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Best simple magic trick I've ever seen, blows people's minds:

Cut out a piece of black paper the shape of the opening of a beer can, lick it and stick it to the lid. From a distance it should look like it's open. Prick a hole in the side with a pin and drain out a quarter of the beer, enough that you can squeeze the can and bend it. Lay it on its side on a table, with the pinhole pointing up so it doesn't leak. Now it looks like an open, empty, crushed can. Do all that secretly obviously.

Now ask someone if they want a drink, and point out the "empty" can. Pick it up and cover the pinhole with your finger, then subtly wave the can around as you magically summon more beer. The remaining beer will fizz up and the pressure will cause the can to inflate and uncrush itself. Secretly remove the black paper and hide it. Show them the magically restored lid, crack it open an pour the beer into a glass (so they don't notice it was partly empty).

What makes it so incredible is you never hid the can from them or did anything tricksy. From their POV, an empty can just refilled itself in front of their eyes.

Edit: Here's David Blaine doing it for some obvious actors. You will be able to make it more convincing than this. Can't believe David Blaine was so popular back then lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUTG-MIqU-Q

Angry elephant. Remove your glass eye, insert it into your foreskin and flop it around while yelling "brrraaaah!"

Most impressive party trick I've ever seen.

If you can solve a Rubik's cube, normal people will think you are a genius. On the other hand, actual cubers correctly assess that I am a dumbass if they see me do it.

This one is more of an icebreaker/game and can be fun to do at a party where there is more talking than partying. You need pen and paper or a phone to take notes.

1. Ask each person to come up with a color and 3 adjectives to describe it.

2. Ask each person to come up with an animal and 3 adjectives to describe it.

3. Ask each person to come up with a body of water (can be specific like “Lake Baikal” or non-specific like “ocean”) and 3 adjectives to describe it.

4. Ask each person to imagine themselves in an all-white room with no doors and no windows. Write down 3 adjectives that describe how it makes them feel.

Ok, now:

1. The color and related adjectives is how you see yourself.

2. The animal and related adjectives is how you see other people.

3. Body of water and related adjectives is how you see your sex/love life.

4. The white room is how you see death.

People love this shit. Lots of laughs all around.

Maybe not impressive but it is funny to draw 2 pounts at specific locations on a hand and then "eating" stuff by moving the "middle" thumb joint ud and down so it looks like a mouth.

Offer to share an apple with someone, then split it in half with your hands. It's easy once you figure out the technique.

Dollar bill origami. Ask someone for a bill, fold it into a T-shirt or whatever, and give it back to them.

Wear a ring (stainless steel, not gold) and use it to open bottles with your hands.

Okay here's my favorite super easy card "magic" trick. Works best prefaced by "I'm not very good at it but I hope it works"

You fan a deck and tell somebody to remember the card. Then ask them to put it back on top of the deck. Make sure to remember the card on top of the deck first. Then you give the cards a very shitty shuffle, but enough so they can see their card go into the middle of the deck. If you look really awkward and unskilled, this will work even better. The card they picked and the original top card should remain together.

You then just start flipping cards off the top of the deck, 1 by 1. at some point you will flip the card that was on top of the deck, meaning the card just before it is the card in question. Keep flipping a few cards. Then (make sure you look hesitant and unconfident), say "Okay if the next card I put on the table is your card, you down your drink. If it's not, I'll down my drink" If your performance has looked shitty enough so far, they will be sure to agree, since they already saw their card be flipped.

But instead of flipping the next card, you go through the pile, find their card, and put it back down on the table.

'Card throwing' a card and sticking it into an apple. 1 afternoon of practice and you can likely get it done in 3 tries.

Opening a beer bottle with a lighter, a second beer bottle, your teeth (not recommended), the corner of a table (don't actually do this unless you know the table can be scratched up or chipped), or other random objects.

Apparently, "So anyway, here's Wonderwall"

Well if you have hyper mobility in your joints like me, people are always interested when I fold my pinky flat against the back of my hand.

It’s super low effort for me…might involve some broken bones or dislocations for others though ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I used to get some decent mileage out of catching a stack of quarters off my elbow. That was back when more people carried change though.

Playing 'Alle meine Entchen' on various instruments.

Ask around the table who has fast reflexes. Get a $10 bill, scrunch it a bit and put it on the table (a bit like a ball). Ask the person to position their hand some 4 inches above the bill, palm down. Then, position your hand much higher (1.5ft) also face down and bet that person that you can grab that bill before they do.

It's misleading because of the distance but if you're just normal fast by the time they react you'll already have the bill in your hands.

There are some dead-simple magic tricks if you have a deck of cards laying around. YouTube it

Contact juggling. Making empty (or full) bottles spin "weightlessly" in your hand, rolling an orange over your fingers like David Bowie... not that impressive, maybe, but a lot more impressive than it is hard to learn.