Magic Tricks

I really like Jay Sankey. He has very visual and relatively easy magic. There are 35 effects on these DVDs and my take on it is if you can find 10 that you like, then you paid only $7.50 per trick for 10 great effects....

So here are my top 10 (in the order they appear on the DVD):

1) Stirring Silver. A borrowed ring penetrates the bowl end of a spoon. completely impromptu

2) Color Blind . Magician impossibly determines which of 6 pay envelopes the spectator has selected

3) Carbon Paper. The spectator selects a card and puts it under their hand. The magician burns the back of another card and then magically transfers the burn mark from the magicians card to the selected card.

4) Identifying features. Magician magically transfers the torn corner from the spectators dollar bill to the magicians dollar bill. Very nice bar or street trick. Simple, but people freak out. They just don't expect it.

5) Three times lucky. Some one else didn't like this, I love it as it is impromptu with a shuffled (and even borrowed deck). Magi predicts three cards the spectator selects later. The slight he teaches allows you to force three cards without showing the back. So you can do this trick more as a magic trick where the three selected cards have a different back from the rest of the deck...

6) Please don't feed the playing cards. Card is very visually caught reversed by cards held together by a rubber band... Very easy, very visual.

7) VIP. Double prediciton. Spectator selects a playing card and thinks of any word in any language you can spell in. Magician reads their mind and names the card and the word. Naming the word really freaks people out. It seems impossible. Very, very easy, but seamingly impossible.


8) Tracking Device. Magician finds a spectators card by using a button that disappears in a flash and then reappears sown on to the spectators card. Great give away.

9) Stapled. Selected card appears stapled between two other cards. Impromptu (excpet you need a stapler). But there is no prep.

10) Mr Clean coins across. I use this all the time. Three coins across routine. No gimmicks. Seems impossible. No tossing of coins back and forth, they just go, one at a time.