Leo D.M.J. Aurini - The No-Trick Trick

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00:00:00.320 The No Trick Trick is a piece of prestigitation developed by Teller of Penn & Teller fame.

00:00:10.140 He is in the habit, anytime he is out with friends at a cafe, he'll take a napkin, he'll ball it up and put it on the table.

00:00:20.300 Then he'll take an empty coffee cup and conceal the ball of paper with a coffee cup.

00:00:26.640 And then he'll remove the coffee cup, exposing the ball of paper again.

00:00:31.820 But what nobody realizes is that he actually palmed the ball of paper.

00:00:39.180 And so while the coffee cup was upside down on the table, there was nothing inside of it.

00:00:45.920 Truly a master of the art, that man.

00:00:48.700 now i bring this up because i've just picked up this little lovely a portable

00:01:00.220 black obsidian scrying mirror stylized as a pocket watch and of course as a scrying mirror

00:01:10.580 you can scry the time on it but everybody watching you do that actual feat of magic

00:01:19.400 thinks you've just memorized the time and thus you are performing the no trick trick

Leo D.M.J. Aurini - March 02, 2026