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    Go On Show Us a Trick - Magic Tricks Perfect for Impromptu Occasions
    Go On Show Us a Trick - Magic Tricks Perfect for Impromptu Occasions
    Go On Show Us a Trick - Magic Tricks Perfect for Impromptu Occasions
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    Go On Show Us a Trick - Magic Tricks Perfect for Impromptu Occasions

    By Anon Anon

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    This unusual book, containing an impressive variety of magic tricks performed on-the-spot, is sure to delight young and old alike and is the perfect introduction to magic of this type. Its 76 pages contain a wealth of anecdote on a variety of tricks and stunts that are guaranteed to liven up your dinner party. Thoroughly recommended reading for the budding magician. Extensively illustrated with black and white drawings and explanatory diagrams. This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateMay 31, 2013
    ISBN9781473380349
    Go On Show Us a Trick - Magic Tricks Perfect for Impromptu Occasions

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      Go On Show Us a Trick - Magic Tricks Perfect for Impromptu Occasions - Anon Anon

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      Close-Up Tricks

      Herein will be found a number of tricks suitable for presentation at close range and on the spur of the moment.

      There is enough material here to gratify many such requests as Come on, George, show us a trick. These offhand presentations contribute in a big way towards the building of one’s reputation.

      A Magician is supposed to be ever ready to show a trick. What article is better suited for offhand work than coins?

      The Wacker

      After the Wack vanish, the coin is left in your sleeve. You show both sides of both hands to convince that it is not concealed in hand.

      Now borrow a handkerchief and say you are going to show them another trick. Open out left hand so they see the palm DEFINITELY. Spread hank on the palm and raise the left forefinger through the center of hank and wriggle it. The right gets hold of the center of hank and suddenly jerks it off. The left drops to side and thus the coin drops and is caught in the same hand.

      The hank is tossed into air and caught. Now once again you go through former move, but this time when hank is dropped over the left palm you time the movement so that the audience does NOT get a sight of the interior where the coin is. Again pick the hank by the center between tips of first finger and thumb, but at the same time the tips of third and little fingers get hold of coin through the hank.

      Left hand immediately encircles around the four drooping corners of handkerchief and the coin is allowed to drop and it is held in position through the hank folds by left fingers.

      Now the right moves out of the way. Someone is asked to hold out his hand and you whip it with the center of hank once or twice. Ask him if he feels anything and he will say, Not much. This time just RELAX, hold around the corner of hank and whip his palm again. The coin will shoot to the center of handkerchief and he will be STUNG to an extent of jumping. You pretend you do not know the cause and toss hank to someone else to investigate, and there he finds the missing coin.

      If desired, the coin may be marked, because it is the same one that vanished earlier. But personally, for this type of impromptu work, I do not recommend to have it marked. Such procedure becomes too ceremonious.

      I may warn you that the coin will STING pretty hard when it is released from your grasp and is capable of smashing a tumbler when done forcibly. Therefore if you are doubtful of anyone’s sense of humor, I would advise you to work it against the table. It becomes more effective sometimes because, after several hits suddenly, the sound of solid against solid is heard.

      The Monocle Mystery

      Slip a half-dollar of your own in your left sleeve. Hold this hand waist high and coin is safe. Borrow a half-dollar and ask owner to merely remember date. As this is being done straighten left arm and the hidden coin is retrieved.

      Take the borrowed coin and pass it to left hand. Get both coins together. The borrowed coin is the one at back. Show both as one and stick to your right eye same as you would wear a monocle. Show both hands empty. Raise right hand to eye to take monocle (coin) away. Just touch the coin with tip of first finger and thumb and start turning to right and remove the front coin.

      The borrowed coin is still over the eye, but since this side is away from audience they see it not.

      You have one coin in hand and unknown to spectators the borrowed one is still over the right eye. Hold the visible coin in left hand. Make a pretense of tossing it in air but palm it. This coin has gone. Immediately face audience and they see the coin back over the right eye. Walk up to lender and let him remove to verify it is the same one lent you. During this the coin in left hand is gotten rid of.

      To get the best results all moves must be synchronized. As you start to take coin from over the eye, the moment you start pulling it away, turn to right, not suddenly but gradually. Actually the coin does not come off the eye until you have turned to the right. Then when you have tossed (?) up the coin, look for a second and then smartly turn front to show it over the eye again.

      The Repeat Coin Trick

      In informal presentations how many times you have heard fellows say, Oh, Bill, do that again. That Do that again plea is just a hope of catching you. Well, here we have such a trick with a coin. You don’t wait for the request if you don’t want to, but I shall show you how to go about it.

      In your left sleeve you conceal a coin. Let us say it’s a half-dollar, or a rupee. They are both the same size. In the right sleeve have another coin of the same denomination.

      Walk up to someone with both palms facing up. Say, Will you cross my palm with a silver coin? As you say this, point to yourself with right hand and consequently the coin will be dropped on your left palm. The idea of walking with both hands facing up is to show indirectly you have nothing concealed.

      As the coin is being dropped on your left palm, drop right hand to side and thus the concealed coin in the sleeve falls to hand. Press it into palm.

      The right hand now picks the borrowed coin from the left palm and requests (as an after thought) that it be marked by owner. As soon as the right picks coin from left it drops the duplicate from its palm into the left. The left is held naturally with the duplicate coin in the finger-palm. The right hands the borrowed coin for marking and they thus see nothing else in there.

      Take back the coin after marking and close left hand into a fist. The right holds the marked coin. Toss this coin towards left and palm it. Left fingers are opened and they see the coin there. You have apparently passed a borrowed coin through the closed fingers. The right goes to pick up the coin from left. It only simulates that action while the left turns away and the right brings to light the borrowed coin from its palm. Hand this to owner and ask if that was the same one lent you. He recognizes the mark. You are now ready to repeat the trick.

      Someone is bound to ask you to repeat it and you are quite prepared because you already have a coin in the left finger-palm. If the request does not come, you merely pretend to overhear such a suggestion and say, What’s that? You didn’t catch on the first time. Right! I shall do it again. In this way you repeat the trick three or four times. Each time you merely pretend to take the coin from left and show the marked one in right. Get it identified.

      It will therefore be seen that each time the marked coin is handed for verification it is done in a manner to make it clear that there is nothing else in the hand.

      Let us assume that you have repeated the trick thrice. You are about to do it the fourth time. The position becomes as follows: Left hand closed into a fist with duplicate coin inside. The marked coin is in right hand in full view. Another coin in left sleeve. The right now tosses the coin to left.

      Left is opened in due course to show coin has arrived (?). This time right actually picks the coin from left and drops the marked borrowed coin in its place. The marked borrowed coin is therefore hidden in the left hand. The duplicate coin is in right. Show this CASUALLY, but do not let it be examined.

      Close left hand into fist again and tell somebody to hold your fist tight. The right again tosses coin towards left and palms it. The volunteer opens your left fist and himself picks up the MARKED coin.

      Turn to right and address people on that side, explaining that there could be no trickery since the gentleman held your fist all the time. Get rid of coin in right by dropping in pocket on that side.

      The marked coin is still in hands of volunteer. Hold left hand so that palm is in view all the time. Ask volunteer to examine left hand and some fun can be gotten by remarking seriously, Look between the fingers or look behind the nails. Now close left hand into fist and ask helper to cover fist with both his hands this time. As soon as he does this you say, NO! NO! Not that way! Let me show you. Let him close his hand into fist and you cover his fist with both your hands. Move both your hands away and in doing so your hands are allowed to hang beside you for only a while. The hidden coin in your left sleeve drops into the hand on that side and is pressed into palm. Ask helper to stand beside you.

      You close your left hand into a fist again. The

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