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Information
gathered from the
pages of the Guinness Book of World Records and magic periodicals.
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Highest Paid Magical
Performer
David Copperfield (Fortune 500 list) |
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Largest
Magic Club
International Magicians
Society
Founded in NYC in 1968, it has over 23,000 members |
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Oldest
Magic Club
Society of American
Magicians
Founded on May 10, 1902 |
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Fastest Magician
Eldon D. Wigton ("Dr. Eldoonie")
Performed 225 different tricks in 2 minutes in Kilbourne, OH on April 21,
1991 |
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Longest
Running Magic Show
Le Grand David (Cabot
St Theater, Beverly, MA)
Still running, this show has had over 2,000 performances, starting on
Feb. 20, 1977 |
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Longest
Running TV Magic Program
Magicland
(WMC-TV, Memphis TN)
Broadcast more than 1,200 episodes between
January 1966 and
January 1989
Hosted by Dick "Mr. Magic" Williams |
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Largest Card Fan
Ralf Laue
Held 326 standard playing cards in a fan in one hand, so that the value and color of each one was visible, in Leipzig, Germany, on March 18, 1994 |
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Largest
Jumbo Card Production
Naipes Heraclio Fournier
Produced 150 packs of jumbo playing cards, each card measuring 37in x
26.5 in. Vitoria, Spain, on October 29, 1998 |
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Farthest Card Toss
Rick Smith (more
info)
Threw a standard playing card 216 feet, 4 inches at Cleveland State
Convocation Center, Cleveland OH on March 21, 2002 |
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Strongest Magician
Ken Simmons
Can bench press over 500 lbs. (11-97 Linking Ring) |
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Largest
Handcuff Colection
Chris Gower (Dorset,
England)
Collection of more than 530 pairs |
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Youngest First Place FISM
Winner
Thomas Meier
Won the close-up contest in 1997, at age 19 |
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Tallest House of Cards
Bryan Berg
Built a card house 120 stories high (each story being the length of one card) in Las Vegas
(televised on Guinness' TV show) |
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Longest Memorized Card
Sequence
Dominic O' Brien
Memorized with a single sighting a random sequence of 40 separate decks of cards (2080
cards in all) that had been shuffled together, with only one mistake, at the BBC studios,
Elstree, England on November 26, 1993 |
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Longest Memorized Card
Sequence- US Record
Frost McKee
Memorized with a single sighting a random sequence of 36 separate decks of cards (1872
cards in all) that had been shuffled together, with only eight mistakes, at the Ramada
Inn, Georgetown, TX on October 17-18, 1992 |
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Fastest Deck Memorization
Tom Groves
Memorized the order of single deck of cards in 42.01 seconds, Jesus College, Cambridge,
England, On November 3rd, 1994 |
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Most Expensive Deck of Cards
The highest price paid for a deck of cards is $143,352 purchased by the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York City at Sotheby's in London, on December 6, 1983. The cards, circa
1470-85, are believed to be the oldest known complete hand-painted deck |
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Most Expensive Single
Playing Card
The highest price paid for a single card is $7450 for a card dated 1717, which was used as
currency in Canada. It was sold by dealer Yasha Beresiner to Lars Karlson (Sweden) in
October 1990 |
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Most Charlier Cuts in 30
Seconds (Unofficial Record)
Ashford Kneitel reports that he bested the record of 24 Charlier cuts in 30 seconds.
Ashford can do 28. |
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