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======Depth Illusion or Tilt====== | ======Depth Illusion or Tilt====== | ||
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There were many precursors to Vernon' | There were many precursors to Vernon' | ||
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Instances can be found of inserting a card under the top card while suggesting the card is going deeper into the deck. Such a maneuver appears to be intended in the first method of Hofzinser' | Instances can be found of inserting a card under the top card while suggesting the card is going deeper into the deck. Such a maneuver appears to be intended in the first method of Hofzinser' | ||
- | A refinement of this idea, in which a large break is secretly formed under the top card of the deck at the front end and a card is inserted into it, seems to have begun to circulate in the middle decades of the 1900s. This idea employed the illusion of depth, but used a frontal insertion. Howard Wurst and and Bill Pawson described this version in // | + | A refinement of this idea, in which a large break is secretly formed under the top card of the deck at the front end and a card is inserted into it, seems to have begun to circulate in the mid-1900s. This idea employed the illusion of depth, but used a frontal insertion. Howard Wurst and and Bill Pawson described this version in // |
The feature that distinguishes Vernon' | The feature that distinguishes Vernon' |