Magnetic Matches trick

Effect

The Great Dollar Escape

Here is a good routine that can end up winning you a few beers. Read, learn, practice, drink.

You place one beer bottle on the edge of a table. Place the middle of the dollar bill on the mouth of the bottle. Then place the other bottle upside down on top of the first so that they are mouth to mouth and the bill is between them. Then you bet someone that you can remove the dollar without knocking over either bottle.

Materials required: Two empty beer bottles and one dollar bill, fairly new .

Method

To perform the trick, very carefully pull the dollar straight out toward you with your left index and thumb and hold it there.

Then make a fist with your right hand with your index finger sticking straight out. Now, going straight down with your index finger very very quickly, hit the bill between where you're holding it with your left fingers and the bottle. If done right the dollar will be removed and the bottles still standing.

Note: This trick does require some practice and when you're first starting it's safer and easier to place about a fourth of the dollar between the bottles.

Rising Beer Bottle Trick

Take an ordinary beer bottle ,  preferably with a flat bottom , because this will make it harder for others to try and duplicate the trick you perform.

Drink the beer first , this is important!!!!

Place the empty bottle upside down on the table. Place your thumb against the side of the bottle with your fingers over the bottom.

Place either your first finger or middle finger on the bottom of the glass.

Your thumb and first finger should appear to form a right angle or as to close to a right angle

as possible.

Slowly pick up the bottle without touching it with your other fingers or anything else.

Once you've mastered the trick for this pick-up and performed  it ,  ask the others with you to try it!!!

Bet a few beers on the outcome!!!

METHOD

Just before performing this trip rub your thumb and fingers up and down the leather belt your wearing to hold you pants up . Do this several times , no one will notice you doing it before the trick .

The leather seems to give your fingers the dryness necessary to allow you to pick up the bottle . If you can dry the bottle only slightly it will also help but it is usually not necessary . (The wetter the spectators bottles are the more impossible it will be for them to pick the up)

This one has won me MANY rounds in the PUB!!

EVERLASTING ASH

EFFECT

A friend is challenged to see who can smoke a cigarette the longest distance without losing any ash.

You win.

PREPARATION

You will need a packet of cigarettes and a paperclip

METHOD

Everything starts off OK, but soon they realise that they are fighting a losing battle as your entire cigarette refuses to let a single piece of ash drop!

It's all in the hidden paperclip!

Simply straighten it out and slide it down your cigarette (taking care not to punch a whole in the side in the process). Make sure it slightly digs into the filter so as to give it some stability.

Now, snip off the end. This should give you a normal looking cigarette with no protruding wire(s).

Light up and see for yourself. This looks great in the right context.

Just lighting one up in the pub makes you an instant magnet for girls (& drunk fellas).

Remember you can add the wire to the cigarette at ANY TIME. The cigarette 'tastes' normal (or so I'm told) so if someone thinks it is a fake just let them have a drag.

If you are a good play actor then you can pretend to cast a 'hex' upon it.

Remember - a decent pub trickster always puts on a really good performance when needed!

THE BAR BALANCE

Balance three identical glasses on top of each other

THE CHALLENGE

To balance 3 empty beer glasses on top of each other on their outer rims, without the help of any other object whatsoever!

THE SECRET

Firstly the glasses should be empty and identical.

The main secret of this little drink winner is that if you imagine a clock face when you look at the glasses from above you must remember 10 o'clock and 2 o'clock.

Now the trick in 3 easy steps:

Place your first glass (A) down onto the bar.

Place the second glass (B) on top of (A) in the position of 10 o'clock, .

Now place the third glass (C) on top of (B) in the 2 o'clock position.

This trick will take a bit of practice, but when you get it right a few times it gets easier.

This is a great one to do in a bar just before you leave! it leaves the bar staff bewildered.

Effect

Two rubber bands separate from each other mysteriously. This is a baffling and quite visible penetration.

Secret

Place one rubber band around the left thumb and forefinger. Your fingers should make a C formation. Causing the rubber band to be tight between your fingers. Point these fingers toward your audience. (this hand is set and does nothing else).

Wave your hands magically and separate the rubber bands .

Broken and restored toothpick trick

This very convincing free illusion can be performed anywhere , easily and with powerful results .

Effect

A napkin is placed on the table , then a toothpick is put on top and in the centre of the napkin . Then you fold the napkin so that the toothpick is inside the folded napkin , the spectator is asked to break the toothpick inside the folded napkin , remember the spectator breaks the toothpick himself . As well as this , everyone can double check it and even hear the sound of it breaking . Then you can make some magical gesture over the folded napkin and tooth pick . Then the spectator unfolds the napkin and everyone can see that the toothpick has restored.

Props

Fabric napkin with seams on the sides . 2 toothpicks

Secret and preparation:

Before this trick , insert 1 toothpick into the one of the seam on either side of the napkin. This toothpick is the one which is going to be broken . Then the trick is ready to be performed .

Method

Then fold the napkin by bringing all 4 corners over the toothpick to the opposite side, remembering where the last position of the seam with hidden toothpick is . After the napkin is folded , grab the seam with the hidden toothpick and ask a spectator to break the hidden toothpick , after that you can let another spectator check the broken hidden toothpick without opening the folded napkin . You should always hold the napkin to make sure spectators don't do something that can mess the trick . Then you make a magical gesture over the napkin then put it back on the table , then unfold the napkin and find that the toothpick is restored.

Static cigarette bar trick

Here is a simple but very effective trick using a straw or a cigarette.

Lay a cigarette on a table and then explain to the people around the table about the art of static electricity.

Pull up your sleeve and rub your forearm vigorously . Then , putting your fingertips on the far side of the cigarette , pull the fingers slowly away from the cigarette , where the cigarette will follow your fingers like a magnet .

No one will be able to do it  , Vie even had someone ask me if I could make it come toward me .

This can be done by cupping your hand slightly in front of the cigarette and the cigarette will come towards you.

METHOD

The trick is to blow slightly in front of the cigarette  if you wish it to go away from you , following your hand .

If you wish it to come towards you , cup your hand slightly and blow on your hand while bringing it towards you on the table . The hand will reflect the air onto the cigarette which will come towards you .

This simple trick will fool many an adult . Do not be afraid of them discovering you blowing as they will be concentrating on the action on the table . The noise in the bar should make sure they do not hear you blowing . Please practice the trick before trying it on your friends .

Eye Popper

This can be a real shocker

Items needed

A fork , knife or spoon .

A coffee milk / cream container.

When you're at a restaurant or bar with some friends and your feeling kind of down....

Method

Very slyly grab one of those coffee milk / cream containers and hide it in your hand. Now with the other hand, pick up a knife , fork or spoon .

Start talking to yourself, saying "I hate my life , I just don't feel like I can take it anymore." until everyone at the table starts to look at you in a weird way.

Then take the hand with the container concealed in it and hold it up to your eye with the paper side down, and take the spoon and act like you're shoving it into your eye. (Take care here , it is better to use a blunt object such as a spoon handle ) A bunch of white milk / cream will come squirting out on everybody. If you want to make it more dramatic scream and fall on the floor , and start having convulsions.

Ask someone to lend you £20 to put in an empty matchbox, you then also put £20 in. (You must make this obvious that you have also put in £20) Say to them that you will sell them the matchbox for £30. Believing that they are in for a bargain (spending £30 to buy a £40 matchbox). But the trick is that because they already have put in £20 they are in fact losing £10. (In total they have spent £50 for a £40 matchbox, and you get £30 instead of the £20 you started with) I hope you don't already know this trick and I hope to here from you soon.

PENETRATING ASHES TRICK

This was another trick performed by David Blaine on his television special

EFFECT

The magician takes a cigarette and rubs some of the ashes into the spectators clenched fist until they disappear

He then says some magic words and asks the spectator to open there fist and the ash has penetrated onto their palm.

PREPARATION

Put some ash on your middle finger

METHOD

Tell the spectator to stand in front of you and hold their hands out towards you , palms down.

Tell them to come a little closer and physically grab their hands to gently pull the person a little closer.

At the same time touch their palm lightly with the ash on your middle finger.

Ask them to close their fists , borrow a lit cigarette which you use to flick some ash on their fist and rub in until it disappears.

You can then say some magic words and ask them to open their hands when the ash seems to have penetrated their fist.

This trick can get a really good reaction but should only be performed once or the spectators will get wise.

EFFECT

 A classic trick that can be performed anytime , anywhere. The magician places a rubber band over two of his fingers , with one snap of the fingers of the other hand , the rubber band jumps visibly off the fingers on to the next two fingers.

A look at Fig.1 will show you that the rubber band is pulled over to the right. This is to make it easy for you to get those four fingers in!. You should now be in the position shown in Fig.3 if you now straighten out all four fingers of the left hand the rubber band will jump over on to the third and fourth fingers. You can repeat this trick by making it jump back again by lifting up the rubber band as before and inserting all four fingers into it again . Do not let anyone see you inserting your fingers into the loop at any time , try to time it so that as you turn your hand down the band snaps and your fingers go in all at the same time .

This is best done in a pub where you will find all of the required materials:
1 Fairly flat table
1 Pint of beer (preferably half full)
1 match
1 beer mat
1 set of half drunk mates and preferably a pub

Okay here's how it goes: Place the beer mat on the table and the match on the table along the left hand side of the beer mat .

Be warned though , the night could be totally ruined if the person you have been trying to get a date with for the last two weeks is facing the open end of the glass when it all goes horribly wrong.

People nudging the table will make this completely impossible and a steady hand is useful.
Have fun !!