Miscellaneous

27 entries in Cards / Sleights / Mat Things / Miscellaneous
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. 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
Related to
Variations
 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 Open Prediction Re-Opened four methods, using card under mat techniques
 		1981
Cards — With a Different Touch
34
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
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
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
Also published here
 1995
The Lost Cheesy Notebooks — Volume Two
9
Eric Leclerc Padswitch card under mat switched as it is removed and shown
Also published here
 Oct. 2010
MAGIC (Vol. 20 No. 2)
68
Chad Long Mat Slap card produced with folded close-up pad
Also published here
 2010
Card Magic USA
132
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
Also published here
Inspired by
  • "The Shooting Joker" (Peter Kane, Hugard's Magic Monthly, Vol. 20 No. 8)
Variations
 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
Chad Long Mat Slap card produced with folded close-up pad
Also published here
 June 2022
Elixir (Vol. 3 No. Florida Issue Part One)
35
Eric Leclerc Padswitch card under mat switched as it is removed and shown
Also published here
 2022
Talk About Tricks (Issue 2)
979