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--- cards:weighing_the_cards [2013/03/29 12:31] – tag added denisbehr
+++ cards:weighing_the_cards [2024/01/21 22:14] (current) – stephenminch
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 ====== Weighing the Cards ======
-This effect, made possible by a wide card in the deck, is described in //Ein Spiel Karten// by R. P., Prague, 1853, Part I, item 8, p. 30 of the Pieper translation, under the title of "The Scales".
+This effect appeared in Edmé-Gilles Guyot's //Nouvelles récréations physiques et mathématiques//, Vol. 2, 1769, p. 276; p. 31 of the Hugard translation, as "To tell the cards by weight." Two long cards are used to mark off two packets, each with a known number of cards.
+The trick appeared again, using a wide card in the deck, in R.P.'s //Ein Spiel Karten//, 1853, p. 30 of the Pieper translation, under the title of "The Scales."
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