[Handle with care] Collection of magic tricks using a lighter
First of all, since this article introduces magic tricks that use a lighter, I want to strongly emphasize the need for great care in handling it.
Because fire is involved, there is a risk of burns and other dangers, so children must never try this.
Some tricks are simple and easy to attempt, but even adults could cause a serious accident with a small mistake.
Please make sure to carefully check your surroundings before giving it a try.
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[Handle with Care] A Collection of Lighter Tricks (21–30)
Magic where your finger catches fire
Besides a lighter, this trick requires water and ethanol, and it’s very dangerous—be sure to do it only when you have water on hand.
Submerge your hand completely in water, then touch ethanol and ignite the fingertips; you can surround your fingertips with a blue flame without feeling heat.
It would take quite a bit of ingenuity to turn this into a proper magic technique, but it would have a big impact if done in a dark place!
A magic trick where the designs of two lighters swap back and forth
When you shake the lighter with the rabbit design or wave your hand over it, the design disappears.
It’s a slightly unique magic trick that makes it look like the design is traveling back and forth between this lighter and another unused one.
It seems to require a bit of technique, but it’s a very cute trick.
Magic that turns a lighter into a match
It’s a very short video, but when you blow on the hand holding the lighter, before you know it you’re holding a matchbox.
Performing it in reverse could be interesting too.
Saying something like, “Huh? It’s damp…” and then pulling out a lighter would probably surprise the audience as well.
Floating flame magic
In video No.
2, when the lighter is ignited, the flame somehow rises to a high position.
The middle part is transparent and only the top is burning, so it really looks like the flame is floating in midair, which is unique.
It seems the trick can be done with just the ink refill from a ballpoint pen, so it’s very easy to try.
Red Hot Writer
When you pass a lighter’s flame over it as if casting a spell, a black, scorched mark appears on the back of the chosen card as though it had been singed.
After that, you can swap the image on that card with the image from another card, or even make the image transfer onto the lighter.
It’s a visually striking and entertaining magic trick.
Stretchable lighter
If you wrap a lighter in your hand and pull as if stretching it, it appears to elongate and the lighter ends up with a narrowed waist.
This trick relies heavily on presentation, but it seems that this oddly shaped lighter is actually a commercially available magic prop.
Magic with a Lighter and a Coin
It’s a mysterious magic trick where you place a piece of paper wrapped around a 100-yen coin on top of an ashtray stacked on a glass, and when you burn the paper with a lighter, the 100-yen coin somehow disappears from the wrapping and ends up inside the glass.
You might fumble a bit if the paper doesn’t burn easily, but please be careful when handling fire.