The Trickbusters, mighty solvers of mysteries, explain how David Copperfield could make 13 random selected people vanish from a platform suspended in the air and surrounded by a live audience.

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{atypo:quote}FAST. VISUAL. INSTANTLY RESET.{/atypo}

The Effect: You ripped the edge of card and position the chunk into place. As you wipe your thumb over the tear, the card is visually restored. Immediately give your spectator the signed card as a gift. It is completely RESTORED!

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Call someone on the phone. Ask him to take out five of his business cards. He is to turn them blank side up and place them in a horizontal row. He is then asked to draw a sketch of a bullet on any one of the cards. Allow him to exchange the bullet card with any other card in the row. He has a completely free choice.

"We have started out by giving you a completely free selection as to which position the bullet card is in. Only you, and you alone know how far from the left side of the row the bullet card is. This is your lucky number and you are to remember it."

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Greetings Magis


A mysterious Indian man approached me in the street and began foretelling my future.
This is of course a great way of getting someone's attention!
As he explained the good and not so good things that were to befallme he wrote something on a small piece of paper, screwed it up and then handed it to me and asked me to put in in my pocket.
He was very particular about the spelling and wrote these things on a piece of paper in front of me.
He then asked me to reach into my pocket and retrieve the screwed up piece of paper.
I then unravelled the

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{atypo:quote}This is one of the best card tricks you can do with a regular deck of cards!{/atypo}

The Effect: The Magician asks a spectator to select one card. The magician then does several cuts and shuffles so the cards became face up into face down and at the end of the trick all the cards are facing the same way except the spectator selected card.

The additional kicker with this effect is that the cards have also sorted themselves into Ace through King.

No Gimmick! Impressive! Just pure sleight of hand!

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{atypo:quote2}The ultimate psychic prediction!{/atypo}

A mind blowing trick of psychic effects! This effect is guaranteed to convince your audiences that you possess psychic powers!

The Effect: The magician shows you some different card face up. The spectator then choose one card. Amazingly the card that he chose is the only one that has a different color.

This trick is almost impromptu, self working, simple and INGENIOUS!

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EFFECT:
A card is selected and lost in the pack. The magician then claims he will cause the card to rise to the top of the deck, but he fails. When he turns over the top card, it is NOT the selection, as he said it would be. The magician gets mad, tearing up the top card into four pieces and placing them into a spectator's hand. The magician then looks through the pack for the spectator's card, finding it somewhere in the middle. Flustered, the magician then tries to redeem himself. He holds the selected card in his hands where it CHANGES VISIBLY into the card that was torn just a moment ago!

But wait...if that card is whole and in the magicians’ hand...what card is the spectator holding? The spectator open's his hand to reveal THEIR SELECTED CARD, torn into four pieces! The spectator is then asked

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This trick was performed by magician Al Koran, who used it in an act while mathematical genius Albert Einstein was in the audience. After the show, Einstein invited Al Koran to his table and had him repeat the effect, it fooled him again! Koran then commented, "It’s not the numbers - but the words that fooled you."

Discover the secret below!

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Straight after Derren Brown reveals how he predicted the lottery numbers, David Blaine performs a similar stunt several times over. He is touring around the US, amazing the folks he meets with some close-up magic in the UK premiere of his show What Is Magic?

He visits New Orleans where he carries out a money trick in front of locals, producing hundreds of dollars at their fingertips before stopping off at New York to conduct magic in front of Orlando Bloom.

His grand finale tonight is the infamous Bullet Catch trick. A .22 calibre bullet is fired from a rifle into a metal cup held in his mouth. Have your finger on the pause buttons to make up your own mind about the heading this should come under: “illusion”, “feat of endurance” or “just nuts” – all of which are Blaine specialities, of course.

“Around 20 magicians have died attempting this trick,” they

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Is it rational that the dead can communicate with the living and give sound advice on how they should live their lives? Or the bending of spoons using your mind alone? Is that rational? Richard Dawkins doesn’t think so, and feels it is his duty to expose those areas of belief that exist without scientific proof, yet manage to hold the nation under their spell. He will take on the world’s leading proponents in their field of expertise, meet the victims who have used them and expose the history of the movements – from the charlatans who have milked these practices to the experiments and testing that have failed to produce conclusive results.

The documentary was first broadcast on Channel 4 in the UK, styled as a loose successor to Dawkins' documentary of the previous year, The Root of All Evil?

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Having now seen Derren's bullshit explanation we can conclude that since he had no intention of revealing the truth he would have no qualms about using the simplest method available, which is the one we illustrated.

In reality, it was all a very simple (but ingenious!) split-screen camera trick, dressed up as something else.

There was a slight technical glitch during his performance on Wednesday that gave it away. Plus, this technique has been used many times before.

The 'misdirection' in this case was to con everyone into sitting through an hour of his drivel in the hope of getting a remotely believable answer.

Derren's just a very good PERFORMER and ACTOR and he dresses it all up very well. All credit to him but unfortunately he DIDNT predict the lottery results he just used a clever camera technique.

STOP BELIEVING!

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{atypo:quote}Mind blowing trick!{/atypo}

Learn all moves using cigarette: vanish, using sleight and without sleight, appearance, lit cigarette with one hand, and more... Learn this routine and you'll like a pro! Recommended!

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One of the classic illusion that has been performed by many magicians around the world finally revealed!

The Effect: Girl is placed in an upright cabinet, with her head and feet visible. The magician spins the cabinet, then opens the front. The girl's body is now a narrow, twisted rope from which her fingers protrude. The magician closes the cabinet, rotates it in the opposite direction, and releases the assistant unharmed.

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How would you react if you see the opposite person's Head Drop suddenly while talking?

Japanese magician Cyril Takayama has perform this routine on T.H.E.M tv show . Want to know the secret? Then watch this video! The idea and concept behind this trick is superb!

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{atypo:quote2}A very magical looking one-handed color change that can be continuously repeated{/atypo}

This card color change trick created by Kevin Ho. He taught this move in a book called Smooth Operation.

About Kevin Ho: Kevin is a rising young Singapore-based magician with some serious talent. As a flourisher, he's already earned a reputation as one of the best. His style is fresh, ultra smooth, and extremely visual. And his magic is no different. Learn 5 effects, 4 sleights, 3 productions and 2 flourishes in 1 kick ass manual on card magic.

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Tim David will teach you how to use static electricity to make the pen move. Simple and convincing illusion that will amaze your spectators!

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Enjoy a few tricks performed and revealed by Criss Angel itself. Tricks that he taught: card thought, aces anytime, lipstick, four aces, into the mind, levitating roll, double card prediction, linked, bill tear and restored, penny or dime, mugs up, houdini favorite trick, floating cup, floating coin, color blind, coin from roll, card thought, blow out.

Card Thought:

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Effect: Performer takes a spool of thread, unravels about a foot of it, & then breaks it off, putting the spool down. Performer proceeds to break the thread into 6 or 7 clearly broken & different pieces, then holding one piece in one hand, the other pieces are rolled up into a ball and 'squashed' onto the piece from the other hand. When this is unravelled it is seen to be completely restored to it's original length. VERY visual, & very clean, pretty easy to do as well. Here's the routine.

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My own original way. The same old effect but you can defy all the physicians and surgeons in the world to find anything in your mouth before and after. No secret loading and I have worked the stunt for two months now and got some good write-ups on it.

You have a little work basket sitting on the table and inside have a paper of needles, a spool of white thread and your bundle of needles already threaded and rolled up in usual manner. This bunch is rolled, of course, so the thread is all at one end and if the bundle is picked up
between thumb and finger at this end the thread is out of sight, just the packet of needles showing. This bunch is stuck into the hole in the spool with the threaded ends up. The spool sits upright in the basket. A glass of

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This is a dangerous trick! Do not try this illusion at home!

The Masked Magician reveals the secrets to some of magic's classic illusions. The magician stabs a sword into her assistant stomach and straight to her body. But magically she doesn't hurt at all. What is the secret? Check out this video to learn it!

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Get sick of the bending spoon with mind trick? Then try to bend the card with your mind! Borrow a deck of card and ask the spectator to pick any card from the deck. You then place the card in the back of your hand and watch when the card slowly bends!

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{atypo:quote}One of the best card tricks in history!{/atypo}

This trick is created by Bill Malone in 1994. He unveiled this trick to the world on the "World's Greatest Magic" television special. The routine is an offbeat card effect where cards are turned-over, in order, to tell a story. In this case, it's about Sam the bellhop and the mythical "654" club.