Tip-Over Switch

96 entries in Cards / Sleights / Switches / Single Card Switches / Tip-Over Switch
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Jack Merlin Tip Over Change and Pass
Variations 1927/28 Merlin's Master Manipulations 7
T. Page Wright Another tip-over change switched-out card left reversed while apparently turned over
 		1933 Page Wright's Notebook 17
Unknown The Tip-Over Change with a one-handed get ready
Related to 1940 Expert Card Technique 85
Unknown The Drop Swich similar to tip-over change
Related to 1940 Expert Card Technique 88
Unknown Tip-Over Switch
1942 Deck Deception 17
Edward Marlo The Drop Sleight Improved Tip-over Sleight, one-handed get-ready
Related to 1945 Off the Top 8
Warren Wiersbe Another Tip-Over Switch different than usual procedure, Reverse Drop Sleight
 		1946 Mental Cases With Cards 10
Edward Marlo, Carmen D'Amico Drop Switch Addition two methods, see page 197 for credits
 		1953 The Cardician 60
Edward Marlo The Drop Switch
1954 Handbook Of Card Sleights 14
Edward Marlo Tip-Over Change Handling
1955 Cy Endfield's Entertaining Card Magic — Part III 8
Unknown Morgan Flip Switch
1956 Top Secrets of Magic 28
Henry Christ Henry Christ Spread Switch see Elmsley book for Tony Kardyro credit information
Variations 1959 Inner Secrets of Card Magic 23
Unknown Tip-Over Change
1972 Million Dollar Card Secrets 28
Jerry K. Hartman The Catch Switch Similar to Drop Switch, but you steal the card under the top packet in the action of flipping it over
Related to 1973 Means & Ends 11
Unknown Tip-Over Switch
1974 The Compleat Magick — Volume II (Issue 105) 523
Tom Ellis Super Rise Loading Move, see p. 985 for Wesley James reference
Related to Apr. 1974 The Pallbearers Review Vol. 9-10 (Vol. 9 No. 6) 721
Edward Marlo Reverse Drop Sleight
1975 Afterthoughts 67
Unknown Drop Switch Addition
1976 The Magic of Paul Harris 24
Henry Christ Spread Tip-Over Switch
1977 Matching the Cards 8
Jerry K. Hartman I.S. Switch Drop Switch done in context of a card stab
 		1978 Loose Ends 2
Jerry K. Hartman R. S. Switch-Drop Switch Addition Extra subtlety for R. S. Switch using Drop Switch
Related to 1978 Loose Ends 2
Roy Walton Fake Pickup top card of left-hand half flipped face up and then apparently picked up under right hand packet, really a cover-card from right hand dropped onto it
Related to 1978 The Spread Half-Pass 19
Ken Krenzel The Instant Drop-Switch Get-Ready
1978 The Card Classics of Ken Krenzel 248
Unknown The Tip-Over Change
1978 Eine Handvoll Kartenkunststücke 49
Unknown Drop Switch
1979 Close-up Entertainer 20
Frederick Braue Dropswitch
Apr. 1979 Pabular (Vol. 5 No. 4) 665
Unknown Tip Over Switch
Jan. 1980 Apocalypse Vol. 1-5 (Vol. 3 No. 1) 294
Unknown Drop Off Ditch
1980 John: Verse Two 11
Alex Elmsley Tip-Over Change Handling
June 1981 Intermagic (Vol. 8 No. 2) 67
Edward Marlo Drop Addition like Merlin's Tip Over Change
 		1981 Jim Ryan Close-Up: Sensational Stunners 12
Henry Christ Henry Christ Spread Switch
1981 More Professional Card Tricks 10
Unknown Drop Switch
1981 More Professional Card Tricks 17
Edward Marlo Pick-Up Tip-Over Switch
1981 The Lost Pages of the Kabbala 68
Dai Vernon Utility Move push-in after Interlock position
 		1982 The Complete Works of Derek Dingle 65
Edward Marlo Reverse Drop Sleight
1982 The Complete Works of Derek Dingle 158
Wesley James, Tom Ellis Loading Move
1983 The Magic Hedonists Brainstorm In The Bahamas 75
Unknown Drop Switch
Oct. 1984 Pabular (Vol. 8 No. 8) 1263
Henry Christ Christ's Change spread handling of tip-over change
 		1985 The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 3) 27
Unknown Tip Over Change brief
 		1985 The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 5) 8
Unknown Dunbury Switch tip over switch
 		1985 The Trapdoor — Volume One (Issue 11) 184
Dai Vernon Vernon Tip-Over Move
Inspired by 1985 The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 3) 2
Jack Merlin The Tip-Over Change
1985/87 Daryl's Ambitious Card Omnibus 53
Unknown Tip-Over Change
1986 Secrets 28
Larry Jennings Drop Switch
1986 The Classic Magic of Larry Jennings 134
Edward Marlo Reverse Drop Sleight
1987 Star Quality — The Magic of David Regal 92
Jerry K. Hartman Catch Switch Tip-over Sleight Variation
 		1988 Darwin Ortiz at the Card Table 103
Edward Marlo An Observation Delayed Add On for Tip-Over Switch
Related to 1988 M.I.N.T. — Volume I 348
Unknown Tip-Over Switch
1988 First there was a dream 43
Tom Gagnon The Dunbury Switch drop switch variation from the Dunbury Delusion
Inspired by 1988 The Trapdoor — Volume One (Issue 23) 390
Unknown Tip-Over Change
Apr. 1989 Intermagic (Vol. 14 No. 3) 100
Dai Vernon The Spring-Loaded Tip-Over Change
1989 The Vernon Chronicles — Volume 3 27
Unknown Tip-Over Switch
1989 Avant Carde I 8
Wesley James, Tom Ellis Loading Move
1989 The Minotaur (Vol. 1 No. 3) 8
Tony Kardyro Drop Sleight from spread condition
 		1989 Randy Wakeman Presents 40
Jerry Andrus Drop Change variation of Jack Merlin's Tip Over Change
 		1990 Close-up Impact! 58
Edward Marlo Reverse Drop Switch Reverse Drop Sleight
 		1991 Carneycopia 77
Unknown Tip-Over Change with one-handed get ready
 		1991 The Collected Works of Alex Elmsley — Volume 1 72
Charlie Miller, Jack Merlin Tip-Over Change Handling
1991 The Collected Works of Alex Elmsley — Volume 1 117
Jack Merlin Drop Sleight
1991 Smoke and Mirrors 119
Judson S. Brown An Improved Tip-Over Transformation bottom card of top half shown before and after change, seemingly making it impossible, for credit see page 8
 		1991 Page Wright's Manuscript 131
Jack Merlin Drop Sleight
1994 Steel and Silver 108
Wesley James, Tom Ellis Loading Move
1995 Cardshark 16
Carmen D'Amico The Fake Pickup one half in both hands, top card of left-hand half flipped face up and back and then apparently picked up under right hand packet
Related toVariationsAlso published here
  • The New Tops, Oct. 1968
 1995 M.I.N.T. — Volume II 33
Stanley Collins The Tip-over Addition
Related to 1995 Card College — Volume 1 206
Unknown Drop Switch
1996 The Art of Astonishment — Book 2 (Issue Close-up Entertainer) 161
Larry Jennings Drop Sleight with Vernase Break
1997 Jennings '67 213
Unknown The Switch
1997 The Trapdoor — Volume Three (Issue 65) 1296
Edward Marlo, Jack Merlin Drop Switch
1997 The Expert's Portfolio No. 1 17
Paul Harris Tip-Over Change Load
1997 The Expert's Portfolio No. 1 66
Wesley James, Tom Ellis Loading Move
1999 Wednesday Nights 29
Jack Merlin Tip-Over Change
1999 Natural Selections — Volume II 82
Stanley Collins Tip-Over Addition
2000 Concertos for Pasteboard 135
Wesley James, Tom Ellis Loading Move
2000 Concertos for Pasteboard 190
Stanley Collins Tipover Change
Related to
  • Card Conceits (1925)
 2000 Latter Day Secrets (Issue 3) 71
Stanley Collins, Unknown The Card-Spread Switch with credit information
Inspired by 2000 Card College — Volume 4 814
Jack Merlin Tip-Over Addition
2001 Try the Impossible 98
Tom Ellis Super Rise Loading Move
Related to 2001 New Card Controls 81
Unknown Tip-Over Change here credited to Charlie Miller
 		2002 The Action Cop 41
Wesley James, Tom Ellis Loading Move
2002 Scams & Fantasies with Cards 130
Euan Bingham A Ambitious Card Move extension to Tom Ellis' Super Rise
 		2003 Free From Filler 20
Jack Miller Tip Over Change
2004 Tribute 19
Peter Duffie, Robin Robertson Chapter 5 - Face-Up Drop Switch intro and credit information
 		2004 Diamonds from Coal 32
Peter Duffie, Robin Robertson Face-up Drop Switch card added as card turns face-up
 		2004 Diamonds from Coal 32
Stanley Collins Tip-Over Change
2005 Up In Smoke 39
Stanley Collins Drop Switch
2006 Secrets of an Escamoteur 34
Jack Merlin Tip-Over Addition
2008 Smooth Operations 26
Wesley James, Tom Ellis Loading Move
2010 One Degree 114
Wesley James, J. Stewart Smith Coming Up in the World
2010 Above the Fold 43
Wesley James Coming Up in the World
2011 Making the Cut 40
Dave Buck Inking Switch selection (from a dribble) using a palm replacement, something like a Drop Switch but with palmed card
 		2011 If An Octopus Could Palm 44
Wesley James, Tom Ellis Loading Move
2013 Confident Deceptions 47
Edo Huang Linea Control alternative to tip-over switch
Inspired by 2015 Card Coffee Collective 19
Stanley Collins, Unknown The Card-Spread Switch
2016 Eye Candy 15
Wesley James, Tom Ellis Loading Move
2018 Game Changer 183
Jack McMillen Tip-Over Addition
2018 The Magic of Johnny Thompson (Issue 1) 109
Tom Gagnon Double Take Drop Switch bottom card of right-hand half can be shown before and after switch
 		2019 Gagnon Unfiltered 240