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MAGIC WITH EVERYdAY ITEMS-
MAKING EASY MONEY
Ask your friends if they’d like to make some easy
money. If they would, they rst have to invest some.
Have a small paper plate on your hand. Tell them to
count ve dimes into it. Then tell them to hold their
hands together, cupped, and you put the ve dimes
back in their hands. When they count them, they
have TEN. (Actually, you had ve dimes secretly held
beneath the tray and when you tipped it to pour the
coins into their hands, you let go of them, so they slid
into the cupped hands also).
TELL THE COLOR
What you need: A Box of Crayons. What the audience
sees: you state to the audience you can tell what
color anything is just by touching it. To prove it, you
give out a box of crayons. While your back is turned,
the audience is told to select one crayon and hand it
to you. You then turn around to face the audience,
with the crayon still held behind you, and tell what
color it is. SECRET: When you are facing the audience
with the crayon behind your back, make a small line
with the crayon on your thumbnail, as shown in the
rst picture. Now bring this hand around in front of
you and rub your forehead with your ngers as if you
were puzzled (as in second picture). While you do
this, you can look at your thumbnail to see what color
was selected.
HOW TO VANISH A COIN
Show a coin, and then rub it on your left sleeve
several times. Drop it, as if by accident, but really on
purpose. Reach for it with your right hand, pretend-
ing to pick up, but actually pick it up with your left
hand. Now continue the rubbing with the right
hand, then open your right hand and show the coin
vanished.
KNOT IN A HANDKERCHIEF
Challenge your friends to try to tie a knot in a hand-
kerchief without letting go of the ends. Only you
can do it. Pull on two diagonal corners of a cotton
handkerchief and lay it on the table. Fold your arms
across your chest, putting left hand under right arm.
Now pick up a diagonal corner with each hand and
then pull the arms apart. A knot will tie in the center
of the handkerchief.
TO FIND A CARD IN A BORROWED DECK
Have a spectator select any card he likes from a deck
of cards, look at it, and lay it on top of the deck. Then
tell him to cut the deck. Now you run thru the deck
and nd hs selected card. SECRET: Before starting
the trick, look at the card on the bottom of the deck.
When he cuts the deck, he will automatically lay
that bottom card on top of the selected card. All you
have to do is to nd the bottom card, and name the
selected card.
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FINDING MONEY IN A BREAD ROLL
Have a quarter hidden in your hand. Ask a friend to
hand you a bread roll from the table. With one hand
on each end or side of the roll, bend it upward, at the
same time pushing the coin thru the broken bottom
of the roll. Now turn the top toward the group, break
it open and they will see the coin in the interior of the
roll. This trick is a big surprise, and good magic.