Twenty-One Card Trick

232 entries in Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Twenty-One Card Trick
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Second Method 21 card trick, also with general number
Variations 1876
Modern Magic
43
Another Mode of Discovering a Card Thought of twenty-five cards, different dealing pattern
 		1876
Modern Magic
55
A Card having been thought of, to make such Card Vanish from the Pack, and be Discovered wherever the Performer pleases twenty-seven cards, card palmed out and multiple endings suggested (pocket, transformation, on chair, ...)
 		1876
Modern Magic
83
C. H. Wilson The Tally Trick No. 1, with a variable number of cards, here thirty
 		1877
The 52 Wonders
22
First Method - To discover a card mentally selected
  • Second Method
 		1889
Tricks with Cards
68
Another Method 27-card trick with card-to-any-number table
 		1889
Tricks with Cards
87
Sixth Method
Inspired by 1890
More Magic
23
The ''Twenty-Seven Card" Trick "To cause a Card selected by one Spectator to appear at such number in the Pack as another Spectator may indicate"
piles picked up according to a table so thought-of card ends up in any position
Variations 1890
More Magic
32
Vingt-un Twenty-One Card Trick, but card is at the end palmed out and an envelope with a duplicate from an envelope index presented
 		1896
Der moderne Kartenkünstler
97
Donald Holmes Holmes' "Mystery" Problem card chosen from Svengali deck, deck dealt into two piles and card replaced in indifferent half, multiple deals to control card to seventeenth position, card and position are predicted, clean-up switch of half the deck
 		1913
Tricks With Prepared Cards
19
Charles T. Jordan The Five Guesses No. 10, by asking five questions selection is found, sorting strategy with "can you see your card?"
VariationsAlso published here 1920
Ten New Impromptu Card Tricks
23
Charles T. Jordan The 49-Card Trick twenty-one card trick with forty-nine cards
VariationsAlso published here 1922
The Four Full Hands (Issue Four Full Hands of Card Tricks)
17
Friedrich "Fritz" Hügli Gedanken-Fischerei
1927
Leichte Zauberei
37
Friedrich "Fritz" Hügli Die elfte Karte
1930
Zauberkunststücke
95
Audley Walsh The 32 Card Mystery
Also published here 1936
The Jinx (Issue Winter Extra 1935/36)
86
Victor Farelli Three Sevens Variation on 21 card trick, card ends up in magician's pocket, meant to catch knowledgeable spectators off-guard
 		1936
Lend Me Your Pack
20
Victor Farelli Variation Alternative handling to Three Sevens to get rid of side steal
 		1936
Lend Me Your Pack
21
George C. Hanneman New Card Math binary sorting with sixteen cards
 		Mar. 1938
The Jinx (Issue 42)
289
Charles T. Jordan Forty-Nine 21 card trick with 49 cards and two dealing rounds, see also page 524 for idea to do it as telephone trick by Lloyd Jones
Related toAlso published here Feb. 1940
The Jinx (Issue 78)
513
Kent Arthur Eerie Cards using eight cards, card finally spelled to
Related toVariations 1940
The Jinx (Issue 101)
615
H. G. Cleveland The Triple Deal improved 21 card trick
 		1941
The Jinx (Issue 130)
748
Shaman 21 Plus spectator guesses in which row his card is, in the end the card is found by spelling "This is the card you took"
Related toAlso published here Dec. 1942
The Phoenix (Issue 24)
101
Frederick Braue Incredo Thought new dealing pattern
 		1943
Tricks and Sleights
25
Audley Walsh The 32 Card Mystery
Also published here 1943
Full Deck of Impromptu Card Tricks
13
Bert Allerton You Remember This One with eighteen cards
Also published here 1946
50 Tricks You Can Do, You Will Do, Easy to Do
44
Ernando Veneri Veneri's Card Trick performer names location of card after three deals of twenty-seven cards
Inspired by 1946
Further Magic of the Hands
34
George G. Kaplan Twenty-One Cards - A Double Prediction using in the hands anti-faro
 		1948
The Fine Art of Magic
175
Eddie Joseph Mystic Fifteen fifteen cards, dealt into five piles
  • Hiding the Principle
 		1949
52 Amazing Card Tricks
8
Stewart James A Bridge Trick with full deck
 		1949
52 Amazing Card Tricks
12
Ben Berger No Prep card thought from half the deck vanishes and is found under newspaper or table cloth
 		1949
52 Amazing Card Tricks
43
L. Vosburgh Lyons, James A. Fowler Howdy Knowit! with 27 cards, three piles, performer knows selection and position
 		Aug. 1950
The Phoenix (Issue 210)
840
Martin Sunshine The Twenty-One Card Spelling Trick No. 135, 21-Card Trick using Spelling for Revelation
Also published here 1950
Scarne on Card Tricks
261
Jack Yeager 54 Card Trick done with 54 cards, sentence spelled to find card
Also published here
  • Jack Yeager's "Second Portfolio of Tricks"
 1951
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1951)
3
Marty Williams Four Four Four sixteen cards and four piles
 		1952
The Last Word on Cards
48
Edward Marlo 21 Card Trick Streamlined
Also published here 1953
The Cardician
134
Shaman 21 Plus spectator guesses in which row his card is, in the end the card is found by spelling "This is the card you took"
Also published here 1956
The Best in Magic
104
Shaman 21 Plus spectator guesses in which row his card is, in the end the card is found by spelling "This is the card you took"
Also published here Feb. 1956
The New Phoenix (Issue 336)
154
Bert Allerton Streamliner with eighteen cards
VariationsAlso published here 1956
The New Phoenix (Issue 337)
158
Joseph Diez Gergonne From Gergonne to Gargantua Chapter intro, describes Gergonne's Pile Problem, which is basically the 21 card trick using twenty seven cards, see following entries
Related toVariations 1956
Mathematics, Magic And Mystery
33
Naming the Position of the Card 21 card trick with twenty seven cards, spectator can assemble the piles in any way
 		1956
Mathematics, Magic And Mystery
34
Bringing the Card to a Named Position 21 card trick with twenty seven cards, spectator can name what the final position of the selection should be in the packet
Variations 1956
Mathematics, Magic And Mystery
35
Thomas Walker Walker's Method Easier method for Gergonne's Pile Problem, lets spectator name the position of the selected card
Inspired by 1956
Mathematics, Magic And Mystery
36
Naming the Card 21 card trick with twenty seven cards, magician can name the selection at the end
 		1956
Mathematics, Magic And Mystery
38
Mel Stover Relation to Ternary System 21 card trick with twenty seven cards, mathematical relation to ternary counting system
Variations 1956
Mathematics, Magic And Mystery
39
Mel Stover Gargantua's Ten-pile Problem 21 card trick but done with TEN BILLION PLAYING CARDS
Inspired by 1956
Mathematics, Magic And Mystery
40
Rolf Andra Ein automatischer Kartentrick with 32 cards
 		1957
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 18 No. 3)
502
Bert Allerton The New 21 Card Trick with eighteen cards
Also published here 1958
The Close-Up Magician
31
Alex Elmsley Mathematics & Mentalism one of sixteen cards thought of with its position, during reverse faros the spectator says in which half his card is, selection ends up on top (and force card brought to original position)
Related toVariationsAlso published here Sep. 1958
Ibidem (Issue 14)
17
Edward Marlo The Acrobatic 21
1968
On the Acrobatic Cards
63
Gaston "Gasbor" Borgeaud Un vieux tour de cartes! done with twenty-seven cards, inspired by a trick from an old book
 		1971
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 32 No. 2)
30
Edward Marlo 21 Plus Subtlety for correction see reference
Related toAlso published here July 1972
Kabbala — Volume 1 (Vol. 1 No. 7)
57
Humbert "Rilax" Terzi 3x7=11 spelling to find card
 		1972
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 33 No. 3)
44
Edward G. Brown, Trevor H. Hall Modernism in Mentalism and the Clueless Card Trick comments about think-a-card effects
Inspired by
  • Ralph Hull's "Modernism in Mentalism"
 1973
The Card Magic of Edward G. Brown
115
Stephen Minch The Magician's Choice 21 card trick, with tarot cards
 		1974
The Book of Thoth
5
Gaston "Gasbor" Borgeaud Wiederum der 21 Kartentrick! mathematics behind the 21 card trick, with different amounts of cards
 		1974
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 35 No. 2)
30
Pascal Kennen Sie den 21-Kartentrick?
1974
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 35 No. 2)
34
Tenkai Ishida Japanese Mental Card Effect using only eight cards
Also published here
  • in "Genii".
 1974
The Magic of Tenkai
50
Gerald Kosky 21 Plus or Minus
1975
The Magic of Gerald Kosky
69
Charles T. Jordan The Five Guesses by asking five questions selection is found, sorting strategy with "can you see your card?"
Also published here 1975
Charles T. Jordan: Collected Tricks
29
Charles T. Jordan Forty-Nine twenty-one card trick with forty-nine cards
Also published here 1975
Charles T. Jordan: Collected Tricks
41
Charles T. Jordan The 52-Card Trick twenty-one card trick with fifty-two cards, thought-of card ends up at any named number due to pick-up procedure of dealt piles
Also published here 1975
Charles T. Jordan: Collected Tricks
62
Eddie Joseph Hocus-Pocus No. 45, three five-cards packets, spectator thinks of a card, deals out five packets, pockets the one with selection and performer extracts it
 		1976
Self-Working Card Tricks
68
Charles "Cicardi" Scott Mind Boggler with ten symbol cards, testing spectators abilities of precognition three times
 		1976
Magick (Issue 152)
759
David Stahl An Old Card Trick Made New
Also published here 1978
Don't Stall, Stahl!
15
John F. Mendoza An Old Card Trick Made New spectator cuts off packet, remembers bottom card, shuffles and deal packet in three piles, card immediately named
Related to 1979
Close-up Presentations
94
John Cornelius Fake 21 card trick fake for magicians
 		1980
Cornelius Card System
6
Howard A. Adams Matheight principle, Ace to Eight of a suit are used, mentally chosen card is found after three deals, then both piles have same total, removed card can be named
Inspired by 1981
OICUFESP (Issue 7 - Matheight Miracles)
1
The Twenty One Card Trick
1982
Simple yet Effective Tricks with Cards
50
Edward Marlo Nouveau 21-Card-Trick
  • The Work
  • Third Phase
  • Fourth Phase
  • Fifth Phase
  • Sixth Phase (Gag)
  • Blow-Off Phase I
  • Blow-Off Phase II
Related toVariations 1983
Marlo without Tears
146
Edward Marlo The 27-Card Trick: Streamlined
1983
Marlo without Tears
171
Stephen Tucker 21-5 = Immortality with 16 cards
 		Aug. 1983
Spell-Binder (Vol. 3 No. 28)
535
Philip T. Goldstein Out of Sorts thought-of card (from eight) found and named with back turned
Variations 1984
Thequal
5
Steve Draun Draun's Swindle 21-Card Trick one phase
Related toAlso published here 1984
At The Table
146
Barrie Richardson Less Is More mixed with the gestalt of the 21 card trick
 		May 1985
Pabular (Vol. 8 No. 10)
1287
Steve Draun The Twenty-One Card Trick Routine three phases
Related toAlso published here 1987
The Magic of Steve Draun
31
Peter Duffie Home Computer three packets of ten cards, reverse faros
 		1987
Inspirations
19
Rolf Andra Die «Unglückskarte» beim Pokern cards dealt into five hands, spectator selects one card in one hand and cards are placed together, dealt again and spectator points to packet with his chosen card, as a climax performer sits on selection
 		1988
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 49 No. 4&5)
28
Karl Fulves This Is It! with sixteen cards and two deals into four rows
 		1989
Easy-to-Do Card Tricks for Children
12
Bob King Comeback
1989
Magician Foolers
12
Edward Marlo Math Applied sixteen cards and reverse faros, four effects
Related to 1990
That's It
55
Simon Aronson Memorized Math on memorized deck in combination with mathematical principles
  • Stay Stacks
  • Counting
  • Interlocking Chains (also with one-way backs)
  • Duck and Deal (with formulas)
Related to 1990
The Aronson Approach
113
Alex Elmsley Mathematics and Mentalism one of sixteen cards thought of with its position, during reverse faros the spectator says in which half his card is, selection ends up on top (and force card brought to original position)
Also published here 1991
The Collected Works of Alex Elmsley — Volume 1
378
Chris Kenner Must be 21 to enter streamlined
Related toVariationsAlso published here 1992
Totally Out Of Control
145
Charles T. Jordan The Projected Thought card thought of, dealing procedure multiple times with full deck, card and its position predicted
 		Aug. 1992
Magic (Vol. 1 No. 12)
49
Charles T. Jordan Forty-Nine No. 5, twenty-one card trick with forty-nine cards
Also published here 1992
Charles Jordan's Best Card Tricks
4
Karl Fulves "Forty-Nine" Notes No. 6, doing "Forty-Nine" over the telephone, see also Lloyd Jones reference in Jinx reference
Inspired byRelated to 1992
Charles Jordan's Best Card Tricks
5
Charles T. Jordan The Five Guesses No. 13, by asking five questions selection is found, sorting strategy with "can you see your card?"
Also published here 1992
Charles Jordan's Best Card Tricks
13
Karl Fulves "Five Guesses" Notes No. 14, sixteen-card version
Inspired by 1992
Charles Jordan's Best Card Tricks
14
Charles T. Jordan The 52-Card Trick No. 172, twenty-one card trick with fifty-two cards, thought-of card ends up at any named number due to pick-up procedure of dealt piles
Also published here 1992
Charles Jordan's Best Card Tricks
210
Steve Draun Twenty-One Again three phases
Also published here 1993
Secrets Draun from Underground
128
Edward Marlo, Lee Freed Lost Twenty-One Card Trick using reverse faros
Also published here 1993
The Olram File (Issue 14)
1
Peter Duffie The Eighteen Card Trick streamlined
 		1993
Card Selection
7
Edward Marlo, Vicente Canuto De Paquete a Paquete card from packet of twenty one is selected and cards dealt into three piles, spectator names pile with card and card travels from packet to packet
 		1993
Cartomagia Fundamental
271
Chuck Smith Imaginary 21 Card Trick in effect a card is chosen under table and named by magician
VariationsAlso published here 1994
What If?
12
Philip T. Goldstein Van John
Inspired by
  • Tom Seller's "The Name Speller" (Immediate Magic)
Also published here 		1994
Thabbatical
99
John Scarne Scarne Card Problems
  • 21 Card Trick with two selections
  • Diagonal Palm Shift with two of three cards
 		1994
Verbatim (Issue 10)
145
Roger Crosthwaite Think-a-Card - Opening Remarks thoughts and references
  • The Selection of the Card
  • The Location of the Card
  • The Revelation of the Card
 		1994
Roger's Thesaurus
37
Ted Lesley, Philip T. Goldstein The Out of Sorts Variations thought-of card (from eight) found and named with back turned, two variations
Inspired by 1994
Paramiracles
52
Chuck Smith Imaginary Twenty-One Card Trick in effect a card is chosen under table and named by magician
Also published here Feb. 1995
Magic (Vol. 4 No. 6)
58
Doug Conn Another Invisible 21-Card Trick spectator pockets card, it is named
Inspired byAlso published here 1996
MO — Modus Operandi (Issue 8)
9
Doug Conn Invisible 21-Card Trick spectator pockets card, it is named
Inspired byAlso published here 1997
Conn-Fidential
13
Randy Shaw Tangled Web sixteen business cards with pictures are used, one is selected and stack divided into two piles, spectator names pile where image is, repeated three times and then picture is divined
 		1998
Syzygy (Vol. 4 No. 6)
290
James Swain The Twenty-One Card Trick
Related toVariationsAlso published here 1999
21st Century Card Magic
23
Andrew Wimhurst How to Cheat at 21
1999
Low Down Dirty Tricks
19
Milton Kort The Off-color Twenty-one-Card Trick twenty-one card trick with a color changing back ending, done as a magician gag/fooler
 		1999
Kort
49
Doug Conn Impossible 21 Card Trick spectator pockets card, it is named
Inspired byAlso published here 1999
Tricks of my Trade
105
Ellis Stanyon The Twenty-one Cards No. 6
 		1999
Ellis Stanyon's Best Card Tricks
4
Ellis Stanyon The Twenty-one Cards (Variations) No. 10, incorporating sleights
 		1999
Ellis Stanyon's Best Card Tricks
6
Ellis Stanyon The Twenty-seven Cards No. 9, selection ends up at named position, rules for collecting the piles
Variations 1999
Ellis Stanyon's Best Card Tricks
60
Ellis Stanyon To Detect Chosen Card Amongst Thirty-five No. 15, dealing seven rows of five each
 		1999
Ellis Stanyon's Best Card Tricks
66
Ellis Stanyon To Detect Chosen Card Amongst Fifty-two No. 16, thirteen rows of four each
 		1999
Ellis Stanyon's Best Card Tricks
66
Ellis Stanyon The Square of Twenty-five Cards No. 17
 		1999
Ellis Stanyon's Best Card Tricks
67
Ellis Stanyon To Discover Card (or Cards) Amongst Sixteen, After the Fourth Deal No. 25
 		1999
Ellis Stanyon's Best Card Tricks
72
Ellis Stanyon To Name a Card After Dealing Four Times No. 20, using the sixteen cards return to original order after four deals in two piles, position of a selection named
Related to 1999
Ellis Stanyon's Best Card Tricks
92
Ellis Stanyon To Discover a Card Chosen from Twenty-five No. 21, variation of referenced trick
Related to 1999
Ellis Stanyon's Best Card Tricks
93
Ellis Stanyon To Discover a Thought Card and Name It No. 27, with stack, selection divined at the end
Inspired byRelated to 1999
Ellis Stanyon's Best Card Tricks
96
Ellis Stanyon The "Twenty-seven" Card Trick without a "Key" No. 28
 		1999
Ellis Stanyon's Best Card Tricks
97
Justin Higham Direct 15-Card Trick applying Pre-determined Estimation to fifteen-card trick
  • Marked Version
  • With 21/24 Cards
Inspired byVariations 1999
Collected Card Notes
77
Steve Beam The Of-Age Card Trick 21 card trick without dealing the cards multiple times
Also published here 2000
Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 3
56
Steve Beam Pile Driver card is found by spelling
Also published here 2000
Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 3
58
Steve Beam Turning 21 imitating the 21 card trick
  • 2-Selection Version
  • Infusion
Also published here 2000
Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 3
60
Ramón Riobóo 21-Card Salute
Mar. 2000
Magic (Vol. 9 No. 7)
71
Paul Cummins Phone Home over phone
Inspired by 2000
Virtual Miracles
12
Andrew Wimhurst How To Cheat At (the) 21 (card trick)
2001
Jiggery Pokery
4
David Malek The Malek Famous Twenty-One Card Trick parody, false card found which changes into right one with gag
 		2001
Rebel without a Pause
57
Eckhard Böttcher, Nursikoglu Eine von 27 card ends up at any position
  • Die neue Variante
 		2001
Intermagic (Vol. 24 No. 3-5)
164
Peter Duffie It's in the Stars re-distribution principle with eight cards and two selections
  • Alternative Ending
Inspired by
  • "Stars in Their Eyes" (Paul Hallas, Mindful Mentalism 3)
Related to 		2005
Card Secrets Unlocked
47
Jim Steinmeyer The Princess in a Crowd fifteen card matrix trick, no-touch
Variations 2006
Further Impuzzibilities
5
Ramón Riobóo The 52 Card Trick approach for the 21 card trick, using complete deck
 		2006
Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 7
34
Ramón Riobóo Stock Pile approach for the 21 card trick, using more cards, similar to The 52 Card Trick
 		2006
Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 7
35
Jon Racherbaumer 21 and Counting... basic procedure
  • Spelling Ending
  • Elaborate Ending
 		Nov. 2006
Antinomy (Vol. 2 No. 4)
5
Jon Racherbaumer, Edward Marlo After Coming of Age...
Inspired byAlso published here Nov. 2006
Antinomy (Vol. 2 No. 4)
6
Paul Gordon When I Was Twenty-One
Inspired by
  • Jack Parker method
 2006
England Up Close
146
Ian Baxter Deceitful 21-card Trick eighteen-card version
 		2007
Best of Friends — Volume III
68
Harry Lorayne Even More Deceitful eighteen-card version
 		2007
Best of Friends — Volume III
70
Michael Raeburn 80/21 80% success chance
 		2007
Best of Friends — Volume III
318
Tom Craven The 27-Card Trick
2007
Best of Friends — Volume III
452
Jack Parker Sunken 21 twenty-one Card Trick Variation
Inspired byAlso published here 2007
52 Memories
185
Jack Parker, David Solomon Invisible 21 card vanishes from packet of twenty-one cards, and reappears in packet
Related toVariationsAlso published here 2007
52 Memories
188
Jack Parker Fake 21 twenty-one Card Trick (magician fooler)
 		2007
52 Memories
191
David Solomon The 21 Card Trick
  • Phase One: The Twenty-One Shuffle
  • Phase Two: Pure Twenty-One Card Vanish
Inspired byAlso published here 2007
The Wisdom of Solomon
47
Jon Racherbaumer Introduction credit information on the Twenty-One Card Trick
 		2007
7-7-7
7
The Old Gray Model standard method
  • Spelling Ending
  • Elaborate Ending (equivoque to let spectator locate his selection in layout)
 		2007
7-7-7
14
Jon Racherbaumer Distribution of Cards in the 21-Card Trick explanation of principle
 		2007
7-7-7
16
Jon Racherbaumer Obvious Avenues to Take
2007
7-7-7
18
Bert Allerton Streamliner with eighteen cards
Also published here 2007
7-7-7
19
Edward Marlo 21 Card Trick Streamlined
Also published here 2007
7-7-7
20
Edward Marlo 21 Plus Subtlety
Also published here 2007
7-7-7
23
Steve Draun Swindle 21-Card Trick
Also published here 2007
7-7-7
25
Bruce Cervon Streamliner II
  • An Extra Idea
Inspired by 2007
7-7-7
26
Edward Marlo, Jon Racherbaumer Post-Graduate 21 Card Trick
Inspired byAlso published here 2007
7-7-7
28
Jack Parker Invisible 21 card vanishes from packet of twenty-one cards, and reappears in packet
Also published here 2007
7-7-7
31
Jack Parker Sunken 21
Also published here 2007
7-7-7
37
Jason Alford Alford's Mess Up idea
 		2007
7-7-7
41
Simon Aronson Tongue-in-Cheek 21-Card Trick
2007
7-7-7
41
Edward Marlo Colorful 21-Card Trick selection changes back color
 		2007
7-7-7
42
William Goldman Club 21
2007
7-7-7
46
Martin Sunshine The 21 Card Spelling Trick
Related toAlso published here 2007
7-7-7
48
Peter Duffie The 18 Card Trick
2007
7-7-7
49
Philip T. Goldstein Van John
Also published here 2007
7-7-7
50
Michael Powers The 7-Card 21 Card Trick with spelling
  • Telephone Method
 		2007
7-7-7
52
James Swain The 21 Card Trick optional spelling
Also published here 2007
7-7-7
56
Gene Castillon Random 21 Spell
Related to 2007
7-7-7
59
Steve Bryant The World's Most Obscene 21-Card Trick filthy spelling
Inspired by 2007
7-7-7
63
Ramón Riobóo Millennial 21-card Trick
2007
7-7-7
67
David Stahl An Old Card Trick Made New
Also published here 2007
7-7-7
70
Chris Kenner Must Be 21 to Enter
Also published here 2007
7-7-7
71
Ramón Riobóo 21-Card Salute
2007
7-7-7
73
Jon Racherbaumer Clubbed 21
Inspired by 2007
7-7-7
75
Edward Marlo, Lee Freed Lost 21 Card Trick reverse faros
Also published here 2007
7-7-7
77
Bruce Cervon Mental Streamliner
Inspired by 2007
7-7-7
79
Paul Gordon When I Was 21
2007
7-7-7
82
Lewis Jones Son of the 21 Card Trick
2007
7-7-7
84
Steve Beam Turning 21
  • Two Selection Version
  • Infusion
Also published here 2007
7-7-7
86
Steve Beam Pile Driver card is found by spelling
Also published here 2007
7-7-7
92
Steve Beam The Of-Age Card Trick
Also published here 2007
7-7-7
95
David (Foote) Drake Twist on the 21 Card Trick card vanishes and travels somewhere
Also published here
  • The Linking Ring (July 1984)
 2007
7-7-7
98
Brent Braun Princess 21 Card Trick card to pocket ending
 		2007
7-7-7
99
Jon Racherbaumer Moe's 21 move-a-card with twenty-one cards
 		2007
7-7-7
100
Jon Racherbaumer X-Rated 21 Card Trick selection has X on its back at the end
 		2007
7-7-7
101
Jack Parker Fake 21
2007
7-7-7
106
Jack Parker Invisible 21 card vanishes and reappears
Also published here 2007
7-7-7
110
Jack Parker Open 21 spectator finds his card again via Open Prediction theme
 		2007
7-7-7
114
Jack Parker Royal 21 selection vanishes
 		2007
7-7-7
118
Jack Parker Victor 21 with Eleven-Card-Trick phase, Queens appear at end
 		2007
7-7-7
120
Jack Parker Discarded 21
2007
7-7-7
123
Chuck Smith Imaginary 21 Card Trick in effect a card is chosen under table and named by magician
Also published here 2007
7-7-7
130
Doug Conn Impossible 21 Card Trick spectator pockets card, it is named
Also published here 2007
7-7-7
133
Gene Castillon Castillon Dissertation
  • Introduction
 		2007
7-7-7
138
Gene Castillon "Odd Chance" 21 Card Trick two selections
Inspired by 2007
7-7-7
140
Gene Castillon Random Spell & Odd Chance 21 Card Trick two selections
Related to 2007
7-7-7
143
Gene Castillon Triple Odd Chance 21 Card Trick three selections
Variations 2007
7-7-7
145
Gene Castillon Colorful Triple Odd Chance 21 Card Trick three selections, one changes back color
Inspired by 2007
7-7-7
150
Gene Castillon Dishonest 21 Card Trick using a secret extra card, four selections
 		2007
7-7-7
152
Roger Crosthwaite A Personal View
2007
7-7-7
162
Roger Crosthwaite Intuition II
Related to 2007
7-7-7
165
Justin Higham A Brief Analysis of the 21 Card Trick and Related Effects
  • Introduction
 		2007
7-7-7
168
Justin Higham The 16 Card Trick
2007
7-7-7
168
Justin Higham The 21 Card Trick
2007
7-7-7
174
Justin Higham 50 Card Trick Plus Sandwich
2007
7-7-7
178
Justin Higham Justified 21 Card Trick
2007
7-7-7
179
Justin Higham Pseudo 15 Card Trick
Inspired by 2007
7-7-7
181
Justin Higham Conclusion
2007
7-7-7
183
Justin Higham End Notes
2007
7-7-7
184
Ali R. Amir-Moez Limit of a Function and a Card Trick mathematical article with connection to Twenty-One Card Trick
Also published here
  • Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 38 No. 4, Sep. 1965
 2007
7-7-7
185
Jon Racherbaumer Select Bibliography
2007
7-7-7
191
David Walsh The 21 Card Trick
2007
Miraculous Minds
87
Justin Higham Intuitive Twenty-One Card Trick
  • First Method
  • Second Method
  • Third Method
  • Fourth Method
Inspired by 2008
Dexterity Manual
65
Gary Plants The Numbers Racket card thought of in packet, after some dealing it ends up at any wanted number, Vernon's method with twenty-seven cards, Plants with full deck
Inspired by
  • Dai Vernon (The Vernon Touch, Genii, Dec. 1989)
 July 2008
Genii (Vol. 71 No. 7)
29
Stephen Jones Titanic two four-card packets, one card chosen and packets assembled and eventually found, re-distribution principle with eight cards and two selections
Related to 2008
Mind Blasters
76
Jack Parker Must Be 21 to Smoke "For Claude Raines"
card vanishes from packet of 21 cards, and reappears in packet
Also published here 2009
Ten Card Mysteries Anneman Would Have Loved
23
Ken De Courcy Octad Perplexity with eight cards in two rows, spectator himself locates mental selection using three coins
 		2009
Prolix (Issue 6)
347
David Solomon The 21 Card Trick
  • Phase One: The Twenty-One Shuffle
  • Phase Two: Pure Twenty-One Card Vanish
Also published here 2009
Solomon's Notes
10
Bruce Bernstein Eight Cards using eight cards, two phases
Inspired byAlso published here
  • Bruce Bernstein's "Eight Cards" in "1982 Lecture Notes".
 2012
Unreal
127
Michael Weber, Tim Trono "Tell"-a-Phone Poker version of twenty-one card trick over phone with lie detector and poker theme
(Real Secrets Bonus sheet)
 		Nov. 2013
Real Secrets (Vol. 2 No. 20)
3
David Britland The Trick that Baffled Babbage four cards pocketed unseen, any card thought of from remaining cards, it ends up at position indicated by the four cards (values added) after dealing procedure
Inspired by
  • "Adamathica" (Bertram Adams, marketed 1921)
 Aug. 2014
Genii (Vol. 77 No. 8)
24
Hernán Maccagno Flash Fried Variation of 21-Card Trick
Related to
  • Second Method (1876)
  • "How to Have Someone Think of a Card and Guess What it is" (Horatio Galasso, Giochi de Carte, 1593)
 2015
Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 10
118
Justin Higham Skype Detector eight cards binary sorting
Related to 2015
Highlights
24
Roy Walton Math Chore Alas
Also published here 2016
The Complete Walton — Volume 3
100
Áriston Tres Pilones using 27 cards
 		2017
Hojas Sueltas
177
David Solomon, Michael Powers 21 Card Trick with PM Power
Also published here
  • "21 Again" (Linking Ring, Feb. 2009)
 2018
Solomon's Secrets
120
David Solomon Simplex 21 Card Trick
2018
Solomon's Secrets
123
Matt Baker Pile Driver Complicated mathematical version of the twenty one card trick, based on principle by Edmé-Gilles Guyot
Inspired by 2019
The Buena Vista Shuffle Club
217
Michael Powers 21 Again/Invisible 21 selection vanishes and reappears again, featuring a fair selection procedure in which selection is cut into the other two packets, three distant key cards
Inspired by 2019
Tesseract
208
Ramón Riobóo 21st Century 21 Card Trick 21 card trick variation, pseudo
Related to 2019
Second Thoughts
117
Ramón Riobóo More Piles and Total Freedom 21 card trick variation, pseudo
Related to 2019
Second Thoughts
121
Jim Steinmeyer Hoodwinked no-touch version
Inspired by
  • trick (unnamed by JS) in "Magic with Cards" (Garcia & Schindler)
 2020
Virtual Impuzzibilities
28
Roy Walton Math Chore Alas
Also published here 2022
Talk About Tricks (Issue 1)
313
József Kovács Faro 21 three packets of seven cards made, one card selected and eventually the whole deck is assembled in three stages, two faros bring the selection under a key card
 		Aug. 2023
The Hermit (Vol. 2 No. 8)
964
David Britland, Gustave Gerard Laureyns Think Once, Look Twice
  • Cardopolis
twenty-one card trick version with full deck, dealing in seven piles twice, card ends up in a named position
Inspired by
  • untitled item by Gustave Gerard Laureyns in The Sphinx, Oct. 1913
 Jan. 2024
Genii (Vol. 87 No. 1)
68
Edward Marlo, Don May A Scarne Trick
  • Exhumations (Jon Racherbaumer)
one of sixteen cards thought of with its position, mixing with "Reverse-Count Reverse Faros", card found
Related to Nov. 2024
Genii (Vol. 87 No. 11)
50
David Britland Person of Interest
  • Cardopolis
spy story for twenty-one card trick, position of selection predicted
 		Nov. 2024
Genii (Vol. 87 No. 11)
54