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| ====== Jackpot Coins a.k.a. The Trick That Fooled Einstein ====== | ====== Jackpot Coins a.k.a. The Trick That Fooled Einstein ====== | ||
| - | This trick is described in a 1630 miscellany by Thomas Johnson, //A New Booke of Dainty Conceits//. Philippe Billot, who discovered this entry, provides the following transcription: | + | This trick is described in a 1630 miscellany by Thomas Johnson, //[[http:// |
| "I put the case that I deliver to my friend standing by, the six of Clubs, and I take the two next Cards, which are the Queen of Hearts and the four of Diamonds, I say therefore unto my friend, or lay a wager with him, that I have as many as he, as many as will make him ten, and four pips to spare, and so is there. | "I put the case that I deliver to my friend standing by, the six of Clubs, and I take the two next Cards, which are the Queen of Hearts and the four of Diamonds, I say therefore unto my friend, or lay a wager with him, that I have as many as he, as many as will make him ten, and four pips to spare, and so is there. | ||