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The Origins of Wonder

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 The Unshuffled plot generally features writing on the edge of a deck that keeps changing with each shuffle until it says "Unshuffled", and the pack is found back in new-deck order. For a kicker, the writing then changes into the name of a previously selected card. There are several principles in play. The Unshuffled plot generally features writing on the edge of a deck that keeps changing with each shuffle until it says "Unshuffled", and the pack is found back in new-deck order. For a kicker, the writing then changes into the name of a previously selected card. There are several principles in play.
  
-Writing on the side of a deck as a means of sending secret messages is mentioned in Giovanni Battista Della Porta's //De furtivis literarum notis, vulgo de ziferis//, 1563, p. 345 of the English translation.+Writing on the side of a deck as a means of sending secret messages is mentioned in Giovanni Battista Della Porta's //De furtivis literarum notis, vulgo de ziferis//, 1563, [[http://www.conjuringcredits.com/lib/tpl/credits/files/1658-Porta-WritingOnEdgeOfDeck.pdf|p. 345 of the 1658 English translation]], London: Thomas Young and Samuel Speed.
  
 The first to apply the idea to a magic trick was Hen Fetsch, in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/37770/Linking+Ring/52|The Linking Ring]]//, Vol. 27 No. 12, Feb. 1948, p. 50, under the title "Mixed Magic". Winston Freer also used the idea for his "Half-wit Deck," 1961, with patter by Gene Gordon (who marketed it). The first to apply the idea to a magic trick was Hen Fetsch, in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/37770/Linking+Ring/52|The Linking Ring]]//, Vol. 27 No. 12, Feb. 1948, p. 50, under the title "Mixed Magic". Winston Freer also used the idea for his "Half-wit Deck," 1961, with patter by Gene Gordon (who marketed it).
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 Stephen Tucker soon followed Gertner with his handling that allows for genuine shuffles before and during the trick. This is accomplished by having writing on only twenty-six cards, leaving the other twenty-six to be freely displayed and mixed. By giving the deck a single faro, the writing will expand through the deck and appear to fill the full edge of the pack. This appeared as "Edge Hog II" in Tucker's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/15034/Cardiac+Stimulation/16|Cardiac Stimulation]]//, 1984, p. 18. The next item in the book is "Edge Hog III" ([[http://askalexander.org/display/15034/Cardiac+Stimulation/17|p. 20]]), which has writing on only thirteen cards, allowing a full three-quarters of the deck to be genuinely shuffled before two faros cause the writing to appear. Stephen Tucker soon followed Gertner with his handling that allows for genuine shuffles before and during the trick. This is accomplished by having writing on only twenty-six cards, leaving the other twenty-six to be freely displayed and mixed. By giving the deck a single faro, the writing will expand through the deck and appear to fill the full edge of the pack. This appeared as "Edge Hog II" in Tucker's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/15034/Cardiac+Stimulation/16|Cardiac Stimulation]]//, 1984, p. 18. The next item in the book is "Edge Hog III" ([[http://askalexander.org/display/15034/Cardiac+Stimulation/17|p. 20]]), which has writing on only thirteen cards, allowing a full three-quarters of the deck to be genuinely shuffled before two faros cause the writing to appear.
  
-  * [[http://www.conjuringarchive.com/show.php?cat=1283|Category in Denis Behr's "Conjuring Archive"]]+  * [[http://www.conjuringarchive.com/list/category/1283|Category in Denis Behr's "Conjuring Archive"]]
  
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