How to Perform the Reattaching Match Trick

How to Perform the Reattaching Match Trick Male: Here's a magic effect which is actually quite charming effect some people really think its quite striking. You can select a match please. Female: Sure. Male: And just pull it out. Female: Okay. Male: Great. I’ll just wreck it from you. Now watch closely. Did you see what happened? You open the match back. Female: The burnt matches. Male: Pull it out. Female: Yeah. Male: Looks like—my God, what wonder never seized. This is the secret of the disappearing and reappearing match. You bend one match back. Okay, take another match out or it can be from another book. And you burn that match. Okay, let it cool. Now once it cold, you can seal it by placing your thumb across it, okay. So if you open that book, you see only what appears to be a book of brand new matches. Now this is the position that you display the matchbook into the spectator, okay. Now as you open the matchbook, you have them select one. Lets say this one and they pull it out. Now in the active charring, the matchbook over in order to get to the striking surface, you're actually pushing the secret burnt match back up into the matchbook. All right, now, under the excuse that you must strike the match, you're going to turn the cover over to get to the striking surface. So as you do it, this is what really happening. You're pushing that match, the burnt match back up into the book. It looks like this to the spectator. And this is what's really going on. So you’ve got your burnt match back in the book. Show the match, the match they pulled, strike it. Wave it. As you wave it, just throw it away. It’s so small they don’t notice. Pretend to throw it towards the book, as they turn it over. You can see the cover still close d but when they open it, they see that the match is apparently returned. Now what's beautiful is that the match seems to be reattached to the book itself. Now it’s pulled out and you have a very elegant miracle. Pull it out, just pull it out.