Magic tricks with cigarettes: recommended tricks for parties and performances
There are many kinds of magic tricks, including those that use special boxes or ropes, but performances that use familiar objects—like coins or playing cards—are often more captivating, aren’t they?
In this article, we’ll introduce magic tricks that use one such everyday item: cigarettes.
If you can casually perform them when you’re having a drink with friends or taking a break at work, you’re sure to liven up the moment!
In addition to sleight-of-hand tricks, there are also relatively easy ones you can do if you prepare a simple gimmick, so give them a try.
Magic tricks with cigarettes: Recommended tricks for entertainment and performances (1–10)
Disappearance and Appearance of a Cigarette
Simple is best: a magic trick where a cigarette vanishes and reappears! Why not learn it as a quick, flashy technique you can show on the spot? As you slide it into the inside of your left hand, the cigarette is gone before they even realize it.
The secret is using a right-hand/left-hand combination that leverages the principle of a lever: at the moment it seems to fully enter the left hand, you secretly transfer it to the right hand while hiding it with your fingers.
One key point is to keep your fingers tightly closed so the cigarette can’t be seen through any gaps.
A magic trick where you extinguish a cigarette by squeezing it with your bare hand
It’s a magic trick where, when you place a lit cigarette into your hand, you neither get burned nor does the cigarette remain visible—it seems to vanish.
The hand holding the box has a thumb tip on the thumb; before putting the cigarette into the hand, you remove the tip and extinguish the flame inside it, which prevents burns.
After putting out the flame in the tip, you transfer it to the other hand, but since the aluminum foil inside the tip has fully snuffed the fire, there’s no risk of burns at that point either.
Make sure to fully extinguish the flame and move smoothly between both hands.
a lit cigarette that isn’t hot at all
It’s a magic trick where you press the lit tip of a cigarette—the part that should be too hot to touch—against your hand without getting burned.
At first glance it looks like you’re just toughing it out, but there’s a secret, so you can perform it without leaving marks or causing harm.
All you need is a single drop of water prepared in the ashtray.
While making sure the cigarette as a whole doesn’t go out, you wet only the tip.
This cools just the tip, making it safe to touch your hand.
Be careful with how much pressure you use, though—if you press too hard, you might end up touching the parts that aren’t cooled.
Controlling your touch is important.
Piercing Guts Roast
It goes without saying, but a lit cigarette is dangerous.
If the ember touches your skin, you’ll of course get burned.
However, this magic trick creates the illusion that you touched the ember even though you didn’t.
You seem to bring a lit cigarette close to the back of the spectator’s hand, yet a mark of ash appears on their palm as if it passed right through.
The secret is that you preload some ash on your fingertip and, timed to the spectator’s reaction, you secretly transfer it onto their palm.
The key is crafting a natural pretext to touch their palm.
Cigarette Through (Magic Trick)
It’s a magic trick where you hold a cigarette with the thumbs and index fingers of both hands, forming two loops that should be closed, yet the cigarette appears to pass through them.
What makes it feel mysterious is that it seems to slide through smoothly without catching on anything.
The key is the finger movement at the moment of penetration: for just a split second, you also use your middle finger to pinch the cigarette.
This creates a gap on the thumb side, allowing the cigarette to pass through.
A tip to make it look even more impossible is to avoid bumping the cigarette against the fingers as it goes through.
The lit cigarette went pop like a tiny explosion!
It’s a trick that can look like nothing more than a little mishap: when you casually light a cigarette, it suddenly flares up as if it exploded for a split second.
The cigarette you light has been prepared in advance to create the illusion of an explosion.
The setup is simple—just pack a small amount of flash cotton into the tip.
Adjust the quantity carefully to achieve a satisfying but controlled flare-up.
Since the effect only happens at the very beginning, it’s important to make sure all attention is focused on the moment you light it.
Cocoa Cigarettes transform into real cigarettes
This is a magic trick where a cocoa cigarette transforms into a real cigarette the moment you give it a light shake.
The way the thickness and length change instantly makes it look like there’s no gimmick, which is what’s so intriguing.
In reality, you’re already holding a cigarette in the hand opposite the one with the cocoa cigarette, and you switch them at the moment you bring your hands together.
If you use your thumb to pull it into the inside of your hand, you can make the change look even smoother.
It’s also recommended to hide the cocoa cigarette in the motion of taking out a lighter and lighting up.