Curiosities

32 entries in Cards / Sleights / False Dealing / Curiosities

Creators	Title	Comments & References		Year	Source	Page	Categories
	Missing Corner Second Deal	whole corner is missing	Also published here Missing Corner Second Deal (Encyclopedia of Card Tricks, 1937)	1913	Tricks With Prepared Cards	28	Cards / Sleights / False Dealing / Curiosities Cards / Sleights / False Dealing / Second Deal / Miscellaneous Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Holes or sections missing
	Missing Corner Second Deal	whole corner is missing	Also published here Missing Corner Second Deal (Tricks With Prepared Cards, 1913)	1937	Encyclopedia of Card Tricks	79	Cards / Sleights / False Dealing / Curiosities Cards / Sleights / False Dealing / Second Deal / Miscellaneous Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Holes or sections missing
	Stripper Center Deal	brief, stripper deck		1937	Encyclopedia of Card Tricks	275	Cards / Sleights / False Dealing / Curiosities Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Stripper Cards / Sleights / False Dealing / Center Deal / Strike
Dai Vernon	Automatic Second Deal	hole in card	Related to The Clean Second-Card Force Concept (Barrie Richardson, John Scarne, Pabular, 1977)	1937	Encyclopedia of Card Tricks	305	Cards / Sleights / False Dealing / Curiosities Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Poker / False Dealing Cards / Sleights / False Dealing / Second Deal / Miscellaneous Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Holes or sections missing
Edward Marlo	Small Packet Bottom Transfer	two small packets, bottom card transferred to other packet with bottom deal type motion		1956	The New Phoenix (Issue 338)	165	Cards / Sleights / False Dealing / Curiosities Cards / Sleights / Transfers / Miscellaneous Cards / Sleights / Switches / Multiple Card Switches / Using a Packet
	Missing Corner Second Deal			1957	Magic Mine No. 1	20	Cards / Sleights / False Dealing / Curiosities Cards / Sleights / False Dealing / Second Deal / Miscellaneous Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Holes or sections missing
Charlie Miller	Face-Up Bottom Deal			1961	An Evening with Charlie Miller	36	Cards / Sleights / False Dealing / Curiosities
Dai Vernon	Vernon Automatic Second Deal	hole in top card	Related to Automatic Second & Third Deal (Karl Fulves, Dai Vernon, The Topological False Count*, 1979)	1962	Early Vernon	28	Cards / Sleights / False Dealing / Curiosities Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Poker / False Dealing Cards / Sleights / False Dealing / Second Deal / Miscellaneous Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Holes or sections missing
Karl Fulves*	Strike/Pull Deal	double deal beneath top card		July 1975	Epilogue (Issue 24)	229	Cards / Sleights / False Dealing / Curiosities Cards / Sleights / False Dealing / Second Deal / Miscellaneous Cards / Sleights / False Dealing / Double Deals / Top Top
Karl Fulves*	Strike/Strike Deal	double deal beneath top card		July 1975	Epilogue (Issue 24)	229	Cards / Sleights / False Dealing / Curiosities Cards / Sleights / False Dealing / Second Deal / Strike Cards / Sleights / False Dealing / Double Deals / Top Top
Larry Jennings	Dealing 3rds, etc.	LJ Move variation		1975	Epilogue (Issue Special No 3 (Part 1))	260	Cards / Sleights / False Dealing / Curiosities Cards / Sleights / False Dealing / Special Third, Fourth,... Deal / Strike
Karl Fulves*	Deal Cop	top card apparently dealt to table and turned over, really palmed in Tenkai palm (with optional lapping) and second card dealt		1975	Methods with Cards — Part 1	53	Cards / Sleights / False Dealing / Curiosities Cards / Sleights / Ditching Cards / Lapping Cards / Sleights / Palming / Tenkai Palm & Unit Grip Cards / Sleights / False Dealing / Palm Deals
Karl Fulves*	Other Variations	of the second deal lap		1975	Methods with Cards — Part 2	99	Cards / Sleights / False Dealing / Curiosities Cards / Sleights / Switches / Single Card Switches / Turnover Change & Variations Cards / Sleights / Lapping / Second Deal Lap
Trevor Lewis	A Mixed Bag	various card and coin idaes partial stack and zarrow shuffle double Riffle Control Middle Deal (false) Palm Conscious (gag) Transpo Plus (coin transposition) Ladies In Waiting (four Queens reverse in the deck)		Jan. 1976	Pabular (Vol. 2 No. 5)	205	Cards / Effect Themes / Skill Demonstration / Card Control Cards / Sleights / False Dealing / Curiosities Cards / Effect Themes / Turnover & Reverse / Four Aces turn over in the Deck at once Cards / Effect Themes / Gags & Curiousities / Gags Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Partial Stack (DONT USE THIS) Cards / Sleights / Controls / Multiple Card Controls / Cut Controls Coin / Effect Themes / Transposition / Copper & Silver / Solo Cards / Sleights / Riffle Shuffle / Riffle on the table / False / Zarrow type Shuffles
Edward Marlo	In Lieu of the Second Deal	in the hands	Related to In Lieu of the Second Deal II (Edward Marlo, Marlo's Magazine — Volume 5, 1984) also in: The Ace of Spades Move (Ed Marlo: Forty Years Later, 2025)	1977	Marlo's Magazine — Volume 2	222	Cards / Sleights / False Dealing / Curiosities Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Stop Trick / Position indicated by Spectator
Peter Duffie	Outjogged Deal Unload		Related to Centre Forward (Peter Duffie, Applications, 1993)	May 1982	Pabular (Vol. 7 No. 4)	1026	Cards / Sleights / False Dealing / Curiosities Cards / Sleights / Color Change / Out-jogged
Edward Marlo	In Lieu of the Second Deal II	in the hands	Also published here The Ace of Spades Move (Edward Marlo, Ed Marlo: Forty Years Later, 2025) Related to In Lieu of the Second Deal (Edward Marlo, Marlo's Magazine — Volume 2, 1977)	1984	Marlo's Magazine — Volume 5	231	Cards / Sleights / False Dealing / Curiosities
Martin Gardner, Karl Fulves	Hole Second Deal	handling for the fake second deal with hole card on top, also third deal demo		May 1984	The Collected Almanac (Vol. 2 No. 21)	205	Cards / Sleights / False Dealing / Curiosities Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Poker / False Dealing Cards / Sleights / False Dealing / Second Deal / Miscellaneous Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Holes or sections missing
Bob King	Small Packet Turnover Bottom Deal	small tabled packet is apparently turned over with its top card, but it's the bottom one		1985	Best of Friends — Volume II	145	Cards / Sleights / False Dealing / Curiosities
Edward Marlo	Latest Open Double Deal	apparently two top cards are taken, really bottom & top	Variations Open Double Deal with Inner-End Take (Edward Marlo, Justin Higham, The Effects of Saturday*, 2025)	1985	Formula One Close-Up	75	Cards / Sleights / False Dealing / Curiosities Cards / Sleights / False Dealing / Double Deals / Top Bottom
Danny Korem	Dallas Drop	card dealt from deck on table really comes from right hand Tenkai Palm	Variations Dallas to Chicago (Edward Marlo, Danny Korem, Thirty Five Years Later, 1986)	1985	Korem without Limits	167	Cards / Sleights / False Dealing / Curiosities Cards / Sleights / Switches / Single Card Switches / Miscellaneous Cards / Sleights / False Dealing / Empty Deals (no card removed) Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Stop Trick / Position indicated by Spectator
Edward Marlo, Danny Korem	Dallas to Chicago	top card dealt to table but switched for palmed card, four methods	Inspired by Dallas Drop (Danny Korem, Korem without Limits, 1985)	1986	Thirty Five Years Later	57	Cards / Sleights / False Dealing / Curiosities Cards / Sleights / Switches / Single Card Switches / Miscellaneous Cards / Sleights / False Dealing / Empty Deals (no card removed) Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Stop Trick / Position indicated by Spectator
Jack Carpenter	Lazy Man's Greek Deal	bottom card has corner torn off		1992	Modus Operandi	108	Cards / Sleights / False Dealing / Curiosities Cards / Sleights / False Dealing / Greek Deal & multiple minus Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Holes or sections missing
Peter Duffie	Centre Forward	out-jogged double, top card of this double is dealt at chosen number	Related to Outjogged Deal Unload (Peter Duffie, Pabular, 1982) Variations The Race Is On (Bob Gill, New Sorcerer, 1992)	1993	Applications	9	Cards / Sleights / False Dealing / Curiosities Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Prediction in form of Mates Cards / Sleights / Switches / Single Card Switches / Miscellaneous Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Stop Trick / Position indicated by Spectator
Gene Maze	Bottom Deal Lap	dealing top card and lapping all cards underneath, clean-up for packet tricks, brief		1994	Gene Maze And The Art Of Bottom Dealing	56	Cards / Sleights / Lapping / Bottom Card(s) Cards / Sleights / False Dealing / Curiosities
Lennart Green, Rick Johnsson	Snap Lap	card dealt to table vanishes cleanly, lapping card instead of palming it		1995	Snap Deal	20	Cards / Sleights / Vanish / Bare Handed Cards / Sleights / False Dealing / Curiosities Cards / Sleights / False Dealing / Palm Deals
Karrell Fox	Fox's Fabulous Fickle Finger Force	riffle force, right first finger apparently drags out center card but takes top card instead		1995	Much Ado About Something	47	Cards / Sleights / False Dealing / Curiosities Cards / Sleights / Force / Riffle Force / Miscellaneous
Dan Buck, Dave Buck	The Exchange Second Deal	card in LTP is switched in while dealt card is palmed in LTP	Inspired by "Exchange Second Deal" (Ricky Smith)	2001	Artifice, Ruse, and Subterfuge in the Hands	16	Cards / Sleights / False Dealing / Curiosities Cards / Sleights / Palming / Longitudinal Tenkai Palm (LTP) Cards / Sleights / Switches / Single Card Switches / Without Deck / Tabled & Mucks Cards / Sleights / False Dealing / Palm Deals
Bob King	Celebrating the Fourth	on the false deal with a hole cut out of one or two cards for pseudo third/fourth deals		2003	New Magician Foolers	17	Cards / Sleights / False Dealing / Curiosities Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Holes or sections missing
Bill Kalush	Bottom Deal Lap	Second Deal Lap variation		Nov. 2009	The Penumbra (Issue 11)	15	Cards / Sleights / False Dealing / Curiosities Cards / Sleights / Lapping / Second Deal Lap
Edward Marlo, Justin Higham*	Open Double Deal with Inner-End Take	apparently two top cards are taken, really bottom & top	Inspired by Latest Open Double Deal (Edward Marlo, Formula One Close-Up, 1985)	2025	The Effects of Saturday	28	Cards / Sleights / False Dealing / Curiosities Cards / Sleights / False Dealing / Double Deals / Top Bottom
Edward Marlo	The Ace of Spades Move	in the hands	Also published here In Lieu of the Second Deal II (Edward Marlo, Marlo's Magazine — Volume 5, 1984) Related to In Lieu of the Second Deal (Edward Marlo, Marlo's Magazine — Volume 2, 1977)	2025	Ed Marlo: Forty Years Later	106	Cards / Sleights / False Dealing / Curiosities