Pub Tricks

Poker is a hot game these days, and any time you can work poker into a magic trick…well then you have a hot magic trick. In this classic Aces over Kings, you have a spectator randomly deal two four ...

The magician borrows a coin from a spectator and examines it, declaring it counterfeit. At the protest of the spectator, the magician endeavours to prove that it can’t be a normally coin by laying it ...

The magician takes out an elastic band and places his two index fingers inside the band, then touches his thumbs to his fingers. With a deft motion, the band falls to the floor, while the fingers ...

Impromptu magic is some of the best kind of magic. Sitting there in the pub with your mates you should never be without a way to show them why they hang out with you in the first place – you are an ...

The magician rolls up two bills into tight cylinders and holds them in the crook of the thumb, one to each hand. Grabbing the top and bottom of each bill cylinder with the thumb and fingers of the ...

The magician runs an elastic band around his fingers and starts a story about how easy it is to fool the eyes. Placing the elastic band around the first two fingers of his right hand, he makes a fist ...

The magician gathers his audience closely around him, the better to see this miracle occur. “Watch closely now” he says, and looks down at his own feet. After a moment of anticipation, the audience ...

The magician borrows a ring from the audience, and then produces an elastic band. After snapping the elastic band to create one long “string”, the magician threads the ring on to the band. Holding ...

The magician sets out three mugs on bar top, some face up and some bottom up, and claims that he can have all three face up in three moves. Quickly he reaches out with both hands and flips over two ...

The magician pulls out a sheet of cigarette paper and holds it up for inspection. Tearing the paper in half, the magician places one half on top of the other, and then tears that packet in half. Once ...

Perhaps in reference to a wager or just for fun, the magician borrows a bill from a mate and announces that he is going to demonstrate his mastery over illusion with it. Holding the bill out for ...

The magician, perhaps at the end of a meal, announces that he is going to make coin disappear. Taking a small coin out of his pocket, he places it on the table in front of him and then asks to be ...

The magician sits across from his victim at a restaurant or pub bar and swiftly and surely appears to jab a fork into his eye, producing an appropriate amount of “blood”. Even the most jaded of ...