I do particularly enjoy tricks of the form "Do the trick, explain the trick, do the trick again a different way that precludes the first explanation". Those are

I do particularly enjoy tricks of the form "Do the trick, explain the trick, do the trick again a different way that precludes the first explanation". Those are fun. Penn and Teller use that format a lot. I do know that when I explain tricks to people, they're often disappointed. I often hear, "Oh, they just lied to me." Yeah, they did. I mean just really bald-faced lies, not sleight-of-hand or illusions or misdirection or other cleverness.