340 entries in Rubber Band
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Richard Bartram, Jr. Elashtick when stretched message on rubber band can be read
Related to 1997 86
Jim Ryan Good Night, George! rubber band is slowly moving down into fist
Also published here Sep./Oct. 1997
The Magic Menu (Vol. 8 No. 43)
501
Rainer Pfeiffer Snap-Shot linking rubberbands in the spectator's hands
Variations 1998 20
Helge Thun Double-Bind signed card appears folded in quarters in a box, folded card is wrapped in a rubber band
1998 73
Troy Hooser The Locker Dan Harlan's linking rubber bands, pad lock appears linked with the bands as a climax
Inspired by 1998 1395
Joshua Jay Watch This! rubber band visibly linked onto watchband
Also published here 1998 57
Tony Slydini Linking Rubber Band Mystery crazy man's handcuffs
  • Phase 1 - The Invisible Release
  • Phase 2 - They're Never Inside
  • Phase 3 - Crisscross Transformation
  • Phase 4 - The Instant Escape
  • Phase 5 - Applause - Applause
  • Slydini's Additional Pointers
1998 6
Tony Slydini Tortilla - The Magnifico Flea one rubber band lies on strands of another that is pulled tight, it moves upwards by itself
1998 16
Karl Fulves Ghost Goblet "Short Takes"
glass goblet on table upside down, rubber band around bottom, spectator puts finger on top and closes eyes, rubber band frees from spectator's finger and is around performer's
Related to 1998 230
Kirk Charles The Business Card and Rubber Band Trick business card with hole and rubberband, penetration à la Crazy Man's Handcuffs
Sep./Oct. 1998
The Magic Menu (Vol. 9 No. 49)
572
Joshua Jay Watch This Rubberband visibly linked onto watchband
Also published here 1999 125
Karl Fulves Bandido "Unsolved Mysteries"
rubber band around styrofoam cup moves up and down by itself, posed as a problem
1999
The Fine Print (Issue 10)
331
Jay Sankey The Homing Band rubber band removed from around deck of cards, shot upwards and becomes invisible, found back around deck on table
Also published here June 1999
Genii (Vol. 62 No. 6)
31
Jay Sankey Sure-Shot Vanish
Also published here June 1999
Genii (Vol. 62 No. 6)
31
Nathan Kranzo Invisible Elasticity Invisible rubberband suddenly appears wrapped around deck, selection penetrates deck and rubberband
Variations 1999 135
Sylvain Mirouf Two-To-One Link center strands of two bands between the first and fourth fingers are linked à la Harlan, then one vanishes
Feb. 1999
Magic (Vol. 8 No. 6)
80
David Acer Packs a Wallet!
  • Confessions of a Road Warrior
Rubberband wrapped around wallet vanishes, appears around a credit card inside the wallet
Inspired byAlso published here June 2000
Genii (Vol. 63 No. 6)
56
Mark Mason Together Again reverse penetration than in Crazy Man's Handcuffs
2000 17
Peter Cassiford The Ultimate Link two rubber bands link, fair display and very fair unlink
Jan. 2001
Pabular (Vol. 9 No. 5)
2080
R. Paul Wilson Three bits on the band three ideas for rubber bands
Related to 2001 10
Looy Simonoff, Steven Gregory Honest, A Bionic Linking different method for Crazy Man's Handcuffs
Related toAlso published here Aug. 2001
Magic (Vol. 10 No. 12)
75
Mark Aspiazu The Handcuff Man's Crazy rubber bands link together
Inspired byAlso published here Nov. 2001
Magic (Vol. 11 No. 3)
66
Daniel Garcia Stretch Three phase routine with rubberbands and ring, link and unlink and vanish and appear

  • Rubberbound (page 9)
  • Ringshot (page 11)
  • Ringlink Bros (page 13)
2002 8
Coffee Cup Bet rubber band around wrist and one finger, cup hanged on same finger, rubber band has to be maneuvered into cup, spectator has to close eyes and touch finger
Related to 2002 234
Paul Harris Twisted Topology knot appears in flat rubber band, with Lubor's Lens
July 2003
Genii (Vol. 66 No. 7)
24
Karl Fulves Band o'Notes [G] - Rubber Bands, How Sized chart with sizes
2004 13
Karl Fulves Bandini QD & KD in banded deck, king penetrates rubber band visually together with butter knife, queen pops out
2004 14
Rubber Band Heat rubber band becomes hot when stretched, reprinted from "The Big Stretch" (Ada & Frank Graham, 1985)
2004 59
Karl Fulves Stretching Exercises card location with hidden rubber band in deck, then a rubber band vanishes and reappears in deck around some card and a selection jumps out
2004 68
David Acer Packs a Wallet! Rubberband wrapped around wallet vanishes, appears around a credit card inside the wallet
Inspired byAlso published here 2004 275
Jay Sankey Homing Band rubber band removed from around deck of cards, shot upwards and becomes invisible, found back around deck on table
Also published here 2004 145
Jay Sankey Sure-Shot Vanish
Also published here 2004 145
Karl Fulves Stretching The Truth word written on wide rubber band when stretched is no longer readable when collapsed, instant stooge application
Related to 2005 432
Tomas Blomberg A Band On After doing Penetrating Rubber Bands / Crazy Mans Handcuffs, one of the rubberbands vanishes and appears looped on performer's ear
Inspired by 2006 17
Karl Fulves Auto Kinetic blank cards with street names, spectator writes his street on one, arranged in face-down row on table, ungaffed toy car moves towards spectator's card with rubber band held motionless above
Inspired by
  • "Pendulum" (Bob Ostin, marketed effect)
Related to
2006
Prolix (Issue 1)
1
Karl Fulves Card Kinetic cards in row on table, Ace of Spades next to row, rubber band stretched over it and used to move Ace along row, suddenly it moves towards selection and back and they transpose
Inspired by
  • "Pendulum" (Bob Ostin, marketed effect)
2006
Prolix (Issue 1)
4
Karl Fulves Circle Lift "Unexplained"
one bracelet or ring or rubber band picket up with another one, posed as a problem
2006
Prolix (Issue 2)
110
Michael Powers Routined Rubber one rubber band splits into two, penetration routine, then one vanishes again
2006 223
Matthew Dowden Edible Elastic rubber band is pulled and remains fully stretched suspended, spaghetti
Related to May 2006
Genii (Vol. 69 No. 5)
28
John Bodine Just One Rubber & Get Your Knot Off rubber band torn and knotted, knot pulled off and band is restored
2006 28
Martin Gardner Band Through Hand or string, rubber band penetrates finger and vanishes (if rubber band is used)
Related to 2007
Prolix (Issue 3)
196
David Widener Band Together finger ring on rubber band
  • The Link
  • The Unlink
Inspired by July 2007
Genii (Vol. 70 No. 7)
19
Christian Engblom The End Ending for Harlan's Traveling Cash, Bill penetrates last string too
Inspired by 2007 1
Looy Simonoff, Steven Gregory Honest, a Bionic Linking (and Unlinking) different method for Crazy Man's Handcuffs
Also published here Jan. 2008
Antinomy (Vol. 3 No. 4)
27
Jon Allen True Lies an actually torn rubber band is restored
Also published here 2009 53
Jon Allen E. T. ring on rubber band, rubber band is broken and restored to remove ring
Inspired byAlso published here 2009 55
Jon Allen Burning Rubber routine around Crazy Man's Handcuffs
  • Wrist Band (rubber band penetrates off the performer's wrist)
  • Band-It (Crazy Man's Handcuffs done backwards)
  • Crazy Man's Handcuffs
  • The Finger (spectator holds one of the bands)
  • Snap Back (rubber band jumps onto performer's wrist, flourish)
  • Wristoration (rubber band is torn and restored around the spectator's wrist)
2009 60
Dan Harlan, Jon Allen Wrist Band
Inspired by
  • "Pseudo Wrist Penetration" (Dan Harlan, Magic With Rubber Bands, Vol. 2, 1995)
2009 61
Loren Michaels Band-It Crazy Man's Handcuffs done backwards
Also published here 2009 61
Michael Goldman Snap Back rubber band jumps onto performer's wrist, flourish
Also published here
  • Dan Harlan's Magic With Rubber Bands, Vol. 3, 1995
2009 66
Jon Allen Wristoration rubber band is broken and restored around spectator's wrist
Also published here 2009 66
Jon Allen Helicopter Band one-handed flourish in which rubber band spins around out-stretched first finger
2009 165
Tyler Wilson A.K.A. 47 rubber band and borrowed ring link
Also published here 2010 121
Penetrating Rubber Band Gag through spectator's finger
2010
Secret Agenda (Issue Jan 8)
12
The Psychic Rubber Band prediction written on rubber band
2010
Secret Agenda (Issue Oct 21)
314
Karl Fulves The Band Is Back rubber band vanishes and appears around half the deck, chosen card reversed
2010
Prolix (Issue 7)
488
Michael Weber Inanimate Liar clean vanish
Also published here 2010 5
Michael Weber Inanimate Liar clean vanish
Also published here 2011 5
Bill Bowman, Dai Vernon Clipped! rubber band is linked to safety pins when jumped off bill
Also published here 2011 14
Michael Weber Inanimate Liar clean vanish
Also published here 2011 5
Michael Weber Inanimate Liar clean vanish
Also published here 2012 9
Shane Cobalt The Silly Little Rubber Band Trick Rubberband starts dangling from thumb, with a wave becomes intertwined between the fingers, more of a stunt
2012 25
Charlie Frye Linking Band two heart shaped rubber bands are linked and given away as a souvenir
(PDF bonus effect from July 2012)
Inspired by July 2012
Real Secrets (Vol. 1 No. 4)
1
Jan Logemann Rubber-Behr (Gummi-Behr)
one of two rubber bands vanish, two selections made, rubber band finds first one, banded card then changes into thought-of second one
Inspired by 2013 7
George D. Franzen The Dissolving Rubber Band as climax to Crazy Man's Hand Cuffs, one rubber band used to simulate two
Also published here 2013 7
Tom Gagnon Wristy Penetration
Inspired byAlso published here
  • Mojo, Vol. 1 No. 6
2013 211
Hiroyuki Sakai Hairband Mystery hairband penetrates thumb, more or less classic method with hairband instead of rubber band
2013 28
Michiaki Kishimoto Rubber Band Penetration different handling for Crazy Man's Handcuffs
2013 125
Tomas Blomberg ABandOn after doing Crazy Man´s Handcuffs, one of the bands merges into the other
Related toVariations 2014 22
Tomas Blomberg Magic Lesson six-phase routine where a rubber band and a borrowed ring are linked and unlinked several times. When the ring is going to be handed back to its owner, it changes places with the rubber band
Inspired byRelated to
  • "Pinnacle" (Russ Niedzwiecki DVD, 2005)
Variations
2014 25
Alexander de Cova Haeggis signed card lost in deck, glass covered with tube (ghost tube), silk and rubber bands vanish, tube lifted and folded card traveled into glass with silk over top of glass held with rubber band
Inspired byAlso published here Apr. 2014 564
Michael Weber Inanimate Liar clean vanish
Also published here 2015 11
Tomas Blomberg Stem Spell Research rubber band with signed label through stem of wine glass, repeat
July 2015
Genii (Vol. 78 No. 7)
71
Alexander de Cova Haeggis signed card lost in deck, glass covered with tube (ghost tube), silk and rubber bands vanish, tube lifted and folded card traveled into glass with silk over top of glass held with rubber band
Inspired byAlso published here 2015 33
Henry Harrius Crazyman's Split Spectator and magician hold onto a single rubberband together, a gentle tap splits it into two rubberbands
2016 8
Jack Carpenter One Handed Double Unlink one strand at a time
Inspired by Aug. 2016
Genii (Vol. 79 No. 8)
50
Michael Weber Inanimate Liar clean vanish
Also published here 2017 1
Josh Janousky Band Thru Thumb rubber band through performer's thumb
Related to 2017 20
Kurt Freitag It's In the Bag spectator chooses a card and a rubber band color, both have been predicted, clear change bag
Sep. 2018
Genii (Vol. 81 No. 9)
89
Michael Powers Ring Bandit three-phase routine with one-inch steel ring
  • Garcia Position (Danny Garcia)
Inspired by 2019 272
Jonathan Friedman Stretched Together one rubber band looks like two
Jan. 2020
Genii (Vol. 83 No. 1)
76
Nathan Kranzo Invisible Elasticity II Invisible rubberband suddenly appears wrapped around deck, selection penetrates deck and rubberband
Inspired by 2021 65
Mark Aspiazu The Handcuff Man's Crazy rubber bands link together
Also published here 2022 25
Jeff Pierce Rubber Band Unlink
Also published here
  • MAGIC, Aug. 2005
2022 424
Marcus Eddie B And E card penetrates cross-wise banded deck, glued cross-wise rubber-band gaff
Also published here
  • MAGIC, Aug. 2010
2022 968
Johnny Womack Mr. Mackwo's Vanishing Band one of the bands vanishes during Crazy Man's Handcuffs
Also published here
  • MAGIC, Feb. 2011
2022 1007
Johnny Womack Ring Toss two small rubber bands are tossed up and caught on first finger, then they are shown to have fused into one band
Also published here
  • MAGIC, Feb. 2011
2022 1008
Joshua Logan Cell Band rubber band jumps from spectator's one hand to the other
  • Cell Phone Version (from one phone to another)
Also published here
  • MAGIC, Nov. 2012
2022 1158
Chiam Yu Sheng Jumping Strand rubber band around first and second finger jumps to third and fourth finger, slow-motion approach
July 2023
The Hermit (Vol. 2 No. 7)
907
John Guastaferro Invisible Opener two poker chips, deck of cards with rubber bands appear, followed by invisible deck effect
  • Chip Flurry
  • Deck Production
  • Imagination into Reality
  • Transition
Also published here
  • RSG Notes, 2012
2023 3