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How To: Do the Faro shuffle
This nearly made me cry trying to learn this!! Hope this video saves you the pain! This is a difficult way to shuffle a deck of cards for magicians.
How To: Do the Hot Shot Cut
Best card control ever ... !! Daryl's Hot Shot Cut. As seen on David Blaine series. This cut shoots a spinning card out of the deck.
How To: Make matches disappear from the box
Learn how to make matches disappear and reappear from the box. Make matches disappear from the box.
How To: Find finger prints with super glue
Learn how to make fingerprints appear on all different types of objects using superglue.
How To: Cut a paper woman in half with an envelope trick
This may be a simple paper trick, but on a grand scale, this trick is done on real woman with real saws. This is just the miniaturized (and safer) alternative to the "saw a woman in half" magic trick. Okay, it's not the same exact principle. It's just a sneak paper trick with a little sleight of hand. You'll need a paper drawing of a woman, and envelope and a pair of scissors.
How To: Make magic ice cubes that sink and float
Ice that sinks? This is a weird trick shown and explained. Blow your mind, and that of your friends. This trick needs rubbing alcohol.
How To: Do the pencil trick
After numerous requests for help, I've made a "how to" for the pencil trick. -Eric
How To: Snatch coins in this midair trick
This is a tutorial on how to throw and catch (snatch) three coins off the back of your hand, one by one.
How To: Do the twisted hands gag
Quick challenge -- how to twist your hands together and move your thumbs from the bottom to the top.
How To: Do a coin/box trick
Check out this magic trick that is easy to do (maybe too easy . . .)
How To: Do basic pen tricks
As promised for nearly the whole school year now, I have finally explained how to do two simple pen tricks. There are many such videos on YouTube and elsewhere, but many (students) have requested me to explain it too, so here it is.
How To: Do the pepper and soap trick
A quick and easy, yet amazing, dinner table trick that you can do with just a glass of water, ground pepper, and a drop of soap. It seems that pepper is afraid of soap! Agreat way to entertain your family and friends.
How To: Balance 23 nails on the head of a single nail
It's easy to balance up to 12 nails on the head of one nail. But can you balance 23 nails on the head of a single nail?
How To: Make bubble solution
A very simple recipe to make an excellent homemade bubble solution! With only three cheap, common household ingredients, make a LOT of this great solution! A good way to save some money. A little bit goes a long way. Thanks, and enjoy!
How To: Learn to juggle three balls in one hand
This is not a tutorial for juggling six balls. watch to learn basic grip and release tactics. Check out this video to understand the hand parallel to the floor approach.
How To: Learn to hold three rings in one hand for juggling
Learn to hold three and four rings in your hands while juggling. Watch to find out how to separate the rings with different fingers.
How To: Learn a few basic 3 club tricks
These tricks are all based on nothing more than solid command of double flips. Watch an actual demonstration of double flips. Learn how to use consistency and command.
How To: Learn four essential strength exercises for jugglers
Watch this video to learn how to strengthen your body to become a better juggler. Watch to do the shoulder press. In another exercise, put your feet on the couch and do a proper crunch. How? Check it out.
How To: Make a three dimensional cube illusion
Unreal! You have to see this illusion to believe it. Learn how to make this geometric illusion with household materials.
How To: Make a head turning iIlusion with a paper toy
Create your own head turning magic by creating the easy to make paper toy in this how-to video. Make two paper dunce caps, cut out face holes, and stick the prop onto an assistant for this trick. Spinning the paper hats around creates a creepy illusion that the assistant's head is spinning around on their neck like magic. Check out this instructional video and learn how to perform this head-turning illusion.
How To: Make a telekinetic pen
Watch as an ordinary Sharpie Pen comes alive! You can make it move with your mind...or can you? Make Magazine shows you how in this video.
How To: Trick your friend into banging his head on the table
Effect: Your friend beats his head on the bar repeatedly, to everyone's delight. All you need is a quarter or other coin and some good acting skills. Cool prank.
How To: Levitate like Criss Angel and David Blaine
This video will teach you a levitation magic trick commonly used by magicians Criss Angel and David Blaine.
How To: Practice beginner's card control for magc tricks
Some card control techniques for beginner magicians.
How To: Levitate with the Balducci technique
Levitating has always been one of the most difficult and expensive magic tricks, usually involving a harness and rig. Thanks to the Balducci technique, it’s now one of the easiest and cheapest.
How To: Balance a raw egg without salt
Balance a raw egg on one end without support. Check it out!
How To: Pull off the quarters trick
Secret: The REAL secret to this trick? The real secret is to wait. Set everything up, tell everyone the rules, and... wait. Wait as long as it takes. If you've already done the match trick,, then you've captured everyone's attention... this is where you translate that momentum into a free drink. This trick IS SO unbustable, that you can let people work on it all night, until finally, in a fit of desperation, one of them will BEG you for the solution. Tell them that you'll be HAPPY to share th...
How To: Blow smoke like a human chimney
From nowhere, you produce billows of smoke out of your mouth...it's like you've manufactured smoke in your lungs! Here all you need is a match and some strong lungs.
How To: Stick a beer bottle to a wall without glue or gum
Check out this how-to video and see how you can park a beer bottle in the corner of a room. It looks as if the beer bottle is hanging on the wall. This is a very cool beer bottle trick, just be careful not to damage the paint. There's not gimmick to the trick in this instructional video, and you won't need any glue.
How To: Perform a matches and coin bar trick
Win bar bets with this trick in which you have two matches leaning together on top of a coin. The bet is that you can remove the coin without knocking the matches over.
How To: Do the snifter bar trick
Think you can lift a snifter with a straw without bending the straw with your fingers? Sure you can with this bar trick.
How To: Do the Jumping Egg bar trick
Win a bar bet with this trick. The bet is that you can transfer an egg from one shot glass to another without touching the egg.
How To: Perform the Lemon Prediction magic trick
A great Magic Trick that anyone can learn. Predict the number of sections inside a lemon. Great for kids to.
How To: Perform a smoke from your fingertips trick
See how you can produce smoke from your fingertips with this bar trick.
How To: Perform 4 beer bottle tricks
The four best beer bottle tricks that I know. Combined the make a perfect routine that can entertain a table for quite some time.
How To: Do the Trapped Bill bar trick
Learn a bar bet trick in which the bet is that you can pull a bill from between two bottles balanced on top of one another.
How To: Perform the business card beer bottle trick
Here's a bar trick that is very hard to do unless you know the secret. Place a small coin on a business card and the business card on a bottle. Now, remove the business so that the coin falls into the bottle. Make a bet and you can win with this business card trick. Perform the business card beer bottle trick.
How To: Snap your fingers to make sound
It's classier than clapping for keeping rhythm, and you never know when it'll come in handy.
How To: Juggle the Mills Mess pattern with 3 balls
A juggling tutorial on how to juggle the Mill's Mess pattern with 3 balls.
How To: Juggle under arm and do juggling chops
A tutorial on two juggling tricks - under arm juggling and doing chops.