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Focus Description:

The magician rolls out a rectangular box about half a meter high into the middle of the stage. It consists of four identical compartments stacked on top of each other. The "tower" stands on a small four-wheeled platform or pedestal.

The front side of each compartment is a door. If all doors are open, viewers see the entire space of the box. An assistant enters the box, the doors close and the magician inserts metal plates between the compartments: one at the bottom of each box and one at the top.

The magician then removes the top three compartments and rolls the remaining one around the stage a couple of times. Then the removed boxes are returned to their place, but not in the order in which they were originally located. The magician opens the door of the compartment where the assistant's feet should be, but the amazed spectators will see the girl's head there, and where the head should be, feet.

Focus Confused Woman

Then the magician will close the doors again and restore the “tower” to its original form. A happily smiling girl will come out of the box.

Focus secret:

The height of each box is approximately 35 cm, and the height of the mobile platform is about 20 cm. When the assistant enters the “tower”, she stands in front of the audience on the edges of the platform hatch, which easily opens downwards on springs, at the level of the non-existent bottom of the lower compartment.

But when all the doors are closed, it sinks to the bottom of the platform and is placed in the space of the platform and the lower, fourth drawer.

Each of the top three compartments has two doors: the one the girl enters through, and a small false door on the opposite side of the box. The second door “opens up” the space of the drawer only about 5 cm deep. Behind the false doors are attached body parts of a woman mannequin, wearing the same clothes as the assistant.

Metal plates are necessary to hide the emptiness of the boxes from viewers. The height of the support and the fourth drawer is approximately 55 cm, creating the necessary space for an assistant. The wider the support, the more space there will be for the girl.

Focus Confused Woman

The trick is performed with one or two assistants. After removing the top three drawers, you need to rotate them so that the audience does not remember which side the real doors are on. Viewers should notice that the “disassembled” assistant was reassembled incorrectly. When her head is out of place, the girl should look around with a smile.

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