28 entries in Cards / Effect Themes / Four-of-a-Kind & Aces Effects / Matching the Cards / Miscellaneous Variations
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
To Change Four Cards, drawn haphazard, and placed on the table, into Cards of the same Value as a Single Card subsequently chosen by one of the Spectators optional forcing pack
1876 102
Arthur H. Buckley A Difficult Routine Experiment No. 17 - four cards change one at a time, presented with four forced selections (Aces)
Related to 1946 168
Dr. Jacob Daley, Paul LePaul The Bashful Queens three Queens on the table change to indifferent cards. All four Queens are found in four different pockets
Related toVariations 1949 179
Larry Jennings The Changing of the Guard "Chapter Twelve", three cards are changed to match Ace of Spades
Related to 1967 75
Larry Jennings Monarch's Quartette "Chapter Thirteen"
Variations 1967 83
Larry Jennings Monarch's Quartette - plus
1967 85
Jeff Altman Three Happenings similar in effect, top and bottom cards of piles fit
1972 377
Dr. Jacob Daley Daley's Knaves And Aces No. 212, Jacks lost and found and put in "prison", they transpose with Aces
Related to 1972 52
Larry Jennings Nowhere and Everywhere again
Also published here 1977 38
Lewis Ganson Tribute to the Card Stars three or even four four-of-a-kinds show up
Inspired by 1977 22
Christian Scherer Dreifache Überraschung three matching cards turn over in deck
1978 69
How to deliver out four aces, and convert them into four knaves. four times glide, Richard Kaufman's transcription of Reginald Scot's card section
Related to 1979 62
Derek Dingle, Yasuo Kiga a la Kiga three cards change to make four of a kind, two handlings
1982 5
Michael Powers Counter-Intuitive Transpo Matching the Cards meets Reset in a weird effect combination
1983 11
Earl Wheeler Sucker Four Ace assembly with Kings, last one is an Ace, Kings change to Aces to match (1937)
1985 4
Father Cyprian "If I Were a Psychic" spectator chooses a Four with longer elimination process, performer cuts one half into three piles, face cards don't match but bottom cards are mates of selection
1989 32
Michael Powers Misplace Your Bets performer cuts to four-of-a-kind one by one, spectator cuts small packet onto each card, top cards shown to be same four-of-a-kind, bottom cards changed to Twos or something else, two effect variations
Inspired by 1990 40
Larry Jennings, Roberto Giobbi Metamorphosis spectator finds three matching values for a "prediction card"
Inspired by 1995 239
Larry Jennings Monarchs' Quartette
  • Version One
  • Version Two
1997 22
Aaron Fisher Four by Four spectator selects one of four cards, the other three change into the quartet
2002 63
Aldo Colombini Narrow Margin spectator cuts to three Aces, then a Ten, Aces are changed to Tens, then to Kings, Aces found reversed in center and Kings in different pockets
Mar. 2002
Ego (Vol. 1 No. Special TSD Convention Issue)
6
Scotty Johnston The Shoe She Connection card put aside, spectator deals three piles, top cards match selection, repeat in which cards to not match but first three cards that were placed aside changed to match new selection
2007 37
Darwin Ortiz Twelve the Hard Way twelve cards from one suit produced to match selection, mistake, transformation in different suit
Inspired by
  • Benjamin Earl's "Full Suit Production"
2012 99
Peter Duffie Not Wrong performer cuts four packets with Ace through Four of Hearts on the face, fourth card is Spades though and other packets are turned over to show matching Spade cards
2012 6
Tony Chang Queens Gambit removed card is "divined" by analyzing four indifferent cards twice, then four of a kind transformation climax
2013 17
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
Yves Carbonnier À la Jennings
Inspired by 2019 64
Larry Jennings Monarch’s Quartette the Third
Also published here 2020 562