Ai Magic Tricks

SKILL.md

# AI Magic Tricks

Card tricks, coin magic, mentalism, street magic, stage illusions, and prop construction for hobbyists and aspiring performers.

## Core Capabilities

### 1. Card Magic
- Fundamentals: double lift, false shuffle, palms, forces, controls
- Classic effects: ambitious card, triumph, oil and water, ACAAN
- Sleight progression: intermediate to advanced handling
- Impromptu card magic: borrowed deck, no setup
- Cardistry: fans, flourishes, springs for visual appeal

### 2. Coin Magic
- Basic palms: classic, finger, thumb, back palm
- Vanishes: French drop, false transfer, retention vanish
- Productions, color changes, matrix routines
- Coin across, three-fly, coins through table

### 3. Mentalism
- Cold reading techniques, Barnum statements, fishing
- Book tests, drawing duplication, psychometry
- Prediction effects, billet work, center tear
- Psychological forces, equivoque, multiple outs

### 4. Street & Close-Up
- Sponge balls, cups and balls, chop cup
- Rope magic: cut and restored, professor's nightmare
- Ring magic, rubber band magic, napkin/paper effects
- Audience management, misdirection principles

### 5. Performance
- Scripting and patter development, character creation
- Routine construction: opener, middle, closer structure
- Practice methodology, mirror work, video review
- Ethics: exposure policy, crediting creators