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--- cards:dribble_force [2017/08/01 09:31] – link updated denisbehr
+++ cards:dribble_force [2023/03/03 17:17] – Added Ponsin and Marlo references, and removed Hoffmann citation. stephenminch
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 ====== Dribble Force ======
-The technique of dribbling or dropping cards, and stopping at a predetermined location in the deck came before the idea to use the concept as a force. There are two handlings described in the anonymous //[[http://askalexander.org/display/38803/Gibeci+re/115-116|Asti Manuscript]]//, c. 1700, p. 114-115 of the Pieper translation. This manuscript was translated in //Gibecière//, Vol.8 No.1, Winter 2013, p. 29-234.
+The technique of dribbling or dropping cards, and stopping at a predetermined location in the deck, to produce a known or chosen card, came before the idea to use the concept as a force. Two handlings are described in the anonymous //[[http://askalexander.org/display/38803/Gibeci+re/115-116|Asti Manuscript]]//, c. 1700, p. 114-115 of the Pieper translation. This manuscript was translated in //Gibecière//, Vol.8 No.1, Winter 2013, p. 29-234. The first method uses an angled card; the second method uses a form of break.
-The same concept using a long card is briefly taught by Professor Hoffmann in //Modern Magic//, 1876, p. 62. See the second paragraph of "A Card Having Been Chosen and Returned, and the Pack Shuffled, to Produce the Chosen Card Instantly in Various Ways."
+In J. N. Ponsin's //Supplément a la Sorcellerie ancienne et Moderne Expliquée// (1859, p. 445), a prototype of the Stop Trick is described, using a long or wide card to accomplish the necessary control for stopping at the desired card while dropping packets or dribbling cards off the bottom of the deck. (Also see, Maxwell Pritchard's English translation in //Gibecière//, Vol. 17 No. 99, Summer 2022, p. 116.)
+Edward Marlo resurrected the idea and embellished on it, using a thick card, in //Pabular//, Vol. 1 No. 2, Oct. 1974, p. 13; see "Dribble Coincidence".
+Dating the idea of using the concept for forcing a card has yet to be ascertained, but the 1800s would seem likely.
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