Instructions / Assembly

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87. VANISHING COIN
SUPPLIES NEEDED: Any coin
SHOW: Show a coin, and then rub it on your left sleeve several times. Drop it, as if by accident. Reach for it
with your right hand, pretending to pick it 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.
88. KNOT IN A HANDKERCHIEF
SUPPLIES NEEDED: Handkerchief
SHOW: Challenge your friends to try to tie a knot in a handkerchief 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.
89. FOUR COINS INTO FIVE.
Magically make a fifth coin appear!
SUPPLIES NEEDED: Five coins, tape, a table
SECRET: An extra coin is attached with tape under the table.
The fingers of performer’s left hand reaches under the table and
picks up the hidden coin as the four other coins on top of the
table are being moved toward left hand.
SHOW: Place four coins on a table. Roll up your sleeves. Now
cup your left hand on the side of the table. With your right hand, move the four coins into the left. Do this
part quickly, to hide the movement of your left hand secretly picking up the hidden coin under the table.
Now ask a friend to blow on your hand…as they do, slowly open your hand. Show five coins instead of
four!
90. READ THEIR MINDS
The audience calls out names of famous people, and you write them down. A volunteer pulls one of the
names out of a hat, and you can read their mind before they even say it!
SUPPLIES NEEDED: Some slips of paper, a pencil and a bowl or hat (you can use your Magic Hat)
THE SECRET: Have different people in the audience call out names of famous people. You write the names
on pieces of paper. The papers are placed in a hat, and a member of the audience is asked to take one. He
is told to read the name on the paper and concentrate on it.
SHOW:
1. Have different people in the audience call out names of famous people. The louder and faster, the better!
2. As the audience calls out names, pretend to write them down one by one on slips of paper. But really,
just write down the same name on all the slips.
3. Fold up the slips of paper and put them into a hat. Ask a volunteer to pull one from the hat and read it
WITHOUT reading it aloud. Then, tell the volunteer that you will read their mind.
4. Then "read their mind” and tell them the name. It doesn’t make any difference what slip is selected –
you know what name is on it because they are all the same!
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