It's like the Inexhaustible Vase, but reduced to an everyday object, with many possibilities. It's a very visual running gag. You do a trick, you wipe your forehead with a sponge, and you wring it out in a bucket... the sponge is really full of liquid. You put the sponge back down, perform another trick, and take the sponge one more time to wipe your forehead. Bingo... it's full of water again. Finally, you can take the bucket full of all this water poured, and the liquid turns into confetti! Great if you're also doing a clown act. My dear James Hodges used it for one of his shows at the Maison de la Magie in Blois, France.  

You will enjoy this very elegant and mystifying trick which uses a coin and a silk which, for the beauty of the trick, must be transparent. You drape the silk over the palm of your left hand and place the coin on it, closing your left hand for a few seconds. Magic formula: the coin is under the silk in your palm. You do it again but this time, the coin disappears completely: it is not under the silk! Your hands are empty and the silk can be examined.  

This is an idea that came to me when I was watching people getting fleeced at the fair : they were pulling strings, and winning what was at the other end ; they always won some crap, and never the big prizes ! Here, everything is under control... you can win the big prize or not, but all the strings used are there... each one is really attached to a gift. I spent quite a bit of time designing this little thing full of mystery. Very cool, and you can perform it again and again...  

An amazing impromptu trick! Two quite ordinary matches are used. One match is placed on top of the other in your hands, and it begins to hop around frantically without you making any moves! It is a real miracle that no spectator will be able to reproduce!  

Tabletop technique: the Riffle shuffle. Learn how to properly shuffle a deck on the table.  

Matrix: this coin effect is one of the most popular among magicians. It has inspired many great versions, because the effect itself is already great. Here, we offer you the whole thing, because you have THREE effects: 1- A coin appears under each of the four cards displayed in a row on the table. The new method proposed here is neat and easy. 2 - The coins are placed in the four corners of the mat, and each one is covered by one of the cards. Magic pass! The coins jump from card to card to gather under only one! 3- No, it's not over... You make one last magic pass, and almost instantly, the coins return under their original card. You have done a Reverse Matrix. In this new and very modern version, you have THREE effects in ONE. Connoisseurs will appreciate it!  

3 Chinese coins in the left hand swap one by one with 3 copper coins in the right hand; the hands are shown empty each time. To conclude, the copper coins change into 3 Chinese coins; you end by showing 6 Chinese coins, no trace of the copper coins left! With this routine, you will discover new techniques, including the power of the "Palm to Palm Change" which allows you to exchange one coin for another with only one hand, or even a group of coins as in this routine. With this routine, you will take your first steps into the restricted world of the experts!  

Basic technique : to inflate a balloon backwards. Very useful for example to put a balloon inside another one.  

Basic technique: make a nice torsade with 2 balloons. Allows to visually embellish some sculptures.  

I have been looking for a long time for a method to achieve this atypical effect. A card is freely chosen, put back into the deck. The deck is put on the strings of the racket. The whole thing is covered with a transparent cover. We "sift"...and the cards seem to all, progressively go through the string mesh... all except one, and it is the right one! A trick highly regarded by "The Jerx", the king of underground magic.  

1-3+2=0 This equation seems to make sense… but let’s illustrate it: in an empty room, one person enters. Then three people leave?... Then two people enter… and that makes zero—meaning there’s no one left in the room? The magician demonstrates this magical paradox using sponge balls! A true miracle! To buy a this special sponge ball set click here.  

As the title suggests, a good presentation of this trick will allow you to create a standing ovation without difficulty. All the audience has to do is follow your instructions!

You show the first portrait facing the front and ask the audience in the center to clap. Then you show a second portrait looking to the left and ask this part of the audience to clap in turn. Finally you show a last portrait looking to the right and have the last third of the audience clap. Then you start to play with the audience, showing the different portraits quickly and alternately. Guaranteed impact!

Finally you decide which portrait and therefore which part of the room you prefer... But, just before showing it, you say: "If the portrait looks at you, clap and stand up! ".

This is the final twist: you show the portrait, and, as if by magic, EVERYONE stands up and claps!!!

This trick is absolutely brilliant for creating a fiery atmosphere in the room. Ideal for all your parlour and stage performances.  

An atypical three-card monte with water. Ideal for children’s shows… but not only that !  

3 copper coins in the right hand will escape ONE BY ONE to join 3 Chinese coins in the left hand. Both palms will be open at each trip... which is perfectly impossible! An extraordinary principle will allow you to create this completely brilliant illusion. And on top of that... it's EASY to do!!! Even NO GIMMICK! A dream for you and your audience.  

Dominique Duvivier offers a "light" version of the "Coins in Glass / Duvivier Coin Box" routine. Four coins are enclosed in a small metal box. A first coin travels invisibly into his hand, then all the coins go through the table together. The climax is incredible: to prove the impossibility of everything that has just happened, the magician shows that the box is in fact a solid block, and that it could never have contained anything! You can buy the product « Routine complète Duvivier coin box Eisenhower » in our secret shop, to which only "I'm addicted to magic" subscribers have access.  

An ecological trick! Or how to use a match twice. Take a match that has already been used in an ashtray, and by rubbing it on the striking surface of the box, it will ignite again.