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This is Magic

Want to learn some awesome tricks, do you have nothing to do at the weekend. Well look no further because this entire article is devoted to astonishing your friends with some truly amazing magic tricks, enjoy.

Is this your card: You need a deck of cards and a friend.
 Ask your friend to pick a card then put it on the bottom of the deck then shuffle it, amaze your friends by picking their card every single time!
Method: Make sure that before you do anything you put the black joker on the bottom of the pile and then only offer your friend cards at the top of the deck when they put the card on the bottom of the deck shuffle every card but keep the black joker and the card together then go through the cards from the bottom of the deck when you get to the black joker pick the card before it and viola that's their card.  

 Blow away: you need a 1p coin and a large audience

Ask your audience whether they think the coin will land on heads or tails pick the coin up and stun your audience by blowing the coin into thin air.

Method: You never actually picked the coin up when you bent down to get it you just shouted heads or tails (whichever was facing up) then hid it beneath your foot as discreet as possible. Hold up your hands with the one you would have picked the coin up in a fist and blow on it, works every time.

I can read your mind: you need a trusted friend, an audience and a room with lots of objects.

Call out a random volunteer (your friend) and tell him to ask the audience an object in the room they would like to choose while you are outside the room after they have chosen come in and ask your ’volunteer’ to give you a list of items and somehow get it right.

Method: tell your friend before the trick that he/she has to point to the item that is correct and only that item so when you walk in the room after your friend tells you the list get it right  first time every time.

Milk paper: you need a piece of paper like a five pound note and a milk bottle lid.

Fold the piece of paper as much as possible then quickly put it under the milk bottle lid and pick it up. The paper has vanished.

Method: when you bring the lid down the paper will compress against it and stick so it will lift up with it.