To P e r f o r m. Show the other quarter, the one with the identical date to the quar-ter you’ve secretly loaded into the sugar packet

Show the other quarter, the one with the identical date to the quar-ter you’ve secretly loaded into the sugar packet, to the audience and ask one person to read the date aloud so everyone knows it.

Criss has already explained “How to Vanish a Coin: The French Drop,” but if you haven’t read that yet, please go back and do it now. You’ll need to have already prac-ticed and learned that sleight in or-der to perform this trick.

Hold the quarter in your left hand, in proper position for the van-ish. Pretend to take the coin with your right hand, secretly allowing it to fall onto your left fingers.

Pick your left arm up so your 4 right hand can pretend to rub thecoin into your left elbow (photo 3).

You will find that your left hand automatically moves near the collar of your shirt—it’s easy to drop the concealed coin down your collar (photo 4). It will fall into your shirt, but the audience won’t see that—they will be watching your right hand rub the coin they think it holds into your left elbow.

Open your right hand and move it away from your elbow to show that the coin has disappeared. Show both hands to be completely empty.

Reach over to the sugar bowl and take out the sugar packet you have prepared in advance. Hold it by the left long edge with your left thumb and fingers. The side with the slit should be toward you so the audience cannot see it (photo 5). Your right thumb and fingers rip open the top of the packet by tearing along the secret slit (pho-to 6). This cleverly destroys the evidence!

Turn the sugar packet upside down so all the sugar and the quar-ter fall out (photo 7). Ask someone to pluck the coin out of the sugar and read the date.

Advanced Version: You can make the trick moremystifying by doing some of the prep work in advance. Use a packet of Sweet‘n Low—you know that every restaurant will have these in their sugar bowl. Make an X on one of your quarters with a marker. Next, slit open the packet of Sweet’n Low very carefully and put your marked quarter inside. Now glue the packet closed. You’ll find that it’s much easier to secretly load the packet of Sweet’n Low into the sugar bowl at the restaurant if you have it all prepared and in your pocket in advance—you have much more time, and many more opportuni-ties to innocently push the sugar bowl out of the way during the meal. When you want to perform the trick, bring out the other quarter with a matching date and openly draw an almost identical X on it with the marker. Now proceed as already explained.

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Tapped Out!

Criss is holding a coin in his left hand and a pen in his right. He tells the audience that he will make the coin disappear by tapping it with the pen. However, the pen disappears instead. Criss shows the audience that he secretly stuck the pen behind his ear when they weren’t looking. Then, the coin vanishes.

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