Mates are put down alternating

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Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Warren Wiersbe Miracle Do As I Do
Inspired byRelated toVariations 1946 Mental Cases With Cards 4
Brother John Hamman The Million-to-One Chance ten cards by performer and spectator are put down in pairs, ten value matches
Variations 1958 The Card Magic of Bro. John Hamman S. M. 7
Glen Kehler Telepath based on Hen Fetch's "Symbologic"
 		1970 Epilogue (Issue 9) 65
Frederick M. Shields Split the Aces Aces cut in half, put down alternating and they match
Related toVariations 1970 Magick (Issue 3) 11
Bascom Jones Add Aces all halves are face down
Inspired by 1970 Magick (Issue 3) 14
Alex Redans The Psychic Spectator matching effect, torn paper with numbers
Related to 1970 Magick (Issue 8) 38
Edward Marlo Blind Date kings and queens place on table alternating by performer and spectator, all suits match
Related to 1972 Kabbala — Volume 1 (Vol. 1 No. 12) 95
Jerry K. Hartman Three On A Match magician and spectator each select three cards, they make up three pairs of mates
 		1972 Packet Magic 6
Frederick Braue One Pack Triple Do spectator and performer have half the deck each, three cards taken out by each, they match, two handlings
Inspired by May 1973 The Pallbearers Review Vol. 5-8 (Vol. 8 No. 7) 626
North Bigbee Symbolepathy with Jumbo ESP card
Inspired by
  • inspired by Hen Fetsch's "Symbologic"
 1974 Magick (Issue 97) 483
Jerry K. Hartman Huesome Twosome magician and spectator each have three red cards and three black cards, they alternate placing cards into a pile, all their joined pairs are matching in color
 		1974 Super Dupes 15
Alan Francis ESP Impromptu
Dec. 1977 Intermagic (Vol. 4 No. 4) 142
Father Cyprian The Spectrum Effect two card prediction from half the deck, all other cards red
Inspired by
  • "Colorincidentally" (Tony Chaudhuri, "Bedazzled!", 1977, p. 31)
 1978 The Chronicles (Issue 3) 1085
Magic Ronnay Perfect Match five pairs are matching
  • Notes By Karl Fulves
 		1979 The Chronicles (Issue 18) 1242
Larry Becker Espitome two sets of five cards, matching
Inspired by
  • Hen Fetsch's "Symbologic" and Barry Stevenson's "C.I.D."
 1979 The Best of Larry Becker's World of Super Mentalism Book II 180
David Britland Zennerism five ESP cards (or Ace through Five), one is pocketed by spectator and the rest are put down in pairs alternating with performer, all match, marked or impromptu
  • Effect
  • Preparation
  • Performance
  • Notes
 		1980 Zennerism 1
Stephen Tucker Zenner Plus handling with extra card
 		1980 Zennerism 5
Roy Walton The Arrangement
Also published here 1981 Fourcast 34
Stephen Tucker Explosion
1982 Spell-Binder (Vol. 2 No. 17) 331
Roy Walton The Arrangement
Also published here 1988 The Complete Walton — Volume 2 93
Brother John Hamman Mixed-Up Mates Ace to Four of Hearts and Spades match multiple times
 		1989 The Secrets of Brother John Hamman 240
Edward Marlo A Mental Combination
  • A Multiple Coincidence
  • Impromptu Power of Thought
four thought-of cards matched with another deck, power-of-thought with two decks, see page 55 (Addendum) for addition
 		1989 So Soon? 33
Steve Beam Mating Season V deck cut in halves, joker placed in any half, from that point on all cards are mates
Related to 1991 The Trapdoor — Volume Two (Issue 38) 686
Steve Beam Mating Season VI as Mating Season V, impromptu, cards torn in half
Also published here 1991 The Trapdoor — Volume Two (Issue 38) 688
Steve Beam Mating Season VI two halves, cards on named number match, then all match
Also published here 1991 The Trapdoor — Volume Two (Issue 38) 869
Steve Beam Mating Season II deck cut in halves, joker placed in any half, from that point on all cards are mates
Related to 1993 Semi-Automatic Card Tricks 64
Steve Beam Mating Season III as Mating Season II, impromptu, cards torn in half
Also published here 1993 Semi-Automatic Card Tricks 67
Steve Beam Mating Season IV two halves, cards on named number match, then all match
Also published here 1993 Semi-Automatic Card Tricks 69
Jerry K. Hartman Pair Pressure
Jan. 1994 Apocalypse (Vol. 17 No. 1) 2311
Gene Maze A Touch of the Mentalist three cards each, with suggestion by Wesley James
Variations 1994 Gene Maze And The Art Of Bottom Dealing 140
Meir Yedid A Touch of the Mentalist Variation
Inspired by 1994 Gene Maze And The Art Of Bottom Dealing 144
Tom Frame Blind Dates Kings and Queens
 		Aug. 1995 Apocalypse (Vol. 18 No. 8) 2537
Jerry K. Hartman Peer Pairs performer and spectator alternately select a few cards from their own Ace-Ten set, performer always going first, their selections’ values match
Variations 1995 After Craft 179
John Scarne Power Play two Royal Flushes, arranged in two rows by spectator and performer, the card match, no extra card or one-ahead
 		1999 Discoverie (Issue 1) 1
Michael Sibbernsen Match Maker matching two royal flushes, Symbologic
 		1999 Cyber Sessions 37
Karl Fulves Next of Kin no extra card
 		2000 Lost Vampire Secrets 153
Bob King Miracle Match marked ESP cards
 		2000 Great Britain 2001 8
Karl Fulves, Hen Fetsch Poker Logic No. 77, with two Royal Flushes
Inspired by
  • Hen Fetsch's "Symbologic"
 2001 New Self-Working Card Tricks 116
David Regal The Coincidence Deck gaffed
 		2002 Constant Fooling 2 214
Steve Beam Mating Season V first two cards match, then entire deck
  • The Really False Count
Related to 2004 Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 5 212
Barrie Richardson Impromptu Psychic Matching business cards torn in quarters to make two sets of five symbols, matching with those
Inspired by
  • Hen Fetsch's "Symbologic"
Also published here
  • Club 71, Christmas 2002
 2005 Act Two 74
Jack Avis Will the Cards Match? Variation backs match instead of faces
 		2006 Rara Avis 136
Thomas Baxter Separate but Equal matching routine with two sets of ESP cards
Related to Feb. 2006 Antinomy (Vol. 2 No. 1) 39
Karl Fulves Nu Two Deck picture cards from two decks mated
 		2007 Word Play 34
Nick Trost The "One-Two-Three" Trick small packet matching routine
Inspired by
  • The "One-Two-Three" Trick (Martin Gardner, Ibidem #6, July 1956)
Also published here 		2008 Subtle Card Creations — Volume 1 35
Nick Trost Triple ESP Miracle three selections match predictions
Inspired by 2008 Subtle Card Creations — Volume 1 233
Nick Trost Pair-a-normal Perception pairs match
Inspired by 2008 Subtle Card Creations — Volume 1 235
Nick Trost The Almost Perfect ESP Test pair matching
Inspired by 2008 Subtle Card Creations — Volume 1 239
Nick Trost Trost on Hen Fetsch's "Symbologic"
2009 Subtle Card Creations — Volume 2 556
Tom Stone White Lies classic one-ahead trick with blank cards on which writing appears with ashes rubbed on
 		2011 Maelstrom 39
David Britland Zennerism
  • Cardopolis
Inspired byAlso published here
  • Cardopolis Blog, Feb. 2005
 Aug. 2011 Genii (Vol. 74 No. 8) 22
Hiroyuki Sakai Double Doppelganger two pairs are made with the performer always placing a card on the table first, they match
 		May 2013 Genii (Vol. 76 No. 5) 50
Jim Steinmeyer Co-Conspirators spectator and performer both have a deck and alternately deal and stop anytime and place the card at that point in a glass, in the end there are three matches
Also published here 2014 The Molecules of Magic 7
Jorge "The Jack" Garcia ESP Reading two sets of five, performer starts putting cards on table, standard method
Inspired by
  • Hen Fetsch's "Symbologic" and a routine by Derren Brown
Also published here 		2015 7 Mysteries of Mentalism 47
Pit Hartling Echoes three selections predicted with their mates
 		2016 In Order to Amaze 92
Patrick G. Redford Temporarily Out of Order multiphase matching routine, mates of entire deck match at the end, then deck is dealt into four hands and separated by suits in order
  • Phase One: Coincidence
  • Phase Two: Mind Reading
  • Phase Three: Mix and Match
  • Phase Four: Amnesia to a Total Coincidence
  • Phase Five: An Encore - Participant Deals into New Deck Order
  • Further Thoughts & Variations
  • First Phase with Si Stebbins Instead of a Memorized Deck
  • Final Thoughts
Inspired by 2017 Temporarily Out of Order 178
Steve Beam Court Order matching with spectator, two Royal Flushes used
Inspired by
  • inspired by Hen Fetsch's "Symbologic"
 2018 Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 11 58
Jim Steinmeyer Co-Conspirators
  • Conjuring
spectator and performer both have a deck and alternately deal and stop anytime and place the card at that point in a glass, in the end there are three matches
Also published here Dec. 2018 Genii (Vol. 81 No. 12) 58
Pepe Lirrojo Homonymous, Homographic, Homonym cards multi-phase routine, from Tamariz Stack
 		2019 Some Different Stuff 3
Michał Kociołek Match Up two sets of Ace-through-Five, Do As I Do type matching with performer and spectator
Related to Mar. 2022 The Hermit (Vol. 1 No. 3) 98
Shimpei Katsuragawa Two in a Million Ace through Ten of Hearts and Spades are put down in pairs in ten piles on the table by performer and spectator, poker chips put on two piles, only those pairs match, in second phase alls ten values match, Uno cards as option
Inspired by 2022 La Campanella 101