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How To: Stick a 4-Inch Nail Up Your Nose
Remember Brian sticking a 4-inch nail up his nose at Diggnation New York? Want to do it yourself? This time he shows you how it works!
How To: Repair a Punctured Ball with an Egg
This video demonstrates how to repair a broken ball with only an egg and a pump.
How To: Levitate Any Object
In this tutorial, we learn how to levitate any object. You will need four batteries, two empty cans, a playing card, and a ball of tin foil to do this trick.
How To: Perform a Bar Match Trick to Win a Free Drink
All you need is a match, two-pint glasses, and a quarter, and you'll be drinking free all night! Just follow the steps in this how-to video. The tricks win you goodwill, but the puzzles win you good beer!
How To: (Almost) Always Win a Bet with Your Friends Using These 10 Tricks
So, the in-person conversations between you and your friends has slowed down to a near halt, thanks to everyone's obsession with texting, Facebook, and over-uploading pics to Instagram—socializing at its best. It could also be that you're just not interesting enough anymore in person.
How To: Do the Penetrating Rubber Bands Trick
Take two rubber bands and make them dissolve through each other. This takes practice and strong fingers. It is a cool trick to do at a bar, or with friends.
How To: Use a Stripper Deck for Advanced Tricks
In this second part of our series on stripper or taper decks of trick cards, learn more advanced tricks involving two and even four cards. Our expert reviews how to locate cards within the stripper deck, then demonstrates how you can take your card magic to the next level.
How To: Perform the Business Card Magic Trick
This is a simple trick that can amaze, and only requires about a 1/2 hour of solid practice, more or less.
How To: Fake Telepathy or ESP at the Bar with Scam School
In a double-stuffed episode of Scam School, you'll learn how to fake ESP powers — a diabolical method to fake telepathy between you and a friend — and see a mind control trick from outer space with Scam School's first intergalactic student!
How To: Make a Beer Bottle Explode by Tapping It
Here is a cool trick that you can do to amaze your friends: make a beer bottle explode right in front of their eyes! All you need is a little skill and your bare hands, and that sturdy bottle will smash to pieces in your palms.
How To: Perform the 'Devil's Elevator' Card Trick
Aspiring card shark? Sink your pearly whites into this easy, impressive illusion. In this free video magic lesson, you'll learn how to perform the "devil's elevator" card trick using sleight of hand. Watch this prestidigitator's guide for more information, including a step-by-step breakdown of the trick.
How To: Be a Strongman with Four Feats of Strength
Welcome to graduation! This is your senior year of Strength School, co-hosted by world record holder and supreme badass Dennis Rogers!
How To: Perform the Clock Card Trick
Is your bag of tricks missing a certain essential je-ne-sais-quoi? This free video magic lesson will teach you how to perform a world-class "clock" card illusion, a trick that involves no sleight of hand whatsoever. For a complete overview of this card trick, including step-by-step instructions on how to perform it yourself, watch this magician's guide.
How To: Do the Mercury Fork Bend Magic Trick
Learn how to bend a fork in this magic trick. This trick works with pens, rulers, and other similarly shaped objects as well.
How To: Put a Lit Match in Your Mouth Without Burning It
Watch to learn how to make your mouth into a jack-o-lantern without burning the roof of your mouth.
How To: Do the Japanese Shoelace Tying Trick Without Hands
Tie your shoelaces without hands? Sounds impossible, but that's what everyone will think when you complete this Japanese shoe tying trick.
News: Perform Criss Angel's Fork Bending Magic Trick
Mindfreak. Indeed. In the magic community, Criss Angel is considered a bit silly, albeit hardworking.
How To: Make Fireproof Gloves
Learn how to make your own pair of fireproof gloves for magic tricks or movie special FX. Fireproof gloves let you cover your hands with flammable butane & play with fire like never before. They will not damage or incinerate your hands because they are constructed of several layers.
How To: Do the 15-Card Magic Trick
A spectator has a selected card glimpsed but not touched and magically is re-selected at the end of the trick — a great trick for beginners.
How To: Perform the 'Name It' Card Trick
In this video Andy shows you how to perform the "Name it" card trick. The presenter suggests introducing yourself quickly and then ask someone in the audience for a name. Count up the number of letters in the persons name (for instance David is five letters). You then split and reverse five cards. You then ask the audience member to cut the deck in half. Then double under break the remaining cards. Then place the selected card under the reversed card. Then ask the audience member his name aga...
How To: Light a Match with Your Teeth
Did you know it's possible to light a match simply by using your teeth? You can look like a total badass if you learn how to do this trick properly, although you might get burned in the process. From Revision3:
How To: Do the Magic Coloring Book Trick
Remember that magic trick from when you were a kid where the magician colors the drawing without any crayons? Ever wonder how they do that? Check out this tutorial, and you will know their well-kept secret! Use it to impress your friends!
How To: Perform the Classic Pick a Card Trick
Magician Chris Webb shows you how to do the "Pick a Card" trick on The Telegraph's YouTube channel. Shuffle the deck of cards.
How To: Perform the "Best Card Trick in the World"
Hello ladies and gentlemen, Greg Solomon is here today in this video tutorial to teach you how to perform the "Best Card Trick in the World". He will show for you, and perform for you what many have referred to as the best card trick there is. See the performance of this illusion! Greg will reveal to you, and explain to you how the color change card illusion is performed.
How To: Convince your friends they're psychic with this cool magic trick
With this video you'll be able to pull a prank on your friends, convincing them they're psychic! It's a great illusion that anyone can do. You'll need to watch the video and check out the accompanying link here. Tada!
News: Perform the Zippo lighter trick
The Zippo ain't no common Bic. This lighter is windproof, waterproof, electrocution proof... the list goes on! In the 1950's a fisherman found a Zippo in the belly of a fish. It worked on the first try!
How To: Perform the Jumping Gemini magic card trick
Check out this amazing magic card trick tutorial video to learn how to perform the Jumping Gemini card trick. Improve your magic skills and amaze your friends with this simple and easy card trick instructional video. The Jumping Gemini is a great trick for beginners to perform. You too can become an expert magician with a little bit of practice.
How To: Perform the magic jumping ring trick
Watch this instructional video to learn how to perform the jumping ring trick. This trick is so simple, it takes absoulutely no talent whatsoever, and rarely fools the audience.
How To: Make jumping magic beans
How to make jumping magic beans with marbles and tin foil.
How To: Read Minds with a Simple Mentalism Effect
What if I told you that you could read minds? You'd most likely think I was crazy, and you'd be right. But what I really meant is that you could make people think that you could read minds, something that's not the least bit crazy.
How To: Do a dollar bill and coin trick to make extra cash
This is a simple magic trick where you can get extra money, when you need it most! Watch this video tutorial to learn how to do a dollar bill and coin trick to make extra cash. Watch this magic trick, learn it, and make money fast. Street hustle!
How To: Solve the matchstick math problem
Just by moving one match you can turn the math problem into a correct answer. Definitely use this to get some free drinks. And you already know the answer, so it won't be hard. If you want to try and figure this one out for yourself, pause the video before the reveal.
How To: Perform the "Best Coin Trick in the World"
Hello ladies and gentlemen, Greg Solomon is here today in this video tutorial to teach you how to perform the "Best Coin Trick in the World". He will show for you, and perform for you what many have referred to as the best coin trick there is. Immediately following the performance of this illusion, Greg will reveal to you, and explain to you how the coin illusion is performed.
News: Ouka's Hypnotic Performance with Optical Illusion Rings Is Mesmerizing
Heads up: the following videos and GIFs will definitely cause you to zone out and lose focus on whatever it is you're doing.
How To: Make your fingers smoke
Are you so hot you're smokin'? Well you will be if you can pull the magic trick in this how-to video off! Watch this instructional video and see just how to make your fingers smoke. This trick can be tried out any time you've got a box of matches and a water faucet handy.
How To: Perform The World's Greatest Card Trick flawlessly
A magic trick tutorial on how to perform The World's Greatest Card Trick.
How To: Perform the World's Greatest Card Trick
Lots of people love magic, and most of those people like card tricks, so why not learn a few? Whether you're a magician or not, you can still impress your friends with a few card tricks up your sleeve.
How To: Open a Beer Bottle Using the Back Wheel of a Bicycle
In this clip, learn the simple trick behind opening a full beer bottle with a spinning bike wheel. This is a pretty cool bar trick, that can be done at picnics, cook outs and anywhere else you might have a bike handy. Try it but be careful - the cap will shoot off pretty fast and it goes far!
How To: Open a Beer Bottle with Newspaper
Watch this video to learn how to open a beer bottle with a newspaper. This easy to learn bar trick can win you tons of free beers, just bet your friends that you can open a beer bottle with a piece of paper.
How To: Impress your friends with an easy ACAAN card trick
In this video tutorial, we learn how to perform a simple ACAAN card trick. For more information about the trick and its execution, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started incorporating this trick into your own routines, watch this free video card magic lesson.
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