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cards:svengali_deck [2020/03/15 20:02] – Added some clarification and the Lyman citation. stephenminch | cards:svengali_deck [2024/03/17 22:13] – Clarified early history. stephenminch | ||
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====== Svengali Deck ====== | ====== Svengali Deck ====== | ||
- | The short-long principle was transferred from [[paper: | + | The short-long principle was transferred from [[paper: |
- | 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" | + | Card cheats used the short-long---or more precisely, narrow-wide---principle |
- | The next significant step in the evolution of these gaffed decks, the Svengali Deck, occurred | + | In 1907, Ellsworth Lyman contributed a gimmicked improvement for displaying the deck first as all red, then as all black: 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---its main purpose being to force a card, although displaying random cards and then all the same card is also done---was | ||
John Booth, in // | John Booth, in // | ||
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According to Judge Wethered in // | According to Judge Wethered in // | ||
- | 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. | + | 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. |
- | See also [[cards: | + | See also [[cards: |
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