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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).