Effect: A 10p coin changes to two 5p coins.
Secret: To make the special wallet required you need two sheets of paper, folded as shown. Open out the folds and glue the shaded areas together. Put two 5p coins in the centre of the top sheet and fold it around them. Fold up the bottom sheet and turn the whole lot over. Place a borrowed 10p in the centre of the empty sheet and fold the paper around it. As you do this secretly turn the whole packet over.Open the paper to reveal the two coins.
Effect: You apparently read someone's mind to identify an object selected while you are out of the room.
Secret: You need a secret assistant. While you are out of the room someone selects any object in the room. When you return, your accomplice points to objects around the room but you have arranged that the fifth object he points to will be the chosen object. Identifying objects three times in succession (after arranging a different code number with your accomplice for each repeat performance) should be enough to convince the spectators that you possess amazing powers of mind reading.
Effect: Matches change into a ribbon
Secret: Glue together several half matches and put the finished block into the drawer of a matchbox, together with one ordinary match. Put a ribbon in the other end of the drawer. You push open the drawer, take out the single match and let everyone see the box is apparently full of matches. Tap the box with the match you have just removed. Open the box again (but this time from the other end) and show that the matches have changed into a ribbon.
Effect: A large Ace of Diamonds changes colour when coloured handkerchiefs are passed over it
. Secret: The principal diamond on the card is actually cut out. It gets its colour from a piece of card held behind the Ace. Each time you want the colour of the diamond to change the secret card is moved to a new position. To get a multi-coloured diamond, position the card centrally so all four corners on the card are visible through the diamond-shaped hole. The handkerchiefs hide the movement of the secret card, look colourful and provide a reason for the colour changes.
Effect: A postcard is cut so it will go over your body.
Secret: Boast that you can walk through a postcard then make the following moves. Fold the postcard in half lengthways. Make as many cuts as possible from the edge of the card to the centre and from the centre towards the edges as shown. The more cuts you make the easier the trick is to do. Unfold the card and cut along the centre, from A to B. You can now open out the card into a large loop that will easily go over your body.
