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MAGIC WITH EVERYdAY ITEMS
Here are tricks done with items usually found around the house.
BE A MIND READER
Many television shows feature mentalists who predict
the future, etc; and you can read minds too. Leave
the room and have the people at the party select
an object in the room. When you return, you can
tell them what they selected. How: You need an
assistant who secretly helps you. When you return he
names o objects, and you san “no” to them. But the
rst one he names after he has named are object will
be the one they selected. For the one you say: “yes.”
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THE SIX COIN CAPER
What you will need: Six coins, preferably all alike,
such as six pennies. What the audience sees: You
re-arrange these six coins as in the rst picture, so
that they form two straight rows of four coins each…
after the audience has tried to do it and failed.
SECRET: Arrange the coins on a at surface as
shown in the rst picture. Challenge your audience
to re-arrange the coins to form two straight rows of
four coins each. After they have tried and failed, you
simply place Coin 4 on top of coin 2, as shown in the
second picture. Boy doing this, you form two straight
rows of four coins each!
THE TWO RED CARDS TRICK
This trick is a good example of how an audience
can fool itself. Before you do the trick, put the 8 of
Hearts on top of a deck and the 7 of Diamonds on the
bottom. When you perform, show the audience an 8
of Diamonds and a 7 of Hearts. Fan the deck and ask
someone to slide these two cards anywhere in the
deck, so as to lose them. Close the pack, tap it, and
slide the top and bottom cars o o to the table. Turn
them over, pick and show, and your audience will
never notice the cards are not the ones put into the
deck. Try it!
THE BLOWAWAY
Lay three pieces of paper on the back of your hand.
Tell the spectator to try to blow away the two end
pieces without blowing o the middle piece. No mat-
ter how he tries he can’t do it! You show him how, by
holding your nger down on the middle one.
PARTY FUN
Tear a square of heavy paper into nine pieces as in the
sketch. Hand the centerpiece to someone to write a
girl’s name. Let the other guests write boys’ names
on all the other pieces. You can tell when blindfolded,
which one has the girl’s name because all four sides
are rough from tearing; all others have at least one
straight edge.
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