Sandwich

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

A version was described in The Magic Wand, Vol. 7, No. 77, January 1917 by Louis Christianer under the title The Obedient Card, page 78.

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 two 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.

• Multiple Sandwich (aka Collectors) where three selected cards are caught between four-of-a-kind.

• Isolated Sandwich in which the two cards are kept separate from the deck and a card magically ends up between them.

Sandwiches in print

• The Royal Finders by Jack Merlin in ...And a Pack of Cards (1927)
• The Twin Aces by Tom Sellers in Sellers' Secrets (1931)
• Ace Sandwich by Al Leech in Card Man Stuff (1953)
• One-Eyed Jack Sandwich in My Favorite Card Tricks by Harry Lorayne (credited to Al Leech) (1965)
• Mike Gallo's Direct Jack Sandwich in Best of Friends, Vol. 2 by Harry Lorayne (1985)
• Larry Jennings' The Visitor in The Classic Magic of Larry Jennings written by Mike Maxwell (1986)
• Synergistic Sandwiches by Jon Racherbaumer (1991)
• Chameleon Sandwich by Doug Conn in Tricks of my Trade: The Magic of Doug Conn written by Paul Cummins (1999)

Progressive Sandwich

• Searchers by Larry Jennings from Richard's Almanac 17-18 (Larry Jennings Issue) (January-February 1984)
• Search and Destroy by Aaron Fisher in The Paper Engine (2002)

Instant Sandwich

• Ace-X-Ace by Ed Marlo in Genii 1953 December, Vol. 18, No. 4, page 134.
• Jacks or Better Lecture Notes by Martin Nash (1979) (within the effect The Earl's Dilemma in Sleight Unseen (1979)

Isolated Sandwich

• Grasshopper by Paul Harris in Supermagic (1977) A selected card vanishes from between two Kings to appear between the other two Kings.
• "Ishkabibble Sandwich" by Eric Jones in Reel Magic Issue 8 DVD December 2008.