Goodwin caused a national outcry when his stunt, Cheating the Gallows, went wrong live on national television and he was hanged. Luckily he survived, suffering only minor rope burns.

Jonathan now appears on Channel 4’s Balls of Steel perfoming similar acts to what he did in Dirty Tricks

External links

• Goodwin’s website
• archive of Monkey Magic website
• Dirty Tricks website

Publications

• FISM Lecture Notes (limited edition)
• Drawing Room Deceptions
• Quartet: A card and ten routines therewith
• Waiting for Inspiration Lecture Notes

Videos

• The Reformation (limited edition)
• The London Collection
• Routines

Marketed tricks

• Quartet - a playing card, included with a booklet of 10 routines or separately in packs of 3
• Once Upon a Time - a small fairy tale book featuring three magical routines suitable for children

Television appearances

• The World’s Greatest Magic III (USA)
• Heroes of Magic (UK)
• Illusoes with Luis de Matos (Portugal)
• Britain’s Worst Cheats (UK)
• Fifty Greatest Magic Tricks (UK)
• The Five Greatest Magicians in the World (Japan)

External links

• Guy Hollingworth’s official website

• Magic Island (Hawaii), peninsula and neighborhood in Honolulu, Hawaii
• Magic Island (West Virginia), an island in the Kanawha River

Other:

• Magic Island was also the name of an old-time radio program.

• Instructions
  • Instruction manual (computer and video games)
  • Online help
  • Unix manual - known as “man pages”
  • User guide or owner’s manual.
• Manual (music) - a keyboard, as for an organ
• Manual (band)
• Bike Tricks - (a manual is a special kind of wheelie)
• Freestyle skateboarding tricks - (balancing on two wheels)
• Manual transmission
• Done by hand, or not using machinery or electronics to fulfil a function

• And see the name Manuel.

The term magic constant or magic sum is similarly applied to other “magic” figures such as magic stars and magic cubes.

Normal magic squares

If a magic square of order n is normal (i.e., it contains the numbers 1 to n²), then the magic constant depends only on n; its value is

<math>M_2(n) = \frac{n(n^2+1)}{2}</math>.

This formula is a consequence of the formula for the sum of the first n integers

<math>1 + 2 + … + k = \frac{k(k+1)}{2}</math>

applied to the case k = n², yielding n²(n²+1)/2, which is then divided by n because there are n rows, all of which sum to the same value.

The magic constants of normal magic squares of order n = 3, 4, 5, … are (sequence A006003 in OEIS):

15, 34, 65, 111, 175, 260, 369, 505, 671, 870

The numbers in any row, column, or diagonal of a normal magic square form a magic series.

External links

• 260 as magic constant for 8-queens problem and 8×8 magic square

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Effect

The performer appears to remove the end of his own thumb; moving it back and forth along his hand or lifting it up.

Method

There is no particular secret to this illusion: the performer simply holds out one hand sideways with the palm out and the tip of the thumb folded down behind the hand. Then he places his other thumb bent so that the tip appears to be connected to the folded-down thumb with the forefinger bent to cover the joint.

Credits

There is no known originator of this trick, and it is likely to be among the oldest tricks in the world.

Known variations

• Meir Yedid (USA) has created “Finger Fantasies”, a multitude of variations in which his fingers disappear and reappear in odd ways.

A variation involves the four Jacks robbing a bank by flying on a ‘helicopter’ and landing on top of the bank (the deck of cards). The magician places one in the ‘3rd floor’, another in the ‘2nd floor’, another in the ‘1st floor’ (all the ‘floors’ are roughly divided in thirds of the deck like in the original version), and one to guard the helicopter. Then, they hear the police arrive and the robbers ascend the bank and fly off via their helicopter. The magician takes the first four cards of the deck and shows to the audience that it is the four Jacks.

Method

When the four Jacks are shown, three other cards are hidden behind them. All four jacks are placed on top of the deck, and the other cards are placed in different places in the deck as the story is told.

Sources

• Todd, Joseph P. Big Bag of Tricks for Boys and Girls.

HAVE YOU TAUGHT YOUR PET TO DO SOMETHING ODD?

Late Night with David Letterman on

NBC will feature pets who have been

trained to do unusual things. Pets

must be amateur & owners must be

willing to appear w/ them at auditions

& on the show.

The inuagural segment featured a dog named “Muggsy” who would sneeze on command, and another dog that would answer the phone.

Based on the instant success of “Stupid Pet Tricks,” Letterman devised a similar off-shoot: “Stupid Human Tricks,” which was identical in nature to the Pet Tricks, except (obviously) that people were now doing the wacky stunts.

The rights to both “Stupid Pet Tricks” and “Stupid Human Tricks” were retained by Worldwide Pants, Inc., and were not lost when Letterman moved to the Late Show on CBS in 1993. As a result, they are still performed to this day on the Late Show.

Trademark lines

• About Stupid Pet Tricks: “Remember, this is not a competition, it is only an exhibition — please, no wagering.”
• About Stupid Human Tricks: “Remember, this is not an exhibition, it is a competition — wagering is encouraged.”

The term ‘Goetic Magic’ was used by the Neoplatonists (Plotinus, ca 205-270 CE, and his followers) to mean magic used for profit, and it was divided into “natural magic”, magic that exploits the magical properties of natural objects; and “demonic magic”, which is concerned with the coercion of spirits.

• Instructions
  • Instruction manual (computer and video games)
  • Online help
  • Unix manual - known as “man pages”
  • User guide or owner’s manual.
• Manual (music) - a keyboard, as for an organ
• Manual (band)
• Bike Tricks - (a manual is a special kind of wheelie)
• Freestyle skateboarding tricks - (balancing on two wheels)
• Manual transmission
• Done by hand, or not using machinery or electronics to fulfil a function

• And see the name Manuel.

References

“Widow” whist is named because of an extra hand that is dealt just to the left of the dealer. This extra hand is called the “widow” and players may have a chance to use the widow instead of their own hand.

Card Rank

A K Q J 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2

♣ are trump.

♠, ♦ and ♥ are not.

Order of Play

1. Everyone cuts the deck and high card is dealer.
2. Deal out 4 hands, with the “widow” always being the first hand to the left of the dealer. Each hand should have 13 cards.
3. Now, the person just to the left of the dealer has first choice at the widow. If the first person to choose has a good hand, he/she just passes it to the next person on their left.
4. If someone takes the Widow, that person needs to collect 4 tricks total for that round. Otherwise, only 3 tricks are needed to break even.
5. After taking the widow, that person’s hand is passed to the left (unless you are back to the dealer, in which case you are done). If someone else would take that rejected hand, they only have to get 3 tricks. Please note that if someone else rejected that hand, it’s doubtful that you would want it. However if your hand is bad enough…  :)
6. Play begins with player to the left of the dealer.

• Every game of widow is played “high”, meaning you want to collect as many tricks as you can. There is no “granding” process like in 4 player Minnesota whist.
• Each player is for him/herself. No teams in 3 player widow whist.
• The person who originally picked the widow can choose to keep his hand instead. However, that person still has to get 4 tricks because he/she picked up the widow.

Taking Tricks

Similar to 4 handed, the person who leads lays down a card from his/her hand. Everyone must follow suit if they can (in clockwise motion). If you don’t have the suit, lay down any other card. Highest card of the lead suit takes the trick, with the exception of the clubs suit. Clubs are trump and will always take any other suit. Whoever takes the trick leads the next one. Play continues until all cards are gone. Dealer moves one to the left.

• NOTE: You MUST follow suit if you can
• A rule variation: some people play if you don’t have the lead suit, you MUST play a club if you have one. (i.e. Hearts was lead, you have no hearts. With this rule in place you would HAVE to lay a club.

Scoring

• You can get negative scores!
• If you picked up the widow, you get 1 point for every trick over 4. (i.e. 2 tricks = -2 pts, 4 tricks = 0 pts, 5 tricks = 1 pt)
• If you didn’t pick up the widow, you get 1 point for every trick over 3. (ie 4 tricks = 1 point, 5 = 2 pts)

About the film

Two rogue dogs are being pursued by a dog catcher until they hide in an abandoned house. There they encounter a trunk owned by Sham-Fu the magician (unseen). They opened it, and all manner of magic tricks come out of the trunk, including Happy, its pet rabbit. Happy tricks the two dogs repeatedly, causing them endless frustration, until he is bested by the bigger of the two dogs, who bops him to a lampshade.

Trivia

This is the only cartoon where Happy Rabbit is defeated, a vice-versa on where he normally wins.

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The Effect: At first, an empty tube is shown to the audience. The magician proves that it is empty by passing an empty cup through the tube. The magician can even pass a silk through the tube to prove that the tube really is empty. Next, the magician picks up a pitcher full of water and slowly pours the water into the tube, where it magically stays suspended. The magician can even pass a silk through the water-filled tube, and the silk does not get wet. Finally, the magician picks up the empty cup and passes it through the bottom of the tube and when it emerges through the top, it is seen to be filled with water.

The Chen Lee Water Suspension was invented by U.F. Grant in 1962.

Jones was brought up in Portlethen, Aberdeen, and is one half of Barry and Stuart (who also go by the name 2magicians).

A magic dvd made by Barry and Stuart was seen by producers from Objective Productions. This resulted in their first TV series, Magick, after which the pair moved to London where they regularly perform on the London Comedy Circuit.

Jones has worked with MacLeod (the other member of 2magicians) in a number of other TV shows, including: Dirty Tricks and When Magic Tricks Go Wrong.

In December 2005, the pair presented a programme tracing the miracles of Jesus entitled The Magic of Jesus. In 2006, Barry Jones performed with Stuart MacLeod in Tricks From the Bible, where they were performing magical tricks from the Old Testament. It was shown on June 2nd, Channel 4 UK at 10:30pm.

His TV series Magick was aired in 2006/2007 both in the US and Australia with the respective titles ‘Crack Magic’ and ‘Sick Tricks’.

Effect

The performer appears to remove the end of his own thumb; moving it back and forth along his hand or lifting it up.

Method

There is no particular secret to this illusion: the performer simply holds out one hand sideways with the palm out and the tip of the thumb folded down behind the hand. Then he places his other thumb bent so that the tip appears to be connected to the folded-down thumb with the forefinger bent to cover the joint.

Credits

There is no known originator of this trick, and it is likely to be among the oldest tricks in the world.

Known variations

• Meir Yedid (USA) has created “Finger Fantasies”, a multitude of variations in which his fingers disappear and reappear in odd ways.

Goodwin caused a national outcry when his stunt, Cheating the Gallows, went wrong live on national television and he was hanged. Luckily he survived, suffering only minor rope burns.

Jonathan now appears on Channel 4’s Balls of Steel perfoming similar acts to what he did in Dirty Tricks

External links

• Goodwin’s website
• archive of Monkey Magic website
• Dirty Tricks website
  

In presentation, the magician produces a hat pin, roughly ten inches long and demonstrates that it is sharp by using it to pop a balloon. He then proceeds to sterilize the underside of his forearm with alcohol and, holding his arm so that it is not facing the audience, insert the needle through the skin of his arm. From the audience’s perspective, this is not very impressive until the magician lowers his arm for the audience to see. The needle appears to pass about two inches under the skin. The new wound then appears to bleed, with the blood dripping down the magician’s arm. The needle can be slid back and forth through the wound. After the needle is removed, the magician cleans his arm which can be offered for inspection.

By most accounts, the trick was invented by Bruce Spangler in the 1950s. It was sold under the name “You Do Voo Doo”. Several versions of the trick are sold today, arguably the most popular being the version by Anderson. The only licensed version of this effect is the one produced by George Robinson at Viking Magic.

A proper pantriagdiag magic cube contains exactly 7m² + 6m lines that sum to m(m³ + 1)/2.

For short, I will reduce this unwieldy name to PantriagDiag.
This is number 4 in what is now 6 classes of magic cubes. So far, very little is known of this class of cube. The only ones constructed so far are order 8 (not associated and associated). Is order 8 the smallest possible for this type of cube?
This cube was discovered in 2004 by Mitsutoshi Nakamura.

See also

Magic cube classes

External links

• http://homepage2.nifty.com/googol/magcube/en/  : Mitsutoshi Nakamura’s Magic Cubes and Tesseracts
• http://members.shaw.ca/hdhcubes/  : Harvey Heinz All about cubes

The magician holds up a pad, on which he draws a picture of a bowling ball, with the words “Bowling Ball” surrounding it. He then closes the pad, holds it in front of him, and a physical bowling ball appears to drop from the centre of the pad. The magician then re-opens the pad, revealing that the picture of the bowling ball has disappeared from the paper, although the words remain.

Also the name of the bowling alley located in Springfield, fictional city from the television series The Simpsons.

The performer sometimes asks a member of the audience to try to perform the trick with him on stage, and they are inevitably surprised to find that the magician’s rope is restored at the end of the trick while their rope is not.

Method

There are two ways this trick is commonly performed. Both methods involve misdirection of the audience to suggest the rope is cut in two when it is in fact not. This is usually accomplished by looping the rope in the palm of the hand while showing two additional rope ends to give the illusion the magician is holding 2 separate pieces of rope.

The additional ends either come from one end of the rope which was cut as though it was the middle (the simplest way to accomplish this is by tying an ordinary square knot between one end of the rope and its midpoint, then making the cut in the short end), or by palming an extra piece of rope of the same type.

Jones was brought up in Portlethen, Aberdeen, and is one half of Barry and Stuart (who also go by the name 2magicians).

A magic dvd made by Barry and Stuart was seen by producers from Objective Productions. This resulted in their first TV series, Magick, after which the pair moved to London where they regularly perform on the London Comedy Circuit.

Jones has worked with MacLeod (the other member of 2magicians) in a number of other TV shows, including: Dirty Tricks and When Magic Tricks Go Wrong.

In December 2005, the pair presented a programme tracing the miracles of Jesus entitled The Magic of Jesus. In 2006, Barry Jones performed with Stuart MacLeod in Tricks From the Bible, where they were performing magical tricks from the Old Testament. It was shown on June 2nd, Channel 4 UK at 10:30pm.

His TV series Magick was aired in 2006/2007 both in the US and Australia with the respective titles ‘Crack Magic’ and ‘Sick Tricks’.

Goodwin caused a national outcry when his stunt, Cheating the Gallows, went wrong live on national television and he was hanged. Luckily he survived, suffering only minor rope burns.

Jonathan now appears on Channel 4’s Balls of Steel perfoming similar acts to what he did in Dirty Tricks

External links

• Goodwin’s website
• archive of Monkey Magic website
• Dirty Tricks website

So, in an n × n magic square using the numbers from 1 to n², a magic series is a set of n distinct numbers adding up to n(n²+1)/2. For n = 2, there are just two magic series, 1+4 and 2+3, and there is no magic square. The eight magic series when n = 3 all appear in the rows, columns and diagonals of a 3 × 3 magic square.

Maurice Kraitchik gave the number of magic series up to n = 7 in Mathematical Recreations in 1942 . In 2002, Henry Bottomley extended this up to n = 36 and independently Walter Trump up to n = 32. In 2005, Trump extended this to n = 54 (over 2×10¹¹¹) while Bottomley gave an experimental approximation for the numbers of magic series:

<math>\frac{1}{\pi} \cdot \sqrt{\frac{3}{e}} \cdot \frac{(e n)^n}{n^3-\frac{3}{5}n^2+\frac{2}{7}n}</math>

In July 2006, Robert Gerbicz extended this sequence up to n = 150.

External links

• Walter Trump’s pages on magic series
• Number of magic series up to order 150

In a diagonal magic cube of order m, all 6m of the diagonals in the m planes parallel to the top, front, and sides of the cube must sum correctly. This means that the cube contains 3m simple magic squares of order m.
Because the cube contains so many magic squares, it was considered for many years to be perfect (although other types of cubes were also sometimes called a perfect magic cube.

It is now known that there are three higher classes of cubes.

The (proper) diagonal magic cube has a total of 3m² + 6m + 4 correctly summing lines and 3m + 6 simple magic squares.

The new definition perfect magic cube has a total of 13m² correct lines and 9m pandiagonal magic squares.

NOTE: Traditionally, n has been used to indicate the order of the magic hypercube. However, in recent years, due to the increasing emphasis on higher dimension hypercubes, there is a trend to use m to indicate order and n to indicate dimension.

See also

• Magic cube classes

External links

• New definition:
  • Harvey Heinz’s magic cubes
    
  • Aale de Winkel’s Magic Encyclopedia

• Old definition:
  • Christian Boyer’s Multimagic cubes
  • Walter Trump’s Search for the smallest ‘perfect’ cube