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Cups and Balls
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Cups and Balls
Effect in which cups are used to cover balls which impossibly travel and vanish. Generally ended with several productions of large loads.
Routines
Michael Ammar - Aldo Colombini - Alex Elmsley - Paul Gertner - Larry Jennings - Jason Latimer - John Mendoza - Gary Ouellet - Jay Sankey - Dai Vernon - David Williamson - Tommy Wonder
Cups
Cup Suppliers - Cup Resources - Cup Lists
(see also Thimble Rigging, Three Shell Game)
Final loads
- Live baby chickens : Galli Galli, Ross Bertram and Johnny Ace Palmer
- A block of ice: ?
- Another cup: Jay Sankey
- Lots of other balls: Jay Sankey
- The bag that the cups and balls came in: Tommy Wonder and Pete Biro
- Salt: Alex Elmsley
- A live mouse: Lance Burton and Petey the Magic Mouse