would enjoy reading peoples hypotheses.
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Ian Skinner
Web Programmer
BloodSource
www.BloodSource.org
Sacramento, CA
-----Original Message-----
From: S.Isaac Dealey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 10:11 PM
To: CF-Community
Subject: Re: It's MAGIC...
IIRC there is a site that does show that trick with some
randomization, along with a _long_ page of emails from people giving
possible explanations... More things than are dreamt of in Horatio's
philosophy... crazy... I figured there had to be a simple explanation,
but someone did have to explain it to me. :) Don't remember where I
saw it the first time -- I believe it was Jim Davis who put me on to
the url originally.
> Yet another piece of evidance that I'm not like most
> people. I think that's
> good, but I'm not sure :-)
> I figured it out in 5 to 10 minutes the first time I saw
> it. It helps that
> most sites, just like this one, are lazy and use the same
> sets of cards each
> time. So after trying it a couple of times, I got
> suspicios seeing the same
> cards, and did a detailed comparison. I don't know why
> these people don't
> spend a few more minutes developing this trick to use the
> entire deck at
> least somewhat randomally (it seems to work best if the
> cards are simular
> such as face cards or 6's and 9's. so maybe fully random
> would not be
> desireable). But really, I don't think one needs to use
> the same sets of
> cards all the time.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "S. Isaac Dealey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 4:33 PM
> Subject: Re: It's MAGIC...
>> Yep... When they present the 2nd series of cards none of
>> them were in
>> the first series... The first time, they show you six
>> face cards
>> (there are 12 in the deck) the 2nd time they show you 5
>> of the
>> remaining cards they haven't shown you. If you're like
>> most folks,
>> your mind will work on it for hours and hours trying to
>> figure out how
>> they accomplished it, dreaming up all kinds of crazy ways
>> to make it
>> work. :)
>>
>>
>> > http://www.zorstec.net/copperfield.htm
<http://www.zorstec.net/copperfield.htm>
>> >
>>
>
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