Top or near Top

176 entries in Cards / Sleights / Glimpse / Top or near Top
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Unknown Palm Glimpse glimpsing palmed card
 		1876 Modern Magic 27
Unknown To get Sight of a Card for top (first palming the card), center and bottom
 		1889 Tricks with Cards 18
S. W. Erdnase To Ascertain the Top Cards while Riffling and Reserve them at Bottom see elegant title, tabled double cut
Related toVariations 1902 The Expert at the Card Table 103
Unknown Top Card Glimpse
1902 The Modern Conjurer 68
Jack Merlin Peep in Conjunction with a Second or Bottom as an Aid glimpsing cards on top and bottom while looking at hole card, dealing seconds or bottom accordingly
 		1927/28 Merlin at the Card Table 13
Theodore Annemann The Mystery Card Reading Method pack behind back, performer names cards
 		1931 The Book Without A Name 35
William Larsen Multiple Riffle Glimpse top four cards glimpsed during tabled riffle shuffle
 		1931 I Won't Play Cards With Him 6
William Larsen Top Glimpse corner of top card bent back in dealing position under cover of right hand
 		1931 I Won't Play Cards With Him 6
G. Brownlow A Little-Known "Glimpse" top card of lower half
 		1933 Farelli's Card Magic — Part Two 64
Unknown Push Glimpse bottom card of face-up deck
 		1933 More "Eye-Openers" 10
T. Page Wright A Glimpse left hand pushes off card to show it to spectator, bottom corner glimpsed
 		1933 Page Wright's Notebook 13
Unknown Sighting the Top Card 1. The Palm
2. The Ruffle
3. The Push Down (top buckle)
4. (The Push Down for Near Top)
5. Left Thumb and Lower Index
6. The Double Lift
7. By the Riffle Shuffle
8. Gambler's Method
9. Hindu Shuffle
10. Placing Deck on Table
11. Overhand Shuffle
 		1936 Card Manipulations (Issue 5) 136
Dai Vernon Glimpse through Handkerchief
1936 Card Manipulations (Issue 5) 152
Unknown Top Card Glimpse left hand turned and top card pushed over
 		1937 Encyclopedia of Card Tricks 393
Albert Verity Sighting the Top Cards while doing sort of an overhand shuffle
 		1937 Magic of the Hands 10
Unknown Top Card Glimpse when looking at bottom card
 		1938 Greater Magic 246
Unknown Buckle Top Glimpse
1938 More Card Manipulations (Issue 1) 17
Unknown Riffle Shuffle Glimpse tabled, for third card from top
 		1938 The Jinx 51-100 (Issue 51) 356
Unknown Second-from-Top Glimpse
1939 Do That Again! 38
Unknown A New Glimpse erdnase break
Related to 1940 Expert Card Technique 95
Unknown Top Card Glimpse palming
 		1940 Expert Card Technique 96
Unknown The Gambler's Glimpse
Related to 1940 Expert Card Technique 97
Unknown Covers for the Glimpse three covers
 		1940 Expert Card Technique 100
Unknown Audicity Peek actually for palmed card
 		1940 Expert Card Technique 411
Unknown 13 - The "Top Peek". While preparing for overhand shuffle
 		1940 "Outs" Precautions and Challenges 28
Eddie Joseph Top Card Glimpse during riffling
 		1941 How Gamblers Win 4
Eddie Joseph Gesture Glimpse top card pushed off and back as hand gestures to spectator
 		1942 Greater Card Tricks 19
Jean Hugard, Frederick Braue Look-See glimpse of selection as it is chosen via riffle & stop
 		1943 Tricks and Sleights 29
Unknown Sighting or Glimpsing the Top Card Secretly
1946 Card Control 31
Unknown Sighting the Top Card, Second Method
1946 Card Control 31
Unknown Sighting the Top Card, Third Method
1946 Card Control 32
Unknown Sighting the Top Card, Fourth Method
1946 Card Control 33
Arthur H. Buckley Naming the Top Card Experiment No. 14 - top card glimpse while looking at bottom
 		1946 Card Control 164
J. B. Bobo Top Peek top buckle in open grip from top
 		1947 Watch This One! 23
Unknown Top-Card Glimpse I
1948 The Royal Road to Card Magic 61
Unknown Double-Lift Glimpse
1948 The Royal Road to Card Magic 143
Unknown Top Card Glimpse one handed
 		1948 The Fine Art of Magic 157
Unknown Top Card Glimpse Top card of packet is glimpsed while showing it to spectator.
 		1950 Scarne on Card Tricks 141
Unknown "Readapack" by Australian Magician James, spectator cuts shuffled deck, performer looks at one card and can name top of other pile, featuring a buckle glimpse as one half is held in end grip and turned over
 		1950 Routined Manipulation — Part One 89
Nate Leipzig Glimpsing The Cards why to glimpse
 		1952 Nate Leipzig's Card Stab 17
Unknown The Peek bubble peek
 		1954 Handbook Of Card Sleights 26
Unknown The Dealer's Peek one-handed
 		1955 Cy Endfield's Entertaining Card Magic — Part III 15
Edward Marlo Open Top Card Glimpse
1956 Action Palm 23
Edward Marlo Marlo's Side Squaring Glimpse glimpsing palmed card
 		1961 The Multiple Shift 57
Charlie Miller Break Glimpse near top
 		1961 The Magic of Charles Earle Miller 6
Edward Marlo Jog Glimpse multiple cards on top
 		1962 Estimation 63
Nate Leipzig, Dai Vernon Card by Thought behind back, peeked card is reversed and placed under top card
 		1963 Dai Vernon's Tribute to Nate Leipzig 191
Unknown Gambler's Bubble Peek
1964 Faro Controlled Miracles 42
Unknown Bubble Peek
1967 Charlie Miller Lecture Notes 18
Unknown Overhand Peek
1967 Between Two Minds 13
Edward Marlo Faro Glimpse top card glimpse during faro
 		1968 Expert Card Conjuring 48
Unknown Basic Move 7 Bubble Peek
 		June 1968 The Pallbearers Review Vol. 1-4 (Vol. 3 No. 8) 185
Roger Smith The FFF Card Peek glimpsing card during FFF which ends up on bottom or top
 		1970 The FFF Control System 7
Lenny Greenfader Out of Hand Glimpse glimpsing top card while spectator is fanning the packet
 		1971 Reputation-Makers 188
Unknown Riffle Shuffle Glimpse
1972 Card Cavalcade 106
Unknown Top Card Glimpse deck face-up, rear card jogged to right slightly
 		Winter 1972 The Pallbearers Review Vol. 5-8 (Vol. 7 No. 6th Folio) 491
Unknown Top Glimpse bubble glimpse
 		1972 The Living End 153
Jerry K. Hartman R. S. Key Glimpse Bubble peek type of glimpse
Related to 1973 Means & Ends 2
Unknown Grund Griff Nr. 7 bubble peek
 		Oct. 1973 Intermagic (Vol. 1 No. 2) 30
Unknown Three Peeks 1. top, while turning hand over
2. Bubble Peek
3. while cutting deck
 		1975 The Magic of Francis Carlyle 13
Eddie Fields P-O-P Peek
Related toVariations 1976 The Artful Dodges of Eddie Fields 48
Jerry Andrus Bevel Peek
1977 More Sleightly Slanted 18
Gustave Southall Second Card Glimpse
1978 Fred Braue on False Deals 38
Harry Lorayne Center Double PG Location "Peripheral Glimpse", four variations for a center double lift and a glimpse of the top card
 		1979 Quantum Leaps 174
Gary Ouellet The Finger Glimpse bubble peek handling
 		1979 Finger on the Card 13
Unknown Overhand Shuffle Peek
Apr. 1979 Intermagic (Vol. 6 No. 1) 9
Unknown Bubble Peek
1980 Exclusive Card Secrets 42
Unknown Bubble Glimpse
1980 La Baraja Multiefecto 24
Unknown Double Lift Glimpse
1981 Jim Ryan Close-Up: Entertaining Card Quickies 5
Unknown Palm-Spread Glimpse palm-spread glimpse, while deck is face up, buckle
Related to 1981 Octet 26
Unknown Bubble Peek
1982 Spell-Binder (Vol. 2 No. 15) 282
Meir Yedid The Meir Glimpse while doing the Meir Mix
 		1982 Incredible Close-Up Magic 33
Unknown Step Glimpse
1983 Marlo without Tears 155
Jack McMillen Card Reversal - Another Peek glimpsing card that is reversed in center as cards are dealt off from top
 		1985 The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 2) 17
Charlie Miller Charlie Miller Peek book break (1939)
 		1985 The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 2) 26
Unknown Glimpse shown by Charlie Miller (1939)
Related to 1985 The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 2) 26
Charlie Miller Miller Methods of Peeking gambler's top peek with thumb buckle, two covers (1939)
 		1985 The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 2) 27
Charlie Miller Charlie Miller Peek
Related to 1985 The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 2) 28
Larry Jennings Top Card Glimpse
1986 The Classic Magic of Larry Jennings 12
Larry Jennings Top Card Glimpse palm-spread glimpse, while deck is face up
Related to 1986 The Classic Magic of Larry Jennings 156
Daryl Martinez Glimpse of Bottom card of Face Up Deck
1986 The New York Magic Symposium — Collection 5 20
Unknown Left Handed Glimpse of Bottom card of Face Up Deck
1986 The New York Magic Symposium — Collection 5 22
Unknown Bubble Peek
1988 The Trapdoor — Volume One (Issue 24) 411
Unknown Gambler's Bubble Peek
1989 The Vernon Chronicles — Volume 3 xxxvi
Unknown Vistazo del Tahur Gambler's / Bubble Peek
 		1989 Cartas Certificadas 79
Unknown Braue Reversal Glimpse
1989 Randy Wakeman Presents 53
T. Page Wright Top Card Glimpse - Number 1 deck held from above, face shown to audience, back card slightly buckled
 		1991 Page Wright's Manuscript 126
Unknown Top Card Glimpse - Number 2 wrist turn and top card pushed slightly off
Also published here
  • Sachs's Sleight of Hand
 1991 Page Wright's Manuscript 127
T. Page Wright Top Card Glimpse - Number 3 during riffle shuffle, in the hands or tables, glimpse during split, not end of shuffle
 		1991 Page Wright's Manuscript 129
Harry Lorayne Instant Top-Card Glimpse #2 for the top few cards
 		July 1992 Apocalypse Vol. 11-15 (Vol. 15 No. 7) 2091
Mike Shelley Instant Top-Card Glimpse #1
July 1992 Apocalypse Vol. 11-15 (Vol. 15 No. 7) 2091
Doug Edwards Instant Top-Card Glimpse #3
July 1992 Apocalypse Vol. 11-15 (Vol. 15 No. 7) 2092
Arthur H. Buckley Bubble peek
1992 Don't Blink 21
Unknown トップカード、ボトムカードのグリンプス (Top card / Bottom card glimpse) Glimpse using riffle shuffle
 		1993 Larry Jennings's Card Technique 35
Unknown トップカードグリンプスI (Top Card Glimpse I) Bubble peek
 		1993 Larry Jennings's Card Technique 112
Unknown トップカードグリンプスII (Top Card Glimpse II) from a spread
 		1993 Larry Jennings's Card Technique 112
Unknown トップカードグリンプスIII (Top Card Glimpse III) From a palm
 		1993 Larry Jennings's Card Technique 112
Floyd G. Thayer The Thayer Glimpse No. 1, deck on edge on table, top card jogged
 		1993 The Charlatan's Handbook 186
Unknown The Praiseworthy Pike No. 2, "J. J. Praiseworthy"
 		1993 The Charlatan's Handbook 187
Unknown Card Glimpse second from the top, top turned over and double lift
 		1994 The Mental Magick of Basil Horwitz — Volume 3 86
Unknown Push-Over Glimpse second face-up card glimpsed by pushing top card over with thumb
 		1994 Profile (Issue 18) 7
Harry Lorayne Instant Top-Card Glimpse #2
June 1995 Apocalypse Vol. 16-20 (Vol. 18 No. 6) 2509
Unknown Gambler's Bubble Peek
June 1995 Apocalypse Vol. 16-20 (Vol. 18 No. 6) 2509
Unknown Top Card Glimpse
1995 Great Tricks Revisited 86
Unknown Bubble Peek
1995 Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 2 176
Unknown Glimpse of Top Card while opening card case
 		1995 Aus dem Effeff... 38
Unknown Top-Card Riffle Glimpse
1996 Card College — Volume 2 355
Unknown Top-Card Double Lift Glimpse
1996 Card College — Volume 2 356
S. W. Erdnase Top-card Riffle Shuffle Glimpse
1996 Card College — Volume 2 356
Unknown Top Card Glimpse
1996 Classic Sampler 62
Karl Fulves Across the Table Glimpse during riffle shuffle, shallow angle
 		1996 Blocking Off 83
Purvis W. Miller The Gambler during replacement or pick-up of deck, originally from "Tops", illustrated by J. K. Schmidt, see also p. 162
 		1996 Blocking Off 159
Dai Vernon Tent Vanish Glimpse
1997 Jennings '67 90
Unknown Gamblers' Peek bubble
 		1997 The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 8) 18
Steve Saunders The B.R.P. glimpsing card while doing a Braue reversal
 		1997 Trephine 38
René Lavand One-Hand Glimpse No. 1 heel
 		1998 The Mysteries of my Life 91
René Lavand One-Hand Glimpse No. 2 while turning hand over
 		1998 The Mysteries of my Life 93
Unknown Bubble Glimpse
1999 Arcardia 77
Ellis Stanyon By Looking at Any Card No. 11, glimpsing top card while looking at bottom card of pile
 		1999 Ellis Stanyon's Best Card Tricks 23
Ellis Stanyon Subtle Reading of the Index No. 7, glimpse when pulling up sleeve, then one ahead by glimpsing second card by lifting two and dropping bottom one after glimpse
 		1999 Ellis Stanyon's Best Card Tricks 118
Unknown Bubble Peek
2000 Card College — Volume 4 993
Lin Searles Shuffle Control From The Peek setting a key, then getting card back to top
 		2000 Gambling Notes 14
Justin Higham Overhand-Shuffle Rear Glimpse
2001 The Simulation of Miracles 18
Simon Aronson Head Over Heels Glimpse
Inspired by 2001 Try the Impossible 99
Dan Buck, Dave Buck Finding the Aces four-of-a-kind found while dealing through shuffled deck, doing face-up push-off second deals and glimpsing next card, also for vanishing named card(s)
 		2001 Artifice, Ruse, and Subterfuge in the Hands 21
Paul Cummins Bottom Bubble Glimpse bottom card of face up deck
 		2002 FASDIU II 10
Tony Kardyro Kardyro's Kard Kontrol partial, glimpsing top card of left hand half as bottom card of right hand spread is pointed to and shown to spectator
 		2002 Latter Day Secrets (Issue 7) 233
Karl Fulves One-Hand Palm Glimpse & Crimp top card palmed and immediately replaced, glimpsed and curved
 		2002 Latter Day Secrets (Issue 7) 269
David Ben Top Card Glimpse
2003 Tricks 43
Unknown Pivot Break Glimpse
2003 Card College — Volume 5 1311
Luis H. Trueba Control, Vistazo y Aparición card control and glimpsed while riffle shuffled on the table
 		2003 Magia y Dramagia 122
Unknown Glimpse
2004 Close-Up Elegance by Davide Costi 98
Steven Youell The Flex Peek
2004 Weapons of Mass Destruction 43
Steven Youell The Riffle Glimpse
2004 Weapons of Mass Destruction 44
Unknown Glimpsing the Top Card of the Deck two methods, turnaround and bubble peek
 		2004 Mnemonica 328
Juan Tamariz The Chorus-Line Multiple Top Glimpse glimpse of multiple cards
 		2004 Mnemonica 330
Karl Fulves Stooge's Riffle Shuffle Glimpse stooge can glimpse top card during performer's shuffle
Inspired by
  • "A Prediction" (Hatton & Plate, Magician's Tricks and how they are done)
 2005 Clockwork 13
Steven Youell Straddle Faro Glimpse
Related to 2009 Weapons of Mass Deception 55
Roberto Giobbi Another Overhand Shuffle Glimpse
2010 Secret Agenda (Issue Feb 28) 67
Unknown Bubble Peek
2011 Making the Cut 66
Patrick Page All Around Square-Up Glimpse card is in full palm
Also published here
  • Charles and Regina Reyonolds' "The Harry Blackstone Book of Magic and Illusion" 1985.
 2011 Magic Page by Page 102
Darwin Ortiz Near-Top Glimpse near top of face-up deck, left-hand and right-hand version
 		2012 Lessons in Card Mastery 20
Darwin Ortiz, Larry Jennings Palm-Spread Glimpse
Related to 2012 Lessons in Card Mastery 235
S. W. Erdnase Riffle Shuffle Glimpse
2012 Lessons in Card Mastery 243
S. W. Erdnase, Roberto Giobbi Riffle Shuffle Glimpse
2012 Confidences 222
Unknown Bubble Peek
2013 Discoveries & Deceptions 41
Unknown Riffle Shuffle Glimpse
2013 Confident Deceptions 65
Bill Abbott Demonstration Glimpse
2013 Seventeen Secrets — Volume 2 3
Doug Edwards Instant Glimpse while deck is revolved into the other hand
 		2013 Nukes 3
Unknown Gambler's Bubble Glimpse
2013 The Ultimate Travelers 15
Simon Aronson The Funsky Glimpse Glimpse with the Bedwell Dribble Toss Control
Related to 2014 Art Decko 6
Unknown Heel Glimpse
2014 Applesauce 42
Unknown Bubble Peek
2014 Applesauce 42
Unknown Dribble Top Card Glimpse
2015 F for Fiction 2
Unknown Bubble Peek
2015 Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 9 43
Unknown Bubble Glimpse brief
 		2016 In Order to Amaze 31
Unknown Wrist Turn Peek
2016 The Performance Pieces & Divertissements of the Famous Handsome Jack, etc. 112
John Wilson Multiple High Riffle Peek remembering color of top thirteen cards during riffle shuffles
 		2016 You and Me and the Devil Makes Three — Volume II 21
Joseph Barry LLL Peek packets dealt on table until spectator says stop, selection glimpsed
Also published here
  • Inscrutable, Disc 2 (Joe Barry, 2013)
 2017 Eleven 12
Unknown Book Break Glimpse
2018 Handcrafted Card Magic — Volume 3 34
Unknown Step Glimpse pointing wrist turn cover
 		2018 Game Changer 70
Unknown Riffle Shuffle Glimpse of Top Card
2018 Game Changer 289
Unknown Bubble Peek see also p. 323
 		2018 Game Changer 300
Unknown Jog Glimpse
2019 Tesseract 55
Steve Forte bubble-peek
2020 Gambling Sleight Of Hand — Volume 1 478
Steve Forte heel-peek also several during deal (Robert Mills) or several at once (hustler SA)
 		2020 Gambling Sleight Of Hand — Volume 1 478
Steve Forte open-hand peek delayed heel peek
 		2020 Gambling Sleight Of Hand — Volume 1 479
Steve Forte corner-squeeze peek top few cards
 		2020 Gambling Sleight Of Hand — Volume 1 480
Steve Forte little-finger break-peek
2020 Gambling Sleight Of Hand — Volume 1 480
Steve Forte square-up peek
2020 Gambling Sleight Of Hand — Volume 1 481
Steve Forte back-corner riffle peek during tabled riffle shuffle
 		2020 Gambling Sleight Of Hand — Volume 1 485
Steve Forte riffle squeeze during tabled riffle shuffle
 		2020 Gambling Sleight Of Hand — Volume 1 485
Steve Forte off-the-table cascade-peek fifth from top or so
 		2020 Gambling Sleight Of Hand — Volume 1 486
Steve Forte flashing having a partner peek
 		2020 Gambling Sleight Of Hand — Volume 1 486
Unknown Top Card Glimpse step and wrist turn
 		2020 The Boy Who Cried Magic 194
Unknown Top Card Glimpse as deck is flexed between hands
 		2020 Mr. Jennings Takes It Easy 244
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