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cards:svengali_deck [2020/03/15 20:02] – Added some clarification and the Lyman citation. stephenminch | cards:svengali_deck [2024/03/19 17:53] (current) – Added further details on the Hull and LeRoy decks. 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 two years after the appearance of Lyman's variation on the ancient color-changing | + | In 1907, Ellsworth |
- | John Booth, in // | + | The next significant step in the evolution of these ideas produced the Svengali Deck, which appeared sixteen months after Lyman' |
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+ | John Booth, in // | ||
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+ | The first advertisements for the Hull and LeRoy decks appeared just two months apart: Hull's ran in the March 1909 issue of // | ||
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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