🪄 Which kind of trick is it?
🐰 Every magic trick ever is one of eight ideas: a vanish, a production, a transformation, a jump, a float, a passing-through, a restoration or a prediction. Flick describes eight real tricks from the shop. Can you name the kind?
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The answers, and why
You sit at a table, hold up a pencil and tap it on the table three times, counting out loud. On three the pencil is gone. Then you turn round, and everybody laughs, because there it is, tucked behind your ear. Which kind of trick is that? 💨 Vanish. Vanish: Something disappears. It's The Vanishing Pencil.
You tell everybody you have eleven fingers. They count your fingers and get ten. Then you count them, out loud and slowly, and you really do get eleven. Which kind of trick is that? 🎩 Production. Production: Something appears out of nowhere. It's Eleven Fingers.
You hold up an ordinary pencil and say a magic word. It wobbles and bends in the middle, like it's made of rubber. Then you hand it straight over, and it's solid wood again. Which kind of trick is that? 🌈 Transformation. Transformation: Something changes into something else. It's The Rubber Pencil.
You fold a strip of paper into a zigzag and clip two separate paperclips onto it. Everyone can see the clips are nowhere near each other. You pull the ends of the paper and the clips leap into the air, joined together. Which kind of trick is that? 🔀 Transposition. Transposition: Something jumps from one place to another. It's The Linking Paper Clips.
You hold out a fist with a pencil standing up inside it. You open your fingers one at a time, and the pencil stays stuck to your hand, floating. Then you grab it and hand it over. Which kind of trick is that? 🪽 Levitation. Levitation: Something floats. It's The Floating Pencil.
There's a hole in a piece of paper exactly the size of a small coin. You hand your friend a much bigger coin and ask them to get it through without tearing anything. When they give up, you do it. Which kind of trick is that? ⭕ Penetration. Penetration: Something passes through something solid. It's The Impossible Hole.
You take hold of your own thumb, pull, and the top half slides right off. You hold it there for a second so everyone can see the gap. Then you push it back on and wiggle all your fingers. Which kind of trick is that? 🩹 Restoration. Restoration: Something broken is whole again. It's Thumb Off.
You stand with your back to your friend and hold your hands behind you. They put any crayon from the box into your hands, and you turn round with it still hidden behind your back. You touch your forehead, think hard, and say the colour. Which kind of trick is that? 🔮 Prediction. Prediction: You knew all along, or you read their mind. It's The Crayon Mind Reader.