Mat Things

34 entries in Cards / Sleights / Mat Things
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Jerry Andrus Bounce Cut deck slapped on soft surface, top half bounces back, pass gag for magicians
 		1956 Andrus Deals You In 103
Karl Fulves Margin For Error card from under mat to deck, prediction presentation, also as transposition (see Note 1)
 		1973 Packet Switches (Part Two) 72
Karl Fulves Fake Placement under Mat
1973 Packet Switches (Part Two) 73
Michael Carrion Switch with Close-up Mat
Aug. 1975 The Pallbearers Review Vol. 9-10 (Vol. 10 No. 10) 1041
Karl Fulves Straight-Deck Brainwave named card has different back color, different approaches:
  • Optica deck
  • 104 thin cards in roughed pairs
  • chemical backs
  • gaffed mat
Related to 1976 Interlocutor (Issue 8) 29
Philip T. Goldstein Matswitch under cover of close up mat in context of routine in which card travels to under mat
Related to Jan. 1980 Apocalypse (Vol. 3 No. 1) 292
Don England Another Collectors? Aces start underneath close-up pad
Inspired by 1981 Don England's T.K.O.'s (Issue Clubs) 45
Ken Simmons Pull Out Techniques - Positions four positions/orientations of cards under mat at table edge
 		1981 Cards — With a Different Touch 1
Ken Simmons Pull Out Double Lift adding card to single card from beneath mat at table edge
Related to 1981 Cards — With a Different Touch 2
Ken Simmons Pull Out Visual Change back-to-back, addition from table edge, two handlings
 		1981 Cards — With a Different Touch 4
Ken Simmons The Double Change card changes and then back
Related to 1981 Cards — With a Different Touch 5
Ken Simmons Pull Out Retention Switch card turned over at table edge, addition from under mat, no-palm
Related to 1981 Cards — With a Different Touch 5
Ken Simmons The Tabled Steal during tabled shuffle in perpendicular or normal position, can also be loaded under mat
 		1981 Cards — With a Different Touch 12
Ken Simmons The Spread Load loading card under mat from small packet, four methods
 		1981 Cards — With a Different Touch 15
Ken Simmons Open Prediction Re-Opened four methods, using card under mat techniques
 		1981 Cards — With a Different Touch 34
Ken Simmons Card Under Mat Techniques secretly loading card under close-up mat, four methods
 		1981 Close-Up With Cards 1
Ken Simmons, Edward Marlo Methods for Retrieval adding card from under close-up mat, four methods (first one by Marlo, others by Simmons)
 		1981 Close-Up With Cards 7
David Bornstein Poetry in Motion painting aces on rubber side of close-up pad
 		1982 The Close-up Magic of Frank Garcia — Part I 15
Roger Curzon Wipe Out the Aces incomplete faro, deck is brushed on close-up pad, aces appear face-up
 		1982 Spell-Binder (Vol. 1 No. 11) 197
Douglas A. Wicks Rembrandt Aces aces are "painted" on rubber back of close up pad
 		Sep. 1983 Apocalypse (Vol. 6 No. 9) 820
Michael Weber Painting on Rubber Back of Pad
Sep. 1983 Apocalypse (Vol. 6 No. 9) 820
Ross Bertram The "Welcome" Mat mat that hangs over back of table with servante
  • Origin of the Mat
  • Ross Bertram's "Welcome" Mat
  • My "Welcome" Mat (Its Use and Versatility)
 		1983 Bertram on Sleight of Hand 211
Gene Maze Mat Switch hole card type switch with card ending up under mat
 		1989 Prototype 46
Robert Gardner Isn't that Something? unloading a double under close up pad
 		Feb. 1990 Apocalypse (Vol. 13 No. 2) 1750
Chris Kenner Paint by Numbers triumph with four Royal Flush climax, which are "painted" on rubber back of close up pad
Inspired byVariations 1992 Totally Out Of Control 140
Tony Miller Close-up Pad's Geiger Count through close-up Pad
 		Feb. 1994 Apocalypse (Vol. 17 No. 2) 2320
Chad Long Mat Slap card produced with folded close-up pad
 		1995 The Lost Cheesy Notebooks — Volume Two 9
Doug Conn Flush Brush triumph with four Royal Flush climax, which are "painted" on rubber back of close up pad
Inspired by 1999 Tricks of my Trade 99
Tom Stone Black Art on Close-up Pad credit information
 		2011 Maelstrom 69
Tom Gagnon Pad Revelation cards spread on close-up pad, pad folded over spread and unfolded, selection now face-up on spread
Variations 2013 Too Hot for the Devil 29
Tom Gagnon Hidden Agenda cards spread on pad, covered with handkerchief, , pad folded over spread and unfolded, selection is now on top of handkerchief
Inspired by 2013 Too Hot for the Devil 31
Tom Gagnon Electrostatic Recall card pivots outwards from incomplete faro condition, pin through close-up mat as gimmick
Inspired by
  • "The Shooting Joker" (Peter Kane, Hugard's Magic Monthly, Vol. 20 No. 8)
Also published here 		2013 Too Hot for the Devil 108
Akira Fujii Fake Mat Placement card apparently placed under close-up mat but stolen back onto deck in other hand
 		June 2017 Genii (Vol. 80 No. 6) 83
Akira Fujii Later Palm Shoot Under Mat card shot under mat from later palm as it is lifted
 		June 2017 Genii (Vol. 80 No. 6) 84