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Rik Chew Special user 538 Posts |
7- Four Dollars jump one at a time from the coin box to four cards, then they all jump at once back to the box.
8- Four coins penetrate a silk covered glass twice. They are then thrown into the glass again and transform into a ball. 9- Spec picks a card , shuffled the deck so it is mixed up, magician takes the deck, their card is found in the middle, face up in a large chunk of face down cards (or vica versa) |
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Christopher Williams Inner circle Portsmouth, UK 4464 Posts |
Do we have to get all three right? Yikes!!!
Ch 7- Gateway Through Space and Time 4 Coins and a small 'Pill box' are shown. The coins are placed into the box, but one at a time mysteriously vanish. As the coins are no where to be found, a Card trick seems to be a good place to go next. 4 cards are placed into a square formation. The cards are lifted to see the coins are back. One at a time the coins appear under one card, before finally they all appear in the pill box again which is under the leader card! Ch 8- Haunted Cabinet The glass is covered with a silk. The coins one at a time vanish and are heard to appear in the glass. The coins are taken out of glass as the magician squeezes his hand with the coins, the coins change into a silver ball. The silk is placed into the hand where it then changes into the coins again. Spooky!!! Ch 5- Entropy A card is chosen either by Peek or selection. The cards are shuffled face up into face down cards. The cards are spread and are all seen to face one way, except the selection which has a different coloured back. |
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Larry Barnowsky Inner circle Cooperstown, NY where bats are made from 4770 Posts |
"Do we have to get all three right? Yikes!!!"
I don't expect anyone to get all three. The closest overall answers will win. :) |
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Ben Proudfoot Loyal user 212 Posts |
Here's my guess:
Chapter 7: Four coins are introduced from a small round box with a lid. The coins are taken out, and they vanish magically. The box, portrayed as a portal through space and time, is uncovered to reveal the missing coins. In the second phase, you use four cards to further demonstrate the thoughtful design of this magical gateway. The four coins are interlaced in between the four cards and one at a time coins vanish from in between the cards and appear inside of the portal. The fourth coin end the demonstration and the magician bows to thunderous applause. Chapter 8: An empty glass is placed in a cabinet and the doors closed. Several coins are shown and vanish. Upon opening the cabinet, the coins are found inside of the glass. To make it more difficult, the magician covers the empty cup with a handkerchief and places it inside again. Again, the coins vanish and are found inside the cabinet inside of the glass with the handkerchief still on top. As a final attempt, the magician uses a ball as a stopper to seal the mouth of the empty glass completely. It is placed into the cabinet, the coins vanish, and are impossibly found in the aforementioned glass. Many people soil themselves in surprise. Chapter 9: The magician displays a deck of cards and speaks about the term entropy. He describes entropy as a measure of the disorder or randomness in a closed system, the closed system being the deck. A card is selected, remembered and lost in the deck. Then, in a triumphant (pun intended) gesture, the cards are shuffled face up into face down: increasing the level of randomness and disorder among the cards. The magician explains that there are methods to decrease entropy: magical ways that only he has conceived. In a magical gesture, the cards are spread to show that every card has righted itself except for the selected card. Upon turning the deck over, every card in the deck is back in new deck order, or the least random and disorderly fashion, with no entropy. Several ambulances are invited after this performance, as a group of fragile seniors have witnessed this absolutely incredible feat and need to be wheeled to the hospital. Here's hoping I'm close! Ben |
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Bill Hallahan Inner circle New Hampshire 3222 Posts |
Larry, thank you for running this contest!
Ch 7- Gateway Through Space and Time (coins) The gateway is the card box. The coins are placed in the card box. When the card box is opened, the coins are gone and there are only four cards inside, which have traveled through the gateway to our space and time. The cards are removed and the box is shown empty, but when it is closed, the coins arrive and are heard to rattle inside the box, as they have returned from elsewhere. The box is opened and the four coins are dumped out. Ch 8- Haunted Cabinet The coins are each placed in the handkerchief, but a ghost take each and it is heard to clink inside the cabinet as it is dropped by the ghost into the glass. The cabinet is opened and all four coins are shown in the glass. The glass is placed, or left, in the cabinet, and the ball is placed under the handkerchief. It too is taken by the ghost, and a noise is heard in the cabinet. When the cabinet is opened, the ball is inside the glass. Ch 5- Entropy (cards) This is a presentation for a routine similar to Simon Aronson's Shuffle-bored, i.e. the number of cards face up and face down are predicted, and other predictions are also made based on the contents of the packets, i.e. the number of red cards in each packet, or the number of court cards, etc..
Humans make life so interesting. Do you know that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to create boredom. Quite astonishing.
- The character of ‘Death’ in the movie "Hogswatch" |
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Larry Barnowsky Inner circle Cooperstown, NY where bats are made from 4770 Posts |
HINTS:
Ch 5-No card is selected. Multiple riffle shuffles are done by you and the spectator. A pattern emerges from the entropy. Ch 7-In the first phase no coins vanish or appear in the "coin box". Ch 8-Magical things happen to the coins, silk, and ball IN the cabinet (three phases). All three events in the cabinet occur by original methodology which requires no skill other than good presentation. The figurine on the top is placed in the cabinet during the performance. |
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plungerman Loyal user 287 Posts |
CH 8 - The glass, ball and coins are placed in the box. Silk is over the glass. The figure is placed in the magician position (the jokes are built-in). On the first closing and opening the door, the ball is in the glass under the silk. The second phase could start here or go back to the first posistion. On the second closing and opening, the coins are in the glass under the ball and under the silk. The magician figure wants to take a bow and be done, but the rule of threes has one more to go. Third closing and opening reveals the magician figure vanishes. He is revealed inside the glass standing on top of the coins (he must get paid) but below the ball and silk still on top of the glass.
CH 9 - Entropy The patter is that even intelligible (new deck) order is one of all the possible random variations. Similar combinations give a perfect hand of bridge or poker when dealt. You just have to know which way the entropy is blowing. Procedure: Have the spectator shuffle half and you shuffle half, then shuffle these together(technique alert). Repeating this process gives you three phases (at least) of a well shuffled deck used to deal winning hands in different games of cards. So far so regular. Now a change, the deals and games are fixed at the start with the spectator's free choice of card games making the magic. "Too bad you chose black jack cus were drawing a straight. Maybe we want to try poker again." Just an idea about showing card mastery to the spectator where their own choices let them lose, then win (keep them happy). Instead of card games, Call to Colors could be the test of entropy. Much easier to follow. CH 7 Gateway: Three chinese coins are removed from a coin box (or purse, or salt shaker). The box is how we in the West carry and gaurd things. In China, the simple way is to carry the coins threaded on a cord. Between these two methods is a magic gateway (cymbal crash). Spectator holds the cords ends while the magician fans the threaded coins. One is pulled down the cord and disappears at a respectible distance from the others. The second is shown fairly on the cord, then pulls off, then vanishes (one hand please). The two are shown in the coin box and replaced, either as each travels or at this point. The third is the reverse. With all her might the spectator makes a wish. Instead of the third coin vanishing, the other two return onto the cord she is holding, loud noise as they land on the cord with the third. Magician standing well away for this (thanks Apollo and Shoot). Banking patter and foriegn exchange banter. Don't forget to praise the young lady on her early withdrawl technique, Ha Ha. Family entertainment for all. Any methods not instantly aparent you can PM me about. I'm starting with the Gateway trick. It should look pretty fine. Plungerman |
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Larry Barnowsky Inner circle Cooperstown, NY where bats are made from 4770 Posts |
More Hints:
To repeat a previous hint: ch. 8- the glass is the key, each of the three magical events involve the glass in the cabinet. Note the pedestal on the right. The Chinese figurine is used in telling the story. It is not necessary for the effect. |
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Jacob Smith Inner circle Columbus, OH 1871 Posts |
CH 6-the magician cuts the deck and so does the spectator only to find the deck in new order.
Ch 7-the magician fails to have coins appear in a small brass box but insted appear in his pocket(or where ever)then the coins actually travel to the box in a magical way. ch 8-the magician tells a story about a ghost of a japanese warrior where when a ball is placed into a cabnet with a glass and a statue,where the box is shut.upon opening the box the ball is now inside the glass.the maician the places a hankey into the box,in the glass and when removed it is in a knot.the magician finally removes the statue and closes the box and upon looking inside everything is back to normal(or a backfire ending). I look forward to getting both of you books and I wish everyone else the best of luck,may the best person win. |
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Larry Barnowsky Inner circle Cooperstown, NY where bats are made from 4770 Posts |
Very imaginative answers. I'll end this soon so please submit your answers ASAP. The person with the best overall answers will win the book.
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Noel D Regular user 197 Posts |
Final guess
Entropy -Larry's variation of the shuffleboard effect. Gateway through space and time -coins go through space (the box) and time (reverse matrix with the cards. Spirit cabinet - the chinese figurine is possesed, and influences thigns to happen, like the handkerchief being tied aorund the glass, the ball appearing in the glass, and finally, moving a stack of coins form the magicians hand (or the cabinet) to the glass. |
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Larry Barnowsky Inner circle Cooperstown, NY where bats are made from 4770 Posts |
Thanks to everyone who participated or viewed this contest. I couldn't decide who came closest so I picked the TWO closest sets of answers. Those came from Wunceaponatime and Noel D. BOTH will win a copy of 21st Century Coin Mechanics with the Companion Video CD and free dollar size Chinese coin. Please PM me with your shipping address.
Here is the gist of the effects. I'm leaving out of course a lot of the script and details so this is just the bare bones. Ch. 5- Entropy I: There are two versions of this effect in chapter 5 (Entropy I and II). The magician shuffles the cards. The deck is cut and riffle shuffled by the spectator with one half face up and the other face down. The deck is divided into four piles. The spectator chooses which piles are shuffled together and the magician riffle shuffles them according to the spectator's wishes. The deck is then cut once more to a point where the spectator chooses. Thirteen cards are dealt without changing their order from the deck from that position. Some cards are face up and some face down. The face down cards in the packet are turned face up so all the cards are facing the same way. The relative order of the face up and face down cards to each other is not changed. The packet is cut once. The top card is dealt onto the table and its an Ace. The next card is placed under the packet. Another card is dealt to the table and its a Two. The next two cards go under the packet and then a Three is turned face up onto the table. The "down under" deal is continued until the Ten is reached. For the Jack and Queen,they are spelled instead of counted until all you have left is the King. Order from disorder. Ch 7.- Gateway Through Space and Time: Four cards are seen at the corners of the mat. Under one card are four half dollars. They are in the present. The cards are placed aside for now. You introduce a little time machine or time tunnel which you invented. Although it can send things back in time, it only works for things that fit in the little device and you can only go back a few minutes in time. The Time Tunnel (it's a custom coin box unlike anything available, but you can make one yourself) is shown and the four coins placed inside (the coins, cards, and time tunnel can be examined if desired). One at a time the coins pass through the time tunnel penetrating the fabric of space and time. The coins are seen to penetrate through the device. An hour glass (ungimmicked) is displayed and time is slowed by "adjusting the hourglass" so one of the penetrations can be seen in slow motion. The cards are placed back into the corners of the mat. One coin is placed under each card slowly and fairly. They are now in the past. Then the hourglass is turned over and time reversed. With no sneaky moves or Matrix type pickups etc., the coins one at a time reassemble under one card getting them back to the present where they started. Only four coins are left and there is nothing to ditch. No shells and no difficult moves. There is a gaff that helps make this happen that no one will ever see. Ch. 8- Haunted Cabinet: In the book there are instructions on how to build this effect. The chest once belonged to a Chinese magician named Wei Po-Yang who took his name from the famous alchemist. His spirit is said to still inhabit this chest. Three magical events take place inside the cabinet as you demonstrate how haunted it is. 1. A handkerchief is tied in a loose knot and placed inside a glass and both are placed inside the cabinet on the left. The front door is closed and opened a few seconds later where it is seen that the glass is empty and the handkerchief rests on the pedestal on the right side of the cabinet. 2. A ball is placed on the pedestal and the glass on the other side inside the cabinet. The door is closed and a few seconds later when it's reopened we see the ball now in the glass. 3. The empty glass is placed back in the cabinet and covered with a single playing card. The door is closed. Three coins are shown and vanish from the hands one at a time. As each one vanishes, a coin is heard apparently landing in the glass. When the door is opened there are three coins in the glass. Note: The glass, ball and handkerchief can be examined. The coins in the glass could be examined too if you wish. The cabinet of course cannot be examined. This does not work like Astro Ball or Pogo. Everything is mechanical and under your control. -Larry |
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Jacob Smith Inner circle Columbus, OH 1871 Posts |
Sounds like a book I'll love. Good job Wunceaponatime and Noel D.
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Larry Barnowsky Inner circle Cooperstown, NY where bats are made from 4770 Posts |
Some of the posts and PMs I received asked whether "Entropy" was a variant of "Shufflebored". It does not use the parity type principle of "Shufflebored" and in no way resembles that effect. It is fairly easy to do. A false riffle shuffle is not even needed to do the effect. Some clever mathematics takes care of most of the trick.
No threads are used in the "Haunted Cabinet" and there is nothing attached to the handkerchief, glass, ball, or coins! "Gateway" is easy to do and could be done surrounded sitting at or standing in front of a table. For those of you who are not good at or don't have the time to make your own props, I'll be selling the time tunnel coin box separately from the book at low cost to purchasers of the book. -Larry |
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