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    The Hidden Paw's First 20 Logical Puzzles
    The Hidden Paw's First 20 Logical Puzzles
    The Hidden Paw's First 20 Logical Puzzles
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    The Hidden Paw's First 20 Logical Puzzles

    By Akram Najjar

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    About this ebook

    This card trick eBook is different from the other Puzzle eBooks on this site. It contains a collection of 20 logical card tricks. The 20 tricks have been collected over the years, and when known, their originator is cited.

    Why are they Called Logical Card Tricks? Most books, YouTube clips or websites refer to card tricks as Magic Card Tricks. Some even use the term Mathematical Card Tricks. Yet very often, magic and math include deception such as using stacked decks, marked cards, sleight of hand or pre-arranged communications with assistants. This eBook is supported by visual images of piles, decks or procedures. (Below is a sample you can download).

    The Hidden Paw's card tricks are purely logical in that there is no deception of any kind. The tricks follow a procedure, usually carried out by Vic or Victoria, the Victims. The procedures seem random. But at heart, there is always an ingenious logical process that results in a marvelous result: cards are guessed, two randomly placed cards are matched or weird patterns arise. Very often extremely little communication is exchanged between you and your victims resulting in a marvelous effect at the end.

    The intended age bracket is from early teens onwards.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGatekeeper Press
    Release dateJun 4, 2018
    ISBN9781642372144
    The Hidden Paw's First 20 Logical Puzzles

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      The Hidden Paw's First 20 Logical Puzzles - Akram Najjar

      The Hidden Paw’s First 20 Logical Card Tricks

      by Akram Najjar

      POB 113-5623, Beirut, Lebanon

      Visit the site for this book at: www.thehiddenpaw.com

      Email the author at: info@thehiddenpaw.com

      Published by Gatekeeper Press

      2167 Stringtown Rd, Suite 109

      Columbus, OH 43123-2989

      www.GatekeeperPress.com

      All rights reserved

      Copyright © 2016

      Registration submitted to the US Copyright Office

      Registration TXu 2-038-347 (2016)

      eISBN: 9781642372144

      No part of this book may be reproduced except for printing the puzzles in order to solve them. Otherwise, the book may not be transmitted in any form, electronic or mechanical, in part or in full, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage or retrieval system without permission in writing from the author.

      Acknowledgements

      1) All line graphics in this book are by the author.

      2) All other graphics are purchased under license from The Art Box by Hemera Technologies Inc. at

      hemera-technologies-inc.software.informer.com

      3) Playing card faces were downloaded from Google Code and are in the public domain.

      code.google.com/archive/p/vector-playing-cards/

      4) Cover photography by the author.

      5) Puzzles whose sources are known have been credit within the text.

      Table of Contents

      1.0 Introduction

      2.0 Who is the Hidden Paw?

      3.0 Conventions

      4.0 What about Explaining the Tricks?

      Trick 1: Spelling a Card’s Value and its Suit

      Trick 2: Count up to Ten on 3 Piles

      Trick 3: Matching 5 to 5 Cards

      Trick 4: Water and Wine

      Trick 5: The Probability Sequence

      Trick 6: A Card Trick with Pascal’s Triangle

      Trick 7: 5 Face up and 5 Face down Cards Match

      Trick 8: Invoking the Power of 3

      Trick 9: Locate a Card from 9 by Dealing the Deck into 4 Piles

      Trick 10: Insert 3 Cards into 3 Piles and Find them by Dealing

      Trick 11: The Bounty Hunter Finds the Killer

      Trick 12: Reduce the Count of 3 Piles of Cards

      Trick 13: Spell the 4 Aces and their Suites and Find them

      Trick 14: Two Piles of 26 with the 7th as a Predictor

      Trick 15: 3 Piles with 14 Cards Each. Select 1 Card and a Finder

      Trick 16: Three Piles that Count up to 10

      Trick 17: Three Victims Three Secret Numbers

      Trick 18: The 3 Selected Cards and their Complement

      Trick 19: The 27 Card Trick

      Trick 20: Red Card Magic

      Meet the Author

      1.0 Introduction

      Many of the tricks in this eBook are traditional tricks found in various puzzle books such as those by Martin Gardner and other puzzling heroes. They are also available in many YouTube clips under titles such as magic card tricks, magic tricks, card tricks and mathematical tricks. Such titles are common but can be misleading: mathematical tricks are grouped under magic. Magic tricks are not magical since they resort to ruses such as stacked decks, marked cards, sleight of hand, audience plants and other methods of fooling their victims.

      The card tricks in this eBook can best be categorized as logical tricks. I have moved away from the term mathematical which is a good description for some of them, but not all: those that use probability (only one) and some that use modular arithmetic. Many rely on dealing cards based on an organized procedure that leads to marvelous results. Logical as a description works better because all of these tricks rely on methodical ways of handling the deck.

      More importantly, all the tricks, except one (the wine and water trick), are transparent. Nothing is done behind the victim’s back. In fact, I have changed many of the tricks so that they can be completely conducted by the victim. Watching the face of some of them as they unfold the marvelous punch lines has been marvelous too.

      As for our mascot, the Hidden Paw is one of the names T. S. Eliot gave to Macavity the Mystery Cat in his book Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats. Macavity was a puzzling cat. He drove Scotland Yard mad with puzzle solving frenzy. I hope you hear him purring as you solve these puzzles.

      The Hidden Paw has other eBooks:

      The Hidden Paw’s First 50 Puzzles

      The Hidden Paw’s Second 50 Puzzles

      The Hidden Paw’s Third 50 Puzzles

      There are more puzzles and puzzle books on www.thehiddenpaw.com.

      You will find other technical by the author on www.marginalbooks.com and literary works on www.marginalstories.com.

      Akram Najjar

      October 2016

      2.0 Who is the Hidden Paw?

      T. S. Eliot wrote a wonderful book called Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats. Eliot showed his love and understanding of cats as no other writer had done before or since. This book became the basis of the successful musical, Cats.

      One of the poems in the book is entitled: Macavity, the Mystery Cat. The Hidden Paw is one of the names of Macavity. What better name for the mascot of a puzzle book than the ginger Hidden Paw?

      Macavity: The Mystery Cat

      Macavity’s a Mystery Cat: he’s called the Hidden Paw --

      For he’s the master criminal who can defy the Law.

      He’s the bafflement of Scotland Yard, the Flying Squad’s despair:

      For when they reach the scene of crime -- Macavity’s not there!

      Macavity, Macavity, there’s no on like Macavity,

      He’s

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