Sequences

483 entries in Cards / Effect Themes / Penetration / Ambitious Card Theme / Sequences
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Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Edward Marlo Houdini Would Have Bought This! ambitious sequence with double backer
 		Oct. 1991
The Olram File (Issue 10)
13
Karl Fulves Immersed
Related to 1991
28 Card Tricks
49
Ray Mertz Twisted Up pass, as an ambitious card move
 		Mar. 1991
The Minotaur (Vol. 3 No. 1)
6
T. Page Wright Ambitious Card Sequence top changes
 		1991
Page Wright's Manuscript
170
William H. McCaffrey The Repeating Card to Top
1991
Page Wright's Manuscript
241
T. Page Wright Another Version with short card for instant double lift
 		1991
Page Wright's Manuscript
244
Jerry K. Hartman Select Switch cards loaded on top while card is pushed forward on bottom half
Also published here 1991
Card Craft
71
Chris Kenner S.W. Elevator SWE shift to visually let ambitious card move to top
Variations 1992
Totally Out Of Control
152
Bill Spooner Variation of Frank Garcia's "Topper" bluff display on top
Also published here 1992
Card Finesse II
215
Edward Marlo Ambitious Beginning
Related to June 1992
The Olram File (Issue 12)
5
Neal Elias Before Zingone impromptu double backer ambitious phase
 		June 1992
The Olram File (Issue 12)
12
Ken Simmons Ambitious Triumph Triumph with Goodwin/Jennings display, then short Ambitious sequence
 		1992
Choice Effects — Number Three
1
Jon Racherbaumer Who's on Top? credit information on Ambitious Card phase
Related to Mar. 1992
Swipe (Issue 4)
15
Charles T. Jordan Elasticity No. 19, card inserted in middle of banded deck, deck tossed in air, selection appears at face
Also published here 1992
Charles Jordan's Best Card Tricks
22
Jerry Sadowitz Ambitious Ending
1993
The Marenzel Reverse
9
Ken Brooke The Ken Brooke Routine with Joe Stuthard's Trilby Deck - Part Three edited reprint from Brooke's magazine "Routine" (1950), card to top, jumps from packet to packet, all cards shown alike, ends clean
 		Nov. 1993
New Sorcerer (Vol. 1 No. 5)
16
Dr. Gordon C. Peck Over There "Ron Peck"? card put in one half, other half placed on table, it jumps to tabled half
 		1993
Rigmarole (Issue 2)
16
Rick Johnsson Larreverse - Ambitious Card
Inspired by 1993
Card File
54
Eddie Fechter Tips, Hints, and Bits of Business various gags, on the classic force and Ambitious Card bit
Also published here 1993
Fechter
213
Frank Garcia Ases Espectulares ambitious phase with Ace, then indifferent cards turn over and change to aces via Larreverse
Also published here 1993
Cartomagia Fundamental
233
Harry Lorayne The Magic Coin spectator checks top card, places coin on top, card rises
 		Mar. 1994
Apocalypse (Vol. 17 No. 3)
2337
Alexander de Cova, Roy Walton Ambitious Riser tabled, apparently visual penetration to top
Inspired by 1994
Secrets No. 1
52
Juan Tamariz Effect 3 - Anti-Ambitious card to bottom
 		1994
The Tamariz Perpendicular Control
15
Steve Beam Tenkai Charlie ambitious card move
Also published here 1994
The Trapdoor — Volume Three (Issue 52)
962
Homer Liwag Homer Liwag's Dribble Double double lift after dribble pass
 		1994
The Pass
87
Chris Kenner, Brett Wolf Shifty fake SWE shift to visually let ambitious card move to top, only last phase by Brett Wolf
Inspired byVariations 1994
The Pass
121
Edward Marlo Ambitious Rise card rises from side, put in center, repeated
Inspired by 1995
Facsimile (Issue 3 (Marlophile 1))
14
Tom Gagnon Ambitious Illusion with the tapping illusion
 		1995
The Trapdoor — Volume Three (Issue 55)
1032
Ken Beale Offset Ambition "Three Impromptus"
 		1995
Underworld (Issue 1)
9
Steve Beam Tenkai Charlie ambitious card move
Also published here 1995
Vienna Notes
5
Jerry K. Hartman Select Switch cards loaded on top while card is pushed forward on bottom half
Also published here 1995
After Craft
136
Jerry K. Hartman Topover ending to Ambitious Card routine, card jumps to top of deck, magically reverses face up while on top, then finally card jumps from middle to top of deck face up
Related to 1995
After Craft
250
Wesley James Coming Up in the World
1996
Card College — Volume 2
338
Doug Edwards A Double Lift is a Double Lift similar to Vernon Unload
 		May 1996
Apocalypse (Vol. 19 No. 5)
2648
Michael Kaminskas Birthday Wishes birthday trick, selected card is signed on back, card rises to top and from deck comes birthday tune eventually happy birthday is found written on the front
 		1996
Miracle Material
34
Michael Kaminskas Step by Step card rises visibly in stages
Inspired by 1996
Miracle Material
47
Joel Givens Passed Ambitions
Inspired byAlso published here 1996
The Trapdoor — Volume Three (Issue 60)
1164
Joel Givens Slip Up
1996
The Trapdoor — Volume Three (Issue 60)
1165
Pascal Monmoine Cal Passage card sticks out from deck and is flipped over on top, in that process one card is added, also as a visual color change
Also published here 1996
Intermagic (Vol. 20 No. 4 & 5)
175
Jean-Jacques Sanvert Ubiquity chosen card put in center, it is then shown on top and bottom as well, packet of all selections shown, previously tabled card is then shown to be the selection
 		Jan. 1996
Magic (Vol. 5 No. 5)
74
Ken Krenzel It's a Wrap card rises from center to top face up with no handling
 		1997
Ingenuities
67
Karl Fulves Night Moves card in center of tabled deck, covered with handkerchief, movement, card now on top
 		1997
The Vampire Chronicles
26
Karl Fulves Red Moon card second from top in hand, covered with handkerchief, movement, card now on top, gimmick with two hinged cards
 		1997
The Vampire Chronicles
27
Karl Fulves The Summons card in center, deck in hand, covered with handkerchief, spectator's palm on top, movement, card now face-up and perpendicular on top
 		1997
The Vampire Chronicles
29
Karl Fulves Zoltan
1997
The Vampire Chronicles
67
Wesley James Coming Up in the World with credit information
  • The Load Up I (Coming Up in the World)
  • The Load Up II (Interlocked Set-Up)
  • The Load Up III (Large Block)
 		1997
The Magical Record and Thoughts of Wesley James
27
Louis Zingone, Frederick Braue Ambitious Card with impromptu double backer
 		1997
The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 8)
22
Roger Klause Second Teaser depth illusion / Vernon-Houdini ambitious phase teaser for magicians
 		1997
Virtual Foolery
15
Christian Scherer Ehrgeiziger geht es nicht mehr ambitious card sequence with torn corner
Related to 1997
Karten à la carte
74
Tom Ellis Super Rise Loading Move
Also published here 1997
Card Stories
4
Lee Asher Asheresque
1998
Thinking Out Loud
4
Jack Avis Thumb Clip Steal
  • As a Color Change
  • as part of an Ambitious Card Routine
Related to 1998
Vis à Vis
34
Peter Duffie A Piece of the Action selection comes to top, is cut to center, then a sandwich pair appears around it
VariationsAlso published here 1998
Covert Concepts
5
Edward Marlo Ambitious Card Sequence in-jogged card jumps to almost the top visibly ("Tilt 'n Turn"), then to the top with a wrist turn, to top again
  • First Handling
  • Second Handling
 		Jan. 1998
Onyx (Issue 2)
9
Irv Weiner, Howard Schwarzman, Edward Marlo Out-Jog Alignment Move card near the top is out-jogged and shown, top card secretly slid out to be aligned with it
 		Jan. 1998
Onyx (Issue 2)
9
Edward Marlo Topper Move Handling wrist turn instead of upwards turn
Inspired by Jan. 1998
Onyx (Issue 2)
11
Wesley James Coming Up in the World
1998
Das Manuel Muerte Seminar 1998
3
Jason Alford After-Burner! variation of the Tom Ellis/Wesley James Loading move sequence, for Michael Weber credit correction see "Attribution Retribution"
Related toVariations Dec. 1998
Magic (Vol. 8 No. 4)
85
Guy Hollingworth Regarding the shift. Two Deal Shift
Also published here 1999
Drawing Room Deceptions
129
Tom Allen The Ripple visual, you "see" the card coming up
VariationsAlso published here 1999
Lé Asher
11
Lee Asher Ridding the Ripple with one-handed turnover of top card at the end
Inspired byAlso published here 1999
Lé Asher
12
Baltazar Fuentes The Fuentes Rise face-up face, using pass and palm
 		1999
Arempi II
47
Baltazar Fuentes Double Lift Substitute
Inspired by 1999
Arempi II
49
David Acer Movin' On Up card reversed but squared, gradual movement
Variations 1999
Natural Selections — Volume II
90
Ellis Stanyon An Eight Spot Put in the Centre Passes to the Top No. 27, Seven/Eight pseudo duplicate
 		1999
Ellis Stanyon's Best Card Tricks
46
Ellis Stanyon Card Passes Upwards Through the Pack No. 8
 		1999
Ellis Stanyon's Best Card Tricks
217
Karl Fulves Supplementary Note using the slip change for a card-to-top sequence
Inspired by 1999
Ellis Stanyon's Best Card Tricks
292
Tom Allen The Ripple visual, you "see" the card coming up
VariationsAlso published here Oct. 1999
Genii (Vol. 62 No. 10)
51
Lee Asher Ripple Plus with one-handed turnover of top card at the end
Inspired byAlso published here Oct. 1999
Genii (Vol. 62 No. 10)
52
Max Malini Max Malini's Card Jumps To Top "From Letters Written by Charlie Miller to Faucett Ross", During WWII
single phase Ambitious Card
Also published here Nov. 1999
Genii (Vol. 62 No. 11)
25
Nate Leipzig, Charlie Miller Leipzig's Card Production Variation "From Letters Written by Charlie Miller to Faucett Ross", Nov. 20, 1943
card clings to hand
Also published here Nov. 1999
Genii (Vol. 62 No. 11)
26
Eric T. Dockery The Rose rose sticker stuck onto card’s face, Ambitious Card sequence with it, real rose is produced from card and sticker is gone, uses dupe
 		1999
Labyrinth (Issue 10)
13
Gregory Wilson The Name Tag Trick blank deck (“name tags”), spectator signs one, Ambitious Card sequence, signature vanishes and reappears, travels onto another card signed by performer on back
  • Alternative Final Phase: whole deck changes to spectator’s signed card, then changes back and card is produced from pocket
Related to
  • “Blank Ambition” (Seth Kramer, Ruminations, Vol. 1 No. 5, Nov. 1986, p. 4)
 1999
Labyrinth (Issue 12)
4
Peter Duffie A Piece of the Action selection comes to top, is cut to center, then a sandwich pair appears around it
Also published here July 1999
Onyx (Issue 8)
21
Mark Aspiazu Discrepant Hop card put in center comes back to top
 		Jan. 1999
Magic (Vol. 8 No. 5)
85
Dai Vernon, Arturo de Ascanio Tilt
2000
Card College — Volume 4
997
Karl Fulves Escapism indifferent card in hand changes into JS just inserted in a packet
 		2000
Lost Vampire Secrets
160
Karl Fulves Out Of Body indifferent card in hand changes into JS just inserted in a packet
 		2000
Lost Vampire Secrets
163
August Roterberg, Henry Hatton, Adrian Plate, Frederick Braue Ambitious Card Sequence cutting the outjogged card deeper into the deck
 		2000
Concertos for Pasteboard
135
Wesley James Ambitious Opening with Cull claimed by Wesley James
 		2000
Ambitious Undertaking
9
Wesley James Coming Up in the World - The Load Up
2000
Ambitious Undertaking
13
John E. Mintz Remote Redux card lost in small packet, it appears on top of rest of deck instead
Inspired by 2000
Latter Day Secrets (Issue 4)
89
Justin Hanes Quest tilt handling
Inspired by 2000
Action
5
Justin Hanes Claw
2000
Action
7
Justin Hanes Ease top card dragged in center, yet retained on top, spelling of trick title unclear
Related to
  • Chad Long items in Racherbaumer's Inside Out column in MAGIC
 2000
Action
9
Justin Hanes Swap card held in right hand and flipped face-down onto deck, top card of deck is angled up with left fingers and brought behind so a double is flipped down
Inspired byRelated to
  • "Venus Trap" (Chris Brown)
 2000
Action
10
Justin Hanes The Cut
2000
Action
11
Justin Hanes Will "restyling of Herrmann pass", applied to ambitious card
 		2000
Action
12
Justin Hanes Likeness
2000
Action
14
Evert Chapman A Change of Place selection appears face-up on deck when top card is rubbed with Ace of Spades, then some kind of transposition
 		2000
Card File Two
9
Jack McMillen The MacMillan Slip covered slip cut after double lift, top card remains side-jogged
Variations June 2000
Onyx (Issue 11)
10
Wesley James The MacMillen-James Slip slip cut with top card side-jogged, switched for second card
Inspired by June 2000
Onyx (Issue 11)
10
Lee Asher Face Down Silver Surfer
2001
Close Cover Before Striking
6
Harry Lorayne The Gambling Magician Ace of Spades riffle stacked one card down at a time, then rises back to top
 		2001
Personal Collection
115
Harry Lorayne Ultra Double Ambition using ultra move
 		2001
Personal Collection
219
Neal Elias The Ambitious Card card pushed in and instantly Twirl Pass done
 		2001
New Card Controls
76
Neal Elias A Somewhat Different Effect card controlled to second-from-top
 		2001
New Card Controls
76
Tom Ellis Super Rise Loading Move
Related to 2001
New Card Controls
81
Neal Elias Wrong Card, Right Card top card turned over, wrong card, transforms into right card, ready for double lift
 		2001
New Card Controls
87
Karl Fulves Repeatedly Ambitious
2001
New Card Controls
96
Dan Buck, Dave Buck Ambitious Lateral Steal top card of deck out-jogged and apparently taken with right hand, lateral palmed card is switched in
 		2001
Artifice, Ruse, and Subterfuge in the Hands
19
Dan Buck, Dave Buck The Center Switch top change with in-jogged card in center
 		2001
Artifice, Ruse, and Subterfuge in the Hands
20
Verne Chesbro The Double Lift Build-Up
2001
DeSouza's DeCeptions
123
Eric Anderson Upwardly Mobile
2001
DeSouza's DeCeptions
124
Edward Marlo, Marc DeSouza For the Unambitious as card to mouth
 		2001
DeSouza's DeCeptions
127
Mark Aspiazu Another Shifty
Inspired by July/Aug. 2001
Mr. Gadfly (Vol. 1 No. 2)
9
Tony Slydini Slydini's lost ambitious card top portion lapped
 		2002
Ahead of the Pack
22
Andi Gladwin Ambitious Boxing deck is half-way in case while a card is selected via riffle-stop, it comes to the top in that condition twice
 		June 2002
Ego (Vol. 1 No. 12)
20
Earl Nelson, Alfonso Aceituno A Handling of TTTFH (The Trick that Fooled Houdini) Ambitious card sequence using the four aces and an impromptu double backer
Inspired by 2002
Buffalo 2002
6
Jason Alford Angled After-Burner! kind of a variation of Tom Ellis/Wesley James Loading move sequence
Inspired byVariationsAlso published here 2002
Freebie 3
20
Al Baker The Ambitious Card - Two Novel Methods two phases, with impromptu duplicate
Also published here 2003
The Secret Ways of Al Baker (Issue Magical Ways and Means)
156
Al Baker Ubiquitous Card
2003
The Secret Ways of Al Baker (Issue Notebooks)
759
Euan Bingham The Ambitious Card first card then deck penetrates hand
 		2003
Free From Filler
17
Euan Bingham A Ambitious Card Move extension to Tom Ellis' Super Rise
Inspired by 2003
Free From Filler
20
George DeLawrence Reverse Hofzinser Change unloading of double, D'Amico type, originally from The Sphinx, October 1920
 		2003
Hofzinser Notebook
59
Charles Waller, Karl Fulves Knockout card placed reversed at bottom of deck, dropped on table, it appears on top, air pressure turnover
 		2003
Latter Day Secrets (Issue 8)
304
Peter Duffie, Robin Robertson Topmost using Jog Switch to get in interlock configuration, with short ambitious phase
  • Variant Techniques
  • Hidden Card Jog Switch
  • Face-Down Jog Switch
Related to 2003
Card Conspiracy — Vol. 2
5
Peter Duffie, Robin Robertson The Piston top card shown and slid under top card
  • Ambitious Card Variation
Inspired by
  • "The Windmill Move" (Lennart Green)
 2003
Card Conspiracy — Vol. 2
40
Frederick Braue Push-In Ambitious Card Phase often started with double and push-in change, credit information
 		2003
Card Conspiracy — Vol. 2
56
Gábor G. Szabó The Excellent Top One
2003
NewCastle Notes
33
Tony Miller MVP - Miller Variable Placement out-jogged card inserted, directly controlled to top
Related to
  • "Pop Up Aces" (A.P. Sreenivas, Linking Ring, Aug. 1989)
VariationsAlso published here 		2003
Variations Revisited
129
Zenneth Kok A Touché Pass pseudo one-handed pass demonstration, card visually appears on top and vanishes again to the center with deck held in right-hand end grip
 		Mar. 2003
Ego (Vol. 2 No. 14)
5
Jerry K. Hartman Infinite Ambition Turndown Pass application
 		June 2003
Ego (Vol. 2 No. 15)
11
Allan Ackerman An Ambitious Moment ambitious card phase with pseudo duplicate
 		2003
Freebie 4
8
Steve Draun An Ambitious Bit
2003
Freebie 4
29
Jerry Sadowitz, James Steranko Ambitious Steranko top card stays in position despite straight cut
 		2004
Cut Controls
12
Wesley James Coming Up in the World a.k.a. The Load-Up Move, credit information
 		2004
Enchantments
177
Edward Marlo, Ron Bauer Time Machine three reds and blacks are alternated, Ace of Spades put in center of one half, the other half shuffled upside-down, all things are undone when traveled back in time
Inspired by 2004
Time Machine
2
Ron Frost Down Under Four of a kind placed on top of deck, selected card penetrates to bottom of the deck
 		2004
After The Force
95
Peter Duffie, Aldo Colombini, Robin Robertson Social Climber progressive Ambitious Card, card travels up in stages but not visual, with counting, using Killer Count
Variations 2004
Killer Koncepts
26
Jay Sankey Broken English chop stick used to bring card to top, Chinese characters on chop stick change into name of selection
  • The Paddle Transformation
 		2004
Sankey Unleashed
63
Reynold Alexander Stairway to Heaven
Also published here Feb. 2004
Magic (Vol. 13 No. 6)
74
Wesley James Expertalk: Wesley James on the Load-Up Move credit information
  • Load-up Move IV (9/20/68)
Also published here Apr. 2004
Magic (Vol. 13 No. 8)
76
Jason Alford The Original Angled After-Burner! kind of a variation of Tom Ellis/Wesley James Loading move sequence
  • Learn to Burn - Tips on Angled After Burner
    • The Finger Action
    • Catching the cards
    • The Injog
    • Wesley James "Load Up" Move
Also published here 2004
Ashes to Ashes
4
Jack Parker Pre Heat ambitious card phase with two cards
  • ABB Ending (Angled After-Burner)
 		2004
Ashes to Ashes
25
Jerry K. Hartman Covered, Up! selection appears face up on deck while covered with handkerchief
Inspired byAlso published here Oct. 2005
The Penumbra (Issue 9)
9
Barrie Richardson My Ambitious Combination "Optical Brainwave Illusion" as lead-in for ambitious card routine
Inspired byRelated to 2005
Act Two
221
Euan Bingham Uprising variation of the Tom Ellis/Wesley James Loading move sequence
Related to June 2005
Genii (Vol. 68 No. 6)
27
Bob Ostin Ambitious Cut adding a card on top, while cutting the deck
 		2005
Bob Ostin — A Lifetime of Magical Inventions
48
Bob Ostin Status Quo card rises to named number
 		2005
Bob Ostin — A Lifetime of Magical Inventions
126
Lee Asher The Fugazzi Sequence
2005
Diving Board Double
31
Tom Ellis Super Rise Loading Move
Also published here 2005
Scotland Up Close
55
Jack Avis The Jumping Thought card peeked at, deck shuffled by spectator, card divined and it comes to top
 		2006
Rara Avis
86
Jack Avis Siva's Switch
  • The Action (Reverse KM Move variation/Illogical Double Lift)
  • Ambitious Routine based on Jay switch and KM move
 		2006
Rara Avis
181
Richard Kaufman The Trick that Fooled Houdini
June 2006
Genii (Vol. 69 No. 6)
82
Luke Dancy Going Dutch First selection rises to top, second reverses in deck. Selections transpose, and second selection transforms into four of a kind.
 		2007
The Magician's Ltd Cookbook
57
Jerry K. Hartman Step Right Up "step-by-step" Ambitious Card where it begins on bottom, rises a quarter way up in deck, then another quarter and another and finally on top
Inspired byAlso published here 2007
Card Dupery
122
Jerry K. Hartman Covered, Up selection is lost in deck and deck wrapped in handkerchief, spectator forcibly sets wrapped deck down on table and selection is found face up on top of deck
Inspired byAlso published here 2007
Card Dupery
144
Joel Givens Sidejogged Hop perpendicular
Also published here 2007
Session
24
John Ramsay Three In One, A "Tip Top" Card Trick card transformation, single-phase ambitious card, another transformation
Also published here
  • The Linking Ring, May 1942
 Nov. 2008
Genii (Vol. 71 No. 11)
66
Ken Krenzel Facial selection reverses and comes to top, then small packet printing and unprinting
 		2009
Relaxed Impossibilities
117
Dai Vernon, Ken Krenzel Trick That Fooled Houdini Variant
2009
Relaxed Impossibilities
120
Chris Mayhew Lazy Rise visible rise ala Raise Rise
Related toVariationsAlso published here 2009
A Clockwork Apple
58
Arie Vilner LP Application - The Bent Card Switch using lateral palm
  • Ambitious Card sequence
Related to 2009
Underhanded Delivery
36
Tyler Wilson Move it or Lose it openly edgemarked card travels visibly up in the deck
 		2010
Reinventing the Real
36
Roberto Giobbi Ambitious III: Creating an Impromptu Double-Backer two methods
 		2010
Secret Agenda (Issue Aug 6)
235
Louis Zingone, Frederick Braue, Neal Elias, Roberto Giobbi Ambitious IV two times to top, then secret steal
 		2010
Secret Agenda (Issue Aug 7)
236
Roberto Giobbi Ambitious V spelling sequence
 		2010
Secret Agenda (Issue Aug 8)
237
Roberto Giobbi Ambitious VI setting up for another double lift
 		2010
Secret Agenda (Issue Aug 9)
238
Karl Fulves Tenkai Transfer ambitious card phase with packet, featuring a a transfer of the bottom card onto a single card as packet and single card are exchanged from hand to hand
 		2010
Prolix (Issue 7)
470
Román García Aplicaciones del WOW applications and ideas with Katsuya Masuda's WOW gimmick
  • Mi carta favorita
  • La firma
  • La transparencia
  • El tiempo
  • La repetición
  • La transformación
  • La transposición
  • La prolongación
  • La inversión
  • La ambiciosa
  • Viajes
  • Mentalwow
  • Otras aplicaciones
 		2010
Nanomagias
119
Wesley James Coming Up in the World
2011
Full Frontal Mayhew
19
Harry Lorayne The Hopless Hop top card shown and side-jogged, cut into center, secret slip cut, incorporating side-jog idea by Jack Carpenter, two methods
Inspired by 2011
Special Effects
61
Harry Lorayne Tilt Ambitous Card Phase
2011
Special Effects
68
Tom Gagnon Flying Double Lift loading a card onto a card that is used to scoop up a tabled spread to make it a double, in short tabled ambitious card sequence
 		2011
Avant-Cards
121
Ryan Pilling, David Acer Movin' On Up Redux
Inspired by Feb. 2011
Genii (Vol. 74 No. 2)
25
Jon Armstrong Ambitious Card Squence using gin pick and second deal
 		2011
The Magical Adventures of Jon Armstrong
40
Wesley James Load-Up Move
2011
Bullet Party
38
Edward Marlo, Shane Cobalt Raised! Handling of Rise-Rise-Rise by Marlo
Inspired by 2012
Chasing Dovetails
21
Karl Fulves Higher Ground card travels from bottom to top, remains injogged
Related to 2012
Prolix (Issue 10)
642
David Britland Science Friction
  • Cardopolis
featuring a one-handed push-off to the front
 		July 2012
Genii (Vol. 75 No. 7)
38
Jerry Andrus The Ambitious Card in Reverse face-up card vanishes from deck and is shown in center
Also published here
  • Genii, Jan. 1962
 Nov./Dec. 2012
Genii (Vol. 75 No. 11 & 12)
89
Michael Powers Triple Whammy Ace of Spades travels to top, then between selections, then transposition with selection that jumped to pocket
 		2012
520 Years Later
37
Wesley James Load-Up Move
2013
High Caliber
139
Tomas Blomberg Fuentes Load-Up Load-Up variation in which card ends up face-up second from top
Inspired by
  • Baltazar Fuentes Change (see Malone's "Radical Aces", MUM, Vol. 82 No. 11, Apr. 1993)
  • "Load-Up Move" (J. Stewart Smith, Top of the Deck, 1950)
 2014
Blomberg Laboratories
88
William Goodwin Ambition Shake Change as in-the-hands spread is brought up to blow on it
 		2014
Transform
13
Edward Marlo, Daryl Martinez, Steve Mayhew For the Unambitious
Inspired by 2014
Mayhew
245
Ricky Smith Card at any Vowel "card to top" presentation
Also published here 2015
Nothing as it Seems
12
Ricky Smith Two Phase Ambitious Card Routine
Inspired byAlso published here 2015
Nothing as it Seems
37
J. Stewart Smith To The Top Card loaded to be held in mouth
 		2015
The Saturday Morning Session
50
Roberto Giobbi Slap & Rise card not on top of tabled deck, performer slaps deck three times, card now on top, tabled flat palm
 		2016
Hidden Agenda (Issue Feb 15)
50
Roberto Giobbi Ambitious Card Opener: The Presentation
2016
Hidden Agenda (Issue June 15)
171
Roberto Giobbi Ambitious Card Opener: The Handling
2016
Hidden Agenda (Issue June 16)
172
Roberto Giobbi Details of Handling on the Brush Color Change paintbrush change
 		2016
Hidden Agenda (Issue Oct 1)
282
Tony Slydini The Revolving Pass one-handed switch as double is turned over with one hand, unload on deck
Related toAlso published here
  • The Sphinx, Vol. 50 No. 5, Sep. 1951
 Mar. 2016
Genii (Vol. 79 No. 3)
69
Frank Shields Ambitious Card Bit card appears face-up on tabled deck
from a letter by Ed Marlo to Jeff Busby (June 8, 1979)
Related to 2017
Facsimile (Issue 6)
4
Ricky Smith Card at any Vowel "card to top" presentation
Also published here 2017
Threeve
2
David Ben With a Grain of Salt
Apr. 2017
Genii (Vol. 80 No. 4)
92
Giancarlo Scalia Bluff Ambitious
Inspired by 2018
Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 11
213
Tom Gagnon Bluff Tilt pseudo tilt ambitious card phase
 		2019
Gagnon Unfiltered
157
Tom Gagnon Never Too Late selection inserted in tabled spread and deck squared, top card is not selection, then it is
Inspired by 2019
Gagnon Unfiltered
197
Tom Gagnon Fabulous K.M. Combo ribbon spread handling
Inspired by 2019
Gagnon Unfiltered
226
Tom Gagnon Ambitious Illusion using Tap Illusion
 		2019
Gagnon Unfiltered
314
José Carroll Variants handling for unloading and inserting card for ambitious card routine
  • The first one
  • The second move
Also published here 2019
52 Lovers — Through the Looking-Glass
113
Wesley James, José Carroll Coming Up in the World adaption of the move
 		2019
52 Lovers — Through the Looking-Glass
126
Steve Forte Faking the Shift
  • Vernon pass/false cut
  • slip-cut
  • multi-card tilt
 		2020
Gambling Sleight Of Hand — Volume 2
1013
Marty Kane Trickle-Down Theory card apparently flutters from the top to the bottom of a face-down fan
 		2020
Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 12
197
Eddie McColl Ambitious Charlie using Charlier Cut, same as Charlier's cut control
Related to 2020
Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 12
250
Larry Jennings A Brief Yet Ambitious Effect card travels from bottom to top of deck
 		2020
Mr. Jennings Takes It Easy
57
Larry Jennings Ambitious Card Interlude card dropped on table, deck put on top, card penetrates to top and bottom card remains the same, repeat
 		2020
Mr. Jennings Takes It Easy
187
Larry Jennings Circus Transposition combo of Ambitious Card sequence and transposition of card in breast pocket with tabled card
 		2020
Mr. Jennings Takes It Easy
195
Larry Jennings The Strange Case of the Unsinkable Ace card placed second from top comes back to top, repeats
  • Version One (Ungimmicked)
  • Version Two (Gimmicked)
Inspired by
  • "The Trick that Fooled Houdini" (Dai Vernon, Vernon Touch column, Genii, Vol. 37 No. 4, Apr. 1973)
 2020
Mr. Jennings Takes It Easy
233
Benjamin Barnes Face-up Free Fall selection buried face-up in face-down deck, deck dropped and card appears face-up on top as in air-pressure revelation
 		July 2021
Elixir (Vol. 3 No. Special Chicago Issue #1)
1
Rüdiger Soltyszeck, Tom Ellis Tip Over Plus Loading Move variation, retains stack
Inspired by Aug. 2021
Genii (Vol. 84 No. 8)
64
Roberto Giobbi Off-handed Ambitious Card tabled
 		2021
Sharing Secrets
63
Benjamin Earl Hidden Ambition selection appears on top, then it is put in the middle and appears on top again
 		2021
Inside Out
43
Boris Wild Any Ambitious Card At Any Number card to small number from the top
  • Variations of Numbers
  • Variations with the Boris Wild Marked Deck
Inspired by
  • "Sticking Up For Larry" (John Carey, video Handle With Carey)
 2021
Variations
19
Curtis Kam Time Traveling Joker Joker visually changes into selection and back, then single ambitious phase
 		July 2021
The Disclaimer (Vol. 1 No. 4)
103
Chad Long Another Four Of A Kind Queen tabled face down, another Queen comes to top repeatedly, then travels between two Aces, then both Queens change to other Aces
 		June 2022
Elixir (Vol. 3 No. Florida Issue Part One)
48
Andrew Frost Hideout Subtlety showing that the top few cards are not the selection
 		2022
Double Lift
85
Max Malini One-Phase Ambitious Card "top or bottom?"
 		2022
Max Malini
257
Max Malini One-Handed Top Change as ambitious card move, done openly
Related to 2022
Max Malini
276
Dai Vernon Face-Up Ambitious Card Phase sucker elements, from private lecture notes by P. Howard Lyons
 		2022
Dai Vernon: The Spirit of Magic
86
Dai Vernon On Passes comments on classic pass, one-hand pass, riffle pass, from private lecture notes by P. Howard Lyons
 		2022
Dai Vernon: The Spirit of Magic
89
Reynold Alexander Stairway to Heaven
Also published here 2022
Talk About Tricks (Issue 1)
271
Wesley James Expertalk: Wesley James on the Load-Up Move credit information
  • Load-up Move IV (9/20/68)
Also published here 2022
Talk About Tricks (Issue 1)
289
Jerry K. Hartman Step Right Up "step-by-step" Ambitious Card where it begins on bottom, rises a quarter way up in deck, then another quarter and another and finally on top
Inspired byAlso published here 2022
Talk About Tricks (Issue 1)
517
Chris Mayhew Lazy Rise visible rise ala Raise Rise
Also published here 2022
Talk About Tricks (Issue 2)
851
Joshua Logan Ambitious Looy spectator puts top card in center behind his back, using covert Flippant
Also published here
  • MAGIC, Nov. 2012
 2022
Talk About Tricks (Issue 2)
1156
Tom Gagnon Bluff Tilt ribbon spread tilt throw-off, card travels to bottom
 		2022
Gagnon's Inner Sanctum
159
Jean-Pierre Vallarino Left or Right selection jumps from middle to top of deck and then tabled, four Aces tabled beneath card case change into selection and Aces are now where selection was
 		2022
Vallarino
109
Jean-Pierre Vallarino Flower Ace Production card is selected – e.g., an Ace – and lost in deck, it jumps to top, lost in deck again, it jumps out of deck and other three Aces instantly appear face up in vertical row on deck
 		2022
Vallarino
137
Juan Tamariz Polyphony deck cut into three piles, three Queens put in front of the piles, fourth Queen placed aside
  • First Phase (a Queen is inserted the first packet and it comes to the top twice, other Queens lost in their packets, one of the Queens turns face up, the third Queen travels into back pocket)
  • Second Phase (repeat)
  • Third Phase (all three Queens together are put in center and come to top, then turn over at once in different positions, and all travel to pocket)
 		2022
Letters from Juan — Volume 5
21
Jerry Sadowitz Slip Jog
Also published here 2023
Misdirection
42
Ricky Smith Card at any Vowel "card to top" presentation
Also published here 2023
I Spilled the Coffee
13
Ricky Smith Two Phase Ambitious Card Routine
Also published here 2023
I Spilled the Coffee
45
Pedro Lacerda Ambitious Tear-off Plus corner is torn from selection, it comes to top, card is then restored and all the other cards have a corner missing
Inspired by 2023
The Finest Magic of Pedro Lacerda
112
Dai Vernon Dai Vernon's Ambitious Card Opener from a 1969 Japan lecture
 		2024
Unexpected Agenda (Issue Aug. 26)
250
Dai Vernon Dai Vernon's Impromptu Ambitious Double-Backer
2024
Unexpected Agenda (Issue Aug. 27)
251
Roberto Giobbi In Lieu of the Double Lift - Transfer Cut Substitute Ambitious Card application
 		2024
Unexpected Agenda (Issue Dec. 3)
349
Roberto Giobbi In Lieu of the Double Lift II - Quick Elias Ambitious Card application
Inspired by 2024
Unexpected Agenda (Issue Dec. 4)
350
Adam W. Elbaum Ambitious Card ideas on Ambitious Card Phases, see following items
 		Apr. 2025
Genii (Vol. 88 No. 4)
53
Adam W. Elbaum The Elbaum Pop top card seems to pop up
 		Apr. 2025
Genii (Vol. 88 No. 4)
53
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