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Clock Trick
From Magicpedia, the free online encyclopedia for magicians by magicians.
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.
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)
