> I would love to see see that site, if somebody can come up
> with the URL. I
> would enjoy reading peoples hypotheses.
> --------------
> 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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