The Escaping Ring | ★ |
Effect: Show the audience that you have knotted a ring onto a rope. Then make the ring magically separate from the knotted rope.
Performance: Take a ring and the rope from your kit. Make a loop in the rope and pass it through the ring (see figure 1). Take the ends of the rope and pass them through the loop (figure 2). Show the audience that the ring is knotted onto the rope (figure 3). Say, “Now I am going to magically separate the ring from this rope.” Pass your hand over the ring and pull down on the part of the rope that stretches horizontally across the ring (figure 4) while saying, “Hocus pocus.”
The ring will easily separate from the rope. Show your audience that they are separated (figure 5).
Pull down on this part of the rope.
A Mysterious Guess | ★ |
Taking the blue trick box with the lid, ask a member of the audience to choose a small object, such as a ring, that will fit in the box. Instruct them to put the lid on the box while you are looking in another direction. Tell the audience you are going to guess the object chosen. Place the closed box behind your back and quickly take off the lid and place it on the side panel of the box. Take the box from behind your back and show the end with the lid on to the audience with the open part facing toward you. You can see the chosen object while the audience thinks the box is still intact. Now put the box behind your back and close it completely. Bring the closed box into the view of the audience again and tell them the chosen object.
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The Disappearing Owl in the Box | ★ |
With this trick, you can make the owl appear and disappear in your magic box. Put the toy owl inside the magic box. Hold the box on the back side so that you can feel that the back wall of the box can slide very slightly to one side. By sliding the back wall of the box to the right with your thumb and opening the box with your other hand, you can make the owl disappear. (If you close the box and then slide the back wall of the box left to its original position, the owl will appear again.)
Where Did the Little Owl Go? | ★ |
Effect: In this trick you will make it appear as if the little owl escaped from the card cage, and appeared in the magic box!
Performance: Before starting, secretly hide the toy owl in the magic box (do so by sliding the back wall of the box to the left with your thumb while opening it to get to the secret compartment; put the owl inside and close the box). Show the audience the cage in the frame; they should see that it’s empty. Then, slide the picture out of the frame so that the audience sees the owl in the cage. Put the picture back in the frame so the audience sees the owl disappear again. Next, show that your box is empty (slide the back of the box to the right when you open the box, so that they don’t see the owl inside). Then, wave your wand over the back and open it again (slide the back wall to the left) and the audience will be amazed to see that the two dimensional owl in the cage has now appeared in your box in three dimensions!
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