If Harvard offered a PhD in deceit, this would be it. Award-winning magician Brian Brushwood takes viewers on an inside tour of bar tricks, street cons, and scams. If you watch carefully, you'll never have to pay for a drink again!
41 Episodes
From nowhere, you produce billows of smoke out of your mouth...it's like you've manufactured smoke in your lungs!
April 6, 2008Effect: a hard-as-balls puzzle, that will drive everyone nuts and win you some free booze!
April 7, 2008Effect: Your friend beats his head on the bar repeatedly, to everyone's delight.
April 8, 2008For this effect we've dressed up a straight-up old school bar scam. Here's the simple presentation for the classic "you do as I do" effect: Bet a friend he can't copy everything you do.
April 10, 2008This clever trick uses a pint of beer and two willing thumbs to handcuff your friend (or enemy) to the bar, while you take his keys, wallet, girlfriend and more.
April 17, 2008Effect: Defying all laws of leverage, you summon a ridiculous amount of strength.
April 24, 2008Effect: Bet your friend that you can drink 2 pints of beer before he can drink two shots of his favorite liquor.
May 1, 2008Effect: Play a game with your friend that you can always win.
May 8, 2008Placing a lit match inside your mouth, you do a very convincing impression of a grinning jack-o-lantern...all without burning yourself.
May 15, 2008This episode tests your visual perception. Which is more? The circumference of the rim of a pint glass, or the height of the pint glass from the bottom to the top?
May 22, 2008Effect: Despite being an insulator, Brian is able to charge a match with static electricity which then causes another match to jump into the air.
May 29, 2008Effect: Amaze fellow bar patrons by picking up two straws using only one other straw.
June 5, 2008This one's like a playground dare gone too far...
June 12, 2008Brian opened for the live Diggnation show in New York, and we have it here for those who missed it!
June 19, 2008This is the second and final half of Brian's opening act for Diggnation in NY.
June 26, 2008A guaranteed, never fail way to get the hottest girls at the bar to talk with you for at least 20 minutes.
July 3, 2008Effect: Surprise your friends by telling them you have X-ray vision
July 10, 2008Watch the Master finally get beat at his own game!
July 17, 2008Apply high school physics to amaze your friends and win free drinks.
July 24, 2008It's Magic 101. Can you mimic the master?
July 31, 2008All you need is a match, two pint glasses and a quarter, and you'll be drinking free all night!
August 7, 2008This game goes by a bunch of names: "fast and loose," "pricking the garter," "the endless chain," "the strap..." The object is simple: a chain is laid in a figure-eight configuration. One of the holes is the true center of the chain and will hold "fast," while the other will not hold, and is instead "loose".
August 14, 2008Effect: Let an entire cigarette burn without the ash falling.
August 21, 2008This week Brian steps out of the bar, and into the Revision3 studios to deliver an episode straight from the Forums!
August 28, 2008Effect: This card trick is quite possible responsible for more free beers than any other in history. It's not just a magic trick, it's a cleverly-laid trap guaranteed to win you a frosty cold one.
September 4, 2008A stumper of a puzzleβ using only 4th grade math.
September 11, 2008As you know by now, we here at Scam School pride ourselves on giving you only the very best bar scams. Today we break our streak, and instead present you with four stupid beer gags.
September 18, 2008A brand new illusion that will trick your friends into believing in MIND CONTROL.
September 25, 2008A new take on an old-time match trick
October 2, 2008We've taught you how to scam, swindle, and steal... but we have yet to give you any actual talent. That all changes in this episode. We're going to teach you not only how to control a card to the bottom of the deck, but how to use that talent for a sweet little card trick.
October 9, 2008What's better than a card trick? Predicting the FREAKING FUTURE, which is exactly what you'll do in this scam. We call it Pigment Prediction.
October 16, 2008If you liked the four-quarter puzzle from Episode 2 (appropriately named, "The Puzzle"), you're going to LOVE the 11-Cent Slide. It's every bit as diabolical and unsolvable as the 4-quarter puzzle, but it has an added twist that should net you TWICE the beers of any other puzzle.
October 23, 2008This week Brian is back in the Revision 3 studios another "From the Forums episode"!
October 30, 2008This week we've got another puzzle with a setup that sounds absolutely impossible.
November 6, 2008We present the atomic bomb of sucker gags: The Funnel!
November 13, 2008As a conversation starter, Brian shows you how to use two toothpicks to detect a pulse.
November 20, 2008Memorize a few configs and you'll hold the key to another unbeatable game and loads of free drinks!
November 27, 2008No matter what the setup, the very best scams are the ones that let the mark think they're on top, only to get punked in the end. That's what makes the penny prediction so great!
December 4, 2008Remember Brian sticking a 4-inch nail up his nose? This time he shows you how it works!
December 11, 2008This episode, we're turning to the dark side and learning actual CRIME. Remember, the following is for INFORMATIONAL AND ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY!
December 18, 2008A while back, we taught you the importance of using easy, beatable puzzles to keep girls talking to you at the bar. Our Holiday gift to you is another set of "getting the girl" routines!
December 25, 2008