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Michael Daniels
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Lybrary has just released my simple guide to the Gilbreath Principle, which includes "two killer routines" (purchaser's unsolicited review).

http://www.lybrary.com/understanding-and......861.html

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A good start would be the reference math book by Brent Morris. It is a generalization of faro shuffle, a tool needed for analyzing the Gilbreath principle.
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Hello,

first of all, sorry for my terrible English. Please, could you help me? It is all about Max Maven's The Hawk. It seems to me that it doesn't work 100 %. Do you have the same experience? Or what is the mistake? It works about 80 % of time, but not always.
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This problem has been addressed on a thread I think in the All in the cards section. If I remember correctly Tomas Blomberg has a solution for this. Sorry I can't provide a link right now. I suggest do a Google search with keywords Maven Hawk Blomberg magic Café.
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On Feb 19, 2018, adiabaticman wrote:
This problem has been addressed on a thread I think in the All in the cards section. If I remember correctly Tomas Blomberg has a solution for this. Sorry I can't provide a link right now. I suggest do a Google search with keywords Maven Hawk Blomberg magic Café.


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Here's Tomas Blomberg's fix:

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On May 31, 2006, TomasB wrote:
This won't make any sense unless you are familiar with Max Maven's clever The Hawk.

A fix for The Hawk
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Have the two spectators cut the deck repeatedly. Spectator 1 takes the top card and spectator 2 takes the next card. Both are asked to remember the cards. Ask spectator 1 to place his card on top of the deck and cut the deck as directed in "The Hawk", but just before he does, say "Oh wait, you might suspect that I caught a glimpse of the bottom card somehow. Please put the bottom card of the deck away in your pocket." He will pocket the bottom card then cut the deck after which you go through the rest of Max Maven's "The Hawk" to right after the shuffle. Ask spectator 2 to replace his card about a quarter from the bottom of the deck. You are set to complete "The Hawk".

After you have gone through the routine and revealed the two selections, you can say "You really made it hard for me by putting that Five of Spades in your pocket!"

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Almost two decades later, this is the closest I got to being true to Max's original:

Have spectator 1 cut the deck repeatedly then spread off the top three cards and table the deck. He is to peek the bottom card of his triple, then move the top card to the bottom to "hide his card".

Have spectator 2 look at the top card of the deck, while spectator 1 replaces his three cards to the top of the deck. Spectator 2 replaces his selection on top of all.

Ask spectator 2 "to also hide his card" by cutting about a quarter from bottom to top to cover it. Then a riffle shuffle is done, and you continue as in Max's original, but important to _not_ allow the spectators to cut after the riffle shuffle.

/Tomas
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