Homing Card

76 entries in Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / Homing Card
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
T. Page Wright Error Aces brief mention
Related to 1933 Page Wright's Notebook 57
Frederick Braue The Homing Card Kaps favorite
Related toVariations 1948 Show Stoppers with Cards 13
Edward Marlo Mr. Black Comes Back
1951 Ed Marlo's Lecture Notes 7
Bill Simon, Edward Marlo Four Deuces and the Ace of Spades
Inspired byRelated to 1952 Effective Card Magic 163
Tenkai Ishida Tenkai Card Flight
VariationsAlso published here 1953 Six Tricks by Tenkai 14
Audley Walsh All Gone finish for homing card
 		1954 The Phoenix 251 — 300 (Issue 299) 1197
Brother John Hamman The Elusive Burglar homing card sequence with card to wallet climax
Variations 1958 The Card Magic of Bro. John Hamman S. M. 27
Bill Simon Challenge Aces Ace of Spades is placed aside and keeps reappearing, change into four different Aces
VariationsAlso published here 1962 Close-up Card Magic 201
Bob Ostin The "Backward" Card Trick homing card, with back of cards
Related toAlso published here 1968 Fingertip Fantasies 64
Dai Vernon, Frederick Braue The Forgotten Trick
1970 Expanded Lecture Notes 35
Lin Searles Come Back Queens
Autumn 1973 The Pallbearers Review Vol. 5-8 (Vol. 8 No. 8th Folio) 674
Francis Carlyle The New, Revised Version of the "Homing Card"
Inspired byAlso published here 1975 The Magic of Francis Carlyle 98
Frank Garcia My Uncle's Card Trick homing card, four Kings and an Ace, four Aces and one King as a kicker
Also published here 1975 ca. Lecture Notes No. 2 3
Mike Rogers The Homing Card ala Ascanio
1976 The Ascanio Spread 15
Bob Ostin Backward Cards Trick homing card, with back of cards, variation of trick in Fingertip Fantasies, brief
Related to 1976 ca. Sleightly Surprising 3
Tom Ogden High Jumper double facer
 		1977 Wildcard Miracles 116
Frank Garcia My Uncle's Card Trick homing card, four Kings and an Ace, four Aces and one King as a kicker
Also published here 1978 Lecture Notes — No. 2 3
Philip T. Goldstein Lassie with four aces, all cards are blank as a climax
Also published here 1979 Snow 3
Piet Forton Riesen Homing Cards Kaps' Homing Card with Jumbo cards
Related toAlso published here 1979 Das Mike Skinner / Piet Forton Seminarheft (Issue Das Piet Forton Seminar) 12
Piet Forton Trickkartenversion Kaps' Homing Card with gimmicked jumbo card, slide gaff to change card
Also published here 1979 Das Mike Skinner / Piet Forton Seminarheft (Issue Das Piet Forton Seminar) 13
Piet Forton Riesen homing Cards für Kinder Kaps' Homing Card with Jumbo cards, for children
Related to 1979 Das Piet Forton Seminar — Kinderzauberei 33
Piet Forton Trickkartenversion Kaps' Homing Card with gimmicked jumbo card, slide gaff to change card
 		1979 Das Piet Forton Seminar — Kinderzauberei 39
Ken De Courcy A Routine for Frank Garcia's "Five Card Stunner" black Jack and four red cards, Jack vanishes and travels to pocket, repeats with fewer cards
Inspired by
  • "Five Card Stunner" (Frank Garcia)
 1980 Cards in Cabaret 11
Mike Caveney The Homing Card Comes Home four jumbo cards turn into blank cards on by one
 		1981 Magicomedy 77
Bill Simon Challenge Aces Ace of Spades is placed aside and keeps reappearing, change into four different Aces
Also published here Aug. 1983 Intermagic (Vol. 10 No. 2) 63
Peter Duffie Deja Vu homing card with Jokers and a red Ace, packet changes into Royal Flush as finale
 		1984 Close-Up to the Point 7
Piet Forton Giant Homing Cards Kaps' Homing Card with Jumbo cards, with gaffed cards variation
Also published here 1984 Magic Lecture Notes 1984 8
Frederick Braue Holdout Harry Routine with story presentation
Related to 1985 The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 5) 11
Larry Jennings The Homing Card
Variations 1986 The Classic Magic of Larry Jennings 171
Larry Jennings Homing Card Variation
1986 The Classic Magic of Larry Jennings 177
Edward Marlo The Homing Card
  • Alternative Endings
Also published here
  • The New Tops, Nov. 1963
 1988 M.I.N.T. — Volume I 27
Edward Marlo Original Homing Card Routine
Related toAlso published here
  • Tops Trick Annual 1963
 1988 M.I.N.T. — Volume I 40
Masatoshi Furota Teleportation and Vanish four cards one of which is an Ace, Ace is placed on table and it transposes with one of the remaining cards, repeated with other cards
 		1988 The Scents of Sophistication 32
Tenkai Ishida Flying Queen updated handling
Inspired by 1988 The Thoughts of Tenkai 21
Brother John Hamman The Homing Card whole packet changes into homing card at one point
Variations 1989 The Secrets of Brother John Hamman 204
Philip T. Goldstein Lassie with four aces, all cards are blank as a climax
Also published here 1989 A Phil Goldstein Collection 25
Justin Higham Making a Come-Back
1989 West End Card Session 19
Philip T. Goldstein Lassie with four aces, all cards are blank as a climax
Also published here 1990 Focus 62
Jon Racherbaumer Homing Kings four-card repeat with four Kings, last card changes into selection
Inspired by 1990 Cardfixes 56
T. Page Wright, William Larsen The Error Aces Ace packet held, Ace of Spades pocketed, one of the remaining cards is still the Ace of Spades, repeated until only Ace of Spades remains
Related to 1991 Page Wright's Manuscript 232
Tenkai Ishida Card Flight de Tenkai translation
Also published here 1992 La Magia de Ascanio — Vol. 3 132
Edward Marlo Honing Homing Ace placed aside comes back, change to Kings, Queen where Aces are suspected, Aces from pocket, method for Duffie-Sadowitz effect
 		1993 The Olram File (Issue 14) 10
John Scarne Factory Seconds apparently several Sevens of Hearts are in the deck, they are all put aside and change into Aces
Variations 1993 Rigmarole (Issue 3) 29
Eddie Fechter Eddie Fechter's Homing Card
Also published here 1993 Fechter 125
Felix Farrell Impromptu Sidewalk Shuffle three black cards and Queen, discarded card is always Queen, then all discarded cards change to Queens
 		1995 Aus dem Effeff... 85
James Swain The World's Greatest Card Trick "a.k.a. The Homing Card"
Inspired by
  • Bill Malone's handling
 1996 Miracles with Cards 36
Harry Riser Wild Homing Card four Jokers change into duplicates of selection, then back, selection travels back repeatedly after being discarded
 		1996 The Feints and Temps of Harry Riser 194
John Luka The Homing Card
Inspired by 1997 L.I.N.T. — Pocket Stuff for Close-Up Magicians 9
Bruce Cervon Come Back to Me
1998 Hard-Boiled Mysteries 68
James G. Thompson Jr. Der Rückläufer
Inspired by
  • "Come Back Card" (Ed Marlo, Genii)
 1998 Intermagic (Vol. 22 No. 3) 112
Guy Hollingworth The Homing Card paper clip
 		1999 Drawing Room Deceptions 106
Masao Atsukawa 天海のフライングクイーン (Tenkai's Flying Queen) based on Card Flight by Tenkai, homing card plot, Queen keeps coming back
Inspired by 2001 カードの島 18
Tenkai Ishida Card Flight Just the illustrations for the original Card Flight routine from Six Tricks by Tenkai
Related to 2001 カードの島 25
Ernest Earick A Hand For Mr. Scarne Aces lost in deck, one shuffle, performer deals himself four times the Ace of Spades, transformation into different Aces
Inspired byRelated to 2003 Penumbra (Issue 6) 4
Karl Fulves No Joke "Problems"
Joker always comes up when performer spells value, it is always placed aside, at the end no Joker is there, posed as a problem
 		2003 Latter Day Secrets (Issue 8) 314
Joshua Jay Jumbo Overlap Homing Card Homing Card plot with jumbo cards and Overlap gimmick
 		2005 Sleight of Hand and a Twist of Fate 50
William Duncan "The Homing Card" - a no cost kicker ending
Inspired by 2005 Tubthumping 39
Bob White The Homing Card
2005 It's a Matter of Style (2005 edition) 60
Bob Ostin The Backward Card Trick homing card, with back of cards, different handling than in Fingertip Fantasies
Also published here 2005 Bob Ostin — A Lifetime of Magical Inventions 151
Jack Carpenter, Stephen Hobbs Grandma's School of Card Table Artifice
2006 Pasteboard Palette 49
Sveroni Artistic Cards Homing Card with jumbo cards
 		2006 Variationen 25
Arturo de Ascanio Antagonistic Aces
Inspired by 2006 The Magic of Ascanio — Studies of Card Magic 303
Bob King No Place Like Home double facer
 		2007 Best of Friends — Volume III 60
Arturo de Ascanio The Restless Lady la dama inquieta, First Version 1970
Inspired byVariations 2008 The Magic of Ascanio — More Studies of Card Magic 22
Arturo de Ascanio Second Version (ca. 1981) la dama inquieta
 		2008 The Magic of Ascanio — More Studies of Card Magic 34
Arturo de Ascanio Third Version (ca. 1985) la dama inquieta
 		2008 The Magic of Ascanio — More Studies of Card Magic 43
Arturo de Ascanio Fourth and Last Version (ca. 1995) la dama inquieta
 		2008 The Magic of Ascanio — More Studies of Card Magic 51
Eddie Fechter Eddie's Homing Card
Also published here 2012 The F.F.F.F. Book 188
Tomas Blomberg Three-Card Monster Homing Card version, where a face up card appears three times in a packet of three face down cards. Finally the performer ends up with only one card, and between the three tabled cards appears another one.
Inspired byRelated to 2014 Blomberg Laboratories 170
John Lovick, Bruce Cervon Ten-Card Red Rover with a Black Jack Kicker combo of cards to pocket, six-card repeat, homing card
Related to 2016 The Performance Pieces & Divertissements of the Famous Handsome Jack, etc. 45
John Lovick, Helder Guimarães Streamlined Homage
Inspired by
  • "Homage" (Helder Guimarães, Red Mirror DVD, 2010)
 2016 The Performance Pieces & Divertissements of the Famous Handsome Jack, etc. 48
Joaquín Matas Las Cinco Cartas Rojas
2016 A Fuego Lento — Volumen II 245
Harapan Ong Followers of Christ same Ace keeps appearing or turning over, then Aces find by cutting to them
Related to 2018 Principia 130
Xiaobo Zhou 消失的女神 (Vanishing Lady) Three phase Restless Lady, ending with Queen changing into blank card
Inspired by 2018 Enthusiasm 20
Steve Reynolds Stand-Up Streamlined Homing Card
Inspired by
  • "Marlo's Homing Card" (Bill Malone's "Malone on Marlo" DVDs)
 2019 Output (Issue 4) 15
John Carney Back Home odd-backed homing card, card in packet becomes red-backed and is placed aside repeatedly
 		2020 Sleights & Insights 140