List of magic tricks
This page contains a list of magic tricks. In magic literature, tricks are often called effects. Based on published literature and marketed effects, there are millions of effects; a short performance routine by a single magician may contain dozens of such effects.
Some students of magic strive to refer to effects using a proper name, and also to properly attribute an effect to its creator. For example, consider an effect in which a magician shows four aces, and then, the aces turn face up one at a time in a mysterious fashion. This effect, recognized as Twisting the Aces, is attributed to Dai Vernon, and it is based on a false count invented by Alex Elmsley. Some tricks are listed merely with their marketed name (particularly those sold as stand-alone tricks by retail dealers), whereas others are listed by the name given within magic publications.
Magic tricks
- Asrah Levitation
- Assistant's Revenge
- Aztec Lady
- Battle of the Barrels
- Bill in Lemon
- Book test
- Bowl-A-Rama
- Bullet Catch
- Cabinet Escape
- Chinese Linking Rings
- Cut and Restore Rope Trick
- David Copperfield's Laser Illusion
- Chen Lee Water Suspension
- Cremation/Burning Alive
- Criss Angel Scare Crow
- Crusher
- Dagger Head Box
- Dove Pan
- Devil's Torture Chamber
- Disembodied Princess (aka The Mystery of Princess Karnac)
- Dismemberment
- Elastic Lady
- Geometrix
- Guillotine
- Gut Buster
- Head Mover (as created by André Kole)
- Impalement
- Indian Rope Trick
- Inexhaustible bottle
- Interlude
- Vanish Coin
- Several varieties of Levitation
- Mini Kub-Zag
- Metamorphosis
- Modern Art
- Monster Guillotine
- Origami
- Predicament Escape
- Quick-change
- Radium Girl
- Sands of the Nile
- Several variations of Sawing a Woman in Half, including the Zig Zag Girl and Mismade Girl
- Scarecrow
- Shadow Vision
- Slicer (Cutting in ninths)
- Squeeze Box (as created by André Kole)
- Stretcher
- Super Chair Suspension
- Substitution Trunk aka Sub Trunk
- Table of Death
- Thumper (magic trick)
- Twister
- Wringer
- Zig Zag Girl
Close-up effects
- Ambitious Card
- Ash Felt Effects
- Blackstone's Card Trick Without Cards
- Card Warp
- Chink-a-chink
- Cups and Balls
- Detachable Thumb
- Floating Match on Card
- French Drop (The Tourniqet)
- Glorpy
- Healed and Sealed
- Hopping Halves
- Hot Foil Trick
- Hummer Card
- Inter-net Bag
- Mental Calculator
- Miser's Dream
- Needle Through Thumb
- Perfect Key Bending
- Retention of Vision Vanish (Pinch Vanish)
- Scotch and Soda
- Show Biz Card
- Super Writer Pro
- Sympathetic Coins
- The Best Coin Fold
- The Four Burglars
- This, That, and Other
- Three Card Monte
- Thumb Tie
- Thumb Tip
- Twisting the Aces
- Zarrow Shuffle
Levitations
- Losander's Floating Table
- Criss Angel's Building Float
- Criss Angel's Levitation
- Criss Angel's Levatation using TV cameras
- Asrah Levitation
- Balducci Levitation
- King Rising Levitation
- Chair Suspension
- David Copperfield's Flying
- James George's Walk a way floating bill routine
Utilities/Accessories
Thousands of devices are used by magicians to accomplish their effects. However, most of the devices are never even seen by the audience during the performance of the trick(s). While not generally tricks themselves, some of these devices are very valuable to performers of magic.
- Topit
- Sponge Balls
- B Screens
- The A.R. Mini Stage[1]
- Funkenring[2]
- Gibeciere
- Business Card Production Wallet[3]
- Loops
- The ITR Invented by James George[4]
- Suryas Device Pro - Joint invention by Surya Kumar and James George[5]
See also
References
- ↑ "Hocus Pocus Parade". The Linking Ring (The International Brotherhood of Magicians) ?? (?): ?. n.d.
- ↑ Reeder, Brad; Robinson, Bill (1986). Sparks: The Funkenring Book. Coastal Magic.
- ↑ "Hocus in Focus". The Linking Ring (The International Brotherhood of Magicians) 80 (2): 111, 112. February 2000.
- ↑ Easy to Master Thread Miracles by Michael Ammar.
- ↑ Miracles DVD
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