Effect: The Ace of Diamonds vanishes from the pack.
Secret: Put the Ace of Diamonds in your pocket. Arrange the remaining Aces so the Ace of Hearts is behind the other two. With the point of the Heart uppermost it looks like the Ace of Diamonds. Turn the cards face down as you say: "I will put these Aces in the pack – the Ace of Clubs, the Ace of Diamonds and the Ace of Spades". Ask a spectator to go through the cards and take out the Ace of Diamonds. When he fails to find it, you take if from your pocket
Effect: A bread roll is broken open and a coin is found inside.
Secret: Hold a coin on the fingers of your right hand. The audience must not know this, so keep it hidden. When you are at the dinner table take a bread roll and place it directly on top of the concealed coin. Bend the roll downwards between your hands. This causes an opening in the bottom of the roll. Force the coin into this opening.Now break the roll from the top. As the roll breaks, the coin appears from the middle of the roll
Effect: You separate two linked safety pins without opening them – proof that solid can penetrate solid.
Secret: Link two large safety pins together. Hold them as shown. Pull them apart with a sharp downward movement on the right hand pin. There is a knack to getting this movement exactly right but with practice you will be able to do it every time – and the pins will separate. What actually happens is that the pin on the right opens the left pin for a moment. The left pin closes again and it appears that you have caused metal to penetrate meta
