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!
Transporting Coin
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.
Penertrating 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.
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!