Perform magic with a sugar cube.
Perhaps you dream of being the next David Blaine and are looking for some simple but remarkable magic tricks to get you started. Or maybe you just want to impress your friends when they next come over. Whatever the reason, you will be making coins vanish and tying magic knots in no time.
Magic Fingers
Fill a glass with water but not to the brim. Add in some pepper. Before you start your performance cover your fingers in soap. Now ask a member of your audience to separate the pepper with their hands. After they fail, insert your own fingers into the glass and amaze your spectators by separating the pepper. The soap on your fingers reduces the surface tension in the water, making the water spread out. To your audience, the pepper will seem to move to the side of the glass.
Disappearing Coin
Draw around the top rim of a drinking glass onto white construction paper. Cut out this circle and then glue it to the top of the glass. Place a sheet of white construction paper on the table and position a coin near the center. Turn the glass upside down and position it near the coin. The audience will be unaware of the paper stuck to the glass as it is the same color as the surface being used for the trick. Cover the glass with a cloth and it place it over the top of the coin. Now whip off the cloth and the coin will have vanished. Reverse this technique for the coin to "magically" reappear.
Sugar Numbers
Ask for assistance from a member of your audience. This person must tell you a number from one to 10. Write this number onto a sugar cube with a pencil, making sure to press down firmly. Show the audience the number on the cube then drop the sugar into a glass of water. As you do this, hold the cube between your index finger and thumb, so that the writing on the cube is touching your thumb. Again, press down with force. Take your helpers hand and place it over the glass, so that your thumb is pushed against their palm. After about a minute, turn over the helper's hand to reveal the number from the sugar cube, baffling the audience. What actually happened was the number transferred to your thumb as you pressed against the sugar cube, you then printed this number onto the helper's palm as you held it over the glass.
Knot Possible
Tie a knot in the end of a rope before the performance begins. Gather your audience. Keep the knot hidden in one hand as you grab the opposite end of the rope with the other. Add the untied end to the hand holding the tied end. Tell the spectators that you will tie a knot in the rope with one hand. Act as if you are doing just that by moving by wriggling your hand. Release the tied end of the rope while still gripping the untied end. The rope will drop from your hands with a knot tied at the end.
