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Mostly Perfect / Perfectly Possible: Combo
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Hans-Christian Solka (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Thursday 19 June, 2025)
EXCELLENT!
In Mostly Perfect, M. Daniels teaches sequential magic squares. Ideally, you can construct a so-called ‘most-perfect,’ ‘diabolic,’ ‘panmagic,’ ‘super-magic’ or ’pandiagonal’ magic square. The book is the MOST IMPORTANT magic book on 4x4 magic squares until 2015.
The Perfectly Possible method directly exploits a unique property of the ‘most perfect’ squares. Daniels’ methods are suitable for all even and odd sums.
BTW: The well-known 4x4 ‘most-perfect’ magic square used by Harry Lorayne dates back in magic to Robert A. Nelson in 1929 and was popularized by Theodore Annemann in “Book Without A Name” in 1931. Lorayne had - as was usually the case - forgotten to cite the sources.
The Cardsharp and his Book
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Hans-Christian Dr. Solka (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Wednesday 30 November, 2016)
Fascinating! Thrilling!
Chris Wasshuber solved a more then 100 years old mystery.
The search for Erdnase has been going on for decades.
But at now the magic community may be pretty sure Edward Gallaway will be generally accepted as S.W. Erdnase.
Chris Wasshuber can even explain the name S. W. Erdnase.
Erdnase actually comes from the German words Erd (earth or soil) and Nase (nose).
Chris Wasshuber explores Gallaway's opportunity, motive and means to prove his theory. Gallaway must be S.W. Erdnase!
13mm of Si Stebbins
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Hans-Christian Solka (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Thursday 21 January, 2016)
I read your book with great interest.
IMHO the 13mm approach is completely new for Si Stebbins. The approach is an elegant one. Easy to do and easy to remember.
Thank you very much for sharing the idea with the magic community.