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  2. Portal (magic trick) - Wikipedia

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    "Portal" is a magic trick performed by the illusionist David Copperfield, in which he takes a member of the audience and transports both of them to a pre-selected location (Hawaii, the Hoover Dam, Australia, etc.), before reappearing on stage. This effect was featured in David Copperfield's shows from 2000 to the summer of 2007, and then again ...

  3. Teleportation - Wikipedia

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    A common trick of close-up magic is the apparent teleportation of a small object, such as a marked playing card, which can involve sleight-of-hand, misdirection, and pickpocketing. Magic shows were popular entertainments at fairs in the 18th century and moved into permanent theatres in the mid-19th century. [14]

  4. Fast travel - Wikipedia

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    Fast travel is usually performed from an in-game menu upon accessing either a map of the overworld or an object such as a vehicle or save point.The player is immediately transported from one location to another, sometimes with an appropriate amount of in-game time passing in between, as though they had traveled straight to their destination.

  5. How magic works: Magicians share 6 psychological secrets they ...

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    How it works in a magic trick: “You sort of layer these things on top of each other,” Roy says. “And I think that's something that people don't often realize about magic: It's not like there ...

  6. List of card manipulation techniques - Wikipedia

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    Bottom right: Mixing the cards allows for card trick preparation. Card manipulation is the branch of magical illusion that deals with creating effects using sleight of hand techniques involving playing cards. Card manipulation is often used to perform card tricks in magical performances, especially in close-up, parlor, and street magic.

  7. List of magic tricks - Wikipedia

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    This article contains a list of magic tricks. In magic literature, tricks are often called effects. Based on published literature and marketed effects, there are millions of effects; a short performance routine by a single magician may contain dozens of such effects. Some students of magic strive to refer to effects using a proper name, and ...

  8. Card manipulation - Wikipedia

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    Card trick. Upper left: "Pick a card, any card". Upper right: Back-palming a card. Bottom left: A "spring" flourish. Bottom right: Mixing the cards allows for card trick preparation. Card manipulation, commonly known as card magic, is the branch of magic that deals with creating effects using sleight of hand techniques involving playing cards.

  9. David Copperfield's flying illusion - Wikipedia

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    Copperfield performed a much-shortened version of the illusion as the entrance in his sixteenth television special, The Magic of David Copperfield XV: Fires Of Passion, in 1993. The performance used a different background and music, in addition to burning spinning hoops.