26-Apart-Stack / Power Stack

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Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Ralph W. Hull Mental Abstraction or Cards by Instinct cards shuffled once, separated with Hearts/Clubs in one pile, spectator choses cards in one pile and performer instantly removes mates from other pile behind back
 		1932 "Eye-Openers" 2
Theodore Annemann Amazing Memory naming missing card, stacked deck
 		1937 Encyclopedia of Card Tricks 235
Charles T. Jordan Double Divino coincidences and mates with stacked hundred-card-deck, see also single deck version in reference
Variations 1937 Encyclopedia of Card Tricks 226
Charles T. Jordan Divino various coincidences with mates, see also hundred-cards-deck version in reference
Related to 1937 Encyclopedia of Card Tricks 229
Louis Lam Sensational Card Discovery
1939 Be Deceived 10
T. Page Wright, William Larsen The L.W. Stop Mystery
1945 My Best 95
Edward Marlo A Matching Routine stay stack routine with six phases
Variations 1964 Faro Controlled Miracles 31
Edward Marlo Double Peek Matching full stack
 		1964 Faro Controlled Miracles 33
Roy Walton, Bob Veeser Oracull sixteen-card packet, mate found, see p. 424 for correction
Inspired by Apr. 1971 The Pallbearers Review Vol. 5-8 (Vol. 6 No. 6) 415
Roy Walton Double Discovery mates to two selections found in twenty-card packet
Variations June 1971 The Pallbearers Review Vol. 5-8 (Vol. 6 No. 8) 428
Karl Fulves Mathematical Twins Variation mate found after klondike shuffle
Inspired byRelated to Feb. 1972 The Pallbearers Review Vol. 5-8 (Vol. 7 No. 4) 487
Gene Finnell Mathematical Twins spectator cuts to a card and places it aside, then cuts another packet off and mate is found with Milk Build procedure and down-under deal, see also p. 508
Related toVariations Feb. 1972 The Pallbearers Review Vol. 5-8 (Vol. 7 No. 4) 483
Gene Finnell Klondike Shuffle discussion and properties
1. Mechanics
2. Card location after one shuffle
3. Recycling the deck
4. Klondyke properties (simulating a faro shuffle, locating center card, Penelope's principle)
5. Klondike plus Free Cut
6. The Stacked Deck
Related to 1973 Gene Finnell's Card Magic 1
Gene Finnell Coincidence
1973 Gene Finnell's Card Magic 15
Alex Elmsley Parity Failure some cards from 5x5 cards layout are turned over according to rules, condition is called out and on one card is lied
Also published here 1979 The Chronicles (Issue 20) 1255
Edward Marlo, Martin A. Nash A Matching Routine
Inspired byVariations 1980 Ovation 9
Steve Beam Mating Season I dealing through the halves and spectator stops, mates
Related to 1980 Card Tricks from Mount Olympus 33
Alex Elmsley Parity Failure some cards from 5x5 cards layout are turned over according to rules, condition is called out and on one card is lied
Related toVariationsAlso published here 1980 Curioser 38
Howard A. Adams Packeten Plus finding two matching cards, five pairs are needed, word is spelled to eliminate cards
 		1982 OICUFESP (Issue 9) 7
Howard A. Adams Under the Napkin finding two matching cards, five pairs are needed, word is spelled to eliminate cards
 		1982 OICUFESP (Issue 9) 7
Howard A. Adams Australian Packeten five pairs are used, two cards placed into pocket and rest divided into two piles, down-under-deal with both packets to find mates
 		1982 OICUFESP (Issue 9) 7
Howard A. Adams Jumping Australian five pairs are used, two cards placed into pocket and rest divided into two piles, down-under-deal with both packets to find mates
 		1982 OICUFESP (Issue 9) 8
Howard A. Adams Packeten Finale spectator finds mates of selected ESP cards by spelling any word
 		1982 OICUFESP (Issue 9) 9
Howard A. Adams Locaten location of two chosen cards
 		1982 OICUFESP (Issue 9) 9
Howard A. Adams Packeten One finding matching card, five pairs are needed, word is spelled to eliminate cards
Related toVariations 1982 OICUFESP (Issue 9) 6
Edward Marlo Incomplete Miracle card peeked at from incomplete faro condition, it is found (by glimpsing key in lower portion)
 		1988 M.I.N.T. — Volume I 14
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
Karl Fulves Outnumbered packet, counting procedure, two mates found, no-touch
Related to 1989 Kaleidoscope 12
Bob King Poker Mental three spectators, last card also reversed in another deck, mis-calling mates
Related to 1989 Magician Foolers 20
Alex Elmsley Pother one deck, mathematical selection procedure from one half, Penelope Principle, all mates twenty-six apart
 		1991 The Collected Works of Alex Elmsley — Volume 1 331
Edward Marlo Logical Double Thought, Plus One two cards thought of & one unknown card removed, all found, three methods
Related to 1991 The Olram File (Issue 4) 8
Peter Duffie Problematic Offshoot one card chosen from face-up half and one from face-down half, they match
Inspired by 1992 Profile (Issue 9) 3
Alex Elmsley Prediction by Proxy spectator removes any card, mate is found by penelope-procedure (pile cut off, counted, card at that position is selection), twenty-six-apart-stack
 		1994 The Collected Works of Alex Elmsley — Volume 2 317
Alex Elmsley Parity Failure some cards from 5x5 cards layout are turned over according to rules, condition is called out and on one card is lied
Also published here 1994 The Collected Works of Alex Elmsley — Volume 2 392
Roy Walton Ghostly Spells sixteen-card packet mated via spelling famous magicians
 		1998 Five Times Five — Scotland 125
Peter Duffie Cloning sixteen-card packet, two mates found
 		2000 New Inspirations 7
Scott Coffey Synchron-2 half deck distributed among two spectators, five-pile layout, matches occur, only half the deck stacked and used
Inspired by
  • Peter Duffie effect
 2001 Latter Day Secrets (Issue 6) 184
Bob King Another Late-Night Session performer cuts to fairly lost selection, twenty-six duplicates, incomplete faro
Inspired by 2002 The Breather 3 4
Harry Riser Really Shuffled Matcho three cards matched, faro and three double backers
VariationsAlso published here
  • MUM, Feb. 2000
 2006 Secrets of an Escamoteur 141
Harry Riser Double Triple Match ten red-backed and ten blue-backed cards mixed together, two chosen, they match and also match a card put in the Himber wallet, repeat phase, SBS double facers
Also published here
  • MUM, Oct. & Nov. 1999
 2006 Secrets of an Escamoteur 148
Roy Walton Liar's Guide lie speller with ten-card packet to locate mate
Inspired by
  • "Guiding Light" (Discoverie #2)
 2008 Prolix (Issue 4) 214
Jerry K. Hartman Psi-Cycle two halves, dealt in unison face-down, spectator indicates a few pairs that are set aside, they match
Inspired by
  • "Tri-Cycle" (Jim Turnpaugh, Linking Ring, Jan. 2008, p. 105)
Related to 		2009 Prolix (Issue 6) 369
Nick Trost A Coincidence Combination two thirteen-card packets, power of thought, then all pairs match
Inspired by 2009 Subtle Card Creations — Volume 2 316
Howard A. Adams Loveffect six cards torn in half, two cards chosen, they match
Inspired by
  • "Dunder" (Mindspa #3)
 2010 Prolix (Issue 8) 532
Karl Fulves Tweedle plot is that two players always get the same type of poker hand, demonstrated with ten-card packet
Related to 2011 Prolix (Issue 9) 586
Alexander de Cova, Patrick Page, Al Koran Der Stich im Dunkeln mate of free selection is stabbed by performer
Inspired by 2011 Seminar-Leviten 8
John Hostler Noeyeon Protocol
  • Noeyeon Prediction (Ungimmicked)
  • Neo Noeyeon (Gimmicked)
card pocketed by performer, spectator deals down and stops, mate of pocketed card (ungimmicked) or odd-backed duplicate (gimmicked)
 		2016 Magnum Opossum 112
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
Denis Behr Getting into Power Stack from Tamariz Stack
2018 Handcrafted Card Magic — Volume 3 39
Steve Beam Progressive Mating Season (VII) multiphase routine
Also published here 2019 Card Tricks That Kilt 3
Allan Ackerman The Mem Deck I Prefer "The Tetradistic Stack"
thirteen cards in random order, suits random but power stack property
Inspired by 2019 Card Theater 30
Steve Beam Progressive Mating Season multiphase routine
Also published here 2020 Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 12 57