Bird and dice. Effective trick and its solution

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Show a small bird in an oblong wire cage measuring 10-15 cm. Then show a dice, which is about 7,5 cm high, on all sides to prove that it is solid. Place this cube on a tray and cover with a lid. Now throw a handkerchief over the cage. Order the cage to disappear, the die to change into a hat borrowed from the audience, and the bird to appear on the tray instead of the dice. Wave your empty handkerchief. When you lift the lid, the bird will be under it and the dice will fall out of the hat.

Focus secret:

The secret of the focus is made with the help of a double handkerchief (Fig. a), in the middle of which there is an oblong wire frame inside, corresponding to the size of the upper part of the cage. When you throw the handkerchief over the cage on the table, try to do it so that the wire frame is directly above the cage. When you seem to lift the cage under the handkerchief while standing at the table, in reality you are only lifting the handkerchief stretched with hidden wire, and with your other hand remove the cage unnoticed by the eyes of the audience.

Focus Bird and dice

In order for the bird to be under the lid instead of a dice, two dice are used - one is made of solid material - solid, and the other is bent from tin - hollow. The latter is missing one side, but can be firmly attached using a movable wall painted to match the other sides. This movable wall is wrapped in a semicircle (Fig. b).

The tray is made of tin, painted and looks like an ordinary tray, but in the middle of it, 1 mm above the surface, a tin square is attached with a size equal to the size of one side of the dice. Three sides of the cube are soldered to the tray, while the fourth side remains free. The middle of the tray is painted to hide this device. Another bird is placed in a hollow dice. This cube is closed and hidden on the sideboard or in one of the hidden pockets of the suit.

After asking the audience for a hat for a while, discreetly lower the hollow dice into it and place the hat on the table with the open side up. Now let the audience see what's in front of you: a solid dice, a lid, and a cage with a bird placed on the table closer to the back edge.

- I'll put a dice in this hat (do it) or better yet - I'll put it on this tray so that you can see it.

Focus Bird and dice
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Saying this, take out the "same" cube, but in fact it is hollow, and place it on the tray with the retractable side down so that the upside down hooks the open edge of the solid square on the tray, and put the lid on it. "Make disappear" the cage from the handkerchief, as already described. When this is done, go to the tray and lift the lid with the hollow cube inside, but first slide the lid and cube to the opposite edge of the tray (see picture). This will leave a pull-out bottom in the center of the tray, the inside of which is painted like a tray pattern to be invisible.

The solid dice left in the hat is removed when needed.

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