56 entries for two as four count
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Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Louis Lam Do As I Do "An Experiment in Coincidence", two four-card piles are made by counting some cards with both both decks, bottom cards match
 		1935
Would You Believe It?
6
Keith Clark Silks Supreme silk produced, knot effects, silk becomes two, then three, then six and up to eighteen or more
  • As the Spectator Sees It
  • Properties
  • Preparation
  • Presentation
    • 1. A Striking Experiment
    • 2. The "Naughty" Knots
    • 3. Squeegie, Squeegie!
    • 4. The Fourth Dimension
    • 5. Another Silk Appears
    • 6. The Conjurer Counts - And Counts Again!
    • 7. The Sympathetic Silks
    • 8. The Multiplication Finale
 		1942
Silks Supreme
1
Edward Marlo A Miracle with Cards four spectators each cut off a packet, remember the bottom card and shuffle the whole packet, performer looks at each packet and finds the selections, secretly counting the packets, last card from pocket
  • alternative in which the last wrong card changes into selection
Related toVariations Dec. 1956
Ibidem (Issue 8)
11
Edward Marlo Magical Seven selection reversed in face-up portion travels down into lower face-down portion into seventh position, several repeats
  • Phase One
  • Phase Two
  • Phase Three
  • Phase Four
  • Phase Five
Related toVariations 1958
The Magic Seven
2
Ellis Stanyon Stanyon Count five as four, hiding two
 		Nov. 1969
Epilogue (Issue 7)
55
Jeff Busby Two Counts: Four As Four alternative to Jordan Count
Related to Nov. 1974
Epilogue (Issue 22)
207
Gene Castillon The Spirit Count two as four with four-card packet
Also published here 1976
Kabbala — Volume 3 (Vol. 3 No. 4)
53
Daryl Martinez D.M. Count two as four
 		1976
Paul Harris Reveals Some Of His Most Intimate Secrets
68
Paul Harris The Bizarre Twist! card perpendicular between two other cards turns visually over, color changing back kicker ("The Bizarre Routine")
Related toVariationsAlso published here 1976
Paul Harris Reveals Some Of His Most Intimate Secrets
73
Ken Krenzel Marionette Multiple Coin Vanish
Related toVariations Apr. 1978
Apocalypse (Vol. 1 No. 4)
42
Brother John Hamman, Daryl Martinez Two-as-Four Count / DM Count only two backs used to count four cards
 		1980
Secrets of a "Puerto Rican Gambler"
109
Jon Racherbaumer Two as Four Count
1981
The Lost Pages of the Kabbala
41
Peter Kane Four-As-Four Concealing Two Count end grip
 		1982
Kane
62
Brother John Hamman, Daryl Martinez Two-as-Four Count / DM Count
Feb. 1983
Apocalypse (Vol. 6 No. 2)
737
Brother John Hamman, Daryl Martinez Two-as-Four Count / DM Count brief
 		Mar. 1984
Apocalypse (Vol. 7 No. 3)
894
Daryl Martinez Two as Four Count
1984
Fork Full of Appetizers — Book 2
56
Herb Zarrow Multiple Switch-In while counting four cards in Biddle fashion, two are placed in different locations in the deck
 		1984
Fork Full of Appetizers — Book 2
76
Daryl Martinez Two-as-Four Count / DM Count
Winter 1985
The Collected Almanac (Vol. 3 No. 34, 35 & 36)
374
Charlie Miller False Counts off the deck (1939)
  • Four as Three
  • Two as Three
 		1985
The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 2)
30
Daryl Martinez DM Count two as four
 		1985
Daryl's Psychological Assembly
6
Edward Marlo Flipover Count two double facers as four different cards
 		1987
Special Effects
28
Ellis Stanyon Stanyon Count five as four, hiding two
 		1988
The Cervon File
218
Edward Marlo Marlo's Nerve Count showing four cards as four of a kind with two x-cards
 		1988
Marlo's Magazine — Volume 6
252
Brother John Hamman, Daryl Martinez Two as Four Count
1988
The Cardwright
55
Karl Fulves Card Counter two Twos, one put away, he now has three Threes, repeated with Fours, then Royal Flush, posed as problem
 		1988
Interlocutor (Issue 47)
191
Brother John Hamman The Two-As-Four Count
1989
The Secrets of Brother John Hamman
117
Karl Fulves Carrousel Count four-as-four while concealing two
 		1989
And a Packet of Cards
17
Brother John Hamman, Daryl Martinez Two-as-Four Count / DM Count
1990
Spectacle
36
Wesley James Six New Counts chapter intro
Related to 1990
Pasteboard Perpensions
2
Daryl Two as Four Count
1990
More Magician Foolers
13
Simon Aronson Simon-Eyes two cards thought of with counting procedure, both cards divined with "No No's Fishing"
  • Reality
  • The Problem
  • No No's Fishing
  • The Simon-Eyes Arrangement
  • The Selection Procedure
  • Fishing in the Simon-Eyes Pack
  • Fishing for the Values
  • Fishing for the Suits
  • The Faro Restacking Simon-Eyes Pack
Related toVariations 1990
The Aronson Approach
123
Gary Kurtz The G.K. Cups and Balls balls change color, seven final loads
  • Phase One - Introducing the Props
  • Phase Two - Countering Expectations
  • Phase Three - Variation on Vernon's Travelling Sequences
  • Phase Four (All Three Balls Appear under the Centre Cup)
  • Part Five: The Final Loading Sequences (Part One)
  • Phase Six: Producing Three Oranges (and Reloading)
  • Phase Seven: The Final Stretch
 		1991
The Cups and Balls
1
Jeff Busby, Edward Marlo Neo-Jordan Count
Related to 1992
Card Finesse II
53
Brother John Hamman, Daryl Martinez Two-as-Four Count brief
 		1992
Card Finesse II
252
Brother John Hamman Two-as-Four Count
1997
Jennings '67
242
Gene Castillon The Spirit Count two as four with four-card packet
 		1998
Card Notes
22
Allan Ackerman Rhythm Flustration Count two as four-of-a-kind
 		2001
Kardz
11
Aldo Colombini The Aces Are Gone four black cards, four red cards, four Aces, Aces put between other two packets and they vanish, then Oil & Queens with remaining 4&4 cards with Aces as kicker
Inspired by
  • "Off-Counted" (Erhard Liebenow, Linking Ring, Mar. 1995)
 Sep. 2001
Ego (Vol. 1 No. 4)
4
Two-as-Four Count with two cards
 		2003
FISM 2003
14
Wesley James Four-as-Four (Hiding Two, FAF-Two) Counts discussion of 4-as-4 counts
  • The FAF-Two C Count
Related to 2004
Enchantments
380
James Swain Las Vegas Count
  • The Card Expert
Gemini/Rhythm Count variation, hiding two of four faces
 		Oct. 2006
Genii (Vol. 69 No. 10)
29
Steve Beam The Flash Card Count
  • Two Show Four Different Cards as Two Pairs of Identical Cards
  • Two Show Four Different Cards as One Odd and Three Identical Cards
  • Two Show Five Different Cards to Consist of One Odd and Four Identical Cards
 		2008
Counter Attack
21
Brother John Hamman Two as Four Count see also p. 29 ("On The Two As Four Count")
 		July 2009
Genii (Vol. 72 No. 7)
26
Steve Reynolds Flashback Count four cards, showing two twice
Inspired byRelated to 2010
Six Deep — Part One
19
Wesley James Four-as-Four (Hiding Two, FAF-Two) Counts discussion of 4-as-4 counts
  • The FAF-Two M Count
  • The FAF-Two C Count
  • Application Notes
Related to 2010
Card Magic USA
107
Two-as-Four EYE Count
2014
Blomberg Laboratories
219
John Guastaferro Petal Count Display three indifferent cards and two Jokers can be shown as four Jokers
Also published here Feb. 2014
New Avantgarde Magic (Issue 15)
491
John Guastaferro Petal Count Display three indifferent cards and two Jokers can be shown as four Jokers
Also published here 2015
Burners — Vol. 3
134
Brother John Hamman Two-As-Four Count
July 2017
Elixir (Vol. 1 No. 1 (Summer #1))
7
Brother John Hamman Two as Four Count
Oct. 2018
Elixir (Vol. 2 No. 1 (Summer #2))
116
Two as Four count
2018
Kino.
62
Brother John Hamman, Daryl Martinez Two-as-Four Count
2018
Silhouette (Vol. 1 No. 1)
6
Nancy Colwell Hamman/Martinez Two-as-Four Count Handling starting in left-hand straddle grip
 		2019
Silhouette (Vol. 1 No. 2)
23
Larry Jennings Brother Hamman's Two as Four Count (All-Count Technique) right-hand corner grip
 		2020
Mr. Jennings Takes It Easy
264
Michael Rubinstein The Combination Count two as four, R.O.P.S. Discrepancy Count & Fidget Count, see also p. 313
 		2020
Rubinstein Coin Magic
59
Jim Steinmeyer Five Coincidences
  • Conjuring
cards counted into glass on a cardboard piece, spectator stops five times and those cards are placed against the bookmark, the five cards are four Threes and a Two with a third pip drawn on it, rest of cards shown to be double-backed
 		June 2021
Genii (Vol. 84 No. 6)
68