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About Mark S. Farrar AIMC
Expertise
I can answer questions on stacked decks, mnemonics and magic squares.

Experience
I have worked with stacked decks for many years, and am an avid reader of Simon Aronson's work in this area.

I have been using mnemonics for over 30 years, often in conjunction with Magic Squares (see below).

I wrote a book on Magic Squares as my "entrance examination" to become a Member of The Magic Circle, and regularly receive and answers e-mails on this subject.

Organizations
I am an Associate of The Inner Magic Circle, as well as belonging to the Northamptonshire Magicians' Club.

Publications
I have also written a series on stacked deck magic for The Young Magicians' Club magazine.

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Topic: Magic and Illusion

Expert: Mark S. Farrar AIMC
Date: 3/25/2008
Subject: magic, duh

Question
Can you teach me how to do the magic square trick?
Or the magic triangle or something to that affect?

Answer
Hi!

Thanks for your question.

As this is a bit hard to explain when I can only use plain text to reply, I've uploaded an extract from my book about Magic Squares to the following address:

http://www.MagicSquaresBook.com/downloads/MagicSquareFormulae.pdf

If you download this file (you'll need a copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader on your computer, but this is free and you probably have it already), you should find a couple of methods you can use to create a 4 x 4 Magic Square.

If you haven't already done so, you should also check out my personal website where I have several pages about Magic Squares:

http://www.MagicSquares.org/

Best wishes,

Mark

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