Zanthor's Matchstick Magic Trick

David's been banished from London, and is sleeping rough under South End pier. In this instalment of David Zanthor's magic tricks revealed, David is teaching us Matchstick tricks, how to make matchsticks vanish and reappear. Enlarge

Zanthor's Matchstick Magic Trick

David's been banished from London, and is sleeping rough under South End pier. In this instalment of David Zanthor's magic tricks revealed, David is teaching us Matchstick tricks, how to make matchsticks vanish and reappear.

Step 1: You will need

  • 3 Matches
  • fudge

Step 2: The Trick

Big Z's set his sights on the two birds in the candyfloss cabin, and once he picks a target for a tricking, then nothings gonna stop him.
Zanthor gives one of them a match box and asks them to check that its real, she seems satisfied, in some ways. Now the zanthman demands she selects three of the matches and says hes going to make them travel from his hand to his poket, and so he does. boom
Oh Zanthor you little rouge, your such a joker, do it properly this time.
Watch closely as he fingers each match into his club like fist. That's the second one, and now he's tickling in the third. A moment for the magic to work and Boom, they've totally vanished.
The sea lasses are flabberghasted.
Now Zanthor retrives the matches from his pocket, but whats this, the matches havnt materialized as expected, I cant believe it, hold on zanthors up to something, but what, surly not, fudge me, the matches are in the fudge, all three of them, great gugamugha, im shell shocked and so are the lasses. david blaine is turning in his grave.

Step 3: How It's Done

So the zuton prince has tricked us again, but how was it done?
First up theres the bad gag about moving the matches from your hand into your pocket, this isn't a bad attempt at comedy from david “the jester” Zanthor, but rather a method to set this trick up like a load skittles. With the matches safely in your poket your ready to start the deception.
The magic of this trick is all in the fingers. When you thought Zanthor was jousting the matches into his paw, he was actually palming them off by nesting them in his digit nook. The matches didn't need to vanish from his fist at all, because they were never even there.
This technique is called the david Zanthor matchstick palm, lets see it again. Press the match into that bit between your thumb and fore finger – called the tease strip – and then grip the match with your crooked finger as you pull your hand away, it will look as though you've poked the matches into your mit but really you didn't. Cunning.
So if it wasn't magic then how did they re-appear in the rum rasin. Easypeasy, earlier on david sent in his chum willis to buy some fudge. All nonchalant like, then he pressed the matches into the fudge. while the ladettes were distracted by davids showmanship, willis nipped in and dumped the fudge behind the counter. Nice work willis.

So all that's left is for david to pull off a knock out performance and the illusion is complete