Killer Magic Trick

Thursday, 26 August 2010

Bottle Cap Trick

The effect: Explaining to your audience you are going to perform an amazing magic trick you buy or borrow a bottle of unopened drink and remove the bottle cap. You hand out for total examination. This poves to your spectators it is totally unprepared in any way.

Holding the bottle cap in your hands you give it a spin and amazingly it HOVERS in mid air in front of you. You can make it hover from one hand to the other and even rise up and down. Your spectators are baffled! It seems you have total control over the levitating bottle cap. To prove it is unsupported you wave your hands all around it. You make a ring shape with your fingers and amazingly the cap effortlessly floats through!

For the finale you get the cap to float through a solid silver ring totally dispelling any and all thoughts of how it might work! When you have finished the effect you simply hand the cap back to your spectators for total examination. WOW an amazing effect.
- Perform surrounded and instantly
- Cap can be examined befor and after the trick

The Secret: So how do you perform this cool illusion? You are going to need a couple of secret items for this effect. Both are relatively inexpensive and will last you for literally hundreds of performances. You will need some "Magicians Wax" and Invisible Thread. Any good magic store will stock both items (PenguinMagic.com).

Both these items will open up your magic arsenal immensely. You will be able to do so many more effects than just this one. For example the Hummer Card and Floating Note. You can learn Hummer card for free at: http://learnmagiclive.com
Take a 30cm (12 inch) length of invisible thread. This measurement is an approximate and you will need to find a length that works best for you. The thread need to be long enough so it can reach form your mouth to your hand.

The one end of the thread and attached a piece of clear tape to it. This ensures you can find the end as it is very hard to see! Take a small piece of magicians wax and roll it in a ball at the other end of the invisible thread. The thread should mix in with the wax. Se (pic1)

The Method: Befor the trick you need to place the end of the invisible thread (with the tape) into your mouth. Place it at the side of your mouth in the gum line, between your teeth and cheek. That way you can still speak perfectly normally. Place the end with the magicans wax attached on your thumb nail. You are now set.

Just to recap the invisible thread should be running from your mouth down to your thumb nail of either hand you prefer. Magicians wax becomes softer as you roll it in your fingers - make sure you do this before the trick so it is nice and malleable.

start the trick by borrowing or buying a bottle of drink with a bottle cap. Hand this out for examination and get a spectator to remove the cap and hand it back to you. This proves that it is totally unprepared.

The forcing card trick

This trick very easy, yet it amuses even clever people. It can be used for all kinds of prediction tricks involving cards, depending on the magician's innovation.

The Effect:

The magician writes down a card on a piece of paper. The paper is then folded and handed over to a spectator. The magician then takes a pack of cards and shows that it is only a normal pack. He then shuffles the pack and asks the spectator to make a cut. The cut pack of cards is turned over the rest of the cards.

The magician then calls upon another spectator and tells him to make another cut in the deck. Again the cards are turned over. The cards which are facing up are removed and then the first card facing down is given to the spectator as it was randomly chosen by the selections of the two spectators.

This card is found to be the one that was predicted earlier by the magician on the paper.

What You Need:

All you need is an ordinary pack of cards. If you want to do the trick as above then you will need a piece of paper and a pen.

The Secret:

Before performing place any card on the top of the pack of cards. This is the card which you will be predicting. Then make your prediction on a paper. Say that you will be forcing two of the spectators to choose the card you predicted. You can carry on with the trick and finally the first card facing down would be the card kept on top.

Caution:

While shuffling the pack, cut the pack into two and merge them in such a way that the top card is undisturbed.
When the second cut is made, make sure the spectator cuts below the face up cards. If possible fan the cards with the thumb and ask the user to say "Stop". Make the second fanning below the face down cards. This way, you can be safe and stylish.

Ideas:

The above trick can be utilised in many ways. One idea is that you can use two packs: In one pack you can keep a card face up in the middle of the pack. You can force the user to select that card in second pack and then show the face up card in the other pack.

More innovative ideas are welcome.

Pencil through bill trick

Effect:

A pencil and bill are borrowed. Nothing is added or taken away. The bill is folded in half. The pencil is put inside the bill. The bill is casually shown on both sides showing the pencil inside. He takes the bill in his left hand, and with his right hand, he grabs the pencil. He spread the bill into a V shape and uses the pencil as a magic saw. It slowly melts through the center of the bill. The bill is snapped open, to show no tears or slits. Everything is examined and given back to the spectator.

Method:

To start out, borrow a pencil and a bill. It is easier to do if it is just a regular pencil, but it can be done with a pen. Also make sure that the bill is new and crisp. This is very hard to do with a "soft" bill. After you have borrowed the bill fold it in half. This is all under cover of patter.

Now, after it is in half, you are going to secretly make another fold in the bill. This fold is going to be about a little over a quarter of an inch. Make sure it is a nice good crease. Unless your audience notes how long a bill is when it is folded in half a lot, you will not have a problem with the shortness of the bill.

Take the pencil in your right hand and the bill in your left. Spread the bill open by pulling in with your thumb and pushing out with your fingers. This makes a V in the bill. This just shows to the spectators that you need an opening to put the pencil into the bill. What you will really do is put the pencil into the secret fold. Figure 1 shows how the pencil hangs from the fold.

FIG 1

After the bill is in the fold, you can let go of it. This is really a neat thing. You can show both your hands empty, and grab the bill by the tips of your fingers with your right hand. This is already an excellent display, and most people would really believe it is in the bill. The people that will most likely want to see the other side are magicians, but it is nice to show both sides to everyone. Which is why I do this:

Take everything into your left hand, orienting the pencil vertically, so the bill is horizontal. Clip it in-between your right hands first finger and middle finger. Figure 2, shows the position of the hands.

FIG 2

Move your right hand up and down showing it going through the bill. Now you will let go with your left hand, and flip your right hand over briefly while gesturing with it up and down. Figure 3.

FIG 3

This creates a blur that hides the line of the fold, and shows that the pencil is in the bill. Do this very casually and quick, and don’t put any attention on it. Don’t run when your not being chased.

Turn the bill back over. Grab the bill by the top, with your left fingertips. Position your hand so that the fingers cover the pencil protruding from the fold. Now spread the bill into a V once more. While it is spreading, grab the pencil with your right hand. Now the fold is not doing any good, so the right hand is holding the pencil now.

You are done now. The rest is just presentation. Grab the pencil, and make a sawing action as if you were sawing through the bill. Figure 4.

FIG 4

Once you reach about half way, just smoothly pivot the pencil out from behind the bill. It really looks great, because the V masks everything, but yet it still looks like it is going through the middle. Once it is through, give them back their pencil, then snap open the bill showing no cut or slit.

One problem now, is that if you were to hand them their bill right away, there will be a noticeable line and crease, and if they fold it in half, the secret fold will be right there. One way I clean up that is by crinkling up their bill into a little ball, and tossing it to them. Another way is to fold it into the smallest it can get and hand it back.