What are some cool magic tricks to amaze people with?

Posted on August 17, 2009

You’ve seen, and may already know how to do some regular magic tricks, say finding a card that’s been picked and returned to the pack. Those tricks are all well and good, but now you’d like to do some really cool magic tricks. In this article, we’re going to look at some of those.

Really cool magic tricks don’t necessarily have to be really hard to do, in fact, many of them almost anyone could learn to do. More important than knowing just ‘how to’ do the trick is being able to perform it to people. Much of the ‘wow factor’ will be in how well this is done. Just think of famous street magicians, when they perform something, they act like they’re truly performing a magical feat, not a mere trick.

An example of one of these cool magic tricks is a variation on revealing a card prediction. If you can do a basic card force, then you can perform this. A regular version of this trick would be to write down a prediction of a card on a piece of paper. This card would be forced on a spectator who chooses a card from the pack, and then the paper is revealed to have predicted this card.

The variation here, which adds the extra dimension to this trick, is that before performing it, you use a small piece of soap or a chapstick to write down the number and a symbol for the suit of the card to be forced on your forearm.  This won’t be visible. When the forced card is chosen, get the spectator to write down the name of the card on the paper.

Then, using a match, burn this slip of paper in an ashtray (be extremely careful doing this!). After it’s burnt and gone out, take some of the ash, and rub it gently over your forearm with the invisible writing. Some of the ash will stick to it, and reveal the name of the card! That can seem pretty amazing to people watching.

That’s just one way of revealing the result of forcing a card. Have a think of some other variations on that, to come up with different tricks. Remember, people in general aren’t too familiar with the idea of forcing a card, so it will seem to them that you picked out their card directly. The more spectacular the method of revealing the card, the better, the more amazing it will seem.

There are plenty of other cool magic tricks like this one that you can discover, so take a look at some of the online magic sites to find some more that you can do, and pretty soon, you’ll have several really tricks that will blow people away when you perform them!

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