Six Card Repeat

Six Card Repeat is a card effect created for the stage by Tommy Tucker in which the performer shows six cards; throws three away and yet still has six cards when counted. It's repeated several times to humorous effect.

Tommy Tucker invented it in the 1920's and it first appeared in print in Charles Eastman's Expert Manipulative Magic in 1936.

It became a pet effect for Sid Lorraine, Charles Brush (Baffles) (who simplified it by introducing pockets on the cards), Blackstone Sr., and Clarke Crandall.

There are many version now, some sleight of hand, some with specially prepared cards.

Variations

• Poker Hand Repeat Trick in More Card Manipulations No. 2 by P. W. Miller (1939).
• A Marlo Gag by Ed Marlo in Ireland's Year Book 1944
• Crandall's One Hand Six Card Repeat in Tarbell Course in Magic, Vol. 6 (1954).
• Robert A. Olson in Sick Sorcery as Silk Kard Repeat (1961).