by Sheridan | Jan 17, 2013 | Tricks Explained
Effect :- The performer has a card selected, say ten of hearts, a die is made to vanish from a plate or anywhere the performer chooses. The card is now taken by performer and without covering it in any way causes it to change into a die. Hi Presto! like a flash of...
by Sheridan | Oct 11, 2011 | Tricks Explained
Get three glasses, fill one with pure water, another with salt and the third should be half-filled with pure water, and then through a funnel, as in fig.4. pour gently the same amount of salt water. Into glass No.1place an egg. It will sink. In glass No.2 it will...
by Sheridan | Sep 17, 2011 | Tricks Explained, Uncategorized
This is a very amusing trick, the success of which depends solely upon the audacity of the conjurer. He puts an ordinary pocket handkerchief upon the table, with a sixpence in the centre of it. The handkerchief is slowly rolled up with the coin in the middle. After it...
by Sheridan | Sep 16, 2011 | Tricks Explained, Uncategorized
THE SPELLING BEE TRICK Take an ordinary pack of playing cards and arrange the cards of any given suit in the following order : Taking the first card in your hand face upwards, and placing the others on this in like manner :- Three, Eight, Seven, Ace, King, Six, Four,...