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====== Svengali Deck ====== | ====== Svengali Deck ====== | ||
- | The short-long principle was transferred from blow books to playing cards by the 1600s; see the anonymous // | + | The short-long principle was transferred from [[paper: |
- | The next significant step in the evolution of these gaffed decks occurred the early twentieth century, with the Svengali Deck. There has been controversy over who invented the Svengali Deck, W. D. LeRoy or Burling Hull. T. A. Waters and Sam Sharpe both credit LeRoy; see Waters' | + | In 1907, Ellsworth Lyman contributed minor variation, in which the deck used shortened corners rather than short cards to make the faces turn all red, then all black; see "A Color Changing Trick" in // |
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+ | The next significant step in the evolution of these gaffed decks, the Svengali Deck, occurred two years after the appearance of Lyman' | ||
John Booth, in // | John Booth, in // | ||
According to Judge Wethered in // | According to Judge Wethered in // | ||
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+ | The Svengali Deck used twenty-six duplicate cards for its construction. Many possibilities are also available using a full deck of fifty-two cards, with half of them cut short. This variant was published by Walter B. Gibson in // | ||
See also [[cards: | See also [[cards: |