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15 Magic Tricks You Didn’t Know You Could Do

Great magic takes years of practice and finesse, but everyday feats of trickery are actually a lot easier than you might think. Here are 15 illusions you can do with objects around the house (or restaurant, or bar) to dazzle those who don’t have the power of enchantment.

1. Levitating a foam cup 

This one has a basic premise, but it’s tough to master. Grab a foam cup and tell your audience that you have the unique ability to make it float. Make sure you’re a few steps back and as you prepare to impress them, gently force your thumb through the back of the cup and begin to float your fingers around it to a) distract from aforementioned thumb and b) add some much needed showmanship! It will appear that your magic fingers are keeping the cup aloft.

2. Levitating yourself

If you’ve ever seen this one, you know it’s remarkably impressive when done well. Stand on one side of the room and position yourself so that you’re diagonal to the audience—the closest thing to them should be your back heel. Slowly lift your heels and add some float-like wavering and then gently lift the entire foot closest to the audience off the ground. This will require some practice, but if everyone else is standing, the foot that’s entirely off the ground will block the toe of your other foot (that’s actually keeping you grounded), and you’ll appear to defy gravity.

3. Bottling up your change 

Cut a slit in the side of a plastic water bottle that’s just large enough to fit a quarter through. Ideally you’ll want the type of bottle that has ridges to help hide your all-important modifications. Show your audience the bottle and a quarter so they can see there are “no tricks” and count, “1, 2, 3” before slapping your quarter-holding hand against the bottle and slipping the George Washington piece inside. The coin will bounce around in the bottom of the bottle and will appear to have transcended the laws of physics.

4. Making 25 cents from a dollar 

Hold a dollar bill between your thumb and forefinger and tuck a quarter between your thumb and the bill so the audience can’t see it. Wave the dollar around, grab the other side, and snap it to illustrate there are no tricks or strange things happening with it. Low lighting is best for this one as those bills can be a little transparent. Fold the bill in half (cutting symmetrically along ol’ George Washington’s head) and then in half again the same way. Now you can squeeze it tight and pretend to shake a quarter out, seemingly from nowhere. Make sure to talk a big game about being on your way to fame and fortune…25 cents at a time.

5. Climbing a ring 

For this trick, you’ll need to grab a key ring or even the ring off someone’s finger and a rubber band. Break the rubber band and loop it through the ring before stretching out the band between your hands—one higher in the air than the other. The key for this one is to stretch out only a small portion of the rubber band and tuck the rest of the loose string into the palm of your bottom hand. Slowly let the rest of the band out and it will appear that the ring is climbing the rubber band by itself. As with all of these tricks, don’t forget the theatrics. You’ve got to sell it and take your time.

6. Becoming a mind reader 

This is a good one for impressing kids. Have them grab a box of crayons, turn your back to them, and ask that they select a crayon. Then ask them to place it in your hands, which are behind your back. Turn around, while keeping your hands always behind you and explain that you’re going to read their minds. While doing this, gently scrape the crayon with your nail and transfer it to the other hand. Now it’s time for the mind reading. Wave your hand above their heads as if collecting thoughts and sneak a peek at the color trapped under your nail. Then return your hand behind your back, and reveal your incredible all-knowing powers.

7. Engaging in black magic 

Select someone in the room and tell them to mentally pick any item in the room. Leave the room and tell that person to inform everyone else of the chosen object. Once the secret is dispersed, you return to the room and select another not-so-random person who goes around the room going from object to object. The audience doesn’t know it, but this person is your mole. The key is that you’ve decided on a predetermined color (usually black) and whenever they touch something of that color, the next object will be the one selected by the unknowing participant.

8. Bending a straw

The prep work for this restaurant trick might have to be done while your companion is in the restroom. Or, alternatively, reserve it for children who might not already know about the magic of electricity. Take a paper-wrapped straw and rub the paper up and down a few times to create some static. Then place the straw on top of a bottle so it’s parallel to the table. The charge from the friction you just created will be such that when you bring your hands up to the straw, it will rotate like the hands of a clock. With the right moves, you can make it look like it’s bending to your will.

9. Making a coin disappear

There are a ton of disappearing coin tricks out there, and each requires a certain level of crafty handiwork. This one is awesome because it incorporates a flub. While sitting, grab a coin and say you’re going to make it disappear. Prop an elbow on the table and start to rub the coin into your elbow/forearm while playing hype man for your onlookers. Then, drop the coin. It will fall onto the table. Now, for the key part of the trick: Make it look like you’ve grabbed it with the same hand, when in fact it ends up in the other. Then, put your elbow back where it was and slip the coin down the back of your shirt. Continue to rub the “coin” into your elbow and slowly reveal its disappearance. Standing up might be tricky if you want to maintain the illusion, so consider tucking in your top as well.

10. Matching up your magic

Start with two small objects—not necessarily matches, but things that are close in size and shape to matches are best. Set them down side-by-side on the table. Put one hand over one, and one hand over the other. Then flip one empty hand, then the other. Here’s where the trick begins. Pick up one of the objects and do a “false transfer,” which means pretending to put it in the other hand while secretly tucking it into your palm. This might sound like it would be obvious, but practice makes it very convincing. Quickly ball up both fists. Then, pick up the remaining object with your thumb and forefinger while the other is already in that palm and now both matches are in one hand, though the audience thinks you’ve swapped them and one is in each hand. Reveal the empty hand for an awe-inspiring moment that makes it seem like you might be doing a disappearing trick, and then the other hand, which contains both objects. Ta-da!

11. Helping a toothpick vanish 

This one requires only a toothpick and a bit of tape. As stealthily as possible, fasten a toothpick to the outside of your thumb with either some tape or by licking the nail side of your thumb and forcefully pressing the object into your skin. The toothpick should be parallel with your appendage and within the boundaries of your thumb. If you bent your thumb, the toothpick would run off the edge of your knuckle. If you gave someone a thumbs-up with the print facing them, they wouldn’t see the toothpick.

The audience should be directly in front of you for the main event. Hold up the toothpick with your thumb bent and your fingers wrapped around it to hide the tape, say “abracadabra,” and open your empty hand while the toothpick sits on the back of your thumb. It will look like it vanished from thin air. 

12. Getting ice cold 

Some magic tricks get a lot of mileage simply for being surprising. This is one of those. Stuff a sponge into the bottom of a coffee mug or other opaque cup and add a couple of ice cubes. Pour some water into the cup with a pitcher and announce your ability to turn water into ice before overturning the cup and letting the cubes fall out. Of course, a quick examination of the cup will reveal your plot pretty quickly, but for a moment, you’ll be pure magic.

13. Bending any spoon you meet 

Next time you’re on a bad date or have simply run out of topics at dinner, grab a spoon to impress your companions. With the handle facing up and the spoon positioned vertically on the table, grip it with both hands so the audience only sees the top and bottom of the utensil. Pretend like you’re bending the spoon, while really just allowing the handle to slide back toward the table. It will look like you’ve bent the silverware where the bowl meets the handle. Then shake it loose like a little wave undoes your mighty spoon-bending work.

14. Making a card float

For one of the most classic card tricks of all time, you need only a deck of cards and a card box. Cut a hole in the back of the box that’s large enough for you to push a card up with your fingers for the critical floating illusion. Take the deck out of the package and keep one card reserved at the back, but don’t let the audience know. Instead, fan out the “back three cards”  and show the faces to the audience. Ask them to pick a card—either, 1, 2 or 3, though in actuality, because of that secret card, if you were counting they’d actually be 2, 3, or 4—and compose the deck. Let’s say your rapt audience chooses #2. Count to “1” and take the top card from the deck and stick it randomly with the others, then count “2” before doing the same with the next card. Because of that hidden back card, you will have made it seem like you tucked their card of choice in the middle of the deck, when in fact it’s sitting right under your fingertips. Pop the deck back in the box and use your finger to slide the #2 card up in an ever-so-spooky way.

15. Coloring your cards

This trick might be the most complicated, but that also makes it the most impressive. To prep, get a deck of cards and order it red/black throughout. To begin the trick, cut the cards several times and have the audience tell you when to stop. When they do, take the top two cards and count them off so as to subtly flip their ordering and show them to the audience, asking them to remember the cards. One will be black and one will be red.

Put these cards back on top and start cutting the cards again. Then, deal all the cards out into four piles. Because of the ordering, the 1st and 3rd pile will be the same color, and the 2nd and 4th will be the same color. When the cards are all dealt out, shuffle those same-colored piles together and then flip one upside-down to mix face-up with facedown cards. When you’re done, fan the cards out on the table and all the face-up cards should be the same color with the exception of one: an audience card from the beginning. Your audience’s heads will be spinning as you smile smugly, and tip your rabbit-filled top hat.

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Magic Tricks with the Rubik’s Cube – GoCube

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Solving a Rubik’s Cube is such a great challenge for most people that it almost feels like magic when solved. The two have a lot in common, for example, solving the Rubik’s Cube and performing magic tricks both require practice and dexterity to execute well.   When performed correctly, they have the ability to stun crowds. Occasionally the genres overlap- combining magic tricks with the Rubik’s cube is a new emerging genre that creates amazing performances.

Steven Brundage is one of those rare cases when Magic and the Rubik’s cube overlap: a Rubik’s Cube magician. He appeared on the show “Fool Us”, a show that challenges magicians to fool two of the top magicians today Penn and Teller. His trick succeeded in fooling both of them. Watch the trick (184) Penn & Teller: Fool Us // Steven Brundage – YouTube

Matching cubes trick

This trick is also performed by Brundage and Teller. Brundage scrambles one cube while continuing to address the audience. Teller then covers the other unscrambled cube with his hands and when he opens his hands to reveal the cube it has been scrambled exactly the same as the cube that Brundage holds.   View trick performed here (208) GENIUS Rubik’s Cube Magic Tricks w/ Steven Brundage *America’s Got Talent Magician* – YouTube

Instantly solved trick

A very popular trick is the instantly solved trick. This involves some kind of drama followed by the magician throwing a scrambled cube in the air and catching it solved. The secret behind this trick lies in using a fake cube which when solved still has one side scrambled. The magician shows the cube to the audience scrambled, only using 6 moves to “completely” scramble the cube. He then tries to solve it while undoing the 6 moves. The magician then throws the cube in the air, catching it solved. He shows five sides to the audience, using sleight of hand to make them believe they have seen all six.

Cube in a bag trick

This trick is very simple. The magician places a scrambled Rubik’s Cube into a paper bag and takes it back out solved. In this trick, he shows all 6 sides to the audience first. Part of the trick here is shuffling the cube in a specific configuration. View a tutorial here (208) Cube Solved in Bag (Tutorial) – YouTube

Magic tricks that include the Rubik’s Cube are some of the top crowd pleasers out there.

They combine magic, entertainment, and science in a way that fascinates people. We look forward to new and exciting Rubik’s Cube magic tricks!

How to do a trick with a handkerchief and a rose

Tricks with handkerchiefs have always been a special group in the repertoire of illusionists. It is hardly possible to find another such versatile item among the “magic” props. With the help of handkerchiefs, experienced magicians make objects disappear and change their shape, handkerchiefs serve to divert attention in various manipulations and hide the actions that make up the trick itself. A handkerchief, carelessly pulled out of a pocket during a trick, is unlikely to attract attention – while it is the main condition for the success of the trick. nine0003

The popularity of tricks with handkerchiefs only increases from the fact that you can perform them, knowing the secret, in any audience and in any place. As a rule, most of these tricks do not require any props other than the fabric itself, a few clever home-made devices and the dexterous hands of an illusionist. Not surprisingly, the headscarf trick, in one form or another, can be seen at almost any performance.

Handkerchief passing through the hand

This trick is a frequent guest both on stage performances and at home performances. The magician takes an ordinary large scarf or scarf, twists it with a tourniquet and asks one of the spectators to assist him. He ties a handkerchief around the volunteer’s hand, ties one knot, then the second … After that, he pulls the fabric with force – and the scarf, passing through the body of the viewer, is tied in a knot in the hands of the illusionist. nine0003

Despite being spectacular, this handkerchief trick is very simple. The only secret lies in the sleight of hand of the magician himself, tying the fabric in a certain way. Spectators see that the speaker is tying 2 knots around the arm; in fact, one of the nodes is fake and only looks like it.

In order to repeat this trick on your own, you will need a regular thin handkerchief, preferably large enough, and a few workouts. Twist the fabric into a rope and drape it over your helper’s arm. Hold one end in your left hand, passing it between the index and ring fingers so that the long part of the handkerchief lies in the palm of your hand. The second end must be brought to the hand from below, passing it between the middle and ring fingers. nine0003

Now you will need to discreetly press the right end of the handkerchief with your middle finger and, putting your hand through the loop formed, tightly tighten the left end.

In this way, the handkerchief will be tightened around the viewer’s hand, but instead of a knot, it will be held by a tight loop, which, later, you can straighten with one jerk. After that, you just have to tie another knot and defiantly pull the fabric.

This is important! Don’t forget to wrap the handkerchief around your hand again before tying the second knot. Be careful: the ends of the scarf should not cover the hand on both sides, otherwise, when tightening, you will straighten the loop, but tie another knot on your hand. nine0003

Watch this video for a detailed tutorial on the trick:

Disappearing Red Handkerchief Trick

For a house party or a show in a small company, the disappearing handkerchief trick is perfect. The magician shows everyone a thin red handkerchief, kneads his fingers, and then begins to push the fabric into a clenched fist. When the handkerchief is completely hidden, he opens his palm – and the audience understands that the handkerchief has disappeared without a trace. However, the performance is not over yet: the magician clamps the thumb of the second hand into his fist and begins to slowly pull it out. And along with the finger stretches again miraculously appeared “loss”. nine0003

The trick with the red handkerchief disappearing and reappearing is very simple and can be done even by a beginner illusionist. The whole secret of it lies in a special prop: a dense opaque cap that is put on the thumb and completely repeats its shape.

During the trick, you need to squeeze your hand and, pretending to push the handkerchief with your thumb into a fist, remove this “fingertip”. It is very important to do this naturally and naturally so that the audience does not suspect anything. After that, you just have to put the fabric in the cap and put it on your finger. After showing your hands and demonstrating that there is nothing in them, repeat the trick in reverse order: hide your thumb in the fist of the second hand and, removing the fingertip, carefully pull out the red handkerchief. nine0003

You can see a detailed explanation of how to do it correctly in this video:

This is important! During the trick, try to constantly move your hands quickly so that the audience does not have the opportunity to look at them and notice the fake finger.

The disappearance of the handkerchief

For stage performances, a trick is much better suited in which the disappearance of the handkerchief occurs as if without the participation of the magician himself. A few simple movements – and the handkerchief evaporates without a trace, after which the magician, to the amazement of the audience, takes out the “loss” already from his pocket or from behind his back. nine0003

It would seem that nothing can explain such a sudden disappearance of the handkerchief. The secret of this trick, however, is quite simple. It consists in a special device, “traction”, which often comes to the aid of illusionists in tricks with unexpected disappearances.

The pull is a small ball or cylinder shaped box connected to a long tight elastic band. It is in it that the magician hides the handkerchief. Such a device can be bought in specialized stores, or you can make it yourself. For this you will need:

• Small cylindrical ball or jar;
• scissors;
• good stretch but tight elastic band;
• pin.

This is important! Pay special attention to the size of the box. It should be large enough to fit a handkerchief, but at the same time, completely hidden in your hand. Otherwise, your secret will be instantly unraveled by attentive viewers.

Carefully cut a hole in the balloon a little over 2 cm in diameter. On the opposite side of it, make another hole, and pass the end of the elastic band through it, securing it with a large knot. The other end will need to be secured with a pin in the place where the disappeared object will hide during the trick. It is most convenient to use belt loops on trousers for this purpose, especially if you have a long jacket. Pass the elastic through several adjacent loops so that the free end with the ball hangs down to the side, not far from the buckle. In this case, during the focus, you can easily take the pull in your hand without drawing attention to this movement. However, you can fasten the elastic anywhere, the main thing is to measure the length correctly and make sure that the ball attracted to the elastic is not visible from the side of the hall, and you can reach it at any time. nine0003

If you did everything right, then during the trick you will only have to hold the rod in your hand and push the handkerchief into the hole, pretending that you are just hiding it in your fist. Now, as soon as you open your fist, the rubber band will pull the ball out of your hand and hide it securely under your clothes.

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Before doing the handkerchief trick, it is worth practicing and practicing the trick so that all your movements look effortless. Remember that a large part of the success of the trick depends on your artistry. You can tell something to the audience, diverting their attention from your hands, or do everything silently, focusing on every movement. The main condition in this case is to hide those movements on which, in fact, the disappearance of the handkerchief depends. nine0003

Turning a handkerchief into a rose

Especially popular, especially among the female audience, is the trick with the appearance of a rose from a handkerchief. The magician shows the audience a thin red handkerchief. The sleeves of the speaker are rolled up high and, apart from a piece of cloth, he has nothing in his hands. He waves his handkerchief, and a scarlet rose appears in his hand.

It is very easy to repeat this trick at home. To do this, you only need a thin but opaque scarf and an artificial flower of a special design. The stem of such a flower consists of several segments, fastened from the inside with an elastic band. The rose easily folds into a compact “accordion”, which can be easily hidden in your hand. While waving the handkerchief, you need to simultaneously open your fist and, holding the flower by the end of the stem, shake it slightly. A tight elastic band will instantly make the stem straighten, and you just have to show everyone the rose that has appeared, indistinguishable from the real one. nine0003

A detailed tutorial on this beautiful trick can be seen in this video:

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Tricks with animals – interesting and always beautiful

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The trick with the appearance and disappearance of a rabbit in a top hat has long been a classic in the world of magic. Every schoolboy knows that if an uncle is a magician, then he knows how to get this animal out of a hat. However, not only cute fluffies can be the object of various magic tricks. Consider a few examples of tricks that are performed with the help of other types of our smaller brothers. nine0003

Snake trick

This trick is really just the result of careful preparation. The external effect is reduced to the following.

1. The magician shows the audience a beautiful wicker basket.
2. Then he holds it with both hands, utters incantations, and a snake slowly rises from it, swinging from side to side.
3. After the mage’s hypnotizing gaze, the animal slowly descends back.

The secret of this trick lies in the fact that the basket has no bottom, and the second hand, which the magician allegedly uses to hold it by the edge, is not real, but just a foam rubber dummy attached to the edge. Therefore, for the public, the appearance of employment of both hands of the magician is created, while he has one completely free. It is she who plays the role of a snake. First you need to sew a very believable costume that resembles an animal skin. nine0003

Thus, the magician puts his hand through the bottom of the basket and the snake rises. Then he removes it back and the snake descends.

This is important! In this trick, the most important thing is to sew the props correctly and competently. The snake should resemble a real reptile as much as possible.

Dove tricks

Many magicians work with these beautiful birds with great pleasure. Most often, snow-white doves are used, which look very elegant and attractive.

There are many options for different manipulations:

• appearance and disappearance;
• the transformation of birds into a scarf and vice versa;
• appearance from paper and so on.

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One of the options for effective manipulation of birds can be seen in this fragment of the American show:

Obviously, the secret is in sleight of hand and that all the birds are hidden in the participant’s jacket beforehand. nine0003

Using highlights:

• flashes;
• paper;
• overlapping by hand and so on, the guy deftly removes the pigeons one by one.

This is just as easy to see if you look closely. The way he holds his jacket, leaning over to the cage to get another bird in.

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The most important thing for high-quality performance is long and hard training before the show. nine0014