Psycho-trinket

Psycho-trinket shaped like a pocket watch, circa 1910.

A psycho-trinket is a small, mind-altering machine.

Psycho-trinkets were given out as consolation prizes to unsuccessful contestants on the reality TV show Who Wants to Be a Chronometer?.

In the News

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  Dog swallows clock.

Fiction cross-reference

• Who Wants to Be a Chronometer?

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Machine (nonfiction)
• The Phantom Tollbooth (nonfiction)
• Time (nonfiction)