Fans with tricky purpose

174 entries in Cards / Sleights / Flourishes / Fans with tricky purpose
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Victor Farelli How to "Fan" the Pack reverse fan or spreading action to hide arrangement
 		1931
Controlled Coincidence
15
Ralph W. Hull The Fan one-handed, every other card hidden naturally
 		1933
More "Eye-Openers"
18
Charles Eastman Reverse Fan - All White reverse pressure fan
 		1933
Expert Manipulative Magic
9
The Expanding and Diminishing Cards in several stages, vanish finale
 		1935
Card Manipulations (Issue 4)
118
Red or Black deck of all black cards becomes all red, face-up face-down alternating cards as impromptu rough-smooth principle
 		1937
Encyclopedia of Card Tricks
231
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin Diminishing Cards fans
 		1938
Greater Magic
12
Dr. Jacob Daley Snap!! "A Quick Trick", card appears out-jogged from fan, with "take any card" gag by Daley
Also published here 1938
More Card Manipulations (Issue 1)
11
Reverse Blank Fan
1939
More Card Manipulations (Issue 2)
31
Louis Zingone Reverse Supreme mental reverse, bluff spacing in fan
Related toVariations 1940
Expert Card Technique
344
Louis Zingone Block of Reversed Cards Hidden in Fan tight fan
 		1940
Expert Card Technique
345
The Diminishing Cards - Sleight of Hand Method
1941
More Card Manipulations (Issue 4)
48
Tom Sellers Double Fan for Fan Workers splitting a fan in two
 		1943
Magical Mixture
11
Del Monte New Color Change of a Giant Card Fan with fanning cards
 		1945
My Best
132
Edward G. Love The Blank Fank reverse fan, one-handed
 		1946
Card Fantasies
18
Edward G. Love, Sidney Smith Flash Fan back design of fan transforms
 		1946
Card Fantasies
30
Paul LePaul An Instantaneous Palm Flourish fan production
 		1949
The Card Magic of Le Paul
115
Paul LePaul A Card Fan Flourish fan production
 		1949
The Card Magic of Le Paul
119
Paul LePaul The Hand Picked Aces bluff spacing in fan
Related toVariations 1949
The Card Magic of Le Paul
199
Lee Grabel Two Grabel Mysteries spectator reads other spectator's mind, reverse fan to force card
Related to 1951
Psychic Magic — Vol. 1
25
Edward Marlo Delayed Fan Control step fan, as Triple Peek Control, two methods
 		1952
Control Systems
83
Mary Kinson, Lewis Ganson Fan See Card double-fan, outer layer ripped off except selection
VariationsAlso published here 1954
Routined Manipulation Finale
220
Tony Kardyro "The T. K's Pivot" and the Selected Card Removal Flourish fan in hand, named card is pushed and jogged to the left, fan closed and card ends up out-jogged
 		1955
Kardyro's Kard Konjuring
19
Tony Kardyro The Comedy Force card appears sticking out of fan as gag as spectator reaches for a card and fan is closed, using previous flourish
 		1955
Kardyro's Kard Konjuring
19
Jerry Andrus A Swivel Change Extra one-handed fan with out-jogged double
Also published here 1956
Andrus Deals You In
20
Jerry Andrus A Utility Fan Move back card dragged to other side, faces towards spectators, reverse cull
Also published here 1956
Andrus Deals You In
72
Jerry Andrus A Blank Deck Idea selection found, rest of deck shown blank, reverse fan and hiding pips with other card
 		1956
Andrus Deals You In
130
Jerry Andrus Swivel Change Extra one-handed fan with out-jogged double/triple
Also published here May 1962
Ibidem (Issue 25)
17
Edward Marlo Faro Fan Constraint to apparently give a free choice to think of a card, but only half the cards are visible
 		1964
Faro Controlled Miracles
23
Alex Elmsley Faro Fan
1964
Faro Controlled Miracles
53
Edward Marlo, Alex Elmsley Marlo's Faro Jogs handling possibilities for Alex Elmsley's Faro Fan idea
  • Five Methods
  • Side Jog to Angle Jog
  • Angle Jog to Side Jog
  • Table Faro Angle Jog
  • Up Jogging the Reversed Card (two methods)
Inspired byRelated to 1964
Faro Controlled Miracles
54
Edward Marlo Tabled Faro Fan Set-Up using table faro or only even riffle shuffle to get into Faro Fan configuration
Related to 1964
Faro Controlled Miracles
59
Alex Elmsley, Edward Marlo Thumb-Fan Hide-Out jogged card, as switch
 		1968
Expert Card Conjuring
100
Tom Batchelor The Double Backed Fan all backs faro fan
 		1968
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1967-68)
82
Tom Batchelor The Bottom to Top Swivel card transferred from bottom to top while closing fan
 		1968
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1967-68)
92
The Two Handed Blank Fan
1969
Wonderful Routines of Magic
90
Edward Marlo Jog Fan handling for pressure fan with jog(s)
 		1970
Advanced Fingertip Control
56
Edward Marlo The Insertion Method: As a Multiple Control cards fanned with four jogged cards, delayed, overhand shuffle
Related to 1970
Advanced Fingertip Control
58
Edward Marlo Fantastic Fingertip Controls with step fan, and one hand closing of fan, see also page 85 for "Added Notes on the One Hand Closing of the Fan"
 		1970
Advanced Fingertip Control
60
Edward Marlo right-hand pressure fan notes reverse fan applications, hiding face-up cards in face-down fan, All Backs, ..., right-handed pressure fan suggested by Frank Shields
VariationsAlso published here Summer 1970
Hierophant (Issue 4)
210
Dai Vernon Vernon's Peek Glimpse Push-Over No. 1, partial reverse fan used to glimpse a card either near top or near bottom
 		1972
Jacob Daley's Notebooks
7
Dai Vernon Vernon's Four Ace Trick Introduction No. 26, reversed Aces not seen in reverse fan, then they appear face up with regular fan
Related to 1972
Jacob Daley's Notebooks
12
Dai Vernon Vernon's Fan Peek Glimpse No. 98, glimpse with step fan, from behind by bending corner
Related to 1972
Jacob Daley's Notebooks
29
Dr. Jacob Daley Daley's Peek "Open and Shut" Reverse Fan Location No. 122, peek, then step fan as delay, then cut
Related to 1972
Jacob Daley's Notebooks
36
Dr. Jacob Daley Daley's Fake Ace Placement No. 196, Aces inserted into fan all end up on top, perhaps slid all the way in until they are out and riding under/behind the fan?!
Related to 1972
Jacob Daley's Notebooks
47
Dr. Jacob Daley Daley's Note No. 240, card appears out-jogged from fan, with "take any card" gag by Daley
Also published here 1972
Jacob Daley's Notebooks
61
Dr. Jacob Daley Daley's Estimating Peek: 3) Daley's Estimate No. 337-3, card peeked at, deck fanned (step fan), then performer spreads through cards and finds selection face down
 		1972
Jacob Daley's Notebooks
95
Rolland Hamblen Hamblein's Move In Stripping Four Aces No. 403, perhaps misspelled "Hamblen", delayed strip-out idea for multiple shift, cards fanned with four in-jogged cards
Related to 1972
Jacob Daley's Notebooks
110
Dr. Jacob Daley Acme Four Ace Routine In Fan No. 532, four Aces lost in fan and found, without multiple shift by placing Aces at specific positions
 		1972
Jacob Daley's Notebooks
149
Dr. Jacob Daley Peek-Fan-Side Jog Location No. 544, step fan after peek, Daley variation with two breaks/steps
 		1972
Jacob Daley's Notebooks
153
Sam Leo Horowitz Horowitz's Reverse Principle In White Border Cards No. 590, using reverse fan and cards that are reversed in deck, application not clear
 		1972
Jacob Daley's Notebooks
165
Jerry Andrus Double Fan deck beveled into pointed configuration
 		1973
Kurious Kards
24
Alex Elmsley, Edward Marlo Faro Fan
  • 1st Discard - In the Hands
  • 2nd Discard - On the Table
  • 1st Technique - in the Hands
  • 2nd Technique
 		1974
The Ten Hand Poker Stack
117
Jerry Andrus Basic Utility Fan Move
Also published here 1976
Andrus Card Control
48
Stephen Minch A Light Fandango selection rises from fan, wiggles and goes back down, then vanishes from deck
 		1977
Creations of a Magical Madman
37
Audley Walsh Fan Bluff Spacing cards inserted close together seem to be widely separated
 		1977
The Magic Book
67
Juan Tamariz Baraja en Cinta color changing sequence with fanning cards
 		1977
Magicolor
84
Warren Wiersbe Pressure Fan with step after peek
 		1978
The Card Classics of Ken Krenzel
72
Lewis Ganson Double Fan Separation
1978
A New Look at Card Fans
17
Lewis Ganson The Flash Change with a card fan deck
 		1978
A New Look at Card Fans
19
Lewis Ganson Fan False Shuffle
1978
A New Look at Card Fans
29
Alex Elmsley Faro Fan
Apr. 1979
Apocalypse (Vol. 2 No. 4)
182
Steve Beam Split Fan fan splits in the middle as soon as spectator tries to take a card, gag
Also published here 1979
Magic — The Vanishing Art
15
Steve Beam Split Fan fan splits in the middle as soon as spectator tries to take a card, gag
Also published here 1980
Diary of a Deranged Deck
4
Faro Fan
1981
Cardworks
67
Bluff Fan Multiple Shift bluff spacing, all go to the bottom
 		1981
Magic from which Memories are Made!
125
Walt Lees Bluff Spacing Multiple Shift into fan
Inspired by 1981
More Professional Card Tricks
5
Jon Racherbaumer Drawing a Blank tips on the reverse fan
 		1982
Card Finesse
58
Jon Racherbaumer Jog-Podge Control finessed, with fan
 		1982
Card Finesse
125
Small Packet Fan Faro
1982
Best of Friends
260
Step Fan
1983
The Mendoza Portfolio No. 1
150
Frank Simon, Paul LePaul Bluff Spacing Fan
Inspired by 1983
Versatile Card Magic
73
Martin A. Nash Disarming Hide-Out fanning deck while cards are in Gambler's Cop
 		1984
The New York Magic Symposium — Collection 3
48
Martin A. Nash Disarming Hide-Out fanning deck while cards are in Gambler's Cop
 		Jan. 1984
Apocalypse (Vol. 7 No. 1)
873
Faro Fan
May 1984
Pabular (Vol. 8 No. 6)
1232
Dai Vernon Mental Five one of five, using pressure fan hideout
Inspired by Spring 1985
The Collected Almanac (Vol. 3 No. 25, 26 & 27)
243
Dai Vernon, Max Malini Peek Control holding break as deck is balanced on fingers, then step fan (1939)
Related to 1985
The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 2)
29
Frederick Braue Braue Fan Jog fan with a retained jogged card
 		1985
The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 3)
17
Sliding Key Force card under fan
 		1985
The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 3)
22
Frederick Braue Telemagic spectator finds another spectator's card in a corner of the room
(a.) card reversed
(b.) reverse fan
  • Braue's new method with double facer
Related to 1985
The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 5)
13
Dan MacMillan Pressure Fan Cull during the square up
Variations 1986
Riffling the Pasteboards
61
Edward Marlo Olram's Fan Cull
Inspired by 1986
Riffling the Pasteboards
71
John Bannon The Cleaved Deck intro on faro fan ideas
 		1986
Mirage
22
Alex Elmsley, John Bannon False False Shuffle faro fan
  • False False Shuffle Notes
Also published here 1986
Mirage
23
John Bannon II. The Cleaved Deck Location red and black cards openly separated, one card chosen and replaced in other half, halves shuffles together to apparently lose it, performer names card, faro fan
Variations 1986
Mirage
24
John Bannon III. Impromptu Stooge Swindle variation in which a spectator names the selection, faro fan
Inspired by 1986
Mirage
25
John Bannon IV. The Cleaved Deck Discovery combination of previous routines, openly red-black separated deck, card location, instant mixing finale, faro fan
 		1986
Mirage
25
Juan Tamariz Concealment in Left Hand Fan TPC
 		1989/91
Sonata
36
Alex Elmsley, John Bannon False False Shuffle faro fan
Also published here 1991
Smoke and Mirrors
27
Alex Elmsley Jog Fan brief
 		Oct. 1991
The Olram File (Issue 10)
14
Judson S. Brown Reverse Triumph cards shown all one way, then suddenly every other card is reversed, reverse fan to hide alternating condition
 		1991
Page Wright's Manuscript
147
Bluff Spacing Fan Distribution cards together but look apart
 		1992
Modus Operandi
35
Bill Kalush Almost Immediately card taken from fan is known instantly, faro fan
 		July 1993
Apocalypse (Vol. 16 No. 7)
2242
Bluff Spacing Fan Distribution
Feb. 1993
Profile (Issue 12)
10
Vicente Canuto 2.- Control en el Abanico bridging cards while doing a pressure fan
 		1993
Cartomagia Fundamental
202
Alex Elmsley Faro Fan
Variations 1994
The Collected Works of Alex Elmsley — Volume 2
341
Juan Tamariz Concealment in Left Hand Fan
1994
The Tamariz Perpendicular Control
10
Darwin Ortiz Biased Pressure Fan reverse fan version
Related to 1995
Cardshark
51
The Reverse One-handed Fan with blank application
 		1995
Card College — Volume 1
182
Jerry K. Hartman Hide card-group in fan thumb fan, technical detail
 		1995
After Craft
274
Reverse Fan spectator names card when looking at (reverse) fan
Related toAlso published here 1997
The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 8)
4
The Amateur Mindreader spectator names card when looking at (reverse) fan
Also published here 1997
The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 8)
8
Alex Elmsley Faro Fan
1997
Alex Is At It Again
21
David Solomon Right-Handed Triumph faced deck, biased pressure fan
Also published here 1997
Solomon's Mind
145
Andrew Wimhurst The Fan Control fanning with four jogged cards, delayed multiple shift
Related to 1998
Down Under Deals
7
Dai Vernon Fan and Step
1998
Card College — Volume 3
536
Paul LePaul The LePaul Automatic Jog-Control
1998
Card College — Volume 3
538
The Diagonal Insertion and Fan
1998
Card College — Volume 3
540
Mary Kinson, Lewis Ganson Die Fächerkarte double-fan, outer layer ripped off except selection
Also published here 1998
Intermagic (Vol. 22 No. 2)
77
Alex Elmsley Faro Fan
1998
Card Notes
27
Alex Elmsley Faro Fan
1999
Classic Handlings
31
David Regal Reverse Fan Placement reverse fan with face-up cards as pointers to insert cards
Related to 1999
Close-Up & Personal
20
Baltazar Fuentes Cutting the Aces Aces put in different positions in fan with some fake spacing, found
 		1999
Arempi II
28
Steve Silverman Card reversal deck is fanned face out and turned over onto bottom cards
 		1999
Labyrinth (Issue 9)
28
Mary Kinson, Lewis Ganson Fan See Card double-fan, outer layer ripped off except selection
Also published here 1999
Card Sleight of Hand Innovations And Improvements
38
Chuck Smith The Regular Double-Fan force application, also for half forcing deck
 		2000
Tools Of The Trade
12
Chuck Smith The Regular Reverse Fan double fan application
 		2000
Tools Of The Trade
14
Neal Elias Peek & Cut Control peek, then fan with step and cut
Inspired byRelated to 2000
Gambling Notes
13
Paul Curry Fan Force with reverse fan
 		2001
Paul Curry's Worlds Beyond
284
Steve Beam The Ripper two cards are lost and found using incomplete faro fan and Mary Kinson's "Fan-See Card"
Inspired byAlso published here 2001
Hand-Picked Card Tricks
14
David Regal Hidden Face-up Cards in Face-Down Reverse Fan
Related to 2002
Constant Fooling 1
76
Darwin Ortiz Biased Pressure Fan half the deck face-up, looks face down
Related to 2002
Scams & Fantasies with Cards
190
Thomas Baxter The Fan Cop
2002
The Action Cop
21
Bob King Four Card Control cards inserted in fan with crimp (bluff spacing), then overhand shuffle sequence
 		2002
The Breather 3
6
Dai Vernon Fan with Step
2003
Card Fictions
54
Allan Ackerman The HP Action Hidden Packet maneuver, underneath thumb fan
Related toAlso published here 2005
Ackerman 2004
9
Allan Ackerman The HP Half Pass Hidden Packet maneuver, under cover of thumb fan
Also published here 2005
Ackerman 2004
11
Kostya Kimlat Breaking Glances "Work with the Marlo Fingertip Flesh Break"
  • The Basic Technique
  • Touches
    • The Closed-Deck Convincer
    • Creating a Step
    • The Fan Peek
    • Outer Peeks
  • Continuations
    • Riffle Force
    • Overhand Shuffle
    • Riffle Shuffle
    • Hindu Shuffle
    • Pulp Friction
    • Marlo's Ruse
Related to May 2005
Antinomy (Vol. 1 No. 2)
20
Mark Aspiazu ASP Control packet hidden underneath thumb fan
Related to 2005
Freebie 6
7
Harry Riser The Riser-Zingone Four-Card Control four cards put in fan in different spots, bluff spacing and faro
Inspired byAlso published here
  • MUM, April 2001
 2006
Secrets of an Escamoteur
126
Edward Marlo Faro Jog setting up for Alex Elmsley's faro fan
Related to 2006
Secrets of an Escamoteur
161
Steve Beam Reverse Blank Fan
2006
Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 7
59
Steve Beam The Fertilizer Spreader forcing a card from a spread, reverse spread
  • Triple Strength Fertilizer Spreader
  • Surplus Fertilizer
 		2006
Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 7
226
Hideout Move card hidden behind fan
 		2007
The Wisdom of Solomon
62
Kevin Ho Repainted Blank fan visually changes to fan with indices
 		2008
Smooth Operations
54
Hidden Face-up Cards in Face-Down Reverse Fan cards inserted next to them
 		2009
Route 52
58
Blank Reverse Fan tip
 		2010
One Degree
4
Faro Fan
2011
Evolution
61
David Berglas The All-Seeing Fan
  • The Reverse Drag Fan: used as a “warmup” for The Berglas Push Fan
  • The Berglas Push Fan: the fan used for Think a Card
 		2011
The Berglas Effects
52
Reverse Fan
2013
Lecture Notes
24
Cardini Cardini's Vanishing Stripe using Cardini / Peaux Deaux cards, strip of card fan disappears
 		2013
Nukes
70
Allan Ackerman HP Move displacement of packet under fan, "Hidden Packet"
 		2014
Blomberg Laboratories
226
Steve Beam El Desgarrador two cards are lost and found using incomplete faro fan and Mary Kinson's "Fan-See Card"
Inspired byAlso published here 2014
El Cardquistador
10
Abanico de Dorsos faro fan for All Backs
 		2014
El Puente Invisible
107
Allec Blanco Crimped Fan Corner crimp during one handed fan
 		2015
Glimpse into My Mind
4
Yves Carbonnier Le Contrôle en Éventail
Inspired byRelated toAlso published here 2016
Notes de Causerie
28
Paul LePaul Controle des Trois Cartes three card control, bluff spacing in fan
Related to 2016
Transmutatione Royale
4
Frank Shields Right-Handed Pressure Fan suggestion
Also published here 2017
Facsimile (Issue 6)
15
Jack Carpenter Scarne's Dream deck is fanned and instantly four outjogged Aces appear in fan
Variations 2017
The Expert's Portfolio No. 2
47
Michael Feldman Dangerous Bonus stripper deck face-up/face-down, cards pulled out and faro-fan made as display
 		2017
A New Angle
148
Steve Beam The Ripper two cards are lost and found using Mary Kinson's "Fan-See Card"
Inspired byAlso published here 2017
52
33
Alex Elmsley Faro Fan
2018
The Magic of Johnny Thompson (Issue 1)
104
Johnny Thompson Brainweave Force Deck faro fan
 		2018
The Magic of Johnny Thompson (Issue 1)
105
Harry Riser Fan with Break pressure fan with break, results in step
 		2018
The Magic of Johnny Thompson (Issue 2)
101
Paul Vigil, Forcing from a Bank
  • faro fan, one of twenty cards thought of
  • secret incomplete faro peek
 		2018
The Magic of Johnny Thompson (Issue 2)
177
Alex Elmsley Faro Fan
2018
Repertoire
65
Asi Wind Folded Under Pressure fourths, fan cover
Inspired by 2018
Repertoire
121
Alex Elmsley Faro Fan
2018
Solomon's Secrets
85
Fan hide-out reversed card in fan is positioned so it is unseen on either side of fan
 		2018
Pure Imagination
203
Packet vanish with fan manipulator’s vanish of packet by waving fan over it
 		2018
Pure Imagination
203
Alex Elmsley Faro Fan
2019
Paper Work
22
Yves Carbonnier Le Contrôle en Éventail
Inspired byAlso published here 2019
Grand Livre de Cartomagie
144
Tom Gagnon Four-Flushed Multiple Shift Aces inserted one by one, then one-handed fan before completing multiple shift in hands or on table
Inspired byRelated to 2019
Gagnon Unfiltered
252
Step Fan
2019
Silhouette (Vol. 1 No. 2)
27
Carlos Vaquera My Fan Control fanning cards and closing fan again while retaining jog, classic handling
 		2019
The Illusioneer
283
Allan Ackerman HP Multiple Shift "Hidden Packet", with fan displacement
Inspired byAlso published here May 2020
Elixir (Vol. 3 No. 1 Part 1 (Spring #2))
194
Marty Kane Trickle-Down Theory card apparently flutters from the top to the bottom of a face-down fan
 		2020
Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 12
197
Lorenz Schär Fan Fiction production of a card in a fan, also as a finish for an Ace Assembly
Inspired by 2020
Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 12
312
Tony Binarelli Millennium Supermentalism a spectator finds another spectators's selections, jumbo index mixed with normal index
Inspired byAlso published here
  • MAGIC, Aug. 2007
 2022
Talk About Tricks (Issue 1)
644
Jean-Pierre Vallarino Precise insertion in fan pressure fan with faces audience, top few cards are rotated back the other way behind fan so cards can be inserted between them
 		2022
Vallarino
182
Paul LePaul Plunger Jog Control
2023
The Finest Magic of Pedro Lacerda
165
Allan Ackerman The HP Maneuver and Applications Hidden PacketManeuver, underneath thumb fan
Also published here 2024
All In — Volume 1
17
Allan Ackerman The HP Half Pass Hidden Packet maneuver, under cover of thumb fan
Also published here 2024
All In — Volume 1
18
Allan Ackerman Another Tweak on the Veeser Bluff Shift "Hidden Packet", with fan displacement
Also published here 2024
All In — Volume 1
30
Jack Carpenter Pressure Fan Get-Ready getting break under a specific number of cards after closing a fan
 		2024
Carpenter's Conceptions
91