Tip-Over Switch

145 entries in Cards / Sleights / Switches / Single Card Switches / Tip-Over Switch
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Stanley Collins Tip-Over Switch
Related to 1925
Collins's Card Conceits
18
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
The Tip-Over Change with a one-handed get ready
Related to 1940
Expert Card Technique
85
The Drop Switch similar to tip-over change
Related toVariations 1940
Expert Card Technique
88
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
Drop Switch brief
 		Mar. 1946
Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 3 No. 10)
203
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
Alex Elmsley Tip-Over Change Handling
1954
Routined Manipulation Finale
198
Edward Marlo Tip-Over Change Handling
1955
Cy Endfield's Entertaining Card Magic — Part III
8
Tony Kardyro The T. K's One Card Drop Supreme "or The One Card Flip-Over Switch"
Related to 1955
Kardyro's Kard Konjuring
8
Morgan Flip Switch
1956
Top Secrets of Magic
28
Jerry Andrus A Drop Change tip-over type switch to switch two cards with only the cards on top of deck and no packet in right hand
 		1956
Andrus Deals You In
21
Henry Christ Henry Christ Spread Switch see Elmsley book for Tony Kardyro credit information
Related toVariations 1959
Inner Secrets of Card Magic
23
Al Leech Packet Switch "Le Temps"-style switch combined with Drop Switch to switch all cards of a packet in action of peeling top one onto deck and displaying it
Related to 1965
Super Card Man Stuff
52
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 toAlso published here 1973
Means & Ends
11
Tom Ellis Super Rise Loading Move, see p. 985 for Wesley James reference
Related toVariationsAlso published here Apr. 1974
The Pallbearers Review Vol. 9-10 (Vol. 9 No. 6)
721
Tip-Over Switch
1974
Magick (Issue 105)
523
Drop Switch brief
 		1974
Super Dupes
13
Drop Switch
1974
Super Dupes
48
Edward Marlo Reverse Drop Sleight
Variations 1975
Afterthoughts
67
Drop Switch Addition
1976
The Magic of Paul Harris
24
Edward Marlo, Tony Kardyro Technique on T.K. Drop Sleight T.K.=Tony Kardyro, spread drop switch
Inspired by
  • Conjuror's Magazine, Sep. 1949
Also published here 		1977
Marlo's Magazine — Volume 2
210
Henry Christ Spread Tip-Over Switch
1977
Matching the Cards
8
Ken Krenzel The Instant Drop-Switch Get-Ready
1978
The Card Classics of Ken Krenzel
248
The Tip-Over Change
1978
Eine Handvoll Kartenkunststücke
49
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 toAlso published here 1978
The Spread Half-Pass
19
Frederick Braue Dropswitch
Apr. 1979
Pabular (Vol. 5 No. 4)
665
Drop Switch
1979
Close-up Entertainer
20
Tip Over Switch
Jan. 1980
Apocalypse (Vol. 3 No. 1)
294
Drop Off Ditch
1980
John: Verse Two
11
Richard O'Farrell Tip-Over Switch to force card, with extra card below
 		1980
Visual Inspirations — Part Two
11
Edward Marlo Pick-Up Tip-Over Switch
1981
The Lost Pages of the Kabbala
68
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
Drop Switch
1981
More Professional Card Tricks
17
Alex Elmsley Tip-Over Change Handling
June 1981
Intermagic (Vol. 8 No. 2)
67
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
Drop Switch
Oct. 1984
Pabular (Vol. 8 No. 8)
1263
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
Henry Christ Christ's Change spread handling of tip-over change
 		1985
The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 3)
27
Tip Over Change brief
 		1985
The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 5)
8
Jack Merlin The Tip-Over Change
1985/87
Daryl's Ambitious Card Omnibus
53
Larry Jennings Drop Switch
1986
The Classic Magic of Larry Jennings
134
Tip-Over Change
1986
Secrets
28
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
Tom Gagnon The Dunbury Switch drop switch variation from the Dunbury Delusion
Inspired by 1988
The Trapdoor — Volume One (Issue 23)
390
Tip-Over Switch
1988
First there was a dream
43
Edward Marlo An Observation Delayed Add On for Tip-Over Switch
Related to 1988
M.I.N.T. — Volume I
348
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
Also published here 1988
The Complete Walton — Volume 2
116
Dai Vernon The Spring-Loaded Tip-Over Change
1989
The Vernon Chronicles — Volume 3
27
Tip-Over Switch
1989
Avant Carde I
8
Wesley James, Tom Ellis Loading Move
Sep. 1989
The Minotaur (Vol. 1 No. 3)
8
Tony Kardyro Drop Sleight from spread condition
 		1989
Randy Wakeman Presents
40
Tip-Over Change
Apr. 1989
Intermagic (Vol. 14 No. 3)
100
To The Top coming up in the world
 		1989
German Card Top Twenties
10
Jerry Andrus Drop Change variation of Jack Merlin's Tip Over Change
 		1990
Close-up Impact!
58
Stanley Collins Tip-Over Change brief
 		1990
Up in Smoke and Other Tantalizing Mysteries
16
Tom Ellis Super Rise Loading Move
Related to 1990
Laid Back in Graz 1990
27
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
Edward Marlo Reverse Drop Switch Reverse Drop Sleight
 		1991
Carneycopia
77
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
Jerry K. Hartman Catch Switch Similar to Drop Switch, but you steal the card under the top packet in the action of flipping it over
Also published here 1991
Card Craft
68
Drop Switch brief
 		Mar. 1992
Magic (Vol. 1 No. 7)
52
Jack Merlin Drop Sleight
1994
Steel and Silver
108
Drop Switch
1994
The Close-Up Magic of Aldo Colombini
114
Wesley James, Tom Ellis Loading Move
1995
Cardshark
16
Stanley Collins The Tip-over Addition
Related to 1995
Card College — Volume 1
206
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
Drop Switch brief
 		1995
What's Up Deck?
46
Jerry K. Hartman Drop Switch brief
 		1995
After Craft
84
Jerry K. Hartman Pick Up Switch tabled packet picked up beneath deck and re-tabled is switched, used to switch five cards for four, see handling on p. 155 for equal quantity switch
 		1995
After Craft
153
Drop Switch
1996
The Art of Astonishment — Book 2 (Issue Close-up Entertainer)
161
Wesley James, Tom Ellis Loading Move
1996
Inside Cardmagic — Band 2
183
Edward Marlo T.K. Drop Sleight Variation spread tip-over sleight
 		Jan. 1996
Magic (Vol. 5 No. 5)
74
Larry Jennings Drop Sleight with Vernase Break
1997
Jennings '67
213
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
The Switch
1997
The Trapdoor — Volume Three (Issue 65)
1296
Tom Ellis Super Rise Loading Move
Also published here 1997
Card Stories
4
Wesley James, Tom Ellis Loading Move
1999
Wednesday Nights
29
Jack Merlin Tip-Over Change
1999
Natural Selections — Volume II
82
Double load-up and turnover card is secretly added onto out-jogged to create a double, then both are turned over as one, done with half the deck in each hand
 		1999
Labyrinth (Issue 9)
24
Tom Ellis, Wesley James James/Ellis Loading move
1999
Labyrinth (Issue 9)
26
Stanley Collins, The Card-Spread Switch with credit information
Inspired by 2000
Card College — Volume 4
814
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 2000
Latter Day Secrets (Issue 3)
71
Jack Merlin Tip-Over Addition
2001
Try the Impossible
98
Tom Ellis Super Rise Loading Move
Related to 2001
New Card Controls
81
Steve Reynolds Drop Sleight intro
 		June 2001
Ego (Vol. 1 No. 1)
4
Steve Reynolds Stabilized Drop Sleight
Inspired by June 2001
Ego (Vol. 1 No. 1)
4
Wesley James, Tom Ellis Loading Move
2002
Scams & Fantasies with Cards
130
Tip-Over Change here credited to Charlie Miller
 		2002
The Action Cop
41
Euan Bingham A Ambitious Card Move extension to Tom Ellis' Super Rise
Inspired by 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
Drop Switch
2007
Card Dupery
135
Jerry K. Hartman Catch Switch minor variant of reference
Also published here 2007
Card Dupery
220
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
Drop Sleight
2011
Bullet Party
34
Wesley James Load-Up Move
2011
Bullet Party
38
Justin Higham Re-Show Switch 1
2012
Non-Automatic Card Tricks
2
Justin Higham Re-Show Switch 2
2012
Non-Automatic Card Tricks
3
Justin Higham Open-Drop Switches 1, 2 & 3
2012
Non-Automatic Card Tricks
4
Wesley James, Tom Ellis Loading Move
2013
Confident Deceptions
47
Carlos Luviano Charolet The Luviano Fan Change half of the deck fanned
 		2013
Just Be Croz
94
Drop Sleight
2013
High Caliber
137
Wesley James Load-Up Move
2013
High Caliber
139
Edward Marlo Reverse Drop Sleight
2014
Mayhew
12
Edo Huang Linea Control alternative to tip-over switch
Inspired by 2015
Card Coffee Collective
19
Stanley Collins, The Card-Spread Switch
2016
Eye Candy
15
Jack McMillen Tip-Over Addition
2018
The Magic of Johnny Thompson (Issue 1)
109
Wesley James, Tom Ellis Loading Move
2018
Game Changer
183
Peter Duffie, Robin Robertson Bluff Jog Force cards peeled through singly, stopped-at card is forced, also see p. 96
Also published here 2018
Pure Imagination
93
Peter Duffie, Robin Robertson Bluff Jog Force also see p. 93 and reference there
 		2018
Pure Imagination
96
Tom Gagnon Double Take Drop Switch bottom card of right-hand half can be shown before and after switch
 		2019
Gagnon Unfiltered
240
Larry Jennings Double-Deal "Drop" Switch cards peeled off packet in right-hand end grip onto deck and flipped over
Inspired by 2020
Mr. Jennings Takes It Easy
429
Edward Marlo, Tony Kardyro Technique on T.K. Drop Sleight spread drop switch
Also published here 2021
Output (Issue 19)
17
Rüdiger Soltyszeck, Tom Ellis Tip Over Plus Loading Move variation, retains stack
Inspired by Aug. 2021
Genii (Vol. 84 No. 8)
64
Lionel Gallardo The Drop Switch Variation similar to tip-over change
Inspired by 2021
Mi(s)directa Magia Vol. I
153
Edward Marlo Movie Transpo Drop Sleight Finesse delayed and card dropped when tapping the packet
Related to
  • video Prime-Time Marlo, footage from 1971
 2022
Output (Issue 21)
8
Steve Reynolds Drop Sleight Finesse
Related to
  • "Reverse Drop Sleight" (Ed Marlo)
 2022
Output (Issue 21)
10
Wesley James Expertalk: Wesley James on the Load-Up Move credit information
  • Load-up Move IV (9/20/68)
Also published here
  • MAGIC, Apr. 2004
 2022
Talk About Tricks (Issue 1)
289
Jean-Pierre Vallarino The Vallarino Force spectator says stop as performer thumb-peels through deck, stopped-at card is switched for force card while in out-jogged position, can do with multiple cards out-jogged in a group, also a handling to hide odd-colored backs of the out-jogged cards
 		2022
Vallarino
25
Jean-Pierre Vallarino Card switch tip-over style, but immediately upon flipping card face down, the switched-in card is pivoted out and dropped onto table
 		2022
Vallarino
81