Easy To Learn Magic Tricks

Regardless of which magic trick you're performing, follow these simple tips to make sure that you get the best reaction from your audience:

Be as natural as possible

This can be easier said than done but with practice you'll get there. Perform your magic tricks naturally and fairly slowly - this will help you concentrate and build up suspense with your audience.

Keep sight lines in mind

Very often, a trick only works within a range of angles. Outside this, your audience will easily spot what you are doing. So keep your sight lines in mind when you are performing.

Practice, practice, practice

The more you practice a trick, the better you will get. None of the great magicians goes out on stage with an unpracticed, brand new trick. Perform in front of a mirror to see yourself as your audience will see you.

Only use each trick once in your routine

Otherwise your audience will know what is going to happen next. Which takes the fun and suspense out of the show and runs the risk of your audience working out how you are performing the trick.

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Here's an easy magic trick you can do with anyone.

1. Ask your subject to write down a 3 digit number. It can be any number they like, so long as it doesn't read the same backwards and forwards. So, for instance, it can't be a number like 666 or 747. But other than that, there are no rules.

2. Take a piece of paper and write down the number 1089. For extra effect, place this number in a sealed envelope and put it somewhere where it can't be touched before the trick is over.

3. Ask your subject to do a simple subtraction: they need to reverse the order of the 3 numbers they though of. This will give them two numbers. Ask them to subtract the smaller of these two numbers from the larger one. For instance, if the number they thought of was 725 then the reversed number would be 527. The difference between these is 198 (a calculator could be a useful accessory here!).

4. Now ask them to add this new number to the reverse of the new number. If the new number is below 100, put zeros in front of it before doing the reversing. So if the difference was 98 (rather than 198 I used earlier) they would add 098 and 890 together. In my earlier example, they'd add 198 and 891.

5. Tell them that the final number is the one you wrote down and placed in the envelope. Ask them to confirm that you haven't tampered with the envelope since you put it down at the start of the trick. As they open the envelope, you may ask them to confirm that the number they ended up with is indeed 1089.

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