But the Linking Rings effect is not the only thing rings have to offer. There are wonderful routines with fingerrings and routines with one ring and a piece of rope or ribbon where the ring links and unlinks in surprising and magical ways from a rope or ribbon.
related categories: Ropes, Strings & Ribbons
In the classic presentations of this popular illusion, solid metal rings appear to magically link, unlink, and penetrate one another to create different formations and chains. Most linking ring routines are suitable for both intimate and stage settings and generally include handing out rings for examination to demonstrate the impossibility of the effect. The visual and auditory elements in the handling of the rings enhance the mystery and help move the audience to surrender their initial suspicions and simply enjoy the spectacle of rings in motion. Daryl's particular treatment of the Linking...
If you use children as volunteers, this routine will have your audience in stitches! Adds new life to the classic linking rings, which most every magician already owns. No difficult moves or designs, just lots of laughs. Rave reviews from those who've seen it performed.
"Gene Gordon's original comedy routine with the linking rings is a riot, to state it mildly." - Frank E. Cole
"Gene's Comedy Linking Ring Routine, in which he tries to teach two youngsters how to do the Linking Rings, is one of the best, and funniest, presentations available." - Milbourne Christopher
Routine...
A finger ring is borrowed from a spectator and placed under a handkerchief, where it is held by a second onlooker.
The performer removes a reading glasses case from his pocket and extracts his glasses from inside, the case itself being examined. The glasses are then dropped back inside, and the spectator holds the case up in view.
Reaching across to the handkerchief, the magician suddenly pulls it from the helper's hands, and instantly the borrowed ring disappears.
The assistant holding the glasses case now reaches inside and slides the spectacles out to reveal the ring hanging on...
A blending of Celtic myth, Irish charm/blarney and innovative effects.
This is a unique Linking Rings routine designed for a small venue or table-hopping where the audience is often unknown. While it can be a stand-alone presentation, it can easily compliment your favorite Ninja, O'Ring, Melero, 4X4 rings or others routine with 4-5" rings. What makes this different?
Truly the most perfect, most baffling routines ever created for the famous, mechanical piece of magic known as the Jardine Ellis Ring. Only once in a lifetime does such perfect routining turn up. Leo Horowitz (Mohammed Bey) spent 30 years in perfecting these presentations. Breathtaking, smooth routines that leave an audience completely bewildered and entertained. Every move is perfectly described.
Jardine Ellis ring not supplied. You likely already have a Jardine Ellis ring in your magic tricks stash.
Now you can put this fine effect to work for you and entertain as never before possible. ...
Finger ring and rope
A borrowed ring is magically removed from one of several loops of rope and replaced on a different loop.
1st edition 1978, 6 pages.
A prelude mode presentation for close-up or parlor using only three rings. The storyline is Irish lore and the importance of the Glover related to the elements of being, luck and magic. Unique link/unlinks from a clover display only but two-ring effects can be added. Employs reverse rings, gapless, webring, fan pattern techniques, sway methods and a holy grail finale. Here alternative final phase sequences are also provided for “less than optimum” conditions. All rings are handed out with some m-powerment and links in spectator hands. Requires a jacket or Z-packet and waistful techniques...
An exploration into the innovative logic, framing, moves, sleights and stratagems and charming myths or storylines of the Ancient Rings Series.
This series offers a completely different approach to using rings in magic effects. Forget "Chinese" as a storyline. Get beyond "linking" to "bonding, "intertwine," "merge" and more, with new moves, sleights, stratagems and audience engagement possibilities.
The routines can be "stand-alone," a segue to your favorite effects, or mixed. This ebook will allow you to decide where and if to get involved in innovative and different methods that can...
There are many ring and rope routines in print and there are a whole host of ingenious moves which a performer can use. But if we are honest with ourselves, how many of these routines can really be said to be entertaining to a lay audience? Often the presentation is all but forgotten and so the routine becomes simply an exhibition of clever handling and little more.
I wanted to find a way of involving an audience in a ring and rope routine so that it would leave them entertained as well as fooled, and The Ring Competition is the answer I came up with. One of the great assets of this presentation...
Ring effects are visual and beautiful. Introducing an ultra-visual illusion. The finger ring jumps from finger to finger as if it were alive. The effect that deceived hundreds of spectators and magicians will always be at your fingertips.
Supplies may need to be purchased to perform this effect but many magicians will have everything at home. There is no construction or arts and crafts necessary, it is as simple as putting the necessary items together.
1st edition 2023, video 5:56.
The apparatus for this classic item comprises a solid ring and a nesting half-shell. These are not included with this ebook but you may already own the gimmick, or you can readily purchase it at any well-stocked magic shop.
Please note that Goutam is left-handed, and his descriptions and photos of the routines are based on his handling.
No one knows the originator of this mysterious effect. Linking Rings were introduced into Europe about a century ago by a troupe of Chinese Magicians, and have been named the "Chinese Linking Rings" ever since.
The basic effect is that a number of solid metal rings that have been examined by the audience magically link and un-link at the magicians' command. The rings are linked into chains and designs comprising of two to eight rings. The effect is capable of infinite variations, and the routine can be as short or long as you like. It can be performed silently to music, or with a patter...
An innovative approach for Linking Rings to enhance popular sleights and moves, and increase astonishment and attention while masking actual ring relationships. No gimmicks or unnatural moves. Moves, sleights and stratagems adapted from the Primal Rings eBook, and utilized in many Linking Rings and Ring on Rope routines found in the F.U.N. Ring Series.
Dozens of techniques and sleight series that can be used by all Linking Rings routines and sets. The focus is the patterns formed by the shiny metal rings that allow for a combination of psychological ploys to embellish, enhance or add flair to your favorite...
A novel blending of Linking Rings and Ring on Rope Magic during a demonstration of ancient marriage rites. This is not just a series of intriguing illusions, but an immersion to ancient betrothal rituals where magic and myth were alive and natural.
Three Routines:
Moves, sleights and stratagems adapted from the Primal Rings eBook. This is designed for an engagement party with lost of audience involvement with special attention for the special couple. Effects occur in their hands and because of their betrothal commitments. It is story...
A Linking Rings enhancement module for any set or routine (4"-12"). Can be used in a traditional approach starting with separate rings, or with Reverse Rings and the four linked at the start - or in the middle somewhere.
This can replace the standard Odin Count to show the four rings to be separate, with the added astonishment of penetrating the rope. With Reverse Rings, each ring penetrates both the other rings and the rope.
A set of four metal rings are displayed tied together with a double looped length of cord or ribbon tied in a bow. This cord is untied with a demonstration of the secure binding....
A unique method of unlinking a chain of four metal rings based on audience choices and engagement that provides patterns for future deception, and acquitment for previous sleights.
This is a performance module and not a full effect/presentation, that can be used with any linking ring routine. It is an extraction from the Primal Rings ebook that contains the development logic and credits. This module uses a standard 4-ring set of metal 4-8" rings with several recommended modifications.
A dangled chain of four metal rings is gathered into a fan display from which a single, spectator chosen ring is...
A revolutionary approach to presenting Linking Rings.
This is the master guide for the F.U.N. Rings Series of ebooks and contains the history, logic, and credits for the many new moves, sleights and stratagems related to Reverse Rings, Ends Myth, OPS Magic and Web Rings Subtlety.
The essential sleight sequences for each module are explained with sequential photos, while the individual theme ebooks may contain additional verbal scripts and audience engagement tips.
Legacy Rings, 4X4 Rings, Rings of Troth, Vulcan Rings, Web Ring Subtlety, ILYMagic and OPS Magic, plus Cross Lock, NIDO Rings, Ring Bind, Ring Proof...
A short routine using four metal rings based on unique methods and sleights from the Primal Rings ebook.
Learn Four Choice, Double Out, Twice Removed, Slack Switch all with reverse ring framing and Web Ring subtlety, but without the development logic. This module uses a standard 4-ring set of metal 4-6" rings with several recommended modifications.
A dangled chain of four metal rings is gathered into a fan display from which a single, spectator chosen ring is extracted. Then the other three rings are removed one-by-one, leading to a series of link-unlink demonstrations in the hands of a spectator. Finally,...
A novel and powerful ring on rope effect. The cord is woven about your spread fingers to form an impassible gate with a loop beneath. The ends are far from the metal ring, yet it visually jumps onto the loop.
No gimmick or unnatural moves. Opportunities for audience participation and you can be completely surrounded.
Idea for when a ring & rope effect is added to a linking rings routine, cut and restored rope or stand-alone for walk-around or table hopping as a prelude to a later routine.
However, this effect is so impossible in comparison with many simpler ring on rope effects to...
This is a performance module as a different way of revealing that the double rings are magically linked, plus a bonus of the Four Choice module.
Double Out is an enhancement strategy that works on several levels of perception and memory:
A linking rings enhancement module as a substitute for the traditional false count of four rings. (Odin Count)
NIDO = (Neat-Oh) as Odin spelled backwards. A very visual and casual series of actions that verifies that the four rings are separate. It was primarily designed for smaller ring sets, not a 12-inch sized set. Its advantages include:
A 'walk-around' style three-phase magic routine using a handkerchief and borrowed finger ring, with progressing mystery and astonishment.
Use most any pocket kerchief, napkin, scarf, etc. and a simple finger ring. No gimmicks, attachments or duplicates. A truly impromptu presentation using found objects that can segue into other magic effects.
The ring penetrates the cloth material in three different ways of increasing impossibility and visual impact. The observers are drawn in to anticipate magic to occur, and you then exceed those expectations and hopes.
Moderate finger dexterity...
Circlet looks like trick videography but it is not. It is a quick, visual, impromptu miracle that you can do right before their eyes. You pull off your finger ring, toss it back towards your other hand and it visibly appears back on your finger. The ring can be checked before and after and is totally ungimmicked.
1st edition 2021, video 9 min 51 sec.
A clever, clean and visual sleight-of-hand disappearance of a finger-ring. A technique with which you can make a ring disappear or you can turn it into a coin. You will need a little practice, but it's worth it.
BONUS EFFECT: Put the ring on the table, cover it with a card and it disappears.
1st edition 2020, length 5:42.
From the Foreword by Peter Warlock:
It is with a great deal of pleasure that I write this foreword to my friend Hans Trixer's book on 'ring' magic, for in it the reader is presented with a number of most effective tricks, all of which are free from the suggestion of special apparatus. Every effect shows a naturalness of handling that comes from the mind of a natural magician.
Hans, through his many contributions to magazines is already well known to magicians in this and other countries. His penchant is for the smaller type of magic, and amongst the group in Holland which devotes much of its time to...
A multi-phase ring and rope routine using only a regular rope and ring.
Most ring and rope routines don't really look like magic. They look like the rope is looped and threaded and re-threaded, and otherwise fiddled with to account for the "magic". Not this routine. Simple. Easy to perform. Almost surrounded. No gimmicks, no gaffs. Everything's examinable, and nothing is added or taken away. A rope - and a ring. And a killer script.
The author of How To Write A Script reveals his 'Ring and Rope' routine, which he has used to close his act, and is nothing but visual, clean...
You use a trio of three inch craft store hoops in an up-to-date routine that takes less than thirty seconds to perform. By resisting the temptation to overdo this classic you will surprise audiences with a modern day upgrade. Includes a tutorial video.
1st edition 2019, video length 47s
1st edition 1931, 68 pages; digital edition 2018, 73 pages.
A complete text on methods, mechanical devices, moves, techniques, figures, artifices, routines, etc., for performing one of the great classics in the repertoire of magic. It includes modern improvements, suggestions and ideas, together with routines eliminating the use of the key.
Paul Fleming wrote:
Once Dariel Fitzkee has determined to track down a magic trick or a principle of conjuring, there is virtually no stopping him until he has exhausted his subject; and the poor quarry has little chance of escaping its pursuer and the searching inquiry which will pierce its innermost...
A routine, script, and performance video of the Linking Rings that restores the mystery and magic to this classic trick while still being entertaining. All of the rings are examined! Includes a performance video.
1st edition 2018, PDF 48 pages, performance video 4 min 35s.
Routines with the Himber type linking finger ring.
1st digital edition 2018, 19 pages.
Imagine borrowing a ring and causing it to rise all the way and stand by itself in your hand. Now imagine doing it without using any threads, magnets, elastics, rubber-bands and electronics. With Surp'Rise you can achieve this. You literally "Breath Life Into the Ring".
Here is What happens:
Borrow a ring and place it in your hand. Tell that you are going to breath life into it. Now blow on it and cause it to rise all the way until it stands.
Consider this:
These are the instructions Martin Breese supplied with the Flying Ring trick. This routine can also be found in Al Koran’s Professional Presentation book.
1st edition 2009, 3 pages.
Professional methods for performing the Linking Rings. This routine has dozens of clear Nelson Hahne drawings, plus good text. A feature of the routine is that it teaches you how to make objects like a chair, flower, butterfly, purse, globe, etc. etc. These are sure applause getters. Also includes some great sucker gags, and other professional touches you can find nowhere else.
PDF 27 pages
The removal of a solid ring from the center of a piece of string in a most deceptive manner. Simple to execute, a quick presentation, and can be done surrounded.
There has been much controversy over the creation of this brilliant effect. Harvey Rosenthal, Ray Grismer, among others, claimed to be the inventor. Whoever it was, it stands as a modern-day classic. Brick Tilley teaches the version he has been doing for decades.
1st edition 2017, 4 pages.
Please note that this video is in Vietnamese. There are some English subtitles, but for the most part you will get the instructions of how to make the gimmick and how to perform with it from the visual contents of the video.
Demo video for the effects you can achieve is below. The gimmick should not be a surprise for anybody knowledgeable in magic. The primary value of this video is to see how you can make the gimmick very easily yourself and various ideas for performing with it.
1st edition 2016, length 26 minutes.
An amazing three part routine with a simple piece of rope and a borrowed ring.
The routine is in three parts. In Part I, a borrowed signet-ring is threaded on a rope, then penetrates it. Part II sees the ring again threaded and also knotted on the rope. Nevertheless, the ring visibly dissolves through leaving just the knot. In Part III the ring is threaded and knotted on the rope then a handkerchief is wrapped round it and the whole thing is held by a spectator. When instructed, he allows the handkerchief to drop to the floor to disclose an 'empty' rope; no ring ... not even a knot.
Since...
The Best Nest - Scott's Borrowed Ring in Nest of Boxes routine is an absolute treasure! One of his pet performance pieces, you can use the routine with virtually any existing marketed set, or make up the DIY set as Scott explains, and save hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars. Scott has honed this routine over decades of performances, and it shows. Every little detail and nuance is given, along with subtleties and convincers that you won't find anywhere else, including a really easy and really sneaky way of making the audience believe the nest of boxes has been freely and completely displayed...
Harlan Tarbell said to this publication: "The greatest work ever published on Linking Rings." Jack's long cherished secrets are yours in his ring through ring, ring through arms, special three-ring routine, a.s.o.
On top of the linking ring instructions Jack Miller also shares with you a separate chapter on ring and rope penetrations. These latter methods are so ingenious and puzzling as to seem uncanny, and are rarely seen performed.
1st edition 1945, 32 pages; 1st digital edition 2016, 30 pages.
Magic literature contains a myriad of methods for doing ring on string effects. Many of these involve clever sleights or duplicate rings. The cool thing about this method is that it does not use any gimmicked cord, duplicate rings or any type of sleights. It can even be done with a borrowed ring. The incredible thing about this method is that it is done under test conditions with your wrists tied behind your back!
The performer's wrists are tied behind his back using an examined three-foot piece of string or cord. The ends of the cord are tied to each of the performer's wrists. A spectator...
With the help of two volunteers from the audience the magician attempts to demonstrate how to juggle with large metal rings. But, before he even starts the rings start linking mysteriously. Involving the volunteers throughout, the rings keep joining onto one another until the hapless entertainer has to eventually give up as the rings have now been made into one long chain.
Yes, you've guessed it - it's a linking ring routine.
After getting a set of eight linking rings Steve was surprised at the number of routines that do not use eight! So, wanting to get his money's worth he decided...
Ring Tricks 2.0 is the ultimate in impromptu magic using an ordinary borrowed finger-ring. First, see the various routines several times in different places to different people, all with their own unique endings. Then watch a full explanation explaining all the effects in details.
This 2.0 version features over 30 effects including an entire new routine, new endings and effects with a ring. With a running time of over two hours, this really is the most in-depth look at tricks that can be performed with an ordinary finger ring.
Chapters:
This profusely illustrated booklet. with 66 nice clear drawings, teaches you a complete and seemingly impossible rope and ring routine from Rink. The name of Rink of Holland is tied to many wonderful tricks and routines.
This Ganson description is, as always, a masterpiece and tells all you need to know to fool your audience with a simple piece of rope (with a little preparation) and a ring.
From the introduction
This series of penetrations was built up over a long period of time. The main theme is the linking and unlinking of a solid ring onto a piece of rope, the ends of which have...
Once upon a time I saw a magician do a routine with three ropes hanging from a stick. At the end of one rope there was a silk. He made the silk to magically jump between the ropes. This was amazing. I wanted to do this, but how? Then I invented this routine that's very impressive. Charles Bertram's old routine "Here, There and Everywhere" has the same effect but the method is very different, my method has the big advantage that you can let the spectator check the rope and knots out before the magic happens! Which makes this an impossible illusion. One nice aspect of Jump-O-Ring is that you can...
