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cards:spectator_cuts_the_aces_ruse [2013/04/15 05:36] – tylerwilsoncards:spectator_cuts_the_aces_ruse [2016/10/14 19:37] – Added mention of Marlo's note on Veeser bluff. stephenminch
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-The idea here is that the first cut is forced at a break near center to form two piles, each with two Aces on top. Then each pile is freely cut again to form four piles. Two Aces are turned up and dropped onto the two null piles. Then the other two Aces are turned up and dropped on the piles from which they came. Visual confusion makes it seem as if each pile had an Ace on top. The seminal idea appears in Bob Veeser's brief entry on page 46 of Marlo's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/11034/Faro+Controlled+Miracles/49|Faro Controlled Miracles]]//, 1964.+The idea here is that the first cut is forced at a break near center to form two piles, each with two Aces on top. Then each pile is freely cut again to form four piles. Two Aces are turned up and dropped onto the two null piles. Then the other two Aces are turned up and dropped on the piles from which they came. Visual confusion makes it seem as if each pile had an Ace on top. An early precursor to this idea appeared in Bob Veeser's brief entry in Ed Marlo's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/11034/Faro+Controlled+Miracles/49|Faro Controlled Miracles]]//, 1964, p. 64. He used a single bluff. Marlo mentions the possibility (although a risky one) of cutting only three piles and using the bluff twice.
  
-Ian Baxter seems to have created the basic ruse as described above. See his "P.P.P.P." in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/37842/Linking+Ring/66|Linking Ring]]//, Vol. 49, No. 10, Oct. 1969, pp. 66-68. Later Al Smith (//The Talon//, No. 2, p. 13, c. 1980), Father Cyprian, Paul Harris, Shigeo Takagi and Gary Ouellet published variant handlings of the Baxter idea. Interestingly, this ruse, according to //[[http://askalexander.org/display/37226/Genii/43|Genii]]//, Vol. 62, No. 8, Aug. 1999, p. 43, was also used by Frank Thompson. Cy Keller also credits Thompson. See Keller's //Lecture 1.1//, "Spectator Cuts the Aces", c. 1979, p. 3. +Ian Baxter seems to have created the basic double-bluff ruse as described above, and published it within his "P.P.P.P." from //[[http://askalexander.org/display/37842/Linking+Ring/66|Linking Ring]]//, Vol. 49 No. 10, Oct. 1969, p. 66-68. Later, Paul Harris ("Silver and Aces," //[[http://askalexander.org/display/10765/The+Magic+of+Paul+Harris/51|The Magic of Paul Harris]]//, 1976, p. 49), Al Smith ("Cross-Over Aces," //The Talon//, No. 2, p. 13, c. 1980), Father Cyprian ("Swindle Cut Aces," //[[http://askalexander.org/display/14498/The+Elegant+Card+Magic+of+Father+Cyprian/11|The Elegant Card Magic of Father Cyprian]]//, 1980, p. 10), Gary Ouellet ("Three Second Wonder," //The Close-up Illusions of Gary Ouellet, Volume One//, 1981; VHS), and Shigeo Takagi ("Who Cuts First?" //The Amazing Miracles of Shigeo Takagi//, 1990, p. 40, and "To the Cut," //Apocalypse//, Vol. 13 No. 4, Apr. 1990, p. 1770) published variant handlings of the Baxter idea. Interestingly, this ruse, according to //[[http://askalexander.org/display/37226/Genii/43|Genii]]//, Vol. 62 No. 8, Aug. 1999, p. 43, was also used by Frank Thompson. Cy Keller also credits Thompson in his //Lecture 1.1//, c. 1979, p. 3.
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-Other sources report that Neil Elias came up with the procedure or something similar in correspondence with Marlo shortly after the publication of //Faro Controlled Miracles//. +
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-The citations for the later entries are: +
-  * Paul Harris ("Silver and Aces," //[[http://askalexander.org/display/10765/The+Magic+of+Paul+Harris/51|The Magic of Paul Harris]]//, Mentzer, 1976, p. 49). +
-  * Al Smith ("Cross-Over Aces," //The Talon//, No. 2, p. 13, c. 1980). In Smith's handling, the magician cuts the Aces, not a spectator. +
-  * Father Cyprian ("Swindle Cut Aces," //[[http://askalexander.org/display/14498/The+Elegant+Card+Magic+of+Father+Cyprian/11|The Elegant Card Magic of Father Cyprian]]//, Garcia, 1980, p. 10). +
-  * Gary Ouellet ("Three Second Wonder," //The Close-up Illusions of Gary Ouellet, Volume One//, VHS, 1981); Ouellet credits Father Cyprian; also "Three-Second Wonder" appeared in //Apocalypse//, April 1987, p. 1335. Lorayne mentions that this originally appeared in Ouellet's lecture notes. If correct, these may or may not have predated the VHS release; and once again in Ouellet's //Close Up Illusions//, 1990, p. 28, where he mentions that Father Cyprian learned the idea from Joe DeStafano and that Herb Zarrow said Frank Thompson did a lot of work "in this field." Father Cyprian learned the idea from a European magician, but he could not recall who. +
-  * Shigeo Takagi ("Who Cuts First?," //The Amazing Miracles of Shigeo Takagi//, Kaufman, 1990, p. 40 and "To the Cut," //Apocalypse//, April 1990, p. 1770). +
-  * Randy Wakeman ("Final Follow Up," //The Linking Ring//, March 1996, p. 99); springing off Ouellet's publication. +
-  * Paul Harris ("Silver and Aces [Revised]," //The Art of Astonishment// Book 1, Harris, 1996, p. 75); Neal Elias is credited here. +
-  * Micah Lasher ("Astronomical Aces," //[[http://askalexander.org/display/37226/Genii/42|Genii]]//, August 1999, p. 42; Frank Thompson cited).+
  
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