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| ======Edge-Marked Deck====== | ======Edge-Marked Deck====== | ||
| - | Card cheats have for centuries secretly edge-marked one or several cards in a deck for an advantage in a game. They had no need to mark every card in a deck for suit and value---but magicians did. The first known description of a deck in which all (thirty-two) cards were edge-marked was published by Hugo Schrader in Conradi' | + | Card cheats have for centuries secretly edge-marked one or several cards in a deck for an advantage in a game. They had no need to mark every card in a deck for suit and value---but magicians did. The first known description of a deck in which all (thirty-two) cards were edge-marked was published by Hugo Schrader in Conradi' |
| Eighteen years later, Theodore DeLand manufactured a specially printed, fifty-two-card, | Eighteen years later, Theodore DeLand manufactured a specially printed, fifty-two-card, | ||
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| + | Also see [[cards: | ||
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