To P e r f o r m. Borrow a quarter from someone and place it on the table, about a foot away from your edge, tails side up

Borrow a quarter from someone and place it on the table, about a foot away from your edge, tails side up. Say, “I will make the coin pass through the table magically—solid through solid, matter through matter.”

Open the napkin once (so it’s still folded in half) and lay it on the table. Turn the glass on its side, with

the open end toward you, and place it at one end of the napkin. Roll the napkin around the glass (photo 1), keeping the bottom edge of the nap-kin in line with the edge of the glass

(photo 2). Stand the wrapped glass

upright. Now twist the portion of the napkin that extends past the top of the glass (photo 3). The napkin now forms a “shell” over the glass.

Make sure that the napkin is not folded too tightly—the glass must be able to slide easily in and out.

	Say, “I have to cover the coin
	with this glass so that you won’t
	see the hole in the table open up
	when the coin goes through. Some
	people go crazy when they see the
	hole in the table.” Place the covered
	glass over the coin, mouth down
	(photo 4).
	Snap your fingers and announce
	that the coin has passed through
	the table. Lift the glass with your
right hand—the coin will still be
	on the table. Say, “That’s strange,
	I don’t know why it didn’t work.”
	Replace the glass over the coin,
	covering it.

Again snap your fingers and announce that the coin has passed through the table. Lift the glass

⁴ with your right hand—the coin is still there. Now say, “I know—the coin needs to be heads side up!”

Your right hand lifts the glass and moves inward to the edge of the table while your left hand simultaneously moves outward to pick up the coin (photo 5).

While everyone is watching your left hand turn the coin over, your right hand relaxes its grip on the napkin just enough to al-low the glass to silently slide out and into your lap (photo 6 is an exposed view). Make sure that the lower edge of the napkin is be-neath the table edge at that mo-ment so nobody sees the glass fall. If you have rolled the glass in the napkin correctly, it will slide out with no trouble. If it won’t come out, then you probably rolled the napkin around the glass too tightly (or you are holding it too tightly with your hand).

The instant the glass is gone, your right hand moves forward and covers the coin with the nap-kin “shell,” which will look as if the glass is still under it. You can set the napkin “shell” on the table over the coin and move both hands away—it won’t fall over.

Hold both your hands, palm down, a few inches above the nap-kin. Ask someone to put his hands on top of yours (photo 7). Quickly pull your hands out from under his hands and, before he can do any-

thing, put your hands on top of his (photo 8) and push them downward so they crush the napkin “shell”—the glass has vanished (photo 9).

Do not bring the glass out from under the table—leave it “van-ished”! You’ll have plenty of time later on (perhaps as you’re leaving) to sneak the glass out of your lap and back onto the table.

2.

Levitating Roll

Criss shows both sides of a napkin, which he holds in front of him-self. Suddenly a mysterious shape appears behind the napkin and pushes it forward. After a moment, a dinner roll floats up from behind the napkin and dances around—then it vanishes and the napkin may be examined.

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