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Multiplying billiard balls. Multiplying billiard balls (Excelsior Ball Trick, August Roterberg, 1898) is a magic routine that is popular with both amateur and advanced conjurors but still rarely seen. As its name implies, the magician uses sleight of hand to manipulate a number of billiard balls (the balls are often smaller than actual billiard ...
Method. A spectator is instructed to think of any card (other than the joker). The magician then gives the following instructions: Double it. Add 3. Multiply by 5. If the card the spectator is thinking of is a spade, subtract 1. If the card the spectator is thinking of is a heart, subtract 2. If the card the spectator is thinking of is a club ...
The performer takes a deck of cards, and places on the table two face-up "marker" cards, one black and one red; the black on the left and the red on the right.The performer tells the spectator that he or she is going to deal cards face-down from the deck and the object of the exercise is for the subject to use their intuition to identify whether each card in the deck is black or red.
T. List of card manipulation techniques. Tenkai palm. Three-card monte. Trick deck. Twenty-One Card Trick.
The simplest versions of the trick rely on the object in the lemon being merely a copy of the one provided by the audience member [2] [3] — that is, the trick becomes simply an elaborate way to reveal the result of a magician's force. For example, the audience member selects the two of clubs, their original card is destroyed, and the lemon is ...
While not generally tricks themselves, some of these devices are very valuable to performers of magic. Topit. A.R. mini-stage [ 1] Funkenring [ 2] Gibeciere. Business card production wallet [ 3] ITR (invented by James George) [ 4] Surya's Device Pro (invented by Surya Kumar and James George) [ 5] Thumb tip.
In nuclear physics, a magic number is a number of nucleons (either protons or neutrons, separately) such that they are arranged into complete shells within the atomic nucleus. As a result, atomic nuclei with a "magic" number of protons or neutrons are much more stable than other nuclei. The seven most widely recognized magic numbers as of 2019 ...
Billet reading, or the envelope trick, is a mentalist effect in which a performer pretends to use clairvoyance to read messages on folded papers or inside sealed envelopes. It is a widely performed "standard" of the mentalist craft since the middle of the 19th century. Billet is the French term for note or letter, referring to the rectangular ...