Cut Controls

68 entries in Cards / Sleights / Controls / Multiple Card Controls / Cut Controls
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
T. Page Wright Five Card Control
1933
Page Wright's Notebook
47
Audley Walsh Two Card Control bridged deck
 		1935
Card Manipulations (Issue 4)
109
Multiple Card Control simple
 		1937
Encyclopedia of Card Tricks
92
The Stripper Cut controlling reversed cards to top in stripper deck
 		1941
The Stripper Deck
12
Edward Marlo One Hand Control Aces are lost with charlier cuts and found using one hand only, two crimps
VariationsAlso published here Feb. 1945
The Phoenix (Issue 78)
318
Bill Simon Simon-Ease simple cut control
Also published here Sep. 1948
The Phoenix (Issue 159)
639
Edward Marlo Marlo's Step Control multiple cuts to table sequences to control peeked-at cards
  • A. To Control One Or More Cards To The Top
  • B. To Control One Or More Cards To Bottom
  • C. Double Peek Control - Top and Bottom
  • D. Double Peek to Bottom
  • E. Double Peek To Top
  • F. Triple Peek to Bottom
  • G. Triple Peek To The Top
 		1952
Control Systems
12
Edward Marlo Cut Control sequences to control peeked at cards with in the hands cuts
  • A. Cut Control to the Top
  • B. Bottom or Top Cut Control
  • C. Double Peek Cut Control to Top
  • D. Double Peek Cut Control to Bottom
  • E. Alternate Cut Control
  • F. Triple Peek Cut Control
  • G. Triple Peek Cut Control No. 2
 		1952
Control Systems
48
Edward Marlo One Hand Control Aces are lost with charlier cuts and found using one hand only, two crimps
Also published here 1953
The Cardician
6
Bill Simon Simon-Ease simple cut control
Also published here 1956
The Best in Magic
142
Edward Marlo Drop Control Procedure two or three cards, running cuts on table
 		1970
Advanced Fingertip Control
30
Edward Marlo Two Card Control two methods of Jog Control, in-the-hands
 		1970
Advanced Fingertip Control
57
Roger Smith The FFF Card Control #6 (Two Breaks) starting with center swivel cut, to top and bottom
 		1970
The FFF Control System
21
Roger Smith The FFF Card Control #7 (Two Breaks) starting with center swivel cut, both to top
 		1970
The FFF Control System
22
Roger Smith The FFF Card Control #8 (Three Breaks) two to top, one to bottom
 		1970
The FFF Control System
22
Dai Vernon Special Notes No. 428, "Dai Vernon solution for 4 card packet routine", four-card control sequence with slip cuts, cards lost in center one by one, Vernon follow-up routine to produce them again from different pockets
 		1972
Jacob Daley's Notebooks
119
Jerry K. Hartman A-D Multiple Control Versatile control to control multiple selections to top, bottom or designated positions from top/bottom, gives various applications for the control
 		1973
Means & Ends
6
Edward Marlo Ein-Hand Kartenkontrolle Aces are lost with charlier cuts and found using one hand only, two crimps
Also published here Oct. 1974
Intermagic (Vol. 2 No. 2)
38
Paul Swinford Duo Control two card control
Variations 1975
Card Cavalcade 3
111
Trevor Lewis A Mixed Bag various card and coin idaes
  • partial stack and zarrow shuffle
  • double Riffle Control
  • Middle Deal (false)
  • Palm Conscious (gag)
  • Transpo Plus (coin transposition)
  • Ladies In Waiting (four queens reverse in the deck)
 		Jan. 1976
Pabular (Vol. 2 No. 5)
205
Martin A. Nash The Move-That's-Not-A-Move Move as a two card control, see p. 446 for additional crediting
 		1977
Any Second Now
172
Mark Weston Bluff Card Shift
Mar./Apr. 1977
Pabular (Vol. 3 No. 7&8)
379
Ross Bertram Three Card Control Sequence
1978
Magic and Methods of Ross Bertram
143
Al Smith The SMITH Shift to the top, with jogged card
Inspired byAlso published here Sep. 1979
The Talon (Issue 5)
54
Edward Marlo Simple Shift
1980
French Pasteboards
37
Jon Racherbaumer Running Cut Control using swing cuts
 		1982
Card Finesse
137
Edward Marlo The Roman Pick-up Control
1983
Marlo without Tears
270
Edward Marlo C-S Control to place the cards together at a known position with cuts, originally from Control Systems
 		1983
Marlo without Tears
273
Justin Higham Revolving Aces Lead In losing the Aces before Zarrow's routine
Inspired byRelated to 1985
All Hands on Deck!
9
Edward Marlo Control of 3 Cards
1986
Thirty Five Years Later
34
Gary Ouellet Further Applications 1. The ProControl Multiple Card Control
2. ProControl Variations (Glen Brown)
3. The ProControl Force
4. The New Break Method
5. The Flourish Drop Cut
 		1986
ProControl
46
Roger Klause Multiple Control basically forcing the same spot repeatedly
Also published here 1988
Darwin Ortiz at the Card Table
90
Roger Klause Multiple Control basically forcing the same spot repeatedly
Also published here 1990
The Very Best, Yet!
18
Paul Swinford Duo Control Variant two card control
Inspired by 1993
Card File
128
Vicente Canuto 1.- Elección y Control de las Tres Primeras Cartas using two key cards, controlling three cards at certain positions
 		1993
Cartomagia Fundamental
354
Jerry K. Hartman Multiple selection control one at a time spectators stop performer as he Swing-Cuts thin packets through deck and look at the card they stop at
Related to 1995
After Craft
103
Lou Gallo Lost and Found Aces Aces cut into deck one by one, then cut to at once, two crimps, with crimpless variation
Inspired by 1996
Lou Gallo: The Underground Man
39
Lou Gallo Double Cut Control
1996
Lou Gallo: The Underground Man
78
Peter Duffie An Effortless Card Control Can be done as multiple control
Inspired by 1997
Effortless Card Magic
14
Norman Houghton Bluff Multiple Shift riffle forcing consecutive cards
Related toAlso published here
  • Abracadabra, No. 1050, also Wit & Wizardry, p. 14
 1998
Card College — Volume 3
668
Steve Mayhew Multiple Card Control multiple cards are controlled as they are separately lost via assembling multiple packets into full deck
 		1998
Labyrinth (Issue 8 - Part 1)
21
Guy Hollingworth Methods of controlling & palming. Two bluff shift ("riffle force"), three handlings
 		1999
Drawing Room Deceptions
138
Jerry Mentzer Three Card Control and Revelation crimped key
Variations 2000
Card File Two
168
Luis H. Trueba El Corte Escalera tabled cut to form a jog, two control four Aces in two positions of the deck
 		2003
Magia y Dramagia
57
Eric Mead Four-Card Control using crimp
Also published here 2003
Collexion
22
Simple Control Double Undercut Control
 		2004
After The Force
36
Ron Frost Frosty's Open Cut Control
2004
After The Force
38
Eric Mead Four-Card Control using crimp
Inspired byAlso published here 2006
Tangled Web
72
Chad Nelson Peep Control card peeked at and then cut into center, spectator pushes it in
Inspired by 2010
Strolling Controls
5
Norman Houghton Bluff Multiple Shift riffle forcing consecutive cards
 		2011
Card Tricks for the Untrustworthy
14
Harry Lorayne Royal Impossibility Royal Flush cards lost and found again, losing by cutting them into the deck with crimp and cuts
Related toAlso published here 2011
Special Effects
171
David Britland Vernon's Aces Ride Again tabled cut control sequence with crimp
Related toVariationsAlso published here
  • Cardopolis Blog, April 2005
 Apr. 2011
Genii (Vol. 74 No. 4)
15
David Britland A Four Star Discovery cut control with crimp while four spectators say stop during riffling
 		Apr. 2011
Genii (Vol. 74 No. 4)
15
Darwin Ortiz, David Britland Tabled Control Sequence using crimp, see also p. 150
Inspired by 2012
Lessons in Card Mastery
4
Justin Higham Fake-Cut Principle Aces put on top of four tabled piles, packets cut around (some disguised singles) and deck assembled
 		2012
Non-Automatic Card Tricks
13
Harry Lorayne Royal Impossibility Royal Flush cards lost and found again, losing by cutting them into the deck with crimp and cuts
Also published here Jan. 2013
Genii (Vol. 76 No. 1)
42
Karl Fulves Lining Up The Aces spectator cuts Aces into deck, performer finds them again
 		2015
The Lowdown (Issue 1)
14
Eric Mead Losing the Aces cutting Aces into tabled deck
Also published here 2018
The Magic of Johnny Thompson (Issue 1)
169
Yves Carbonnier Aces Up Aces are apparently cut into the deck, end up on top
 		2018
Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 11
69
Steve Beam The Quality Control The Bicycle Cut as a control
 		2018
Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 11
233
Justin Higham, Richard Vollmer, Christian Gambin Impressionistic Ace Controls four Aces cut into deck one by one, end up together on top
  • Method One (Vollmer & Marlo, tabled, two crimps)
  • Method Two (Higham, tabled, two crimps)
  • Method Three (Gambin, tabled, two crimps)
  • Method Four to Eleven (Higham, some tabled, some with hands & tabled, one, two or no crimps, some with overhand shuffles)
Inspired byRelated to 2019
The Neat Review (Issue 1 - London 2019)
40
Justin Higham Illogical Four Ace Control Variant four Aces lost by assembling four tabled packets and the Aces, they end up on top, bluff
Inspired by
  • "Illogical Ace-Control" (Justin Higham, Non-Automatic Card Tricks, 2012)
 2019
The Neat Review (Issue 1 - London 2019)
52
Tom Gagnon Razzle Dazzle Aces Ace control sequence using One-Handed Gambler's False Cut
 		2019
Gagnon Unfiltered
388
Jerry K. Hartman Two Card Bluff Control
Sep. 2020
Genii (Vol. 83 No. 9)
56
Larry Jennings Four-Card Cutting Control Aces or selections are cut into deck one by one face up
 		2020
Mr. Jennings Takes It Easy
78
Larry Jennings The Double and Triple Undercut Combinations - 1. From Center to Top, Top Stock Retained; Also a Multiple Control
2020
Mr. Jennings Takes It Easy
90
Larry Jennings Two-Card Control with a Plunging Cut
2020
Mr. Jennings Takes It Easy
568
Jean-Pierre Vallarino Ping Pong top card (or cards) are retained on top of deck after a straight tabled cut
Inspired by 2022
Vallarino
10