We've all performed Sucker Sliding Die tricks where the audience yells out where the die is, as soon as it's disappeared. If it's not in the box it must be in the hat. It's anti-climatic to reproduce the die. There's no mystery when kids yell out the location before you reproduce it. What do you do?

I've discovered when you make the first "Clunk" or sucker move & immediately insist that the die is not in the box but in the hat you'll make your performance much stronger because the audience will insist that the die is still in the box. They think you are misleading them. You will allow them to convince themselves that the hat is empty.

They convince themselves the die is still in the box because they hear it. So if the audience is convinced the die is still in the box, you elevate a meer trick to a profound mystery when you produce it from the hat,

The second advantage is obvious when you throw the doors on the Die Box open. The audience is not generally eager to blurt out "It's in the hat" because they were just yelling out that it was in the box. Causing them to verbally commit to the die being in the box generates conflict when you prove them wrong. They can not switch assumptions as easily and yell out "They knew it was in the hat the whole time".

The mystery becomes HOW you did it, Not that they figured out the ending and beat you to it.

By answering objections before the audience raises them, the smart performer becomes even smarter. Even though many kids show performers don't fully appreciate mentalism and mentalists, it would be a smart idea to learn a little style of that form of presentation. Almost everything a mentalist does serves the purpose of leading the audience down a path, disproving any possibility that he is cheating, yet cheating he does. Think about it.

I want the audience to look magicians and clowns as artists and appreciate them an entertainers, don't you? Try my perfromance stratagy and let me know if it works for you.