You can see that his mind is perpetually inquisitive and his skills fine-tuned, so it's not surprising to learn that. Terry Roses challenged the leading card sharks around the world to defeat him in a duel at the gaming table. It had the feeling of something akin to a ouija board.
He said that the muscles on my wrist would telegraph to him what card it was and, sure enough, when he stopped my hand my finger was pointing at my card. He then spread the cards on the table and had me point while he was holding my wrist. He had me look at the deck and mentally select a card, which neither of us touched. He showed me various ways to force the four aces to the top or bottom of the deck, and other ways to cause an audience to marvel. He cut the deck, handed a group of cards to me and I dealt them out, counting 1-2-3-4 etc. He then said to pick a number between 1 and 52.
He then cut the cards and handed me the smaller portion of the deck. He demonstrated numerous tricks that showed his abilities to be nearly supernatural. His stage name at one time had been The Honest Cheat, and he was good. I never knew there were so many ways to rig dice. Throughout the afternoon Roses kept asking, "Are you ready for the good stuff?" From the start it was all good stuff. When high stakes power games take place, and real money is on the line, you can bet that somebody is going to try to find a new way to shift the odds in their favor. New technologies have raised the bar on what cheaters are capable of. It's one of the "holy grails" of cheating devices, produced by the Will & Finck Co. Check out this device for delivering a card you need from under your sleeve. There were contraptions from the Old West that show you how wild the Wild West really was. In addition to his array of rigged dice, Roses owns some of the equipment for rigging dice. And here are a variety of dice cheats, including cheats for some of the popular Chinese games. In fact, Roses has a whole display case of such items.įor example, here is a roulette wheel that at one time was in operation at a private establishment. A portion of Roses' collection is devoted to a variety of such items. Nevertheless not everyone is so transparent, and it's not surprising to discover how many and varied are the ways people have cheated to win. True, the odds are always in their favor, but they tell you up front what the odds are and you play at your own risk. Modern casinos make their fortunes by being above board, by creating honest gaming. On the other hand, no one wants to be deceived and cheated, whether playing poker with friends or gambling at a casino. They know they are being deceived, but they don't really care. Magicians fool your eyes and your minds, and audiences love it. As everyone knows, magic is all about deception.
#THE WILD CASE CHEATS FULL#
Space and time will not permit me a full discourse on this visit, so I will save a portion for later this week.īesides being a first-class professional magician, Roses is a collector and an inventor his inventions are the result of an inquiring mind that never ceases from asking questions and delving deeper into the mysteries of perception.īut let's start with the cheating devices. In addition I became a one-man audience to what are probably a few of his favorite, mind-blowing card tricks. Saturday I had the privilege of viewing a portion of Terry Roses' "laboratory of magic" and his various collections of rare books, cool geological items and remarkable (rare) gambling cheats. This is what I experienced Saturday in the presence of Terry Roses. The reason being that one day you will encounter something that really is astonishing, amazing and awesome. Writers need to be careful not to overuse words like astonishing and amazing and awesome.
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