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🎄 Top 10 magic tricks for the Christmas table

Ours, all ten: every trick on this list is from Peabody's Magic Shop, free, with picture steps read aloud by Flick.

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.

Learn two before the meal and do them between courses. Mind-reading tricks are best for a big table, because everybody can play along at once; the card and coin tricks are for the person sitting next to you.

How it is ranked: Apprentice tricks only, five minutes or less to learn, no mess, no grown-up step and not a Halloween trick; tricks the whole table can join in first, then the quickest. Checked against the shop on .

The 10

  1. 1. The Answer Is Always 3The Mind Reader's Corner2 minutes to learn, ages 6 to 11. You ask your friend to think of any number at all and do some sums in their head.
  2. 2. The Crystal Ball PredictionThe Card Cabinet3 minutes to learn, ages 5 to 10. You write something on a piece of paper and put it face down on the table before anybody has touched the cards.
  3. 3. The X-Ray DiceThe Mind Reader's Corner3 minutes to learn, ages 5 to 10. Your friend builds a tower of three dice while your back is turned.
  4. 4. The Grey Elephant PredictionThe Mind Reader's Corner3 minutes to learn, ages 7 to 12. Your friend does a couple of sums, turns the answer into a letter, and then freely thinks of a country, an animal and a colour.
  5. 5. The Magic Number 1089The Mind Reader's Corner5 minutes to learn, ages 7 to 12. You hand somebody a sealed envelope to hold before anything starts.
  6. 6. The Countdown CardThe Card Cabinet5 minutes to learn, ages 6 to 11. Somebody picks any number between ten and twenty.
  7. 7. The Crayon Mind ReaderThe Everyday Shelf5 minutes to learn, ages 5 to 9. You stand with your back to your friend and hold your hands behind you.
  8. 8. The Magic Mind ReaderThe Card Cabinet5 minutes to learn, ages 5 to 11. Your friend takes any card they like, shows it to everybody except you, and buries it in the deck.
  9. 9. The Knuckle CalendarThe Mind Reader's Corner5 minutes to learn, ages 6 to 10. Somebody names any month of the year.
  10. 10. The Nine Times FingersThe Mind Reader's Corner5 minutes to learn, ages 7 to 11. Somebody calls out any number from 1 to 10 and asks you to times it by nine.

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