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Simple Tricks for Beginners: Our Favorites
If you want to pursue magic, you'll want to learn some simple tricks. Here at Magic & Illusion, we explain lots of tricks that use everyday, common, household materials and require no complicated sleight-of-hand. We also offer clear, step-by-step instructions so you may quickly learn the tricks and perform them for your friends. These tricks have been specifically selected for beginners.

Easy Magic for Beginners: Our Favorites
If you want to pursue magic, you’ll want to learn some simple tricks. Here at Magic & Illusion, we explain lots of tricks that use everyday, common, household materials and require no complicated sleight-of-hand. We also offer clear, step-by-step instructions so you may quickly learn the tricks and perform them for your friends. These tricks have been specifically selected for beginners.

Easy Trick: Math Prediction
Here’s an easy magic trick that we present as both an interactive/online trick and one that you can present to your friends via this website. This one is best if you have a sheet of paper and a pencil and a nearby calculator.

Easy Tricks: The Best of the Predictions
Who hasn’t fantasized about being able to tell the future? And of course, if you could really predict the future, would you be performing a magic trick as opposed to living at the race track and making a fortune? In this compilation, we’ve put together the best of our prediction tricks. In these effects, you ask a spectator to make a decision and somehow, you have predicted the outcome. We offer lots of effects and diabolical methods.

Easy Magic: The Color Spelling Trick
This is a mystifying trick that is great for older kids. In the effect, a spectator secretly selects a color and then by silently spelling it as the magician touches a series of cards, the magician locates the color.

Easy Magic Trick: The Mental Prediction
This is an old classic that is based on a quirk in mathematics. You can read it to a friend and have them follow along.

The Amazing Balancing Cup
Showing off your incredible sense of balance, you hold a playing card and balance a cup on top of it.

Glossary of Magic Terms
Glossary of Magic Terms