[Magic] Easy-to-enjoy trick using string figures (Ayatori)

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I’m going to show you a mysterious trick where the cat’s cradle string forms a ring like a tunnel, and something slips right through the string! First, with the cat’s cradle on your hands, use your middle finger to pick up the near thumb string from underneath.

Rotate the middle-finger loop a half turn toward you, then use your thumb to pick up the string in front of the middle finger to make the Navajo ready position.

Next, release your little fingers and pull to the sides.

Release your middle fingers, then with your little fingers, copy the near thumb string from underneath.

With your thumbs, pick up from underneath the near little-finger string and the near index-finger string to form the Caroline extension.

Have someone else insert a stick sideways through the two center loops, pinch the front edge of the loops, and pull the string toward you.

It warps in an instant!

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Ayatori Magic: “Middle Finger Pull-Out” Easy Method – Easy Cat’s Cradle/String Figure (The Way of Middle Finger Magic)

It’s a magic trick where the string slips right off your middle finger! First, loop the cat’s cradle string over the middle finger of your left hand.

Insert your right index finger from above into the loop and pinch the middle of the string firmly.

Then twist your right hand to the left to cross the strings and make an X.

Turn your left hand so the back of the hand faces up, and while doing so, insert the left middle finger from the back-of-the-hand side into the triangular gap beneath the X on your right hand.

Be careful not to let the string on your right hand twist.

Remove the string hooked on your left thumb with your right hand, and hold it between the left index and middle fingers.

Finally, pull the loose end of the string, and the cat’s cradle will slip off your left hand!

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Fingerless gloves (both hands)

Ayatori “Both-Hands Finger Pull” Easy Magic Trick How-To | String Figure Magic #3 [Koromaro Ayatori]

A cat’s cradle is wrapped neatly and evenly around both hands’ fingers, but by simply removing the loop from the thumbs, the string slips right off both hands! This “both-hands finger escape” looks tricky, but it’s a very easy magic trick that even small children can learn with a little practice.

All you do is place the string over your thumbs, pull the string from the back of the hand through the space between the thumb and index finger, twist it, and loop it over the index finger.

Then repeat the same for the other fingers.

For small children, an adult can set it up for them.

The key is to use a slightly longer string.

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Teleportation of knots

Ayatori (String Figures): Try the “Moving Knot (Magic)”! <Indoor Play / Traditional Play>

This is a fun magic trick where the knot in a string figure seems to move! It’s very simple, and even young children can do it once they learn how to hold the string.

First, prepare one string for cat’s cradle and place it on the table in a horizontal oval.

Hold the lower-left part of the string with your left hand and move it to the upper right.

This will create two loops, one on top and one on the bottom.

Put your index fingers into the top loop and your thumbs into the bottom loop, holding the string with both hands.

Now you’re ready.

If you repeatedly touch and separate your thumbs and index fingers alternately left and right, it will look like the knot is moving!

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Continuous Wire Casting

Ayatori Magic: Continuous String Transfer – Easy Method | Easy Cat’s Cradle / String Figure (How to do string magic)

It’s a magic trick where a string moves from one finger to another.

First, loop the string over your index finger like in cat’s cradle.

Cross the right string over the left to make an X, and without changing that position, pass the string between your index and middle fingers.

A loop will form on the back of your hand.

Put the index and middle fingers of your left hand into that loop and pull the string toward you; the string that was on your index finger will move to your middle finger.

Repeat these steps to keep moving the string along.

The key point is to perform the steps without changing the string’s position after you make the X.

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