1,735 entries in Cards / Effect Themes / Red Black
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Allan Ackerman More Mixed Up Blues 4&4
Inspired byAlso published here 1996 34
Pas Possible (Trick shown to Dominique Duvivier by a stranger who calls himself Commander Ryno) Oil and Water with Oil and Queens type of ending, but with color changing backs as well
Inspired byVariations 1996 99
Dominique Duvivier Mulligan's Moot Pas Possible variation with less discrepancies, similar effect
Inspired by 1996 101
Dominique Duvivier New-Wave All Backs Red and blue double-backed cards shuffled together and magically separate. One of the double backers is split into two Jokers, then the faces on the rest of the deck appear
1996 175
Michael Kaminskas Triumphant Return red/black separation kicker
Variations 1996 7
R. Paul Wilson Australian Curry
Variations 1996 1177
James Swain Out of this World separated into suits
Inspired by 1996 12
Baltazar Fuentes Oil and Water for Experts 3&3, no extra, four phases
Inspired by
  • Rene Lavand's routine
1996 18
Martin Gardner Color Magnets card cut into deck attracts a few card of same color, based on fact that at least four card of same color are together in most shuffled decks
Related to 1996
Underworld (Issue 4)
56
Aldo Colombini, Dennis Conlon, Max Abrams Letters
Related to 1996 89
Rough-Smooth World roughed red-black pairs
1996 89
Harry Riser Dealer's School
  • Phase One (red black separation by feel)
  • Phase Two (shuffle control demo)
  • Phase Three (dealing some hands, performer ends up with Aces)
1996 144
Pablo Domenèch Escorial 67 sorting in four suits
1996 47
Pablo Domenèch Rojas, Negras... Y Cuatro Ases one phase Oil and Queens routine
1996 60
Pablo Domenèch Rojas y Negras 4&4, extra card
1996 78
Peter Duffie Metathesis packet with red cards and with black cards, two thought-of (mathematical procedure) cards transpose
Inspired by
  • "The PallaD Principle" (Peter Duffie, Cards in Principle)
1996 8
Peter Duffie Odditorial two cards chosen from packet, dealt in two piles, selection only odd card in red-black separated pile, bad blind/stupid
Related toAlso published here
  • in "The Griffin"
1996 8
Peter Duffie Separatic 3&3
Related to
  • Stuart Judah routine
1996 11
Harry Lorayne Out of this World Gedächtnis presentation for OOTW as memory stunt
Also published here 1996
Intermagic (Vol. 20 No. 2)
61
"Magic" Christian Stelzel Super-O.O.T.W. all-red deck
Also published here 1996 117
Larry Jennings Hefty Oil & Water 4&4, "There are at least 14 moves", with mixing phase
Related to June 1996
Magic (Vol. 5 No. 10)
63
Larry Jennings Red/Black Shuffle Revelation red/black kicker
Inspired by
  • a trick of Milt Kort's
1997 113
Richard Vollmer Thrice Nice divided deck, see also p. 2819
Jan. 1997
Apocalypse (Vol. 20 No. 1)
2737
Ken Krenzel Strip the Leader two leader card in front of two shuffled piles, they become black and red pile, follow the leader phase, they shuffle again by themselves, stripper deck
Related to 1997 195
Nick Trost Red or Black - Which? small packet
Inspired byRelated toVariations 1997 28
Nick Trost, Tom Hubbard The Ultimate Version Variation on "Red or Black - Which?"
Inspired by 1997 30
Karl Fulves Jekyll-Hide six red and 6 black cards, a black card chosen, but it isn't among the 6 black cards suddenly but among the 6 reds (identified by spectator with special glasses on)
1997 22
Peter Duffie Different Class Joker stabbed into pack to select a card from two halves of a deck each, reveal that card selected is the odd colour out (e.g. all cards are red except black selection)
Inspired by 1997 28
Peter Duffie The Master Cards Spectator and magician each have five cards, card selected in each packet, packets combined and re-dealt; each packet is now four of same color and one of the other color, odd card out is the selection
Inspired by
  • "The PallaD Principle" (Peter Duffie, Cards in Principle)
1997 30
Peter Duffie Divided We Lie Lie Detector with two selections in two piles, kicker where selection is different color from rest of the packet
Inspired by 1997 48
Peter Duffie Remembrance Remember and Forget, with packet color separation as a surprise ending
Inspired by 1997 132
Stewart James Miraskill
1997 26
Alex Elmsley Underworld nine cards
Related toVariations 1997 1
Marty Kane Mish Mosh Tell-A-Vision suits of cards are divined, with fingers, then separation by spectator
Inspired by 1997 1262
Doug Edwards Jumping Colors Deck shuffled face up and face down - suddenly all the face up cards are black except one red card which is the selection
1997 21
Herb Zarrow Progressive Oil & Water 4&4, then 3&3, then 2&2, then 1&1, dated 1955
Variations 1997
Underworld (Issue 6)
71
Herb Zarrow Progressive Variations
Inspired by 1997 139
Eugene Burger Solomon's Oil And Water Routines "An Introduction"
1997 90
David Solomon Million Dollar Oil and Water 4&4, three phases
Also published here 1997 93
David Solomon A Small Color Collision 4&4, one gaffed card
1997 98
David Solomon Technicolor Oil And Water 4&4, gaffed card with divided face
1997 101
Eugene Burger "Is Seeing Believing?" presentation for Oil & Water plot
1997 105
Adrian "Ramblar" Guerra According to the Pad 4&4, pad is half red and half black, mixed and top four placed on red side of pad and others on black, the separate, three phases
1997 15
Simon Lovell Oily Snobs 4&4
  • Phase One - Mix and Separate
  • Phase Two - Try Harder, Tramps!!
  • Phase Three - The Solo Tramps Goes For It!
Related to 1997 98
Karl Fulves He Has Followers No. 1, spectator riffle shuffles once and then deals into two piles part of the deck, follow the leader type presentation for color separation, colors marked on backs
1997 2
Karl Fulves Ruse et Noir No. 2, as many red in one pile as there are black in the other pile
Variations 1997 6
Karl Fulves Follow Me No. 3, spectator follows dealing pattern of performer, backs marked for color
Related to 1997 7
Karl Fulves Ruse B impromptu method
Inspired by 1997 9
Karl Fulves Ruse C another method
Inspired by 1997 9
Karl Fulves Ruse D another method and comment
Inspired by 1997 10
Karl Fulves Touch For Color No. 4, two packets made, four red cards removed from packet A and any for cards moved from packet B to packet A, number of reds in A equals blacks in B
Related toVariations 1997 11
Karl Fulves Unequally Equal No. 5, follow-up to "Touch For Color" with similar effect
Inspired by 1997 12
Karl Fulves Balance of Trade No. 6, piles made and some cards exchanged, black cards in pile A equal number of black cards in pile B
1997 13
Karl Fulves The Dark Force No. 7, two piles made with a secret number, performer moves some cards from pile to pile, number of reds in one pile equals black in other pile
Variations 1997 14
Karl Fulves Color on Contact No. 11, after some dealing and calculation, the number of red cards in two packets match
1997 19
Karl Fulves Color By Number No. 12, spectator deals deck into four piles according to a dealing pattern that he made up of numbers written in red or black, all color separated
1997 20
Peter Duffie Acquiescence two spectators lay out pairs, red-black matching total predicted
Variations 1997 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
Edward Marlo, Don May Dealing With the Aces II Aces on top, two faro shuffles given, Aces are still on top, deck ends red-black separated
  • Second Method (Edward Marlo - Don May)
  • Third Method (Edward Marlo - Don May)
  • Fourth Method (Edward Marlo)
Inspired by Oct. 1997
Onyx (Issue 1)
10
Michael Weber sinful good feat no details given
Related to 1997 2
Michael Weber hot wistful odor ootw with specific red/black stack, no details given
1997 2
Michael Weber tour with floods two of the indicator cards are double facers, no details given
1997 2
Michael Weber cradled bank bridged halves, no details given
1997 3
Michael Weber breathing life into john kennedy no details given
Inspired by
  • "Red and Black" (John Kennedy, Genii, Vol. 52 No. 9, Mar. 1989)
1997 3
Michael Weber another rambling aids precision no details given
1997 3
Michael Weber blanked card single-color deck approach
1997 4
Michael Weber leftovers six bullet point ideas for ootw, no details given
1997 4
Ramón Riobóo Six Murders & Six Cops two phase routine, six red cards and six black cards, after cuts and shuffles always red/black pairs
Related toVariations July 1997
Magic (Vol. 6 No. 11)
71
Edward Marlo The Lost Integrated Deck long-short Si Stebbins stack and ideas with it
  • Showing Cards To Be One Color
  • The Lift (double lift from long-short deck)
  • Calculating The Position Of Any Card
  • First Effect (calling all cards from a cut-off and shuffled packet)
  • Second Effect (like before, as memory demonstration)
  • Third Effect (divination of selections with help of Joker)
  • Fourth Effect (divination, pseudo x-ray deck procedure)
  • Fifth Effect (naming color of cards at named number)
  • Sixth Effect (spectator chooses only red card)
  • Seventh Effect (deck changes to all-red/all-black)
1997 140
Biddle Oil & Water 4&4
1998 508
Karl Fulves A Magical Effect think stop, then in next effect the color of all cards in top third are named
1998 2
Karl Fulves The Specialist performer separates colors of shuffled deck
1998 23
Karl Fulves Code For Oracle two suits named and removed, performer separates them from the back
1998 25
Karl Fulves The Lady Thinks shuffled deck, psychic from other side of room tells how cards should be dealt to separate reds from blacks
Related to 1998 27
Karl Fulves Expansionism memorizing color sequence of 32 cards, but really only sixteen
Related to 1998 38
Karl Fulves After Hummer separating reds and blacks behind back, involving a layout on a grid on the table by spectator
1998 46
Karl Fulves The Noir Test five reds and five blacks, after separation blacks change into royal flush
Inspired by 1998 2
Karl Fulves Casino Royale royal flush kicker
Inspired by 1998 7
Karl Fulves Noir et Rouge
Inspired by 1998 10
Joshua Jay That's The Hard Part Find two four of a kinds, and deck separates into red-black
Also published here 1998 26
John Werner Other Worlds
Inspired byRelated to 1998
Underworld (Issue 8)
110
Karl Fulves Profiling number of red cards in one pile corresponds with number of black in another
Related toVariationsAlso published here 1998
Underworld (Issue 9)
116
R. C. Fields Diminuendo simplified handling
Inspired by 1998 173
Peter Duffie Whysolation packet of about twenty cards, spectator and performer each remove a card, they turn out to be the only black cards
Inspired by 1998 16
Steven Hamilton Mixing With Royalty one packet changes into Queens
Inspired byAlso published here 1998 63
Alex Elmsley Colour Filter four red cards are interlaced with four black cards, then wrapped in handkerchief, cards of one color penetrate silk
1998 48
Peter Duffie Auto-Match Prediction 2 blank cards with different mixed backs, eight pairs made, three of them match which is predicted
1998 6
Peter Duffie Odditied two cards chosen from packet, dealt in two piles, selection only odd card in red-black separated pile, with second deal
Related toVariations 1998 7
Peter Duffie Seconds Away! wo cards chosen from packet, dealt in two piles, selection only odd card in red-black separated pile, without second deal
Inspired by 1998 8
Alexander de Cova Öl und Wasser - Meine Lieblingskombination(en) 4&4
  • Meine Philosophie...
  • Die verwendeten Griffe
  • Das Vortragsthema
  • I. Die erste Separation
  • II. Die zweite Separation
  • III. Die dritte Separation
  • IV. Die Überrschung
  • Bonus
1998
Intermagic (Vol. 22 No. 2)
48
Alexander de Cova, Aldo Colombini Die Doppelüberraschung 4&4, all cards change to red
  • V. Die erste Separation
  • VI. Der Farbwechsel
1998
Intermagic (Vol. 22 No. 2)
57
René Lavand Why Do the Colors Alternate Themselves? (A Call to the Colors)
1998 53
René Lavand It Can't Be Done Any Slower (An Oil and Water) 3x3
1998 68
Steve Mayhew The Real World two spectators take many cards from deck (sometimes one spectator holds deck while other selects), one takes all red cards and other takes all black cards
Related to 1998
Labyrinth (Issue 8 - Part 2)
18
Wesley James Olive Oil On The Side 4&4, with false (empty) deals and full-deck finale
Inspired by Oct. 1998
Onyx (Issue 5)
5
Ken Simmons Handling for Marlo's Jacks & Tens Routine 3&3, four phases
Inspired by Oct. 1998
Onyx (Issue 5)
39
Hideo Kato Prelude To Oil & Water 4&4, the cards are alternated, then in pairs, then triple, then separated
Apr. 1998
Magic (Vol. 7 No. 8)
73
Jason Alford Exxon Mix Up 3&3
  • The Separation
  • The Instant Mix
1998 3
Bruce Bernstein Couples always two cards used, spectator decides if red pair, black pair or mixed, also with discard pile
Also published here 1998 22
Guy Hollingworth Oil and Water 3&3, optical alignment
1999 39
Guy Hollingworth A "Call to the Colours" Routine ending in New Deck Order
Variations 1999 202
Joshua Jay That's the Hard Part All three mates of selected card found, along with four Kings. Deck ends up separated by color.
Also published here 1999 76
Doug Conn Long Distance Call to the Colors with full deck separation climax
1999 90
Karl Fulves Cheat Feat twenty-card packet, two cards selected in spectators's own hands by dealing two poker hand and remembering top card, selections and up as only red in black half and vice versa
Inspired by
  • Peter Duffie trick
Related to
1999 4
Ellis Stanyon To Distinguish the Colour of the Cards Under a Handkerchief No. 18, bridge
1999 43
Ellis Stanyon To Distinguish Court Cards by Touch No. 35, blurred edges with knife
1999 50
Ellis Stanyon To Distinguish Red from Black Cards by Their Backs No. 36, bridge
1999 50
Ellis Stanyon A Card of Either Colour Found at Any Number No. 48
1999 83
Ellis Stanyon A New Protean or Chameleon Pack No. 57, deck shown mixed, then cut in half, one half shown all red and other all black
Related to 1999 189
Karl Fulves Supplementary Note credit information on Oil & Water
Related to 1999 189
Ellis Stanyon To Separate Red from Black Cards No. 4
1999 209
Stewart James Miraskill Miraskill
Also published here 1999 63
Michael Boden Deck Memorization Out of This World with the performer dealing as a memory stunt, g=Gilbreath
Also published here 1999 72
Barrie Richardson When Worlds Collide stand-up handling, done with about twenty cards from deck
1999 76
Hideo Kato Call To The World
Inspired by Apr. 1999
Genii (Vol. 62 No. 4)
45
Harry Lorayne Impromptu Out of this World
Also published here 1999
Intermagic (Vol. 22 No. 4 & 5)
148
Justin Higham Unaccounted Oil & Water 4&4
Variations 1999 90
Justin Higham Displaced Oil & Water 4&4
1999 92
Justin Higham Displaced Oil & Water Climax 4&4, magical mixing
1999 93
Justin Higham Direct Oil & Water 4&4
1999 93
Justin Higham Preset Oil & Water Climax 4&4, magical mixing
1999 94
Justin Higham Collected Oil & Water 4&4, magical mixing
Inspired byVariations 1999 94
Justin Higham Aesthetic Oil & Water 4&4
  • Variation
1999 95
Aaron Goldberg Light And Dark 4&4, four phases
Inspired by Apr. 1999
Onyx (Issue 7)
34
Aaron Goldberg Insta-Mix
Inspired by Apr. 1999
Onyx (Issue 7)
35
Fredric P. Lamazor A. Fan (Red/Black separation) Oriented
1999 16
Fredric P. Lamazor Final Sequence 4&4
1999 58
Tomas Blomberg Bhummer CATO location with red/black sucker moment
1999 3
Lee Asher Red Black Separation using Pulp Friction
2000 10
Eugene Burger Out of This World discussing the weak points, Grant's impromptu version
Also published here 2000 150
Karl Fulves Hunt To Kill two piles, red and black, one card moved from one pile to other and vice versa, position determined by die, exchanged cards are instantly sandwiched
2000 192
"Magic" Christian Stelzel Super O.O.T.W. all-red deck
Also published here 2000 115
Bob Taylor The "S" Shuffle setting bridge during riffle shuffle with one half bridged opposite to other half, red-black divination application
2000 18
Sam Schwartz Mystery Mix 3&3, three red-backed Kings and three blue-backed Aces
Inspired byRelated to 2000 63
Lewis Jones Red Alert One deck is dealt in four hands, colors of one hand can be divined
2000 160
Lewis Jones Red Alert Two deck is cut in halves, performer turns over card of his pile and guesses if color in other pile matches
2000 161
Lewis Jones Red Alert Three performer guesses if colors are red or black
2000 162
Steve Beam Reconstruction with torn cards
Inspired byRelated to
  • Nick Trost's "Red or Black - Which?" in "The New Tops" 8/9 1972.
2000 173
Peter Duffie Colorosity two cards selected from packet, packet dealt into two piles and each has one odd-colored card, the selections
Variations 2000 8
Roy Walton Roy Walton Presentation after two cards are selected from a packet, performer separates the colors and gets two wrong - the selections
Inspired by 2000 9
Peter Duffie Colour Magnet six-card packet, spectator finds five black cards, a red Queen remains
2000 10
Peter Duffie Matching Gilbreath after one riffle shuffle, pairs are turned up and shown with one card of each color, pairs tabled, later shown to be red-red and black-black pairs
2000 18
Michael Boden Deck Memorization OOTW with the performer dealing as a memory stunt, gilbreath
  • Notes on the Gilbreath Principle
Also published here 2000 62
Roy Walton Color Cocktail number of red and black cards in chosen amount of cards is predicted
Dec. 2000
Genii (Vol. 63 No. 12)
56
Rudolf Braunmüller Schwarz-Rot-Mirakel introduction to collection of red-black tricks
2000
Intermagic (Vol. 24 No. 1)
19
Paul Curry Im Ganzen Leben Nicht two shuffled halves, magician does the same as spectator, both separate cards into red and black
Also published here 2000
Intermagic (Vol. 24 No. 1)
19
Harry Lorayne Außerhalb dieses Universums some red and black sorting comes out despite real shuffles, not really OOTW effect
Also published here 2000
Intermagic (Vol. 24 No. 1)
23
Mark Mason Oils Well That Ends Well cards become blank at the end
Inspired by 2000 10
Ken Simmons Another Clarified Routine ten red and black cards, one card travels from packet to packet, then packets changes places
Inspired by Mar. 2000
Onyx (Issue 10)
3
Jack Avis Colour Match II ten-card sequence of spectator matches cards dealt out by performer from bottom of deck in its red-black sequence
Inspired by 2000
Discoverie (Issue 4)
52
David Britland Offworld two piles
Related toAlso published here 2000 7
Don England Slick Oil and Clarified Water 4&4
2001 140
Lee Asher Not Impressive divided deck
2001 15
Justin Higham Unaccountable Oil and Water 4&4
Inspired by 2001 23
Justin Higham Collected Oil and Water - Streamlined two methods
Inspired by 2001 26
Paul Curry Out of This World routine and a lot of remarks about the history
2001 183
Paul Curry Best of Possible Worlds
2001 190
Paul Curry The Charm of Luck a talisman influences the outcome
2001 195
Paul Curry The Problem of Card 13 spectator selects twelve cards from the the deck, which are all the same suit as a card previously removed, see also Hofzinser's first problem "Choice of Color" (Magic Christian: "Non Plus Ultra - Hofzinsers Kartenkünste Band 2" p. 317)
Variations 2001 237
Paul Curry Never in a Lifetime two shuffled halves, magician does the same as spectator, both separate cards into red and black
Also published here 2001 298
Simon Aronson Color Separation Variation on UnDo Influence to leave deck color separated
Inspired by 2001 10
Tony Chaudhuri Feminine Side see "Informant" reference for credit claim
Related to 2001 1
Bob Kohler The Deck That Can't Be Shuffled deck separates into reds and blacks repeatedly despite shuffling, using Daryl's Triumph Display
2001 1
Karl Fulves Future Vision No. 2, face-up/face-down cards instead of red/black
Related to 2001 3
Roy Walton Double Think No. 21, more or less classic with about twenty cards
2001 34
Karl Fulves Transposed Thoughts No. 65, packet sorted in blacks and reds by spectator, two spectators remember bottom card of their pile, all assembled, performer transposes the two cards at their positions behind his back
2001 98
Color by Touch No. 66, small packet shuffled face-up/face-down, performer names number of reds and blacks and sorts them
2001 100
Karl Fulves Guess Again No. 67, eight cards pushed in deck by spectator and left out-jogged, all cards are paired with odd-colored card when cards are dealt off in pairs
Also published here 2001 101
Karl Fulves, Bob Hummer Psychic Map No. 69, fifteen cards in matrix layout on table, some are turned over, covered with newspaper, performer reaches underneath and adjusts, when newspaper is removed all face-up cards are red and vice versa
2001 104
Karl Fulves Compatibility No. 3, number of red cards in one pile corresponds with number of black in another
Also published here 2001 7
Karl Fulves Card Roulette No. 19, two cards chosen by two spectators from small packet, cards counted through and spectators' cards do not show up, prime principle
Related to 2001 38
Karl Fulves Blackgammon No. 23, two packets are faced, spectator sorts the cards into red and black
Also published here 2001 46
Karl Fulves, Ronald B. Edwards Colors Can't Mix No. 47, odd-backed oil & water in which faces mix but not backs and vice versa, 4&4
2001 108
Karl Fulves Repeat Miraskill No. 58
2001 131
Harry Lorayne Two Over Easy 4&4
Inspired by
  • Gabi Pareras idea
Also published here
2001 209
Harry Lorayne The Great Divide named quartet removed, it is used to separate deck into colors, updated handling
Inspired by 2001 579
Harry Lorayne Special Bonus Rising Crime assembly with Jacks, then Aces show up and deck is separated in reds and blacks
Variations 2001 609
Karl Fulves Red Control an Ace and a Two on the table, single cards dealt on Ace, pairs on Two, performer and spectator take one of the dealt piles each under the table, performer is able to match spectator's colors
Inspired by 2001 160
Peter Duffie Black Sheep two cards chosen in packet, a reversed card has them on either side and they are the only odd-colored cards
2001 2
R. Paul Wilson Antipathy red and black cards riffle shuffled together and "unshuffled" again, using Engblom's Anti-Faro
2001 7
Roy Walton Back Into Time red and black cards are separated, each half mixed face-up into face-down and top card placed into center, time machine plot, cards again on top, all cards face-down and mixed
Also published here 2001 8
Brother John Hamman Alternating Triplet three-phase card location with red-black separation climax
Feb. 2001
Genii (Vol. 64 No. 2)
40
Wolfgang Moser Öl & Wasser 3&3, deck separation kicker
Inspired by 2001
Intermagic (Vol. 24 No. 3-5)
131
Terry LaGerould Unforgettable Triumph with red/black separation climax
2001 31
Jerry K. Hartman Faromatic deck is shown to have reds and blacks separated, deck is cased, spectator shakes case and deck is shown to perfectly alternate red/black
Related toAlso published here Sep./Oct. 2001
Mr. Gadfly (Vol. 1 No. 3)
31
Aldo Colombini Roller Coaster! seven Joker and Eight of Clubs, they change into seven Eights and one Joker, then four each, they transpose and mix, 4&4
Sep./Oct. 2001
Mr. Gadfly (Vol. 1 No. 3)
35
David Regal Out of this Borough
Also published here June 2001
Ego (Vol. 1 No. 1)
14
Aldo Colombini It's A Small World using about half the deck
Inspired by
  • "World Class" (J. K. Hartman)
  • "Tomorroworld" (Ron Ferris)
Also published here
Aug. 2001
Ego (Vol. 1 No. 3)
5
Aldo Colombini The Aces Are Gone four black cards, four red cards, four Aces, Aces put between other two packets and they vanish, then Oil & Queens with remaining 4&4 cards with Aces as kicker
Inspired by
  • "Off-Counted" (Erhard Liebenow, Linking Ring, Mar. 1995)
Sep. 2001
Ego (Vol. 1 No. 4)
4
Doug Peters Alien Stack out-faro-invariant red/black stack, OOTW application
Related to Dec. 2001
Ego (Vol. 1 No. 7)
16
Karl Fulves Double Roulette Miraskill with actual number of matches predicted
2001
Discoverie (Issue 5)
66
John Scarne Transpo in Seconds six red and black cards are alternated and put on deck, then dealt into two piles, red and black packets transpose
2001
Discoverie (Issue 5)
69
Karl Fulves Survivor game in which pairs of an odd number of cards are eliminated until one card remains, it is the card of the color that had an odd number of cards in the original packet
Related toVariations 2001
Discoverie (Issue 6)
74
Gabi Pareras Intuición Magica two packets are cut, numbers of cards are divined in Miraskill fashion
2001 ca. 30
Gabi Pareras Magnetismo Animal 4x4
  • El Espectador "Magnetico"
2001 ca. 40
David Regal Out Of This Borough
Also published here 2002 83
Darwin Ortiz Ultimate Oil & Water 3&3, deck seperation and remix climax
Inspired by 2002 158
Lee Asher The Continental Divide deck is shown mixed, instantly separates in reds and blacks
Related toVariations Sep./Oct. 2002
The Penumbra (Issue 3)
2
Jerry K. Hartman Further On "The Continental Divide" additional thoughts
Inspired by Nov./Dec. 2002
The Penumbra (Issue 4)
17
Jim Steinmeyer Automatic Poker ten cards are "mixed" by spectator, then red-black separated or poker deal, Pseudo-CATO
Related to 2002 23
Karl Fulves The Rule For Red different handling than CATO, switching two cards
Inspired by 2002 262
Karl Fulves (reviewer) Paul Curry Tricks by Paul Curry (written by Stephen Minch)
with credit discussions
2002 274
Karl Fulves, Tony Bartolotta OOTW without Packet Switch comments
2002 276
Jack Avis Colour co-ordinates performer and spectator deal from bottom of half the deck each, color sequence matches despite shuffle
Related to 2002 151
Lewis Jones Rack and bled starts with shuffled deck, deck set up in preliminary phase, gambling presentation
Related toVariationsAlso published here 2002 162
Jack Avis Even further
Inspired by 2002 170
Andi Gladwin Resets in an Instant red cards transpose with black cards, with card case
Variations 2002 228
Steve Beam Red & Black Widow red half transpose with black half, with card case
Inspired byRelated toAlso published here 2002 236
Aldo Colombini Blushing Cards 4&4, mixed cards are put in case, case shaken and the four black cards fall out
Jan./Feb. 2002
Mr. Gadfly (Vol. 2 No. 1)
56
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 Chao Theory red-black separation with letter cards, using TAPGAC
Also published here May 2002
Ego (Vol. 1 No. 11)
5
Peter Duffie, Robin Robertson The Royal Clans red-black separation with procedure and picture cards, using TAPGAC
Also published here May 2002
Ego (Vol. 1 No. 11)
7
Peter Duffie, Robin Robertson Princes and Peasants red-black separation with procedure, using TAPGAC
Also published here May 2002
Ego (Vol. 1 No. 11)
9
Tony Bartolotta Outworldler with tray
Related toVariations 2002
Discoverie (Issue 7)
96
Paul Cummins The Trick That Never Happened red and black cards are separated, each half mixed face-up into face-down and top card placed into center, time machine plot, cards again on top, all cards face-down and mixed
Also published here May 2002
Magic (Vol. 11 No. 9)
80
William Goodwin Cased-In Shuffle reds and blacks separated, deck is cased, shuffle mimed, deck is uncased and shown mixed
Inspired byRelated toAlso published here June 2002
Magic (Vol. 11 No. 10)
82
Steve Reynolds Out of This Gathering - Out of My Mind both spectators deal simultaneously
2002 13
Pit Hartling Colour Sense feeling colors through table, packet of thirteen cards
Related toVariations 2003 36
David Ben Oil and Water
2003 61
Roberto Giobbi, Larry Jennings All's Well That Ends Well red-black shuffle, Triumph, single ambitious phase, time-travel presentation
Inspired byAlso published here 2003 1361
Jerry K. Hartman Color Scheming deck is shown mixed, instantly separates in reds and blacks
Inspired byAlso published here Jan./Feb. 2003
The Penumbra (Issue 5)
15
Jim Steinmeyer Into the next World two piles
Related toVariationsAlso published here 2003 12
Luke Jermay Out of T(his) World two versions, sleight of hand and suggestion
2003 129
Bob King Matching Wits spectator pushes card face-up in deck, performer knows whether paired card matches in color when cards are dealt off in pairs, repeats, then several spectators push in cards, only performer's matches, alternating set-up, "very old gambling scam"
Related to 2003 9
David Williamson Aunt Mary's Terrible Secret three-phase red-black game combining Miraskill and Magnetic Colors
  • History
  • Credits
  • Requirements
  • Method
2003 3
David Williamson Aunt Mary's Terrible Secret three-phase red-black game combining Miraskill and Magnetic Colors
  • History
  • Credits
  • Requirements
  • Method
2003 5
Karl Fulves Deep Cut Note after some cutting procedure the Aces are only odd-colored cards in two packets
2003 333
Karl Fulves Cards That See spectator places four Aces in spread while performer is not looking, pairs dealt off, performer predicts whether Aces come out in matching color pairs or not
Related to 2003
Off The Books (Issue 4)
43
Karl Fulves Sealed Thoughts spectator cuts off some cards, shuffles them and distributes them reversed in deck, then notes down their values in order and cases deck, performer looks at list and predicts color match combinations when cards are dealt off in pairs
2003
Off The Books (Issue 4)
48
Karl Fulves Rules of Engagement basic rules to predict color matches when cards are dealt off in pairs and a few cards have been inserted reversed
2003
Off The Books (Issue 4)
49
Karl Fulves Seeing Color performer deals through shuffled deck, spectator stops, selection cut into deck, performer deals some cards on the table and one to the bottom of the deck, tabled pile consists of selection and only odd-colored cards otherwise
  • No Memory
2003
Off The Books (Issue 6)
99
Karl Fulves Worldly Wise Daley's Delight Switch for clean-up
2003
Off The Books (Issue 8)
138
Karl Fulves A Crossed Xchange card from black packet transferred to red packet, red packet becomes red, using a variation of the Daley Delight Switch
Related to 2003
Off The Books (Issue 8)
145
Karl Fulves UnCrossed Xchange aka "NotXd Xchange"
card from black packet transferred to red packet, red packet becomes red, using a variation of the Daley Delight Switch without arm crossing
Related toVariations 2003
Off The Books (Issue 8)
146
Karl Fulves Thots Intersect signed selection lost, two other cards chosen and lost, one half put in left and one in right jacket pocket, performer removes the two later selections from pocket, then two mates named by performer, one half removed, they turn out to be all black cards except signed selection that is between named mates
Inspired byRelated to 2003
Off The Books (Issue 10)
199
Peter Duffie, Robin Robertson Double Knavery reds and blacks separated, spectator stops at two cards in one half, they are odd-colored mates, other two matching values are in the other half
2003 4
Peter Duffie, Robin Robertson Anti-Matter two cards chosen from two halves come together, open push-through, reds and blacks separate
2003 13
Peter Duffie, Robin Robertson Anti-Matter Revisited two cards transpose in push-through failure, colors separate
2003 14
Peter Duffie, Robin Robertson Double Rouge et Noir with two spectators
Inspired by 2003 33
Peter Duffie, Robin Robertson The Paranormalist spectator riffle shuffles once and turns up pairs without the performer seeing them, when a color-matching pair is found the performer names the higher value
Inspired byRelated to 2003 95
Peter Duffie, Robin Robertson Odd Men Out two cards chosen, they turn to be odd-backed cards in color-separated deck
2003 101
Tony Cachadiña Rojas y Negras 4&4, several phases
2003 214
Michel Huot Don't Follow the Leader reds and blacks separated, one of each color chosen and returned, two cards turn over, they are the transposed selections
2003 19
Luis H. Trueba Agua y Aceite three phases 4&4, last phase 6&6 handled by spectator
2003 81
Eric Mead 3 Piece Combo Aces cut to, lost and found again, color separation kicker with Aces in wrong halves
Also published here 2003 21
Jon Allen Executive Decision
2003 18
James Swain Shuffle Tracking
  • The Card Expert
Combination Aces with red-black separation climax
Related toVariationsAlso published here Apr. 2003
Genii (Vol. 66 No. 4)
32
Anthony Owen SOBW 3&3, three phases, last one phase up
Also published here 2003 16
Sebastien Clergue Lava Lamp alternate handling for last phase of SOBW, face up oil and water sequence, 3&3
Also published here 2003 27
Chris Wardle Two at Once two spectators each choose a card from half the deck, the halves are tied with a ribbon and put in two pockets, performer finds both quickly
2003 8
Edward Marlo Outjogged Oil & Water
Related toAlso published here May 2003
Magic (Vol. 12 No. 9)
68
William Eston Easy Oil 4&4
VariationsAlso published here Oct. 2003
Magic (Vol. 13 No. 2)
84
Norman Gilbreath Proof for Mirrorskill
Inspired by Feb. 2004
The Penumbra (Issue 7)
1
Harrison Kaplan Mirrorskill method for "Accurate Miraskill", three phases
Related to Feb. 2004
The Penumbra (Issue 7)
3
Stewart James Miraskill
Feb. 2004
The Penumbra (Issue 7)
4
Allan Slaight Magnetic Miraskill
Feb. 2004
The Penumbra (Issue 7)
6
Norman Gilbreath Thoughts On Mirrorskill
Inspired by July 2004
The Penumbra (Issue 8)
4
Norman Gilbreath A.M. one-way deck, three phases
Inspired by July 2004
The Penumbra (Issue 8)
6
Stewart James Miraskill
July 2004
The Penumbra (Issue 8)
6
Norman Gilbreath Magnetic Colors
July 2004
The Penumbra (Issue 8)
7
Davide Costi Alternating the Colors (Presentation) emphasis on the presentation, Ascanio's version of Bill Simon's "Call the colors"
Inspired by 2004 67
Karl Fulves Colorist spectator cuts packet of 12 picture cards and deals three cards face-down, performer indicates one whose color appears at least twice in the triple
2004 7
Karl Fulves Rusduck's Riffle variation of "Colorist"
Related to 2004 8
Karl Fulves Head Start three players get a card and hold it against forehead so that only other can see it, players bet whether the own color matches one of the other players
2004 10
Karl Fulves Code For Color twenty-sixth cards tells performer how many red cards are in top half after a riffle shuffle
2004 47
Karl Fulves Color Bands red rubber band around red cards, black around black cards, halves together and bands exchanged, halves change as well, posed as problem
2004 31
Wesley James Chameleon Colors Revisited "alpha", reds and blacks separated, some red cards change to black and back, then halves transpose
Inspired by 2004 144
Wesley James Etude for Dealers credit information on the plot, four Aces kicker
2004 249
Wesley James Devine Miraskill "alpha"
2004 433
Edward Marlo, Ron Bauer Time Machine three reds and blacks are alternated, Ace of Spades put in center of one half, the other half shuffled upside-down, all things are undone when traveled back in time
Inspired by 2004 2
Ron Bauer Three Ways to Secretly Switch the Two Center Colors as preparation for oil and water
2004 20
Aldo Colombini It's A Small World using about half the deck
Inspired by
  • "World Class" (J. K. Hartman)
  • "Tomorroworld" (Ron Ferris)
Related toAlso published here
2004 342
Dave Campbell Dave's Oil and Water "(Oil and Water Classic)"
4&4, using cards with oil and water pictures printed on them, they change into pictures of other drinks and whiskeys as finale
Also published here 2004 197
Marty Kane Mirakill based in the Utility Cutter
2004 22
Steve Beam, Scott Robinson Around the World spectator separates deck into red and black by cutting face up and face down packets, with the Rolly Polly Controlly
2004 23
Ramón Riobóo Cops and Robbers two phase routine, six red cards and six black cards, after cuts and shuffles always red/black pairs
Related toVariations 2004 204
Steve Beam GPS Stack mathematical stack, knowing amount of cut cards
  • Weighing the Cards
2004 229
Peter Duffie, Aldo Colombini, Robin Robertson Las Vegas Layover two spectators cut off packets, performer knows how many, and the only red (or black) card is cut to in black (or red) packet, using Killer Count
  • Variation
2004 37
Peter Duffie, Robin Robertson Observation Test two cards chosen in incomplete riffle shuffle condition, one from red half one from black, one vanishes and the other travels into odd-colored half, Riffle Shuffle Control
Variations 2004 5
Peter Duffie, Robin Robertson Name a Number, Any Number two cards chosen in incomplete riffle shuffle condition, one from red half one from black, appear at chosen numbers in transposed packets
Inspired by 2004 6
Peter Duffie, Robin Robertson Flip-Over Anti-Oil-and-Water 4&4, magical mixing
2004 37
Peter Duffie, Robin Robertson Guessing Colors selection ends up in odd-colored pile, pseudo-CATO
2004 92
Peter Duffie, Robin Robertson Moving Colors packet, two selections (one red, one black) end up in odd-colored pile, pseudo-CATO
2004 93
Peter Duffie, Robin Robertson Uncertain Separation after some mixing the cards are eventually sorted either red/black or picture/spots, pseudo-CATO
Variations 2004 95
Peter Duffie, Robin Robertson Indeterminate Conclusion same with two selections ending up in opposite group, pseudo-CATO
Inspired by 2004 97
Karl Fulves Survivor Principle Chapter 13
principle in which pairs of an odd number of cards are eliminated until one card remains, it is the card of the color that had an odd number of cards in the original packet
Related to 2004 115
Peter Duffie, Robin Robertson Chao Theory red-black separation with letter cards, using TAPGAC
Also published here 2004 122
Peter Duffie, Robin Robertson The Royal Clans red-black separation with procedure and picture cards, using TAPGAC
Also published here 2004 123
Peter Duffie, Robin Robertson Princes and Peasants red-black separation with procedure, using TAPGAC
Also published here 2004 126
Jon Racherbaumer On the Slant on "Magicians stop thinking too soon", Michael Weber does OOTW anecdote
Nov. 2004
Genii (Vol. 67 No. 11)
12
Juan Tamariz Colors on Parade
  • To Reassemble the Stack
  • A Good Routine
  • Another Routine
  • Scarne's Concept
  • Alternated Sequence from normal Mnemonica Order
  • Color Separation (with a Divination)
Inspired by 2004 186
Juan Tamariz How Many Reds? cards cut and performer knows amount of red and black cards, five phases
2004 249
R. Paul Wilson Oil and Water short comment on using the Fan-2-C step gaff, no details
2004 47
Ray Kosby, Dai Vernon, Larry Jennings K.J.V. Oil and Water 4&4, four phases, with mixing phase
Also published here 2005 21
Larry Jennings Oil And Water 4&4, all black finale
Also published here 2005 28
Michael Weber, Dean Dill A New World very clean procedure
Related to 2005 1
Dean Dill Bonus Routine two-phase routine
Inspired by
  • "Red & Black" (John Kennedy, Genii Vol. 52 No. 9, p. 560)
2005 7
Michael Weber, Dean Dill Here are some things to think about with this deck. various suggestions, applied to Miraskill, separating suits (Out of Escorial)
2005 12
And now a little history.
2005 12
Michael Weber, Dean Dill Background how "A New World" came to be
Related to 2005 13
Michael Weber, Dean Dill Other Sides of A New World more credit information on "A New World"
2005 14
Karl Fulves Grudge Match Miraskill type bet with red-red, black-black and mixed pairs done with about half the shuffled deck, winner still known
2005 61
Karl Fulves The Greek's Game color of twelve cards named by magician, betting presentation, see also p. 99 for further notes
2005 13
Karl Fulves A Trick Of Memory red-black even-money swindle
2005 29
Karl Fulves Cue Cards openly removed marker cards help with memorizing Combo numbers
Related toVariations 2005 35
Karl Fulves Slick Slate color separation with performer and spectator, lines on slate help remembering Combo numbers, see also p. 102 for further notes
2005 37
Karl Fulves The Russian Test performer guaranteed to get better than average score in color sorting without seeing any faces at all, see also p. 104 for further notes
2005 55
Robin Robertson Using the Stack red-black separation with stack
2005 63
Karl Fulves Mirasequel performer separates the mixed pile at the end of Miraskill
2005 66
Karl Fulves Reflex Action spectator distributes half deck face-up on table, performer deals other half on top and all pairs match color
2005 78
Karl Fulves Visionary performer sorts half the deck face-down after a riffle shuffle
2005 80
Karl Fulves Latent Ability Miraskill prediction correct even though only part of deck sorted by spectator
2005 84
Tyler Wilson Sven Who? deck shown to be all black, then all red, selection is only blue-backed card, "no red card" comedy prediction, secret incomplete faro condition
Also published here 2005 40
Justin Higham Side-Faro Full-Deck Oil & Water deck shuffled three times, always ends up separated into red and black cards
2005 2
Justin Higham Full-Deck Oil & Water Plus Si Stebbins
2005 2
Barrie Richardson Another World "The Mount Kenya Paradox Revisited"
stand-up handling
Inspired by 2005 12
Barrie Richardson Synergistic Memory Demonstration first phase is "HIP ESP" (color sequence called off), then a number is named and performer names card at that position (faced deck)
Inspired by 2005 308
Gordon Bean Splitting The Difference applying Gilbreath Principle to Kennedy's routine
Inspired by
  • "Red and Black" (John Kennedy, Genii, Vol. 52 No. 9, Mar. 1989)
Related toVariations
May 2005
Genii (Vol. 68 No. 5)
29
James Swain Shuffle Tracking
  • The Card Expert
Combination Aces with red-black separation climax
Also published here May 2005
Genii (Vol. 68 No. 5)
32
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 14
Peter Duffie As Easy as A, B, C deck shuffled and cut into three piles, two piles end up giving the number of red and black cards in the third pile
2005 50
Val Le-Val New Wave Oil & Water using cards with letters O and W on them, separation occurs one card at a time, slow-motion
Also published here 2005 42
Iain Girdwood Total Recall red-black order of deck apparently memorized, Gilbreath combined with binary Combo system
Related to 2005 48
Iain Girdwood Total Recall red-black order of deck apparently memorized, Gilbreath combined with binary Combo system
Related to 2005 48
Ronald A. Wohl (Ravelli) Color Shuffles (Part One) manuscript with red-black-effects, see following entries
Related to Mar. 2006
The Penumbra (Issue 10)
13
Ronald A. Wohl (Ravelli) II. Tricks, Principles And Applications: 1. The Basic Color Prediction spectator shuffles and cuts off some cards, performer predicted number of red cards therein
Mar. 2006
The Penumbra (Issue 10)
15
Ronald A. Wohl (Ravelli) 2. The Extrasensory Color Count spectator shuffles and deals, performer stops him and knows the number of red cards dealt
Mar. 2006
The Penumbra (Issue 10)
16
Ronald A. Wohl (Ravelli) 3. The Disguised Color Prediction spectator shuffles and cuts off some cards, performer predicted number of red cards therein but has to correct the number tongue-in-cheek
Mar. 2006
The Penumbra (Issue 10)
16
Ronald A. Wohl (Ravelli) 4. The Basic Color Coincidence spectator shuffles and cuts off some cards, performer cuts off another packet, number of red cards in both packets coincides
Mar. 2006
The Penumbra (Issue 10)
16
Ronald A. Wohl (Ravelli) 5. The Lucky Number spectator shuffles and cuts off some cards, number of red cards in this packet corresponds with named small number by spectator
Mar. 2006
The Penumbra (Issue 10)
16
Ronald A. Wohl (Ravelli) 10. The Mirror Prediction! !noitciderP rorriM ehT .01 two spectators shuffle and cut off some cards in two decks, number of red cards in one pile is the same as black cards in other pile
Mar. 2006
The Penumbra (Issue 10)
18
Eric Mead Three-Piece Combo Aces cut to, lost and found again, color separation kicker with Aces in wrong halves
Related toAlso published here 2006 65
Tyler Wilson Sven Who? deck shown to be all black, then all red, selection is only blue-backed card, "no red card" comedy prediction, secret incomplete faro condition
Also published here 2006 118
Arturo de Ascanio Oil and Water Featuring the Ascanio Spread 4&4, extra card, later two extra cards, three phases
Inspired byRelated toAlso published here 2006 66
Fred Kaps, Channing Pollock Oil and Water 4&4, extra card, two phases
2006 116
Arturo de Ascanio Sleightless Oil and Water (or so it seems) 4&4, extra card, multi-phase routine
Also published here 2006 194
Arturo de Ascanio Don't Blink! Revisited 4&4, two extra cards, face up
Also published here 2006 248
Arturo de Ascanio Eight-Card Oil and Water 4&4, three phases
Related to
  • similar version in "Ilusionismo" N° 180, 1960.
Also published here
2006 294
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
Jack Avis Jack Avis Notes on All Red 2&2, handling variation
Inspired by 2006 20
Jack Avis Another Call - from Another Place bottom dealing instead of seconds
Related to 2006 22
Jack Avis Colour Match ten-card sequence of spectator matches cards dealt out by performer from bottom of deck in its red-black sequence
Related toVariations 2006 39
Jack Avis Oil and Water Again - Agai - Aga - Ag - A 4&4
2006 105
Jack Avis An Oil and Water Move 4&4, using bottom deals and Elmsley Count
2006 106
Jack Avis Right Card - Wrong Colour card chosen, wrong color proclaimed by magician, cards separated in reds and blacks, black selection found in red pile, red and black piles change place
Inspired byAlso published here 2006 113
Reinhard Müller Mixed Cards and Feelings sixteen cards are cut into two piles and spectator turns the same amount of cards over in each pile, performer takes cards behind back, turns some cards over and tells how many cards are reversed
Related toVariations 2006 58
Steve Beam The Ways of the World chapter intro, on Out of this World
2006 75
Steve Beam All is the Right with World clean up for Out of this World
2006 76
Steve Beam World Series Fan clean up for Out of this World
2006 78
Steve Beam World Class Joker one card is removed and stapled to the body, turns out to be the Joker
2006 82
Boris Wild Out of this Deck performer removes card and spectator knows if they are red or black
2006 86
Lewis Jones Rack and Bled second phase with updated handling from the routine in Ahead of the Pack
Related toAlso published here 2006 90
Steve Beam World Piece
Also published here 2006 92
Steve Beam Worldly Processions
2006 94
Max Maven Mirasqueal
2006 179
Herb Zarrow Insight a trick Zarrow invented for a blind magician, magician matches shuffled red / black order of a pile
2006 177
Shannon Clark Well-Oiled Pack 3&3 multi-phase routine with separating deck climax
2006 194
Michael Powers Best of All Worlds
Inspired by 2006 73
Harry Lorayne Simplified Swain, Plus Aces lost and found with free-cut principle, colors separated, two selections found
Inspired byAlso published here July 2006
Genii (Vol. 69 No. 7)
24
Michael Weber Bipolar Magnetic Miraskill first Miraskill, then Slaight's Magnetic Miraskill (Ibidem) with face-up/face-down mixed deck
Also published here Aug. 2006
Genii (Vol. 69 No. 8)
78
Allan Slaight Magnetic Miraskill
Also published here Aug. 2006
Genii (Vol. 69 No. 8)
79
Hiroyuki Sakai Color Sunder 4&4
  • Part I: The First Separation
  • Part II: The Second Separation
  • Part III: The Transposition
Oct. 2006
Genii (Vol. 69 No. 10)
24
Jerry K. Hartman Hew by Hue
Inspired by Nov. 2006
Genii (Vol. 69 No. 11)
26
Giorgio Tarchini Changing of the Cards two selections lost, red and black cards magically separated into two halves which are spread, when spread again the odd-colored selections are seen
Dec. 2006
Genii (Vol. 69 No. 12)
30
Andi Gladwin Red/Black to the Future
Also published here 2006 34
Alexander de Cova Groundhog Day 4&4, all red kicker, unusual presentation, oil & water combined with silk knotting and Groundhog Day movie presentation
Inspired byRelated toAlso published here 2006 15
John Kennedy, Roberto Giobbi Intuition spectators separate cards into red and black, with rest pile
Related to
  • John Kennedy's “Red and Black" in "Genii", Vol. 52, No. 9, March 1989, page 560.
2006 9
Roberto Giobbi, Bob Hummer Fingertip Sensitivity twelve cards are mixed face up and face down, performer holds packet under table and knows how many cards are reversed and they turn out to be from same color, repeated with selection, all cards end up reversed but selection
Inspired by 2006 43
Mike Rose Cream Tea(sed) Oil & Queens type packet tricks with "Scone" and "Cream" written on the cards, jam pot images finale
2006 76
Paul Gordon The Eradicator! not with whole deck
2006 119
Bob King Miniskill three-phase routine for Stewart James' "Miraskill"
2007 57
Paul Gordon Oil & Water Startler 4&4, transformation kicker
Inspired by 2007 358
Harry Lorayne Simplified Swain, Plus Aces lost and found with free-cut principle, colors separated, two selections found
Inspired byAlso published here 2007 442
Gregory Wilson, Ron Wilson The Trick That Sucks card travels from red half to black half
Inspired by 2007 497
Denis Behr Oil & Water 3&3, deck separation as climax
2007 66
Denis Behr Oil & Water Finale cards separate even though they are pinned together with brass fastener, gaffed
Inspired by 2007 76
David Acer The Immiscible Eight 4&4, three phases, only first phase is Acer's and is described here
Related to 2007 19
Christoph Borer Out of this World
2007 29
Asi Wind Red & Black after one riffle shuffle, some cards are dealt and the colors divined by performer
Also published here 2007 9
Tony Bartolotta Narrow Minded spectator shuffles deck and deals it in two piles, one in spectator's pocket and one in performer's pocket, both remove a card, piles exchanged and repeated, off-color matching cards, colors separated
2007
Prolix (Issue 3)
165
Jerry K. Hartman On Tinterhooks five red cards put in black halves, spectator choses five cards from face-down spread, they are black but the halves changed places
Inspired by 2007
Prolix (Issue 3)
199
David Solomon Million Dollar Oil & Water II 4&4, three phases
Inspired by 2007 185
Stewart James Miraskill Magician can predict number of red and black cards in two piles
Also published here
  • Marketed by SJ, July 1935
2007 22
Shiv Duggal Mixed Blessings 3&3
  • Phase One: The First Separation
  • Phase Two: Shake Well to Mix
  • Phase Three: The Second Separation
  • Phase Four: The Face-Up Separation
Mar. 2007
Genii (Vol. 70 No. 3)
20
Ken Krenzel Oily Triumph 4&4, face-up red cards alternated with face-down black cards, then all face down but still mixed, then separated
Apr. 2007
Genii (Vol. 70 No. 4)
39
Roberto Giobbi Dollar Deal red-black betting game, bill is inserted in deck and pairs taken, color that comes with bill can be predicted
Also published here Oct. 2007
Genii (Vol. 70 No. 10)
19
Christian Engblom, Kim Wist Oil Over Troubled Water 3x3, one phase in spectator's hands, with full deck kicker
2007 17
Ray Kosby Mix Nix 4&4, spectator and performer mix cards together
Also published here Mar. 2007
Antinomy (Vol. 3 No. 1)
8
Jerry K. Hartman Faromatic deck is shown to have reds and blacks separated, deck is cased, spectator shakes case and deck is shown to perfectly alternate red/black
Related toAlso published here 2007 71
Jerry K. Hartman Color Scheming deck is shown to be mixed reds/blacks, reds and blacks separate
Inspired byAlso published here 2007 76
Jerry K. Hartman Back to Earth Out of this World, spectator deals face up without looking and has apparently failed, backs of cards show they’re successfully separated into red backs and blue backs, spectator must “switch piles” halfway through
Inspired by
  • "Seeing and Believing" article (Richard Wiseman and Peter Lamont, MAGIC, Vol. 13, No. 3, November 2003, p. 86)
Also published here
2007 340
Alexander de Cova Oel & Wasser 4&4, all-red climax
Also published here 2007 7
Alexander de Cova Öl und Wasser 4&4, all-red climax
Also published here 2007 5
Miguel Gómez Momentos especiales entire act, two cards are selected and six Jokers turn into cards to form two four of a kinds, followed by Oil and Water and Reset and in the end cards change back to Jokers, using an envelope
  • Primer acto: Wild Card
  • Segundo acto: Mini "Arena y agua"
  • Tercer acto: Reset
  • Epilogo: Al final, regreso al principo
2007 22
Miguel Gómez Arena y Agua 4x4., three phases
2007 119
Tom Stone Idea for Oil & Water
  • padding
4&4, four reds alternated with four blacks put in handkerchief, all put in handkerchief, one color penetrates one by one
2007 17
Arthur Finley Kings and Queens Kings and Queens mixed up behind back, performer can bring out King/Queen of same suit, then later separate them into Kings and Queens
Also published here 2007 30
George McBride Mirakill
Also published here
  • Cardville, Jan. 2002
2007 6
Nick Trost Another "Oil and Queens"
Inspired by 2008 10
Nick Trost Following Suit sorting in four suits
2008 11
Nick Trost Ultimate "Even Money" - Improved not all cards are dealt
Inspired by 2008 14
Nick Trost, Karl Fulves Two Compatibility Tests first part is Karl Fulves' "Profiling", Gilbreath
Inspired by 2008 18
Nick Trost Prophecy in Color red-black matching procedure, outcome is predicted
Inspired by 2008 124
Nick Trost Color Prediction with Three Spectators Gilbreath based, Miraskill
2008 131
Nick Trost Three-Way Miracle Prediction Reverse Gilbreath Principle, number of red and black cards predicted
2008 133
Nick Trost Predicting Red, Black and Courts
Inspired byVariations 2008 134
Hector Chadwick Reds and Blacks Performer divines red/black from spectator shuffled deck
Inspired by 2008 85
Sveroni Der Frauenschwarm oil and queens variation
Inspired by 2008 13
Karl Fulves Singularities "kind of anti-Miraskil"
2008
Prolix (Issue 4)
272
Karl Fulves The Odds Get Even roulette red-black betting system illustrated with six cards
  • Bet Noir
2008
Prolix (Issue 5)
345
Arturo de Ascanio Alternating the Colors three phases
Inspired byRelated to 2008 64
Arturo de Ascanio Paul Curry's Out of this World
Also published here 2008 273
Arturo de Ascanio Five Red and Five Black five red cards and five black cards are shuffled, spectator separates the cards by color
Inspired byAlso published here 2008 316
Axel Hecklau Out of this world - Xtrem
2008 37
Steve Beam World Piece
Also published here 2008 45
Lennart Green Index Intuition spectator shuffles, first separation with small packet, then Kennedy's with rest
Inspired by
  • "Red and Black" (John Kennedy, Genii, Vol. 52 No. 9, Mar. 1989)
2008 13
Lennart Green The Remote Control I color guessing together with spectator, performer is always right
Variations 2008 34
Lennart Green The Remote Control II version with all four suits
Inspired by 2008 35
Allan Slaight Magnetic Miraskill
Also published here 2008 31
Allan Slaight, Max Maven Silent Moraskill
Inspired by
  • "Moraskill" (Stewart James)
Also published here
  • The James File, 2000
2008 140
Allan Slaight Miraskiller Miraskill and Shuffle-board combination, shuffled deck
Related to 2008 171
Michael Weber Bipolar Magnetic Miraskill first Miraskill, then Slaight's Magnetic Miraskill (Ibidem) with face-up/face-down mixed deck
Also published here 2008 5
Fred Robinson, Tony Faro Spectator Magician Plus spectator divines card's suit and value via Double-Deal Force, does OOTW and finds performer's thought-of card, marked deck
Inspired byAlso published here 2009 202
Fred Robinson Fred on Out of This World
Variations 2009 205
Ronald A. Wohl (Ravelli) Color Shuffles (Part Two) part 2 of a manuscript with red-black-effects, see following entries
Related to Nov. 2009
The Penumbra (Issue 11)
2
Ronald A. Wohl (Ravelli), Karl Fulves 17. The Mysterious Force
18. Ruse de Morris Plains
19. The Black Force
cards are shuffled and packet cut off by spectator, this is divided in two piles, number of red in one packet corresponds with number of black cards in other packet, three presentations
Inspired by Nov. 2009
The Penumbra (Issue 11)
5
Ken Krenzel Fan World
2009 133
Ken Krenzel Strange Hummer red-black separation by spectator beneath table with ten-card packet, suggests CATO as false trail
2009 211
Michael Weber Bipolar Magnetic Miraskill first Miraskill, then Slaight's Magnetic Miraskill (Ibidem) with face-up/face-down mixed deck
Also published here 2009 12
Sam Mayer Up & Down spectator deal deck so that four face-down cards alternate with four face-up cards and so on, one card remembered, located
  • no-touch Miraskil suggestion by Karl Fulves
2009
Prolix (Issue 6)
357
Karl Fulves Cutting The Colors two halves, spectator cuts each, top and bottom cards taken, repeated, taken cards are separated in color
2009
Prolix (Issue 6)
398
Nick Trost Weighing the Colors reds and blacks separated, spectator takes seven from top of both piles in any combination, then from face of both piles again, performer weighs correctly number of reds and blacks in each
Also published here 2009 338
Nick Trost Rouge et Noire Divination performer matches red/black order of ten cards by spectator
Also published here
  • New Tops, Oct. 1994
2009 339
Nick Trost Dr. Rhine, Outdone! red/black color matching and guessing
  • Phase One - Matching Test
  • Phase Two - Spectator's Test
  • Phase Three - Telepathy Test
Related to 2009 342
Nick Trost Red and Black Routine routine with ten red and black cards
  • CATO type routine
  • "Double Separation" (Wiersbe)
  • "Unmatch" (Fulves)
  • "Color Scheme" (Oscar Weigle)
Inspired by 2009 347
Nick Trost A Divination Routine divination of number, color and suit in cut-of packet
  • Phase One - As Many As You
  • Phase Two - Color Sense
  • Phase Three - Suit Discernment
Inspired by
  • "As Many As You" (Walter B. Gibson, Magic Explained, 1949)
2009 351
Nick Trost A Coincidence and Divination Routine two halves, spectator turn over a card in one half, when both are dealt in unison the reversed card finds its match, cards riffled together, performer can separate colors and suit under table
Inspired by 2009 354
Nick Trost Shuffle Tracking the Aces Aces lost, then found with counting procedure and dice, deck separated in suits
Inspired by 2009 376
Nick Trost, Shigeo Futagawa The Trost Four-Ace Routine
  • Phase One - The Transposed Aces
  • Phase Two - Japanese Aces (2&2, Futagawa)
  • Phase Three - Flapjack Aces
Also published here 2009 378
Nick Trost Miraskill with the Equalizer Shuffle two phases
Inspired by
  • "Simple Miraskill" (Bob Longe, The Magical Math Book, 1998)
2009 448
Nick Trost Miraskill and Psychic Ability face-up/face-down Miraskill, two phases
Related to 2009 451
Nick Trost Triple Climax Clock Trick only red card is chosen and predicted one
2009 461
Nick Trost The Jacks Come Back Again 2&2, oil water with four Jacks, transformation into Aces
Inspired by 2009 467
Nick Trost The Ambitious Jacks Jacks and indifferent cards are alternated on top of the deck, Jacks come to top, repeat, then small packet handling
2009 471
Justin Higham Double Odd-Colour IDF Coincidence two cards chosen from two halves, they're the only odd-colored ones
Related to 2009 18
Arie Vilner False Shuffles Applications: Rhapsody in Color deck remains separated into red and black despite shuffling, then the cards mix themselves, faro spread
Related to 2009 70
John Bannon View To A 'Skill two phase Miraskill with outcome predicted
Also published here 2009 19
Robert E. Neale Parable of the Great Feast
Also published here 2009 158
Lewis Jones Color Fast spectator chooses all losing color, performer winning color, kind of small packet OOTW
2010 135
Lewis Jones, Jerry K. Hartman Sorted apparently performer sorts deck in colors and suits to find selection
Inspired by 2010 138
Roy Walton Influential Counts six four-card-packets are paired by spectator and have same color sequence
Also published here 2010 154
R. Paul Wilson Australian Curry II few-cards OOTW version
Inspired by 2010 189
Jeff McBride, Ramón Riobóo Color Guard fourteen cards
Inspired by 2010 214
Joe Anderson Color Match gilbreath
Inspired by 2010 287
Oliver Meech Feel This World Spectator able to separate red and black cards by sense of touch alone
2010 20
Karl Fulves Teknicolor - Codes For Color r-r-b-b-... stack riffle shuffled, then an effect like Magnetic Colors done
Related to 2010
Prolix (Issue 8)
500
Karl Fulves Know-It-All spectator riffle shuffles deck, pair shown and spectator only tells if the colors match or not, performer knows color if they match
2010
Prolix (Issue 8)
501
Karl Fulves Stripper Notes
  • using stripper deck as one-way deck in tabled row
  • separation by touch (face-up/face-down)
2010
Prolix (Issue 8)
502
Michael Alec Sparkle performer deals borrowed deck into two piles, colors (almost) separated, nail polish shiner at innser surface of fingernail
2010
Prolix (Issue 8)
523
Román García Agua y Aceite ideas the faro fan for Oil and Water
  • Evaporación y condensación (à la Carroll, one color vanishes and reappears)
  • Agitación
Inspired by 2010 138
Michel Huot Leading by Example deck separated in red and black cards, one from each half chosen, when spread one card is seen face-down in each half, they're the transposed selections
May 2010
Genii (Vol. 73 No. 5)
19
Juan Tamariz Oil Strike 4&4, visual phase with ladder/staircase switch
Nov. 2010
Genii (Vol. 73 No. 11)
68
Lance Pierce Oil & Water 4&4, four phases
Inspired by 2010 49
Alexander de Cova, Richard Vollmer Und täglich grüßt das Murmeltier... 4&4, all red kicker, jumbo cards
Also published here 2010 15
Alexander de Cova Murmeltier 4&4, all red as climax
Also published here 2010 3
J. W. Sarles, Roberto Giobbi Posi-Negative Coordination Magnetic Colors variation
Inspired by 2010 65
Frank Thompson Oil & Water Displacement
2010 282
Rob Zabrecky Another World Out of this World done with photographs of Harry and Bessie Houdini
2011 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 119
Alexander de Cova, Richard Vollmer Murmeltier 4&4, all red kicker
Related toAlso published here 2011 3
Steve Beam Testosterone Test (new) red/black order of Aces changes, observation test
Also published here 2011 vii
Woody Aragón Cheeky Oil And Water sucker oil and water: small packet doesn't separate but whole deck does
2011 55
Karl Fulves Triptych two cards chosen, two piles dealt and performer reads out loud all the cards, spectators name the piles with their selections, performer divines cards, they transpose into other pile and are only odd-backed ones
Inspired byRelated to 2011
Prolix (Issue 9)
603
Karl Fulves The Perfect Shuffle long-short deck with alternated color shuffled, sold as perfect faro or false shuffle
2011
Prolix (Issue 9)
626
Karl Fulves Free Mix position of Joker predicted even though spectator influenced the overhand shuffle, then Aces found, red/black separation retained
2011
Xtra Credit (Issue 9)
64
Wolfgang Moser Öl & Wasser 3&3 with hole deck kicker
2011 21
Patrick Page, Roberto Giobbi Out of This World with additional thoughts by Roberto Giobbi
Mar. 2011
Genii (Vol. 74 No. 3)
15
Justin Higham Clairvoyant Detection Plus Colour Separation
2011 20
Jon Racherbaumer Bile and Blood 4&4, all black finale, five phases
Inspired by Mar. 2011
Antinomy (Vol. 4 No. 3)
17
Nick Trost Dr. Jaks with a Colorful Finish I cards are exchanged and replaced reversed and found to be the four Twos, deck separation kicker
Inspired byVariations 2011 617
Nick Trost Dr. Jaks with a Colorful Finish II cards are exchanged and replaced reversed and found to be the four Twos, deck separation kicker
Inspired by 2011 618
Nick Trost Gil's Game Revisited spectator cannot win in red-black game in which he has to select pairs of one color
  • Another Presentation
Inspired by 2011 645
Nick Trost Four and One Trick four red and one black cards change into one black and four red ones, the black one being the selection
Inspired by
  • handling in Hocus Pocus Parade in The Linking Ring, July 1957
2011 713
Nick Trost Double CATO Revelation two cards chosen from twenty-card packet, cato, performer arranges cards under the table so all face-up cards are red except selection and vice versa
  • Another Version (tapestry)
2011 720
Nick Trost An Equalizer Revealment packets made that are shuffled face-up/face-down, in the end all red cards are face-up with black selection and vice versa
Inspired by 2011 723
Nick Trost Trost on Ben Harris' Red-Black Trick pairs are deal after one riffle shuffle, top cards turned over, two selection end up being the only odd-colored cards among the face-up respectively face-down cards
Inspired by 2011 725
Warren Wiersbe, Bob Hummer Follow-Up Trick packet shuffled face-up face-down, then statement over condition made and colors separated
Also published here 2011 728
Nick Trost A Prelude to Oil and Water 3&3, kind of progressive separation
Also published here
  • The New Tops, Jan. 1977
2011 741
Nick Trost Simple Oil and Water 4&4, with open switching procedure à la Walton
Inspired by 2011 742
Nick Trost Oil and Aces 4&4
Inspired byAlso published here
  • The New Tops, July 1978
2011 744
Nick Trost Oil an Queens Poker Hand Royal Flush transformation kicker
Inspired byAlso published here
  • The New Tops, April 1992
2011 745
Nick Trost Fourteen-Card Oil and Water 7&7, one phase
Also published here
  • "Quick Oil and Water", The New Tops, June 1983
2011 746
Nick Trost A Red-Black Mystery
  • Phase One (4&4, red and black cards transpose, then mix)
  • Phase Two (A Switch in Time)
Inspired by 2011 752
Ted Karmilovich My Red / Black Test performer separates red from black cards
2011 3
Darwin Ortiz Rouge et Noir aces lost and found, then colors separate
Inspired by 2012 157
Darwin Ortiz Limitless kind of impromptu shuffle-bored
2012 171
Ben Train Segue face-up/face-down shuffle deck changes so that all red cards except black selection turn in one direction
2012 23
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 4