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Easy Magic Trick - Fast Find Ver. 2
Here's an easy magic trick with playing cards that is a stronger version of a trick that I already teach called "Fast Find." As in the original "Fast Find," you give your friends a couple of cards and have them place the cards into the deck. Within a second, you find the two cards to your friends' amazement.
Easy Magic: The Cut and Restored String
Here's a classic trick for beginners, a variation on the cut and restored plot, which involves shearing a string in half as it resides in a straw and then restoring the string so it's whole again. Even though the string is inside the straw and you've cut the straw in half, the string is somehow untouched.
Easy Magic Trick: Pointless
This is a bit of mind-reading that uses standard playing cards. You explain that you are going to attempt to read some minds and lay out several playing cards on a table. As you turn away, a spectator turns around one of the cards. After turning around, and by carefully observing the spectator, you are able to identify the turned card. You’ve apparently read his mind.
Easy Magic Trick: Coin Dish
Here's a way to magically multiply money. In the trick, you have a spectator carefully count several coins into a dish, which you pour back into his hand. When he opens his hand later, he'll find more coins then he originally counted.
Easy Magic Trick - The Boomerangs
This is an easy trick for beginners that is often found in beginning magic sets. If you like, you can also make your own out of cardboard or heavy paper - I'll discuss how to do this.
Easy Magic Trick: The Color Card Prediction
Here's an easy magic trick with playing cards. A spectator chooses a card from several that you display in your hand. Afterwards, you show the spectator that the card that they chose was the only one that was different - in this case, the only red-backed card in a bunch of blue-backed cards.
Easy Magic Trick: The Vanishing Coin
Here's a different way to make a coin disappear. Most of this trick relies on a clever gimmick that you make beforehand.
Easy Magic Trick: The Magnetic Hand
In this mysterious trick, you somehow cause several playing cards to adhere to your hand as if it were a magnet. This one takes some preparation ahead of time, but the results are well worth it.
Easy Magic Trick: The Unlinking Safety Pin
In this easy trick, you clearly link two safety pins together by opening one, inserting it through the other and closing the first pin. In seemingly no time, you pull the safety pins apart, but both are still closed. This is a trick that I did a lot when I was a kid.
Easy Trick: The Multiplying Coin
You show spectators a dime and an apparently empty hand. In the blink of an eye, you're now holding a dime and a quarter. Your spectators may examine everything and you can perform this one at any time with little preparation.
Easy Magic Trick: The Card Conversion
In this easy magic card trick, four tens turn into four aces in a blink of an eye. The cards do most of the work for you, but there's some preparation ahead of time.
Easy Magic Trick: The Book Bet
A spectator counts several coins into an opened book. When you pour the coins back into his hands, the coins have multiplied. This one is easy to learn and perform and works well with a theme of economics or finance.
Easy Magic With Paper Bands
While these aren't actually magic tricks, they're intriguing feats that you can perform with strips of newspaper. By making loops out of newspaper strips, you are able to cut them and vary the results: 1) two separate rings, 2) one long ring and 3) two interlinked rings.
Easy Magic Tricks: The Spoon Bend 2
We taught a spoon bend a couple of weeks ago. While this version is similar, it's more convincing because spectators can see the tip of the spoon's handle peeking out above your hand after the spoon is bent.
[p]As before, you grab any spoon, press down on it with your hands and appear to bend the spoon. As your stunned spectators register what you just did, you lift up the spoon and show that it is unbent, just as you found it.
Easy Magic Tricks: The Magnetic Pencil
Here's a classic easy magic trick. You grab your wrist with your hand and a pencil appears to stick to your hand. When you let go, the pencil drops. At the end, your spectators can examine the pencil.
Easy Magic Tricks: The Spoon Bend - Version 1
Here's a classic trick that every smart aleck needs to know. You grab any spoon, press down on it with your hands and appear to bend the spoon. As your stunned spectators register what you just did (the gall of you!), you lift up the spoon and show that it is unbent, just as you found it.
Easy Magic Tricks: The Levitating Pencil
In this easy magic trick, you place a pencil into a bottle and it mysteriously levitates on its own. There's some preparation involved, but you should have fun with this one.
Easy Magic Tricks: The Levitating Ring
In this easy magic trick. A finger ring that's resting on a pencil mysteriously levitates on its own. There's some preparation involved, but you should have fun with this one.
Easy Magic Tricks: The Rising Ring
A ring that’s threaded onto a rubberband mysteriously rises on its own accord. This one is super easy and all you need is a rubberband and a ring. There’s almost no preparation.
Easy Magic Tricks: The Vanishing Toothpick
In this easy magic trick, you cause a toothpick that you're holding in your hand to quickly vanish. At the end, you're holding your fingers wide apart.
Easy Magic Tricks: The Vanishing Toothpick
Here's an easy way to quickly vanish a toothpick in your hands. The second of two methods that I teach here on the site.
Easy Magic Tricks: The Magnetic Pencil 2
Here's a great enhancement on a well known, easy magic trick. If you already know how to perform the "Magnetic Pencil," it's a powerful follow up. After showing that a pencil sticks to your hand as you grasp your wrist, you suddenly let go of your "grabbing" hand and the pencil mysteriously stays in place.
Easy Magic Tricks: The Rubber Pencil
Here's a super easy magic trick that's really an optical illusion. You wave a normal pencil and it appears to bend, just as if it were made of rubber.
Easy Magic Tricks: Butter Knife Through Napkin
Here's a trick that you can do after dinner with just a napkin and a butter knife. You drape a napkin over your hand and a butter knife appears to pass right through the napkin. It's an impromptu effect that requires no gimmicks. You can perform this one with a pencil or pen, but it's traditionally performed with a butter knife.
Easy Magic Tricks: Two-Card Monte
You show two cards and then remove one and place it behind your back. When the spectator guesses the card that you took, he is always wrong.