Category Archives: magic

Science Tricks

Posted by on December 12, 2009 2 comments

Just in time for the holidays, Professor Richard Wiseman has a collection of party tricks based in science:

Top 10 quirky science tricks for Christmas parties – YouTube

Sam the Bellhop

Posted by on March 24, 2009 No comments

I’ve only ever seen Bill Malone perform “Sam the Bellhop”, so I’m inclined to think it’s his signature trick. Even if it’s not, it certainly is amazing.

Hit play or watch Sam the Bellhop on YouTube.
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According to Mark Evanier, “the ‘Sam the Bellhop’ routine was not invented by Bill Malone but by Frank Everhart, a magician-bartender who worked at the Ivanhoe restaurant-dinner theatre in Chicago back in the late fifties. Mr. Everhart apparently did it with just a stacked deck and Malone added in all the fancy sleight of hand and false cuts that make it into a truly dazzling effect.”

Quirkology – The Missing Piece

Posted by on September 17, 2008 No comments

See if you can figure out how psychology professor Richard Wiseman creates space for the missing piece. I have to admit, even though I’ve seen tricks like this before, it took me 3 or 4 times through to figure it out completely.


[The Missing Piece - YouTube]

Psychological Card Trick

Posted by on June 21, 2008 No comments

Those of you that enjoyed the colour changing card trick, may also enjoy this psychological card trick.

[Psychological Card Trick - YouTube]

The Amazing Colour Changing Card Trick

Posted by on May 30, 2008 No comments

As a former magician myself, I don’t believe in telling how the trick is done, but in this particular case the spoiler reveals not only how it’s done, but what the trick actually entails.

Watch carefully.


[Colour Changing Card Trick - YouTube]

How To Slice an Unpeeled Banana

Posted by on April 24, 2007 No comments

How To Slice an Unpeeled Banana, because “the gift of a banana, pre-sliced from the inside, cements a friendship”.

I began to pre-slice bananas and give them to people I knew. Even when you know how it is done, peeling open a banana to reveal those perfect slices transforms the mundane banana-peeling experience. The service provided by pre-slicing a banana is a small (and unnecessary) one, but pre-slicing magnifies the effect of the gift. The recipient not only gets a banana, they get the unexpected.

Now I’m off to buy some bananas.

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