Blog entries from abertzinx

Torn and Transformed Card Tutorial

Albert Zinx — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:56:15 +0100

EFFECT:
A card is selected and lost in the pack. The magician then claims he will cause the card to rise to the top of the deck, but he fails. When he turns over the top card, it is NOT the selection, as he said it would be. The magician gets mad, tearing up the top card into four pieces and placing them into a spectator's hand. The magician then looks through the pack for the spectator's card, finding it somewhere in the middle. Flustered, the magician then tries to redeem himself. He hRead More...

Onion Magic Tutorial

Albert Zinx — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 05:00:00 +0100

Effect: The human being with supernatural abilities asks the folks, "Wanna see something strange?" They say they would like that very much. "Well, it's gonna cost ya five...no, TEN bucks. Plus tax. That would normally work out to over 11 dollars, but let's just keep it simple. To show you something you're going to remember for the rest of your lives I'm going to need 10 bucks and 10 cents. Whose got a 10 dollar bill and a dime?"

The spectators cough up the cash and -without ever toRead More...

Road Rage Mentalism Routine

Albert Zinx — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 05:00:00 +0100

This is powerful little piece of mental magic. You will need 3 small slips of paper, a pen and 3 markers (a green, red and yellow.) With the pen, draw a simple traffic light on each of the three pieces of paper. Each of the drawings should feature three circles in a single column, inside a rectangle.

In one of the drawings, color in one of the lights at one end of the rectangle GREEN. In another drawing, color in one of the lights at the other end of the rectangle RED. And in the third Read More...

A Simple Book Test Tutorial

Albert Zinx — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 05:00:00 +0100

Many mentalists and magicians use a book test in their act. Here's one that you can easily do:

Effect:

Give someone a paperback book. As them to hold the book behind their back and open to a page. (Even they can't see their page selection.) Hand them a thin marker and tell them to draw an "X" on one of the pages.

Telling them to close the book and to hold it between their hands, you take the marker and write a prediction.

Ask yRead More...

Salt Penetration Magic Trick

Albert Zinx — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 06:00:00 +0100

This effect always gets good reactions. Probably because of the surprise when they think you are about to do one amazing thing then you suddenly do something totally unexpected. When seemingly failing to make a coin vanish
from under a salt shaker, you slam the salt shaker with your palm and it slips straight through the solid tabletop.

This effect works because the salt shaker is covered with paper napkins; these napkins are able to hold the shape of the salt shaker long afteRead More...

Heads or Tails Prediction

Albert Zinx — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 05:00:00 +0100

The Effect

Onto the table you place a sealed envelope and a 10, 20 and 50 pence piece. The spectator chooses one of the coins and the others are discarded. The chosen coin is flipped so it lands heads or tails.

The envelope is opened, turned upside down and a folded piece of paper falls out. The spectator opens the folded paper to reveal a prediction. You have correctly predicted the not only the chosen coin but whether it would land heads up or tails up.