28 entries in Cards / Sleights / Controls / General Comments
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Karl Schröder Ein neues Hilfsmittel zum Erraten gezogener Karten "Die Kartenschule von Carl Willmann"
coin secretly palmed and inserted next to selection in deck, deck tabled to delay pass or control
Feb. 1900
Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 6 No. 2)
21
Jean Hugard To Shuffle or Not To Shuffle thoughts on controls & delays, two methods for delaying control (bridge and reversed key card)
1941 9
J. B. Bobo Bobo System of Card Control
1947 73
Al Leech Controls General Comments
1954 3
Cy Endfield Card Selection and Control general comments
1955 20
James Steranko Chapter Three - Positive Card Control chapter intro
1960 14
Philip T. Goldstein Controls
1974 2
Ken De Courcy Take a Card staging of having a card freely chosen
1980 41
T. Page Wright Card Control
1991 83
John Northern Hilliard Comment on the Return of Chosen Cards very brief note
1994 1248
Roberto Giobbi Card Controls Introduction
1995 65
Various Other Controls reference list of different controls in the CC-course
1995 79
Roberto Giobbi Card Controls, Part 2
1998 549
Refinements and Final Thoughts
  • Security
  • The Spectator Shuffles
  • Psychology
  • A Lost Card
1998 563
Roberto Giobbi Kartenkontrollen card controls for stage
2003 11
Arie Vilner A Few Words on Controls
2009 72
Roberto Giobbi Thoughts on Controls long essay on controlling selections, p. 43-117
2012 43
Fred Kaps The Kaps Show showing that selection is not on top or bottom, even though it is on top
2012 81
Shane Cobalt Context
2012 2
Justin Higham The Face-Up Pass
2013 33
Steve Beam Losing Strategies Discussion of card locations in general including familiarity with stacks and the choreography of the selection process.
2015 88
Roberto Giobbi Card Controls
  • Controlling Single and Multiple Cards
  • Scenario 1
  • Scenario 2
  • Scenario 3
2016 50
Benjamin Earl Always Shuffle! "A fundamental assertion about deceptive card control"
2020 55
Joshua Jay Taking Control on an online study done by The Jerx on which controls seem fair
  • Controls
2020 71
Ronald A. Wohl (Ravelli) Degrees of Freedom selection vs replacement
2021 36
Roberto Giobbi Positive and Negative Insertions in Practice
  • Historical Example of a Positive Insertion
  • Positive Insertion - Delayed Elmsley Count
  • Positive Insertion - Card Control
  • Negative Insertion - Dramatic Construction
2021 53
Michael Skinner Dear Roger about card controls, 1979 letter to Roger Klause
2024 4
Michael Skinner Michael Skinner 60 Card Controls list of sixty card controls with references from letter to Roger Klause, 1979
2024 9