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Screw the rules, post your magic secrets here

I have a trick where I levitate without wires or jumping.


Actually, I haven't been able to perfect it yet. Anyone have a vomit comet airplane?
 
Here's a good trick: Bet someone that you can stick out your tongue and touch your nose. Most people will think you can't do it. But it's simple: just stick out your tongue and touch your nose... with your finger.
 
An easier way:

Just get a rubber tongue extender that fits over your real tongue.

Nobody will notice. Trust me.
 
I was at a juggling festival in Seattle on year and I saw a girl balance a juggling club by the end on it's handle on her chin. Then she worked the end of the club up into her mouth by wiggling her chin, until her tongue took over and pushed the club up placing it on her nose.

wow...
 
I once saw a magician on TV (I think it might have been Randi, but this was before I'd heard of him) change the time on a watch. Everyone was amazed.

So then I got a watch and changed the time on it with my mother and brother. They were amazed.

I was amazed. But not by the fact I'd changed the time on the watch.
 
Brown said:
I should also mention that at TAM3, Jamy Ian Swiss disclosed the secret of what appeared to be a very mystifying card trick. He held behind his back a shuffled deck of cards (the deck had been purchased from the hotel gift shop, bearing the name of the hotel, and had been shuffled fairly and kept from his sight), then was able to divine the identity of the cards. The secret was: it was a trick, he didn't really sense the cards with any psychic senses. He was peeking at the cards in a way that we didn't expect and couldn't easily detect. Once he showed us how easy the trick was to do, we all felt like dopes.
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I think I know this one Its one of the only card tricks I know,

what you do is look at the bottem card while no one is watching

Then tell them to pick a card you then cut the deck and tell them to place their card on top of the tophalf of the cut

And then place the bottem half on top.

You then look foor the bottem card and their card is the one after.
 
Originally posted by mickal555:

I think I know this one Its one of the only card tricks I know,

what you do is look at the bottem card while no one is watching

Then tell them to pick a card you then cut the deck and tell them to place their card on top of the tophalf of the cut

And then place the bottem half on top.

You then look foor the bottem card and their card is the one after
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Welcome to the forum. Here's hoping you stick around.

The method you describe above is an old, dependable, and good one, but I do not think it applies to Brown's description of Swiss's trick.

I wasn't there and so could be badly misinterpreting, but my guess about JIS's method for his revelations is a flipped deck.

Does that makes sense, Brown?
 
I have a trick that I only ever present when there are two beautiful women around.

Both of them choose cards. Then I divine the first card by holding the first lady's left hand and measuring her pulse. Then I look deeply in the eyes of the second lady and divine her card from there.

But I don't really do that. I have found out their cards in a completely mundane way (say hi to all cousins of Nicola!) and the other trappings are just excuses to hold beautiful ladies' hand and look them deeply in the eyes.
 
mickal555, that is a real magic trick. Forum rules do not allow us to reveal real magic tricks.
 
I like to use misdirection to do my magic. If you can distract the audience, it's amazing what you can get away with.

For example, I'll hold an apple in my hand, and say I'll make it disapear. Then I say "watch carefully" and as they peer intently at the apple, I kick them in the junk. It's weird, but I find that I then have plenty of time to eat the apple, and they never even see it happen. When they look at my hand again, the apple is gone, and they are amazed. At least, that's how I interpret their expression.
 
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Barbrae said:
I don't know, I figured out the trick in a few minutes, and I am a moron with that stuff.
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We'll have to dub thee "Princess Barbrae".
 
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Odin said:
The secret is to always choose the jack of spades.
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Or the King of Hearts, or the Queen of Diamonds, or the Jack of Diamonds, etc etc etc......

The cards they show after you have "selected" a card were never in the original choices :D
 
Garrette said:
I wasn't there and so could be badly misinterpreting, but my guess about JIS's method for his revelations is a flipped deck.

Does that makes sense, Brown?
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Jamy's method was even simpler than those that were mentioned. Yet it is a method that my mind would not have siezed upon, because it involves doing something that is somewhat offensive to my nature.

The reason is that Jamy's method involved destruction of the deck, rendering it useless for almost any further purpose. My mindset is such that I do not think of card tricks in which the deck is sacrificed and made useless; the notion of waste is, as I say, somewhat offensive to me.

That the trick involves destruction of playing cards is all that I will say at this time.
 
When David Copperfield flies he is really just on wires.

That's why it looks like he's really uncomfortable and that his pants are riding up his crack.

It's not exactly eagle-graceful is it?



And when David Blaine sat in a box for 44 days...

No, that one's beyond me.
I really can't figure out why people went to watch him.
 
Ashles said:

No, that one's beyond me.
I really can't figure out why people went to watch him.
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Would you miss a chance to harrass David Blane?
 
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