Hot Magic & Parlor Tricks How-Tos
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How To: Do the balancing fork trick
Learn how to balance 2 forks on 2 toothpicks and show it to your friends or earn a little extra as a server.
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How To: Perform the "Jumping Gemini" magic card trick easily
A tutorial for the magic card trick named, "The Jumping Gemini." With this magic trick you can impress your friends with easy to learn step by step guide.
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How To: Perform "The Revolver" magic card trick
A tutorial for the magic card trick called, "The Revolver." With this magic trick you can impress your friends with easy to learn step by step tutorial.
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How To: Create a drinkable smoke cocktail with a cigarette
Amaze your friends by showing them this bar trick. With only two glasses and a cigarette you can make your very own smoking cocktail illusion.
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How To: Grab a burning hot cigarette between your fingers
With this fun parlor trick you can impress your friends by holding a burning hot cigarette between your fingers without feeling any pain. Perform this grand illusion.
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How To: Do the amazing lighter trick
This bar magic trick teaches you how to remove the lighter from underneath the bottle. The second video shows you variations of the trick.
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How To: Perform the WERM card trick
Learn two different ways of performing the WERM card trick. Perform this magic trick with both the box cut and the triangle cut.
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How To: Make a Coke can balance
Balance a Coke can using gravity. A very simple cool magic trick that can impress your friends at the bar.
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How To: Levitate
After a silly opening with some amazing levitation we learn how to do a much simpler levitation. This video is hilarious and you can learn a thing or two from it. This is not the Balducci levitation. It is an ingenious bootleg solution that involves taking off one shoe, and a blanket that disguises some of the method.
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How To: Magically levitate objects
A video for how to perform magic tricks to levitate lightweight objects.
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How To: Perform a simple card levitation magic trick
An explanation of a simple card levitation magic trick.
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How To: Shuffle a deck of cards with the riffle shuffle
A quick video tutorial on how to do the riffle shuffle to shuffle a deck of cards
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How To: Perform a very simple coin vanish trick
The easiest way to make small objects disappear. Anyone can do this trick. No need to use fancy gimmicks and props like Criss Angel or David Blaine. Just pull up a chair, get out a coin, and make it disappear!
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How To: Perform some false shuffles for card tricks
More trick shuffles for magic or poker. Keep the cards you want, where you want them allowing you to deal yourself a certain poker hand, or keep a spectators card where you know you can find it again.
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How To: Perform three different false shuffles
Flase shuffles and cuts are used to maintain the order of a certain number of cards or the whole deck. This is useful if cards you want (a poker hand or a spectator's card) are on the top of the deck. Here are three trick shuffles and cuts.
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How To: Make a magic deck of cards used for card tricks
Shave off the edges slightly of a deck of cards and it turns into a trick deck that is lightly tapered and can be used for 100's of magic tricks.
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How To: Balance a coke can on its edge
A simple trick with a soda can and balance it at an angle. A very neat trick that you can do anywhere with a soda can.
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How To: Put some beer handcuffs on a friend
A cool trick known as bar handcuffs that will force them to either stay still or spill the beer. And nobody wants that.
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How To: Clean a penny with Coke
An easy and fun way to clean a tarnished penny using coke or coca cola soda.
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How To: Make an empty can full again
You can learn a magic trick that will make an empty can full again, just watch this how-to video. You need a can of soda, piece of paper, black texta, scissors, and a marker. You trim the paper to best fit the can's mouth, insert a hole behind the can's mouth, and squeeze about 2/3 of the can out. Check out this video magic tutorial and learn how to create the illusion of filling up an empty can.
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How To: Move a straw teepee from pad to pad for a free drink
A video tutorial showing you how to do this little trick to get a free drink at a bar. The girls in this video look like they are having a great time. Or not.
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How To: Put a cigarette out on your tongue
This video will show you how to get a free beer by putting a cigarette out on your tongue. Warning! This is dangerous!
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How To: Straw pedo a beer out the bottle
You only need a straw, with a bendy bit and a glass bottle of beer. This is a quick way to shot gun a beer.
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How To: Spin a plate on a stick
This is my favorite video of all time. Watch this fantastic gentleman teach you how to spin a plate in a whisking motion. Be sure to stay for the out takes. Cracks me up.
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How To: Spin a card in your hand
A brief video tutorial on how to spin a card in one hand using your pointer finger to spin it.
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How To: Levitate a card with a simple trick
This video tutorial shows you how to levitate a card using some glued on pieces of card. I couldn't even see the extra pieces I just thought it was a horrible performance.
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How To: Open a champagne bottle with a samurai sword
When a man does this he is known as a sabreur. Watch this video as this sabreur cuts a bottle of champagne open with a samurai sowrd.
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How To: Do the water pepper and soap trick
Be like Moses and part the Pepper Sea! Learn a nice trick using pepper, water and dish-washing detergent that is sure to freak out believers and non-believers alike. Use this as inspiration for one of your April Fools Day pranks!
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How To: Make smoke from your fingertips
Using a matchbook you can create smoke from your fingertips. Amaze your friends as smoke appears to emanate from your finger tips.
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How To: Perform the Arrow cut and display
This cut and display is known as the Arrow. This video will teach you the Arrow cut and display step by step.
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How To: Perform the Buckeye card cut and display
A video tutorial showing how to cut and display cards with the Buckeye technique. A pretty epic display, takes lots of practice and knowledge of other cuts.
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How To: Perform the Pop To The Top card trick
Make a card "pop" to the top after creasing it and putting it in the middle of the deck. When you release your grip, it pops back to the top.
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How To: Make a card vanish and then reappear a second later
A very quick card vanishing trick. The card disappears behind your hand, only to come back a second later.
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How To: Make a card vanish from your hand and then reappear
A simple video tutorial showing you how to take a single card and make it disappear from both hands, then, if you wish, you can make it reappear in your hand.
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How To: Fake a coin grab so that the coin seems to disappear
A simple video tutorial showing you how to fake grab a coin so that the coin appears to vanish in your hand.
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How To: Levitate a ring on a rubber band
This video shows how to make a ring appear to levitate using an elastic or rubber band.
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How To: Take the flame away and put in back on your Zippo
A very great Zippo trick that makes you look like you control fire. Take the flame out of your Zippo and then put in back with a snap. A great Zippo trick.
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How To: Open your Zippo so that you look bad ass
A very cool way to open your Zippo. If you have a Zippo lighter than you better know how to do these killer Zippo tricks.
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How To: Teleport quarters under your hands
A simple video showing a variation of the teleporting quarter trick. This uses 5 quarters instead of 4 and can be done with just your hands. No need for cards.
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How To: Perform the teleporting quarters coin trick
This video shows how to do the popular disappearing quarters trick. A quarter under each card and by the end you'll have four quarters under one card.