Triumph

Triumph is a reversing-card routine developed by Dai Vernon that was first published in Stars of Magic, Series 2, No. 1 (1946) in which a card is selected and returned to the pack, whereupon half the deck is turned face up and shuffled into the face-down half. The deck then magically rights itself, except for the selected card.

Dai developed the Triumph Shuffle to accomplish this effect, which is a type of Strip-out Shuffle.

Variations

• JORDAN, Charles - Reversed Cards. Instruction sheet published between 1916 and 1920, reprinted in Encyclopedia of Card Tricks, page 393 (1937) and in Charles Jordan's Best Card Tricks, page 66, compiled by Karl Fulves in 1992.

• Sid Lorraine The S.L. Reversed Card, page 34 in Subtle Problems You Will Do (1937) written by John Braun and Stewart Judah. An in-the-hands version of Triumph

• MARLO, Ed - Marlo's Triumph, page 46 in Marlo in Spades (1947). A Triumph without a Strip-out Shuffle.

• KORT, Milt - A Kortial Triumph, published in Milton Kort Lecture Notes (1963)

• DARYL - The Puerto Rican Triumph, incorporates a convincing tabled cutting-sequence known as the Puerto Rican Cutting Display that was quickly adopted by many top pros upon its publication in Secrets of a Puerto Rican Gambler (Minch, 1980).

• FARMER, Bob - Double Dazzling Slop Shuffle Triumph, Fork Full of Appetizers, Book 1 (1982)

Related Notes

• Using double faced cards, ascribed to Stewart Judah in The Lost Notebooks of John Northern Hilliard.
• Vernon's Magic Mix, entry 21 in Jacob Daley's Notebooks.
• Roll-Over Aces