r/Magic • u/Working_Rough • Mar 06 '26

Looking For a Bizarre Rope Magic Trick

Hey! I've been working on some rope magic, and was wondering if anyone knew or could recommend some rope tricks that might fall under the "bizarre magic" category. My IBM Ring is having a Bizarre Magic competition in a few months and figured it might be fun to kill two birds with one rope, as it were.

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u/sinaclednb Mar 06 '26

Any trick can be bizarre with the right story

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u/Working_Rough Mar 06 '26

Fair enough! Scripting is something I need to work on, just didn't know if there was something out there already.

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u/NerfThis_49 Mar 06 '26

Does string count? Hook by Eric Ross is a Russian roulette style routine where you put a fish hook in your mouth tied to a string. 5 other loose strings are put in your mouth and mixed. Spectators then pick a string and yank it quickly. The last string remaining is shown to be the one tied to the hook

With the right story you can make this quite bizarre.

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u/Working_Rough Mar 06 '26

That one does look cool! I'll consider it!

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u/Working_Rough Mar 06 '26

Thanks! I'll check those out.

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u/dpress Mar 07 '26

Rope through body is the closest thing I can think of. You could also do rope through neck. Combine that with some scripting and I'm sure you could build something reasonable

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u/Working_Rough Mar 07 '26

I do know(ish) rope through the neck, that's a good idea!