How to do a coin trick. Secrets of tricks with coins

Micromagic (tricks performed at close range) often uses objects that are completely ordinary in everyday life and are familiar to almost any viewer. Making an ordinary coin levitate and defy the laws of physics can easily stun and baffle the public. There are several different tricks with coin levitation. Many of them are based on sleight of hand, so you will have to spend some time practicing to hone your skills. By training your hands from tossing a coin in the air to making it disappear and finally levitating, you'll be sure to impress your friends.

Steps

Muscular hand passes

Find the magic area on your palm and grab the coin with it. Muscular hand passes are one of the most impressive displays of manual dexterity, and they can also be used to create the appearance of levitating a coin. In order for the trick to be performed to look quite impressive, the muscles of the palm must be quite well developed. The trick itself is performed with the pad of the palm located next to the thumb; it is with its help that the coin is thrown into the air.

• Open the palm of your dominant hand and examine it. Notice the large bump at the base of the big toe. It is this that is considered the magical part of the palm where you will place the coin.
• Take a US half dollar or other foreign coin about 30mm in diameter, or a poker chip. In most cases, Russian five rubles will be too small to successfully perform the trick.
• With your other hand, place the coin in your palm. Place your thumb over the coin. Pay attention to how the muscles work and the pad at the base of the thumb behaves, covering the coin. Play with different placements of the coin until you are confident in gripping it with the pad.

1. Turn your hand palm down. Holding the coin in your palm, turn your hand over. See if the coin falls or remains in your hand. Slowly spread your fingers until the coin falls out.

   Practice jumping a coin out of your hand using muscle passes. It will probably take you several weeks to master this step. Muscular hand passes belong to the advanced category of tricks, and practical lessons with them can lead to pain.

   • Place the coin on the magic area of ​​your palm and press down. You can press the coin into your palm either with the fingers of the other hand or with the middle and ring fingers of the same hand. Using the fingers of the same hand that holds the coin makes the whole process more natural.
   • Place your thumb on the coin. It is necessary to move the thumb so that the muscle and pad at its base grab the coin. Try not to twist your hand too much. If the fingers of the hand are strongly bent, the coin will not be able to jump out of the hand, but will simply hit the fingers.
   • Pull your thumb back and down sharply. This movement will subsequently allow you to toss the coin upward, causing it to “fly”.

2. Adjust the position of the coin. If you feel like the coin doesn't have enough grip when you move your thumb back, adjust its position. It will take you some time to find the most suitable point for placing the coin in your palm.

   • To master muscular hand passes, you need to practice a lot. However, there must be moderation in everything. As soon as your hand starts to hurt or become red, stop the activity to rest. Don't give up on your training and eventually you will be able to toss a coin up with one movement of your palm.

3. Perform the trick with a well-honed muscular hand pass. To perform a trick based on a skillful hand pass, you will need to show the spectator a coin and explain that it will magically fly out of the bottom palm and fly into the top.

   • Do not explain to the viewer the technique of performing the trick, otherwise it will have a bad effect on their visual perception. Don't talk about making muscle passes with your arms. Just say you're going to make the coin fly up.
   • Place your other palm over the palm with the coin and move your fingers for a special effect.
   • While you do this, use your middle and ring fingers to check that the coin is in the right place in your palm.
   • If you want, say some magic words. Then move your thumb back, performing a muscle pass.
   • Catch the coin that jumps up with your other hand.

   An invisible coin disappears, freezes and appears out of thin air

   1. Make a coin “disappear.” This trick is less about levitation and more about creating the illusion of a coin disappearing and reappearing.

   2. Take the invisible coin to make it fly. Here we can explain how to levitate a coin, you must first make it invisible so that the flight is no longer hampered by excess weight.

      • Pretend to pick up the coin as if it were really there. The subsequent stages of performing the trick will require you to convincingly perform actions with an invisible object.
      • Also note that when you pick up an invisible coin, you will be using the hand that actually holds the coin. Hold the real coin with a finger grip and always position your hand so that spectators cannot see it.
      • Before performing the trick, practice holding a real coin in your hand. Feel the weight of the coin with your hand, pay attention to the position of your fingers and the movements of your hand.
      • Pretend that you are picking up an invisible coin. Remember what this process looked like with a real coin. Don't squeeze your fingers all the way. Even though the coin is quite flat, there must be a small gap between your fingers. Also, do not forget about the weight of the coin.
      • Lift the coin into the air and release. Explain that you simply hung an invisible coin in the air where it will hang until you need it again.
      • Do not forget that all this time the real coin is held by the finger grip. With an invisible coin suspended in the air, tilt the hand holding the coin so as to show the audience an empty palm, but keep the coin itself covered, pinching it between your fingers.

   3. Grab the invisible coin. Once you've convinced your audience that an invisible coin is floating in the air, snatch the coin out of the air with your free hand.

      • Take an invisible coin, paying special attention to the technique of using an empty hand with an imaginary object.
      • Raise the hand with the real coin towards the hand with the imaginary coin.
      • At the same time, hold the coin with your finger grip, tilting your palm so that the audience can see that there is nothing in your palm.
      • Tell them that the coin will appear at any time you wish, you just need to make it visible again.

   4. Make a coin appear. When placing an invisible coin in the hand containing the real coin, curl your fingers around the empty hand.

      • As you form your fist, allow the coin to slip out of your finger grip, landing on the index finger of your empty hand.
      • With your outer hand still clenched into a fist, pinch the coin between the thumb and index finger of your inner (previously empty) hand.
      • Now the coin will be in the hand in which you took the invisible coin from the air.
      • Open your outer fist to show the viewer that the coin is visible again.

   Levitation of a coin between the palms

   1. Take a large souvenir coin. To perform this trick you will need enough large coin(more than those in circulation in the Russian Federation). The coin will levitate in the space between two slightly cupped palms. This trick is difficult to perform close to spectators because you will be touching the coin all the time.

      • The size of the coin is very important as it must be large enough to be easily viewed between your fingers.
      • To perform the trick, pick up the coin with either hand.
      • Bring your other hand to the coin so that you can now grab it with both hands, with your thumbs facing you.

   2. Place your fingertips around the perimeter of the coin. Make sure the pads of your thumbs are on the left and right edges of the coin.

      • The thumbs should press on the coin and thereby hold it.
      • The remaining fingers should be slightly bent, and their tips should only lightly touch the front edge of the coin.
      • Remember that only your thumbs should actually hold the coin.

   3. Extend your arms forward. You can enhance the effect of the illusion by moving your arms forward slightly and then moving them back towards your body. Constant movement helps distract viewers.

      • Slowly straighten your fingers. Straighten your fingers (except your thumbs) opposite each other. In this case, the fingertips of the left and right hands should be at a distance of about 2.5 cm from each other.
      • Keep your fingers as close to each other as possible. They should provide a kind of screen through which the audience will not be able to see that you are holding the coin with your thumbs.
      • With your fingers straight, begin to lightly move the coin up and down with your thumbs. This will create the effect of a coin floating between your palms.

   4. Practice levitating a coin until you are completely free of clumsy movements. It will take some time for the focus to look as natural as possible.

      • Once you have mastered the actual act of grabbing a coin, start observing your actions through a mirror. Be sure to take into account the audience's point of view.
      • Do not forget that the coin should not be very visible. Also practice in the same conditions in which you will perform. If you plan to sit at a table, practice at a table, as this will put you noticeably closer to your audience.
      • Try to achieve through practice that you can grasp the coin so easily between the pads of your thumbs that it is not even noticeable from the outside that you are holding it.
      • See if you can't rotate the coin so that it doesn't fall to enhance the illusion. This will require some practice. Remember to cover your thumbs with your other fingers so that they are not visible.
   • If you are using a regular coin, don't focus on it too much. Drawing the viewer's attention to the fact that the coin is completely ordinary can distract him from thinking about coins with tricks. Let the audience guess that the coin is simple by the way you handle and talk about it.
   • To perform a trick, it is necessary to take into account the viewing angles of the audience (different perspective points).
   • Spend enough time practicing until you can confidently perform magic tricks. Self-confidence and the ability to accompany the performance with a whole story will allow you to captivate the audience and introduce distracting maneuvers into the process that will divert the attention of the audience directly from your hands.
   • Practice in front of a mirror or film yourself to get a better idea of ​​how you'll look in public.

Tricks with money always arouse interest, as in adult company, and in the children's circle. This trick looks especially impressive if it is performed by the child himself, without the help of adults. This is a great way for a teenager to win the respect of his friends, create fame for himself as an experienced trickster and almost a magician.

However, not every trick performed by a professional illusionist can be performed by a child. Therefore, children's tricks with coins, for all their entertainment, are distinguished by their simplicity and simplicity in execution - of course, only if the child knows the secret.

Coin passing through the table

This simple trick invariably plunges the audience into amazement and delight. The little magician shows everyone the coin, confirming that it is not fake. He shifts it from palm to palm, taps the edge of the coin on the table, and then sharply slams it onto the tabletop. And... The coin disappears to appear from under the table a moment later.

The answer to this trick lies in ordinary sleight of hand. Of course, at the moment when the young magician knocks on the table, the coin is no longer in his hand. It is securely hidden in the second hand, lowered under the table. Therefore, the main task facing him is to transfer money from one hand to another without the audience noticing it.

For this presentation you will need regular coin any size and a table with a tablecloth. Grab the sides of the coin with your thumb and forefinger at the sides. Covering it with your second palm, pretend to take it and squeeze it in your fist. However, at the moment when the fingers of the second hand close the coin from the audience, you will need to slightly unclench your fingers and allow the coin to fall into your palm. Now everything depends solely on your artistry. A short intriguing pause, the clap of an empty palm on the table, and - sim-salabim! You show everyone the empty table.

It is important! While tapping the table with your empty palm, you must simultaneously tap the coin from below on the tabletop so that the audience does not suspect a trick.

You can watch a video with the solution to this trick here:

The secret of the trick is very simple, but it requires some training. It may not work out the first time, so before showing it to your friends, it is better to perform it several times at home in front of the mirror.

Coin passing through glass

Everyone, even children, knows that it is impossible to push anything through glass without breaking it. All the more surprising will be the sight of how a large coin passes through the bottom with a light clap of the palm, and the glass itself, along with the coin, remains standing on the table, safe and sound.

To perform this trick you will only need:

• Transparent glass;
• 1 coin;
• A little artistry and sleight of hand.

Show everyone the glass and the coin so that your viewers do not doubt their reality. You can even tap the bottom of the coin with the edge of it: let everyone see that there are no slits or holes in the glass. After this, you need to pretend that you are taking the coin in your other hand, but instead, carefully hold it between your palm and little finger, so that your “stash” is not visible from the side.

Now, when you take the glass, the coin will hang above it, and you will need to unclench your fingers at the moment when the second palm hits the bottom. The sound of metal on glass will convince even the most stubborn skeptics that a miracle has happened, and you will only have to accept the enthusiastic applause of your guests.

In this video you can watch the secret and training of this simple trick:

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Trick with glass, ball and coin

No less spectacular is a trick during which a coin falls through a transparent film stretched over a glass or bottle. This trick is very simple, and even very young children can do it.

For it you will need to prepare:

• Glass glass or bottle;
• 2 coins;
• a transparent inflatable ball or special packaging film.

Focus requires preparation. To do this, take a coin and press it firmly into the rubber or soft film. You can use other material, the main thing is that it retains its shape well. Now straighten the film, carefully stretching it over the glass: you will see that the coin is tightly stuck to the transparent material, moreover, it seems to be lying on it, and not from below.

It is important! Never allow spectators to look at the coin up close. It is best to prepare both the glass and the coin lying on the film in advance, before the start of the performance.

When everything is ready for the trick, take the second coin, say the magic words and begin to carefully rub the film. After a few seconds, the coin will come off and fall into the glass, and your friends will wonder for a long time how you managed to do this trick!

All children's tricks with coins are very simple, and the more experience the child has, the more spectacular the performance becomes.

You can learn to quietly transfer a coin from hand to hand, hide it between your fingers and palm, “pull” it out of your friends’ ears, or make it disappear without a trace. All these tricks require just a little patience and sleight of hand. But the attention and respect of peers will be guaranteed to a child who knows at least one such trick!

The good news about coin tricks is that you can perform them almost anywhere and you can easily find props (look behind the couch). There's no need for much preparation or explanation, so with just a little training you'll be able to quickly add a dose of fun mischief to everyday events. All magicians must have sleight of hand. Practice it well and you can show it anytime, anywhere.

2. Fold the bottom edge of the paper over the coin, leaving a difference of six millimeters between the two edges of the paper.

3. Fold the right edge of the paper back behind the coin.

4. Fold the left one back behind the coin.

5. Make the last fold by folding the top one back behind the coin. The coin appears to be completely wrapped up, but in fact the top edge is still exposed.

6. Now you turn the envelope over so that the open side allows the coin to slip into your palm, where it remains, while you “prove” to the audience the disappearance of the coin by tearing it apart.

Master of Illusion

1. Act out a scene, taking a handful of coins out of your pocket - let the audience see that the coins are real. Pick one coin and pretend to pick it up - you'll need to practice this! Put all the coins back in your pocket.

2. Toss an imaginary coin back and forth from one hand to the other, making a soft slap as you pretend to catch the coin each time. Practice with a real coin so that you get a reliable sound. If you relax your fingers and slap them on the bottom of your palm while you “catch” the coin, you should get the right sound.

3. Do this a few times, then stop and pretend to hold an imaginary coin in one of your hands. Ask the audience to guess how it landed: “Heads or tails?” Of course, when you open your hand, the coin won't be there. This is good because the audience will think that it is in your other hand.

4. Slowly open your other hand to show that there is no coin in it either - and bow to the applause of the audience.

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Before attempting coin tricks, the beginner should learn through exercise several manual tricks that demonstrate dexterity.

The manual dexterity and attentiveness acquired through these exercises, if he has diligently put them into practice, is of the greatest value. It is safe to say that a skilled card magician will easily study any branch of this magical art - the art of magic.

The first thing a beginner must learn is the ability to palm, that is, to discreetly hold an object in an open hand by contracting the palm.

In order to acquire such a skill, take a coin the size of a five-kopeck piece and place it on open hand(see Fig. 59).

Then close your hand very slowly, and if you have placed the coin in the right place (which your attempts will soon reveal), it will be held by contracting your palm around the edges of the coin and you can
move your hand and arm completely freely, without fear of dropping it.

You must remember when practicing in this regard that the inside of the palm should be facing either downwards or towards your torso, as any careless movement may reveal the hidden coin.

When you are able to hold the coin in your right hand freely, do the same exercises with your left hand; after which you can replace the coin with a clock, an egg or a lemon, since all these objects are often used in tricks.

Once you've thoroughly learned these first techniques, you can begin to learn different ways to hide a coin in your hand.

All methods have the same goal - to create the appearance of moving an object from one hand to another, although in reality the object remains in the hand that it seemed to have just left.

Since the same movement, if repeated frequently, can arouse suspicion in the audience, it is useful to know different ways of producing it. For the sake of clarity of their sequence, we number the described methods.
Reception 1st. Take the coin in your right hand with your second, third and thumb (see Fig. 61) so that these fingers actually hold it, and the thumb only supports it. After this, release your thumb and bend the second and third fingers with the coin balancing on them towards your palm (see Fig. 62).

If the coin was placed on the fingers properly, then you will see that with this movement you place it on the palm, exactly in the place mentioned above as the most convenient.

When you extend your fingers again, the coin remains in your palm, as in Fig. 60.

If you have learned to do this easily with the hand at rest, you should practice the ability to do the same while the right hand is in motion towards the left hand, which should be open until the fingers of the right hand will touch her palm, and it will seem that she is holding a coin, which you seem to have transferred into her with this movement.

After this, the left hand should remain closed, as if holding a coin, and the right hand should be lowered and open, as if it were empty.

In case the object is larger than a coin, such as a watch or an egg, you should not take it with your fingers, but simply leave it in the palm of your right hand, slightly covering this hand while moving it towards your left.

A larger surface area in this case will give you the full opportunity to hold it without squeezing it in your palm. Just remember that, in any case, both hands should act as harmoniously as when you actually transfer something from hand to hand.

Therefore, you should raise your left hand to meet your right; but it should not begin its movement earlier than the right one. Once this is done, skillful use of the wand can help to conceal the fact that the object remains in your right hand.

For this purpose, the magician can place it before moving the object under the armpit of one or the other hand, as if in order to free up his hands.

Immediately after moving the object, the right hand should, after making a slight backward movement, which in this case will seem quite natural, grasp the rod, remove it from under the arm and then hold it until the coin needs to be manipulated.

The position of the fingers while holding the wand should be such as to hide the hidden coin, while the hand should appear completely free and natural. The same method can be applied with equal convenience to other techniques.

Reception 2nd. It is somewhat easier than the first dose and can in some cases replace it. Grab the coin by its edges with the index and ring fingers of your right hand, squeezing the edges of the coin with the sides of your fingers and supporting it from behind with your second finger (see Fig. 63).
Move your right hand toward your left, and at the same time gently push your thumb over the front of the coin until the top knuckle passes over its outer edge (see Fig. 64).

Then bend your thumb - and the coin will be well hidden between this joint and the connection of the thumb with the palm (see Fig. 65).

Just as in the previous case, the left hand should close the moment the right touches it, and the right thumb should remain slightly bent inward towards the palm so that the coin is not visible to the spectators.

This is very quick way hide and when skillfully executed, a complete illusion occurs.

Reception 3rd. Hold your left hand, palm up, with the coin in the position shown in Fig. 59. Move your right hand towards your left, make a movement with your fingers as if you were taking a coin, and immediately close your hand.

At the same time, slightly close your left hand so that you squeeze the coin with your palm, as in Fig. 67, and lower it so that it hangs freely along your body.

Reception 4th.(Turnstile). It is sometimes called the "French method". This is a very easy and at the same time very convenient way. Hold your left hand, palm up, with the coin as in Fig. 66.

Move your right hand towards your left, moving your right thumb under the coin and your other fingers over it, and at the same time close them.

It will appear to the spectators that you are grasping the coin with your thumb and fingers, when in reality you are simply dropping it into the palm of your left hand while it is covered by the fingers of your right hand (see Fig. 68).

Move your right hand back and forth after you have removed it from your left hand, following it with your eyes, which will draw the audience's attention away from the other hand.

Don’t be in too much of a hurry to lower your left hand, but turn your palm slightly toward you with your fingers slightly bent, and after a while, lower it down.

The cavity created by the bent fingers is sufficient to hold the coin. This method is also convenient for more small coins, because they are difficult to hide quickly using ordinary methods. It is also very useful for ball tricks.

Reception 5th.(Tweezers). This is a modification of the method just described. The coin is held as in Fig. 69 with the thumb, index and middle fingers of the left hand.

Then you make a movement as if you are taking it with the same fingers of your other hand, which at the same time seems to be grasping the coin, with the back side facing the audience.

At this moment, when the coin is covered by the fingers of the right hand, it can carefully slide into the palm of the left, and the right one immediately rises as if enclosing it.

Reception 6th. This method is adapted to the use of three or four coins, since the clinking of one coin against another contributes to the illusion. You take the coins in your right hand, as shown in Fig. 70, slightly bent.

Sharply point your right hand towards your left with your fingers forward so that the tips of the fingers of your right hand are almost at right angles to the palm of your left hand, and the fingers should be slightly bent.

The coins remain in the cavity formed by the fingers of the right hand, as in Fig. 71, instead of being thrown into the left hand (as it appears to the eyes and ears of the spectators).

They flip over completely, making a loud clinking noise as the arms come together.

The left hand is, of course, closed, and the thumb of the right hand can gently press the coins so that when the hand comes down along your body, they make no noise and thus do not betray their presence in it.

Reception 7th. This method is best applied to big coin like a metal ruble. But if the student has a small hand (a very important disadvantage for tricks in general), he can apply this method to another coin.

Take the coin in your right hand with your index, middle and thumb fingers, and while you seem to move it into your left hand, gently move it with the tip of your thumb to the position shown in Fig. 72.

Moreover, it is held by the pressure of the first and fourth fingers on its opposite edges, while the hand remains completely open.

Reception 8th. The peculiarity of this technique is that when performing it, the baton is held in the hand - a case to which all other techniques are inapplicable.

Holding the rod and coin in your right hand as shown in Fig. 73, you press the edge of the coin firmly into the palm of your left hand and instantly squeeze that hand.
As a result of this movement, the coin (pressed only lightly) is pushed back to the position shown in Fig. 74, and in this position, being behind the index, middle and ring fingers, it remains completely covered.

Without wasting any time, you remove the fingers of your left hand from their previous position and gradually squeeze them, grasping the coin, since their prolonged extended position may seem suspicious.

But when doing this, you should be careful that the coin does not clink against the rod, for this sound, of course, will attract the attention of others.

It should not be assumed that all the above techniques are used by every magician. Almost each of them has their favorite technique or techniques.

The beginner must be convinced by experience which method best suits the structure of his hand. We described these techniques as if they were constantly performed with the same hand.

But if you want to achieve perfection, you must practice until you learn to do them both from the left hand to the right, and from the right to the left.

It is advisable to practice in front of a mirror, performing in front of it, firstly, everything that you subsequently intend to perform in front of others, and carefully monitor the position and movement of your hands.

You must learn to act in such a way that the audience does not have any suspicions. You must get used to constantly watching with your eyes the hand in which everyone thinks the object is located.

This is the best means to ensure that the eyes and attention of the viewers also follow the same direction. Once you get used to accurately performing these techniques with one coin, you can begin to practice with smaller coins, two, and then three or four at a time.

There is one caveat here. These techniques should not be considered tricks themselves, but only means for performing tricks.

If a magician seems to transfer a coin, for example from his right hand to his left, and shows that it has disappeared from his left hand, thus making the audience guess that it remains in his right hand, then they will, of course, be surprised at the dexterity with which he averted their eyes for a moment.

But in this way they will half penetrate into the secret of those tricks in which the coin is hidden in the palm.

If it is necessary to directly reproduce a coin, then the magician must do this as if finding it in the hair or sideburns of some spectator, or in another place convenient for him, and he must first announce in what place it will be found, thus distracting , general attention from myself.

When the coin is already in his hand, he only needs to transfer it to the tips of the fingers of the same hand when he touches it to the named place, as if taking it out from there.

After these instructions concerning the hand that actually contains the coin, a few words should be said about the hand that does not contain the coin.

Wherever you place an object, whether in a clenched hand or in an apparatus from which it is subsequently to disappear, you must make it a rule not to show that the object has disappeared from there without some preliminary magical action, however small, which may seem like a plausible excuse to such a disappearance.

The most insignificant action is enough - touching with a wand, pronouncing a magical formula like the word “pass”, pressing with a finger; but in one form or another this ceremony should never be omitted.

So, taking the simplest example, we assume that by move 1, you put a coin in your left hand, actually leaving it hidden in the palm of your right hand.

If you simply open your left hand and show that there is no coin there, then the audience will, of course, guess the truth, i.e., that you did not place the coin there at all.

But if you wait a minute or two before opening your hand so that the spectators are accustomed to think of the coin as being in it, and then, before opening it, mysteriously touch your hand with your wand, or simply, slowly opening your hand, touch wrist with the second and third fingers of the hand holding the coin (see Fig. 75), then, thereby, not only give the hand an activity incompatible with hiding anything in it, but convince the audience that this gesture is the reason for the disappearance of the coin .

It is surprising what effect such deception has on the judgment of the spectators. And although they know very well that touching a clenched hand with a rod or a finger of the other hand cannot make the coin disappear, yet since it is certain that the coin has disappeared, their mind involuntarily accepts the explanation that you offer.

Before the hand is unclenched, the hand that holds the object has already somehow freed itself from it. In this case, the viewer is no longer able to assume that you are holding the object in the hand in which you originally showed it, because this hand turns out to be empty.

And since the complete disappearance of the coin remains an obvious fact, you can leave it to the viewer to explain this fact as he pleases.

The various techniques described above serve not only to make an object disappear, but also to secretly replace it with another similar one.

This exchange is constantly used in magic; we may even say that three-quarters of her miracles are based on it. When a substitution is made, the dummy object remains in full view of the audience, and the magician, having secretly received the real object into his possession, disposes of it as required by the trick. We will now describe various ways substitution, also denoting them with numbers.

Substitution 1st. Let's assume that you want to replace the coin marked by the audience with some other one.

You hide the last one, which we will call “dummy”, “replaced”, in the palm of your left hand, trying to keep this hand facing away from the audience.

Taking the marked coin in your right hand, you hide it in your palm using technique 1, but instead of closing your left hand when the fingers of the right touch it, you leave the first one casually open and show the dummy coin lying on it, which is accepted by the public as the real one. , just placed there by your right hand.

Substitution 2nd. It differs only in that you do the 2nd technique with your right hand instead of the 1st.

Substitution 3rd. And here you resort to technique 2, but instead of your right hand, you hide the dummy coin in your left. Taking the marked coin with the same hand, you do the 2nd technique with it, simultaneously lowering the counter coin from her palm into her left hand.

This is a very elegant and effective substitution. Some magicians are skilled enough to make this substitution by using the 1st instead of the 2nd, so that the real coin takes the place of the substitute in the palm; but for this purpose more than ordinary dexterity is needed.

Substitution 4th. To make this substitution, you must hold the dummy coin in the palm of your right hand and the marked coin between the thumb and second finger of your left hand.

Then, by means of the 4th technique, you take the coin with your right hand and at the same moment discover the counterfeit that was already there.

Substitution 5th. Hide the dummy coin in the palm of your right hand, and hold the marked coin open in the palm of your left.

Take the latter with your right hand, while at the same time dropping the counter coin into your left hand, and the fingers of your left hand should be slightly bent in order to more conveniently hide the falling coin.

Show the marked coin in your right hand and say: “You saw that I took this coin openly. I will make her return invisibly to her original place.”

Hold your left hand, do the 1st or 2nd technique with your right hand, moving it towards the left, but without bringing your hands together. The marked coin will be hidden in the palm of your right hand.

Immediately then open your left hand and show a dummy coin, which the audience will consider to be real.

There are many other substitutions; their number is even too large to describe them all in this book. If you are skilled at hiding coins in your palm and performing various tricks, then you can invent ways of substitution yourself.

Probably everyone at least once in their life wanted to master some kind of trick and feel like a real wizard. Impress your family and friends spectacular focus not difficult - a training video will help with this, which will explain step by step the technique of performing the trick with coins “Coins move across”. Does it seem unrealistic? Watch the video “Secrets of tricks with coins - watch online” and understand that it is possible! To do this you will need a few coins, sleight of hand, training... and a little magic!

Video training “Secrets of tricks with coins”

Trick: “Coins Move Across”

To perform the trick, you need to stock up on four identical coins and use everything that is at hand. It could be a napkin, scarf, towel... The main thing is that the product is square in shape. You will also need 2 coverings: you can use paper napkins, playing cards... whatever is available.

Let's get to the trick:

1. Place four coins in the corners of the napkin in a square shape.
2. Before performing the trick, it is necessary to prepare the audience well for future manipulations: to do this, we aimlessly move napkins or cards from place to place several times. It’s a good idea to wave and move them and thus attract the viewer’s attention to them.
3. All these manipulations in the previous step prepare the ground for the upcoming trick, which is better to start doing after one or two minutes, once everything necessary is prepared.
4. During the trick, covering the coins with covers, you need to say something like “This is your side, this is my side, this is the left, this is the right...” All this will distract the viewer’s attention from the main thing and allow the trick to take place.
5. Carefully covering the coin with the coating, discreetly pinch it with your fingers under the napkin. To make this happen as unnoticeably as possible, with all your gestures, words and emotions, draw the viewer’s attention to the other coin at the end of the napkin.
6. Then we wave the napkins a few more times and place the coin in another place, right in front of the audience.
7. Then we carefully move the coin under the napkin and bring it to the edge, discreetly pinch it between our fingers and the coin is in our hands!
8. During all important manipulations, it is necessary to distract the viewer and draw his attention to another coin, showing with all your intentions that it is this coin that interests you most at this moment.
9. When collecting coins in one place, show that there are already 2, 3 of them... this will surprise the viewer and make it possible to take another one as discreetly as possible.
10. Then we show that there are already three coins in one corner (the fourth is already between the fingers) and emphasize that only one remains in the corner under the napkin. Using active movements, we depict how the coin moves to the three in the corner, and imperceptibly add a fourth to them, covering the coins for a second with a napkin.
11. We open the napkin - there are all 4 coins under it! The simplicity of the trick is that all the coins move in the same ways and the main thing is to distract the viewer’s attention and perform the trick as naturally and believably as possible.

This interesting and simple trick can be done anywhere and anytime, because everything you need for it can be found in your pocket! The main thing is to be as focused as possible and constantly distract the viewer to another angle. Remember that the audience is looking where the magician is. If you do all the manipulations calmly, confidently, skillfully and without looking at your hands, then after a few attempts the trick will definitely succeed. Give your loved ones a piece of magic!