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26 entries in Cards / Effect Themes / Chaos & Order / Complete Matching / Deck
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Edward Marlo A Matching Routine stay stack routine with six phases
Variations 1964 Faro Controlled Miracles 31
Edward Marlo, Martin A. Nash A Matching Routine
Inspired byVariations 1980 Ovation 9
Edward Marlo Incomplete Matching card peeked at from incomplete faro condition, mate found, further mating phase with every card matched
Variations 1988 M.I.N.T. — Volume I 15
Steve Beam Mating Season V deck cut in halves, joker placed in any half, from that point on all cards are mates
Related to 1991 The Trapdoor — Volume Two (Issue 38) 686
Steve Beam Mating Season VI two halves, cards on named number match, then all match
Also published here 1991 The Trapdoor — Volume Two (Issue 38) 869
Steve Beam Mating Season II deck cut in halves, joker placed in any half, from that point on all cards are mates
Related to 1993 Semi-Automatic Card Tricks 64
Steve Beam Mating Season IV two halves, cards on named number match, then all match
Also published here 1993 Semi-Automatic Card Tricks 69
Pit Hartling Amor all cards match, short long gaffed deck
 		1998 Das kleine grüne Heft 31
Pit Hartling Cupid all cards match, short long gaffed deck
 		1998 The Book 84
Allan Ackerman Finally Matched ending phase
Inspired byVariations 1999 Classic Handlings 29
Steve Beam Mating Season V first two cards match, then entire deck
  • The Really False Count
Related to 2004 Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 5 212
Steve Beam Mating Season VI multiple phase matching routine, as a climax all cards match
 		2006 Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 6 102
Harry Riser Stay, Stay-Stack, Stack deck is mated in two stages
Also published here
  • MUM, Nov. 2004
 2006 Secrets of an Escamoteur 157
Nick Trost A "Staggered" Routine two cards removed from two halves, when both halves are turned up in unison, the mates of those cards show up at the same time, three more phases until all pairs match
Inspired by 2009 Subtle Card Creations — Volume 2 318
Steve Beam Mating Season VII multiple phase matching routine, as a climax all cards match
Also published here 2011 The Trapdoor — Volume Two (Issue Addendum) xx
John Born Finally Matched Revisited Multi-phase matching effect
Inspired by 2012 Seeking the Bridge 113
Steve Beam Progressive Mating Season (VII)
  • The Work
  • Phase II
  • Phase III - Progressive Transformation
  • Phase IV - The Entire Deck Changes
Also published here 2016 Tea Time With The Pasteboards 2
Steve Beam Progressive Mating Season (VII) multiphase routine
Related toAlso published here 2017 52 27
Denis Behr Mating Season
  • Phase One - Poker-Hand Duplication
  • Phase Two - Speed Mating
  • Phase Three - All at Once
Inspired byRelated to 2018 Handcrafted Card Magic — Volume 3 29
Steve Beam Progressive Mating Season (VII) multiphase routine
Also published here 2019 Card Tricks That Kilt 3
Asi Wind Noah spectator cuts to card and another one choses its mate, two spectators then count to a card in half the deck each under the table and they match, then three cards are mated in the deck at once, then whole deck
 		2019 Paper Work 11
Lorenz Schär Coincidencia Banal Total Coincidence routine using one deck, three phases, bluff
Inspired by 2019 Cards Against Reality 123
José Antonio Sánchez The Great Coincidence one riffle shuffle, in the end twenty-six pairs are on table
 		2019 52 Lovers — Through the Looking-Glass 27
Helder Guimarães Synchronicity "An Act of Pure Luck"
  • First and Second Phase: spectator and performer each select a card from half the deck and find each other's cards, spectator via Tantalizer
  • Third Phase: cards at chosen position in both halves match, then whole deck is mated
Inspired by 2019 Secret Language — Volume 1 432
Steve Beam Progressive Mating Season multiphase routine
Also published here 2020 Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 12 57
Steve Reynolds Mini Matching Update one deck, two halves made, after a few single matches all cards match
Inspired by 2020 Output (Issue 10) 1