14. CHINESE STING
Copyright © 1996 Eddie Gibson. All rights reserved.

The Chinese love a gamble and so will your audience when you show them this effect. You ask them how they would like a gamble which they cannot possibly lose and can only win.

You show six Chinese brass discs, each with a coloured disc set in the recess on the reverse side. There are three pairs of colours, two red, two blue and two yellow.

One of each of the pairs of discs is turned over (dragon side up). These three discs are shuffled around by your audience, so that no one could possibly know which of the discs is a match for the face-up colours.

You now explain the gamble: the audience wins if they now choose a disc which does not match up with the face-up colours, in other words they win on a mis-match. You ask them to make their first choice. As each choice is made you place the selected disc (colour side down) on top of the face-up colours, as your audience directs. They have a perfectly free choice as to which disc is placed on to which colour.

After explaining that the odds of winning are greatly in favour of the audience, you turn over the top three discs and it is seen that all the colours match! Needless to say the audience do not win.

Price quoted is for a basic set of six discs. The Chinese Sting is also available in sets of eight and ten discs.

Price :  £32.00 /  $46.00 /  €53.00