To P e r f o r m. Place the dime and penny on the table about a foot apart and turn both coins over one at a time

Place the dime and penny on the table about a foot apart and turn both coins over one at a time. Say, “A dime and a penny.”

Curl your left fingers into a very loose fist (photo 1). The opening between your first fin-ger and thumb at the top should go clear down and out the bot-tom of the hand.

Move your left fist to the edge of the table so that while

the lower side of the hand touches the table edge, the opening at the bottom of the fist is beyond the edge, over your lap (photo 2).

Pick up the penny with your right hand and drop it into the top of your fist (photo 3). It will drop straight down, out the bottom, and into your lap (photo 4 shows the penny dropping).

Immediately close your fist a lit-tle more tightly and move your left hand forward. Pick up the dime and hand it to someone, asking that per-son to insert it into your fist.

Say, “Name either coin, the dime or the penny.” No matter what coinis chosen, the end result is the same: the penny will disappear while the dime remains in your hand. In order to make this logical, you will say one of two things:

*If the penny is named, say, “Watch,” snap your fingers, thenopen your left hand and conclude,

“The coin you chose, the penny, has disappeared. Only the dime is left.”

*If the dime is named, say, “Watch,” snap your fingers, then open your left hand and conclude, “Only the coin you chose, the dime, re-mains! The penny has vanished.”

Drop the dime on the table to end.

37.

Prophecy

Criss brings out a deck of cards and hands it to someone with in-structions to shuffle it thoroughly. Criss spreads the deck facedown on the table and asks three people to take one card each. Afterward, he gathers the rest of the deck and puts it away.

Next, he takes the three chosen cards and shows them around—it doesn’t matter if he sees them. He turns to one person and asks her to remember one of the three cards, but not to say its name aloud. He turns to a different person and asks him to feel the interior of the inner breast pocket of his jacket to make certain it’s empty. Then Criss places the three chosen cards into that pocket. Criss looks intently at the woman he asked to think of one of the cards. He slowly removes two cards from his pocket, but keeps them back toward audience so the faces cannot be seen. He puts these with the deck. That leaves only one card in his pocket—he asks the woman to name the card she is thinking of, then brings the final card out of his pocket. It is, indeed, the thought-of card.

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