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Roger Klause Thoughts on Vernon's Matched Spell Out selection spelled out, four-of-a-kind kicker with packets that made during spelling, "letter to
Harvey Rosenthal, dated July 27, 1969"
  • Bare Bones
  • The Cull
Inspired by 2010 270
Tom Stone Derringer cards at two named numbers are predicted, stooge
Also published here 2011 133
Tom Stone Challenge in Silk vanished silks pop out of pockets and are knotted together, gimmicks to propel silks out of pockets
Inspired by
  • Dr. Raymond L. Beebe's "Smart Slik" (Encyclopedia of Silk Magic 1)
Also published here
2011 193
Denis Behr Herbert - The Trained Rubber Band rubber band around deck disappears and is found around selection, repeat with named card
Inspired byRelated toVariations 2011 76
Steve Beam The Trapdoor Issue #11 on Expanded Autograph Hound, The Throw Up Move, Jim Swoger
Related to 2011 xxiv
Woody Aragón Convex Control control four aces to the bottom by pushing four piles of cards together on table.
Inspired by 2011 65
Harry Lorayne Find Four mates come together from different parts and sandwich the four Aces, with variations
Inspired by 2011 111
Harry Lorayne A Royal Force spectator place four high spade cards together face-up in deck, fifth Royal Flush card appears between them, Lorayne Force load
2011 174
Patrick Page, Maurice Fogel The Four Packets spectator cuts deck into four piles, four cards on the bottom are divined
Related to 2011 101
Arthur Dowler Dowler's Rings gag for linking rings, stooge
2011 298
Karl Fulves Immovable Monte discussion of Monte tricks in which the cards are glued/fastened together, see following items, credit information
2011
Prolix (Issue 9)
588
G. W. Hunter Wrong Again! five cards stuck together, spectator cannot find it from back
Related to
  • ad in Magazine of Magie (Goldston, Oct. 1916)
2011
Prolix (Issue 9)
588
Klip Trick five cards stuck together, spectator cannot find right one from back
Related to
  • Joe Stuthard note in Hugard's Magic Monthly, April 1950
2011
Prolix (Issue 9)
589
Karl Fulves The Basic Principle of monte with stuck-together cards
2011
Prolix (Issue 9)
589
Joe Stuthard The Stuthard Addition five cards stuck together, spectator cannot find Queen from back, it has vanished
2011
Prolix (Issue 9)
590
Karl Fulves Klipped Notes ideas for monte trick with stuck together cards
  • Klipped Koncluded
  • Klipped Korner
  • Spread Force
  • Bank Nite
  • Bank Nite With Cards
2011
Prolix (Issue 9)
592
Karl Fulves Isolationist black Aces on top and bottom, unknown card put in spectator's pocket, false cut done together with spectator, now red Aces are on top and bottom and the two black Aces in spectator's pocket
2011
Prolix (Issue 9)
596
David Acer Overtime
Inspired byAlso published here 2011 39
David Acer Mitosis two spectators each write down sic digit numbers, add them together, calls that number on a phone, turns out to be magician's cellphone number
Also published here 2011 149
Max Maven The Ruling Class spectator moves fingers together under ruler, where they end up is predicted by length of pencil
Also published here 2011 4
Max Maven The Ruling Class spectator moves fingers together under ruler, where they end up is predicted by length of pencil
Also published here 2011 4
Barrie Richardson My Second Spot with bags, paper or cloth
Inspired by
  • "Second Spot" (Maurice Fogel, In Search of the Sensational, 2007)
2011 21
Jon Racherbaumer On the Slant
  • Alone Together (Sherry Turkel, 2010)
  • Subtext (Charles Baxter, 2007)
Mar. 2011
Genii (Vol. 74 No. 3)
13
Frank Fogg Front and Center two Aces are put in deck out-jogged face-up at different positions, they visibly come together to trap selection
Inspired by Mar. 2011
Genii (Vol. 74 No. 3)
22
Jon Armstrong Putting Things Together card selected under fair conditions, found by spelling to any person's first name
Inspired by 2011 11
Roger Klause One-Handed Double Lift
2012 229
Allan Ackerman The Cliff Green Add-on stepped card on top of deck pushed together with right thumb
Inspired byAlso published here 2012 27
Charles Nyquist, Jack McMillen The Drop Shuffle spectator pushes messy halves together, rosetta shuffle (but retains a small stock on top)
Related to 2012 32
Doc Eason Crystal Ball Delight instant stooge, spectator reads card in crystal ball
Inspired byRelated to 2012 79
Roger Smith No Shoots - No Slides - No Slits. coin travels into laminated greeting card inside nest of envelopes
2012 251
Harry Lorayne Rest Of The M-E-S! original ending of routine, all four-of-a-kinds together, faros
Related toAlso published here Jan. 2012
Genii (Vol. 75 No. 1)
36
David Regal (reviewer) Miracle Signed Card in Envelope by Roger Curzon Jan. 2012
Genii (Vol. 75 No. 1)
79
Dustin Stinett (reviewer) Blood on the Tricks: Volume One by Roger Curzon Jan. 2012
Genii (Vol. 75 No. 1)
83
Aaron Fisher, Larry Jennings The Break, Part III: Perfecting the Two- and Three-Card Break
  • Aaron Fisher Teaches Card Magic
pushing off cards and pulling them back
  • Larry's Lesson
  • The Left Thumb Action
  • The Right-Hand Cover and Left-Hand Replacement
  • The Lock
  • Highway Left Thumb Revisited
  • Putting it Together: The Three-Card Break
  • Conclusion
Apr. 2012
Genii (Vol. 75 No. 4)
50
David Regal (reviewer) Cocktail Bar Cup by Roger Nicot Apr. 2012
Genii (Vol. 75 No. 4)
88
Michael Skinner Rouge Et Noir seven red and seven black cards are shuffled together, spectator separates them
Also published here
  • Genii, Feb. 1971
Nov./Dec. 2012
Genii (Vol. 75 No. 11 & 12)
126
Woody Aragón In-ESP-Licable deck of ESP cards is shuffled and card selected and replaced, deck divided in five packets and one card in one packet is chosen, it matches selection, then entire packet is shown to consist of same symbol, other symbols are found together in each packet
2012
El Manuscrito (Vol. 5 No. 21)
678
David Gabbay Window to the Soul spectator divines card, instant stooge, index stuck on coin
2012 16
Alexander de Cova Die dicke Berta thick wide card by glueing two card together slightly off
  • Herrstellung
  • Das Prinzip
Related toAlso published here Nov. 2012 34
Carol Vogel Rock, Paper, Payoff: Child’s Play Wins Auction House an Art Sale article that inspired the routine
2012 9
Bruce Bernstein The Jigsaw Puzzle simple drawing is torn into pieces and spectator should piece it back together, in the meantime performer divines drawing
Also published here
  • Bruce Bernstein's "The Jigsaw Puzzle" in "Mindvention Lecture Notes" 2006.
2012 14
Bruce Bernstein Love Connection two chosen cards end up together in the deck, with the Queen of Hearts in between, sign of love, two methods
Also published here 2012 111
John Guastaferro, Andrew Brown Piecing the Clues Together
2013 18
Card Lap while putting two cards together
2013 5
Chris Westfall Three Stooges Second spectator correctly divines the first spectator's selection
2013 38
Steven Hamilton Nocturnal Gambler Aces vanish one by one and reappear together reversed in center
Also published here 2013 3
Steven Hamilton Rocky does a Card Trick spring raccoon supposed to find the card, deck suddenly strung together, raccoon finds card, name of card written across other side
2013 8
Steven Hamilton Uprising first Ace rises, then Ace and Two together, then Ace to Three
Variations 2013 61
Jan Logemann Premature Epilogue (Vorzeitiges Nachwort)
titles of German edition in brackets
2013 3
Jan Logemann Tools of a Cartomaniac (Handwerkszeug eines Kartomanen)
chapter intro
2013 4
Jan Logemann The Famous 100-Card Trick (The Unfamous 100-Card Trick)
finale for Williamson's effect, surplus cards vanish after inflated deck climax
Inspired by 2013 4
Jan Logemann Cartomat (Kartomat)
named card and peeked card located
2013 5
Jan Logemann Rubber-Behr (Gummi-Behr)
one of two rubber bands vanish, two selections made, rubber band finds first one, banded card then changes into thought-of second one
Inspired by 2013 7
Jan Logemann Instant Stooging Think-a-Card
2013 8
Jan Logemann Wine-Note (Scheinbar)
bill with corner torn off travels into wine bottle
2013 11
Jan Logemann Bill Switch
Inspired by 2013 13
Jan Logemann Three-Layered Silver (Dreilagiges Silber)
paper snippets turn into coin when burned in a flash, one-coin routine, jumbo coin, more coins appear
2013 14
Jan Logemann WondeRing (WondeRing, p. 17)
borrowed finger ring into packet of sweets
2013 16
Jan Logemann Bill Paperfold to vanish ring in flash
2013 18
Wayne Dobson AFCAAN "Another Fucking Card at Any Number", with crib sheet for stooge
2013 8
Roberto Giobbi A Stooge Against His Will out-of-hand key card placement
Apr. 2013
Genii (Vol. 76 No. 4)
19
Roger Klause Count Van Klause
  • Magic Man Examiner Vault
Also published here May 2013
Genii (Vol. 76 No. 5)
32
Neil Patrick Harris The Academy of Magical Arts and Genii: Together Again
  • A Message from the President
Oct. 2013
Genii (Vol. 76 No. 10)
18
Lennart Green Robo clásico de enmedio cad palmed to lateral palm, when two halves are put together
2013
El Manuscrito (Vol. 6 No. 25)
850
Joseph Barry Illogical Undercut Force
Related to 2013 35
Justin Higham GM Poker
  • First Phase
  • Second Phase
  • End Notes
  • Other Handlings
  • Multiple-Shift Handling
  • Restacking Ruse
  • Deal-Yourself-First Ruse
Related toVariations 2013 21
Robert Cassidy The Bulldog Deck or The Scary Movie Routine pad made out of sheets of paper held together with bulldog clip, names of movies written on each sheet and chosen one is divined, svengali pad
  • Effect and Method
  • A Fundamental Psychological Ploy
2013 23
Robert Cassidy Beyond the Universe 13 red and 13 black cards shuffled together, spectator deals two piles, prediction of amount of red and black cards in each pile
2013 258
Robert Cassidy It's Not What You Think, But How You Think It That Counts on the use instant stooge
2013 320
Michael Weber, Tim Trono Smart Water four numbers assembled together with spectators are quickly added
(Real Secrets Bonus sheet)
Sep. 2013
Real Secrets (Vol. 2 No. 18)
3
Takanobu Ishida Card Tapestry Aces are fanned, one is named and Aces are found glued together in a row with chosen Ace reversed
2013 82
Harapan Ong Two Heads are Better than One three selections lost, two Kings face-up together, they separate next to two selections, then come together to sandwich third selection
2014 35
Roger Crosthwaite IRF Open Prediction (semi improvised effect) Card is placed next to its mate
2014 25
Roger Crosthwaite Gemini Cull Culling method for standard Gemini mates effect
2014 26
Tomas Blomberg QXS...SXQ two Queens put together into deck, the separate next to two selections
Inspired by 2014 225
Joaquín Matas Bolas a la Caja de Cartón (Rutina Tricolor) three sponge balls with different colors vanish one by one and appear together in a small box, written up by Gabriel Pareras
2014 233
David Kaye The Free Stooges
  • The Expert at the Kids' Table
Mar. 2014
Genii (Vol. 77 No. 3)
34
Jon Racherbaumer On the Slant
  • Creativity: The Perfect Crime (Philippe Petit)
  • Your Mind is What Your Brain Does For a Living (Steven Jay Fogel)
  • Creativity, Inc. (Ed Catmull)
  • A Steranko Sighting
Sep. 2014
Genii (Vol. 77 No. 9)
14
Roger Crosthwaite Adjusted Deal-Yourself-First Ruse
Inspired byVariations 2014 45
Justin Higham ADYF Bottom Deals
Inspired by 2014 45
Patrick G. Redford Horsefeathers magician divines card without looking through deck, then names its position in deck
  • Variation #1: The Uninformed Stooge
  • Variation #2: Scrying for Cards
2014 29
Patrick G. Redford Putting It All Together suggested routining for a few of the book’s tricks
2014 149
Jim Steinmeyer The Emperor's New Deck deck is shown blank on both sides, on normal card is shown and set aside, it eventually is shown to be a named card, twenty-six blank-backed red cards
  • Variation: The Emperor & The Instant Stooge
Also published here 2014 15
Alan Shaxon My Early Influences
  • Ernest E. Noakes
  • Edward Victor
  • Robert Harbin
  • The Great Levante
  • Raoul
  • Maurice Fogel
  • Al Koran
  • John Booth
  • David Nixon
2014 51
Alan Shaxon Bewitched, Re-Bottled and Bewildered different bottles are covered with bags and mixed and numbered, chosen one is predicted in envelope
Inspired by
  • Maurice Fogel's "Bewitched, Re-Bottled and Bewildered"
2014 175
Gabi Pareras Ordenación de Cuartetos introduction to stacked deck with all four-of-a-kinds grouped together
2014 38
Gabi Pareras Ia Aleteo card is selected, three mates are found reversed together in the middle of the deck
2014 38
Gabi Pareras De Baraja Precintada a Cuartetos en Rosario Aritmetico New Deck Order to stacked deck with all four-of-a-kinds grouped together
  • a) El orde de palos
  • b) La mezcla por paquetes
  • c) La recogida de paquetes
2014 49
Gabi Pareras De Rosario Aritmetico a Cuartetos Aritmeticos from cyclical stack to stacked deck with all four-of-a-kinds grouped together
  • a) El orde de palos
  • b) La mezcla por paquetes
2014 51
Gabi Pareras De Cuartetos Aritmeticos a Rosario Aritmetico from stacked deck with all four-of-a-kinds grouped together to cyclical stack
  • a) La mezcla por paquetes
2014 52
Horace Goldin Goldin Vanish ball vanishes visuall between two cups that are banged together with both hands on the table
May 2014 583
Alexander de Cova Kreativität on creativity
  • Nihil novi sub sole
  • Ideensammler
    • Klauen ist gut
  • Werkzeuge
    • Lesen, lesen und nochmals lesen!
    • Händlerkataloge
  • Die Hüte der sieben Zwerge Methode (nach Edward de Bono)
  • Brute Force Attack
  • Die SCAMMPERR-Methode
  • Der Gestaltungsprozess
    • Sind weniger Griffe besser?
    • Hofzinser vs. Youtube
    • Der Traum vom Blockbuster
  • KISS
  • Meine 15 besten Tipps
Also published here July 2014 679
George Sands Twist Knot with extra piece, false knot and fusing two ropes together
  • Figure Eight Restoration
  • "Sam Schwartz's Delivery"
  • Sleight of Foot Restoration
Also published here 2014 36
George Sands Accordion Pleat Restoration fusing two ropes together
Also published here 2014 46
Steve Mayhew Journey to the Center of the Deck false dealing routine, first bottom then mock center, instead of repetition Aces found together on top after losing them
Inspired by
  • Jack Carpenter's "Perfect Center Deal" on "An Evening with Jack Carpenter: The Seattle Sessions, Night One." DVD, 2008.
2014 114
Steve Mayhew Old Lazy Fat Guy Cull culling four-of-a kind to the top by cutting deck in piles and shuffling them together
Also published here 2014 143
Roger Gorss, Edward Boswell, Brad Henderson Have You Got The Nerve? One ahead trick with two cards chosen
2015 5
Alex Ng Call the Number Deck has numbers written on the back, five random cards chosen, the sum of the numbers matches a prediction. When the numbers are placed together, it becomes a phone number, which when called causes the magician's phone to ring
Inspired by 2015 24
Bob Farmer Done Deal VI spectator cuts deck and deals, loses, blocks are strung together to force cut position
Also published here 2015 233
Bill Spooner Spooner's Specialty Force blocks are strung together to force cut position
Also published here 2015 233
Peter Duffie The Zen Card Deal
Inspired byRelated toVariationsAlso published here 2015 249
Roger Crosthwaite Father Roger Crosthwaite Addition
Inspired by 2015 252
Harry Lorayne Rest Of The M-E-S! original ending of routine, all four-of-a-kinds together, faros
Related toAlso published here 2015 72
Jim Steinmeyer The Emperor's New Deck
  • Conjuring
deck is shown blank on both sides, on normal card is shown and set aside, it eventually is shown to be a named card, twenty-six blank-backed red cards
  • Variation: The Emperor and The Instant Stooge
Also published here Sep. 2015
Genii (Vol. 78 No. 9)
40
Alexander de Cova Die dicke Berta thick wide card by glueing two card together slightly off
  • Herrstellung
  • Eine andere Präparation
  • Das Prinzip
Also published here 2015 98
Alexander de Cova Kreativität in der Zauberei on creativity
  • Nihil novi sub sole
  • Ideensammler
  • Wo gehören die Ideen hin?
  • Klauen ist gut!
  • Die Ahnentafel
  • Die Werkzeuge
  • Lesen, lesen und nochmals lesen!
  • Händlerkataloge
  • Was wäre wenn?
  • Die sieben Zwergenhüte
  • Brute Force Attack
  • Die Osborne Liste
  • Der Gestaltungsprozess
  • Sind weniger Griffe besser?
  • Hofzinser vs. Youtube
  • Der Traum vom Blockbuster
  • K.I.S.S.
  • Prinzipien bei der Gestaltung von Tricks und Routinen
  • Beispiel einer Checkliste
  • Meine 15 besten Tipps für mehr Kreativität
Also published here 2015 284
Alexander de Cova AVALON-Umschlag window envelope with card or something similar is visible, it is switched when taken out, credit information
Inspired by
  • "Devil's Dollar" (Sam Berland)
Related to
2015 271
Justin Higham Stenographic Aces
Inspired byRelated to 2015 29
So Sato Bushfire Triumph with open tabled layout
Related toVariations 2016 108
So Sato Elevator Action Aces lost into deck in piles come together in center
2016 155
So Sato Outsourcing Sandwich two Aces distributed in deck come together to trap selection
2016 170
John Lovick President Handsome riddle/illogicality with bills in which money is spent but apparently everyone, including the spender, walks away with profit
Inspired by 2016 77
Christoph Borer Drogen-Trance presentation, patter for card routine
2016 238
Henry Harrius Crazyman's Split Spectator and magician hold onto a single rubberband together, a gentle tap splits it into two rubberbands
2016 8
Andy (The Jerx) And Then There Were None Spectators' bills all have strange writing on them - combined together they form an ominous skull picture
2016 147
Pepe Lirrojo Asamblea Total Aces separated in four piles, brought together to top via faro, deck is arranged by quartets as climax
Inspired by 2016 30
Gene Anderson The Part-Time Pro
  • A. Introduction
  • B. Magic Castle debut
  • C. Getting your act together
  • D. Letters of Agreement
2016 165
Jim Steinmeyer The Second City
  • Conjuring
three spectators write down cities on billets, two billets are torn up, in the end all cities are divined, a stooge does a center tear
Inspired by
  • "Sheer Information" (R. Macaire, New Invocation)
June 2016
Genii (Vol. 79 No. 6)
24
Roy Walton Collision Course top and bottom cards vanish an appear together in center
2016 66
Roy Walton All Change two cards in the deck transpose, then come together
2016 122
Alexander de Cova Pocket Card Variation rubber band loops around corners hold cards together
2016 33
Alexander de Cova Der verschwindende Vogelkäfig vanishing bird cage
  • Der Vogelkäfig
  • Der Pull
  • Die Spezialtasche
  • Der Mikrofonständer
  • Vorführung
  • Das Abladen des Pulls
2016 37
Mike Rogers About Frank Shields from The Complete Mike Rogers (1975)
2017
Facsimile (Issue 6)
13
Adrian Vega El juego que yo haría a W. Thomas after a number gag with fingers under handkerchief a card is named and performer has this card in hand folded and held together with a paper clip
2017 11
Ryan Plunkett Shuffleupagus deck shuffled by two spectators, then shown to be almost separated into red and blacks, now in new deck order
Inspired byVariations 2017 40
Ryan Plunkett The Hallucinogenic Shuffle As deck is shuffled, more and more face up cards appear. Selection made, lost, dead cut to selection, then deck is all face down
2017 122
Paul Vigil The Mind-Melding Magician! Chicago Opener credit information
  • Phase 1: A Pseudo-Interpretation
  • Phase 2: Come Together
  • Phase 3: Outta Left Field
Inspired by
  • "Mind Reading Magician!" (Bill Malone, DVD Here I Go Again Vol. 2, 2007)
2017 87
Harapan Ong All Hail the Great Leader Four red cards and four black cards keep remaining separate despite being mixed (follow the leader), when placed together they mix, when placed back with their leaders they separate again
Related to 2017 14
Bob Farmer The Tele-Psychic-Omatic Deck thought-of card (one of thirteen) is not in deck, it has become a blank card, peek-pairs
Inspired by 2017 77
Peter Pellikaan Kings Over Queens Four Kings of Clubs change places with four Queen of Diamonds, they then mix together, and the Queens change back color
July 2017
Elixir (Vol. 1 No. 1 (Summer #1))
7
Allan Hagen Coincidence "(An Alternative Approach To Any Card At Any Number)", stooge
2017 38
Harry Lorayne Together At Last all court cards, marriage effect
Inspired by 2017 93
Harry Lorayne Head-To-Head Poker ten cards, performer received royal flush even though it was not part of the packet in beginning
Inspired by 2017 165
The Around the Table Reversal Secretly get a selection to be placed reversed end for end in a one-way deck, hands off approach
Related toAlso published here 2017 35
Flip Hallema Thinking-Outside-Inside-The Box "Or... Not Your Staple-Trick", signed stapler travels inside two sheets of paper that are stapled together all around
Jan. 2017
Genii (Vol. 80 No. 1)
78
Dani DaOrtiz The Fourth Coincidence
  • DaOrtiz a la Carte!
selection lost, spectator stops dealing through deck three times, the three cards match three prediction cards as mates, when adding together all values one can count to the initial selection
Feb. 2017
Genii (Vol. 80 No. 2)
40
Anthony Owen, Marc Paul The Perfect Match two matches signed by performer and spectator travel and eventually fuse together
Also published here 2017 155
Patrick G. Redford Tut Tut Tut Aces turned over in the deck, after a shuffle Aces are found in pairs, next shuffle all Aces are together and after last shuffle selections are trapped in between, faro method
Inspired by 2017 126
Ted Karmilovich The Three Pellet Test performer and spectator each have three paper balls with written colors, matching routine, repeated with names of stooges and the words show, movie and theater
  • The Golf Pencil and Other Subtleties
Related to
  • "Ghostly Influence" (Clettis Musson, The New Encyclopedic Dictionary of Mentalism, Volume Two, p. 5)
2017 1
Jim Steinmeyer Free Lunch price of lunch put together from a printed menu is predicted
2017 16
John Hostler Kinetogenic Heart spectator initials bill, it magically folds itself into an origami shirt with initials still on it
  • Ala Dingle
  • Ala Crinkle
Related to
  • "Casanova Concept" (Steve Haynes)
2018 16
William Goodwin Two-Step Two Queens distribute in deck magically to find two selections, then come together to sandwich last selection
Inspired byRelated to
  • "Step by Step" (Precursor, Oct. 2003)
Apr. 2018
Elixir (Vol. 1 No. 4 (Spring #1))
41
Spectator pushes Card Together
2018 38
Tomoya Horiki Time and again Single coin is apparently tossed into other hand multiple times, keep seeing the coin being tossed over and over again
Inspired by 2018 20
David Solomon Free-Cut Thought Kings cut into deck, Kings come together and Aces appear reversed in deck as well, faro
  • A Cool Discovery (variations with Queens)
Inspired by
  • "Free Cut Marriages" (Nick Trost, Subtle Card Creations - Volume 4)
2018 96
Ryan Murray Ultra Memoria three cards chosen from thirds that are shuffled together by performer, apparently memorized, numbers of first two named, third selection found to be previously cased card, using Triple Faro
  • Arranging the Set-up (from new deck order)
Related to 2018 36
Ignacio López Siempre Dos two coins are sepearated and always end up together, finally they change into two jumbo coins
2018 71
David Britland Offworld
  • Cardopolis
two piles, credit information
Related toAlso published here Oct. 2018
Genii (Vol. 81 No. 10)
34
Albert Goshman, Paul Harris Toss vanish used as false transfer, coins already in hand clink together as it closes to get “click pass” effect
Also published here 2018 136
Purse dump addition coin from outside purse is dumped together with coins inside purse creating illusion they were all inside
2018 176
Alexander de Cova Der verschwindende Vogelkäfig comment
2018 100
Jan Logemann Moin, Ihr Lieben!
2019 3
Jan Logemann An Anfang war 'ne Münze three coins appear and vanish, jumbo coin finale, pendulum, incorporating appearing sand in presentation
2019 4
Jan Logemann High Five two spectators cut (deeper) in two halves, four cards of same value show up, cutting the high card presentation, money prize is split in two
Inspired by
  • Aldo Colombini trick
2019 8
Jan Logemann Warum Zauberkunst?
2019 11
Jan Logemann Umgang mit Zuschauern als Gruppe, Assistent & Methode about handling spectators and the audience
2019 12
Jan Logemann Aphrodites Walzer two signed cards fuse
2019 15
Jan Logemann Doppelt hält besser two odd-backed signed cards are torn, two halves each fuse together back to back, red/blue double backer
2019 18
Jan Logemann Frottierter Vogel cards with names of birds, one selected and predicted
Inspired by
  • Heinz act (Pit Hartling)
2019 20
Justin Higham, Richard Vollmer, Christian Gambin Impressionistic Ace Controls four Aces cut into deck one by one, end up together on top
  • Method One (Vollmer & Marlo, tabled, two crimps)
  • Method Two (Higham, tabled, two crimps)
  • Method Three (Gambin, tabled, two crimps)
  • Method Four to Eleven (Higham, some tabled, some with hands & tabled, one, two or no crimps, some with overhand shuffles)
Inspired byRelated toVariations 2019
The Neat Review (Issue 1 - London 2019)
40
Allan Ackerman Spectator Shuffle to keep Card at Position spectator shuffles the deck in stages, yet a card at a known position is retained there, cards positioned together at known position
Related to 2019 35
Allan Ackerman A Prelude to the Collectors three spectator remember top card of small packet, performer shuffles all together, faro
Also published here 2019 38
Allan Ackerman Three Card Control & Placement three spectator remember top card of small packet, performer overhand shuffles all together
Also published here 2019 39
Iñaki Zabaletta Deletreo
Inspired by 2019 43
Luis H. Trueba Utility Move to hold four torn pieces together as a unit
Also published here 2019 52
Iñaki Zabaletta Silkeny 2.0 Mi Rutina Profesionales de Pañuelos, handkerchief vanishes and appears, changes color and as a climax multiple handkerchiefs appear knotted together
2019 153
Joshua Jay Group Shuffle aka Intercourse Shuffle, cards shuffled together face-up/face-down with spectator
Related toAlso published here 2019 68
Joaquín Navajas JK desaparición complete coin vanish, to top pocket of shirt or jacket
Inspired byAlso published here 2019 41
Jeremiah Zuo Excursus 3: FOAL (Flip-Over Action Load) one-handed load of card under case as it is placed on table with deck in same hand
Also published here
  • The Hallucinogenic Effect (lecture notes, 2007)
2019 23
Lorenz Schär Clap-Lap two coins slapped together, one vanishes, also to switch coins with other objects
2019 145
Tom Gagnon Chinese Card Spin card spins out after flip-over deal flourish, also as apparent transformation
Inspired byRelated to
  • "Chinese Boomerang" (Roger Klause, The Gen, Vol. 19 No. 10)
2019 23
Tom Gagnon Flimflam Transpo Kings together face up in deck, when spread on the table they change into Aces
2019 44
Helder Guimarães, Maurice Fogel Double Envelope
Related to
  • "A Cut-Away Gem" (Maurice Fogel: In Search of the Sensational, 2007, p. 369)
2019 374
Michael Powers, Eric A. Maurin Finessed Center Switch out-jogged card and top card are removed together, out-jogged card switched for card second from top
Inspired by
  • "Center Switch" (Eric A. Maurin, in "Interchange", Genii, 1982)
2019 190
Michael Powers Moe Fun featuring a fair selection procedure in which selection is cut into packets, two distant key cards, another spectator stops the spectator's deal to find selection, with variations (faro, no stooge, edge marks)
Also published here
  • Linking Ring, April 2009
2019 213
Steve Reynolds Discrepancy Find two sandwich cards come together to trap selection
Inspired byVariationsAlso published here
  • "Cosmic Sport", 2000
2019
Output (Issue 2)
14
Steve Reynolds Discrepancy Found two sandwich cards come together to trap selection
Inspired by 2019
Output (Issue 2)
17
Leo Reed Bob Ross Would Have Liked This a word card is chosen, selection is predicted by four cards that can be placed together to form one of two pictures
May 2019
Genii (Vol. 82 No. 5)
70
Eric Stevens Clips Ahoy two paperclips link together
Sep. 2019
Genii (Vol. 82 No. 9)
74
José Carroll Seven Travelers II
  • Las Vegas
  • The Hotel
  • The Reception of the Congress Participants
  • The Opening Gala
  • The Contest
  • Siegfried and Roy's Show
  • Impromptu Magic (Roger Klause & Mike Skinner)
  • The Vernon-Slydini Talk
  • Close-up Galas (Michael Ammar, David Williamson)
  • The Final Gala
  • Magic in the Corridors
  • Compliments for the End
Also published here
  • The MMS Circular, No. 90, June 1982
2019 45
Patrick G. Redford Stack Safe Decurtait Control Card glimpse, control and false shuffle all together, does not destroy stack
2019 218
Patrick G. Redford F.A.L.S.E. Shuffle Tabled false shuffle, can spread on table push interwoven halves together
2019 244
Michał Kociołek Odds any poker hand named, card selected and placed reversed in one half of the deck, performer does an open push-through shuffle and the four cards around the selection make up the named hand together with the selection
  • The hands
Inspired by 2019 32
Michał Kociołek The Wisdom of Crowds any poker hand named, card selected, then four spectators cut to four cards which together with selection make up named hand
  • The hands
  • From a shuffled deck
Inspired by 2019 41
Alberto de Figueiredo, Luis Alberto Iglesias Trucajes y el limite del engaño on using stooges
2019 22
Steve Forte Early Ideas stringing together false cut sequences
2020 756
Roger Klause Bending the Break
2020 761
Steve Forte deck setups all fours-of-a-kind together
2020 769
Steve Forte Target Practice black Aces in one half and red Aces in the other half, halves shuffled together and all Aces are together
  • 1st phase
  • 2nd phase (simplified free-cut principle and table faro)
2020 871
Steve Forte Riffle Get-Together
  • 1st phase (red Aces and Ace of Spades in different parts, together after one riffle shuffle)
  • 2nd phase (all Aces in separate parts, together after two riffle shuffles, sort of multiple shift)
2020 874
Steve Beam Shiftless aces apparently lost in the deck end up on top, four piles, way of taking cards together
Also published here 2020 31
Steve Reynolds Tech-Less Multiplex Reset Interchange effect, then both quartets brought together, one vanishes and is back in pockets
Inspired by 2020
Output (Issue 8)
8
Steve Reynolds Real-Time Side Steals peek steals
  • Peek Position
  • Peek Steal
  • Break Transfer
  • Technical.-Deliberate-Bold Steals
  • Standard Steal
  • M.P. Side Steal
Inspired byAlso published here
  • Deep Six 3 (2004)
2020
Output (Issue 11)
23
Jonathan Friedman Stretched Together one rubber band looks like two
Jan. 2020
Genii (Vol. 83 No. 1)
76
Brad Henderson (reviewer) T.G.R. (Together) 2.0 Snake Feb. 2020
Genii (Vol. 83 No. 2)
88
David Regal (reviewer) Sword of Za'Atar by Roger Nicot Apr. 2020
Genii (Vol. 83 No. 4)
81
Greg Chapman To Bring Cards Together (e.g. 4-of-a-kind to top, middle)
2020 36
Greg Chapman Searchers Undone faros bring sandwich cards together in stages
Related to 2020 45
John Carney Bare Bones Variations pendulum pull vanish, Roger Klause frame work
2020 55
Michael Rubinstein The Rubinstein Click Pass both coins dropped in hand together
Also published here
  • Master Coin Technique videos, 1985
2020 27
Nathan Coe Marsh (reviewer) Harry Houdini & Sherlock Holmes Together Again In 1908 by Arthur Moses July 2021
Genii (Vol. 84 No. 7)
91
David Regal Virtual Tells
  • Material Concessions
spectator makes four piles, shows the cards to the performer via zoom, riffle shuffles the four piles together, top cards predicted in envelope
Nov. 2021
Genii (Vol. 84 No. 11)
46
Juan Tamariz Instructions on Construction how to put together a show
2021 35
Roger Klause Pop-Up Move
2021 25
Benjamin Earl Probably Impossible two named cards are together in deck after spectator's shuffle, a selection then appears between them
2021 13
John Graham Chapter 6: Putting Everything Together
  • Show #1
  • Show #2
  • Show #3
2021 319
Tom Dobrowolski Never Together
Sep. 2021
The Disclaimer (Vol. 1 No. 6)
147
Chris Kenner, Roger Klause Aerial Stealth Subterfuge two coins apparently tossed simultaneously, with hidden third coin
Also published here Dec. 2021
The Disclaimer (Vol. 1 No. Christmas Special)
29
Eugene Burger The Moving Finger Technique spectator moves finger along face-up spread on table and stops
Related to 2021 298
Justin Higham Multiple Necktie Second Deal second and third card taken out together, deck held upright
2021 8
Geoffrey Williams The Trick That Vernon Tried To Explain To Me For A Quarter coin with arrow on it used, together with some improvised counting, to find selection or named prediction
June 2022
Elixir (Vol. 3 No. Florida Issue Part Two)
75
John Bannon Twain in Vain 4&4, spectator and performer mix cards together, End Grip handling
Inspired by Mar. 2022
Genii (Vol. 85 No. 3)
50
Joshua Jay Group Shuffle handling for riffle shuffle with two persons who riffle their sections together in-the-hands
Also published here Aug. 2022
Genii (Vol. 85 No. 8)
56
Giacomo Bertini The final phase of a new three-coin routine three coin vanish one by one, then re-appear together on spectator's hands
Related to June 2022
The Hermit (Vol. 1 No. 6)
258
Steven Hamilton Re-Uprising first Ace rises, then Ace and Two together, then Ace to Three
Inspired by 2022 123
Jeff Hinchliffe Soul Mates two cards initialed on back by man and woman, the signatures travel from those cards together onto the back of the composite card of suit of one and value of other card
2022
Conundrum (Issue 1)
36
Bob Farmer Sticking Cards Together
2022 3
Mark Aspiazu The Handcuff Man's Crazy rubber bands link together
Also published here 2022 25
Serge Kalloghlian Torn-and-Restored Couple two names written on a half of a separate blank card each (spectator's and performer's name), they are torn in half and the halves with the names fuse together
Also published here 2022 181
Anthony Owen, Marc Paul Perfect Match two matches signed by performer and spectator travel and eventually fuse together
Also published here 2022 258
Pit Hartling Mismatch Sandwich card peeked at, two cards placed wide apart reversed in ribbon-spread, they travel together to sandwich selection when re-spreading the deck
Related toAlso published here
  • MAGIC, Sep. 2004
2022 328
Chuck Smith Catch as Catch Can spectator places red Aces reversed in one half, performer divines which half, spectator then shuffles the halves together, performer divines card shuffled between the Aces
Also published here
  • MAGIC, Oct. 2004
2022 342
Joshua Jay A Roger Crosthwaite Issue
Also published here
  • MAGIC, Mar. 2006
2022 480
Roger Crosthwaite Longitudinal Tenkai Palm (LTP) Add-On Finesse steal from peek, add-on onto tabled packet
Also published here
  • MAGIC, Mar. 2006
2022 481
Roger Crosthwaite Everywhere and Nowhere three Jokers become the selection each, then back to Jokers
Also published here
  • MAGIC, Mar. 2006
2022 482
Roger Crosthwaite LTP Steal and Lap
Also published here
  • MAGIC, Mar. 2006
2022 484
Roger Crosthwaite More Ace-Cutting
Inspired by
  • "Loo Lung Revisited" (Roger Crosthwaite, Tribute to Farelli)
Also published here
  • MAGIC, Mar. 2006
2022 485
Brother John Hamman Expertalk: Brother John Hamman on Culling sorting strategy to get four-of-a-kind together, packets dropped on table
  • Stacking the Aces
Related toAlso published here
  • MAGIC, Feb. 2007
2022 595
Steve Reynolds Technicolor Find odd-backed sandwich cards come together to trap selection
Also published here
  • MAGIC, Oct. 2008
  • Cosmic Sport, 2001
2022 787
Iain Moran Banded Sandwich card appears between rubber-banded Jokers, glued rubber-band gaff
Inspired by
  • "Bandwich" (Jean-Pierre Vallarino, marketed)
  • Roger Curzon's "Bandwich" variation in "Blood on the Tricks"
Also published here
  • MAGIC, June 2010
2022 952
Dave Collins Expertalk: Dave Collins on the Double Wide False Riffle Shuffle cards never pushed together, cutting sequence with open strip-out with incompletely riffle shuffled deck
Also published here
  • MAGIC, June 2011
2022 1038
Jerry K. Hartman Back to Back Into Time card out-jogged in center shown and pushed in, top two cards shown and placed together in center, then out-jogged cards are only one card and the pair back on top, asymmetric Time Machine
Inspired byAlso published here
  • MAGIC, May 2013
2022 1206
Roger Klause Klause's Overworked Card Triumph type of effect, one card travels from bottom to top and turns every reversed card over
Inspired by 2022 66
Roger Klause Top Card Cover S.W.E. Shift
Inspired by 2022 144
Juan Tamariz The One-Armed Tribute routine performed one-handed with both hands simultaneously, one half on either side
  • Phase 1 - Ambitious Cards (deck cut in half, top card of both halves shown with one hand each and put in center of the half, they come back to top)
  • Phase 2 - Stop Together (cards lost in both halves again, both dealt simultaneously and spectator says stop, both cards are at that position)
  • Phase 3 - Slop Shuffle (tabled slop shuffle triumph with two halves, both done one-handed)
  • Phase 4 - Through the Table (both cards lost again, they travel through the table from each half)
  • Encore - Color Separation
2022 16
Jean-Pierre Vallarino Staircase Multiple Shift multiple cards inserted into outer end of deck and squared in, deck is given straight cut to table, cards are on top
  • to place shifted cards in group at specific location in deck (really a different technique altogether, D’Amico-Shift style)
2022 18
Mutliple turnover with packet together with spread cards above it, via buckle, see similar technique on p. 73 without buckle
2022 62
Jean-Pierre Vallarino Neutrino Aces signed selection lost in deck, leader Ace is dealt onto table face down with three indifferent cards on top of it, other three Aces are lost in deck, Aces reappear in pile with leader Ace together with signed selection
2022 64
Jean-Pierre Vallarino Progressive Aces progressive assembly with only one, two, three and four cards in each Ace pile respectively, each Ace is successively lost in deck before being revealed in next pile together with the other Ace(s) already in that pile, Vallarino's approach to David Britland's idea of combining Lorayne and Krenzel (see references)
Inspired by 2022 71
Through-the-fist flourish as cover for squeezing double together to adhere
2022 124
Jean-Pierre Vallarino Half Pass as both halves of deck are squared together, lower half is reversed, “vaguely similar to the LePaul spread pass,” see also p. 209 for more technical detail
2022 162
Jean-Pierre Vallarino Visual Lift one half of deck is out-jogged on other, signed selection is placed face up beneath bottom half and in-jogged, as selection is squared in it visually appears on top of bottom half, then halves are squared together and it appears on top
2022 237
Juan Tamariz New Call to the Colors without false deals
  • First Phase (ten red and ten black cards are alternated, an eight-card packet is taken and they change into two reds/two blacks/... order)
  • Second Phase (remaining twelve cards change into two reds/two blacks/... order)
  • Third Phase (the twelve cards rearrange themselves into groups of three)
  • Fourth Phase (the eight and twelve cards are riffle shuffled together, then the colors separate)
  • Fifth and Final Phase (rest of deck shuffled with twenty cards, deck then ends up color-separated)
2022 17
Juan Tamariz The Three Stooges three cards chosen, they end up completing three four-card poker hands to straight flushes
2022 34
Juan Tamariz Polyphony deck cut into three piles, three Queens put in front of the piles, fourth Queen placed aside
  • First Phase (a Queen is inserted the first packet and it comes to the top twice, other Queens lost in their packets, one of the Queens turns face up, the third Queen travels into back pocket)
  • Second Phase (repeat)
  • Third Phase (all three Queens together are put in center and come to top, then turn over at once in different positions, and all travel to pocket)
2022 21
Juan Tamariz Impromptu Set-Up sorting a deck in power stack openly by removing cards from the spread during a location effect, with "red-black separation" together with spectators as a challenge game
2022 36
Michael Weber, Tim Trono Smart Gum gum wrappers are folded into rectangular tubes with number columns along each of the four sides, speed-addition demonstration with different phases, involving spectator adding numbers on his phone calculator
  • The Secret of the Wrappers
    • Single Flat Wrapper
    • Tubes
  • The Secret of Your Friend Becoming Smarter
  • Putting it All Together
  • History
  • Rights
2022 1
Roger Smith K.S Move of K-S Move ("Klondike Shuffle"), packet in right-hand End grip, left hand pulls away top and bottom cards, rest as one card placed on top forming three-card fan
Related to 2022 ca. 27
Jon Racherbaumer Helter-Skelter Poker
  • Exhumations
poker deal with ten face-up and ten face-down cards shuffled together
Inspired by
  • "Carbon Footprint" (Paul Gordon, Gold Dust)
Also published here
Jan. 2023
Genii (Vol. 86 No. 1)
42
Joe M. Turner Joe's 3D Finger Thing fingers held together to reveal Three of Diamonds
Jan. 2023
Genii (Vol. 86 No. 1)
64
James Steranko Improvisation Part Two four indifferent cards reversed together in packet, Aces put reversed in another packet, they transpose
Also published here
  • Genii, Nov. 1962
Aug. 2023
Genii (Vol. 86 No. 8)
20
Elisav "Biz" Bizau, Jan Logemann The Automatic Bottom Palm
  • The Sleight Corner
swing cut cover
Related to
  • "The Autopilot Bottom Palm" (Aaron Fisher)
May 2023
The Hermit (Vol. 2 No. 5)
818
Scott Baird Aces Up, Collectors Aces turned over, they come together with two (faro) shuffles, Aces then trap the three mates of a named selection
Related to Oct. 2023
The Hermit (Vol. 2 No. 10)
1028
Brother John Hamman Brother John Hamman Cull sorting strategy to get four-of-a-kind together, packets dropped on table
Related to 2023 29
Pit Hartling Tuscan Sandwich two sandwich cards placed at the ends of a ribbon spread come together to sandwich selection, repeat, third time with cards out-jogged that visually move together
Related to 2023 8
Fontal Tilt Trap two out-jogged cards visually come together to sandwich selection, bluff spacing
2023 18
Justin Higham Impressionistic Ace Controls - Part 2 four Aces cut into deck one by one, end up together on top, no crimps, no shuffles
  • Method Twelve
  • Method Thirteen
  • Method Fourteen
  • Method Fifteen
Related to 2023 7
Justin Higham Impressionistic Ace Control - Method Nine, Version Two four Aces cut into deck one by one, end up together on top
Inspired by 2023 25
Justin Higham Impressionistic Ace Control - Method 14 four Aces cut into deck one by one, end up together on top, brief note
Related to 2023 3
John Graham, Asi Wind Sweet Sixteen cards mixed face-up/face-down together with spectators, one chosen, memory demonstration by naming all face-up cards, then Triumph with selection, Cheek-to-Cheek meets Shuffle-Bored, with introductory discussion about the effect by John Graham and Asi Wind
Inspired by
  • "Cheek to Cheek" (U. F. Grant)
2023 25
Jim Steinmeyer That Seat is Taken
  • Conjuring
six chairs with envelopes, procedure to get six spectators sitting on them, the envelopes contain predictions on the choices including the only female spectator's name
Inspired byRelated to Feb. 2024
Genii (Vol. 87 No. 2)
48
Jim Steinmeyer Everyone Lost Together
  • Conjuring
with five chairs with five predictions on them that match the spectators's seat choices
Related to Apr. 2024
Genii (Vol. 87 No. 4)
42
Claude Impériale Two Birds One Stone two cards chosen, one divined with memory feat, the other named as well
Inspired by
  • "Spaced Out" (Roger Golde, Card Treks, 1981)
Jan. 2024
The Hermit (Vol. 3 No. 1)
1204
Allan Ackerman The A & D Follow-Up Jokers find two selection, third signed selection has been found at the start already à la Signed Card
Inspired by 2024 65
Allan Ackerman The Cipher selection spelled out incorrectly on purpose, four-of-a-kind kicker with packets that made during spelling
Inspired byRelated to 2024 183
Allan Ackerman Twisting Maxi-Twist selection tabled, twisting routine with Aces, they change into Jack through Ace of Spades, selection changed to Ten of Spades, Aces reappear and selection is between them in the center of the deck
Inspired by 2024 189
Jack Carpenter, Allan Ackerman I Dance for the Devious - Two Queens vanish one by one, reproduced at once together again
Also published here 2024 203
Allan Ackerman The Cliff Green Add-on stepped card on top of deck pushed together with right thumb
Inspired byAlso published here 2024 5
Allan Ackerman, Jerry Sadowitz, Roy Walton Kings in the Corner transposition with transformation climax, four Kings in square formation, Queen put on every King, four Kings shown to be in inner corners, outer four cards are Aces
Inspired byAlso published here 2024 69
Allan Ackerman A Prelude to the Collectors three spectator remember top card of small packet, performer shuffles all together, faro
Also published here 2024 111
Allan Ackerman Three Card Control & Placement three spectator remember top card of small packet, performer overhand shuffles all together
Also published here 2024 111
Edward Marlo Anyone Anywhere intro to Any Card at Any Number themed tricks, describing a three phase routine by Marlo, memorized deck, stooge
Also published here 2024 195