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cards:four_ace_location_by_spectator [2017/06/28 16:57] – external edit 127.0.0.1cards:four_ace_location_by_spectator [2023/01/08 21:01] (current) – Added Ponsin citation. stephenminch
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 ====== Four Ace Location by Spectator ====== ====== Four Ace Location by Spectator ======
  
-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]].+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 that 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.+Perhaps the first approach to the idea of having a spectator cut the deck into four piles, each with an Ace on top, is "An Easy Card Trick" by Victor Maxwell (G. E. Thompson) in //[[https://askalexander.org/display/85655/The+Magic+wand+and+magical+review+:+Vol+7+Issue+78/16|The Magic Wand]]//, Vol. 7 No. 6, Feb. 1917, p. 102. Maxwell started with the Aces on top of the deck. After a false shuffle, he led a spectator into distributing the Aces onto four piles during a series of cuts, apparently a combination of plan and improvisation. 
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 +William Larsen, Jr. approached the effect by palming the four Aces, spreading the deck for four selections, and then performing a four-for-four palm change. This was published in //[[https://askalexander.org/display/38500/The+Sphinx/13|The Sphinx]]//, Vol. 20 No. 5, July 1921, p. 173. 
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 +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 he desires into four piles and finding an Ace at the bottom of each. This was published in //"Would You Believe It?"// 1935, p. 5.
  
 David Michael Evans points out that Audley Walsh included the idea of a spectator choosing the four Aces as one phase of "The Audley Walsh Coincidence", in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/15710/Jinx+No+021/6|The Jinx]]//, No. 21, June 1936, p. 122. David Michael Evans points out that Audley Walsh included the idea of a spectator choosing the four Aces as one phase of "The Audley Walsh Coincidence", in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/15710/Jinx+No+021/6|The Jinx]]//, No. 21, June 1936, p. 122.
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 It is possible an earlier Ace location by Frederick Moorhouse may have been Belchou's inspiration. Moorhouse's "The Return of the Aces" was published three months before Belchou's, in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/15681/Goldston+s+Magical+Quarterly/9|Goldston's Magical Quarterly]]//, Vol. 5 No. 2, Mar. 1939, p. 407. Moorhouse's method for distributing the Aces from the top of the deck to four piles cut by a spectator is more obvious than Belchou's, but the effects and procedures bear more than a passing resemblance. Moorhouse introduced his trick by saying he had "worked it with definite success for some 20 years." It is possible an earlier Ace location by Frederick Moorhouse may have been Belchou's inspiration. Moorhouse's "The Return of the Aces" was published three months before Belchou's, in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/15681/Goldston+s+Magical+Quarterly/9|Goldston's Magical Quarterly]]//, Vol. 5 No. 2, Mar. 1939, p. 407. Moorhouse's method for distributing the Aces from the top of the deck to four piles cut by a spectator is more obvious than Belchou's, but the effects and procedures bear more than a passing resemblance. Moorhouse introduced his trick by saying he had "worked it with definite success for some 20 years."
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 +The concept of distributing a group of desired cards onto the tops of several packets, under the pretense of following a magical or mathematical process, as used by Moorhouse and Belchou, can be found in J. N. Ponsin's //[[https://askalexander.org/display/22880/Nouvelle+magie+blanche+dévoilée+Tome+I+-+Ponsin/80|Nouvelle magie blanche dévoilée]]//, Tome I, 1853, "Section VII: Ayant fait mêler les cartes, divisé le jeu en trois las sur la table, en simulant un calcul, et fait certaines transpositions de caries dans les paquets, deviner celles qui sont au-dessus des trois tas", p. 76---or Jean Hugard's English translation in //[[https://askalexander.org/display/83022/Gibeci%C3%A8re+Vol+15+Issue+1/148|Gibecière]]//, Vol. 20 No. 1, Winter 2020, p. 146. 
  
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