INSTRUCTIONS X-RAY VISION To start take your three balls and the magic box in your magic box set. Ask someone to choose one of the balls without telling you which one and then to place their chosen ball inside the box, and to put a lid on it. Your eyes should be closed. You then say you are going to guess the colour chosen. Place the closed box behind your back and repeat the same trick as in “A Magical Guess”. Bring the fully closed box back to the audience and tell them what colour the ball is. A BALL FROM NOWHERE Make a ball appear from nowhere! Place a ball in your hand with your back towards the audience. Draw an imaginary ball into the air with the forefinger of your left hand; with the fingers of the right hand extended and the back of the hand towards the audience, pretend that you catch the imaginary ball. Actually what you do is to put the hand in first, over the hidden ball. Say the words “Abracadabra”! Open your hand and show the audience that the imaginary ball is now real. CARDWARP Start by placing a card, flat on the back of your palm. You can cause the card to warp in front of your audience’s eyes! Now, rub your hands together, making sure you rub the back of your hands too. You are secretly trying to generate heat as much as possible. Now before you place the card on top of your hand you need to moisten the back of your hand with a bit of saliva. Pretend to be wiping your nose with the back of your hand, while licking it in the process. The warmth from your hand and the saliva will cause the card to warp naturally! The warmer and wetter the faster the warping. ACE SHAKER Someone from the audience signs a card and makes their card appear in between two aces. To start, give a member of the audience two red aces and tell them to hold them. Fan out the deck and tell them to touch a card. Square the deck up leaving their card stuck out to be signed and shown. Secretly put the card hidden into “palm position” when you square up the deck so you can easily palm the card when you want to. It must stick out of the lower corner of the pack, meeting your inner thumb. Let them sign the card and then hand them the deck, secretly palming their card. After they are convinced that the card is lost within the deck, ask for the two aces and sandwich the face down palmed card between the aces, showing only the aces face up. Tell them to hold the deck openly and start to shake the aces directly over the pack. Tell them to watch their card rise from the deck into the two aces. MAGIC CARDS Choose a small amount of cards you feel comfortable holding. Hold the edge of the pack with your fingers and use your thumb to peel the top card. Keep the back of your palm faced towards the audience. Continue using your thumb to move the card up to the audience’s view; held between the thumb and forefinger. At the same time as you are pulling out the card, your hand should be pushed forward slightly, as if the card has been grabbed from thin air. Continue to pull cards from the air in this manner, throwing up each card to the audience before producing the next card. THE THREE MUSKETEERS Remove the four Jacks from your deck of cards and place one of the Jacks face down on the top of the pack. Start the trick by presenting the other three Jacks as the three Musketeers and stating they must always be together. Now ask someone in the audience to place a Jack on top of the pack and one Jack anywhere in the middle and the last Jack on the bottom of the pack. Get the audience member to cut the pack and put the bottom half of the top and bottom jacks together with previously placed Jack. The cards are then turned face up from the top of the pack, eventually showing the three Jacks together near the centre to the audience’s amazement. TOE-TALLY MAGIC Take a large towel then take off your shoes. Next, fold the towel at the top over your hands so when held against yourself at chest height only your ankles can be seen. Slowly lower your towel so you can’t see your feet. Lift the towel up to show both feet whilst keeping both feet together. Now lower the towel and bend one of your legs 90 degrees. Lift the towel up again and it will miraculously seem that one of your legs have disappeared! THE SECRET NUMBER To start you will need one deck of cards. Give the cards to a member of the audience and have the member fan out the cards, they should select a card but keep it in the pack. Now have them count over from the RIGHT to the selected card. This will form their secret number. Have them close the pack and hand it back to you. Move 4 cards at a time from the bottom of the pack. Give the cards to another member of the audience. Have the first member tell the second what the secret number was. Have the second member move cards one at a time from the bottom to the top counting until the secret number is reached. Take the cards back and pretend you are shuffling them, but just for show. Give the cards back to the second member and tell him to take the top card and put it on the bottom. He should then take the next top card and put it on the table. Take the next top card after that and put it on the bottom pile. Tell him to continue alternating this way until there is only one card left, which should be the selected card. INVISIBLE MAGIC CHICKEN Tie a thin piece of thread (approximately 38cm long) around the middle of the egg, right in the middle where the halves meet. Take the piece of cloth and have an adult sew the untied end of thread to the middle of the cloth. Make sure that the colour of the thread matches the piece of cloth provided! Hold the cloth with both hands, one hand on each top corner. The egg should now hang down behind the cloth and out of sight. Wrap the egg inside your piece of cloth and then into the compartment at the bottom of the hat. Show the audience the empty hat and place it on a table. Carefully open the flap by tilting the hat on its side. Pull out the piece of cloth. Let the egg hang down so that it stays inside your hat while you pull the cloth out. Show the empty piece of cloth. MAGIC SPOON BENDING Firstly you will need a spoon. Using both hands hold the spoon and gently press the round part of the spoon on to the top of a flat surface. One hand should be holding the handle of the spoon so that it is completely covered. Slowly let the handle slide through your hands until it cannot slide through your hand any further. This creates the illusion that your spoon is being bent. COIN CASCADE For this trick you will need your hat and some spare coins. Place the coins in the secret compartment in the bottom of the hat. Do this quietly and tilt the hat towards your audience. Tap on the brim with your wand and say abracadabra! Turn the hat over and pour out the coins inside. MAGIC ROPE Tie a small piece of rope loosely around the centre of a longer piece of rope. Next, tie the two ends of the long piece of rope to the two ends of the short piece of rope so that it looks like two long pieces of rope knotted together in the middle. Pick up the knotted ropes and explain how there are two ways to make these short ropes into one long rope. The first is untying the ends (undo the real knotted ends of the long rope). At the same time, say how that is going to leave a knot in the middle! Wind the rope around your hand up to the shorter piece in the middle, hold it and push it along the length so that it slips off the end of the rope. Now reach into your pocket leaving a little bit of rope hanging out. Take your magic wand, wave it over your pocket and shout abracadabra. Take it out to reveal how the rope is magically in one long piece. THE FRENCH DROP If you want to look like a professional magician you could vanish the ball in your hands using a technique called ‘The French Drop’. Grasp the ball between the fingers and thumb of your left hand. With your right hand stretched out as if you are going to grab the ball. Your right thumb goes behind the ball and your right fingers begin to curl around it. When the ball is covered, you secretly let the ball drop down into your left hand. Shut your right hand into an unfastened fist and hold it up as your left hand (secretly hiding the ball), falls down to your left side.