Introduce your mind-reading assistant. Send your assistant out of the room and ask a spectator to point to any of the summer activities on the below chart. Call your assistant in and she magically reveals the activity the spectator selected!
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Reading Tricks | jlefton | 
May 2, 2011 8:45 pm | 
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Magic Puzzles, Math Tricks | jlefton | 8:16 pm | Comments (0)
Can you solve this word puzzle?
C A T
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DOG
Start with CAT. Change 1 letter in each step, changing it to a different word. E.g. you can put CAB in the first row of blanks. Whatever you put, it must be a word. Can you get to DOG in just 3 steps?
Here is our solution. Did you get it? Read more »
Reading Tricks | jlefton | February 6, 2011 7:01 pm | Comments (0)
Challenge: Can you draw 1 line to make this equation true? (Changing the equals sign to not equals is not permitted!)
Stumped? Here’s how. Read more »
Math Tricks | jlefton | 6:56 pm | Comments (0)
Summer is almost here, flowers are coming out. What a great time for you to create a flower out of a napkin! Learn this and you’ll be a big hit with mom, or the ladies in your life! Here’s how to do it: Read more »
For Kids, General | jlefton | May 26, 2010 7:49 am | Comments (1)
Are you up for a challenge? Get 6 straws. (Pencils that are all the same size, or toothpicks will also work.) Can you make 4 triangles–without bending or cutting any of the straws?
Got an idea? Check it with our answer. Read more »
Magic Puzzles, Math Tricks | jlefton | May 25, 2010 9:49 pm | Comments (0)
I use this in my show as a comic interlude. It usually gets a good laugh! I hope you’ll have fun with it.
Effect: You “hypnotize” a spectator who sits in a chair holding a cup of water atop her head. When she looks in the cup, the water has disappeared, without her knowing where it went! The audience knows and thinks it’s funny! What do you do? Read more »
Gags | jlefton | April 4, 2010 1:55 pm | Comments (0)
Set a cup of water on the table. Cover it with a sheet of newspaper. Claim that you can drink the water without touching the newspaper! Sounds impossible? Here’s how: Read more »
Gags, Magic Puzzles | jlefton | 1:42 pm | Comments (0)
A glass of water is on the table. “I am going to go out of the room”, you explain, “and I’ll bet the water will be gone before I walk back in.” Would you take this bet? Read more »
For Kids, Gags, Magic Puzzles | jlefton | February 12, 2010 10:21 pm | Comments (0)
This one is a favorite of mine. Two spectators each hold out any number of fingers on one of their hands. (E.g. one might put out 3 fingers and the other, 2.) A third spectator tells the magician, who is looking the other way, the total (in this example, 5). The magician immediately announces that spectator #1 is holding out 2 fingers, and #2 is holding out 3. Just lucky? No, because you play 2 more rounds and the magician is correct each time! How can she possibly know this? Read more »
For Kids, Math Tricks | jlefton | 10:12 pm | Comments (1)