60 entries for one-way cards
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Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
To Detect, without Confederacy, which of Four Cards has been Turned Round in your Absence one-way margins
 		1876
Modern Magic
57
Noli me tangere several cards on table, spectators turn cards end for end and performer identifies which ones, one-way punch mark
 		1896
Der moderne Kartenkünstler
36
Eduard W. Lufa Halt! three cards selected, card dealt into hat one by one, each spectator says stop during the deal and the performer is holding the spectator's selection at that moment, second deck cut into four piles, one pile selected and all its cards predicted in envelope, then first deck changes into one-way force deck of each of the three selections one by one
 		Oct. 1900
Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 6 No. 10)
147
A Series of Card Tricks Based on a New and Original System on natural one-way back designs, "The Irregularities of Scroll Designed Cards"
Related to 1909
The Art of Magic
169
Donald Holmes The "Self-Shifting" Pack
  • First Method (long-short Menetekel)
  • Second Method (no short cards but one-way backs, "improved method")
  • Suggestions (having multiple cards selected and bringing the duplicates to top)
 		1913
Tricks With Prepared Cards
9
Charles T. Jordan The Reversed Court Card No. 6, one of four court cards is reversed by spectator, performer divines which one, one-way on face of some Bicycle cards
Also published here 1920
Ten New Impromptu Card Tricks
14
Theodore Annemann Odd or Even, Which? knowing whether a packet has an odd or even number of cards, alternating one-way backs
Related to 1934
SH-H-H--! It's A Secret
10
A Thought Card Prodigy spectator takes three cards and thinks of one of them which is found, one-way backs, OOSOOM
 		1937
Encyclopedia of Card Tricks
142
Theodore Annemann Odd or Even knowing whether a packet has an odd or even number of cards, alternating one-way backs
Related to 1937
Encyclopedia of Card Tricks
148
U. F. Grant No Dice removing cards from packet with certain values wins game, one-way backs
 		1937
Encyclopedia of Card Tricks
151
U. F. Grant Living and Dead Test with one-way playing cards
 		1937
Encyclopedia of Card Tricks
153
C. O. Williams Reading the Cards stacked one-way deck is riffle shuffled, yet order called out
 		1937
Encyclopedia of Card Tricks
155
Howard Albright Uni-Mentality free choice, but spectator takes out five cards with his selection, one-way backs
 		1937
Encyclopedia of Card Tricks
157
A Counter Location any card the spectator upjogs can be found, one-way key cards at intervals
 		1937
Encyclopedia of Card Tricks
160
U. F. Grant Thought Transference assistant names selection when he returns into room, code with one-way cards
 		1937
Encyclopedia of Card Tricks
163
U. F. Grant Say When three cards at three numbers in fifteen-card packet, using hat, one-way backs
 		1937
Encyclopedia of Card Tricks
164
Dr. Buell A Test Discovery one-way pointer cards
 		1938
Greater Magic
287
Dr. Stanley Jaks Legacy From Tibet two routines with one-way picture/symbol cards
Also published here 1940
The Jinx (Issue 101)
613
To Reverse a Packet of Cards end-for-end reversal (one-way or stripper deck)
 		1941
The Stripper Deck
6
William S. Houghton The "Blackout" Double Prophecy two cards chosen in the dark are predicted, two one-way forcing decks
 		1943
The Magic 36
62
John Mulholland II. Card at Number magician notes card’s position in deck (one-way backs), miscalls several cards’ values that add up to the card’s position and spectator counts down
 		1944
The Art of Illusion
14
Dr. Stanley Jaks Das Erbe von Tibet two routines with one-way picture/symbol cards
Also published here 1961
Dr. Stanley-Jaks und seine Geheimnisse
134
Berafini Ein Fortis-Trick location of selected card, promotional cards, one-way
 		1963
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 24 No. 1)
7
Alan Brown Future Ghost cards thought-of and not removed from deck, one-way faces or edge-marks or one-way crimp, see also p. 373 and p. 684
Related toVariations Sep. 1970
The Pallbearers Review (Vol. 5 No. 11)
357
One Way Cards one-way feature on Tally-Ho Circle Backs
 		1975
New and Novel Knowledge
34
Charles T. Jordan The Reversed Court Card one of four court cards is reversed by spectator, performer divines which one, one-way on face of some Bicycle cards
Also published here 1975
Charles T. Jordan: Collected Tricks
24
Charles T. Jordan The Wizard Reader thirty-two card deck is cut and performer can name any drawn card, cards not marked but groups of one-way-reversed cards clue the position in the stack
Related toVariationsAlso published here 1975
Charles T. Jordan: Collected Tricks
137
Charles T. Jordan The Trio three cards predicted, new deck opened and three selected which match prediction, apparently around 1919 Bicycle Rider backs came as one-way deck with always the three same cards reversed
Related toVariations 1975
Charles T. Jordan: Collected Tricks
143
Karl Fulves The Double Selection divided deck and cards selected from incomplete riffle shuffle position, one-way suggestion
 		1979
Riffle Shuffle Control
3
Uriah Fuller 6. ESP Cards, Part II divinations and tests using one-way backs
 		1980
Further Confessions of a Psychic
50
A Method to Detect If Your Cards Have Been Tampered one-way check after opening a deck
 		1981
The Magic of Jimmy Grippo
167
Philip T. Goldstein The Hawk two cards noted while back turned, one found by shouting stop, other named, part of the "Birds of Prey" locations
Variations 1982
Thunday
1
Key Cards pencil marks, or reversed card in one-way deck
 		1985
The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 1)
9
Thomas Alan Waters One-Way Decks tarot cards
 		1987
Mind, Myth & Magick (Issue T.A.R.O.T.)
798
Edward Marlo Triumphant Procedure in process of triumph reverse twenty-six one-way cards for location effect
 		1988
Marlo's Magazine — Volume 6
211
Daryl Martinez Out of this Hemisphere twenty-card packet version, spectator puts one color on table and other color to bottom, red cards marked
  • The Cards (replacing marks with stripper, one-way or crimp)
  • Totally Impromptu
 		1989
Out of this Hemisphere
1
Charles T. Jordan The Wizard Reader No. 154, thirty-two card deck is cut and performer can name any drawn card, cards not marked but groups of one-way-reversed cards clue the position in the stack
Also published here 1992
Charles Jordan's Best Card Tricks
187
Charles T. Jordan, Karl Fulves Change Your Mind? No. 166, one of two cards thought-of, replaced, deck dealt into two piles (some face-up, some face-down), performer picks out correct card, one-way on faces and backs (instead of original dot marks used by Jordan)
Inspired by 1992
Charles Jordan's Best Card Tricks
199
Richard Bartram, Jr. The Bicycle Hoax apparently Bicylce cards have one-way design, using the Hole Shuttle card
 		1993
Mystification
15
Bob Gill The Haines Phenomenon on the one-way principle involved in the Haines ESP cards
 		1994
The Mental Magick of Basil Horwitz — Volume 3
9
Jeff Busby Chapter 4: Magicians and Edge Work on edge work in print, DeLand's Wonder Pack, credit information
  • Cutting Any Card Called
  • Downs' Work
  • One-Way Edge Marking
  • Tarbell's Work
  • Hilliard's Omnibus Exploration
  • Crimp Edge Work
  • Jack McMillen's Work
  • J.G. Thompson Jr.'s Method
  • Walsh's Method
  • Merlini's Method
  • Kosky's Method
  • Marlo's Edge Reader
  • Gene Grant's Method
  • Karroll Priest's Method
  • The "Cardini" Deck
  • Burton's Devil's Deck Variant
  • No Playing Cards - Strictly for the Mentalist
Related to 1998
The Secret of the Palmettos
27
Jeff Busby One-Way Glass card selected out-of-hands from shuffled deck, performer names position of selection, almost no-touch, out-of-hand reversal method
Inspired by
  • "Mind Mirror" (Jack McMillen, "Mental Mysteries with Cards", Larsen & Wright, 1942)
 1998
The Secret of the Palmettos
62
Jeff Busby The Gray Code credit information, comments on the possibility to combine gray code stack work with one-way edge-marked cards
 		1998
The Secret of the Palmettos
122
C. O. Williams Reading the Fifty-two Cards After a Genuine Shuffle No. 11, order of cards read after one riffle shuffle, interlocking chain principle and one-way backs
Variations 1999
Ellis Stanyon's Best Card Tricks
118
Ellis Stanyon The "Monte Cristo" Forcing Pack No. 24, one-way forcing deck with fake indifferent indices on all cards
  • Suggested Effects (thought reading, prediction)
 		1999
Ellis Stanyon's Best Card Tricks
206
Jerry MacGregor Opening Prediction card chosen matches prediction, then all other cards shown to be one-way force deck of a different card
 		1999
Real World Magic
175
Andrew Wimhurst Rum Punch #3 chosen cards are dealt in poker hand, fair handling due to punch deal and tactile one-way deck
 		2001
Jiggery Pokery
[16]
Al Baker, Max Holden Another Subtle Mystery Si Stebbins & one-way, cards with same suit and value as selection are found face down
 		2003
The Secret Ways of Al Baker (Issue Notebooks)
681
Karl Fulves Riffle Shuffle Control as Cull upjogging all cards of one group instead of doing a riffle shuffle, also from the back with one-way backs
 		2006
Prolix (Issue 1)
46
Dr. Stanley Jaks Legacy from Tibet two routines with one-way picture/symbol cards
Also published here 2014
The Incredible Dr. Jaks
171
David Britland Secret of The Cards
  • Cardopolis
secret juice-like one-way marking on all Haines's ESP decks
Also published here
  • Center Tear magazine by Trevor McCombie
 Oct. 2015
Genii (Vol. 78 No. 10)
20
Ondřej Pšenička Hunting the Butterflies History of one-way decks and edge-marked decks, which led to the Butterfly playing cards
 		2017
The Secret of the Butterflies
6
Ondřej Pšenička What Are Butterfly Playing Cards? Description of how the Butterfly cards should be used

  • The Two-Way Markings
  • The One-Way Markings
  • The One-Way Flower
  • The One-Way Faces
 		2017
The Secret of the Butterflies
13
Ondřej Pšenička The One-Way Principle Discusses ways to keep one-way cards in the same orientation during tricks
 		2017
The Secret of the Butterflies
24
Theodore Annemann, Ondřej Pšenička The Subtle Method Way of fixing a one-way deck if accidentally shuffled wrongly, re-orientate cards, variation on Annemann method
Related to 2017
The Secret of the Butterflies
40
Ondřej Pšenička The Open Method Way of fixing a one-way deck if accidentally shuffled wrongly, re-orientate cards in the context of a card location
 		2017
The Secret of the Butterflies
43
Steve Forte These Cards Are Marked! high-low separation, using one-way
 		2020
Gambling Sleight Of Hand — Volume 2
1027
Michał Kociołek The Dreamer spectator cuts anywhere, takes five cards and thinks of the highest one, all five are divined
  • This is the (one) way (one-way version)
 		2021
More Plots & Methods
34
Unnamed Magician Bonus Effect / Method deck wash-shuffled, card taken from face-down spread and replaced, performer deals through cards and stops at selection, random one-way sequence codes position
Inspired by 2024
The Exception
18
Unnamed Magician The Distance Unaffected by a Riffle Shuffle (DURS) Principle application of interlocking chain principle with one-way cards
Related to 2025
Midnight Sessions
22