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EvanMagic Elite user Manitoba 471 Posts |
Hey everyone,
On Copperfield's special where he made the train car disappear, he did this one 'interactive TV' trick that involved 9 squares, each square having a different train car name. He asked the viewer to move around the squares a specified number of times and would remove squares that the viewer did not choose. I have seen this on YouTube a number of times and it still boggles my mind! Has anyone else seen this? Thoughts? What's the origin of this trick? Thanks in advance, Evan |
EvanMagic Elite user Manitoba 471 Posts |
Anyone? You can view this one on YouTube!
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Bill Hegbli Eternal Order Fort Wayne, Indiana 22797 Posts |
This is an old mathematical trick. It became popular with the Zodiac trick, using a pre-recorded audio taping of instructions for the audience, and then the murder mystery trick, same using a pre-recorded audio tape, in the 1970's or early 1980's.
The secret was sold in a separate manuscript but I never got around to ordering it. Maybe someone has a reference they can share on the Café. |
EvanMagic Elite user Manitoba 471 Posts |
Thanks for your response. Are there rights managed to this trick?
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Anatole Inner circle 1916 Posts |
I think there was an old vinyl record of this genre of trick even before 8-track and cassettes came on the market. Something about the planets and the voice on the record revealed the name of a planet arrived at by counting around a bunch of 3x5 index cards that had the planet names written on them.
----- Amado "Sonny" Narvaez
----- Sonny Narvaez
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Oliver Ross Inner circle Europe 1724 Posts |
Have a look at Jim Steinmeyer's booklets called "Impuzzibilities" and "Further Impuzzibilities".
He describes in those booklets different interactif effects using mathematical principles as i.e. the 9 cards principle. The most important part in those kind of effects are they instructions given to the audience. Very well written and explained and ... not expensif. Oliver. |
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