The idea of squeezing the deck to place minute space between each pair of cards, thus making the deck appear thicker than it really is. This idea seems to have first been recorded by Lin Searles in The Card Expert, 1938, p. 29. Credited to Alladin, it was used as part of a weave shuffle and not to increase the apparent thickness of the deck. A clear example of its use in the latter manner appears in Andrus's Andrus Deals You In (1956), p. 132. Another early description is found in New Phoenix, No. 321, Dec. 1954, p. 92, where it is implied it is Martin Gardner's. Gardner, when asked by Jon Lovick, denied the idea was his.