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Here are some free bar tricks
that can be found in my 1st book, Miss Charming's Book
of Bar Amusements. I want you to know that the most difficult
part of writing this book was to chose 80 tricks from
the 1000 I've collected. The publisher wanted them to
be split into categories ie: Money Tricks, Glass Tricks,
Bottle Tricks, etc. as well as a range of easy to hard
tricks. My personal challenge was to include old standards
combined with tricks most people have never seen. I think
I succeeded and I hope you think so to when you look at
your copy of the book. Illustrations by Ty Pollard
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it is: The first bar amusement I learned, and it's a crowd
pleaser. You'll need a brandy snifter, a stemless cherry
(rinsed and dried), and a glass of any kind. Place the snifter
upside-down over the cherry. Challenge someone to get the
cherry into the glass without touching the glass or the
cherry. The only thing they can touch is the snifter, and
the only thing the cherry can touch is the snifter. The
snifter must remain inverted at all times. (Mashing the
cherry on the rim is not permitted.) |
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How it's done: Centrifical
force, of course! (See, you should've paid more attention
in physics class!) Rotate the snifter around and around in
circles until the cherry spins around the inner rim. Lift
the snifter off the table and all the way over to the glass;
when you slow the rotation, the cherry will drop into the
glass. |
Hint:
For dramatic effect try these: Make hurdles using bar items
for the cherry to travel over; drop the cherry into a Manhatten;
substitute an olive for the cherry and drop it into a Martini;
or drop a cocktail onion into a Gibson (if you have good
aim). TOP |
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This is a great warm-up
trick because people fiqure it out fairly easily, and that
makes them feel good. Set up six glasses in a row, with liquid
in the first three. The challenge is to get the glasses to
alternate (empty, full, empty, full, empty, full) by moving
only one glass. |
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How it's done: Pick up glass #2
and pour the contents into glass #5. Now the glasses alternate.
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| At a casino bar on Paradise Island in the Bahamas,
a bartender handed me three dice and asked me to drop them
in my glass of water, lift the glass over my head, count the
total of the dice on the bottom, then set my glass back down.
He then dipped his finger in my water, rubbed it on his forehead,
and after a little concentration, announced my total. Amazingly,
he was right! (But I was just concentrating on not taking
a drink from my water!) |
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How it's done: Dice have this seven thing
going on. All you have to do is add up the total of the numbers
on top and subtract that number from 21 to know what the bottom
total is. Totally! TOP |
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At a swing club called Atlantic Dance at Boardwalk,
a resort in Walt Disney World, a bartender asked my friends
and I who we would like to see perform at the club. We each
gave him an answer, and with each answer he wrote it down
on a napkin, folded it up, and dropped them in a champagne
bucket. Then he asked me to reach in and take out one of the
napkins and secretly show it to my friends. Dropping a little
151 Rum in the bucket, he set fire to the remaining napkins.
He then announced what was on our napkin, and he was right!:
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How it's done : The first answer that
is given is written on every single napkin. |
Hint: Of course, you can modify
it by changing categories: sports teams, colors, movie stars,
etc., and you can use a shaker tin if a bucket isn't handy.
Also, I don't like to use 151 Rum. For dramatics get "flash
paper" at the magic store. Just a little will burst
up in a bright yellow flame that you see at magic shows.
TOP
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Here's an example of classic bottle amusement
that can be a real moneymaker. Turn an empty bottle (preferably
longneck) upside down on top of any bill. The challenge is
to get the bill out from underneath the bottle without knocking
over the bottle. You cannot touch the bottle, and it must
remain inverted at all times. Of course, if you win, the bill
is yours. |
| How it's done:Roll up the bill until
it pushes off the bottle. |
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Hint: The first thing people will
think of is to pull the bill quickly out from underneath
the bottle. This will work on slick surfaces, unless you
make sure the bill gets a little damp where it meets the
bottle. The few drops of beer left in the bottle can help
you out here. TOP
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Here's one I picked up at the Barrel House in
Boulder, Colorado. You can win a free beer with this one.
Rack and set up the table as normal, then lay your cue stick
across the width of the table. The challenge is to roll the
the cue ball (that's the white one, duh) under the cue stick.
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How it's done: Pick up the cue ball and
roll it under the table. The cue ball has now rolled under
the stick. Enjoy your brew! |
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