Easy tricks that may be performed anywhere at anytime and only ever utilize simple props such as cards, coins, rubber bands and dice.
Tricks using everyday props
Trick Description
Props Required
Tricky Ropes ... Three lengths of rope of varying lengths are manipulated so that they all appear to be the same length.
3 lengths of rope or string
Tricky Bands ... A rubber band is seen to magically jump between your fingers on command.
2 rubber bands
Tricky Cups ... A process of turning tumblers upside down and the right way up resulting in them all finishing the right way up ... But when your friend tries, the tumblers always finish upside down.
3 tumblers
Tricky Dice ... Two dice are used to magically predict the age of your friend.
2 Dice
Tricks using standard cards
Trick Description
Tricky Colours ... Cards are dealt one at a time face down into two piles. One pile if your friend chooses red and another if your friend chooses black. Eventually it is revealed that the cards are indeed split into reds and blacks just as your friend had chosen.
Tricky Count ... This is a self working trick. A friend picks a magic number that relates to a single card. This card is eventually revealed using the letters in your name without you ever having to touch the cards yourself.
Tricky Faces ... You and your friend pick one card each. These two cards are eventually revealed to be facing upwards in a pack of cards whilst the remaining cards are all face downwards.
Tricky Flick ... Two cards are placed into a fanned deck of cards. The deck is then squared up and the pack thrown to the floor leaving two cards on your hand. Your friend is led to believe that these are their chosen cards.
Tricky Jacks ... Three cards are placed face down randomly into a deck of cards, but are all seen to reappear at the top of the pack.
