Bruce Cervon

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Creators	Title	Comments & References		Year	Source	Page	Categories
Bruce Cervon	Cutting the Aces	shuffle Aces into pack and cut to them		2007	Bruce Cervon's Castle Notebooks — Volume 1	30	Cards / Effect Themes / Skill Demonstration / Magician cuts to the Aces / Hands
Bruce Cervon	Faro Fooler	from NDO to NDO with two faros, double index cards		2007	Bruce Cervon's Castle Notebooks — Volume 1	32	Cards / Effect Themes / Chaos & Order / Deck Cards / Effect Themes / Gags & Curiousities / Magicians Only Gags Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Miscellaneous Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Faro Oddities
S. W. Erdnase, Bruce Cervon	Acrobatic Jacks or Travelling Aces	aces jump from top to middle and vice versa		2007	Bruce Cervon's Castle Notebooks — Volume 1	33	Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Cavorting Aces
Bruce Cervon	18 up side down			2007	Bruce Cervon's Castle Notebooks — Volume 1	36	Cards / Sleights / Controls / Single Card Controls / Faro Controls / Normal Faro
Bruce Cervon	Faro Finder	peek with incomplete faro		2007	Bruce Cervon's Castle Notebooks — Volume 1	37	Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Face up Card is used to count down to selection Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Single Card Cards / Sleights / Controls / Single Card Controls / Faro Controls / Incomplete Faro
Larry Jennings, Bruce Cervon	Face up Add Method 2			2007	Bruce Cervon's Castle Notebooks — Volume 1	37	Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Face up Card is used to count down to selection Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Single Card Cards / Sleights / Controls / Single Card Controls / Faro Controls / Incomplete Faro
Bruce Cervon	odd combination	automatic placement		2007	Bruce Cervon's Castle Notebooks — Volume 1	40	Cards / Principles / Placement Principles / Automatic Placement Cards / Effect Themes / Number Effects / Card found at total of Packet or named number
Bruce Cervon	Aces face uo	as Marlo Effect, with Larreverse		2007	Bruce Cervon's Castle Notebooks — Volume 1	52	Cards / Effect Themes / Turnover & Reverse / Four Aces turn over in the Deck at once
Bruce Cervon	My King Trick			2007	Bruce Cervon's Castle Notebooks — Volume 1	53	Cards / Effect Themes / Do as I Do / Deck Cards / Effect Themes / Four-of-a-Kind & Aces Effects / Matching the Cards Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / Multiple Cards
Bruce Cervon	false shuffle and block transfer	strip out with block transfer		2007	Bruce Cervon's Castle Notebooks — Volume 1	53	Cards / Sleights / Riffle Shuffle / Riffle on the table / Transfers & Displacements Cards / Sleights / Riffle Shuffle / Riffle on the table / False / Strip Out
Bruce Cervon, Larry Jennings	5 Card Miracle	one way principle		2007	Bruce Cervon's Castle Notebooks — Volume 1	57	Cards / Principles / One Way / Faces Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Single Card
Bruce Cervon	Streamliner II	An Extra Idea	Inspired by Streamliner (Bert Allerton, 1956)	2007	7-7-7	26	Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Twenty-One Card Trick
Bruce Cervon	Mental Streamliner		Inspired by Streamliner (Bert Allerton, 1956)	2007	7-7-7	79	Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Twenty-One Card Trick
Jon Racherbaumer	Memorial: Bruce Cervon			July 2007	Genii (Vol. 70 No. 7)	34	Articles / Obituary
Bruce Cervon	Pocket Load Ruse	spectator checks whether pocket is empty, a coin is inside and removed by performer while loading palmed cards	Also published here Pocket Load Ruse (Bruce Cervon, 2004)	June 2007	Antinomy (Vol. 3 No. 2)	8	Cards / Sleights / Cloths and Cards / Loading the Pocket for later discovery
Jerry K. Hartman	Covered, Up	selection is lost in deck and deck wrapped in handkerchief, spectator forcibly sets wrapped deck down on table and selection is found face up on top of deck	Inspired by A Double Shot (Jim Patton, David Britland, 2003) The California Angels (Bruce Cervon, David Britland, 2003) Also published here Covered, Up! (Jerry K. Hartman, 2005)	2007	Card Dupery	144	Cards / Effect Themes / Appearance & Production / Face up on the Deck Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Single Card Cards / Effect Themes / Penetration / Ambitious Card Theme / Sequences
John C. Wagner	Vietnam Card Trick 2007	two cards predict a card's suit and value, another thought-of card is found	Inspired by The Viet Nam Trick (Bruce Cervon, Dai Vernon, 1975) Also published here Mentally By Two, With A Little Help From Vietnam (John C. Wagner, 2010)	2007	Freebie 8	23	Cards / Principles / Placement Principles / Automatic Placement Cards / Effect Themes / Think a Card / limited Choice Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Single Card Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Challenge Locations / Challenge Single Card Location / Miscellaneous
Bruce Cervon	In Plain Sight	writing some stack or information on (extra) joker, cue card or crib sheet		2008	Prolix (Issue 4)	212	Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Miscellaneous
Jamy Ian Swiss (reviewer)	Bruce Cervon's Castle Notebooks Volume One: Notebooks 1, 2, 3; 1964-1965	by Bruce Cervon		Mar. 2008	Genii (Vol. 71 No. 3)	104	Reviews / Books, Manuscripts, Notes
Bruce Cervon	Perfect Speller		Also published here Perfect Speller (Bruce Cervon, 1968)	2008	Spins & Needles	47	Cards / Principles / Spelling Cards / Effect Themes / Spelling / Lie Detector (with spelling)
Bruce Cervon, Karl Fulves	Pivot Production			2009	The "D" Notes	32	Cards / Sleights / Pop-out Productions / Tabled
Tyler Wilson	Jiscemah	named triumph, with finesse, memorized deck	Inspired by Impromptu Ultra Mental (Allan Ackerman, Bruce Cervon, 1978)	2010	Reinventing the Real	146	Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Brainwave type Effects Cards / Effect Themes / Turnover & Reverse / Triumph / Think Triumph & Named Triumph Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Memorized / Full Deck
Simon Aronson, Jim Patton, Bruce Cervon	Business Card Prophecy Version		Related to Tabled Business Card Prophecy Move (Hiroshi Sawa, 1988)	Jan. 2010	Genii (Vol. 73 No. 1)	87	Cards / Sleights / Force / Business Card Prophecy Force
John C. Wagner	Mentally By Two, With A Little Help From Vietnam	two cards predict a card's suit and value, another thought-of card is found An Alternate Ending For a Thought-Of Card	Inspired by The Viet Nam Trick (Bruce Cervon, Dai Vernon, 1975) Mentally by Two (John C. Wagner, 1978) Also published here Vietnam Card Trick 2007 (John C. Wagner, 2007) DVD "Seven More Secrets"	Apr. 2010	Genii (Vol. 73 No. 4)	66	Cards / Principles / Placement Principles / Automatic Placement Cards / Effect Themes / Think a Card / limited Choice Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Single Card Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Challenge Locations / Challenge Single Card Location / Miscellaneous
James Swain	The Vietnam Trick Revisited	spectator remembers card at position that equals a cut-off amount, card predicted and spelled-to	Inspired by The Viet Nam Trick (Bruce Cervon, Dai Vernon, 1975)	June 2010	Genii (Vol. 73 No. 6)	17	Cards / Sleights / Force / Count Forces Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Single Card Cards / Effect Themes / Spelling / Miscellaneous / Impromptu
Justin Higham	Illogical-Reversal Stab	card or business card stabbed between two selections or predicted cards, using the Bruce Cervon Invisible Reverse	Related to Two-sooth (Jerry K. Hartman, 1975)	2015	Highlights	15	Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Multiple Card Prediction Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Stabbing Routines / In the Deck
Bruce Cervon	Invisible Reverse	card is reversed in center as deck is turned over	Also published here Cervon's Invisible Reverse (Bruce Cervon, 1988)	2015	Highlights	15	Cards / Sleights / Reverses / More for One Card or a few Cards / Passive
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 One Hand Six Card Repeat ("Senator" Clarke Crandall, 1954/27) Also published here Ten-Card Red Rover (John Lovick, 2022)	2016	The Performance Pieces & Divertissements of the Famous Handsome Jack, etc.	45	Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / Homing Card Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to Pocket / Multiple Cards / Up the Sleeve type Cards / Effect Themes / Number Effects / Six Card Repeat & Co. Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Double Facer / Different Faces
Roberto Giobbi	Catchphrases of Famous Performers	list, Charles Bertram, Max Malini, José Frakson, Dante, Kalanag, Silvan, Juan Tamariz, Horace Goldin, Dr. Giovanni, David Devant, Bruce Cervon, Allan Ackerman, Tommy Cooper, Paul Daniels, Sirdani, Dani DaOrtiz		2016	Hidden Agenda (Issue Nov 2)	315	Articles / Articles
Bruce Cervon	Cervon Finale	previously unpublished phase		2017	The Doors of Deception	60	Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Fake Indices Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Three Card Monte / Authentic (more or less)
Bruce Cervon	Chair Holdout	sitting on cards		2018	Handcrafted Card Magic — Volume 3	57	Cards / Principles / Hold Out / Table Cards / Sleights / Palming / Tips for Misdirection, Cover & Angles
Alexander de Cova	Boxed Transposition	Notizen signed card from deck to case between Jacks, spectator handles double facer, second phase in which a card cut in quarters transposes with another card	Inspired by Boxed Sandwich (Bruce Cervon, 1976) Boxed Transposition (Alexander de Cova, 1994) "Versa Plus" (Roy Johnson) Also published here Bonus: The "Killer" Cut Finish (Alexander de Cova, 2005)	Sep. 2018	Genii (Vol. 81 No. 9)	74	Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to Card Case Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Two Cards / with mutilated card(s) Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Double Facer / Different Faces
Scott Robinson	Riding the Wave	named card is the only face-down card in deck	Inspired by Impromptu Ultra Mental (Allan Ackerman, Bruce Cervon, 1978) Variations The Invisible Deck (Michael Close, Allan Ackerman, 1996)	2018	Pure Imagination	191	Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Brainwave type Effects
Benjamin Earl	Out of Oil	spectator shuffles and later deals deck into two piles, separating reds and blacks, faro (connection to Oil & Water not clear)	Related to Odditorial (Peter Duffie, 1996) Turnabout is Faro Play (Bruce Cervon, 1998)	2019	The Shift #1	23	Cards / Effect Themes / Red Black / Separation / by Spectator / Out of this World & Variants / Deck
Bruce Cervon	Pivot Production	two interlaced halves, card spins out		2019	52 Lovers — Through the Looking-Glass	212	Cards / Sleights / Pop-out Productions / Productions & Revelations without deck
Eugene Burger	Perfect Speller		Inspired by Perfect Speller (Bruce Cervon, 1968)	2021	Eugene Burger: Final Secrets	141	Cards / Principles / Spelling Cards / Effect Themes / Spelling / Lie Detector (with spelling)
Derrick Chung	Deal With The Devil	apparent false deals with small packet Phase 1 - Regular Deal Phase 2 - Second Deal Phase 3 - Third Deal Phase 4 - Greek Deal Phase 5 - Bottom Deal	Inspired by Devil's Elevator (Dai Vernon, Bruce Cervon, 1972)	2022	The Nacho Card Notes	9	Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Poker / False Dealing Cards / Effect Themes / Penetration / Elevator / Packet
Jamie Kurtz	Expertalk: Jamie Kurtz on the Digital Revolve Pass		Inspired by The Cervon Free-Turn Pass (Bruce Cervon, 1990) Also published here MAGIC, Jan. 2005	2022	Talk About Tricks (Issue 1)	369	Cards / Sleights / Passes & Shifts / Two-Handed / Free Turn Passes
John Lovick	Ten-Card Red Rover	combo of cards to pocket, six-card repeat, homing card	Also published here Ten-Card Red Rover with a Black Jack Kicker (John Lovick, Bruce Cervon, 2016) MAGIC, July 2011	2022	Talk About Tricks (Issue 2)	1040	Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / Homing Card Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to Pocket / Multiple Cards / Up the Sleeve type Cards / Effect Themes / Number Effects / Six Card Repeat & Co. Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Double Facer / Different Faces
Jean-Pierre Vallarino	Triple Travel	prediction card says to look at the signed selection in glass, which is shown to have changed into another instruction card, a few more steps of instructions appear magically and finally direct to inside the card case where selection is found	Related to Turn Me Over! (Bruce Cervon, 1971) Back & Forth (Chad Long, 1994)	2022	Vallarino	270	Cards / Principles / Sticky Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to Card Case Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Funny Locations Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / Multiple Cards
Bruce Cervon, Dai Vernon	Counting on the Foreseeable	Exhumations (Jon Racherbaumer) card and number are predicted by two cards (value and suit, then values added to count to selection)	Also published here The Viet Nam Trick (Bruce Cervon, Dai Vernon, 1975)	Aug. 2023	Genii (Vol. 86 No. 8)	47	Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Off-beat Predictions

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