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Ezy MAGIC
by John Williams
Copyright © 2002 John Williams. All Rights Reserved.
Every one loves to watch Magic shows but it's
more fun to be the guy or girl with the wand.
You are the Wizard with your "Ezy Magic" book!
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CONTENTS
HOW TO READ THIS BOOK........................................... 3
INTRODUCTION ............................................................... 9
INVOLVE THEM................................................................. 10
BAR BETS.......................................................................... 11
B-TWEEN BETCHA ............................................................ 12
WASTE OF A GOOD DRINK................................................ 14
A FREE DRINK.................................................................. 15
SUGAR STUMPER .............................................................. 17
TEN COIN TRIANGLE......................................................... 19
ODD AND EVEN................................................................. 21
FOLLOW THE RULES ......................................................... 22
QUICK KNOT #1................................................................ 24
MATCH PUZZLE ................................................................ 25
CAMEL COIN..................................................................... 27
COIN CATCH ..................................................................... 29
GIVE MONEY AWAY! ........................................................ 30
COIN CLIP......................................................................... 31
THE NEXT CARD............................................................... 32
TRICKS WITH CARDS......................................................... 33
THE 2 FLIP FORCE............................................................. 34
UNFAIR DEAL ................................................................... 36
IT IS A SET-UP!................................................................. 38
Odd and Even............................................................... 38
Eight Kings .................................................................. 40
PICK THE CENTER CARD ................................................... 42
MIXED UP! ....................................................................... 44
REVERSED RELATIONS...................................................... 46
THE CUT(E) FORCE........................................................... 48
CLOSE-UP MAGIC.......................................................... 49
DOUBLE YOUR MONEY .................................................... 50
CLEVER BIRD.................................................................... 52
CRUSHING A GLASS!......................................................... 55
REFLEX VANISH................................................................ 57
COIN-CEN-TRATION.......................................................... 59
MENTAL BLOCK ............................................................... 63
PHONE-Y MIND READER................................................... 65
COIN-WITH 2 HEADS......................................................... 67
BLOOD FROM A STONE ..................................................... 69
STICKY METAL ................................................................. 70
VANISHING COIN .............................................................. 72
THE MATCHBOX BANK..................................................... 73
THE HOUDINI CANDY ....................................................... 75
KNOT IMPOSSIBLE ............................................................ 78
HOP OFF CANDY............................................................... 81
VANISHING KNOTS ........................................................... 83
HYPNOTISED HANKY ........................................................ 84
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STICKY COIN .................................................................... 86
MEMORY MASTER ........................................................ 88
MENTAL MARVELS....................................................... 92
PENDULUM PREDICTION ................................................... 93
THE HEX MARK................................................................ 95
COLOR READING FINGERTIPS ........................................... 96
CRAYON DIVINATION ....................................................... 98
DOWSING A DOLLAR....................................................... 100
THE HUMAN GIMMICK.................................................... 102
THE PERFECT PREDICTION.............................................. 104
STAND-UP MAGIC............................................ 106
STICKY COIN WITHOUT A TABLE .................................... 107
IT IS UP YOUR SLEEVE................................................... 109
ALL TIED UP................................................................... 111
BOOK BANK.................................................................... 113
CATCHING CARDS N COINS............................................. 115
THE BALL IN THE BAG .................................................... 117
ABOUT THE AUTHOR ................................................. 119
WHY DID HE EXPOSE SO MANY SECRETS? ....................... 119
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INTRODUCTION
Everyone
likes to
watch
Magic!
Simple tricks and stunts help any social occasion.
But the best part is being the guy or girl with the wand!
Now you can with "Ezy Magic"!
You can be the center of attention, life of the party or the mysterious wonder worker. That’s up to you.
Practise each trick in private so you amaze your friends when they see it and weave your personality in to the tricks. Then you will show tricks to family, friends and audiences for years.
The secret method behind every magic trick is usually very simple. The real trick is to perform so they want to see you do more tricks.
But how can you increase their interest in your tricks?
That's on the next page!
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Involve
Them
Use their Club Report or favorite magazine for a trick instead of just any magazine.
Tell a story while doing the trick and use the names or traits of people they
know for people in your story.
Use their Club or Company name as a magic word
instead of Abracadabra.
Use their product or Club logo as part of the trick.
Your audience will appreciate you putting yourself in the effect, not just doing it "as written".
Always keep a couple of tricks for next time.
Read all the tricks and stunts in your book. Some you pass over now may be useful at another time.
Now we start the Show and Tell ...
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BAR BETS
This selection from my bulging file of brain-busting bar bets will give your friends plenty of mental exercise.
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B-tween
Betcha
This is a great example of, "It's not what you do but how you do it" and what you say!
Show your guests two scarves or handkercheifs tied together at one corner and one loose scarf which
should be a contrasting color or pattern. That has no effect on the scam, it just looks better.
Ask your friends," Can you tie the loose scarf between the other two without damaging any of them or untying or loosening the knot?"
It's probably a good idea to hold the two tied scarves in one hand with their centres inside your fist and the knot toward the audience.
This helps to focus their thoughts away from the
simple, but not obvious, solution.
You let them ponder and perform anything short of surgery on the scarves, then simply tie two opposite corners of the loose scarf to the corners of the tied scarves which are diagonally opposite the knot!
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Now you have a continuous loop made from the 3
scarves and everyone realises that the answer should have been obvious.
You never said that the loose scarf had to be tied to the corners which made up the knot, did you?
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Waste
of
a Good
Drink
Show your friends a glass of any liquid with an ice cube floating in it and a piece of string with a small loop at one end.
Their challenge, if they choose to accept it, is to remove the ice cube from the glass of liquid without disturbing the glass or touching the cube!
You let them try their theories and try not to look like a know-all. When they let you have a go, lower the loop onto the cube then sprinkle salt where the loop rests.
Wait a few seconds for the chemical reaction between the salt and the ice, then raise the string and it will easily bring the cube with it!
You have to use natural cotton cord, not synthetic, or you will need real Magic to make it work!
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A
Free
Drink
This is a "bar bet" which can earn you and your partner a free bottle of wine the next time you have dinner at a restaurant with friends.
Being the fair-minded people everyone knows you are, share it with the people who lose this bet to you!
With a partly empty bottle of wine on the table and all glasses filled, you say that you can put the cork back in the bottle and get a drink without re-opening the bottle!
Your friends have little chance to work out your method unless they have seen it before.
If some have seen it in this book, they will play along because they know you should be a good spectator
when you are not the wonder-worker.
And they will want to see the effect on your mutual friends.
When the terms of the bet are agreed, you check that the cork or stopper is firmly in place. Turn the bottle 15
upside down and pour a little wine from your glass into the depression in the base!
Just take a quick sip from it and you have won another bet.
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Sugar
Stumper
You need a straight-sided glass and two sugar lumps that you will find many cafes and restaurants still provide.
Put the thumb and first finger of one hand on each side of the glass with your thumb pressing a sugar lump against the side of the glass. Balance the other sugar lump on top of the first.
The trick is to toss each lump, one at a time, up from your thumb and catch them in the glass!
You will almost certainly need extra sugar lumps when you ask your friends to try this. Several are likely to be smashed through accident or frustration.
The secret is that you toss the first lump up and catch it in the glass.
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For the second, more difficult part of the stunt, you lift your thumb slightly off the lump, flick it up only very lightly and then drop the glass below it!
When people try this without knowing the secret, they use too much force to toss up the second sugar lump and the first lump shoots out of the glass.
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Ten Coin
Triangle
You need to know someone rich enough to have ten
coins all of the same value for this bar bet.
Lay the coins in a triangle formation with four coins on the bottom row, then three above them, two on the next row and one at the top. Do it neatly, because it makes it easier for your craftiness to be seen when your friends fail to work this one out.
You ask them to flip the triangle end for end by just moving three coins.
Let them try and it is possible that someone will work this out, because unlike most of the other items I show you, there is no trick to it - just clear thinking but that is fairly rare anyway.
Take the coin at the top of the triangle and put it below the bottom row of four at the center point of the row.
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With this much information it is much easier to work out the answer, and you may find someone reaching over to try to finish it for you. Have them restrained because this is your triumph - you did all the hard work!
Now, just take the coins from each end of the former bottom row and put one at each end of the original row of two. Your job is done and your reputation as a mental marvel very slightly enhanced.
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Odd
and
Even
You show 10 similar coins and 3 glasses and challenge your friends to sort all the coins among the glasses so there are an odd number of coins in each glass!
Your friends will find this easy to do if you don't spell out the conditions clearly - all coins and all glasses must be used.
It is really in how you say it. Put 4 coins in 1 glass and 3
coins in each of the others. Then, put one of the glasses with 3 coins inside the glass that has 4 coins!
Now the glass which you put 4 coins in, has 7 coins in it.
So all the glasses have an odd number of coins in them!
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Follow
the
Rules
What if you don't have ten coins for the previous trick?
This set-up might help you increase the number of coins in your pocket fairly quickly!
You need 2 coins of