Dice Stacking

From MagicPedia

Dice Stacking is the art of piling dice on top of each other. The performer scoops dice off a flat surface with a dice cup and then sets the cup down while moving it in a pattern that stacks the dice into a vertical column. Various dice arrangements, colors of dice, scooping patterns and props allow for many degrees of complexity and difficulty. Dice stacking is usually performed with canceled casino dice, as their square corners and edges give them an advantage when being stacked. It is often perceived by magicians as a juggling.

It was being done by Tony Platt in his a Milwaukee tavern in the 1930s. He taught it to Clarke Crandall, Johnny Paul and Ed Marlo.

Books

• Shoot the Works by Ed Marlo (1943)
• Dice Dexterity by Audley Walsh (1953).
• How to Stack Dice for Fun and No Profit by Clarke Crandall (1974)
• Ganson Teach-In Series. Bernard's Lesson On Dice Stacking (1979). Supreme Magic.
• Zack Stacks by Jim Zachary and George Schindler (1980)
• Arcade Dreams, Marlo Without Cards by Jon Racherbaumer (1997) includes a chapter on dice stacking.
• Dice Stacking Book by Todd Strong (1998)

References

• http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~roy/magictalk-wisdom/discussions/dice_stacking.html
• http://magicref.tripod.com/magref/magdice.htm