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Focus Description:

Address the audience with the words:

- During their performances, some magicians often demonstrate how they can pass through a brick wall. Here's how they do it. They invite the audience to the stage and divide them into two teams. Each of them builds their own part of the wall and leaves their autographs on it. Then the audience returns to the hall to their seats.

At this point, show the audience two pieces of cardboard cut out in ledges and continue the explanation.

- Then the assistants begin to move these two halves of the wall until they connect with each other.

Bring both pieces of cardboard together and join them into one.

- Magicians have no way to get through the wall and get on the other side of it. This is exactly how this wall looks from the audience. But on the other side of the wall - move the pieces of cardboard apart, turn the other side towards the audience and move the same way as at the beginning - this time a square hole appears in the center - there is always a hole through which magicians immediately make their way! Because the audience can't see the hole from this side - pull the pieces apart again and turn them over - they think they're seeing a real miracle!

Put the pieces back together and the hole in the center will disappear.

- Pretty witty invented all this, is not it?

Focus secret:

For demonstration, two pieces of cardboard are needed. First, cut out a rectangle with sides that are multiples of 3/3 3/4. Sizes 40-50 cm are convenient for showing from the stage. Using a pencil and a ruler, divide this large rectangle into 24 small ones. The dimensions of each small rectangle in this case will be: 10, 8,33 cm.

Carefully make a cut along a thick stepped line. Carefully erase all pencil lines. Color the pieces of cardboard with bright colors. Fold them as they were at the very beginning, and draw on each piece some simple drawings, such as a smiling face and a heart pierced by an arrow. The wall model is ready.

Focus Miracle with Cardboard

The demonstration of the trick must be very slow so that the audience will notice that you are not using any kind of manipulation and be able to understand what is happening. The key movement, which is performed in front of the audience, serves three purposes: turn the pieces over; hide their simultaneous rotation; keep the orientation of the new rectangle long side down.

Take the heart piece in your left hand and the face piece in your right hand. The right angle of the left piece is at the top left, and the right angle of the right piece is at the bottom right. The ring finger of the left hand is on the side of the audience, the thumb is on your side. The rest of the fingers are clenched. Similarly, the ring finger of the right hand is in front, the thumb is behind, and the rest are clenched into a fist. The drawings on the pieces of cardboard are turned towards the audience. Keep pieces of cardboard at a distance of 30-40 cm from each other. It is important to keep them at the same level at every moment of the demonstration.

Start moving pieces. Do it slowly. Watch the convergence process as if you were a spectator. Imagine them sliding across the floor. This is exactly what you are talking about at this moment to the audience. Move the pieces until they are tightly closed. Move the pieces apart slowly and carefully, but not as far apart as at the beginning, but at a distance of about 10 cm.

Now you must simultaneously turn both pieces with the other side towards the audience. This is done openly, but along with the rotation, you must move the pieces to a certain angle. At the beginning of the turn, press your index fingers against the pieces of cardboard next to the large ones, and transfer the large ones to the other side of the cardboard. All this happens already in the process of turning the pieces. Continuing the turn, move your ring fingers to the other side, then release your index fingers and clench them into a fist. As a result, you kind of roll a piece of cardboard between your fingers, and it will turn to the audience on the other side. But the most important thing is that as a result of such a rotation, the right angle of the left piece will remain in the upper left corner, and the right angle of the right one will remain at the bottom right.

After turning, the pieces should remain at the same distance from each other and at the same level relative to each other. Again slowly bring the pieces together as if they were sliding across the floor. Continue this until they are completely connected to the hole in the middle. Move the pieces apart, turn over and reconnect with the already disappeared hole.

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