Sunday, January 4, 2009

EASY BURNT MATCH MAGIC

A simple but very effective trick that requires a bit of set up.
Secretly, before the performance take a burnt match and normal match from a box of matches.
Draw, with a black marker, the same burn-marks on the clean, ready-to-use match from the burnt match. Cover the sides as well until it is basically impossible to tell them apart from each other. You are now ready to start the trick.
Show the proper burned match with your right hand, hiding or palming the marked clean match.
Put the burnt match in your pocket and pretend to take it back out. This means that the hidden clean match is now in your hand. Say that this is the only match you have and that (showing an empty box of matches) it is burnt, posing a problem. However, saw that using your magical skills, you will be able to set the match alight. Strike it against the side of the match and will set alight!

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