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 ====== 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'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.
-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.
+This ruse was first published in 1956 in a set of lecture notes by Francis Haxton, [[http://www.conjuringcredits.com/lib/tpl/credits/files/1956-haxton.jpg|An English Trip]]. However, due to the obscurity of these notes, the idea went unnoticed until it was independently reinvented years later by an international sampling of cardmen.
-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//.
+The basic concept, in a primitive form, appeared within a brief note on an idea by Bob Veeser in Ed Marlo's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/11034/Faro+Controlled+Miracles/49|Faro Controlled Miracles]]//, 1964, p. 64. Veeser used a single bluff. Marlo mentions the possibility (although a risky one) of cutting only three piles and using the bluff twice.
-The citations for the later entries are:
+Ian Baxter published a Four-Ace Cutting handling that is very close, if not identical, to Haxton's: "P.P.P.P." in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/37842/Linking+Ring/66|Linking Ring]]//, Vol. 49 No. 10, Oct. 1969, p. 66-68. After Baxter, there followed a number of others:
-  * 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.
+  * Paul Harris ("Silver and Aces," //[[http://askalexander.org/display/10765/The+Magic+of+Paul+Harris/51|The Magic of Paul Harris]]//, 1976, p. 49)
-  * 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).
+  * Harry Lorayne ("Double Take", //[[https://askalexander.org/display/18074/Quantum+Leaps/218|Quantum Leaps]]//, 1979, p. 214, "the concept isn't mine")
-  * 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.
+  * Al Smith ("Cross-Over Aces," //The Talon//, No. 2, p. 13, c. 1980)
-  * Shigeo Takagi ("Who Cuts First?," //The Amazing Miracles of Shigeo Takagi//, Kaufman, 1990, p. 40 and "To the Cut," //Apocalypse//, April 1990, p. 1770).
+  * 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)
-  * Randy Wakeman ("Final Follow Up," //The Linking Ring//, March 1996, p. 99); springing off Ouellet's publication.
+  * Gary Ouellet ("Three Second Wonder," //The Close-up Illusions of Gary Ouellet, Volume One//, 1981; VHS)
-  * Paul Harris ("Silver and Aces [Revised]," //The Art of Astonishment// Book 1, Harris, 1996, p. 75); Neal Elias is credited here.
+  * 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)
-  * Micah Lasher ("Astronomical Aces," //[[http://askalexander.org/display/37226/Genii/42|Genii]]//, August 1999, p. 42; Frank Thompson cited).
+Interestingly, this ruse, according to //[[http://askalexander.org/display/37226/Genii/43|Genii]]//, Vol. 62 No. 8, Aug. 1999, p. 43, may also have been used by Frank Thompson. Cy Keller also credits Thompson in his //Lecture 1.1//, c. 1979, p. 3.
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