Hilarious magic! Crowd-pleasing tricks perfect for parties and performances
Have you ever tried your hand at magic tricks—the crowd-pleasers that are so popular as party entertainment? Even when you know the secret behind a trick, you often need nimble fingers or tons of practice to really pull it off, right? So instead of tackling high-difficulty magic, why not try tricks that make people burst out laughing? We’ve gathered easy ideas—like tricks with simple secrets or ones that get laughs when you reveal how they’re done.
Master some magic that delivers both humor and surprise, and be sure to show it off!
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Hilarious Magic! Crowd-Pleasing Tricks Perfect for Parties and Shows (1–10)
A magic trick where the contents are swapped
This is a magic trick where you hold a bottle of cola and a bottle of water in your hands and shake them, making the colors gradually change so it looks like their contents have been swapped.
What looked like cola is actually a gargling solution, and by shaking chlorine attached to the cap and mixing it in, the color changes to transparent.
The water bottle’s cap is set with black paint, and by shaking it, the water gradually turns black.
Let’s determine the optimal amounts to make the color change convincingly resemble cola and water—how much to use and how far the color should shift.
Since neither liquid is drinkable, it’s also important to structure your patter so the routine ends with just the color change.
The man who ruins magic tricks
If two people are performing magic, we recommend turning it into a comedy routine by having one person reveal the secret each time a trick succeeds! Watching carefully executed tricks get ruined one after another is a little pitiable—but it makes you laugh, doesn’t it? The most important thing in a performance is to entertain the audience.
If you’re so focused on the magic that you lose the bandwidth to care for the spectators, it’s totally fine to lean into humor instead! Use your teamwork to liven up the room.
Water disappears? Paper cup magic
This is a magic trick where the water in a paper cup appears to vanish by sending energy to it.
Explain that by holding the paper cup above your head and spinning while focusing on making the water disappear, it will vanish.
Demonstrate it with two cups—one for yourself and one for a spectator.
While the spectator is spinning, secretly drink the water from your cup, and when they finish, show that your water has disappeared.
The spinning spectator will be baffled, while the rest of the audience will likely laugh at the simple trick.
If the spectator’s cup also ends up empty afterward, everyone will be amazed.
If you prepare by using a water-absorbing polymer, the water won’t spill, and there’s less risk of being exposed by the cup’s weight.
Hilarious Magic! Crowd-Pleasing Tricks Perfect for Parties and Performances (11–20)
Balloon Swallowing Magic
It’s a magic trick that can look a bit agonizing: a long, inflated balloon appears to be gulped deeper and deeper into the mouth.
Before inflating the balloon, you make a tiny hole near the mouth end so air can slowly escape.
Then you release your hand at the right moments to let the air out, gradually shrinking the balloon inside your mouth.
The deflated balloon remains in your mouth, so finish by pretending to take a drink and transfer the balloon into a mug.
Because it takes time to shrink the balloon little by little, it’s a good idea to really use your facial expressions to keep the audience engaged.
Manzai-style “Amataku Magic”
It’s a magic trick where they try to make the object on top of the black box float.
They cover it with a cloth and attempt to levitate it, but if you look at their hands, you can see some suspicious movements…
Next, they try to make it float with bare hands—and somehow manage to pull it off.
Then they attempt it with a mandarin orange, but the magician oddly resists.
The back-and-forth adds a touch of humor.
The head suddenly falls off! A startling magic trick
This is a magic trick where your head appears to drop below your body and, before the audience can process the sudden situation, it returns to its original position.
The key is the costume setup: embed wires so the shape of the shoulders is always maintained.
Then, by bending your body and lifting your clothing, you create the illusion that your head has fallen into the center of your torso.
Keep the outer and inner layers the same color, and try to minimize any visible movement inside.
From the side, the body’s thickness makes it easy to figure out what’s happening, so it’s best to fool only the people watching from the front.
Levitation magic
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It’s a magic trick where you drape a large cloth over a person lying down and, as you hold your hands over them and pretend to exert power, their body appears to rise into the air.
At the moment the cloth is placed, they switch from lying on their back to lying face down, and in sync with your straining voice, they lift their body using the strength of their arms and legs.
The way you cover them so the position change is easy, and the slow, voice-synced lifting of the body—your coordination as a pair is crucial.
If the person lets out a surprised sound as if their own body is floating, some people might actually believe they’re levitating.