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Coin Tricks Falling Quarter 1) Take a quarter or other coin in your right hand. 2) Turn to a member of the audience and ask them to stand. Hold the coin in your thumb and and index finger, and say if when you count to three they can grab the coin, they can keep it. 3) Raise the coin above your head and bring it down to the volunteer¹s open hand twice, counting each time aloud. On the third time lift the coin above your head and place it gently and subtly on top of your head. 4) Bring your hand down as you did before to the level of your volunteer¹s open hand. They will make a swipe at the coin, but it will have vanished. Open both hands to show them it¹s truly gone. Then tell them you¹ll bring back the coin. Hold their hand open and while their attention is directed to their own hand, tilt your head forward ever so slightly. The coin will drop into their hand, seemingly out of the sky.
The Effect: A coin is taken in a handkerchief. The handkerchief is placed over a glass of water and the coin is dropped in. The audience sees the coin in the glass, then upon a second look, the coin has dissolved out of the glass. The Trick: In order to do this effect, you need a clear glass cup, with no special bottom. Hold the glass in one hand, and put the handkerchief over your other with the coin on top of the handkerchief. Slide the coin between your index finger and thumb, and cover the water filled glass the first time. Tilt it by raising your fingers upwards. This is unknown to the audience. After that, the coin is held in the handkerchief, above the tilted outside of the glass. When it is dropped, it should strike the outside of the glass then it slides into your fingers. The noise makes the audience think the coin landed inside the glass, but you just maneuver it under the glass so that it really looks like it is in the glass. Allow the audience to look straight down at the coin when showing it to them. Then, cover the glass back up with the handkerchief, and grab the top of the glass. You put the glass down on the table with the handkerchief over it. Secretly, the coin will be in your opposite hand, which you nonchalantly slide into your pocket, drop the coin, and slide it back out while you're removing the handkerchief from the glass. Teleporting Coins Get four of the same coins that look about the same color. Place one in each of your palms, close your fingers and place one in the space between the flesh of your closed palm and your fingernails. Tell the audience that by the law of gravity, when you turn your hands over that the two coins on the top (the ones between your fingernails and palm) will fall off. Turn your hands over quickly to demonstrate. After replacing the coins, tell them about an ancient Egyptian Teleportation law that says that sometimes, if the person concentrates hard enough, that the coin will move from closed hand to closed hand. Again you turn your hands over quickly, but this time as you turn them over, grab the coin on the outside of your left hand an bring it in with the other coin. At the same time, completely let go of both the coins in your right hand and re-close it. As did the last time, two coins fell, but when you open you hands, there will be two in your left hand and none in your right. I would recommend using pennies. Presto! The Quick Coin Trick Ask your audience for a coin - a quarter will do nicely - take it and show it to the audience, holding it between the tips of your fingers. You then drape a handkerchief over both the coin and your hand, and with the free hand grip the coin from the outside while you remove your hand from beneath the handkerchief and again grab the coin, this time from the outside. Move the other hand to the corner of the kerchief while holding the coin, and give a quick jerk to the kerchief, forcing the coin "through" the kerchief and leaving no discernable hole in the cloth. Turn a nickle into 2 quarters. Hold a nickle with your thumb and index finger holding it at 9 o'clock and 3 o'clock. At the same time, there are 2 quarters stacked up behind the nickle in a "laid" position along side your thumb and index finger. Here's what it looks like sideways: | | ====== | Now, to change the nickle into 2 quarters, simply flip the coins in a way so that all the coins are stacked up (make sure the nickle is in the back). Then, separate the 2 quarters, hiding the nickle behind one of them. VOILA! You just made money appear! Jumping Coin One coin trick that has never failed me involves a very simple procedure. A sheet of latex, a clear glass jar, and a coin are all that's needed for the trick. Before hand, place the coin on a small object such as a lipstick tube. Press the latex HARD onto the coin. It should stretch around it so finely that it's not even noticeable that it's covering the coin. Tell the audience that you can push the coin through the rubber sheet and place it over the glass jar. In one quick motion, flick the coin as hard as you can and it should drop into the jar below. Works great. Quarter Disappearance! Effect: The Magician folds up a quarter in an index card. Magically, the Magician is able to burn, or rip the quarter! Setup: All you need for this trick, is a 3x5 index card, and a quarter. You might want to have an ashtray if you plan on burning the index card. Trick: Take the quarter, and put it in the middle of the index card. Fold the top part of the index card over the quarter. Then fold the right side over the quarter, and then the left side. Do not fold the bottom! Now, hold this in your hand, and you'll find that the quarter can slip right out the bottom. Slip the quarter out the of the bottom, and palm it. After that, tear the index card up, or burn it. And PRESTO!, a magic trick! (Note: avoid using the expression "magic trick" when performing. Try "miracle", "magic effect", or "supernatural occurrence". The Mysterious Coin Balance REQUIREMENTS: One large coin, one straight pin Have a regular straight pin concealed in one hand, between the first two fingers. With the other hand, pull a coin out of your pocket and allow it to be examined by the audience, or borrow a coin from one of them! When you get the coin back, lay it down on top of the straight pin in your other hand. Now, raise the coin to a standing position near the ends of your fingers, and as you do raise the straight pin with it, making sure no one but you knows the pin is there. Keep pressure on the pin held between your two fingers, and the coin will balance there as if held by unseen forces! You can talk about mind over matter, or wiggle the fingers of your other hand over the coin as if that was where your power emanated from! After a few moments, slowly release pressure on the pin, and it should let the coin gently drift back down onto your fingers! Don't forget to get rid of the pin while people are examining the coin again! A Coin Swindle EFFECT: The performer removes a hand full of change from his left pants pocket. He extends the handful of change, along with a black marker, and tells the spectator to choose a coin, mark it with an X, and return it to the magicians left palm. The magician then takes the coin with his right hand, and returns the rest of the change to his left pocket. The coin is then placed against the leg directly below the pocket. The coin is then rubbed into the cloth, whereupon the coin vanishes. It is found back inside the pocket with the rest of the change. METHOD: After the spectator marks the coin, the right hand "pretends" to take it. In reality the right hand is covering it up with another coin. Hold your hand in the air as if you have the coin. Hesitate for a second with your left hand so that the spectator can see that the marked coin is not in your left hand anymore (this way the spectator mentally concludes that the marked coin must be in your right hand). Place the rest of the change back into your pocket. Take the right hand and its supposed coin and place it against your leg, in the area of the left pocket. Now rub the imaginary coin into your leg. then slowly part your right fingers to show that the coin has vanished. reach into your left pocket and pull out the change. ask the person what kind of coin they chose. they might say a quarter. then go through the change and find the marked coin and put it on top and show the spectators. Vanishing Coin EFFECT: You take coin and rub it a couple times in your fingers, then you attempt to rub it into your elbow, you fail so you rub the coin with your fingers once again, then you try again. This goes on for a while and all of a sudden, it's gone, you rubber it into your elbow!!! ITEMS NEEDED FOR TRICK: A coin Step 1 You bring out the coing and show them it, if you want, they can even inspect it. After that, you take your left hand and place it on the back of your neck in order to stick out your elbow, then, you take the coin with the right hand and start rubbing it into the elbow. Step 2 You seem puzzled that the coin will not go in. So you bring your hands together to rub the coin, after that, you go back to trying to rub the coin in the elbow. You do this about three times and on the third time, when you are going to rub the coin in the elbow, secretly take the coin with the left hand and place it on the back of your neck, "rub" the coin (which is not there) into your elbow. Have a coin in your left onr right hand, make a fist with the opposite hand and lay it knuckles down on a table, tell your audience that you will rub the coin through the top of your hand into your hand ( between fingers ) lay the coin on the top of your fist, and 'RUB' the coin through your hand by rubbing your hand so the coin is moving to the side, then into your palm. Coin Switch To do the coin switch, all that you need is a copper coin and a silver coin. Hold the silver coin between your first finger and thumb. Toss the copper coin into the other hand repeatedly. Make the switch between the coins and place the copper coin where your silver coin used to be. Make sure the switch is nice and smooth. Then make a magic gesture and amaze the audience! French Drop For the french drop trick you first must find a coin. Once you've found your coin you then place the coin between your index finger and your thumb. After doing this place your left hand over the coin as if to take it then drop on your right fingers. Then you must turn your left hand over. While the audience watcheslet your right hand drop naturally to your sides. Then just uncurl your left hand and watch as your friends and audience are amazed. I Don't Believe it Trick For the I don't believe it trick, you should first break the head off of a match. Then take a safety pin and poke it through the center of the match. In order to poke the pin easily through the match, you should soak the match in water for a few minutes. After you've done this, hold the pin firmly on the bottom. Then hold the other end of the pin under your right thumb/fingernail. What Happens: When this is done you will have trouble figuring out what happened your self.What really happens is the match stick hits the pin so hard that it flips around too fast for the human eye to see, so it looks like the match stick actually looks like it passed through an actual bar of steel!
Effect: a coin in your left hand appears in you right hand 1) hold your hands palm up 2) place a coin near the outer edge of your hand (near the thumb) 3) quickly turn you hands over (palm down) but with your fist clenched 4) show your audience that the coin is in the same hand 5) repeat 6) now when you flip your hands throw the coin into the other hand 7) show the audience the coin now in the opposite hand hints: this trick takes practice. Catching the coin is the difficult part. If the coin is thrown quickly enough the audience never notices. Placing the coin on the outer edge of you hand helps increase the coin velocity in flight. Use a silver coin, as they are harder to see in flight. Performing the hand flip without throwing the coin a few times causes the audience to concentrate less. "Torkova Revolution." This trick has been performed by Torkova for many years. THE EFFECT: You reach out into the air and seem to "pluck" out a coin. You keep doing it until you feel like stopping. There are gadgets involved. One gadget you can get at a magic store for a pretty penny. About $100 buys you a watch-battery ($10) powered machine that fits conveniently in your sleeve. You can fill it with about 60 coins. The machine shoots the coin into the air from inside your arm. The only part you have to practice is catching the coin. Or, if you want to be cheap and not buy the overly-expensive thingamabob, you can get a square of latex and stretch it to make it skin color. Tape it to your palm. Flash your hands, "palms empty." Don't tape the top shut, though. Every time you want to pluck a coin out of thin air, just jerk your hand forward, and a coin will come flinging out. QUARTER THRU CLOTH
ITEMS NEEDED: QUARTER AND A CLOTH TRICK: STEP 1: Hold the quarter between the thumb and index finger of your left hand in a vertical position. STEP 2: Place the cloth over the quarter so the quarter is in the center of the napkin. STEP 3: Carefully, get a small fold of the napkin between your thumb and the quarter. With your right hand, lift the front part of the cloth, facing your spectator, and drape it back on top of the other half and over your left wrist. STEP 4: Show the spectator that the quarter is still there when doing step 3. STEP 5: While still holding the quarter and the cloth, snap your wrist forward, causing both halves of the cloth to fall forward. STEP 6: Twist the cloth so is appears that the quarter is wrapped securely in the center of the cloth. Put a little pressure on the edge of the quarter and it will appear to rise up through the napkin!. I am just beginning to work on my skills, and enjoy performing this trick. "Quater Trick" This trick was taught to me by my brother who was taught by a magicians son, the name of the trick is simple known as the "Quater Trick" it may be a simple name but its very fun up close. Step 1: Ask someone who is watching for a quarter Step 2: Show the quarter to the everyone to prove to all that it is a real coin Step 3: Have someone sign the quarter their name zodiac sign whatever they want Step 4: Take the quarter in either your left hand Step 5: Place you arms behind you head especially you right elbow behind you head Step 6: Take the quarter in your left hand and stick it inside your elbow (not inside your elbow but rather the opposite side of your elbow) Step 7: Remove your arms from the back of your head and show everyone that the quarter is no longer in your hands but remember to keep you arms bent not to reveal the location of the quarter. Step eight: Take the arm that has the quarter tucked into you inner elbow and place that arms thumb in your mouth Step nine: quickly remove you thumb from your mouth and outstretch your arm, if done correctly the quarter will jump out of you inner elbow and appear from the people in front that it jumped out from your mouth. Step ten: pick up the quarter show that its the same quarter they praise you etc... Special note-This works if people are looking at you straight on if some one is standing behind you they will realize that you simply placed the quarter in you inner elbow. I have tricked many, many, people with this trick it requires lots of practice to make the quarter really fly. I consider it a good trade on how to do the leviathan trick. Hanky and the Coin Effect: The magician Sticks the coin into the hanky, turns it over and then the coin disappears from the hanky. Trick; You secretly rap a rubberband around your fingers and thumb. Then you place the hanky in that hand. With your other hand place te coin in the hanky. Then let the rubberband slide off of your fingers and onto the hanky so it surrounds the coin and it is under the hanky. Then you slide your hand up to the end of the hanky and shake. it. That makes it look lik the coin disappeared. But it is really stuck in the hanky by the rubberband. Coin Through the Hand! Effect: The Lord of Legerdemain (You again) demonstrates the amazing ability to push a coin straight through his/her own hand! After one failed attempt, the LoL decides to try again, this time succeeding! Secret: This is a nice, simple, but useful trick. All you have to do, is hold out your right hand in a fist. Take a quarter in the left hand, between the thumb and other fingers, so that if you push it against your hand, the audience can't see it behind your fingers. All you do is push the quarter up against the back of your right hand. Then you open your right hand, keeping your left hand perfectly still. You then look at the audience, and exclaim that it didn't work. When you look up at the audience, drop the quarter from your left hand, into your empty right hand, then close up your right hand and say taht you will try agaoin. This time, you can pretend to rup the coin through your right hand with your left hand, and reveal your miracle to the audience! Note: Legerdemain is another way of saying sleight of hand. Note: Practice this trick many times before doing it. You have to time the drop just right with your eye contact with the audience. just reply it back ok Another vanishing coin trick Effect: A coin is placed onto the table. It is picked up and it magically vanishes. Secret: First, let me tell you this is about as easy as a magic trick as it gets. Set the coin onto the table with your left hand. Say something like "Check this out" and reach over with your right hand. Then press down on the coin with your index, middle, and 3rd fingers with your hand and arm parallel with the table. Slide the coin towards you keeping in mind it should be completely covered up. Slide the coin off the table so it falls into your lap. Touch your thumb to your middle finger as if you are picking up the coin as it reaches the edge of the table. Keeping all your fingers closed still. Stare at where the coin should be as you slowly move your hand away from you back to about 6 inches above where the coin originally was. Start moving your thumb in a circular motion as if the coin is disappearing. Slowly turn your hand around and spread your fingers apart. Now the rest is up to you. The more suprised you act and if you act like you were all fortunate to see a miracle, people will remember it (and you) forevor. That's all there is to it. Practice a couple of times in front of a mirror or other shiny surface, until you can do it really well. No one wants you wasting their time with a stupid magic trick. Penetrating Coin
Take a piece of really thin rubber, like the kind used in rubber gloves, you'll need a piece about three inches square. You then take a small coin like a dime. Press the coin into the center piece of rubber, push in until it almost seems like the rubber is going to break, it should mold around the coin holding it in place, and be almost transparent as well, so it appears to the viewer that the coin is sitting on top of the piece of rubber. Now take the piece of rubber with the dime in it and place it over a small cup, securing it with a rubber band. Now you're ready to do the trick. Go ask someone for a dime, having your apparatus ready, take it from them and act as if you are placing their dime on top of the cup. Obviously don't let them touch it, just act like it's sitting there. Now all you do is push the coin down and it will look like it's going through the rubber and into the coin. It's looks very realistic and it can be done in front of a lot of people because it doesn't matter where they are standing it looks the same from any angle. I hope you like the trick. Nicodemas bgb116@psu.edu Pen and the coin
Take your coin, and toss it from hand and finally leave it in your left hand. Reach into your coat and produce a pencil. Point to the coin in your hand, ands show it there. Say you want to try it again, but when tossing back and forth, on the last one, palm the coin in your right hand. When reaching for the pencil again, drop the coin down your sleeve. Use the pencil from your pocket again, and show no coin there. Hold your arm straight, so as to let the coin fall into your hand. The Coin Fold Here is a pretty simple coin trick that I find is pretty effective. The paper fold and dissappearing coin. A piece of paper about 6 or 8 inches square, is shown free from preparation. A fifty cent piece is placed in the middle of it, and one side of the paper folded down so as to cover it. The coin may now be felt in the paper. One side of the paper is now folded down, then the other side- the audience feeling the coin in the paper each time. the fourth side is finally folded over and tadda the coin seems to have dissappeared and now is no longer in the paper which is promptly torn up. The secret of this trick consists in the folding of the paper. The first three folds are genuine, and really serve to enclose the coin. Now, as the fourth side is folded down so as to contain the coin, the paper is tilted up and the coin allowed to fall in to the lower space. It will now be found that the coin, instead ofbeing actually folded in to the paper is contained in a sort of loose pocket, and if the paper be tilted up the coin will slide out in to the palm of the hand, where it can be palmed and reproduced as the performer sees fit. The folded paper is immediately torn up to prevent inspection, which would reveal the secret. Double Headed Coin Effect: Obtain a normal 2 sided coin from someone. (The smaller the coin the better). Place the coin in your palm of your right hand, on the left side. Show that the coin is heads. Place your right hand over your left, so the LEFT side of your right palm is directly over the RIGHT side of your left palm. You turn your hand over onto your left hand. Move your right hand away. The coin now appears in your left hand. Yet the coin is still on heads!! Secret: This trick requires some practice, but once mastered people are amazed! The secret lies in when you turn over your right hand on to the left hand. You simply SLIDE your right hand away, so the coin falls straight onto your left hand, with heads showing. As you slide, turn over your right hand onto your left hand. This should be done in one complete motion. Coin Switch Version 3 First you need a Nickel, Dime, and Penny. Then Show the audience the penny and dime, they never know about the nickel. To do this you have to sit at a table and the trick is done under the table. This won't trick a whole room, but rather just one person. Keep the nickel on your knee, and show the person the penny and dime. Tell them you will give it to them under the table. As you are passing the coins, drop the dime on your knee and pick up the nickel. Then give them these two coins under the table. Ask them to quickly find and give you the bigger of the two, witch is actually the nickel, but they assume it's the penny. When they give it back make sure it is really the nickel, if it is not the nickel mock them profusly, then give the nickel back and tell them to really find the bigger of the two. When they give it back switch the nickel and dime on your knee and make a fist around the dime. At this time they think they have the dime and you have the penny. Do whatever you want for show and tell them you will make the coins switch. After this you should open your hand. To their astonishment you have a dime there. Then to add to it, ask them to open their hand, they will have a penny. This trick is unbeleivably good if it is well rehearsed. Glass and the coin you need a quater a shot glass and a paper towel, the paper towel has to be ripped up in four even strips.you ask the person if they want the quater or the shot glass they make there decision and you put the opened ended shot glass over the quater and place the four strips of the paper towel over the shot glass as to not being able to see the quater or the glass then with a swift slapping motion hit the glass at an angle on top of it .the shot glass should end up in your lap along with the quater. and with out sight of hand you should place whatever they chose somewhere on their person. If this illussion is performed correctly it should appear that the when you hit the glass with your hand it dissappeared and either the quater or the shot glass suddenly appeared on their person. Guess the coin Effect : The magician places a penny, a dime and a quarter in a row onto the table. He reaches into one of his pockets and removes a fourth coin, which he momentarily conceals from view in his closed right hand. An audience member is asked to select one of the coins, and regardless of the choice, when the magician opens his hand the audience sees that it contains a matching coin, proving that he knew in advance which coin would be selected. SECRET: To perform this remarkable prediction you will need a penny, a quarter and two dimes. Place one of the dimes into your pocket and you're ready to begin. Place the penny, dime and quarter, in that exact order, in a row on a table. Reach into your pocket with your right hand and remove the dime, but do so in a manner that will not reveal exactly what you are holding. State that your right hand contains a prediction. Turn to someone in the audience and say, "Pick up one of the coins…" If he picks up the dime, which, due to its central position, is most often chosen, continue with the sentence, saying, "and place it here in my hand." Extend your left upturned palm to receive it. Look directly at him and say, "You could have chosen any of the three coins. You chose the dime. Look, here's my prediction." Open your right hand to reveal it contains a dime. If, however, the audience member's first choice is the quarter, you continue by saying, "Good. Now since I'm only going to need one coin for this experiment, would you pick up another coin with your other hand…" If he picks up the penny say, "Excellent! That leaves us with only one coin, the dime. Somehow I just knew you would choose the correct coin. Look, here is my prediction." Open your right hand and allow the dime to fall next to its mate. If, after picking up the quarter, the audience member picks up the dime, hold out your upturned left palm and say, "Excellent. Now hand me one of them." At this point he has two choices. He can hand you either the dime or the quarter. If he hands you the quarter, place it on the table along side the penny and push them both aside, saying, " you have selected the dime. Somehow I knew you would." With that, open your hand to reveal the dime. If he hands you the dime, hold it on your outstretched palm and turn all your attention to it as you say, "You have selected the dime. Somehow I knew you would. Open your right hand and reveal the dime. In order to insure the end result, it is most important that you use the exact words described in the text. Leaping coin 1. put 2 quarters on your right leg about 4 inches away from each other (longways) 2. cover the coin fatherest from you with tha back of your left hand 3. with your right hand, grab the other coin closer to you and then make it look like you are grabbing it with your left hand and making a fist with your left hand still over that coin in step 1 (but really palm the coin in your right) 4. put your left hand to your side (it shouldnt have anything in it) 5. then grab tha other coin with your right hand (you should have both coins in your right hand) 6. make a fist and put it up to your mouth (left hand) 7. with your right hand in a fist, extend your hand in front of you 8. blow into your left hand against your mouth and open your right hand quickly to make it look like a coin has shot out of your left hand and landed in your right along with the other Changing coins Heres the setup before the show have a extra penny in your right hand thumb palmed. and then you show a penny a nickel a quarter you 1 pick up the quarter with you right hand and put it in your left hand and close the left hand. do this with all the coins and the other differant object too. well back to the rutine 2 pick up the nickel and place it in your left hand as yo do this drop the secret penny into you left hand too with out any body noticing it and take the penny thats left on the Table and put it in your pocket as you do this load your right hand with a small lock or watch extc. and keep it palmed there and use that hand to point at your closed left hand and say as you open the left hand . now the penny has came back magically in my hand as you say this drop all three coins back onto the Table and now with your right hand that still has the secret object in it pick up the penny on the table and say now i will place the penny in my left hand. but what you really do is pretend to put it in you left hand. what you actually do is drop the secret big load into you left hand secretley as you secretley hold the penny in your right hand and now you say i will take the too thats left and put them in my pocket. you do this with your right hand and as you do this you also get rid of the penny too at the same time now your clean! now say to them now when i rubb my left hand costanltey it makes friction and now when i open my hand look it changed into somthing else Pen and the quarter To start the trick, you need a pen and a quarter. You also need a shirt with a left breast pocket. Make sure your spectator is to the left of you when you begin. First, turn your left palm upwards at waist height and place the quarter in the centre. Hold the pen in your right hand, and make a downwards stabbing motion with it from your right ear to your palm. Repeat these "practice" movements 2 times. On the third time, place the pen behind your right ear, but keep your hand in the same position as if it was still there on the way down. Now it appears as if the pen has vanished. Turn towards the spectator and show where the pen is. Let them feel that they are in on the trick. As they are looking at your ear, quickly drop the quarter in your shirt pocket while simultaniously telling your spectator that you will try again. Now that they are ready to concentrate on the "real" trick again, they will find that this time the quarter has vanished! Back and Forth Coins Effect: Magician gives two coins to spectator to hold, one in each hand. He then explains that he will magically exchange the two coins from hand to hand without the spectators knowledge. After making the appropriate magical passes, he proclaims the coins have switched places. Opening his hands, the spectator complains that the coins never moved. At that, the magician claims he will switch them back, has the spectator close his hands again, makes the proper magic wave, and declares they have switched places again. At the spectator’s continued insistence that the coins have not moved, the magician takes one coin, places it in the spectator’s right hand, and closes the hand over the coin. Taking the other coin, with a marker, the magician draws a big X on the coin to identify it. Placing this coin in the spectators left hand and closing the hand over the coin, he then makes a magical pass and has the spectator open his hands to show the coin with the X has changed places and is now in the spectator’s right hand and the unmarked coin is in the left. Secret: There are actually three coins and two markers, one regular indelible marker and the other, a white board or dry erase marker – both black. This trick works well with 50 cent pieces but can be performed with quarters if preferred. On one coin, with an indelible marker, draw a large X from edge to edge. Make note of how you draw it because you will duplicate the mark during the trick. This coin should be classic palmed in the left hand. The set-up of doing the coin transfer is to get the spectator used to the handling of the coins and get him off-balance for the actual trick. When picking up the coins from his hands, exchange the unmarked coin in your left hand for the marked coin. Either thumb clip the unmarked coin and drop the palmed coin in his hand, X down, folding his hand over the coin before he can look at it. When you reach into your pocket to get the white board (dry erase) marker, drop off the unmarked coin in your pocket. Using the white board marker, mark a large X on the coin identical to the X you marked on the other coin in indelible marker. Blow on it to dry the marker and show to the spectator and explain that now anyone should be able to keep track of the coin. When you place it in the left hand, wipe the X off with your thumb. Due to the aspect of the white board marker, the X will wipe off from the coin very easily. Make the wiping move natural and place in the left hand, folding the hand over the coin. Make your magical passes and have the spectator open their hands and go "What the….??" This is a quick and easy trick that has good impromptu aspects. Use the regular marker to sign a card for the spectator to reinforce the idea that the marker on the coin was indelible. Copper-Silver Penetration with a few modifications Effect:- A penny is wrapped in a handkerchief. A spectator holds the handkerchief by the closed and open ends. A quarter is thrown at the handkerchief and is heard to fall inside. Both coins are in the handkerchief. Secret::- 2 quarters, 1 penny, a handkerchief, and a spectator are needed 1. Secretly palm a quarter in your left hand. 2. Hold the penny in the fingers of your left hand. Be carful not to show the palmed coin. 3. Drape the handkerchief over the penny and the left hand. The center of the handkerchief should be on top of the penny. 4. Grasp the penny with your right hand through the handkerchief. 5. As you remove your left hand from under the handkerchief, place the palmed quarter in the palm of your right hand. 6. Hand the penny to the spectator to hold through the handkerchief. Slide the right hand toward you, pulling the quarter to the center. 7. Hold the quarter still by the left hand and give the other end (open end and corners) to the spectator's other hand. 8. Pick up the other quarter and "vanish" it any way you like. (I prefer the French Drop). 9. With the hand that supposedly is holding the quarter, hit the handkerchief in the center. This causes the handkerchief to fall out of one of the hands and the coins heard hitting each other. This is one of my favorite coin tricks. It always recieves a "Do that again" If possible. COIN OPTIC A magician has two coins in his hand when he starts to rub them it looks like a third is appearing and when he opens his hand there are three coinsnow. 1. Hold two coins flat on top of each other between your thumb and forefinger, sideways to the audience. Say you will make an extra coin by rubbing them together. 2. Rub the coins quickly backwards and forwards against each other. It looks as if there are three coins, not two. 3. You need a hidden coin in a classic palm position that is when a coin is squeezed between the fleshly base of your thumb and palm. 4. Then if a spectator says it is only an optical illusion, you can throw three coins down onto the table. This trick needs practise to get the rubbing of the coins to look that a third one is appearing once you got it looks very effective I have done this trick lots of times and not been caught yet. Great Division. Effect: The Magician borrows a nickel from a spectator, and patters' I will divide this nickel by 5. The magician rubs the coin on his right elbow with his left hand, grabs it with his right, throws it in the air and when it lands it has become a penny!!!!!! Secret Preparation: You must plant a penny in your right ear (watch the angles so that the spectators don't see). darker rooms will help conceal the coin too. Step 2 Ask for a coin from the spectator ie. a nickel. (you must know the French Palm or another suitable slieght) You tell your spectator that you have recently discoverd that with combined focus on the coin the spectators can help focus your enery to divide the coin by 5. Step 3 "watch Carefully" the magician holds the nickel in his left hand and rubs it on his right elbow (You elbow must make a 45 degree angle with your right hand inconspiciously covering your right ear)."we must first gather our energies..." Step 4 As you rub the coin and the focus is on your elbow, pick up the penny in your right ear Step 5 with the penny still in your right hand (hidden under your pinky and ring finger) do the French Drop Sleight to make it appear that you are grabbing the nickel with your right hand (but it actually stays in you left) Step 6 Throw the penny in the air from your right hand and as the Spectators watch it in the air, pocket the nickel from your left hand. (Better yet say "catch" and toss it to a spectator). To teir amazement the coin has changed into a penny, five times less than before!!! Coin through coaster
Effect: A coin is wrapped and set on a coaster on top of a glass. The package is tapped, and the coin falls through to the glass. Secret: This takes a bit of practice. Take a coin and wrap it in a piece of paper leaving one side open. Secretly slide the coin out of the package into your hand as you hold it. Set the paper down and pick up a coaster. Set the coaster on top of the upright glass, secretly placing the coin on the rim of the glass or tumbler balanced by the coaster. Place the package on top of the coaster and say you will make the coin penetrate through the coaster. Give a firm tap to the package, thus knocking the balancing coin into the glass. You might want to have the coin marked to prove it is the same one. There's a Hole in Me Pocket The Effect: Borrow a coin and have it marked. You say that you are always losing money through a hole in your pocket and you drop the marked coin into your pocket. "What's weird", you say, "is that the hole isn't in this pocket [the one in which you dropped the coin], but in this one!" You lift up your other foot and the borrowed coin is there! The Method: You need an extra coin. (Well, how did you think it was done?) Most persons have a quarter on them, so let's say you want to borrow a quarter. On an "off moment", secretly place the extra quarter under your left foot. (I sometimes adjust my socks and stick it under the shoe.) Have someone loan you a quarter and ask them to mark it in some unusual way with a pen. Take the quarter and just drop it into your right pants pocket. Shake your leg as if you are shaking the coin into the hole and down your leg. Then say, "What's weird is that the hole isn't in this pocket [the one in which you dropped the coin], but in this one!" You lift up your other foot and the borrowed coin is there! Then — and here's where you've gotta have guts — pick up the coin with your right hand and place it (don't drop it!) into the right pants pocket as you pick up the other coin with the same hand. (Just switch them.) With your hand still in the pocket, look confused and say, "I'm sorry, did you lend me this or was it mine?" He'll tell you it was his and you'll return his coin (the marked one). He'll, of course, inspect the coin for the mark. It's gutsy, but it work Two Balanced Coins EFFECT: You take two coins of the same size out and let the audience inspect them. The coins are laid in the left hand and the right hand lifts them up between his forefinger and his thumb! The coins are balanaced between his two fingers! ITEMS NEEDED FOR TRICK: Two coins of the same size, a match-stick or a toothpick that is as long as the combined width of the coins. SECRET SETUP AND PREFORMANCE: Take the wooden stick and seccretly put it behind the two coins. The stick will be hidden by the coins. The coins will actaully be resting against the stick. This creates the illusion of being balanced. Finding a Coin EFFECT: You put about 10 pennies into a hat with all different dates on them. Then, you turn your back and have any member of the audience to come up and take a coin. He or she must remeber the date on the coin, the coin is passes around to create a "magical field of energy" around the coin. Everyone gets a look at the date of the coin and the coin is put back into the hat. You turn around and reach into the hat, you immediatly pull out the penny with the correct date! ITEMS NEEDED FOR TRICK: 10 pennies with differet dates on each, a hat or paper bag. SECRET SETUP AND PREFORMANCE: There is no secret setup. There is no force of which coin to chose. The trick is fairly simple if you think about it. As the coin is passed through the people's hands, it becomes warmer than the rest. So, all you have to do when you stick your hand into the hat is find the coin that is the warm one. A paper bag will do just as good as a hat. . . |