Split Die Box by Mr. Magic

A TRUE CLASSIC OF MAGIC THAT DELIGHTED THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD FOR 100 YEARS!

AN IMPROVED VERSION THAT ALLOWS YOU TO DO AN ADDITIONAL EFFECT

DESCRIPTION OF THE FULL EFFECT, STEP BY STEP:

The performer introduces an empty hat and a solid die that looks like a children's toy. Both can be examined by the audience. (A different type of container may of course be used instead of a hat).

Next, the performer displays a special "double compartment box", completely empty, with cut out windows on the front, and loose sliding shutters and hinged doors at top (actually there are two boxes side by side on a common base). Check the picture to see the beautiful box.

Now the fun begins. The die is taken from the hat and placed in one of the boxes, and the doors closed. The audience is asked to remember where the die is. The set of boxes is tilted, and the front and top doors to that box are opened. The die is seen to have "vanished".

The audience is obviously not impressed, because they have heard the die slide to the opposite box. They ask the magician to open the doors to the other box. The magician closes the door to the first box, then tilts the box (the audience can hear the die sliding over), and again opens the doors to the adjacent box, showing that it's "empty".

This business of sliding the die from one compartment to the other is repeated, till the audience is howling for all the doors of both boxes to be opened.

Now, the NEW UPDATED phase is performed. The performer takes one closed box from the base and places at a distance. Shows that the die is in that box by opening the front door. Makes a throwing motion and instantly shows that the die has vanished. He opens the other box and the die is there. An incredible hands-off transposition.

This can be repeated for a few times, having the die travel back and forth from one box to the other.

Finally, the magician opens all doors of both boxes, and proves that the die has in fact completely vanished.

The solid die is now found in the hat, and both die and hat can be examined.