MAGIC
TRICKS

The absolute foundation of magic! Learn how to secretly hold a coin or a small ball trapped in the natural curve of your fingers while keeping your hand looking completely empty and relaxed.

The expert's grip! Discover how to use the fleshy pad of your thumb to pinch an object against the center of your palm, allowing you to actually use all your fingers freely.

The greatest weapon you have. Learn the psychological rule: the audience will always look exactly where you look. If you stare at your empty left hand, your right hand is invisible.

A large movement covers a small one! Learn how forcefully slamming a cup onto the table completely masks the tiny, secret finger movement that drops a hidden coin underneath it.

Make them believe it moved! Learn to perfectly pretend to pass a coin from your right hand to your left, closing your left hand tightly while secretly keeping the coin hidden in your right.

Don't do the secret move during the tense moment! Learn to execute your sneaky slide only after the audience laughs or claps, when their brains naturally relax and stop watching closely.

Where did it go? Learn the ancient, risky art of secretly dropping a pen or a coin up the wide sleeve of your jacket while pretending to toss it into the air.

Performing while seated? Learn 'lapping'—secretly dropping an object off the back edge of the table directly into your lap under the cover of simply leaning forward to talk to the audience.

Why do magicians use wands? It's not magic, it's misdirection! Learn how holding a wand gives your hand an excuse to remain closed naturally, hiding the object palmed secretly inside it.

The mirror is your harshest judge. Learn how to practice every simple trick in front of a mirror to ensure you aren't 'flashing' (accidentally revealing the secret) from different audience viewing angles.

Stop holding cards like a poker player! Learn the secure, professional grip that keeps the deck perfectly squared in your hand and prepares your fingers for every single secret sleight.

It looks messy, but it's completely controlled! Learn this classic shuffle that pulls packets from the center of the deck, secretly keeping the entire bottom half of the deck exactly the same.

The easiest way to find a chosen card! Learn how secretly peeking at the very bottom card allows you to instantly track down the spectator's card after they cut the deck.

Show the bottom card, but pull out the wrong one! Learn how to slide the bottom card back slightly with your middle finger, allowing you to secretly grab the second card instead.

Force them to pick your card! Have them cut the deck, place the bottom half crosswise on top, and use a time delay (talking) so they forget which half was actually the top.

The single most important card move in history! Learn the incredibly difficult skill of turning over two cards perfectly together so the audience absolutely believes they are only seeing one single card.

Make a cut look totally fair while keeping the top card exactly where it is! Learn how your thumb secretly holds the top card back while the center of the deck drops out.

Hold the deck from above! Learn this alternative grip that allows you to cleanly peel cards off with your thumb, setting up the famous 'Biddle Trick' card vanishing routine.

Make yourself look like a pro instantly! Learn the proper pressure needed to spread the entire deck across the table in a massive, beautiful, perfectly even, sweeping ribbon arc.

They put their card in the middle, but it ends up on top! Learn the fundamental 'Pinky Break'—keeping your tiny finger secretly wedged in the deck so you can cut their card perfectly back to the top.

The holy grail of card magic! Learn how to completely swap the top and bottom halves of the deck in the blink of an eye without the audience seeing even a trace of movement.

A psychological masterpiece! Learn a specific way of counting four cards from hand to hand that secretly hides one card completely and shows another card twice without anyone ever noticing.

Turn the King of Hearts into a Three of Clubs instantly! Learn the 'Erdnase' change—using the flat of your hand to secretly slide a new card directly over the old one under absolute plain sight.

Make their card disappear! Learn how to use the 'Top Palm' to quietly bend and lift the top card off the deck and hide it completely flat inside your supposedly empty hand.

The ultimate flourish. Learn how to bend the deck deeply and shoot the cards in a fast, loud, cascading waterfall from one hand to the other to impress the crowd before you even do a trick.

They pushed four Aces randomly into the middle. Learn how a complex series of pushes and cuts secretly brings all four Aces right back to the top of the deck at the exact same time.

A shuffle that is pure math! Learn how to push two halves of the deck together so they weave together perfectly, exactly one card at a time, a secret weapon for advanced mentalism tricks.

Card shark secrets revealed! Learn the incredible difficulty of the 'Second Deal'—sliding the top card back to deal the card immediately underneath it—used by magicians and legendary casino cheaters.

Destroy a card and heal it! Learn the secret preparation required to rip a signed card into four pieces and perfectly fuse them back together right in front of their amazed eyes.

The greatest trick apparatus ever made! Learn the secret of the roughed-and-smoothed deck that allows you to instantly prove you predicted their totally free choice before the trick even began.

The most famous coin vanish! Hold a coin at your fingertips. Pretend to grab it with your other hand, but simply let it drop into your palm silently. When you open your hand, it is gone!

Toss a silver coin to your left hand, but a copper coin arrives! Learn this incredibly fast, secret, mid-air toss that switches one palmed coin for another right in front of their faces.

The ultimate solid-through-solid illusion! Use a heavy glass to repeatedly slam a coin against a solid wooden table, secretly lapping the coin on the final strike before showing it under the wood.

Hold a silver coin at your fingertips. Simply rub your hand over it once, and it changes to gold! Learn the precise finger movements that execute this beautiful, highly visual coin swap.

How do you push a massive coin into a tiny glass bottle? Learn the secret of the 'Folding Coin'—a real coin cut into three pieces and held together invisibly by tiny rubber bands.

Place four coins under four playing cards. Learn the rapid, secret picking-up and stealing techniques that make the coins visibly teleport across the table until all four sit under one single card.

The greatest secret device in magic! Learn how wearing a tiny, invisible, fake plastic thumb allows you to push a lit cigarette or a red silk scarf into your fist and make it completely disappear.

Can you bend solid metal with your mind? Learn how to secretly switch a legitimate coin for a pre-bent gimmick coin under the cover of intensely straining your muscles for the audience.

Borrow a twenty! Learn how a specially constructed gimmick pen has a secret magnetic joint, allowing it to seemingly rip straight through the heavy paper money without leaving a single mark or hole.

Make money levitate! Learn the lighting requirements and exact handling needed to use Invisible Thread to make a crumpled paper bill float gently between your completely empty and open moving hands.

The power of nines! Tell them to pick a number, multiply it by 9, and add the digits together. The answer is always 9. Frame this mathematical absolute certainty as incredible psychic mind reading.

Give them a total free choice, but win anyway! Learn 'Equivoque,' a verbal trick where you change the rules of the game based on what they point at, ensuring they always pick your item.

A classic mentalism technique. Have them write a name on paper. You rip the paper up and burn it, but secret folding allows you to quietly read their word from a single tiny torn corner.

Hand them a giant book. They pick a random page and look at a word. Without seeing the book, you immediately tell them the word! Learn the mathematical forces that make this possible.

Predict their thoughts! Walk them through a complex math and letter game that almost always forces the human brain to think of a 'Grey Elephant from Denmark' while believing it was totally random.

How do psychics work? Learn the dirty tricks of 'Cold Reading'—making highly vague statements that apply to everyone, and reading their tiny facial micro-expressions to seem like you know their deep secrets.

Predict the future! Learn how mentalists use a tiny piece of pencil lead hidden on their thumbnail to secretly write down the audience's completely random number AFTER they say it out loud.

They put their secret paper into a bowl. Learn the sleight of hand needed to secretly swap their paper for a fake blank one so you can read what they wrote backstage calmly.

Combine math and cards! Learn an incredibly powerful self-working trick where twelve arranged cards perfectly predict a completely random hour chosen by the audience without you ever touching the deck at all.

Put three crayons in a bag. Learn the tactile trick of secretly bending one or wrapping it slightly so your fingers can feel the exact color before you pull it out blindfolded.

The classic rope trick! You show a short loop, a medium loop, and a long loop of rope. With a snap, all three pieces stretch and incredibly become the exact same length in your hands!

The best trick for stage! Learn the secret loop fold that allows you to cut a perfectly good piece of thick white rope in half and tie it back together without a seam.

Tie a knot in the center of the rope. Learn how to tie a 'false knot' that looks completely tight but simply vanishes into thin air when you blow on it gently.

Thread a solid metal ring onto a tied rope. Under a handkerchief, learn the secret spatial geometry move to pull the ring straight through the solid rope without untying the tight knots.

Have someone tie your wrists together with heavy string. Learn how twisting your forearm muscles before they knot the rope gives you enough hidden slack to pull your hand out easily and freely alone.

Tie two separate white ropes together. Learn a knot technique that actually allows you to grab the knot and slide it entirely off the end of the rope, turning two pieces back into one!

A startling, slightly scary illusion! Learn the specific, very safe folding pattern that allows you to wrap a string tightly around your bare neck and yank it, making it cleanly pass straight through you.

A close-up challenge. Hand them a heavy metal spring with a solid ring trapped on it. Learn the secret twist-and-push motion required to easily free the ring that took them an hour to try.

The ultimate flourish. Hold a long piece of rope with one hand. Learn how to whip the rope through the air so hard that it instantly ties a perfect knot on its own in mid-air.

Learn incredibly fast knot tying skills used by cowboys and sailors. Tying a bowline knot in under two seconds looks like absolute magic to an untrained audience watching your blindingly fast, flying hands.

Grab two rubberbands from a desk. Learn how to pinch and twist them instantly together so they appear permanently linked, pulling them apart right in front of a completely shocked and amazed spectator.

Place a rubberband over your first two fingers. Learn the secret tension grip that makes the band instantly 'jump' onto your last two fingers the moment you open your closed, tight hand.

Hold a pen at its ends. Learn how a sharp snap of your thumb flips the pen aggressively behind your arm, hiding it perfectly along your sleeve in the blink of an eye.

Hold your hand flat and place a pencil underneath it. The pencil sticks! Learn how secretly using the index finger of your other hand holds the pencil up while your grip looks incredibly fair.

Tear open a sugar packet, pour the sugar into your closed fist, and rub it. The sugar vanishes! Learn the thumb-palm required to hide the torn packet and fake the entire pour perfectly.

The oldest trick in human history! Learn the routine of moving three cups and three soft balls, using misdirection and false loads to make lemons or tomatoes magically appear under the tiny plastic cups.

Borrow an expensive wedding ring. Pretend to put it in your left hand, but steal it secretly in your right. Learn how to load it into a sealed envelope sitting completely on the other table.

Ask for a wooden match. You clearly snap it in half, then instantly restore it. Learn how sliding a second, hidden half-match up the side of the whole stick creates this perfect acoustic illusion.

Take a styrofoam coffee cup. Learn how to shove your thumb secretly through the back wall of the cup, allowing you to open your fingers completely while the huge cup hovers solidly in place.

Take a quarter and bite a massive chunk out of solid metal! Learn the secret of the folding, spring-loaded coin that makes this insanely visual and jarring bar trick suddenly, surprisingly very possible.

A dinner table classic. Sprinkle pepper on water. The second you touch the water with a tiny drop of dish soap, the pepper aggressively shoots to the edges of the bowl instantly!

Drop a small ketchup packet into a water bottle. Squeeze the bottle tightly and the packet dives; let go and it floats. Learn how water pressure shrinks the air bubble hiding inside the plastic.

Fill a glass totally to the brim. Place a stiff index card on top, and flip the whole glass completely upside down! Learn how air pressure holds the heavy water securely in place.

Boil a tiny bit of water in an empty soda can. Quickly plunge it upside down into ice water! Learn how the condensing steam creates an instant, violent vacuum that crushes the thick metal.

How do magicians lie on sharp nails? Learn the physics of 'weight distribution.' One nail goes straight through you, but a thousand nails spread the heavy force out, leaving you safe and undamaged.

Hold a flame under an inflated balloon and it pops! But put a cup of water inside the balloon first, and it won't! Learn how the water instantly absorbs all the high heat.

Sink a small Pyrex bowl inside a larger glass bowl and fill them both with vegetable oil. Learn how the matching 'index of refraction' makes the inner glass completely and utterly invisible.

Use a spoon made of fake 'Gallium' metal. Learn how this incredibly unique material has a melting point of just 85 degrees, turning to complete liquid mush just from the heat of your hand.

Drop raisins into a very clear, highly fizzy lemon-lime soda. Learn how carbon dioxide bubbles attach to the wrinkly raisins, lifting them up before popping and letting them dramatically fall back down slowly.

Charge a cheap rubber balloon on your messy hair for a minute. Hold it near an empty aluminum soda can placed on its side and watch the invisible static field aggressively pull the metal!

The most famous street magic trick! Learn how standing at a very specific angle and raising one foot quietly allows you to look exactly like you are levitating three inches off the solid ground.

An advanced version of the Balducci. Learn how to arrange your long pants and twist your legs so you can actually show both of your feet clearly hovering in the air to the crowd.

Make a paper rose float! Learn the incredibly delicate setup using invisible thread to make it hover happily before setting it on fire with flash paper to magically produce a real rose.

The secret string! Learn how magicians use stripped-down, microscopic Kevlar threads and tiny balls of sticky wax anchored to their buttons to completely control objects floating from several feet totally far away from them.

Make a coin float from hand to hand! Learn how spinning a coin incredibly fast on its edge perfectly hides the thread, making it look like a buzzing, flying metal insect orbiting you.

The classic stage trick where an assistant floats up under a heavy sheet and vanishes! Learn the secret of the wire frame that holds the shape long after the girl has quietly sneaked out.

A person balances perfectly horizontally on just the point of a single wooden broom without falling! Learn the secret, heavy steel harness hidden underneath their clothes that securely locks their body completely rigid sideways.

Levitate a wooden match directly over a playing card. Learn how to create a microscopic bow using a stripped black hair, creating a portable, completely self-contained, incredible levitation system fitting in your pocket.

How do some toys hover forever? Learn how incredibly strong neodymium magnets are arranged in opposing magnetic fields to securely hold a heavy spinning top floating entirely in mid-air frictionlessly without any strings.

How do boxes float without wires? Learn how massive stage illusions use carefully positioned mirrors angled exactly 45-degrees to the floor to perfectly reflect the stage, completely hiding the massive steel support pillar holding it.

A trick without talking is a puzzle, not magic! Learn how writing a compelling, interesting script (patter) completely controls the audience's brain, making them care deeply about the cards and totally miss the secret.

Every magician faces a ruinous spectator who grabs their hands. Learn professional, tested psychological techniques to calm them down firmly and make the crowd laugh without getting incredibly angry and ruining the show.

Don't do ten card tricks in a row! Learn how to structure a good show: start with an incredibly fast, highly visual trick, slow down for a story, and then end with your absolute best massive closer.

Comedy and magic share the same rule! Learn how to do an action three times: the first sets the expectation, the second confirms it loudly, and the third introduces completely unexpected, shocking twist.

You are the boss of the stage! Learn how giving the audience clear, simple physical instructions—like 'hold your hand incredibly flat for me'—keeps them completely engaged and stops them entirely from trying to break the trick over.

Never embarrass a volunteer! Learn how to select the right person from the crowd and treat them incredibly well, ensuring they leave the stage feeling like the ultimate hero of the entire performance.

Learn the difference! A flourish (fancy card cuts) proves you are tremendously skilled, but real magic requires you to act incredibly surprised when the trick works, proving the power is in the magic wand itself.

A trick isn't over until the crowd claps! Learn how striking a strong, solid pose and taking a deep, confident bow silently cues the audience that it is absolutely finally time to cheer incredibly loudly.

Why do magicians wear vests and big suit jackets? Learn how secret, massive, hidden pockets ('poachers') are sewn into their complex clothing to secretly hold massive loads like bowling balls entirely effortlessly and securely.

The final and most important rule! Learn why protecting the secret is vital. Once the audience knows how a trick works, the wonder is totally dead, ruining the incredible experience for absolutely everyone involved.