Finally found my Monkey In the Middle.

I'm now thinking of how to structure my Sandwich Effect with it. Maybe some of you can give pointers.

Eg:

Phase 1:
-Card selected on top.
-Use the usual sandwich "move" of showing the 2 Jokers.
-Cut the deck in half, place Jokers on it and replaced the other half on top.
-Snap finger, spread deck and show selection caught.

Phase 2:
-Again same as above, but this time I would do a spread before revelation so as to show the selection is still "uncaught".
-Then close spread. snap fingers, spread again to show selection caught.

Phase 3:
-My usual way is to place Jokers on top and bottom of deck.
-"Kelly" the selection to the location.
- Throw the deck and show selection caught.

As MIM is the strongest, it should appear in my last phase, but if I do that, all my 3 phases would look identical, not appearing any "harder".

But if I use it at the first phase, it would seem wasting a great method on a trivial thing.

Another issue is, I was thinking of incorporating a visual phase where the selection is "convincingly controlled" and shown to be travelling down to the Jokers.

So any idea of structuring it so as to make it the best impact.

Hi TBMIS,

I hope Mr Petty might give you an idea to construct your sandwich: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_Tqt_rzEfQ

I suppose your routine is for a single selection. Another option could be to construct it for double or triple selection so the many sandwich reveals will make sense. (Your patter could be about monkeys. How you want to find the monkey that stole the banana and have the spectator sign one of the selection "BANANA" and it will be the last one you reveal) --- [I just thought of it.]

Too many sandwich effects I see are just
"The card gets trap in between the two jokers (or whatever)"
"The card jumps"
"The two cards catches your card (again)"

Sandwich is a beautiful effect and I have always loved it.
The impression it gives me is that it is a card penetration. Either the selection penetrates between the two cards or the 2 cards penetrates through the deck.

Hi you might want to consider a phase which involves the spectator forming the sandwich by himself.

You can check out "Search and destroy" by Aaron Fisher or Oz Pearlman's " Fish Sandwich" which are both slow motion sandwich effects.

Daryl's "Spectator makes a sandwich" as the title suggests, allows the audiences to dictate when you put in the two "sandwich cards" and yet amazingly sandwich the selected card at the end.

Cheers!