Do most of you do the recommended routine for Hundy 500? I tried changing the routine to fit my style a bit more but it doesn't play very well. People seem to easily figure it out. I think I am gonna try the original routine.

Kaps' version of Pat Page's Easy Money still beats them all.

Have you seen the Dan White routine for Hundy 500?
Bob

I have had no trouble. It was marketed the way it is for a reason. It works.

This one is Handy 500 no? Afillius, I don't see why you'd want to change the routine it's strong enough already. I can maybe see the patter being different.

I'm gonna perform it as it is on the DVD. I'll let you guys know how it goes.

Dan White,s version is better.
Bob

Here's an idea that you may like.
I ask if they would like to see an effect that took 30 yrs to learn which is highly confidential. I tell a story about a fourth grade field trip to the US Mint where they make money. During the trip I found that they use the same paper to make $1 dollar bills as they use for $100 bills. I figured after performing magic for 30 yrs how to add zeros to the bills. It goes over real well. I use the same handling as shown in DVD.
Have fun.
Ken

The problem youre having (assuming its not technique) might be the same problem I had when first performing Hundy. If you watch Greg perform Hundy then watch really close. He tells them to look at the corners of the bill and does the change but that is NOT the climax. The climax of Hundy is when the other bills change. A lot of people make the first change the climax and when they show the other bills have changed, it is more anti-climatic. Loook at Greg Wilson's performance and notice that he does the first change and then pauses. After the pause he then shows the other bills have changed which makes it the climax.

BBMagic,
That was very insightful! I can see how this could make a huge difference.
Thanks!

This weekend I performed Hundy 500 using the same presentation and handling as the video and I got great reactions. I did it for my dad and a coworker of his from Arizona. We were taking a cruise and when his coworker came into our cabin to get us for dinner he asked if we had any cash for the dueling pianos. I opened my wallet and said "I have $500, is that enough?" and I counted out my 5 $1 bills. Then I finished the effect like in the video. He reached out to grab the money and of course got 3 $100 bills, he couldn't believe that they were real.

Apparently the entire drive home he kept repeating to my dad. "Man, your son really messed with my head. I can't figure out how he could have done that money thing."

Thanks for all the advice.

I like the way Gregory Wilson plays this. You might want to consider leading into it with a smaller effect. For example, ask the spectator for a dollar and change it into a twenty via your favorite bill switch (I like Jay Noblezada's $2 Window for this), then ask if they'd like to see this illusion with several bills at the same time.

P.S. Another thing I like to do with Hundy 500 is lead into it with a bill transposition like U.F. Grant's (changing a single into a twenty). Then do Hundy 500, and finally close it out by telling them that you'll demonstrate how these changes and transpositions happen as clearly as possible. Perform Daniel Garcia's Greed as a closer.

Pete,

Where does one find Kaps version or Patrick Page's original version? Seems to me I saw Patrick Page perform it on a video somewhere.

Thanks.

Pat Pages manuscript "Easy money" can be purchased at Magic Inc. in Chicago for $10.00. This effect was invented by Pat Page and was improved my Fred Kaps. This manuscript describes the Fred Kaps handling.

I have always leaned toward going beyond what the spectator expects. In other words I quite often downplay things. The way I do Hundy 500 almost always knocks people for a loop. I usually start off by making a joke about how I have $500 and pretend like I am trying to convince them that the five $1’s are five $100 bills. This is all done tongue in cheek using different techniques like pretending to hypnotize them or something. I then let them select one of the bills, which I tell them I will change into a $100 bill. I put the bill inside and ask them to remember that their selected bill was the one on the inside of the folds. Then using Wilson’s technique they all change into $100 bills and I act embarrassed as though something went terribly wrong. I ask for forgiveness at my incompetence while the whole time they are tripping on their jaws which are now on the floor.

By the way I have also started incorporated a business card within the folds that supposedly causes the magic. This gives me a reason to give them my business card so they can go home a practice.

David Tower

Effect
Hundy 500 - Magician changes five $1 dollar bills into five $100 bills.
Script
“Have you ever gone on a class trip?
When I was in 4th grade we went to Philadelphia. We visited the Liberty Bell and the US mint. That’s where they make money. I found out that they use the same paper to make $1 dollar bills as they use to make 5’s, 10’s and $100 dollar bills. Here feel the paper. It’s the same.
Having this knowledge about the paper combined with doing magic for 30 years, I financially figured it out. The problem is that it only works with my money. Use magic to add zeros to the ones and you’ll have $100’s. Sounds easy but it took me thirty years to figure this out and it’s highly confidential.
I’ll do it very slow because when you get home tonight you’re going to say that I did to fast, Watch the corners of the bills. It will happen in a split second. BAM! I did it again.
And that’s not a bad return!
Have fun with this!

I'm not sure I'd reveal the ending before I started the effect, but if it works for you...

I saw Criss Angel do this on Mindfreak last night. He did the basic Hundy 500 handling with something a little different. After the change, as he was counting out the hundreds, on the fourth bill counted he grabbed the gimmick, leaving behind a regular hundred as the fifth and last bill which he could show cleanly on both sides.

I have changed my handling of Hundy just a bit from Greg's. Now instead of his change, I use the one from 3D cash, so I can use that corny old joke "The fastest way to double your money is to fold it in half"