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You know, this is what happens when I stay up too late. My mind starts to wander. Off to Stevenage most likely.

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FFFFFFFFFF (Fantastic Floating Footie Football For Funny Fans Flying For FIFA)

Someone like me is playing football. Actually, playing is the wrong word. It implies some ability. Attempting to play? In any case, the point is that I can't play football. Instead I just drop-kick the ball into the air at which point it starts zooming around like Harry Potter on a cursed broomstick, finally thwacking all the defenders on the head, the goalie in the stomach, and placing itself squarely into the goal. The spectators look on in bemusement.

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Bell Ringer

You have purchased a Monster Bertha. Everytime you walk past something metal you walk towards it and a loud 'clang' is heard. Let's hope you don't scratch the paint off the car next door!

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Flexilead

While writing something you discover that your pencil is too dull to eke out anything more than a Grand Canyon-esque rift in the page. No problem, you just twist the lead into a sharp point.

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Blainiac

You have no life so you decide to live in a big plastic box over the Thames for a month. Oh, sorry, too late!

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Kati

Our hero, the table hopping magician asks to borrow two banknotes of the same denomination (say two fives) and gets the spectator to initial them. He then proceeds to roll them up into pencil thickness tubes (cue risqué gag about a certain banned substance if appropriate) and fit them end to end to make one long tube. The bills suddenly transform into a similar sized piece of ratty looking rope.

"Neat huh? Unfortunatly I haven't quite figured out how to change them back yet...(magican hands cord to spectator in a smarmy way) I love this job, it's like money for old rope. Thank you, thank you so much."

After a short spell (possibly doing another trick) magician asks the speccy whether their satisfied with the exchange of two bills for a small length of rope? Before the spec can answer the magician takes rope back and informs everyone that the rope is quite expensive at £2.50 a meter but you can understand if he feels shortchanged because it's only about 20cm long. The magician stretchs the rope to a much longer length, coils it up and then hands it back.

"That's fair enough, isn't it?... No?... Ok then..."

Magician rumages around in pocket whilst muttering (loud enough to hear of course).

"It's getting harder and harder to scam people these days."

He produces a small bottle from his pocket with a label on it that say's something like 'Skutt's Snake Oil. Guaranteed To Cure All Ill's'.

"There you go, I'll throw this in as well... cool huh?... WHAT, YOU MEAN YOUR STILL NOT SATISFIED? Ok, I've probably got ten quid (or whatever) here somewhere. Tell you what, are you a gambling man? I'll flip you for the money that disappeared and give you every chance to win. Does that sound fair... of course it does."

Magician produces a coin and shows audience that it's double headed.

"See, both sides are heads. What do you want, heads or tails? Heads? Wise choice sir. Here, you take the coin and flip it"

Spec flips coin and when it lands both faces are now completly blank.

"Oh dear... I can see that if it wasn't for bad luck, you wouldn't have no luck at all"

"But, see what it say's on the bottles label?"

Magician picks up snake oil bottle and points to the bit that say's 'Cures All Ill's'. Magician unscrews bottle, tips it up, and out fall the two initialed bills.

"Even cures money worries, hows that?"

You're in a completly open space, surounded by specs in a circle about 6 foot away from you, you stand in the middle.

You ask someone for their mobile phone, and ask them also for their number.

You take their phone and put it in a bag. You proceed to smash bag and contents in whatever way is appropriate. You then open the bag to reveal their completely mashed mobile phone.

Just when they are about to kill you, you take out your own phone and make a call to their mobile. Everyone in the circle hears a phone ringing, and one of the specs reaches into their pocket to pull out the borrowed phone, all in one piece.

You nor the volunteer went anywhere near the edge of the circle.

From a silk handkerchief the magic bloke produces a glowing flourescent tube (could be UV) with no apparant source of light - one of those small ones about 12 inches long.

He then takes the solid tube and bends it as if it is made of rubber into various shapes, before finally twisting it into something the shape of an animal - like a balloon model mouse or rat.

He covers it again and it changes into a white rat.

You show a spec a cheque book - but each cheque has written on it 'I promise to give the bearer my soul'

You point out that this is really crazy, you'd never sell your sould to anyone.

Never the less you tear out a cheque and put it in an envelope.

You then go on to perform a standard pick a card trick, and ask the spectator to sign a card.

Alas! The trick goes horrbily wrong. You can't find the card, in the pack, or for that matte the signature.

Then suddenly you smile - and open the envelope. There is the signature on the cheque ... you know own their soul!

... and in a similar vein.

There are primitives who are frightened of mirrors. They fear that if they see thier face in a mirror then their soul has been captured, we educated people of course believe in no such thing.

Well you wouldn't want to go capturing the soul of a person, but did they know that mobile phones, for all their technology, also have this same irrational fear. You see, the number of a mobile phone is like its soul. And if you know the number, you can control it!

You ask someone for their mobile phone.

You place their mobile phone in a bag/box. You then place in the bag the mirror and ask the spec to hold the bag. After a moment or two the bag vibrates - feels like they have just received a message. The mobile phone is removed - it looks ok.

The mirror is removed. And on the mirror is now written the number of the mobile phone.

last one tonight ....

You explain that a diamond is made from a combination of time, heat and pressure on carbon.

With that you show a pencil. Carefully you snap the pencil so that it is about an inch long. You give it to the spec.

You show a piece of paper and explain that you will turn the paper into a time capsule. So saying you role it into a tube. The spec gives you the pencil which you place in the paper and wrap tightly. You squeeze the paper explaining that this is the pressure. Now you need a little heat.

You use your trusty lighter to burn the paper, and also the pencil.

And what is left in your hand is a diamond

I am hoping today is the last day and not too late, had another idea


Cold fusion. couldn't be simpler really

Two nails are shown - solid.

Heat is usually necessary to make metal stick together.

However the magician rubs the two together and visibly they begin to melt into one another until the form a cross with no visible joins etc.

The cross can be handed out for examination.

The magician then melts the nails apart and is able to give the nails away as a souvenier.

Crack this one guys and I can almost guarantee the gospel magicians will be clamering for it!

Ever wanted to do a trick with just a coin, a giraffe, an apple, and a long piece of rope? Well, now you can for a low low price!!

First, you simply need to go to Kenya and lasso yourself a giraffe with the piece of rope. Having done so, you need to ride the giraffe all the way back to your spectator who has patiently been waiting for you at the Bus Stop for 6 days. If you like, you can pick up an Apple on your long journey back from Kenya, or, to save time, you could ask the spectator to get one for you to pass the time. Tell them that they need to keep the change.

When you reach them they will probably be dying for the toilet and a drink etc. Make sure they go for a drink first. This is of upmost importance. When they get their drink, ask for them to take one of the coins from their change. Tell them to feel the coin, smell the coin, taste the coin if they wish, and then ask them to sign the coin on both sides.

You then take the coin and VISUALLY slam it into the apple. Then, give it to the giraffe to eat. You explain to the spectator that theres only two ways that they will be able to see their coin again after it has been put in an apple, mushed up by the giraffe and then swallowed, going into one of the giraffes four stomachs. The first is to wait for several hours before it 'passes' naturally. But being as the spec is dying for the toilet, you decide to go with option 2 and ask the spectator to think of a number between one and four. The number they choose determines which stomach the coin will be in....

So you cut open the giraffe and delve into its stomach trying to find the coin, but all you can find is an apple. You cut open the unmushed apple and low and beyhold is the specs signed coin! By this time if the spec hasnt feinted, you have done something wrong. You can always correct things though by tying the giraffes stomach back together using the rope and letting the giraffe stand up of its own accord. You then remove the rope to show no wound or gaping hole anywhere on the giraffe.

You can then even go one more step further by making the giraffe, the rope, the apple and the spectator disappear into thin air, leaving just you and you're imagination, standing there grinning like a mad man with a coin that has been signed by a man that never existed. Infact, you dont even need the coin if you so wish.

The winner is announced tomorrow!

I'm all a quiver ...

Hey - how about this one, a bit like my other one. I don;t recon we would need much creativity to do this, but its for everyone this - go get yer flash paper!

A diamond is made from carbon, pressure and heat.

You show a pencil and point out it is carbon graphite. You could use a lump of coal of course ....

You draw a diamond on a piece of 'paper'

YOu crush it in your hand (theirs the pressure)

You light it.

Kerpow - left in your hand is a diamond ...

Get romantic - next time you propose you could do this one and offer for it to be set in a ring.

THAT'S RIGHT, CARDZA!

I was going to wait until Monday to announce the winners, but I can't make you guys wait!

The contest will officially be over at midnight tonight. I will re-read all 100+ posts tomorrow morning and post the 3 winners ASAP!

Prize reminder: 1st place = Sankey/Skutt DVD, Serendipity Lecture notes(autographed) with DVD, and mystery prize.
2nd place = Sankey/Skutt DVD
3rd place = Serendipity Lecture notes with DVD

Plus a new prize!
Random participant = random object from my house! (perhaps the best prize of all!)

This has been a total blast! You have made it so much fun and I hope everyone get as much out of it as I did.

I'm already thinking of another contest...

Until then,

Skutt

Good luck to all of those who entered. I can't wait to see who won. I have been keeping an eye on this post and had good fun reading all the trick. I was planning to enter myself but due to the fact I have NO imagination I gave up after trying for several days to come up with something. Ah well I guess thats what comes of being Autistic. Never mind reading them had been the best bit. Good luck to you all.

Alex, just go off the wall and come up with the most random rubbish you can! That's the process that I've been following lol .

I don't know if it will count, but just for fun anyway I for one will be giving it one more entry or so...

I can't Cardza. I'm sorry. Trust me its far from lack of trying.