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- Yo, what's up guys?
And welcome back.
Today I'm going to be teaching you guys
three magic tricks that you can learn instantly
with a $5 budget.
These tricks are great if you're going back to school,
and want to impress some of your classmates.
They're easy to do, fun, and very visual.
If this is something you're in to, guys,
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and without any further ado,
let's get into learning trick number one.
So for this trick you're going to need
some clear plastic sheets,
a playing card, double-sided tape,
regular tape, and a pair of scissors.
Alright, so the first trick.
Definitely one of my favorites that I came up with here.
It's a card vanish, a very visual card vanish.
What you're going to need to do
is get one of these things,
these are like folders or separators.
You can find them at the dollar store,
they come in plastic sheets.
And they're just basically transparent.
You're going to take a playing card,
and you're going to take some double-sided tape.
And you're going to put double-sided tape
on the back of the card near the top.
As you can see there's some double-sided tape right there.
Line it up with the edge of this plastic
so that it sticks to that.
And once it's stuck, as you can see
now you're going to want to cut around there precisely.
So just don't cut the card, but cut along the edges.
And it should leave you with
sort of an invisible card right here.
But once you've done that,
to help secure the card even more,
you're just going to grab some regular tape.
Two small squares, and just gently place them
along the sides of the cards like this.
Invisible tape is the best
because you can't really see it.
And now you have your vanishing card.
This is a really, really cool effect.
I'll show you the handling from over the shoulders,
but basically what's happening here
is you're going to be holding it here.
And you're going to pinch it,
pinch the card between your fingers.
Your thumb is going to make sure
the card doesn't bend along with the card,
and that's all you're doing here.
Right, so, definitely light sensitive.
If you're in a very lit room,
you might catch some reflections.
So, great for camera.
Great little camera trick.
As you can see by the demo,
it looks virtually invisible if you're wearing
like a white shirt.
So here again is the handling over the shoulders.
So this is kind of what it looks like,
you're pinching this and you're going up here like that.
Now obviously if you see the reflection,
it's because you're too close.
You bring it back here, it looks a lot better.
But that's basically what you're doing,
and then you're going back.
So from the back, once I have the card here,
I'm going to cover what I'm doing here.
I'm going to pinch just the plastic,
these two fingers are going to not clip,
but just kind of rest on the bottom of that card.
And your thumb is going to stay here,
because if you didn't have your thumb here,
the card would do this.
So your thumb's going to have to stay here.
So that the card bends forward.
You can actually make it completely vanish,
you want to watch not to flash
this bottom part to them.
And you're here, and as you come back,
same exact movement but backwards.
And there you go, very simple.
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So for trick number two you're going to need
two key chains that are identical
that look kind of like these,
you can find them at a dollar store.
Two magnets, a pair of scissors, a Band-Aid,
and some double-sided tape and a Sharpie marker.
This is something I came up with,
I saw these things which are little bag tags
or key chain tags that you can find at dollar store.
They have a piece of paper inside of them,
you can open them and you can write
a little note on the inside.
Then you can kind of lock it shut again.
What you're going to want to do is have a duplicate one.
And I bought a whole set for like $1,
which had a bunch of different colors.
So I bought two of those sets.
Break of one of these,
cut off the excess.
There's like this extra,
like a little nub here.
You want to cut that off.
Boom.
That's going to go over,
over top of that.
Okay.
You look at both sides,
this side does seem a little bit deeper.
And that's going to allow us
to have that extra piece on there.
So I'm just going to take that piece of paper.
I'm going to take that piece of paper
and actually turn it around.
And before I do I'm just going to write
whatever the prediction is.
So let's say it's a playing card,
let's say it's a word.
You can write, look, smile.
Here, we'll put a happy face.
So now you're left with this so far.
Here's where your magnet comes in.
First of all you want your shin piece.
So this piece is going to be attached to this piece,
and that's going to be what lays over top
and what's taken away in order to reveal this photo here.
So maybe here, we have another face.
This time, this guy's not feeling so good.
Alright.
You want to make sure it's locked in on the deep side.
So if we go here, just like that.
Okay, so that's not going anywhere.
Here's where the trickiness comes in to play.
I want to make sure the orientation is the same here.
So this is going to go like that,
so therefore this one is going to go like that.
So you want to take some double-sided tape,
tape it to the face.
We're just going to adhere to that.
Try to get it on as perfectly as possible.
Bam, there you go.
That's going to fit kind of right there.
Now it fits nice and snug in there right now,
because there's not that extra layer.
The extra layer is actually going to be a magnet.
So these things you can go ahead and buy at Michael's,
or any arts and crafts store.
A dollar at dollar store.
So when sticking on your magnet...
So when you want to stick your magnet,
you want to stick it closer to the ring as possible,
and there's a reason for that.
So this picture which is going to be here,
I want to stick it closer to the ring, okay?
So I'm going to stick the magnet off center,
kind of right about there.
Okay.
So that is now your shin piece,
which is going to be taken away.
Make sure it's nice and stuck on there.
That's going to be placed here.
And here's what's great is that this metal ring,
if you loop it around, it actually attaches itself
to the magnet back here holding your gimmick in place,
which is really, really cool.
So you can see, they see the reflection,
they see that it's locked in there.
Next step, all you need is a Band-Aid.
Preferably a skin-colored Band-Aid,
this one's not ideal because it is not skin-colored.
But preferably a skin-colored Band-Aid.
You're going to take the magnet,
and you're going to make sure.
So the magnet is polarized on that side,
and that's the side we want it to stick.
And you're going to place that on your ring finger,
and wrap it around.
Again like I said, preferably a skin-colored Band-Aid.
This one's a little apparent,
but a skin-colored one works fine.
You can bring this out.
Now all you have to do is wave your hand over top.
And voila, you have a happy face
that you can hand out.
Or a playing card or whatever.
And this one goes straight to your pocket.
You can ditch it, you can do whatever you want with it.
Very cool.
The set up is you put that there,
you put the ring in back because it sticks to it.
Now you have this little prediction.
You say, "Ha!"
I've been...
You can ask them to hold on to that,
and close their hand around it.
When they open up, you say, "There you go.
My prediction's been sealed in here the entire time."
And they say, "No, that's wrong. I ordered a happy face."
Or whatever.
Wipe your hand over it, and there you go.
You can actually hand that out pretty cleanly,
pretty fairly.
And that's trick number two.
For trick number three,
all you're going to need is a plastic straw,
pack of gum.
Preferably the gum color matches the straw,
and a pair of scissors.
Now I know a lot of you are going to be like,
"Hey, Chris, plastic straws,
not allowed in California anymore."
So if you can't get a plastic straw,
you can't do this trick.
I know, I shouldn't be using plastic straws.
But you can't do it with a cardboard one, I've tried.
Anyways.
This is basically like that appearing cane,
or appearing straw technique.
You want to just cut the straw down the middle.
Now be very careful in playing with scissors, please.
All the way up to the top,
and you leave about half an inch,
to a quarter inch at the top that is uncut.
You are then going to open her up,
and keeping it straight,
you're going to roll.
You're going to roll that,
and always push in the edges.
You're going to roll that all the way up to the top.
And you're just going to hold it
in your hand like this.
Now this is going to be in your hand here,
you want to kind of hide that.
Just the tip of your fingers.
So if you pan up,
let's say I have the gum.
I have the gum here, I'm chewing.
I'm going to take this hand,
pretend like I'm grabbing my gum.
So I can show the gum, put it back in my mouth.
And all I'm doing is...
I'm biting this here.
And as I bite that,
my thumb is going to go in the back here,
and is going to push down on that part right here.
So as I open it now,
my thumb's kind of keeping everything straight.
Hm.
Hm, keep it straight.
As you can see, my thumb is pressing in the back.
And it's great because it kind of looks like
the gum is stretching even wide.
Which is good that you're not appearing a straw.
Because then the straw, they'd be like,
uh, it looks like it's cut in the back.
But because the gum,
it actually looks like it's stretching.
So it sells the illusion.
Once you're here, you just do that, right?
You can just show them like, that's weird?
Toss it away, I don't know, up to you.
Well there you have it guys.
Hope you enjoyed this video.
Those are three practical and visual magic tricks
that I came up with just taking a trip
to the dollar store.
I actually came up with about five or six
really cool ideas in the span of about an hour.
If you guys want to see some more of this,
go ahead and like.
Comment.
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Maybe we can put another video together for you guys,
teaching you some more cool visual magic tricks.
We'll see you on Wednesday with another puzzle.
Peace, rock!
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