The Impossible Chair

Invite a participant onstage and have them take a seat. After borrowing a ring, you make it disappear under seemingly impossible circumstances. When your volunteer asks where the ring is, you confidently reply, “You’re sitting on it”! As they stand to check, nothing is found! You then clarify, “No, not on TOP of the chair, UNDER the chair”.

With empty hands, you lift the chair and reveal a clear box underneath it, known as The Impossible Box. This box is secured with six heavy-duty rubber bands, featuring only a tiny hole on one side, just large enough for a piece of yarn to pass through. Inside, a 3-inch ball of yarn is visible from all angles.

Your volunteer holds the box as you pull the yarn through the small hole, gradually unwinding the ball. The audience watches as the yarn unravels from the clear box. Once fully unwound, it’s revealed that a small metal box is hidden within the yarn ball, also secured with rubber bands.

After removing the rubber bands from the clear box, the small metal box is taken out. Once the bands are removed from this box, the contents are unveiled — it’s the volunteer’s ring!

“This routine is a true example of ‘packs small, plays big.’ The unique chair does all the work for you. The ring is already inside the small metal box before they even stand up! Once you take the box from under the seat, you never touch it again…”