Anniversary garden partyAnniversary garden party

There were quite a few children at this anniversary party so I was kept busy with effects like: Grandma's necklace - A free choice of strings which hold three beads are tied into a granny knot and on the count of three, pass straight threw the child's hand (without any harm coming to them of course). A nut magically unscrews itself from a bolt using the magician's psychokinetic powers! A string wrapped around a finger magically jumps from that finger to another one. A £1 coin is poured out of a small glass bottle and the lid is removed. Without removing the lid again, the £1 coin magically appears back inside the bottle. A dice penetrates through a phone which is placed inside a box. The phone is showing a whirling black hole on my website at the time and the dice penetrates through the phone and drops into the hand of the spectator. The nine card trick was taught to a couple of lads and one of them learnt it really well. (He's probably hooked for life now)!

Also coins got bent, rings were made to vanish and reappear inside a nest of wallets, a chosen card magically appeared as a wifi source on the spectator's own phone and Pam got to keep a card with her name on it which had become magically inverted. Pam also gave random answers to a series of 4 questions. I was spelling out her answers by dealing down cards for each letter. On the final question she arrived at her selected card and was initially disappointed with the result until I revealed the twist of how she had a very special personality indeed. I was excited to perform my latest acquisition which is based on the old game of Cluedo with 5 rooms and a choice of a dozen murderers. I get to figure out who the murderer is by asking a series of questions. It worked perfectly on one of the guests but sadly didn't work for Pam. I think I know why and lesson learned - I'm going to have to revise my handling and instructions for part of the effect but I'm very confident that I can get my 50% success rate for this trick to 100% fairly easily. Lots of other old favourites of mine worked just fine and had people bewildered I'm sure. I took about 20 photos but as a lot of them feature children I haven't shown them here. I've sent them to Pam though.