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Title: Magic Trick! With diagrams.
Post by: Deguello on January 30, 2007, 06:17:47 PM

WHAT YOU NEED:

  1. One piece of heavy string or thin rope
  2. A piece of writing paper.
  3. A pair of good scissors.

The Cut-String-Made-Whole-Again rope effect is a classic of magic. Prefold a piece of paper before the show so it looks like the paper in Figure 1. When it's time to present the trick, pull out the paper and lay the string in it as shown.

Figure 1


Fold the top of the paper (section A) down, then fold the bottom of the paper (section C) up. Now for the secret move:

Figure 2

When you fold section C up over section A, use your thumb to catch the string as demonstrated in Figure 2. When you prefold the paper before the show be certain that section A is not so long that it will cover the string.

Securely grasp the package as in Figure 3, making sure that the view shown in the diagram is seen only by you.

Figure 3

Cut through the paper, as shown in Figure 4. Cut completely through the paper, dividing it and, presumably, the rope in half. In reality, only the paper is cut in half, the rope is still intact.

Figure 4

Crumple up the paper, and pull the rope out slowly. It is restored into one complete piece! The paper may be examined, and it will be seen to have been cleanly cut into two halves!  MAGIC!

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Post by: Mario on January 30, 2007, 06:28:13 PM

neat, i gotta try this, the diagrams help a lot

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Post by: IceCold on January 30, 2007, 06:54:20 PM

Whoa thanks a lot Deguello! I have a question about Figure 4 though - so the rope is supposed to look like it was cut?

I'm sure this will go over great.. do you have any coin tricks now?

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Post by: Infernal Monkey on January 31, 2007, 01:46:48 AM

I am not sure I want to pull figure 4's rope but this is for the sake of magic so

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Post by: Bill Aurion on January 31, 2007, 03:38:02 AM

Is Figure 4 what happens if I screw the trick up?  I'm scared to try now! ;_;

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Post by: Smash_Brother on January 31, 2007, 06:50:42 AM

That guy in figure four looks like me, except not as scary.

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Post by: MarioAllStar on January 31, 2007, 03:16:33 PM

Deguello is banned.