Effect: An elastic band penetrates the fingers.
Secret: Place an elastic band over the first two fingers of your left hand as shown. With the right hand stretch the band to show it really is over the fingers. Close the left hand, at the same time secretly allowing the tips of all your left fingers to go into the band as shown in the second drawing. Open your hand and the elastic band will jump from the first two fingers to the third and fourth fingers. Keep the back of your left hand towards your audience at all times when performing this trick and it will look like the band penetrates through the first two fingers
Effect: Three loops of paper are cut with surprising results.
Secret: You need three strips of paper, each about five centimetres by one metre. Glue the ends of the first strip together to form a loop. Do the same with the second strip but give one end a half turn before gluing the ends. In making the third loop give the paper one complete turn before gluing. Cut down the centre of the first loop with a pair of scissors. This will make two loops as one would expect. When the second loop is cut in the same way it forms one extra large loop and the third one produces two loops linked together.
Effect: You reveal how many matches were moved while your back was turned.
Secret: Secretly put a small pencil dot on a match, just below the head. Do this on all four sides of the
match and then put it back in the box. When you show the trick, remove ten matches from the box and put
them down in a row. The marked match must be placed at the left end of the row. Turn your back and ask
someone to move any number of matches, one at a time, from the left end of the row to the right. When you
turn around you have only to spot the position of the marked match and count from that to the right end of
the row to know how many have been moved.
