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Make your own magic moment with one of the easiest stage tricks ever.

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!

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.

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!

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.

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.

This is a simple trick that can amaze, and only requires about a 1/2 hour of solid practice, more or less.

Learn how to bend a fork in this magic trick. This trick works with pens, rulers, and other similarly shaped objects as well.

Tie your shoelaces without hands? Sounds impossible, but that's what everyone will think when you complete this Japanese shoe tying trick.

Mindfreak. Indeed.

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.

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...

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.

Heads up: the following videos and GIFs will definitely cause you to zone out and lose focus on whatever it is you're doing.

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.

Is it impossible to fold a piece of paper more than seven times? Yes, or is it? In this video from Fun Party Tricks, you'll see how to fold a piece of paper seven times and seven times only, but that doesn't necessarily mean that's all you can do. A high school student actually debunked this belief and successfully folded a sheet of paper 12 times.

This is a fun trick to perform on your friends, anywhere. First, explain to your buddies that your deck of cards is special and acts just like an ATM. They'll naturally be confused and ask you to prove it. That is when you take a low number card from your deck, swipe it, and turn it into a card worth twice as much!

In this video, learn how to make an ordinary cigarette vanish and reappear with ease.

In this tutorial, learn how to trick your audience into thinking you can control things with your mind!

Check out this tutorial for steps on how to perform a very cool slight of hand trick. In this video, learn how to take a solid sugar packet, toss it in the air and catch it - like a ring - around your pointer finger. Your audience will be totally amazed, but you will know the secret.

In this tutorial, learn how to perform a simple bar trick that will win you lots of free drinks!

If you are looking for a bet that you are sure to win, check out this clip.

Looking for a way to impress your friends? Check out this tutorial! All you need are some matches and a bit of practice and you will be able to perform this cool illusion. This trick is also the same as the linking cigarette trick which is so popular on the net right now.

Need some extra cash? Trying to impress a girl? Well, whatever the reason, check out this tutorial and win an interesting bar bet every time.

This magic trick seems impossible, but with this tutorial, you will learn just how easy it is to do.

With this trick, learn how to use one match to make another match jump feet into the air. This trick is so sneaky that you will appear to be controlling it with your mind.

In this tutorial, learn how to make an ordinary coin completely vanish by placing a clear wine glass over it!

In this tutorial, learn how to perform a classic card trick.

Looking for a cool trick you can perform in a bar? Check this out! In this tutorial, learn how to balance a wine glass on top of a seemingly ordinary playing card.

Remember when your parents used to lecture you that money doesn't come out of thin air? What if you could prove them wrong?

In this tutorial, learn how to perform a fantastic magic trick where two money bills seemingly make an amazing transformation, right under the nose of your audience!

Ever wonder how magicians can seemingly identify any card? Well, wonder no more!

This magic trick is sure to impress your friends or any audience. In this video, you will learn how to make a coin vanish and appear at will!

Card tricks are an awesome way to impress your friends.

In this clip, you will learn the secrets to doing a seemingly impossible card trick. This trick requires two cards and some sneaky fingers. Make it appear as though the you are sliding two cards in and out of each other, and that one of them has magically reversed itself. This trick will amaze you when you learn how it is really done, and will definitely impress any audience. So have fun with it and shock your friends!

OK, don't use this video to propose to your future wife, but DO try this video to impress your friends and family. You'll need a ring and an audience and you'll be able to show them how the ring jumps off one finger to another. It's magic!