Want To Buy: The Card Magic Of Some Of My Friends (Spiral Bound) by Aldo Colombini - Book

Perform an incredible solid through solid effect with an ordinary die and just a couple of playing cards. Direct from the mind of one of the modern masters of gimmicks comes a visual miracle that you have to see to believe. This is Die-Abolical Bet by Nicholas Lawrence.Here’s what happens:The magician hands out a shot glass and translucent dice to be examined. The magician removes a pair of cards from the deck and stacks a card on the glass, the die on the card, and the second card on the die....

Have you ever seen a quarter do this?With Funnel Vision you will! The lid is opened to show the inside of the case. Real quarters are inserted into the top of the funnel. When they drop out, they have shrunken. The case is turned over, and the tiny quarters are dropped inside. Suddenly, they become a full-sized half dollar!

A dollar bill floats out of your hand, and dances in mid-air - left and right, up and down. Finally it floats straight up, above your head. This "floating bill" effect is both effective and easy-to-do. The clever gimmick has been designed to enable you to take a bill from any country - U.S. dollars, Euros, etc. - and instantly make it float upward from your hands. At any time, you can show the front and back of the bill, and since there are no threads involved, you can perform this virtually any...

An obviously solid sheet of metal is placed into an open holder. The window cover is closed, the case snapped, and a real quarter falls out of the metal to the table. The case is turned over to reveal that the piece of metal now has a coin sized hole right through its center! And at the end of the trick, everything can be examined: the sheet of metal, the window case, and the quarter.