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====== Spectator Cuts the Aces Ruse ====== | ====== Spectator Cuts the Aces Ruse ====== | ||
- | 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' | + | 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. |
- | Ian Baxter seems to have created the basic ruse as described above. See his " | + | This ruse was first published in 1956 in a set of lecture notes by Francis Haxton, |
- | Other sources report that Neil Elias came up with the procedure or something similar | + | The basic concept, |
- | The citations for the later entries are: | + | Ian Baxter published a Four-Ace Cutting handling that is very close, if not identical, to Haxton' |
- | * Paul Harris (" | + | |
- | * Al Smith (" | + | * Paul Harris (" |
- | * Father Cyprian (" | + | * Harry Lorayne (" |
- | * Gary Ouellet (" | + | * Al Smith (" |
- | * Shigeo Takagi ("Who Cuts First?," //The Amazing Miracles of Shigeo Takagi//, Kaufman, 1990, p. 40 and "To the Cut," // | + | * Father Cyprian (" |
- | * Randy Wakeman (" | + | * Gary Ouellet (" |
- | * Paul Harris (" | + | * Shigeo Takagi ("Who Cuts First?" |
- | * Micah Lasher (" | + | |
+ | Interestingly, this ruse, according to // | ||
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