WJ46-01
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Shuffling Jumbo Cards can be messy.
Cards can fly hither-thither, around the table, on the
floor. Use my mesh-front, see-through Shuffle Sack and
shuffle the cards as much as you want, faces front or
back without losing one. What the audience doesn't know
is that the Shuffle Sack can switch Cards or even whole
decks of Jumbo Size Cards all while innocently shuffling
away. The Sack is empty at the start and empty at the
end, but the cards are now stacked or set up however you
want and you did it right in front of their snoopy little
noses. Spectators can also use it to shuffle Jumbo Cards
without discovering its secrets. Make it yourself by
sewing, or by iron-on webbing or fabric gluing.
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WJ46-02
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This $10 transparent Ring Box can be
used for a variety of different effects, from Linking
Wedding Rings, to an Ambitious Jumbo Card Color-change
Finale, and many more (included in the e-Book). Try this:
The box has a Jumbo blue-back card folded and placed in
it at the start. It sits on the table while you perform
some Jumbo Card tricks with a red-back deck of cards. One
of the tricks involves a free selection of a red-back
Jumbo Card that is signed by the spectator. During the
course of the trick, the red-back card disappears. The
Transparent Box is opened and the Jumbo blue-back card it
contains is unfolded. It is the spectator's chosen card
SIGNED and TRANSFORMED into a blue-backed Jumbo Card.
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WJ46-03
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Three spectators choose a random single
digit number from 0 to 9, which you write down for the
audience to see. Let's say they pick "7, 2, 9"
A fourth spectator removes the Zodiac Medallion from
around your neck and shows the audience the numbers
"7 2 9" that are ENGRAVED into the back of the
metal medallion. The idea dates back to 1939 (Steward
James), goes through improvements from Al Koran (1968)
and Johnny Thompson, and finally my own version with real
metal engraving of the chosen numbers on a decorated
metal medallion you buy inexpensively, or make yourself
(carved wood). All sources are provided.
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WJ46-04
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In memory of Wiz Kid Jerry Catcher, I
finished the trick he inspired in 1988. From
"Whizzo" to "Double Whizzo", two
playing cards chosen by spectators, signed by them and
held tightly in their hands, fly across the stage
invisibly and change places in an instant. It was great
when only one card flew from the deck to a hand, but it
is twice as amazing when two signed cards jump between
the hands of TWO spectators at the same time and neither
of them has any idea how it happened. No need for jumbo
cards, you can do this on the largest stage in front of
the largest audience using regular sized playing cards
and it can be seen as a miraculous simultaneous
transposition. Can also be done using kids' picture
cards, dollar bills (the serial numbers switch), credit
cards (in envelopes), etc.
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WJ46-05
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The Three Little Pigs story has been
told with cards and plaques, but this is for magicians
who like silk magic. You'll have to paint the Pigs and
Wolf on the silks yourself, unless you learn how to print
them on silk with your inkjet printer. But all you need
is our routine and silk moves and you can change the
pictures and plot to whatever you choose - Three Billy
Goats Gruff, Three Blind Mice, Three Funny Clowns, Four
Little Kittens, Five Shooting Stars... and so on. Three
(or more) children get to stuff the silks in clear
plastic containers, hold them throughout and yet at the
end, they change to three (or more) striped silks. The
kids stuff them in, they take them out... it's all under
their control...until MAGIC happens!
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WJ46-06
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In 1971, Jim Gerrish published this
Complete Magic Show Prop in Genii Magazine under his name
Victor the Magician. It was just "rediscovered"
after all these years and may be useful for some of
today's magicians to transport, carry, set up, perform
from, and pack down an entire magic show in one small
(15" x 15" -or so) box. Everything you might
need for the typical children's show or adult living room
show is carried in this one box, ready to perform and
then pack it all away and carry it to the next location
all Packed and Ready To Go.
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WJ46-07
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Inspired by "Obie" O'Brien's Kolossal
Kolored Kards but not able to handle the sleight of
hand required any more, Jim Gerrish hands four helpers
four black and white Clown Cards with black and white
card designs on the backs. In the helpers' hands, each of
their clowns changes color to match the silk handkerchief
that covers it. When the cards are turned over, the backs
have changed into matching color circus tents. You can
change the clown designs to animals, cartoons, toys, etc.
for kids... or come up with your own adult themes. The
number four is not limited, either; generally from three
to ten cards can be used. You print out the cards and
assemble them according to Jim's instructions. Cards can
be made fully examinable at the end.
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WJ46-08
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Slither
by Jim
Gerrish
There are all kinds of production boxes
in magic shops, and also ones that you can make yourself,
but I think this one is a bit different. Four hardboard
panels are handed to the audience and one by one the
person holding a panel comes up and places it on a thin
hardboard base held by you, the magician. The four pieces
turn into a rectangular tower box held together
magnetically on the base.
“In the beginning, there was nothing. Then the first
magician said, ‘Come Forth!’ and out of the
tower of life slithered a life form.” And another,
and another, and another. At the end of the slithering
Slithers, the tube is taken apart to reveal the Tree of
Life growing from the platform base, taller than the tube
was.
Is that different? No Black Art, no confusing tubes, no
mirrors (unless you want them dangling from the branches
of the Tree of Life). Easily built, Slithers and all.
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WJ46-09
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It looks like the usual silk to
egg trick – you take a green silk handkerchief and
roll it around in your hand and when you stop rolling,
you show that the handkerchief has turned into an egg.
Here’s where it gets different. You hand the egg to
a spectator and have him crack it open over a plate or
ashtray. Sure enough, it contains a green silk, but now
printed on the silk is a fried egg. If you want, you can
then take the silk with the fried egg picture and shake
it hard and off flops a fake plastic fried egg into
someone’s hands. More fun than the usual silk to
egg! Other variations include Silk to Christmas Tree
Ball, Silk to Fruit, and more. Learn one and you have
them all available to perform for any occasion!
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WJ46-10
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One of my favorite home-made illusions
from the time I was a teenager until I passed it along to
the Wiz Kids was this "Appearing Kid" illusion.
Based on Harlan Tarbell's "Three Kings and a
Queen" I got rid of the assistants and performed it
with myself and one young person. When I was a teen, I
made my sister appear, but the Wiz Kids used it to make
another Wiz Kid appear... just the two of them, boy or
girl. Three panels, made of cardboard cut from a
cardboard appliance box and painted purty, are shown on
all sides and formed by you, the magician, into a
triangle. POW! The kid appears inside the cardboard
triangle and no one knows how he got there. It's as good
as it gets on a low budget and easy to cart around in
your car.
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