are normal. After you gave them enough to empty the
section of your pack containing the regular m&m’s, stay
silent and finish eating building the tension. People
stay very still or laugh, because they don’t know how to
react.
THEN I go into the revelation. “Oh by the way,
didn’t you have a card? What is it?”. Everyone looks at
the participant; at this moment, undo the rest of the
contact glue that was separating the normal half of the
pack from the tricked m&m’s. After he tells everyone
the name of the card, silently and cleanly poor them
in the bowl and hand it to him. “Can you say out loud
what is written on each and every one of this m&m’s?”
As soon as the participant tells you what it is, give a
strong applause cue to built the energy up again, like
talking louder and louder and standing up for example:
“is it THE CARD YOU SELECTED?! Please pass the bowl
around and FEEL FREE TO EAT THE AMAZING PIECE OF
MAGIC!” Eating one yourself to show it’s not poisonous.
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Now that you know how to trick a m&m’s pack, you can
trick any candy or food pack (Crisps, cookies, sugar, anything) and seal an object in it (or a modified version of
the content, like tricked with the tricked M&M’s) using
two principles: the secret compartment principle and
the use of contact glue (neoprene) on the polybagged
material to glue something together and separate it
easily.
You can invent your own routines using objects transpositions (with duplicates for examples) or by finding
other candies or food to customize!
Here is an idea for a video: trick candies by printing
something on it, and put it pack back in a candy distributor by bribing the daily/weekly supplier. Then start
rolling, get the first person walking, force the info and
the number required to get the candy. Give him a coin
to buy this pack and you get an amazing “impromptu”
routine!
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