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Valentine’s Day Magic Trick

Here’s a “touch the screen” style magic trick for Valentine’s Day. You have a list of five words in this order:

Kiss | Heart | Love | Roses

“These are all things that I can give my wife“

They touch one of them and spell that word, JUMPING, one word per letter. They can move back and forth, but once they hit an end (kiss or roses), they must turn around and go the other way.

They do that, and if they follow directions, they will be on either the world Kiss or Love.

Eliminate the word ROSES. What’s left is:

Kiss | Heart | Love

“Valentine’s Day isn’t about exclusion, so we’ll still use roses. Spell that word, jumping one space per letter.“

When they do that, they will be on the word Heart.

Eliminate the word LOVE. What’s left is:

Kiss | Heart

“Spell the name of person you love, jumping one word per letter.”

At this point, they could be on either Kiss or Heart. For this example, they are on Kiss. You call attention to an envelope that’s been on the table the whole time.

“In this envelope is what I gave my wife on our first Valentines Day Together”

This is a multiple out at this point, the envelope has two openings with each option on its own side. You simply remove the matching prediction and the two prediction are:


“Tickets to KISS!”

There you go, a fun magic trick for Valentine’s Day!

-Louie

What’s Next!

A couple of weeks I wrote a post about making a themed What’s Next prop that’s a road sign with bullet holes in it.

I ordered a cheap What’s Next prop that was black with white spots. I peeled off the stationary white spots so I was left with a black metal board and put an arrow that I cut out of vinyl sticker paper on both sides of the board. Then added the two bullet hole stickers to one side and five to the other side. For the gimmicks, I simply added the stickers to the tops of gimmicks that came with the set and trimmed them around the stickers.

It came out looking pretty good and works great!

Here’s what I don’t like about it: It’s a prop that pretends to be something in real life, but isn’t. Ideally it would look more like this:

One Way sign

However if I used a sign that was more like that, I’m worried that the bullet holes would be harder to see against the text. The simple design that I used makes the bullet holes clearly visible. It was a choice that had to be made, a realistic sign or visibility and I chose visibility.

-Louie