Racherbaumer, Jon

Book

1978
Written by Jon Racherbaumer
Work of Various

44 pages (Hardcover), published by Magic Limited
Illustrated with drawings by Don Albrecht
Language: English

21 entries

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Aleix Badet (Circular de la Escuela Mágica de Madrid, Vol. 4 No. 48, Dec. 1978, p. 255)

Arch Triumphs (written by Jon Racherbaumer, work of Various, 1978)
Creators	Title	Comments & References		Page	Categories
Jon Racherbaumer	Introduction			1	Cards / Effect Themes / Turnover & Reverse / Triumph / Classic Effect (with or without selections) Articles / Intros & Epilogues
Simon Aronson	Triumph for Two	two cards selected, Triumph and one card shows, cards re-spread and same selection is face-up and first one transformed into second one		4	Cards / Effect Themes / Turnover & Reverse / Triumph / Effect Variations
Edward Marlo	Revised K.M. Move		Related to K.M. Move - with Reverse Fingering Action (Edward Marlo, Marlo's Magazine — Volume 1, 1976)	5	Cards / Sleights / Reverses / More for One Card or a few Cards / K.M. Move
Jon Racherbaumer	Hofzinser Triumphs	selection is lost, Triumph shuffle, reveal to have three Aces face up with selection face down amongst them, then selection's value used to find final Ace	Inspired by Criss Cross Triumph (Jean Faré, Card Tricks, French Style, 1977)	6	Cards / Effect Themes / Turnover & Reverse / Triumph / Effect Variations Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Hofzinser & Victor Ace Problem
Jon Racherbaumer	About the So-Called Hofzinser Problem			8	Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Hofzinser & Victor Ace Problem
David Solomon	Triumphant Aces	selection is lost, Triumph shuffle, reveal to have three Aces face up with selection face down amongst them, then selection's value used to find final Ace Racherbaumer Addition	Inspired by Criss Cross Triumph (Jean Faré, Card Tricks, French Style, 1977)	10	Cards / Effect Themes / Turnover & Reverse / Triumph / Effect Variations Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Hofzinser & Victor Ace Problem
Edward Marlo	Swindle Triumph	color changing deck, single odd-backed card used		12	Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / Color Changing Deck Cards / Effect Themes / Turnover & Reverse / Triumph / Effect Variations
Edward Marlo	Optional Center Card Transfer	peek from incomplete faro position, selection transferred in lower half Option 1 (controlling card without break) Option 2 (controlling card with break) Option 3 (corner crimp) Option 4 (crimping different corner) Option 5 (angle jogging card)	Related to Incomplete Faro Transposition (Edward Marlo, Kabbala — Volume 1, 1971) method in The Gen	14	Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Incomplete Faro Cards / Sleights / Controls / Single Card Controls / Faro Controls / Incomplete Faro Cards / Sleights / Crimps / Corner Crimp Cards / Sleights / Jog Techniques / Retaining & Setting a Jog / Hands
Edward Marlo, Jon Racherbaumer	IF Glimpse	after incomplete faro peek	Related to IF Glimpse (Jon Racherbaumer, Edward Marlo, The Hierophant, 1969)	15	Cards / Sleights / Glimpse / Center at break, jog, ... Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Incomplete Faro
Edward Marlo	The Center Card Transfer into the Left Palm	after incomplete faro peek		19	Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Incomplete Faro Cards / Sleights / Palming / Classic Palm / Left Hand / Center Cards / Sleights / Controls / Single Card Controls / Faro Controls / Incomplete Faro
Edward Marlo	I-F Triumph	triumph after peek in incomplete faro condition		21	Cards / Effect Themes / Turnover & Reverse / Triumph / Classic Effect (with or without selections) Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Incomplete Faro
Steve Freeman, Roger Klause	The Bowl-Over Aces	three shuffles required	Inspired by Rollover Aces (Derek Dingle, The Complete Works of Derek Dingle, 1982)	23	Cards / Effect Themes / Turnover & Reverse / Triumph / Rollover Aces
	Push-Through with Block Transfer			24	Cards / Sleights / Riffle Shuffle / Riffle on the table / False / Push Through
Simon Aronson, David Solomon, Edward Marlo	Stop Perfecting Triumph!	first selection used to count down to second after Triumph Dave Solomon Handling	Inspired by The Perfect Stop Trick (Edward Marlo, Early Marlo, 1945) Count-Down Triumph (Frederick Braue, Kabbala — Volume 3, 1976) also in: Counting On Triumph (Lecture Notes 1, 1976) Deal-down Triumph (Arch Triumphs, 1978) Variations Imperfect Triumph? (Ian Land, Spell-Binder, 1982)	27	Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Face up Card is used to count down to selection Cards / Effect Themes / Turnover & Reverse / Triumph / Effect Variations Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Numerical or Straight Stack / Partial
Jon Racherbaumer	Push-thru Failure Triumphs			29	Cards / Effect Themes / Skill Demonstration / Push-Through Failure Cards / Effect Themes / Red Black / Separation / As a Climax Cards / Effect Themes / Turnover & Reverse / Triumph / Effect Variations
David Solomon	Toss-in Triumph	no card reversed after Triumph, indicator is tossed next to selection		33	Cards / Effect Themes / Skill Demonstration / Card is tossed next to Selection Cards / Effect Themes / Turnover & Reverse / Triumph / Effect Variations Cards / Principles / Locator Cards / Thick Card Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Double Backer / Same Color
Gene Castillon	Tipsy Triumph			35	Cards / Effect Themes / Turnover & Reverse / Triumph / Daley-Diaconis Poker Plot
Gene Castillon	Modified Guyatt Drunken Cut		Inspired by Drunken Cut Sequence (Terry Guyatt, Kabbala — Volume 3, 1976)	35	Cards / Sleights / Cuts / False Cut / Complete / Hands & Table
Jon Racherbaumer	Select Bibliography	on Triumph in print		38	Cards / Effect Themes / Turnover & Reverse / Triumph / Classic Effect (with or without selections) Articles / Bibliography
Frederick Braue	Deal-down Triumph		Also published here Count-Down Triumph (Frederick Braue, Kabbala — Volume 3, 1976) also in: Counting On Triumph (Frederick Braue, Lecture Notes 1, 1976) Related to Flip-Flop Triumph (Jon Racherbaumer, Nick Trost, The Lost Pages of the Kabbala, 1981) Count Down Triumph (Bernard Bilis, Genii, 2023) Variations Stop Perfecting Triumph! (Simon Aronson, David Solomon, Edward Marlo, Arch Triumphs, 1978) Flip-Flop Triumph (Jon Racherbaumer, Nick Trost, The Lost Pages of the Kabbala, 1981)	43	Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Face up Card is used to count down to selection Cards / Effect Themes / Turnover & Reverse / Triumph / Effect Variations
Edward Marlo, Frank Pemper	Joker Switch	Jokers forgotten on table	Also published here The Joker Switch (Edward Marlo, Ed Marlo: Forty Years Later, 2025) Related to The Joker Switch (Frank Pemper, Jon Racherbaumer, Edward Marlo, Card College — Volume 4, 2000) Variations The Joker Deck Switch (Mel Brown, Roberto Giobbi, The Art of Switching Decks, 2013)	44	Cards / Sleights / Switches / Deck & Thick Packet Switches / Technical / Miscellaneous

Data entered by Denis Behr, April 2017.

Arch Triumphs