(Editor's note: This is the first time that we have featured an improvement on a previous Jinx trick. Heretofore any variations and improvements have been part of a page devoted to such. But, as we noted with Half and Half's original appearance, few would take advantage of the ingenious Stewart James idea. Now Voz Lyons has what we think is a set-up in the words and general working. I hope that the stunt won't go begging this time as much as it did the first.) In Jinx #134 there appeared a Stewart James' miracle of close-up effectiveness. Here is my…
ATTENTION, all possible readers!! Please do not let this layout of "tables" make you grimace. We didn't like it, either, until after the second reading, when it suddenly became clear and dawned on us that the thing made sense and was a miracle to the onlookers while being an utterly awful bit of "stealing" to a performer. But don't let that stop you from trying it. Ed. Effect: The visible apparatus consists of three dice, an apparently meaningless list of letters, two slates, and a piece of chalk. The list is that figured #1 on this page. You write something…
Royal Heath marketed a 5 dice (each surface having a different three figure number) effect several years ago, and after anyone had mixed them and arranged them in a row (column) it was very effective when the performer merely glanced at them for a second and then named the total of the problem when added. By only adding the right hand row the performer had the necessary knowledge. The two figures thus obtained gave him the last two figures of the total. By subtracting that number from 50 he obtained the first two figures. This trick has been discarded by…
Very few magi haven't a set of the five dice used in Heath's Dyciphering Dice Trick, it being one of the few highly effective pocket tricks of the past several years. After using it for a time I discovered several points which make for a subtle test in connection. Produce the five dice and mention that they are used for some money game, (without going into that part further) as an excuse for their being numbered with three digits to a side. Let someone shake and roll them. You line them up in a row, and turning your back ask…