Get Smarty by Mark Bennett

Effect

Get Smarty is a ring to impossible location trick where a borrowed ring or coin vanishes and reappears inside a sealed tube of Smarties or M&M's. The audience sees the ring disappear, then watches as the performer opens a brand new, factory-sealed tube of candy. When the spectator pours out the Smarties, the ring is found nestled among them. The effect is clean, visual, and leaves the audience with a tangible souvenir (the candy).

Full details

Get Smarty uses a gimmicked version of a standard Smarties tube (or M&M's tube for the US market). The gimmick allows the performer to secretly load the ring or coin into the tube before the performance. The tube remains completely sealed until the spectator opens it themselves.

Key features:

• Works for rings, coins, or small signed objects
• The Smarties version requires a new tube for each performance (tubes are inexpensive and easy to obtain)
• The M&M's version uses a plastic seal for repeat performances
• Comes with four durable gimmicks (for Smarties) or one reusable gimmick (for M&M's)
• Reset takes just seconds
• No glue, scissors, or preparation needed
• Can be performed close-up, walkaround, or on stage

Who should consider the trick

Get Smarty is ideal for:

• Close-up magicians looking for a strong visual item to impossible location effect
• Restaurant and walkaround performers who want an engaging 5-minute standup piece
• Stage performers needing a portable impossible location effect
• Children's entertainers (the candy makes it particularly appealing)
• Magicians who want an organic, everyday object for magic

Information on how difficult it is to perform

Get Smarty is very easy to perform. As Steve Faulkner notes in his review: "I did watch it practiced it for about 10 seconds went yet we're fine and went and did it." The method is straightforward with minimal sleight of hand required. The most challenging aspect is the presentation and timing, but the gimmick does most of the work.

What magicians say

"Get Smarty is one of those rare tricks that work for a stage performer but also if you need a piece of magic that will work for a close-up magician in a banquet situation or walk around situation that's really going to stop the show." - Craig Petty

"I love how quick and easy these tricks are to set up (just seconds) and perform, with strong angles and minimal practice needed." - Steve Faulkner

"Mark's version stands out because normally a version of this trick would require some kind of tom foolery before you get to your gig... whereas with Get Smarty it's literally a case of I can go to the supermarket next door to my restaurant buy four tubes... set them up in seconds without the need of any cutting or gluing of anything and I'm ready to go straight away." - AlakazamMagicUK

"The reactions I got from this were phenomenal... it's an endless loop of like it's going back it's not it's going back it's not." - Mark Bennett (creator) describing performing his own trick

"It's my closer at Smoke and Mirrors... it's reactions of what you want of like what you know that I don't get it." - Mark Bennett