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Nifty Little Rope Trick

This effect is a version of Bank Night with ropes. The Spectator gets to chose any two ropes out of the three that are available and of course the rope that is left has a knot tied in it, and a $100 bill tied in the knot!

It does not come with the box, but I found it lying around and thought it was stronger if instead of holding the ropes you were hands free and the ropes were all in the box up front. You can do it anyway you want.

Easy to do and surprisingly convincing!

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Wonderful off beat card effect!

When you are tired of doing the same old boring card effects this little gem fits in very nicely.

It uses very cute cards with smiley faces on the backs and a key chain size pistol which lets out a rather loud bang. The ending is a real surprise and guaranteed to get a laugh from your audience.

Great value, easy to do, and a little different!

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Not a Wild Card Routine, But Still Wild!

Just to set things straight when I first saw this effect advertised I thought it was a Wild Card routine. It does have the similarity that 4 different cards change into 4 other cards, but it is called Wild because of it’s talented inventor Boris WIld!

Anyway, you cleanly show 4 cards back and front, turn two cards over – and still cleanly show back and front of all 4 cards, but when you push them together they have now changed to 4 Aces, and you can show all the backs too. There are no half cards, and the cleaness of the change is a joy to behold.

No real sleights, but a little handling practice is required to make this miracle perfect!

Very Wild indeed!

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Nicely made and clever.

This is a nice piece from Joe Porper. It comes in the easily identified hard wood case and is made in Joe Porper’s popular anodized aluminum style.

The effect is simple enough. You show the nut in the box and ask a spectator to thread the bolt into the nut. It clearly is very solidly threaded into the bolt.

You have the spectator unscrew the bolt and then you show them how using magic you can thread it instantly. And this is what you do, one minute it is not threaded on the bolt and the next second it is – no covers or anything to hide. The whole unit can be examined both before and after.

The box is a mechanical gem and has great potential too fool you. The only real problem I have with this effect is: why do you need the black box at all? Why can’t you just thread the bolt on the nut in an instant without the box? Of course that would not make for an expensive collector item, but it would look more magical. But enough of this heracy – the box is beautifully made and the mechanism is clever.

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Beautiful Dice Cup

If you are into dice stacking or you just like pretty utility items then this Dice Cup from Joe Porper is sure to please. This won’t make it any easier to actually do the Dice Stacking, but at least you will look good trying.

It is tall enough to handle 6 dice comfortably, made with polished silver metal, and wrapped with genuine alligator skin, and lined on the inside.

If you saw Fred Kaps do his simple Dice Stacking on his recent DVD you’ll know how cool and amazing it looks. And with a Porper cup how can you go wrong?

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Professor Hoffman your Coin Wand is here!

Ever since I saw the Coin Wand in Hoffman’s Modern Magic (page 203 in my edition) I have always thought this was a cool utility device. Until this baby arrived I had never actually seen one up close.

The wand is nicely made and works very smoothly. It allows you to vanish and appear as many dollar sized coins as you fancy – without any difficult sleights or moves.

The choice of a Dollar coin as opposed to a Half Dollar is interesting: on the one hand the coins are clearly visible from quite a distance, but the downside is the wand has these unusual slightly flared ends to accomodate the size of the coin. I do most of my magic in close-up and parlour settings these days, so I would have preferred the smaller sized coins with less of a flare. However, if you are using this in the bigger venue then you probably won’t even notice the taper and you really benefit from the bigger coin. It is probably a small point, but worth mentioning.

Otherwise, this is another fine magic utility from Joe Porper.

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Very nice watch, and surprising revelation!

This watch looks like a nice quality dress watch. But it has the wonderful property of behing able to make a selected card (forced of course) appear beneath the watch face.

It works very quietly and smoothly and is a great utility prop that can be used at anytime in your act. Seeing the card on the watch face is a real surprise and fools them everytime!

The only downside is that you cannot use the watch to tell the time. This is kind of a silly thing, but that is how it goes I guess.

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This looks like hard-core Sleight of Hand!

This is a great matrix like effect with 3 coins and 3 cards. It looks like you are a very accomplished sleight of hand expert, but it is very easy to do. Reset is easy too. It does need to be performed on a close-up mat.

You could even do it with one hand, which is the way Wayne Dobson demonstrated it to me at the recent TAOM convention, and it totally fooled me.

What a talented and truly nice guy Mr. Dobson is!

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If you like Big Red you’ll love this one!

This is a simple but surprising revelation of the spectator’s (forced) card, using a picture of a flasher!

The wallet that comes with it is specially made such that it appears that you really are pulling out the "unexposed" view of the flasher, but it allows you to switch it for the full frontal version.

Very easy to do, and makes a nice break from the other heavy magic I’m sure you are performing 🙂

This is not offensive, and comes from the fertlie mind of Wayne Dobson.

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