Dear Visiting Friend

This area is reserved for any amateur magician or for anyone who would like to learn any trick to delight his/her friends in a party. If you are none of them, please stop reading this area. You will left with no illusion when you see the trick.

Now that only magic addicts are reading, I would like to ask you to keep and not to reveal the secrets you will find in this free access area for the sake of the art and of many magicians using these feats in their shows. It does no good to the audience if you tell them how tricks are performed. You only leave them without illusion; in other words, you kill the child they all have inside.

NAPKIN MYSTERY GAME

EFFECT: 

The magician takes a paper napkin, breaks it into many tiny pieces and ask an spectator to make a small bun. He takes out a handkerchief to wrap it and the audience discovers another small ball the magician intended to replace the bun with. The magician gives no importance to the fact, conjures up the magic words and asks the spectator to unwrap the broken napkin. Surprise: the napkin is in one piece!

PREPARATION:

1. You need three equal paper napkins and a handkerchief.
2. Prepare two small balls by crumpling two napkins.
3. Place one of the balls inside the handkerchief to be put in a pocket of your shirt or coat to be taken out with the handkerchief without the audience’s knowledge.
4. Tie the other with a thread fixed to the pocket by a safety pin.

DEVELOPMENT:

1. Present the new napkin to the audience by showing it by both sides. Take it with the index and the thumb
2. Split it into halves; then in many pieces and give them to an spectator for him to make a small ball. By addressing the spectator, tell him that to recompose it you shall wrap it in a handkerchief.
3. Take the handkerchief in such a way as to take the ball with the complete napkin hidden in a corner.
4. Take out the tied ball to drop it and cause the spectators to laugh and draw their attention to this small ball.
5. Take the broken ball from the spectator; at that time substitute the whole ball for the broken one. Put again in the pocket the handkerchief hiding the broken ball. Hand in the whole ball to the spectator and also put the tied one with the thread in the pocket.
6. Now relax yourself and enjoy the moment because everything has been done. Say the magic words and ask the spectator to unwrap the handkerchief.
7. When the audience see that it is complete, you shall be acclaimed with a rapturous applause.

Practice many times before presenting it and GOOD LUCK!!

THE TRAVELING COIN

EFFECT:

The magician presents two glasses. He gives them to an spectator; one on each hand. He shows a coin and a handkerchief. He approaches the spectator and drops a coin in a glass covering it with the handkerchief. He takes the other glass and, a bit away, asks the spectator to move the glass to ensure the coin is still there and, saying the magic words, he rises the handkerchief and discovers that the glass is empty and, at the same time, the coins drops inside the other.

PREPARATION:

1. You need two glasses, a handkerchief and two equal coins
2. You should pierce one of the coins by its edge to pass a thread and tie the coin. Sew the other thread end to the center of the handkerchief; bear in mind that the length of the thread and the coin should be covered by the handkerchief when taken from its center; the four points to drop freely

DEVELOPMENT:

1. Hand in the glasses to an spectator.
2. Take out of your pocket the coin-handkerchief as if they were separated and drop the coin inside the glass, immediately covering the glass with the handkerchief.
3. Take the other coin out of your pocket in a concealed way. Maintain it hidden with the tip of your fingers.
4. Take the empty glass from the spectator by both the inner and outer edges; the coin in contact with the inner side of the glass and covered by your fingers.
5. Ask the spectator to move the glass to hear the coin which is still inside.
6. Rise up the handkerchip by its center; after counting quickly to three and take it to your pocket.
7. At the same time, drop the coin inside the empty glass. Magic is there! The coin travels from the spectator’s glass to the glass you have. Great applause for a well presented traditional trick.

Practice many times before presenting it and GOOD LUCK!

TRICK AT LIGHT SPEED

EFFECT: 

The magician shows two cards 8 and 9, black and red, puts them in the pack and at the cracking sound of his fingers at light speed the cards go to the top of the pack.

PREPARATION:

1. A poker or Spanish pack of cards. Draw four cards: the 8s and 9s of hearts and pikes; or 8s and 9s of spades and clubs.
2. Form two pairs with different numbers and suits; for example: 8 of hearts and 9 of pikes and 8 or pikes and 9 of hearts.
3. Put a pair at the top, and another at the bottom of the pack.

DEVELOPMENT:

1. Tell the public that you shall perform a feat by making two cards travel at light speed. Take the pack and explain that you shall choose two cards you like, say, "these are the 8s and 9s of hearts and pikes". Do not allow the audience to see which is the suit of 8 or 9; only remind them that it is 8 and 9, suits being hearts and pikes.
2. Then clearly take out the two cards and put them inside the middle of the pack convincing the spectator that they are really lost in the pack.
3. Put the pack on the table and relax yourself. You can act, make jokes or whatever you like. The fascinating end has just started!
4. Announce the miracle with a cracking sound of your fingers, and ask the spectator to turn himself the first two cards. The audience will acclaim you with a rapturous applause when they realize that the cards are the 8 and 9 of hearts and pikes.
5. If you wish to reinforce the final, have written down on a paper 8 of hearts and 9 of pikes which are the cards to be turned by the spectator. He shall be a witness at the table before the trick starts so that nobody will doubt your magic powers.

Practice many times before presenting it and GOOD LUCK!

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