How does this magic trick work? Seems like a "bar trick".

[kherman]

OK, a guy a work dumbfounded me!

UPDATE:

It's been two hours of looking for every phrase imaginable at google.com Yes, google failed me!?!?!?

A clearer description of the trick:

2 matches, both made out of wood. I have the matches as I write. They are wood.

He held one match between the thumb, pointer and middle finger of his left hand, covering maybe 10% of hte match. The end with the filament(that what I'll call it anyways) is away from the hand.

The other match layed accross the match in the left hand and the pointer finger of the right hand, kinda making a bridge.

The match that is laying over hte first match and hte pointer finger starts bouncing?

I can not figure it out.

It has to do with the left hand and "how you hold it". The person doing hte trick has said that much anyways.

 

[ggavinmoss]

You sure they were wood? You sure there wasn't a metal "strip" run through the center of it and he was using magnets?

-geoff

 

Is this what you are looking for ?

 

[kherman]

Originally posted by: Roger
Is this what you are looking for ?

EDIT: The trick he did probably used the same concept, but it was different.

 

[kherman]

UPDATE;

It's been two hours of looking for every phrase imaginable at google.com Yes, google failed me!?!?!?

A clearer description of the trick:

2 matches, both made out of wood. I have the matches as I write. They are wood.

He held one match between the thumb, pointer and middle finger of his left hand, covering maybe 10% of hte match. The end with the filament(that what I'll call it anyways) is away from the hand.

The other match layed accross the match in the left hand and the pointer finger of the right hand, kinda making a bridge.

The match that is laying over hte first match and hte pointer finger starts bouncing?

I can not figure it out.

It has to do with the left hand and "how you hold it". The person doing hte trick has said that much anyways.

 

[kherman]

BUMP

I think it has to do with the finger nails and "scraping" the match stick along your nails of hte left hand. causes energy to be released in small amounts (unnoticable). Just enough to make the match stick bounce around. I'm thinking middle finger nail is the friction device (the flat part of the nail, not edge). The thumb provides energy to teh system. With practice it should work, in theoryy......

 

[SHoddyCOmp]

hehe, i do that with toothpicks to my friends. its fun The match, or whatever else like in my case a tooth pick the one you're holding anyway is pushed against my right middle finger (held by pointer and thumb) and i pull away just ever so slightly you (USUALLY) cant notice a difference where it is resting on the fingernail. However its enough of a jerk that it bounces the other match, or toothpick off of it. Ive actually bounced one out of the palm of my hand without showing a difference in where it is on my fingernail, thats a huge bounce. Only happened once though...

 

[SHoddyCOmp]

Is that what you wanted to know? I think that is what you described, its the closest thing that I know how to do...

Finally looked at the link, its sort of like that, less "dumb magic bs included" though. Maybe its not what you were talking about

 

[Omegachi]

haha, dumbass. My friend showed me that trick in elementary school and i figured it out rght away. he is using his nails

 

[kherman]

Originally posted by: SHoddyCOmp
Is that what you wanted to know? I think that is what you described, its the closest thing that I know how to do...

Finally looked at the link, its sort of like that, less "dumb magic bs included" though. Maybe its not what you were talking about

Oh my god, that's it! it worked!

 

[Spooner]

i still don't really understand how this is working

 

[sygyzy]

Assuming it's the same trick, the OP's description is not too good. Check out the link, it's more clear.

Can anyone do a quick paint illustration?

 

[Spooner]

Originally posted by: sygyzy
Assuming it's the same trick, the OP's description is not too good. Check out the link, it's more clear.

Can anyone do a quick paint illustration?

yeah, i need pictures!

 

[ChrisIsBored]

Screw pictures, I want a flash presentation.