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AdamChance Special user 656 Posts |
Ok... just had this idea for a new signed quarter to impossible location trick. any good? anyone done this before?
effect: a signed quarter travels from a coin purse to inside a nest of boxes, that was inside the inner most doll from a Russian Matryoshka doll set (google Matryoshka doll if you don't know what I'm talking about) method: you give the spectator a quarter to sign (can be borrowed) and just do some sort of opening trick with it. then say that you have a collection of signed quarters now from every time you do this trick. you show a coin purse with all sorts of random signed quarters. you put all the coins away except one coin you keep palmed, as well as their signed coin. show their coin in one hand with the signature facing up... then shuttle pass to make it look like you put their signed quarter in your other hand (really a different quarter with a random signature face down). then put that coin into the coin purse. this will work if you only get them to sign one side of the quarter, so just a quick shuttle pass and they hear the drop of what they think is their quarter into the coin purse. so at this point, they think the trick is over and that their signed quarter is in your little coin purse with all sorts of other peoples' signed quarters also. load their coin in one of those cheap criss angel mind freak nest of boxes tricks in your pocket. (or any similar nest of boxes) sitting on the table the entire time is one of those Russian Matryoshka dolls. Get the spectator to open it up and take out the littler doll, then open that one and take out a littler doll, etc. Each time, you hold the base, they take the top off. When they take the top off the inner most doll, it will have a duplicate nest of boxes that is glued shut and attached with a string to the base of this smallest doll. you can comment "inside the inner most doll, is a little black plastic container". you palm the nest of boxes from your pocket, containing their signed coin. you then pretend to dump the black plastic nest of boxes from the doll, to your hand. (similar idea to Tommy Wonder's ambitious card to ringbox routine) ...you hand them the nest of boxes... then open it up to find their signed quarter. while they are opening the little boxes, you can ditch the dirty inner most doll. or ideally, figure out a way to detach the string and duplicate nest of boxes from the inner most doll. at that point, everything will be examinable. if this works, I think the effect will be quite strong because it will seem impossible that their quarter was hidden under so many layers of things that was in view the whole time. they basically get to open all the layers... but they especially get to open all the last layers in the nest of boxes without you touching anything. as a bonus trick, you can now go into a quarter bend. if you have a quantum bender... you can ask them if they want to sign the other side of the coin to make sure that I'm not switching them. then bend their coin. you also have the option of putting their bent coin into the coin purse with the other signed quarters (without them knowing it's bent)... get them to hold the purse... get them to concentrate on their own coin, and it will bend. alternatively, you could switch coin purses for an identical coin purse that contains signed bent quarters... so you not only bent theirs, but you bent all the quarters at the same time. alternatively, this could be used as a card to impossible location. where the inner most doll has a folded card, attached with string to the base. or ideally, just have a Kennedy mystery box with rubber bands inside the inner most doll. then it's easy and no clean up. the kennedy mystery box is powerful enough in itself...so I'm not sure if there's an advantage to having it inside those dolls... but some might like that. ideally, it puts some heat on the dolls... and the spectator will come away remembering that their coin/card ended up inside those nest of beautiful dolls. |
MikeTheKid Veteran user vancouver 329 Posts |
Have you try it ?
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magicman491 Veteran user 326 Posts |
Nice idea sounds good
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