To P r e p a r e

You will need an ordinary quarter.

One of the basic things a magician must know is how to make a coin disappear. Even though it’s not that difficult, you’ll have to prac-tice a bit and follow these in-

structions closely.

To P e r f o r m
First, take a quarter and hold
it in your left hand exactly as you
see in photo 1: your left hand is
palm up, the fingers are point-
ing to the right. The coin is held
by its edge between your thumb
and first finger.
Hold your right hand with its
palm toward you and your fin-
gers pointing to the left (photo 2).
Your hands should be held at a
comfortable height, a few inches

above waist level if you’re standing. If you’re sitting, then they have to be above the tabletop.

Bring your right hand over to your left hand—your right hand is apparently going to take the coin. Your right fingers move in front of the coin, covering it from the au-dience, while your thumb goes be-hind the coin (photo 3 is what the audience sees, photo 4 is an exposed view).

The minute the audience can no longer see the coin, raise your left thumb very slightly—just enough to allow the coin to fall inward onto your left fingers (photo 5).

Press your right thumb against the inner side of your right fingers, exactly as if you are holding the coin in place (but of course you’re not, since it has fallen onto your left fingers—but you must mimic what you are supposed to be doing) (photo 6).

Several things now happen at the same time: raise your right hand, turning it palm up so your fingers point upward (photo 7).

Watch your right hand intently
(photo 8). If you watch your right
hand, so will the audience. As you
are watching your right hand as-
cend, your left hand drops away
and curls into a loose fist.
Lean forward and blow on your
right fingers. Rub your thumb and
fingertips together, then turn your
hand toward the audience and open
it to show that the coin has vanished
(photo 9).
If you have a pen in the left breast
pocket, you can secretly get rid of the
coin in the following way. After you’ve
supposedly taken the coin in your right
hand, your left hand goes to your left
breast pocket. Dip your fingers inside
and drop the coin, then remove the pen.
Wave the pen over your closed right
fist, then open your hand to reveal that
the coin has vanished!
Advanced Blow-Out:
Now that you know how to prop-
erly vanish a coin, we can do the trick
“Blow-Out” a bit differently. Have a
straw (already out of its paper wrapper)
lying on the table in front of you.

Borrow a quarter from someone and pretend to take it with your right hand as just explained. While your right hand moves upward, pre-tending to hold the coin, your left hand moves downward and picks up the straw from the table (photo 10). You can do this even though the coin is resting inside your left fingers, and holding the straw gives your left hand a natural “look.”

Instead of vanishing the coin, your right hand pretends to put it in your mouth. Now perform the last part of “Blow-Out” exactly as explained: your left hand raises the straw to your mouth. Once your right hand grasps the top part of the straw, your left hand can make a fist around the bottom. Blow through the straw and allow the quarter to drop to the table, falling out of your left hand. It looks as if you’ve blown the quarter through the straw.

16.

Coin from Roll

Criss breaks open a dinner roll and finds a coin inside.

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