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tgaffney New user 43 Posts 
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I am looking for origin, references, write ups on the principle
the in a shuffled deck the odds are very high any two named numbers will be next to each other - or only one card away. Any help appreciated. Thanks |
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the fritz Special user 647 Posts
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I wish I had an answer for you. This principle has such awesome potential but I've not seen it exploited anywhere.
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cybob New user 60 Posts
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This was a segment on Scam School. The math seems to show that it is 48.6% that the cards will be next to each other and over 70% that the cards will be within one card of each other.
Here is the video and a discussion of the subject: http://headinside.blogspot.com/2012/11/m......dds.html |
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Anatole Inner circle 1912 Posts
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The first place I saw this principle explained was in John Mulholland's Book of Magic published in 1963.
I think the trick was called "The Friendly Cards" ----- Amado "Sonny" Narvaez
----- Sonny Narvaez
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magicfish Inner circle 7016 Posts
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landmark Inner circle within a triangle 5194 Posts
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On 2013-02-21 09:27, tgaffney wrote: I think the way I learned it when I was a kid was that given a value and a suit, the probability is very high, over 80%, that you would find a pair of adjacent cards with the value next to the suit. That, at least, is a very old idea.
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landmark Inner circle within a triangle 5194 Posts
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On 2013-06-24 00:03, Anatole wrote: Ah, thanks for the reference. In the Friendly Cards, the spec shuffles the cards and the top and bottom cards are looked at. S/he then shuffles again. The magi asks only for the values of the cards, and lo, they are next to each other in the deck. I can verify this citation because in August of 1963, I took out John Mullohand's Book of Magic from my local library. Evidently, I never returned it, because it is sitting on my shelf some 50 years later.
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