Amazing Magic Tricks for Beginners: Impress Your Friends with Simple to Learn Magic that Anyone Can Do

Length: 144 pages
Edition: 1
Language: English
Publisher: New Shoe Press
Publication Date: 2023-04-04
ISBN-10: 0760383707
ISBN-13: 9780760383704
Sales Rank: #0 (See Top 100 Books)

With a little practice and this beginner’s guide, you will quickly be amazing your friends and family with your new sleight-of-hand craft.

Being an accomplished magician definitely takes practice, but it starts with the right instruction. Amazing Magic Tricks for Beginners offers just the right level of foundational guidance in easy-to-follow, illustrated, step-by-step instruction. Whether it’s cards, coins, or magic boxes and hats, even the most inexperienced magic enthusiasts will be able to access the insider magic tips and performance advice taught in this book.

Professional magician Bryan Miles from the world-renowned School of Magic presents:

A guide to all the tools you will need to do everything from a simple card trick to tricks that use multiple props to execute
The practical elements for executing a wide array of tricks, starting with the basics and including fresh takes on traditional tricks
Performance skills such as distraction, sleight of hand, storytelling, and pace, which are the key to executing a convincing magic trick

Amazing Magic Tricks for Beginners will give you the inspiration you need to create a magic show around every trick you perform. No matter which end of the spectrum your magic aspirations fall in, you will succeed in performing your tricks of choice with panache and leave your audience wondering how you did it.

Always wanted to pull a coin out from behind an ear or pull the queen of hearts from a shuffled deck of 52 cards? This book will teach you what you need to know to be the magician you’ve always wanted to be!

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Title
Contents
Chapter 1: The Foundation
    The Hand
    The Deck of Cards
    Mechanic’s Grip and Biddle Grip
    Classic Two-Handed Spread
    Cutting the Cards
    Overhand Shuffle
    Riffle Shuffle
    Hindu Force
    Criss-Cross Force
    Slip Force
    Finger Palm
    Classic Palm
    French Drop
    Bobo Switch
Chapter 2: Magic in the Classroom
    Magical Pendulum
    Color-Changing Pencil
    Perplexing Paper Rings
    Mind Tapped
    Vanishing and Appearing Glue Cap
    Which Hand?
Chapter 3: Birthday Magic
    Phone-Nomenal Birthday
    Birthday Card for You!
    Impossible Birthday Card Prediction
    Card in Balloon
    Birthday Card Transformation
    Confetti to Candy
Chapter 4: Restaurant Magic
    Vanishing Sugar
    Penetrating Cork
    Torn and Restored Straw Paper
    Sugar Packet Stab
    Psychic Waiter
    Traveling Olive
    Coin through Napkin
    Vanishing Toothpick
Chapter 5: Office Magic
    Animated Stickman
    Acrobatic Linking Paper Clips
    Lie for Me
    Card on Fan
    What Is in My Hand?
    Rising Ring on Rubber Band
    Magical Number Prediction
Chapter 6: Magic at the Bar
    Inexhaustible Match
    Freeze!
    Vanishing Matches
    Keep the Change
    Penetrating Coin through Coaster
    The Traveling Kings
    The World of Magic
Chapter 7: Street Magic
    Ashes on Arm
    Receipt to Money
    Card on Window
    Coin through Hole
    Obedient Ketchup Packet
    Bending Nail
Chapter 8: Holiday Magic
    Transporting Napkins
    Torn and Restored Tissue Heart
    Appearing Rose
    Santa’s Production Cone
    Spooky Money
Chapter 9: Anytime Magic
    Devious Domino
    Dice Divination
    Match through Metal
    Tissue Paper Divination
    Pencil Prediction
    Water to Ice Cubes
    Jumping Rubber Band
    Do as I Do
Glossary
Credits
Index
About the Author
Dedication
Copyright