Do you want to try a few magic tricks for the first time? Would you like to perform magic and amaze your family and friends? These magic tricks might be just for you.
Introduction / What is the Apprentice Magic?
The Apprentice Magic line by Murphy’s Magic offers numerous amazing tricks that let beginners step into the world of magic with easy-to-do yet powerful visual effects. Because the tricks are easy to perform, they are also an excellent choice for kids.
All of the Apprentice Magic tricks have these in common:
- They are easy to do and provide a great effect.
- They come with video instructions explaining the routine and providing ideas on performing the effects. Each trick has a unique script.
- With little to no sleight of hand involved, they are excellent for children (generally from the age of 6 or 7).
- Possibly the most affordable line of magic tricks available. They all cost around 10 EUR.
The Tricks
Mystery Box
This prop is also known as a drawer box in the magic world. Thanks to this small black plastic box, you can make things appear or disappear.
There is no sleight of hand involved. You can perform the basic effect straight after finishing the tutorial.
The Lost Treasure
You put a coin on a pedestal, cover it briefly, and it disappears! You can make a coin appear or change into a different coin in the same way.
There is no sleight of hand involved. You can perform the basic effect straight after finishing the tutorial.
The Money Maker
You insert a blank piece of paper into a small printer. As it goes through the printer, it changes into an actual banknote! And you can immediately do it again!
There is no sleight of hand involved. You can perform the basic effect straight after finishing the tutorial.
Spiker Box
You put a plastic coin inside a box and start sliding spikes into the box and through the coin! The spikes can be moved up and down to show they are going through everything.
You can substitute the plastic coin for a real one.
There is no sleight of hand involved. You can perform the basic effect straight after finishing the tutorial.
The Vault
You place a stack of nickels on the table and cover them with a brass tool used to turn money into more money. That sounds impossible, but when you remove it, there is now a stack of dimes!
There is no exact sleight of hand technique involved, but the trick requires some finesse. A few practice runs should be enough to prepare you for your first performance.
The Fifth Dimension
You present a frame with a plastic layer inside. You put a playing card into the frame and onto the plastic layer. And then you push a pen through the playing card and the frame!
There is no exact sleight of hand technique involved, but the trick requires some finesse. A few practice runs should be enough to prepare you for your first performance.
The Magic Chamber
A clear plastic box is closed and wrapped with rubber bands. You put a small red ball on top of it and cover it with silk. You push onto the ball, and it goes inside the closed box!
There is no exact sleight of hand technique involved, but the trick requires some finesse. A few practice runs should be enough to prepare you for your first performance.
X Ray Vision
You turn away from your spectator. The spectator selects one color on a cube, puts the cube into a box with the chosen color facing up, and closes the box. They then put the box into your hands. You turn back to them, and you can immediately tell which color they have chosen!
There is no exact sleight of hand technique involved, but the trick requires some finesse. A few practice runs should be enough to prepare you for your first performance.
The Leprechaun
You put one coin on a tray and cover it with a cup. Then, you take a second coin and push it through the cup! Both coins are now on the tray under the cup.
There is no exact sleight of hand technique involved, but the trick requires some finesse. A few practice runs should be enough to prepare you for your first performance.
UFO
You ask your spectator for a coin and have them sign it. First, the coin vanishes! You then bring out a small UFO wrapped with rubber bands. You open it… There’s a second UFO in rubber bands. You open that… There’s a small velvet bag with the spectator’s signed coin!
This is possibly the most challenging trick in the Apprentice Magic line, but it still requires just two sleight of hand techniques. You will learn a fundamental sleight of hand technique for coin magic, which you can use in hundreds of other tricks.