📚 Magic words
🐰 Magicians have their own words. An effect isn't a method, a force isn't pushing, and an out is how you escape a trick that's gone wrong. Do you know them?
Flick is getting the questions ready…
The answers, and why
What does "Effect" mean? What the audience sees. What the audience sees. Not how it is done — that is the method.
What does "Method" mean? How it is really done. How it is really done. The effect is the story; the method is the machinery.
What does "Patter" mean? The words you say while you perform. The words you say while you perform. Good patter is most of a good trick.
What does "Misdirection" mean? Sending attention somewhere else at the moment that matters. Sending attention somewhere else at the moment that matters. Usually it is your own eyes doing it.
What does "Sleight of hand" mean? A secret move made with your fingers. A secret move made with your fingers. It takes days, not minutes, and the shop says so on the tricks that need it.
What does "Force" mean? Making somebody choose the thing you wanted while they feel they chose freely. Making somebody choose the thing you wanted while they feel they chose freely.
What does "Out" mean? What you do when it goes wrong. What you do when it goes wrong. Every trick in the shop has one, and a magician with an out is never stuck.
What does "Closer" mean? The strongest trick, saved for last. The strongest trick, saved for last.