A cup of coffee. Effective trick and its solution

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A cup of coffee. Focus Secret

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Focus Description:

The magician takes a saucer with a porcelain coffee cup from the table with his left hand, and a coffee pot with his right hand and pours coffee from it into a cup (Fig. 114, A). Putting down the coffee pot, he comes forward with a cup and invites someone to drink coffee. But then, taking another step, he suddenly stumbles and splashes multi-colored confetti from the cup, which rains down on the audience (Fig. 114, B).

Focus coffee cup
Fig. 114

Props:

Coffee pot.

A cup of coffee and a saucer with a secret.

Multicolored confetti.

Focus secret:

The secret of the focus is in the design of the cup and saucer. If desired, the cup can be real porcelain, but the saucer is made (extruded) from thin sheet copper and skillfully painted to match the color and pattern of the cup. Viewers take it for real porcelain. From fig. 115 clear arrangement of both cups and saucers.

Focus coffee cup
Fig. 115

Partition A is glued into a porcelain cup with BF-2 glue and carefully painted with lacquer oil paint to match the color of white porcelain. A hole B with a diameter of 5 mm is drilled in the bottom of the cup; a very thin tube is inserted into it, protruding end outward; the tube can exit through hole B in the saucer. You can drill porcelain with an ordinary drill, wetting it abundantly with turpentine.

Behind partition A, put multi-colored confetti and press it hard to fit as much as possible. Confetti is covered on top with thin white tissue paper.

Double saucer. Such a device allows you to pour coffee inside, which comes from the cup through a tube and hole B. Another small hole D with a diameter of 3 mm is made on the side of the saucer, through which air comes out of the saucer, giving way to pouring coffee.

When preparing the number, it is necessary to accurately place the cup on the saucer in advance, aligning their holes. Throwing confetti out of the cup into the auditorium, you should hold the saucer firmly in your left hand so that coffee does not spill out of it. Holding the cup with your right hand, the performer makes a big swing, and then abruptly throws his hand forward: in this case, all the confetti will fly out of the cup for a long distance . Having thrown out the confetti, the magician lowers the cup on the saucer with a casual movement, and then puts both on the table.

Author: Vadimov A.A.

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