- Everyone knows there's only one way
to truly be the life of the party.
With magic. (chimes ringing)
What's up, internet viewer?
Justin Willman here for Magic for Humans on Netflix
and the new series, Baking Impossible.
I'm here to teach you some party tricks
to save your guests from boredom
or from having to talk to one another.
Listen, I know you can get away with the old
eggs in the glasses trick.
(eggs splashing)
But that's just gravity.
You can do the old ping pong ball on the nose trick.
(audience gasping)
But that's just rubber cement.
You can do the old butcher knife through the arm trick.
(man groaning) (suspenseful music)
But that's just stupid.
So let's learn some tricks.
Ow.
(Loud cracking) (man sighs)
It's a plastic cup in my armpit.
(chimes ringing)
Let's start.
We all know the greatest party trick of all time
is turning water into wine.
And I'm going to show you an even better version.
You take your cup of water,
you pour it into a Solo cup,
you snap, you give a little gesture like this.
It turns not only into wine, but into
frozen wine!
You're like Jesus and Iceman all in one.
How do you do it?
There's a trick to it, my friends.
There's a sponge in the cup. It's a messy trick.
Before you start secretly put a sponge
into the bottom of the Solo cup
and then on top of that sponge goes your ice cubes
or your frozen chunk of wine.
You show your water, you pour it into the solo cup.
You give it a moment for the sponge to absorb the liquid,
you snap, you do some gestures, whatever kills the time.
And then you dump it upside down,
out falls your ice cubes and
you're the life of the party already.
Friends, I present to you the disappearing quarter trick.
Behold.
It's called the disappearing quarter trick.
You'll never guess what happens in this trick.
That's right. A quarter disappears.
I'm going to trap that quarter underneath the salt shaker.
I'll make it even tougher.
I'm going to trap that salt shaker underneath a napkin.
Doesn't get any tougher than this, so chill out, okay?
On the count of three, that quarter is going to disappear.
(drums rolling) One, two,
(cymbals clashing) three.
Oh, it's heads. It has to be tails.
Tails up. Okay. Here we go.
It's a small detail.
(drums rolling) One, two, three.
Hm. No!
Heads up. My bad.
Heads up.
Oh, my bad, it's not the disappearing quarter trick,
it's the disappearing
(light thud) salt shaker trick.
That makes more sense.
It's a disappears salt shaker trick.
The quarter stays because
it's money.
Want to learn it?
Okay.
Where did the salt shaker end up?
It's in my lap.
Here's how this trick works,
you have to be sitting at a table,
step one,
you need a quarter, step two,
you need a salt shaker, step three,
you need a napkin,
step four.
By telling them it's the disappearing quarter trick
all attention's on this quarter.
Then you catch you by surprise.
So here are the beats.
And then you just got to practice it.
You put a quarter on the table,
I'm going to make the disappear
or whatever bologna you want to string out for them.
You cover it up with the salt shaker.
To make it even harder, you cover it up with a napkin.
When you put the napkin over the salt shaker,
you kind of want to drape the napkin so that it assumes
the shape of the salt shaker.
That is a key part of the secret because
the right kind of napkin will look like
there's a salt shaker under it when it's there
and when it's not there.
See? It kind of holds its shape
like a little bit of a shell.
It assumes the shape of the salt shaker.
So, I do this in an order of threes.
I say, let's make that coin disappear. One, two, three.
I kind of relax, I hold my hand near the edge of the table
to prime them to not feel like this is weird.
I don't let go of anything yet.
I was like, oh, it needs to be tails up not head up.
It doesn't matter.
We do it again. One, two, three.
You act like it didn't work again the second time.
You bring your hand to the edge of the table here.
and what you do is you just lightly loosen your grip
so the salt shaker falls in your lap,
but the napkin doesn't look like anything changed.
Act like you don't have a salt shaker in your lap.
I try to do that on a daily basis.
Then you come back here and you say, you know what,
the coin might be too hard. Let's try the salt shaker.
And then you just smash it.
They weren't expecting a salt shaker to disappear,
they were expecting some lousy coin trick.
You've surpassed their expectations.
At this point, you just kind of just sit
and just hopefully you don't have to stand up
at this point cause it'll be a little weird.
And then you find a good opportunity to
(light thudding) relax.
That's bad luck, isn't it?
Normally the best part about going to a party
is the yummy food.
Not in this case. And not in every case.
Bread rolls.
Normally a very forgettable part of any meal.
Here's a way to make them unforgettable.
Hey everybody,
my dinner roll feels like it's a little under cooked.
Let me do the bounce test.
Everyone's like, "The bounce test?"
Yeah. The bounce test.
You just take it and you
bounce it.
(man chuckles)
Now everyone's perked up.
It doesn't taste any better, but
it feels like it tastes better.
How do you do this
stupid party trick?
Well, it looks even stupider from the side.
So I'll show you.
You're not actually bouncing a bread roll.
You're doing a series of synchronized actions
to create the illusion of bouncing a bread roll.
And those synchronized actions are this.
Hello side shot.
What you want people to think is, of course,
you're doing what you would do if you bounced the ball,
which is throw it, ga-dunk, and it bounces up.
What you're actually doing is.
Hitting my leg here, which stops my hand,
creates a little bit of a snap, inertia flip back
and I go down and I let my hand just get
snapped back.
You time the tap of your foot with when the bread roll
would hit the ground.
I just use my leg as the timing cue.
It will surely impress everyone at the table,
except for the people sitting right next to you.
Don't have to just use a bread roll by the way.
You could use an apple.
You could use a bottle.
You could use an iPhone.
You could use a tennis ball.
But I don't recommend it
because tennis balls already bounce.
Well, depending on your circle of friends,
there's two things you'll find at every party,
bananas and dice.
And this is a trick that combines both of those things.
Check it out.
An unpeeled, unscathed, banana.
And an ordinary dice from a game to Trivial Pursuit.
You have your buddy check out the dice,
make sure it's legit and then you really just have them
roll it.
It looks like here we rolled a four.
You total up the numbers,
four and whatever's on the opposite side,
three.
Four plus three equals seven.
Seven.
I am going to psychically
dice the banana into seven pieces.
(knife slicing) (eerie music)
It's done.
So when they go ahead and they peel that banana,
check it out, they will see that it is somehow sliced into
one, two, three, four,
five, six, seven pieces.
Psychic guys.
Then you have a snack.
Not all magic tricks end with a snack
and this is one of those.
Want to learn it?
Of course you do, that's why you're still watching.
There's the hard part
and the easy part.
Let's start with the hard part.
Preparing the banana.
You find a quiet, secluded part of your party to sneak away
and do something super weird.
People are going to think you're doing something
way creepier than you are.
But in reality, you're just taking a toothpick
and a banana that you swipe from the fruit basket
and you are preparing the slices.
You just want to poke the toothpick into the banana here
and carefully, only using one hole,
use the end of the toothpick to basically
slice the soft part of the banana inside the peel
without damaging anywhere in the peel.
You do this six times to make seven slices.
It's good to go kind of on the little seam part
of the banana, that's what they're made for.
And at this point you might have some banana goo
oozing out of the holes.
And it's good just to kind of wipe that part clean
and you're set to go.
Then what you can do is you can put this banana
back in the fruit bowl and just wait for someone
to ask you to do a cool banana trick.
Or you can steer the conversation there.
Hey, you guys want to see a magic trick?
I'll show you one, I just need to use a banana,
does anybody happen to have a banana?
Oh, someone grabs it.
Perfect.
Hide the hole part like I did for you guys,
which is pretty easy to do.
That's the banana part.
The dice part, that's the easy part.
Fun fact, if you add up any of the pairs of numbers
from opposite sides,
six, opposite six is a one, which totals seven.
Three on the other side of the three is four.
Three plus four, seven.
Five, I wonder what's on the other side of the five.
It's a two, that equals seven.
It's just a fun, little math dice related hack
that most people aren't aware of.
So this is how you force them to choose the number seven
without their knowledge.
They roll it. Here it's a one.
Say, add that to whatever numbers on the opposite side.
Six. So one plus six, seven.
Okay, so I'm going to psychically dice the banana
with my mind into seven pieces.
And here's where you can just.
(man grunts)
I'm realizing this looks kind of like
constipation.
Sometimes constipation and magic
are indiscernible.
And then when they peel it,
they're going to see your amazing handiwork on display
as you reveal that that banana has been psychically sliced
into the chosen number of pieces.
And then at this point typically,
they'll have a bite of the banana,
they'll probably move on in the conversation.
But at least you looked cool for a second.
Well, here's a trick I've been doing ever since
my parents used to have the garage.
It's the match trick.
It uses fire.
To do this trick, grab a pack of matches.
You tear one of those matches off.
You light it.
You blow it out.
You carefully put it into your hand and you just
squeeze.
And it disappears
and you say, "Check it."
And if they look here
in the match book,
they will find that the burnt match
is somehow not only returned to the matchbook,
but it is reattached itself.
What?
How?
I'll show you how.
I'll start with a fresh pack of matches here.
I got it.
And I should say, of course, it says on the matches,
keep away from children.
Don't play with fire and matches.
You know, don't be a dingus.
You take one of the front matches,
preferably somewhere in the front center,
bend it back a little bit.
And then you take another match,
maybe from the back where it won't be missed
and you're going to light this match
and you're going to light this match with it.
And then you're going to blow both out.
Okay. That's the secret preparation.
This match that you used to like that match,
you don't need it anymore.
So care carefully just dispose of it anywhere but the floor.
The preparation is that this single burnt match
that is amongst the rest, when upright
kind of blends right in and that's your final
reveal of the trick.
But to prepare, you bend it back, that burnt one
and you hide it from view
with your thumb.
And then you can open it up
and they don't see it.
It's just hiding behind here.
You can use your index finger and hold it like this.
If you're performing for a big party
and you have somebody pick out a match.
Let's say they picked out this one.
Great.
Now what you need to do here is you need to secretly
close up this pack of matches
without looking like you're doing anything sneaky
while also doing something sneaky.
What I suggest you do is you kind of rotate
the pack of matches over and then you kind of,
while it's rotating here,
you just let that match go right back
to where it's supposed to go and you can close the flap.
It's hidden. They've plucked out a match that is unlit.
You close up this pack of matches while secretly
loading that pre-burnt one right back into its place.
That's all done.
How the heck do you light to match and make it disappear?
Well, here's what I do.
I light it.
I blow it out and I make sure it's really out.
And I kind of shake it as people do
to really cool it off.
And in the process of shaking it,
I just throw it.
I don't throw down like that.
I just kind of
threw it.
and I'm still shaking as if it's still there.
And then I pretend to put that match in my left hand.
There's no match there.
This is like advanced mime work you're doing.
Open your hand, there's nothing to find
'cause it's on the ground.
They're looking up your sleeve, they should be looking,
it doesn't matter.
And then you just kind of let them do it
and you let them open up that pack.
First thing they'll see is that the burnt match is there
and they'll be like, "Whoa!"
And then they will try to remove it
and realize that it's still in there.
And then they'll be like, "Whoa."
Well friends, the party's winding down,
which means it's time to awkwardly say goodbye
to all the guests.
Or do what I do,
grab a tablecloth and do a little magic Irish goodbye.
At this point, of course, you just got to hope
your friends don't look down on the floor
or they'll
see you doing this.
Thanks to everyone at Delish for having me.
Make sure to check out Baking Impossible on Netflix
and see you at the next party.
I'm just going to hang out here for a bit.
'Cause I kinda landed on my knee.
(campy music)