Help us get to over 8,749 articles in 2024.
If you know of a magician not listed in MagicPedia, start a New Biography for them. Contact us at magicpediahelp@gmail.com
Difference between revisions of "Clock Trick"
From Magicpedia, the free online encyclopedia for magicians by magicians.
m |
m |
||
Line 2: | Line 2: | ||
== History == | == History == | ||
− | A version done with coins, or other objects, was found by [[Bill Kalush]] in Nicolas Chuquet's Triparty, written in 1484, but never published.<ref>{{cc|cards:clock_trick | + | A version done with coins, or other objects, was found by [[Bill Kalush]] in Nicolas Chuquet's Triparty, written in 1484, but never published.<ref>{{cc|cards:clock_trick}}</ref> |
== Publications == | == Publications == | ||
Line 12: | Line 12: | ||
{{References}} | {{References}} | ||
− | + | * [http://www.conjuringarchive.com/show.php?cat=799 Clock Trick category in Denis Behr's "Conjuring Archive"] | |
[[Category:Card Plots]] | [[Category:Card Plots]] |
Latest revision as of 16:47, 15 August 2014
Clock Trick is a classic plot in card magic in which the cards are displayed corresponding to a 12-hour face of a clock and a card is divined usually using a mathematical principle.
History
A version done with coins, or other objects, was found by Bill Kalush in Nicolas Chuquet's Triparty, written in 1484, but never published.[1]
Publications
- De plusieurs nombre par ordre commençant par l'unité et disposé en rond, deviner lequel on aura pensé in Problèmes plaisants et délectables qui se font par les nombres written by Claude-Gaspar Bachet (1612)
- "The Clock" in More Conjuring by Hercat (1912)
- Encyclopedia of Card Tricks by Jean Hugard (1937)
- On the Clock Effect by Jon Racherbaumer (1971)
- Numerous versions in The Lost Notebooks of John Northern Hilliard (2001)
References
- ↑ Conjuring Credits' article on cards:clock_trick