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--- cards:card-in-row_counting_force [2019/04/22 20:41] – Added Anstro citation. tylerwilson
+++ cards:card-in-row_counting_force [2020/07/10 23:15] – Added the Hofzinser reference. stephenminch
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 ====== Card-in-Row Counting Force ======
-Using the roll of a die in tandem with an ambiguous starting point, it is possible to force one card out of many in a row. This was described by Anstro as "A Novel Finish to an Off-Hand Trick" in //[[https://askalexander.org/display/38174/The+Sphinx/11|The Sphinx]]//, Vol. 9 No. 3, May 1910, p. 63. Anstro used four cards, four possible counting procedures, and the method wouldn't work if the spectator rolled a four or a one.
+Using the roll of a die in tandem with an ambiguous starting point, it is possible to force one card out of several in a row. This seems to have been first described by Don Nod in the trick called "Find the King" in //[[https://askalexander.org/display/17145/Edwards+monthly/9|Edwards Monthly]]//, Vol. 1 No. 6, July 1909, p. 7. Nod used four cards, four possible counting procedures, and the method wouldn't work if the spectator rolled a four or a one.
-Two simplified approaches to this idea were described in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/16752/Stanyon+s+Magic+Vol+13+No+01/4|Magic]]//, Vol. 13 No. 1, Oct. 1912, p. 4. Like Anstro's method, these used four cards and wouldn't work if the die landed on a four or one, but the procedures were greatly simplified by placing the force card in the second position of the row instead of the first.
+A few months later, Rupert H. Slater contributed "The Educated Die" to //[[http://askalexander.org/display/10724/The+magician+monthly/18|The Magician Monthly]]//, Vol. 6 No. 2, Jan. 1910, p. 24. This consists of the force of a card from a row of six. Three of the cards are duplicates, which lie beside each other on one side of the row. A die is rolled and the number arrived at is used to count to a card in the row. The rolled number dictates from which direction the counting begins.
-The ploy of asking for a number //between// one and four to choose one of four packets or cards, then counting from either the left or right end to arrive at the desired packet, is described by Stanley Collins in his "Omega Ace Experiment" in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/20224/Original+Magical+Creations/27|Original Magical Creations]]//, c. 1915, p. 28, and may be original with him.
+However, this method was foreseen in the mid-1800s by J. N. Hofzinser, who used it in a piece called "Gedanken-Assoziation" (Association of Thoughts), which was published in Ottokar Fischer's //[[https://askalexander.org/display/15020/J+N+Hofzinser+Kartenkunste/27|J. N. Hofzinser Kartenkünste]]//, 1910, p. 14; translated in English by S. H. Sharpe as //[[https://askalexander.org/display/29356/J+N+Hofzinser+s+Card+Conjuring/35|Hofzinser's Card Conjuring]]//, 1931, p. 31. Hofzinser dealt out a face-down row of eight cards, the first four being the four Sixes. He could arrive at one of the Sixes with any number from one to eight, by starting the count at either the left end or the right. This idea had roughly half a century to circulate, before it appeared in English conjuring literature.
-Rupert H. Slater contributed "The Educated Die" to //[[http://askalexander.org/display/10724/The+magician+monthly/18|The Magician Monthly]]//, Vol. 6 No. 2, Jan. 1920, p. 24. This consists of the force of a card from a row of six. Three of the cards are duplicates, which alternate with indifferent cards. A die is rolled and the number arrived at is used to count to a card in the row. The parity of the rolled number dictates from which direction the counting begins.
+Anstro contributed "A Novel Finish to an Off-Hand Trick" in //[[https://askalexander.org/display/38174/The+Sphinx/11|The Sphinx]]//, Vol. 9 No. 3, May 1910, p. 63. This is merely the trick published the previous year by Don Nod, but finding a selected card instead of a King.
+The ploy of asking for a number //between// one and four to choose one of four packets or cards, then counting from either the left or right end to arrive at the desired packet, is described by Stanley Collins in his "Omega Ace Experiment" in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/20224/Original+Magical+Creations/27|Original Magical Creations]]//, c. 1915, p. 28, and may be original with him. See also: [[misc:number_between_x_and_y_ploy|Number Between X and Y Ploy]].
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