Output 18 - Aluminum Fold

I miss card-problems. I asked a friend once if he would give me a card problem. He joked, Steve, you have enough problems. Fair enough.But, I miss the days of problems with parameters. A couple years ago, in a session, my friend Kent suggested one with a very specific objective:“I don’t like the Mercury Fold.”Others in the session had opinions on the timing, cover, angles.But I’ve learned over the years that not every problem is best solved head-on. So instead, I asked myself: When’s the earliest I can start folding this thing? That led me to consider Roger Klause’s idea of Half Moves.I started backtracking — all the way to the moment the card first goes into the deck. And that was the start of one of the most direct card folds I know.Two decks down, a pile of folded cards on the table and ten minutes later — each card an experimentation inching along to a solution — I had it. You can find this finesse, along with some other card stunners in my latest PDF of Output 18. Also in this iss