I’m a keen amateur magician, so I’ve got about 30, but what are your beat party tricks?
*Best, of course. Stupid phone keypad :mad:
Making all the Jagermeister disappear. If pressured, I can also perform this trick with tequila.
Heh. For parties at home, I set up ahead of time by filling an empty vodka bottle with water. At some point I steer the conversation to “Bet I can drink more vodka in a swallow than you can” and go from there.
If you lick the tip of a cigarette before lighting it, after a couple of drags you can bend it almost double without breaking it. (The moisture makes the paper more flexible).
My Card Trick:
Don’t have any contact with the cards.
Invite someone to shuffle and cut a pack of cards as much as they please.
Ask them to think of a card and tell me what it is.
Tell them to turn over the top card of the pack.
I’ve tried it a quite a few times and it hasn’t worked yet. It’s got a one in fifty two chance of working, but if it ever does, it will totally flabbergast everyone.
If someone says a random word, I can tell you the number of letters in that word faster than anyone.
Lighting a pickle.
Seriously. Get a pickle, maybe 3-4 inches long. Get an electrical cord, strip both wires at one end and plug those two wires into opposite ends of the pickle, just far enough so that they’ll stay put. If the pickle is exceptionally tough, you may need to pre-pierce the ends with something sturdier before attempting to insert the wires. Set the pickle on a non-metallic plate. Secure all pets, and make sure nobody touches the pickle beyond this point. Plug the other end of the cord into the wall. Kill the room lights if you like, and enjoy your glowing gherkin.
I can twiddle my thumbs in opposite directions. Most people can’t (try it! 
). They twiddle them in one direction and then the other, but can’t make each thumb rotate differently - one clockwise, the other counterclockwise.
If you hold a piece of ice between your thumb and index finger with no one looking (under the table/behind your back etc) for about 30 seconds, you can hold a lit cigarette, like this (but I do it when it’s much shorter). As long as your finger is good and numb, you can hold for at least 5 seconds probably longer, but I get worried that even though I can’t feel it, I’ll still get burned if I do it for too long.
I used to be able to play the knife game (like the scene with Bishop in the ‘Aliens’ movie, which is what inspired me to learn how to do it).
I haven’t played it for a long time because my reflexes aren’t what they were and I don’t get invited to those sorts of parties anymore.
Its not big and its not clever, don’t try to do it, its a good way to injure yourself.
Crap. I was set to be all “Oh that’s easy!” but dang, you’re right, it takes some serious concentration.
I can move both of my little toes, and the 4th toe on my left foot independantly.
Sadly, by the time the evening gets to the point I generally demonstrate this, most people are too drunk to appreciate the skill.
The trick is to realize that, if they are rotating in opposite directions, they have to cross twice. Make them do that, and you can get 'em to do it (some percentage of people simply can’t, even when shown the trick).
I have perfect pitch to a degree where I can tell you what tunes and pitches various electrical appliances make, like an inkjet printer or an air conditioner or whatever. For some reason people get very interested to find out that their refrigerator hums at a slightly off-kilter A-flat (or whatever it is) and then start making random noises at me and ask me what note it is.
After making lots of beer disappear I produce the white eared elephant.
Blindfold chess (I don’t get invited to a lot of parties …)
Tie a cherry stem in a knot inside my mouth. When I still had my tongue pierced, I would tie the stem to the piercing.
In my younger days, I used to offer to hold it for a man when he peed. Then I would aim the stream at his shoes. Now I’m old and don’t go to those kinds of parties anymore, alas.