A great trick which combines all the advantages a Close-Up trick can possibly have. It can be shown in all situations, when you are surrounded by people, sitting down, standing up. Superlative trickery, and best of all: You can hand out everything for examination without substituting, adding or taking anything away!
But let’s start at the beginning. You show a black and a white chip. Beautifully turned from brass and with a recessed color inlay. The black chip lies in the flat of your left hand, the white one in the right hand, which you also stretch out flat. Keep both hands far apart, close and open them briefly, and the spectators cannot believe their eyes. The chips have switched places. No manipulation, nothing suspicious. You make the chips return to their original places in the same way.
The audience like it, so you show it again. But stop, now the penny has dropped: The watchers have definitely seen that you have simply turned the chips over when closing your hands. Ah – that’s how it is done! The white chip is black on the other side, the black chip, white.
This discovery could serve as a lead-in to speak about the meaning of colors and their origin. You explain to the audience that “white” contains all colors and that “black” means a complete lack of any color. And then it happens: Inexplicably, the chips change color while you are speaking. Suddenly the chip which was white, has turned red, with a blue back; the chip which was quite clearly black, has turned green, with a yellow back.
You can now hand everything to the audience for examination, you don’t have to switch or add anything and need not take anything away.
This version of the Black and White Chips is very well made from brass in Germany and with an approximate diameter of 1.25″ well visible even from a distance away.