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The Origins of Wonder

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cards:four_ace_location_by_spectator [2015/03/01 15:17] – tylerwilsoncards:four_ace_location_by_spectator [2015/10/02 09:32] – Additional Hofzinser information. tylerwilson
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-The general effect dates back to the 19th century. [[cards:classic_fan_force|Classic forcing]] four of a kind on a single spectator, one card at a time, was described in R. P.'s //Ein Spiel Karten//, 1853, p. 58 of the Pieper translation. Johann Hofzinser was also sowing seeds in similar fields around the same time. He would begin his trick, "The Four Eights", by classic forcing the four Eights on four spectators. See //Kartenkünste//, 1910, p. 33 of the Sharpe translation.+The general effect dates back to the 19th century. [[cards:classic_fan_force|Classic forcing]] four of a kind on a single spectator, one card at a time, was described in R. P.'s //Ein Spiel Karten//, 1853, p. 58 of the Pieper translation. Johann Hofzinser was also sowing seeds in similar fields around the same time. He would begin his trick, "The Four Eights", by classic forcing the four Eights on four spectators. See //Kartenkünste//, 1910, p. 33 of the Sharpe translation. In "The Power of Faith" (ibid. p. 69), Hofzinser accomplished the same effect by switching three of the selections out with a [[top_change_with_a_packet|packet top change]].
  
 Louis Lam described the idea of a spectator making four piles to find the Aces. It was an inversion of the now-common cutting sequence, with the spectator dealing any number of cards she desires into four piles and finding an Ace at the bottom of each. This was published in //"Would You Believe It?"// 1935, p. 5. Louis Lam described the idea of a spectator making four piles to find the Aces. It was an inversion of the now-common cutting sequence, with the spectator dealing any number of cards she desires into four piles and finding an Ace at the bottom of each. This was published in //"Would You Believe It?"// 1935, p. 5.

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