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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTell me how this trick works
http://biertijd.com/mediaplayer/?itemid=40360I've watched it several times and can't for the life of me how to explain this
Be gone for a while as I'm off to the stores. I'll check in later.
thanks
corkhead
(6,119 posts)the pieces he set up no longer match up square. there are fractional pieces in the crack that add up to be 3
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geckosfeet
(9,644 posts)Stop the action here. Here you can see the extra square just behind his right forefinger - in front of his thumb as he slides it towards the edge of the table.
Start stop and you can see where he drops the square off the table. Here he moves it to the edge to drop the square off.
And them moves the remaining piece into place minus the extra square.
Violla. It's magic.
It's a lot harder to see where he is pulling the extra pieces from in the first half of the trick - but be assured - they are coming from somewhere.
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Recursion
(56,582 posts)That's the first thing to look for. Also, I think that first cut at about 0:25 is important.
petronius
(26,602 posts)exactly straight and consistent, so they fit together differently with different patterns. When all pieces are used (start and finish) they're arranged to fit tightly, but when they're rearranged there are enough small gaps between pieces to add up to a missing square...