List of magic tricks
This page contains a list of magic tricks. In magic literature, tricks are often called effects. Based strictly upon published literature and marketed effects, there are hundreds of millions of effects; a short performance routine by a single magician may contain dozens of effects.
Warning: some trick pages include exposures. See also notes on copyright of magic methods.
Close-up card magic
- The Acme of Control
- Ambitious card
- Blackstone's Card Trick Without Cards
- Card force
- Color Change
- Charlier Cut (flourish)
- Hummer Card
- The Circus Card Trick
- Double lift
- The Four Burglars
- Invisible deck
- The Pass (A card control)
- Out of This World
- Reading The Cards
- Royal Party
- Snap change
- Spelling Bee (card trick)
- Svengali deck
- The Three Aces
- Trick deck
- Twenty One Card Trick
Other close-up magic
- French Drop (The Tourniqet)
- Retention of vision vanish (Pinch Vanish)
- Scotch and Soda
- Detachable thumb
- Thumb tip
- Glorpy
- Cups and balls
- Revolution coin vanish
Levitations
- Criss Angel's Building Float
- Criss Angel's Levitation
- Asrah levitation
- Balducci levitation
- King Rising levitation
- Chair suspension
- David Copperfield's flying
- Elevator levitation
- Fearson's floating cigarette
- Sooperman / Wild levitation
Stage illusions
- Aquarian Illusion
- Assistant's Revenge
- Battle of the Barrels
- Bowl-A-Rama
- Bullet catch
- Copperfield Laser Illusion
- Chen Lee water suspension
- Cremation/Burning Alive
- Criss Angel Scare Crow
- Crusher
- Dagger Head Box
- Devils Torture Chamber
- Disembodied Princess (aka The Mystery of Princess Karnac)
- Elastic Lady
- Geometrix
- Guillotine
- Impaled
- Interlude
- Mini Kub-Zag
- Metamorphosis trick
- Mismade Girl
- Modern Art
- Monster Guillotine
- Origami
- Predicament escape
- Quick-change
- Sands of the Nile
- Sawing a woman in half (See also below)
- Scarecrow
- Shadow Vision
- Slicer (Cutting in ninths)
- Squeeze Box
- Stretcher
- Super Chair Suspension
- Twister
- Wringer
- Zig Zag Girl
Sawing Illusions
- Selbit sawing
- Goldin sawing
- Wakeling sawing
- Thin model sawing
- Blackstone buzz saw
- Copperfield Death Saw
Televised Illusions
Utilities/Accessories
Their are thousands of devices used by magicians to accomplish their effects...most of the devices are never even observed during the performance of the trick(s); while not generally tricks in and of themselves, these devices are very valuable to most performers of magic.
References
Wilmarth, Phil. "Ramon's Topit Pattern (review)." The Linking Ring October 2003: 124.