TRICKERY How-To Videos & Articles

Follow these trickery tutorials to learn all about trickery with WonderHowTo's collection of free how-to videos and articles, like Make a ring travel up a rubber band with trickery, Animate a splash using Photoshop and After Effects CS3, and Add mountains to a fantasy map in Photoshop.

You'll also find several great magic & parlor tricks tutorials in the Magic & Parlor Tricks category.

How to make a ring travel up a rubber band with trickery

Make a ring travel up a rubber band with trickery

See how to make a ring travel up a rubber band with trickery. Yes ...more

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Curated 9 months ago by rmansur | Comments 1
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How to animate a splash using Photoshop and After Effects CS3

Animate a splash using Photoshop and After Effects CS3

In this Olympic-inspired tutorial, Corey teaches an effect where he ...more

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Curated 1 year ago by Pigeonchicken | Comments 0
Views 3,045

How to add mountains to a fantasy map in Photoshop

Add mountains to a fantasy map in Photoshop

In this fantasy cartography episode, we add mountains to our map with a subtle layer style and some layer mask trickery in Photoshop.

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Curated 1 year ago by rmansur | Comments 0
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How to do a beer glass bar trick bet for free drinks

Do a beer glass bar trick bet for free drinks

No sleight of hand or trickery, this bar trick is simple geometry ...more

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Curated 1 year ago by rmansur | Comments 0
Views 4,410

How to do the famous "dream queen" magic card trick

Do the famous "dream queen" magic card trick

In the mood for a little magic? Watch this video tutorial to see how to do the famous "dream queen" magic card trick. This magic trick is ...more

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Curated 10 months ago by rmansur | Comments 0
Views 1,277

How To Do an Amazing and Easy Card Trick That Just Works

Do an Amazing and Easy Card Trick That Just Works

These simple steps will show you how to do an amazing card trick that ...more

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Written 4 months ago by WikiHow | Comments 0
Views 152

How To Resolve a Poltergeist

Resolve a Poltergeist

When there's something strange in the neighborhood, there aren't always ghostbusters around to help. And those that do specialize in actual ...more

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Written 4 months ago by WikiHow | Comments 0
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How to perform the eight card brainwave

Perform the eight card brainwave

Learn a neat magic trick with cards that will confuse your audience and make you a certified magician. This trick involves eight playing ...more

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Curated 2 years ago by shirth | Comments 0
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How to stage combat for plays

Stage combat for plays

In this series of performance videos, our expert actor demonstrates how to throw and take fake punches, how to fall backwards and sideways ...more

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Curated 2 years ago by ExpertVillage | Comments 0
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Make a Battery Out of Money

Make a Battery Out of Money

Hunkin's Experiments offers over 200 science experiments freely available in comic strip form. The experiments are organized in 18 different ...more

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By rmansur | Comments 1
Views 1,509

How to pronounce the English word "chicanery"

Pronounce the English word "chicanery"

Today's word is "chicanery". This is a noun which means trickery or the act of deceiving someone. For example, you can say, "The new ...more

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Curated 1 year ago by rmansur | Comments 1
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How to perform the bizarre twist card trick

Perform the bizarre twist card trick

There are good magic tricks, and there are bad magic tricks. The host of this video tutorial might not be the most skilled magician around ...more

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Curated 8 months ago by rmansur | Comments 0
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How to do the age-old "steel ball and tube" magic trick

Do the age-old "steel ball and tube" magic trick

In the mood for a little magic? Watch this video tutorial to see how ...more

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Curated 10 months ago by rmansur | Comments 0
Views 1,151

How to perform the rising ring rubber band trick

Perform the rising ring rubber band trick

See how to perform the rising ring rubber band trick. This illusion is just that, an illusion. You just need a rubber band and a ring off ...more

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Curated 6 months ago by greeenpro | Comments 0
Views 393

TRICKERY (14 How-Tos)

Pyro-Spirograph-Drawings

Rosemarie Fiore is badass. She makes art with pyrotechnics, amusement park rides, Atari, guns, and pinball machines. Though all of her work is cool, I have to say my favorite piece is Fiore's larger ...

Who Needs Jump Rope When You Have a Flexible Friend

Breakdancing. Acrobatics. Gymnastics. Human jump roping fits in all. And why not? It's frickin' awesome. (Image credit: Flickr user envycleopatra.)

Indian Spiderman Defies Gravity (and Death)

Real life spiderman, Jyothi Rai of India, spends his time entertaining tourists by scaling walls of the Chitradurga Fort. The daredevil works completely harness free. Inspired? WonderHowTo's Climbing ...

Creepy Crawler Ant Robot

Wow, this robot has incredible movement. "A-Pod is an ant inspired hexapod robot with a 2 DOF abdomen (tail), a 3 DOF head with large mandibles. 6 legs with 3 DOF each. Total 25 servos ...

Remote Control Your Lawn Mower

Time to make those lazy Sunday afternoons even lazier. Instructables member johndavid400 has posted a full HowTo on modding your lawn mower to operate via remote control. " ...How to make your ...

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