7 Tricks To Play On Your Friends!

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Have you ever been to a party and been captivated by someone who entertains an audience with some neat magic tricks?  Perhaps you’re often on the wrong end of jokes when you’re out with family or friends and you want to get your own back! These 7 tricks will allow you to fool your friends and even trick them into betting against you when there’s virtually no chance you can lose and the good news is they’re easy to do and require only simple household props.  Let’s get started with number one…

Trick #1 – Knife Scaffolding

Props: 4 glasses and three kitchen knives.

Knife Scaffolding
CHALLENGE: Balance the three knives on the three glasses in such a way that they can support a fourth glass. The first three glasses must form a triangle about 12 inches apart from one another and cannot be moved.
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STEP 1: Place the second knife on top of the first as shown above.
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STEP 2: Put the third knife under the first and over the second knife and rest the other ends of the knives on each of the three glasses as shown.
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VOILA! The knives form a platform which allow you to balance the fourth glass on top of them!

Explain the challenge (or bet) to your friends clearly and then watch them struggle.  When they inevitably give up, rearrange the glasses back to their original positions and then slowly and smugly, show them how it’s done.  Oh… and take their money with a smile if it was a bet!