57 entries in Cards / Effect Themes / Four-of-a-Kind & Aces Effects / Matching the Cards / Matching selection / Magician Produces Three Cards
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Louis F. Christianer Correcting a Mistake card is selected and placed aside without looking, three more cards chosen, they are three Kings, first chosen card is an Ace and Kings have changed to Aces
1923 7
Frank Travers Correcting a Mistake Aces change to Kings
June 1941
The Jinx (Issue 142)
800
Arthur H. Buckley The Ladies and the Deuces Experiment No. 21 - with cards to pockets climax
1946 174
Edward Marlo The Good Magician
Related to 1947 44
Fours of a Kind dunbury delusion presentation
1948 213
Dai Vernon Matching the Cards
Related to 1959 22
Nate Leipzig The Matching Up Trick or Comedy of Errors
1963 167
Al Leech The Better Magician
1965 55
Dai Vernon Vernon's Matching Up Trick No. 12
1972 8
Dai Vernon Vernon's Matching Up Trick Variation No. 19, three different switch-outs, "Dai showed this to Leipzig and it became his favorite trick."
1972 10
Dr. Jacob Daley Daley's "I Thought So" (Matching Up Variation) No. 262
1972 65
Dr. Jacob Daley Daley's Psychological Matching Up Trick No. 340, with pocket finale, two cards can be pre-loaded
Related to 1972 95
Dr. Jacob Daley Snap Crimp Use For Leipzig's Matching Up Trick No. 552, card chosen, other three found, unclear if transformation is part of it
1972 154
Sam Leo Horowitz Horowitz's Combination Transposo And Comedy Of Errors For Finish No. 609, doing matching the cards as follow up to a transposition
Related to 1972 169
Nate Leipzig Leipzig's Four Aces And 3 Ten Match Up Trick No. 676, note without content
1972 184
Nate Leipzig Leipzig's Matching Index No. 683, cryptic
1972 185
Harry Lorayne Quick Matching the Cards
1973 100
Faucett Ross Card Act Description of routine of card tricks

  • Cards Up the Sleeve
  • Matching the Cards
  • Leipzig Four Ace Trick
  • Changing card under foot
  • Twenty Card Transposition
1975 200
Herbert Milton Rendition of Matching the Cards
1975 201
Francis Carlyle Matching the Selected Card brief
1975 77
Karl Fulves Sidelines credit information on the following plots
  • Magician Makes Good
  • The Travelers
1977
The Pallbearers Review (Vol. 10 No. Close-Up Folio #9)
1020
Lewis Ganson Introduction
1977 4
Dai Vernon Matching the Cards
1977 6
Dai Vernon Note Travelers as follow-up for Matching the Cards
1977 9
Nate Leipzig Comedy of Errors "wrong" cards dropped on floor, where they then change to match selection
1977 10
Faucett Ross The Faucett Ross Version
1977 13
Faucett Ross Impromptu Matching two four-of-a-kinds, pair exchanged, they transpose back, then ready for Matching the Cards
1977 15
Roger Smith, Steve Saunders, Ron Hicks The Spell of a Good Magician three thought-of cards spelled to, they then change to Aces to match a fourth card, faro
1977 9
Fantomas Three After One free choice, full deck set up in four of a kinds
Dec. 1982
Apocalypse (Vol. 5 No. 12)
716
Frank Garcia Matching the Cards Sequence three cards tell value, suit, ...
1982 25
Christian Scherer Vier Damen cards are produced to divine selection, transform into mates
1982 31
Curtis Kam Overdunn indicator cards change into mates of selection, missing sucker element
1982 36
Dai Vernon A Match Made in Cincinnati performing Matching the Cards with a new deck, includes cutting to any named value
1987 139
Dai Vernon Matching the Cards Forerunner
Variations 1989 xii
Dai Vernon Matching the Cards Forerunner II
1989 xvi
Stephen Tucker Masters of Disguise
Apr. 1991
Apocalypse (Vol. 14 No. 4)
1909
Terry LaGerould Las Vegas Final Exam Matching the Cards with Aces and Kings, then Aces cut to by magician
Variations 1992 49
Edward Marlo Easy Packet Switch covered Tent Vanish switch, here as matching trick
1993
The Olram File (Issue 14)
11
Harry Lorayne My Cup of Tea
Inspired byRelated to 2001 519
Karl Fulves Further Notes on "Magician Makes Good" and Mac McDonald's $100 Ace Routine
2002 66
Larry Jennings Magician Makes Good
Also published here 2005 7
Roberto Giobbi The Best Card Trick for Laymen
  • The Genii Session
with Dai Vernon finesses that come from Johnny Thompson
Related to Sep. 2005
Genii (Vol. 68 No. 9)
16
Brian Glover The Hot Card & Magician Makes Good Once Again
  • Working for "The Hot Card"
  • Working for "Magician Makes Good Once Again" (the four-of-a-kind is shown stuck on the four corners of the case in the end)
2006 86
Miguel Gómez El mago lo arregla todo
2007 116
Jack Parker Lead Astray card selected but not shown, three mates produced, selection does not match, mates are changed to match selection
Oct. 2008
Antinomy (Vol. 4 No. 2)
22
Karl Fulves Magician Does Good one of five cards chosen, cards shuffled back, three Aces cut to, selection is Three of Hearts, they change into Threes
2009
Prolix (Issue 6)
388
Jason Ladanye The Quick Change Artist
Variations 2013 17
Gabi Pareras Sobre las Ordenaciones on simplifying and harmonizing stacks, example of Vernon's Matching the Cards
2013
El Manuscrito (Vol. 6 No. 24)
780
Peter Duffie Lie To Me card chosen and lost, spectator can lie or tell the truth three times and performer cuts to a card that reveals the truth, selection travels to pocket and three cut-to cards transform into mates of selection
Nov. 2016
Genii (Vol. 79 No. 11)
44
Benjamin Earl Stem Cell framing routine differently to get different experiences with same handling, four cards shown one by one and tabled, they change into four Aces, possible presentations:
  • Stem Cell Monte
  • Stem Cell Magician vs. Gambler
  • Stem Cell Sleight of Hand
2017 103
Johnny Thompson Dai Vernon's Magic Castle Act from late Sixties
  • The Cups and Balls
  • Han Ping Chien
  • Winged Silver
  • Copper/Silver
  • Matching the Cards
  • Ambitious Card
  • Color-Changing Deck
2018 81
Harry Lorayne Fourced Match
Related to 2018 188
Harapan Ong Matching the Cards classic effect
2019 53
Harapan Ong Same Data, Different Conclusions Two cards selected. Three cards used to divine color, suit and value of first selection. Those three cards then change into the mates of second selection.
2019 57
Larry Jennings Jennings Makes Good Queen chosen, performer cuts to three Aces, first Queen is shown to be an Ace now, Queen reversed in center
2020 364
Roberto Giobbi Matching the Cards
Related to 2021 61
Joshua Jay Matching the Cards set-up is available in Particle Stack
2024 135