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Effect Creating Gozinta Boxes

Print page two of this worksheet twice on two different

The magician displays a cardboard box and removes
coloured pieces of A4-size construction paper. When
the lid. The box contains another box. She removes
printing on other sizes, ensure it is printed at 100% of
the small box from the large box and closes the large
its original size to avoid distortion (check the sale bars
box. The magician opens the small box and places
with a ruler).
the large box miraculously inside the small one. The
Cut along the black lines with a scalpel and fold
magician closes the lid and leaves the audience baffled.
along the grey lines. Apply glue to the tabs and as-
semble the boxes.

Background

The Gozinta Boxes trick was invented by Lubor

Fiedler, one of the most innovative minds in magic.
He developed the concept when he ran out of storage
space in his house and started to place empty boxes
into each other. This random occurrence spawned
the development of what we now know as the goz- Figure 2: Assembled Gozinta Box.
inta boxes. Lubor first introduced his invention to the
magic world at the 1970 FISM convention in Amster-
dam. Presenting Gozinta Boxes

Although the gozinta boxes are self-working in that the

secret lies in the design of the props, some technique
is required to enhance the deceptiveness.
The tell-tale protrusion will be more visible, the
smaller the boxes are. Close-up versions of the boxes
are thus not angle proof due to their elongated shape.
The choreography of the handling of the boxes is im-
portant for both close-up and stage versions. Any ac-
cidental fumbling when trying to assemble the boxes
reduces the strength of the deception.

The Box Goes-In-Da Box

Figure 1: Lubor Fiedler (1970). Lubor’s Die. Supreme If you like to know more about he Gozinta boxes, then
Magic Company. Photo by Franz Kaslatter (used with you can purchase Da Box Goes-In-Da Box. A Treatise
permission). on the Gozinta Boxes. This book discusses the history
of this mystifying prop and explains in great detail how
to design your own boxes.
The trick was initially called the Lubor Die. Jeffery
Atkins introduced the name Gozinta Boxes at the 1971
Friendly Convention at Bideford. The word gozinta is
a form of eye dialect which means “goes in da”.

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 Inner box

1 inch
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Outer box