My review of The Card Puzzle is now available
here.
Why people hate magicians
Last month I was really happy to find something worthwhile in The Linking Ring. Alas, the latest issue arrived and undid most of that goodwill. In the Parade from the British Ring, there's a trick where a member of the audience is instructed to remove a piece of paper from an envelope they've been handed. Here's what they find:
Now I suppose an apologist might dismiss this as "British humor," but in my view the I.B.M. should not be encouraging this kind of audience abuse by featuring this routine in their journal.
