Re-Set

Re-Set is a card routine by Paul Harris first published in Super Magic(1977), later reprinted in Art of Astonishment, Vol. 1 (1996). A similar plot (uncredited) was Brother John Hamman's Underground Transposition published in Jon Racherbaumer's magazine Kabbala, Vol. 1, N° 7, 1972. (Credit was corrected when republished in Art of Astonishment.)

Synopsis

4 aces and 4 jacks are shown. Jacks are placed on the table and the aces are held in the hands. One at a time the aces change places with the jacks (We can call that a Slow-motion Transposition). For a kicker ending the four jacks instantly "reset" and become aces once again.

Variations

• Twisted Reset By Jon Racherbaumer in Good Turns (1977).
• Reset Repair by David Solomon in Sticks & Stones No. 17, May 1978.
• Reset, Reset by Earl Nelson in Variations (1978). (Also appears on page 143 of The Art of Astonishment, Vol. 1, 1996)
• Reset Twist by John Mendoza in Don England’s TKO’s ((1981).
• Color Reset, yet Another Card Reset by Jeff Poncher in Apocalypse, Vol. 5, No 9, Sept 1982, page 677.
• Pre-set Reset by David Solomon in Sessions by Simon Aronson & Solomon (1982).
• Reset Color by Jon Racherbaumer in Cardfixes (1982).
• Technicolor Reset by Jon Racherbaumer in Richard's Almanac, Vol. 1, Summer Issue, june 1983.
• Perfect Reset Reset by Louis Falanga in Apocalypse, Vol 9 No 8, Aug 1986, page 1241.
• The Maestro's Poker Demonstration by Larry Jennings from The Classic Magic of Larry Jennings written by Mike Maxwell (1986).
• Well Oiled Reset by Larry Jennings from The Classic Magic of Larry Jennings.
• A/K/A Reset by John Bannon in Mirage (1986).
• Re-Re-Re-Reset by Jamy Ian Swiss in Another Interesting Application of That Principle lecture notes (1987).
• Reset at Its Best by Randy Wakeman in Apocalypse, Vol 12, No 4, April 1989.
• Color (Re)Set by Louis Falanga in Spectacle by Stephen Minch (1990).

• Persuasion by David Harkey in Simply Harkey, page 227 (1991). Aces turn to Queens, Queens vanish to case.
• Boomerang by Walt Maddison from Apocalypse, Vol. 14, N° 6, june 1991.
• Respun by Robert Bengel in Apocalypse, Vol 14, No 8, Aug 1991, page 1960.
• Reset Finale by Jerry Mentzer in Card File, Vol. 1, (1993).
• Boxed Reset by James Swain in Miracles with Cards (1996).
• Call To Colors by David Regal in Apocalypse, Vol. 20, N° 12, december 1997, using odd-backs.
• Trost on Reset by Nick Trost in The Cardmagic of Nick Trost (1997).
• Set-Reset Plus by Bernard Bilis & Richard Vollmer in Card College, Vol. 3 (1998).
• Reset Blanks by Guy Hollingworth in Quartet (1999).
• Metamorphosis One by Jim Swain in 21st Century Card Magic (1999).
• Dead Set by Euan Bingham in Free From Filler (2003).

• Ricochet by R. Paul Wilson - gimmicked packet trick (2001).
• Resetting Reset Bills by Bill Malone in DVD On the Loose, Vol. 4.
• Re-Test by Gaston Quieto on DVD Twenty.
• Escamotage by Barry Price. Barry tackles Paul Harris’ Reset.
• Reset with a Hook by Greg Wilson in Card Stunts Video Contents.
• Multiplex Reset by Jack Carpenter & Stephen Hobbs in Modus Operandi - Reset with a Double Travellers finale.
• The Skinny by John Lovick in his Lecture Notes.
• Punk'd by Kevin Hat in http://www.kevhonline.net/index.htm.
• Nullified! by Tom Stone in the ebook Random Walk (2007).