Educational Insights EI-5166 manual Where Did the Knot Go? Owl Cage, Cards Change Place

Where Did the Knot Go? ★★ The Owl Cage ★

Take the cardboard dice tunnel from your box and tie the rope around it loosely. Now take one of the ends and thread it through the tube. Push the knot off the box and put this inside as well. Now move the cardboard tube backward and forward along the rope several times…the knot has disappeared!

Effect: Make it appear as though a two-dimensional owl magically jumps from the green trick box to the frame

Performance: Take the cage in the frame with the enclosed owl picture and put it on the table. Put the trick card with the owl in the green trick box and let the little owl disappear by turning the trick box. Now take the frame with the picture of the cage and show it to your audience. Take the picture out of the frame and show that the little owl now appears in the cage.

The Cards Change Place ★★

You need the card with only the cage (A), the card with the owl-in-the-cage

(and nothing on the back) (B), and the double-faced card with a cage on one side and the owl-in-the-cage on the other side (C).

For this trick you use three cards (but the audience believes you use only two). Place the cage card (card A) into your jacket pocket before the trick starts so no one will know it is there. When you are ready to perform, use the one-sided owl-in-the- cage card (card B) and the card that has the cage card on one side (showing) and an owl-in-the-cage card on the back (card C). Show the audience the owl inside the cage (front of card B) and the empty cage (front of card C) and then place them out of sight – under the table or behind your back. Turn the double-faced card (card C) over so that the owl-in-the-cage (secret back) side of the card shows; bring it out and display this face only to the audience. Put it into the same pocket that has card A in it. Ask the audience, “Where is the owl card and where is the cage card?” (They will think the owl card is in your pocket and the cage card is hidden). They will be surprised when the cards are in different places when you remove the owl in the cage (card B) from under the table and the empty cage card (card A) from your pocket. The two cards may now be passed around as they are both one-sided. (Card C is hidden in your pocket).

The Unbreakable Toothpick ★

Effect: An audience member breaks a toothpick and the magician makes it whole again! To do this experiment, you’ll need to get a handkerchief with a hem. Or, simply take a paper towel and fold over the edge (about 1 inch) and tape down the “hem.” Then hide a toothpick in the hem.

Performance: Hold up a second toothpick and the handkerchief. Show the audience both sides of the handkerchief so they don’t think you are hiding a toothpick in your hand. Place the second toothpick in the middle of the handkerchief. Fold the handkerchief and ask an audience member to break the toothpick, ensuring that he/she breaks the toothpick in the hem. When you shake the handkerchief, take the broken toothpick between your fingers and let the intact toothpick fall out into an audience member’s hand.

Hide the whole	The toothpick	When the
toothpick in the	in the hem is	handkerchief
center of the	broken.	is shaken, the
handkerchief		broken toothpick
		remains stuck in
		the hem.

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