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One Ahead Principle

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The One Ahead Principle is a method of keeping a step ahead of the spectator during a trick. Jean Hugard, in Hugard's Magic Monthly (March 1954), explains that his principle is used mainly in mental magic but has also been applied in several cases to tricks with cards.[1]


Bilbliography

  • Grandin, in his revised and expanded in 1723 Récréations mathématiques et physiques by Jacques Ozanam, provides on of the first description of the One Ahead Principle for a three cards divination in French.
  • Behind the Scenes with the Mediums by David P. Abbott (1912)
  • PRACTICAL TELEPATHY by Joseph Ovette (1924)
  • Lesson #32, A Modern Crystal Gazing Act, A GOOD -ONE MAN--MIND-READING ACT, Tarbell Course, 1928

References

  1. ↑ Hugard's Magic Monthly, March 1954
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