Miscellaneous

140 entries in Cards / Sleights / Additions / Miscellaneous
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Friedrich W. Conradi-Horster La carte échappée transferring a card to bottom half via The Slip
 		1896
Der moderne Kartenkünstler
18
S. W. Erdnase Dealing Too Many dealing too many cards in a game, double deal is only hinted at
Related to 1902
The Expert at the Card Table
112
Donald Holmes Card on Glass card on top of glass is invisible for audience when they look on edge
Also published here 1913
Tricks With Prepared Cards
28
Oswald Rae Stock Addition after Spectator's Shuffle palmed cards added when completing spectator's cut
 		1928
Sub Rosa
3
Bruce Elliott Changing Tray Substitute magazine
 		May 1936
The Jinx (Issue 20)
115
Donald Holmes Card on Glass card on top of glass is invisible for audience when they look on edge
Also published here 1937
Encyclopedia of Card Tricks
70
Donald Holmes Card on Glass card on top of glass is invisible for audience when they look on edge
Also published here 1937
Encyclopedia of Card Tricks
78
Chair Add
1937
Encyclopedia of Card Tricks
291
Holdout underneath Envelope
1937
Encyclopedia of Card Tricks
345
Tom Sellers Card and Envelope card added from underneath envelope
 		1937
Encyclopedia of Card Tricks
346
Glenn G. Gravatt Card and Envelope No. 2 card added from underneath envelope
 		1937
Encyclopedia of Card Tricks
347
Force Card Addition first dropping cards apparently by mistake
 		1939
The Magic Annual for 1938 and 1939
17
d. As a False Table Count on a tabled packet with double deal
 		1940
Expert Card Technique
16
Tommy Dowd Card Addition to Packet with table spread force application
 		July 1945
Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 3 No. 2)
132
Turn-Over Addition palmed card is added to packet and turned-over, apparently turning top card over
Related to Dec. 1948
Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 6 No. 7)
488
Arthur H. Buckley Secret Removal Between Cards loading cards between outjogged cards
 		1948
The Card Expert Entertains
147
Purvis W. Miller Biddle Card Vanish Biddle Steal used to add cards
 		Jan. 1949
Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 6 No. 8)
501
Behind Fan Addition fan held in right hand, left hand with deck adjusts it and adds card behind it
 		1949
52 Amazing Card Tricks
29
Bill Simon Card Addition as a switch of four cards
 		1952
Effective Card Magic
170
Turnover Add-On cards on table are turned over with a card, card is loaded in the process
 		1953
Classic Secrets of Magic
83
Al Leech Additions general comments
 		1954
Handbook Of Card Sleights
22
Karrell Fox Add-On while scooping aces up, loading three cards underneath, Ovette / Kelley move
 		1954
Kornfidentially Yours
19
Jerry Andrus Effect C fan add on
Also published here 1956
Andrus Deals You In
74
Edward Marlo Addition to Tabled Packet
1957
The Tabled Palm
37
Bill Hendricks Perfectly Deceptive three ideas (first two with the Faro Shuffle)
  • Key Supreme (key card placement)
  • Unparadoxical (faro shuffle as false shuffle)
  • Prelude (add-on, cards on Aces)
 		1960
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1960)
61
James Steranko Packet Replacement Variation addition to packet, or card-at-a-number
 		1960
Steranko on Cards
31
Gene Nielsen Reverse Add-On
1971
Expert Card Chicanery
13
, Dr. Jacob Daley Adding a Card bold method of dealing an extra card
 		1972
Million Dollar Card Secrets
105
Scoop-under Transfer card unloaded from double and added to pile during scooping
 		1972
Packet Magic
30
Dai Vernon Vernon's Spread To Add A Card No. 66, card added as tabled packet is spread, cheating move "The Spread"
Related to 1972
Jacob Daley's Notebooks
20
Dr. Jacob Daley False Count To Add Cards No. 529, cards fairly counted off deck, then packet added with palm action, not enough details
 		1972
Jacob Daley's Notebooks
149
Karl Fulves Interlock Addition
Related to Mar. 1974
Epilogue (Issue 20)
186
Martin A. Nash Knock-Out Add-On on a tabled packet with double deal, see p. 442 for additional crediting
 		1975
Ever So Sleightly
29
Drop Addition
1975
Some Late Extra Card Tricks
4
Edward Marlo Unit Upjog Addition thorough discussion
Variations 1976
Marlo's Magazine — Volume 1
25
Trevor Lewis L.I.A.R. seated, card added to the deck after a shuffle
 		Nov. 1976
Pabular (Vol. 3 No. 3)
333
Jerry Andrus Utility Fan Doublit Move fan add on
Also published here 1976
Andrus Card Control
50
Jerry Andrus Fandition (Fan Addition) Move card is added to selection
 		1976
Andrus Card Control
52
Jerry Andrus 21st of June Move adding and hiding other cards under a packet
 		1976
Andrus Card Control
57
Gene Maze Square-Up Loading in center of deck, tabled
 		1977
Packet Switches (Part Four)
238
Gene Maze Top Loading from lap
 		1977
Packet Switches (Part Four)
239
Dan MacMillan Ribbon Spread Card Add as spread is scooped up
 		1977
The Gamblers' Palm Revisited
5
Dan MacMillan Secret Card Add adding card from gambler's flat palm to small packet
Variations 1977
The Gamblers' Palm Revisited
19
Dan MacMillan Misdirection Card Add adding palmed cards during counting or dealing action
 		1977
The Gamblers' Palm Revisited
23
Edward Marlo Adding The Aces two methods to add packet to deck, one more on page 320 from inner pocket
 		1979
Marlo's Magazine — Volume 3
321
Gene Maze SlideUnder Switch
1980
The Gene Maze Card Book
21
Gene Maze The Square-Up Load in center of deck, tabled
 		1980
The Gene Maze Card Book
87
Andrew Galloway Card Addition cards are dropped in a movement
 		1980
Diverting Card Magic
50
Edward Marlo Drop Addition like Merlin's Tip Over Change
 		1981
Jim Ryan Close-Up: Sensational Stunners
12
Ken Simmons, Dan MacMillan A Technical Variation of the Secret Card Add from Gambler's Palm
  • As a Tabled Turnover
Inspired by 1981
Cards — With a Different Touch
17
Edward Marlo Bottom Deal Add adding on tabled packet
 		1982
Card Finesse
86
Edward Marlo Flick Addition adding on tabled packet
 		1982
Card Finesse
103
Swing Cut Add-on as packets pass, cards are added from bottom of right hand packet to top of left hand packet
 		1982
Six Impromptu Card Tricks
43
Reverse Biddle Move card loaded from bottom of deck
 		1982
Card News '82
64
Card Unload from bottom of deck to cards in left hand
 		Jan. 1982
Spell-Binder (Vol. 1 No. 9)
161
Edward Marlo Riffle Shuffle Drop-Off - Second Application as a secret add on
 		1983
The Card Puzzle
24
Edward Marlo Fourth Application adding a card from center to packet using one-handed push-out technique
 		1984
Marlo's Magazine — Volume 5
173
Biddle Addition
1984
The Best of Close-Up Magic
10
Edward Marlo Eidetic Slide Addition from tabled packet to packet in right hand
 		1986
Thirty Five Years Later
18
Mexican Addition packet levered over with double, adding a card in the process
Related to 1986
Riffling the Pasteboards
31
Meir Yedid Handling-Presentation for All adding a card to a single card, with pen in socks joke
 		1987
Meir Yedid's Card Animations
17
Bernard Bilis Palmed Card Addition
1988
Darwin Ortiz at the Card Table
109
Biddle Addition
1988
Magical Arts Journal (Vol. 2 No. 9-12 Paul Harris: The Act)
46
David Williamson Fake Pick-Up card is added under face up card to switch top card of packet on table
 		May 1989
The Minotaur (Vol. 1 No. 2)
11
Edward Marlo Unit Upjog Addition
1989
Cartas Certificadas
56
Juan Tamariz Envelope Addition adding cards to deck while displaying envelope
 		1989/91
Sonata
246
Ken Krenzel Joint Futures double prediction with addition from card shelf
 		1990
Close-up Impact!
50
Arthur H. Buckley Burglar Load loading cards between outjogged cards
 		1990
Close-up Impact!
149
Ken Krenzel, Dai Vernon The Fan Lift Addition as an addition
Inspired by 1990
Close-up Impact!
171
Tom Ellis Drop Sleight Variant credit information, coming up in the world
 		1990
Cardfixes
25
Jon Racherbaumer Mexican Addition card added to packet that is flipped over with another card
Related to 1990
Cardfixes
99
Edward Marlo Mechanical Add-On second card added to tabled pile as it is squared up
Inspired by 1990
Inside Out (Issue Special No. 1)
10
Chris Lee Capping the Hand adding cards to a tabled poker hand, using poker chips
 		1990
Cheat Sheet (Issue 5)
50
Alex Elmsley The Thumb Palm Addition adding cards from bottom to top
 		1991
The Collected Works of Alex Elmsley — Volume 1
119
T. Page Wright Slap Addition palm slapped onto packet on spectator's palm as demonstration
 		1991
Page Wright's Manuscript
108
Jerry K. Hartman Chuck-a-Block Transfer addition of cards from one packet to another
 		1991
Card Craft
183
Jerry K. Hartman Top Transfer adding card from deck while spreading small packet with other hand
 		1991
Card Craft
264
Edward Marlo Anchored Add On from center of deck to tabled packet, no palming
 		1992
Card Finesse II
38
Larry Jennings シークレットアディション III (Secret Addition 3) Scoop addition type of idea
 		1993
Larry Jennings's Card Technique
71
Lewis Jones The TP Load from the breast pocket
 		May 1994
Apocalypse (Vol. 17 No. 5)
2355
Allan Ackerman The Clip Add using pen
Also published here 1994
Wednesday Nights
11
Gene Maze Unit Grip Addition two cards become 5
 		1994
Gene Maze And The Art Of Bottom Dealing
135
Gene Maze Unit Grip Addition onto packet
 		1994
Gene Maze And The Art Of Bottom Dealing
177
Juan Tamariz Stealing A Card Under A Fan from TPC to under packet
 		1994
The Tamariz Perpendicular Control
20
Jack Avis The Lap Addition Christ force under the table
Related to 1994
Roger's Thesaurus
192
Stanley Collins The Tip-over Addition
Related to 1995
Card College — Volume 1
206
Edward Marlo Note "Marlo's special handling of the Thick Double Back card to a a Jack Vosburgh effect"
method to ring in the gaff
 		1995
M.I.N.T. — Volume II
320
Guy Hollingworth Jacket Addition using paper clip & magnet
 		1996
Notes on Card Tricks and Other Diversions
26
Case Addition as cards are dumped from the case
 		1996
The Books of Wonder — Volume 1
200
Paul Harris Free Ride to use the case to add card(s) to the pack
 		1996
The Art of Astonishment — Book 3 (Issue New Stuff)
31
Karl Fulves Rise as Addition
1996
New Card Rises
61
Edward Marlo Scoop Up Addition
Feb. 1996
Magic (Vol. 5 No. 6)
67
Paul Harris Tip-Over Change Load
1997
The Expert's Portfolio No. 1
66
Edward Marlo Drop Addition from deck to tabled packet
Also published here
  • New Tops, Jan. 1967
 1997
Solomon's Mind
66
Cy Endfield Scoop Addition packet levered over with double, adding a card in the process
Related to Aug. 1997
Magic (Vol. 6 No. 12)
74
Steven Hamilton Reverse Plunger Addition outjogged cards removed, cards in between secretly kept
 		1998
Five Times Five — Scotland
58
Mexican Addition card added to packet that is flipped over with another card
Related to Oct. 1998
Magic (Vol. 8 No. 2)
73
Guy Hollingworth Jacket Addition using paper clip & magnet
 		1999
Drawing Room Deceptions
95
Guy Hollingworth Jacket Addition using paper clip & magnet
 		2000
Excerpts
21
Jack Merlin Tip-Over Addition
2001
Try the Impossible
98
Wesley James Covered Bottom Deal Turnover Switch top cards are turned over on deck, bottom card secretly added
 		July/Aug. 2001
Mr. Gadfly (Vol. 1 No. 2)
13
Roberto Giobbi Versatile Jokers
  • Adding or Subtracting Special Cards
  • Starting with Jokers and Special Cards in the Card Case
  • Gimmicked Jokers
  • Jokers and Simple Setups
 		2003
Card College — Volume 5
1099
Karl Fulves In This Issue on addition moves and credit information on multiple shifts
 		2003
Off The Books (Issue 9)
157
Gábor G. Szabó Pick Up Turnover from Spread adding card while scooping up cards
 		2003
NewCastle Notes
13
Wesley James Block Push-Off Scoop Addition as tabled packet is scooped together with scoop card
 		2004
Enchantments
39
Allan Ackerman New Math Addition perpendicular hide-out at bottom, added under face-up fan
Related toAlso published here 2005
Ackerman 2004
2
Bob Ostin Add On method to add card to the deck, while performing Vernon's Variant
Related toAlso published here
  • "New Pentagram" January, 1972.
 2005
Bob Ostin — A Lifetime of Magical Inventions
18
Joshua Jay Palming
2005
Overlap
34
Jack Merlin Tip-Over Addition
2008
Smooth Operations
26
Tom Stone Case Removal Cut deck is cut as it is removed from case, used to load a card into center of deck
 		2010
Vortex
20
Jerry K. Hartman Slipwitch Secret Slip Cut
 		2010
CAAN Craft
13
Steve Reynolds The Palm Add to tabled small packet, using "S. P. Hideout"
 		2010
Six Deep — Part One
10
Steve Reynolds For Marlo's Anchored Add On using "S. P. Hideout"
Inspired by 2010
Six Deep — Part One
10
Steve Reynolds Anchors Away technical variation
Inspired by 2010
Six Deep — Part One
12
Jerry Andrus Card Addition card held perpendicular to deck, added to card that is placed on top
 		Nov./Dec. 2012
Genii (Vol. 75 No. 11 & 12)
89
Gabi Pareras, Edward Marlo Adición de cartas al cuadrar de E. Marlo adding cards from bottom of the deck, after dealing cards and square-up
 		2012
Arturo de Ascanio - la depuración constante de lo mismo
109
Steven Hamilton Reverse Plunger Addition outjogged cards removed, cards in between secretly kept
 		2013
The Magic of Steven Hamilton
37
Slide-Under Addition from palm under packet
 		2016
Notes de Causerie
4
Ryan Plunkett Bottom Placement Addition bottom card of deck in right-hand End Grip added to packet in dealing position
 		Oct. 2018
Elixir (Vol. 2 No. 1 (Summer #2))
60
Scott Robinson Toss addition packet that is held side-jogged beneath deck is tossed into other hand, card(s) added from bottom of deck onto tossed packet
 		2018
Pure Imagination
75
Slide-Under Addition from palm under packet
 		2019
Grand Livre de Cartomagie
57
Yves Carbonnier Le CABDD ("Le Contrôle Au Bout Des Doigts"), cards fairly shown and placed into the deck, controlled to the top
Inspired by 2019
Grand Livre de Cartomagie
72
Tom Gagnon Ribbon Spread Addition adding cards to back of packet, using ribbon spread
Inspired by 2019
Gagnon Unfiltered
171
Helder Guimarães The Illogical Nature of Naturalness - The Table Palm Add-on adding a palmed card to a tabled packet as it is spread
 		2019
Secret Language — Volume 1
56
Ryan Plunkett Bottom Placement Addition bottom card of deck in right-hand End Grip added to packet in dealing position
 		2020
Distilled
183
Pat Hazell, Ricardo Sánchez Down the Falls, Up the Back Variation to secretly add cards to the deck
 		2020
Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 12
42
Dr. Jacob Daley Transfer Addition as packet is picked up with right-hand pack and moved to left hand, from bottom of deck
 		2020
Mr. Jennings Takes It Easy
536
Aaron Shields Open-Scenario Palm Addition getting into Open Travelers
 		2021
Output (Issue 17)
16
Behind Fan Addition fan held in right hand, left hand with deck adjusts it and adds card behind it
 		2022
The Glasgow File — Volume 1
18
Versa Switch Handling to add only one card when scooping up tabled cards
Also published here
  • MAGIC, May 2006
 2022
Talk About Tricks (Issue 1)
498
Bernard Bilis Bernard Bilis Add-On Moves two methods to steal cards from deck or packet with one hand and add them to packet into right hand, see following entries
  • First Method
  • Second Method
 		2022
Gagnon's Inner Sanctum
104
A. Berkeley Davis Repositioning a Card card and position thought of in packet, it is then lost and located, featuring addition of a card from the face to the back of a packet
Also published here
  • within "Slide and Hide" (Linking Ring)
 2022
The Reverse Cull
51
Andi Gladwin As a Packet Add-On addition of a card from the face to the back of a packet
 		2022
The Reverse Cull
53
Jean-Pierre Vallarino Italian Palm modified grip for classic palm, allows little finger to be free, facilitates loading palmed card to bottom of tabled packet (mucking type of action), see also p. 171
 		2022
Vallarino
30
Jean-Pierre Vallarino “Behind the Wall” add-on packet is displayed in front of tabled deck and top cards of deck are added on top of it
 		2022
Vallarino
76
"The brush" gambler’s sleight, muck-style load beneath tabled packet, see also related technique on p. 30 (“Italian Palm”)
 		2022
Vallarino
266
Juan Tamariz The New Year Addition perpendicular hide-out at bottom, added under face-up fan
Related to 2022
Letters from Juan — Volume 5
30
James Steranko Packet-to-Packet Addition bottom card of packet in right-hand end grip added to left-hand packet as they briefly touch, no get-ready
Also published here
  • Genii, Nov. 1962
 Aug. 2023
Genii (Vol. 86 No. 8)
19
Allan Ackerman The Clip Add-on using pen
Also published here 2024
All In — Volume 2
23
Allan Ackerman New Math Addition perpendicular hide-out at bottom, added under face-up fan
Also published here 2024
All In — Volume 2
38