Some New Routines   June 2004 

 
I came up with these routines recently. Some of them don’t have a secret 

exposure because you should figure out how to do them on your own. The 
idea of this is the routine itself. If I was still performing I would do these as 

Tarko. 

 
Effect 1 

 
Take some magician wax and put it behind your ear. Have a card selected 

and replaced and spread the deck out on a table. 
Place your finger in your ear at the same time get some magician wax on 

it. Show the wax on you finger to the audience and then flick it towards 

the cards having it land on the selected card. Needs practice 
 

Effect 2 
 

Get some yellow ink and write “ace of Diamonds” in a diaper and when it 

dries put the diaper on a baby. Force the ace of diamonds and tell everyone 
you taught the baby a trick, remove diaper. Also works with brown ink 

 
Effect 3 

 

Have a card selected and replaced. Spread the cards out on a table and 
stand back and spit up into the air. Have the spit land on the selected card. 

To make the trick grosser, chew up some green gummy bears until they 
are just little bits. Then make the sound in your throat like you are 

sucking snot into your throat and then spit. Very colorful. For the talented 

and those with bad colds you can do it without the gummy bear for the 
green. 

 
Effect 4 

 
Tie a string around each finger and place your hands behind your back. 

Have someone secretly point to a finger and bring your hands back to the 

front. Wait a moment and the finger that was selected is the only one that 
doesn’t turn blue. You have to come up with your own method for this. My 

contribution is the routine only. 
 

 

Tarquin Churchwell 
June 13, 2004