Yesterday I performed 1 and half hour straight at a wedding. Unfortunately it was a standing recepiton before the actual dinner, so no tables for my cups and balls and other effects. So today I wonder what would be the absolute best standing up magic items to perform for an ADULT AUDIENCE (not children). My 5 best pieces are below, let me hear about yours so I can get inspired to buy some new tricks. I'm especially interested in non-card tricks.

1. Above, beside, below (coins a cross to spectators hands, Paul Green/Larry jennings)
2. Card Warp (Roy Walton)
3. Card to pocket (Jay Sanket style), or card to Mullica wallet (Tom Mullica, - Eugene Burger style).
4. The proffessors rope symphony (by Joachim Solbjerg)
5. Ring and ribbon symphony (Jay Scott Berry, and some moves from "Ring leader" by Gregory Wilson).

Others: Ambitious Card, Sponge balls, Invisible deck, Color Monte.

Remember standing up situation (no tables) and an adult audience. Your best 5 pieces, and feel free to write the name of the creator of the trick also.


Regards

Jan Vraagaard

Five interactive, non-card effects.

1. Current Classic - Carney - sponges.
2. Gold and Lace - My own - finger ring on/off shoelace.
3. Winged Silver - Roth - coins.
4. Ghost Bills - Andrew Mayne - commercial effect.
5. Traveling Cash - Dan Harlan - Bill and elastic bands.

1. Holey Moley (Jay Sankey)
2. Color Changing Knives
3. It's the Rules(A variation of the Sack's dice routine) (Bob Sheets)
4. Coins across in the spectators hands
5. Rubber band magic

Bonus: Hit and run card Trick: Pyroperception

Michael

1.mr clean coin's across by jay sankey
2.crazy man's handcuff's
3.holey moley by jay sankey
4.dr daley's last trick
5.stickman stan my own stickman card effect

Silk knots routine
CMH
Ring and String routine
Borrowed Coin in Watch
Dishonest Abe

I'll start again paddle
C/S in spectator's hand
Card on Forehead
2 in hand one in pocket either with dice or nuts/bolts ala Doc Eason
CMH

Dishonest Abe seems like a good idea. I have yet to acquire it, however.
I stopped doing Slydini silks because I just have not thought of a suitable ending.

Since I started using a pouch to carry small items, it allows me a few more things that I might not be able to otherwise, such as ...
Bill-oon
Ninja Rings
Coins Thru Silk

I carry cards and spongeballs as well. That makes 5.

So, when I am standing amongst standing people, I'd probably do:

-Ambitious card
-Twisting the aces/Dr Daley's last trick (using the breast pocket to put the aces)
-Sack's spotted sorcery (dice)
-Charming chinese challenge (Hooser)
-No-smoking (a paddle-lighter routine)
(- coin across into spec's hand)

Jonathan.

It's hard to say what my top 5 are but if I had to choose from audience reation they would be:
Ambitious card to wallet
Sponge balls/rabbits
Bannon's Stranger's Gallery
coins across or one coin routine
rubberband routine
also, a multiple selection routine

Ok you can beat with a Expanded shell if you like but how do you do a coins across standing up with out a table ??

You put the coins in your left hand and one at a time they travel to your right hand - no table necessary. If you want to take the coins from your right hand and put them somewhere else, and you don't have a table, ask a spectator to hold them for a moment. If you have neither a table nor a spectator, don't bother doing coins across.

Mine:

Coins Across (two variations)
Professor's Nightmare
Stabbed Coincidence
Number 2 Pencil
Crazy Man's Handcuffs
(also, Expansion of Texture / Copper Penetration)

B'wave, crazy man's handcuffs combined with ring on band, signed ambitious card climaxing with card to wallet.

THanks S2000 .I am just learning David Roth's Coins across and he use a table in the video and I am trying to picture doing that standing up ...

One of the variations I do is based on Roth's routine. Good luck. Learn it well.

Rubberband routine (parts or all of it) includes CMH, Travelling Cash, Band Thru Thumb and Ring That Goes Up.
Sponge balls
Fl!p Stick
Holey Moley
Card to Forehead with card change kicker finish

Substitutions can occur and include: Ambitious Card routine, Fl!p St!ck, Ring on Wand, Kathy's Screwy Finger Bit and 1 coin fluuyesque routine.

I always play to the responses of the audience, so I substitute some material for others, depending on how the crowd reacts.

Lee Darrow, C.H.

1. Sponge Balls
2. Chop Cup (In spectator's hands)
3. Crazy Man's Handcuffs
4. Pinnacle
5. Card Warp
6. Ambitious Card
7. BKM Card to Wallet
8. Coins Across
9. Pencil Thru Half
10. Misled
11. Bill Switch
12. Floating Bill (LeClair)
13. Professor's Nightmare
14. Cut & Restored Rope
15. Ninja Rings

Card Warp
Color Monte
BIP Book - alakazam.co.uk
8 Card Brainwave
Royal Oil
Any key card location trick - see Royal Road

1. Invisible Deck
2. B'Wave
3. Crazy Man's Handcuffs
4. Coins Across
5. Ambitious Card Trick
6. Professor's Nightmare

Greg Wilson's 3/4 Across
Red Hot Mama
Card Warp
Marked for Life
Hopping Halves

Extroydinary
I'll start again
Fiber Optics (rope trick)
Presto Chango
Nest of boxes (if the nest of boxes is held by a spec)
or even Coin in bottle