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Difference between revisions of "Jordan Count"
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*Modified Jordan Count by Larry Jennings, for five cards, Larry Jennings on Card & Coin Handling. | *Modified Jordan Count by Larry Jennings, for five cards, Larry Jennings on Card & Coin Handling. | ||
*McCount by John McClure, accomplishing the same as Jordan Count, Apocalypse Vol. 20, N° 9, september 1997, page 2835. | *McCount by John McClure, accomplishing the same as Jordan Count, Apocalypse Vol. 20, N° 9, september 1997, page 2835. | ||
| − | *[[Jorback Count]] by Phil Goldstein, mates the Back Count (aka Flustration Count) with the Jordan Count using the | + | *[[Jorback Count]] by Phil Goldstein, mates the Back Count (aka Flustration Count) with the Jordan Count using the Biddle Grip, The Linking Ring, October 1982. |
== History == | == History == | ||
Revision as of 07:21, 14 June 2008
A false card display showing four cards as four, hiding the fourth card.
After the count, it usually leaves the cards in perfect order to do an Elmsley Count.
Described in "Charles Jordan's Best Card tricks", 1992, compiled by Karl Fulves.
Ed Marlo tried to claim credit for the sleight, retitling it The Flexible Count and publishing variations in The New Tops.
Variations
- Double Jordan by David Evans, X cards as five count, only 3 faces seen, Apocalypse Vol. 7, N° 3, march 1984, page 895.
- Modified Jordan Count by Larry Jennings, for five cards, Larry Jennings on Card & Coin Handling.
- McCount by John McClure, accomplishing the same as Jordan Count, Apocalypse Vol. 20, N° 9, september 1997, page 2835.
- Jorback Count by Phil Goldstein, mates the Back Count (aka Flustration Count) with the Jordan Count using the Biddle Grip, The Linking Ring, October 1982.
History
First published by Charles Jordan in Thirty Card Mysteries (1919) under his Phantom Aces trick. It was brought back to light in 1963 by British magician Francis Haxton.1
1Charles Jordan's Best Card Tricks by Karl Fulves, page 247.
