How to Do a Simple Coin Magic Trick
Start your trick by telling your audience that you're going to magically switch a coin from one hand to the other., Close your hand into a fist, but make the tiniest gap created by your index finger of the hand., Move your hand over your other hand...
Step-by-Step Guide
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Step 1: Start your trick by telling your audience that you're going to magically switch a coin from one hand to the other.
Allow them a moment of disbelief.
Make it sound convincing, letting them know that you've been practicing the lost art of telekinesis for a while now.
The more they doubt you, the more fun it becomes.
Magic tricks are all about confidence and distraction.
The more you make it "entertaining," the less they'll scrutinize your hands and the tricks you're actually employing.
They'll be too busy having fun to be suspicious if you turn it into more of a show. -
Step 2: Close your hand into a fist
Take a look at the video above – do you see the small gap between his first two fingers? That's perfect.
The coin is going to fall through your hand without your hand opening up.
It's easy to mess this up, so in the beginning, make sure the coin is placed just right to be able to access this opening. , It's going to look like you're sort of just waving your fist over your other hand – what the audience doesn't see is that the coin drops into your other hand.
As soon as you feel the coin drop, clench your other fist.
Widen the gap of the starting hand so the coin more easily falls into your hand; otherwise, it might just get stuck in the original hand. , They will, hopefully, choose the original hand, since it never opened up to deposit the coin in the other hand.
If they choose the new hand, demand they explain to you how you could've possibly had the coin change hands if it weren't for your amazing telekinetic powers. , If you managed to not move your fingers when the coin dropped and clenched your fist soon enough in catching the coin, your friends will be adequately wowed.
Now, can you move that table over there? If this trick is proving difficult to master, move to a smaller coin.
It will more easily fall through any gap you create in your fingers. -
Step 3: but make the tiniest gap created by your index finger of the hand.
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Step 4: Move your hand over your other hand
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Step 5: dropping the coin in without opening your fist.
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Step 6: Ask a volunteer to say which hand the coin is in.
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Step 7: Slowly reveal both hands
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Step 8: the original hand empty and the new hand with the coin.
Detailed Guide
Allow them a moment of disbelief.
Make it sound convincing, letting them know that you've been practicing the lost art of telekinesis for a while now.
The more they doubt you, the more fun it becomes.
Magic tricks are all about confidence and distraction.
The more you make it "entertaining," the less they'll scrutinize your hands and the tricks you're actually employing.
They'll be too busy having fun to be suspicious if you turn it into more of a show.
Take a look at the video above – do you see the small gap between his first two fingers? That's perfect.
The coin is going to fall through your hand without your hand opening up.
It's easy to mess this up, so in the beginning, make sure the coin is placed just right to be able to access this opening. , It's going to look like you're sort of just waving your fist over your other hand – what the audience doesn't see is that the coin drops into your other hand.
As soon as you feel the coin drop, clench your other fist.
Widen the gap of the starting hand so the coin more easily falls into your hand; otherwise, it might just get stuck in the original hand. , They will, hopefully, choose the original hand, since it never opened up to deposit the coin in the other hand.
If they choose the new hand, demand they explain to you how you could've possibly had the coin change hands if it weren't for your amazing telekinetic powers. , If you managed to not move your fingers when the coin dropped and clenched your fist soon enough in catching the coin, your friends will be adequately wowed.
Now, can you move that table over there? If this trick is proving difficult to master, move to a smaller coin.
It will more easily fall through any gap you create in your fingers.
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