Sandwich Loading Techniques

98 entries in Cards / Sleights / Sandwich Loading Techniques
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Martin Gardner Simple Sandwich Load with a double lift
 		1940 12 Tricks with a Borrowed Deck 20
Arthur H. Buckley Secret Removal Between Cards loading cards between outjogged cards
 		1948 The Card Expert Entertains 147
Edward Marlo The Build Up red Aces produced, turn over when pushed through deck, sandwich black Aces, then previous selection
 		1952 Control Systems 106
Bill Simon Packer Load loading three reversed card between four cards alternating, similar to a collectors load
 		1952 Effective Card Magic 42
Unknown Sandwich Load standard peeling
 		1965 My Favorite Card Tricks 24
R. Sid Spocane II The Royal Lovers four of a kind appear one by one between sandwich cards
Related toVariationsAlso published here 1967 Deck-Sterity 86
Karl Fulves Stealing Diamonds selection appears between two Jokers with plunger loading method while jokers are outjogged
 		1969 Epilogue (Issue 6) 43
Jerry K. Hartman Secret Subtraction – Variation 7
  • (a) switch out Ace of Clubs for Ace of Spades (from top of deck) as it is placed face down between red Aces
  • (b) faceup Ace of Clubs between faceup red Aces is switched for Ace of Spades as it is turned face down and replaced between them
Related to 1970 Secret Subtraction 11
Allan Ackerman Lunch several methods for "One-Eyed Jacks" sandwich effect, with loading techniques
Tilted Sandwich:
  • Gaffed
  • Ungaffed #1
  • Ungaffed #2
The Ultimate Approach:
  • The Load In
  • The Palm Switch
  • The No Palm Approach
  • Ungaffed #3
Variations 1971 The Esoterist 34
Harry Lorayne Sandwich Locator using Lorayne Force as sandwich load
 		1971 Reputation-Makers 258
Karl Fulves Sandwich Load
1971 The Book of Numbers 46
Edward Marlo Sandwich Load standard
 		1972 Packet Magic 48
Karl Fulves Sneak Sandwich Incomplete Faro peeked card is sandwiched
 		1973 Packet Switches (Part Two) 102
Karl Fulves Trapped With The Zarrow any card named - type sandwich
 		1973 Riffle Shuffle Technique — Preliminary Notes on Part One 21
Unknown Standard Sandwich Load
1974 Card Tricks for People Who Don't Do Card Tricks 8
Harry Lorayne The Ultra Sandwich Routine
1975 Afterthoughts 21
Jerry K. Hartman Advance Loading 1. On the Top
a. Advance Loading
2. On the Top
b. Bluff Removal
2. Off the Deck: A.
B. Advance Loading
C. Bluff Removal
III. In the Middle: Advance Loading
see also Fulves' notes on page 242 for applications
 		1975 Epilogue (Issue Special No 1) 235
Karl Fulves Trap Loading Technique
1975 Methods with Cards — Part 3 221
Unknown Basic Sandwich Load
1976 The Magic of Paul Harris 37
Jerry Andrus De-Sleevery (Retrieving from the Sleeve) loading a card form sleeve between two card, which are hold together with a rubber band
 		1976 Andrus Card Control 39
John Carney Sandwich Load and Switch palmed card is loaded into sandwich with switch
Also published here 1976 Enigma 5
Harvey Rosenthal Pop Notes sandwich load from top
 		1977 Packet Switches (Part Three) 187
Bernard Bilis Spread Sandwich Load from Classic Palm
Dec. 1978 Apocalypse (Vol. 1 No. 12) 137
Edward Marlo, Martin A. Nash Tabled Palm Load
1979 Sleight Unseen 389
Bernard Bilis Immediate Sandwich Cards loading from classic palm with buckling
 		1980 French Pasteboards 11
Edward Marlo Slip Cut Removal in foreword, card changes place with card sandwiched in centre of deck, slip cut under side-jog
Variations 1980 Marlo's Magazine Volume 4
Edward Marlo, Martin A. Nash Tabled Palm Load brief
 		1980 Jacks or Better 9
Edward Marlo Covered Side Steal
1980 The Command Performance — Premier Issue 10
Unknown Standard Sandwich Load
1980 Cards On Demand 10
Karl Fulves Peek Trap
1981 Side Steal 22
Harvey Rosenthal Applications 2. Side Steal Placement
 		1981 Side Steal 38
Allan Ackerman Ackerman's Sandwich Move tabled sandwich cards spread and palmed card loaded
 		1981 Close-up Fantasies Finalé 154
Edward Marlo Sandwich Loading Procedure
1982 For Your Entertainment Pleasure 49
Tom Craven Rising Sandwich card peeked at in bottom half appears between sandwich cards in top half
 		1982 Best of Friends 441
Edward Marlo Easy Sandwich Load uncredited
 		1982 Spell-Binder (Vol. 2 No. 17) 317
Frank Simon The Deep Cover Steal card touched and out-jogged, a few cards from top removed in right-hand End Grip and selection stolen underneath, different grip
Related to 1983 Versatile Card Magic 130
Karl Fulves Block Transfer Note as a sandwich effect
 		1984 Riffle Shuffle Technique — Part Three 126
Roy Walton Side-Glide Load
1984 Cards Hit 26
Edward Marlo Direct Sandwich Load
1985 Equinox 4
Ben Harris K.M. Sandwich card appears in sandwich
Related toVariations 1985 Out Of His Mind! 129
Larry Jennings Spread Loading Technique
1986 The Classic Magic of Larry Jennings 165
John Carney Sandwich Load and Switch palmed card is loaded into sandwich with switch
 		1987 Lecture Notes Collection (Issue Carney Up Close) 20
Jamy Ian Swiss Secret Sandwich Slip #1 bottom card of deck held in right-hand end grip is loaded into left hand sandwich cards
 		1987 Thoughts 12
Jamy Ian Swiss Secret Sandwich Slip #2
1987 Thoughts 15
John Carney Sandwich Load and Switch palmed card is loaded into sandwich with switch
Also published here 1987 Carney Up Close 20
Edward Marlo, Michael Ammar Side-Steal (with Top Card Cover)
1991 The Magic of Michael Ammar 58
Edward Marlo Standard Sandwich Load
1991 Carneycopia 133
John Carney Sandwich Load and Switch palmed card is loaded into sandwich with switch
 		1991 Carneycopia 135
Edward Marlo ATFUS Sandwich Handling
1991 Smoke and Mirrors 36
Edward Marlo Sandwich Load
1991 The Olram File (Issue 8) 2
Edward Marlo Simple Sandwich Load
1991 Synergistic Sandwiches 4
Doug Edwards, Harry Lorayne Captured kings find mates and selection
 		July 1994 Apocalypse (Vol. 17 No. 7) 2387
Karl Fulves Primitive Trap shuffling a card between sandwich cards
 		1995 Setting Up Exercises 35
Edward Marlo More Deuce Sandwiches two face-up cards cut into deck, a selection appears between them, seven methods
Also published here
  • The New Tops, May 1968
 1995 M.I.N.T. — Volume II 1
James Swain Invisible Load Move
1996 Miracles with Cards 121
Steve Reynolds Loadless Sandwich/Load LTP steal and backwards pivoting
 		1996 MO — Modus Operandi (Issue 8) 23
Dai Vernon Reverse Fan Load
1997 Ingenuities 181
Andrew Wimhurst Slip Cut Pass combining beginning of cover pass with Herrmann action to affect a slip cut
Related to 1999 Low Down Dirty Tricks 6
Roberto Giobbi Sandwich Techniques Introduction
 		2000 Card College — Volume 4 947
Christian Chelman The Display Load card appears between sandwich cards, without deck
 		2000 Card College — Volume 4 949
Unknown The Direct Load
2000 Card College — Volume 4 950
Edward Marlo The Simple Sandwich Load
Also published here
  • "More Deuce Sandwiches: 1st Method" (Ed Marlo, The New Tops, Vol. 8 No. 5, May 1968, p. 32)
 2000 Card College — Volume 4 952
William Goodwin Hold the Mayo four Aces appear between two black Kings
Related toAlso published here
  • "Hold the Mayo" (Goodwin, At The Expense of Gray Matter, p. 11)
 2000 Card College — Volume 4 954
Bernard Bilis Immediate Sandwich Cards
2000 Card College — Volume 4 1033
R. Sid Spocane II Die königlichen Liebhaber four of a kind appear one by one between sandwich cards
Also published here 2000 Intermagic (Vol. 23 No. 4&5) 173
Harry Lorayne Good-Sequence Sandwich
2001 Personal Collection 277
Dan Buck, Dave Buck Another Sandwich card instantly appears between sandwich in deck, loading move
 		2001 Artifice, Ruse, and Subterfuge in the Hands 13
Gabriel Moreno Aplicaciones del Empalme Pivotante al Recomponer la Baraja as a sandwich load
 		2003 La Magia Española del Siglo XX 225
Zenneth Kok Zendwich Pass combining beginning of cover pass with Herrmann action to affect a slip cut
Related to Mar. 2003 Ego (Vol. 2 No. 14) 15
Tyler Wilson Dirty Stinkin' Ape In The Middle
Also published here 2005 Just be Glad my Name isn't Greg 36
Tyler Wilson Dirty Stinkin' Ape in the Middle
Also published here 2006 Dominatricks 56
Edward Marlo Deuce Sandwich Load
2007 The Magician's Ltd Cookbook 80
Tom Stone Loading Display displaying sandwich cards while loading odd-backed card
 		2010 Vortex 22
Larry Jennings Triple Discovery Loading Sequence
Inspired by 2010 Reinventing the Real 69
Edward Marlo, Tyler Wilson More Deuce Sandwiches: 1st Method - Technical Variation "grandpappy of all sandwich loads"
 		2010 Reinventing the Real 103
Edward Marlo Sandwich Load
2011 Making the Cut 39
Harry Lorayne A Royal Force spectator place four high spade cards together face-up in deck, fifth Royal Flush card appears between them, Lorayne Force load
 		2011 Special Effects 174
Harry Lorayne Sandwich Ramblings sandwich cards appear face-up around selection in deck, eight methods
 		2011 Special Effects 175
Tom Gagnon Bunko Squad card travels from deck to between sandwich cards, using Double Doodle Steal
 		2011 Avant-Cards 124
Steven Hamilton Center Cut Loading
2013 The Magic of Steven Hamilton 32
Tom Gagnon Invisible Fingertip Load as spread is scooped up with sandwich cards
 		2013 Too Hot for the Devil 26
Allan Ackerman Sandwich Load as tabled sandwich is spread
 		2014 Card Men 23
Tyler Wilson Reverse Spread Sandwich Load
2014 The EH Team 9
Chris Mayhew Anti Control Position Control to certain position in center of deck, e.g. inside a Sandwich
Related to Oct. 2014 Genii (Vol. 77 No. 10) 42
Edward Marlo Sandwich Load standard
 		Dec. 2015 Genii (Vol. 78 No. 12) 40
Unknown Under-the-Spread Sandwich Load
2016 In Order to Amaze 19
John Hostler Center Sandwich Load sandwich cards "biddled" into the center
 		2016 Magnum Opossum 14
Frank Simon The Deep Cover Steal brief
Related to 2016 Notes de Causerie 16
Jamy Ian Swiss The Sandwich Loading Maneuver from bottom of deck in right-hand end grip between sandwich cards in left hand
Related to 2016 It's Another Interesting Application Of That Principle 14
Tyler Wilson Reverse Spread Sandwich Load
2017 Rocky Mountain Session 3
Edward Marlo Sandwich Load
2018 The Magic of Johnny Thompson (Issue 1) 200
Jamy Ian Swiss The Sandswitch Loading Maneuver from bottom of deck in right-hand end grip between sandwich cards in left hand
 		2018 A Visit to England 3
Tom Gagnon Clipped Sandwich card appears sandwiched between two paper clipped cards, spread loading technique
 		2019 Gagnon Unfiltered 91
Edward Marlo Sandwich Load standard load
 		2019 Secret Language — Volume 1 73
Andi Gladwin Double Reverse Cull as sandwich load
 		2020 The Boy Who Cried Magic 49
Larry Jennings Turnover Add-On as tabled card or packet is turned over, here as sandwich load
 		2020 Mr. Jennings Takes It Easy 117
Tom Dobrowolski, Jeremiah Zuo Transfer Addition as packet is placed elevated over deck, left thumb lifts and adds cards from the deck, see p. 19 for second handling
Inspired by Apr. 2021 The Disclaimer (Vol. 1 No. 1) 16
Unknown Sandwich Drop Load dropping two cards on single (apparently two or three) card
 		Mar. 2022 Genii (Vol. 85 No. 3) 64