Switching two visible isolated Cards/Packets

216 entries in Cards / Sleights / Switches / Switching two visible isolated Cards/Packets
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Simple Wild Card Switch double facer and normal card turned over, switch by removing one card with face towards audience, thus other card must be the other one
 		1900
Der Amateurzauberer
103
Johann Nepomuk Hofzinser Wild Card Move exchanging card on table with double facer, while apparently turning card over
 		1910
Kartenkünste
52
Charles T. Jordan Two Halves Exchange
Related to 1919/1920
Thirty Card Mysteries
55
Charles T. Jordan Optical Monte Move Variation with three cards and a gaff
 		1920
Ten New Prepared Card Tricks
14
John Scarne Scarne's Monte Slide two card switched, Optical Monte Move
 		1933
John Scarne explains Why You Can't Win!
28
John Scarne Scarne's Push Over Change Optical Monte Move
 		1933
John Scarne explains Why You Can't Win!
39
Two-Card Monte Move
1933
More "Eye-Openers"
21
Two Card Monte Move
1937
Encyclopedia of Card Tricks
125
Wild Card Turnover Move double facer and normal card
 		June 1939
The Jinx (Issue 57)
406
Robert Parrish Cover Card Deck Switch apparently red and blue deck (= red deck with blue cover card), cover dragged over to other deck
Related toAlso published here 1939
Do That Again!
33
Theodore DeLand Two Card Monte Move
1940
The Jinx (Issue 85)
542
Two Card Monte Move
1940
More Card Manipulations (Issue 3)
37
Eddie Joseph Two Card Switch optical monte type switch, two cards pushed against each other as they are turned face down
 		1941
How Gamblers Win
9
Dai Vernon The Optical Monte
1941/49
Select Secrets
17
Optical Monte Move
1946
At the Table Tricks
10
Dr. Jacob Daley Daley's Delight with extra cards, false switches and the delight switch
Related toVariationsAlso published here Jan. 1951
The Phoenix 201 — 250 (Issue 220)
878
Brother John Hamman Open Switch of Halves
1958
The Card Magic of Bro. John Hamman S. M.
39
Edward Marlo Overlap Switch two overlapping cards are turned over
 		1959
Marlo Meets His Match
6
Edward Marlo Tray Turn Switch as you turn tray with two glasses around
 		1959
Marlo Meets His Match
10
Dai Vernon The Optical Move
Related to 1961
Further Inner Secrets of Card Magic
21
J. W. Sarles, Karl Fulves Paper Clip Slide Switch paper clip slides from one card to another with paper
 		Nov. 1965
The Pallbearers Review Vol. 1-4 (Vol. 1 No. 1)
2
Johann Nepomuk Hofzinser Wild Card Turnover with double facer
 		Winter 1969
The Pallbearers Review Vol. 5-8 (Vol. 5 No. 3rd Folio)
296
Sam Leo Horowitz, Dr. Jacob Daley Daley's Delight Switch
Autumn 1971
The Pallbearers Review Vol. 5-8 (Vol. 6 No. 5th Folio)
451
The Wild Card Switch
Summer 1972
The Pallbearers Review Vol. 5-8 (Vol. 7 No. 7th Folio)
536
Brother John Hamman Hamman Exchange alternative to Mexican Turnover
 		1972
The Universal Card
34
Dai Vernon Optical Move
1973
Super Subtle Card Miracles
76
Fred Lessor, Dr. Jacob Daley Daley's Delight Variation
Nov. 1973
Epilogue (Issue 19)
178
Edward Victor Monte Move
1973
The Card Magic of Edward G. Brown
53
Bert Allerton Two Card Monte Turnover with packets
 		1973
Wild Card — Plus
5
Paul Curry Swindle Switch
July 1974
Epilogue (Issue 21)
197
Paul Curry Swindle Switch
Variations 1974
Paul Curry Presents
8
Paul Curry The Tap Pass tapping one half on the other as a cover, also as packet switch (see p. 99)
Related to 1974
Paul Curry Presents
89
Rick Johnsson, Dai Vernon, Jerry Mentzer Optical Move with Paper Clip
1975
Card Cavalcade 3
144
Dr. Jacob Daley, Sam Leo Horowitz Daley's Delight Switch
1975
Methods with Cards — Part 3
205
Edward Marlo Buffaloed Idea
1976
Smith's Mini-Lecture Notes No. 2
2
The Turnover Switch with a double facer, wild card switch
 		1976
Extra Lecture
15
Johann Nepomuk Hofzinser Half Switch Move double facer and normal card
 		1977
Wildcard Miracles
18
Paul Curry Swindle Switch
1977
Special Effects
43
Johann Nepomuk Hofzinser Wild Card Switch with double facer/backer
 		1977
Close-up Cavalcade Finale
95
Dai Vernon Optical Monte Move
1978
Don't Bet On It
90
Irv Weiner Cross Switch follow the leader switch, four packets are moved, bluff switch, with incorrect reference to p. 477
 		Mar. 1978
Pabular (Vol. 4 No. 7)
540
Bert Allerton Two Card Monte Turnover
Mar. 1978
Intermagic (Vol. 5 No. 1)
24
Wild Card Turnover Switch
1979
Snow
5
Edward Marlo The Key Move - Red and Black Packet Switch with cover cards
Related to 1980
Marlo's Magazine — Volume 4
272
Edward Marlo Key Move Extension two different colored decks switched with cover cards
 		1980
Marlo's Magazine — Volume 4
275
Dai Vernon The Optical Move
1980
The Three Card Monte as Entertainment
19
Edward Marlo Buffalo'ed bluff
 		1980
John: Verse Two
1
Der Umdreh-Austausch with a double facer, wild card switch
 		1980
Jedermanns Karten + Drei Knüller
7
Two Card Monte Switch Hofzinser type
 		1981
Close-up Fantasies Finalé
114
Johann Nepomuk Hofzinser Wild Card Move
1981
Magia Potagia — Volume I
33
Dr. Jacob Daley Daley's Delight For Divers just two cards, no deck
 		1982
Card Finesse
79
Dr. Jacob Daley Daley's Delight Switch
Feb. 1982
Pabular (Vol. 7 No. 2)
988
Bert Allerton Two Card Monte Turnover
1982
Kane
150
Paul Curry Swindle Switch
1983
Marlo without Tears
98
Ross Bertram An Imperceptible Color Change two cards held one in each hand, they change place
 		1983
Bertram on Sleight of Hand
100
Karl Fulves Open Switch one deck in each hand, when performer turns around they're switched
 		1983
After Jordan
6
Paul Harris P.H. Outrageous Packet Switch
1983
A Close-Up Kinda Guy
61
Johann Nepomuk Hofzinser Wild Card Move with double facer/backer
 		Oct. 1984
Magick (Issue 341)
1702
Half Deck Daley's Delight switching two thick packets
 		1984
Eyeless in Gaza
19
Dai Vernon Optical Monte Move
1984
Theatrical Close-Up
76
Brother John Hamman Signed Card Switch
Oct. 1985
The Collected Almanac (Vol. 2 No. 14)
127
Two-Card Monte Move for follow the leader finale
 		1985
The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 5)
23
Dr. Jacob Daley, Sam Leo Horowitz Delight Switch
1985
Self-Working Paper Magic
28
Larry Jennings L.J. Packet Switch
1986
The Classic Magic of Larry Jennings
68
Dr. Jacob Daley Daley Delight Switch
Feb. 1986
Apocalypse (Vol. 9 No. 2)
1170
Richard Sanders Two-Card Monte Switch Variation
1986
Sankey Panky
78
Edward Marlo Slip Switch two packets openly exchanged with cover cards
 		1986
Thirty Five Years Later
4
Dai Vernon Optical Swindle
1987
The Commercial Magic of J.C. Wagner
63
Edward Marlo Key Move "switching" one packet for another
Related to 1988
Darwin Ortiz at the Card Table
56
Dr. Jacob Daley Daley's Delight Switch
1988
52 Lovers
99
Edward Marlo Buffaloed
1988
Marlo's Magazine — Volume 6
148
Brother John Hamman Signed Card Switch
Variations 1989
The Secrets of Brother John Hamman
49
Brother John Hamman Kangaroo Switch switching two halves
 		1989
The Secrets of Brother John Hamman
111
Edward Marlo Key Move switching two packets
 		1989
The Secrets of Brother John Hamman
198
Johann Nepomuk Hofzinser The Wild-Card Move
1989
The Secrets of Brother John Hamman
207
Wild Card Turnover Switch
1989
A Phil Goldstein Collection
30
Gerd Winkler Winkler-Switch
Related to 1989
German Card Top Twenties
71
Edward Marlo Easy Switch two packets
 		1990
That's It
33
Wild Card Turnover Switch
1990
Focus
67
Irv Weiner Cross Switch follow the leader switch, four packets are moved, bluff switch
 		1990
Focus
87
Two-Card Monte Move
1990
The Amazing Miracles of Shigeo Takagi
20
Edward Marlo, John Bannon "Signed Card" Switch tabled card is placed between apparent mates and switched for one of them
Also published here 1990
Heart of the City
4
Edward Marlo On The Marlo Switch tabled card is placed between apparent mates and switched for one of them
Also published here 1990
Heart of the City
6
Edward Marlo, John Bannon "Signed Card" Switch tabled card is placed between apparent mates and switched for one of them
Related toAlso published here 1991
Smoke and Mirrors
17
Edward Marlo On The Marlo Switch tabled card is placed between apparent mates and switched for one of them
Related toAlso published here 1991
Smoke and Mirrors
19
Dai Vernon Optical Monte Move
1991
Smoke and Mirrors
41
Edward Marlo Slip-Action Switch two halves are exchanged except cover card
 		Oct. 1991
The Olram File (Issue 10)
2
T. Page Wright, William Larsen Two Card Switch one card switched for the other, end grip
 		1991
Page Wright's Manuscript
234
T. Page Wright Confusion Switch two packets held close and switched
 		1991
Page Wright's Manuscript
307
Jon Racherbaumer The Future Ain't What it Used to be
Related to 1992
Card Finesse II
235
Brother John Hamman, Jack Carpenter Signed Card Displacement Variation
1992
Modus Operandi
17
Jack Carpenter, Brother John Hamman Signed Card Displacement Variation tabled
 		1992
Modus Operandi
18
Edward Marlo The Key Move apparently switching two decks at table edge with cover cards
 		1992
Modus Operandi
125
Alexander de Cova Body Turn Switch
1992
Ein Profi packt aus...
22
Johann Nepomuk Hofzinser, Bert Allerton Wild Card Switch double facer with regular card
 		1992
The Wild Card Kit
4
Johann Nepomuk Hofzinser, Jon Racherbaumer Scoop Switch Wild Card Switch, double facer with regular card, credit information
 		1992
The Wild Card Kit
33
Bert Allerton The Allerton Turnover wild card move, Hofzinser
 		June 1992
Profile (Issue 8)
2
Bert Allerton The Allerton Turnover Move
1992
One Card Wonders
19
Wild Card Turnover Switch double facer
 		Dec. 1993
The Minotaur (Vol. 5 No. 4)
3
Dr. Jacob Daley Daley's Delight Switch "must be executed very slowly"
 		1993
Card File
33
Gary Ouellet Packet Switch switching double facers for normal card during McDonald's Aces
 		1993
A Dream of Aces
16
Brother John Hamman The Signed Card Switch
1994
The Trapdoor — Volume Three (Issue 53)
971
Edward Marlo Optical Switch
1995
Great Tricks Revisited
51
Paul Curry Swindle Switch
1995
Great Tricks Revisited
52
Dave Oestreicher Optical Sandwich
Inspired by 1995
The Trapdoor — Volume Three (Issue 58)
1111
Wild Card Switch scoop and turnover
 		1995
Simply Simon
90
Edward Marlo Buffaloed
1995
M.I.N.T. — Volume II
342
Gary Ouellet Two Alike Display
1995
What's Up Deck?
50
Lennart Green Packet Displacement switching bottom part of one packet with top part of other packet
 		Spring 1996
The Looking Glass (Issue 2)
61
Lennart Green Toss Packet Switch eccentric technique for switching packet that is thrown to table for packet in dealing position
 		Spring 1996
The Looking Glass (Issue 2)
64
Johann Nepomuk Hofzinser Wild-Card Turnover Switch double facer
 		1996
The Books of Wonder — Volume 1
83
Paul Harris Red and Black Switch
1996
The Art of Astonishment — Book 3 (Issue Close-up Kinda Guy)
111
Allan Ackerman Two Packet Display Switch
1996
The Art of Astonishment — Book 3 (Issue Magical Arts Journal)
230
Wild Card Move
1996
Five-Star Magic
15
Optical Monte Move
1996
Aenigmas Rätsel
49
Johann Nepomuk Hofzinser Wild Card Turnover
1996
Inside Cardmagic — Band 2
41
Paul Curry Swindle Switch
1997
The Card Magic of Nick Trost
45
Wild Card Move
1997
The Card Magic of Nick Trost
210
Edward Marlo Buffaloed bluff display of top two cards
 		1997
Solomon's Mind
50
Dr. Jacob Daley, Richard Bartram, Jr. Daley's Delight Switch with both cards face up variation
 		1997
Trephine
13
Wild Card Switch
1997
Trephine
60
Wild Card Turnover Move
1997
Wild Cards Primera
3
Robert Parrish Switching Decks apparently red and blue deck (= red deck with blue cover card), cover dragged over to other deck
Also published here 1997
The Six-Hour Memorized Deck
188
Johann Nepomuk Hofzinser Wild Card Switch
1998
Five Times Five — Scotland
24
Paul Curry Swindle Switch two card bluff displacement
 		1999
21st Century Card Magic
131
Dai Vernon Optical Monte Move
1999
Kort
28
Johann Nepomuk Hofzinser Hofzinser Turnover Switch
1999
Close-Up & Personal
124
Two-Card Monte Move with double backer and double facer
 		1999
Tricks of my Trade
171
Johann Nepomuk Hofzinser Wild Card Turnover
2000
Concertos for Pasteboard
32
Optical Monte Move
2000
Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 3
40
Optical Monte Move
2000
Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 3
174
Theodore DeLand Two Card Monte Switch
Mar. 2000
Genii (Vol. 63 No. 3)
73
Paul Curry Swindle Switch
2001
Paul Curry's Worlds Beyond
246
Two-Card Monte Switch
2001
New Self-Working Card Tricks
78
Tabled Two-Card Monte Turnover double backer and double facer
 		2001
DeSouza's DeCeptions
45
Johann Nepomuk Hofzinser Two-Card Monte Turnover
2001
DeSouza's DeCeptions
47
Dai Vernon Optical Monte Move
July/Aug. 2002
Penumbra (Issue 2)
16
Johann Nepomuk Hofzinser Wild Card Move
2002
Hofzinser's Card Tricks
57
Trevor Lewis Monte Plus Twist topological switch as cross-wise held cards are turned over
Also published here
  • Esolc, 1981, p. 21
 Mar. 2002
Ego (Vol. 1 No. Special TSD Convention Issue)
9
Karl Fulves In This Issue credit information on Daley's Delight Switch
Related to 2003
Off The Books (Issue 8)
135
Dr. Jacob Daley, Peter Duffie, Robin Robertson Daley's Delight Switch corrected handling
Also published here 2003
Off The Books (Issue 8)
135
Karl Fulves Watch What Happens handling details on the Daley Delight Switch, with Jinx type move
Related to 2003
Off The Books (Issue 8)
141
Karl Fulves Passing Over Daley Delight Switch variation in which two packets are used and one card of each transferred to the other
 		2003
Off The Books (Issue 8)
142
Karl Fulves Passing Over Visibly Daley Delight Switch variation in which two face-up packets are used and one card of each transferred to the other
 		2003
Off The Books (Issue 8)
143
Karl Fulves Altered Delight Daley Delight Switch from other grips
 		2003
Off The Books (Issue 8)
144
Karl Fulves A Crossed Xchange card from black packet transferred to red packet, red packet becomes red, using a variation of the Daley Delight Switch
Related to 2003
Off The Books (Issue 8)
145
Karl Fulves UnCrossed Xchange aka "NotXd Xchange"
card from black packet transferred to red packet, red packet becomes red, using a variation of the Daley Delight Switch without arm crossing
Related toVariations 2003
Off The Books (Issue 8)
146
Karl Fulves UnCrossed Notes comments on the Daley Delight Switch
 		2003
Off The Books (Issue 8)
156
Karl Fulves Tabled Daley Delight Switch posed as a problem
 		2003
Off The Books (Issue 10)
201
Dr. Jacob Daley, Peter Duffie, Robin Robertson Daley's Delight Switch corrected handling
Related toAlso published here 2003
Card Conspiracy — Vol. 1
25
Gábor G. Szabó Excellent Last One
2003
NewCastle Notes
24
Wild Card Turnover
2004
Random Acts of Magic
170
Wild Card Switch
2004
The Dave Campbell Legacy
165
Monte Move optical
 		2004
Sankey Unleashed
60
Johann Nepomuk Hofzinser Wild-Card Move
2004
Sankey Unleashed
85
Johann Nepomuk Hofzinser Hofzinser Turnover Wild Card Turnover with double-backer
 		2004
Mnemonica
91
Juan Tamariz Deck Switch using two different colored decks, with cover card
Related toVariations 2004
Mnemonica
210
Martin A. Nash, Juan Tamariz Louisiana Switch Variation switching halves
Inspired by 2004
Mnemonica
345
Barrie Richardson Daley's Delight Switch Variation with packets
Inspired by 2005
Act Two
16
Two Card Monte Move
Nov. 2005
Genii (Vol. 68 No. 11)
73
Dai Vernon Optical Move no crossing
Also published here 2005
Overlap
43
Alexander de Cova The Switch as hands descent
Also published here 2005
Forte-X
8
Paul Curry Swindle Switch
2006
Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 6
98
Jacques Terrien The Monte Move odd fake exchange of two cards
 		Dec. 2006
Antinomy (Vol. 2 No. Annual 2006)
33
Alexander de Cova The Switch as hands descent
Also published here 2006
The California Lecture 2006
39
Johann Nepomuk Hofzinser Wild Card Switch
2007
The Magician's Ltd Cookbook
66
David Regal "For Marlo" Switch feigning a switch of two packets (Pseudo Switch)
 		2007
52 Memories
31
Edward Marlo Buffaloed bluff
 		2007
The Wisdom of Solomon
7
Dai Vernon Optical Move
2007
Session
138
Paul Curry Curry Swindle Switch
2008
Subtle Card Creations — Volume 1
260
Body Turn Switch
2008 (ca.)
Don't Xerox Lecture Notes
16
Paul Curry Swindle Switch
2009
The "D" Notes
25
Johann Nepomuk Hofzinser Hofzinser Scoop Switch wild card switch
 		2009
Ten Card Mysteries Anneman Would Have Loved
11
Two-Card Monte Move flicking the corner
 		July 2009
Genii (Vol. 72 No. 7)
46
Spectator Shuffles via Delight Switch spectator apparently shuffles both halves
 		2009
High Spots
25
Theodore DeLand, Tyler Wilson Two Card Monte Move Handling
2010
Reinventing the Real
89
Steve Beam Accidental Push-Through Shuffle to exchange two halves
 		2010
Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 8
100
Body Turn Switch
2010
Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 8
102
Ramón Riobóo My System to Show Red & Blue Backs secretly switching two odd-backed decks, method for getting into
Inspired by 2010
Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 8
230
Body Turn Switch
2011
Reflections
22
Dai Vernon Optical Monte Move
2011
Making the Cut
88
Johann Nepomuk Hofzinser Wild Card Turnover Switch
2011
ZauberKunstStücke — Band 3
35
Barrie Richardson Daley's Delight Switch Variation with envelopes
 		2011
Curtain Call
191
Darwin Ortiz Daley's Delight Variation with half deck, spectator apparently shuffles whole deck
 		2012
Lessons in Card Mastery
190
Tomas Blomberg Daley Delight Switch with Decks different fingering
 		2014
Blomberg Laboratories
262
Paul Curry Swindle of Sorts
2015
TEN
19
Akira Fujii Optical Monte Move Variation
2015
Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 10
71
Lorenz Schär, Tino Plaz Tina's Mystery Switch #2 Switch of a sandwiched card for one of the cards that sandwiches it.
 		2015
Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 10
238
Dr. Jacob Daley Daley's Delight Switch
2015
Believe
33
So Sato Monte Plus type Switch
2016
The Secrets of So Sato
82
Dr. Jacob Daley Daley's Delight Switch
2016
The Secrets of So Sato
190
John Hostler Packet Displacement moving a packet to the other side
 		2016
Magnum Opossum
129
Wild Card Switch
2016
A Fuego Lento — Volumen II
106
Johann Nepomuk Hofzinser, Joaquín Matas Wild Card Switch in vertical position
 		2016
A Fuego Lento — Volumen II
257
John Hostler Packet Displacement moving a packet to the other side
 		Jan. 2016
Genii (Vol. 79 No. 1)
55
Alexander de Cova The Switch as hands descent
Also published here 2016
Burners — Vol. 4
86
Wild Card Turnover Switch Hofzinser turnover switch
 		2017
Area 52
43
Paul Curry, Tony Picasso Swindle Switch with subtlety
 		2017
The Doors of Deception
241
Dr. Jacob Daley Daley's Delight Switch spectator apparently shuffles both halves
 		Sep. 2017
Genii (Vol. 80 No. 9)
66
John Hostler Revolving Deck Switch two decks are openly in play and secretly switched for each other
 		2018
Firkin of Deipotent Trouvailles
59
Dai Vernon The Optical Move
2018
The Magic of Johnny Thompson (Issue 1)
127
Benjamin Earl Discrepancy Switch two packets are apparently exchanged, actually Hamilton's
Related toAlso published here
  • Past Midnight Vol. 2, DVD
 2018
Principia
113
Dr. Jacob Daley, Jason Ladanye Daley's Delight Handling back-to-front handling
 		2018
Game Changer
333
Dr. Jacob Daley, Derren Brown Daley Switch back-to-front handling
 		2018
Kino.
28
Alexander de Cova Aerial Packet Change as hands descent
Inspired byAlso published here Apr. 2018
Genii (Vol. 81 No. 4)
45
Giancarlo Scalia Delight Switch Variation
Inspired byAlso published here 2019
Cards Against Reality
118
Johann Nepomuk Hofzinser Wild Card Switch
2019
Çerca
27
Dr. Jacob Daley Daley's Delight Switch
2019
52 Lovers — Through the Looking-Glass
152
Dai Vernon Optical Move Optical Monte Move
 		2019
The Illusioneer
113
Lateral Palm Switch
2019
The Illusioneer
212
Dai Vernon Optical Move
2020
The Boy Who Cried Magic
41
Dr. Jacob Daley Daley's Delight Switch spectator apparently shuffles both halves
 		2020
Magic for BLM
22
Giancarlo Scalia Daley Extra Delight Switch handling
Also published here 2020
Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 12
33
Jamie Masterson Hamman Switch Variation for Signed Card routine
Related to 2020
Shadow & Shake
25
Dai Vernon The Optical Move
2020
Mr. Jennings Takes It Easy
224
Dai Vernon Optical Move no crossing
Also published here 2022
Talk About Tricks (Issue 1)
96