Shift, hop, pass, what's the difference?
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As far as I know...
Pass - A sleight that quickly switches the top and bottom packets. Essentially a cut that is supposed to go unseen.
Hop - A tabled Pass designed to negate the cut in a card game.
Shift - A more general term. Can be applied to packets like a Pass (SWE Shift) or to the movement of a single card (Diagonal Palm Shift or Clipshift). Currently it seems to apply more to a single card, but originally it was the term for a Pass.
Pass - A sleight that quickly switches the top and bottom packets. Essentially a cut that is supposed to go unseen.
Hop - A tabled Pass designed to negate the cut in a card game.
Shift - A more general term. Can be applied to packets like a Pass (SWE Shift) or to the movement of a single card (Diagonal Palm Shift or Clipshift). Currently it seems to apply more to a single card, but originally it was the term for a Pass.
I would add to Silver's post above that a shift is the movement of one or a packet of cards more generally. A pass is specifically the transposition of two halves of the deck.
A Hop is NOT a tabled pass. It is a hop
The cards don't really ever touch, they literally hop the cut. So there are no packets to transpose once the cards are together. Very difficult, very impressive.Like Prae said, a pass can transpose any number of cards from bottom to top or top to bottom.