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: 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: 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: Make a fireball with your hand

This video shows you how you can make a fireball (more of a flash flame) using just a lighter and your hand. Try it and see if you can do it in less tries than this guy.

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: Make a soda or beer can balance on its side

Looking to impress your gullible friends and win a bar bet? Check out this tutorial if you are!

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: Make a normal coin vanish in your bare hands

There is no better way to amaze people than with a vanishing act. When something tangible is there and then disappears, it is bound to blow anyone's mind.

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: 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: Fold a $5 to see the twin towers

Impress your friends with this bar trick. Learn how to do a neat little magic trick folding up a $5 and $20 bill. This trick will be a hit at your next gathering. Follow along and learn the step by step instructions to folding the five or twenty dollar bill to be able to see the Twin Towers. It's creepy how you can see the image of the Twin Towers in the folded dollar bills. Fold a $5 to see the twin towers.

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: Light a match with your teeth

Did you know that it's possible to light a match simply by using your teeth? You can look like a total badass if you learn how to do this trick properly, although you might get burned in the process.

How To: Whistle (Taxi Style)

This is the perfect trick for hailing a cab after a night out. Learn how to whistle like a pro.

How To: Relight a used match using this great bar trick

A simple trick to use a match again after it has burned out. Sure to impress your friends.

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: Pick up a glass or beer bottle with only a straw

In this video, bet your friends that they can not lift an entire glass using only a plastic straw. They will most likely struggle, push the glass around a bit and try to balance it all, to no avail. Then, you come along and save the day with this trick!

How To: Guess the correct number magic trick

Check out this magic trick tutorial video to learn how to guess the number you tell your friend to think of. With a few mathematical additions and subtractions to the original number, you can guess the final number with this magic trick. Watch this instructional video and perform this trick on your friends.

How To: Repair a Punctured Ball with an Egg

This video demonstrates how to repair a broken ball with only an egg and a pump.

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: 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 4 match sticks to create 3 equilateral triangles.

For all brainteaser fanatics, this one is for you. Challenge yourself to move four matches to form three equilateral triangles. Press pause to think about it before you find out the answer. Are you stumped yet? Can you figure out this brainteaser in less than ten minutes? You'll be surprised to find out how easy this puzzle answer is.

How To: Stick a beer bottle to a wall without glue or gum

Check out this how-to video and see how you can park a beer bottle in the corner of a room. It looks as if the beer bottle is hanging on the wall. This is a very cool beer bottle trick, just be careful not to damage the paint. There's not gimmick to the trick in this instructional video, and you won't need any glue.

How To: Perform a magic bar trick with a cloth napkin

This trick works great in pretty much any bar or restaurant. All you need is a cloth napkin to achieve this funky trick. Bet someone that they will not be able to tie a napkin in a knot without crossing their arms or lifting their fingers. Those suckers will tie themselves in a pretzel before they are able to accomplish this and you can laugh and laugh because you know the secret!

How To: Pick pockets like a pro

Learn how to pick pockets just the way pro thieves do it! This video will take you through the way pros go through their process, from finding a mark to making the switch. It even tells you how to avoid being the mark. This video will show how to pick pockets like a pro.

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.

How To: Break a beer bottle with the palm of your hand

Next time you're at a party, try this beer bottle trick out. See how to break the bottom out of a beer bottle, with just hands and water. You just fill the empty beer bottle up with cold water, hold the neck in your hand, point the bottom in a safe direction, and smash your palm against the mouth. Simple as that.

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: Put a hole in a dollar bill big enough to fit a body

In this video, learn a cool bar trick that will win you tons and tons of beers. In this two part tutorial, you will learn exactly how to bet someone that they can't fit a human body through a hole in a single dollar bill. They will be completely confused and have no idea what to do.

How To: Make a beer bottle explode by tapping it

Here is a cool trick that you can do to amaze your friends - make a beer bottle explode right in front of their eyes! All you need is a little skill and your bare hands and that sturdy bottle will smash to pieces in your palms.

How To: Perform a cool smoke trick with your finger

The commentator tells viewers they will learn how to make smoke from their fingertips. First you must tear the strip off of a matchbox. Then place the strip in an ashtray, facing upside down. Light the strip on fire and let it burn for a little while. Push the burned strip to one side of the ashtray and there will be a brown-yellow residue left in the bottom of the ashtray. Wipe the residue off with one of your fingers and then proceed to rub your fingers together. Smoke will then come from y...

How To: Get a cork out of a bottle without breaking the glass

Impress everyone at the pub with this fascinating bar trick. You can get a cork out of a wine bottle without breaking the bottle. People will be amazed. This takes a plastic bag and a little breath to accomplish. Try betting to win some beer or money.

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 the coin matrix magic trick

In this tutorial, learn how to perform a coin magic trick called the "coin matrix". This trick is very cool and easy to perform anywhere you can find some coins, making it perfect for bars, restaurants, parties and anywhere else that needs a little magic.

How To: Make a beverage vanish into thin air with Trickbusters

In this tutorial, learn how to make someone's beverage completely disappear with a special trick. It will appear as though you are simply leaning over your friend's glass but when you lift your arm their drink will have disappeared! If you would like to know how to do this trick and successfully annoy your friends, follow along with this tutorial. The Trickbusters will debunk the illusion and explain the secrets behind it.

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: 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: 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: Change 3 triangles into 4 triangles

Can you solve this puzzle? Move three lines from these three triangles to make four equal triangles. Can you solve this brainteaser without cheating? You'll be surprised at how easy the answer to this puzzle is.

How To: Perform a trick with a nickel, cup, and match

Do you remember "The Heist" from episode 21? Well, the sequel is even more unfair than the original! Check out this video if you want to stump people with a trick called "The Heist II." For this trick, you need only a few simple supplies: a match, a cup, and a nickel.