Conjuring Credits

The Origins of Wonder

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cards:retaining_a_setup_with_an_honest_riffle_shuffle [2016/05/16 00:50] stephenminchcards:retaining_a_setup_with_an_honest_riffle_shuffle [2016/06/17 04:00] – General OCDing. tylerwilson
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-While this principle is generally credited to Charles Jordan due to its appearance as "Tracking the Dovetail Shuffle to Its Lair" in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/14618/Thirty+Card+Mysteries/9-13|Thirty Card Mysteries]]//, 1919, p. 7 of the second edition. However, Jordan was preceded by C. O. Williams in the use of a single shuffle to retain two sequences mixed together. Williams's idea was published in Stanyon's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/16763/Stanyon+s+Magic+Vol+13+No+12/4-5|Magic]]//, Vol. 13 No. 12, Sep. 1913, p. 100. Jordan, in his introduction to the above book (p. 1), acknowledges Williams's prior claim. Jordan had published this shuffle principle three years prior to //Thirty Card Mysteries// in //[[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433019397649;view=1up;seq=81|Thayer's Magical Bulletin]]//, Jul 1916, apparently before becoming aware that it had been published in 1913 by Williams.+While this principle is generally credited to Charles Jordan due to its appearance as "Tracking the Dovetail Shuffle to Its Lair" in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/14618/Thirty+Card+Mysteries/9-13|Thirty Card Mysteries]]//, 1919, p. 7 of the second edition. However, Jordan was preceded by C. O. Williams in the use of a single shuffle to retain two sequences mixed together. Williams's idea was published in Stanyon's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/16763/Stanyon+s+Magic+Vol+13+No+12/4-5|Magic]]//, Vol. 13 No. 12, Sep. 1913, p. 100. Jordan, in his introduction to the above book (p. 1), acknowledges Williams's prior claim. Jordan had published this shuffle principle three years prior to //Thirty Card Mysteries// in //[[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433019397649;view=1up;seq=81|Thayer's Magical Bulletin]]//, Vol. 9 No. 7, Jul1916, np., apparently before becoming aware that it had been published in 1913 by Williams.
  
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