Magic Trick 91-100

Cord And Ring Trick

Release Six Rings on Cord Which Is Fastened to Another Ring.

SPREAD CORD APART AND OVER. SIDES OP R.ING.

A CORD AND RING TRICK

You need seven rings, or paper discs with holes in the center, and a piece of cord to do this trick. Double the cord and slip both ends through one of the rings, fastening it to the ring in this manner: After the ends have been placed through the ring, bring them around through the loop of the cord, and draw it tight about the ring. The other six rings are slipped over the cord, and are held there by the fastened ring. Some­one is then asked to hold the ends of the cord from which the rings hang, and try to release them without taking them off the same way they were put on the cord. Although it looks impossible, it is really simple, and is done by placing your fingers through the loop of the cord and spreading it over the sides of the bottom ring, thereby releasing the others. To add mystery, you might place a handkerchief over the rings while you are releasing them.

How to Hypnotize a Card and Make It Move Across a Table

Black Silk Thread Which Audience Can't See Runs From Card to Button on Vest of Magician.

ONE END OP BLACK SILK THREAD IS ATTACH­ED TO CARD ~ THEN THREAD IS BROUGHT OVER SIDE AND UNDER THE TABLE, AND OTHER END IS TIED TO BUTTON OF YOUR VEST.

MAKING A CARD MOVE ACROSS A TABLE

Prepare for this trick by attaching one end of a piece of black silk thread to the back of a playing card with a small piece of wax, and the other end to a button of your vest. Lay the card on a table with several others scattered around it, and bring the thread over the edge and under the table on the side opposite to which you stand. When you are ready for the trick, tell the spectators that you will hypnotize the cards and make one of them move across the table and away from you. As you make passes over the table, slowly walk back­ward, and the thread, which is invisible and attached to your vest, will pull the card in the other direction from which you are moving.

Pass Coin Through Your Sleeve

Magician Hides Identical Coin Between Buttons on Cuff of Coat So Trick Is Very Simple

ONE COIN CONCEALED HERE AND PRESTO COIN HAS PASS ED

PASSING A COIN THROUGH YOUR SLEEVE

Before doing- this trick, take two identical coins, conceal one between two of the buttons on your coat sleeve, where it will be held, and hold the other in your hand. Then inform onlookers that you will drop the coin, which you show in your hand, into your sleeve, and produce it from outside the sleeve. Bend your arm, drop the coin down the sleeve, and imme­diately draw your other hand, which is shown empty, over the buttons of the sleeve, bringing forth the hidden coin. As the coins are both alike, the audience will be mystified, and will likely examine your sleeve for a hidden hole through which the coin could have dropped. In the meanwhile you can lower your arm and let the coin inside the sleeve drop into your hand.

Vanishing and Penetrating Glass Through Table

MAKING A GLASS DISAPPEAR

Make a paper cone to fit over a glass, and when you are ready to perform the trick, sit at a table, stand the glass on the table, and place the cone over the glass. Then suddenly pretend to remember that a piece of paper is supposed to be placed beneath the glass. As the paper is laid on the table, you lift the paper cone with the glass under it, hold it over your lap, and let the glass drop into the lap. Then place the cone on top of the paper on the table, raise your arm, and bring your hand down on the table, smashing the cone. As you do this, let the glass in your lap fall to the rug at your feet, and, presto! the glass inside the cone has disappeared. The audience thinks the glass is under the cone before you smash it, and the only reason for laying the paper on the table is to give you an opportunity to let the glass disappear in your lap, and at the smash let it drop from between your legs and it will appear to have gone through the table.

Selected Card From Pocket

With Two Cards Concealed It Becomes Simple Problem of Memorizing.

PRODUCING A SELECTED CARD FROM YOUR POCKET

Before doing this trick, secretly place two cards, any kind, in your pocket. Then when you are ready to do the trick, take three more cards from a pack, and ask someone to select one of the three, but without naming the card. You note and memorize the arrangement of the three cards, place them in your pocket with the others, and remember whether you have placed them on top or below the first two cards. Withdraw the first two cards from the pocket, holding them face down, and tell the person that one card, the selected one, remains in the pocket. Ask the person to name the card he selected, and you reach in the pocket, at the same time picturing in your mind how the three cards were arranged. If you remember correctly, it will be easy for you to extract the selected card from the three and you can then leave the remaining two in the pocket and do the trick over again.

Mysterious Number 142,857

Strange Repetition of Figures Appears in Answers When It Is Juggled About by Magician.

THE MYSTERIOUS NUMBER 142857

Take this number 142857, muliply it by 2, and the answer is 285714. Notice that the same figures appear in the answer as are in the original number, only they are rearranged. Add the figures in the answer, and the total is 27. Divide this by 3, and you get 9. Then multiply 142857 by these successive figures, 3, 4, 5 and 6, and in each instance the same figures appear in the answer as are in the original number. Add the figures by each answer, and the totals will be the same, 27. Now multiply 142857 by 7, and the answer will be 999999. Note in the upper left corner of the above drawing how the six figures of this number 142857 are divided in three sets by the arrows. By adding the two figures in each set you get 9.

Here Is a Puzzling Trick You Can Do With Carpenter's Rule

Slightest Touch Makes It Fold, But Lindhorst Tells How to Attach Steel Poker to Its Tip

AN INTERESTING TRICK WITH A RULE

To do this trick, you must have a two-foot folding rule, of the kind carpenters use. Tie a small piece of string into a loop, hold the rule extended, and place the string loop over the tip of the rule. Ask anyone in your audience to place his finger in the loop and pull down, thereby testing the weight resisting power of the rule. He will find, of course, that the slightest pull on the string will cause the rule partly to fold up. Then announce that, without turning the rule, you will attach an iron poker to its tip, and the rule will remain per­fectly straight. Place the handle of the poker through the loop so that the tip of the handle touches the rule near its end, as shown in the above drawing. Then let the remainder of the poker hang down at an angle, and the leverage applied to the rule by the poker in this position will hold the rule stationary and prevent it from folding.

How to Cut Bottle in Two With a Piece of String

Friction From Twine Heats Glass and Immersion in Cold Water Neatly Cracks It Apart

PULLTWINE BACK AND FORTH IN A SAWING MOTION
CUTTING A BOTTLE IN TWO WITH TWINE

To do this trick it is necessary to paste two paper cush­ions around the neck of a bottle, one above the other below the place where you intend to cut the bottle. The cushions are pasted on the bottle so that a small groove, large enough to insert the twine, is left between them. The cushions are made by pasting several layers of paper around the bottle. Then take the twine, insert it in the groove, and wind it once around the bottle. Hold one end of the twine in each hand, pull it back and forth, and the friction caused by the sawing motion, will heat the neck of the bottle. When it is quite hot, plunge it into a pail of cold water, and upon withdrawing it, you will find it has been neatly cut in two.

Name the Top Card on Three Piles

HOW TO CUT A DECK THREE TIMES AND NAME TOP CARD ON EACH PILE

Shuffle a pack of cards, and when finished tip the top card slightly in your hand, glance at it, and remember its identity. Then lay the pack on a table, and ask someone to cut it three times. As this is being done, you watch the stack on top of which the known card is, and remember where it is placed on the table. Suppose the card you already know is the King of Diamonds, and it is on top of the third stack, then you pick up the card on the first stack, call it the King of Diamonds, and as you lay it face down glance at it and learn its identity. Suppose it is the Jack of Hearts, then pick up the card on the second stack, call it the Jack of Hearts, and as you lay it face down, also learn its identity. Suppose it is the Seven of Spades, then pick up the top card of the third stack, which you know to be the King of Diamonds, and call it the Seven of Spades. Then turn all three cards over, and the audience will find that you were correct. As you do this trick, keep up a patter of talk, and the spectators will not notice you glancing at the cards as you lay them down.

A Clever After-Dinner Trick With Knives

HOW TO RAISE FOUR KNIVES WITH ONE

Lay one knife on a table with its handle extending over the edge, as shown in No. 1 in the above drawing. Lay two more crosswise to the first with their blades overlapping the blade of the first knife, as shown in No. 2. Then place two more in a V shape on top of the three, and have their blades extend under the handle of the first knife, as shown in No. 3. You can then lift all four from the table by grasping the handle of the first knife, as shown in No. 4.

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