A few weeks ago I wrote about working on Luca Vulpe’s Key of Fate, you can read about it in these posts:
http://www.magicshow.tips/magic-show-tips/reimagining-the-key-of-fate/
http://www.magicshow.tips/magic-show-tips/more-key-of-fate/
The big change to the initial changes I made is that originally I was using four keys with three spectators, with the idea that I none of them would win, and then I’m surprised when one of them wins. I’m now doing it with three keys and three spectators, so that one of them is going to win, and two lose. I think knowing that one is guaranteed to be a winner, and it’s a game takes some of the sting out of the two that don’t win.
The other change is the prize. I’m forcing the prize as a bar of soap. This prize is something funny, easy to travel with or acquire in any city and for some reason the kids who have won it seem to be excited about it!
I just ordered a box of hotel soap:
It’s pretty cheap, coming in at less than 50 cents per bar. I bought a box of fifty, so I’m kinda committed to doing this routine fifty times, unless it really starts falling flat with audiences.