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~ Just a Touch ~
Mental magic... just for you. This effect will serve you well if you will take the time to work out some interesting patter. I will briefly summarize the effect and leave the rest to you... Effect: Have someone mentally select a name (or object, or favorite sports team ). Give them a writing pad with five lines drawn and ask them to write the chosen name on one of the lines. Then, four other unrelated names on the other lines. Take the pad.. study it.. audibly call out a name and announce that you do not think that name was the chosen name. Call out two more names and tell your audience that your are sure they are not the chosen names either. Down to the last two names.. study hard.. and announce the chosen name. Secret: Give your spec a RED fine-point or micro ink pen. I use a Uni-ball micro. A short time before the effect, touch the tip of the red ink pen to the felt tip of a BLACK marker, like a Sharpie. When your spec writes their chosen name on one of the lines, the very tip of the first letter will have a "dark" appearance. If you practice for a few minutes before you perform this effect, you will learn exactly how hard to touch the tips together to achieve a virtually un-noticeable 'smudge'. NO ONE will notice this smudge, but you.. It will appear as if it's just a little excess ink on the tip. Again, take the time to work up a Good Story to go with this effect, and you will have a little bit of impressive mental magic to add to your repertoire... :~~:~~:~~:~~:~~:~~:~~:~~:~~:~~:~~ ~ In The Pocket Miracle ~ Simple trick using a basic magic principle that plays big, IF you create a little 'drama' to go along with it.. Effect: Lay a deck of cards on a table and ask someone to cut it two or three times. After the last cut, ask them to take the top card, look at it, and put it in their pocket. Now, pick up the remainder of the deck and put it in a card case and close it tightly... Pick up a notepad.. study your specs face intently.. look deep into their eyes.. and draw a picture of the card that's in their pocket... Secret: Pretty simple actually. Use a deck that is stacked - Ace to king of hearts, ace to king to diamonds, etcs.. ( Just like a new deck - with the bottom card being an ace and the top card of the deck a king..) This effect works really well with a new deck. Remove the jokers, and go immediately into this trick.. Cutting the deck will not affect the order of the cards. When you pick up the deck to put it in the card case, casually glimpse the bottom card. You will know that the card in the pocket is one card lower.... For example.. if a six of hearts is on bottom, the chosen card is the five of hearts. The only exception is if the bottom card is a ace, then the chosen card is an king of the previous suit. Simply arrange the suits in an order you will remember... You can also perform this trick with a 'Si Stebbens stack'. If you don't know what the Stebbens stack is.. put it in Google or MSN or Yahoo search. You can let a second or third audience member pocket cards also, provided that you get a chance to glimpse the bottom card after each selection. Again, this is a simple effect. But, in the hands of someone who is willing to take the time to play it up, it will appear to be a true 'mental miracle'... ~~:~~:~~:~~:~~:~~:~~:~~:~~:~~:~~:~~ "X""- Rated Book You're going to need two props... an outdated paperback book, and a dried-out felt tip pen. if you don't have an empty one.. you can dry one out by leaving the top off and laying it on the dash board of your car or in a window sill for a couple of days. Ask your chosen assistant to place the book behind their back and open the book somewhere around the middle. Ask them to fold the first half of the pages under the bottom cover so they will be forced to write on the right-hand page.. Now, ask them to take the marker and make a large "X" on their chosen page. Once done, have the book closed and layed on a table out of your reach, and ask them to give you the pen... Tell your assistant about your great mental powers and your ability to remotely 'view' events of your choosing.. Personally, I have a small silver carrying case with a notebook inside that I keep on a small table near me. I open the case and take out a notebook. I also secretly dish the dried-out pen, thanks to the cover provided by the lid of the case, and pick up another one exactly like it from inside.. only this one actually writes. Do this quickly... don't fumble around inside the case ( or drawer, or whatever) and give anyone reason to wonder what you're doing in there ! After sufficient build-up, I write a word on my pad and hand the pad to my assistant. I ask them to open the book and find the page on which they marked their X. I tell them that I want them to look at the point at which the two lines intersect in the middle of the page and read aloud the word. Of course.. it will match the word I wrote on the pad, since I put the X in the book long before the beginning of the trick.... .................... You can also do this effect with a pack of cards. Have them place the cards behind their back, mark the face of the card, and return it to the deck. Instead of predicting a word, you will predict the card on which they put the X ( or, I should say, on which YOU put the X !!) Another variation is.. before-hand, put an X through both the face and back of the same card. Have your assistant shuffle the deck, put it behind their back, and put an X on the face of any one card. Shuffle the deck. Put the deck behind their back again, and put an X on the back of any chosen card. Have them shuffle the cards and lay the deck on your table. Have them look through the deck and find the card with the X on the back. They will be perplexed to discover that the same card is also the only card in the deck with an X on the face as well ! ~~::~~::~~::~~::~~::~~::~~::~~::~~::~~::~~::~~::~~ |
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This is a trick which can be performed without handling, or even seeing, the cards.
Ask your friend to shuffle a pack of cards and then select any spot card. ie. not a picture card. Turn your back so that you can´t see what he is doing then ask him to place the selected card face down on top of the squared up pack. Now tell him to remove its value in cards from the bottom of the pack and place them on top of it - for instance if he chose the Seven of clubs , he simply takes seven cards from the bottom and puts them on the top, above his card. He must do this silently giving no clue as to the number of cards he is moving. Next ask him to deal the cards from the top of the pack one at a time on to the table, and call out the name of each card in turn. He must deal the cards without giving any clue in his voice until he has gone right past his own card until you tell him to stop. Then you name his card. Here´s how the trick is done: When he calls out the cards, you simply ignore the first one, then in your head, count one, two, three, as he calls out the remainder. When he calls out a card which corresponds with the number you are counting, then this will usually be the card, but let him go on further for a few cards, then stop him and surprise him by naming his card. Occasionally more than one card will correspond with your silent count but if this happens you have to guess which is his card and if he says no then straight away call out the other. PS.. Try this mental trick over the phone for added effect... ----------------- Thanks to "Tabasco' at www.falsecuts.com |
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Nice little prediction trick to use when you have a number of volunteers in the audience. This virtually self-working trick is very devious.. I've used it to fool plenty of otherwise smart folks...
All you need is a small spiral bound notebook, preferably one like a stenographers notebook where the pages flip over the top, and a small glass jar with a lid. Begin by telling your audience of your amazing psychic powers. Tell them that to prove your point, you are going to predict a chosen number under almost laboratory conditions... Make a show of writing a number on one of the notebook pages. Tear the page off the notebook, fold it up, carefully - and in full view of the audience - place it inside the jar and screw on the lid. Pick someone from the audience to hold your prediction while you work your magic.. ---------- Side note: If you have, or can get, a small green snake, garden snake, or other harmless snake, have the snake inside the glass jar and show him to the audience. Call him by name - "Killer", "Viper Junior", whatever, and tell the audience that after 600 performances, Killer has never allowed anyone to tamper with your prediction.. Getting a female to hold the jar during your performance can be a comedy routine in itself.. Lot's of funny possibibilities. If you can get your hands on a genuine set of rattlesnake rattlers, the possibilities are increased tri-fold.. ----------- Take your notebook and a deck of cards and walk into the audience. Ask someone near the front to pick a card out of the deck and look at it. Let them return the card to the deck without you seeing it's value. Now, hand them the notebook and ask them to write down the value of the card they selected, with ace being one, jacks are eleven, queens twelve, and kings thirteen. Ask them not to write too big as three other people have to add their numbers to the same page. Now, go to a second spectator and repeat the same sequence of events, with the selection of a card and then adding it's numerical value to the notebook. Repeat this with both a third and then a fourth spectator. At this point you have four numbers on one page of your notebook. Walk back to your table, or any table actually, and lay your notebook on the table. Turn, and ask someone from the audience to assist you with your prediction. Have them come to the table , hand them a pen, and ask them if they will kindly add the four numbers together. After they calculate the total, ask them to turn and tell the audience the total. Now, ask the spectator holding the jar with the prediction to open the jar, remove your prediction, and read it aloud. If you have the optional snake, well, you can see the humor... The number you predicted on your paper and the number read aloud by the spectator will ALWAYS match.. Secret: Write four numbers on the back side of the pad long before beginning the trick. Make them appear to be written by four different hands.. As you walk toward your table after the fourth spectator adds their number, casually drop the pad to your side. When you put the pad on the table, lay it down with YOUR four numbers showing. Of course, your prediction IS always correct, or, you need a new profession.. Laying the pad on the table prohibits the pad from being picked up and/or the audience glimpsing the other four numbers. It's not really necessary for you to use a deck of cards to perform this trick. You can simply ask the audience members to write down any number from one to ten or fifteen. Using cards makes the trick longer. Allowing the audience to pick their own numbers makes the trick simpler.. Your choice. As far as I know, this is an original effect. If someone knows of another magician performing this effect.. let me know.. |
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