How many card tricks in the world?

Lionheart · Jan 30, 2010

Hi, guys!I am very interesting card tricks! And I want to know how many card tricks in the world ?

Sidekick · Jan 30, 2010

seriously? or is this a joke?

dejavu05 · Jan 30, 2010

Welcome to Theory11! It's hard to judge how many card tricks really exist. There are probably thousands of card tricks invented, including many variations.

SKSleighofHand · Jan 30, 2010

There's thousands of them.

visualartist · Jan 30, 2010

too many.

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chriswiehl · Jan 30, 2010

im pretty sure its about 4310 differnt tricks

Pendrick · Jan 30, 2010

chriswiehl said:
im pretty sure its about 4310 differnt tricks

Haha, really? Where did you come up with THAT FIGURE?!

Slicke · Jan 30, 2010

there are endless amount of card tricks

Kontents · Jan 30, 2010

The Answer to the Ultimate Question of card tricks in the Universe, and the world is......

42.

Here is how I got the answer:

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Lionheart · Jan 31, 2010

Sorry, guys!I'm probably wrong to said!Maybe my question correctly is how many card effects?

visualartist · Jan 31, 2010

Lionheart said:
Sorry, guys!I'm probably wrong to said!Maybe my question correctly is how many card effects?

same question.
Same answer.

industrialchild · Jan 31, 2010

There are two card tricks in the world. In the first trick the magician finds a spectator's selection in either a direct or roundabout away. In the second trick, there is no selection, just magic with cards.

Many effects and plots, but from an objective point of view. Only two tricks

MaxKidd · Jan 31, 2010

last time i counted there was 4356373

visualartist · Jan 31, 2010

industrialchild said:
There are two card tricks in the world. In the first trick the magician finds a spectator's selection in either a direct or roundabout away. In the second trick, there is no selection, just magic with cards.

Many effects and plots, but from an objective point of view. Only two tricks

that also makes total sense in saying there are only two

spades894 · Jan 31, 2010

I think maybe he means categories, such as: Sandwich, Transposition, Color Change, etc.

Slicke · Jan 31, 2010

Lionheart said:
Sorry, guys!I'm probably wrong to said!Maybe my question correctly is how many card effects?

Okay, a card trick is an effect.

card trick = card effect.

But i'm pretty sure u mean something else. Describe your question to us and give us an example

RikAllen · Feb 1, 2010

...must belong to different categories of effects. Therefore, it's important that we clarify what these categories are.

Appearance, disappearance, transformation, transposition, penetration, location, destruction and restoration, telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, telekinesis ----virtually all effects are variations of these.

Roberto Giobbi Card College Volume 2 page 430.

Was just reading this over yesterday, it's a good answer I think. If you need examples of each king just ask someone, we can probably provide videos of each.