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latestmagicbeing00hoff.pdf | 42 | 26 LATEST MAGIC An illustration of the use of the same device in a somewhat different form will be found in the item next described, and in the trick entitled "Where is it?'' post. Other ways of using it will suggest themselves to any reader of an inventive turn. THE DETECTIVE DIE This is another of the new departures dependent upon the use of the velvet mat. Broadly stated, the effect of the trick is as follows. One of a group of six different cards laid out in a row or rows repeatedly changes place with some other, the position which it occupies, or to which it has moved, being indicated by the cast of an ordi- nary die. This may be repeated any number of times.ยน The requirements for the trick are as follows: 1. The Velvet Mat. This should be one with a plain surface, diniensions preferably eighteen inches by ten, so as to admit of the six cards being laid in one row. A smaller size, say twelve by nine, may suffice, the six cards in this case being arranged in two rows. In either case there must be a space of an inch or SO between each pair. 1 Since the description which follows was written. it has come to my knowledge that there is already on sale a trick on somewhat similar lines in point of effect entitled The Educated Die. I need hardly say that my own trick, so far as I am concerned, is absolutely original. The advertised description of The Educated Die would suit either trick, but there is little further resemblance between them. |