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Magic that works through your screen

Five tricks you can try right now. No cards, no props, nothing to install — just you, a screen, and a couple of minutes. Each one tells you how it is done afterwards, if you want to know.

The Number You're Thinking Of

Pick a two-digit number, do a little arithmetic with it, and I'll tell you the symbol you're looking at.

Nothing — it works in your head

Try it → 2

Twenty-One Cards

Three columns, seven cards each. Point at the column your card is in, three times, and I'll have it.

A standard deck, twenty-one cards from it

Try it → 3

The Card That Isn't There

Six cards. Memorise one of them, keep it to yourself, and I'll take it out of the deck.

Six cards on screen, nothing to hold

Try it → 4

I'll Read Your Birthday

Give me one number built from the month and day you were born, and I'll give you the date back.

A calculator, if you'd rather not do it in your head

Try it → 5

The Colour Trap

Think of a colour and a simple shape. Answer fast. This one works on most people, not all.

Nothing, just a fast answer

Try it →

Guests reacting to close-up magic at a table

The real thing

These are the training wheels

Everything on this page is self-working — the method does the heavy lifting, which is why it survives being run by a web page. That is genuinely how a lot of good magic starts.

What happens in a room is different. Nobody is typing into a box, the deck is in someone else's hands, and the reaction goes around the table before anyone can work out where to look. If you have an event coming up, that is the version worth having.

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