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World's Best Easy Close Up Trick

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Introduction to the World's Best Easy Close Up Trick
World's Best Easy Close Up Trick

World's Best Easy Close Up Magic Trick

I've looked at a lot of easy close up tricks for beginning magicians and I think that this one is the best. The trick can be done in three phases - it’s a real routine. It only uses a couple of rubber bands that you can easily carry with you to perform the trick. If you don’t have rubber bands, you can always use almost any band that you find or borrow.

It’s the easy close up magic trick that is always ready to go, is simple to learn and perform and has no angle issues. The trick is basically free, there’s nothing to buy. It just may be the greatest, easy close up magic trick.

Effect:
In this easy close up trick, a rubber band mysteriously jumps from your pinkie and ring fingers to the first and middle fingers of the same hand and then back again. In the second phase of the easy trick, two rubber bands switch places in your hand.

In the final phase of this easy close up trick, you “lock” your hand with a second rubber band to block the movement of the “jumping band.” There appears to be no way for the band to jump from one set of fingers to the other. Despite the “blocking,” the band still successfully jumps.

Materials:
Two rubber bands (preferably different colors)

Preparation:
None

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