Best Magic Tricks

Javascript magic trick

2006-12-25T06:21:00.002+01:00

Wanna see a real magic with Javascript?
Go to any website with pictures showing (you can try in here also) and copy and paste this into the address bar in your browser:

It works with Opera, Firefox, IE.
You can try this trick with different values, try this:

Have fun!

Coin balance

2006-11-27T23:45:00.003+01:00

This trick is pretty amazing and cool! You can get some free drinks in the bar, or simply amaze your friends, girlfriend, if you perform this trick correctly.

This is how it looks like in the end. Looking cool isnt it!?!

Well OK, lets start. First of all, you need some coins and paper money. I hope you got some money in your pocket!

Take a twenty (or fifty, the higher value - the better effect) out of your pocket and make a beth with your friend. Say something like "I bet you I can balance your coin on the thin edge of my twenty. If I cant you get my twenty, but if I can I get your coin and you will buy me a drink!"

How to perform this trick:
1. when you place your beth, take and fold your bill in half, both ways
2. bring the two opposite ends together
3. place the coin on top of the intersection (see picture below)

4. now take the two ends of the twenty and slowly pull them away from eachother to straighten out the bill
5. and thats it! The coin will find its center of balance and will align itself accordingly.

Check out the video - and good luck!

Elevator illusion

2006-11-27T21:31:00.002+01:00

Be afraid! Watch your step!

This is elevator floor illusion - an alevator without floor optical illusion!

Imitation of the real world

2006-11-27T13:40:00.001+01:00

This is unbelievable! Objects on this picture below looks like a real world.
But, everything you see inside the surrounding bricks is a mural!

>> U dont believe? See the picture below! <<

Funny optical illusions

2006-08-06T17:46:00.002+02:00

Anything to say? Nooooooooo! Just look at the picture

Cool "bang bang" shopping bag

If you keep looking at this picture, you will see a waterfall!
Still cant see? Click on the picture and you will see!

It looks like the girl is doing more than drinking a coke! LoL

Girls? ... or just sand sculptures?

Where is the head?!?

Look at this picture carefully and you will see the hidden dog!

Just curious; how long did you looked at this picture?

Incredible drawings

2006-08-06T14:55:00.001+02:00

"Trick the eye" is art technique to display a realistic image on an object, usually a wall or on the ground.

This is absolutely my favorite chalk drawing optical illusion - Batman and Robin saving a men from burning building. Fantastic drawing!

This Coca-Cola bottle looks soo real! Can you believe that this is only chalk drawing?

Rembrandt chalk drawing

Funny paint job - it looks like this dude sitting on the toilet!

Toilet in Queenstown, New Zealand. Very original urinal!

It looks like a piece of the pavement has been taken out. Very realistic
Watch your step!

Well drawn in chalk in New York City

Swimming pool drawn in chalk
This image looks only good from one point of view.

When seen from the other side it looks entirely different.

Truck art optical illusion

2006-08-03T12:35:00.001+02:00

These trucks painted with optical illusion art.
I cant tell is this trucks real or just photoshoped - but for sure looking awesome!

I think that this is my favorite - it looks like the pepsi crates hanging from the roof!

And this one also looks pretty cool!

Mixed letters

2006-07-07T00:58:00.002+02:00

This is very interesting.
Even though the letters are mixed in the following text, most people have no trouble reading it!

Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

If you can´t read this, you can find original text here

According to research at Cambridge University, it doesn´t matter in what order the letters in a word are, the only important thing is that the first and last letter be at the right place. The rest can be a total mess and you can still read it without a problem. This is because the human mind does not read every letter by itself, but the word as a whole.

Chriss Angel walks on water

2006-07-01T21:47:00.001+02:00

This is a real trick!
Chriss Angel walks on top of a Las Vegas swimming pool with people swimming and diving around him! Amazing!

Eyes examination

2006-06-29T18:56:00.001+02:00

This is free eyes examination - test your eyesight!

Can you read this?

Try to read from across the room or cross your eyes ... can you read it now?

Increase distance from this picture until it is readable!

Two cars optical illusion

2006-06-29T18:41:00.000+02:00

This optical illusion is soo cool!
I mean, you can´t tell is this two cars or just painting on van!

What you think?

Smiling Clinton

2006-06-29T18:28:00.002+02:00

Clinton seems to be smiling on the picture below, isn´t it ...

but, this time look at carefully ...

Peace!

Dragon

2006-06-22T12:28:00.003+02:00

This dragon is made out of paper - you simply cut it out and stick it together, and stand it on a table or window ledge. But when you move around, the dragon's head seems to follow you around the room (see the video).

You can try this illusion for yourself. Just click on picture below.
Once you have printed the dragon out then you can cut out the dragon, fold and stick it, and you will be able to see this amazing illusion yourself. When you print the page out, you will see that the instructions for folding the dragon are included. Follow these instructions exactly.
Have fun!

Charlie Chaplin

2006-06-22T02:24:00.001+02:00

This is a great optical illusion - Charlie Chaplin - it gives you a brainspin!

Real hallucination!

2006-06-22T02:14:00.000+02:00

Experience real hallucination!

Stare at the center, keep your eyes still and look away when instructed.

Disappearing dots

2006-06-21T02:36:00.000+02:00

I´ve found this cool optical illusion.

Look at the flashing green dot in the center of the spinning crosses.
Now do those orange dots disappear or do they stay?
(it may help to close one eye if you can't get it to work)

Impossible cube

2006-06-15T22:34:00.001+02:00

This is very nice optical illusion

what you think, is this possible? (see picture)

See video for answer!

Amazing automated graffiti sprayer!

2006-06-15T00:18:00.000+02:00

I know that this is not an optical illusion or magic trick but I must show you this!
This is unbelievable - automated graffiti sprayer!!
It can be programmed to spray an image to perfection!

Freaky girl

2006-06-11T21:06:00.000+02:00

This picture is really weird ... look at it for a while and you won't be able to tell what ones are her real eyes and what ones are fake!
It makes for the illness after a time of looking. Really weird!See picture!

Burning sugar

2006-06-11T19:02:00.001+02:00

You need lumps of sugar, some cigarette ashes and matches or a lighter.

Not that this trick won´t work with granulated real sugar, but it is more impressive with a lump!
Normally, if you try to light sugar with a flame, it may bubble and melt, but it won´t actually catch fire. Unless you know how!

Challenge your friends to light a cube of sugar. While they are attempting to get one of the sugar cubes to light, secretly get some cigarette ash on your finger tips. Try to get as much as you can.
Have an one of your friends select a sugar cube, and as you pick it up transfer the ash to the sugar cube. Now, hold a flame to the portion of the cube with the ash on it, and it will light easilly!

Hallucination

2006-06-10T00:05:00.002+02:00

Hallucinate right now! Just follow these steps exactly.

Download this FILE, unzip and select run this program.
Keep your hands on your mouse at all times.
When the program opens hold your breath for 30 seconds and focus on the center dot.
Look down at your hand on the mouse. What you see?

Prove that you have 11 fingers!

2006-06-09T23:24:00.001+02:00

For this "trick" you need only your hands.

Tell your friends that you have 11 fingers, and you can prove it!

Using your right forefinger to point with, touch each finger of your left hand, counting "1, 2, 3, 4, 5". Then with your left forefinger count the fingers on your right hand, "6, 7, 8, 9, 10".
Say "Funny, I know I had 11! Let´s try again". This time count backwards, pointing to the fingers of the left hand say "10, 9, 8, 7, 6 ...". Then stop. hold up the right hand and say "Plus 5 equals 11!!" Do this quickly, without pausing!

A party trick!

2006-06-07T01:18:00.002+02:00

A good trick to try on a group of drunken peoples! just kidding
Explain that just as a glass prism splits up the different colours of white light, when different coloured light passes through glass, it is also affected to an extent that depends on its colour.
Write the words CARBON DIOXIDE on a piece of paper, CARBON in red and DIOXIDE in blue. Put the paper close behind the stem of a wine glass and look at the words through the stem. The red letters turn upside down, but the blue ones don't.
So is the glass affecting the red light more than the blue?

You weren't fooled, were you? This has nothing to do with the different colours of the words, or of red light being bent more or less than blue light. The stem of the wine glass turns both words upside down, but because DIOXIDE is symmetrical about a horizontal line, you don't notice that it is upside down - it looks just the same either way!

10 tips to perform the perfect Balducci Levitation

2006-06-05T23:33:00.003+02:00

Wear wide leg pants or slacks that come down just past your ankles. This dramatically helps cover the other foot.
Face the right angle - if your audience is at 6 o´clock and you are in the middle of the clock - face to 11 away from them.
Only do the trick for 2 or 3 people at a time - more than that create a bigger angle for you to deal with. Evem better is only one person.
Don´t stand too far away from your audience on the levitation. About 6 feet is good, up to about 10 feet.
Never, ever tell them that you are about to levitate. If you do that is will will make them watch harder. You want surprise element to it. Almost as if they don´t quite know what they saw.
Tell them you are going to TRY something. It doesn´t always work and you´ve only been able to do it twice before. Then move away to the approximate correct distance and somewhat turn your back to the 11 o´clock angle in order to concentrate. Then put your handa down by your sides and after a few moments slowly start to rise. Going up, hovering for a moment, and coming down should only take about 4 seconds total. Come down, look surprised yourself and say: "Woooow ...... it worked! Did you see that?"
If you are turned slightly to the left from them make sure your left foot remains parallel to the floor on LIFT OFF. That´s what gives a big part of the illusion is that foot´s toes being up in the air.
Practice rising up and down over and over. Do it a million times, get it smooth and effortless.
Do a few smaller trick for them first. Get them used to being affected by magic and the fact that you can do it. Don´t ever just jump into the Balducci Levitation as your first trick. Get them impacted first, and then say "There was something I´ve done a couple of times, maybe I could do it now".
Practicing the levitation in a mirror is good, but if you have a video camera and can set it up on a tripod at eye level - exatly where your audience´s would be - is literally ten times better. It will improve your levitation dramatically.

These tips if practiced should make your levitation skills much, much better! ;-)

Balducci Levitation

2006-06-05T13:27:00.002+02:00

The Balducci Levitation is an illusion that can be performed almost anywhere and anythime. It uses no wires, strings, rigs, camera tricks, etc.

Learn how to do the Balducci levitation in this simple tutorial!

This is a highly restrictive, angle sensitive trick. You have to practice your angles over and over to get used on them. One bad angle or position and the illusion is blown!

This picture at the right show you the audience point of view.

This figure shows the start of illusion. Stand about 10 feet away from the audience at a 45° backward angle ...

... you pause, and then slowly start to float (as shown in picture at the left). You rise 3 to 5 inches off of the ground before suddenly "crash" back down to the ground.

When performed corretly this is about as close to REAL MAGIC as you´d ever want to get!

Balducci Levitation - THE SECRET

All you do is pretend to float off of the ground while you tippee-toe on just one foot (the foot furthest from their view) as shown below. Believe it, or not, this looks great!! The small audience can´t see your supporting foot because it´s hidden by three things - your pants, the angle of the trick and your closest shoe (which hides their view of the foot being used to levitate you). You might only rise 3 or 5 inches off of the ground, but it´s all in the presentation! You will want to slowly rise off of the ground, wait just one or two second and then drop fast.
Stay up too long and they will probably figure it out.

This is what the Balducci Levitation looks like during performance. The position on the left is the start of the illusion. Position on the right shows the climax of the levitation.