Is there any word for a person who ruins magician's trick?
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00:00 Is There Any Word For A Person Who Ruins Magician'S Trick?
00:26 Accepted Answer Score 12
00:48 Answer 2 Score 15
01:20 Answer 3 Score 15
01:34 Answer 4 Score 4
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ANSWER 1
Score 15
A Spoil-sport is somebody who could reveal the secret to a magician's trick, as per your example, but also the type of person who kicks the ball under the bus, tells a four-year-old that Father Christmas is not real (an obvious lie) and who tips-off the teacher about the whoopee cushion beneath his seat. To accuse somebody of being a spoil-sport carries a heavy connotation that their undermining of all fun and happiness is deliberate, and that they are probably deriving some kind of depraved pleasure from the act.
Synonyms include miser, party-pooper and killjoy.
ANSWER 2
Score 15
When someone reveals a magician's trick it is referred to in the community as "exposure".
Magician's logically refer to these people as exposurists.
ACCEPTED ANSWER
Score 12
How about a spoiler or a heckler?
Edit: There is also a Wiki article that says:
'exposure in magic refers to the practice of revealing the secrets of how magic tricks are performed'.
I am not sure how the term 'exposure' can be used as an agent noun to refer to someone who does the 'exposure'.
ANSWER 4
Score 4
I like to use the words Heckler and Debunker. Also Saboteur might be the word you're looking for. I am quite fond of the word Heckler though.