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On Thu 30, prepare to be amazed as National Magic Week comes to the New-York Historical Society with George Schindler’s “New York Magic.” And while we can’t all be a Houdini (who, incidentally, died on Halloween in 1926), we can learn some simple sleights of hand to amaze our friends. We contacted a magician (who requested anonymity) to reveal this most astounding of workplace cafeteria tricks.
Step 1:
Prepare the produce
Take an ordinary banana along with an even more ordinary pin, and gently stick the banana with the implement to saw the fruit (not the peel!) in twain twice, making sure that no evidence of tampering remains.
Step 2:
Find a rube
Get the nearest sucker, er, audience member to hold the banana at both ends and have them pick a number (limit them to choosing either “two” or “three,” for simplicity’s sake).
Step 3:
Go all Chuck Norris
“After he names the number, you karate chop in the air above the banana—do not touch it,” says Magician X.
Step 4:
Sell it
Depending on what number your assistant has chosen, when you peel the banana you can either claim that the “three” refers to the number of pieces of banana, or “two” to the number of cuts in it. Holy crap! Magician X reminds us, though, to “never reveal the secret.”
