WJ22-01
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Joe Riding came up with the original
premise for this trick circa 1970. Since then it has gone
through many variations. It is performed with ordinary,
ungimmicked cards, from playing card sizes to jumbo and
ultra jumbo sizes. My version uses ultra jumbo (print
them out yourself) jokers and an Ace of Spades as the
money card. The Ace is never where you think it
is when you think it, much like Shrodinger's
Cat. As in Harry Anderson's Hanky Poo variation,
the cards may be scaled out into the audience at the end
if you can stand the expense... or perform it with cheap
dollar store cards and knock yourself out.
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WJ22-02
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This is the Jingle Bell Santa always
wanted for Christmas and you can have it if you make it
yourself! It's really a manual (no electronics) spirit
bell effect for kids, but in your hands, it can tell you
who's been naughty or nice, select an appropriate toy
from a deck of toy cards (included as templates), or
answer questions about the North Pole. The bell is one of
several differently colored jingle bells and the smallest
child in the audience has to find it, because only one of
the bells is a direct link to Santa himself! Whichever
bell he chooses instantly makes itself known as the one
and only authentic Santa's Magic Jingle Bell by cavorting
about and jingling happily in the little glass container
you drop it in. You can even cover that with another
glass jar and the bell still performs on demand. Includes
several other effects for use with the deck of Toy Cards
you make from my templates.
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WJ22-03
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Santa's Chimney
(A Vertical Die Box)
by Professor Spellbinder
The old Die Box doesn't always have to
be horizontal, and this vertical Chimney Box is proof. A
Santa Claus Block (Santa doesn't play dice on Christmas!)
is attached to a rope so you can show the audience how he
gets lowered down the chimney on Christmas Eve. The trip
is one way, because after he has been lowered, he leaves
behind a present and disappears, only to reappear back at
the North Pole (or his sleigh). The kids who don't
believe you and think that you are hiding Santa in the
other side of the chimney get lumps of coal for doubting
Santa, but he later changes their coal to more pleasant
gifts since he knows they aren't really naughty, just
skeptical!
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WJ22-04
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It began as a part of Qua-Fiki's Mis-Made Jack
routine but needed a complete set of instructions all its
own because Qua-Fiki shows how to make the pumpkin appear
and disappear in the course of his act, as well as float
around on its own and in front of any silk, not just his
Mis-Made Jack O'Lantern silk. The pumpkin is easily
converted from a lightweight foam Halloween Jack
O'Lantern decoration, and even has its own internal
battery operated light so the glowing face can be seen
when it floats behind the silk.
Qua-Fiki also used the same concept to
make a Floating Frosty the Snowman Head for his Winter
Show and has ideas in the works for a floating Easter
Egg, as well. Can be combined with Mis-Made Jack, or
performed alone.
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WJ22-05
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Note that this is a "Switch"
Box, and not a "Change" box. Mentalists and
politicians will find this of use in their acts or
careers, while kid show magicians may pass it on by. It
is just the thing to ensure the proper outcome in a
lottery prediction, or to rig the outcome of a third
world election. For entertainment purposes only.
Not responsible for miscreants being tarred and
feathered, or taken out and shot as a result of improper
application.
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WJ22-06
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Lunch in the Park
(Multiplying Bottles Rethunk)
by Professor Spellbinder
If you are tired of having to perform
the Multiplying Bottles with the same type bottles that
have been used since the 1800's, even gussied up with new
colors and lables, you might want to look into a new
concept that allows you to use real bottles with real
contents and even real food. It all comes out of an empty
paper bag that was folded up in your pocket at the start.
Give the tin bottles a rest and excercise your brain to
breathe new life into an effect that dates back to the
bibical era (loaves and fishes sound familiar?).
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WJ22-07
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When I told Grandpa Spellbinder that I
had reinvented the Change Bag, he looked at me with that
one eyebrow raised thing he does, but said nothing. But
now that he’s seen it in action, he’s going
around to all the forums and bragging about it, so I
guess he likes it. I hope you like it, too. The bag is
specifically made for performing the Mis-Made Flag or
some other kind of Mis-Made Adventure. Don't get me
wrong; I like cousin Wilhelmina's
Transparent Dye Tube from Wiz-J #21, but my See-Thru
Change Bag is quick and easy to set-up and even easier to
carry in my bicycle back-pack, ready to perform, whereas
hers takes a little preparation time.
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WJ22-08
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I'm learning a lot about card magic from
demonstrating the Three Card Trick (with Four Cards) at
the top of this page, as well as Grandpa Spellbinder's
Dutch Loopers and my Ace Chaser and so on. When I came up
with this variation on a variation on a variation, I had
lots of expert magicians to cite going back to the 1930's
(full citations are in the e-Book). The effect is simple.
I have a spectator open a brand new deck of cards and
remove a low black spot card, a high value black spot
card, and the queen of hearts. These are given to me and
I proceed to do an in-the-hands three card monte making
the queen never appear where the spectator is willing to
bet she is. Finally, the queen disappears completely,
leaving me with the two spot cards. She is discovered
back in the facedown deck of cards, reversed so she is
the only card face up. I will demonstrate with Dollar
Store Jumbo cards, but you can make this in any size you
want.
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WJ22-09
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For too many years the only choices open
to magicians for a deceptive table-well has been the
black-art well. In seeking a new way to produce and
vanish an Astro-sphere or Zombie, combining a box with a
table-well, I discovered, around 1980, that black is not
the only color that can be used to hide a table-well.
Since then I have come up with several solutions for the
Astro-sphere problem, which I will present here. Keep in
mind that the Astro-sphere is only representative of any
large bulky item you may wish to make appear or
disappear. Three production boxes are described,
requiring only light carpentry work to make them.
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WJ22-10
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The set-up for the original Ken Brooke
Professor Cheer’s Comedy Rope is simple compared to
Qua-Fiki's Cheeky-Fiki Patriotic Rope version, but here's
what the instructions will show you: A rope with FOUR
ends, not just three, and each end is a different color
rope... white, red, and blue and finally a red-white-blue
striped rope attached to the wildest star-spangled boxer
shorts you have ever seen (you can purchase something
that matches your own taste and choice, however). Any
three colors may be used for the ropes.
Flash! Professor Cheer is turning over in
his grave and break dancing!
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WJ22-11
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Ribbon Thru Neck
(with Head Loose Ending)
by Wiz Kid Qua-Fiki
Wiz Kid Qua-Fiki has taken U.F. Grant's Visible
Ribbon Thru Body and reworked it so it can be
performed on one's self as a Ribbon Thru Neck.
Follow this up with his Head Loose ending, based
on Kawakami Ikuko's original novelty talent show act from
1995, and you have a startling illusion.
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