cup and balls
Shell game variant
Cup and balls is a classic sleight-of-hand magic trick in which small balls appear to pass through, vanish from, or materialize under inverted cups.
The trick dates back thousands of years and remains a foundational routine for close-up magicians.
He learned cup and balls before moving on to card tricks.
- magicSupernatural or illusory power
- magic trickPerformed feat seeming impossible
- trickDeliberate deception
- sleight of handSkillful manual deception
- sleightDexterous trickery
illusion · conjuring · shells · pea · palming · vanish · appear · misdirection · street · performer · hands · hidden · swap · shell game · guess · audience · shuffle · street magic
type of magic trick
cup and ballsmentalism
Doctrine of primacy of thought
mind reading · stage illusion · grand illusion · card tricks · levitation
cups, cupped, cupping, cupful, cupfuls, ball, balls, balled, balling