Chair

43 entries in Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to impossible Location / Chair
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
A Card having been thought of, to make such Card Vanish from the Pack, and be Discovered wherever the Performer pleases twenty-seven cards, card palmed out and multiple endings suggested (pocket, transformation, on chair, ...)
 		1876
Modern Magic
83
Eddie Joseph Drunk or Sober? card travels, monte them, one card ends up on chair
 		1940 ca.
Original Tricks
16
Die Besessene Karte spectator sits on card, three cards placed on small table lower than chair to force spectator to move
 		Dec. 1942
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 4 No. 12)
6
Good-Luck Card magician sits on card
 		1948
The Royal Road to Card Magic
98
Walter Coleman A Suggestion for Card Workers spectator sitting on signed selection, sticking to his trousers
 		1957
26 Originals
7
Arthur Monroe The Professor spectator sits on chosen card, special ring presentation, duplicate
 		Dec. 1966
The New Jinx (Vol. 5 No. 56)
227
Brother John Hamman Double Surprise Elevator Ace through Four of Spades in row on table, rise to top of packet, change to Hearts and the Spades cards are in three pockets and on chair of performer
Also published here Summer 1972
The Pallbearers Review (Vol. 7 No. 7th Folio)
532
U. F. Grant Underneath three cards put on floor
 		1972
The Living End
63
Eddie Fechter You've Been Real Good To Me spectator sits on the card that the performer is thinking of
Also published here 1974
Magician Nitely
30
Francis Carlyle Notes
  • folding coin and bottle through table
  • loading coin on dentist dam
  • spectator sits on card
 		1975
The Magic of Francis Carlyle
109
Olof Jonsson, Al Mann Teleportation selected card vanishes and is found on spectator's chair, two cards glued together on one end
 		1976
The Third Ecstasy
32
David Berglas Sitting Pretty spectator sits on selection
Variations 1976
The David Berglas File No. 1
45
Karrell Fox Magical Assets
Variations 1976
Clever.... Like a Fox
143
Jan Heins Teragram spectator and magician are thinking of a card in the pack of the other, in the end the cards are the same, missing and both sitting on it
Related to Jan. 1977
Pabular (Vol. 3 No. 5)
358
Jan Heins Notes On Teragram card loading techniques on a chair
Related to May 1979
Pabular (Vol. 5 No. 5)
674
Ken De Courcy The Sat-on Card
  • Using it with the "W.F.C.T."
Inspired by
  • The Quaker Oat Book of Magic
 1980
The World's Fastest Card Trick
8
Ken De Courcy The Invisible Die and Card Trick card chosen via calculation with invisible dice, spectator sits on that card
Inspired by
  • card on chair in The Quaker Oat Book of Magic
  • "The Invisible Die" (Ken de Courcy, Magigram)
 1980
Cards in Cabaret
9
Steve Biller Mr. Biller's Wild Ride twisting with transformation kicker and cards to case, pockets, under spectator
Variations 1983
A Close-Up Kinda Guy
40
Rolf Andra Die «Unglückskarte» beim Pokern cards dealt into five hands, spectator selects one card in one hand and cards are placed together, dealt again and spectator points to packet with his chosen card, as a climax performer sits on selection
 		1988
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 49 No. 4&5)
28
Eddie Fechter You've Been Real Good to Me spectator sits on the card that the performer is thinking of
Also published here 1993
Fechter
146
Vicente Canuto La Carta Sobre la Silla performer sits on card
 		1993
Cartomagia Fundamental
174
Chuck Fayne The Card on the Seat "or The Spectator Sits on the Card"
spectator plays magician, card signed by performer
 		1994
The Card on the Seat
9
Chuck Fayne Loading the Seat detailed, which spectators to pick and how to load the chair
 		1994
The Card on the Seat
12
Jon Allen Get the Point prediction in envelope, spectator sits on it, with funny gag
Also published here June 1995
The Minotaur (Vol. 7 No. 2)
10
Sitter Card performer sitting on card
 		1996
The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 7)
22
Simon Aronson, John Bannon ExtraChicagothinks idea to incorporate "spectator sits on card"
 		1997
Simon Says!
60
Ellis Stanyon Person Sits on a Chosen Card No. 9
Variations 1999
Ellis Stanyon's Best Card Tricks
22
Karl Fulves Supplementary Note another routine for that plot, card travels from between spectator's hand to chair
Inspired by 1999
Ellis Stanyon's Best Card Tricks
22
Brother John Hamman Double Surprise Elevators Ace through Four of Spades in row on table, rise to top of packet, change to Hearts and the Spades cards are in three pockets and on chair of performer
Also published here Feb. 2001
Genii (Vol. 64 No. 2)
39
David Berglas Sitting Pretty: A Card Effect spectator sits on signed selection
Inspired by May 2007
Genii (Vol. 70 No. 5)
95
Arie Vilner Notes on the Card under the Seat signed
 		2009
Underhanded Delivery
92
Arie Vilner The Smiley Solution signed
 		2009
Underhanded Delivery
94
Jon Allen Gluteus Prediction prediction seems wrong but depicts the spectator sitting on a prediction which turns out to be correct, for chair load see p. 9
Related toAlso published here 2009
Experience: The Magic of Jon Allen
17
Roberto Giobbi How to Sit On a Card
2016
Hidden Agenda (Issue June 27)
185
Johnny Thompson Card on the Seat spectator is sitting on card signed by performer
 		2018
The Magic of Johnny Thompson (Issue 2)
107
Eddie Fechter Original Card on the Seat miscalled selection
 		2018
The Magic of Johnny Thompson (Issue 2)
111
Andi Gladwin Card on seat
2019
Personal Revelations
38
Patrick G. Redford Echolocation Magician correctly divines position of two selected cards, third card vanishes, spectator is sitting on the third card
Inspired byRelated to 2019
Sleightly Out Of Order
116
Sylvain Juzan Card on Chair Idea
2021
Every Card You Take
61
Max Malini Card on Chair
2022
Max Malini
290
Will Fern The Sentinel card from deck whispers name of selection and the fact that the spectator is sitting on it
Inspired byRelated toAlso published here
  • MAGIC, Feb. 2013
 2022
Talk About Tricks (Issue 2)
1180
Gregory Wilson The One Cheek Sneak selection on deck changes visually, performer sits on selection, then whole deck vanishes and performer sits on deck, optional repeat phase
 		June 2024
Elixir (Vol. 3 No. Wilson Issue)
1
Gregory Wilson The Scoot Ditch ditching a card or the deck on one's chair
 		June 2024
Elixir (Vol. 3 No. Wilson Issue)
4