Magic Trick 61-70

If You're Not Afraid to Play With Matches Try These Clever Tricks

TWO MATCH TRICKS.

Here are two match tricks that should prove entertaining.

Number one: Light two matches, blow them out, and immediately press the heads together so that they stick. Stand these upright on a corner of a match box, supporting them between the drawer and cover of the box. Place another match on your left thumb, point it at the two on the box as an archer would point an arrow, and flip it with the middle finger of your right hand. Although it appears that the match will go straight, it will be found to make several turns, striking the upright matches sideways and upsetting them.

Number two: Ask anyone to pick up one match lengthwise with two more held between the index finger and thumb of one hand. It can be done by grasping the two matches and squeezing the ends together so that the tips will slowly spread apart. You then will be able to pick up the other match in a manner similar to using a pair of tongs to pick up a piece of ice.

Magician Uses His Nose to Find Certain Penny Among Six Coins

FINDING A SELECTED PENNY WHILE BLINDFOLDED

Place six pennies close together on a table, select one, pass it around to persons in the audience and have each per­son note the date on the penny. Then blindfold yourself and ask that the penny be placed in the group on the table. Im­mediately stoop over and touch the pennies with the tip of your nose, and you will find that one coin feels warmer than the others. The warm coin, which has become so through being fingered by persons in the audience, is the selected penny. Copper retains heat better than other metals, and the nose, being more sensitive than the fingers, will easily detect the difference in the warmth of the coins.

How to Put Egg Into a Milk Bottle and Take It Out

Magician Explains It Must Be Boiled Just So and Forced From Shell Through Half-Inch Hole.

AN EGG AND MILK BOTTLE TRICK

Boil an egg until it is almost hard, and make a hole one-half inch in diameter in each end of the egg. Place your mouth at one end, blow hard, and the egg will come out of the shell. Then light a match, drop it in a milk bottle, and place the egg on top of the bottle. The match will burn up the oxygen inside the bottle, creating a vacuum which will draw the egg into the bottle. To get the egg out, turn the bottle upside down, blow into it, and the egg will come out.

How to Make a Dime Disappear From Hand

Wax on Fingernail Holds Coin From View While You Exhibit Empty Palm to Spectators.

PRESS FINGER NAIL AGAINST DIME WHEN UAND IS CLOSED.

MAKING A DIME DISAPPEAR FROM YOUR HAND

Prepare for this trick by placing a little wax or other adhesive substance on the nail of the middle finger of your right hand. Then appear before your audience, roll up your sleeves, and borrow a dime. Place the dime in the palm of your right hand, close the hand, and as you do so, press the finger nail against the dime. Make a few hypnotic passes over the hand, and blow upon it. Then suddenly open the hand and the dime will have disappeared. It will be easy to close the hand, release the dime which has been sticking to the finger nail, and upon opening the hand make it reappear in the palm. In returning the coin be sure to remove the wax, so as not to divulge the secret of the trick.

ADHESIVE SUBSTANCE APPLIED TO NAIL OF MIDDLE FINGER

How to Tell When a Card Has Been Turned

Difference Between Margin at Top and Bottom of Picture Cards Is Key to Clever Trick

HOW TO TELL WHEN A CARD HAS BEEN TURNED

Take four picture cards from a pack and notice the differ­ence in the widths of the margins at the top and bottom of the cards. In some packs this difference is quite pronounced, while in others it is scarcely perceivable. A little close study will enable you to detect the slight variation between the top an(J bottom of the cards. When you take the cards from the pack, arrange them in your hand so that the wide margins are at the top. Then place them in a row on a table, turn your back, and ask someone to turn one of the cards around. When this is done, you face about, observe the top of the cards, and you will notice that one has a narrow margin. It is easy for you then to point it out as the card that has been turned.

Make Hat Appear to Float in the Air

Magician Explains Audience Fails to See Thread Which Forms Loop in Which You Place Hand.

THE FLOATING HAT

To do this trick it is necessary to attach a piece of black silk thread to the top of a hat-derby preferred. The thread is passed through the hat first from the inside and then from the outside. The perforations being on opposite sides, but on the top.

Each end of the thread is knotted on the inside of the hat, and just enough thread is left on the outside under which to pass your hand. The tiny holes left by the needle will not be noticeable after the trick is performed.

Stand where the light is dim or the background dark so your audi­ence cannot see the thread. Lay the hat on a table make passes over it slowly lowering your hand until it touches the hat. Then slip your hand or fingers under the thread on top of the hat, and slowly raise the hat. To add mystery, you might take a fan or newspaper and fan the air under the hat, making it appear that the hat is really floating on the air. When the trick is done, you can break the thread and pull the ends through the hat from the inside.

To Make Coin Disappear Under a Glass

HOW TO MAKE A COIN DISAPPEAR UNDER A GLASS

Prepare for this trick in this manner. A piece of paper about six inches square is used to place under the glass. Paste a piece of the same paper over the top of the glass, and cut it off where it extends over the edge. Then make a cylinder of paper to fit over the entire glass. Turn the glass upside down, place the paper cylinder over the glass, and appear before your audience. Lay the square piece of paper on a table, and place a coin upon it. Stand the glass, which is inverted and inside the cylinder, over the coin, remove the cylinder, and the coin will have disappeared. Place the cylin­der over the glass again, lift the glass from the table, and the coin will reappear. The paper pasted on the glass covers the coin and cannot be detected because it is the same color as the paper on which the coin is placed.

Here Is a Trick That Calls for Clever Work With Your Hands

A MYSTERIOUS RING TRICK

Two portiere rings and a stick are required for this trick. Place one ring in your pocket, and show the other and the stick to your audience. Purposely drop the exposed ring to the floor and as you stoop to pick it up, slip the other ring from your pocket on to the stick, concealing it under your left hand which holds the stick. Ask two persons to hold the stick, one at each end. Then strike the stick with the exposed ring in your right hand, at the same time withdrawing your left hand and spinning the concealed ring as you do so. The impression created is that the ring with which you struck the stick has mysteriously passed through and is now spinning on the stick. The audience will be engaged in watching this operation, and it will be easy for you to slip the other ring into your pocket.

Here Is a Sleight-of-Hand Trick That Will Baffle Your Friends

Rub a Coin, on Your Elbow and Then Let Someone Find It Under Band of Your Collar.

DEPOSIT COIN UNDER ' COLLAR

AS YOU  TO RUB IT ON ELBOW

PICK UP COIN PROM TABLE PRETEND TO TRANSFER IT BACK TO YOUR RIGHT HAND-

RUB A COIN ON YOUR ELBOW AND TAKE IT OUT OF YOUR NECK

Hold a coin in your right hand, bend your left arm, and rub the coin on your left elbow. Then purposely drop the coin on the table in front of which you stand. Pick it up with your left hand, and pre­tend to transfer it to your right. Instead of doing this, keep the coin in your left hand, and press the fingers of your right hand together as though the coin were held there. Bend the left arm again, resume the rubbing operation, and, as the arm, is bended, the left hand will touch your collar. You then deposit the coin, held in this hand, under the collar. Meanwhile the audience is watching the rubbing motion of your right hand, and after a minute or so of this, open your right hand and the coin will have disappeared. T*hen ask someone to reach to your neck and extract the missing coin from beneath your collar.

If This Trick Doesn't Work You May Have Trouble Explaining It

In Fact You Don't Do It, You Merely Let the Audience Think So.

TWO CARDS PLACED IN A PACK AND LATER APPEAR ON TOP

This trick is a test of observation and memory. Take these four cards from a pack, the eight of diamonds, eight of hearts, seven of dia­monds and seven of hearts. Previous to appearing before your audi­ence, place the eight of diamonds and seven of hearts on top of the pack. Then take the eight of hearts and seven of diamonds and ask someone to place them anywhere in the pack. Lay the pack on a table, pass- your hand over it, say "Presto!" and tap the top of the deck with your fingers. Then ask someone to raise the first two cards on the deck, and lo! the cards that were placed in the deck mysteriously appear on top. The four cards are so similar that the average person will not be able to recall, after the trick is performed, whether or not the two on top are the same as the two placed in the pack.

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