Miscellaneous

83 entries in Cards / Effect Themes / Red Black / Separation / by Spectator / Miscellaneous
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Unknown Die geheimnisvollen Würfel
  • two dice thrown and sum counted to repeatedly until deck is divided in two halves, they're separated in red and black
  • red and black separation by performer without dice but crimp or punch instead
 		1896 Der moderne Kartenkünstler 110
Edward Marlo Marlo's Janus some red and ten cards are mixed, spectator deals them on face-up cards on table, all color match, double facers, see also p. 837
Variations 1950 The Phoenix 201 — 250 (Issue 206) 822
William Zavis Footnotes on Rouge et Noir different card switches
Inspired byRelated to 1953 The Phoenix 251 — 300 (Issue 293) 1172
Edward Marlo Janus some red and ten cards are mixed, spectator deals them on face-up cards on table, all color match, double facers
 		1953 The Cardician 17
Dr. Jacob Daley Rouge et Noir five red cards and five black cards are shuffled, spectator separates the cards by color
Variations 1953 The Phoenix 251 — 300 (Issue 287) 1146
William Zavis More Footnotes on: Rouge et Noir with two royal flushes
Inspired byRelated to 1954 The Phoenix 251 — 300 (Issue 299) 1196
Bob Hummer, Oscar Weigle Hummer's Reversal Mystery CATO trick, magician can name correctly number of face up cards after cut and turn over procedure. Oscar Weigle variation: colors are also separated
Variations 1956 Mathematics, Magic And Mystery 17
Harry Lorayne Out of this Universe some red and black sorting comes out despite real shuffles, not really OOTW effect
Related toVariationsAlso published here 1962 Close-up Card Magic 80
Jochen Zmeck Medium partial rough-smooth, red and black alternate, then force blocks, three phases:
1. spectator says if top card is red or black, he is always right
2. spectator names position of a given card, the card is at that position
3. performer put unknown card in pocket, spectator divines it
Related to 1962 Enzyklopädie der Rauh-Glatt-Kartentricks — Teil II 18
Roy Walton Color - Sense eight indicator cards distributed on table, deck shuffled in four packets, then distributed on top of those eight cards, the piles match the indicator card in color
Related to
  • correction on p. 86
 Feb. 1967 The Pallbearers Review Vol. 1-4 (Vol. 2 No. 4) 84
J. W. Sarles Posi-Negative Cards Magnetic Colors variation
Related to
  • p. 116 for comment by Fred G. Taylor, Fulves and backdating to 1958
  • "You Did It" (T.S. Ransom, Ibidem #16, p. 11)
  • Follow Me (Karl Fulves, 1997)
Also published here 		May 1967 The Pallbearers Review Vol. 1-4 (Vol. 2 No. 7) 99
Roy Walton, Karl Fulves Influential Pairs two decks dealt in several piles, red black separated
Related toVariationsAlso published here Apr. 1968 The Pallbearers Review Vol. 1-4 (Vol. 3 No. 6) 171
Karl Fulves Someone Like You eight-card packet, spectator tries red-black separation, the score of hits and misses is looked up in an index of possible scores, on the correct score the spectator is described in detail
Related to Mar. 1971 The Pallbearers Review Vol. 5-8 (Vol. 6 No. 5) 407
Roy Walton Coincidence in Colour
VariationsAlso published here 1972 Tale Twisters 3
Marvin Johnson Logical Odd Event two selections found and red-black separation
Inspired by 1973 Riffle Shuffle Set-Ups 77
J. W. Sarles Posi-Negative Cards Magnetic Colors variation
Also published here 1973 Riffle Shuffle Set-Ups 2
Roy Walton, Karl Fulves Influential Pairs two decks dealt in several piles, red black separated
Related to 1973 Riffle Shuffle Set-Ups 10
Gene Finnell Magnetic Colors Variation starting on bottom of page
 		1973 Riffle Shuffle Set-Ups 65
Gene Finnell Influential Pairs Variation
Related to 1973 Riffle Shuffle Set-Ups 66
Paul Curry The Problem Of Card 13 spectator selects twelve cards from the the deck, which are all the same suit as a card previously removed, see also Hofzinser's first problem "Choice of Color" (Magic Christian: "Non Plus Ultra - Hofzinsers Kartenkünste Band 2" p. 317)
 		1974 Paul Curry Presents 1
George Sands Criss Cross Nines through Aces removed and sorted in reds and blacks, dealing procedure on table mixes and then sorts the colors again, spectator cannot duplicate it
credit information, see also p. 812 for Marlo claim
Related toVariationsAlso published here
  • "Unbeatable" (George Sands, Sep. 1951, p. 14)
 Oct. 1974 The Pallbearers Review Vol. 9-10 (Vol. 9 No. 12) 816
Karl Fulves Color Blind no-palm handling of Criss Cross, Nines through Aces removed and sorted in reds and blacks, dealing procedure on table mixes and then sorts the colors again, spectator cannot duplicate it, see p. 1053 for comment
Inspired by Nov. 1974 The Pallbearers Review Vol. 9-10 (Vol. 10 No. 1) 822
Paul Curry Never in a Lifetime two shuffled halves, magician does the same as spectator, both separate cards into red and black
Also published here 1975 Never in a Lifetime 1
Roy Walton Farbbegegnung
Also published here Feb. 1975 Intermagic (Vol. 2 No. 3) 61
Stephen Tucker Sealed Future five red and five black cards are dealt by spectator into pairs, ESP presentation, color separation
 		1978 Close Up Sorcercy 12
Roy Walton Magic 10 twenty-card packet separated by color with a Ten spot card
 		1979 The Chronicles (Issue 21) 1274
Edward Marlo Psi Color deck is shuffled and spectator can guess if top card is red or black, he is always right
Related to 1979 The Compleat Magick — Volume III (Issue 243) 1211
Philip T. Goldstein Day for Night Daley's Rouge et Noir with ESP cards
Inspired by 1979 The Compleat Magick — Volume III (Issue 236) 1179
Karl Fulves Red Less Black spectator separates colors from back, number of errors are called, performer then names all cards
 		1980 Curioser 51
Edward Marlo Marlo's "Card Thirteen in Spades" spectator selects all spades, deck with all spades
Inspired by
  • Racherbaumer (New Pentagram, Nov. 1979)
Related to 		1981 Kabbala — Volume 2 (Vol. 2 No. 11) 80
Roy Walton, Karl Fulves Influential Pairs No. 17, two decks dealt in several piles, red black separated, see Pallbearer's Review for references
Also published here 1984 More Self-Working Card Tricks 24
J. W. Sarles Posi-Negative Cards No. 41, Magnetic Colors variation
Also published here 1984 More Self-Working Card Tricks 53
George Sands, Karl Fulves Criss Cross No. 48, simplified, Nines through Aces removed and sorted in reds and blacks, dealing procedure on table mixes and then sorts the colors again, spectator cannot duplicate it
Inspired by 1984 More Self-Working Card Tricks 62
Dai Vernon Commanding the Colors shuffled deck is cut into piles, named color on top of each
 		1988 The Vernon Chronicles — Volume 2 192
Jerry Sadowitz A Million to One spectator shuffles deck and cuts it into two equal piles - one is red one black
 		1989 Cards on the Table 11
Karl Fulves Crazy Colors partial color separation shown after one riffle shuffle
 		1989 Easy-to-Do Card Tricks for Children 32
Ron Ferris Into Orbit
Variations Dec. 1989 Apocalypse Vol. 11-15 (Vol. 12 No. 12) 1726
Juan Tamariz Escorial-76 sorting in four suits, several methods
 		1989/91 Sonata 172
Juan Tamariz, Luis Garcia, Gabriel Moreno Half-Escorial half the cards dealt face up, half face down, face up cards change back color
Related to 1989/91 Sonata 180
Juan Tamariz Short Version cards face down separated in four groups, suit of chosen card all in one pile
 		1989/91 Sonata 185
Juan Tamariz, A. Moliné Stage Version
Related to 1989/91 Sonata 188
Mark Sicher Good Thinking! spectator "knows" colors, suit, values by Intuition
 		July 1990 Apocalypse Vol. 11-15 (Vol. 13 No. 7) 1806
Aldo Colombini Paradox
Nov. 1990 Apocalypse Vol. 11-15 (Vol. 13 No. 11) 1849
Edward Marlo Are You Psychic color of top card guessed by spectator
Related to 1990 That's It 18
Arturo de Ascanio Cinco Rojas y Cinco Negras five red cards and five black cards are shuffled, spectator separates the cards by color
Inspired byAlso published here 1992 La Magia de Ascanio — Vol. 4 71
Aldo Colombini Apocalypse Variations Or Additions
Inspired by Nov. 1993 Apocalypse Vol. 16-20 (Vol. 16 No. 11) 2289
John Scarne New World Order two face-up Jokers in deck, six cards that "don't belong" chosen from between the Jokers, they are the only odd-colored ones, dated ca. 1930s, see also p. 42
Related toVariations 1995 Underworld (Issue 1) 6
Steve Beam Choosing Sides spectator removes half the cards from the spread and separates reds and blacks
 		1995 Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 2 55
Aldo Colombini Friends similar to "Neither Blind Nor Silly", with twenty cards, spectator has more decisions to randomize order
Related to 1995 Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 2 72
Roy Walton Pass At Red spectator selects three red cards from black half
Related to 1995 The Little Black Book 6
Peter Duffie Odditorial two cards chosen from packet, dealt in two piles, selection only odd card in red-black separated pile, bad blind/stupid
Related toAlso published here
  • in "The Griffin"
 1996 With Cards 8
Pablo Domenèch Escorial 67 sorting in four suits
 		1996 La Magia de Pablo Domènech 47
Karl Fulves Follow Me No. 3, spectator follows dealing pattern of performer, backs marked for color
Related to 1997 Command Colors 7
Marty Kane Mish Mosh Tell-A-Vision suits of cards are divined, with fingers, then separation by spectator
Inspired by 1997 The Trapdoor — Volume Three (Issue 64) 1262
Karl Fulves Color By Number No. 12, spectator deals deck into four piles according to a dealing pattern that he made up of numbers written in red or black, all color separated
 		1997 Command Colors 20
Karl Fulves The Lady Thinks shuffled deck, psychic from other side of room tells how cards should be dealt to separate reds from blacks
Related to 1998 Combo 27
John Werner Other Worlds
Inspired byRelated to 1998 Underworld (Issue 8) 110
Karl Fulves The Noir Test five reds and five blacks, after separation blacks change into royal flush
Inspired by 1998 The Noir Test 2
Karl Fulves Casino Royale royal flush kicker
Inspired by 1998 The Noir Test 7
Karl Fulves Noir et Rouge
Inspired by 1998 The Noir Test 10
Peter Duffie Whysolation packet of about twenty cards, spectator and performer each remove a card, they turn out to be the only black cards
Inspired by 1998 Deck Direct 16
Peter Duffie Odditied two cards chosen from packet, dealt in two piles, selection only odd card in red-black separated pile, with second deal
Related toVariations 1998 Covert Concepts 7
Peter Duffie Seconds Away! wo cards chosen from packet, dealt in two piles, selection only odd card in red-black separated pile, without second deal
Inspired by 1998 Covert Concepts 8
Harry Lorayne Außerhalb dieses Universums some red and black sorting comes out despite real shuffles, not really OOTW effect
Also published here 2000 Intermagic (Vol. 24 No. 1) 23
Peter Duffie Colour Magnet six-card packet, spectator finds five black cards, a red Queen remains
 		2000 New Inspirations 10
Paul Curry Im Ganzen Leben Nicht two shuffled halves, magician does the same as spectator, both separate cards into red and black
Also published here 2000 Intermagic (Vol. 24 No. 1) 19
Paul Curry The Problem of Card 13 spectator selects twelve cards from the the deck, which are all the same suit as a card previously removed, see also Hofzinser's first problem "Choice of Color" (Magic Christian: "Non Plus Ultra - Hofzinsers Kartenkünste Band 2" p. 317)
Variations 2001 Paul Curry's Worlds Beyond 237
Peter Duffie, Robin Robertson Chao Theory red-black separation with letter cards, using TAPGAC
 		2004 Diamonds from Coal 122
Steve Beam, Scott Robinson Around the World spectator separates deck into red and black by cutting face up and face down packets, with the Rolly Polly Controlly
 		2004 Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 5 23
Peter Duffie, Robin Robertson The Royal Clans red-black separation with procedure and picture cards, using TAPGAC
 		2004 Diamonds from Coal 123
Peter Duffie, Robin Robertson Princes and Peasants red-black separation with procedure, using TAPGAC
 		2004 Diamonds from Coal 126
Karl Fulves A Few Good Cards "Unexplained"
five red cards in black half, spectator finds them from the back, posed as a problem, with effect variations
Variations 2006 Prolix (Issue 1) 60
Jerry K. Hartman Hunt For Red five red cards in black half, spectator finds them from the back, solution
Inspired by 2006 Prolix (Issue 2) 98
Jerry K. Hartman On Tinterhooks five red cards put in black halves, spectator choses five cards from face-down spread, they are black but the halves changed places
Inspired by 2007 Prolix (Issue 3) 199
Nick Trost, Karl Fulves Two Compatibility Tests first part is Karl Fulves' "Profiling", Gilbreath
Inspired by 2008 Subtle Card Creations — Volume 1 18
Arturo de Ascanio Five Red and Five Black five red cards and five black cards are shuffled, spectator separates the cards by color
Inspired byAlso published here 2008 The Magic of Ascanio — More Studies of Card Magic 316
Ken Krenzel Strange Hummer red-black separation by spectator beneath table with ten-card packet, suggests CATO as false trail
 		2009 Relaxed Impossibilities 211
Karl Fulves Teknicolor - Codes For Color r-r-b-b-... stack riffle shuffled, then an effect like Magnetic Colors done
Related to 2010 Prolix (Issue 8) 500
Frank Fogg Out Of This Spread Cards that spectator select will always be of opposite color from magician's selections
 		2017 A New Angle 55
Michał Kociołek Out of This Solar System spectator shuffles the deck, deals it into two piles, shuffles again, the deck is separated into red and black cards
Inspired by 2017 Michał Kociołek Live! 6
Kiyoshi Sato Friends five red and black cards are mixed and selected with spectator both end up with one color
 		2018 Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 11 157
Iñaki Zabaletta, Manuel Llaser El Problema de las 13 Cartas spectator selects twelve cards from the the deck, which are all the same suit as a chosen Ace, cards then change to other suit, with Cambio al Voltear
Inspired by 2019 ¿Quién es Iñaki Zabaletta? 103
Jim Steinmeyer Red-Scarlet spectator has four red and four black cards, with some spelling and counting he eventually arrives at alternating cards, can be done over phone
 		2020 Virtual Impuzzibilities 21