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News: Make Liquid Smoke In a Glass (Best Bar Trick EVER)
As filthy as this looks, I can't help but be utterly awed and amazed. Pull this bar trick at the club and you'll at least woo the Jersey Shore set.
News: 1798 Beers + 1 Car + 2 Steady (Sober?) Hands = World's Most Impossible Drinking Bet
Hands down, the ULTIMATE bar trick. This dude has some seriously steady hands. It's gotta be all in the steering... right?
News: The Great Cardini's Elegant Sleight of Hand
Richard Valentine Pitchford, widely known as the great Cardini, was a legendary magician and former president of the Magician's Guild.
News: Tongue clap
Tongue what? There's tongue kiss, tongue tied, tongue twisters, but tongue clapping? What? Meet Sam Taylor. He and the great minds at VideoJug give us the 411 on the new way to impress the ladies.
News: Impress a girl - light her cigarette with your hand
Wait...with only your hand? It's simple. Take a normal Bic-style lighter. Hold down the button to release butane gas into your cupped hand. Then light it.
News: CSI those finger prints with super glue
WonderHowTo house favorite, Sam Nouyoun gives the lowdown on "fuming" super glue to develop latent fingerprints on smooth surfaces.
News: Win a coin toss every time
Coin toss. It's an equalizer. 50/50. Heads. Or tails. Well, not if you cheat.
News: Pull the bill under bottle bar trick
We have a soft spot for bar tricks...in the same way we love magic. These are two variations on a single theme. Get a dollar out from under an upside down beer bottle without touching nor toppling the bottle.
News: Wow a crowd with superhero strength
With the recent release of both Watchmen and X-Men Origins, convincing a drunken buddy at the bar that you've got slightly super human lifting abilities isn't completely out of the question.
News: Rip a phone book in half
Steroids are silly. Like all great feats, the key is ingenuity-- not brawn.
News: Trick a friend with everlasting ash magic
Legend says this is Winston Churchill's trick. He used to pull it off with cigars just to elicit a reaction.
News: Twirl this banana around your thumb
Visit Taiwan some day. Honest. Every school kid twirls and twirls during class. This cool video teaches you different ways to spin a pencil/pen on your fingers. By using your thumb, index finger, and middle finger, while observing the weight balance, you will learn to be cool...in that post-modern metro sexual blase blase...way.
News: Empty a beer bottle in one second
St Patrick's Day. It has been distilled to a day of green beer binges and shamrock confetti. This video will assuredly not disappoint. Consider this the ultimate Irish pick up line.
News: Magically swap water with whiskey
Properly produced, a pointless bar trick is as much a how-to as a Mario Batali cooking instructional. We are non-discriminatory in that regard. While curating, we focus primarily on the INTENT of the video.
News: Fake Superhero Strength with Scam School
Congratulations to Brian Brushwood and Scam School for winning the 2008 WonderHowTo Magic Award! We're huge fans of the Scam School and with the votes, clearly you are too. Scam School and the Superhero Trick are the brainchild of spiky-haired magician Brian Brushwood. Brian is the only WonderHowTo Award winner with a self-produced action figure!
News: Spin a pencil
This is an early discovery for us. Consider it an inspiration.