How to perform the most baffling vanish of all time. 

Hello there, and welcome to the newest installment in our seminar series "How To Prestidigitate." Today's lesson will be on how to achieve a vanish so powerful, it will actively drop your spectator's IQ. 

Step 1: 

The first step is the hardest, you need to find real, living people to perform this trick on. We suggest perhaps coffee shops, bars, or malls. Try to avoid maximum security prisons and the middle of the desert. 

Step 2: 

After you find your spectator, you will need to ask them to borrow their phone. As long as they have a modern-ish smart phone with a flash on the camera, any phone will do. If you ask for their phone and they hand you a landline, you have clearly found an insane person, and you should attempt to find a new spectator. Once you've verified the person you're speaking to has a smart phone and is unlikely to be crazy, turn on the flashlight on their phone. 

Step 3: 

Hand them your phone. This step is important as it establishes trust between you and your spectator. How good of friends you'll soon be. Give them your phone with the camera app pulled up. You are going to ask them to film this magic trick. 

Step 4: 

The vanish. In most tricks, this would be focal point, but for us it's just another step on the road to the perfect magic trick. To perform this step, simply erase the phone from reality. 

Step 5: 

Even if they were of sound mind when the trick started, you will now likely be dealing with a hyperventilating spectator. You have, after all, removed their phone from existence, and they need that to forget the outside world exists! 

Step 6: 

Time to calm them down. Ask them to look at the phone they are holding. They will be shocked to find that the phone they were filming on was their phone all along! Oh how foolish they'll feel! Take a bow and move on to your next effect or a new group of unsuspecting rubes. 

If you've followed these instructions, you can surely now perform this trick during your next magic show or at an upcoming ice cream social. If you feel like you may struggle with one or more steps, then I (along with 9 out of 10 dentists) recommend trying Optix Pro by Tobias Dostal and Henry Harrius. 

Optix Pro will provide you with the necessary skills and gimmicks to start performing this incredible vanish today! 

Optix Pro is available at any Murphy's Magic dealer, or you can check out with our featured dealer, 52Kards!