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Revision as of 23:13, 15 January 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
- A Matter of Psychology in "Ultra Cervon" (which he states was a reworking of a Ray Grismer idea).
- Amorphous Aces by Brother Hamman in Secrets of Brother John Hamman
- Limited Ambitions in Any Second Now by Martin Nash
- Too Many Cards - The Complete Works Of Derek Dingle
- 5 Speed in Out Of Control by Chris Kenner
- Ambitious Classic Revisited by Bob White in It's a Matter of Style" lecture notes and Genii 2006 March
- The Ambitious Classic Revisited by James Swain
- James Swaim in "Don't blink"
- Too Many Cards - The Complete Works Of Derek Dingle
- Con-Sequence in Focus by Max Maven
- Jumping Gemini by Darwin Ortiz.
- Variation Of Ambitious Card Variation" by Paul Gordon in "Lecture Notes # 1" (1989) and reprinted in "Card Marvels" (2009).
- Fourlorn in CARDOPOLIS — David Britland and Marc Russell
- Variance Variant by Allan Ackerman in Here's My Card
- The Magic "Six" by Ron Ferris in Apocalypse Vol. 6-10
- Ambitious Ace to Five by Nick Trost in Subtle Card Creations - Volume 1