Sandwich

Sandwich tricks are a broad category of card magic where a card or a number of cards are captured between some known cards.

First described in The Magic Wand, Vol. 7, N° 77, january 1917 by Louis Christianer under the title The Obedient Card, page 78.

For multiple card variations see Collectors.

Variations

• Progressive Sandwich (also known as Searcher) is a variation in which the locator cards in the deck continue to get closer and closer to the selection until eventually it's trapped between just those two cards.

• Instant Sandwich in which the cards are placed face-up in widely separated parts of the pack. Then without any cuts or shuffles, the cards are spread to show that they are now together with the selected card between them.

Two cards sandwich a selected card in print

• One-Eyed Jack Sandwich in My Favorite Card Tricks by Harry Lorayne (1965)
• Larry Jennings' The Visitor in The Classic Magic of Larry Jennings written by Mike Maxwell (1986)
• Chameleon Sandwich by Doug Conn in Tricks of my Trade: The Magic of Doug Conn written by Paul Cummins (1999)
• Synergistic Sandwiches by Jon Racherbaumer (1991)
• Mike Gallo's Direct Jack Sandwich

Progressive Sandwich

• Search and Destroy by Aaron Fisher in The Paper Engine

Instant Sandwich

• "Jacks or Better" by Martin Nash (within the effect "The Earl's Dilemma" in Sleight Unseen)