Tenyo Magic Forum

Hi David, Thanks for the reply. I too have the enchanted ring by Powell, and agree that it is a "must have." I had the aluminum version from Tannen's as a kid, but prefer the look of the wooden version. I saw the new Victorian Prediction and will probably buy it. Please let me know what you think wh...

Congratulations Elliot!

Great job on the contest Simon! May I see the answer key? I would like to see the two that I couldn't spot.

Thanks for all of the work on this John!

The forum really looks sharp!

I'll play.... how about 22?

Hi Bob!

Welcome and nice to see you here!

There are plenty of wonderful manufacturers out there. I wanted to share a list of a few that I really like, and I think may appeal to some of the people on this forum. Magic Wagon: Magic Wagon make beautiful pieces of apparatus. They make both wooden and resin pieces, and the build quality is excel...

I am a solid stage 3. I prefer to buy the ones I really like and have some of these in sealed packages.

John M. and I were discussing Fortune Sticks, and he thought it may be interesting for me to post a little on the theory or why Fortune Sticks works. Fortune sticks combines two really neat principles, and is a mystifying and brilliant effect! The first is a binary coding system that can code up to ...

Built from Legos: My favorite- Lego Antikythera Mechanism based on the first analog computer nearly 2000 years old. The antikythera mechanism was used to calculate the movement of the planets and phases of the moon. It was lost in the ocean for nearly 2000 years before being discovered in a shipwrec...

John M. and I have discussed automata a few times, and I hope to build a simple automaton one day. I wanted to start a thread dedicated to automata and mechanical toys, things that may interest some of the same people who enjoy collecting Tenyo items. I just read the short book Antonio Diavolo: A So...

My name is John, and I live in NJ. I have been a fan of Tenyo for many years. I used to demo and sell Tenyo when I worked at a magic shop almost 20 years ago. I still have many of my original Tenyo items like Clean Cut and Mira Metal. I also collect some other magic items, but the majority of my col...