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MAGIC WITH EVERYdAY ITEMS-
THE MAGIC PAGE FINDER
Take a storybook and push a card in at a certain page
(say, page 50) leaving it sticking out a tiny bit. When
ready to perform, oer the other end of the book to
someone and ask them to stick a card in at random.
You will tell them what page they just chose. Now
hold the book in both hands to “concentrate” but as
you do so, turn the book around, pushing his card
out of sight between the pages. Name the page (of
course naming the page your own card is at,) and
open the book to prove it.
MORE MONEY MAGIC
This trick can be made to look like real magic. Use
older bills and wad up a few of them. Press them into
the inside of your elbow, so your sleeve folds conceal
them. Now borrow a dollar from someone and say
that you will multiply it by magic right before their
eyes. Pull up your sleeves to show nothing hidden,
and as you do this, push the borrowed and folded
up dollar bill in among the hidden. Take the wad of
crushed up dollars into your hand secretly, and begin
to pull out dollar bills – by magic!
HOW YOU CAN ALWAYS WIN
This is real trickery, which you can do once for the
same audience. Tell them to try to guess whether the
money in your hand is odd or even. Jingle the coins
but don’t show them. Have a dime, a nickel and ve
pennies. If “even” is called, say you have seven coins.
If “odd” is called, say you have twenty cents.
AN OPTICAL ILLUSION
How many triangles can you
count in this star? Better
count them again, because
there are 97!
MAKE IT JUMP
What you need: A RUBBER BAND. What the audience
sees: You make a rubber bank jump magically from
one pair of ngers to another. SECRET: Place a rubber
band around your rst two ngers as shown in the
rst picture. Now curl your ngers in and secretly
put the band over the tips of the ngers as shown in
picture two. To make the band jump, just straighten
out your ngers as in the third picture. When you do
the same thing in reverse, the band can be made to
jump back.
FOOLING BY SOUND
Have a coin in your hand, which you toss from one
hand to another. Tell one of the guests to take it and
reach it to him across the table. He goes to take it
but there is no coin, yet he distinctly heard the click
as you put the coin down. The secret is that you had
the coin in the other hand and clicked it on the table
as you reached the empty hand over toward him,
making a move as if putting down a coin. This fools
anyone, the sound is so convincing.
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