Some New Routines June 2004

I came up with these routines recently. Some of them don’t have a secret

exposure because you should figure out how to do them on your own. The
idea of this is the routine itself. If I was still performing I would do these as

Tarko.

Effect 1

Take some magician wax and put it behind your ear. Have a card selected

and replaced and spread the deck out on a table.
Place your finger in your ear at the same time get some magician wax on

it. Show the wax on you finger to the audience and then flick it towards

the cards having it land on the selected card. Needs practice

Effect 2

Get some yellow ink and write “ace of Diamonds” in a diaper and when it

dries put the diaper on a baby. Force the ace of diamonds and tell everyone
you taught the baby a trick, remove diaper. Also works with brown ink

Effect 3

Have a card selected and replaced. Spread the cards out on a table and
stand back and spit up into the air. Have the spit land on the selected card.

To make the trick grosser, chew up some green gummy bears until they
are just little bits. Then make the sound in your throat like you are

sucking snot into your throat and then spit. Very colorful. For the talented

and those with bad colds you can do it without the gummy bear for the
green.

Effect 4

Tie a string around each finger and place your hands behind your back.

Have someone secretly point to a finger and bring your hands back to the

front. Wait a moment and the finger that was selected is the only one that
doesn’t turn blue. You have to come up with your own method for this. My

contribution is the routine only.

Tarquin Churchwell
June 13, 2004