List of magic tricks
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This page contains a list of magic tricks. In magic literature, tricks are often called effects. Based strictly upon published literature and marketed effects, there are hundreds of millions of effects; a short performance routine by a single magician may contain dozens of effects.
Some serious students of magic strive to refer to effects by a proper name, and are also concerned with the proper attribution of the effect's creator. For example, consider an effect where the magician shows four aces, and then they turn face up one at a time in a mysterious fashion. This effect might be recognized as Twisting the Aces, which is attributed to Dai Vernon, based on a false count invented by Alex Elmsley. Some tricks are listed merely with their marketed name (particularly those that are sold as stand-alone tricks by retail dealers), whereas others are listed by the name given within magic publications.
Warning: some trick pages include exposures. See also notes on copyright of magic methods.
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[edit] Stage illusions
- Aquarian Illusion
- Asrah levitation
- Assistant's Revenge
- Aztec Lady
- Battle of the Barrels
- Bill in lemon
- Bowl-A-Rama
- Bullet catch
- Cabinet escape
- Copperfield Laser Illusion
- Chen Lee water suspension
- Cremation/Burning Alive
- Criss Angel Scare Crow
- Crusher
- Dagger Head Box
- Devil's Torture Chamber
- Disembodied Princess (aka The Mystery of Princess Karnac)
- Freaky Body Illusions
- Elastic Lady
- Geometrix
- Guillotine
- Gut Buster
- Head Mover (as created by André Kole)
- Impaled
- Indian Rope Trick
- Interlude
- Several varieties of Levitation
- Mini Kub-Zag
- Metamorphosis trick
- Mismade Girl
- Modern Art
- Monster Guillotine
- Origami
- Predicament escape
- Quick-change
- Radium Girl
- Sands of the Nile
- Sawing a woman in half (See also below)
- Scarecrow
- Shadow Vision
- Slicer (Cutting in ninths)
- Squeeze Box (as created by André Kole)
- Stretcher
- Super Chair Suspension
- Sub Trunk
- Table of Death
- Twister
- Wringer
- Zig Zag Girl
[edit] Parlor/Platform Magic
[edit] Close-up effects
- The Best Coin Fold
- Boxing Ring by Aaron Smith
- Coins across
- Triumph
- Twisting the aces
- Card to wallet
- Color changing knives
- Crazy man's handcuffs
- Oil and water
- Cups and balls
- Three card monte
- Any card at any number
- Die box
- Linking rings
- Balducci levitation
- $100 bill switch
- Professor's nightmare
- Cut and restored rope
- Miser's dream
- Thumb tie
- Aces front
- Ambitious card
- Card through window
- Rising card
- Multiplying balls
- Sponge balls
- Matrix
- Sympathetic coins
- Chink-a-chink
- Gadabout coins
- Card to pocket
- Card under the glass
- Color changing deck (of cards)
- Torn and restored newspaper
- Torn and restored card
- Card warp
- Coins through the table
- Behold the Scarabaeus
- Triumph
- Scarabaeus Lite
- Impossible Phone Booth
- Fort Knox Coins to Bottle
- French Drop (The Tourniqet)
- Retention of vision vanish (Pinch Vanish)
- Scotch and Soda
- Detachable thumb
- Thumb tip
- Glorpy
- healed and sealed
[edit] Levitations
- Criss Angel's Building Float
- Criss Angel's Levitation
- Asrah levitation
- Balducci levitation
- King Rising levitation
- Chair suspension
- David Copperfield's flying
[edit] Utilities/Accessories
There are thousands of devices used by magicians to accomplish their effects. However, most of the devices are never even observed during the performance of the trick(s); while not generally tricks in and of themselves, some of these devices are very valuable to performers of magic.
- Topit
- Sponge Balls
- B Screens
- The A.R. Mini Stage[2]
- Funkenring[3]
- Business Card Production Wallet[4]
[edit] References
- ^ (May 1999) "Hocus Pocus Parade". The Linking Ring 75 (5): 88,89. The International Brotherhood of Magicians.
- ^ (????) "Hocus Pocus Parade". The Linking Ring ?? (?): ?. The International Brotherhood of Magicians.
- ^ Reeder, Brad; Robinson, Bill (1986). Sparks: The Funkenring Book. Coastal Magic.
- ^ (February 2000) "Hocus in Focus". The Linking Ring 80 (2): 111,112. The International Brotherhood of Magicians.
