User Manual
MAGIC WITH EVERYdAY ITEMS
AFTER DINNER MIRACLE
State that you can tell the denomination of any coin
placed under a cup while you are out of the room.
Leave the room and a coin is placed under a cup.
Come back and immediately announce the denomi-
nation of the coin.
SECRET: An accomplice is used. Before dinner teach
him/her that the position of the handle of the cup
acts as the key to the denomination of the coin. To
indicate a penny, handle of cup points to far left; to
the far right for a nickel; for a quarter; to the near left.
(Note illustration) Be sure your assistant does not
turn the cup
handle AFTER he has put the cup over the coin. He/
she simply places the cup over the coin with the
handle already pointing in the proper position, never
touching the cup again after the coin is covered.
FOUR COINS INTO FIVE
Place four coins on a table. Roll up your sleeves. Now
cup your left hand on the side of the table. With your
right hand, move the four coins into the left. Now ask
a friend to blow on your hand…as he does, slowly
open your hand. Show ve coins instead of four!
SECRET: An extra coin is attached with tape under the
table. The ngers of performer’s left hand reaches
under the table and picks up the hidden coin as the
four other coins on top of the table are being moved
toward left hand.
YOU CAN’T LOSE
Throw a nickel in the air and ask, “Will it fall heads
or tails?” You can’t lose, because when the coin falls,
even though it seems to others to have been caught
in your hand, actually, it falls in your sleeve. Note
illustration. SECRET: As you throw a coin up with
the right hand, stand so your right palm is toward
you and catch the coin in your sleeve. As the coin
hits your sleeve, close your hand as though you had
caught it in your hand. Practice this in front of a mir-
ror and you will be amazed at the eect.
MAGICIAN’S FRIEND
Secretly put a dab of soap on your fourth nger as
shown in gure 4. You are ready for the trick. Show
the coin in the palm of your hand. (gure 1), close
your hand (gure 2), open it (gure 3). The coin has
vanished. SECRET: As you close your hand, press the
ngertip with the soap on the coin. As you open your
hand, the coin sticks to the soap and is hidden. The
audience will be more than mystied provided you
roll your sleeves up before doing this trick.
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