That's the vase! Effective trick and its solution

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That's the vase! Focus secret

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Focus Description:

There is a beautiful vase on the performer's illusion table. It is filled to the brim with rice. To convince the audience of this, the performer takes a few handfuls of rice from above and pours them back. Then he puts a cap on the vase and immediately takes it off. The rice that filled the vase disappeared, and instead of it, apples appeared in the vase.

Props:

To demonstrate the trick, you need a vase on a stand, shaped like a large wine glass. In addition, a metal or plastic vase cap is required. But the main detail of the secret device is a cylindrical insert without a bottom, hollow inside, tightly closed from above with a concave lid. It is best to make this insert - a cylinder - from thin plexiglass. The outer walls of the cylinder and its cover are thickly lubricated with leu. Then the cylinder is laid on its side and covered with rice so that a crust of rice forms on it. After an hour, you can take out the cylinder and see if the grains of rice have stuck well to the walls of the cylinder. If there are "naked" places, they should be smeared with glue again and covered with rice grains (Fig. 3, A).

Focus That's the vase!
Fig. 3

Now, having placed all the details for their intended purpose, you need to prepare them for demonstrating the focus.

Focus secret:

First of all, apples are placed in a vase and covered with a secret cylinder, through the walls of which the apples are not visible. Through the transparent walls of the glass vase, only the walls of the secret cylinder, pasted over with rice, are visible. One gets the impression that the vase is filled with rice - after all, the top of the cylinder is filled up to the edges of the vase with rice (Fig. 3, B).

Demonstrating the trick, the performer holds a vase with one hand, and with the other takes a handful of rice from above and slowly pours it back out. Some rice can be sprinkled to make sure the audience that the cereal is real. Then they take the cap by the top and show the audience its inside. Spectators see that the cap is empty. Next comes the final focus. The performer puts a cap on the vase. The edges of the secret cylinder enter the top of the cap, and when the performer removes the cap, the secret cylinder is removed along with it, which is inside the cap. And apples remain in the vase (Fig. 3, C). The cap should be removed carefully, holding the vase vertically, and immediately placed on the illusion table so that the audience does not guess the trick. The secret cylinder can be equipped with a latch spring, then it will sit more securely in the cap.

Before demonstrating the trick, you need to carefully check all the props and provide for all possible accidents.

Author: Akopyan A.A.

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