Now You See Me’s magic consultant, David Kwong, reveals how helping the cast master real sleight-of-hand moves helped authenticate the film’s characters and enhance its storytelling. In an age of CGI, ...

Researchers working on artificial intelligence have taught a computer to create magic tricks. The researchers gave a computer program the outline of how a magic jigsaw puzzle and a mind reading card ...

With a reality-warping camera and a barrage of ingenious strangeness, Viewfinder surprised me like nothing else this year. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Cards Against Humanity co-founders Max Temkin and Ben Hantoot just launched the Magic Puzzle Company, a push to develop a new line of jigsaw puzzles, and it’s already been a hit. On Monday, the ...

Page 4B of the Aug. 29 edition is the Aug. 22 page. The puzzles and funnies are from the Aug. 22 edition. How did you do that?

The perfect sleight is a flawlessly coordinated act of deception. Magicians dedicate hours to bullying their fingers into precise positions and years mastering the art of misdirection. The best ...

Turchi follows up Maps of the Imagination, which connected writing and cartography, by exploring the links between artistic creation and puzzle making and solving. While presenting different kinds of ...

For thousands of years, magicians have mixed technology, psychology, and performance to ingeniously hack people’s concepts of reality. But when it comes to creating ...