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opened the nickel is gone. Both sides of
the hand are shown. This is so effective
Doug Henning performed it on national TV
one evening in one of his TV specials.
Of course, many of the concepts in this
magazine are to not only promote
deception but increase the Level of
Impossibility. An Al Schneider concept is
that deception is based on assumptions.
The Level of Impossibility then depends
upon the strength of assumptions and the
manner in which assumptions are chained
together to produce the effect.
The primary point is that your magic will
get a higher score the more impossible
your magic is. This depends upon doing
something more impossible, better and
utilizing powerful assumptions chained
together.
Level of Believable Impossibility
This seems to be an oxymoron. If we
have something that is impossible, why
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must we make it believable? Let's take a
crude example showing something that is
not believable. Two bags are on the table.
Drop a ball in the one on the left. Make a
magic pass and tell the audience it
magically jumped to the right bag. Make a
magic pass again and tell the audience it
jumped to the left. Then show the ball. This
is impossible to happen and the audience
will not believe this impossibility. Consider
the common magic trick where a coin is
marked, disappears from a handkerchief
and appears in a small nest of boxes that
has been residing in your pocket. It
appears impossible to the audience.
However, they believe that you somehow
accomplished this. They may not believe it
is magic but they believe that somehow you
managed to sneak the coin out of a
handkerchief and into the small stack of
boxes in your pocket. One impossible event
is not believed while the other is.
While the Level of Impossibility serves to
elevate the impact of whatever effect you
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