Forcing from a Forcing Deck

125 entries in Cards / Sleights / Force / Forcing from a Forcing Deck
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Henri Decremps Forcing several forcing cards in a deck, way to force one of the cards, cards with angram words
 		1785
Supplément A La Magie Blanche Dévoillée
265
Henri Decremps Forcing from a forcing deck, no specific method
 		1785
Supplément A La Magie Blanche Dévoillée
299
"Forcing" Packs one-way & three-way
 		1889
Tricks with Cards
14
Professor Hoffmann To Force three Cards together three cards repeat itself, spectator cuts anywhere
Variations 1890
More Magic
13
Forcing from Three-Way Deck having card selected from top, center and bottom, or cutting deck into three piles instead
 		1900
Der Amateurzauberer
60
Friedrich "Fritz" Hügli Die Karte als Wandervogel chosen card travels under table cloth, inside a book and eventually in spectator's pocket
 		1927
Leichte Zauberei
84
Jack Merlin Mechanical Forcing Packs one way forcing deck, three way forcing deck, svengali pack, Evans Brown Triple-Force Pack
 		1927/28
Merlin's Master Manipulations
23
Eric F. Impey Card at Number card at small number is forced card, cards dealt face up
 		1928
Original Card Mysteries
1
Theodore Annemann Just the Same Alike two cards selected from two decks are the same, selection process from one deck complicated with four piles and die
Also published here 1935
The Jinx (Issue Summer Extra 1935)
41
Forcing Decks
1935
Mental Magic with Cards
25
Laurie Ireland Hints for Amateurs on Forcing Cards third forcing deck
 		1935
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1935, "New Card and Coin Manipulation")
2
Another Diachylon Force like sticky svengali
 		1937
Encyclopedia of Card Tricks
107
Various Methods of Handling the Pack
1937
Encyclopedia of Card Tricks
245
Simple Effects 5. svengali deck as a force
 		1937
Encyclopedia of Card Tricks
247
Svengali Force a bit complicated, svengali deck
 		1937
Encyclopedia of Card Tricks
255
Forcing Packs Three-Way Forcing Deck plus switch
 		1938
Greater Magic
450
Ralph W. Hull The Force with Pop-Eyed Eye-Popper deck
 		1938
Greater Magic
531
Eddie Joseph Everywhere Yet Nowhere three cards are placed in card stand and one selected it matches selection from second deck
 		1940 ca.
Original Tricks
3
Double Force with Knife using forcing deck with alternating order
 		1941
Tarbell Course in Magic — Volume 1
264
Eddie Joseph Your Thought Read spectator cuts anywhere and remembers face card, which is divined
 		1942
Greater Card Tricks
18
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin Now! attributed to Robert-Houdin, three cards selected, three times stop by spectator to find their cards
Related to Jan. 1944
Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 1 No. 8)
34
Telepathic Deck of Cards early tossed out deck versions with one card, see following entries for variations
Related to 1945
Tarbell Course in Magic — Volume 4
244
Double Slate Writing flap slates, forcing deck
 		1945
Tarbell Course in Magic — Volume 4
375
U. F. Grant Improved Three Way Forcing handling for forcing three cards with a three way forcing deck
 		1945
Miracles in Mentalism and Psychic Experimentation
22
Milbourne Christopher Force Stab using telomatic forcing deck, deck with rubber band tossed into audience
 		June 1946
Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 4 No. 1)
224
Milbourne Christopher The Card Revealed two cards are selected, name of one card appears on second card
 		Jan. 1947
Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 4 No. 8)
286
Victor Farelli, David Devant Hew Devant Used to Force method to force three cards, three cards repeat itself, spectator cuts anywhere
Inspired by Nov. 1949
Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 7 No. 6)
601
Bill Channel New Use for a Forcing Deck forcing from a three way forcing deck
 		1950
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1950)
23
Lewis Ganson "How Right You Are!" routine with mirage deck, with roughing fluid formula
  • The "Rough and Smooth" Pack
  • To Show the Cards All Different
  • To Shuffle the Cards (overhand)
  • The Force
  • To Take Two Cards as One
  • The Routine (see following items)
 		1950
Routined Manipulation — Part One
29
Don Alan A Subtle One Way Force Deck with fifteen indifferent cards
 		1951
Close-Up Time with Don Alan
7
Eddie Joseph A Discovery and Its Possibilities two cards face-up and face-down alternating after slop shuffle, principle of always cutting to either face-up or face-down card, sorting behind back and applications:
  • A Force
  • A Natural Trick (two-pile location)
  • The Two Cards (two spectators turn over cards in jumbled deck which are divined)
 		1951
More Dumbfounders with Cards
23
Laurie Ireland The Ireland Handling for a Jumbo Two Way Forcing Deck three parts, two forcing cards
 		1954
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1954)
25
Theodore Annemann Dust the same alike two cards selected from two decks are the same, selection process from one deck complicated with four piles and die
Also published here 1957
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 18 No. 4)
522
Rolf Andra Synchronism two decks, same cards are chosen
 		1961
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 22 No. 3)
54
Edward Marlo Physical and Mental performer places physical selection next to mental selection (one of twenty-six), two phases, half forcing deck, faro fan
Related to 1964
Faro Controlled Miracles
68
E. Leslie May Thoughts In Two Sizes two selections from jumbo deck match two selections from normal deck
 		Sep. 1964
The New Jinx (Vol. 3 No. 29)
119
Albert Spackman Voodoo cards with outline of a person and x-marked on different places, spectator choses one of the cards where the person is injured, prediction
Related to 1967
The Art of Close-Up Magic — Volume 1
167
James G. Thompson Jr. Fatigued Finger Flinger's Panacea combination of Si Stebbins and half forcing stack, selection ends up at position indicated by second selection and matches prediction
 		1967
Top Secrets of Magic — Volume 2
204
Ace Gorham Last Call force from rough-smooth / Svengali deck
 		1969
HEX!
23
Theodore Annemann Psychic Telepathy two-way forcing deck handling
 		1969
HEX!
51
Roy Johnson Predictafors card at named number is predicted, 1-0-1 mirage deck
 		1970
The Roy Johnson Lecture Notes
21
Earl Keyser The Really Educated Frog using wind-up frog
 		May 1970
Talisman (Vol. 1 No. 12)
45
Sam Dalal Another Brain Wave two decks, same card reversed
 		Dec. 1970
Talisman (Vol. 1 No. 40)
244
Jochen Zmeck Mit diagonal geteilten Karten two methods to force a card from a deck with all divided cards (peek and turning a card over in fan)
 		1972
Sieben mal Drei
6
Tony Cole Copy Cat two decks, performer puts one of his in the spectator's and vice versa, they both are placed next to their mates, see also p. 830 for comment by Roy Walton
 		Dec. 1973
The Pallbearers Review (Vol. 9 No. 2)
689
Edward G. Brown The Use of Special Forcing Packs
1973
The Card Magic of Edward G. Brown
195
Eric Williams Forcing from Mirage Deck counting face-up
 		Summer 1974
The Pallbearers Review (Vol. 9 No. 9th Folio)
763
Paul Maurer Zweifache Voraussage two rows of eight cards, prediction of two cards and chosen positions, on business cards
Inspired by
  • Stewart James' "Three Times Lucky"
 1975
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 36 No. 1)
9
Edward Marlo Forcing from a Bank ten force cards
 		1976
Early Marlo (Issue Oddity & Other Miracles)
100
Will Dexter Forcing from a Forcing Deck comments
 		July 1978
Intermagic (Vol. 5 No. 2)
61
Karl Fulves Forcing from Half-Forcing Deck also from half Monte Cristo
 		1979
Riffle Shuffle Control
2
Richard Lyn Color-X prediction of a symbol card, forcing deck
 		1979
Magick (Issue 232)
1159
Paul Rylander Sight Unseen divination of three cards
 		1979
Magick (Issue 237)
1183
Justin Branch Gilbreath in Arithmetic Progression Spades and Hearts alternated in one half, other half with alternating Clubs and Diamonds, both halves are riffle shuffled individually and then faro-shuffled together
  • The Four Card Rule (each set of four contains one of each suit, first two cards give all information to know the next two cards)
variants replacing one or multiple suits with force cards, then procedure to further "mix" the cards by making groups and combining them again, giving rise to the following rules:
  • The Eight Card Rule
  • The Sixteen Card Rule
  • The Thirty Two Card Rule
Variations 1979
Cards in Confidence — Volume One
101
John Fedko Tri-Psi as John Fedco, three cards are divined
 		1980
Magick (Issue 268)
1337
Richard Kaufman Quadruple Fingertip Cards to Pockets duplicates and four-way-forcing deck
 		1981
Cardworks
140
Fredric Kolb Time Warp card is stopped at, same card is in performer's wallet as prediction
 		1981
Magick (Issue 277)
1381
Marvyn Roy Five-Star Psychometry five spectator's select a card each, all are divined with a reading
 		1981
Magick (Issue 299)
1491
Juan Tamariz Cartomagia sin Tecnica routine with Svengali deck, starts and ends with a normal deck, first one cards is located then two, similar strategy as in Neither Blind nor Silly
 		1981
Magia Potagia — Volume I
35
Bill Wisch Faro Fan Force faro fan with half forcing deck
Related to 1981
Wisches II
[13]
Paul Hallas Forcing a Date with Cards
Sep. 1983
Pabular (Vol. 7 No. 12)
1146
Pascal Monmoine The Irresistible Force half forcing deck, pressure fan, variations with predictions
 		May 1984
Pabular (Vol. 8 No. 6)
1232
Stephen Tucker The Chase forcing subtlety for forcing deck, removing pencil-dotted indifferent cards from spread
 		Mar. 1984
Spell-Binder (Vol. 3 No. 35)
680
Robert Cassidy Shake Up half of the deck is placed inside a paper bag and mixed, half forcing deck
 		1984
The Art of Mentalism
51
Tom Bowyer Svengali Routine selection made, card divined, then it turns over, then appears at named number and at randomly spelled card, spectator stabs next to it
 		1985
The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 4)
28
El Encantador The JC Legacy divination of three selection, three-way forcing deck
 		Oct. 1985
Magick (Issue 358)
1788
Mike Schwartz Never Miss Card Trick instructions on tape recorded, humorous revelation of card
 		Nov. 1986
Magick (Issue 380)
1897
Carl Herron Insider spectator selects a card which with prediction cards completes a straight, half forcing deck
 		Sep. 1987
Magick (Issue 395)
1971
Marvyn Roy X-Ray card selected under the table is divined
 		July 1988
Magick (Issue 408)
2038
Karrell Fox "Elimacard" deck cut in two piles, one half eliminated, rest again cut in two piles, repeated until one card remains, selection
Related to 1988
My Latest Book
100
Roy Johnson Take Three forcing three cards with three way forcing deck
Also published here 1989
Silver Special
12
Richard Osterlind Mind Leap prediction of name and playing card, signature on slips
Variations Nov. 1990
Magick (Issue 448)
2239
Aldo Colombini, Davide Costi Alamo
Nov./Dec. 1991
Avantgarde Magic (Vol. 1 No. 4)
9
Roy Johnson Nehmen Sie 3 Karten! forcing three cards with three way forcing deck
Also published here June 1992
Intermagic (Vol. 17 No. 1)
10
Ken Brooke The Ken Brooke Routine with Joe Stuthard's Trilby Deck - Part Two edited reprint from Brooke's magazine "Routine" (1950), Triumph with End Strippers, two selections (one only thought of) from two piles end up next to each other
 		Nov. 1993
New Sorcerer (Vol. 1 No. 5)
12
Hal Barlow Choice and Chance prediction of two cards, one selected above and one below table
 		Sep. 1993
Magick (Issue 494)
2471
Hans-Gerhard Stumpf Mental-Magie im Dunklen three spectator select a card in the dark, force
 		1993
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 55 No. 3)
14
Russell Deffenbaugh Card Force half forcing stack, faro fan
 		Feb. 1993
Vibrations (Vol. 15 No. 8)
12
Barry Stevenson Casual Force half forcing deck
 		July 1996
Apocalypse (Vol. 19 No. 7)
2673
Guy Hollingworth The Cassandra Quandary card placed in envelope is actual later selection
Related toVariations 1999
Drawing Room Deceptions
264
Barrie Richardson The Du Maurier Force force handling with Svengali deck
 		1999
Theater of the Mind
219
Chuck Smith The Regular Double-Fan force application, also for half forcing deck
 		2000
Tools Of The Trade
12
Christoph Borer Mery spectator finds selection of other spectator with a pendulum
Also published here 2000
Anam Cara
25
Simon Lovell Blind Man's Bluff spectator finds cards in deck, rest is secretly blank, cards are predicted
Inspired by 2000
Son of Simon Says!
85
Chris Wardle Odd One Out deck mixed up in a hat, spectator chooses one and puts it into an envelope, it is predicted (eventually), using double-faced deck with same card on back of each (Hofzinser)
 		2000
Ten Mysteries
19
Libi Libini Zeitlupenkarte selection turns into blank card and into blurred card
Also published here 2001
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 63 No. 3 & 4)
46
Libi Libini Carte au Ralenti selection turns into blank card and into blurred card
Also published here 2001
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 63 No. 5)
82
Christoph Borer Das Svengali-Spiel
  • Das Svengali-Spiel (general comments)
  • Das Forcieren einer Karte (forcing a card, spectator shuffles deck)
Also published here 2002
Anam Cara auf Zirkeltour 2002
10
Christoph Borer Giant Count reinvention of "Dr. Jaks Kartenbluff", selected card is shuffled into the deck and cards put in inside jacket pocket, small number is named and on that position performer produces a jumbo card which has the same value as the selection, with a half forcing deck
Related toAlso published here 2002
Anam Cara auf Zirkeltour 2002
11
Robert Cassidy Any card at any number with three-way forcing deck
 		2004
The Artful Mentalism of Bob Cassidy
165
"Joro" Bruno Hennig Unmöglich three cards are selected and replaced, three people shuffle three decks and deal cards until spectator stops them, selections are found
Related to 2004
Neues... vom alten Joro
71
Christoph Borer Svengali
  • Das Svengali-Spiel (general comments)
  • Das Forcieren einer Karte (forcing a card, spectator shuffles deck)
Also published here 2006
Compilation
83
Christoph Borer Pendulum spectator finds selection of other spectator with a pendulum
Also published here 2006
Compilation
145
Christoph Borer Die Handhabung eines halben Forcierspiels the handling of a half forcing deck
  • 1. Verwendung als Normalspiel (using the normal cards)
  • 2. Das Spiel auffächern (faning the deck)
  • 3. Das Spiel ausbreiten (spreading the cards)
  • 4. Das Spiel durchblättern (spreading through the cards)
  • 5. Das Spiel auf dem Tisch ausbreiten (spreading the cards on the table)
  • 6. Das Spiel vordribbeln (dribbling the cards on the table)
  • 7. Das Spiel mischen (shuffling the deck)
 		2007
Der Stoff aus dem die Wunder sind
9
Christoph Borer Die Force einer Karte forcing from a half forcing deck
1. Mit dem Spiel in den Händen (in the hands)
2. Das Spiel liegt auf dem Tisch (on the table)
3. In den Händen des Zuschauers (in the spectator's hands)
 		2007
Der Stoff aus dem die Wunder sind
11
Christoph Borer Pendulum spectator finds selection of other spectator with a pendulum
Also published here 2007
Der Stoff aus dem die Wunder sind
15
Christoph Borer Double Transposition red and blue deck, two selection interchange in decks
 		2007
Der Stoff aus dem die Wunder sind
24
Thomas Otto Spectator Card Stab spectator stabs deck, wrapped in paper, half forcing deck
 		2007
Der Stoff aus dem die Wunder sind
35
Christoph Borer Svengali Die Svengali Force (spectator shuffles Svengali deck and cuts to force card)
 		2007
Der Stoff aus dem die Wunder sind
37
Christoph Borer Challenge Peek three cards are divined, half Al Koran deck
 		2007
Der Stoff aus dem die Wunder sind
37
Stephan Kirschbaum Schoko-Stopp spectator stops at any card, chocolate written back of selection, then repeated and in prediction envelope is a piece of chocolate found with the selection as a miniature card attached
 		2007
Der Stoff aus dem die Wunder sind
41
Christoph Borer Ein Wunder mit Spielkarten two selections, first is revealed by tearing a paper napkin into shape of card, then napkin is burnt and ashes on arm to reveal second selection
 		2007
Die Geisterschrift
22
Christoph Borer Pendulum spectator finds selection of other spectator with a pendulum
Also published here 2007
Seminarnotitzen 2007
17
Trevor Lewis Rising Cards routine for Jumbo rising cards, three cards
 		2009
Routines Matter
126
Helder Guimarães, Charles Reynolds Force of Nature using group of mis-index cards, two handlings
Inspired by
  • "Force of Thought" deck (Charles Reynolds)
 2011
Ontology Project
22
Helder Guimarães Psychological Bank Force as deck is riffled through, bank of forcing cards
 		2011
Ontology Project
24
Bobby Bernard Forcing from Svengali Deck
Dec. 2011
Genii (Vol. 74 No. 12)
34
David Redondo La Copa Adivina selection is found by placing a glass on spread cards partial forcing stack
 		2012
Cartomagia - Notas de Conferencia
41
Bruce Bernstein Into the Infinite tossed out deck, three people write their cards down, all cards are divined on billets, then two billets are burnt and card on remaining billet is found predicted in envelope
Also published here 2012
Unreal
63
Bruce Bernstein A Matter of Time matching routine, envelopes with cards are dealt and one is selected, card inside matches selection from deck, 13 variations also with other objects, going back in time presentation
 		2012
Unreal
189
Doug Edwards Regular and Complete convincer for the use of a one-way forcing deck
 		2013
Nukes
53
Albert Spackman Forcing from a Forcing Deck
Related to 2013
Numbers, Cards... and Time!
87
Christoph Borer Christoph Borers Strategie handling for Svengali Deck in hands of spectator
 		June 2013
New Avantgarde Magic (Issue 7)
28
Joaquín Matas La Ranita
Inspired by 2014
A Fuego Lento — Volumen I
169
Christoph Borer Pendulum spectator finds selection of other spectator with a pendulum
Also published here 2016
21
217
Christoph Borer Borers Frechheit handling a Svengali deck
Also published here 2016
Arbeitsbuch Misdirection
73
Johnny Thompson Brainweave Force Deck faro fan
 		2018
The Magic of Johnny Thompson (Issue 1)
105
Christoph Borer Das Drei-Karten-Wunder prediction of three cards, half forcing deck
Related toAlso published here 2018
Mentale Notizen
175
Christoph Borer Borers Frechheit handling a Svengali deck
Also published here 2018
Burners — Vol. 6
48
Lorenz Schär All Bags off-beat prediction written on a bag, 51 cards selected
 		2019
Cards Against Reality
97
Kyle Leon Spot-On spectator stops dealing at predicted card
Inspired by
  • "Signs" (Joshua Jay)
 Dec. 2022
The Hermit (Vol. 1 No. 12)
556
Christoph Borer Pendulum spectator finds selection of other spectator with a pendulum
Also published here 2024
Forged by Fire
212
Christoph Borer Three-Card Miracle prediction of three cards, half forcing deck, version with and without stooge
Also published here 2024
Forged by Fire
234
Unnamed Magician The Perfect Force spectator reverses any card below table and looks at it before replacing it in the center, forced
Inspired byVariations 2025
The Perfect Force
3
David Britland Variant Method spectator reverses any card below table and looks at it before replacing it in the center, forced
Inspired by 2025
The Perfect Force
13