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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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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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