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Done with a piece of rope
And to the audience, this is what it's appear to be
The magician tie one knot in a piece of rope
And invites an audience member to tie another knot over the first one
pull it nice and tight
There it is, a nice tight knot
Pull it even tighter
Very ooh that is tight yeah
but not tight enough
pull it again
So there we have a very tight double knots
never come on done
except...that it does
This is how to do it. A nice close up view of what's going to happen
You put one end over the other end
so you've got a top rope and a bottom rope
Normally you put the bottom rope over the top rope and that does make a knot
but that isn't what we want to do
What we want to do is to make something that looks like a knot
So instead of going OVER, we go UNDER
just like that
So normally there goes OVER but this time we put it UNDER
So it's twisted but it's not a knot
You hold it tight between your finger and your thumb
If you didn't, it would just come apart because it's simply twisted
So there we are, under we go, and we're ready for the second knot
to be applied, so here comes the audience member pull it nice and tight
Thank you very much
Sure it is really tight? Pull it again
Oh yes, very nice
And once again, just to make sure that it is really tight
So that you tied double knots
And yet...it will just come apart