Mini-Mysteries - Touched by a Wizard

This page contains effects from the distant past that have been revisited and "touched by a Wizard" to bring them up to date. For now, each of these Mini-Mysteries costs just $3.00 each, proving that the Wizard is indeed "touched."

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Thayer's Forcit Box

This interesting little box, invented by Floyd Thayer in the 1940's, will force a dime or a penny of certain date, a color (by using colored tiddlywinks), or tags upon which letters or numbers or words have been printed. One of these boxes today costs over $250, if you can get one at auction. I'll show you my Wizards' secret for building one for a buck ($1.00) along with a "new and improved" method of working it.

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Louis Haley's Orange and Apple

This was originally sold by Thayer in the 1920's using a (for the time) realistic orange and apple carved of wood! My "Wizard-Touched" version brings the apple and orange to life using the real fruit. The apple (I use a green apple for my routine) is covered with a green bandana, and the orange is covered by an orange bandana. The spectator holds one and I hold the other. After I teach the spectator the Wizard's Transposition spell, he reaches into his green bandana and discovers that he is now holding the orange, while I now have the apple in mine. Both the real apple and real orange and two unprepared bandanas may then be used in other effects.

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Spirit Print Card Trick by Evans Brown

A card is selected and remembered before returning it to the pack. A clear glass tumbler is exhibited and a blank faced card (which can be examined) is placed into it. The person who selected the card from the deck now concentrates on the card. Through the tumbler, it is seen that the blank card has changed into the selected card, which may then be removed and tossed on the table. No chemicals are used. No mirror glass used. Spellbinder's "Wizard-Touched" modern version included.

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Winston Freer's Tile Deal Puzzle

A puzzle in which 63 squares, divided into 10 separate tiles, are arranged and rearranged so that they always occupy the same space (63 square inches, for example) but each time the tiles are rearranged, one tile is left out of the reassembly until you are left at the end with three separate tiles that will not fit back in. Yet you still have 63 squares every time you do this. I give you the original templates for making this yourself from cardboard, vinyl floor tiles from the Dollar Store, hardboard or thin wood.

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Thayer's Pop Up Color Change Silk

There are many color changing silk effects, but as far as I know, this is the only version that can be done with one hand. A silk handkerchief, of a solid color, is shown and it is crumpled, with one hand only, into the fist. Then the fist is opened and a silk handkerchief of a totally different, and vividly contrasting color pops up. Both hands are shown empty. My "Wizard-Touched" Variations show how to do multiple color changes, mismades and blendos using the same simple principle.

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