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Sucker Die Box - classic kids show magic One of the classic kids show magic props in the Sucker Die Box. It’s a wooden box with two doors, that you open and put a large (typically yellow) die inside. Acting like an inept magician (which should be a natural for a clown), you tilt the die box at a 45 degree angle, and open the upper door to show that it’s empty—and as you’re tilting the box, the audience can ‘hear’ the die sliding to the other side. In the same fashion, you tilt it the other way, again with the sliding sound, to ‘prove’ that the box is empty. The kids aren’t going to be taken in by anything this obvious, and shout out that they want to see both compartments open at the same time. After playing with this for as long as the audience will stand for, eventually you show both sides open at once ... and the die having vanished. It’s another wonderful example of the ‘magician in trouble’ syndrome that David Ginn talks about in Clown Magic.