I want to do pub magic - please help!

COme on people, I've been racking my brains for ages. And I can't even do the hanky/crisp disappearing trick. Maybe I need to set my sights a little lower . . .

We were all very impressed with the card trick done at Tom's wedding.

There's always the little finger through the barmat, but that's just technique (and the risk of a broken finger)

Hold your hands together to form an enclosed chamber between your palms with no gaps around the outside, except for a little one at the top between your thumbs. Get a mate to hold a lighter upside down between your thumbs while pressing the thingy that lets gas out (but don't spark the sparker). Get mate to keep the lighter in position for about a minute. Get mate to quickly spark up lighter just above the gap between your thumbs. Open out your hands so they are flat - quick, or you will burn! Hey presto, hands on fire!

nb. take off rings before attempting this trick.
nb again. this is not magick, but it is fun!

I maybe I could do the water into wine thing . . .

A Cigarette and some blue tack (you can normally steal this from the posters on the wall of the pub.

Put the blue tack on your thumb nail and stick the cigarette onto the blue tack so that it runs down your thumb.

Clench your fist (not too tightly), making sure you clench your thumb in the middle.

You should now have a fist that has a cigarette poking out of the top.

Now pretend to throw the cigarette in the air and open your hand, it will look like the cigarette has vanished.

Now while holding your hand open look up as if you are looking at the cigarette in the air (it works best if you do it for a stupidly long period of time, say five seconds)

Then pretend it is falling back towards you had and pretend to catch it (just clench your fist and it will appear that you have caught the cigarette again.

This work really well and you will astound all of your friends, you can practice now, if you don’t smoke you could use a pen or something, but cigarettes work best.