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Theodore Annemann An Original Set-Up Discovery way to easily set-up the eight kings stack
Related to 1931 11
Sam Leo Horowitz The Mystery of the Penthouse four distributed Jacks come together with one cut
Related to 1938 145
Theodore Annemann A Mental Headache card counting, two columns suit and value

Related toVariations 1939 18
Edward Marlo Number Transpo card at chosen position changes to different chosen position
VariationsAlso published here 1942 13
Wilbur T. Kattner Axis Cut three rings linked, one is allowed to be cut to free all
Related to July 1943
The Phoenix (Issue 39)
162
Russell "Rusduck" Duck 32 selection process with square layout
Variations July 1946
The Phoenix (Issue 109)
439
Jack Potter 3 Jacks Every Time three Jacks are laid alternated with indifferent cards and come to the top, as a prelude to "3 Jack & a Pat" by Weisbecker
Related toVariationsAlso published here May 1947
The Phoenix (Issue 125)
503
John A. M. Howie + or - ? using two four of a kinds, transformation kicker
Related to June 1948
The Phoenix (Issue 153)
611
Oscar Weigle Poison Trick chosen / poisoned glass is found, see also p. 849
Related toVariations Sep. 1950
The Phoenix (Issue 211)
845
Ken Beale, Frank Garcia Wormy Gags! gags with a plastic worm
Oct. 1950
The Phoenix (Issue 214)
854
Audley Walsh, Ken Allen, Gerald R. Blount, Leslie Spiewak, Mike Millet, Ken Beale Given Goblet chosen / poisoned glass is found, several methods
Related to Nov. 1950
The Phoenix (Issue 215)
858
Ken Beale Beale's Baffler rubber band on cardboard penetrates string
Variations Mar. 1950
Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 7 No. 10)
641
Hen Fetsch Perfume Presto! chosen / poisoned glass is found
Related to Aug. 1951
The Phoenix (Issue 236)
943
Ken Beale Half a Headache card removed from half the deck is divined, then with other half, cards laid out on table in pattern that does card counting, also suit, parallel principle
Inspired byRelated toAlso published here Aug. 1955
Ibidem (Issue 2)
7
Stewart James An Addition and a Teaser
Inspired byRelated to Nov. 1955
Ibidem (Issue 4)
6
Charles Sanders Peirce Some Amazing Mazes dealing trick with red and black cards in numerical order, dealing into any number of piles, anti-faro rules, see also p. 2
  • Phase One
  • Phase Two (mixing procedure, then number named, value of card at that position is used to count to a card that matches named number)
Related toVariations Nov. 1955
Ibidem (Issue 4)
10
Ken Beale No-Switch Switch #2 fake hole card switch
Nov. 1955
Ibidem (Issue 4)
20
Ken Beale Setting Up Exercise method to set up Eight Kings quickly at home
Related to Apr. 1956
Ibidem (Issue 5)
10
Ken Beale Pseudo Seconds fake second dealing and stacking demonstration, Tantalizer deal with red Aces, black Aces show up as well, then stacking with the Aces, four duplicate Aces
  • Let's Get Fancy (half-deck gambling stack preserved during deals and Tantalizer deal for finale)
Related to Apr. 1956
Ibidem (Issue 5)
15
Ken Beale Blindfold Stud remembered hole cards in the poker hands end up in same hands again, Aces for performer
July 1956
Ibidem (Issue 6)
21
Ken Beale Take Nine spectator remembers card and its position from the top, performer takes the cards behind the back and brings them back out, the card's value at the original position is used to count down to selection
Inspired byVariations Sep. 1956
Ibidem (Issue 7)
20
Norman Houghton Poor Mixers 3&3, spectator mixed cards and they separate, repeat
Variations Mar. 1957
Ibidem (Issue 9)
18
P. Howard Lyons Slipduc six-card spread held with both hands, hand separate with half the cards each, center two cards are switched secretly, 3&3 oil and water application
Variations Mar. 1957
Ibidem (Issue 9)
22
Alex Elmsley 7-16 down under deal, Ace of Spades remains, game presentation
Related toVariationsAlso published here Mar. 1958
Ibidem (Issue 13)
4
Alex Elmsley Pierce Arrow unusual game in which one deals through twelve cards and tries to predict position of reversed card, actually "Peirce Arrow"
Inspired byRelated toAlso published here Mar. 1958
Ibidem (Issue 13)
5
Tom Ransom Australian Poker three cards placed on each Ace, packets combined, after down-under deal performer ends up with the Aces
Related toVariations Sep. 1958
Ibidem (Issue 14)
4
Ken Beale, Francis Carlyle Erl & Water 3&3, three-card spread in each hand, bottom card of right-hand spread switched with top card of left-hand spread in top change action
Inspired by July 1959
Ibidem (Issue 17)
14
Ken Beale Apartheid 3&3, one extra, with handling variation by P. Howard Lyons
Inspired by July 1959
Ibidem (Issue 17)
14
Mel Stover Triptych spectator cuts deck in two piles, card cut to is placed aside, down-under-deal with both halves, the remaining cards match, and they also match the card placed aside, fourth card in wallet
Variations July 1959
Ibidem (Issue 17)
15
Ken Beale Brown Transpo two selections made from two halves with "counting pile and remember card at that position" procedure, one counted from the top and one from the bottom, they change position
Inspired by July 1959
Ibidem (Issue 17)
16
Ken Beale Brown Coincidence two cards are selected with the "card at position of cut-off number"-procedure, deck then dealt in two halves, both are dealt in unison and the selected cards are at the same position
Inspired byVariations July 1959
Ibidem (Issue 17)
16
Ken Beale Brown Out packet removed and counted, cards at that position remembered, performer finds card and names number
July 1959
Ibidem (Issue 17)
17
Ken Beale Simple Coincidence two cards are selected with the "card at position of cut-off number"-procedure, deck then dealt in two halves, both are dealt in unison and the selected cards are at the same position
Inspired byRelated to July 1959
Ibidem (Issue 17)
18
Martin Gardner Brewer's Gold ideas using Ken Beale's two ring and cord principle
Related to Oct. 1959
Ibidem (Issue 18)
5
Ken Beale Jackpott three Jacks deal (three Jacks are laid alternated with indifferent cards and come to the top), ending in full house and royal flush
Inspired by Oct. 1959
Ibidem (Issue 18)
31
Ken Beale $pell any coin is used to spell a card
Inspired by
  • Tom Sellers item in The Gen, Nov. 1953
June 1960
Ibidem (Issue 21)
33
Ken Beale Trireme sixteen-card packet cut and dealt into two piles, top card of one pile pocketed, down-under-deal with both packets result in a card of the same value and the same suit of the pocketed card
Inspired by Oct. 1960
Ibidem (Issue 22)
17
Ken Beale Triplets spectator counts down to a number between twelve and twenty and pockets card, down-under deal with dealt packet results in mate, another card of that value is taken from pocket
Inspired by Oct. 1960
Ibidem (Issue 22)
17
Ken Beale Square Deal nine cards are arranged in a 3x3 square as dictated by spectator, they are a magic square
Variations Mar. 1961
Ibidem (Issue 23)
33
Ken Beale, Russell "Rusduck" Duck, Marvin Johnson 32 Deal Duplicated selection process with square layout
Inspired by Spring 1970
Hierophant (Issue 3)
126
Karl Fulves Aces To Win packet trick with gambling presentation
Related to 1971 20
Ken Beale Triple ESP Prediction involving counting in ESP deck
1972 40
Harry Lorayne Harry Lorayne Variation of previous item: Ken Beale's Triple ESP Prediction
1972 42
Karl Fulves Illusion Aces Aces turn over one by one between two Jokers, change to Kings
Inspired byRelated toVariations Mar. 1972
Epilogue (Issue 14)
114
Ken Beale Ring Sation two rings on string, one comes off, originally published by Lou Tannen, with variation:
  • The Hard Way
see also p. 565 for background information, see p. 608 for comment by Paul Brian
Related to Oct. 1972 563
Ken Beale Put Back Variation partial, for Ace Assembly
Related to 1973 109
Ken Beale For A Transposition
1973 110
Ken Beale Color Confused monte effect from top of deck in which cards keep transforming
Inspired by
  • effect in Ibidem #26
Mar. 1973
Epilogue (Issue 17)
153
Ken Beale Poker down under deal packet trick with poker theme
  • Canberra Poker
  • New South Wales
Related to Sep. 1973 655
Edward G. Brown The Two Pile Trick two selections made from two halves with "counting pile and remember card at that position" procedure
Related toVariationsAlso published here 1973 74
Ken Beale Odd/Even Bet play on words
Jan. 1974 701
Karl Fulves Covered Slip Cut for riffle force, possible with stranger card
Related to 1975 4
Nick Trost, Ken Beale Ten-Card Poker Routine
  • Phase One
  • Phase Two (Ken Beale's idea)
  • Phase Three
Also published here 1975 16
Ken Beale Apartheid II 3&3
Related to
  • "Apartheid" (Ibidem)
1976
Epilogue (Issue Special No 4)
291
Ken Beale Some Late Notes notes on variations of the Ascanio Spread in print
1976 35
Ken Beale Take Five with credit information
layout on table
  • Ken Beale's "Take Five"
  • Wiseguy Presentation
  • A Ten-Card Problem
  • Note By Karl Fulves
Variations 1978
The Chronicles (Issue 10)
1155
Jerry K. Hartman Flatfoot, Floozie and the Boy-Boy Hotel Mystery
Inspired byAlso published here 1978 61
Karl Fulves The Parallel Principle clocking with deck split into two packets
Related to 1979 30
Ken Beale The Interlock Switch three Jacks on top and dealing for three
1980 42
Ken Beale Switch For A 4-Ace Trick
1980 45
Ken Beale, Ralph W. Hull Positive & Negative Cards using two four of a kinds, transformation kicker
Related to 1980 46
Ken Beale Alternate Procedure For Picking Up Break for card switch using Inerlock
1980 48
Ken Beale Interlock Sandwich Switch
1980 49
Ken Beale Interlock Steal
1980 50
Ken Beale Stealing the First Card
1980 53
Ken Beale Steal of a Chosen Card
1980 54
Ken Beale Interlock Steal Variation
1980 55
Ken Beale Diabolical Deal spectator chooses hand and draws as many as he like, still loses
1980
Arcane (Issue 1)
5
Ken Beale Drop Out Stud Poker Stacks set-ups for stud poker:
  • For Three Hands
  • For Four Hands
  • For Five Hands
  • For Six Hands
1980
Arcane (Issue 1)
6
Ken Beale Two Stock Shuffles For Two Pair
For One Pair
1980
Arcane (Issue 1)
8
Ken Beale, Karl Fulves A Quick Getaway No. 61, rubber band penetrates pencil held by spectator, with business card
Inspired by 1981 74
Ken Beale Half a Headache card removed from half the deck is divined, then with other half, cards laid out on table in pattern that does card counting, also suit, parallel principle, reprinted from Ibidem
Also published here 1982 27
Ken Beale A Clock Trick rotating stack application, card in clock layout chosen by value of card chosen from rest
Variations 1982 31
Ken Beale The Ken Beale Display showing apparently all 4 sides of two blank cards while hiding one surface
Dec. 1983
The Collected Almanac (Vol. 2 No. 16)
153
Ken Beale Adverse Condition Aces aces are really laid out without switch in beginning
1984
Epoptica (Issue Yearbook)
291
Ken Beale K.B. False Cut Number One double cut substitute to table
1984
Epoptica (Issue Yearbook)
291
Ken Beale K.B. False Cut Number Two double cut substitute to table
1984
Epoptica (Issue Yearbook)
291
Dr. Jacob Daley, Ken Beale Daley Switch Variation away from the pack with secret unloading onto tabled deck
1984
Epoptica (Issue Yearbook)
291
Ken Beale Double Cut Substitute
1988 108
Dai Vernon What's-the-Value Solitaire
Related to 1989 215
Karl Fulves, Robert E. Neale More Borromean Notes topological bar bet with three interlocked rings of different colors, more notes and credit information
  • Further Reading
Related to 1990 ca. 1
Alex Elmsley Brownwaves I two cards are selected with the "card at position of cut-off number"-procedure, deck then divided in two halves, both deal in unison and the selected cards are at the same position
Related toVariations 1991 333
Roy Johnson Suparings routine with two plastic rings and rope, six phase routine
Inspired by
  • "Ring Sation" (Ken Beale)
Also published here
  • marketed manuscript
Jan. 1991
Intermagic (Vol. 16 No. 1)
31
Jerry K. Hartman Tete a Tete
Inspired byRelated toAlso published here 1991 423
Ken Beale Double Cut Substitute
1995 133
Ken Beale The V Force "Three Impromptus"
bottom card of top half is transferred to bottom half with bottom placement angle jog as it is placed offset on it
1995
Underworld (Issue 1)
9
Ken Beale Offset Ambition "Three Impromptus"
1995
Underworld (Issue 1)
9
Ken Beale Set Off Trap "Three Impromptus"
sandwiched card on table, card chosen, sandwich cut in deck side-jogged, sandwiched card turns out to be later selection
1995
Underworld (Issue 1)
10
Ken Beale Sandwich Switch
1996 126
Nick Trost, Ken Beale Ten-Card Poker Deal - Trost Routine Three phases, second phase is Ken Beale's idea
Also published here 1997 109
Ken Beale, Darwin Ortiz Double Cut Handling hands and table
1998 42
Ken Beale Fusion Aces two cards change into Aces between two spot cards, then the spot cards change into Aces themselves
Inspired byRelated toVariations 1998
Underworld (Issue 7)
85
Ken Beale, Karl Fulves Fusion II two cards change into Aces between two spot cards, then the spot cards change into Aces themselves
Inspired byVariations 1998 185
Karl Fulves Cold Fusion two cards change into Aces between two spot cards, then the spot cards change into Aces themselves
Inspired by 1998 187
Lew R. Brooks The Kangaroo Kid gambling demo with packet of sixteen cards removed from the deck, story
Inspired by
  • "From the Land Down Under" (Ken Beale, World's Greatest Card Tricks, Bob Longe, 1996)
Variations
1998 28
Ken Beale, Darwin Ortiz Double Cut Handling hands and table
2001 8
Karl Fulves, Ken Beale Ten-Hour Day card chosen in clock-layout with mathematical method, second card removed from rest of deck, both cards are divined
Inspired by 2005 40
Denis Behr "The Tantalizer" to Stack using "The Tantalizer" in conjunction with a stack, see also page 47:
  • Way into "The Tantalizer"
Related toVariations 2007 43
Ken Beale Even or Odd five heaps, bet that there are more piles with even number of cards than odd
2010
Prolix (Issue 7)
432
Ken Beale The Beale Deal
  • Equivoque
  • Variation 1-3
2015 36
Jerry K. Hartman Tete a Tete
Inspired byAlso published here 2015 76
John Hostler Roundabout Retreat spectator remembers card and its position from the top, after some cutting the card's value at the original position is used to count down to selection
Inspired by 2023 25