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🌙 How to learn a magic trick in one evening

One evening is enough for any Apprentice trick in the shop, and there are 44 of them. Start with The Rubber Pencil, which takes a minute. Here is the method that turns it from a thing you can do into a thing you can perform.

Start here: ✏️ The Rubber Pencil · Checked

1. Watch it twice before you touch anything

Every trick page has a picture for every step, and Flick reads each one aloud. Go through the whole trick once just watching, with nothing in your hands. Then go through it again. The second time you will notice where the secret is, and that is the part to be careful with.

Tap "Show me the secret" before the steps. A trick you understand is much easier to learn than one you copy.

2. Do it slowly, with the props

Now do each step with the real thing in your hands, slowly, and only go on when the step works. Slow is how you learn where your fingers go; fast comes by itself later. If a step does not work, tap "I'm stuck": most steps have a tip from Flick.

Practise until it's boring for you. That's when it becomes amazing for them. That is the rule for the whole shop, and it is true even for a one-minute trick.

3. Learn the words

Every trick has magic words to say, the patter. Say them out loud while you do the trick, in a mirror if there is one. A trick is a story, not a thing that happens. Use Flick's words the first time, then change them until they sound like you.

The most important part of the words is the silence: one whole second of nothing at the magic moment, so everybody sees it happen.

4. Show one person

The last step is the one that counts. Show the trick to one person who loves you, before showing everybody. Then come back to the trick page and tap "I showed somebody". Three of those on one shelf earns that shelf's badge.

Not sure which trick to start with? Pick me a trick asks four questions and hands you one, or look at the easy tricks, every one of which works the first try:

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