Magic & Parlor Tricks: Page 30

A tutorial for a beginner's magic trick, the 18 Cards trick. In this card trick you appear to guess someone's card out of a stack of 18.

Place a bill on top of a bottle. The stack four coins on top of the bill. The challenge is to remove the bill without the coins falling from the top of the bottle. And to make the challenge even harder you can only use one finger and only touch the bill. Watch this video bar magic tutorial and learn how to pull off this trick. Try making some bets and win yourself some free drinks.

Learn how to do the Hindu shuffle. This card shuffling technique can be used to actually shuffle cards with flare or just as a false shuffle to force cards.

Dave J. Castle teaches you the 10-20 card force. Using this math-based technique you can choose what card you want your audience to pick and appear to magically guess it.

Magician Dave J. Castle teaches you how to magically tie a knot in a regular rope without letting go of either of the ends.

Watch this instructional video to learn how to do the double shock card trick in which you appear to make four random cards turn into four kings and then four aces. All you need is a standard deck of cards and a double sided card. This video has no audio, but it does have subtitles.

Relive your fond childhood memories by making some fun shapes out of string! Cat's cradle is one of the most popular schoolyard games, involving a piece of string and two players. The object is to create a series of figures and seeing how many you can make before you can't make any more.

Learn how to make a simple but impressive magic trick. You can impress anyone with this card trick without setting up anything. Amaze your friends with this easy trick. Like a David Copperfield card trick.

Somewhere between bartending and magic, this trick will transform water into whiskey, and fast! Watch them switch places as the video shows how you get whiskey into a glass full of water, without taking the water out off the glass. The whiskey and water trick is a fun bar trick to show your friends.

A magic trick in which you appear to make the ink of a card chosen from anywhere in the deck transfer onto a piece of paper.

An easy coin toss magic trick involving palming that will allow you to manipulate the outcome of a coin toss.

Criss Angel shows you how to perform and magic trick in which you make a pepper shaker pass through a table. This trick could also work with a glass, cup, or similar object.

Martyn Coleman reveals the Bible card trick. In this complicated card trick you appear to make a chosen card reappear face up in the middle of the deck.

Martyn Coleman teaches his variation of the waving aces trick, also called the two aces card routine, a card trick in which you appear to make any card picked from the deck reappear between two aces held in your hand.

In this video magician David Zanthor shares an age old magic trick. You will need a willing human, a deck of cards, a rubber band, two identical coins and skills. The trick? It involves Ing Ping Ching energy and it is quite involved...so you will have to watch the video!

Comedic magician David Zanthor teaches you how to throw a playing card through a window. You will need a deck of cards, two duplicates, wax, a window, some passers-by and an assistant. Stop someone in the street. Shuffle the cards. Riffle. Allow participant to pick a card. Allow them to place it back in the deck anywhere. Look through them to find the card. It has disappeared! Throw the deck at a nearby window and their card has magically appeared on the other side of the glass! Simple?

A simple magic trick in which you appear to make toothpicks move on their own using drops of water.

This is similar to the bite out coin trick. In this magic trick you appear to bite a piece out of playing card and magically restore it.

Tearing a phonebook in half lengthwise might seem like an impossible feat of strength. Yet, the trick was commonly performed by strongmen at fairs, at the beginning of the century, along with bending iron bars, pipes and pans.

Learn how to shuffle cards from one hand to another, make a car spin on your finger, or make a card jump from the deck to your hand. These simple tricks are easy to learn and will definitely impress your audience.

Here is a video with tons of ways to open a beer bottle, not all are safe. Video is not in English, but its fairly obvious see and do type actions.

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.

This magic trick requires a coin, your ability to snap your fingers, and long sleeves. If you possess all of these then you too can become a world class magician. Learn to make a coin disappear out of the palm of your hand with just the snap of a finger. Although the video is super short, it's straight to the point — no illusion here!

Here is a beginner level disappearing trick easy to learn and guaranteed to amaze. Learn to make a ball disappear right before your audiences eyes. A sponge ball works best but their are other alternatives that will work just as well.

Here is another magic trick to add to your collection. Learn how to break a fork seemingly with your mind. This trick requires little prep time and will make your audience believe that you have supernatural mental abilities.

Learn a neat little trick for little money and big outcomes. All you need is water, salt, string and ice and you too can make an ice cube lift off the table without touching it. Learn to make a cube of ice float off the table and never worry about cold fingers again.

Want to make your fingers look like they have flames shooting out of them? Learn how to protect your fingers while they are ablaze and make your friends think you are impervious to pain. Use easy to find material to protect your fingers while you light each one on fire.

If you are into levitating things then here is the trick for you. Learn how to levitate a cup off of a table. Add this trick to the other levitation tricks and create an arsenal of wicked sweet magic tricks.

Learn how to tie your shoes without your hands. This nifty little magic trick will make your parents scratch their head and your little siblings want to be more like you than ever. Tie your shoes without using your hands and enjoy the fruits of your labor.

Watch this instructional video to learn how to cut a cigarette and put it back together. Ever wonder how magicians cut people in half then put them back. Well, this is the same trick just with a cigarette.

Ever need to separate out your tea and water? Learn how to easy obtain this goal using a simple technique. Water can be separated from tea if you follow these steps.

Impress your friends with this bar trick. Learn how to do a neat little magic trick folding up a $5 and $20 bill. This trick will be a hit at your next gathering. Follow along and learn the step by step instructions to folding the five or twenty dollar bill to be able to see the Twin Towers. It's creepy how you can see the image of the Twin Towers in the folded dollar bills.

Want to show off some talent at your local bar? Learn to break a bottle with your bare hands and impress the crowd. Take your bare hand and break a bottle and make everyone believer.

Impress your friends with your dexterity by learning how to walk a coin across your fingers. This easy skill will be sure to wow your friends and onlookers. Roll a coin across your fingers and become the talk of the party.

Here is a trick to play anytime you have an empty soda can. Learn to stand the can on its edge and make everyone believe the special powers you claim to have. Stand a can of soda on its end and amaze all onlookers.

Ever wonder how they got the coin to move through the bottle from your hand? Well here is the answer and it is as simple as making pb and j. Learn how to move a coin through a bottle and astonish all your friends.

Here is a good way to make homemade magician wax without having to break your wallet and buy it. All you will need for this project is a stick of glue.

Watch this instructional video to learn how to put an egg in a bottle. All you need is a hardboiled egg, a bottle, and four matches. Place the matches in the bottle, then the egg on top of the bottle, done. Watch this one for the music.

Watch this instructional video to learn how to juggle clubs while balancing a rolla bolla. Now to begin with, don't even worry about the clubs, focus on the rolla bolla until you're up on it balanced and ready to juggle. So remember keep your knees bent and your vision pointed straight forward, if you're looking down at your feet it will make the balance much more difficult while you're trying to juggle. So get steady, straighten up your back, bend your knees and try a practice throw. Now it's...

Watch this instructional video to learn fun trick, balancing a cane on your chin. Now to begin with, you want to have a good wide stance with your knees bent, keep your back straight and bend your head backwards. Slowly lift the object up onto the chin being very careful to make sure that it's perfectly straight up and down. Many people put the object too far back or too far forward and are surprised when it just falls of their chin. While you're balancing the object, your focus should be on...