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Show a strip of newspaper, fold it in half, cut it, and restore it. Can it get any cooler or more visual than this?
Anti Gravity Ring by Ed Mishelle
Effect: A simple rubber band and finger ring are used. The rubber band is placed through the finger ring and magically the ring starts to climb up the band defying gravity. Everything can be inspected.
Effect: You display five business cards each with a simple picture drawn on the back. The cards are mixed up to be as random as possible. A card is freely selected and the spectator thinks of the picture. The magician is able to draw the exact picture the spectator had been thinking of.
This trick is a cool and impressive way to hand out your business card. It’s a bit of a card trick prediction.
Second Sight Penny is another trick that most have forgotten about. Here the magician finds the selected penny among a handful of others under seemingly impossible conditions.
Ethan Thompson has kindly sent us a PDF for a color-changing CD effect. Also included is my routine (using Ethan’s method) for changing Elvis into Sinatra. Have fun!
Francis McAllister shares with us a very clever second-sight routine that can be done with an accomplice over a cell phone.
A spectator is asked to roll a pair of dice, stack them on top of one another, and add up the sides of the dice that do not show. The magician writes down a prediction and it is found to be the exact same number the spectator had.
You remove change from your pocket and pickup a nickel. Deciding to use another coin instead you place the nickel down and pick up a penny. You put the rest of the change away in your pocket and then place the penny into your empty hand. A quick snap of the fingers and the penny has vanished. Both hands are clearly empty and you can do this in short sleeves anytime and anywhere!
This is a really strong impromptu trick involving three matchbooks. A spectator removes a match from one book, closes the cover and then mixes up the books. Simply by weighing each matchbook in your hand you can tell which one is lighter, thus finding the book with the missing match!