Advanced, high-difficulty magic for experts. Reveals of methods and a roundup of tricks.

Transposition using the snap deal

The visual magic that Mr. Takumi Takahashi performed—the trick using aces and kings.

It’s a magic trick where, while you’re riffling through the deck, a spectator chooses one card, you square up the rest of the pack to restore the deck, then you show the top card and, in the brief moment as you place it on the table, it transforms into the previously selected card.

When you replace the packet containing the chosen card onto the deck, you secretly bring it back to your hand and align it with the top card.

Then, as you table the card, you switch in the selected card and, at the moment it hits the table, you secretly take back the card that was on top while transitioning into spreading the deck on the table.

The angles that conceal the retrieval of the card into your hand and the distance between your hands and the deck are critical points.

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Magic with a moving hole

A shocking trick where an open hole moves and closes, plus a tough but amazing magic reveal.

This magic trick creates the illusion that a pen is forcefully stuck into a card you’re holding, and then you move the pen—along with the hole—even though it shouldn’t be able to move.

A card with a hole is stacked with another card that acts as a cover, and when you pull the pen out, that cover closes, making it look like the hole has disappeared.

When moving the hole across the card, you remove the pen cap and slide the cap across the surface to make it appear as if the hole is shifting.

To keep people from realizing the hole was there from the start, it’s best to pre-cut a hole that exactly matches the size of the pen.

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Changing Four Cards

It's a misconception that you can do magic just by buying props — here's the reveal.

This is a magic trick where a set of cards that should all be the same gradually changes into different cards.

When you turn over the four prepared cards one by one, they are all the Four of Hearts.

But when you go through them again, they’ve somehow turned into the King of Spades! And when you spread them once more, now they’ve all changed into Jokers! It’s truly baffling how this works, but of course there’s a method behind the magic.

In fact, the prepared cards are all different.

In this video, two of them are actually Jokers of a different color.

By skillfully using techniques like the pull-down and the buckle, the performer was showing the same card four times.

It’s difficult until you get used to it, but once you do, you can perform an astonishing trick—so be sure to practice!

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[Revealed] A Vanishing Magic Trick You Can Do with a Single Coin [A Must-See for Beginners!]

It’s a beautiful coin magic routine where you supposedly pass the coin from your right hand to your left, but the coin vanishes, isn’t in either hand, and ultimately reappears from the left hand.

Of course, the coin never truly disappears—it’s been concealed in the right palm the whole time, while you make it look as though you’re not holding anything.

This trick uses the Classic Palm, which hides a coin in the center of the palm, and the Wiped Clean technique, which makes both hands appear empty.

Both are fundamental techniques in coin magic, but mastering them to the point where they can’t be detected requires considerable practice.

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