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)
tunging
This is a magic trick where you hold a lit cigarette in your mouth and make it vanish and reappear at will.
You place the cigarette on your tongue and tuck it into your mouth along with your tongue.
By tightly coordinating your hand movements with your tongue, you create the appearance that it disappears in an instant.
When stowing it in your mouth, it’s important both to manage the heat and to make sure the cigarette doesn’t hit the inside of your mouth.
There are several points to watch out for—such as preventing the flame from going out and avoiding too much smoke coming from your mouth—but above all, it’s dangerous.
First, practice many times with an unlit cigarette so you don’t get burned.
Multiple cigarettes appear
You put a single cigarette into your backpack, your palm is empty…
or so it seems—another cigarette appears! No matter how many times you repeat the same sequence of putting it in, a new cigarette keeps coming out.
The trick is simple: you just stick a cigarette behind your thumb with double-sided tape—right in the blind spot of the viewer.
You make it look like you’re placing it into the backpack, then hide it behind your thumb and pull your hand out.
You quickly produce that cigarette, put it into the backpack again, hide another one behind your thumb, and pull your hand out—the same cycle over and over.
It’s simple, yet it still fools you.
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.
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 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)
The film on cigarette packs makes a comeback.
It’s a magic trick where the film wrapping a pack of cigarettes seems to reseal itself after you’ve opened it.
Depending on the brand, the cigarette film is designed to open like double doors.
Even though you’ve supposedly separated the glued section, it appears to return to a sealed state in an instant.
The secret is to rotate the unopened film itself into a position where it looks like it has been opened like double doors.
If someone examines it closely, they might notice creases and other tells, but if you do it in a bar or under slightly dim lighting, it’s less likely to be noticed.