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About.com Magic & Illusion: What's Hot Now
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These articles that had the largest increase in popularity over the last week
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The Disappearing Coin
An easy coin trick that you can perform anytime and anywhere. But you must have a friend to help you.
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How to Make a Tiger Balloon Animal
Here's a nice tiger balloon animal. You can tackle this one after you've mastered the basic dog balloon. While the body is the same as that of a dog balloon animal, the head is far more detailed and the addition of the stripes makes it quite whimsical.On this page you're finishing the basic head of the tiger.
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Floating Match
If you want to levitate an object and cause it to seemingly float in the air, here's a low cost trick that you can purchase from most magic dealers. This one is particularly good for beginners because it is easy to learn and perform.
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Turtle Balloon Animal
Here's a turtle balloon animal that you can make that's complete with its shell.
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Easy Magic: The Banana Buster
By executing an ultra-secret ninja move, you magically cause a banana to separate into pieces while it's still inside the peel. This trick is an easy one that only requires a little preparation. And be sure that you're hungry so you can eat the banana when you're done.
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Easy Trick: The Necklace
In this effect, three beads appear to pass right through a string and release themselves. This one is easy to make and perform, and at the end, everything can be handed out for examination.
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Easy Magic Trick: Coin Dish
Here's a way to magically multiply money. In the trick, you have a spectator carefully count several coins into a dish, which you pour back into his hand. When he opens his hand later, he'll find more coins then he originally counted.
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EZ Magic: Seeing With Fingers
Here’s an offbeat easy magic trick that uses coins. You have a spectator randomly select a coin from several that are in a bag or bowl. With a marker, the spectator writes his initials on the coin. The spectator concentrates on the coin for a few seconds and places it with the others inside of the bowl. Without looking, you are able to immediately reach into the bowl and pull out the selected and marked coin.
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The Rising Ring
A ring that's threaded onto a rubberband mysteriously rises on its own accord. This one is super easy and all you need is a rubberband and a ring. There's almost no preparation.
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Magician David Blaine
Best known for his television specials and well-promoted physical stunts, David Blaine is among the best known magicians in the world.
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Easy Trick: The Rising Ring
A ring that’s threaded onto a rubberband mysteriously rises on its own accord. This one is super easy and all you need is a rubberband and a ring. There’s almost no preparation.
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EZ Trick: Vanishing Toothpick
In this easy magic trick, you cause a toothpick that you're holding in your hand to quickly vanish. At the end, you're holding your fingers wide apart.
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Color Spelling Trick
This is a mystifying trick that is great for older kids. In the effect, a spectator secretly selects a color and then by silently spelling it as the magician touches a series of cards, the magician locates the color.
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The Impassable Corks
In this effect, you hold two wine corks that are seemingly interlocked, and somehow pull the corks through each other. It's a fast, visual trick that you can also perform with rolled dollar bills and other objects of roughly the same size as wine corks.
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Bar Bets
Bar Bets are a genre of magic. They're tricks that challenge others so they just can't win. Have fun with these.
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Lesson: Levitating Pencil
In this easy magic trick, you place a pencil into a bottle and it mysteriously levitates on its own. There's some preparation involved, but you should have fun with this one.
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The Five Best Tricks for Kids
Here are the best tricks for beginning magicians that are easy to learn and perform, inexpensive and are good effects.
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Easy Magic: "Do As I Do"
“Do As I Do,” is a great card trick that offers lots of audience interaction, can be performed at any time that you have two decks of cards, has lots of opportunities for comedy and the ending is surprising with an inherent build-up. And once the trick is over, the secret is long gone. There is nothing for spectators to find. As you'll see, it's one of the best magic tricks with cards for beginners and kids.
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5 Steps to Sleight of Hand
One of the joys and challenges of being a magician is working up new effects and sleight-of-hand moves that you present to your audiences. If you’re developing a new move, whether it’s a color change, side steal, pass or other, here are five steps that will help ensure success.
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Magician David Copperfield
The best known and richest magician - he ranks among the wealthiest of all entertainers-David Copperfield is a household name. He is known to millions through his numerous television specials over the last couple of decades and he continues to tour, taking his show around the country.
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