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How To: Perform the vanishing coin trick
Voila! The coin has vanished. You can make it vanish too with this easy peasy magic trick. You'll need a coin, some tape and a little sleight of hand. Then, gather friends and family together and get ready to rock their world.
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: 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: Make Your Magic Tricks Appear Original
If you're a magician, or an aspiring one, you'll want to learn how to put your own stamp on your tricks. It's very hard to actually find a trick that hasn't been done already, but you can still find ways to personalize the trick and bring new life to it.
How To: Do a Sponge Ball Magic Routine
Sponge balls are a very cool magic effect. But you will have to master palming first. You will get very good reactions. The best part is that you can simply keep them in your pocket. Here is how to start.
How To: Perform a vanishing coin trick with a glass and a coin
Well, our current economy is making coins vanish pretty easily, BUT, if you're looking for another way to make a coin disappear this trick is for you. You'll need a glass, a coin, a cloth and a piece of felt, scissors and glue. Then presto chango, you now have one quarter less!
How To: Breathe fire safely and impressively using corn starch
Learn to breathe fire safely using corn starch instead of a flammable liquid. Using only a mouthful corn starch and an open flame, it's possible to breathe fire and impress your friends and family. This trick must not be attempted without professional supervision.
News: Meticulously Crafted Tron Optical Illusion
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. More from Brusspup:
How To: Perform an easy magic trick with a coat hanger and a coin
This magic trick is really not so much a feat of illusion as a dizzying demonstration of physics. This video will show you how to do this easy trick with only a humble coin and coat hanger as props that will dazzle your audience for about 20 seconds with practice.
News: Learn 10 Awesome Science Tricks in 4 Minutes
There's something charming about Professor Wiseman's speedy and concise delivery of 10 different magic/science party tricks, delivered in just over 4 minutes. A little something to entertain the family with this holiday season. Enjoy. (P.S. If you missed last year's, here's another 10 from the Professor -this time in 3:22):
How To: Perform Criss Angel's Metamorphosis magic trick
This trick from Criss Angel requires two magicians that appear to transform into each other. Learn how to perform Criss Angel's metamorphosis trick by watching this video magic tutorial.
How To: Perform the "coin bend" magic trick
Magic is something almost everybody wants to learn, so why not learn now? Magic tricks can be done by anybody, you just need a little confidence and a little sleight of hand to pull off the illusion. This video tutorial will show you how to perform the "coin bend" magic trick. Be a magician to your friends and your family! This is basic magic for beginners, so don't fret, see the reveal... learn how to bend an ordinary coin in half.
How To: Perform the floating dollar bill magic trick
With this easy to learn step by step tutorial you can learn how to perform the floating dollar bill magic trick. Amaze your friends by levitating a dollar bill right in front of their eyes.
How To: Bite a quarter and spit it back together
This is a classic trick David Blaine did in his first special and here the secret is revealed. Bite a quarter and spit it back together.
News: The Magically Shrinking Chair
A worthy addition to the world of outstanding chairs, this magical chair doesn't shrink in the morphing sense, but it does shrink to incredible compactness. Makes for a great magic trick prop, or a must-have for your next tailgate party. Previously, Self Healing Chair Picks Itself Up Off the Floor... Literally.
News: Does This Trick Really Work?
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.
How To: Create a cool illusion with two twisted wires
Optical illusions are thrilling and abundant, and this one is both cool and novel. All you need are two pieces of twisted metal wires like those show in the video. Slide them together, then untwist to created a really cool illusion.
How To: Do the Japanese Shoelace Tying Trick Without Hands
Tie your shoelaces without hands? Sounds impossible, but that's what everyone will think when you complete this Japanese shoe tying trick.
How To: Start Learning Magic
Especially today, with the internet making information so readily available, people of all ages, all around the world, are trying to learn magic tricks. Unfortunately, going about this the wrong way won't make you into a magician at all, but will instead make you into someone who simply knows how a few tricks work.
How To: Do the dematerializing coin trick
How cool would it be if you could become invisible? While this video won't show you quite how to do that, it will teach you how to make a coin disappear into thin air. Which, by our standards, is still pretty awesome.
How To: Levitate Any Object
In this tutorial, we learn how to levitate any object. You will need four batteries, two empty cans, a playing card, and a ball of tin foil to do this trick.
How To: Perform "the coin fold" trick
In this video, we learn how to perform "the coin fold" trick. First, borrow a quarter and grab a piece of paper. Take the quarter and fold it up inside of the paper. This will prevent you from doing any slide of hand or trickery. Make sure they can see the coin inside of the paper. Next, you will need to take out your magic wand, which is in your back pocket. Wave it over the paper, and the coin should no longer be inside the paper. To do this, you will need to make sure the coin is inside of...
How To: Link rubber bands trick
In this tutorial, we learn how to link rubber bands trick. To start, you will need to have two rubber bands. After you have these, you will count to '3' and then link the rubber bands together. This is a very simple trick to do, just hold the hands in each of your hands. Then, stretch these apart, putting your thumb on the bottom part of the top rubber band. Then, when you count to '3', you will quickly move and put your middle finger through the other rubber band, making them link together. ...
How To: Perform brusspup's "Amazing Shampoo Trick"
In this video tutorial from YouTube's brusspup, we learn how to perform the "Amazing Shampoo" magic 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: Perform brusspup's "Infinity Mirror" illusion
In this video tutorial, we learn how to perform the "Infinity Mirror" magic 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: Perform brusspup's "Amazing Dragon Illusion"
In this video tutorial, we learn how to perform the "Amazing Dragon Illusion" magic 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: Perform the "Amazing Stick Trick"
In this video tutorial, we learn how to perform the "Amazing Stick" magic 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: 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: Perform an amazing disappearing coin trick (with a long sleeve shirt)
This trick is title "Dissapero / Reapero" and if you can guess, it's a disappearing and reappearing coin trick. To perform this coin trick, you'll need a coin (duh!) and a long sleeve shirt. This is super easy magic that anyone can perform. Great for beginners!
How To: Make your own disappearing ink
One fun way to hide your secret messages and also amaze your friends is to make your own form of disappearing ink! You will need some chemicals though, and with chemicals make sure you either have a parent present and/or have the proper safety equipment! In this video you will learn how to create the ink, use it and make the message come back.
How To: Link two paper clips together using a folded dollar bill
This is quite the trick. By making a couple loose folds into a dollar bill, and a few strategic placements of paper clips, it's possible to link two paper clips together! This is just a magic trick that appears to magically link the two paper clips together, a mere illusion, but can you replicate this trick?
How To: Perform a "ghost coin" magic trick
Now you see it, now you don't. That's basically what's going on here. But it's more like now you see it, now you don't, but that's because the coin's in my other hand! With a little swiftness, good aim and superb catching skills, you too can perform this easy ghost coin trick, where it appears in one hand, then the other.
How To: Make an egg carton disappear with a little acetone liquid
This magic trick will show you how to make a simple, thin cardboard, egg carton vanish before the eyes. The egg carton gets stuffed down a small circular object, and disappears before your eyes, but how? The secret? Acetone. Behind that little circular barrier is a bowl of cardboard dissolving acetone liquid, a powerful and volatile ketone.
How To: Do the amazing pencil pierce trick on a plastic bag filled with water
Pierce pencils through a bag of water without spilling a drop. No gimmicks or special tools required! This is one of the easiest tricks out there! Not to mention mesmerizing. How does that water not ooze out?!? You'll need some water, a ziplock bag and some sharp pencils.
How To: Defy gravity with a water trick
In this tutorial, we learn how to defy gravity with a water trick. First, you will need to fill a cup with water. After this, place a piece of plastic over the top of the cup. After this, push the plastic down, then turn the cup upside down. You will notice that the water does not immediately come out of the cup! Next, place a plastic bag filled with water into water, then bring it out and poke two pencils through, and none of the water will immediately leak out! These are great tricks to sho...
How To: Break your finger off and eat it for a trick
Breaking a finger is painful, and the sight of broken fingers pointing in unnatural directions from the hand is enough to make many people ill. This video will show you how to terrify such people by pretending to first shrink your finger, then kick it up a notch by snapping off the finger, tossing it in the air, and eating it with a crunch. All you need to do this trick are some nuts, manual dexterity, and a showman's charisma. It's magic!
How To: Split an apple in half with one finger
Apples are delicious and nutritious, but do you ever find that you want to cut one in half but don't have a knife? How will you ever split the apple with whomever you're with? You can. This video will show you how to split an apple in half pretty cleanly using one finger as a blade. All you do is put one forefinger on the top of the apple and bang on it with your other hand a couple times. The apple will split before you finger does, and you'll have to clean halves on an apple!
How To: Predict the outcome of a coin toss when you flip
Most of the time for official coin tosses the interested party calls the result while the coin is in the air. Often, the coin is allowed to land on the ground to prevent tampering. Assuming that you are in a flipping situation where you are flipping it into your hand and calling it when it gets to the hand, it is pretty easy to guess the result accurately. This video will show you how to do so by rubbing the coin quickly to determine whether it is bumpy-side (tails) up or smooth-side (heads).
How To: Do a bottle cap hand-swap trick
This video will teach you how to do a trick that you can use to win money off of your friends when they cannot do it. The task at hand is holding a plastic bottle cap in the thumb-forefinger gap in each hand and switch the caps without letting go of them. This video will show you the exact technique for making it work, which you friends will probably not know, rendering them completely unable to do this, frustrated, upset with you, and less however much money you bet them.
How To: Shoot a plastic bottle cap high into the air
Plastic water bottle caps are more than just a massive strain on the environment. They can also be used to perform this cool party trick! All you do is hold the cap in your fist and then pound said fist from the bottom with your other hand. If you do it right, the cap should launch high into the air with a nice little pop. This is sure to impress the guests at your next party or puncture the cornea of one of your enemies, depending on what you aim the cap at.