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- ↑ kammagic. "Ambitious Card Routine Kamm". YouTube. Retrieved 2008-01-05. One of many versions of the Ambitious Card Routine available on internet video.
- ↑ Wilson, Mark (1988) [1975]. Mark Wilson's Complete Course In Magic. Courage Books. ISBN 0-89471-623-9. The Elevator card, p. 85
- ↑ "Who Invented It?". Magic Tricks .com. Archived from the original on 31 December 2007. Retrieved 2008-01-05.
Alberti ... French magician, late 1800s, said to have invented Ambitious Card.
- ↑ Hugard, Jean, ed. (1937). "The Ambitious Card" . Encyclopedia of Card Tricks. New York City: Max Holden. pp. 282–83.
- ↑ Hugard, Jean; Braue, Fredrick (1999). Royal Road to Card Magic (1st Ed. reprint ed.). Dover. ISBN 978-0-486-40843-9.
- ↑ Erdnase, S. W. (1995). The Expert at the Card Table: The Classic Treatise on Card Manipulation (1st Ed. reprint ed.). Dover. ISBN 978-0-486-28597-9.
- ↑ Giobbi, Roberto (2000). Card College. Vols 1-5. (Illustrated ed.). Seattle, WA: Hermetic Pr.
- ↑ Tannen, Louis (1961). Stars of Magic (1st ed.). New York: Louis Tannen Publishers.
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