This Halloween themed trick will leave your audiences howling! Challenge: Can you place 5 ghosts on top of 2 books so that each book has an odd number of ghosts on it?
For this gag trick, you will need two books and five ghost images. Feel free to use the attached PDF of ghost images to print and cut out for the trick.
Can you figure it out? Click below to see how it’s done!
For Kids, Gags, Tricks | tmoore | 
October 14, 2011 9:27 am | 
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I use this in my show as a comic interlude. It usually gets a good laugh! I hope you’ll have fun with it.
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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLOGs94nftI[/youtube]
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[youtube width="319" height="258"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbhmAZ0w1rw[/youtube]
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