Learning Magic Tricks Online

"...The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary. Now you're looking for the secret... but you won't find it, because of course you're not really looking. You don't really want to know. You want to be fooled.." - dialog from 'The Prestige' motion picture on how an audience knows that there is a secret to every magic trick but still accepts it as an outstanding illusion.

Magic is an age-old tradition of doing things that are thought impossible or beyond the world, and was often in the olden days, referred to as witchcraft, sorcery and spiritism. Though, there is still an ongoing debate on these topics, magic nowadays, has become the art of creating illusions, to amaze and awe an audience, who know that there is a trick involved but do not know its secret, adding to the magician's mystique and making them commend his skill. Therefore to be a magician, one must never reveal the secret either verbally or accidentally, during the performance. Though a few famous magicians do eventually reveal their secrets, it is usually recommended to keep the secret, to ensure that the audience can enjoy the act. Mentioned below are secrets to magic tricks that you can do, but remember, you cannot reveal these tricks to any other non magician. While learning magic tricks online, remember to make a note of every detail and practice each trick to perfection, alone in front of a mirror, before performing it for an audience.

How to Learn Magic Tricks at Home
There are lots of tricks that you can learn to do at home for free. Learning magic tricks takes a lot more than just knowing how to do it. It needs regular practice and skill. Along with knowing how to do the trick, you must also know ways of keeping the audience engaged and responsive. This can be done by talking a lot and asking them questions. Remember to always prepare well and in case of any sudden errors, be calm and composed and act as if it was a part of the show, or move on to another trick. Develop your skills in speaking and get over your stage fear. While practicing it is always recommended to use a mirror, and keep in mind how your trick will look, to the audience. If the trick requires your audience to be at a certain angle, then make sure you place yourself that way. Read on to continue learning magic tricks online.

Easy Magic Tricks
Here are some easy to do tricks, that do not need too much expenditure, but can still have an audience wondering, how did you do it.

• Coin Through Paper Trick: For this you need a piece of paper and two coins, one bigger than the other. Now make a hole in the center of the paper by drawing a circle around the smaller coin and ask your friends, if they could fit the bigger coin through the hole without tearing the paper. They will try to do it and get frustrated. Then show them that it can easily be done by simply placing the bigger coin on the paper and then folding the paper along the center, and then bend it. The bending of the paper causes the hole to increase in size and allows the bigger coin to come through.
• Dice Trick: This one is a close up magic trick and involves a glass, either empty or containing a drink that allows you to see the dice, which you will be putting in the glass. Take three dice and ask a volunteer to put them in the glass. Now tell them to lift the glass up, (be creative on how you do that) and see the faces of the dice through the bottom of the glass. Now tell them to keep the glass back, on to the table and not show you the faces. Now inform them that you can tell exactly what total they have thrown without looking into the glass. This is because you can guess the total on the upper faces by taking the total of lower faces and subtracting it by 21.
• Mind Reading Trick: A very simple trick which could fool anyone. Tell an audience that you can read minds. Ask them for names of celebrities or places, and as they do that, write each one down on small cards, which are then folded and put into a bowl. The trick, is to 'pretend' that you are writing different names each time, but you should actually write just one name, the one that was said first. So all the chits will have just one name. Now ask a volunteer from the audience to pick any name, and pretend to read his mind. Now write your answer on a slate and reveal it to the audience and the audience member. It will be the same name as the one he picked.

Learning Magic Card Tricks
There are many easy card tricks that you could use for making magic. Here are some classic magic tricks that get the audience every time.

• Mind Reader Card Trick: This is so simple and needs no preparation at all but still gets everyone if done properly. All you need is a deck of cards and a volunteer. Tell him to pick any one card that he likes. Then tell him that you don't need to see it. Now comes the important part. Place this card in the middle of the deck by lifting half of it in one hand. While you do that, make sure you see the card that you will place above the selected card. Then you can ask the audience member to shuffle it themselves. Fan out the deck after they have finished shuffling the cards. And ask them to check if they can find their card. Now ask them to think about the card. And starting with the color go on to tell them what card they had picked.
• Card that Disappears: This trick needs you to prepare earlier by getting a handkerchief and pasting a toothpick to it. Now that you have done that you can tell your audience that you are now going to pick a card from the deck. Place the handkerchief over the cards and pick it up using the toothpick, which should be covered by the hankie making it look like it is a card. Then with a final flourish you can make the 'card' vanish.

Performing magic tricks requires a lot of practice and skill. But in the end, remember, that any magic trick is only as good as the magician!