How To: Guess how many candies are in a jar
Want to win the prize? Knowing a little math is the key to winning this popular contest. In this video, learn how to estimate correctly.
How To: Magically levitate in the air with a box and mirror
Wish you could fly like Superman? Now you can, with a little magic (or more appropriately, illusion). This magic trick lets you float horizontally in midair, and it's simple to perform. This video reveals the secret, which is as simple as a box and mirror.
How To: Make a hot air balloon shape using a rubberband
In this video tutorial Slipperypiggy5 shows an easy way to make a hot air balloon with a rubber band. Take a rubber band put one end on the thumb and the other on the little finger of left hand. With the right hand's finger (index finger) make a twist in the middle and put it on the middle finger of left. Take one part of the loop from the little finger and put it on the thumb and do vice versa. Hold the middle part with right hands index finger and release all loops of thumb and little finge...
How To: Perform the nine coins bar trick
A great trick that requires you have a friend with you. When your back is turned, and the "victim" chooses a coin, your buddy puts his beer where the coin is. Known as the "nine coins" bar trick.
How To: Perform the "rope through the neck" trick
This video starts off with a magician performing a trick that he will teach. You are going to need a length of rope or a scarf to do this trick. The rope or scarf should be about five feet long. Put the rope behind your head so the sides are hanging normally down your chest. You’ll want the rope that is on the left side hanging a little lower then the right. Reach with the right hand and grab the rope high on your chest. With the left hand grab the rope on the right side making sure your left...
How To: Do the Infinity pen spinning trick
Learn how to do the Infinity with this pen spinning tutorial.
How To: Perform This Cool Magic Tricks with No Props
No nets, no coins, no cards, no nothing! This magic trick is a fun one to do and only requires your hands, arms and an audience. Check it out and see how to convince your friends that your arms are made of rubber.
How To: Relight a candle by igniting the smoke with a flame
Magic is a wonderful thing. But so is science. So, which category does this mystifying candle trick fall in? Perhaps both.
How To: Do the "large coin, small hole" trick
A great and easy to do trick. You can cut out a small hole and by bending the paper just right you can fit a much larger coin through it. This "large coin, small hole" bar trick is a great way to win money, beer or even just to impress the best.
How To: Breathe huge fireballs with non toxic items
Learn how to safely breathe huge fire balls with non-flammable or toxic households items. This trick is simple and safe! Shock your friends and family!
How To: Perform a great rope escape magic trick
Grab a friend and get ready to perform some magic! The Great Rope Escape is sure to amaze your audience! You will need a rope (two pieces, each roughly 3 feet long). Sometimes we use materials that require adult supervision... like scissors so make sure you have friends and family around whenever you do magic tricks.
How To: Perform the Exploding Dice magic trick
Learn the secret of Theatrix's Exploding dice trick. Make a single die "explode" into several smaller dice.
How To: Perform the cups and balls magic trick
This is the famous cups and balls magic trick. You'll make the balls appear and disappear, seemingly at random. You'll need some balls to do this trick - 3 to be exact. You'll also need 3 cups. Watch this video and see how it's done
How To: Perform the Jumping Ring Trick
OK, don't use this video to propose to your future wife, but DO try this video to impress your friends and family. You'll need a ring and an audience and you'll be able to show them how the ring jumps off one finger to another. It's magic!
How To: Perform Doc Eason's "All Screwed Up" prop trick routine
In this video tutorial, we learn how to perform the "All Screwd Up" prop trick. For more information about the trick and its execution, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started incorporating this trick into your own routines, watch this free video magic lesson.
How To: Do a cool coin flip switch magic trick
This video will show you how to perform a really cool, easy coin trick with only two different coins and your hands. The effect is that you throw one of the coins up in the air, catch it, and reveal the other coin, which the audience has not seen yet. You accomplish this by switching the second coin from one hand to the other while the first is in the air, then stashing the first coin in your pocket while showing your audience the second. Easy and impressive.
News: The Amazing Art of Pen Spinning
Pen Spinning lives in a similar world of the unassuming arts of Cup Stacking and Dice Stacking. All three performing arts truly require a great deal of practice and skill.
How To: Stick a 4-Inch Nail Up Your Nose
Remember Brian sticking a 4-inch nail up his nose at Diggnation New York? Want to do it yourself? This time he shows you how it works!
How To: Perform the coin in a bottle magic trick
ShootingEggs Productions reveals how to put a coin in a bottle. It is super simple but very effective. This prop magic trick has been performed by David Blaine. You too can perform this world famous magic trick...just watch!
How To: Do basic fundamental pen spinning tricks
Watch this pen spinning video tutorial to learn how to do basic fundamental pen spinning tricks, like the Thumb Around, Thumb Around Reverse, Charge, Pass, Reverse Pass, Fingerpass, Finger Pass Reverse, Sonic, and Sonic Reverse.
How To: Perform the "healed and sealed" soda can magic trick
The goal of this video tutorial is to teach you how to perform the "healed and sealed" soda can magic trick. This instructional is to help anyone wanting to be a magician, helping you understand technique and presentation of simple but effective illusions. These tricks are pretty easy, but with time, practice and patience you will be able to amaze your friends and your family. Learn the healed and sealed prop magic trick.
How To: Do the Middle Backaround pen spinning trick
Learn how to do the Middle Backaround with this pen spinning tutorial.
How To: Do the Extended Infinity pen spinning trick
Learn how to do the Extended Infinity with this pen spinning tutorial.
How To: Do the Thumbaround Reverse pen spinning trick
Learn how to do the Thumbaround Reverse with this pen spinning tutorial.
How To: Perform a ghostly straw magic trick
Do you believe in ghosts? Well you will after this magic trick. Learn how to wow the crowd with this ghoulish trick. You will need a straw and a smooth table surface. Sometimes we use materials that require adult supervision... like scissors, so make sure you have friends and family around whenever you do magic tricks. 1. Place the straw on the table.
How To: Perform the pulling money from nowhere magic trick
Have you ever heard anyone say "money doesn't grow on trees"? Well, it doesn't…it floats in mid air all around us! Learn how to magically make money appear out of nowhere! You will need one quarter. Sometimes we use materials that require adult supervision... like scissors so make sure you have friends and family around whenever you do magic tricks.
How To: Perform a Ropes Through Body magic trick
Are you ready to learn a magic trick that is sure to amaze your friends and family? Ryan Oakes is going to show you how to pass ropes right through your body. You will need two pieces of rope, about four feet long each, a pair of scissors, and white thread.
How To: Perform a magnetic pencil magic trick
Get right to the point with this magic trick! You will need two pencils. Sometimes we use materials that require adult supervision... like scissors, so make sure you have friends and family around whenever you do magic tricks.
How To: Do the "Thumbaround Harmonic" pen spinning trick
Interested in pen spinning? Want to pick up a few moves? Pen spinning is the skilled movement of a writing instrument or pen with one's hands. It is used as a source of self entertainment (often for students), but there is a great deal of pen spinning culture (competitions, websites, etc.). Watch this pen spinning tutorial video and learn how to perform the "Thumbaround Harmonic" move.
How To: Perform a cool disappearing coin magic trick
You may have seen this one a million times, but now it’s your turn to pull the quarter out of somebody else’s ear! Except not, because this video teaches how to create the illusion of a coin vanishing from your hands. This disappearing coin trick is very simple to perform, but requires that you be in seated position and can hide your lap behind a table. Watch this video magic tutorial and learn how to do a disappearing coin magic trick.
How To: Perform a quarter change magic trick
Learn how to perform the giant quarter change in this instructional video which takes you through this simple size changing coin magic trick step by step. You will need a a quarter and a prop giant quarter. Palming is an essential skill for many magic tricks, and creates the illusion of pulling an object out of thin air or changing objects into something else. Watch this video magic tutorial and find out how to perform a quarter change magic trick.
How To: Perform a palming soda can tab magic trick
A magician's heart is easy to open, with a soda can tab. This simple prop trick just takes a soda can pull tab and a simple sleight of hand, the ability to palm small objects behind fingers. Watch this video magic tutorial and learn how to perform this soda can tab palming trick.
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.
How To: Make magicians' wax and invisible thread
You need wooly nylon string and a candle. This is pretty easy and you can get these things at any fabric store.
How To: Mentally control a Zippo flame
Watch this instructional video to learn how to do a trick with a zippo lighter. Steal the flame from the lighter, then put it back. The lighter trick in this how-to video will amaze all your friends.
News: Ouka's Hypnotic Performance with Optical Illusion Rings Is Mesmerizing
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News: 10 Incredible Optical Illusions
Here are 10 incredible optical illusions that will blow your mind! Which optical illusion do you think is the coolest?
How To: Do the Sliced Banana Trick!
How to do the sliced banana magic trick! Fool your friends and be the life of the party with this awesome magic trick! This video will show you how to cut a banana before you even peel it! All that you will need for this cool trick is a needle and a banana.
How To: (Almost) Always Win a Bet with Your Friends Using These 10 Tricks
So, the in-person conversations between you and your friends has slowed down to a near halt, thanks to everyone's obsession with texting, Facebook, and over-uploading pics to Instagram—socializing at its best. It could also be that you're just not interesting enough anymore in person.
How To: Levitate a Ping Pong Ball in an Invisible Wind Tunnel
What can you do with a hair dryer besides dry your hair? Lots. You can remove stickers from clothing, clean up crayon marks, and mold your plastic eyeglasses for a better fit. But how about something a little more fun? Well, you can levitate things. Ping pong balls, to be exact.