Miscellaneous

135 entries in Cards / Sleights / Switches / Single Card Switches / Spread Switches / Miscellaneous
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Paul Curry Reversed Card Transfer Switch as reversed card is transferred to bottom
Related to 1940 More Card Manipulations (Issue 3) 50
Edward Victor Spread Switch card isolated in spread is pulled by fingers to the right and left thumb pushes out next card, see next trick for another application
Related to 1940 ca. More Magic of the Hands — Part One 23
Edward Victor Face-up Spread Switch switch a face-down card in face-up spread, related to "Spread Switch" p. 23
 		1940 ca. More Magic of the Hands — Part One 25
Art Lyle Bottom Deal Second
1943 The Phoenix 1-50 (Issue 29) 120
Frank Shields Card Switch
1950 The Phoenix 151-200 (Issue 195) 779
Edward Marlo Under-the-Spread Switch as card is tabled
Related toVariations 1953 The Cardician 160
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
Tony Kardyro The Broad Jump Reverse spread switch application
Related to 1955 Kardyro's Kard Konjuring 29
Edward Marlo Mislide card switched as it is laid down from in-the-hands spread on table, related to later handlings
 		1956 The New Phoenix 301-348 (Issue 338) 163
Henry Christ Henry Christ Spread Switch see Elmsley book for Tony Kardyro credit information
Related toVariations 1959 Inner Secrets of Card Magic 23
Edward Marlo The Spread Switch face down card is switched in face up spread, under-the-spread technique
 		1961 Card Switches 54
Larry Jennings Larreverse Get Ready & Switch double in spread and side-jogged double lift unload
 		1972 Epilogue (Issue 14) 111
Tony Noice A Switch-Control card in spread is touched, displayed, apparently put on table
 		1973 Rim Shots 99
Edward Marlo On the Spread Switch discrepancy switch as card is tossed on table from spread between the hands
 		1974 The Unexpected Card Book 237
Edward Marlo Flexible Switch Out in the deck, spread switch
Related toVariations 1976 Marlo's Magazine Volume 1 15
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
Larry Jennings Where's the Discrepancy
VariationsAlso published here 1977 Larry Jennings on Card & Coin Handling 41
Karl Fulves Spread Swindle tabled spread, palming
 		1977 Packet Switches (Part Five) 320
Henry Christ Spread Tip-Over Switch
1977 Matching the Cards 8
Ken Krenzel Spread Double Lift as a Switch
 		1978 The Card Classics of Ken Krenzel 100
Edward Marlo Devilish Miracle Switchouts
Related to 1979 Marlo's Magazine Volume 3 101
Fred Robinson, Walt Lees Cull Exchange
Jan. 1979 Pabular (Vol. 5 No. 1) 626
Edward Marlo Marlo's Switch-Out Move
1980 French Pasteboards 21
Henry Christ Henry Christ Spread Switch
1981 More Professional Card Tricks 10
Larry Jennings Open Control card is out-jogged
Related to 1982 Best of Friends 92
Graham Smith Switched card on ribbon spread, switch for open prediction
 		1982 Spell-Binder (Vol. 1 No. 11) 210
Unknown Spread Switch transfer second deal type
 		1982 Simple yet Effective Tricks with Cards 41
Jon Racherbaumer Illogical Spread Switch
1983 The Card Puzzle 21
Frank Simon Christ-Kardyro Spread Switch
Inspired by 1983 Versatile Card Magic 88
Frank Simon Versatile Cull Switch culled card switched for culled card, spread condition retained
  • A Variation
  • Straight Force Variation
Variations 1983 Versatile Card Magic 105
Frank Simon Turnover Cull Switch
Inspired by 1983 Versatile Card Magic 117
Edward Marlo Second Method
1984 Marlo's Magazine Volume 5 112
Edward Marlo Bottom Deal Exchange Application brief
 		1984 Marlo's Magazine Volume 5 347
Larry Jennings, Edward Marlo The Laydown Sleight similar to Ed Marlo's "Bottom Deal Exchange" move
 		1984 The Collected Almanac (Vol. 2 No. 23 & 24) 227
Unknown Push Change card placed from in-the-hands spread to table is switch à la Downs Change
 		1985 The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 3) 25
Henry Christ Christ's Change spread handling of tip-over change
 		1985 The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 3) 27
Ben Harris I Didn't Know You Used Marked Cards spread bottom deal, deck spread between the hands and "random" card tossed out
 		1985 Midnight Special 12
Edward Marlo Bottom Deal Exchange B.D.E.
 		1986 The Classic Magic of Larry Jennings 166
Joseph K. Schmidt Hold Out! card transforms into selection with holding-out presentation, featuring a spread switch
 		July 1987 Epoptica (Issue 9) 497
Paul Harris Spread Switch
1987 The Commercial Magic of J.C. Wagner 107
Larry Jennings Variation of Paul Harris' Spread Switch
1987 The Commercial Magic of J.C. Wagner 108
Tony Kardyro Kardyro Drop Sleight
1987 Special Effects 64
Jerry Sadowitz Spread Laydown Switch as two cards are put on table from spread, one is switched
 		1987 Inspirations 8
Dai Vernon Bottom Deal Spread Force like Bottom Deal Exchange
 		1988 The Vernon Chronicles — Volume 2 153
Edward Marlo BDE Type Force
1988 Marlo's Magazine Volume 6 54
Karrell Fox Esrever reversed card is changed as it is taken out
 		Oct. 1988 Apocalypse (Vol. 11 No. 10) 1557
Edward Marlo, Tom Gagnon The Miracle Spread variation
 		1988 The Trapdoor — Volume One (Issue 23) 393
Karrell Fox "Center-Tainment" card reversed in center, switched as it is taken out and turned face-down
 		1988 My Latest Book 55
Edward Marlo 4 X Cards to 4 Aces cards turned over in spread using a switch
Variations 1989 So Soon? 29
Tony Kardyro Drop Sleight from spread condition
 		1989 Randy Wakeman Presents 40
Harry Lorayne The Summit Switch Convincing Control Handlings
 		1990 Trend Setters 245
Ken Krenzel, Henry Christ Flexible Christ Spread Switch
Inspired by 1990 Close-up Impact! 83
Edward Marlo Spread Laydown Switch
Related to
  • Collectors (Roy Walton, Abra Vol. 47, p. 99, 1969)
 1990 That's It 34
Edward Marlo Marlo's Bottom Deal Exchange
1991 The Olram File (Issue 9) 4
Jon Racherbaumer Illogical Spread Switch exchange face-up card with face-down card above it
 		1992 Card Finesse II 32
Edward Marlo Marlo's Spread-X Force "Bottom Deal Exchange" (BDE) Force
 		1992 Card Finesse II 121
Unknown Unit Upjog Switch-Out Aces are upjogged and stripped out, one is exchanged
 		1992 Card Finesse II 184
Ernest Earick One-handed Convincing Control see page 90 for mention of the sleight as cull, force, palm, switch
Variations 1993 By Forces Unseen 83
William Goodwin Bottom Deal Upjog Switch touched card is upjogged
 		1993 Notes from the Batcave 21
Lewis Jones Switch
Jan. 1994 Apocalypse (Vol. 17 No. 1) 2306
Jack Avis Avis Spread Switch credit information
Inspired by 1994 The Collected Works of Alex Elmsley — Volume 2 58
Alex Elmsley Rollover Switch as reversed card is put on table
 		1994 The Collected Works of Alex Elmsley — Volume 2 123
Larry Jennings The Upjog Switch see also p. 227 for credit information
Related to 1994 Roger's Thesaurus 10
Larry Jennings Open Control also switch
 		1995 Cardshark 44
Edward Marlo Bottom Deal Exchange as card is removed from in-the-hands spread
Related toVariationsAlso published here
  • The New Tops, Nov. 1974
 1995 M.I.N.T. — Volume II 190
Edward Marlo Important Note on the Bottom Deal Exchange viewing angles
Related to 1995 M.I.N.T. — Volume II 200
Edward Marlo The Marlo Switch-Out Diamond cut Diamond application
VariationsAlso published here
  • The New Tops, Nov. 1976
 1995 M.I.N.T. — Volume II 301
Gene Maze A Switch in Time lapping
 		Nov. 1996 Apocalypse (Vol. 19 No. 11) 2715
Edward Marlo Bomb-Door Bottom from Spread
1996 Classic Sampler 2
Edward Marlo, Tony Kardyro T.K. Drop Sleight
1996 Miracle Material 48
Edward Marlo Bottom Deal Exchange as sandwich is placed on table one by one
 		1997 Solomon's Mind 186
Dai Vernon Bottom Deal Spread Force like Bottom Deal Exchange
 		1998 Five Times Five — Scotland 94
Jack Avis Spread Display Switch as reversed card is shown
 		1998 Vis à Vis 101
Roger Crosthwaite The Upjog Switch upjogged card squared and thumbed off onto table, also for multiple-out tricks
Inspired by 1999 Arcardia 69
Roger Crosthwaite Transfer Switches - First Method card is shown in spread and tabled
 		1999 Collected Card Notes 3
Justin Higham Transfer Switches - Fifth Method tabled card picked up and put into spread and switched
 		1999 Collected Card Notes 10
Justin Higham Transfer Switches - Sixth Method tabled card picked up and put into spread and switched
Related to 1999 Collected Card Notes 11
Stanley Collins, Unknown The Card-Spread Switch with credit information
Inspired by 2000 Card College — Volume 4 814
Paul Curry Reversed Card Transfer Switch as reversed card is transferred to bottom
 		2001 Paul Curry's Worlds Beyond 282
Masao Atsukawa チェインジ (Change) Switch of a card from a spread
 		2001 カードの島 26
Harry Lorayne (R)Evolutionary card in spread chosen, shown with right hand, transferred to left hand and thumped to table, Transfer Second Deal, then lapped
Inspired byRelated toAlso published here 2001 Personal Collection 411
Dan Buck, Dave Buck D.M.B. Spread Control out-jogged card switched as in-the-hands spread is lowered
VariationsAlso published here 2001 Artifice, Ruse, and Subterfuge in the Hands 17
Terry LaGerould Impromptu Invisible Deck named card from a group is shown reversed, bold switch as reversed card is apparently cut to top
 		2001 Pasteboard Presentations II 52
Jack Avis Avis Spread Switch
2001 Mr. Gadfly (Vol. 1 No. 3 Sep./Oct.) 54
Larry Jennings Open Control
2002 Scams & Fantasies with Cards 84
Henry Christ Christ Drop Switch card flipped over in spread
 		2002 The Breather 3 10
Steve Beam Card Switch reversed card in center, while card is placed on table
 		2002 Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 4 37
Mark Aspiazu Outjogging Earick's Control card is out-jogged
Inspired byRelated to Mar. 2002 Ego (Vol. 1 No. 10) 24
William Goodwin, Gordon Bruce Goodwin/Bruce Switch GB Switch
card touched in in-the-hands spread, bottom block turned over except bottom card
 		2003 Card Conspiracy — Vol. 1 100
Peter Duffie, Robin Robertson Jog Switch JS
card downjogged during in-the-hands spread and packet with downjogged card as bottom card tabled, card secretly added underneath
  • Variations
Related to 2003 Card Conspiracy — Vol. 2 10
Dan Buck, Dave Buck The D.M.B. Spread Control out-jogged card switched as in-the-hands spread is lowered
  • Second Method: Continuous Spread method
Also published here 2003 Nursery Rhymes — Volume 3 14
Allan Ackerman Allan Ackerman's Addition Variation of Discreet Displacement
Inspired by 2005 Sleight of Hand and a Twist of Fate 16
Karl Fulves Switchback any card switched out via spread strip-out
Also published here 2006 Prolix (Issue 1) 56
Larry Jennings Open Control brief
 		2006 Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 7 159
Andi Gladwin Swivelswitch card is reversed in center of deck and switched in that process, spread double deal
  • Swiveltwo (variation)
 		2006 Sometimes it's Hard to be a Cardman 25
Unknown Downjog Switch
2007 Best of Friends — Volume III 186
Jerry K. Hartman Deeper Dupers applications as a force/switch
Inspired by 2007 Best of Friends — Volume III 230
Ken Krenzel The Direct-Second Switch as card is placed on table during spreading
 		2009 Relaxed Impossibilities 23
Ken Krenzel The Direct-Second Control
2009 Relaxed Impossibilities 29
Jack Avis Spread Switch
2009 The Sticky Blue Book 10
David Regal Isolated Force
2010 Reinventing the Real 149
Tyler Wilson Table Spread Switch bold
 		2010 Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 8 88
Roberto Giobbi The Fake Take and Variations
2010 Secret Agenda (Issue Oct 29) 322
Tom Gagnon Flexible BD Exchange as card is removed from in-the-hands spread, using Outward Bottom Deal
  • Face-up Variation
Inspired by 2011 Avant-Cards 194
Edward Marlo, John Bannon The Flexible Switchout as Control in the deck, spread switch
Related toAlso published here 2011 Bullet Party 75
Unknown Spread Switch
2013 Discoveries & Deceptions 23
José Carroll, Iván Mora Card Switch as a force, spread on table
 		2013 Magia Demente 48
Tom Gagnon Inverse Spread Switch card is reversed or odd-backed in center of tabled spread, top portion scooped up and card switched
  • Face-Up Variant
Inspired by 2013 Too Hot for the Devil 8
Tom Gagnon One-Hand Ribbon Spread Switch odd-backed card in center of deck is switched during tabled ribbon spread action as it is slid out
Variations 2013 Too Hot for the Devil 65
Tom Gagnon Miracle Spread Handling card slid to new position as part of tabled spread is gathered
Inspired by
  • "Miracle Spread" (Ed Marlo, Ibidem #20)
 2013 Too Hot for the Devil 134
Edward Marlo, John Bannon The Flexible Switchout as Control in the deck, spread switch
Also published here 2013 High Caliber 162
Edward Marlo, So Sato Bottom Deal Exchange Force
2016 The Secrets of So Sato 101
Stanley Collins, Unknown The Card-Spread Switch
2016 Eye Candy 15
Alexander Hansford Reverse Spread Switch showing reversed card in deck and switching it
Inspired byVariations 2016 Sprezzatura 40
John Bannon Conflexing Control
Inspired by May 2017 Genii (Vol. 80 No. 5) 31
Jack Avis Spread Switch
2017 Secrets 49
Harry Lorayne, Harapan Ong Flip Force Variation deck reversed around selected card while switching it
Inspired by 2018 Principia 24
Alexander Hansford Control using reverse spread
Inspired by 2018 Kino. 51
Harry Lorayne (R)Evolutionary card in spread chosen, shown with right hand, transferred to left hand and thumped to table, Transfer Second Deal, then lapped
Also published here 2018 And Finally! 141
John Bannon Face-Up Touch Force Switch
Inspired by Jan. 2018 Genii (Vol. 81 No. 1) 42
Edward Marlo The Bottom-Deal Exchange also for forcing an odd-backed card
 		2019 Card Theater 28
Tom Gagnon Spread Switch Out reversed card in deck switched, tabled spread
Inspired by 2019 Gagnon Unfiltered 216
Tom Gagnon Swindle Switch reversed card in tabled spread
Inspired byVariations 2019 Gagnon Unfiltered 224
Tom Gagnon Devilish Switch ribbon spread deck gathered with another card which is switched in the process
Related toVariations 2019 Gagnon Unfiltered 404
Tom Gagnon Bedeviled Switch ribbon spread deck gathered with two cards, one of them is switched in the process
Inspired by 2019 Gagnon Unfiltered 407
Helder Guimarães Hold the Eye - Details on the Henry Christ Spread Switch
Inspired by 2019 Secret Language — Volume 1 26
Helder Guimarães By Mistake - The Perpendicular DMB Spread Control out-jogged card switched as in-the-hands spread is lowered
  • as a vanish
Inspired byRelated to 2019 Secret Language — Volume 1 108
Steve Reynolds Evolution of a Switch discussing switches for the Devilish Miracle
  • From Marlo Magazine Vol. 3
  • D'Amico/Marlo Devilish Switch (1948)
  • Control Systems Switch (1947-1952)
  • Marlo Without Tears Switch
  • Interface Switch
Related to 2019 Output (Issue 5) 1
Larry Jennings Open Control card is out-jogged
 		May 2020 Elixir (Vol. 3 No. 1 Part 1 (Spring #2)) 180
Larry Jennings The Alpha Control featuring a spread transfer switch
  • One
  • Two
Related to 2020 Mr. Jennings Takes It Easy 405
Larry Jennings Discrepant … See?
Related to
  • "Flip Over Switch" (Tony Kardyro, Conjurors' Magazine, Sep. 1949)
Also published here 		2020 Mr. Jennings Takes It Easy 418
Steve Reynolds Laydown Switch simulated laydown
 		2021 Output (Issue 15) 13
Edward Marlo, Tony Kardyro Technique on T.K. Drop Sleight spread drop switch
Also published here 2021 Output (Issue 19) 17
Richard Kaufman No Discrepancy
Inspired by Feb. 2021 Genii (Vol. 84 No. 2) 62
Tony Kardyro Tip-Over Spread Switch
Jan. 2022 Genii (Vol. 85 No. 1) 41