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Just a general question to anybody out there who knows of any really fantastic books on matchstick tricks.

Not like the crazy puzzles where you have to make one square into three sort of thing. But effective matchstick magic like what Jay Sankey did in his video promo for his Beyond the secrets dvd.

I already know that trick that Jay did, but are there more like that that just make your friends go WHAAA?!!

Hello there.

Though I've not seen this DVD, I do an effective match trick that freaks some people out...

Ask to borrow two matches. Grip one firmly and ask a spec to hold their finger parallel to the match. Place the other match so that one end is resting on the first, and the other on the spec's finger.

Ask the spec to think "jump" over and over again. After a second or two, the resting match bounces. Sometimes, as it did on Saturday afternoon (after a liquid lunch) it jumps straight off and makes the spec scream!

karl Fulves self working table magic has some, I think that s/w close up has some as well.By the way those puzzles shouldnt be ignored. More than once i have used them to gain access to a lock in at my local. They are a very usefull way of filling i between effects in a casual surounding. the dirty ones go down realy well in a pub too!

Jay Sankey has another match effect on his DVD 'front row'. The spectator holds onto two matches, one burnt one unburnt. You remove one, say the burnt one, and have it 'suck the life' out of the match they've been holding all along. You now hold the unburnt match and they find in their hand they hold the burnt match.

Very nice simple walk-around trick, good reactions.

*starts looking for the Frontrow dvd with sankey*

My wallet probably won't allow me to buy it but atleast I can dream about it..

There is an instant download from penguinmagic called Pyro Penetration. It's a fairly good trick as you'll be able to see from the demo video but if not done well, can be obvious.

StEvEbO!

Get some matchbooks from nightclubs and bars, you can do so many of your own tricks using principles that card tricks use. Sankeys Secret Files has about 3 match effects in i think.
One is, you show a matchbook, get the spec to take a match, wihtout looking, and put it behind his back, then you say you blackened only one match. then you show the other amtches to be normal and show them that their match is indeed blackened.

There's the Martin Gargner book,Match-Ic published in 1935 and STILL obtainable at £5:20. 16 pages of match tricks. 10 more on jokes, stunts and puzzles. Then there#s The Matches Of Lucifer by Jack Vosburgh, 24 pages BUT yiou need to make up a match feke ie a false match head. £2:55p Both from Magic Books By Post. Ken de Courcey (I think) put out a small book but I can't recall its name. Then there's Werry's Crazy Match Game put out by Supreme.
And did you read my number 31 article in the Dear Magician series Abra 3106, 6th. August 2005? 'A Trick For Devano' Actually it's really article no. 32 but Don B made a mistake.
That'll start you off
Allen Tipton