The Give ‘Em the Finger Shuffle
A clever false shuffle from the originator—a useful sleight for your repertoire
In Practice
Articles focused on rehearsal, technique, scripting, and craft development.
In Practice
Inventing Magic With Stuart MacLeod
A seance-y solution to meet the challenge of inventing a trick in one hour
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Mental Radio
An amazing drawing duplication that ends up feeling like the real thing
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Sketch Poker
A lesson in how to fake cheating at poker
Magicana
A Turn for the Better
Richard Kaufman gives us Aaron Fisher’s twist on an old plot, but without the sometimes challenging sleights.
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Inventing Magic With Nick Diffatte: Melon on the Pipe
To up their game the magicians decide to invent magic with objects that have nothing to do with anything. What could possibly go wrong?
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Three Bent Spoons
A beautiful, and seemingly impossible, metal melting miracle.
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Sockless Coins
A signature effect of Tim Conover’s, silver coins mysteriously—and quite impossibly—pass through a spectator’s hand.
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Glasses, Watch, and ID
A modern take on a beautiful and baffling vanishing effect—followed by instantaneous reproductions in impossible ways.
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Destination, Or How a Book Test Ended Up Becoming the Prediction of a Country
Here is a great twist of a familiar plot, and an excellent exercise in creativity.
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Inventing Magic With Eric Stonestreet: Something for Nothing
The Modern Family actor—and magician—joins creative forces with Blake Vogt to create a fun, funny, and fabulous trick.
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Inventing Magic With Rune Klan: Slush Free
Celebrated magician and inventor, Rune Klan joins the program to create and truly magical way to make water vanish, literally, in mid-air!