Hot Bar Tricks How-Tos

How To: Light a Cigarette with an Empty Lighter

Need a smoke, but no one has any matches and your lighter is fresh out of fuel? This how-to video has got a cool trick you can perform to light your cigarette if you ever run out of lighter fluid. Despite the lighter being out of gas, you can still make a fire to light your cig. All you need is the lighter and a sheet of toilet paper.

How To: Push a Coin Through the Bottom of a Glass

This magic trick requires no equipment or setup and is sure to wow the crowd in any bar. The magician appears to thrust a coin upwards through the bottom of a pint glass, when really they use a French transfer to switch the coin to their other hand and drop it into the top of the glass with the hand that is holding the glass.

How To: Eat Fire (And Look Damn Good Doin' It)

Eating fire is a guaranteed method of not only impressing an entire room, but also instantly settling any questions as to whether or not you're a complete and total stone cold BAD ASS. When you can casually whip this trick out in a bar, you're not only going to get your drinks bought for you for the rest of the night, but at least three phone numbers scrawled on the backs of napkins.

How To: Do the dollar bill and beer bottle trick

Can you pull out a dollar bill from under an upside down beer bottle, without knocking the bottle over? Probably not, but learn how to from this video bar trick tutorial and bet your friends that you can. It's an easy winnable bet, once you know the trick.

How To: Fake telepathy or ESP at the bar with Scam School

You learn fake ESP powers and we show you the Mind Control trick from outer space! And to reward you for sticking with us for almost a year now, we're giving you a double-stuft episode, featuring our first intergalactic scam school student AND a diabolical method to fake telepathy between you and a friend:

How To: Get free drinks with a 6 coin puzzle bar trick

Check out this 6 coin puzzle bar trick from Revision3, Scam School and Brian Brushwood. Brian introduces a new diabolical coin puzzle to stump your friends.

How To: Perform the hot seat card magic trick

Here's a card trick that looks like you screwed up, but in reality, it's all part of the gag. It's got a great twist at the end that will put those smug viewers in their place. Do it at a bar and win a free drink.

How To: Stump everyone in the bar with a cork trick

In this tutorial, presented by Scam School, learn how to master a complicated trick that you can perform in any bar. With this trick, you can challenge everyone in the bar and no one will be able to do it. You will stump and amaze everyone for sure! So, follow along and practice!

How To: Make a Coin Vanish in Front of Your Eyes

In this tutorial, learn how to make an ordinary coin vanish before your very eyes! For this trick, you will need a normal coin and a tube of lip balm. The lip balm helps the coin to secretly stick to the back of your hand.

How To: Balance a Wine Glass on Top of a Playing Card

Looking for a cool trick you can perform in a bar? Check this out! In this tutorial, learn how to balance a wine glass on top of a seemingly ordinary playing card.

How To: Perform the fast and loose bar trick

This game goes by a bunch of names: "fast and loose," "pricking the garter," "the endless chain," "the strap..." The object is simple: a chain is laid in a figure-eight configuration. One of the holes is the true center of the chain and will hold "fast," while the other will not hold, and is instead "loose". Follow along with this how-to video and learn how to perform the bar trick.

How To: Connect six boxes without intersecting lines bar trick

This video will show you how to do a great bar trick puzzle. Connect the boxes to win some bets and free drinks. Once you know how to do it, it's very easy to accomplish. This involves some drawing, but you'll impress friends with this intersecting lines trick.

How To: Fool people with the 2 wine cork bar trick

In this trick, bet someone that they can't transfer two corks between their hands and separate them without getting stuck. Unless you know the trick, you won't be able to do this. Check out this tutorial and let Scuba show you exactly how to do this funky illusion and win many bets.

How To: Mind read with three questions

This trick is a form of "mentalism". This is done by asking three questions, and writing your answers on three separate pieces of paper. A mentalist first asks you a personal question, but instead of writing the 'answer' to that question, he writes the answer to the final 'easy' question...thereby getting a hidden jump on the answers making you think he is reading your mind. But in fact it is a trick.

How To: Perform the pen pentrating real money magic trick

Looking for a cool trick to impress your friends? Check out this tutorial from Stephen Ablett. In it, he will show you how to stick a pen through a dollar bill and take it out again, leaving the bill totally intact!

How To: Perform the haunted kitchen towel/ghost trick

In this tutorial, learn how to perform a quick and easy magic trick. In this trick, you will make it look like a tea towel is haunted and being pushed around by ghosts.

How To: Fold a bottle cap twice

Folding a bottle cap twice seems impossible to do. This how to video will teach you step by step instruction to make you look like the strongest guy in the bar. Use this trick to win bets or impress the ladies.

How To: Chug a Beer

It doesn't take much skill to drink beer fast, but to chug an entire beer in one gulp is an art. Learn how to execute this bar trick by picking up a few simple techniques. Start watching and start chugging.

How To: Trick someone with a bottle cap, an empty bottle, and air

Are you the kind of person who's always looking for a new way to scam people into buying them beer with one-sided bets? Then this is right in your wheelhouse. Watch this video to learn why it is impossible to blow a folded bottle cap into a bottle from it's rim and how you can use this to trick bar patrons and partygoers.

How To: Make three stars in one with a single rubber band

Most people can probably make one star with a rubber band.. at the most they can twist two. But in this video, you will learn how to make THREE stars all at once using a single elastic band.

How To: Remove part of your finger with a magic trick

Remember those little tricks your Dad played on you as a kid? Like the old "penny behind your ear" trick? Well, in this tutorial, learn how he did his famous "detached finger" bit.

How To: Do the "two corks" bar trick

A very nice and simple explanation of how to make those corks change hands. Don't get locked up, do it right. Try out this "two corks" bar trick to win money, beer, or just to impress friends.

How To: Perform a bar match trick to win a free drink

All you need is a match, two pint glasses and a quarter, and you'll be drinking free all night! Just follow the steps in this how-to video. The tricks win you goodwill, but the puzzles win you good beer!

How To: Put a penny into stacked shot glasses without spilling

This is a great bar trick for two shot glasses stacked together. Learn how to slip a penny in between the two shot glasses without spilling any of the liquid by watching this video magic tutorial.

How To: 5 Surefire Tricks to Getting a Free Drink at the Bar

When you finally turn the privileged age of 21 in the U.S. (or 18 in most other countries), the first thing you'll probably do is sprint to the nearest pub, order a drink, and revel in your new freedom. Congratulations, you've survived two decades on Earth, you've earned that drink.

How To: Perform 4 great bar tricks with 1 beer bottle

Here are 4 great tricks you can perform! They all require a beer bottle, so performed together they work to make a great bar routine to keep a table entertained for hours. Check out this video and get ready for free drinks and accolades.

How To: Break a glass bottle with your bare hands

A broken bottle is a very dangerous weapon, and creating one quickly and easily in a combat situation can be the difference between life and death. It's also just kind of fun to break bottles. Whatever your motivation, this video will show you how to break a glass bottle quickly and easily using only your bare hands. It takes some practice, you might want to use gloves or a hammer at first, but once you get the hang of it it makes a great trick.

How To: Perform a prank using dish soap & pepper

In this clip, learn how to trick your friends by betting them that you can control water with your mind.

How To: Perform the German magic trick "Salt Game"

Check out this tutorial and learn how to perform the classic German salt game trick. In this clip, you will learn how to make salt travel from one place to another and jump around in front of a bewildered audience. In the tutorial, Losander the magician teaches you all of his tricks. Enjoy!

How To: Perform a Magic Trick with a Sugar Packet

Check out this tutorial for steps on how to perform a very cool slight of hand trick. In this video, learn how to take a solid sugar packet, toss it in the air and catch it - like a ring - around your pointer finger. Your audience will be totally amazed, but you will know the secret.

How To: Smoke an Entire Cigarette Without Losing Any Ash

In this tutorial, learn how to perform a simple bar trick that will win you lots of free drinks! In this clip, you will learn the secret to smoking an entire cigarette without losing any ash at all! You will build a perfectly shaped ash stick where your paper cig used to be.

How To: Perform the Impossible Bending Cigarette Trick

In this video, learn how to bend an ordinary cigarette in half without breaking it! With this amazing trick, you can bet your friends that you can bend a cigarette in two, so that both ends touch without breaking the cigarette.

How To: Make a handkerchief mouse

First of all you need a handkerchief or a cloth napkin. Make sure that it is clean for use. Now start by folding the two opposite corners together. This shall make a triangle. Now you have top fold the two middle bits so that they overlap at the center. Now start rolling them together upwards. It is very important that you are rolling them very tightly. This shall make the body of the mouse solid otherwise it may fall apart. When you have made a solid roll then fold the two ends upwards as sh...

How To: Tear a big phone book in half

Let your fingers do the walkin' and give the Yellow Pages a piece of your mind. In this tutorial, learn how to perform a very cool magic trick that will impress everybody.

How To: Read Minds with a Simple Mentalism Effect

What if I told you that you could read minds? You'd most likely think I was crazy, and you'd be right. But what I really meant is that you could make people think that you could read minds, something that's not the least bit crazy.

How To: Do the "circumference or height" glass bar bet

This is a fantastic and great bar trick, or bet. Using just a couple glasses and a piece of string, you can trick your friends into buying you beer or giving you money. What's better than that?

How To: Make a bottlecap fly out of your hand

Create a nice burst of air and you can make the bottle cap go flying. Watch as the bottlecap soars into the air when you clap your hands together.

How To: Do a dental floss magic trick

This trick will show how to magically diffuse two pieces of dental floss together. The magic trick works like this: Take two pieces of dental floss. Put the ends in your mouth. When you take them out the two pieces have magically become one.

How To: Make a cigarette disappear with your hands

This is one of the easier yet shocking magic tricks that can be performed by using a cigarette. With a little slight of hand, you can create the illusion of a cigarette disappearing.

How To: Move 3 matchsticks to make 3 squares

Try to figure out this brainteaser in five minutes or less. Move three matchsticks in order to make three squares. No peeking! Are you still working out this puzzle in your head? You'll be very surprised at the simple solution to this riddle.