Card Castle

23 entries in Cards / Effect Themes / Gags & Curiousities / Card Castle
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Unknown Changement eines Kartenhauses No. 2, seven-card card castle vanishes from underneath cover and appears under another cover, then travels back, collapsable castle with rubber bands
 		1900 Der Amateurzauberer 63
Tom Sellers The Climax Card Effect cylinder made of cards appears
 		1931 Magical Pleasantries 23
Leslie P. Guest A Card Castle construction for production card castle, chosen card appears on silk and deck transforms into card castle on tray
Variations Dec. 1945 Hugard's Magic Monthly — Volumes I, II, III and IV (Vol. 3 No. 7) 181
Jean Hugard A Card Castle further credit information
Inspired by Jan. 1946 Hugard's Magic Monthly — Volumes I, II, III and IV (Vol. 3 No. 8) 186
Lu Brent Card Castle deck spread on plate and covered with handkerchief, two times wrong card found, deck transforms into castle with a card on top, again wrong, selection rises out
 		Feb. 1946 Hugard's Magic Monthly — Volumes I, II, III and IV (Vol. 3 No. 9) 192
Unknown Building Card Castles
1949 Tricks and Stunts With Playing Cards 21
Ken De Courcy Calling All Cards deck shuffled and put in trouser pockets, any card called for produced, then any non-playing card (birthday card, membership card, score card, ...) called for à la Arthur Lloyd, with gags and card castle finale
 		1964 Calling All Cards 2
Ali Bongo Doves A La Carte cards on tray turn into card castle, which can be opened and doves appear
 		1966 The Bongo Book 5
Pete Biro What's Happening to those Cards? cards on floor are gathered and formed to a card castle
 		1971 The Compleat Magick — Volume I (Issue 34) 169
Paul Harris The Castle Conspiracy four cards are put in card castle formation, one of them changes place with King, other three transform into Kings
VariationsAlso published here 1979 Close-up Entertainer 152
Paul Harris Instant Castle quickly constructing card castle on table
 		1979 Close-up Entertainer 160
Karl Fulves (D) The Haunting light and sound effects from card castle, posed as problem
 		1979 Interlocutor (Issue 37) 147
Karl Fulves There Was a Crooked House card house built from three folded cards, selection ends up folded inside
  • Unreal Estate
 		1980 The Chronicles (Issue 27) 1334
Ken De Courcy The Castle Card Prediction 52-on-1 card gag with appearing card castle
 		1980 Cards in Cabaret 53
Ben Harris Housing Loan four cards are put in square card castle formation, a coin appears inside, it vanishes and reappears inside
Inspired by 1981 Magic from which Memories are Made! 82
Ben Harris, Woody Meltcher Magnetic Aces three cards made into triangle card castle configuration, three of four Aces lost in deck, castle collapses and consists of other three Aces
Related to 1981 Magic from which Memories are Made! 121
Unknown The House that Jack Built No. 50, card house folded with three cards, card chosen, it travels to case and the house is made from its three mates, duplicate
 		1984 More Self-Working Card Tricks 70
Bruce Cervon, Lawrence "Larry" Grey Larry Gray's Cards Across with card castle from newspaper climax
Inspired by 1985 (ca.) Tricks of Conjuring 15
Josef Havel Das wandernde Kartenhaus card castles appear vanish and travel under triangular covers
Also published here
  • Prager Zaubereien
 Sep. 1992 Intermagic (Vol. 17 No. 2) 62
Paul Harris The Castle Conspiracy four cards are put in card castle formation, one of them changes place with King, other three transform into Kings
Also published here 1996 The Art of Astonishment — Book 2 (Issue Close-up Entertainer) 165
Karl Fulves, Al Leech The Card Castle No. 12, two Jokers sandwich a King and Queen couple, four cards taped at ends made into box/castle
Related to 2001 New Self-Working Card Tricks 18
Luke Jermay A Remote Castle card castle is destroyed by spectator and face up cards divined
Related to 2003 Building Blocks 101
Paul Osborne The Candy Castle
  • Osborne Illusions
card castle as ginger house with selected design card on top
 		Dec. 2008 Genii (Vol. 71 No. 12) 26
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