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--- mental:just_chance_aka_bank_night [2014/09/07 16:53] – denisbehr
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 Invented by Tom Sellers and published in his 1935 booklet //Novel Necromancy// under the title "It's Only Chance." Floyd Thayer later published his version of the Sellers effect in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/36546/Genii/7|Genii]]//, Vol. 1 No. 2, Oct. 1936, p. 7, under the name "Bank Night" and it is that name that has stuck.
+In //[[http://askalexander.org/display/23289/Tops/7|Tops]]// (Vol. 10 No. 1, Jan. 1945, p. 5), Sid Lorraine recounted how Sellers was inspired to create this effect after having read of a carnival swindle in which a pitchman of lucky charms claimed a shilling was in one of three apples. Members of the crowd picked two of the apples, and a shilling was found only in the one left to the "lucky" pitchman.
   * [[http://www.conjuringarchive.com/show.php?cat=153|Category in Denis Behr's "Conjuring Archive"]]
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