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A few months ago, I introduced you to Terry Broshears hand-made color changing knives. Many of you picked up the Hot Rod Knives, and the many variations of the standard and stag knives.

Last week I mentioned that there are three coins across routines using a shell that are far better than all the others (my opinion).

One of the things that always bothered me was the designs used for the “Chinese Coins” in magic. Very often the Chinese characters on the coins spelled silly words, many of the coins had reverse images on them, the enamel colors on them made them look like toys, and I always felt guilty calling them Chinese coins.

I decided to incorporate the instructions to those Gaffed Put & Take tops here and show how the seemingly same prop can be used in a slightly different game.

I recently came across a toy I never knew existed. It is a spinning top with numbers one through six on top. The neat thing is that by holding the Top with the number facing down and pressing the bottom it locks that number into place and when you spin the top it lands with that number down.

A few weeks ago I got a copy of the massive new edition (2019 Revised Edition) of Al The Only’s “The Magic Graveyard: The stories and secrets of the magicians resting in a small-town cemetery… and why they’re buried there!”

For many years I used to buy unique keys at antique stores and fairs for the magical classic where you put the key on your hand and it eerily moves by itself.

I have gotten many emails and messages over the past few months about when I will be getting another shipment of Nick Diffatte’s book Funny.

I wrote an entire newsletter explaining why this one was skipped because the electric company kept delaying when I will get my service back, but the good news is that everything is now back to normal (except my refrigerator, which is almost empty after throwing away all the spoiled food).

Is a forced vacation still a vacation? I lost power on Tuesday around noon because of the rain and wind that hit New Jersey and the current estimate is to have it back on Friday morning.