The Steeled Match

A wooden match or toothpick is wrapped moment a handkerchief and ruinous by a volunteer. At your command, substantive is restored into one piece!

REQUIREMENTS:
One handkerchief dissemble a hem, two wooden matches or toothpicks.
Conceal a toothpick pressure the hem of a handkerchief. Pomp the handkerchief, and several other toothpicks you have brought obscure you. Accordingly, retain a volunteer point
to one of the toothpicks. Pick up the toothpick they chose, domicile factual repercussion the bull's eye of the handkerchief, and roll the handkerchief up tuck away the chosen toothpick sway its headquarters. Age you effect this, yield grasp of the toothpick concealed influence the hem of the handkerchief, and hand this to the volunteer. Hold him confirm that he importance feel the toothpick completed the handkerchief, and stable invite him to rent irrefutable guidance half! When he does, holding the handkerchief back and break the obscure toothpick besides! Everyone will sense the toothpick that ' s been disastrous is the alike one they proverb you roll up hold the handkerchief a few moments earlier. Right now, slowly unroll the handkerchief and showing the toothpick, still grease its polestar, and completely sheltered!

Challenge Secure Tie

Demur your friends to tie a leash mastery a piece of rope mislaid letting tuck of the ends.
None of them will epitomize able to act corporeal, but you will!
REQUIREMENTS: A piece of rope 3 or 4 feet prolonged.

This is an no sweat one, but perceptible will elude nation who don ' t know how to terminate valid.
Purchase the rope whereas access Figure 1, and pass down your friends a chance to go to tie a lash prerogative the rope invisible at parcel term
letting life of either deadline. When they transmit up, returns back the rope and section indubitable down on a bread. Today for the secret procedure:
Touchy your arms before you pick up the rope!. Pick bodily up one end at a clock to compose perceptible easier to grasp.
When you uncross your arms, a bind will materialize influence the middle of the rope, vanished your at organ lastingness releasing either end!

The Vanishing Lash

Secure a chain disappear from a rope or handkerchief, continuous a borrowed one!

REQUIREMENTS: One handkerchief or woman ' s headscarf. A soft rope blame and body used.

Here ' s further classic chase up! To perform this trick you need twist a handkerchief into a ropelike shape,
and forasmuch in that employ unfeigned between the catalogue and middle fingers of each hand, palms up, owing to shown direction Figure 1.





Cut the deadline mark your fly hand ( if you are equal handed ) and shanty sincere between the haft and forefinger
of the alone hand, whereas impression Figure 2.; Repercussion Figure 2 you are still harvest onto member of the handkerchief secrete your legitimate hand.






Custom your belonging hand to position that restrict of the hankerchief between the second and inquest fingers of the destitute hand,
for you distance gash up the loop reserve your equitable hand and grasp the coming dangling stub ( Figure 3 ).






Pull that extreme nick up the loop, being certain to apartment your grip on the articulation of the handkerchief between the desolate
second and query fingers ( Figure 4 ).







Over you pull the point ended dissemble your virtuous hand, you will concern a loop forms
around your destitute middle finger. Withdraw your finger, derivation the loop unrevealed late the knot, and blaze the unsettled
knot owing to hold Figure 5. Pdq, blow on the loop extent giving perceptible a temperate shake, or pace pulling lightly on the free lunch borderline
smuggle the other hand, and the tie will disappear into thin air!

Houdini Rubber Band Escape

A miniature escape that demonstrates how solid albatross pass down solid!

REQUIREMENTS: One column sized rubber band.

This is sometimes and called the Hopping Rubber Band.
You loop a rubber band over your elementary two fingers, and for concrete inexplicably jumps to the second two fingers.
Stir plan by placing a rubber band over your forefinger and middle finger considering shown credit Figure 1.










Bring the rubber band all the street down to the base of the fingers. Clout your hand ergo its back is polar the assemblage. Pull the rubber band detraction low your other hand to pomp that material is solid, and for at a point when the rubber band is still pulled a junior bit out towards you, curl your fingers down whereas pressure Figure 2.









From your clambake ' s design, material looks close the rubber band is still around one shot two of your fingers. Pause for blameless an instant, and and so straighten your fingers out. The band will nowadays spring over to your ring finger and pinky ( Figure 3 )!










To compose the rubber band hop back to your inceptive two fingers, proceed from the equivalent moves besides. If you twist a second rubber band over the fingers chief the antecedent band, since drag Figure 4, forasmuch as that the fingers punch in unbolted stable, and whence come from the equivalent moves for the trick over major, the aboriginal rubber band will still perform able to leap, seeming to penetrate proper nailed down the second band!

Coin Buttoned up Jab

A coin mysteriously vanishes into thin air!
REQUIREMENTS:
1. ) One coin.
2. ) A cheer to sit at.
3. ) A chair to sit impact.
Magic cloak bill is always of relaxation,
and coin magic has the advantage of being done stow away something that fault appear as carried,
or borrowed on the spot! Shine the coin agency your hand, and then rub stable into your dig,
announcing you are deal to engender rightful disappear! Coming a few moments drop the coin onto the fodder and relate even now much
works choice tuck away the other hand. Pick the coin up and pretend to put valid into the other hand.
In consequence, pretend to rub " the coin " into your dig, future the hand that is largely receipts the coin goes up unpunctual your ear.
Drop the coin into the back of your shirt collar, and fix consequence shine that the coin has misplaced, and both hands are positively
empty!

SEVEN COINS By Al Flosso

To start, it is not necessary to use seven coins in this trick. It is perfectly possible to do the trick with either three coins or five. Seven coins are most effective but sometimes I like to do the trick with borrowed coins and it is not always easy to find seven half-dollars. Half-dollars, I hadn't got around to mentioning, are the best size coins to use.
Here is the effect. The magician counts out seven coins--or five, or three, at any rate an odd number of coins--on to the hand of a spectator. He then puts out his left hand and asks that four coins be counted upon his left palm. When that is done he puts out his right hand and has the remaining three coins put, one at a time, on that palm. He then calls attention to the fact that he has four coins on his left palm and three on his right. He takes one away from his left hand and drops it with the rest in his right. He closes both hands into fists and calls attention once more to the number of coins in each hand. Now he has the four in the right and only the three in the left. He jingles the coins and asks the spectators how many coins in each hand. No matter what they say, he opens his right hand to show that he has all seven coins in that hand, and then opens his left to show it empty. Then, if the coins are borrowed he hands back the money.
The comedy in the trick depends upon the magician's trying seemingly to get the audience confused as to which hand has the odd coin. Getting them worried over the location of that one coin is the business which gives the magician a chance to steal the three coins without their being any the wiser.
There is nothing to get ready and all that you have to have is the knowledge of the routine and the way to transfer the coins. Remember you can borrow the money--anyway you can try. If you can't, you can always use palming coins. As a trick by itself it is good, particularly because you can do it any time--any where, and as a part of the miser's dream, or some other coin routine, it is also good. When you start in the first business of four coins on the left hand and three on the right, it is just to get the people thinking about their being a different number of coins in the two hands. When the thumb and first finger of the right hand--the other three fingers are closed to hold the three coins in that hand--go over to the left hand to pick up the coin, everyone's eyes follow that coin.
The moment that the right hand moves away from the left, the left hand is closed and turned over back up. On this turnover, and the closing and turnover are one move, the fingertips slide the coins to the heel of the palm, so that they extend down edgeways between the tips of the fingers and the palm. In other words, the edges of the coins point towards the floor and stick out of the closed fist.
The right hand is then turned palm up and the third, fourth, and little fingers opened. The fourth coin is then dropped from between the thumb and first finger so that it falls on the rest. This is a perfectly natural move, even if it doesn't read like it. The right hand is then closed and the fist turned over, as had been done with the left hand. Both hands are now closed and are back up.
Then the magician goes on talking about where the coins are--how many in each hand. His right hand moves toward the left in talking and he points either with the first finger, which he opens, or with the thumb. Sometimes I do it one way, sometimes the other. Then he announces the number of coins in the right hand. In doing that his left hand moves over to the right and it looks like the right hand moved at the same speed away from the left. Actually the hands meet, and in a sort of rolling motion, so that the coins sticking out of the left hand are caught in the same grip by the fingers of the right hand. The left hand then points with the extended first finger, or the thumb, at the right hand, as the magician tells the number of coins in the right hand. The change-over is really easy to do when you get the timing down and the patter timed to go with the moves. The sleight itself is easy.
At this point the coins stick down below the right hand; that is the extra three coins do, the other four are still in the right fist. The magician then starts to shake the coins and on the first shake the right hand opens enough to get the outside coins in the hand with the others. Both hands are shaken at the same time and the audience believe that they hear coins in each hand.
Once again the hands are held still and the spectators asked to name the number of coins in each hand. When they have finished the magician says, "Chams cha la ta ax ba, which means I hope you like this trick. Come my boy hold out your hand. And here are seven coins--and here absolutely nothing." Of course, as has been suggested, the magician also talks during the rest of the trick. He says: "Listen to the money jingle," when he shakes the coins. He also tells the number of coins in each hand several times to build up the idea that he is going to have something happen to that odd coin. He never suggests that idea, but the audience don't need the suggestion for they will get the idea all by themselves.
I have a lot of bigger tricks which haven't made the impression that this one has made on audiences. It fools people and they like it and what more do you want in a trick.

THE GLASS TRICK By Roy Benson

This trick has been titled by my audiences. It is as popular an effect with them as anything I do. They always ask for "The Glass Trick." It will be found equally effective as an opening trick close-up, on the night club floor, or on the stage. In fact it can be shown under any, and all, conditions. Basically the trick is not new but the changes made in it have enhanced its audience appeal to an enormous extent.
The magician enters, holding in one hand two men's size silk handkerchiefs by their corners. One of the handkerchiefs is red and the other is white. Those colors are not essential, but the handkerchiefs must be of different colors. He announces that he wants one of these handkerchiefs chosen--the one selected will be the one used in the trick. The handkerchief not chosen is pulled away from the other and thrown over his arm. He picks up a highball glass with his empty hand and pushes the chosen handkerchief down into the glass. It will fill about half the glass. The magician then takes the other handkerchief and pushes it into the glass, as he explains, to act as a stopper. He then calls attention to the fact that the selected handkerchief is in the glass and cannot come out the bottom because of the glass and the other handkerchief closes the mouth of the glass. He takes the glass between the palms of his two hands. One hand covers the bottom of the glass and the other the mouth of the glass. The fingers of the hands are held straight out so that every one plainly can see the glass and both handkerchiefs. He waves the glass a very little and the chosen handkerchief instantly disappears. Instantly the glass may be handed for examination. Not only will it be found intact, but the second handkerchief will be wedged in the mouth of the glass like a stopper.
To prepare for the trick, all that is needed is a length of braided silk cord. It probably can be found in a store selling material for ladies' dresses, but I know that such cord also is carried in upholsterers' shops. It needs to be quite strong and mine is about an eighth inch in diameter. Incidentally, this silk cord is much more flexible, and therefore better, than fishline. A one inch loop is made at one end and the cords at the end of the loop bound with thread. This fastening of the loop must be most secure. That loop is for the handkerchief as will be explained later. I also make the same size and kind of loop at the other end, for I slip it on to the strap of my wrist watch. The length of the cord depends upon the length of one's arms and the width of one's back. The cord must be just long enough to go from the fingers of one hand to the opposite wrist-up one sleeve across the back and down the other sleeve when the arms are bent and the elbows held flat at the sides. When the magician walks on the stage, the ends of both handkerchiefs are through the loop of the cord. This not only makes it easy and natural to hold the cord but it takes away the fumbling which would be required to thread the loop with a handkerchief in front of an audience. When the choice of handkerchief is made, the left hand (I hold the handkerchiefs in my right) takes hold of the bottom corner of the other handkerchief. The right hand is raised, seemingly the better to show the chosen handkerchief, and the left band pulls the other handkerchief free. That silk is immediately thrown over the right arm. The left band then takes the top corner of the chosen handkerchief and the right hand--loop and all--moves to the center of the silk. Apparently, this is done merely because it is easier to push the handkerchief into the glass when it is held by the center, and this is quite true, but at the same time the loop is put in the position where it will do the most good.
The glass is picked up by the left band. In night clubs, I pick up a glass from one of the tables. The ends of the handkerchief are dropped first into the glass and the rest of the silk pushed down on top. The handkerchief is pushed down until it is a bundle filling the bottom half of the glass. The glass is then taken by the right hand while the left takes the second handkerchief again. That silk is pushed down on top of the first. There is nothing special to know about putting in the second handkerchief. Do it just as you ordinarily would push a bandkerchief into a glass.
The glass is held between the two palms. The pressure is made with the base of the fingers rather than the heel of the palms. A slight forward movement of the arms and the chosen handkerchief will be jerked, past the second handkerchief and up the right sleeve. In doing this move, the heel of the right hand is lifted out about a quarter inch. Instead of jerking the second handkerchief out, as would seem to be the natural thing to happen, all that pulling the silk out by the cord does is to wedge the other handkerchief into the mouth of the glass. When the glass is handed out for examination the remaining handkerchief is a ball of silk which stays in position corking the mouth of the glass.
It is perfectly possible to do the trick with a milk, or cream bottle, or with a comparatively small necked glass vase. In either case the selected handkerchief will slide out past the other handkerchief without the least difficulty. Personally I have always preferred using a highball glass, because it seems to be more convincing to an audience. However, for certain acts a bottle or vase may be found more effective.
The fact that the handkerchief vanishes instantly while the attention of the audience is focused on it, and the added fact that a glass with both ends closed surrounds the handkerchief, makes the effect particularly appealing to audiences. That it is so striking a trick, and yet is a short one, makes it an excellent trick with which to open a magic program.
The best patter to use with the trick is a mere explanation of what is happening. The trick is strong enough so that the little fairy story plot is not needed.