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Chocolate sponge brownies? Check. Beetroot rat infestation? Check. Fresh breath cookies? Check. There's nothing more fun than fooling your friends and family! With step-by-step instructions and guided photos, readers will have no trouble whipping up their next prank to pull. This collection features sidebar text on how to pull off the perfect practical joke and additional safety and clean-up tips. Get ready to fake out your friends with simple, funny tricks and practical jokes!

Doubting Dave and the Mystery Hunters take readers behind the scenes of the world's oldest and coolest mysteries and show budding illusionists how to re-create the mysteries to fool their friends.

"Teaches children dozens of easy-to-learn magic tricks using common materials; includes both performance and instructional videos for each trick featuring the author"--

“Mac King is a god.” —Penn and Teller Tricks with Your Head is the world’s greatest (and only) collection of hilarious, mystifying, and sometimes repulsive magic tricks that you can perform with your very own head. If you’ve only thought of your head as a receptacle for so-called higher learning, or as a structure for keeping your haircut from falling into your body cavity, rejoice! Now you can use that ten-pound meatball between your shoulders as a source of ribald entertainment. Best of all, when you learn to perform a head trick, you can never be caught without your prop. Mac King and Mark Levy have perfected the ultimate mix of head games (literally) in this clever illustrated volume that teaches you how to: * Make your head disappear * Penetrate your skull with a drinking straw * Make a french fry vanish up your nose * Read someone’s mind * Jab a fork in your eye

Behold the secrets of the world’s greatest conjurer! Stretch handkerchiefs! Bend spoons! Until his untimely death on stage in 1936, the Amazing Mr. Mysterio was one of the world’s most celebrated magicians—a brilliant showman who rivaled Harry Houdini and Howard Thurston with his astonishing performances. And now, with the publication of Mysterio’s Encyclopedia of Magic and Conjuring, his secrets are finally made known to the world. This giant compilation of techniques and variations features illustrated step-by-step instructions for card tricks, rope effects, mind-reading magic, stage illusions, and more. Readers will learn how to vanish coins, produce rabbits, predict the future, escape from captivity, and even make a person disappear. With effects ranging from intimate tricks to epic on-stage illusions, Mysterio’s Encyclopedia of Magic and Conjuring is an indispensable reference for magicians of all ages.

Magicians often use powers of the mind to perform their tricks. Learn some of their secrets with tricks like The Freaky Mind Weld and The Puzzling Puzzle Your friends will be in awe! Book jacket.