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The Eight Monarchs (Some Mathematical Magic), Jeremiah Farrell, Eric Nelson
The Eight Monarchs (Some Mathematical Magic), Jeremiah Farrell, Eric Nelson
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The eight Monarchs are the four Kings and four Queens of an ordinary deck of cards. We can perform our magic without a deck by using the grid below with the K-Q token ( a coin can be used instead if one wishes).
The Effect: The magician's back will be turned while Mark, the subject, places the token on one of the suit nodes. Mark is to remember this starting position. Then Mark makes a sequence of moves; a move being one of four possibilities: a horizontal move, a vertical move, or a diagonal move to a new node or …