Small hands, very big tricks
Magic usually arrives with a cape, smoke and a theatrical voice. These performances arrive with something more disarming: a bottle of fizzy orange, a cookie, a jar of jelly beans and a ten-year-old explaining that his dad handed down some spare magical powers. The young performers do not just baffle the judges; they win the room with personality, honesty and timing.
Teddy and the bottle that would not behave
Teddy begins with a test of taste: champagne or fizzy orange, and one of them is his favourite drink in the world. Simon guesses champagne, and Teddy — eight years old and in charge — informs him the drink is for Simon. Then comes the request that changes the room's temperature: “Can you shake the bottle for me, Simon?” When Simon obliges, Teddy asks for more. “Harder. More.”
He invites Simon to open it, asking the question everyone is suddenly thinking: “Is it gonna go up in my face?” The answer arrives with an eruption of fizz, and the moment belongs to Teddy's mischief.
The prediction in a pocket
A quieter kind of magic comes from a young mentalist with a deck of cards and a request that sounds like a prank: “Check your pocket.” The baffled reply — “Wait, what?” — says the trick has already started. Heidi cuts the deck. Howie takes the top card. The volunteer closes his eyes while the card is shown to everyone else.
Then the slow build: a colour, a suit, a specific card. “I think it's black. It's like a heat sinking. It's a club. Is it the seven of clubs?” The reaction is immediate: “Oh my gosh! That's amazing. That's crazy.”
A blindfold, a cookie and an Apple Watch
Next, a blindfolded performer identifies objects held by the people around him. Sophia holds hers in the air. The clues arrive in a child's voice: it is food, it has sugar in it, it might be a good treat — “Maybe you leave it when Santa comes.” The guess lands: “Is it a cookie?” It is.
The clue for Simon's object is magnificently unhelpful: his object can fit inside the room. Undeterred, the performer narrows it down — an accessory, something you wear on your wrist — and asks, “Is it an Apple Watch?” The answer is yes, followed by an “Oh my gosh.”
Kylian: “Magic is my universe”
Then the tone shifts. Kylian introduces himself with a simple ambition: “When I grow up, I want to be a magician.” Magic, he says, is “just trying to make people smile.” He dreams of the Royal Variety Show and admits, “I would legitimately cry.”
“Before I had the magic, my social skills were very bad,” he says. “I would just be in the corner. I didn't want to be within 50 feet of anyone.” He describes the nerves — “My legs would be shaking. My arms would be trembling” — then delivers the line that stops the room.
“I've learned that having autism is not disability. It's an ability.”
He describes feeling empty and invisible before magic found him. “After discovering magic, my life changed. It was like a light switch coming on inside my head.” He closes with: “Magic is my universe. And my life is now whole.”
Then he has one more trick ready. Simon guesses 2,500 jelly beans in a jar, and the note placed inside before the show confirms it. The reaction is immediate: “That is amazing.”
The book, the word and the blackboard
A card trick opens with a promise that every card is different. A volunteer touches one and remembers it. Then the young magician hands control to Simon, who chooses a book and a number. Alicia's book runs to about 600 pages. The number is 77, and on page 77 every word is different. Alicia picks one: “kettle.”
“You could have picked any book, and Alicia, you could have chosen any word,” the magician says. “But you chose kettle.” Then he points to a blackboard. Before the show, he had written a single word on it. The response is immediate: “No way.”
Ryland and the magic word
Ten-year-old Ryland arrives from England with a story about his powers. “I was born with magical powers and my dad — he's a magician — and he gave me some of the magical powers that he didn't need anymore.” Asked about the million dollars, he lists his mom, sister and dad, then adds, “and spend the rest on Legos.”
His act turns the room into a co-writer. Helpers choose drawings — a snake, a slice of lime, a house and some mountains. The shapes become letters: S, C, A, M. “Everyone shout scam,” Ryland instructs, and the room does. Then comes the twist: the envelopes he handed out at the start contain matching drawings. His friends' shirts carry the message too. “We knew what the magic word would be before you even picked it.”
Ella and the extraordinary word
Ella's act is built on small choices that feel harmless. Simon removes bookmarks one at a time until only one remains. He turns to that page and looks at the very last word, then shows it to Amanda without saying it aloud. Ella begins to perform: “Extraordinary magic follows you around. I see it. I swear, I do. I see extraordinary.”
The word Simon had been guarding is “extraordinary.” Then she asks him to think of a bird, and she reveals the bird he is thinking of.
Kaden, Brooklyn and the saw
Sibling energy arrives with Kaden and Brooklyn. Kaden admits he is a little nervous about the judges, then adds the condition: “As long as my sister cooperates.” Brooklyn's assessment is less diplomatic. “It depends if he's nice to me.”
On stage, the judges hear the same surname and assume the two are a couple. “She's my sister,” Kaden corrects. Then comes the assistant question: is she there willingly? “Kind of have to.”
Then Kaden saws his sister in half. The first reaction is obvious: “You just cut your sister in half.” Followed by the better question: “And you're happy?” Kaden's answer — “Very happy” — gets the laugh it deserves. Howie calls the act “adorable” and “a great twist,” and the votes are unanimous. “I need his sister to get back together again,” one judge explains.
Backstage, Kaden gets the last word:
“My sister's in two pieces, and I'm smiling.”
The trick is the saw; the show is the siblings.
Why the kids win the room
The props are ordinary: a bottle of fizzy orange, a deck of cards, a cookie, a jar of jelly beans. What makes the moments stick is the person holding them: Teddy's mischief, Kylian's refusal to soften his story, Ryland's Lego budget, and the perfectly reluctant “kind of have to.”
The magic is real in the way that matters. It makes a room lean forward and makes a ten-year-old's honesty feel bigger than any illusion. “Magic is my universe,” Kylian says. For a few minutes, it is everyone else's too.
Source: Got Talent Global on YouTube
