Faced Deck

73 entries in Cards / Effect Themes / Turnover & Reverse / Faced Deck
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Charles T. Jordan The Half-Pack Reverse No. 17
Related toAlso published here 1919/1920
Thirty Card Mysteries
52
Friedrich "Fritz" Hügli Die plötzlich sich verwandelnde gezogene Karte transformation of face-down top card, faced deck
 		1930
Zauberkunststücke
65
Joe Berg A Routine with a Double-Back Cards card placed second comes to top several times, sequence à la The Trick that Fooled Houdini, then reversal sequence with faced-deck finish
 		1930
Here's Magic
35
Louis Lam "Reverso"
1935
Would You Believe It?
10
A Peculiar Turn Around No. 50
 		1935
Card Tricks that are Easy to Learn, Easy to Do
44
New Half Pack Reverse
1936
Card Manipulations (Issue 5)
158
Obedient Cards
1938
Greater Magic
242
Martin Gardner Face to Face Fantasy halves placed face-to-face right itself except selection, repeat with second selection
Related to 1940
12 Tricks with a Borrowed Deck
7
Edward Victor “Face to Face” Pack Effects (First Method) deck is openly “faced,” card rises out of deck, magician reinserts it reversed and it slowly lowers back into deck, deck is all facing same way, (note: Fig. 9 is audience’s view)
Related to 1940 ca.
More Magic of the Hands — Part One
16
Edward Victor “Face to Face” Pack Effects (Second Method) deck is “faced” in telescoped condition, face cards of each half are noted, one half reverses to face same way as other half, face cards verified as still the same
Related toVariations 1940 ca.
More Magic of the Hands — Part One
19
Tenkai Ishida Tenkai's Reverse Cards Mystery
Also published here 1941
Tarbell Course in Magic — Volume 1
215
Paul Curry Face to Face faced deck straightens out, repeat
 		1941
Something Borrowed, Something New
[23]
Martin Gardner A Face to Face Routine
Related to 1942
Cut the Cards
24
Arthur H. Buckley A Quickie Experiment No. 37 - backed instead of faced
 		1946
Card Control
206
Harold J. Kelly The Marvel Card Trick faced deck straightens out
 		Aug. 1947
Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 5 No. 3)
344
Topsy-Turvy Cards
1948
The Royal Road to Card Magic
13
Paul LePaul A Reverse Card Routine
Variations 1949
The Card Magic of Le Paul
183
Francis Carlyle The Upside-Down Deck No. 3, spectator and performer each select card from half the deck and exchange it, then faced-deck Triumph without shuffle
Related toVariations 1950
Scarne on Card Tricks
11
John Scarne Reverso No. 22, Two selections magically reverse themselves after deck is held behind back
 		1950
Scarne on Card Tricks
43
Bill Simon The Turnabout six or seven packets put together face-up and face-down, they sort themselves the same way
Variations 1954
Sleightly Sensational
18
Gala-Gala spectator and performer each select card from half the deck and exchange it, then faced deck Triumph without shuffle
Related to 1958
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 19 No. 3)
662
Jack Avis French Reverse
Oct. 1961
The New Phoenix (Issue 362)
277
Ronald A. Wohl (Ravelli) Ravelli's "Acrobatic Surprise" faced deck rightens itself, color changing deck kicker
 		Apr. 1963
Ibidem (Issue 28)
31
Harry Lorayne Revers-All three packets are faced, all one way except two selections
 		1964
Personal Secrets
34
Louis Lam Reverso
1969
Expert Card Mysteries
116
Walter B. Gibson Triple Mental Repeat three cards in pocket, two removed and bringing mentally selected card out at last, repeated, duplicates
Related to 1971
Magick (Issue 28)
137
John Jennings Card Incident
1971
Magick (Issue 33)
162
Edward Marlo, Bill Simon To Set Up combination of two referenced Bill Simon effects
Inspired by June 1972
Kabbala — Volume 1 (Vol. 1 No. 6)
48
Charles "Cicardi" Scott Hell's Fire! five business cards with words on them, spectator divines them correclty
Inspired byVariations 1972
Magick (Issue 59)
293
Dai Vernon Vernon's Reverso Routine (Over elaborated) No. 18, multi-phase card reversal routine, hard/impossible to follow write-up
 		1972
Jacob Daley's Notebooks
10
Dr. Jacob Daley Daley's Version Of Horowitz's Reverso Effect No. 300, Faced-Deck straightens out again, but with shuffle making it Triumph, also with false shuffle option
Related to 1972
Jacob Daley's Notebooks
77
Frank Garcia Topsy Turvy Deck
Variations 1973
Super Subtle Card Miracles
134
Orville Wayne Meyer Round Up two selections, half held by spectator, cards are exchanged and deck assembled in face-up and face-down packets
Related to 1973
Magick (Issue 78)
389
Bill Wysong Wysong's Duplicity Rosini's Double Reverse handling using a duplicate
Related to 1973
Wonderful Routines of Magic — The First Addendum
33
Tenkai Ishida Topsy Turvy Cards faced deck rightens itself, repeated
 		1974
The Magic of Tenkai
38
Karl Fulves Mental Triumph without shuffle, more faced-deck with some cuts, bridged deck
 		1975
Methods with Cards — Part 1
11
Charles T. Jordan The Half-Pack Reverse
Also published here 1975
Charles T. Jordan: Collected Tricks
70
Harry Lorayne Two-Card Revelation two halves, two cards pushed into other half, face-up/face-down condition, all righten except the two cards, bit like Rosini's Double Reverse
Related to 1977
The Magic Book
118
Nick Trost Dual Reverse two chosen ESP cards are the only reversed ones
 		1979
ESP Card Magic
8
Frank Shields, Francis Carlyle Double Reversal deck rightens, two selections turn over
Inspired by 1981
Arcane (Issue 4)
36
Walt Lees Topsy Turvy Cards
Inspired by 1981
The Complete Cannibal Act
5
Roy Walton Changing Times
Inspired by 1981
The Complete Walton — Volume 1
216
Stewart James Half-A-Dozen Ways to Turn off-beat presentation, ace of spades appears and transforms
 		1983
Arcane (Issue 10)
130
David Britland Tri-umph "In the midst of chaos something always turns up"
no shuffle, three packets placed face-up/face-down
Related to 1985
Equinox
14
Paul Rosini, Eugene Burger Rosini's Double Reverse
Inspired byVariations 1987
The Performance of Close-Up Magic
61
Roy Walton Kings at Large card peeked at, black Kings cut face-up into deck, top half turned over, rest of deck turns over and Kings sandwich selection
Also published here
  • in Austrian magazine in 1970
 1988
The Complete Walton — Volume 2
12
Sam Leo Horowitz Reverso
Related toAlso published here
  • The Sphinx, Vol. 25 No. 6, July 1926
 1989
The Vernon Chronicles — Volume 3
xvii
Dr. Jacob Daley Vis-à-vis
1989
The Vernon Chronicles — Volume 3
180
Gary Ouellet Three Triumphant Cuts deck is cut somewhere and reversed three times, selection ends up on top and all cards are face down again
Variations 1990
Close Up Illusions
147
Karl Fulves Subplot spectator faces deck
 		1991
28 Card Tricks
19
T. Page Wright A Reverse Routine
  • The Double Reverse
  • The Longitudinal Reverse (Tunnel)
  • The Whole Deck Reverse (faced deck, suddenly is backed deck)
 		1991
Page Wright's Manuscript
207
Jerry K. Hartman Front and Center card removed from third, packet is placed reversed in center of rest, all cards turn in same direction but selection
Inspired by 1991
Card Craft
275
Jon Racherbaumer Still Anon credit discussion of the plot as in "The Upside-Down Deck" (spectator and performer each select card from half the deck and exchange it, then faced-deck Triumph without shuffle)
Related to Dec. 1992
Swipe (Issue 7)
14
Justin Higham Seeing Is Believing deck faced in three sections, all straight out except selection
 		1992
Technomagic (Issue 13)
105
Charles T. Jordan The Half-Pack Reverse No. 60
Also published here 1992
Charles Jordan's Best Card Tricks
71
Karl Fulves "Half-Pack Reverse" Notes No. 61, handling without half pass
Related to 1992
Charles Jordan's Best Card Tricks
72
Art Altman Altman's Upside Down reproduction of ad copy
Also published here
  • The Sphinx, Nov. 1928
 1994
Rigmarole (Issue 6)
68
Eugene Burger The Visibly Turning Cards Rosini's Double Reverse with glorpy
Inspired byAlso published here 1994
Rediscoveries
23
Aldo Colombini Flip Flop deck is cut somewhere and reversed three times, two cards are revealed at the end and transpose, variation with Aces
Inspired byAlso published here
  • Genii
 1995
What's Up Deck?
73
William Goodwin, Ray Kosby The Un-Topsy-Turvy Deck halves are left telescoped and spread - one half visibly rights
Related toVariations Spring 1996
The Looking Glass (Issue 2)
73
Eugene Burger The Visibly Turning Cards Rosini's Double Reverse with glorpy
Inspired byAlso published here 2000
Mastering the Art of Magic
219
The Name's the Same No. 46, deck shuffled and card in one half chosen by spelling "Eve", this card predicted
 		2001
New Self-Working Card Tricks
66
Peter Duffie The Face Up Trick topsy-turvy deck, ends with sandwich
 		2001
Cards By All Means
14
Terry LaGerould The Incredible Cardboard Acrobat
Inspired by 2001
Pasteboard Presentations II
56
Jack Avis Club sandwich five packets put together face-up and -down, only two selections reversed at the end
Inspired byVariations 2002
Ahead of the Pack
97
Jack Jansen Variant five packets put together face-up and -down, only two selections reversed at the end, with further idea by Lewis Jones
Inspired by 2002
Ahead of the Pack
98
Gene Maze Quarterly Triumph
June 2002
Genii (Vol. 65 No. 6)
69
Al Leech The Sandwich Aces distributed in one half which is placed reversed in center of rest, cards right themselves except Aces ("Hot Card Trick No. 3", ca. 1950)
 		2004
A Last Look at Leech
16
Jack Avis The French Reverse
2006
Rara Avis
68
Trevor Lewis Trevor's Card at Any Number with faced deck
Related to 2009
Routines Matter
46
Steve Beam Club Sandwich spectator and performer each select card from half the deck and exchange it, Triumph with visible sorting of stepped packets
Inspired byRelated toAlso published here 2018
Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 11
39
Steve Beam Club Sandwich spectator and performer each select card from half the deck and exchange it, Triumph with visible sorting of stepped packets
Inspired byAlso published here 2019
Card Tricks That Kilt
14
John Carey Topsy Turvy Carey deck in six packets on the table, they are rolled up into an apparent face-up/face-down mix, then all one way again
 		Jan. 2024
The Hermit (Vol. 3 No. 1)
1209