[HN Gopher] The Mystery of Magic's Greatest Card Trick
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       The Mystery of Magic's Greatest Card Trick
        
       Author : mistersquid
       Score  : 9 points
       Date   : 2021-05-23 15:55 UTC (7 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.nytimes.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.nytimes.com)
        
       | Apocryphon wrote:
       | Are there any leading theories as to how this trick is performed?
        
         | antiterra wrote:
         | Quota claims the book referenced in the NYT article actually
         | _does_ contain info on the trick in question.
         | 
         | It sounds like your average magician stuff, influence,
         | misdirection, memorization, skill and patter. The quora answer
         | claims there are about six memorized decks, and that there are
         | generally attempts to 'force' the right number after the the
         | card has been selected. If the wrong number is chosen, there
         | are ways to to mitigate the issue going all the way to
         | manipulating the deck.
         | 
         | Getting angry was part of the trick, for sure.
         | 
         | https://www.quora.com/How-does-the-Berglas-Effect-magic-card...
        
       | apjaffe wrote:
       | Seems like one way to do the trick would be the following: Choose
       | some pre-determined sequence of the cards and memorize it. Buy 52
       | decks of cards, and put them all in that same sequence, but
       | shifted by various offsets, ranging from 0 to 51. Then hide all
       | the decks in various places. Now when someone names a card and a
       | number, you just need to figure out which deck is shifted by the
       | right amount to put that card in that position and point them to
       | the corresponding deck.
       | 
       | Anyone see any obvious flaws in this approach?
        
         | antiterra wrote:
         | The main flaw is practicality. The first thing you could do is
         | cut it down to 26 decks, all you need to do then is have the
         | participant count off the top with the face up instead of the
         | bottom to replicate the other 26.
        
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