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From nowhere, you produce billows of smoke out of your mouth...it's like you've manufactured smoke in your lungs!

The Human Chimney

Effect: a hard-as-balls puzzle, that will drive everyone nuts and win you some free booze!

The Puzzle

Effect: Your friend beats his head on the bar repeatedly, to everyone's delight.

Bang Your Head

For 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.

The Mirror

This 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.

How to Stick Your Friends to the Bar

Effect: Defying all laws of leverage, you summon a ridiculous amount of strength.

The Lift

Effect: Bet your friend that you can drink 2 pints of beer before he can drink two shots of his favorite liquor.

The Race

Effect: Play a game with your friend that you can always win.

Placing a lit match inside your mouth, you do a very convincing impression of a grinning jack-o-lantern...all without burning yourself.

The Jack-O-Lantern

This 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?

Circumference vs. Height

Effect: Despite being an insulator, Brian is able to charge a match with static electricity which then causes another match to jump into the air.

Static Charge Match

Effect: Amaze fellow bar patrons by picking up two straws using only one other straw.

Straw Teepee Puzzle

This one's like a playground dare gone too far...

Cigarette Out On Tongue

Brian opened for the live Diggnation show in New York, and we have it here for those who missed it!

Special Edition: Brian's Bizarre New York Magic Show (1)

This is the second and final half of Brian's opening act for Diggnation in NY.

Special Edition: Brian's Bizarre New York Magic Show (2)

A guaranteed, never fail way to get the hottest girls at the bar to talk with you for at least 20 minutes.

Scam Hot Chicks at the Bar

Effect: Surprise your friends by telling them you have X-ray vision

Code Drink

Watch the Master finally get beat at his own game!

BUSTED! 6 Matches and 4 Triangles puzzle

Apply high school physics to amaze your friends and win free drinks.

The Amazing Whiskey/Water Trick

It's Magic 101. Can you mimic the master?

Quicksilver Matches

All you need is a match, two pint glasses and a quarter, and you'll be drinking free all night!

Clever Match Trick Scores Free Drinks

This 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".

Fast and Loose

Effect: Let an entire cigarette burn without the ash falling.

The Ash

This week Brian steps out of the bar, and into the Revision3 studios to deliver an episode straight from the Forums!

From the Forums

Effect: 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.

The Key Card

A stumper of a puzzle‚ using only 4th grade math.

The Equation

As 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.

Cheesy Beer Gags

A brand new illusion that will trick your friends into believing in MIND CONTROL.

Mind Control Scam

Dan Martin's Match Trick

We'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.

Controlled Cards

What'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.

How to Predict the Future!

If 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.

The 11 cent slide to TWICE as many free drinks!

This week Brian is back in the Revision 3 studios another "From the Forums episode"!

From the Forums - Part 2!

This week we've got another puzzle with a setup that sounds absolutely impossible.

It's In the Bank

We present the atomic bomb of sucker gags: The Funnel!

Stick It To 'Em with The Funnel

As a conversation starter, Brian shows you how to use two toothpicks to detect a pulse.

Are You Dead or Alive?

Memorize a few configs and you'll hold the key to another unbeatable game and loads of free drinks!

You're Always a Winner with Advance Nim

No 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!

A Few Pennies for a Beer!

Remember Brian sticking a 4-inch nail up his nose? This time he shows you how it works!

How to Stick a Nail Up Your Nose

This episode, we're turning to the dark side and learning actual CRIME. Remember, the following is for INFORMATIONAL AND ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY!

Money, a Short Con and Crime = Short Change

A 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!

Scam Hot Ladies at the Bar (Part 2)!

The tables are turned on Brian, as he is the student learning from the ultimate master of strength!

How to Rip a Phonebook in Half!

We've covered a few magic tricks, and we've covered a few street crimes. This episode we're going to combine the two and get a magic trick that acts as a smokescreen for an actual crime.

Another Short Con with a Magic Bill

It's true: you can never have too much money, have too many friends, or know too many ways to predict the freaking future.

How to predict the future using dominoes!

We're back with another dirty trick, designed to teach you how to FAKE your way into (almost) duplicating the feats of the world's strongest men.

How to bend a thick nail or wrench with your bare hands!

Brian introduces a new diabolical coin puzzle to stump your friends.

Use 6 Coins to get 1 FREE Drink!

Watch Brian scam Olympic gold medalist Jonny Moseley with a few coins, and some algebra!

The trick that fooled Einstein

Watch Brian make you think he can use his bare hands to bend a horseshoe and to roll a frying pan!

How to Magically Bend a Horseshoe With Your Bare Hands!

It's rare to find a trick that you can actually fool yourself with...and that's exactly what you get with this episode!

Easy card trick called The Spelling Bee

We made it! 50 episodes of Scam School! YEE-HAW!! You learn fake ESP powers and we show you the Mind Control trick from outer space!

Fake Telepathy and Scam School in SPACE!

Welcome to graduation! This is your senior year of Strength School, co-hosted by world record holder and supreme bad ass, Dennis Rogers!

Be a Strongman and Learn Four Feats of Strength!

Make everyone believe you can move an object with your freakin' mind!

We give you the power of Telekinesis!

Watch Brian open for Diggnation with an unforgettable live show from Austin, TX at Stubb's Bar-B-Q!!

Brian Live and Direct from Austin and SXSW

Impress everyone at the next party you attend by learning a simple fire eating trick!

Learn how to eat some balls of fire!

Brian performs some magic tricks in front of some big wig web celebs!

Watch Cali Lewis, Tony Hsieh and Jay Adelson get scammed!

Learn how to make a card vanish and land in the most unlikely location.

The Vanishing Card Trick

It's crazy to say it, but we're a year into Scam School, and only now are getting around to addressing one of the biggest, most popular items in any bar: the pool table.

Be a Pool Shark!

This week, a card effect that requires no dexterity or skill whatsoever, and (best of all), uses only 10 cards out of the deck!

An Easy Mix Match Card Trick

From Scam School fan "Cowboy" in the UK, comes the most insidious, diabolical, GENIUS prank Brian has seen since the quarter-on-forehead scam!

Learn the Kung-Fu Match Trap Scam!

If you're comfortable with taking a little risk for a chance at a HUGE reward, you're going to love this week's episode.

Get lucky, ridiculously lucky with two new card tricks!

This week, we've got a simple puzzle with an impossible-sounding setup.

Three caps, one beverage

Brian hangs out with the crew from CO-OP and schools them on how to uncover a conspiracy theory!

Crack the Government Conspiracy!

Get ready to learn how to scam your way into anything, or anyone!

Scam Your Way Into Anything! (Brian's SXSW Panel) (1)

The second half of Brian's "Scam Your Way Into Anything" panel record from SXSW Interactive!

Scam Your Way Into Anything! (Plus Bonus Q and A!) (2)

Because sooner or later, every scammer finds himself in a pair of handcuffs.

Break out of police issued handcuffs!

Here it is! Our final SXSW episode, where you'll see Brian scam and be scammed by Digg CEO Jay Adelson and astronaut/ubergeek Richard Garriott.

Two killer close up performances from Brian!

This week a puzzle (involving nails) that stumped Brian!

The House of Nails Trick

Bottle bet makes 'em look goofy AND win you a free drink

Blow Hard Scam

Use Non-Transitive Dice to cheat your friends!

3 simple matchbooks for a mental miracle and an easy free drink!

Psychic Matchbooks

This week: a killer card trick, complete with a twist at the end... this card trick works BETTER because it screws up!

The Hot Seat Card Trick

The Brain-Drain Telepathy Trick

For our 100th episode, we've got a statistical scam that sounds impossible.

The Birthday Scam and our 100th Episode extravaganza!

Dime in Bottle Scam

Use leverage to make your friends look dumb!

Leverage!

Amazing trick reads minds with NO trick coins, NO secret helpers... and no cheating!

Heads/Tails Trick! Read Their Minds Using the Change in Their Pocket!

The Magician-Killer Card Trick

Hurl playing cards 50 feet at a time! Fling them hard enough to break water balloons, or even embed them into aluminum sheeting!

How to throw cards like Gambit!

Check out Brian's live show from Austin, as he opened for Diggnation!

Live from Stubbs BBQ in Austin - 2010!

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!

The Best Seasons of Scam School

The Best Seasons of Scam School

Season 1

Season 2

Season 3