Simple magic! Magic tricks recommended for entertainment and performances.
Of course, simple magic tricks are perfect not only as entertainment at company or school events, but also for grabbing attention during breaks or even on a date.
For anyone who wants to get a good reaction without using elaborate setups, simple tricks are highly recommended.
There are plenty of easy tricks that beginners can perform using everyday items—or even just your own hands and fingers!
This article introduces many simple magic tricks, so be sure to use it as a reference.
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Simple Magic! Recommended Tricks for Performances and Entertainment (61–70)
A plastic bag that doesn’t leak even when you stick a pencil through it
It’s a magic trick where you keep pushing pencils through a bag filled with water, yet not a single drop spills out! This is what’s known as a chemistry magic trick.
The reason the water doesn’t leak is that the bag is made of polyethylene.
Polyethylene has the property of shrinking when heated.
In other words, the friction generated when you push the pencils through produces heat, causing the bag to shrink and prevent the water from leaking.
The key is to push the pencils through quickly.
If you do it slowly, not enough heat is generated and the water will spill, so be careful!
CUPS AND BALLS
This is a magic trick using three cups and three balls, where the balls appear to pass through the cups three times in a row.
The secret is that there are actually four balls.
From the very beginning, there was one ball already inside the middle cup! The video doesn’t reveal the method, but if you rewatch it while keeping in mind that there’s a ball in the middle cup from the start and pay attention to where the balls are at any moment, you should be able to figure out the trick.
It’s a simple magic trick that can be done without any special techniques.
Simple Ambitious Card
From a deck of playing cards, a single card is chosen and supposedly returned somewhere near the middle of the pack… yet when the top card is turned over, it’s the selected card.
This is the classic card trick known as the Ambitious Card.
You often see it on TV shows as well.
There are many ways to perform the Ambitious Card, but the version introduced here is a simple one: using an extra card separate from the selection, you secretly add and move cards so that it appears as though the selected card has been returned into the middle of the deck.
Insanely easy magic
This is a magic trick using a coin and a handkerchief.
You wrap the coin placed in the center of the handkerchief.
It’s fine to let the audience touch it and check.
But when you unfold the handkerchief, the coin has disappeared! The reveal is that the secret move happened at the very moment the audience was checking it! Well done.
No prep needed: Thumb magic
The thumb-detaching-and-reattaching magic trick—many of us were amazed by it as kids, weren’t we? Of course, the thumb isn’t actually coming off; you simply bend the thumb of the opposite hand at a right angle and cover the joint with your index finger.
But when it’s performed well, it really looks as if the thumb has vanished.
It’s perfect for surprising children, and it’s also an ideal, prop-free magic trick for kids to try for the first time.
Give it a go!
Telekinesis Magic [Can be done in 1 minute]
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A ring that climbs up something like a white string held with both hands! It climbs very, very slowly.
Not just the ring—5-yen coins and paper clips climb too.
The secret is that it wasn’t a string at all, but a cut rubber band.
The rest is super simple.
You can do it right away!
Simple card magic anyone can do
“There are four kinds of cards in a deck, right? Red and black, and…” he says, casually dealing out four cards as if stating the obvious.
You’re thinking, well, of course—until you’re stunned! Because when he says red and black, he means those red and black!? That’s the magic of it.