Adair’s Magical SMS

“Isn’t technology simply amazing, with really magical gadgets and gizmos that stagger the imagination ? Every body uses TVs and computers and calculators and cell phones, taking them for granted, with a scant idea of the amazing technology that makes them possible. And things get better and smaller and cheaper every day. They used to … Read more

Monkey Puzzle

A classic optical illusion, with a story line to accompany the action. A green and yellow banana are shown, with the yellow shorter than the green, than the green shorter than the yellow. Finally the pictures are turned over, to display the cheeky monkey, responsible for their diminishing size !!! Based on an idea by … Read more

Butterfly Puzzle

A most intriguing optical illusion. This is an adaptation of the Over/Under or Banana / Boomerang Puzzle, with a most amusing presentation theme, from the fertile mind of Ian Adair. Performer displays two curved boomerang shaped pieces, one with a green caterpillar, and one with a red one. The piece with the caterpillar at the … Read more

Adair’s Copy Cat Chips Plus

Another Chip effect from Ian, and this one with a mental flavor. Effect :- The performer displays four red chips with four different colored spots, and four black chips with matching colored spots. After displaying all the chips on both sides, (the spots are of the same color on both sides of each chip), the … Read more

Adair’s Chip Canery

From the fertile mind of Ian Adair comes this cute close up effect. And here is the effect in his own words … Effect :- Three chips lay on the performer’s table. Two are red, on both sides shown. The odd one is black (on both sides – shown). These are displayed in a line … Read more

Mouse Animation

This is an imitation fur mouse, accompanied by a 24 page booklet for manipulating it by Ian Adair titled “Mouse Animation, the Tom Harris Way“ The amateur magician will probably put the book on his bookshelf, and produce the mouse from some production prop, to draw a scream or two from the ladies in the … Read more