I would like a magic trick explained please.

OCdude said:
Very much doubt there's a third person.

I'd say the "things to look out for" are:

1) You never see confirmation of the rear panel being secure (hint!)
2) The short delay from when the front curtain gets put on, to when you see his hand poking through

Just my observations ;)
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1) obviously the back panel is removable
2) even with the short delay, if there are only two people in the trick then it is still the guys hand - its isn't the womans as she is walking around.

whilst he is moving his hand however he is free to move the rest of his body into position as we can see the rest of him.
 
Also, when she raises the poled curtain you can see his feet already there to the left of where she was standing....

Don't believe there is a third person, got to be a fake hand and perfect timing.
 
ooooh, i think i've figured it out.
the hand is real, no doubt about it - nasa can't make a fake hand that moves like that.
there are only 2 people, sort of.
a third, thin, person is hidden in the column - it is their hand that is moving most of the time - the rest of the trick is giving enough time for the man to get out and for the woman to get back in (behind the curtain). the third person stays inside the column and only pops out his/her hand at particular times.
there is 'just' enough time to do it.
watch how the box sways at certain times - thats when the man gets out and the woman gets in.
 
Edit: yep changed my mind and now it seems fairly simple. On closer inspection I agree that the hand cannot be fake as it looks too real, as always these tricks are really simple and quite boring once figured out. :/

The central pillar supporting the box actually extends quite far backwards. The simple trick of having the outer parts of it (looking head on) be in black creates the illusion that it is thinner than it actually is. Therefore it is clear that there is a 3rd person in the pillar whose hand it is we see. There is a change of the hand when the curtain first goes over, and when the magician is revealed at the end (look closely). Hence 3 people are involved. Sound about right 5UB? :)
 
AGD said:
Edit: yep changed my mind and now it seems fairly simple. On closer inspection I agree that the hand cannot be fake as it looks too real, as always these tricks are really simple and quite boring once figured out. :/

The central pillar supporting the box actually extends quite far backwards. The simple trick of having the outer parts of it (looking head on) be in black creates the illusion that it is thinner than it actually is. Therefore it is clear that there is a 3rd person in the pillar whose hand it is we see. There is a change of the hand when the curtain first goes over, and when the magician is revealed at the end (look closely). Hence 3 people are involved.
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hey, stop copying my idea!
 
tis a bit taboo to be discussing/revealing how tricks are performed

Then again that show itself annoys me as the judges are perhpas going to be wowed by stuff that others in a particular field are going to be very less impressed by.

The kid playing the piano for example - he was OK at playing but it wasn't anything special - plenty of other kids who'd practiced for a few years could do the same and I'd guess that any number of the hundreds of 18 year olds who get admitted to music schools every year would comparatively wipe the floor with the guy...

Going back to the magician - I don't think the trick was anything special - was a fairly generic magic trick, not something that he's invented himself. Sure the performance requires some 'talent' so to speak but hardly worthy of a supposed national talent competition. Perhpas if he'd come on and performed a trick he'd invented himself that others couldn't figure out too easily then that would be something impressive. Buying a big trick and performing it on a stage as per instructions isn't all that impressive IMO.
 
has anyone seen that trick, normally done as a warm up where the magician tells the crowd to put their hands together, like how he's doing, and then turn them upside down and then he just flips his hands over but the crowd can't do it?

How the FRIG do you do that? I've seen 2 different people do it, one was a magician but another was just a guy giving a speech, I've watched it loads but have no idea whatsoever how he does it.
 
anksta said:
has anyone seen that trick, normally done as a warm up where the magician tells the crowd to put their hands together, like how he's doing, and then turn them upside down and then he just flips his hands over but the crowd can't do it?

How the FRIG do you do that? I've seen 2 different people do it, one was a magician but another was just a guy giving a speech, I've watched it loads but have no idea whatsoever how he does it.
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hypnotic suggestion - it will always happen to a certain % of the audience.
 
aardvark said:
ooooh, i think i've figured it out.
the hand is real, no doubt about it - nasa can't make a fake hand that moves like that.
there are only 2 people, sort of.
a third, thin, person is hidden in the column - it is their hand that is moving most of the time - the rest of the trick is giving enough time for the man to get out and for the woman to get back in (behind the curtain). the third person stays inside the column and only pops out his/her hand at particular times.
there is 'just' enough time to do it.
watch how the box sways at certain times - thats when the man gets out and the woman gets in.
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Quoted for truth. Observation of his hand before and after the veil goes over the box is showing two distinct forms (Look at some HD vid stills), also the angle of the wrist when the veil is on implies an elbow location below the floor the the box. On top of that its very clear from the curtain at the end whats happening as you can see the guys hand pull up to support the curtain in preparation for the switch. and also the girls legs brush the curtain under the box as she goes in the box. The hand switch happens in that second that he pulls the veil off.
 
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