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.
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Magic tricks with cigarettes: recommended acts for parties and performances (11–20)
Knock down only the cigarette in the middle with your breath.
This is a magic trick where you blow only the middle of three cigarettes standing on a table so that only that one falls over.
It’s mysterious to see the middle one fall not only when they’re spaced far apart, but also when they’re placed close together.
How you hold the cigarettes when rearranging them into a narrow spacing is key: you apply a slight force to the middle cigarette to make it easier to topple.
Then you just blow with enough strength for only the middle one to fall.
If you blow too hard, all of them will fall, so be sure to practice controlling your breath.
Unbreakable cigarette
It’s a grown-up magic trick using a banknote and a cigarette, but the method is very straightforward with no twists, so anyone should be able to do it easily! As shown in the video, place the cigarette on the bill, roll it up tightly, and fold it in half.
At this moment, the cigarette does indeed get bent, but because the bill acts as a cushion, it doesn’t get a crease! After that, just before you unfold the bill and take out the cigarette, gently knead it to reshape it.
At a party, borrowing someone’s cigarette to perform this could really liven things up.
A cigarette pierces a 100-yen coin
It’s a magic trick where you appear to push a cigarette through the center of a coin.
The cigarette has a gimmick: a magnet-attached extension piece for the tip and a colored film in the filter that can slide.
By operating these smoothly, it looks like the cigarette penetrates the coin.
The routine is to attach the extension piece (which you’ve been palming) as you press the tip against the coin, then hide the extended tip while slowly moving the filter so it appears the cigarette is sinking into the coin.
Finally, by holding it in a way that conceals the filter’s movement, you show the tip as if it’s passed through—trick complete.
Be sure to reverse the steps cleanly to restore everything to a normal-looking state.
Since the gimmick is on the cigarette side, performing it with a borrowed coin is also recommended.
A magic trick where a cigarette slowly disappears.
It’s a magic trick where, when you pass your other hand over the cigarette you’re holding, it slowly disappears from the bottom up.
In reality, the cigarette is stuck to the thumb of the hand you’re waving over it, and by slowly changing the angle, it looks like it vanishes.
The motions that make it look like you’re switching hands, and the angles that keep the concealment in front from being noticed, are the most important points.
If you move too much after making it disappear, it becomes easier to get caught, so proceed while being mindful of how you’ll keep it hidden from that moment on.
The plastic wrap on cigarette packs is back.
This is a magic trick where the plastic wrap on the back of a cigarette pack, which seemed to have been opened a moment ago, returns to a perfectly sealed state when you place it in your hand and give a signal.
The method uses the shape of the box and cleverly moves a piece of plastic that has been cut in half to make it appear open.
By rotating the plastic, you make it look as if it’s been opened, then when it’s in your hand, you rotate it again to return it to its original state.
If the plastic has wrinkles, the secret is easier to spot, so it’s best to perform in a dim environment and use a cigarette pack that hasn’t been opened for long.
A hair tie appears from a ring of smoke.
Have you ever tried blowing smoke rings if you’re a smoker? In this magic trick, an actual ring-shaped item appears from within a smoke ring.
It uses hair-arrangement elastic bands you can buy at a 100-yen shop: you casually produce the elastic to match the ring you blow from your mouth.
It’s the kind of trick that’s likely to liven up a small party.
Magic with cigarettes: Recommended tricks for entertainment and performances (21–30)
Disappearance and reappearance of a lit cigarette
Smoke is billowing up, yet there’s no cigarette anywhere? How about a magic trick where a lit cigarette seems to vanish.
If you can perform it swiftly, it might make you look pretty cool.
The trick uses the blind spots created when you bring your hands together or press fingers against each other, and the secret is to keep showing the side that’s not holding the cigarette.
It’s a bit like pen spinning.
Naturally, since it’s lit, be careful not to burn yourself—or rather, you can perform it even without it being lit.
