MAGIC U CAN DO IT 11

The dissolving coin

-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, and the upon a second look, the coin has dissolved out of glass.

-Trick
In order to do this effect, you need a clear glass cup, with no special bottom. Hold in 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 or the glass then it slides into your fingers. The noise makes the audience think the coin landed inside the glass, but you just maneuvered it under the glass so that it rally 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 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 colour. 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 coins, tell them about an ancient Egyptian teleporting law that says sometimes, if the person concentrates hard enough, that the coin will move from closed hand to 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 ring 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 your hands, there will be two in your left hand and one none in your right. I would recommend using pennies. Presto!!

The quick coin trick

Ask your audience for a coin –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 comer 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 clotch.