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: 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: 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: 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: Remove a Cork from Inside a Wine Bottle

In this video, learn a cool bar trick. In it, you will see how to remove a cork from inside a bottle without breaking it.

How To: Do the Coin in a Bottle trick

Nick Sonani teaches a neat bottle trick where you flip a coin on a business card with one finger. - Take a 5 cent (nickel), dime or another small coin.

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: 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: 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: 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: Do a moving olive and coaster bar trick

Move an olive from one coaster to the other, without touching either the olive or the coaster, without skewering the olive, or letting it touch the table. To perform this bar trick, you will need a wine glass. Watch this video magic tutorial and learn how to perform a moving olive and coaster bar trick. It's a great way to bet someone for a free drink.

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: Balance forks and a match on a glass

Check out this magic trick tutorial video to learn how to balance two forks and a match on a glass cup! All you need to do is grab a cup, two forks, and a match. The plugs hang on a match. Practice this magic trick on your friends and soon you'll be teaching everyonw how to perform this quick and easy magic trick.

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: Perform tricks with a Zippo lighter

There are lots of different ways to light up a Zippo lighter with a little flair, and maybe impress a person or two out at the bar. Learn how to do tricks with a Zippo lighter by watching and following along with this video tutorial. Perform tricks with a Zippo lighter.

How To: Balance a beer glass on a coin

A bar trick in which you balance a beer glass on a coin. Balance a beer glass on a coin.

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: 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: 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: 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 bar trick using a bandana or cloth napkin

In this tutorial, learn how to trick people in a bar or at a party. This trick requires only a small piece of cloth like a napkin or bandana. You ask an opponent to try and tie the cloth in a knot without crossing their arms or letting go of the ends of the fabric. This may sound impossible but with a simple slight of hand you'll be able to tie it and win your bet!

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: 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: Pull the trick that fooled Einstein

Check out this bar trick of super sonic hearing. It is the trick that fooled Einstein by Brian Brushwood and Revision3's Scam School. Watch Brian scam Olympic gold medalist Jonny Moseley with a few coins, and some algebra!

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 the clinging cutlery magic trick

This video shows you how to perform the clinging cutlery magic trick. You will need a knife and a fork. Amaze your friends with this simple cutlery magic trick. This magic trick can be performed in a bar, dinner table etc.

How To: Shotgun a beer using just your finger

In this tutorial, learn how to shotgun a beer using only the tip of your thumb - and of course your mouth!

How To: Levitate a Playing Card

Ever wonder how to levitate something like a real magician? Well, look no further! In this tutorial, learn how to levitate a playing card from a deck of cards and impress everyone you know. This trick is easy to learn and since cards are so compact, you can perform it anywhere! So grab a deck and practice!

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: 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: 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: 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: Perform the Coin Roll magic coin trick

Watch a magic coin trick revealed... learn how to perform this cool coin trick that will amaze your friends after a little bit of practice. This magic video tutorial will show you how to perform the Coin Roll magic coin trick. This coin trick is cool and easy!

How To: Play advanced Nim to get free drinks at the bar

Brian Brushwood and Scam School give you another way to score free booze at the bar. Memorize a few configs and you'll hold the key to another unbeatable game and loads of free drinks!

How To: Make a ring from two beer bottles

The next time you're at a bar, and you find that special someone that you just can't let go, don't let her slip away to another drunkard, propose to her! But wait, you don't have a ring! Well, make a redneck ring to show her you really care.

How To: Open a bottle of wine with a Swiss Army knife

This parlor trick video aptly demonstrates how to open a bottle of wine with an ordinary swiss army knife when that feisty cork screw goes missing. This video is a great alternative for college students who seem to inevitably misplace or loan their cork screws and want to seamlessly open and enjoy a nice glass of wine.

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: Break a beer bottle with your hands

Need a new way to impress your friends? Well, when you're out partying, show them how to break a beer bottle with you bare hands. This bar trick is sure to amaze anyone, and it relies simply on air pressure. Just keep in mind that this could be dangerous... glass will fly.

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: Perform a mind reading heads/tails trick

In this video, we learn how to perform a mind reading trick with Brian Brushwood. First, grab some random change out of your pocket and tell the other person to turn over any coin the choose. Then ask them to turn over two more. Now tell the person to pick a coin and slide it towards them and pay attention if it's heads or tails, then cover it up. Now tell the person to say "heads/tails" and tell them which one it is, depending on if the person leads forward. You can easily accomplish this by...