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Creators	Title	Comments & References		Year	Source	Page	Categories
S. W. Erdnase	First Method	"Transformations. Two Hands" Houdini/Erdnase Change	Related to Bluff Erdnase Change (Justin Higham, 1992) Variations Draun's Erdnase Change (Steve Draun, 1999) Expertalk: Jay Sankey on the Erdnase Transformation (Jay Sankey, 2002) Triple Erdnase (Nathan Kranzo, 2002) Erdnase Sideways (Guy Hollingworth, 2005) NoseJob (Tomas Blomberg, Tom Stone, 2007) Also published here Método 3 (S. W. Erdnase, Harry Houdini, 1993)	1902	The Expert at the Card Table	151	Cards / Sleights / Color Change / On the Deck
Charles T. Jordan	The Nifty Key		Variations Estimated Sunken Key (Tomas Blomberg, 2014) Also published here The Nifty Key (Charles T. Jordan, 1937) The Nifty Key (Charles T. Jordan, 1975) The Nifty Key (Charles T. Jordan, 1992)	1922	The Four Full Hands (Issue Four Full Hands of Card Tricks)	15	Cards / Principles / Key Card / Distant Key Card Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Challenge Locations / Challenge Single Card Location / Miscellaneous
Ralph W. Hull	A Mental Card Mystery	tabled card turn out to be free selection, requiring two Jokers, top change and mexican turnover	Related to The Three of Clubs (Ralph W. Hull, 1938) Variations Siamese Strangers (Edward Marlo, 1988) Hard to Get Just Got Easy (Jack Parker, Tomas Blomberg, 2007)	1932	"Eye-Openers"	15	Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Tabled Card is Named Card
	An Effective Poker Deal	re-deal stacking done by spectator, double duke suggestion	Related to Power Poker (Vic Trabucco, 2015) Variations Rump Shaker (Jack Parker, Tomas Blomberg, 2007) Double Duke (Nick Trost, 2013)	1935	Card Manipulations (Issue 4)	108	Cards / Sleights / Stacking / Stacking without Shuffling Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Poker / Re-Deal Poker Deals (Gardner-Marlo)
Stewart James	Miraskill		Related to Moraskill (Ryan Swigert, 2013) Liberty, Fraternity, Equality (Ramón Riobóo, 2015) Variations Miraskil (Joseph K. Schmidt, Karl Fulves, 1984) Münzenlotto II (Roy Johnson, 1997) Miraskill Scissors-Paper-Stone (Joe Fendel, 2012) Deal the Way (Tomas Blomberg, 2014) Alligator (John Hostler, 2016) The Prophecy of the Absent Magician (Ramón Riobóo, 2019) Also published here Miraskill (Stewart James, 1950) Miraskill (Stewart James, 1999)	Sep. 1936	The Jinx (Issue 24)	147	Cards / Effect Themes / Red Black / Miraskill & Variations
Percy Abbott	2. Abbott's version. "The Certain Card Trick."	spectator cuts anywhere and remembers bottom card, estimation, dealing out in packets and asking in which one it is	Related to Stop! (Harry Lorayne, 1962) Variations Estimated Sunken Key (Tomas Blomberg, 2014) Also published here The Certain Card Trick (Percy Abbott, 1940) marketed 1934	1937	Encyclopedia of Card Tricks	37	Cards / Sleights / Estimation / Visual Estimation Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Challenge Locations / Challenge Single Card Location / Miscellaneous
Theodore Annemann	A Torn Letter	paper with letter of alphabet is torn and restored between slates, pocket index	Variations No Force Writing (Tomas Blomberg, 2005) Also published here A Torn Letter (Theodore Annemann, 1944)	1941	The Jinx (Issue 147)	819	Paper / Torn & Restored Billet / Index
Martin Gardner, Edward Marlo	Gardner-Marlo Poker Routine		Related to The Ultimate Gardner-Marlo (Steve Mayhew, 1999) Variations The Mishap Poker Deal (George Schindler, Bob Condon, 1950) Rump Shaker (Jack Parker, Tomas Blomberg, 2007)	1942	Let's See the Deck	28	Cards / Sleights / Stacking / Stacking without Shuffling Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Poker / False Dealing Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Poker / Re-Deal Poker Deals (Gardner-Marlo)
George G. Kaplan	Coincidence? No. Prevision? Yes	three decks, two shuffled and dealt face up, at one point same card appears at same position, this card is reversed in the third deck	Related to Freakish Miracle #3 (Tomas Blomberg, 2006) Variations The "My Best" Coincidence (Peter Kane, 1971)	1945	My Best	94	Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Brainwave type Effects Cards / Effect Themes / Coincidence / Mates Cards / Effect Themes / Coincidence / Two Cards - Two Piles - Same Position / Power of Thought
Edward Marlo	Spade Shuffle	blocks	Related to The Super Riffle Diffle (Harry Lorayne, 1973) Variations Spaed Shuffle (Tomas Blomberg, 2019) On the Spade Shuffle: Carpenter's False Shuffle (Jack Carpenter, 2020)	1947	Marlo In Spades	46	Cards / Sleights / Riffle Shuffle / Riffle on the table / False / Miscellaneous
Frederick Braue	The Homing Card	Kaps favorite	Related to Holdout Harry Routine (Frederick Braue, 1985) Variations Four Deuces and the Ace of Spades (Bill Simon, Edward Marlo, 1952) Three-Card Monster (Tomas Blomberg, 2014)	1948	Show Stoppers with Cards	13	Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / Homing Card
Eddie Joseph	Staggered - Prime Presentation	two decks, one card is selected and both decks dealt until same card is found in other deck, card found at same position as mate of selection is named and its mate is not found in other deck but in envelope, repeated with written prediction inside card case	Related to Late Key (Tomas Blomberg, 2002) Late Key (Tomas Blomberg, 2014) Variations Impromptu Miracle (Lin Searles, Cy Endfield, 1973) Twindow (Thomas Alan Waters, 1984) Staggering Power of Thought (Edward Marlo, 1988) Intelligentsia (Karl Fulves, 1999) Igor (Karl Fulves, 2000) The Dark Force (Karl Fulves, 2000) A "Staggered" Routine (Nick Trost, 2009) A Coincidence and Divination Routine (Nick Trost, 2009) Flummoxed (Jim Steinmeyer, Eddie Joseph, 2013)	1949	Staggered	1	Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Off-beat Predictions Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Single Card Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Other Stacks / Full Deck Cards / Principles / Placement Principles / Inverse Stack Placement
Paul Curry	Curry's Paradox	Various geometrical vanishes of squares in rectangles and squares	Variations Curry Triangles (Martin Gardner, 1956) Torn Uncut Card Sheet (Tomas Blomberg, 2014)	1956	Mathematics, Magic And Mystery	139	Puzzle / Geometrical Vanish
Dr. Jacob Daley, Dai Vernon	The Last Trick of Dr. Jacob Daley		Variations Interlocked Daley (Tomas Blomberg, 2014) The Last Trick of Dr. Siva (Harapan Ong, 2023)	1957	The Dai Vernon Book of Magic	210	Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Dr. Daley's Last Trick
Dai Vernon	Twisting the Aces		Related to Precursor to Twisting the Aces (Edward Marlo, 1992) Roger's Lovely Idea (Roger Klause, 1996) Variations Climax Twisting The Aces (Tom Hubbard, 1970) Twisting the Aces (George Sands, Dai Vernon, 1971) Twist on the Aces (Jerry K. Hartman, 1975) A New Twist (Jerry K. Hartman, 1975) Round the Twist (Justin Higham, 1993) A New Twist (Steven Hamilton, 2000) Performing Aces (Dave Campbell, 2004) A New Twist (Steven Hamilton, 2013) One Behead (Tomas Blomberg, 2014)	1960	More Inner Secrets of Card Magic	5	Cards / Effect Themes / Turnover & Reverse / Twisting the Aces / Standard Effect
Edward Marlo	Air Mail Prediction	featuring finesse for a Henry Christ force beneath table	Related to The Lap Addition (Jack Avis, 1994) The Under-the-Table Force (Edward Marlo, 2000) Variations Post-It Prediction (Bruce Florek, 1990) Post-it Prediction (David Solomon, 1997) PreMEMOnition (Tomas Blomberg, 2014)	Winter 1969	The Hierophant (Issue 2)	65	Stamp (postal) / Miscellaneous Cards / Principles / Stranger Card Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Single Card Cards / Sleights / Force / Cut Forces / Henry Christ Force
Frank Everhart	Chicago Opener		Related to Eca Tuoba Ecaf (Eric Mason, Frank Everhart, 1976) Variations A Stranger Coincidence (Frank Simon, 1983) New York Transpo (Peter Samelson, 1984) Chicago Opener Topp(it)et (Michael Rubinstein, 1986) La Dama Que Se Ruboriza (Frank Everhart, Juan Tamariz, 1993) Open Ended (Karl Fulves, 1994) The Waterloo Opener (John Neely, 2000) Signed Hot Mama (Tomas Blomberg, 2014) Also published here Chicago Opener (Frank Everhart, 1973)	1972	Million Dollar Card Secrets	13	Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Red Hot Mama Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / Single Card / Back
Edward G. Brown	The Twelve Card Thought Transition		Variations Neo-Brownian Movement (Jon Racherbaumer, 1984) Biddling Brown in the Round (Edward Marlo, 1990) Blushing Leaper (Wesley James, 2004) Brownian Movement (Wesley James, 2004) Red Rover (Michael Powers, 2006) Biddling Brown in the Round (Edward Marlo, 2009) Brownian Bridge (Tomas Blomberg, 2014) E.G. Brown Revisited (Jared Kopf, 2016) Thought Experiment (Andi Gladwin, 2020) The Wandering Card: How to Make a Thought Travel (Roberto Mansilla, 2025)	1973	The Card Magic of Edward G. Brown	39	Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) Across / Thought Cards Across
Paul Harris	Grasshopper	card vanishes between two Kings, travels to between another two Kings	Variations Short Hop (Ray Kosby, 1986) Unexpected Visitor (Michael Powers, 1990) Grasshopper (revised) (Paul Harris, 1996) Grasshopper Takes A Leap (Jason Alford, 1998) Squirt (Jason Alford, 1998) Gnat Eats Locust (Jason Tang, 1999) Low Cost (Tomas Blomberg, 2014) Unison (Yohei Kawabata, 2017) The Visiting Cross Eye's Grasshopper (Syd Segal, 2020) Grillo (Luis Carreon, 2020)	1977	SuperMagic	23	Cards / Effect Themes / Sandwich & Co / Cards traveling (from Sandwich) to Sandwich
U. F. Grant	Elastic-Scape	two halves encircled with rubber bands, selection placed between those halves, vanishes, then jumps out	Variations Elasti-Scape (U. F. Grant, Karl Fulves, 2004) X-Scape (Tomas Blomberg, 2014) Also published here "The Encyclopedia of U. F. Grant Magic"	1979	Elastrix	21	Cards / Effect Themes / Rubber Band & Cards
Edward Marlo	On the Card to Case	Ace through Seven, selection from packet travels to case, more than ten methods	Related to Cozy Card To Case (Edward Marlo, 2008) Variations Card To Case (David Solomon, 1997) Card In The Card Case (David Solomon, Tomas Blomberg, 2007)	1980	Marlo's Magazine — Volume 4	14	Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to Card Case
Jerry Sadowitz	The More Things Change		Related to The Ultimate Transposition (Paul Gordon, 1996) Multiplex Re+Set (Tomas Blomberg, 2014) Variations Round-Trip Travellers (Jon Racherbaumer, 1983) One, Two, Three, Four Exchange (David Solomon, 1990) Within You Without You (Peter Duffie, 1995) New Wave Travelers (Baltazar Fuentes, 1996) Ships In The Night (Chris "Doc" Dixon, 1997) Tech-Less Multiplex Reset (Steve Reynolds, 2020)	1982	Alternative Card Magic	24	Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / The More Things Change (Pocket Interchange)
Daryl Martinez	Rising Crime Display		Related to Daryl's Diminishing Count (Daryl Martinez, 2003) Variations Low Life Display (Tomas Blomberg, 2014) Smooth Criminal Display (John Guastaferro, 2023) Rising Crime Display Handling (Allan Ackerman, 2024) Also published here Rising Crime Display (Daryl Martinez, 1999)	1982	For Your Entertainment Pleasure	28	Cards / Sleights / False Display / Four-of-a-Kind Cards / Sleights / False Display / Hiding Surfaces
Don England	Twisted Hofzinser	combo	Variations Hoftwister (Tomas Blomberg, 2014)	1982	Best of Friends	420	Cards / Effect Themes / Turnover & Reverse / Twisting the Aces / Kicked Twisting the Aces Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Hofzinser Ace Problem
Larry Jennings	Rhythm Count		Variations Rhythm Switch (Tomas Blomberg, 2014)	1982	A Visit With Larry Jennings	2	Cards / Sleights / False Display / Hiding Surfaces
Edward Marlo	Leipzig Would have Loved This!	ungaffed, odd-backed, using Curry's Swindle Switch	Variations Marlo Might Have Liked This (Tomas Blomberg, 2014) Also published here Leipzig Would Have Loved This! (Edward Marlo, 2008)	1983	Marlo without Tears	95	Cards / Effect Themes / Sympathetic Effects / Sympathetic Thirteen & Variations
Paul Harris	The Perfectionist	red and blacks are apparently mixed but remain separated	Related to Chase The Red (Tomas Blomberg, Jack Parker, 2014) Also published here The Perfectionist (Paul Harris, 1996)	1983	A Close-Up Kinda Guy	55	Cards / Effect Themes / Red Black / Miscellaneous
David Williamson	The Famous Three Card Trick	three card version of Victor plot	Related to Three-Card Monster (Tomas Blomberg, 2014) Also published here The Famous Three Card Trick (David Williamson, 1984)	1984	Striking Magic	16	Cards / Effect Themes / Number Effects / Six Card Repeat & Co.
George D. Franzen	The Dissolving Rubber Band	as climax to Crazy Man's Hand Cuffs, one rubber band used to simulate two	Related to The Bounding Rubber Band (Eugene Lion, 1950) ABandOn (Tomas Blomberg, 2014) Also published here The Dissolving Rubber Band (George D. Franzen, 2013)	Nov. 1987	Apocalypse (Vol. 10 No. 11)	1426	Rubber Band / Vanish Rubber Band / Penetration / Through another Rubber Band
John C. Wagner, Ralph W. Hull	Whispering Wagner	two thought of cards are found	Inspired by Crooksville Chicanery (Gerald R. Blount, 1971) Variations Blabbering Blomberg (Tomas Blomberg, 1998) WWII (Whispering Wagner Version 2) (John C. Wagner, 2010)	1987	The Commercial Magic of J.C. Wagner	20	Cards / Principles / One Ahead Cards / Effect Themes / Think a Card / free Choice (all 52 cards) Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Tabled Card is Named Card
Darwin Ortiz	The Dream Card	odd-backed "signed card" type effect, card to wallet	Related to Day-Dream Card (Edward Marlo, Darwin Ortiz, 1991) Commercial Method (Edward Marlo, 1991) From Darwin Ortiz (Darwin Ortiz, 1999) Tattwo You (Tomas Blomberg, 2014) Variations The Nightmare Card (Michael Powers, 1990) The Airmail Card (James Swain, 1996) Die Traumfrau (Christoph Borer, 2006) Dreamographics (Curtis Kam, 2008) The Light Bulp (Anthony Owen, 2009) One Trick Two Names (Jon Allen, 2009) Lucky Charms (Jason Ladanye, 2018)	1988	Darwin Ortiz at the Card Table	81	Cards / Effect Themes / Illogical Things / Signed Card & Mystery Card Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to impossible Location / Wallet
Dai Vernon	The Intelligent Leaper	interlock, two handlings	Variations Intelligent Leaper Handling (Tomas Blomberg, 2014)	1988	The Vernon Chronicles — Volume 2	145	Cards / Effect Themes / Number Effects / Card(s) at A Number(Numbers) Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Packet to Packet Cards / Sleights / Transfers / Interlock
Dai Vernon	Given the Slip	four packets cut, face cards shown one by one, then they changed to Aces when shown again	Related to Pile-to-Pile Transfer (1967) Banker & Broker (Stanley Collins, 2000) The Bank Plays Poker (J. W. Sarles, 2012) Variations Memory Aces (Chris "Doc" Dixon, 2009) (Vernon + Sadowitz)^2 (Tomas Blomberg, 2014)	1989	The Vernon Chronicles — Volume 3	75	Cards / Sleights / Palming / Lateral Palm Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / Multiple Cards Cards / Sleights / Palming / Gambler's Cop / Right Hand Cards / Sleights / Transfers / Given the Slip (Banker-Broker)
Gary Kurtz	Name It!	at the end spectator's name appears on back of card	Related to The Name is the Same (Gary Kurtz, 1988) Variations Mxyzptlk (Tomas Blomberg, 2014)	1990	Unexplainable Acts	46	Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Off-beat Predictions Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Spectator's Name on Card
Michael Close	The MC Spread Double Lift	hides back of bottom card throughout	Related to Spread Cull Double Turnover (Sungwon Kim, 2018) The MC Spread Double Lift (Michael Close, 2022) Variations TB Spread Double (Tomas Blomberg, 2014) Spread Cull Double Turnover (Sungwon Kim, 2016) Also published here MC Spread Double Lift (Michael Close, 2021)	1991	Workers Number 2	40	Cards / Sleights / Multiple Lift / from spread, fan and Co
John Bannon	Tattoo You	spectator's initials are transferred from red to blue card, red/blue double backer	Variations Impromptu Tattoo You (Allan Ackerman, John Bannon, 1996) Insignia (Ryan Schlutz, 2011) Cazador de autógrafos (Tony Cachadiña, John Bannon, 2012) Tattwo You (Tomas Blomberg, 2014)	1991	Smoke and Mirrors	38	Cards / Effect Themes / Signature Effects Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Double Backer / Different Colors
Jack Carpenter	Multiplex Reset	Reset combined with double Travelers Preliminary display sequence Reset phase The Double Travelers Phase	Related to While Waiting For Godot (Jon Racherbaumer, 1996) Variations Pocket Interchange (Jack Carpenter, 1995) A Double Jack (Allan Ackerman, 2005) Multiplex Re+Set (Tomas Blomberg, 2014) Techless Multiplex Reset (Steve Reynolds, 2016) Tech-Less Multiplex Reset (Steve Reynolds, 2020) Beyond the Wild Travelers (Steve Reynolds, 2021) Also published here Multiplex Reset (Jack Carpenter, 1992)	1992	Modus Operandi	21	Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Reset & Variations Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to Pocket / Multiple Cards / Travelers
Roy Walton	Pass at Red	spectator selects three red cards from black half, classic pass application	Related to New World Order (John Scarne, 1995) Chase The Red (Tomas Blomberg, Jack Parker, 2014) Oddacious (John Bannon, 2024) Also published here Pass At Red (Roy Walton, 1995)	May 1992	MAGIC (Vol. 1 No. 9)	51	Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Off-beat Predictions Cards / Effect Themes / Red Black / Separation / by Spectator / Miscellaneous
Ernest Earick	Bow-to-stern Control		Related to Tip - Ambitious Bit #2 (Edward Marlo, 1988) Bound To Stern (Andi Gladwin, 2002) Variations Box Top (Ken Krenzel, 1997) Scamwich (Jason Alford, 2000) Swing Control (David Jade, 2003) Proteus Bound (Tomas Blomberg, 2014)	1993	By Forces Unseen	16	Cards / Sleights / Controls / Single Card Controls / Convincing Control & Variations Cards / Sleights / Controls / Single Card Controls / Miscellaneous
Jon Racherbaumer	Dunbury Lie Speller - Eighteen-Card Version		Inspired by Dunbury Lie Speller (Jon Racherbaumer, 1993) L-I-A-R (Tomas Blomberg, 2014) "Remote Control" (Jim Steinmeyer, The New Invocation #43, Feb. 1988)	1993	Simplicity at Your Fingertips	30	Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Partagas Sell (Dunbury Delusion) Cards / Principles / Placement Principles / Count and Drop Cards / Effect Themes / Spelling / Lie Detector (with spelling)
Dean Dill, Allan Ackerman	The Gem-Money Cards	bills are put next to Aces, Gemini Twins	Related to Triad (Jack Avis, 2002) Dater base (Lewis Jones, 2002) Variations Billustrious (Harry Lorayne, 2001) For Dean (Bob King, 2003) Lucky 14 (Tomas Blomberg, 2014) GemMoney Mates - No Oops Handle (Allan Ackerman, Dean Dill, 2023)	1994	Las Vegas Kardma	18	Cards / Effect Themes / Four-of-a-Kind & Aces Effects / Spectator finds four of a kind Cards / Principles / Placement Principles / Gemini Twins Placement
Allan Ackerman, Edward Marlo	Marlo's Double Brainwave Update	ungaffed	Inspired by Double Brainwave (Edward Marlo, 1962) Related to Thoughts on "Double Brainwave" (Allan Ackerman, 2024) Variations Double Brainwave Update Update (Tomas Blomberg, 2014) Also published here Marlo's Double Brainwave Update (Allan Ackerman, 1991)	1994	Las Vegas Kardma	71	Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Brainwave type Effects
Ron Ferris, Allan Ackerman	The Almost Perfect Transposition	two for two	Related to Jump-Jump Aces (Edward Marlo, 1971) Variations A Black Jack Effect (Tomas Blomberg, 1998) Nearly Perfect Transposition (Allan Ackerman, 2021) Almost Perfect Transposition (Allan Ackerman, 2024)	1994	Las Vegas Kardma	135	Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Dr. Daley's Last Trick Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Miscellaneous
Allan Ackerman	Impromptu Sidewalk Shuffle		Variations Pavement Shuffle (Tomas Blomberg, 1998)	1994	Las Vegas Kardma	144	Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / Quick Three-Way Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Three Card Monte / Packet Trick with Monte theme
Darwin Ortiz	Stripper Switch	similar to slide-under	Variations Peel Slide Switch (Tomas Blomberg, 2014)	1995	Cardshark	161	Cards / Sleights / Switches / Multiple Card Switches / Slide-Under - Type
Simon Aronson	Two Possibilities	with impromptu handling in final comment	Variations One Improbabilty (Tomas Blomberg, 2014)	1995	Simply Simon	113	Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Open Prediction Theme Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Double Facer / Different Faces
John Scarne	New World Order	two face-up Jokers in deck, six cards that "don't belong" chosen from between the Jokers, they are the only odd-colored ones, dated ca. 1930s, see also p. 42	Related to Pass at Red (Roy Walton, 1992) Chase The Red (Tomas Blomberg, Jack Parker, 2014) Variations Other Worlds (John Werner, 1998)	1995	Underworld (Issue 1)	6	Cards / Effect Themes / Red Black / Separation / by Spectator / Miscellaneous
David Acer	No Holes Barred	two holes punched in card, one is dragged across	Inspired by Impromptu Holey Terror (Johnny Lindholm, 1986) Related to Defect Gatherer (Tomas Blomberg, 2014) Also published here No Holes Barred (David Acer, 1995)	1995	Natural Selections	26	Cards / Effect Themes / Topological Effects / Holes Effects
Ken Krenzel	Box Top	card comes to top inside case, cased version	Inspired by Bow-to-stern Control (Ernest Earick, 1993) Related to Proteus Bound (Tomas Blomberg, 2014)	1997	Ingenuities	3	Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Card Case Cards / Effect Themes / Penetration / Ambitious Card Theme / Climaxes
Jason Alford, Doug Conn	Chink-A-Change	visual instant international chink-a-chink, hands apparently not touching coin Second Handling	Inspired by Flash Rice (Homer Liwag, 1991) Scrambble (Doug Conn, 1994) Related to Spare Change (Jason Alford, 1999) Variations Slow Motion Chink (Jason Alford, Tomas Blomberg, 1998) Also published here Chink-A-Change (Jason Alford, Doug Conn, 1998)	Apr. 1998	Onyx (Issue 3)	20	Coin / Effect Themes / Traveling / Chink a Chink
Ken Simmons	Convincing Signature Transfer Effect	signature is transferred from face of Two of Hearts to the Three of Hearts, ungaffed	Inspired by Signing Off (Tomas Blomberg, 1999) "Signing Off" (Tomas Blomberg, TheSecondDeal website) Also published here Jason's Trick (Ken Simmons, 1999)	Apr. 1998	Onyx (Issue 3)	27	Cards / Effect Themes / Signature Effects
Tomas Blomberg	Technicolor Successive Assembly in Reverse		Also published here TSAR (Tomas Blomberg, 1999) TSAR (Tomas Blomberg, 2014)	July 1998	Onyx (Issue 4)	17	Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Ace Assembly / Odd Backed Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Ace Assembly / Reverse
Tomas Blomberg	Blabbering Blomberg	two thought of cards are found	Inspired by Whispering Wagner (John C. Wagner, Ralph W. Hull, 1987)	Oct. 1998	Onyx (Issue 5)	44	Cards / Principles / One Ahead Cards / Effect Themes / Think a Card / free Choice (all 52 cards) Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Tabled Card is Named Card
Tomas Blomberg	Hull Scam Handling	magician divines selected card and thought-of card	Inspired by Hull Scam (Jon Racherbaumer, 2007)	Oct. 1998	Onyx (Issue 5)	45	Cards / Principles / One Ahead Cards / Effect Themes / Think a Card / free Choice (all 52 cards) Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Tabled Card is Named Card
Tomas Blomberg	Pavement Shuffle		Inspired by Impromptu Sidewalk Shuffle (Allan Ackerman, 1994)	Oct. 1998	Onyx (Issue 5)	46	Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / Quick Three-Way Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Three Card Monte / Packet Trick with Monte theme
Tomas Blomberg	Universal Colors	two red-backed unknown cards are on the table, blue-backed Ace through Three of Spades removed, two more cards signed and lost, red-backed cards change to two Aces, then Twos, then Threes of Spades, then are shown to be the signed selections	Variations Hue-Niversal (Michael DeMarco, 2000)	Oct. 1998	Onyx (Issue 5)	48	Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / General Card Cards / Effect Themes / Illogical Things / Signed Card & Mystery Card
Tomas Blomberg	Flushtration Switch (Plus Effects)	two cards held in end grip, bottom card shown and peeled on deck, new bottom card shown		Oct. 1998	Onyx (Issue 5)	51	Cards / Sleights / Switches / Single Card Switches / Miscellaneous Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Two Cards / Normal
Tomas Blomberg	A Black Jack Effect	two for two	Inspired by The Almost Perfect Transposition (Ron Ferris, Allan Ackerman, 1994) Variations A Black Jack Effect (Second Method) (Ken Simmons, 1998)	Oct. 1998	Onyx (Issue 5)	51	Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Dr. Daley's Last Trick Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Miscellaneous
Ken Simmons	A Black Jack Effect (Second Method)	two for two	Inspired by A Black Jack Effect (Tomas Blomberg, 1998)	Oct. 1998	Onyx (Issue 5)	52	Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Dr. Daley's Last Trick Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Miscellaneous
Jason Alford, Tomas Blomberg	Slow Motion Chink	international one-by-one chink-a-chink	Inspired by Chink-A-Change (Jason Alford, Doug Conn, 1998) Related to Spare Change (Jason Alford, 1999)	1998	Thinking & Wondering	18	Coin / Effect Themes / Traveling / Chink a Chink
Tomas Blomberg	Signing Off	signature travels from the face of the Two of Hearts to the Ace of Diamonds, ungaffed	Variations Convincing Signature Transfer Effect (Ken Simmons, 1998)	1999	Cyber Sessions	11	Cards / Effect Themes / Signature Effects
Tomas Blomberg	TSAR	"Technicolor Successive Assembly Reversed"	Also published here Technicolor Successive Assembly in Reverse (Tomas Blomberg, 1998)	1999	Cyber Sessions	29	Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Ace Assembly / Odd Backed Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Ace Assembly / Reverse
Tomas Blomberg	Duped	five cards, one looked at, spectator pockets the cards and removes four, they are not the selection, last one remaining in pocket is, five duplicates		1999	Cyber Sessions	33	Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Spectator locates Card / Miscellaneous
Jason Tang	Gnat Eats Locust	card vanishes between two Queens, travels to between another two Queens	Inspired by Grasshopper (Paul Harris, 1977) "Locust" (Tomas Blomberg, The Second Deal website)	1999	Cyber Sessions	54	Cards / Effect Themes / Sandwich & Co / Cards traveling (from Sandwich) to Sandwich
Jason Alford	Spare Change	international chink-a-chink with backfire	Related to Chink-A-Change (Jason Alford, Doug Conn, 1998) Slow Motion Chink (Jason Alford, Tomas Blomberg, 1998) Also published here Spare Change (Jason Alford, 2000)	1999	Cyber Sessions	106	Coin / Effect Themes / Traveling / Chink a Chink
Tomas Blomberg	Gramp's Case	one Ace put in case, other Aces vanish one by one among Jokers, Aces then with other Ace in case	Inspired by "Grandfather's Aces" (Chris Kenner/David Copperfield) Variations Negative Spaces (Tom Stone, 2003) Gasp! Scream! (Tomas Blomberg, 2014)	1999	Cyber Sessions	125	Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to Card Case Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Ace Assembly / Jazz Aces & Less Cards Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Ace Assembly / Real Gone Aces
Tomas Blomberg	Whispering Collectors	three Jokers whisper names of two selections, selections are lost and then appear between Jokers	Related to "The Whispering Queens" (Victor Farelli, Hugard's Magic Monthly, Vol. 9 No. 6)	1999	Cyber Sessions	150	Cards / Effect Themes / Sandwich & Co / Collectors Cards / Effect Themes / Divination & Mind Reading / Miscellaneous
Tomas Blomberg	ATFUS Handling			1999	Cyber Sessions	150	Cards / Sleights / Switches / ATFUS & Variations
Tomas Blomberg	Pre-MEMO-nition	post-it note with prediction stuck on card, Christ Force	Variations PreMEMOnition (Tomas Blomberg, 2014)	Aug. 1999	MAGIC (Vol. 8 No. 12)	75	Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Single Card Cards / Sleights / Force / Cut Forces / Henry Christ Force
David Solomon	Revised Mexican Poker	here co-credited to John Bannon	Inspired by Power Poker (Alex Elmsley, 1997) Related to Mexican Poker (David Solomon, John Bannon, Tomas Blomberg, 2015) Variations The Blomberg Variation (Tomas Blomberg, 2007) Fair Game (Paul Vigil, 2017) Revised Mexican Poker + Richard Vollmer (David Solomon, 2018) Voodoo Poker (Eugene Burger, 2019) Also published here The Power of Poker (David Solomon, 2004) Revised Mexican Poker (David Solomon, 2007)	Aug. 1999	MAGIC (Vol. 8 No. 12)	76	Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Poker / Ten Card Poker Deal
Tomas Blomberg	Har Stimber	card to wallet routine with Bendix Bombshell, two cards transpose, then two signed cards appear in wallet		Nov. 1999	MAGIC (Vol. 9 No. 3)	85	Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Two Cards / Normal Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to impossible Location / Wallet
Tomas Blomberg	Bhummer	CATO location with red/black sucker moment		1999	Freebie	3	Cards / Effect Themes / Red Black / Separation / by Spectator / Miscellaneous Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Challenge Locations / Challenge Single Card Location / Miscellaneous Cards / Principles / Binary / CATO & Parity
Danny Orleans (reviewer)	Mind Stress	by Tomas Blomberg		Aug. 2000	Genii (Vol. 63 No. 8)	75	Reviews / Props & Tricks
Michael DeMarco	Hue-Niversal	odd-backed universal cards	Inspired by Universal Colors (Tomas Blomberg, 1998)	Mar. 2000	Onyx (Issue 10)	13	Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / General Card
Bob Farmer	Point Spread	Flim-Flam bet how many cards are between the two cards	Inspired by You Bet (Lewis Jones, 2000) Variations Between the Cheats (Tomas Blomberg, 2000)	June 2000	MAGIC (Vol. 9 No. 10)	75	Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Other Games Cards / Effect Themes / Gags & Curiousities / Spectator is the sucker
Michael Close (reviewer)	Mind Stress	by Tomas Blomberg Media T Marketing		Aug. 2000	MAGIC (Vol. 9 No. 12)	26	Reviews / Props & Tricks
Tomas Blomberg	Between the Cheats	Flim-Flam (Bob Farmer) proposition bet in which spectator and performer each choose a four-of-a-kind and one must have less cards between them as they are distributed in the deck than the opponent	Inspired by Point Spread (Bob Farmer, 2000)	Sep. 2000	MAGIC (Vol. 10 No. 1)	77	Cards / Effect Themes / Gags & Curiousities / Spectator is the sucker
Tomas Blomberg	Homing Twist	Colorful Variations (backs change color) Variation 1 Variation 2 Idea 1 (red/blue double backer) Idea 2 (double facers for transformation)		2000	Freebie 2	18	Cards / Effect Themes / Turnover & Reverse / Twisting the Aces / Kicked Twisting the Aces Cards / Effect Themes / Turnover & Reverse / Twisting the Aces / Standard Effect Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Double Backer / Different Colors Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Double Facer / Different Faces
Paul Curry	The Relativity Lift	two methods, with and without pencil	Related to The Sliding Double Lift (David Acer, 2004) Variations Relativity Push-off (Tomas Blomberg, 2014) Also published here "Genii", Vol. 46 No. 2. 1982	2001	Paul Curry's Worlds Beyond	6	Cards / Sleights / Multiple Lift / Push-Off Cards / Sleights / Multiple Lift / Top / Break
Simon Aronson	Ringleader	Ring on and off rubberband	Inspired by Rubber Ringer (Bill Kalush, 1983) Ring Band-It (Michael Ammar, 1986) "Another Ringer" (Dan Harlan, The Band-Shark, videotape, 1993) Variations Magic Lesson (Tomas Blomberg, 2014)	2001	Try the Impossible	269	Ring / Finger Rings / Penetration / Rubber Band
Paul Cummins	A La Annemann	indifferent card is inserted by spectator, it changes into selection, multiple changes	Related to A Card in Hand (Theodore Annemann, 1940) Variations À la Cummins (Tomas Blomberg, 2014)	2002	FASDIU II	1	Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / Single Card / Front
Andi Gladwin	Bound To Stern	control to top while the deck is in the card box	Inspired by Proteus Bound (Tomas Blomberg, 2014) Related to Bow-to-stern Control (Ernest Earick, 1993)	June 2002	Ego (Vol. 1 No. 12)	22	Cards / Effect Themes / Penetration / Ambitious Card Theme / Climaxes Cards / Sleights / Controls / Single Card Controls / Convincing Control & Variations Cards / Sleights / Controls / Single Card Controls / Miscellaneous
Tomas Blomberg	Lucky-14	spectator finds the four Aces using three previously selected cards	Also published here Lucky 14 (Tomas Blomberg, 2013) "Trick of the Month (14)" on Jon Racherbaumer's website	2002	The Underground Change	26	Cards / Effect Themes / Number Effects / 10, 9, 8,... Count Cards / Effect Themes / Four-of-a-Kind & Aces Effects / Spectator finds four of a kind Cards / Principles / Placement Principles / Gemini Twins Placement
Tomas Blomberg	Late Key	two selected cards from a deck, one is lost and the other one is placed in spectator's pocket, this deck and another one are dealt at the same time, magician stops at the first selected card and at the duplicate of the second selection	Related to Staggered - Prime Presentation (Eddie Joseph, 1949) Also published here Late Key (Tomas Blomberg, 2014)	2002	Freebie 3	17	Cards / Principles / Key Card / Distant Key Card Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Challenge Locations / Challenge multiple Card Location Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Stay Stack / Full Deck Cards / Effect Themes / Coincidence / Two Cards - Two Piles - Same Position / Miscellaneous Cards / Principles / Placement Principles / Inverse Stack Placement
Tom Stone	Negative Spaces	one Ace put in case, other Aces vanish one by one among Jokers, Aces then with other Ace in case	Inspired by Gramp's Case (Tomas Blomberg, 1999)	2003	Gravel	21	Cards / Principles / Sticky Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to Card Case Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Ace Assembly / Jazz Aces & Less Cards Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Ace Assembly / Real Gone Aces
Tomas Blomberg	Double Christ	forcing two cards with Christ Force	Also published here Double Christ (Tomas Blomberg, 2014)	2004	Deserting the Legion	3	Cards / Sleights / Force / Cut Forces / Henry Christ Force
Tyler Wilson	Tyler Insults Tilt's Totally Inexplicable Elegance and Simplicity	Tilt finesses Right T.I.T.T.Y. Method Left T.I.T.T.Y. Method	Related to Tomas Blomberg's "Zilt", Jack Parker's "Ultra-Tilt" Also published here Tyler Insults Tilt's Totally Inexplicable Elegance and Simplicity (Tyler Wilson, 2006)	2005	Just be Glad my Name isn't Greg	7	Cards / Sleights / Controls / Single Card Controls / Tilt
Tomas Blomberg	No Force Writing	three blank cards shown, message with spectator's favorite number appears on one side	Inspired by A Torn Letter (Theodore Annemann, 1941)	2005	Freebie 6	3	Paper / Appearing Writing, Photos, ... Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / Packet Tricks
Tomas Blomberg	A Band On	After doing Penetrating Rubber Bands / Crazy Mans Handcuffs, one of the rubberbands vanishes and appears looped on performer's ear	Inspired by ABandOn (Tomas Blomberg, 2014)	2006	Erik Nordvall Lecture Notes Asia 2006	17	Rubber Band / Traveling Rubber Band / Vanish
R. Paul Wilson	Refried Poker	The Nines Strategy Sans Second Deal	Inspired by The Blomberg Variation (Tomas Blomberg, 2007) Also published here Refried Poker (R. Paul Wilson, 2015)	2006	Refried Poker	1	Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Poker / Ten Card Poker Deal
Tomas Blomberg	Freakish Miracle #1	two decks with names of playing cards on the backs, shuffled and one dealt face up and one face down, card matches with writing on the back of other card and they also match when both cards are turned over	Inspired by Tom Bowyer's "The Frequent Miracle" in "The Sphinx" Vol. 39, Nr. 3. P. 67. 1940	2006	Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 7	15	Cards / Effect Themes / Coincidence / Miscellaneous
Tomas Blomberg	The Freakish Miracle #2	two shuffled decks are dealt face up, when two cards match, card is turned over and number of dealt pairs until match occurred is written on it		2006	Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 7	16	Cards / Effect Themes / Coincidence / Miscellaneous Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Number Prediction
Tomas Blomberg	Freakish Miracle #3	three decks, two are shuffled and dealt face up and cards counted until same cards appear, same card is also found in third deck at the same position	Related to Coincidence? No. Prevision? Yes (George G. Kaplan, 1945)	2006	Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 7	17	Cards / Effect Themes / Coincidence / Miscellaneous Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Miscellaneous
Tomas Blomberg	Freakish Miracle #4	three decks, cards have names of other cards written on the back, similar structure to Freakish Miracle # 1 & #3		2006	Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 7	18	Cards / Effect Themes / Coincidence / Miscellaneous Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Miscellaneous
Tomas Blomberg	Swedish Parity Poker	instructions for a game with five players, performer wins, prediction of total of values in performer's hand		2006	Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 7	123	Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Number Prediction Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Other Games Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Poker / "Magic"
Max Maven	Cache	The Other Month Bank Night effect, using the condition of heads or tails of four coins to select the envelopes	Variations Cashing (Tomas Blomberg, 2014)	July 2006	Genii (Vol. 69 No. 7)	26	Bill / Banknight Theme & Variations Coin / Gaffed / Double Headed or Tailed
Tomas Blomberg	Any Cards at Any Numbers	one spectator notes down card and number, another as well, both cards are counted to and the cards are there, only one stooge		May 2006	Antinomy (Vol. 2 No. 2)	7	Cards / Principles / Stooge Cards / Effect Themes / Number Effects / Any Card at Any Number Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Memorized / Full Deck
Tomas Blomberg, Jason England	Take It Or Sleeve It	no-touch poker deal, spectator shuffles and deals off the bottom openly, performer's and spectator's hand are completed with previously "sleeved" cards	Variations Cheating the Cheat (Nick Trost, 2017) Also published here Take It or Sleeve It (Jason England, Tomas Blomberg, 2014) Take It Or Sleeve It (Tomas Blomberg, Jason England, 2022)	May 2006	MAGIC (Vol. 15 No. 9)	78	Cards / Principles / Gilbreath Principle Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Poker / Re-Deal Poker Deals (Gardner-Marlo) Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Gambling Stack / Partial
Tomas Blomberg	Expertalk: Tomas Blomberg on the Peel and Slide Switch		Also published here Peel Slide Switch (Tomas Blomberg, 2014) Expertalk: Tomas Blomberg on the Peel and Slide Switch (Tomas Blomberg, 2022)	June 2006	MAGIC (Vol. 15 No. 10)	107	Cards / Sleights / Switches / Multiple Card Switches / Slide-Under - Type
Tomas Blomberg	Filling the Void	Cards Across with eccentric "card sandwich" theme		2007	The Magician's Ltd Cookbook	46	Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) Across / Classic & Variations
Jon Racherbaumer	Hull Scam	magician divines selected card and thought-of card, duplicate	Variations Hull Scam Handling (Tomas Blomberg, 1998)	2007	The Magician's Ltd Cookbook	98	Cards / Principles / One Ahead Cards / Effect Themes / Think a Card / free Choice (all 52 cards) Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Tabled Card is Named Card
Jack Parker, Tomas Blomberg	Hard to Get Just Got Easy	Magicians finds two selections	Inspired by A Mental Card Mystery (Ralph W. Hull, 1932) The Three of Clubs (Ralph W. Hull, 1938)	2007	52 Memories	61	Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Multiple Cards
Jack Parker, Tomas Blomberg	Rump Shaker	Performer deals four Aces to himself twice, then gives everyone great hands in the third round, leaving the best hand (straight flush) for himself	Inspired by An Effective Poker Deal (1935) Gardner-Marlo Poker Routine (Martin Gardner, Edward Marlo, 1942)	2007	52 Memories	81	Cards / Principles / Gilbreath Principle Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Poker / Multiple Phase Routines Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Poker / Re-Deal Poker Deals (Gardner-Marlo)
Karl Fulves	Learning To Count	three cards chosen one by one and cards counted on them until sixteen is reached, starting with the chosen card's value, Aces are next to chosen card and at sum of all values	Inspired by Lucky 14 (Tomas Blomberg, 2014) Variations Fourbidden (Karl Fulves, 2010)	2007	Prolix (Issue 3)	198	Cards / Effect Themes / Number Effects / 10, 9, 8,... Count Cards / Effect Themes / Four-of-a-Kind & Aces Effects / Spectator finds four of a kind
Tomas Blomberg	The Blomberg Variation		Inspired by Revised Mexican Poker (David Solomon, 1999) Variations Refried Poker (R. Paul Wilson, 2006) Also published here The Blomberg Variation (Tomas Blomberg, 2007) Die Blomberg Variante (Tomas Blomberg, 2009)	2007	The Wisdom of Solomon	22	Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Poker / Ten Card Poker Deal
David Solomon, Tomas Blomberg	Card In The Card Case	Ace through King of Spades removed, spectator should name removed Spade, one then travels to case, gaffed and ungaffed handling	Inspired by On the Card to Case (Edward Marlo, 1980)	2007	The Wisdom of Solomon	61	Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to Card Case Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Divided
Tomas Blomberg	The Blomberg Variation		Also published here The Blomberg Variation (Tomas Blomberg, 2007)	2007	Solomon's Notes	16	Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Poker / Ten Card Poker Deal
Edward Marlo	Straight Cut Placement	with explanation by Tomas Blomberg	Related to Straight Cut Placement (1952) Any Number via False Faro Method (Roger Smith, 1970)	2007	7-7-7	29	Cards / Principles / Placement Principles / Free Cut Principle Cards / Principles / Placement Principles / Count and Drop
Jack Parker	The Third Time's The Charm	three spectators select a card and get a third of the deck each, it ends up on top eventually	Inspired by "Low Down Triple Dealing" (Colm Mulchy, FOCUS magazine, Nov. 2004) Variations Time After Time (Tomas Blomberg, 2008) Time After Time (Tomas Blomberg, 2014)	June 2007	Genii (Vol. 70 No. 6)	38	Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Challenge Locations / Challenge Single Card Location / No-Touch Locations Cards / Effect Themes / Gags & Curiousities / Verbal Magic Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Spectator locates Card / Miscellaneous Cards / Principles / Placement Principles / Triple Dealing Principle
Tomas Blomberg, Tom Stone	NoseJob	Houdini/Erdnase color change with steal from center, with sandwich application	Inspired by First Method (S. W. Erdnase, 1902)	2007	Plots, Spells & Typos	7	Cards / Sleights / Color Change / On the Deck Cards / Effect Themes / Sandwich & Co / Simple Sandwich - Moveless
Tomas Blomberg, Axel Adlercreutz	113 Grams	Phase 1: red Kings find selected card Phase 2: selected card transposes with tabled black Kings under case	Inspired by "Royale with Cheese" (Luke Dancy, marketed, 2004) Variations King Castling (Tom Stone, 2007) King Castling (Tom Stone, 2010) Also published here 113 G (Tomas Blomberg, 2014)	2007	Flatland Fever	7	Cards / Effect Themes / Sandwich & Co / Miscellaneous Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Asymmetric Transposition
Tom Stone	King Castling	sandwich-unequal transposition combo, two Kings tabled and other two Kings used to find selection, but they find two Kings and on table is found selection in place of the two other Kings King Castling 1 (Solo) King Castling 2	Inspired by 113 Grams (Tomas Blomberg, Axel Adlercreutz, 2007) Also published here King Castling (Tom Stone, 2010) King Castling (Tom Stone, 2015)	2007	Flatland Fever	11	Cards / Effect Themes / Sandwich & Co / Miscellaneous Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Asymmetric Transposition
Tomas Blomberg	Time After Time	three spectators mix a selection in a third of the deck each, it ends up on top eventually Part 1: The Multiple Selection and Control Part 2: The Irrefutable Mix-Up Part 3: The Impossible Revelation	Inspired by The Third Time's The Charm (Jack Parker, 2007) Also published here Time After Time (Tomas Blomberg, 2014)	Apr. 2008	Genii (Vol. 71 No. 4)	21	Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Challenge Locations / Challenge Single Card Location / No-Touch Locations Cards / Effect Themes / Gags & Curiousities / Verbal Magic Cards / Principles / Placement Principles / Count and Drop Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Spectator locates Card / Miscellaneous Cards / Principles / Placement Principles / Triple Dealing Principle
Miles Santoro, Tomas Blomberg	Royal Jennings	four Tens produced (incorporated card blendo effect), then an Ace of Spades, other hands change to complete a Royal Flush	Inspired by "Profusion" (Jack Parker, Tomas Blomberg) Also published here Royal Jennings (Miles Santoro, Tomas Blomberg, 2022)	Mar. 2008	MAGIC (Vol. 17 No. 7)	87	Cards / Effect Themes / Four-of-a-Kind & Aces Effects / Production & Appearance / Miscellaneous Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Poker / Pokerhand Transformations Cards / Effect Themes / Topological Effects / Card Blendo
Steve Reynolds	Ace, x, x, x, x, Ace	Two Aces distribute in the deck to find two selections	Inspired by Off-Shoot (Jon Racherbaumer, 1975) Variations QXS...SXQ (Tomas Blomberg, 2014)	2009	Route 52	52	Cards / Effect Themes / Penetration / Using Cards Cards / Effect Themes / Sandwich & Co / Distributors
Tomas Blomberg	Die Blomberg Variante		Also published here The Blomberg Variation (Tomas Blomberg, 2007)	2009	Solomon's Notes	15	Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Poker / Ten Card Poker Deal
Tom Stone, Tomas Blomberg	Reality Glitch	off-beat sandwich-transposition combo	Also published here Reality Glitch (Tom Stone, Tomas Blomberg, 2010)	2009	Prey of the Prestidigitator	2	Cards / Effect Themes / Sandwich & Co / Miscellaneous Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Miscellaneous
Tom Stone, Tomas Blomberg	Gesture Transfer Switch	one small spread held in each hand, during gesture some cards are secretly transferred from hand to hand	Also published here Gesture Transfer Switch (Tom Stone, Tomas Blomberg, 2010)	2009	Prey of the Prestidigitator	2	Cards / Sleights / Transfers / Miscellaneous
Tom Stone, Tomas Blomberg	Reality Glitch	off-beat sandwich-transposition combo	Also published here Reality Glitch (Tom Stone, Tomas Blomberg, 2009)	2010	Vortex	27	Cards / Effect Themes / Sandwich & Co / Miscellaneous Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Miscellaneous
Tom Stone, Tomas Blomberg	Gesture Transfer Switch	one small spread held in each hand, during gesture some cards are secretly transferred from hand to hand	Also published here Gesture Transfer Switch (Tom Stone, Tomas Blomberg, 2009)	2010	Vortex	28	Cards / Sleights / Transfers / Miscellaneous
Tom Stone	King Castling	sandwich-unequal transposition combo, two Kings tabled and other two Kings used to find selection, but they find two Kings and on table is found selection in place of the two other Kings	Inspired by 113 Grams (Tomas Blomberg, Axel Adlercreutz, 2007) Luke Dancy's "Royale with Cheese" Related to Casino Royale with Cheese (Chris Mayhew, 2009) Variations Queens Gambit (Moritz Mueller, 2021) Also published here King Castling (Tom Stone, 2007)	2010	Vortex	33	Cards / Effect Themes / Sandwich & Co / Miscellaneous Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Asymmetric Transposition
Jerry K. Hartman	Introduction	book inspired by Tomas Blomberg idea	Inspired by Svensk Voodoo (Tomas Blomberg, 2014)	2010	CAAN Craft	1	Articles / Intros & Epilogues
Tomas Blomberg	There's something about Tom	on Tom Stone		2010	The Liberated Djinn	13	Articles / Articles
Tomas Blomberg	Lucky 14	spectator finds the four Aces using three previously selected cards	Variations Cellar Plot (Roy Walton, 2016) Also published here Lucky-14 (Tomas Blomberg, 2002) Lucky 14 (Tomas Blomberg, 2014) Fits For Kings (Tomas Blomberg, 2020)	May 2013	Genii (Vol. 76 No. 5)	46	Cards / Effect Themes / Number Effects / 10, 9, 8,... Count Cards / Effect Themes / Four-of-a-Kind & Aces Effects / Spectator finds four of a kind Cards / Principles / Placement Principles / Gemini Twins Placement
Tomas Blomberg	The Konami Code	bunch of photographs shuffled by spectator are disposed at the table, spectator ends up on the predicted one via pointing/arrows on photos		2014	Blomberg Laboratories	13	Photograph Cards / Sleights / Force / Mathematical Forces
Tomas Blomberg	Cashing	Bank Night effect, using the condition of heads or tails of five coins to select the envelopes	Inspired by Cache (Max Maven, 2006)	2014	Blomberg Laboratories	18	Bill / Banknight Theme & Variations Coin / Gaffed / Glued Coins
Tomas Blomberg	Neckless Grandma	two tied pieces of rope go through the performer's neck		2014	Blomberg Laboratories	20	Rope / Penetration / Penetration Rope / Penetration / Grandmother's Necklace aka. Cords of Phantasia
Tomas Blomberg	ABandOn	after doing Crazy Man´s Handcuffs, one of the bands merges into the other	Related to The Dissolving Rubber Band (George D. Franzen, 1987) Variations A Band On (Tomas Blomberg, 2006)	2014	Blomberg Laboratories	22	Rubber Band / Vanish
Tomas Blomberg	Magic Lesson	six-phase routine where a rubber band and a borrowed ring are linked and unlinked several times. When the ring is going to be handed back to its owner, it changes places with the rubber band	Inspired by Ringleader (Simon Aronson, 2001) Related to "Pinnacle" (Russ Niedzwiecki DVD, 2005) Variations One Handed Double Unlink (Jack Carpenter, 2016)	2014	Blomberg Laboratories	25	Ring / Finger Rings / Transposition Ring / Finger Rings / Penetration / Rubber Band Rubber Band / Transposition
Tomas Blomberg	Brazilian Bend	spoon inside a cup of coffee slowly bends without touching		2014	Blomberg Laboratories	39	Mental Magic / Effects / Metal Bending
Tomas Blomberg	Bills Witch	ten-dollar bill changes into a twenty-dollar bill, three different handlings, gaffed bill First folding method Second folding method No-fold method		2014	Blomberg Laboratories	41	Bill / Transformation / Bill or Paper / Single / In the Hands
Tomas Blomberg	Double Bills Witch	twenty-dollar bill is split into two ten-dollar bills		2014	Blomberg Laboratories	49	Bill / Transformation / Bill or Paper / Single / In the Hands
Tomas Blomberg, Paul Harris	Double Bills Witch Routine	twenty-dollar bill is split into two ten-dollar bills, one of them changes back into a twenty		2014	Blomberg Laboratories	52	Bill / Transformation / Bill or Paper / Single / In the Hands
Tomas Blomberg	Daley Delight Switch with Bills	no details, see also p. 256		2014	Blomberg Laboratories	53	Bill / Switches / In the Hands / Miscellaneous
Tomas Blomberg	TB Spread Double	double lift from a spread	Inspired by The MC Spread Double Lift (Michael Close, 1991) Also published here The TB Spread Double (Tomas Blomberg, 2019) TB Spread Double (Tomas Blomberg, 2022) TB Spread Double (Tomas Blomberg, 2022)	2014	Blomberg Laboratories	55	Cards / Sleights / Multiple Lift / from spread, fan and Co
Tomas Blomberg	À la Cummins	spectator pushes Joker into deck to find selection, instead the Joker changes into selected card, then it changes back	Inspired by A La Annemann (Paul Cummins, 2002)	2014	Blomberg Laboratories	58	Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / Single Card / Front
Tomas Blomberg	Tattwo You	signed card from a red-backed deck matches with blue-backed card prediction. Signature travels from selected card to prediction	Inspired by Tattoo You (John Bannon, 1991) Related to The Dream Card (Darwin Ortiz, 1988)	2014	Blomberg Laboratories	62	Cards / Effect Themes / Signature Effects Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Single Card
Tomas Blomberg	Matest	Phase one- two spectators select the same card Phase two- ungaffed handling for Doc Eason "Anniversary Waltz"		2014	Blomberg Laboratories	66	Cards / Effect Themes / Signature Effects Cards / Effect Themes / Topological Effects / Fusion Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Spectator locates Card / Miscellaneous
Tomas Blomberg	Matest Inverted	-Phase one- two spectators select the same card, which was signed at the back -Phase two- second card is selected and signed at the face, signature travels from the first card to the second one		2014	Blomberg Laboratories	68	Cards / Effect Themes / Signature Effects Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Spectator locates Card / Miscellaneous
Tomas Blomberg	Double Brainwave Update Update	ungaffed	Inspired by Marlo's Double Brainwave Update (Allan Ackerman, Edward Marlo, 1994) Related to Mental Choice (Dai Vernon, 1983)	2014	Blomberg Laboratories	70	Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Brainwave type Effects
Tomas Blomberg	Really Double Brainwave	with two different cards named		2014	Blomberg Laboratories	73	Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Brainwave type Effects
Tomas Blomberg	One Improbabilty	Open Prediction type of effect	Inspired by Two Possibilities (Simon Aronson, 1995)	2014	Blomberg Laboratories	74	Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Open Prediction Theme
Tomas Blomberg	Two Double Turnovers	intro		2014	Blomberg Laboratories	79	Cards / Sleights / Multiple Lift / Double Card Handlings
Tomas Blomberg	Top Centre Double Turnover	from the top of the deck		2014	Blomberg Laboratories	79	Cards / Sleights / Multiple Lift / Double Card Handlings Cards / Sleights / Multiple Lift / Top / Breakless
Tomas Blomberg	Relativity Push-off		Inspired by The Relativity Lift (Paul Curry, 2001)	2014	Blomberg Laboratories	81	Cards / Sleights / Multiple Lift / Push-Off Cards / Sleights / Multiple Lift / Top / Break
Tomas Blomberg	Proteus Bound	while the deck is in the card box Ambitious Card Ending	Inspired by Bow-to-stern Control (Ernest Earick, 1993) Related to Box Top (Ken Krenzel, 1997) Variations Bound To Stern (Andi Gladwin, 2002)	2014	Blomberg Laboratories	84	Cards / Effect Themes / Penetration / Ambitious Card Theme / Climaxes Cards / Sleights / Controls / Single Card Controls / Convincing Control & Variations Cards / Sleights / Controls / Single Card Controls / Miscellaneous
Tomas Blomberg	Fuentes Load-Up	Load-Up variation in which card ends up face-up second from top	Inspired by Baltazar Fuentes Change (see Malone's "Radical Aces", MUM, Vol. 82 No. 11, Apr. 1993) "Load-Up Move" (J. Stewart Smith, Top of the Deck, 1950)	2014	Blomberg Laboratories	88	Cards / Sleights / Switches / Single Card Switches / Miscellaneous Cards / Effect Themes / Penetration / Ambitious Card Theme / Sequences
Tomas Blomberg	Switchhopper	selected card between the two red Queens travels appearing between the two black Queens		2014	Blomberg Laboratories	89	Cards / Effect Themes / Sandwich & Co / Cards traveling (from Sandwich) to Sandwich
Tomas Blomberg	Optical Kosky		Inspired by "Kosky's Invisible Card Exchange" (marketed ca. 1940)	2014	Blomberg Laboratories	92	Cards / Sleights / Switches / Sandwich Changes
Tomas Blomberg	Low Life Display		Inspired by Rising Crime Display (Daryl Martinez, 1982)	2014	Blomberg Laboratories	94	Cards / Sleights / False Display / Four-of-a-Kind Cards / Sleights / False Display / Hiding Surfaces
Tomas Blomberg	Peel Slide Switch		Inspired by Stripper Switch (Darwin Ortiz, 1995) Also published here Expertalk: Tomas Blomberg on the Peel and Slide Switch (Tomas Blomberg, 2006)	2014	Blomberg Laboratories	97	Cards / Sleights / Switches / Multiple Card Switches / Slide-Under - Type
Tomas Blomberg	113 G	Sandwich routine Phase one- red Kings find selected card Phase two- selected card transposes with tabled black Kings under case	Inspired by "Royale with Cheese" (Luke Dancy, marketed, 2004) Also published here 113 Grams (Tomas Blomberg, Axel Adlercreutz, 2007)	2014	Blomberg Laboratories	101	Cards / Effect Themes / Sandwich & Co / Miscellaneous Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Asymmetric Transposition
Tomas Blomberg	Interlocked Daley	red Aces transpose with black Kings	Inspired by The Last Trick of Dr. Jacob Daley (Dr. Jacob Daley, Dai Vernon, 1957)	2014	Blomberg Laboratories	106	Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Dr. Daley's Last Trick Cards / Sleights / Transfers / Interlock
Tomas Blomberg	Low Cost	card between the red Jacks vanishes and appears between the tabled black Jacks	Inspired by Grasshopper (Paul Harris, 1977)	2014	Blomberg Laboratories	109	Cards / Effect Themes / Sandwich & Co / Cards traveling (from Sandwich) to Sandwich Cards / Sleights / Transfers / Interlock
Tomas Blomberg	Hindu Interlock	force, switch and control of a card		2014	Blomberg Laboratories	112	Cards / Sleights / Force / Shuffle Forces Cards / Sleights / Controls / Single Card Controls / Miscellaneous Cards / Sleights / Transfers / Interlock
Tomas Blomberg	Intelligent Leaper Handling	using the Hindu Interlock	Inspired by The Intelligent Leaper (Dai Vernon, 1988)	2014	Blomberg Laboratories	115	Cards / Effect Themes / Number Effects / Card(s) at A Number(Numbers) Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Packet to Packet Cards / Sleights / Transfers / Interlock
Tomas Blomberg	Lucky 14	spectator finds the four Aces using three previously selected cards	Inspired by The Gem-Money Cards (Dean Dill, Allan Ackerman, 1994) Variations Learning To Count (Karl Fulves, 2007) Also published here Lucky 14 (Tomas Blomberg, 2013)	2014	Blomberg Laboratories	117	Cards / Effect Themes / Number Effects / 10, 9, 8,... Count Cards / Effect Themes / Four-of-a-Kind & Aces Effects / Spectator finds four of a kind Cards / Principles / Placement Principles / Gemini Twins Placement
Tomas Blomberg	The Freakish Miracle	Frequent Miracle type of effect, using three decks with their backs openly marked, two deck dealt through until a match occurs, match at same position in third deck but on other side of card	Inspired by "The Frequent Miracle" (Tom Bowyer, The Sphinx, Vol. 39 No. 3, May 1940)	2014	Blomberg Laboratories	120	Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Off-beat Predictions Cards / Effect Themes / Coincidence / Two Cards - Two Piles - Same Position / Power of Thought
Tomas Blomberg	Deal the Way	using cards which are printed black or white in the face, some spectators pick two cards each, which can change between them afterwards. Depending on the cards, they are distributed in two sides, magician is able to predict the difference in the number of spectators between sides	Inspired by Miraskill (Stewart James, 1936)	2014	Blomberg Laboratories	124	Cards / Principles / Gilbreath Principle Cards / Effect Themes / Red Black / Miraskill & Variations Mental Magic / Effects / Prediction / Miscellaneous
Tomas Blomberg	Torn Uncut Card Sheet	uncut sheet which contains all the cards of the deck, magician rearranges the pieces of the sheet to make a previously selected card disappear from it, "52 on 1 Gag"	Inspired by Curry's Paradox (Paul Curry, 1956)	2014	Blomberg Laboratories	130	Cards / Effect Themes / Topological Effects / Miscellaneous Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Gag Cards Puzzle / Geometrical Vanish
Tomas Blomberg	Estimated Sunken Key	two selected cards by spectator and magician, spectator deals the deck in six piles, two possible endings: first ending: both cards are next to each other in the same pile second ending: both cards are in the same position in different piles	Inspired by The Nifty Key (Charles T. Jordan, 1922) 2. Abbott's version. "The Certain Card Trick." (Percy Abbott, 1937)	2014	Blomberg Laboratories	134	Cards / Principles / Key Card / Distant Key Card Cards / Sleights / Estimation / Visual Estimation Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Challenge Locations / Challenge Single Card Location / Miscellaneous Cards / Effect Themes / Coincidence / Two Cards - Two Piles - Same Position / Miscellaneous
Tomas Blomberg	Late Key	two selected cards from a deck, one is lost and the other one is placed in spectator's pocket, this deck and another one are dealt at the same time, magician stops at the first selected card and at the duplicate of the second selection	Related to Staggered - Prime Presentation (Eddie Joseph, 1949) Also published here Late Key (Tomas Blomberg, 2002)	2014	Blomberg Laboratories	137	Cards / Principles / Key Card / Distant Key Card Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Challenge Locations / Challenge multiple Card Location Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Stay Stack / Full Deck Cards / Effect Themes / Coincidence / Two Cards - Two Piles - Same Position / Miscellaneous Cards / Principles / Placement Principles / Inverse Stack Placement
Tomas Blomberg	Hard Card Paradox	new presentation for the Brainwave Deck	Related to Psychic Paper (Tom Stone, 2016)	2014	Blomberg Laboratories	140	Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Brainwave type Effects Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Rough and Smooth Decks / Brainwave & Invisible Deck
Tomas Blomberg	Interlocked Gilbreath	adding new dimensions to the Gilbreath Principle		2014	Blomberg Laboratories	143	Cards / Principles / Gilbreath Principle
Tomas Blomberg	Photo Vibrations	spectator mixes a large stack of photographs, performer is able to describe one of them without looking		2014	Blomberg Laboratories	145	Photograph Cards / Principles / Gilbreath Principle
Tomas Blomberg	Hold your Gilbreath	Russian Roulette type of effect using cardboard rectangles with thumbtacks, some pushed downward and some sticking up		2014	Blomberg Laboratories	149	Cards / Principles / Gilbreath Principle Mental Magic / Effects / Russian Roulette Theme (guns, nails etc.)
Tomas Blomberg	Mind Stress	ten cards with ten three-digit numbers each, spectator thinks of one number, performer divines it	Also published here marketed via Ben Harris's WowBound	2014	Blomberg Laboratories	155	Numbers / Calculating & Mental Arithmetic Mental Magic / Effects / Divination / Miscellaneous
Tomas Blomberg	Packet Morpher Sequence	four cards turn face up, one by one, extra card		2014	Blomberg Laboratories	163	Cards / Effect Themes / Turnover & Reverse / Twisting the Aces / Standard Effect
Tomas Blomberg	Tomas on the Elmsley Count	small finesse		2014	Blomberg Laboratories	164	Cards / Sleights / False Count / Elmsley Count
Tomas Blomberg	Hoftwister	card is selected and lost (say, Seven of Clubs), Jacks turn face down one by one except the Jack of Clubs (same suit), then it turns into the selection and the other Jacks into the rest of the Sevens	Inspired by Twisted Hofzinser (Don England, 1982)	2014	Blomberg Laboratories	165	Cards / Effect Themes / Turnover & Reverse / Twisting the Aces / Kicked Twisting the Aces Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Hofzinser Ace Problem
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 by The Homing Card (Frederick Braue, 1948) Related to The Famous Three Card Trick (David Williamson, 1984)	2014	Blomberg Laboratories	170	Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / Homing Card
Tomas Blomberg	ProHof	from three selected cards spectator choose one, the three cards turn into the other three of same value, and selection appears face-up in the middle of the deck		2014	Blomberg Laboratories	174	Cards / Effect Themes / Appearance & Production / Face up on the Deck Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / Packet Tricks
Tomas Blomberg	Marlo Might Have Liked This	Sympathetic Cards version, part of the effect occurs during the revelation, odd-backed	Inspired by Leipzig Would have Loved This! (Edward Marlo, 1983)	2014	Blomberg Laboratories	178	Cards / Effect Themes / Sympathetic Effects / Sympathetic Thirteen & Variations
Tomas Blomberg	One Behead	Twisting the Aces version	Inspired by Twisting the Aces (Dai Vernon, 1960)	2014	Blomberg Laboratories	187	Cards / Effect Themes / Turnover & Reverse / Twisting the Aces / Standard Effect
Tomas Blomberg	L-I-A-R	Lie Detector effect using blank-faced cards where it is written either "True" or "False". The cards are able to detect when the spectator is telling the true about a selected card, ending with the selection appearing in the packet	Variations Dunbury Lie Speller - Eighteen-Card Version (Jon Racherbaumer, 1993)	2014	Blomberg Laboratories	191	Cards / Effect Themes / Spelling / Lie Detector (with spelling)
Tomas Blomberg	Multiplex Re+Set	Re-set routine, three phases: Phase one- Fives transpose with pocketed Queens one by one Phase two- Queens transpose with pocketed Fives all at once Phase three- Fives vanish and appear in four different pockets	Inspired by Multiplex Reset (Jack Carpenter, 1992) Related to The More Things Change (Jerry Sadowitz, 1982)	2014	Blomberg Laboratories	195	Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / The More Things Change (Pocket Interchange) Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Reset & Variations Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to Pocket / Multiple Cards / Miscellaneous
Tomas Blomberg	Signed Hot Mama	Chicago Opener version, second selection is signed	Inspired by Chicago Opener (Frank Everhart, 1972)	2014	Blomberg Laboratories	203	Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Red Hot Mama Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / Single Card / Back
Tomas Blomberg	Brownian Bridge	two packets, performer takes a card from the first one and places it into the other, turns to be the thought of card and is placed at the thought of number	Inspired by The Twelve Card Thought Transition (Edward G. Brown, 1973)	2014	Blomberg Laboratories	208	Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) Across / Thought Cards Across
Tomas Blomberg, Jack Parker	Chase The Red	Out Of This World type of effect, uncommon method	Inspired by The Perfectionist (Paul Harris, 1983) Related to Pass at Red (Roy Walton, 1992) New World Order (John Scarne, 1995)	2014	Blomberg Laboratories	211	Cards / Effect Themes / Red Black / Separation / by Spectator / Out of this World & Variants / Packet
Tomas Blomberg	Defect Gatherer	punched hole dragged across a card	Related to No Holes Barred (David Acer, 1995)	2014	Blomberg Laboratories	214	Paper / Hole effects (e.g. traveling) Cards / Effect Themes / Topological Effects / Holes Effects
Tomas Blomberg	Gasp! Scream!	one Ace put in case, other Aces vanish one by one among Kings, Aces then with other Ace in case	Inspired by Gramp's Case (Tomas Blomberg, 1999) "Gramp's Case" (Tomas Blomberg, TSD website, 1997)	2014	Blomberg Laboratories	217	Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to Card Case Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Ace Assembly / Jazz Aces & Less Cards Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Ace Assembly / Real Gone Aces
Tomas Blomberg	Mxyzptlk	word "mirror" written on back of card, another chosen word on another card, both words change to mirror writing	Inspired by Name It! (Gary Kurtz, 1990)	2014	Blomberg Laboratories	222	Words & Letters / Miscellaneous Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / Single Card / Miscellaneous Cards / Effect Themes / Mirror & Cards
Tomas Blomberg	QXS...SXQ	two Queens put together into deck, the separate next to two selections	Inspired by Ace, x, x, x, x, Ace (Steve Reynolds, 2009)	2014	Blomberg Laboratories	225	Cards / Effect Themes / Sandwich & Co / Distributors
Tomas Blomberg	Mental Devilish Miracle			2014	Blomberg Laboratories	229	Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Devilish Miracle & Variations Cards / Effect Themes / Think a Card / limited Choice
Tomas Blomberg	Delayed ATFUS			2014	Blomberg Laboratories	232	Cards / Sleights / Switches / ATFUS & Variations
Tomas Blomberg	X-Scape	two halves encircled with rubber bands, selection penetrates into one half, that half then dribbled and selection caught with other half	Inspired by Elastic-Scape (U. F. Grant, 1979)	2014	Blomberg Laboratories	233	Cards / Effect Themes / Rubber Band & Cards Cards / Effect Themes / Skill Demonstration / Grabbing Cards / Fishing Card out with two Cards
Tomas Blomberg	Schrödinger's Tie	any number named, deck is taken out of box with ribbon which is around it, pulling the ribbon cuts the deck at right position(s)		2014	Blomberg Laboratories	238	Cards / Effect Themes / Number Effects / Card(s) at A Number(Numbers) Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Single Card Cards / Sleights / Case Things / Shifts & Secret Cuts
Tomas Blomberg	(Vernon + Sadowitz)^2	spectator cuts deck into four packets, with one hand performer shows face cards, turns packets over again, when turned over again, they are Aces, then Jacks	Inspired by Given the Slip (Dai Vernon, 1989) "Solution to a Vernon Trick" (Jerry Sadowitz, The Crimp #20, Jan. 1994)	2014	Blomberg Laboratories	249	Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / Multiple Cards
Tomas Blomberg, Jack Parker	Jack's Trick	spectator cuts deck into four packets, a Queen is placed on each packet, they assemble on one packet, then it is shown that spectator also cut to the Aces		2014	Blomberg Laboratories	254	Cards / Effect Themes / Four-of-a-Kind & Aces Effects / Spectator cuts to the Aces Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Ace Assembly / more or less off-beat variations
Tomas Blomberg	Svensk Voodoo	one card selected and one thought-of, first found at number named by performer, second at number named by spectator	Inspired by Svenvoodoo (Bob Farmer, 2017) Related to Paradromic Delusion (John Hostler, 2018) Variations Introduction (Jerry K. Hartman, 2010) Two-Deck Svensk Voodoo (Tomas Blomberg, 2014)	2014	Blomberg Laboratories	256	Cards / Effect Themes / Number Effects / Any Card at Any Number Cards / Effect Themes / Number Effects / Card(s) at A Number(Numbers) Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Forcing Deck Cards / Principles / Locator Cards / Pencil Dot or similar Marks
Tomas Blomberg	Two-Deck Svensk Voodoo	two selections and numbers	Inspired by Svensk Voodoo (Tomas Blomberg, 2014)	2014	Blomberg Laboratories	260	Cards / Effect Themes / Number Effects / Any Card at Any Number Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Forcing Deck Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Memorized / Full Deck
Tomas Blomberg	Daley Delight Switch with Decks	different fingering		2014	Blomberg Laboratories	262	Cards / Sleights / Switches / Switching two visible isolated Cards or Packets Cards / Sleights / Switches / Single Card Switches / Pseudo Switches
Tomas Blomberg	TSAR	"Technicolor Successive Assembly Reversed" The Laydown The Transpositions The Reverses	Also published here Technicolor Successive Assembly in Reverse (Tomas Blomberg, 1998)	2014	Blomberg Laboratories	264	Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Ace Assembly / Odd Backed Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Ace Assembly / Reverse
Tomas Blomberg	Tabled Oil & Water	4&4, three extra cards, one phase		2014	Blomberg Laboratories	274	Cards / Effect Themes / Red Black / Separation / Oil & Water / One Back Color Cards / Sleights / Jog Techniques / Hide-Out / Ribbon-Spread
Tomas Blomberg	Rhythm Switch Assembly			2014	Blomberg Laboratories	277	Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Ace Assembly / Classic
Tomas Blomberg	Rhythm Switch	cards laid out onto packets, uses Snap Deal	Inspired by Rhythm Count (Larry Jennings, 1982)	2014	Blomberg Laboratories	278	Cards / Sleights / False Display / Four-of-a-Kind
Tomas Blomberg	Rhythm Switch Bluff Assembly	four-of-a-kind vanishes, leader packet as indifferent cards		2014	Blomberg Laboratories	281	Cards / Effect Themes / Vanish / Multiple Cards Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Ace Assembly / more or less off-beat variations
Tomas Blomberg	Rhythm Transpo			2014	Blomberg Laboratories	281	Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Asymmetric Transposition
Tomas Blomberg	Time After Time	three spectators mix a selection in a third of the deck each, it ends up on top eventually	Inspired by The Third Time's The Charm (Jack Parker, 2007) Also published here Time After Time (Tomas Blomberg, 2008)	2014	Blomberg Laboratories	283	Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Challenge Locations / Challenge Single Card Location / No-Touch Locations Cards / Effect Themes / Gags & Curiousities / Verbal Magic Cards / Principles / Placement Principles / Count and Drop Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Spectator locates Card / Miscellaneous Cards / Principles / Placement Principles / Triple Dealing Principle
Tomas Blomberg, Axel Adlercreutz	Cardpool	with clean vanishes and reappearances		2014	Blomberg Laboratories	288	Cards / Principles / Black Art Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Open Travelers Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Step gaff Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Black Art Back
Tomas Blomberg	Double Christ	forcing two cards with Christ Force	Also published here Double Christ (Tomas Blomberg, 2004)	2014	Blomberg Laboratories	297	Cards / Sleights / Force / Cut Forces / Henry Christ Force
Tomas Blomberg	Sunken Christ	three cards chosen with performer's back turned, all located, Christ force		2014	Blomberg Laboratories	300	Cards / Principles / Key Card / Distant Key Card Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Challenge Locations / Challenge multiple Card Location Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Double Backer / Same Color
Tomas Blomberg	PreMEMOnition	post-it note with prediction stuck on card, Christ Force	Inspired by Air Mail Prediction (Edward Marlo, 1969) Pre-MEMO-nition (Tomas Blomberg, 1999)	2014	Blomberg Laboratories	303	Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Single Card Cards / Sleights / Force / Cut Forces / Henry Christ Force
Tomas Blomberg	Swedish Parity Poker	five cards with rules on them, a card game is played according to them, sum of one's hand decides on who wins		2014	Blomberg Laboratories	309	Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Number Prediction Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Other Games Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Gambling Stack / Full Deck
Tomas Blomberg	Simplex Non-Transitiv Poker Die	die with four poker cards on each side		2014	Blomberg Laboratories	315	Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Poker / Miscellaneous Games / Bar Bets & Puzzles Games / Miscellaneous Numbers / Principles / Nontransitivity
Tomas Blomberg	Three Bar Scams	intro		2014	Blomberg Laboratories	318	Games / Bar Bets & Puzzles
Tomas Blomberg	Four Heads	coin flipped four times, bet is that it shows head every time		2014	Blomberg Laboratories	318	Games / Bar Bets & Puzzles Coin / Effect Themes / Head & Tail Coin / Effect Themes / Gags / Miscellaneous
Tomas Blomberg	Two-Upped	con game with tossing of two coins		2014	Blomberg Laboratories	319	Games / Bar Bets & Puzzles Coin / Effect Themes / Head & Tail Coin / Effect Themes / Gags / Miscellaneous
Tomas Blomberg	Between the Cheats	bet involving how many cards are between two random values		2014	Blomberg Laboratories	320	Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Other Games Cards / Effect Themes / Gags & Curiousities / Spectator is the sucker Games / Bar Bets & Puzzles
Tomas Blomberg	16 Card Swindle	version of NIM/"The Game of 31"		2014	Blomberg Laboratories	321	Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Other Games Games / Nim
Jason England, Tomas Blomberg	Take It or Sleeve It	no-touch poker deal, spectator shuffles and deals off the bottom openly, performer's and spectator's hand are completed with previously "sleeved" cards	Related to South Street Flip-Switch (Jamie Masterson, 2024) Also published here Take It Or Sleeve It (Tomas Blomberg, Jason England, 2006)	2014	Mayhew	96	Cards / Principles / Gilbreath Principle Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Poker / Re-Deal Poker Deals (Gardner-Marlo) Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Gambling Stack / Partial
Tomas Blomberg	Add-Ons			2015	The Bammo Ten Card Deal Dossier	41	Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Poker / Ten Card Poker Deal
David Solomon, John Bannon, Tomas Blomberg	Mexican Poker		Related to Revised Mexican Poker (David Solomon, 1999) Variations The Blomberg Variation (Tomas Blomberg, 2015) Empowering Poker a Bit More (Jon Racherbaumer, Harry Anderson, 2015)	2015	The Bammo Ten Card Deal Dossier	278	Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Poker / Ten Card Poker Deal
Tomas Blomberg	The Blomberg Variation		Inspired by Mexican Poker (David Solomon, John Bannon, Tomas Blomberg, 2015) Variations Refried Poker (R. Paul Wilson, 2015) Mexicali Ruse (Jerry K. Hartman, 2015)	2015	The Bammo Ten Card Deal Dossier	282	Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Poker / Ten Card Poker Deal
R. Paul Wilson	Refried Poker		Inspired by The Blomberg Variation (Tomas Blomberg, 2015) Also published here Refried Poker (R. Paul Wilson, 2006)	2015	The Bammo Ten Card Deal Dossier	284	Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Poker / Ten Card Poker Deal
Jerry K. Hartman	Mexicali Ruse		Inspired by The Blomberg Variation (Tomas Blomberg, 2015) Also published here Mexicali Ruse (Jerry K. Hartman, 1999) Mexicali Ruse (Jerry K. Hartman, 2007)	2015	The Bammo Ten Card Deal Dossier	288	Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Poker / Ten Card Poker Deal
Jon Racherbaumer, Harry Anderson	Empowering Poker a Bit More		Inspired by Mexican Poker (David Solomon, John Bannon, Tomas Blomberg, 2015) Also published here Jonah Ploys, 2014	2015	The Bammo Ten Card Deal Dossier	291	Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Poker / Ten Card Poker Deal
David Britland	Fool's Mate	Cardopolis spectator signs a card on the back and performer writes prediction underneath, card stabbed face-up into deck by spectator, it is next to prediction	Inspired by Quasi (David Britland, 1979) Related to Joseph Kerr (Tomas Blomberg, 2015)	Feb. 2015	Genii (Vol. 78 No. 2)	23	Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Single Card Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Stabbing Routines / Magic Thrust & Variations
John Guastaferro (reviewer)	Blomberg Laboratories	by Tomas Blomberg (written by Andi Gladwin)		June 2015	Genii (Vol. 78 No. 6)	81	Reviews / Books, Manuscripts, Notes
Tom Stone, Tomas Blomberg	Tomas Blomberg: Scratching the Surface	with interviews with daughter Tyra and wife Rina		July 2015	Genii (Vol. 78 No. 7)	54	Articles / Biographical Articles / Interviews
Andi Gladwin	A Tomas Blomberg Magicana	Introduction		July 2015	Genii (Vol. 78 No. 7)	65	Articles / Intros & Epilogues
Tomas Blomberg	Daunting Heck			July 2015	Genii (Vol. 78 No. 7)	65	Cards / Effect Themes / Animation / Haunted Deck / Miscellaneous Thread / Invisible Thread / Elastic Loop
Tomas Blomberg	Joseph Kerr	prediction written on back of Joker, it is cut in deck and ends up next to predicted card	Related to Fool's Mate (David Britland, 2015)	July 2015	Genii (Vol. 78 No. 7)	69	Cards / Principles / Stranger Card Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Single Card
Tomas Blomberg	Stem Spell Research	rubber band with signed label through stem of wine glass, repeat		July 2015	Genii (Vol. 78 No. 7)	71	Glass / Penetration Rubber Band / Penetration / Miscellaneous
Jared Kopf (reviewer)	Blomberg Laboratories	by Tomas Blomberg (written by Andi Gladwin)		Oct. 2015	MAGIC (Vol. 25 No. 2)	82	Reviews / Books, Manuscripts, Notes
Jack Carpenter	One Handed Double Unlink	one strand at a time	Inspired by Magic Lesson (Tomas Blomberg, 2014)	Aug. 2016	Genii (Vol. 79 No. 8)	50	Rubber Band / Penetration / Miscellaneous Ring / Finger Rings / Penetration / Rubber Band
Tomas Blomberg	Odd(s) Triumph	at the end of an in-the-hands triumph, the selection appears on the spectator's palm à la off-beat		Nov. 2016	Genii (Vol. 79 No. 11)	86	Cards / Effect Themes / Appearance & Production / Miscellaneous Cards / Effect Themes / Turnover & Reverse / Triumph / Classic Effect (with or without selections)
Tom Stone	Psychic Paper	blank card shown to various people, they "see" a card which also has been predicted, "Factory Blanks"	Related to Hard Card Paradox (Tomas Blomberg, 2014)	Dec. 2016	Genii (Vol. 79 No. 12)	42	Cards / Effect Themes / Coincidence / Miscellaneous Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Miscellaneous Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Multiple Card Prediction Mental Magic / Principles / Dual Reality
Roy Walton	Cellar Plot	spectator finds the four Royal Flush using counting procedure with other selected cards Aces Version	Inspired by Lucky 14 (Tomas Blomberg, 2013)	2016	The Complete Walton — Volume 3	40	Cards / Effect Themes / Number Effects / 10, 9, 8,... Count Cards / Effect Themes / Four-of-a-Kind & Aces Effects / Spectator finds four of a kind
Bob Farmer	Svenvoodoo	position of freely peeked-at card is named, then chosen card appears at named number, svengali-peek-deck combination, with marking system	Variations Svensk Voodoo (Tomas Blomberg, 2014)	2017	The Bammo Gaffus Maximus	101	Cards / Effect Themes / Number Effects / Card(s) at A Number(Numbers) Cards / Effect Themes / Number Effects / Miscellaneous Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Svengali Principle / Other Applications & Handling of Long-Short-Deck Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Svengali Principle / Svengali Deck Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Marked deck / Backs
Nick Trost	Cheating the Cheat	spectator shuffles and deals off the bottom openly, hand is completed with previously "sleeved" card	Inspired by Take It Or Sleeve It (Tomas Blomberg, Jason England, 2006)	2017	Subtle Card Creations — Volume 6	1484	Cards / Principles / Gilbreath Principle Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Poker / Re-Deal Poker Deals (Gardner-Marlo) Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Gambling Stack / Partial
John Hostler	Paradromic Delusion	two deck, one person names a card and a number, second person selects card, performer looks through deck and names position of selection, first person finds card and number in other deck	Inspired by RG Location (Richard Goldshot, 1984) UnDo Influence: Theory and Practice (Simon Aronson, 2001) Related to Svensk Voodoo (Tomas Blomberg, 2014)	2018	Firkin of Deipotent Trouvailles	54	Cards / Effect Themes / Number Effects / Any Card at Any Number Cards / Effect Themes / Super-Senses / Memory / Miscellaneous Cards / Principles / Placement Principles / UnDo Influence
David Solomon, Tomas Blomberg	Gilbreath Ten-Card Poker Deal	doing the Ten Card Poker Deal after a riffle shuffle		2018	Solomon's Secrets	58	Cards / Principles / Gilbreath Principle Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Poker / Ten Card Poker Deal Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Gambling Stack / Partial
Tomas Blomberg	Spaed Shuffle	multi-shuffle sequence, blocks	Inspired by Spade Shuffle (Edward Marlo, 1947)	2019	Beyond the Z	69	Cards / Sleights / Riffle Shuffle / Riffle on the table / False / Miscellaneous Cards / Sleights / Riffle Shuffle / Riffle on the table / False / Zarrow type Shuffles
Tomas Blomberg	The TB Spread Double		Also published here TB Spread Double (Tomas Blomberg, 2014)	2019	Sleightly Out Of Order	52	Cards / Sleights / Multiple Lift / from spread, fan and Co
Tomas Blomberg	TB Spread Double	Double lift from spread		2019	Sleightly Out Of Order	243	Cards / Sleights / Multiple Lift / from spread, fan and Co
Tomas Blomberg	Fits For Kings	Exhumations (Jon Racherbaumer) spectator finds the four Kings using three previously selected cards	Also published here Lucky 14 (Tomas Blomberg, 2013)	July 2020	Genii (Vol. 83 No. 7)	50	Cards / Effect Themes / Number Effects / 10, 9, 8,... Count Cards / Effect Themes / Four-of-a-Kind & Aces Effects / Spectator finds four of a kind Cards / Principles / Placement Principles / Gemini Twins Placement
Bob Farmer	Another Any Card At Any Hummer	number is generated by adding the card values on four double-blank cards that have cards written on both sides The Blomberg Layout Procedure (Tomas Blomberg)		2022	Hummer's Odyssey ()	9	Cards / Effect Themes / Number Effects / Card found at total of Packet or named number Numbers / Principles / Hummer Addition Principle
Bob Farmer	Astrologic Hummer	six double-sided zodiac sign cards with lucky cards Phase One (value sum of the lucky cards in a random arrangement is divined) Phase Two (value sum is predicted this time) Phase Three (another value sum is predicted in an astrology book)	Related to "Optional Oracle" (Norm Houghton, Abra #839) Variations The Blomberg Variation (Tomas Blomberg, 2022)	2022	Hummer's Odyssey ()	32	Cards / Effect Themes / Number Effects / Miscellaneous Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Number Prediction Mental Magic / Effects / Prediction / Miscellaneous Book / Magic Coloring Book & Blow Book Numbers / Principles / Hummer Addition Principle
Tomas Blomberg	The Blomberg Variation	Phase Three Alternative The Deck of Cards Ending (lucky card is cut to)	Inspired by Astrologic Hummer (Bob Farmer, 2022)	2022	Hummer's Odyssey ()	39	Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Number Prediction Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Single Card Mental Magic / Effects / Prediction / Miscellaneous Numbers / Principles / Hummer Addition Principle
Tomas Blomberg	TB Spread Double	double lift from a spread	Also published here TB Spread Double (Tomas Blomberg, 2014)	2022	Ubuntu	24	Cards / Sleights / Multiple Lift / from spread, fan and Co Cards / Sleights / Force / Spread Force
Tomas Blomberg, Jason England	Take It Or Sleeve It	no-touch poker deal, spectator shuffles and deals off the bottom openly, performer's and spectator's hand are completed with previously "sleeved" cards	Also published here Take It Or Sleeve It (Tomas Blomberg, Jason England, 2006)	2022	Talk About Tricks (Issue 1)	496	Cards / Principles / Gilbreath Principle Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Poker / Re-Deal Poker Deals (Gardner-Marlo) Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Gambling Stack / Partial
Tomas Blomberg	Expertalk: Tomas Blomberg on the Peel and Slide Switch		Also published here Expertalk: Tomas Blomberg on the Peel and Slide Switch (Tomas Blomberg, 2006)	2022	Talk About Tricks (Issue 1)	512	Cards / Sleights / Switches / Multiple Card Switches / Slide-Under - Type
Miles Santoro, Tomas Blomberg	Royal Jennings	four Tens produced (incorporated card blendo effect), then an Ace of Spades, other hands change to complete a Royal Flush	Also published here Royal Jennings (Miles Santoro, Tomas Blomberg, 2008)	2022	Talk About Tricks (Issue 2)	713	Cards / Effect Themes / Four-of-a-Kind & Aces Effects / Production & Appearance / Miscellaneous Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Poker / Pokerhand Transformations Cards / Effect Themes / Topological Effects / Card Blendo
Tomas Blomberg	TB Spread Double	double lift from a spread, starting with reverse cull	Also published here TB Spread Double (Tomas Blomberg, 2014)	2022	The Reverse Cull	41	Cards / Sleights / Multiple Lift / from spread, fan and Co
Jamie Masterson	South Street Flip-Switch	four Jacks under spectator's hand transpose one by one with four black cards in performer's hand, repeat in one go, the spectator's cards transform into four Royal Flush cards which are completed by card placed into spectator's sleeve at the beginning	Inspired by The Seattle Switch (Jack Carpenter, 1992) "South Street Swindle" (Jack Carpenter, version of Caleb Wiles's "Re-Swindled") Related to Take It or Sleeve It (Jason England, Tomas Blomberg, 2014)	2024	Carpenter's Conceptions	140	Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / Multiple Cards Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Quartet transposes with Quartet

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