Synopses & Reviews
Have a blast with bar tricks that can keep the party going for hours!
Join in the fun by learning the secret of the "healed" broken matchstick...the mysteriously moving cigarette...the miraculous liquid handcuffs...and the "can-you-line-them-up?" three-glass challenge. Here are 50 entertaining and exceptionally easy illusions, brain benders, games, gimmicks, and unnatural phenomena that require little or no physical skill to perform.
Whenever conversation fizzles, the food runs out, or boredom threatens to set in, you can get the good times rolling. All you need are items at hand like coins, glasses, and a napkin...Plus the exciting insider information you'll find in this, the biggest, most entertaining guide to bar tricks anywhere...for great fun anytime!
Each and every bar trick is...
Fully illustrated
Risk-free and safe
Great entertainment for club nights, parties, outings, sporting events
Synopsis
Notice: Cocktail hour is back. Whether they're sipping martinis, savoring a fine single malt, or comparing favorite microbrew beers, readers will want to enhance their saloon status with the secrets in this must-have book.
Author Doug Lansky, a contributor to CNN Travel and NPR, whose column, "Vagabond", is syndicated in more than fifty American newspapers, has traveled the globe from Nepal to New York City, from Finland to Fort Lauderdale, and found that wherever there are bars, there are bar tricks. They always attract attention and, best of all, they require little or no skill. Here, in these pages, readers can learn how to impress their friends as they levitate an olive by harnessing the earth's centripetal force, pass a dollar bill through a lime, or make a cigarette disappear into thin air.
Guaranteed to be a perennial seller, "The World's Best Simple Bar Tricks" will have readers wowing friends and family alike with their newfound skills.
About the Author
Doug Lansky, a writer and a traveler, has chronicled his travels around the world in his hilarious and vividly descriptive column, "The Vagabond." His travels have included cruising up the Amazon on a cargo ship, living and blowgun hunting with Jaguar Indians in Peru, buying a horse and riding it to Colombia, hitchhiking through Syria and Jordan, where he befriended sergeants in the Iraqi military, riding a camel across the desert in India, and sailing down the Nile. Doug's articles have appeared in Spy and Might magazines as well as in numerous major U.S. daily newspapers. He is also the co-author of How to Survive High School with Minimal Brain Damage, published when Doug was just sixteen years old.