Re-Set

A card routine in Art of Astonishment Vol 1 by Paul Harris. Originally appeared in Super Magic

Synopsis

Two 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. For a kicker ending the four jacks instantly "reset" and become aces once again.

Variations

• Resetting Reset Bills by Bill Malone in On the Loose DVD Vol 4
• Set-Reset Plus by Bernard Bilis & Richard Vollmer 4 in Card College Volume 3
• Color Reset, yet another card reset by Jeff Poncher in Apocalypse Vol 5 No 9 Sept 1982 page 677.
• Perfect Reset Reset by Louis Falanga in Apocalypse Vol 9 No 8 Aug 86 – page 1241 ():
• Reset at Its Best by Randy Wakeman in Apocalypse Vol 12 No 4 April 1989
• Respun by Robert Bengel in Apocalypse Vol 14 No 8 Aug 1991 page 1960
• Ricochet by R. Paul Wilson - gimmicked packet trick.
• Reset, Reset by Earl Nelson in Variations. (Also appears on page 143 of “The Art of Astonishment” Book One.)
• Dead Set by Euan Bingham in Free From Filler
• Wild Aces by Gaston Quieto in Twenty
• Escamotage by Barry Price - Barry tackles Paul Harris’ Reset
• Persuasion by Harkey, David in Simply Harkey Page 227 : Aces turn to Queens, Queens vanish to case.
• Reset with a Hook by Greg Wilsoan in ard Stunts Video Contents
• Re-Re-Re-Reset by Jamy Ian Swiss in Another Interesting Application of That Principle lecture notes
• Respun by Robert Bengel in Apocalypse Vol.3
• Reset Blanks by Guy Hollingworth in Quartet.

• Jennings, Larry The Maestro's Poker Demonstration with 5 cards, transformation kicker The Classic Magic of Larry Jennings 64
• Jennings, Larry Well Oiled Reset transformation kicker The Classic Magic of Larry Jennings 46  ????
• Maddison, Walt Boomerang Apocalypse Vol.3 1940  ???
• Regal, David Call To Colors using odd-backed quartets Apocalypse Vol.4 2874
• Swain, James Metamorphosis one Quartet is in Case 21st Century Card Magic 11
• Card File Jerry Mentzer Copyright © 1993 page 008 Reset Finale (Randy Tanner)
• Good Turns 2.0 By Jon Racherbaumer Copyright © 2002 Page 22 Twisted Reset
• Cardfixes By Jon Racherbaumer Copyright © 1990 Page 165 Off – Color Reset
• Trost, Nick – The Cardmagic of Nick Trost Copyright © 1997 Pages 172 Trost on Reset
• Miracles with Cards by James Swain Copyright ©1996 page 80...Boxed Reset
• Sticks & Stones No. 17, May 1978 page 1 Reset Repair (Dave Solomon)
• Rachbaumer, Jon: The Collected Almanac page 98 Technicolor Reset: reset plot with two different colored backs
• John Mendoza - Don England’s TKO’s: Technical Knock Outs page 4 Reset Twist
• Mike Maxwell The Classic Magic of Larry Jennings page 46 Well Oiled Reset ??
• John Bannon Mirage: Modern Card Magic page 56 A/K/A Reset ??
• Simon Aronson Sessions Copyright ©1982 page 82 Pre-set Reset (David Solomon)
• Jack Carpenter & Stephen Hobbs, Modus Operandi Copyright 1992 Jack Carpenter & Stephen Hobbs Multiplex Reset page 21 - “Reset” with a “Double Travellers” finale.