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Johann Nepomuk Hofzinser Die sympathetischen Zahlen spectator stops while performer deals cards on table, then four people select a card, selections are the four Tens which match amount of dealt cards, number is also predicted on a piece of paper
Related toVariationsAlso published here 1910 4
Charles T. Jordan Sympathetic Sympathy two cards put in envelope from different decks match, can be repeated
Related toVariations 1921
The Four Full Hands (Issue Four Full Hands of Down to the Minute Magical Effects)
27
Theodore Annemann Synthetic Sympathy two cards from different decks match
Related to Nov. 1934
The Jinx (Issue 2)
7
Charles T. Jordan Sympathetic Sympathy two cards put in envelope from different decks match, can be repeated
Related to 1937 74
The Sympathetic Pair - No. 1 two named cards end up next to each other, sticky card
1937 115
The Sympathetic Pair - No. 2 two selected cards end up next to each other, sticky cards, duplicates
1937 116
The Sympathetic Pair - No. 3 two selected cards end up next to each other, sticky substance on finger
1937 116
Charles T. Jordan Sympathetic Numbers coincidences with number ten, Tens show up, cut off packet are ten cards, ..., stripper deck
1937 278
"You Do as I Do" - A. The Sympathetic Cards stacked
1938 270
Dr. H. Walter Grote The Harmony of Numbers "An Original Card Divertissement"
several piles made by cutting and saying stop, each pile has ten cards and a Ten spot on top
Related to 1939 28
Eddie Joseph Sympathetic Bond three cards chosen from blue-backed deck, the duplicates of those cards from a red deck travel into the blue deck
1942 46
George G. Kaplan Will-o'-the-Wisp Routine sympathetic cards through newspaper with one cover only
Variations 1948 56
Arthur H. Buckley The Sympathetic Cards Ace to Three of Spades are used to find Aces, Twos and Threes and make them transpose and change to match
1948 111
Martin Gardner Gardner's Sympathetic Cards No. 111, Two-deck Do-as-I-Do
1950 214
Nate Leipzig Leipzig's Sympathetic Cards No. 137, from two decks placed under handkerchiefs, performer removes matching cards
1950 265
John Scarne Scarne's Sympathetic Card Trick No. 144, coincidence effect using different-sized packets of cards from two decks.
1950 278
Alex Elmsley Through Darkest Peirce cards are dealt out multiple times to mix them, yet they are mated, relation to Sympathetic Cards
Inspired byRelated toAlso published here Sep. 1957
Ibidem (Issue 11)
16
Dai Vernon Cards of Coincidence two cards from two decks put in envelope match, three phases
Inspired byRelated toAlso published here 1961 11
North Bigbee Bigbee's Simplified Sympathetic Cards
1972
Magick (Issue 46)
229
Dr. Jacob Daley Daley's Sympathetic Numbers Or Lucky No. 277, spectator stops while performer deals cards on table, then four people select a card from four piles, selections are the four Nines which match amount of dealt cards, number is also predicted on a piece of paper
Inspired byRelated to 1972 69
John Northern Hilliard Les pièces voyageuses corners of handkerchief assembly, shell, two cards
Related toAlso published here
  • J. H. Hilliard "La Prestidigitation du XXe Siècle"
1973
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 34 No. 4)
62
Roger Smith Tarsat "Tabled Aces Reverse Sympathetic Ace Trick"
Aces revers in deck, when re-spread only three Aces are reversed and one face-down in between, four cards removed, another Ace reverses and reversed Ace turns out to be previous selection of same suit
Variations 1977 32
Tan Hock Chuan Sympathetic Transposition S.B.S. Deck, any four cards transpose between spectator and magician's decks
1977 11
Magic Ronnay, Fred Castle The Sympathetic Cards Packets of cards turn face up/down when cards are swapped around, then they change to Jokers, and then shown to have all different backs
1981 10
Derek Dingle The Sympathetic Cards double facers
Also published here 1982 150
Gene Maze Sympathetic Fans two cards chosen in two decks match and transpose
1983 73
Karl Fulves Ho Ho Coins No. 8, coins gather under credit cards, posed as a problem
Inspired by 1985 116
Larry Jennings L.J. On Leipzig's Sympathetic Cards ungaffed
1986 201
Patrick Page The Sympathetic Rising Card three selections pushed into one deck of cards, duplicates simultaneously rise out of another deck
Also published here 1990 89
Patrick Page Der Gleichgestimmte Kartensteiger three selections pushed into one deck of cards, duplicates simultaneously rise out of another deck
Also published here Dec. 1991
Intermagic (Vol. 16 No. 4 & 5)
149
Alex Elmsley Through Darkest Peirce cards are dealt out multiple times to mix them, yet they are mated, relation to Sympathetic Cards
Also published here 1994 401
James Swain, Herbert Milton, Nate Leipzig Sympathetic Thirteen specially arranged decks of ungaffed cards
1999 131
Johann Nepomuk Hofzinser Sympathetic Numbers cards dealt until spectator calls stop, then four cards chosen, ten cards dealt, all selections are Tens and prediction is ten
Related toVariationsAlso published here 2002 15
Al Baker Sympathetic Cards selection next to reversed card
2003 743
Wesley James Follow That Card II "alpha"
  • Phase I: Ace through Four of Clubs & Spades are sympathetic, with additional red cards in play
  • Phase II: repeat variation
  • Phase III: follow the leader with the two four-card packets
  • Phase IV: four spades put in different pockets, clubs vanish and reappear with spades as pairs in pocket
Inspired by
  • "Follow That Card" (Bro. John Hamman, marketed item)
2004 208
Derek Dingle The Sympathetic Cards double facers
Also published here 2004 32
Karl Fulves Milton "In Order"
combination of palindrome and sympathetic plots with five cards
Related to 2011
Prolix (Issue 9)
572
John Bannon The Royal Scam several Aces of Spades do some twisting phases, then some change to a Royal Flush, rainbow back finish
Inspired by
  • Cascade (Roy Walton, 2016)
  • "Queens Out Of Control" (Gerry Griffin, 2004, online video)
  • "The Sympathetic Cards" (Magic Ronnay, 1970s, Emerson & West)
Variations
2013 3
Tomas Blomberg Marlo Might Have Liked This Sympathetic Cards version, part of the effect occurs during the revelation, odd-backed
Inspired by 2014 178
Subtlety for the Sympathetic Cards changing secretly the order of one card in a packet in order to show the same packet as a different one
2014 181
Joaquín Matas Los Sietes-Dieces cards dealt until spectator calls stop, then four cards chosen, numbers match the amount of dealt cards, other card is chosen and other three cards change to same value, number in dealt pile matches too
Inspired by 2014 193
David Britland, Jesse Demaline Sympathetic Cards from Pocket
  • Cardopolis
three cards chosen from one deck, performer locates duplicates of those cards from another deck in his pocket
Inspired by
  • "Sympathetic Cards from Pocket" (Jesse Demaline, The Magic Wand, issue 254)
Feb. 2019
Genii (Vol. 82 No. 2)
68