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Awesome Magic

Unshuffling a Deck of Cards

Unshuffling a Deck of Cards

Magician Nate Jester shows off a neat card trick by Paul Gertner in which he takes a shuffled deck and then progressively unshuffles it into suits and then puts the entire deck back in suit and numerical order. For added flourish, the word “UNSHUFFLED” gradually appears on the edge of the cards. Here’s the same trick performed for a live audience.

Floating While Shopping Illusion

Floating While Shopping Illusion

Many of us have seen the levitating man trick. Magician Xavier Mortimer took that idea and turned it on its side with an illusion that makes it appear that a man is floating while pushing a shopping cart. We’re guessing it was done with a rig like this to hold the guy’s body up, but we can’t figure out how they got the cart to move without visible motors.

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Debunking the Card Through Glass Trick

Debunking the Card Through Glass Trick

It’s been some time since Captain Disillusion debunked a video, but this one was worth the wait. This time, he took on an illusion in which a magician appears to push a card through a glass window to an orangutan. After putting a few theories to the test, it doesn’t add up – but Cap’s sleuthing eventually reveals the truth.

A Guy with Three Legs

A Guy with Three Legs

During an episode of Penn and Teller: Fool Us, magician Axel Adler turned up with a mind-boggling illusion we’ve never seen before. The trick: make it look like he has three legs – and you can never quite tell which ones are real and which is a fake. It’s kind of like that old cups and balls trick but you try and follow the fake leg.

Plate Stacking Magic

Plate Stacking Magic

We like to keep our dishes neatly stacked in our kitchen cabinets, but we don’t do it with this kind of flair. Somehow, through some kind of trickery, this stack of plates spins into place with the flick of a finger and drops down in height as it goes. We’re filing this one under “what kind of sorcery is this?”

Magically Healing Cut

Magically Healing Cut

James over at The Action Lab shows off a neat series of chemical reactions that make it look like he cut his hand, then miraculously heals it. The combination of ferric chloride and potassium thiocyanite produce the deep red blood color, while the addition of sodium fluoride makes it turn transparent again.

Cardistry + Magic

Cardistry + Magic

An unidentified performer shows off their skills at cardistry and sleight of hand using a deck of special Blue Checkerboard playing cards. While anyone can get their hands on a similar Svengali deck, we doubt that most of us could handle it with the skill and smoothness of this magician.

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10 Levels of Sleight of Hand

10 Levels of Sleight of Hand

Sleight of hand is a critical skill when it comes to close-up magic and card tricks. In this video, expert magician Daniel Roy walks us through a series of progressively more impressive card control examples. We could have sworn he was shuffling those cards when he wasn’t.

Making Packages Invisible

Making Packages Invisible

While Mark Rober has shown us some amusing ways to annoy porch pirates, they don’t prevent them from stealing packages in the first place. Jason at Impossible Science came up with a clever way to fool them into thinking there’s no package there at all – using angled mirrors to cloak deliveries from being seen from the street.

Robot Does Magic Tricks

Robot Does Magic Tricks

Penn & Teller, the robots are coming for your jobs. Mario the Maker Magician created this charming cardboard robot that can perform simple magic tricks, like making a foil ball disappear. Automabot’s shades at the end are a nice touch. Watch more robot magic tricks here.

The Pyramid of Death

The Pyramid of Death

In his video series Antique Apparatus, magician John Stessel digs up old and unusual magic trick gimmicks. This one he dubbed “The Pyramid of Death” is four hinged triangles which can form a pyramid that conjures flames and random objects. He goes on to give away the painfully simple secret at the end.

Penn Jillette Reviews Magic Tricks

Penn Jillette Reviews Magic Tricks

“Everything he’s saying is a lie.” In this interview with Vanity Fair, magician, professional sceptic, and generally smart guy Penn Jillette takes a look at movie and TV scenes that featured magic tricks, and reveals how feasible each of the illusions might be, versus just being movie magic.

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Penn & Teller VR: F, U, U, U, & U

Penn & Teller VR: F, U, U, U, & U

This upcoming virtual reality game Frankly Unfair, Unkind, Unnecessary, and Underhanded from magicians and smart guys Penn & Teller will mess with player’s minds by subjecting them a variety of minigames which include facing their worst fears and a variety of cruel tricks.

Pyro Fire Shooting Pen

Pyro Fire Shooting Pen

Ellusionist took the technology from its wrist-mounted flash gun and incorporated it into a marker pen. The Pyro Fire Shooter Pen looks like a Sharpie and actually writes, but press its covert button for 3 seconds, and it will ignite and shoot flash paper over 10 ft.

Death By Magic (Trailer)

Death By Magic (Trailer)

“My challenge today is to avoid a very public execution.” In this Netflix series, magician Drummond Money-Coutts aka DMC attempts to successfully pull off stunts that have killed other magicians. That train shot looks green-screened though. Premieres 11/30/18.

Eric Chien’s Ribbon Magic Trick

Eric Chien’s Ribbon Magic Trick

Magician Eric Chien won the 2018 FISM Close Up Grand Prize with this amazing series of tricks. He uses a ribbon and two rectangles to transform playing cards (and his vest), swapping their colors, slicing and repairing and ultimately turning the cards into coins.

Making People Invisible

Making People Invisible

An amusing clip from the Netflix series Magic for Humans in which magician Justin Willman uses a mix of illusion and collusion with the audience to convice two subjects that they are now invisible. Lots of commenters think the marks were actors, but we’re not so cynical.

Magic for Humans (Trailer)

Magic for Humans (Trailer)

“Real people, real magic, no camera tricks.” In his upcoming Netflix series Magic for Humans, magician Justin Willman uses his tricks to get a laugh – and the occasional scare – from strangers, hopefully turning them into friends. Premieres 8/17/18.

Magical Misdirection

Magical Misdirection

During a recent episode of The Tonight Show, magicians Penn and Teller pulled a fast one on the audience with a trick that was all about misdirecting our attention. It’s a simple trick, but the guys still executed it flawlessly.

The Sacred Riana

The Sacred Riana

Twenty-five-year-old magician and illusionist Riana Graharani’s tricks probably won’t fool Penn and Teller. But she still managed to win Asia’s Got Talent 2017 by augmenting her craft with just the right amount of disturbing presentation and acting.

Penn and Teller’s Best Trick

Penn and Teller’s Best Trick

Back in 1986, magicians Penn and Teller turned up on an episode of Saturday Night Live and pulled off an a series of tricks which poked fun at other well known magicians, and culminated with a big surprise at the end.

Blind Card Shark vs. Penn & Teller

Blind Card Shark vs. Penn & Teller

We’ve seen Richard Turner put on a show on TV, but trying to pull one – or 13 – on Penn and Teller is a different task. Watch as he turns up the charm and plays a game of Texas Hold ‘Em with the Las Vegas legends.

Removable Digits

Removable Digits

Thumbs up for magician Vincent Kuo as he amps up the classic magic finger trick you learned as a kid. He works such trickery with his digits we’d be worried he might steal some of ours if we got anywhere near him.

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