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Not quite sure where to post this one and want to be careful not to ask for the secrets or anything but was wondering if I can be pointed in the right direction.

I was in discussion this morning with the communications director who mentioned a radio skit where they're sending kids to summer school and going to teach them magic as one of the activities. Anyway he knows of my interest and asked if there is any magic which could be represented in print format such as the staff news letter.

So I throw this out to the people here for suggestions or places I can go.

I do not, and I repeat, do not wish to learn the secrets of such tricks, just something that can be picked up read and baffle people. How it works isn't important and I've no intention of revealing the secret to hundreds of staff here.

Not quite sure what you're asking here .

Sorry perhaps not clear enough

The comms guy said do I know of any magical effect that could play out just from reading or looking at the effect?

e.g. the one where on one page you may look at a selection of cards, on the next your chosen card has vanished?

Optical illusions obviously as well,

I'm not sure how to articulate the request properly so forgive me.

Monker - he means something similar to this:

http://www.magicsupreme.co.uk/

(though quite how you'd represent that in print, without the kids figuring out the method, I'm not entirely sure)

There are plenty of counting or maths tricks that will work in print. A few online magic shops have a page carrying that old mindreader symbol trick where no matter what symbol you choose, the site knows what it was.

I've often thought that the old D&D books where you make choices and turn to different pages as you go would be applicable to magic, but I've not really thought about it much.

How about magic pictures..



There are lots of them available

Great, thanks for the ideas

I think the pictures idea would probably be the easiest along with some of the mathematical stuff

I only need a few ideas for now, see if it takes off etc etc

Thank you

or

Sorry for the Ellusionist link, but...

http://www.ellusionist.com/magic_tricks ... Shaman.htm

That looks like your cup of tea.

Rob

I first saw one of those sites when I was eleven and I could not figure out how that works, still can't. The first time I went on something like that, I literally spent an hour doing it over and over again seeing if I could beat it.

Going back to the original question - I've read two books of effects like that, where the book itself plays the part of the magician or mind reader. Both are long out of print, unfortunately. One was "John Fisher's Magic Book", the other "Chan Canasta's Book of Oopses" - I still have a copy of that one, and I'm hanging on to it, because it goes for ridiculous amounts on Ebay. It's a mixture of psychological and mathematical effects.


Barry