Looking to learn magic tricks? Look no further! Jay Sankey, one of my favorite thinkers in magic, stopped by my YouTube Channel to share some fun tricks anyone can do anytime. Check out these FOUR FREE TRICKS you can set up in seconds! I love teaching easy to do magic that have big impact. Unless you are going to do magic for a living, it's pointless to learn advanced psychology, pick-picketing and sleight of hand when you can be up and running in one minute! Enjoy my friends!
Was that not a blast to watch? 11 minutes went by in a blink. No, it was not hypnosis. It's the clean and fun teaching of my bud Jay Sankey. He teaches ENDLESS tricks over in his camp. Check it out at InsideDeception.com - You can tell him "The Ice Breaker" sent you. It's great stuff for all ages and skill levels. While you are here, check out my "Dating Magic" book.
If you are still reading and did not watch the video, the four tricks consist of:
1. Breaking a piece of stir stick off and making it vanish and appear under any location... a friends purse, a friends coffee, etc. 2. A hilarious "phone" trick! Make your phone vanish, catch on fire, break it, crush it or roll it into a ball and kick it away. 3. An awesome prediction with fire and fingers... No, don't worry, we are professionals: Imagine drawing a hand on a napkin. Let your friend light a match and burn the underside of any finger they choose(on the napkin silly, not you!). "OUCH!" you say... and immediately show a massive blister PHYSICALLY on your finger tip THEY burned on the paper. I know you will be doing this today! :) 4. Lastly, a great bar bet to get a girls phone number!
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Levitate a dollar anytime, anywhere! If you are looking for a fun magic trick that takes no set up, practice or special powers, this is for you. If you have 5 cents, you can do this trick! The next time you are at a party, trying to impress a kid or goofing off at work, try this out. Enjoy.
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I was on the Today Show Live on April 1st doing a secret prank followed by a segment where I'll teach some quick tricks you can do at home. If you missed it, take a look!
First... What makes a good prank? To begin with, catching someone in a vulnerable position! Secondly, a prank should not be expensive, harm anyone or cause damage. Thirdly, it's great when the "victim" does the prank on themselves after you set it up and walk away. Most importantly, there needs to be some sort of cleverness involved. For instance, jumping out of a trashcan. WEAK. It's nothing more than scaring someone. The reason the head-drop (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsL_JDtVbww) works so well is because it's surprising...AND they were not only surprised but wondered HOW it could be happening. Speaking of adding more layers to a prank, it does not get much more vulnerable and simple than this spider prank: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6DaU4qoSQA
Being that April Fools falls on a workday this year, perhaps you need a good one for the office! Here's some simple ones:
1. Something like making a bunch of copies of a paperclip. Then take that stack of paper and put it back in the machine for use. When someone makes a copy, they will assume there is a paperclip (or whatever you copied) under the lid. But when they look for the paperclip under the copy lid, they can not find it. They try a copy again. Then again... Oh, the "fun" keeps delivering...
2. Take a drawer out of a desk (if it's that type of desk) and put a squeaky toy (like a dog toy) behind it so it squeaks when they open and shut the door.
3. Place a pair of shoes with a couple shipping tubes inside to act like legs with pants or shorts over them and down to the shoes to appear like someone is sitting/occupying a toilet stall. Just leave it there all day...
4. If you happen to work in an office with foam ceiling tiles, place a persons cell phone ABOVE a panel over their desk... then repeatedly call them and watch them search for their phone. The sound will be muffled to throw off where it is.
5. Get everyone you can to call in sick. Of course, you better have a really nice boss since they are going to stress out for a day trying to figure out what to do! When they arrive to work, be sure everyone is there before the boss arrives.
Here's a handful of a great pranks that do not cost much to create and can be implemented quickly:
1. Spider on toilet paper prank. KILLER. It cost nothing if you have a fake plastic spider or very little to get one. It is attached to the BACKSIDE of a paper roll. This causes the victim to give the illusion the spider is running after them when the vicim pulls the paper. Awesome effect. This certainly gets people in a very vulnerable position as well. Check, check. check.
2. No-suck straw. It's a fun and harmless prank to tie a knot in the end of a straw and wait for the quick opportunity to swap it with a friends straw in their drink. Then you wait for them to take a sip... Easy and fun joke.
3. Spider on string. Enough said... Having a spider "drop" near you or on you is a classic and will work forever. See some reactions here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57o3QAP2QWU
4. For husbands and wives... something "clean" like the endless soapy head. Basically, lets say you are showering and rinsing out your hair... Meanwhile, your husband secretly adds much more shampoo to the top of your head! You keep rinsing and rinsing...
5. Epoxy money to the ground and watch people try to grab it... doing it an evening before at a busy walkway is great.
6. Putting salt into someone's toothbrush.
7. Moving someone's car somewhere else can really freak them out depending on when and where you do it.
8. Replacing salt with sugar at the table.
9. Stick a slightly wet sponge (or piece of sponge) deep into the toe of someone's shoe. They wont know what hit them when they put the shoe on...
10. If it's raining, dropping shredded paper or confetti into a closed umbrella. It takes a second to drop it in as you walk by.
11. Change every clock in the house back and hour so they arrive an hour early to whatever starts their day.
12. Of course, the classic rubber band on the hose sprayer at the kitchen sink! It can really make someone upset though if they are running off to work! They turn on the faucet and get sprayed.
13. Reverse a lock and handle on a door so someone locks themselves IN a room.
14. Adjust volumes on radios, computers and TV's really loud then turn them off so when they are turned on it will be crazy loud.
15. Take a screen capture of someone's computer screen and open that image full screen. They will not be able to click what they think are their folders and documents!
16. Crushing a plastic cup under your armpit as it looks like you twist your neck, crack your wrist, break your neck, etc. Always gets a reaction.
17. Fake spoiled milk... Add a little green or blue food coloring to some milk to make it looks spoiled.
18. Balance a cup of water on the ledge of a open slightly door so it falls onto someone when they push it open.
19. Switch yogurt for mayo or sour cream, etc...
20. A simple one for students is to suggest to a few friends that "there is a test today"... a group can easily convince a single person of anything!
21. A classic that you can make at home is put someone's personal belonging in a plastic bag and stick it in jello after you just make it... let it harden up and serve it later.
22. Print out a fake ticket. There are great sites on line. You can make a parking ticket, concert tickets as a "gift" and much more! http://prudentbaby.com/2011/03/by-craft/april-fools-prank-the-fake-parking-ticket-with-free-downloads-2 and http://faketicketgenerator.com are simple examples.
23. Break/chew up a piece of stripped white and red mint candy... Act like you smashed your face against a pole... or fake fall down. Come up with what looks to be a tooth or two broken.
24. Adding a layer a clear cling wrap over a toilet bowl is simple and "creative" because it is somewhat an illusion, but it can really make a mess. If you feel like helping to clean up a potential mess, have fun...
25. The worst thing you could do is set up a prank that could ruin someone's day instead adding fun to their day... However, INCASE, you need to get back at someone, I'll remind you of this one: Add a little baby powder to the front end of a hair-dryer. When they turn it on, it will be a massive mess. You could also add some baby powder to the top of a ceiling fan and wait for them to turn it on another time for a shower of powder. Again, this is a revenge type prank and not recommended otherwise.
The lists go on and on… Enjoy this April Fools and try not to do anything too stupid… and if you do, send me a link. I want to see it.
Feel free to share this page with anyone you know that needs some simple ideas.
By the way, here's more of the Hidden Man inside the Chair Prank!! Enjoy and share with friends:
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The ShareSLO Ambassador for San Luis Obispo is getting exciting! ShareSLO is a unique marketing campaign to "share" everything about "SLO" with tourists and be a vessel for attracting tourism dollars via interviews, videos, social media and much more. Even Christopher Walker is chiming in;) See the hilarious ShareSLO video on my facebook page or below.
(update: Voting is over) Who do YOU think should be the first ever Ambassador to the Central Coast? Listen to Christopher Walken and learn what makes a good candidate... then go VOTE for Rich Ferguson: http://a.pgtb.me/frngn2
On a side note, where do you think this shot is taken?
People are having a great time trying to promote themselves. I thought I'd make a couple fun videos to promote ShareSLO as well. Here's a magical story that shares why I'd make a great Ambassador for San Luis Obispo! You might watch it a couple times and listen for the triple meanings in there. As "simple" as this trick is, it's a bit of a tongue twister! Enjoy and share with friends!
I truly believe I'm suited perfectly for this unique ShareSLO Ambassadorship. If you feel I have the skills and have proven myself previously to this competition, please VOTE FOR ME daily and ask your friends to vote as well.
There are a huge variety of self working magic tricks and riddles out there. Some involve clever set ups. Others involve specific movements while some involved specific language. Here's a math trick/riddle that involves just a touch of psychology. Enjoy!
Follow the printed rules and start from the TOP and work your way down quickly. The simple fact that you know there is something going on will make it hard for you to be natural, but simply try.
Isn't it amazing how easily the mind is conditioned? A simple repeated pattern where we deal with the "thousands" makes it difficult to switch back to the "tenths". I've heard answers such as 5100, 7100, 7200 and of course the near 100% of 5000. (By the way, the answer is 4100 if this keeps tricking you.)
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This prank is perfect for the office, at home or at a party... It's ranked as the perfect prank in my book because it meets all the requirements for a quality prank:
1. Anyone can do it
2. It costs nothing
3. It takes seconds to set up
4. The victim does it to themselves
5. The victim is caught at a vulnerable moment
The best pranks or tricks catch people when they are vulnerable... and when an illusion is created in their own mind!
HERE'S WHAT YOU DO:
Go to a bathroom and make sure the toilet paper roll is hanging outwards... leave one or two squares dangling to pull easily... When they pull on the toilet paper... They prank themselves! Simply attach a fake spider on the bottom of the roll and it will eventually be pulled around by someone sitting on the toilet. The illusion that the spider is running toward them is so real that you will certainly scare the **** out of them!
So to recap.
1. Turn Roll Facing Outwards and pull down about 4-5 squares
2. Attach Spider in the correct direction
3. Roll the spider underneath and out of sight leaving 1-2 squares dangling!
4. Wait for someone to scream
Enjoy! Please SHARE the heck out of this simple prank video.
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Everyone should know a good magic trick or two, right? Well, for most, there's no way they are going to "master" years of sleight of hand magic. The typical person is looking for a magic trick or "bar bet" that looks awesome but does not take much skill or time to set up. These two impromptu magic effects shared on an episode of Scam School are the ticket and are taken right from my best selling "dating magic" book Tricks to Pick Up Chicks available at Amazon.
The first effect explained is using an everyday toothpick! Show how two solid objects pass through each other! Even knowing the secret, it looks cool! The second magic trick revealed is a great betting trick using a playing card or business card. Cut a hole in a card and literally stretch the card large enough to fit a person through it! Enjoy messing with people's head and getting lots of free drinks!
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Taken directly from my dating magic book, here's a very simple money magic trick you can do anytime, anywhere. Here, watch this dollar bill trick taught on an episode of Scam School:
Or follow these instructions: "Magic Tricks with Money" taken off page 66 from Tricks to Pick Up Chicks: Impossible Penetration Effect:You show a dollar and borrow a business card or piece of paper. The dollar is folded in half and the card is placed folded on the outside. A pen or pencil clearly is shoved through the dollar and paper. However, when the pencil is removed, there is no apparent damage at all even though the paper has a hole in it. Secret: There is a special slit in the dollar but how it is folded makes it look like the pencil legitimately travels through the center. Performance:At home, get a dollar and put it on a cutting board. With a razor blade, carefully cut around the innermost half of the circular seal on the left side of the face of a dollar. On the inside of the black seal containing a large letter, cut the half that is closet toward the left end. When the bill is folded in half, a pencil can pass into the slit and along the back of the bill. However, from the front of the bill, it will look like the pencil is pacing right down the center of the bill. Now that you have your bill gimmicked, there is another set up to do when you do this trick with someone. Find your dream-girl and show her your bill. The position of the opening is perfect to hide with your finger. Fold the bill in half. Also, fold down about an inch or so of the non gimmicked side of the dollar. Crease this part. Take a piece of paper and fold over the entire bill from under the part you have folded down and the back up high enough to cover the slit you made at home. Once you have this figured out, you can create quite an illusion. Stick a sharpened pencil into the slit from the inside of your folded bill. The pencil will come out the back of the slit and be driven behind the bill as you press the pencil through the paper! Right before you you push the pencil all the way though, you are able to show both sides. Hold your thumb and fingers on each side to press the sides closed to hide the secret. Let them see how fair this all looks otherwise. You can even let your lucky lady push it through and break the paper. It will look 100% real from all sides! Pull the pencil out and show that the bill is still fine by holding toward the ends of each side of the bill. Nobody would ever suspect a hole toward the edge and will only be looking at the center.
Tip:If you use a business card for this, fold the business card with 1/3 of a distance instead of in half. Put the smaller part on the front side toward the spectator and the long side on the back to cover beyond the hole the pencil will travel through. This is so you can show both sides and hide the hole in back right before you puncture all the way through.
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Chip Tricks are very popular these days and I'm stoked to have been called the grandfather of the movement by producing a series of Poker DVDs nearly 10 years ago, writing for various gaming magazines and being showcased on televised poker tournaments.
Recently, I was seen on television all over Europe and have received numerous inquiries as to what a trick was called. Instead of just sharing the name, today I'm teaching this new Chip Trick I call the "Rock-N-Roll"! Enjoy learning this fairly tricky Chip Trick ... and good luck!
Remember to "share" and "like" the heck out of this freebie tutorial so I can justify bringing you more! I appreciate it! Lastly, you can always go to my official site at www.TheIceBreaker.com for all sorts of magic and fun!
It’s been said many times that how you carry yourself in life is how you play poker. There’s something much deeper than the generic thinking that “if you are a bully in life then you are a bully at the table or if you are weak in life then you are an easy target in poker.” Yes, there is something much more important and revealing about people in life and poker... It’s shifts in behavior, body language and all sorts of non-verbal communication. That’s right, I said it! Very key tells are equally apparent in life as they are at the poker table. Once you know when and what to look for, you wont look at people the same again.
Before I reveal a few “tells”, you need to be aware of when a tell is accurate. For instance, if you see a girl next to you at a bar with her arms crossed, does that mean she is uninterested in you? Who knows? You first have to notice how she was standing prior to you approaching her. Perhaps she was cold, upset at some issues in life, conscious about a bad bra or uncomfortable with her arms hanging at her sides. The real secret to tells is noticing shifts in behavior! See, if she was standing with her arms at her side then they shifted to this closed off position when you said something, now you have learned something much more accurate. In this case, it was clearly something you did or said (or any immediate induces stress) that caused the change. This concept of shifts in behavior is key. Another important element, especially in poker, is the difference between acting out a tell and a subconscious, natural and accurate tell. An example of this in real life might be when you are talking to someone you are attracted to at a party and they act uninterested. However, if their body is facing you, their legs are open toward you and their palms are up (among many other tells) they are into you too - regardless that they are “acting” uninterested with attitude and their face. On the contrary, if someone is acting nice and appears interested but they slightly turn their midsection away, their legs close up and their hand retreat, they are not into you and are simply being nice. Does that make sense? Acting and the subconscious signs are often the opposite of each other!
Let’s get into some straight forward poker examples. The most common and obvious tell is when someone is dealt a monster hand and they act like it’s a difficult decision to bet or not. They will smack their mouth with an “Oh, well. Let’s try... I guess I’ll bet...” type behavior and acting. All the while, the highly trained body language at the table watched as this same person was dealt their cards. The expert noticed that the moment the cards where looked at that the person sat a little higher in their chair (a strong subconscious sign of engagement), glanced quickly at their chip (a strong subconscious sign that they are committed to betting big already) and proceeded to cover their cards more than previous hands (a strong sign of subconscious protecting of what is valuable). The acting, combined with the subconscious behaviors, make it clear to an expert that this person has premium cards and a winning hand. This simple series of events is an example of how you need to look for shifts in behaviors and not just behaviors by themselves.
Now that you are aware of the timing between acting and the truth of subconscious tells, lets reveal a series of wonderful behaviors that are equally useful in life or poker. One of the most revealing tells are “pacifying behaviors”. These are signs that someone is under stress. In this picture, the girl is rubbing her neck.
If I was betting after her in a game of poker, I’d likely be able to bet very large to get her to fold due to the fact that I’m seeing an honest stress. It should be apparent that she is torn on what to do. Meaning, a strong push in one way or the other by you will give the results you want! The pacifying behavior could have easily been one of many things such as rubbing the fingers, stroking the hair or holding the chest.
Another side to tells are the signs of guilt. Again, in life, business or poker, signs of guilt reveal themselves subconsciously. In this picture, notice the fingers curled over the mouth.
This is a classic sign that this girl just got away with something. To me, based on nothing else, I might have a strong feeling that she is bluffing and trying to steal the pot. Based on other observations, I’d likely come far over the top and then watch her act for a while as if she pretends it’s a tough decision to fold!
I have spoken to many business people about body language in sales and it is amazing how similar poker is. For instance, when I first shake someone’s hand in business, I look for certain behaviors. Does the person squeeze unnecessarily hard? Do they turn my hand up so they have the upper hand? Do they decide when we let go? These are all simple behaviors that let me know that the person has a dominating, aggressive type personality. Knowing this ahead of a poker hand or sales opportunity truly gives me the upper hand! If I was playing poker with this person and was on the fence about a move, I just might decide to bet knowing that they are cocky and bully their way through life. Isn’t it amazing how one’s behaviors in life will reveal itself on the battle field of a poker table?
Let me leave you with one more real world example of a very strong tell. All the acting in the world often leave the feet telling the truth. That’s right, the feet! Profiler experts use this type of tell to get to the truth in crimes because the feet never lie. Specific to poker, the general idea is that a person with a confident hand will have feet that shift forward (a subconscious sign of strength). A person with a weak hand will shift their feet back in retreat even though they may look and act strong otherwise. Notice the girls legs have pulled back (assuming they were in a normal position prior to the introduced stress) which clearly shows a string sign of weakness and retreat.
Again, it is important to point out that you need to have noticed if the feet were positioned differently before a particular introduction of stimulus. If, as in this example, the feet where shifted back the entire game, then it means very little about a weak or strong hand. However, you might know that, in general, this person is in a constant state of retreat and might be easily bullied at the poker table.
Tells are powerful in tough situations if you pay attention to the details. Beware of those who like to act out those subconscious tells. You can tell the difference because acting comes after the fact and tells that are truly subconscious happen the instant some stimulus or stress is introduced. You are really interested in those short, honest moments when someone is first introduced to a thought. What comes next is acting. An interesting phenomenon to me is the fact that obvious acting reveals something too. If you have nothing else to go on, just do the opposite of what they are trying to convince you of.
I’ve used real world examples to reveal that poker is not a unique place for tells. Rather, it’s a place that has many opportunities to observe a lot in a short time. The three photos in this article were directly out of the body language chapter of my dating book, “Tricks to Pick Up Chicks” (available at Amazon.com). I’ve spoken at business meetings about handshake meanings, traveled around the world with Full Tilt Poker sharing tells and lectured to magicians about psychology. In every case, it truly comes down to one simple word. Shifts. If you can watch for shifts in behavior, you will see another level of non-verbal communication that’s been staring you right in the face for years. Good luck shifting your observation and shifting some money from their side of the table to yours!
If you want to learn more about body language specific to dating, check out Tricks to Pick Up Chicks at it's official site or directly on Amazon.com
This is a great example of how easily your eyes can fool you! It's not quite an optical illusion or magic trick, but it's fun anyhow! This is also a great lesson as to why you should put sample paint on the walls of a home before painting the entire thing! What looks good on paper may not be even close to what you get once seen in a different environment, especially when influenced by shading and colors near by!
The two center squares are exact. It is the shading of relative sides of the cube that make
your eyes deceive you. It's not a magic trick! This is one of many ways the brain, your memory/familiarity of things and your eyes fool each other. To see this animated and easily see the two square match in color, watch it on my site.
Share the Magic of the Holidays Season with a Magical Stocking Stuffer! If you need to get a gift for a teenaged boy or know a single guy of any age, our Tricks Book is the perfect gift under $20.
Presented by Magician Rich "The Ice Breaker" Ferguson with Introduction by Chuck "The Iceman" Liddell, guys will certainly get a kick out of the fun content of "Tricks to Pick Up Chicks". Now hold on!- This is not some lame pick-up artist or seduction book! Nope... this is great for any age or skill level. It's the book that makes it possible to entertain Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere! It's packed with Magic Tricks, Quick Ice-Breakers, Pick-Up Lines, Riddles, Psychology, Body Language and much more.
It's hard to find a holiday gift that any teenage boy would love. Well, look no further. Using magic, betcha's, ice-breakers and personality has never been so popular. Magic and Psychology is seen by people like David Blaine and Criss Angle as well as a regular theme on shows like Lie To Me, How I Met Your Mother and The Mentalist. Look at the official site and see for yourself all the great content of this book and wonderful stocking stuffer. Please check out http://www.DatingTricksRevlealed.com. Wether someone is single or not, this book is packed with wonderful tricks anyone can have a blast with. It's "wife approved!"
Rich has invented the most mind-boggling self-levitation to date. Magicians are already waiting to see if Rich's miracle will be performed by someone like David Copperfield or David Blaine or if Rich will wait to unleash it on one of his own television appearances...
The magicians that have had a chance to witness the effect so far have all agreed that it is definitely a "cool", original and clever levitation! Imagine a magician standing within an arms reach of you. The magician is facing you wearing regular clothing and without any shield of any kind begins to levitate over two feet into the air! There is nothing blocking your view of any part of the magician and you can even reach out and help raise and lower the magician with your hands if you would like too. @#$%! The casual presentation and ability to do this off the stage makes this an instant classic.
