Slithers (Snake in Sack) by Dick Barry

Effect: Show a small red bag and claim that it contains a little snake that you have trained to do a trick. However, before he performs he likes to be given a little snack! We all know that a mouse is a snake’s favorite dish. State that you have several mice! Reach into the bag and bring out 7 cards. The cards have a snake pictured on the fronts and DIFFERENT-COLORED COMPUTER MICE on the backs. Your snake “Slithers” is not an ordinary snake, he likes computer mice instead of real ones. The cards are shuffled and spread COLORED MICE SIDE DOWN.

A spectator FREELY removes one card from the fan. The color of the mouse card is remembered and then placed back into the packet of cards. Only the spectator knows the color of the mouse. The cards are then placed in a row on a table top, overlapping each other slightly. You now remove “Sllthers” the snake from the bag. He is placed at the head of the row of cards and released. He slithers (hence his name) down the row of cards and suddenly STOPS on one card. The card is turned over and shown to be the spectator’s selected card. Both you and “Slithers” get a well deserved ovation.

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