Vintage Deception Wood Die Box *PREOWNED*

The classic design Sucker Die Box- with an added twist!

What's a Sucker Die Box?
It's a trick where you "sucker" your audience into thinking they know how you did it- right up to the surprise ending!

HERE IS THE CLASSIC ROUTINE FOR THE DIE BOX:
Start by placing an empty hat or other container on your table.
Show your audience a die and a nice wooden box.
As you open all the doors, your spectators can see that the box is really empty!

Now you place the die into the left compartment and close the doors.
Tell your audience that the block has "disappeared" and tilt the box to one side.
But of course your audience can hear the die just sliding over into the right compartment!
You open the left hand door to "prove" the block is gone.
Of course, they tell you that the die just slid over into the other compartment!

So you close the door, tilt the box so the audience hears the die slide to the left compartment, and again tell them that the block is gone, opening the right side door this time.
The audience will be very eager to tell you that the die has just slid over to the left- it has not really disappeared. Or so they think!

And here is where the magic happens!
This time, you open the right side AND the left side doors at the same time- and the die is indeed gone!

And THEN you reach into the hat that was sitting on your table all along- and the die is in the hat!

THIS IS WHAT MAKES THIS DIE BOX SO CLEVERLY DIFFERENT:
The die box has a fake flap on the left door.
This allows you to turn the flap on the door to release the flap so that it creates the illusion that the full die is still in the box.
This allows for the movement of the die to the right side, yet opening the flap so that it seems that the die is still on the left side.

Box is made of dark (mahogany?) wood, nicely finished.
Box is about 8" x 4" x 4".
The sliding gimmick is nice and loud!
Circa 1970s.