Before the magic started for the evening Larry Dimmit put an envelope on the table and told the group at any point in the evening someone could call out “it is time..” The group was very curious about this envelope.
Jim Earnshaw started the evening out with a quick “pointless” trick from Greg Wilson and a nice three card monte trick from Mark Mason
Michael Jacobs showed off a very nice rope box he had made as well as a great trick where various objects are tied to the ropes which are placed through holes in the box and then with a pull from spectators the ropes penetrate the box and all objects are left inside.
The group couldn’t wait any longer to find out what was in the envelope and “it is time” was called out. The envelope was opened and a watch with the predicted time of opening was inside along with a written prediction of the time. It was a wonderfully baffling prediction.
Dan Kennedy performed his “first card trick” where a card is thought of from a picture of various cards. The card is then revealed to be the only card turned over in a picture of another deck.
Ralph Huntzinger brought in some custom cards he was in the process of making and discussed some of the methods he had been using to print and make the cards. This information was very helpful for anyone who might be making their own playing cards.
Mark Paulson presented a nice Halloween themed trick where there were 6 bags and a dice was rolled to figure out which bag a spectator would get. Each person got a nice treat, and the final bag magically had the prop Mark needed to continue with his story. Mark went on to demonstrate his psychic connection with what was left of his ventriloquist dummy by placing the dummy’s eye into a bag with three cards. Using his connection with the eye Mark was able to determine all three cards inside the bag.
Bill Murray demonstrated his x-ray vision ability when he was able to determine not only the number of face up cards, but the number of hearts and the value of each card left in a deck that was mixed face up and face down numerous times by a spectator.
Roger Sylwester demonstrated some very good card handling while performing a nice four card transposition routine followed by an ace assembly using the “invisible palm”.
John Cameron used a dictionary and a deck of cards to prove that there is magic when the card that was chosen by a spectator turned out to be written on the page of the dictionary that the word “magic” was as well as that card being the only one in the deck with “magic” written on it.