https:\/\/robertjwallace.com\/diceroller.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\nSo, like in Trost’s version the aces are placed with five cards between two of the aces and five cards on top of the other two aces, i.e. AAXXXXXAAXXXXX, with the XXXXX cards on top of the deck. I get to that condition by having the spectator shuffle the deck and then using my two-step cull to get the four aces on top of the deck. I then riffle shuffle five cards between the pairs of aces and then add five cards on top with either another riffle shuffle, or and overhand shuffle, or a double undercut to transfer cards from the bottom of the deck to the top.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Of course you could have the deck pre-set.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Open the dice roller app on your phone. Demonstrate the rolling of the dice. Have the spectator roll them several times. When they are happy you look at the first die’s number. Subtract that from six and move that number of cards to the bottom with either a double undercut or an overhand shuffle. For example if the first die was showing a 4, double undercut two cards from the top to the bottom of the deck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now you have two choices. You can do the trick as Nick Trost does it. Deal out four piles each with the number of cards that is shown of the die. If you do that the first pile will have an Ace on top, the second pile will have an Ace on the bottom, the third pile will have an Ace on top and the fourth pile will have an Ace on the bottom. Turn the top cards over to show those aces, and turn the other two piles completely over to show the other two aces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What I like to do is to use a second deal. So I deal normally for the first pile, but the next pile I hold back the first card (the ace) and deal it on the last card. I repeat that for the next two piles. Note the if the second or fourth piles show a one, then they don’t need a second.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the worst case, if the second and fourth die show sixes, then you would have to deal ten second deals, five for each pile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In practice, this would rarely happen. For example, you might roll a 2, 1, 6, and a 3. Deal 2 cards into a pile. Deal 1 into the next pile, deal 6 into the third pile, then deal two seconds and then the last ace. You now have aces on top of each pile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Afterthoughts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
If you cull the four aces to the top of the deck you can also get them into position with an overhand stack. I run two cards, and as I come down for the next run I pick up those to cards with the bottom of the deck, keeping a right thumb break above them. Run seven cards below those two, and as you come down for the next run break the deck at the break and run five cards on top of those cards. Injog and shuffle off. Cut to the injog and you are set.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Instead of the second deal, just be very nonchalant. Casually deal of the first number of cards to a pile. Make some comment like, “that is one pile of n cards, the next pile as m” . As you say this push off “M” cards in a block and drop them as a pile next to the first. Deal the third pile and then repeat the push off for the last pile. The trick is to be very casually and act as if how you make the piles is unimportant. With the four piles on the table set the deck aside and comment on the random nature of the dice. This provides some time misdirection away from how the piles were made. Then tell the spectator to turn over the top card of each pile to reveal the aces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Another alternative is to deal all four piles and then tell the spectator that to make them really random you will shuffle each pile. Use an overhand shuffle to leave the aces in place on piles 1 and 3, and to bring the aces in piles 2 and 4 to the top of those piles.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In volume 5 of Nick Trost’s Subtle Card Creations is a trick titled Dice Decider. The basic concept is that the spectator rolls 4 dice and the magician uses those numbers to create 4 piles, which then reveal four aces.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[140,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ace-trick","category-magic"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Bob","author_link":"https:\/\/robertjwallace.com\/es\/author\/admin\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertjwallace.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertjwallace.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertjwallace.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertjwallace.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertjwallace.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7018"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/robertjwallace.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7024,"href":"https:\/\/robertjwallace.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7018\/revisions\/7024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertjwallace.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertjwallace.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertjwallace.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}