- [Narrator] Making the
Statue of Liberty disappear
is probably going to be beyond you.
But that doesn't mean you
can't impress your friends
with some less
resource-heavy magic tricks.
These tricks include classics
like making a coin disappear
or bending a paperclip with your mind.
What's more, most of them only
take a few minutes to learn.
(puzzled music)
- Amazing.
- [Narrator] Number 20,
turn paper into cash.
Magic always looks more
impressive with fire.
Of course, we always urge caution
when adding anything
flame-related to a trick.
For this one, you'll need a
piece of paper, a fire lighter,
and some cash.
Hold the piece of paper in
your hand then set it on fire,
flick your wrist and, hey presto.
And in its place you have a 20-pound note.
Here's how it's done.
First, fold the bank note in
half three times as shown.
Then hide it in the palm of your hand.
Now, light the paper as normal.
While the audience are
distracted by the flame
all you have to do is push the bank note
to the front of your thumb, simple.
This trick works best
when your audience doesn't
know what you're gonna do.
Number 19, the levitating card trick.
The levitating card trick
is another very easy piece of magic.
All you need is a pack of
cards and some fingers.
Let's hope you still have yours.
Place your index finger on
top of the deck of cards,
lift it up and using the
awesome powers of your mind,
a card should follow suit.
This card will always be the one
placed at the back of the
deck and with good reason.
To do the trick, simply
hold your pinky finger
against the deck in the middle of the card
while your index finger rests
against the top like shown.
Raise your hand and the
card should move with it.
Number 18, the disappearing crayons.
Take box of crayons, hold it
out in front of the audience.
Before their very eyes you're
going to make the crayons
inside the box disappear.
Wave your hand over the crayons
in a suitably theatrical
manner and suddenly,
poof, the crayons are gone.
To get the crayons back all you have to do
is turn the box over
and the crayons have magically reappeared.
This is a little trickier
than some of the tricks in this video
and requires some basic
arts and crafts skills.
You can't do this trick
with any old box of crayons.
The crayons are cut in half
and glued to a few Popsicle sticks
or whatever you have that suits as shown.
When putting the crayons inside the box,
hold your finger about halfway up the box
to keep the crayons in place.
When you want them to disappear,
simply release the pressure on the box
and the crayons will slip
to the bottom of the box.
Once you turn the box
over, the crayons reappear.
Number 17, disappearing coin trick.
This is one of a host
of classic coin tricks
you've probably seen a version
of dozens of times before.
In this particular case,
you're gonna hold the coin in one hand,
place your other hand over the coin,
remove it and the coin is gone.
Place your hand over the other hand again
and what's that?
The coin is back but this
time in your other hand.
As you might have guessed,
this involves a little
bit of sleight of hand.
Once you place your second hand
over the one with the coin in it,
simply place the coin in
between your index finger
holding it there.
Now, to make the coin reappear
all you have to do is lift
it from your index finger
and show it to your
hopefully astonished fans.
Number 16, disappearing match trick.
Next, we're gonna make a match
or a toothpick disappear,
whichever you have.
This is another really simple trick
that if carried out right
is really effective.
Hold a match in your hand,
open your hand dramatically
as if you've thrown the
match clear with your mind.
Now, as if catching the
match from out of thin air
close your hands and
boom, the match is back.
Repeat this as many times as you like.
It will amaze your audience every time.
All you have to do is take the
match to your thumb as shown
bend the top of your thumb downwards
to put the match on display
and simply straighten your
thumb to make it disappear.
If you don't happen to have tape on you,
this can still be performed.
All you need to do is lick
the back of your thumb
between the knuckle and nail
when the audience is distracted,
and squeeze the match
against your thumb tightly.
It should create some temporary adhesive
so that it will hold long enough
for you to at least
perform this trick once.
Number 15, disappearing
coin trick off table.
Some more coin trickery now.
This time, we're gonna
make a coin disappear
through a table.
First, place the coin on a flat surface,
drop your hand over the coin
and concentrating really, really hard,
use all your magical abilities
to make that money vanish.
while rubbing your palm back
and forth over the coin.
What you're really doing
by rubbing the coin
is actually inching it slowly
to the edge of the table
first with your palm and
then your wrist, as shown,
where it will magically fall off
and disappear onto the floor.
It helps if you do this
trick in a carpeted room.
Number 14, magic liquid
through a plastic cup trick.
This is another trick
that requires a little bit
of advanced preparation.
Drop one plastic cup filled with liquid,
preferably colored
liquid, into the other one
and if your powers are
working at full capacity,
the liquid from the first cup
should magically appear in the second one
as if the liquid is passed
right through the first cup.
To do this trick, you actually
need three plastic cups.
cut the bottom of the third cup
and fill that with liquid
mixed with some food color.
Place it on the bottom of the
second, completely empty cup.
Making it look like
it's filled with liquid
drop this cup into the first one.
The base from the third cup
should fall off into the first cup
and disappear into the liquid,
making it look as if the liquid has passed
from one cup to the other.
Number 13, wine glass and coin trick.
This is another perennial favorite
in magicians the world over.
You're gonna take a wine
glass, put a cloth over it
or simply place your hands around its top
and slide it over a coin.
The coin as if by magic will vanish.
It is important for this trip to work
that it occurs on colored paper.
It is this paper that is
the secret to its success.
Beforehand, you will have
cut out a circular piece
of the colored paper
and glued it to the top of the wine glass.
So when you slide the glass over the coin,
it looks like it has vanished
when really it's hidden
underneath the colored paper.
Slide the glass away and
look, the coin is back.
Number 12, signed card trick.
We've been lied on card tricks thus far
so let's address that issue right now.
For this trick, you'll
need a deck of cards,
a marker, and a see-through bag.
Get your participant to pull
out a card from the deck
and without showing it
to you sign the card
and place it back in the deck.
The cards will be placed
into the see-through bag and sealed.
Give the bag to your participant to hold
with a born entertainer's flourish,
you're going to pull their
signed card from out of the bag
without actually damaging the plastic.
Impossible, right?
Well, obviously not.
The trick here is to palm the card
once the person is placed
in back into the deck.
To do this, simply cut the pack of cards
so that there is a break in it.
Shifts the card
so that the person's
card is on top as shown.
The card is then palmed
as you misdirect the audience's attention
with the question like how
many cards are in the deck?
Once the participant holds
the bag, you scratch your face
and lick the back of the card
which is then stuck to
the other side of the bag
so it's never actually inside the plastic.
Once it comes time to
pull it out of the bag,
all you have do is pull it
off the back of the bag.
Make sure do it with a
little bit of style though.
Number 11, breaking a
pencil with an index card.
This is another really simple trick
that you can do with a regular old pencil
and an index card.
What you're gonna do is break
that pencil with the card.
Get your delightful assistant
to hold the pencil tightly.
Swipe down with the card
and the pencil should break in two.
Of course, you can
actually break the pencil
with a piece of card but
what you're actually doing
is quickly straightening your
index finger as you swipe,
and it's this that does the damage.
It could hurt a little
but it's all worth it
in the name of magic.
Just make sure to apply
ample power to your swipe.
Number 10, the torn corner card trick.
So if you're feeling a little hungry,
here's a trick that will astonish people
and seemingly fill your stomach a little.
Your assistant picks a card,
you tear it a little at the corner.
Then you bite it off, chew down
on the card and swallow it.
Then go to your wallet
and look what's inside,
it's the bit of the card
that you have just eaten.
To pull this one off, you
need a duplicate card,
so access to two decks.
For best effect, use a picture card
like the king of diamonds
so you can tear both at identical places,
say where the king's crown stops.
Take the tone piece of card
and put it in your wallet,
then force the duplicate
card on your spectator.
There are multiple ways you can do this.
Now all you have to do is tear the card
in the exact same way you
tore the previous one,
you don't actually have to
eat the piece of the king.
Instead, simply tuck the
corner behind the card as shown
as you bring it to your mouth.
Set the card down so the corner is hidden.
Then go to your wallet
and complete the trick.
Number nine, bend a
paperclip with your mind.
Bending a paperclip with your mind
is not as difficult as it sounds.
In fact, it's remarkably easy
and it requires surprisingly
little psychic abilities.
Take a normal paperclip,
flatten it out and then hold
it straight in front of you.
This trick is all about perspective.
The paperclip shouldn't
be completely straight.
However, when you hold it in front of you,
it should look like it is.
To bend it, simply roll
it ever so slightly
between your fingers making it look
like you're bending the
paperclip with your mind
when in reality, you're
just rotating it a little.
Number eight, magic chalk powder.
For this, you'll need some
chalk and an assistant's hands,
preferably attached to their body.
Get your assistant
to hold their hands out
in front of them facedown.
Make sure to place them exactly
where you want them to be.
Put some chalk on your
hand, rub it some more
until the chalk has disappeared.
Finish by blowing on your hand
to magically transfer the chalk
that was there into your helper's hand.
Now turn your assistant's hands over
and the chalk should have
magically jumped to their palm.
The trick here is in the
placement of the assistance hands.
Rub some chalk on your fingers
in advance of the trick.
Once you reposition their hands,
you're also transferring
the chalk to their palm.
Everything after this is mere showmanship.
Number seven, disappearing coin trick.
This is another twist on the
classic vanishing coin trick.
For this variant, you
need a glass of water,
a coin of course, and a piece of cloth.
Put the coin under the cloth
and then hold it over
the water tap at once,
maybe twice for effect,
remove the cloth and the coin is gone.
What you need to do to
make this trick magic
is hold a transparent coin replacement
like the glass of a
watch face in your hand
and swap it out for the coin
before you actually place it
underneath the cloth like shown
so when you let go of what
is supposed to be the coin,
the transparent object
drops into the water
completely unnoticed or
disappears as if by magic.
Number six, disappearing ring.
Ever wanted to make a ring
disappear, here's how.
Place the ring on your index finger.
Wave your other magic hand in
front of it, the ring is gone.
A second wave and it's back again.
All you have to do to
make this trick magic
is simply swap fingers.
When you wave your hand,
you swap your index finger
for your middle finger
and then swap them back again
to make the ring reappear.
Who knew magic was so easy?
Number five, magic slap card trick.
Now we're going back to card tricks.
Get your assistant to
pick a card, any card,
look at it and put it
back anywhere in the deck
then give them the pack of cards.
Now you're going to slap the
cards out of the person's hand
until the only card that remains
is incredibly the very card they picked.
To do this, you have to
keep control of the card
when it's put back into the deck,
ensuring that it winds up
at the bottom of the pack.
Once it's there, the rest
is fairly straightforward.
Make sure they hold the deck
of cards relatively loosely
and in this specific way as shown
with their thumb and index finger.
Once you select the pack of cards,
they will naturally fall until
you are only left with one.
It might require a little bit of practice
to know exactly how hard to hit the cards.
Number four, anti-gravity ring.
Now we're gonna do something really cool.
We're gonna make a ring defy gravity.
Take a piece of elastic,
break it and threaded through the ring.
Hold it in an angle like so
and using all the power of your mind,
make that ring go up.
It's actually a pretty
easy trick to pull off.
Hold one end of the elastic at its edge
while with the other end,
you're actually going to leave
quite a bit of the elastic
resting in your palm.
Then stretch the elastic
so it looks like it's at its full length.
Now all you're gonna do is
pull the elastic upwards,
releasing it slowly
to make it look like the
ring is defying gravity.
Number three, levitating money trick.
With this trick,
it appears that all you're
doing is taking a standard note
and folding it.
Then for added suspense,
the note is balanced
between both your thumbs
and ever so slowly, it is
less suspended in the air.
The illusion makes it seem
like the note is levitating on its own,
but obviously it isn't.
The note is then unwrapped and inspected.
This trick is super simple.
All you have to do is take a coin
and hide it in your palm.
As you take the note to start folding it
simply slide the coin behind it
and fold the note over the coin.
Now all you have to do is
slowly balance it on your thumb.
Once you're done levitating the bill,
flip it upside down and release
the pressure on the coin
so that the coin falls
back into your hand.
Number two, disappearing foil coin trick.
This is a delightfully simple trick
that looks wonderful if
pulled off correctly.
Take a coin and a piece of paper.
Place the coin inside the piece of paper
and then nice and slowly
fold the paper over
until it is nothing more than
a scrunched up piece of paper.
Did the coin disappear?
Well, the truth, as ever,
is a little more prosaic.
There never was a coin to begin with.
What you do is take some tin foil
and to make an impression of the coin.
In the U.S., a quarter will work.
For British magicians,
you'll probably want to use the 10p coin.
Trim around the edge of
the foil with scissors
so you have a foil quarter.
At a distance, it should be really hard
to tell the difference between
the real and fake coin.
From here, the rest is simple.
Number one, torn and
restored dollar bill trick.
Now, we're gonna destroy some money.
Well, not really.
Take a note, tear it
straight down the middle,
then do it again and again.
So you now have half a
dozen or so torn pieces,
rub the bits together until
eventually the bill is restored.
So how is it done?
All you need are two of the
same denominations of note
and some glue or rubber cement.
Super glue might ruin your notes,
make them un-spendable.
Fold one of the bills in half
and line it up with the back
of the other bill as shown.
Run some rubber cement around
the outer edge of the bill
just the outer edge.
The second bill goes on top.
Press it into place
with two flaps as shown.
Now you could start tearing the first bill
from just about where the fold is.
Tear it some more to
make sure your audience
are convinced you have torn the money.
Slide the tone pieces
into the pocket created
when you glued the two notes together.
Start rubbing, which is really you
just moving the pieces into the pocket.
Maneuver the bill into a Z shape.
Showing the slide that hasn't been glued,
straighten the note with a flourish.
You can even show them the other side
being careful to hold
the note in such a way
as to hide the crease.
There you go, 20 tricks to
amaze and astound friends,
loved ones and enemies.
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