Thoughts on the Gozintha Box

The Gozintha Box invent­ed by Lubor Fiedler is actu­al­ly a bril­liant inven­tion. Unfor­tu­nate­ly, it has not been giv­en as much atten­tion and love as it deserves. In real­i­ty, this feat is not that easy to per­form, and the han­dling needs to be prac­tised very care­ful­ly.

It is notice­able that most of the Gozintha box­es avail­able on the mar­ket are love­less­ly designed and man­u­fac­tured. Above all, the pro­por­tions of many of them, which are based on a pub­lished for­mu­la, are not cor­rect. Only if the dimen­sions of the for­mu­la are pre­cise­ly adhered to does the Gozintha box have its decep­tive pow­er.

Anoth­er weak point of many designs is the dec­o­ra­tion. If you think about it log­i­cal­ly, you come to the fol­low­ing con­clu­sion: What sense does it make to use two dif­fer­ent coloured box­es? The weak point here is that the view­er nat­u­ral­ly can­not remem­ber which colour was on the out­side and which was on the inside. So the effect is lost.

For this rea­son, I designed my Gozintha box in the form of a stan­dard ship­ping box, which con­tains an attrac­tive gift box from which the prop is then removed for a trick. Only then are the pack­ag­ing and gift box reassem­bled, this time with the pack­ag­ing inside the gift box. This makes the impos­si­bil­i­ty of the process clear­er for the view­er.

In the fol­low­ing video, I have explained all the sub­tleties that seem impor­tant to me. Pay par­tic­u­lar atten­tion to the inge­nious han­dling of how the box­es are opened and deposit­ed. Every­thing is trimmed for effi­cien­cy, there are no super­flu­ous move­ments and one action flows seam­less­ly into the next. You have to get used to it until every­thing flows and becomes sec­ond nature, but after a short time this han­dling becomes sec­ond nature.

Link to the video

If you are inter­est­ed in my Gozintha box, you can order it here.