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95 entries in Cards / Effect Themes / Do as I Do / Deck
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Unknown Nil homini certum est cards openly separated in suits and dealt out twice, they're separated again, performer can do it and spectator only when performer wants him to, four cards secretly palmed in or out for that
Related toVariationsAlso published here Dec. 1895 Der Zauberspiegel (Vol. 1 No. 4) 54
Unknown Nil homini certum est cards openly separated in suits and dealt out twice, they're separated again, performer can do it and spectator only when performer wants him to, four cards secretly palmed in or out for that
Also published here 1896 Der moderne Kartenkünstler 90
Ben-Zur Nur wahre Kunst macht frei version to do the suit separation with a full deck of thirty-two cards
Inspired by Dec. 1904 Der Zauberspiegel (Vol. 5 No. 1) 4
Unknown A Double Surprise performer and spectator remember card and its position in their halves of the deck, cards taken out, performers card is shown to be a double backer (!), spectator's card is an indifferent card and brought from pocket
 		1933 Farelli's Card Magic — Part Two 91
Dr. Jacob Daley A Paradox of Pairs
1936 The Jinx 1-50 (Issue Summer Extra 1936) 134
Dr. Jacob Daley Paradox of Pairs
1937 Encyclopedia of Card Tricks 80
Oscar Weigle Dual Impulsion spectator finds performer's card and vice versa
Related to 1939 Do That Again! 35
Unknown Contrary Do As I Do spectator is invited to be as contrary as he likes
 		1940 Expert Card Technique 395
Walter B. Gibson Double Reverse spectator's and performer's cards reverse
Related toVariationsAlso published here 1940 The Jinx 51-100 (Issue 77) 505
Al Baker One Deck Do as I Do
1941 The Secret Ways of Al Baker (Issue Magical Ways and Means) 151
Dr. Jacob Daley A Paradox of Pairs
1943 Full Deck of Impromptu Card Tricks 18
Walter B. Gibson Peeksie do as I do, but spectator probably fails finding performer's card
 		1943 The Phoenix 1-50 (Issue 31) 129
Unknown Intuition with Cards two card initialed, spectator and magician each chose them
 		1948 The Royal Road to Card Magic 78
Unknown Psychic Sympathy with signature and duplicate
 		1948 The Fine Art of Magic 173
George G. Kaplan New Card Affinity using distant key card to count to spectator's card
 		1948 The Fine Art of Magic 65
Paul LePaul A Paradox Of Pairs
1949 The Card Magic of Le Paul 151
Al Baker, Dr. Ben B. Braude You Do as I Do (Using one pack of cards) No. 14, Do As I Do, performer picks out spectator's card, asks spectator to take out similar card and is able to divine it
 		1950 Scarne on Card Tricks 29
Cy Keller You Do As Cy Do both cards at same position
Variations 1951 The Phoenix 201 — 250 (Issue 234) 935
Bill Simon The London Illusion spectator and performer each chose card from half deck, they match
 		1954 Sleightly Sensational 30
Lu Brent Unbelievable Coincidence Spectator and magician each think of a card and write it down, each pull out a card from the deck, turns out they find each other's card
 		1956 Fifteen Star Card Effects 5
Lu Brent Autographic Minds Spectator and magician each select and sign a card, lost in the deck, later manage to find each other's signed card
 		1956 Fifteen Star Card Effects 8
Charles Hudson Major-Minor Do-As-I-Do one deck, spectator choses amount of cards he and performer get, down under deal until one card, mates
 		1958 The Cardiste (Issue 6) 10
Dai Vernon Four of a kind Magician and Spectator each exchange some cards which turn out to be four of a kind
Related to 1959 Inner Secrets of Card Magic 19
Charlie Miller You Do as I Do tip
 		1961 The Magic of Charles Earle Miller 60
Ron Johnson, Harry Lorayne Aces Wild Aces are found in do as i do way with two halves
Related toVariations 1962 Close-up Card Magic 32
Jay Ose "Do as I Do" with one Pack each gets one half
 		1967 Ultimate Secrets of Card Magic 237
Al Koran Double Thought spectator finds performer's card and the other way around, marked deck
Related toVariations 1967 Al Koran's Professional Presentations 89
Paul Swinford Four of a Mind spectator thinks of a value and removes card of that value from half the deck, performer divines it, repeat, do as i do finale
Related to 1969 Expert Card Mysteries 59
Ron Ferris Girl Happy two cards chosen from two halves each - four Queens
 		1971 Expert Card Chicanery 22
Paul Swinford Double Duper spectator and magician turn over a card, mates
 		1971 More Faro Fantasy 32
Walter B. Gibson Double Reverse spectator's and performer's cards reverse
Also published here 1972 The Living End 116
Jerry K. Hartman Halt One Two Spectator and magician each stops on each other's card
 		1973 Means & Ends 78
Arthur Hill Mental Mate deck shuffled face-up/face-down, spectator counts to number (ignoring face-up cards), then performer, the cards match
Also published here July 1974 The Pallbearers Review Vol. 9-10 (Vol. 9 No. 9) 759
Stephen Minch The Tryst do as I do with tarot, emperor and empress
 		1974 The Book of Thoth 15
Rick Johnsson Kayo-Pectate mates, seated
 		1976 Practical Impossibilities 88
Unknown The One-Deck Version No. 23
 		1976 Self-Working Card Tricks 39
Karrell Fox Duazidu spectator and performer have half the deck, they both select cards and they match, repeated two more times
 		1979 Another Book 97
Father Cyprian "Cloning" no key cards
 		May 1979 Apocalypse Vol. 1-5 (Vol. 2 No. 5) 193
Andrew Galloway Do As Al Baker Did
1980 Diverting Card Magic 28
Karl Fulves One-Deck Card Trick two halves, performer moves card to spectator's half and vice versa, after looking through spectator's packet performer names selection, parallel principle
 		1982 Six Impromptu Card Tricks 12
Paul Brignall Bringall-Trio one divided deck, half red-backed and half blue-backed
 		1982 Spell-Binder (Vol. 1 No. 10) 177
Unknown The Dream Deck No. 46, from two packets, performer and spectator each select a card behind the back, they are black mates and all other cards are red
Inspired by 1984 More Self-Working Card Tricks 60
Greg Miller Thinking Man's Do As I Do using card counting (Parallel Principle)
 		Aug. 1984 Apocalypse Vol. 6-10 (Vol. 7 No. 8) 957
Jean Hugard Do It and Fail with 28/32 card deck a layout and dealing game is explained, the spectator always fails at it
 		1985 The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 4) 29
Barry Stevenson Sign As I Sign half forcing deck, one card signed by performer
 		Feb. 1986 Apocalypse Vol. 6-10 (Vol. 9 No. 2) 1172
Fantomas Pre-Poker Match
May 1986 Apocalypse Vol. 6-10 (Vol. 9 No. 5) 1205
Paul Rosini, Eugene Burger Rosini's Double Reverse
Related toVariations 1987 The Performance of Close-Up Magic 61
Christoph Borer Double Thought half forcing deck, spectator and magician find the selection of the other
Inspired byAlso published here 1989 Seminarheft 32
Christoph Borer Double Thought half forcing deck, spectator and magician find the selection of the other
Inspired byAlso published here 1991 Magie 18
Arturo de Ascanio Aparición de Cuatro Ases performer and spectator each have half the deck and twice exchange a card, four Aces are found
Also published here
  • "Circular de la S.E.I." 1954.
 1992 La Magia de Ascanio — Vol. 4 83
Patrick Page Do as I Do spectator and performer each shuffle half the deck and exchange top card, they match, repeated multiple times
VariationsAlso published here 1993 Lecture Patrick Page 21
Mike Beam The Traveler Do as I Do with one deck, spectator finds wrong card, correct card is found reversed in his half
Variations 1993 Semi-Automatic Card Tricks 88
Steve Beam Marked Phenomena two versions
Inspired byRelated toVariations 1993 Semi-Automatic Card Tricks 90
Basil Horwitz Challenge Aura Card spectator finds mate
 		1994 The Mental Magick of Basil Horwitz — Volume 3 65
Edward Marlo Four of a Kind Magician and Spectator each exchange some cards which turn out to be four of a kind
 		1995 Facsimile (Issue 3 (Marlophile 1)) 8
Karl Fulves Your Card Mine spectator choses card for performer and vice versa, they then divine each other's card
 		1996 Blocking Off 81
Simon Lovell, Michael Austin Blind Date Bermuda spectator pockets three cards behind his back, performer takes another deck and finds the mates
Inspired by 1997 Simon Says! 129
Nick Trost Do as I Do with Two Cards Magician and spectator freely exchange two cards each, turn out to be four Queens
Inspired by 1997 The Card Magic of Nick Trost 39
Roger Crosthwaite Think-as-I-Think chapter intro
 		1999 Arcardia 65
Simon Lovell Bermuderama spectator choses card behind back, performer does the same, the cards match, uses three deck instead of one
Inspired by
  • Juan Tamariz performance
Variations 		2000 Son of Simon Says! 77
Tony Bartolotta Synchro Thot do-as-I-do ambitious card, spectator's card rises to top of performer's half and vice versa
 		2000 Latter Day Secrets (Issue 2) 38
Harry Lorayne Platinum Discrepancy two halves, spectator and performer select a card from each which goes reversed in other half, mates
Related toVariationsAlso published here 2001 Personal Collection 417
Unknown Cut and Match No. 61, two halves are cut under table, the Aces are located
 		2001 New Self-Working Card Tricks 91
Karl Fulves Mental Mate No. 35, deck shuffled face-up/face-down, spectator counts to number (ignoring face-up cards), then performer, the cards match
Also published here 2001 My Best Self-Working Card Tricks 74
Lee Asher Cheek-to-Cheek Asher Style twenty-six double backers
Inspired by 2001 Hand Jobs 18
Harry Lorayne The Real Work two-card location, do as I do style
Inspired by 2001 Personal Collection 403
Allan Ackerman, Baltazar Fuentes An Ungaffed Ted do as i do type thing often done with marked cards, memorized deck
 		2002 Classic Handlings 21
Karl Fulves After Jack "Problems"
half deck vor spectator and performer, a card is chosen and exchanged, they transpose back and are reversed, posed as problem
Inspired by
  • Jack Vosbourgh two-deck effect
 2002 Latter Day Secrets (Issue 7) 257
Christoph Borer Double Thought half forcing deck, spectator and magician find the selection of the other
Inspired byAlso published here 2003 Bisingen 03 21
Al Baker You Do as I Do with One Pack
2003 The Secret Ways of Al Baker (Issue Notebooks) 764
Karl Fulves Two To One spectator and performer cut to same card with handkerchief covered deck, hidden rubber band
 		2004 Under Tension 71
Peter Duffie All Clear selection lost, two halves, top cards exchanged, they match and are Kings, repeat with other two Kings, the Kings then become blank except selection, rest of deck blank as well
Inspired byVariations 2004 Subtle Miracles 101
Karl Fulves Just Think spectator and performer show each other five cards, one thought of, shuffled back in half a deck each, groups of five cards shown, coincidence and cards found
Inspired by
  • "Just Think Do As I Do" (Kenneth Lang, The Magic Wand)
 2004 Latter Day Secrets (Issue 9) 351
Christoph Borer Double Thought half forcing deck, spectator and magician find the selection of the other
Also published here 2006 Compilation 55
Erik Nordvall Named Do As I Do Spectator names a card and removes a card from the deck, revealed to be named card. Magician then does the same
 		2006 Erik Nordvall Lecture Notes Asia 2006 12
Bruce Cervon My King Trick
2007 Bruce Cervon's Castle Notebooks — Volume 1 53
David Solomon Right Side Up performer and spectator each select a card from half the deck, everything reassembled, selections are reversed
Related toAlso published here
  • Racherbaumer's Sticks and Stones
 2007 The Wisdom of Solomon 45
Christoph Borer Double Thought half forcing deck, spectator and magician find the selection of the other
Inspired byAlso published here 2007 Der Stoff aus dem die Wunder sind 17
Tyler Wilson Slacker Spectator and magician both do a trick at the same time for two other spectators, but each performer finds selection of the other spectator
Related to 2007 The Magician's Ltd Cookbook 106
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
Nick Trost ESP Do As I Do one deck, based on Patrick Page's "Continuous Do As I Do"
Inspired by 2008 Subtle Card Creations — Volume 1 226
Michael Weber Living Parallel Lies half the deck for performer and spectator, four mates show up after do as i do procedure
 		2009 505 4
Tyler Wilson, David Acer, Simon Lovell Slacker spectator and performer each have a card selected from half deck, they find the other's cards
Inspired byRelated to 2010 Reinventing the Real 79
Derek DelGaudio A Coincidence performer and spectator select cards which appear at named number
Inspired by 2010 Derek DelGaudio 11
Al Koran, Roberto Giobbi One-Deck Do-as-I-Do miscalling
Related to 2010 Secret Agenda (Issue July 26) 223
Patrick Page The Continuous Do As I Do spectator and performer each shuffle half the deck and exchange top card, they match, repeated multiple times
Inspired by
  • Douglas Francis' "Duo Coincido" in Peter Warlock's "Pentagram" Vol. 1 No. 2, 1946
Related toVariationsAlso published here 		2011 Magic Page by Page 40
Darwin Ortiz Sorcerer's Apprentice spectator and performer locate each other's cards
Related to 2012 Lessons in Card Mastery 277
Justin Higham Reflected Do As I Do (semi-improvised effect) Standard effect
 		2014 The 75% Production and The Trick With No Method 23
Justin Higham Mono Do As I Do Plus (semi-improvised effect) Standard effect
Inspired by
  • "Mono Do As I Do" (Justin Higham, Collected Card Notes, 1999)
 2014 The 75% Production and The Trick With No Method 24
Michael Weber Living Parallel Lies Behind the back Do As I Do, multiple cards match
 		2014 Old Dog 14
So Sato Bath Towel Mentalism two spectators with half the deck each exchange a card underneath large towel, performer divines them
 		2016 The Secrets of So Sato 41
Harry Lorayne Platinum Discrepancy two halves, spectator and performer select a card from each which goes reversed in other half, mates
Also published here 2017 JawDroppers! Two 203
Harapan Ong Perspective one half for spectator, top cards do not match, they do when packets are exchanged, repeated, then four Aces found near top and on bottom
Related to
  • "Illusion versus Reality" (Peter Duffie, Card School, ebook, 1995)
  • "Illusion or Reality" (Vincent Hedan, Mnemosyne, ebook, 2012)
 2018 Principia 116
Jan Logemann High Five two spectators cut (deeper) in two halves, four cards of same value show up, cutting the high card presentation, money prize is split in two
Inspired by
  • Aldo Colombini trick
 2019 Eine Inselbegabung tourt mit 52 Freunde 8
Steve Forte Not In My Half spectator has half the deck, spectator and performer do the same shuffles and cut, performer cuts to Aces one by one, spectator to indifferent cards, halves exchanged for last Ace
 		2020 Gambling Sleight Of Hand — Volume 2 973