shuffle
May 1944
The Phoenix (Issue 60)
245
Phil Thomas Neat Slop Shuffle different handling for the slop shuffle triumph
Related to May 1944
The Phoenix (Issue 60)
246
Ronald B. Edwards Free Force forcing fourteen or fifteen with playing cards, see reference for correction
Related to June 1944
The Phoenix (Issue 62)
254
Frank Kelly Card Switch card is on palm, deck placed on it and card switched
June 1944
The Phoenix (Issue 63)
257
Walter B. Gibson Switched while doing fan manipulations, in two parts
June 1944
The Phoenix (Issue 63)
258
Mike Tannen Off the Bottom one handed bottom palm
July 1944
The Phoenix (Issue 64)
261
Jean Irving Peek
Sep. 1944
The Phoenix (Issue 70)
286
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin Now! attributed to Robert-Houdin, three cards selected, three times stop by spectator to find their cards
Related to Jan. 1944 34
Jean Hugard Hey! Presto! selection appears in a glass held by performer
Jan. 1944 35
Jean Hugard Back Palm Change Using a Handkerchief
Jan. 1944 35
Henry Christ The 203rd Force uncredited
Variations Feb. 1944 37
Forcing a Card on a stage
Feb. 1944 38
R. M. Jamison The Turn Over Card Control half over break is turned over into the other hand, repeated with second half, Blackstone Pass
July 1944 58
R. M. Jamison Double Back Card Force method to repeat 203rd Force with a second card
Inspired byVariations July 1944 60
Phil J. Flad, Jr. A Diminishing Card one card shrinks, back palm handling
Aug. 1944 64
Jean Hugard The Overhand Shuffle
  • 1. Retain control of the top card
  • 2. To keep the bottom card in that position
  • 3. To retain the top and bottom card in position
  • 4. To run cards
  • 5. To jog a card
  • 6. To control a chosen card which has been replaced in the pack
Related to Sep. 1944 68
Adding Palmed Cards while cutting deck
Oct. 1944 75
Clyde Cairy Metamorphoses card rubbed to thigh changes several times, back palm
Oct. 1944 77
Jean Hugard Cards from the Sleeve cards travel from pocket to hand, reverse up the sleeve
Dec. 1944 91
Joseph K. Schmidt, One Hand Riffle Shuffle tabled
Related toVariations Dec. 1944 91
Gaston "Gasbor" Borgeaud Un faux mélange lift shuffle with three packets
1944
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 6 No. 2)
12
John Mulholland Arranging Deck Openly applications
  • Setting a one-way deck to all face the same way
  • General setup of the deck for a trick, see p. 22
1944 21
Cross-cut Force
1944 31
John Mulholland Shuffling the Deck and A Trick in Connection Therewith to give impression that stacked deck was shuffled, have duplicate deck shuffled and card selected, switch in stacked deck and have card replaced, find card and continue with stacked deck
1944 58
Cards Secretly in Case
1944 65
Reverse Deal Force bottom three cards end up on top of three piles after three piles are cut and remaining cards are dealt on top
1944 79
Shuffling a Stacked Deck short shuffle
Also published here 1944 19
Herbert Hood A Thought Out Thought free selection divined, marked & stacked
Also published here 1944 226
Theodore Annemann Yggdrasil three phase routine with ESP cards, duplicates added from belt
Also published here 1944 269
Theodore Annemann New $1000 Test Card Location stacked, risky
Also published here 1944 303
James G. Thompson Jr. Utility Routine Svengali deck with the different cards stacked, ends clean, bridge deal finale
Also published here 1944 304
Edward Marlo Marlo's Action Palms - Top Palm Dovetail
1945 1
Edward Marlo Marlo's Action Palms - The Bottom Palm Dovetail
1945 2
Edward Marlo 1. As a Force Bluff Pass Handling
1945 3
Edward Marlo Riffle Speller Replacement standard Bluff Pass
1945 3
Edward Marlo One Hand Palm for a Number of Cards
Inspired by 1945 4
Edward Marlo Marlo's False Shuffle and Cut
1945 5
Edward Marlo The Cook's Sleight
Related to 1945 6
Edward Marlo Marlo's One Hand Double Turnover featuring a push-off (also credited to Dai Vernon)
Related toVariations 1945 7
Edward Marlo One Hand Side Count pinky count done with second finger
Related to 1945 7
Edward Marlo The Drop Sleight Improved Tip-over Sleight, one-handed get-ready
Related to 1945 8
Edward Marlo Secret Card Add
1945 10
Russell T. Barnhart Secret Reverse on Table passive or with a riffle shuffle
Related toVariations 1945 10
Edward Marlo Rub Away with rub vanish
1945 14
Throw Change
1945 14
Edward Marlo Reverse Sleight - Future Reverse
Related toVariations 1945 6
Spread Cull Placement card at break is culled to another position
1945 11
Corner Short Peek Force
1945 12
Peek Force with break
1945 13
Edward Marlo Timing Peek Force reversed card as edge mark
1945 13
Edward Marlo The Riffle Pass controlling a card or cards to top with a riffle shuffle
1945
Early Marlo (Issue Oddity & Other Miracles)
82
Edward Marlo Setting Bridge during riffle and overhand shuffle combination
1945
Early Marlo (Issue Oddity & Other Miracles)
86
Edward Marlo The Force tell-free force, re-selection, key card in case of missed force
1945 10
George F. Wright Reversette spectator reverses one card behind his back, divined by medium on telephone
Variations 1945
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1945)
12
Milbourne Christopher Tap Force card is touched by spectator, moving the fan slightly
1945 12
Card Reverse from the middle to the bottom, out of "Farelli's Card Magic" page 63
1945 19
Tenkai Ishida Optical Reverse
1945 22
Slip Cut bottom slip cut while cutting four packets
1945 26
Charles Nyquist The Principle of Alternative Terminations - And Its Applications When the Spectator Shuffles stratagem for controlling a card while spectator shuffles the deck, several outs
1945 27
Sigmar K. Hofeller There'll Be Some Change Made! red cards change places with black cards, in the pockets of two spectators
1945 37
Paul Curry Next! the selected card is found next to a card with the message "Your card will be next"
Related toAlso published here 1945 75
Henry Christ Christ Force
1945 76
Paul Curry Follow Me two decks, two cards match after Henry Christ cutting procedure
Also published here 1945 78
Paul Curry Turn of the Century Location setting short double backer as key card, out-of-hand selection procedure
Related toAlso published here 1945 79
Paul Curry Force & Vanish with Henry Christ Force double facer
Also published here 1945 79
Hindu Force mentioned as " The Fetsch Force"
1945 88
Lin Searles The "So Simple Force"
1945 116
John Braun A Two-Tired Blank Fan and some Variations
1945 124
Del Monte New Color Change of a Giant Card Fan with fanning cards
1945 132
The Milk Build Shuffle
1945 135
Top Change Paket Switch
1945 146
U. F. Grant Improved Three Way Forcing handling for forcing three cards with a three way forcing deck
1945 22
Card Force with Matchbox big matchbox, card force
1945 26
Dr. H. Walter Grote Mental Perception spectator thinks of a card in the fan, force
1945 32
Bruce Elliott Card Box prop without a flap, for magicians
Jan. 1945
The Phoenix (Issue 75)
307
Edward Marlo Sense of Touch crimp
Feb. 1945
The Phoenix (Issue 78)
317
Edward Marlo One Hand Control Aces are lost with charlier cuts and found using one hand only, two crimps
VariationsAlso published here Feb. 1945
The Phoenix (Issue 78)
318
Verne Chesbro Three Weirds three cards are predicted, three mathematical forces
Also published here May 1945
The Phoenix (Issue 84)
340
John Hamilton Super Slop Shuffle two phases, separating into odd and even, all odd in one direction and evens in the other after real face-up/face-down shuffle, then triumph effect, see Back Room #90 for Ed Marlo ideas
Related to July 1945
The Phoenix (Issue 87)
354
L. Vosburgh Lyons Stab Force pushing center of the deck out with knife / pencil
Aug. 1945
The Phoenix (Issue 89)
360
Edward Marlo One-Way Sorting with Slop Shuffle
Related to Aug. 1945
The Phoenix (Issue 90)
367
Russell "Rusduck" Duck From the Middle as Rusduck, side palm, card is returned and cards pushed together
Related to Oct. 1945
The Phoenix (Issue 94)
382
C. L. Boarde In His Hands spectator riffles cards himself and thinks of one, card is located
Dec. 1945
The Phoenix (Issue 97)
393
Jean Hugard More Card Magic (Continued) brief introduction on stacks
  • The Eighth Overhand Shuffle
Related to Jan. 1945 94
Max Katz A "Shuffling" Presentation story presentation, different forms of riffle shuffle cascades
Jan. 1945 97
Jean Hugard False Cuts
  • False Cut No.1 (on the table three packets)
  • False Cut No. 2 (on the table, five packets)
Feb. 1945 102
Edouard Cartier "The Flip" Double Lift
Apr. 1945
Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 2 No. 11)
113
Jean Hugard Card Magic - Substitutes for the Pass
  • The Simplified Pass (turn over and shuffle)
Apr. 1945
Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 2 No. 11)
113
Audley Walsh Some New Sleights - 1. The Slip Palm while spectator cuts deck from performer's hand to table
Apr. 1945
Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 2 No. 11)
115
Claude Kimball Substitutes for the Pass - A New Method card is levered up with left fingers
Related to May 1945
Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 2 No. 12)
118
Frederick Braue The Secret Addition strange handling, deck in right hand's dealer's grip, cards are flipped over
Related toVariationsAlso published here May 1945
Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 2 No. 12)
119
Jean Hugard Magicana on Howard de Courcy's one-handed shuffle
Inspired by June 1945 127
Stabbing Force with another card, as an out
June 1945 128
Tommy Dowd A New Card Change during demonstration on how spectator should put his hand on top
Related to July 1945 132
Tommy Dowd Book or Magazine Load from Flat Palm
July 1945 132
Tommy Dowd Card Addition to Packet with table spread force application
July 1945 132
Frederick Braue The Secret Addition improved
Inspired byRelated to July 1945 135
Arthur Punnar The Pulse Trick divination presented as pulse-feeling during the asking of questions, featuring wrist turn glimpse while looking at watch
July 1945 135
Sherman Ripley The Handkerchief Force "improved"
Aug. 1945 141
Charlier Charlier Pass
Aug. 1945 142
George Starke Substitutes for the Double Lift article with examples
Aug. 1945 144
George Starke Downs Change Improved
Inspired by Aug. 1945 144
Bert Allerton The Allerton Change
Related to Aug. 1945 144
Jean Hugard Note by the editor credit information
Aug. 1945 144
D. M. Amann The Secret Addition Again
Inspired byRelated to Aug. 1945 145
Don Medley 2. The Sloppy Shuffle
Sep. 1945 150