Hot Bar Tricks How-Tos
How To: Perform a smoking fingers party trick
Making your fingers smoke when you rub them together is a great trick to make you look like a hybrid of Gordon Gecko and the devil. Are those really two different things? This video demonstrates how to make the effect happen using only a match strike, a lighter, some scissors, and, of course, your hand. A very cool magic trick.
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: Perform a coin penetration magic trick
If you have ever played the popular drinking game Thin Ice, then this magic tricks setup should look familiar to you. The magician appears to push a coin positioned on top of a piece of latex through the latex into a glass without puncturing it. This video teaches you how to perform this simple, easy trick with only a few basic materials.
How To: Freeze a beer in two seconds
This is a great con that you can use to impress your friends. Next time you have buddies over for a beer, goof on them with this funny trick.
How To: Perform a bending rubber coin illusion
In this tutorial, learn how to confuse and impress anyone with this funky illusion. In this video, you will learn how to adjust your fingers to make it appear as though an ordinary coin has turned to rubber in your hands.
How To: Make a coin appear out of a dollar bill
In this tutorial, learn how to perform a fun pub trick. Use a dollar bill, a coin and some slight of hand in order to impress your friends.
How To: Open any beer bottle with a piece of normal paper
This is an awesome trick that will impress any bar patron you run into. Follow along with this tutorial and learn how to use an ordinary piece of paper as a bottle opener! That's right!
How To: Perform an amazing magic toothpick trick
Looking for a sure fire way to win a bar bet? Check out this tutorial. This super easy magic trick will amaze even the most skeptical of audiences and guarantee you free drinks all night!
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: Cut a lime in half using only a cigarette
Normally we wouldn't tell you to emulate prisoners in jail, but there's one fun trick that we can pick up from the Texas State Prison system.
How To: Put out a candle with an empty glass
Amaze and amuse your friends with this fun magic trick! Using only vinegar and baking soda, which you may remember from some of the bottle-bomb-making videos elsewhere on the site, you can create carbon dioxide which, since it's heavier than air, can be used to invisibly fill a glass and then be poured onto a candle, extinguishing it without looking like it's done anything at all! No word on how long the gas will stay in the glass, so set this one up right before you want to do it and then hi...
How To: Magically Link Paperclips Without Touching Them
If you are looking to win an easy bar bet, check out this video. In it, you will learn how to link two paperclips together using magic and without ever touching the clips!
How To: Levitate a Paper Cup Using Magic
In this tutorial, learn how to trick your audience into thinking you can control things with your mind!
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: Do a Magic Trick Anytime, Anywhere and Close Up
When you do a magic trick, people will automatically try and guess your secret. This makes it difficult to do complicated tricks that must be performed from a distance to look real.
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: 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: Challenge a Friend to a Bent Cigarette Challenge
If you are looking for a bet that you are sure to win, check out this clip. In it, you will learn exactly how to bend a cigarette in half without breaking it! No one will believe you when you say you can crunch a cig so that both ends touch and still have an unbroken smokable cigarette.
How To: Look Like the Strongest Man in the Bar with This Trick
Need some extra cash? Trying to impress a girl? Well, whatever the reason, check out this tutorial and win an interesting bar bet every time.
How To: Palm a Coin for Beginners
The key to many coin based magic tricks is proper "palming". In this tutorial, learn the basics of how to palm a coin and open the door for many tricks to follow.
How To: Perform a Crazy Handcuffs Rubber Band Trick
This magic trick seems impossible, but with this tutorial, you will learn just how easy it is to do.
How To: Perform a Magic Telekinetic Trick with Matches
With this trick, learn how to use one match to make another match jump feet into the air. This trick is so sneaky that you will appear to be controlling it with your mind.
How To: Magically Fuse Together Multiple Breath Mints
If you are looking for a way to kill time while waiting in a restaurant, why not check out this magic trick?
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 Coin Vanish Through a Glass with Magic
In this tutorial, learn how to make an ordinary coin completely vanish by placing a clear wine glass over it!
How To: Perform the "Jumping Jack" Card Trick
In this tutorial, learn how to perform a classic card trick. With the right slight of hand and a little practice, you will be able to impress your audience with this fun trick. In this clip, you will see how to make a Jack card mysteriously take the place of another face card.
How To: Perform an Easy & Amazing Levitation Trick
The magic trick in this video can be performed with nothing more than items found in your local restaurant or bar.
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: Make Your Money Double in Value with Magic
Remember when your parents used to lecture you that money doesn't come out of thin air? What if you could prove them wrong?
How To: Make a Coin Jump from Hand to Hand with Magic
In this tutorial, learn a funky magic trick that you can perform anywhere. In this video, you will see exactly how to flip a coin just right so that it appears to have jumped from one closed hand to another. This process is really simple, but will require some practice. So, feel free to rewind the video if you need more help. Have fun!
How To: Perform the "little poodle" cigarette magic trick
In this tutorial, learn a funky trick that will impress your friends. This trick requires nothing more than a cigarette and is easy to do anywhere you go. This is perfect for use in bars and restaurants while you are waiting for your drinks to arrive.
How To: Make a Coin Seem to Appear Out of Thin Air
Do you remember all those coin tricks your parents played on you as a kid? Ever wonder how they discovered all that money behind your ears? Well, in this tutorial, you will learn how to make an ordinary coin appear out of thin air.
How To: Transform a Bill with a Crazy Magic Money Trick
In this tutorial, learn how to perform a fantastic magic trick where two money bills seemingly make an amazing transformation, right under the nose of your audience!
How To: Vanish a Coin Very Easily
This magic trick is sure to impress your friends or any audience. In this video, you will learn how to make a coin vanish and appear at will!
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: 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: 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: Tear a thick phonebook in half
In this two part tutorial, learn a very cool magic trick that will have people stunned! In this video, magician Jason Younger will teach you how to rip a full sized phonebook in half! The secret behind this trick is actually a lot simpler than you would imagine, and no one will be able to guess how you are doing it.
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.