News and Updates about Magic & Parlor Tricks

Happy weekend! Time to relax and waste time. If you're a child at heart, or you've got a couple young ones hanging around, treat them to these old-school magic tricks, courtesy of Flickr user Jordan Smith. Smith generously scanned and uploaded a selection of cards from a postcard set published by the General Cigar "Hall of Magic" for the 1964-65 New York World's Fair.

You don't have to go the boring route with Christmas lights this year. Try hacking them, or better yet see if you can replicate this Tron-themed optical illusion made by WonderHowTo favorite Brusspup. Good luck... looks like it took some serious time and patience to get it right.

WonderHowTo favorite brusspup demonstrates an amazingly simple coin trick with a plastic hanger and a quarter. In fact, it seems almost too simple to be real.

Wow. Really fantastic fire illusion by WonderHowTo favorite, BrussPup. Hang in there, the magic starts to happen at 0:34.

Richard Valentine Pitchford, widely known as the great Cardini, was a legendary magician and former president of the Magician's Guild.

Dimitri Arleri delivers a set of jaw-dropping card flourishes, performed at a slow pace to "an unidentified piece of ambient opera." Magicians, get ready to be inspired.

This is an early discovery for us.

Congratulations to Brian Brushwood and Scam School for winning the 2008 WonderHowTo Magic Award!

Visit Taiwan some day. Honest. Every school kid twirls and twirls during class.

Steroids are silly.

We have a soft spot for bar tricks...in the same way we love magic.

Don't drink this! This is another one of our favorite science meets magic anti-gravity tricks.

WonderHowTo house favorite, Sam Nouyoun gives the lowdown on "fuming" super glue to develop latent fingerprints on smooth surfaces.

Wait...with only your hand?