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 Edward Marlo applied this hideout principle to a faro-shuffled deck, for concealing multiple cards. See //[[http://askalexander.org/display/11034/Faro+Controlled+Miracles/62|Faro Controlled Miracles]]//, 1964, p. 59. Marlo was trying to solve a problem Dai Vernon mentioned in 1952, in which, after a shuffled deck has been ribbon spread, four Aces appear face up in different locations upon the deck being spread a second time. Alex Elmsley was exploring similar territory during the 1950s, and Marlo included "Elmsley's Ultra Mental" (Elmsley later called it "Brainweave") in the work just cited ([[http://askalexander.org/display/11034/Faro+Controlled+Miracles/55|p. 52]]). In this trick, Elmsley applied an angle jog to a faro-woven packet, to approximate the effect of the Ultramental Deck with an unprepared pack. Edward Marlo applied this hideout principle to a faro-shuffled deck, for concealing multiple cards. See //[[http://askalexander.org/display/11034/Faro+Controlled+Miracles/62|Faro Controlled Miracles]]//, 1964, p. 59. Marlo was trying to solve a problem Dai Vernon mentioned in 1952, in which, after a shuffled deck has been ribbon spread, four Aces appear face up in different locations upon the deck being spread a second time. Alex Elmsley was exploring similar territory during the 1950s, and Marlo included "Elmsley's Ultra Mental" (Elmsley later called it "Brainweave") in the work just cited ([[http://askalexander.org/display/11034/Faro+Controlled+Miracles/55|p. 52]]). In this trick, Elmsley applied an angle jog to a faro-woven packet, to approximate the effect of the Ultramental Deck with an unprepared pack.
  
-In England, enthusiast Bob Bridson was experimenting with combining the faro shuffle and the Ribbon Spread Hideout. Alex Elmsley recalled Bridson, in the early 1950s, showing him the idea of faro weaving the red cards into the blacks and offsetting the halves sidewise, so that the deck could be ribbon spread in one direction and only red cards would show, and then turned end for end and ribbon spread again to show all black cards. This was around the same time Marlo was exploring similar ideas in the States. See //The Collected Works of Alex Elmsley, Vol. II,// by Stephen Minch, 1994, p. 338.+In England, enthusiast Bob Bridson was experimenting with combining the faro shuffle and the Ribbon Spread Hideout. Alex Elmsley recalled Bridson, in the early 1950s, showing him the idea of faro weaving the red cards into the blacks and offsetting the halves sidewise, so that the deck could be ribbon spread in one direction and only red cards would show, and then turned end for end and ribbon spread again to show all black cards. This was around the same time Marlo was exploring similar ideas in the States. See //[[http://askalexander.org/display/13104/The+Collected+Works+of+Alex+Elmsley/339|The Collected Works of Alex Elmsley, Vol. II]],// by Stephen Minch, 1994, p. 338.
  
 (Related: [[cards:impromptu_long-short_deck|Impromptu Long-Short Deck]]) (Related: [[cards:impromptu_long-short_deck|Impromptu Long-Short Deck]])
  
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