Odd Backed

67 entries in Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) Across / Odd Backed
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Victor Farelli A Study in Blue and White envelope
 		1933
Farelli's Card Magic — Part Two
99
Victor Farelli, Edward Bagshawe The "Simplex" Thirty Cards envelope
 		1933
Farelli's Card Magic — Part Two
102
Al Baker Color Flight
1934
The Secret Ways of Al Baker (Issue Cardially Yours)
487
Theodore Annemann Restless Cards two rubber banded piles with different backs, selections transpose, see also page 210 for comment
 		Apr. 1937
The Jinx (Issue 31)
202
Infiltration
1940
More Card Manipulations (Issue 3)
33
Sam Leo Horowitz Duo-Flight as Leo Hartz, with envelopes
Variations 1941
Our Mysteries
28
Al Baker Red-Black Transposition envelopes
Also published here 1941
Magical Ways and Means
9
C. A. George Newmann Effective Passee-Passee Card Melange with envelopes and two different colored backs
 		1945
My Best
46
Dr. Raymond L. Beebe Ships that pass in the night three cards
 		1945/27
Tarbell Course in Magic — Volume 4
174
Paul Rosini Two Decks - Red and Blue red-backed selection mixed into red packet and put in spectators pocket, same with blue-backed selection, then all cards transpose except selections
 		1950
Magical Gems
19
Al Baker Color Flight envelopes, paired double cards
Also published here 1951
Pet Secrets
49
Edward Marlo Effect Six two cards, double facers
 		1953
Unlimited
22
Dai Vernon Penetration of Thought odd-backed, two packets of four Aces each, thought Ace transposes
Related toVariations 1957
The Dai Vernon Book of Magic
51
Allessandro Transposition Cards with two different colored backs, three cards travel, in envelopes
 		1958
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1958)
16
P. Howard Lyons Neater Penetration odd-backed, two packets of four Aces each, thought Ace transposes
Inspired by Oct. 1959
Ibidem (Issue 18)
33
Dai Vernon Thought Transposed two sets of four Aces with different backs, thought of Ace transposes
Related toVariations 1960
More Inner Secrets of Card Magic
16
Cliff Green Flight of the Blues signed odd-backed cards travel
Related to 1961
Professional Card Magic
102
Die Kartenwanderung
1962
Enzyklopädie der Rauh-Glatt-Kartentricks — Teil I
22
Peter Kane Transportation of a Thought odd-backed
 		1967
A Card Session with Peter Kane
15
Sam Leo Horowitz New Method Duo-Flight envelopes
Inspired by 1969
HEX!
87
Dr. Jacob Daley Daley's Version Of (2 decks) Hand To Hand Card Pass With Scarne Idea No. 305
 		1972
Jacob Daley's Notebooks
78
Roy Walton, Charles T. Jordan Colour Me Jordan two decks, mentally selected cards appear in other halves of the deck which are in spectators pockets
Inspired byAlso published here 1973
Card Script
35
Roy Walton Gefärbter Jordan two decks, mentally selected cards appear in other halves of the deck which are in spectators pockets
Also published here Nov. 1975
Intermagic (Vol. 3 No. 1 & 2)
12
Nick Trost Transposed Aces with Repeat Four blue backed Aces and four red backed Aces on table, named Aced transposes between the two packets, twice
 		1976
Subtle Card Magic — Part One
21
Roy Walton Jordan Plus Colour two thought cards across with two odd-backed decks, odd-backed siamesa
Inspired byAlso published here 1978
The Spread Half-Pass
33
Simon Aronson Odd-Backed Thought Card Across #1
Also published here 1978
The Card Ideas of Simon Aronson
70
Simon Aronson Odd-Backed Thought Card Across #2
Also published here 1978
The Card Ideas of Simon Aronson
75
Simon Aronson Red See Passover
Also published here 1978
The Card Ideas of Simon Aronson
78
Philip T. Goldstein Penetration of Blank four kings and four blank cards
Inspired byAlso published here 1979
Snow
2
Daryl Martinez Flexible Blue/Red Cards Across with two handkerchiefs
 		1980
Lecture Notes to Convention Session #1
13
Fred Lowe Rot-Blau-Kartenwanderung with envelopes
 		Aug. 1980
Intermagic (Vol. 7 No. 2)
64
Roy Walton, Charles T. Jordan Colour Me Jordan two decks, mentally selected cards appear in other halves of the deck which are in spectators pockets
Also published here 1981
The Complete Walton — Volume 1
128
Al Baker Color Flight brief
 		1983
A History of the Brainwave Principle
54
Jon Racherbaumer Neo-Brownian Movement two odd-backed quartets
Inspired byAlso published here
  • MUM, Sep. 1980
 1984
At The Table
160
Clayton Rawson Rawson Transit selection travels from one deck reversed to another
 		1985
The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 4)
23
Philip T. Goldstein Shinkansen cards across with four red and four blue cards, chosen card travels
Also published here 1988
Lecture
5
Roy Walton Jordan Plus Colour two thought cards across with two odd-backed decks, odd-backed siamesa
Also published here 1988
The Complete Walton — Volume 2
146
Philip T. Goldstein Shinkansen cards across with four red and four blue cards, chosen card travels, created in 1988
Also published here 1990
Focus
83
Alex Elmsley Thoughts In Transit chosen Ace travels from Ace packet to odd-backed Ace packet
Inspired by 1991
The Collected Works of Alex Elmsley — Volume 1
80
Philip T. Goldstein Shinkansen cards across with four red and four blue cards, chosen card travels
Also published here 1991
Music City Conclave 1992 Notes
5
T. Page Wright From Deck to Deck selection travels into another deck at any number
 		1991
Page Wright's Manuscript
194
Michael F. Zens The Original of Zens' Packets and Envelopes Trick
1994
More Greater Magic
1074
Sam Leo Horowitz New Method Duo-Flight two selections
 		1994
More Greater Magic
1098
Simon Aronson Odd-Backed Thought Card Across #1
Also published here 1994
Bound to Please
69
Simon Aronson Odd-Backed Thought Card Across #2
Also published here 1994
Bound to Please
73
Simon Aronson Red See Passover
Also published here 1994
Bound to Please
76
Jon Racherbaumer Clean-Sweep Thought Penetration odd-backed, two packets of four Aces each, thought Aces transpose, repeat, by "The Boys of Bennigans" (Doug, Jason and myself)
Also published here Oct. 1995
Magic (Vol. 5 No. 2)
75
Brother John Hamman Confusing Dye kind of weird odd backed cards across
  • Three Cards Across
  • Six Cards Across
  • The Confusing Dye
 		Winter 1996
The Looking Glass (Issue 1)
6
Michael Close Full Deck Passover named card from red deck to blue deck, memorized deck
 		1996
Workers Number 5
152
Pablo Domenèch La 'Otra' Viajera Azul one card
 		1996
La Magia de Pablo Domènech
106
David Regal Swindle Transpo Signed card from red group of cards (sealed in envelope) travels to group of blue cards sealed in another envelope
 		1999
Close-Up & Personal
54
Bob King Challenge Card Across red/blue double backer
 		1999
Private Notes
19
Dean Dill Time Flies Clock Trick plot, with red deck an hour is thought of and corresponding card of clock setup is noted by spectator, cards are re-dealt and there are only eleven, noted card appears reversed in blue deck
 		1999
Labyrinth (Issue 9)
4
Tony Binarelli Magnum Tranverse ten red-backed red spot cards and ten blue-backed black spot cards, three travel across, jumbo cards, partial rough-smooth
Related to July 2000
Magic (Vol. 9 No. 11)
76
Al Baker Red-Black Transposition envelopes
Also published here 2003
The Secret Ways of Al Baker (Issue Magical Ways and Means)
149
Al Baker Color Flight envelopes, paired double cards
Also published here 2003
The Secret Ways of Al Baker (Issue Pet Secrets)
398
Jim Steinmeyer Advanced teleportatation "teleportation"
VariationsAlso published here 2003
Artificial conclusions
14
Derek Dingle Technicolor Cards Across odd-backed, packets in envelopes
Inspired by May 2004
Genii (Vol. 67 No. 5)
54
Arturo de Ascanio The Trick of the Wise odd-backed, two packets of four Kings each
Inspired by 2008
The Magic of Ascanio — More Studies of Card Magic
294
Helder Guimarães Cards, Signatures and Glasses (or "Test Conditions!!!")
signed cards
 		2008 (ca.)
Don't Xerox Lecture Notes
9
Arie Vilner Swift Transfer Two - Red, White and Blue odd-backed version, card vanishes from deck and appears among five cards that are in the spectator's pocket
 		2009
Underhanded Delivery
86
Arie Vilner Swift Transfer Four - Eternal Bond performer's signature travels from packet to packet, odd-backed
 		2009
Underhanded Delivery
88
Helder Guimarães Analysis of a Magical Effect & Method thoughts on the Card Across plot
 		2011
Reflections
3
Helder Guimarães Cards, Signatures and Glasses signed cards
 		2011
Reflections
9
Jim Steinmeyer Advanced Teleportation
  • Conjuring
Also published here Oct. 2018
Genii (Vol. 81 No. 10)
26
Jon Racherbaumer Clean Sweep Thought Penetration
  • Exhumations
odd-backed, two packets of four Aces each, thought Aces transpose, repeat
Inspired byAlso published here May 2023
Genii (Vol. 86 No. 5)
44
Michael Weber V2 - Two Decks: Remote Control two decks with different back colors, five cards are reversed as a block in both decks, three cards travel across leaving two cards reversed in one deck and eight in the other deck, almost hands off
 		2023
Across Words
5