User Manual

STATIC SNAKE CHARMER
EFFECT: You remove a plastic straw from its wrap-
per. Using the straw as a “magic wand” you command
the wrapper to dance around the table. You will
need: a plastic drinking straw still in its wrapper.
METHOD: You tear o the tip of the wrapper and
throw it away. Gripping the straw at the tip with the
ngers of one hand, and rmly squeezing the wrap-
per with the ngers of the other hand, quickly pull
the straw from the wrapper and drop the wrapper on
the table.
Now, using the straw as a “magic wand” without
touching the wrapper, slowly wave the straw over
the end of the wrapper. The straw wrapper should
sway around by itself as if in a hypnotic trance. If the
eect starts to wear o after a minute or two, you can
re-energize the wrapper by stroking it briskly along
the straw.
This eect is due to static electricity. It is a real fun
eect and works MOST of the time but can sometimes
vary in eectiveness depending on weather condi-
tions.
OPEN SESAME
Deal out 3 piles of seven cards face down. Ask a
spectator to choose a pile. You then pick up the pile
that the spectator selected and display the cards in a
fan facing the audience. (It is not necessary for you
to see the front of the cards) Then ask the spectator
to look at the cards and choose one, instructing them
not to tell you which card they chose.
1) Put the cards that the spectator chose face down
in between the other to piles to make one pile of 21
cards.
2) Deal out the cards one at a time into 3 piles of
seven moving left to right.
3) Pick up each pile individually and then display the
cards to the volunteer asking them to indicate which
of the piles contains the chosen card. (They must not
name their selected card.)
Repeat steps 1 to 3 one more time. After the steps are
completed say the magic words “OPEN SESAME” You
then pick up the pile of 21 cards and spell O-P-E-N-
S-E-S-A-M-E by placing one card face down on the
table per each letter spelled. Turn up the next card
after spelling OPEN SESAME to reveal their selected
card.
ADDITONAL TRICKS
SIX SHOOTER:
Place the four sixes on top of your deck of cards before
you do this trick. You also need a pen or pencil and a
piece of paper.
Remove the four top cards from the top of your deck
of cards. (These are the four sixes you put there
already) and lay these cards face down in a pile in
front of the audience. Then remove six cards from the
deck and place these cards in a separate pile.
Tell the spectator that you read minds, and tell them
which pile they will choose. Write “You picked the six
pile” on your piece of paper and fold it and put it right
alongside the cards. Tell the spectator to choose one
of the piles and then read the paper. No matter which
pile is chosen the note is true. One pile contains the
four sixes and the other pile contains six cards. After
the trick is nished put both piles on top of the deck.
Do not let them see both piles of cards.
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