Tricks and Scams

This is a neat bar trick you can do in almost any bar as everything you need is usually close to hand. The requirements are as follows, a few coins, a glass of soda, a straw and a table with a cloth on (else a bar towel will do if there are no covered tables). Once you have all the bit and pieces you set it up as follows, Place 2 coins stacked 2 high with a coin in the middle so the glass of soda sits on the stacked coins trapping the smaller coin in the centre (check video).

The challenge is, is to remove the coin from underneath the glass in the quickest time possible, but as in all pub tricks and proposition bets like this there are a couple of rules. You can only move the glass once it is empty and the only way to empty it is by drinking the soda through the straw! At this pint someone will try and drink the soda as fast as they can which at anyone’s standards will be very slow considering the amount of fizz the straw creates. As you watch your challenger (victim) try and slurp down the soda casually remark that you can do it in a tenth of the time. At this pint simply scratch at the table cloth in front of the coin and the coin will slowly edge its way out from under the glass! Easy when you know how. For a visual tutorial checkout the video below.

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There are many different ways to discretely find a spectators card which has been lost in a deck of cards and allot of these ways use clever sleight of hand. This is an easy card trick and I will show you how to find a chosen card lost in a deck of cards with ease just by using this simple easy to make gimmick!

The Setup:

You Ask a spectator to choose a card from the deck, they look at the card, remember it and place it on-top of the deck. They then cut the deck into and put the bottom half of the deck on top so their card is now lost somewhere in the middle of the deck. They can do this as many times as they like or until they get sick! Once the spectator is happy that their card is lost in the deck you take the deck, riffle through them (see video) and immediately locate their card!

How it is done!

This is a great card trick hack which can be done on any deck of cards in under a minute and similar techniques were used by gamblers to cheat at cards. One of the easiest ways to find a card lost in a deck of cards is to use a key card. A key card is generally a card which you know, or are able to find the location of in a deck of cards. And if you discretely make the spectator place their card next to the “key card” then by locating the key card you can find the chosen card too! On of the best types of key cards i have personally found to use is a “short Card” this is a playing card which has been cut to be a couple of millimeters shorter than the rest of the deck.

Remember to round the corners too!

Comparison with another card

By having one short card in the deck you are able locate this card quite easily just by running your thumb up one end of the deck, and once you have found the “key car” you can then locate the spectators card. For a short demo please take a look at the video.

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