Educational Insights EI-5166 manual Moving Metal Ring Disappearing Ring, Ring and Spring

The Moving Metal Ring ★★★ The Disappearing Ring ★

Get an additional long rubber band (or, if your rubber band is short, cut it so that it makes one long piece of elastic). Slide the metal ring over the rubber band. Twist the rubber band fairly tightly (figure 1) and then conceal a part of the band in your left hand. Tip the band so that the ring falls to touch the left fingers. Now, hold the rubber band so that the right hand is slightly higher than the left (although the rubber band should appear level to the audience). Slowly allow the concealed length of band to slip from your left fingers (figure 2). It is important that you keep your hands the same distance apart as you do this. It appears that the ring is moving along the band but, although your audience will not realize this, it is really the band that is moving.

Take the green trick box with the loose partition and the small metal ring. Place the ring inside the box on top of the partition, telling the audience you are going to make it disappear. Close the box and secretly turn the box over so that the loose partition covers the ring. Open the box and show that the ring has disappeared.

The Ring and Spring ★

Before you start this trick, push the spring through the metal ring and let the ring drop onto the middle. Give the ring a sharp twist to the right until you feel it click into position. To perform the trick, ask an audience member to remove the ring from the spring in under five seconds...it’s impossible. Take it back, give it a secret twist in the opposite direction, and simply slide the ring off the spring.

The Professional Card Box ★

Take your magic green trick box with the loose partition, and secretly place a playing card inside and then turn it over. (Notice that if you open the other side it looks empty.) Now ask a member of the audience to choose any card she/he likes from the complete pack. With the picture side up in the “empty side” of the box, close the magic box and make some fancy magic movements to distract the audience while you turn the box over to the other side. Then open the box and show that the card has changed. Make sure you don’t forget where you have put the first card.

The Ring that Changes Color ★

Before the magic show, slide a yellow ring into your green trick box under the loose partition. During the show, open the box to show your audience that it is empty. Place a red plastic ring into the empty part. Close the box and turn it over without being seen. Then open it again. The red ring has become a yellow ring!

The Telephone Directory Prediction ★★★

Ask a volunteer to write down a three-figure number with three different digits (but not ‘0’). Then give the following instruction to the volunteer: “Reverse the order of the digits in the number and subtract the smaller number from the larger, e.g.

521–125=396. Now add up the digits and tell me the result, e.g. 3+9=12, 12+6=18. Open the telephone directory to page 18. Add the digits of the page number, e.g. 1+8=9. Now look in the first column of page 18 in the directory to find the ninth name in the column. Read out the name, address, and telephone number.” Then take an envelope from your pocket and explain that you have already predicted the result. Open the envelope and show a piece of paper with the correct name, address, and telephone number written on it; you will always be right!

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