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--- cards:twenty-one_card_trick [2016/06/17 08:34] – earlier reference denisbehr
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 ====== Twenty-one Card Trick ======
-Using only fifteen cards, this idea was published in Horatio Galasso's //Giochi di Carte Bellissimi di Regola, e di Memoria//, 1593, p. 49-51 of the Pieper translation. Its trick title translates to “How to have someone think of a card and guess what it is.” This manuscript was translated in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/13226/Gibeci+re/49|Gibecière]]// Vol. 2  No. 2, Summer 2007, p. 15-150.
+The first known description of this trick, done with fifteen playing cards and employing a mathematical positioning principle previously used with other objects, appeared in Horatio Galasso's //Giochi di Carte Bellissimi di Regola, e di Memoria//, 1593, p. 49-51 of the English translation by Lori Pieper. This translation was published in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/13226/Gibeci+re/49|Gibecière]]//, Vol. 2  No. 2, Summer 2007, p. 15-150. The title of the trick translates as “How to have someone think of a card and guess what it is.”
-An interesting extension on this very old principle is found in Edmé-Gilles Guyot's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/11099/Nouvelles+Recreations+Physiques+et+Mathematiques+1769/48-50|Nouvelles Recreations Physiques et Mathematiques]]//, 1769, p. 46 of the Hugard translation, under the translated title of "A person having secretly thought of a card to make it be found at the number demanded." It details a system to deliver a card thought of to any named position in a deck of 27 cards, by means of dealing this entire deck face up several times into piles, and then picking them back up in specific sequences to automatically position the thought-of card in the named location. This was later published with a full deck by Charles Jordan as "The 52-Card Trick" as advertised in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/38154/The+Sphinx/28|The Sphinx]]//, Vol. 18 No. 10, Dec. 1919, p. 264. (See also in Karl Fulves's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/7636/Charles+T+Jordan+Collected+Tricks/62|Charles T. Jordan: Collected Tricks]]//, 1975, p. 62.)
+An interesting extension on this very old principle is found in Edmé-Gilles Guyot's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/11099/Nouvelles+Recreations+Physiques+et+Mathematiques+1769/48-50|Nouvelles Recreations Physiques et Mathematiques]]//, 1769, p. 46 of the Hugard translation, under the title of "A person having secretly thought of a card to make it be found at the number demanded." It details a system to deliver a card thought of to any named position in a deck of 27 cards, by means of dealing the entire deck into face-up piles several times, each time gathering the piles in a specific sequence formulated to position the thought-of card at the chosen location. This was later published with a fifty-two-card deck by Charles Jordan as "The 52-Card Trick", first advertised in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/38154/The+Sphinx/28|The Sphinx]]//, Vol. 18 No. 10, Dec. 1919, p. 264. (See also in Karl Fulves's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/7636/Charles+T+Jordan+Collected+Tricks/62|Charles T. Jordan: Collected Tricks]]//, 1975, p. 62.)
   * [[http://www.conjuringarchive.com/show.php?cat=700|Category in Denis Behr's "Conjuring Archive"]]
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