Self-Working Table Magic 97 Foolproof Tricks with Everyday Objects

by Fulves, Karl

• ISBN13: 9780486241166
• ISBN10: 0486241165
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1981-08-01
• Publisher: Dover Publications

Summary

97 mystifying tricks done with ordinary objects that can be borrowed from the audience. Make coins appear or disappear; matchsticks jump into the air; classic cups and balls; pierce balloons without bursting them; plus tricks with dice, rubber bands, eggs, safety pins, pens and pencils, more. 185 illustrations.

Author Biography

Karl Fulves is one of the most respected authorities in the field of magic. For over 40 years, he has written hundreds of books on the subject and taught the art of illusion to thousands of people of all ages. This legendary figure also edited and published such magazines as Epilogue and The Pallbearers Review.

Table of Contents

MONEY MAGIC
1 Quicksilver
2 Mystery Vanish
3 Ghost Coin
4 The Backward Ghost
5 Hole in the Pocket
6 Sealed Silver
7 Merlin's Magic
8 The Escape Artist
9 Million Dollar Mystery
MAGIC SHOW IN A MATCHBOX
10 Euclid's Triangle
11 Squaring the Square
12 Four Square
13 The Roman Equation
14 A Fish Story
15 Tipsy Cocktail
16 The Little House
17 Worlds Strongest?
18 Who Pays the Bill?
19 Matching Matches
20 The Jumping Match
21 The Penetrating Matches
DICE DEXTERITY
22 Dice Catch
23 Controlled Dice Shot
24 The Thirteenth Turn
25 Dial-a-Spell
26 The New Dropout
27 Technicolor Dice
28 Mental Die
29 Logic Dice
30 The Red Prediction
CONJUROR'S COLLECTION
31 The Cups and Balls
32 Movie Star Magic
33 Hocus Pocus Puppet
34 An Amazing Apple
35 The Apple Monster
36 The Great Bottle Mystery
37 Mystery Spinner
38 Strong Man Stunt
39 Calculated Capital
40 Balloon Burst
41 Puncture Proof
42 An Airtight Case
43 Loops Entwined
PSYCHIC TRICKS
44 The Mind Dowser
45 Left-Handed Thoughts
46 The Psychic Motor
47 Unlisted Numbers
48 Right on Time
49 The Mind Transmitter
50 Clocks
51 The Eight-Object Test
52 Behind Closed Doors
53 The Borgia Cup
ELASTIC ILLUSIONS
54 Twister
55 Tale Twister
56 Slippery Shears
57 Bet a Band
58 The Jumping Rubber Band
59 Double Jump
60 Flying Clipper
61 A Quick Getaway
62 Strange Interlude
HANKY PANKY
63 Not a Knot
64 The Appearing Knot
65 Transposition
66 The Knot Paradox
67 The Second Paradox
68 The Third Paradox
69 Popper Up
70 Comedy Vanish
71 Fourth-Dimensional Hanks
72 The MacCarthy Hank Fold
73 Time Flies
CLOSE-UP ILLUSIONS
74 Dexterous Digits
75 It Floats!
76 An Optical Trick
77 Whisk Away
78 Looking-Glass Logic
79 Hypercard
80 The Fifth Dimension
THE LINKING PINS
81 Safety Pin-Up
82 Swindle Pins
83 The Impossible Unlink
84 The Repeat Impossibility
85 Un-Safety Pins
86 Quick Release
87 Pin-a-Tration
88 Ultra Penetro
PEN-ULTIMATE MAGIC
89 Buttonholed
90 Loophole Magic
91 The Snapper
92 The Hands Only
93 Invisible Ink
94 Pen Kink
95 Write Off
96 Ink of Another Color
97 Pen Ultimate