Math for the Holidays!

First, download the math quiz to use for your performance and then make sure to check out this comical trick!

What’s Special About This Holiday Poem?

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Read this holiday poem and see if you can figure out what is unique about the structure of it.

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Baking for the Holidays

Sugar is a popular ingredient around the holidays for baking.  “Sugar” is also 1 of 2 words in the English language where the “s” is pronounced like “sh”. Can you name the other? Read more »

Circus Trick More Amazing Than a Trapeze Artist!

This trick involves a circus story and a bit of math! First view the presentation of the trick and get the story down.

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Pick 2, Eliminate 1

This trick, just in time for Halloween, will leave audiences as if they just saw a ghost in amazement!

Check out Pick 2, Eliminate 1 to see this treat of a trick in action.

Want to learn the secret behind the trick? Find out how it’s done!

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A Ghoul-ishly Great Gag Trick!

This Halloween themed trick will leave your audiences howling!  Challenge:  Can you place 5 ghosts on top of 2 books so that each book has an odd number of ghosts on it?

For this gag trick, you will need two books and five ghost images. Feel free to use the attached PDF of ghost images to print and cut out for the trick.

Can you figure it out?  Click below to see how it’s done!

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Math Based Magic Trick

School is back in session; it’s time to sharpen those pencils and sharped that brain! This math based magic trick incorporates addition, subtraction, multiplication and division to amaze your audience.

Magic Crossword Puzzle: Opposites

Sharpen your skills and wake up that brain from its summer slumber in time to go back to school. Try out this crossword puzzle of opposites!

Crossword Puzzle Magic Table

  1. Shrink, wither
  2. Green (e.g. banana)
  3. Shut
  4. Came

Fill in opposites to the above clues.  Can you wind up with 4 words both horizontally & vertically?

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Spell-A-Card

What if you could spell the name of a thought of card and arrive at that card?  That this trick works for any named card amazes me!  Sound intriguing?  Read more »

Telephone Magic

Not many tricks can be done over the phone.  This is one!

You and your friend alternate turns, each selecting a number from 1-9.  The object of the game is to be the first to have 3 of your numbers total 15.  You have a secret strategy that lets you win much of the time.  Read more »

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