Magic Top 10s
Every trick on every list here is ours, from Peabody's Magic Shop, and each list says the rule it is ranked by. The rules are run on the shop's own data, so when a trick is added the lists change by themselves. A list of pages or places says which rows are ours in its first line. There are no paid places and nothing to buy.
⚡ Top 10 easiest magic tricks for kids
Every trick on this list is an Apprentice trick, which in Flick's shop is a promise checked in code: it works the first try, and it takes ten minutes or less to learn. These are the ten quickest of them, so a child can learn one, practise it twice and show somebody before bed.
🎂 Top 10 magic tricks for a birthday party
A party is a hard room: lots of children, some at the back, everybody a little excited. These ten work there. They are big enough to see from across a room, none needs the lights off or makes a mess, and none has a step only a grown-up can do, so the young magician runs the whole show.
🃏 Top 10 card tricks for kids
All of these need one ordinary deck of cards and no fancy shuffling. They are the Card Cabinet's tricks in the order to learn them: the ones that work by themselves first, then the ones with a little setting up, then the real sleight of hand at the end.
🔮 Top 10 mind-reading tricks for kids
Mind reading is the biggest kind of trick in the shop, and the friendliest for a nervous performer: nearly all of it runs on arithmetic that always comes out the same, so there is no secret move to fumble. These are the ten easiest to learn.
🧪 Top 10 kitchen-science magic tricks
The Potion Lab's tricks are real science that looks exactly like magic: surface tension, light bending through water, a colour change from something in the cupboard. Everything in them is food-safe or a dry tool that never touches the liquid, and every potion is for looking at, never for drinking.
🏫 Top 10 magic tricks for the classroom
These are the shop's maths tricks, for a teacher with five minutes: each one needs a board, paper or nothing at all, works every time, and has real maths behind it that a class meets as a trick before anybody names it. The topic and a rough year group are beside each one.
🎄 Top 10 magic tricks for the Christmas table
The little trick in a Christmas cracker is usually a plastic puzzle that lasts a minute. These ten last all afternoon. Every one can be done sitting at the table with small things from the house, takes five minutes or less to learn, and makes no mess on the tablecloth.
🌟 Top 10 magic tricks for a talent show
A talent show is not a party. The audience is far away, the lights are bright, there may be no table, and there is one go. Every trick here passes the same rule as the talent-show page: big enough to see from the back of a hall, something that floats, vanishes, appears, changes, passes through or mends, done standing up, with no dark, no mess and no grown-up step, and none takes days to learn.
🔢 Top 10 mind-reading tricks with numbers
Every trick on this list reads somebody's mind with numbers, and every one is on the shop's maths table for teachers, which means each has a real piece of arithmetic behind it that always lands in the same place: place value, binary, the nine times table, opposite faces of a die. Nothing can go wrong with your hands, because there is nothing to hide.
🖨 Top 10 magic printables for kids
A printed sheet does something a screen can't: it goes on the fridge, or on the door, or in a pocket on the way to Grandma's. These ten are the Magic Shop's own, and most are filled in from the shop itself, so the trick, the running order or the name on them is the child's.
🌐 Top 10 free places to learn magic online
Every place on this list is free to read with no account, and each one was opened and read before it went on, not listed from memory. Most are run by a science centre, a library, a public broadcaster or a school system. Each row says who runs it, what a child finds there and one honest drawback.
❓ Top 10 questions kids ask about magic
These are the questions that come up again and again when families search for magic: what the easiest trick is, how magicians do it, and whether any of it is real. Each answer is short enough to read aloud and ends with a trick, because the best answer to a question about magic is a trick you can do.