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I disagree that the four4four switch is easy and have never seen it performed such that I would be inspired to try to learn it But if it works for you, I'm glad!

For a multiple card control which can be used easily with 10+ cards, go for Aldo Colombini's "Fireworks". It's laughably easy and very convincing.

Thank you all very much for your suggestions so far. Extremely helpful and I'll definitely be experimenting with some new approaches and techniques!

Farlsborough, without heading anywhere near method, I wondered if Aldo Colombini's Fireworks would work with just 3 or 4 cards as opposed to 10+? Is there a fast and furious element that means you need to involve lots of selections?

Farlsborough wrote:I disagree that the four4four switch is easy and have never seen it performed such that I would be inspired to try to learn it But if it works for you, I'm glad!

For a multiple card control which can be used easily with 10+ cards, go for Aldo Colombini's "Fireworks". It's laughably easy and very convincing.

Maybe "easy" was the wrong word but i most certainly wouldn't call it hard. A bit of practice and you'll be doing it with your eyes closed.
I still think it is one of the cleanest and most direct ways of exchanging cards.

Aldo Colombini's "Fireworks" does look very good from the trailer.

Not fast and furious, although there is an element to it which makes it ideal for a large number of selections, i.e. the cards are lost in the deck one at a time as you thumb off cards on top. If there are 10 selections, you only need to thumb off around 5 cards between each one (Aldo actually just asks people to stop and shows them the card he has stopped at, but it works equally well if they are replaced), whereas with 3 to 4 cards you would be looking at thumbing of around 10 cards in between each one.

Having said that, this could easily be avoided starting with a swing cut, so the first card is being placed on almost half the pack, rather than - as in Fireworks - just a few cards.

Don't get me wrong, it's not necessarily a "magician fooler" - it is an adaptation of a fairly well known technique. Depends who you perform for - I personally need my sleights to baffle laypeople, not magicians, and I want them to be easy and reliable - the Fireworks method ticks all of those boxes.

It's definitely the simplest and easiest method of having a lot of cards selected.
The magic happens after the cards are selected and lost in the deck anyway so like you said, I'm not performing for magicians. Cheers for the idea