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== Variations == | == Variations == | ||
* Ambitious Ace-Two-Three-Four-Five in Card Cavalcade II by Jerry Mentzer | * Ambitious Ace-Two-Three-Four-Five in Card Cavalcade II by Jerry Mentzer (1974) | ||
* A Matter of Psychology in "Ultra Cervon" (which he states was a reworking of a Ray Grismer idea). | * Limited Ambitions in Any Second Now by Martin Nash (1977) | ||
* Variance Variant by Allan Ackerman in Here's My Card (1978) | |||
* Jumping Gemini in Darwin Deceits by Darwin Ortiz (1979) | |||
* Con-Sequence in Shuffled Lecture by Max Maven (1981) | |||
* 5 Speed in Out Of Control by Chris Kenner | * Too Many Cards - The Complete Works Of Derek Dingle (1982) | ||
* Ambitious Classic Revisited by Bob White in It's a Matter of Style | * The Magic "Six" by Ron Ferris in Apocalypse Vol. 6, no. 12, December 1983 | ||
* Fourlorn in Cardopolis by David Britland and Marc Russell (1984) | |||
* Amorphous Aces by Brother Hamman in Secrets of Brother John Hamman (1989) | |||
* Variation Of Ambitious Card Variation" by Paul Gordon in Lecture Notes # 1 (1989) and reprinted in "Card Marvels" (2009). | |||
* A Matter of Psychology in "Ultra Cervon" (which he states was a reworking of a Ray Grismer idea) (1990). | |||
* 5 Speed in Totally Out Of Control by Chris Kenner (1992) | |||
* Family Circus in Don't Blink by James Swain (1992) | |||
* Ambitious Classic Revisited by Bob White in It's a Matter of Style lecture notes and [[Genii 2006 March]] | |||
* Ambitious Ace to Five by Nick Trost in Subtle Card Creations, Volume 1 (2008) | |||
* The Ambitious Classic Revisited by James Swain | * The Ambitious Classic Revisited by James Swain | ||
== References == | == References == | ||
Revision as of 13:44, 28 September 2010
Ambitious Classic is a small packet Ambitious Card routine which circulated in the underground magic community (starting with Persi Diaconis[1] before a version by Larry Jennings was finally published in Epilogue Special No. 3 (1975) and later in The Classic Magic of Larry Jennings.
Effect: Several cards in sequence (usually the Ace through Five), each rise to the top of the small packet one at a time and is set aside, until there's only one card left, which is then discovered to have magically changed into a completely different card.
This routine which became popular after Derek Dingle performed his version (Too Many Cards) on The Dick Cavett Show.
Prior Art
- Ambitious Ten in Ibidem No. 10 (June 1957)
- Amorphous Aces by Brother Hamman later published in Secrets of Brother John Hamman [1]
Variations
- Ambitious Ace-Two-Three-Four-Five in Card Cavalcade II by Jerry Mentzer (1974)
- Limited Ambitions in Any Second Now by Martin Nash (1977)
- Variance Variant by Allan Ackerman in Here's My Card (1978)
- Jumping Gemini in Darwin Deceits by Darwin Ortiz (1979)
- Con-Sequence in Shuffled Lecture by Max Maven (1981)
- Too Many Cards - The Complete Works Of Derek Dingle (1982)
- The Magic "Six" by Ron Ferris in Apocalypse Vol. 6, no. 12, December 1983
- Fourlorn in Cardopolis by David Britland and Marc Russell (1984)
- Amorphous Aces by Brother Hamman in Secrets of Brother John Hamman (1989)
- Variation Of Ambitious Card Variation" by Paul Gordon in Lecture Notes # 1 (1989) and reprinted in "Card Marvels" (2009).
- A Matter of Psychology in "Ultra Cervon" (which he states was a reworking of a Ray Grismer idea) (1990).
- 5 Speed in Totally Out Of Control by Chris Kenner (1992)
- Family Circus in Don't Blink by James Swain (1992)
- Ambitious Classic Revisited by Bob White in It's a Matter of Style lecture notes and Genii 2006 March
- Ambitious Ace to Five by Nick Trost in Subtle Card Creations, Volume 1 (2008)
- The Ambitious Classic Revisited by James Swain