Sensational Blocks

A Trick with an interesting history and an interesting series of effects! Invented at the beginning of the 20th Century it developed to a fireworks of effects, amazement, excitement and entertainment at its finest. An important improvement was published in a magic magazine of the German Democratic Republic in the 1960s. That improvement means, that the order of numbers, freely selected by the audience, is written with chalk at the outside of the tube – and the cubes arrange exact in that order! You present a column of cubes which are marked with the numbers 1 to 4. The number 4 is at the bottom, followed by the number 3, the number 2, and the number 1 on top. You cover the stack of cubes with the tube, lift off the tube and show, that the cubes are arranged with the number 1 at the bottom, the number 4 on top. You repeat that amazing effect several times, the number changes places, turn from the front to the back, with the even or uneven number towards the audience and at the end you