Ball and matches. Effective trick and its solution

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Ball and matches. Focus secret

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Focus Description:

Get a ball from one pocket, and a matchbox with holes in the top and bottom sides from the other. Drop the ball into the top hole and the ball will fall out from the bottom of the matchbox.

- You probably think that there are no matches inside? - you ask the audience.

- Look!

Pull the box filled with matches out of the match case.

- Maybe you think that the matches are special? I will prove that there is nothing special about them.

Empty the matches from the box into the palm of your hand, then scatter them on the table. Matches are really unremarkable.

Focus secret:

In addition to two holes (one below the other) in the upper and lower faces of the matchbox case, there is also a hole in the bottom of the box, which, if pushed into the case, coincides vertically with the positions of the holes in the sides of the case.

From the narrow edge of the case - its center - to the hole in the bottom there is a kind of bar - from matches cut to length and glued together. This bar is glued to the bottom of the box.

Focus Ball and matches

If you put ordinary matches in boxes around this bar; then outwardly the boxes will look quite ordinary. In addition, these matches can be thrown out of the box and presented to the audience - no one will notice the glued bar.

When the audience examines the matches and is convinced of their simplicity, you can repeat the trick by collecting matches in a box and sliding it into a case, and again pass the same ball through the matchbox.

Author: Kuptsova O.

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