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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. An early precursor | + | 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. |
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+ | This ruse was first published in 1956 in a set of lecture notes by Francis Haxton, [[http:// | ||
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+ | The basic concept, | ||
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+ | Ian Baxter published a Four-Ace Cutting handling that is very close, if not identical, to Haxton' | ||
- | Ian Baxter seems to have created the basic double-bluff ruse as described above, and published it within his " | ||
* Paul Harris (" | * Paul Harris (" | ||
* Harry Lorayne (" | * Harry Lorayne (" | ||
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* Shigeo Takagi ("Who Cuts First?" | * Shigeo Takagi ("Who Cuts First?" | ||
- | Interestingly, | + | Interestingly, |
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