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Tetradistic (halves shuffled) 4 wheel slot Machine - spectators create Stebbins with just 7 spins

Because Stebbins is a tetradistic stack (repeating 13 values) and because the suit color is repeated in the second 26 cards, this allows some shortcuts to allow 2 spectator teams to unknowingly stack the deck for you.

Before the presentation, make sure that the Ace of spades is the top card of your CHaSeD Stebbins stack. You will split the stack at the midway Point so that one team has the 26 cards with the Ace of spades through the Jack of diamonds, and the other team has the 26 cards with the Ace of clubs through the Jack of hearts.

The two halves do not have to be in order at the time you give them to the two teams, but they must have precisely the correct 26 cards in each half.
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Each column below is a spin (W means Wheel).
Chased Si Stebbins (4 Wheels, seven spins):

No suit is indicated, the B means black, the R means red:

W1-BA, R4, B7, R10, BK, R3, B6,
W2-R9, BQ, R2, B5, R8, BJ, RA,
W3-B4, R7, B10, --, RK, B3, --,
W4-R6, B9, RQ, B2, R5, B8, RJ

Above is the suit color chart.
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Note that there will be two spectator teams (might only be one person on each team). The first team has the first half of the Stebbins deck and the second team has the second half of the Stebbins deck but both halves are shuffled separately by the spectators and kept separate with their respective teams. The spectators do not know that they have mirrored colored halves.

The "--" will simply show the word "NO" (only happens two places, no card is placed on that pile for that spin).

The spins do not specify a suit, only the color of the suit.

The two teams have their own four discard piles. Therefore, there are eight discard piles.

On any spin the team that completes their four cards first gets a point. The winner of the seven spins gets a humorous prize.

The magician picks up the face up piles placing them on top of the next pile in this order:

Second team fourth pile
Second team, third pile
Second team, second pile
Second team first pile
First team, fourth pile
First team third pile
First team, second pile
First team first pile

The magician gives out a little prize and then turns the deck face down.

The deck is now in Si Stebbins CHaSeD order with the Ace of spades as the very first card.

For the Redford users, this can easily be shuffled into the Redford stack.

I plan to post seven links to my grok mp4s that will do this for the chased si stebbins.

In the meantime, you can use seven blank cards and hand write the 4 Stebbins cards on each of these blank cards that I am referring to as "Bandit" cards.

The first Bandit card:
" Black Ace, Red 9, Black 4, Red 6"

The second Bandit card:
" Red 4, Black Queen, Red 7, Black 9"

And so on through the last (the 7th) Bandit card (see the suit color chart above).
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Be sure to false shuffle the seven Bandit cards before starting the presentation as you say "we will use a random list of cards".
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Actually the above chart (spins) works for both chased and shocked Stebbins.
This is because in both cases the magician gives the proper halves to the two teams.
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For this four-wheel seven spins Stebbins /tetradistic method I suggest each team have four blank cards that are about a 1/4 inch short and the cards have written respectively B I N G (short for bingo).

These are pile designators and correspond to the four wheels on the slot machine and because they are short, this allows (at the end of all the spins) the magician to easily pickup the normal cards only in the sequence stated further above.
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Here are the links to my G drive videos for the bandit slot machine 4 wheel no suit specified method for Stebbins (works for chased or shocked) but make sure that the two teams have the proper half of 26 cards (the cards can be in any order at the start). The two teams have four face-up "discard" piles (8 discard piles total).
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Stebb four wheel spin 1:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ULWy0Qu......drivesdk

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Stebb four wheel spin 2:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ne5ONVU......drivesdk

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Stebb four wheel spin 3:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fZ6PgOx......drivesdk

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Stebb four wheel spin 4:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_ea7-5C......drivesdk

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Stebb four wheel spin 5:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tyNt3EB......drivesdk

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Stebb four wheel spin 6:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1F8F7Jg7......drivesdk

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Stebb four wheel spin 7:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_WpP8k8......drivesdk

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Please post below if you were able to use this and any suggestions you may have.
Thanks.
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