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 Parties and Performances (41–50)
Magic where sweets come out of a paper cup
This is a magic trick where you signal to a paper cup that seemed empty—even when turned upside down—and when you turn it over again, candy appears.
In fact, the paper cup has a slit, and when you first turn it over, you press on the slit to keep the candy from coming out.
Since the candy is inside from the start, when you first turn the cup over, present it as empty by tilting it at an angle that hides the contents.
Smooth hand movements that don’t reveal you’re operating the gimmick are also an important point.
Simple Magic! Recommended Tricks for Entertainment and Performances (51–60)
A spoon-bending trick you can do too
What was pulled out of the bag was a spoon.
When it comes to spoon magic, there’s only one thing that comes to mind! It’s that trick where you bend the spoon all wobbly! Many of you have probably tried it yourselves.
The video also explains how the trick works, but personally, I never imagined they were actually bending it with force.
That said, there’s a key technique to it.
For the details, be sure to watch the video!
You can do it with just one pen!
Hold a pen in your left hand.
If you wave your right hand up and down in front of it, at a certain moment the pen seems to vanish! Then, keep waving your right hand… and it reappears! The secret is super simple: at the instant your right hand overlaps the pen, you tuck the pen into the palm of your left hand to hide it.
That’s all, but if you do it well, it looks pretty mysterious.
Of course, you can do it with a pencil or mechanical pencil too, so it’s easy to show off at school or work!
A magic trick where a card jumps (from one place to another)
It’s a magic trick where a card that was once placed on the table is returned to the deck, then secretly transferred into a small group of cards on the spectator’s side.
The magician appears to return the card face down between face-up cards, and at the signal, the “gap” seems to close, enhancing the mystery visually.
The key lies in card-handling techniques: by the time the spectator’s cards are placed, the previously tabled card has already been secretly added.
It combines fine sleight-of-hand such as turning over multiple cards while appearing to flip just one, and using a pinky catch to shift cards—an effect built from a blend of subtle techniques.
Three-card magic with playing cards
It’s a magic trick where you have someone pick one card from three, then you swap the cards and have them mix them, and in that state you correctly name the card they originally chose.
The key is the suits/pictures on the three cards and their order; by keeping track of their relative positions, you can identify the chosen card.
You don’t look at the cards when they choose or when you swap, but you do look when they mix, so focus on tracking where the middle card goes.
After you bring the cards back to your hands, check what the middle card was, and use that information to name the selected card.
Magic that changes color in an instant
It’s a magic trick that looks mysterious precisely because the change happens in an instant: the paper clipped in place changes color the moment you take it away.
In fact, while the paper of the initial color is clipped, the paper with the changed color is stacked behind it, and the original paper is retracted to the base of the clip by a concealed rubber band at the same moment the clip is released.
It’s important to be mindful of how you apply pressure to the clip, to achieve a speed that doesn’t reveal the rubber-assisted movement.
Because the color changes distinctly within a small area, it helps the audience focus on the phenomenon right in front of them, which enhances the effect’s appeal.
A magic trick where a pencil pierces through a bottle
It’s a magic trick where you press a pencil against a cola plastic bottle and it appears to pierce through, yet no liquid leaks out.
The mystery comes from the fact that the pencil seems to go into the bottle at a not-so-fast speed without causing any noticeable effect.
The secret is that a straw, wide enough for the pencil to pass through, is pre-installed in the bottle, and it’s concealed by the label, the liquid inside, and the way the bottle is handled.
It might also be important to apply force to the pencil to make it look like it’s really penetrating the bottle.