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Most people will not figure this out, solve it and challenge your friends!
In a street there are 5 houses
Each house is the home to a different magician
Each magician likes a different website, magic style and car
Question: Which magician likes Pubtricks.com?
Clues
1. Criss Devil lives in a purple house
2. Paul Spaniel’s favourite website is bartricks.net
3. David Silverfield drives a Lamborghini
4. The gray house is next to and on the left of the orange house
5. The Gray house has a hummer on the drive
6. The magician who specialised in street magic likes tricksmagic.net
7. The magician in the black house likes coin magic
8. The magician who lives in the middle house drives an Aston martin
9. David Vane lives in the first house
10. The expert in card magic lives next door to the fan of worldmagictricks.com
11. The magician who likes xmagictricks.com lives next to the coin magic expert
12. The bar magic specialist owns a Porsche 911
13. Derren black is of course an expert in mentalism
14. David Vane lives next door to the white house
15. The card magic expert lives next door to the Ferrari owner
Pubtricks.com has a stunning 3D optical illusion on a 2D image! Check out the link and see what you think.
This is a great trick for the office, bar or school. Just ask someone to do the following:
1. Sit down on a chair and rotate their right foot in large clockwise circles
2. At the same time ask them to draw a number 6 with their right hand in the air
Their foot will change direction. You could bet them a drink if you are in the bar at the time!
The magician shows you a pack of cards and places it under a large handkerchief. With the cards now covered he asks you to make a cut in the deck. You keep hold of the cut through the handkerchief and the remaining cards are brought back out. You are then shown the top card which you cut to. The deck is put back together and you are handed a small piece of paper and a pen. You are asked to draw a picture of your card on the paper and fold it up as small as you can. This is then held over an empty ash tray and set on fire! The magician sprinkles the ashes on to his forearm and rubs them in with his hand. The card you selected is revealed in ash on the magicians arm! David Blaine has a variation of this trick, I have to say it’s been around a lot longer than he has but nether the less is a great trick!
The two secrets to this trick are as follows. The trick is known as a force, the volunteer is forced to select a card even though they think they have a choice. When the deck is put under the handkerchief turn the deck upside down, then after the cut turn it back again so the volunteer is forced to take the original top card. The forced card is drawn on your arm with wet soap prior to doing the trick. When the ash is rubbed into your arm it will stick on the soap even when it’s dry.
The magician shuffles the deck and fans the cards out and asks you to select one. You are ask to look at it and remember it. You are then asked to place it any where you like in the deck. The magician then closes up the deck and shuffles well. Your card is now well and truly lost in the deck. The magician then quickly selects your chosen card. This trick is very similar to the ‘Cutting the Corner’ trick but is done in a different way and may be simpler to perform.
Again this trick requires a modified deck. You will need a pack ideally that has a border around the pattern on the back of the deck. As shown in the picture use a pin to remove some of the ink across one corner of every card, must be one corner only! When you have your deck ready just make sure all the cards are arranged in the same direction. When the volunteer takes their selected card you turn your deck through 180 degrees so when the selected card is returned it is now the other way around to all the others. Shuffle and select the chosen card with ease!
The magician fans out 15 cards from the top of the deck and asks you to select any number of them from any location. You are asked to keep them. He then places 20 cards in a line on the table in front of you. You are asked to count how many cards you have in your hand. The magician then proceeds to count the same number along the line and gives you the card he stops on. You are asked to remember this card and all the cards are put back into a single stack. The magician then tells you if he cannot guess your card that he will buy you a drink. The magician tells you your card but it’s wrong, has a second attempt and gets it wrong once again, a third and final attempt also fails! The magician opens his wallet and there is no money in it, just your selected card!
There are several things to prepare for this trick. The first is the selected card, let’s say the 5 of hearts, it must be the 21st card in the deck from the top. An extra 5 of hearts must be in your wallet. When you count the 20 cards onto the table lay them down right to left and when you count back the volunteers card amount count it from the left. This will ensure that your volunteer will always select the 5 of hearts. Trust me!
Did you know you can tell the value of a card by how flexible it is? The more ink content the stiffer and the less ink content the more flexible. For example a picture card such as a king has lots of ink and is therefore stiff and a low value card such as a two has less ink and is less stiff. Did you know you can also tell the suit of the card by feeling the face of the card with your fingers? The magician takes the top card off a shuffled and cut deck and holds it facing you. He flexes the card to determine the stiffness and feels the front of the card. He then reveals the selected card is the 7 of spades. The next card is taken, he bends the card again between his thumb and forefinger and feels the front and reveals correctly that it is the king of hearts. Finally, you are asked to take a card of your choice from the deck and pass it back to the magician. He repeats the process and gets it right again!
The secret to this trick is simple. When you flex the card in your hand, if you bend it sufficiently you can see the the bottom corner of the face of the card as show in the picture.
The magician shuffles the deck and places it on the table, face down. Your are then asked to cut the cards and place the two piles side by side. Pile 1 are the set that were on the table originally, and pile 2 are the cards moved off the top. Your are then asked to take the top card at the cut position which is the top card from pile 1. You are asked to remember this card, then you place it on top of pile 2. Then finally you are asked to place pile 1 on top of pile 2. The magician takes the deck and riffles it, then cuts several times and instantly throws your selected card out on to the table!
Before you perform this magic trick you need to modify your deck of cards. Take a pair of nail clippers and cut the corner off one card, not too much just increase the radius on the corner slightly. Then repeat on the opposite corner of the same card. Ensure this card is at the bottom of the deck and when you shuffle and make sure it stays at the bottom of the deck. When you perform the magic trick the selected card will be below this modified card (when the deck is face down). You can then throw out on to the table the selected card.
