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Bewildering Blackboard by Terry Lager


I got mine from MoreMagicTricks.co.uk, but it's out of stock there at the moment…

Price - £7

Ease of use - 1
(1=easy to do, 2=No sleights, but not so easy, 3=Some sleights used,
4=Advanced sleights used, 5=Suitable for experienced magicians only)
Very easy…you need one basic sleight - that's all…

Review
You get a miniature card-sized slate and see-thru envelope, and chalk…and with these simple items you can honestly freak the living excrement out of people if you present it right.

There's a fair few handlings:

Let's say you've forced a card, or obtained a piece of info from your audience member…

You pull the slate from its transparent envelope and show both sides of the slate as blank (well, I've drawn a question mark on one side of mine) and drop it ontop of your bike deck; as you ask the person to really focus on the name/card/word or whatever you're doing…

You ask them to put out a hand and you place the chalk on it, then the slate, and finally their other hand ontop of it all…and focus all their energies into imagining drawing that shape or word etc on a giant blackboard….

They open their hands after a while and flip over the mini-slate…lo and behold - their projected image/word/card has appeared on the bottom of the slate…

You could, after showing this revelation around the audience drop it back onto your deck and reclaim your chalk…and finally return the slate back to your little envelope only for the writing to mysteriously dissapear again…

Overall

Ok, I'll be honest…when I first opened this I though "what? Really? Nah….what rot!" well, something like that anyway…probably with a couple of swear-words chucked to be honest…

Anyway, after a ten minute pause where I read through the instructions properly (my fault, im always too eager) and actually tried it out…my jaw dropped…this is genius!

Very simple idea, gives you loads to play about with story wise - I actually show the question mark on top with some random squiggles on the bottom, then ask the person to focus and concentrate on forming these squiggles into a definite shape or word or whatever I'm using…you could even put in some Building Block style convincers to jolly it along, with the feeling of the chalk moving or the slate turning cold as the spirits write their answer on the slate…

Play it freaky or funny…but give the story plenty of time…make the most it please…it deserves it.