The solution to the trick with a long rope. Tricks with ropes. Handkerchief and rope

Rope of equal or unequal length

Focus Description:

In exactly the same way, the magician indicates the set handed to the viewer on the left - with two ribbons of equal length. He explains to the audience that everyone can use the tapes to determine which set is given to which of the two spectators, despite the fact that their backs are to the audience. The magician then asks the audience to face the audience, explaining that he will perform something “magical.” After this, the magician asks the audience to turn their backs to the audience again and untie their ropes in this position. When the task is completed, the volunteers turn to face the audience and show which ropes each spectator is holding.

To the surprise of both the spectators and the entire hall, two equal ropes swapped places with two unequal ones!

The secret of the trick:

A. To prepare, lay two five-foot ropes side by side. We have labeled ropes A and B and shown them dark and light just to make the procedure clear to you. During the performance, all ropes must be the same color.

B. Tie the two ropes in a simple overlapping knot at a point about a third of the way from the end.

C. Place both ends of rope B together so that both parts of rope B are side by side in the same direction. The same goes for rope A.

D. Then tie another overlapping knot on top of the first knot so the audience won't know anything. You will get ropes tied together, and it looks like one of them is short and the other is long.

E. At the next stage of preparation, you have to tie a short rope with a long one so that they look equal in length. To do this, place short rope C next to long rope D. Short rope C should lie in the middle (centered) in relation to the ends of rope D.

F. Tie the ropes together in the middle (center) simple knot overlap.

G. Bring both ends of short rope C together so that the halves lie side by side, and do the same with long rope D. Secure the ropes in this position by tying another overlapping knot on top of the first - making a set of two tied ropes that appear to be equal in length.

In addition, you need to prepare three colored ribbons, each about half a meter long, and one ribbon 25 centimeters long. Attach a pin to the end of each ribbon.

1. Show the audience two sets of ropes and invite two volunteers onto the stage.

2. Give the spectator on your right a set of two ropes that seem unequal in length (but are actually equal), and give the spectator on your left a set of two equal (in general impression) ropes.

3. After asking the audience to turn their backs to the audience, pin appropriate ribbons to their backs. When they turn back to face the audience, explain that the ribbons are needed to know which set each volunteer is holding.

4. Invite the audience to turn their backs to the audience again and untie the ropes in this position. If you wish, announce that something “magical” is about to happen. Ask the audience to hold a rope in each hand and face the audience. Two spectators will appear in front of the hall, one of whom, standing on the left, instead of two equal ropes, has a short rope in one hand and a long rope in the other. The spectator on the right has a rope in each hand, and they are equal in length. The two sets of ropes magically swapped places without leaving the spectators' hands.

This trick always makes me laugh. If done correctly, even two volunteers will not be able to understand what is going on. When using this type of knot, oddly enough, when untied, the rope seems to change its length right in your hands - and the audience cannot figure out how this happened! Of course, if you repeat the trick immediately, they will follow up and figure out what the secret is. But for the first time, when the procedure is strictly followed, the volunteers remain perplexed, like everyone present, which, of course, increases the effectiveness of the performance.

Every magician has a whole set of tricks with ropes. They are tied, untied, and threaded through planks. These tricks can be very simple or very complex, requiring special contraptions. For example, magicians keep a secret trick called - a rope through the body. We will reveal this secret in the next article.

The rope trick is a self-tying rope.

In order for the audience to enjoy the trick, you will have to practice well, because even a simple trick with ropes requires dexterity and dexterity. Learn from simple tricks and gradually move on to complex ones. Take your time and you will succeed. Tricks with knots are considered the simplest; tricks with cutting, tricks with rope and scissors, “reunions” and lengthening of ropes appeared much later.

For this trick you will need a rope.

Announce to your viewers that you have a magic rope that does not hold knots. Show the audience this rope; there should be several ordinary knots on it that are not tightened. To make the audience believe you more, you can tie several knots in front of their eyes. The only condition is that the nodes must be at a short distance from each other. Wrap the rope around your hand, saying the spell: “Alabim-salabim.” Then grab the end of the rope with your other hand and unwind it. Show the rope to the audience - there are no knots on it.

The secret of focus.

Sleight of hand and no magic. As you wrap the rope around your hand, carefully and without the spectators seeing, pull the top end through the knots. When you remove the rope wound in this way, grab the end that went into the knots. As soon as you release the rope, the knots will untie themselves.

Handkerchief and rope

You will need: a rope 1.5-2 m long, a handkerchief, 2 assistants.

You will need two assistants. Give them a rope. One of the spectators must grab the loop with his hand, the other - the free end of the rope. What you should get as a result resembles the letter “I” if you put it on a horizontal surface. Take out a large (most importantly, clean) handkerchief and wrap it around the rope, tying it with a regular knot on top. This knot should not pull the rope too tight. Thread the hanging ends of the scarf into the loops and secure them with two knots at the bottom. Now ask your assistants to release the loops from their hands and pull the loose ends. The handkerchief will hang in the middle of the rope. You approach the handkerchief, say the magic word “conjure-bewitch”, easily turn the handkerchief over so that the ends are at the top, and with a quick movement of your hand without special effort you take him off the rope in front of an astonished audience.

The secret of focus.

The trick is in how you tie the handkerchief knot - “toward yourself”.

Focus - living ropes

You will need: 3 ropes different lengths(40 cm, 30 cm, 20 cm).

Show the audience ropes of different lengths: the longest, medium and short. Place them on your left palm so that their ends hang down. After compress left hand into a fist. With your right hand, trim the top ends of all ropes. The viewer sees that the identical ends of three ropes, different in length, protrude from the fist. Need to take right hand at these different ends, pull it out of the fist, making all three identical. Then throw all the ropes aside and show the audience your empty hands.

The secret of focus.

You must first practice your dexterity, because when holding ropes in your fist, you need to quietly arrange them so that two ends of a long rope and one end of a medium rope hang down, and the other end of a medium rope and two ends of a small rope protrude above your fist. The largest rope and the smallest rope must interlock at their centers. When you line up the bottom ends of all three ropes, they will all appear the same.

After you have learned how to do rope tricks, try

Sometimes even the most ordinary props can become simply fantastic objects for spectacular and unusual tricks. The same thing happens with rope. What's unusual about it? A tightly rolled piece of special fabric.

However, real magicians and wizards are able to create miracles with such an ordinary object. In their hands it ties and unties itself, burns without being consumed, hardens to a stone state. It binds tightly, but is untied by the power of thought; it passes through parts of the body. All these tricks with a rope always go off with a bang and amaze the audience with their seeming unreality.

At one time I was fond of tricks with this prop:

Harry Houdini;
David Copperfield;
Indian fakirs.

In general, almost every modern magician knows how to handle ropes and ropes. Most of the secrets of magic tricks have been revealed, now everyone can learn them, even children.

Those tricks that were performed by great and famous magicians require careful preparation and the presence of a special rope, not an ordinary one. Therefore, you should not try to repeat them, it is dangerous for health and life!

Passing through the neck

This trick is quite simple to perform and requires only dexterity and a little training. The effect is as follows: the wizard takes the lace and demonstrates to everyone present that it is the most ordinary one. You can let it touch and check. Then he puts it around his neck and wraps it around for greater effect. A sharp movement of the hanging ends of the rope and it “passes through” the neck and ends up completely safe and sound in the hands of the magician. The audience is delighted!

What is the secret of this trick? You can watch the training video here:

For greater effect, you can demonstrate this trick with any spectator's scarf. This way you will prove that your props are not prepared, but completely ordinary, and that you really are a magician.

Famous rope recovery trick

Also a very effective trick that requires a little more skill and training. Its essence is as follows: the magician takes a short piece of ordinary rope, maybe lace. Then:

demonstrates its integrity;
folds in half and cuts one of the parts stretched in the form of a loop from the hand;
the prop is torn and parts of it are in the hands of the wizard;
ties the cut ends together into a knot;
several magical movements up and down;
a completely intact rope is pulled out from the stuntman’s fist without any knots or damage.

Of course, any viewer will have a question: how is this possible? It’s better to watch the answer to this trick in the video tutorial, since it’s difficult to describe:

This trick requires skillful use of your own hands and dexterity in execution. This can only be achieved with careful training.

Thinking outside the box

This focus is more on the ability to think. Its essence is to tie the rope into a knot without taking your hands off the ends. To begin with, you can invite any person from the audience to do this. No one can cope because they don’t know the main secret. And it is, in fact, very simple.

The secret of the trick: before you pick up the props to perform, you should cross your hands with each other. Now, returning them to their normal position with the rope, you can easily tie a knot on it.

Rope in a bottle

To perform the trick we will need:

the rope is not too thick;
an ordinary dark glass bottle;
public.

Effect: the wizard asks those present to check the props and make sure that the rope is real and the bottle is empty. Then he takes one end of the rope and lowers it into the bottle. After that, she is turned upside down and hangs on the rope. Breaking the laws of physics, the bottle does not fall, and the rope does not slip out of it.

The secret of the trick: with a deft and imperceptible movement, before lowering the rope inside the bottle, tie a knot in it. It will get stuck in the neck and prevent the props from falling.

Obviously, training is required. After completion, invite any person to do the same, he will not succeed and this will enhance the effect of the focus.

Special props

Very beautiful tricks can be performed if the props are prepared in advance. This is exactly what all the famous magicians did. You can order and buy rope for tricks in special stores. With this you can perform the most incredible tricks.

See an example here:

The magician openly says that his props are completely unusual, prepared in advance, and are based on internal metal inserts with magnets. That is, only from the outside the rope has a normal appearance. In fact, from the inside it consists not of fabric fibers, but of special metal threads. Divided into pieces and equipped with magnetic inserts.

Stone rope

This trick also falls into the category of those that require special props. The effect of the trick is as follows: the magician shows the audience a completely ordinary piece of clothesline, which hangs freely at both ends. Then he takes one side in one hand, leaving the other free, and begins to pull the entire length of the prop forward in sections. Contrary to all common sense, the rope is held in the air like stone. It becomes hard, like a stick.

The secret of the trick: this item is not ordinary, but specially made. If you turn the prop on one side, the rope will dangle freely and resemble a regular one. If you turn it over to another, it becomes stone, like a stick.

You should turn the props in your hands gradually, making magical movements and passes so that one of the sides remains hanging freely.

You can see this trick in action in this video lesson:

You can order such a rope

The most common item is rope. And how many amazing and unusual tricks! Practice, execute and strive to improve.

The performer displays four pieces of rope, holding two ropes in each hand. Each pair in the middle of the ropes is tied to form a set, meaning two sets are on display. One set consists of one short and one long rope, and the other consists of two ropes of equal length. The magician asks two volunteers to come on stage. Each of them is given one set of ropes. The spectator on the right, who has received a set of long and short ropes, is asked to turn his back to the audience. The magician attaches a pair of ribbons, one short and one long, to his back to indicate which set he got. In exactly the same way, the magician indicates the set handed to the viewer on the left - with two ribbons of equal length. He explains to the audience that everyone can use the tapes to determine which set is given to which of the two spectators, despite the fact that their backs are to the audience. The magician then asks the audience to face the audience, explaining that he will perform something “magical.” After this, the magician asks the audience to turn their backs to the audience again and untie their ropes in this position. When the task is completed, the volunteers turn to face the audience and show which ropes each spectator is holding. To the surprise of both the spectators and the entire hall, two equal ropes swapped places with two unequal ones!

The secret of the trick:

This ingenious trick can be classified as an automatic trick, since the entire procedure is performed only by spectators. The secret lies in the method you use to tie the ropes in pairs, which is done before the performance. For the trick, you will need three soft one and a half meter ropes and one of the same, but exactly half as long.
To prepare, lay two five-foot ropes side by side. We will label ropes A and B so that the procedure is clear to you. During the performance, all ropes must be the same color.
Tie the two ropes in a simple overlapping knot at a point about a third of the way from the end.
Place both ends of rope B together so that both parts of rope B are side by side in the same direction. The same goes for rope A.
Then tie another overlapping knot on top of the first knot, so the audience won't know anything. You will get ropes tied together, and it looks like one of them is short and the other is long.
At the next stage of preparation, you have to tie a short rope with a long one so that they look equal in length. To do this, place short rope C next to long rope D. Short rope C should lie in the middle (centered) in relation to the ends of rope D.
Tie the ropes together in the middle (center) with a simple overlapping knot.
Bring both ends of short rope C together so that the halves lie side by side, and do the same with long rope D. Secure the ropes in this position by tying another overlapping knot on top of the first one to create a set of two tied ropes , which look equal in length.
In addition, you need to prepare three colored ribbons, each about half a meter long, and one ribbon 25 centimeters long. Attach a pin to the end of each ribbon. You are ready to perform the trick EQUAL - UNEQUAL ROPES.
1. Show the audience two sets of ropes and invite two volunteers onto the stage.
2. Give the spectator on your right a set of two ropes that seem unequal in length (but are actually equal), and give the spectator on your left a set of two equal (in general impression) ropes.
3. After asking the audience to turn their backs to the audience, pin appropriate ribbons to their backs. When they turn back to face the audience, explain that the ribbons are needed to know which set each volunteer is holding.
4. Invite the audience to turn their backs to the audience again and untie the ropes in this position. If you wish, announce that something “magical” is about to happen. Ask the audience to hold a rope in each hand and face the audience. Two spectators will appear in front of the hall, one of whom, standing on the left, instead of two equal ropes, has a short rope in one hand and a long rope in the other. The spectator on the right has a rope in each hand, and they are equal in length. The two sets of ropes magically swapped places without leaving the spectators' hands.

Additions:
This “new” trick always makes me laugh. If done correctly, even two volunteers will not be able to understand what is going on. When using this type of knot, oddly enough, when untied, the rope seems to change its length right in your hands - and the audience cannot figure out how this happened! Of course, if you repeat the trick immediately, they will follow up and figure out what the secret is. But for the first time, when the procedure is strictly followed, the volunteers remain perplexed, like everyone present, which, of course, increases the effectiveness of the performance.

Cut and Reunited Rope (comedy version)

Impression
The performer gives a volunteer from among the spectators a rope about a meter long and asks him to cut it into two equal parts. After looking at the result, the magician decides that the spectator can cut both parts in half again. Taking four pieces of rope, the magician drops them one by one into an empty paper bag, closes it and shakes it vigorously, and then tells the spectator that by waving the scissors over the bag, he will magically join the pieces back together into a single rope. The package is opened, and the audience sees: the rope has been restored, but not in the way the magician wanted it. Instead of being reunited into a single rope, the segments were tied together with three knots located at an equal distance from each other. An empty bag is shown to the audience, which the magician then puts aside. To solve the problem, the magician takes hold of the ends of a rope tied in four pieces and jerks it apart. THREE KNOTS FLY FROM THE ROPE AND EVERYONE SEE THAT IT HAS COMPLETELY RECOVERED INTO ONE!
Secret and preparation

(A) Prepare two soft ropes one meter long and three pieces about ten centimeters long each, from which you will make fake knots that fly off the rope. Stretch one of the ropes and make marks on it at the quarters so that you know where to tie the false knots that divide the rope into four equal parts.

(B) To make a false knot, fold the rope where the mark is made.
(C) Then tie a piece around the rope fold as shown in the picture.
(D) When you stretch the rope, the knot will look real as shown in the picture. If you pull it with a jerk, the knot will fly off the rope.

(E) Make two more false knots where you marked the rope, making it look like it was tied in four short pieces.

(F) You will also need a DOUBLE WALL PAPER BAG. Open the bag and place a rope with three knots in the main, open compartment, as shown in the picture. DO NOT PLACE IT IN THE SECRET POCKET OF YOUR BAG, as this will be where you will later hide the scraps of rope you start with. Fold the bag as if it were empty and place it on the table.
Methodology

1. Invite a volunteer on stage to teach him how to perform magic tricks. Hand him the scissors and show the audience a meter-long rope. Ask the spectator to cut the rope: first in half, and then in half again...
2. ...to make four equal segments.

3. Take a paper bag and open it. Be careful: don't accidentally show inner part bags, the audience should not see the prepared rope in the bag. Place the four pieces of rope, one at a time, INTO THE SECRET POCKET OF THE BAG.
4. Close the bag and shake it. Invite the viewer to hold the scissors over it so that the rope is restored - “like magic.”

5. Then reach into the bag and take out the prepared rope, the rope with false knots, from the main compartment. The secret pocket must remain closed.
6. Set the rope aside and open the bag wide, showing everyone that it is empty (the scraps are safely hidden in a secret pocket). Put the bag aside, explain to the viewer that he almost achieved his goal, but somewhat differently than he would like, and you will have to complete the trick for him.

7. Grab the ends of the prepared rope as shown in the picture.

8. Pull the ends sharply, jerking the rope: the false knots will fly off it. The rope was restored to its original form! Give the rope to the spectator, inviting him to “practice” at home, and thank him for his help.

Mark Wilson "Tricks and Tricks" EKSMO-PRESS 2002