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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 to this idea appeared 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 | + | This ruse was first published in 1956 in a set of lecture notes by Francis Haxton, [[http:// |
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+ | The basic concept, in a primitive form, appeared within a brief note on an idea by Bob Veeser in Ed Marlo' | ||
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+ | Ian Baxter | ||
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+ | * Paul Harris (" | ||
+ | * Harry Lorayne (" | ||
+ | * Al Smith (" | ||
+ | * Father Cyprian (" | ||
+ | * Gary Ouellet (" | ||
+ | * Shigeo Takagi ("Who Cuts First?" | ||
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+ | Interestingly, | ||
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