Hello everyone!
Today’s topics are: Thank you!; A Trick Problem For You (Kenny Four Aces)
These are The Magic Memories 175, gone online Sunday, May 5, 2024, at 0:07h sharp.
All The Magic Memories from 2021, 2022, and 2023, including the Magic Advent Calendar from 2020, can be found HERE.
Travel Note
As you are reading this – assuming you do so on the release date of these The Magic Memories – I am in Paris, discussing things magical for a group of twenty people, a whole afternoon and evening long 🙂
Therefore, today’s post will be shorter than usual, but still have something that might interest you…
Thank you!!!
First and foremost, thank you to all of you who sent in Happy Birthday wishes, via land-mail, email, facebook, text, WhatsApp, Messenger and other means, which my good friend and webmaster Andrea Pancotti set up for me several years ago, when I started my webshop.
So, all your wishes are much appreciated, and please forgive me, if you did not get an answer, for you might have noticed that I do not handle any of these means of communication except land-mail and emails.
(Generally speaking: If you want an answer from me, really the only two ways of reaching me is to write to my postal address, or send me an email via the webshop’s “contact” menu item. Although I do occasionally read the other messages, I do not answer them.)
A Trick Problem For You
As I am on the road, I though you might enjoy finding the solution to an interesting trick problem. As a matter of fact, it is a proper routine.
At the end of the piece the four Aces are on the table, therefore, a follow-up using them makes all the sense in the world. Why not McMillen’s version of the Collins Aces, a version of which you will also find in Cy Endfield’s book The Entertaining Card Magic of Cy Endfield, under the title of “Aces for Connoisseurs”.
But I am putting the cart before the horse, so, here is the card problem you might ponder until we meet again next week.
CLICK HERE for the one-page PDF with the accurate description of the effect and presentation. You, obviously, will have to provide the method 🙂
And while you are at it, can you tell the source? A little hint: It is both a book and a magazine (what?).
Wish you all a successful and happy week,
Roberto Giobb
