Colour Block Escape

INCREDIBLE BLOCK ESCAPE

Two chosen blocks, locked in a magic box, magically pass though a solid wooden wand!

Secret: For this trick, you will need the small wooden wand, the wooden hinged box and the six coloured blocks. Display the blocks inside the box and secure them in place with the wand. The wand passes through the holes in the middle of each block and each side of the box.

Demonstrate to your audience that the blocks are secure and cannot fall out, even when the box is held upside-down. Remove the wand, tip out the blocks and ask someone to select two of them. Put the blocks back into the box, but secretly replace the two chosen blocks sideways, instead of lengthways. Be careful that your audience does not see this!

When the lid is closed, it is possible to see all the coloured blocks through the holes in the lid. No one will know that the two chosen blocks are sideways.

Push the wand through the box until it comes out the other side. Everyone will believe that all six blocks are locked in place. Now, turn over the magic box and allow the two chosen blocks to fall out – apparently passing right through the wooden wand!

This is an amazing and colourful magic trick. Not only are two blocks apparently passing through the solid wand, they are also the two chosen blocks!