You can perform these fascinating magic tricks yourself if you know the secrets behind them.
Magic performances always take the audience from one surprise to another. While most of us understand that what lies behind them is just the agility and clever tricks of the magicians, it can still be challenging to deduce what those tricks are. Here are the answers to the magic tricks you may have seen, and they are actually quite simple:
1. Card Selection
In this magic trick, the magician asks the audience to randomly select any card from the deck and then place it back in its original position. After that, the magician performs some magical gestures, and the audience’s card pops out of the deck.
The secret behind this popular trick is not very complicated. When returning the selected card to the deck, the magician places it on top of a specially “marked” card. This marked card has a small adhesive pad. This creates the illusion that the card in front pops out of the deck beautifully.
2. Placing a Can on a Card
Another familiar trick with a deck of cards involves the magician somehow managing to balance a can of soda on a single card. This action seems physically impossible, but in reality, it is one of the simplest tricks that any beginner can perform.
If you look closely from another angle, you’ll see that the card is actually shaped like a T, forming a sturdy base that can support the can or any other heavy object.
3. Putting a Phone Inside a Bottle
This famous street trick involves a magician holding a plastic bottle. They walk around showing everyone that it is just an ordinary empty bottle and even let someone from the audience hold it to prove that. Then, the magician borrows a phone from an audience member and magically makes it disappear inside the bottle.
The truth behind this trick is not complicated, but it requires quick hands. The magician wears a special finger clip with a small but very sharp blade. After showing the audience the intact bottle, they secretly cut a hole large enough to slide a phone inside.
4. Turning Water into Ice in One Second
This magic trick unfolds like this: the magician pours some liquid into a cup, and just moments later, it transforms into a block of ice.
The secret here lies in the fact that the cup already contains an ice cube along with a sponge of the same color as the cup. The sponge is fixed to the bottom of the cup and absorbs the poured water. Therefore, when the magician flips the cup, the ice will fall into their hand while the water remains in the sponge.
5. Walking Through a Wall
There is a wall on stage that looks very realistic. A magician stands on one side of the wall, hidden behind a seemingly opaque curtain. Moments later, to the astonishment of the audience, the magician appears on the opposite side of the wall.
Although it seems like magic from Hogwarts, the execution is quite simple. There is a special V-shaped tunnel underneath the wall. That is why the audience is invited on stage to check the wall’s sturdiness and find nothing amiss. The truth is that the wall is solid, but the floor is not. The magician only needs a few seconds to walk through the small tunnel under the wall and easily stand on the other side.
6. David Copperfield’s Sawing a Person in Half
David Copperfield is one of the most famous classic magicians of all time. One of his most infamous performances is the creepy and thrilling illusion of sawing a person in half.
To perform this trick, Copperfield actually uses a “stand-in” assistant for his lower half. The secret to this trick lies in the table below and the small gap between the tables through which the saw blade can easily pass. Copperfield’s legs are bent into the table, while the assistant’s upper body is hidden inside the table below.
