Triumph

Triumph is a card routine developed by Dai Vernon that was first published in Stars of Magic, Series 2, N° 1 (1946) in which the deck is shuffled face-up into face-down after a selected card is returned. The deck then magically rights itself, except for the selected card. Dai developed the Triumph Shuffle to accomplish this effect which is a Strip-out Shuffle type.

Variations

• Reversed Cards by Charles Jordan (Instruction Sheet 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)
• 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.
• Marlo's Triumph, page 46 from Marlo in Spades (1947). A Triumph without a Strip-out Shuffle.
• A Kortial Triumph Milton Kort Lecture Notes (undated, but late 1960s or very early 1970s)
• Culligula: the Hardcore Triumph by Kostya Kimlat. A version of Triumph which can allow the spectator to do the shuffle. See DVD The Roadrunner Cull (2005) or Lecture Collection (2006)
• Roll-Over Aces