Hey, magician Rich Ferguson here. Today I'm going to be teaching you five simple party
tricks using nothing more than a straw. Now maybe you learn the simple trick likes to
sticking a straw up your nose and pulling it back out but you're looking for something
a lot more impressive for something to do for your friends and your holiday party or
private party. Well, I hope you enjoy these five tricks. You can do anytime, anywhere.
This first was very simple just take a straw wrapper, tear a few small pieces of these
on your table. You can use these in just a minute for this little trick that uses physics.
Take the straw paper, slide it back and forth over the straw. You're building up static
electricity and now you have yourself this magic wand that is going to pick up the papers
just like this. Get near the paper and the paper jumps right to the straw because it's
statically charged. Now you can also put on your hand it had a jump from your hand up
to the straw and kind of dances around. It's pretty cool. Now you can bend the straw and
actually discharges some of the straw and some of the the paper that's on it will fall
off. See now it's not even got the charge anymore so what something sticks to it you
can use what looks like magic by bending this straw and the pieces fall back down now similar
to the magic. Now similar to the magic wand trick, there's
another trick called suction you're going to utilize a straw and a glass of water. Stick
the water in, put your finger over the end and demonstrate how it holds the water back.
Let it go. Do this a couple times and say, "I can do this with air." Then you get a straw
you do the same thing. Pull the wrapper off get it statically charged. Then, you pick
up the little pieces of paper by apparently trapping air inside by doing this. You're
doing absolutely nothing because you have this one that is statically charged. You pick
up a little pieces of paper and then you let go, and the trick is you bend the straw a
little bit, and that's going to release a static charge to make paper fall back off.
Time to this. This is what it looks like up close.
In this next one you're gonna have someone hold a straw between their fingertips like
this and you can take a dollar folded in half, lengthwise so you have this ridge right here.
All you're going to do is come down and karate chop that straw half or take it out on their
fingers. The secret is so simple. Here's what it looks like when you have someone hold the
straw. Here we go, right here, watch. So we actually broke the straw on that attempt.
Here's the secret: when you come down, you extend your first finger and that's what actually
hitting the straw. It happens in just a blink and it sure does look like it's the dollar
that penetrates or smashes or takes the straw out of the fingers.
This next one's kind of evil. It's one of my favorites to do in bars, especially when
the person discovers it on their own and you just kind of sit back and laugh so you not
really getting credit for it at the moment they find it. So what you do is you go buy
someone's drink that's got a straw in it. You're going to swap out their straw for one
you've already tied a knot into and this is how simple it is to do. Walk forward, drop
your straw, remove their straw and just keep going. It just happens in a blink and you
do it when the person is not looking of course and what they're left with is a straw that
got a knot and they can't suck at it. So you watch them try to suck on their drink and
it's pretty funny. I did this trick to a friend one time with my wife on time in a restaurant
and all throughout the entire night the girl kept going to her drink. Nothing came up and
she kept just giving up. She tried again and again over two hours, it was hilarious. So
hope you enjoy that. Hey, I thought I'd mention that a lot of these
tricks are coming from my book Tricks to Pick Up Chicks and this is out misleading title.
It's not pick up a book it's not a seduction book or a book on how to manipulate women.
This is really a play on words. All it is is tricks to pick up chicks. It's magic tricks,
bar bets, you know, icebreakers, party tricks, things like that. And that's what this book
is and a lot of these tricks I'm sharing with you are coming from this book. I just want
to share that with you in case you wanted to get something like this is a gift for a
teenage boy or college boy. This thing is hilarious.
But let me teach you one more trick and I hope you enjoy do these parties. They work
for me and they're really throw-away tricks, they're not amazing tricks, it's really just
to kind of break the ice and have fun of people at parties.
This last one is called "Forces." It's so simple you're going to be blowing the straw
across the table. B ut it's going to look like you're just gesturing with your hand
because by the time you blow and you stop blowing, the wind traveling, then you gesture
and the straw moves. So the timing of this is what's so key. There's also a method where
you take the straw wrapper off, get the static charge on this and as you gesture you can
repel or pull the straw because it's gonna attract to your body. So there's two different
methods. Let me just show you up close what this looks like. To use the static version
of this trick, just stroke the straw one more time with the paper take it off, and now it's
statically charged. You wanna place this on a hard surface like wood or glass, that will
be a lot better and this is essentially what it looks like.
Well there are five very simple party tricks for you. I know they're not mind-blowing magic
tricks so for you magicians that are subscribed I don't need you trolling through the comments
making comments like "I know how to do those." So do me a favor, subscribe to my channel,
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