Best Magic Tricks

Javascript magic trick

2006-12-25T06:21:00.002+01:00

Wanna see a real magic with Javascript?
Go to any website with pictures showing (you can try in here also) and copy and paste this into the address bar in your browser:

It works with Opera, Firefox, IE.
You can try this trick with different values, try this:

Have fun!

Coin balance

2006-11-27T23:45:00.003+01:00

This trick is pretty amazing and cool! You can get some free drinks in the bar, or simply amaze your friends, girlfriend, if you perform this trick correctly.

This is how it looks like in the end. Looking cool isnt it!?!

Well OK, lets start. First of all, you need some coins and paper money. I hope you got some money in your pocket!

Take a twenty (or fifty, the higher value - the better effect) out of your pocket and make a beth with your friend. Say something like "I bet you I can balance your coin on the thin edge of my twenty. If I cant you get my twenty, but if I can I get your coin and you will buy me a drink!"

How to perform this trick:
1. when you place your beth, take and fold your bill in half, both ways
2. bring the two opposite ends together
3. place the coin on top of the intersection (see picture below)

4. now take the two ends of the twenty and slowly pull them away from eachother to straighten out the bill
5. and thats it! The coin will find its center of balance and will align itself accordingly.

Check out the video - and good luck!

Elevator illusion

2006-11-27T21:31:00.002+01:00

Be afraid! Watch your step!

This is elevator floor illusion - an alevator without floor optical illusion!

Imitation of the real world

2006-11-27T13:40:00.001+01:00

This is unbelievable! Objects on this picture below looks like a real world.
But, everything you see inside the surrounding bricks is a mural!

>> U dont believe? See the picture below! <<

Funny optical illusions

2006-08-06T17:46:00.002+02:00

Anything to say? Nooooooooo! Just look at the picture

Cool "bang bang" shopping bag

If you keep looking at this picture, you will see a waterfall!
Still cant see? Click on the picture and you will see!

It looks like the girl is doing more than drinking a coke! LoL

Girls? ... or just sand sculptures?

Where is the head?!?

Look at this picture carefully and you will see the hidden dog!

Just curious; how long did you looked at this picture?

Incredible drawings

2006-08-06T14:55:00.001+02:00

"Trick the eye" is art technique to display a realistic image on an object, usually a wall or on the ground.

This is absolutely my favorite chalk drawing optical illusion - Batman and Robin saving a men from burning building. Fantastic drawing!

This Coca-Cola bottle looks soo real! Can you believe that this is only chalk drawing?

Rembrandt chalk drawing

Funny paint job - it looks like this dude sitting on the toilet!

Toilet in Queenstown, New Zealand. Very original urinal!

It looks like a piece of the pavement has been taken out. Very realistic
Watch your step!

Well drawn in chalk in New York City

Swimming pool drawn in chalk
This image looks only good from one point of view.

When seen from the other side it looks entirely different.

Truck art optical illusion

2006-08-03T12:35:00.001+02:00

These trucks painted with optical illusion art.
I cant tell is this trucks real or just photoshoped - but for sure looking awesome!

I think that this is my favorite - it looks like the pepsi crates hanging from the roof!

And this one also looks pretty cool!

Mixed letters

2006-07-07T00:58:00.002+02:00

This is very interesting.
Even though the letters are mixed in the following text, most people have no trouble reading it!

Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

If you can´t read this, you can find original text here

According to research at Cambridge University, it doesn´t matter in what order the letters in a word are, the only important thing is that the first and last letter be at the right place. The rest can be a total mess and you can still read it without a problem. This is because the human mind does not read every letter by itself, but the word as a whole.

Chriss Angel walks on water

2006-07-01T21:47:00.001+02:00

This is a real trick!
Chriss Angel walks on top of a Las Vegas swimming pool with people swimming and diving around him! Amazing!

Eyes examination

2006-06-29T18:56:00.001+02:00

This is free eyes examination - test your eyesight!

Can you read this?

Try to read from across the room or cross your eyes ... can you read it now?

Increase distance from this picture until it is readable!

Two cars optical illusion

2006-06-29T18:41:00.000+02:00

This optical illusion is soo cool!
I mean, you can´t tell is this two cars or just painting on van!

What you think?

Smiling Clinton

2006-06-29T18:28:00.002+02:00

Clinton seems to be smiling on the picture below, isn´t it ...

but, this time look at carefully ...

Peace!

Dragon

2006-06-22T12:28:00.003+02:00

This dragon is made out of paper - you simply cut it out and stick it together, and stand it on a table or window ledge. But when you move around, the dragon's head seems to follow you around the room (see the video).

You can try this illusion for yourself. Just click on picture below.
Once you have printed the dragon out then you can cut out the dragon, fold and stick it, and you will be able to see this amazing illusion yourself. When you print the page out, you will see that the instructions for folding the dragon are included. Follow these instructions exactly.
Have fun!

Charlie Chaplin

2006-06-22T02:24:00.001+02:00

This is a great optical illusion - Charlie Chaplin - it gives you a brainspin!

Real hallucination!

2006-06-22T02:14:00.000+02:00

Experience real hallucination!

Stare at the center, keep your eyes still and look away when instructed.

Disappearing dots

2006-06-21T02:36:00.000+02:00

I´ve found this cool optical illusion.

Look at the flashing green dot in the center of the spinning crosses.
Now do those orange dots disappear or do they stay?
(it may help to close one eye if you can't get it to work)

Impossible cube

2006-06-15T22:34:00.001+02:00

This is very nice optical illusion

what you think, is this possible? (see picture)

See video for answer!

Amazing automated graffiti sprayer!

2006-06-15T00:18:00.000+02:00

I know that this is not an optical illusion or magic trick but I must show you this!
This is unbelievable - automated graffiti sprayer!!
It can be programmed to spray an image to perfection!

Freaky girl

2006-06-11T21:06:00.000+02:00

This picture is really weird ... look at it for a while and you won't be able to tell what ones are her real eyes and what ones are fake!
It makes for the illness after a time of looking. Really weird!See picture!

Burning sugar

2006-06-11T19:02:00.001+02:00

You need lumps of sugar, some cigarette ashes and matches or a lighter.

Not that this trick won´t work with granulated real sugar, but it is more impressive with a lump!
Normally, if you try to light sugar with a flame, it may bubble and melt, but it won´t actually catch fire. Unless you know how!

Challenge your friends to light a cube of sugar. While they are attempting to get one of the sugar cubes to light, secretly get some cigarette ash on your finger tips. Try to get as much as you can.
Have an one of your friends select a sugar cube, and as you pick it up transfer the ash to the sugar cube. Now, hold a flame to the portion of the cube with the ash on it, and it will light easilly!

Hallucination

2006-06-10T00:05:00.002+02:00

Hallucinate right now! Just follow these steps exactly.

Download this FILE, unzip and select run this program.
Keep your hands on your mouse at all times.
When the program opens hold your breath for 30 seconds and focus on the center dot.
Look down at your hand on the mouse. What you see?

Prove that you have 11 fingers!

2006-06-09T23:24:00.001+02:00

For this "trick" you need only your hands.

Tell your friends that you have 11 fingers, and you can prove it!

Using your right forefinger to point with, touch each finger of your left hand, counting "1, 2, 3, 4, 5". Then with your left forefinger count the fingers on your right hand, "6, 7, 8, 9, 10".
Say "Funny, I know I had 11! Let´s try again". This time count backwards, pointing to the fingers of the left hand say "10, 9, 8, 7, 6 ...". Then stop. hold up the right hand and say "Plus 5 equals 11!!" Do this quickly, without pausing!

A party trick!

2006-06-07T01:18:00.002+02:00

A good trick to try on a group of drunken peoples! just kidding
Explain that just as a glass prism splits up the different colours of white light, when different coloured light passes through glass, it is also affected to an extent that depends on its colour.
Write the words CARBON DIOXIDE on a piece of paper, CARBON in red and DIOXIDE in blue. Put the paper close behind the stem of a wine glass and look at the words through the stem. The red letters turn upside down, but the blue ones don't.
So is the glass affecting the red light more than the blue?

You weren't fooled, were you? This has nothing to do with the different colours of the words, or of red light being bent more or less than blue light. The stem of the wine glass turns both words upside down, but because DIOXIDE is symmetrical about a horizontal line, you don't notice that it is upside down - it looks just the same either way!

10 tips to perform the perfect Balducci Levitation

2006-06-05T23:33:00.003+02:00

Wear wide leg pants or slacks that come down just past your ankles. This dramatically helps cover the other foot.
Face the right angle - if your audience is at 6 o´clock and you are in the middle of the clock - face to 11 away from them.
Only do the trick for 2 or 3 people at a time - more than that create a bigger angle for you to deal with. Evem better is only one person.
Don´t stand too far away from your audience on the levitation. About 6 feet is good, up to about 10 feet.
Never, ever tell them that you are about to levitate. If you do that is will will make them watch harder. You want surprise element to it. Almost as if they don´t quite know what they saw.
Tell them you are going to TRY something. It doesn´t always work and you´ve only been able to do it twice before. Then move away to the approximate correct distance and somewhat turn your back to the 11 o´clock angle in order to concentrate. Then put your handa down by your sides and after a few moments slowly start to rise. Going up, hovering for a moment, and coming down should only take about 4 seconds total. Come down, look surprised yourself and say: "Woooow ...... it worked! Did you see that?"
If you are turned slightly to the left from them make sure your left foot remains parallel to the floor on LIFT OFF. That´s what gives a big part of the illusion is that foot´s toes being up in the air.
Practice rising up and down over and over. Do it a million times, get it smooth and effortless.
Do a few smaller trick for them first. Get them used to being affected by magic and the fact that you can do it. Don´t ever just jump into the Balducci Levitation as your first trick. Get them impacted first, and then say "There was something I´ve done a couple of times, maybe I could do it now".
Practicing the levitation in a mirror is good, but if you have a video camera and can set it up on a tripod at eye level - exatly where your audience´s would be - is literally ten times better. It will improve your levitation dramatically.

These tips if practiced should make your levitation skills much, much better! ;-)

Balducci Levitation

2006-06-05T13:27:00.002+02:00

The Balducci Levitation is an illusion that can be performed almost anywhere and anythime. It uses no wires, strings, rigs, camera tricks, etc.

Learn how to do the Balducci levitation in this simple tutorial!

This is a highly restrictive, angle sensitive trick. You have to practice your angles over and over to get used on them. One bad angle or position and the illusion is blown!

This picture at the right show you the audience point of view.

This figure shows the start of illusion. Stand about 10 feet away from the audience at a 45° backward angle ...

... you pause, and then slowly start to float (as shown in picture at the left). You rise 3 to 5 inches off of the ground before suddenly "crash" back down to the ground.

When performed corretly this is about as close to REAL MAGIC as you´d ever want to get!

Balducci Levitation - THE SECRET

All you do is pretend to float off of the ground while you tippee-toe on just one foot (the foot furthest from their view) as shown below. Believe it, or not, this looks great!! The small audience can´t see your supporting foot because it´s hidden by three things - your pants, the angle of the trick and your closest shoe (which hides their view of the foot being used to levitate you). You might only rise 3 or 5 inches off of the ground, but it´s all in the presentation! You will want to slowly rise off of the ground, wait just one or two second and then drop fast.
Stay up too long and they will probably figure it out.

This is what the Balducci Levitation looks like during performance. The position on the left is the start of the illusion. Position on the right shows the climax of the levitation.

Sign

2006-06-03T02:55:00.002+02:00

What does the sign say?

Are you sure? Read once again, but this time slowly and carefully! Do you see the catch? Then read one more time!

After drinks

2006-05-28T00:44:00.003+02:00

This is the trick of the mind!!

The audience is given two cards. They look at them, but the magician doesn´t see them. The audience inserts the cards into the deck, and without shuffling, the magicians throw the deck, but somehow manages to pick up the two cards, holding them up in the front of the audience.

PROCEDURE
You prepare the deck this way- pick two cards of different suits, but the same color, such as the 8 of spades, and the 3 of clubs. These are the cards you are going to give to the audience. Next pick the opposites of the cards - the 8 of clubs and the 3 of spades. These are the cards you will fool your audience with. Put the opposite cards at the top and bottom of the deck - 8 of clubs on top, 3 of spades on bottom. And the real cards both go on top.
Without too much explanation, deal the two top cards out, face down, and let the audience look at them. Next let them insert the card back into deck.
Make sure they can see that you are not doing anything to the deck. Hold the deck between your thumb on top and your fingers on the bottom. Swing the deck back and forth a few times, make sure they can´t see the bottom card, though! Perhaps you count 1, 2, 3 and then throw the deck.
As you throw the deck, hold onto the top and bottom card with your thumb and middle finger. Immedately hold the cards up for all to see.
It helps if you position yourself so that audience doesn´t turn their heads around to watch where you threw the cards.
They picked the 8 of spades, 3 od clubs - but you are holding the 8 of clubs, 3 of spades. It´s very rare that anybody notices. Great trick, isn´t it!

Ace party

2006-05-27T21:33:00.002+02:00

With the spectators help you make 4 piles of cards. When this is done you flip over all the piles and all four aces are there.

First you need to put three aces on the bottom and one on the top.

PROCEDURE
Ask the spectator to tell you when to stop putting down cards. Begin dealing cards face down on the table. Continue until they have you stop. After the first pile is down, stick the card deck, still in your hand, under the table and put the bottom card on top. This gives you an ace on the top. Repeat the above steps until you have 4 piles. Then flip over all the piles to show an ace on the bottom of each!

2 of a kind

2006-05-27T21:21:00.002+02:00

The magician picks out two cards. He has a spectator cut the deck. He flips over the cards that he picked, and then he flips over two cards of the deck that was cut. The cards match.

PROCEDURE
Shuffle the deck so the spectator doesn´t think you have rigged it. Tell them you will pick two cards. Go through the deck making sure you look at the bottom and the top cards of the deck. Pick out the card that matches the bottom card. If the bottom card is a 4 of hearts you would pick out the 4 of diamonds to match it. Then pick out a card that is the same as the top card. Ask zhe spectator to cut the deck. Take the first card, the one on top of the original top of the deck, and flip it over. Flip the bottom half of the deck over completely. Flip over the cards you picked. And they all match!

Upside down

2006-05-24T13:15:00.001+02:00

Watch this picture carefully.

Is this a young boy ...

... or balding man?

This is the same picture but upside down! ;-)

Coin island

2006-05-23T02:01:00.001+02:00

You´ll need 1 glass, a matchbook, six coins, and an ashtray with water.

Bet your friends that you can get the water out of the ashtray using only the ingredients mentioned and without moving or tilting the ashtray!

PROCEDURE
Make sure ashtray is filled with at most a quarter inch of water. Stack the coins in the centre of the ashtray so the top two coins are above the water. Place four unlite matches on top of the coins. Light the matches and immediately cover the flame and coins with the glass. The water will be drawn into the glass.

Eye popper

2006-05-23T01:27:00.001+02:00

For this "trick" you need a fork, knife or spoon, coffee milk or cream container.
When you´re at a bar with some friends ( or girlfriend ) and your feeling kind of down ...

PROCEDURE
Very slyly grab one of those coffe milk ( or cream containers ) and hide it in your hand. Now with the other hand pick up a knife, fork or spoon. Start talking to yourself, saying "I hate my life, I´m miserable, ..." . Until everyone at the table starts to look at you in a weird way. Then take the hand with the container concealed in it and hold it up to your eye with the paper side down, and take the spoon and act like you´re shoving it into your eye.
A bunch of white milk will come squirting out on everybody. If you want to make it more dramatic scream and fall on the floor!
Take care and have fun! ;-)

What do you see?

2006-05-19T02:03:00.001+02:00

What do you see on this picture?

Guess card

2006-05-19T01:24:00.002+02:00

Ask your friend to shuffle the deck. You will then take the deck and show the bottom of the pack to the friend with the four of hearts on the bottom without looking at the bottom of the deck.
You will then take the deck of cards behind your back and tell the friend what the next card on the bottom will be ( e.g. nine of diamonds ) - without looking at the bottom at all!
After holding the deck of cards behind your back you show the deck again with the predicted card on the bottom. And you can repeat this a couple of times.

PROCEDURE
When you hold the deck behind your back you will turn the card which is on top of the deck. When you show the bottom of the deck to the friend, with the four of hearts on the bottom, you will be able to see which turned card is on the top of the deck ( e.g. nine of diamonds ). After taking the deck behind your back again you will take the turned card on top of the deck ( nine of diamonds ), turn it and put it on the bottom. At the same time you will turn the next card which is on top. When you show the deck to the friend with the predicted card, nine of diamonds, you will be able to see the next card ( e.g. king of spades ).

Find the dog!

2006-05-14T00:58:00.002+02:00

Can you find the dog on this picture? Where is it?

Dice

2006-05-14T00:10:00.001+02:00

For this trick you will need a glass of water and 3 dice.

Ask your friend to drop 3 dice into a glass of water, raise the glass over his head and count the total of the dice on the bottom. Then tell to him to sets the glass back down, dips your finger in the water, rubs your finger on your forehead and after a little concentrating, announce the total of the dice on the bottom to the friends amazement!

PROCEDURE
All you have to do is add up the total of the numbers on top of the dice and subtract this total from 21. This will give you the bottom total!

Make tower with glasses!

2006-05-13T22:29:00.003+02:00

This is my favorite trick when I go to the bar.

How to balance 3 empty glasses on top of each other on their outer rims, without the help of any other object whatsoever?

Well, here is answer for that question! Firstly the glasses should be empty and indentical.
Secret for successful trick: imagine a clock face when you look at the glasses from above, you must remember 10 o'clock and 2 o'clock!
Place your first glass down onto the table or bar.
Place the second glass on top of first glass in the position of 10 o'clock.
Now place the third glass on top of second glass in the position of 2 o'clock.

Cheers!!

Optical illusion

2006-05-12T01:42:00.003+02:00

This is amazing!

Keep staring at the black dot ...

... after a while the gray haze around it will appear to shrink!

Ash trick 2

2006-05-12T00:58:00.002+02:00

Take a cigarette and rubs some of the ashes into the your friend clenched fist until they disppear. Then say some magic words like abracadabra and ask your friend to open their fist and the ash has penetrated onto their palm.

Before you execute this trick you must put some ash on your middle finger.

PROCEDURE
Tell your friend to stand in front of you and hold his hands out towards you palms down. Than tell him to come a little closer and phisically grab his hands to gently pull him a little closer. Ask him to close his fist, take a lit cigarette, which you use to flick some ash on his fist and rub in until it disappears. Then you can say some magic words and ask him to open his hands when the ash seems to have penetrated his fist.

Ash trick 1

2006-05-12T00:24:00.006+02:00

Challenge your friend to see who can smoke a cigarette the longest distance without losing any ash. Of course you will win everytime!

This is final result, of course when you smoke your cigare!

You will need just a packet of cigarettes and paperclip.

PROCEDURE
The trick is in hidden paperclip! Simply straighten it out and slide it down your cigarette. Make sure it slightly digs into the filter so as to give it some stability. Snip off the end ( this should give you a normal looking cigarette with no protruding wire ) And thats all. Have fun!