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twistedace
Inner circle
philadelphia
2447 Posts
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Posted: Mar 16, 2005 8:08pm
SO I was wondering how many of you work a bar? I know a few cool bar gags and betchas such as creating a pyramid with two matches one connected in the book and one balanced against that one (forming a triangle) with a quarter under the loose match. The trick is to remove the quarter without the match falling. It's a GREAT trick. Then I know another ADULT oriented puzzle with 5 cocktail straws that's VERY funny. I was wondering what some of the bar workers in here consider some of their favorite gags/fillers and not necessarily magic. Because people don't necessarily need magic the entire time to be entertained.
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Leeman
Special user
Hollywood, CA
690 Posts
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Posted: Mar 17, 2005 3:07pm
Simon Lovell's books have a few bar bet/gas in them; any dog called for, pen through tongue, sebastian the mind reading chicken, matchbox betcha, matchbox betcha 2, and a few more. There was also a cool bit in the april 2004 issue of genii with bob read on the cover using the old hitting your teeth with a glass bit. And if you want a whole book of smaller bits and gags then check out martin gardner's encylopedia of impromptu magic.
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irishguy
Special user
Ohio
629 Posts
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Posted: Mar 17, 2005 3:37pm
There is a small book you might enjoy called "The World's Best Simple Bar Tricks" by Doug Lansky.
It is only $9 at amazon.com
Amamzon Link
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mgical
Regular user
195 Posts
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Posted: Mar 17, 2005 5:36pm
I am not a bar worker, but the napkin rose has had a good reaction when I have made one (simon lovell has a very nice story about this aswell). Never tried it with the fancy coloured napkins you can buy specially for this. I just used whatever was at hand in the bar/restaurant.
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Stanyon
Inner circle
Landrum, S.C. by way of Chicago
2887 Posts
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Posted: Mar 17, 2005 6:39pm
"Bar Crab", "Bar Towel Chicken", "Smoke and Fire"!
Cheers! 
Stanyon
aka Steve Taylor
"Every move a move!"
"If you've enjoyed my performance half as much as I've enjoyed performing for you, then you've enjoyed it twice as much as me!"
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irishguy
Special user
Ohio
629 Posts
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Posted: Mar 17, 2005 7:11pm
Here is a thread that ties into this a little
http://www.themagiccafe.com/forums/viewtopic.php?topic=3375&forum=4
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twistedace
Inner circle
philadelphia
2447 Posts
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Posted: Mar 17, 2005 7:55pm
I love the bar crab and the towel chicken is hillarious. I also have a Harry Anderson book on this kind of stuff. I just recently became more interested in just simple bar gags and fun stuff to do at a bar rather than just the magic because it doesn't always have to be magic entertaining them.
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Great Domino
Special user
Canada
513 Posts
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Posted: Mar 18, 2005 1:47am
Stanyon,
For years I have tried to find the solution to the "Towel Chicken"
How the heck do they....?
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ed rhodes
Inner circle
Rhode Island
2320 Posts
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Posted: Mar 18, 2005 5:59am
I ordered one of Tannen's "mystery boxes" once. Most of what you got was left overs they couldn't sell if they tried. I did get the secret to a mentalism trick that I might remake with better props. But one of the things I got was an "adult" trick called "This 'n That" You spell out T H I S and then T H A T explaining that some people like a bit of this and some a bit of that but that you personally perfer a bit of the other. (Flip over the "I" card and now it has a picture of a pretty girl, actually a rather cheezy piece of clip art.) But keep it under your H A T (lay out the cards spelling out the word hat) because if the wife finds out you'll be in deep * * * *! (The Café engine won't let me finish this, but you take the picture of the girl and the "A" in hat, switch them and flip them over!) The "A" has an "S" on the other side and the pretty girl has an "I" so I think you can figure it out for yourself.
Cute trick, not for all audiences, but I wasn't offended. I did wonder though if this should have been included in a miscellaneous box of tricks the way it was!
"He was born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad." - Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche
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Lee Darrow
V.I.P.
Chicago, IL USA
3594 Posts
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Posted: Mar 18, 2005 7:48am
The Greater Artful Dodges of Eddie Fields has a number of great bar bets, as does the Encyclopedia of Impromptu Magic by Martin Gardner. If you happen to find a copy of the compilation of Chap's Scrapbook by Frank Chapman - BUY IT. It is, without a doubt, one of the finest collections of do-able magic I have ever read and it has a large selection of "betcha's" in it as well.
It's (Chap's Scrapbook) out of print, but, if you can find it, it's worth ANY price, in my opinion.
Lee Darrow, C.H.
http://www.leedarrow.com
"Because NICE Matters!"
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markmagic
New user
KY
79 Posts
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Posted: Apr 4, 2005 11:48pm
Dan Harlan's mindbogglers are filled with this kind of material, all good stuff.
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Corey Harris
Inner circle
Kansas City, MO
1223 Posts
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Posted: Apr 5, 2005 10:06am
I also reccomend mindbogglers by Dan Harlan. Great stuff in it. I have had the chance to use some of the material with some of my fellow wrestlers. The greatest is the bra bet though.
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Montethrower
Elite user
a little town in nowhere
423 Posts
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Posted: Jan 22, 2006 2:36pm
Betcha I can push this Deck of cards (in a box) Through this ring (borrowed) by only using this penil. !! Take the ring, put it on the pencil, and then poke at the box of cards, pushing it along. I thank Bob Elliot for this.
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pkg
Inner circle
The City of Ithobaal I son of Hiram I
1356 Posts
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Posted: Jan 22, 2006 5:42pm
Worked as a bartender for 4 years, the betchas used to be people's favorites... a couple of my all time favorite are :
- drinking from a shot that is under an inverted shaker using a straw WITHOUT my hands touching the shaker.
-adult oriented : how to get a girl to spread her legs further without using ur hands (a toothpick represents the girl)
- using that "shiny" paper inside the cigarette pack : two girls, you have to prove which one is naughty and which one is not....
Double posters should be shot!
No really!!
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magiczim
New user
Philly
67 Posts
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Posted: Jan 24, 2006 7:44pm
One of my favorite gags is telling someone you will give them 20 dollars if they let you crack 2 eggs on their head. if they agree, take out 2 eggs, and crack the first one on their head. then take the second and walk away.
its a great gag, and you get to crack an egg on someone, but keep your money.
make sure you do this to someone you know, so you won't get into a fight or anything...ive been there, not fun.
zim
"We live within the recreation of others" - René Lavand
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Jaz
Inner circle
NJ, U.S.
6113 Posts
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Posted: Jan 26, 2006 6:47pm
Not very nice but...
Get a piece of paper.
Using a quarter as a guide, take a pencil and draw a couple of dark circles on the paper.
The basic bet is that they have to guide the quarter from their forehead, off the tip of their nose and have it touch one of the circles.
* When you draw the circles you allow the lead to fill the milled edges of the quarter. A wood pencil would be best.
Have them try it off their cheek too.
After a couple of attempts, the person will have dark lines on their face.
Now you run like hell!
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pkg
Inner circle
The City of Ithobaal I son of Hiram I
1356 Posts
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Posted: Jan 26, 2006 7:53pm
Reminds me of a pair of x-ray binoculars I owned! LOVED THEM!
doing that tomorow! lol thanks Jaz!
Double posters should be shot!
No really!!
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Mark Ennis
Inner circle
Raleigh, NC
1030 Posts
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Posted: Feb 2, 2006 11:11am
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On 2006-01-26 18:47, Jaz wrote:
Not very nice but...
Get a piece of paper.
Using a quarter as a guide, take a pencil and draw a couple of dark circles on the paper.
The basic bet is that they have to guide the quarter from their forehead, off the tip of their nose and have it touch one of the circles.
* When you draw the circles you allow the lead to fill the milled edges of the quarter. A wood pencil would be best.
Have them try it off their cheek too.
After a couple of attempts, the person will have dark lines on their face.
Now you run like hell!
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This gag was demonstrated on Andrew McCarthy in the classic 1983 film, "Class".
ME
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coupcoupdaddy
Inner circle
2458 Posts
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Posted: Feb 6, 2006 10:34am
And on an episode of "Friends."
SEE THE BOOGG BURN ON ZOO & LOGICAL TIMES
inner being worker
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Jaz
Inner circle
NJ, U.S.
6113 Posts
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Posted: Feb 6, 2006 6:06pm
I'm not surprised it's been seen before.
Someone showed this to me around 35 years ago.
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Tom Jorgenson
Inner circle
LOOSE ANGLES, CALIFORNIA
3729 Posts
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Posted: Feb 9, 2006 11:30am
"Ain't That a Peach?" by Armand T Ringer has some interesting bar bets and gags that are unusual. The book is O/P, but H&R might have a few copies left...
A Compendium of John Well's excellent Mentalism effects,and Card Work:
http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/jorgenson
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Shawn D
Veteran user
Hughson,Ca
384 Posts
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Posted: Feb 10, 2006 4:02pm
I would 2nd the mindbogglers by Dan Harlan.SInt he sitting in a bar doing tricks and gas on the 1st vol.Been a while sence I watched. Need to get it out agian. I used a few of the bar bets in there to get free drinks when I go to the bar.Tryed the money counting thing to swindle casher out of ten bucks jus tto see if it worked and didn't.
Shawn D
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Nickelby
New user
83 Posts
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Posted: Feb 13, 2006 4:22am
http://bartendermagic.com/Index.html
Free bar tricks
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The Village Idiots
Elite user
Orlando
464 Posts
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Posted: Feb 27, 2006 10:30am
Pinchy Winchy is one of my favorites. It is like the quarter trick but you use a burnt cork in your pocket and you apply the soot to their face with you finger. It is best told about in "Harpo Speaks" Harpo used to do it at parties.
I did it in the crew bar on a ship once. The next time I went back the victims I had were doing it on others and it had became the rage in the bar.
Some are born idiots.
Some are made idiots.
Some have idiocy thrust upon them.
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stanalger
Special user
St. Louis, MO
966 Posts
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Posted: Mar 1, 2006 4:11pm
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On 2006-02-09 11:30, Tom Jorgenson wrote:
"Ain't That a Peach?" by Armand T Ringer has some interesting bar bets and gags that are unusual. The book is O/P, but H&R might have a few copies left...
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Is Armand T Ringer an anagram of the author's real name?
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jonzola
New user
canada
42 Posts
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Posted: Mar 27, 2006 6:23am
There is an old bar bet about dropping a paper matchstick and having it land on its edge.
Find your sucker and explain that paper matches have 2 sides, and if you were to drop the match...about 50 percent of the time it would come up the dark side ...50 percent the light side.
Tell them that when you drop it, you can have it land on it's edge everytime.
If they belive you or they don't offer to demonstrate.
Fold the match in half so it is in the shape of a "V".
It will allways land on its edge...and you both share a good laugh.
Now ask for a coin, the more value the better it is......for you. Here in Canada we have a two dollar coin so that's perfect.
Tell them that you will bet them thier coin, that you can drop it and have it land on its edge everytime.
If you can't, you will give them the same amount from your money.
Tell them that if you can drop it and have it land on its edge every time...you win thier money but, they will walk away with the knowledge on how to get free money for the rest of thier lives.
Once they agree you pull out the sheet of paper on which you have previously written the words "ON IT"S EDGE EVERYTIME".
Place the paper on the table and drop the coin on it...there it landed on its edge every time.
I include this in my restaurant work and can pull an extra 20 bucks a night from it. Ifyou explain that they will learn how to win money themselves. They will have little trouble forking over the bet.
This one gets a lot of groans, but it makes me giggle.
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Danny Diamond
Inner circle
Connecticut
1378 Posts
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Posted: Mar 29, 2006 10:52am
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On 2006-03-27 06:23, jonzola wrote:
I include this in my restaurant work and can pull an extra 20 bucks a night from it. Ifyou explain that they will learn how to win money themselves. They will have little trouble forking over the bet.
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Whoa, you use a sucker bet to swindle your audience out of some of their money, and you still have a job? Does this sound odd to anyone else?
You don't drown by falling in the water;
you drown by staying there.
- Edwin Louis Cole
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zmg013
New user
51 Posts
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Posted: Jan 15, 2012 6:52am
I'll bet you for every push-up you do I can do 3.
Secret: no matter how many your subject does, you only do 3 push ups. You said for every push up, not each push up.
you have to be able to do 3 push ups. I have done very well with this one
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