Saturday, February 11, 2023

Magician fools self

 Today, the most amazing thing happened.   I'd just opened a brand new deck of cards, shuffled them a dozen or so times, and started to practice a trick.


And I knew for a fact that the bottom card of the deck was a 6 of Spades.   But when I dealt the top card of the deck face up....it was a 6 of Spades.  I was buffaloed... no clue what had happened.

Imagine my confusion when I spread out the deck and saw a deck of all diamonds and Spades...with just a sprinkling of Clubs.

In all of my years....and all of the 1000's of decks I've gone through, I've never had a misboxed deck.   I've had decks with rough cut marks, I've had decks with severe warpage....but NEVER a misbox.

As you can see in the picture above, I have 2 of every Diamond, except the Jack, Queen and King.

I have 2 of every Spade, and I have standalone 10,J,Q,K of Clubs.

And I realize I could send the Ace of Spades back to Bicycle and they'd send me a new deck.....but I'd rather keep this deck as a reminder of what it feels like to be fooled.

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