This isn’t going to be one of those clever high theory meta contextual posts I’m known for by my one reader. This is about a prop which most magicians know, very few use, and many have simply forgotten about. This post is about the Gozinta Box.
The Gozinta box, in case you don’t know is a pair of boxes, each of which consists of an inner box and a lid which fits snugly over the top. The boxes are different colours to highlight the interesting property that gives the boxes their unusual name: the fact that either box can fit inside the other.
That is to say you can open a red box, take out a blue box, open the blue box, close the red box, put it inside the blue box and then close the blue box.
By itself, a fun effect, but it has a much more interesting application.
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or Outside”