In any company there is always a person who knows how to cheer and cheer up. Often this is a good storyteller, a lover of jokes, or a born entertainer. You do not have such talents, but also do not mind being in the spotlight?

There is a way out: you can try to master the art of magic in order to amaze your friends with real miracles. And for this it is not at all necessary to dissolve in water or cut yourself in two. Start with a small but no less interesting performance - learn how to do magic tricks with coins. So, we reveal the secrets of illusionists.

You will need:

Appearing inside the glass

You need to prepare in advance, and you can show the trick only once a night. You will need: a transparent glass, a coin, glue and a handkerchief.

Glue the penny to the bottom. Show the audience an empty container, holding it from below, you can turn it over and shake it. Then pour water into it, once again demonstrating that there is nothing in the glass.

Throw a handkerchief on top and announce that a coin will now appear inside. Here it is appropriate to say some kind of abracadabra or make magical passes with your hands. Remove the handkerchief and invite the audience to look into the container - the coin, as you promised, lies at the bottom.

The secret is an optical illusion. When you look at the glass from the side, it seems that there is nothing in it, you can only see the object from above.

invisible rise

Put a coin on the table and invite someone to take it without touching the table or the penny itself. Naturally, no one can do this.

The trick is that the hand must be kept 5 cm from the coin and blow on it with great force. Thus, the air is able to lift the object and toss it directly into the palm of your hand. We do not promise that the trick will turn out the first time, but after several trainings you will learn everything.

Rack on edge

Ask the audience large coin. Then stand facing them with your right hand extended forward, palm down. Place the disc between your fingers. Then carefully remove your left hand - the penny will remain on the edge and will not fall.

The essence of the usual pin. As you set the penny on the fingers of your right hand, move the small pin head down with the thumb of your left hand, positioning just behind it. The coin will stand exactly on the edge, leaning on a support invisible to the viewer.

Lemon

Prepare some fruit and place on a plate. Invite the audience to make sure that they have ordinary lemons in front of them. Ask which lemon to cut. Divide it with a knife into two parts - there will be a coin inside.

What's the catch? Everything is elementary - you need to glue a coin to the knife with a thin layer of plasticine (closer to the handle, where you cover it with your hand). When pulling out the knife, clamp the blade with two halves of a lemon and you're done!

Brush

Put the coin in your palm. In the other hand, take a regular brush. Invite any spectator to scrape a coin from your hand. And no matter how hard he tries, it won't work. As an intrigue, you can even promise a prize to the winner. But that won't happen.

What is the secret of focus? It's just that the bristles of the brush are elastic and always work in different directions - some move it up, while others move it down. In such a cunning way, the object always remains in the center of the palm.

disappearance

Take a penny out of your pocket and squeeze it in your fist. Then ask someone who wants to hold your hand and make sure that the coin does not disappear. He will not succeed, because as soon as you open your fist, there will be no coin in it.

How to do such a trick? Get lots of change out of your pocket different denominations. Pick one, say you don't need the others, and dump them back. Make it look like you are holding a coin between the thumb and forefinger of your right hand. In fact, there is no trace of her, since she went into the pocket along with the others.

All these are the most simple tricks with a coin that is easy to teach even a child. If you have a more demanding viewer, and you do not intend to stop there, read on.

Sleight of hand

First of all, you need to work out several manual techniques to automatism:

Holding a coin in an open hand

Put 5 cents in the center of the brush and very slowly begin to close it. If you choose the right place, the palm will begin to contract, securely fixing the position of the coin. Now you can wave your hand as you like without fear that it will fall out.

Practice on both hands. At the same time, you should show the audience only the outer or side part of the palm.

Hiding

There are several tricks that allow you to make the appearance of moving an object from one hand to another. We recommend that you study them all, since the same method will quickly arouse suspicion among an attentive counterpart.

1. Take a coin with your index and middle fingers, holding it with your thumb. Then bend it, and pull the coin to the palm of your hand - it will fall exactly at the place that you identified in the previous exercise. Now you need to work with both hands. One hides the coin, and the other seems to take it. As a result, the empty palm is kept closed, and the hand with the coin must be opened and freely lowered.
2. Hold the coin between the index and ring fingers of your right hand. Moving it towards the left, at the same time put your thumb on the coin, wrapping it with your upper joint. Bend your finger and hide the coin in this place, keeping it slightly bent. At the same time, make a movement with your other hand, as if the money is already in it.
3. Place a coin in the middle of your palm, and with your other hand make a realistic movement, as if you are taking it and hiding it in your fist. Lower your first hand, holding it open - the penny is hiding in our reliable hollow.
4. The coin lies on the open hand. Move the other one so that the thumb goes under it, and the rest on top, and immediately close your palm. From the outside it seems as if you took the object, but in fact you drop it back, covering it with your fingers.
5. The penny is held by the index, middle and thumb fingers, the inside of the palm is directed towards the magician. With the same fingers of the other hand, you seem to grab it, while allowing it to slip into a half-bent palm.
6. Ideal for large coin use. Hold it with your index, middle and thumb, and at the moment when you put it on the other hand, move it with the tip of your thumb to the middle phalanges. The hand remains open, and the coin is held by the ends by the pressure of the index and little fingers.

All movements should be calm, soft and as plausible as possible. The gaze should always be directed to an empty hand, this encourages the audience to also focus on it.

There are other ways, but for a start it is enough to master the described ones. Do not forget that these are just tricks, not actual tricks. You should not be limited to just hiding - you can surprise the audience with dexterity a couple of times, but at the same time you will reveal half your secrets. We recommend that you necessarily accompany all actions with magic spells, waving of hands, the presence of a “magic” wand, which often helps to hide the location of money and hide it in a secluded place, will not hurt.

Now it's time to learn more advanced coin tricks.

glass penetration

Show an empty glass and tightly cover its open part with your hand. Turn it upside down, tap it with a coin and push it inside - it will ring between the walls and the palm.

To do this trick, you need two absolutely identical pennies. One is shown to the audience, and the other is hidden in an open palm. You cover the container with this hand, knock on the bottom with the first coin and, with the last movement, release the secret money inside, and quickly and imperceptibly hide the one that was knocked.

The missing money

Place your left elbow on the table and start rubbing a coin into your forearm with your right hand. Let it fall on the table in a few seconds - this is necessary for focus.

The good news about coin tricks is that you can perform them almost anywhere and you can easily find the props (look behind the couch). You don't need much preparation or explanation, so with a little training you can quickly add some fun mischief to your daily routine. All magicians must have manual dexterity. Practice well and you can show it anytime, anywhere.

2. Fold the bottom edge of the paper over the coin, leaving a six millimeter difference between the two edges of the paper.

3. Fold the right edge of the paper back behind the coin.

4. Bend the left back behind the coin.

5. Make the last fold by wrapping the top back behind the coin. The coin appears to be completely wrapped, but in fact the top edge is still open.

6. You now turn the envelope over so that the open side allows the coin to slip into your palm, where it remains, while you "prove" the disappearance of the coin to the audience by tearing it up.

master of illusion

Even though you need to carry a lot of coins, you don't really use any! Your audience will think that you are tossing a coin from one hand to another, but this is an illusion!

1. Act out the scene by pulling a handful of coins from your pocket - let the audience see that the coins are real. Choose one coin and pretend to take it - you will need to practice this! Put all coins back in your pocket.

2. Toss an imaginary coin back and forth from one hand to the other, making a soft flip as you pretend to catch the coin each time. Practice with a real coin to get a real sound. If you relax your fingers and slap them on the bottom of your palm while "catching" the coin, you should get the right sound.

3. Do this a few times, then stop and pretend to be holding an imaginary coin in one of your hands. Ask the audience to guess how she landed: “Heads or tails?” Of course, when you open your hand, the coin won't be there. This is good, because the audience will think that you have it in your other hand.

4. Slowly open your other hand to show that it also does not contain a coin - and bow to the applause of the audience.

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Before embarking on coin tricks, the beginner should learn, by exercise, a few manual tricks that demonstrate dexterity.

The dexterity of the hands and the attentiveness acquired by these exercises, if he diligently puts them into practice, is of great value. It is safe to say that a skilled card conjurer will easily learn any branch of this magical art - the art of trick.

The first thing a beginner must learn is the ability to hide in the palm, that is, to quietly hold an object in an open hand by contracting the palm.

In order to acquire such a skill, take a coin the size of a five-kopeck coin and place it on your open hand (see Fig. 59).

Then close your hand very slowly, and if you put the coin in the right place (which will soon be revealed by your attempts), then it will be held by contraction of the palm around the edges of the coin and you can
completely free to move the brush and hand, without fear of dropping it.

You must remember, when practicing in this regard, that the inside of the palm should be turned either down or towards your torso, as any careless movement may reveal a hidden coin.

When you are able to freely hold a coin in your right hand, do the same exercises with your left hand; after which you can replace the coin with a clock, an egg, or a lemon, as all these items are often used in magic tricks.

Once you have thoroughly learned these first tricks, you can begin to learn different ways to hide a coin in your hand.

All methods have the same goal - to create the appearance of moving an object from one hand to another, although in reality the object remains in the hand that it seemed to have just left.

Since the same movement, if repeated often, can arouse suspicion in the audience, it is useful to have different ways of doing it. For the sake of clarity of their sequence, we will number the described methods.
Reception 1st. Take the coin in your right hand with the second, third and thumb (see Fig. 61) so that these fingers really hold it, and the thumb only supports it. After that, release your thumb and bend the second and third fingers to the palm with a coin balancing on them (see Fig. 62).

If the coin has been properly placed on the fingers, you will see that by this movement you place it in the palm of your hand, just in the place mentioned above as the most convenient.

When you extend your fingers again, the coin remains in your palm, as in fig. 60.

If you have learned to do this easily with the hand at rest, then you must practice the ability to do the same while the right hand is in motion towards the left hand, which should be open until the fingers of the right hand are touch her palm, and it will seem that she encloses a coin, which you seem to have shifted into it with this movement.

After that, the left hand should remain closed, as if holding a coin, and the right hand should be lowered and opened, as if it were empty.

In case an object is larger than a coin, such as a watch or an egg, you should not take it with your fingers, but simply leave it in the palm of your right hand, slightly closing this hand while moving it towards your left.

A greater stretch of the surface in this case will give you the full opportunity to hold it without squeezing it in your palm. Just remember that in any case, both hands should act as harmoniously as when you really transfer something from hand to hand.

Therefore, one should raise the left hand towards the right; but it should not begin its movement earlier than the right one. Once this is done, skillful use of the wand can help to conceal the fact that the item is still in your right hand.

For this purpose, the magician can put it before moving the object under the arm of one or the other hand, as if to free his hands.

Immediately after moving the object, the right hand should, making some backward movement, which in this case will seem quite natural, grab the wand, remove it from under the arm and then hold it until it is necessary to manipulate the coin.

The position of the fingers while holding the wand should be such as to hide the hidden coin, while the hand should appear quite free and natural. The same method can be applied with the same convenience to other methods.

Reception 2nd. It is somewhat lighter than the 1st dose and can, in some cases, replace it. Grab the coin with the index and ring fingers of the right hand by its edges, squeezing the edges of the coin with the side parts of the fingers and supporting it from behind with the second finger (see Fig. 63).
Point your right hand towards your left and at the same time slide your thumb gently over the front of the coin until the top knuckle passes over its outer edge (see fig. 64).

Then bend your thumb and the coin will be well hidden between this joint and the connection between the thumb and the palm (see Fig. 65).

Just as in the previous case, the left hand should close at the moment the right touches it, and the thumb of the right hand should remain slightly bent inward towards the palm so that the coin is not visible to the audience.

This is very fast way hide and with skillful execution, a complete illusion occurs.

Reception 3rd. Hold your left hand palm up with the coin in the position shown in fig. 59. Move your right hand towards your left, make a movement with your fingers as if you were taking a coin, and immediately close your hand.

At the same time, slightly close your left hand so that the palm of your hand grasps the coin, as in fig. 67 and lower it so that it hangs freely along your body.

Reception 4th.(Turnstile). It is sometimes called the "French way". This is a very easy and at the same time very convenient way. Hold your left hand palm up with a coin as in fig. 66.

Move the right hand towards the left, moving the thumb of the right hand under the coin and the rest of the fingers on it, and at the same time close them.

It will appear to the audience that you have grasped the coin with your thumb and other fingers, while in reality you are simply dropping it into the palm of your left hand while it is covered by the fingers of your right hand (see Fig. 68).

Move your right hand back and forth after you take it away from your left hand, following it with your eyes, which will divert the attention of the audience from the other hand.

Don't be in too much of a hurry to lower your left hand, but slightly turn your palm towards you with slightly bent fingers, and after a while, lower it down.

The cavity formed by the bent fingers is large enough to hold the coin. This method is also convenient for smaller coins, because they are difficult to hide quickly by ordinary means. It is also very suitable for ball tricks.

Reception 5th.(Tweezers). This is a modification of the method just described. The coin is held as in fig. 69 thumb, index and middle fingers of the left hand.

Then you make a movement, as if taking it with the same fingers of the other hand, which at the same time, as it were, grabs the coin, being the back side facing the audience.

At this moment, when the coin is covered by the fingers of the right hand, it can carefully slide into the palm of the left, and the right immediately rises, as if enclosing it.

Reception 6th. This method is adapted to the use of three or four coins, since the clinking of one coin against another contributes to the illusion. You take the coins in your right hand, as shown in fig. 70, slightly bent.

Sharply direct the right hand to the left with the fingers forward so that the tips of the fingers of the right hand fall almost at a right angle to the palm of the left hand, and the fingers should be slightly bent.

The coins remain in the cavity formed by the fingers of the right hand, as in fig. 71, instead of being thrown into the left hand (as it seems to the eyes and ears of the audience).

They flip over completely, producing a loud tinkle when the hands come together.

The left hand, of course, is closed, and the thumb of the right hand can gently press the coins so that when the hand is lowered along your torso, they do not make noise and thus do not betray their presence in it.

Reception 7th. This method is best applied to a large coin like a metal ruble. But if the student has a small hand (a very important disadvantage for tricks in general), he can apply this method to another coin.

Take the coin in your right hand with your forefinger, middle and thumb, and while you seem to be moving it to your left hand, gently bring it with the tip of your thumb to the position indicated in fig. 72.

Moreover, it is held by the pressure of the first and fourth fingers on its opposite edges, while the hand remains completely open.

Reception 8th. The peculiarity of this technique is that during the execution of his wand is held in the hand - a case to which all other techniques are inapplicable.

Holding the wand and coin in the right hand, as shown in fig. 73, you firmly press the edge of the coin into the palm of your left hand and instantly squeeze this hand.
As a result of this movement, the coin (pressed only lightly) moves back to the position shown in fig. 74, and in this position, being behind the index, middle and ring fingers, remains completely covered.

Without wasting time, you move the fingers of your left hand out of their previous position and gradually squeeze them, grabbing the coin, since their extended position for a long time may seem suspicious.

But in doing this, one should be careful not to tinkle the coin on the rod, for this sound will certainly attract the attention of others.

It should not be assumed that all the above techniques are used by every magician. Almost every one of them has their favorite trick or tricks.

The beginner must experience by experience which method best suits the arrangement of his hand. We have described these techniques as if they were constantly performed by the same hand.

But if you want to achieve perfection, then you must practice until you learn how to do them both from the left hand to the right, and from the right to the left.

It is advisable to practice in front of a mirror, performing in front of it, firstly, everything that you subsequently intend to perform in front of others, and carefully monitor the position and movement of your hands.

You must learn to act in such a way that the audience does not have any suspicions. You must get used to keeping your eyes constantly on the hand in which, as everyone believes, the object is located.

This is the best means to ensure that the eyes and attention of the spectators also follow the same direction. When you get used to accurately performing these tricks with one coin, you can start practicing with smaller coins, with two, and then with three or four at the same time.

One caveat needs to be made here. These techniques should by no means be considered tricks themselves, but only means for performing tricks.

If the conjurer, as it were, transfers a coin, for example, from his right hand to his left, shows that it has disappeared from his left hand, thus forcing the audience to guess that it has remained in his right hand, then they will, of course, be surprised at the dexterity with which he momentarily averted their eyes.

But in doing so, they will half penetrate the secret of those tricks in which the coin is hidden in the palm of your hand.

If it is necessary to directly reproduce a coin, then the magician must do this, as if finding it in the hair or in the sideburns of some spectator, or in another place convenient for him, while you must first announce in what place it will be found, thus distracting , away from the general attention.

When the coin is already in his hand, he only needs to transfer it to the fingertips of the same hand when he touches it to the named place, as if taking it out from there.

After these instructions relating to the hand in which the coin actually is, a few words should be said about the hand in which there is no coin.

Wherever you place an object, whether in a clenched hand or in an apparatus from which it must subsequently disappear, you must make it a rule not to show that the object has disappeared from there without some preliminary magical action, however small, which may seem like a plausible reason. to such a disappearance.

The most insignificant action is enough - touching with a rod, pronouncing a magical formula like the word "pass", pressing with a finger; but in one form or another this ceremony must never be missed.

So, taking the simplest example, we assume that by technique 1, you put a coin in your left hand, actually leaving it hidden in the palm of your right hand.

If you simply open your left hand and show that the coin is not there, then the audience will, of course, guess the truth, that is, that you did not put the coins there at all.

But if you hesitate a minute or two before you open your hand so that the spectators are accustomed to counting the coin in it, and then, before opening it, mysteriously touch the hand with your wand, or simply, slowly opening your hand, touch wrist with the second and third fingers of the hand holding the coin (see Fig. 75), then, by doing so, not only give the hand an occupation incompatible with hiding anything in it, but convince the audience that this gesture causes the disappearance of the coin .

It is remarkable what effect such deceit has on the judgment of the spectators. And although they know very well that touching the clenched hand with a wand or the finger of the other hand cannot produce the disappearance of the coin, but since it is certain that the coin has disappeared, their mind involuntarily accepts the explanation that you offer.

Before the hand is unclenched, the hand that holds the object has already somehow freed itself from it. In this case, the viewer already loses the opportunity to assume that you are holding the object in the hand in which you originally showed it, because this hand turns out to be empty.

And since the complete disappearance of the coin remains an obvious fact, you can leave the viewer to explain this fact as he pleases.

The various techniques described above serve not only to make an object disappear, but also to secretly replace it with another similar one.

This exchange is constantly used in magic; we may even say that three-fourths of her miracles are based on it. When the substitution is made, the dummy object remains in full view of the spectators, and the conjurer, having secretly obtained the actual object in his possession, disposes of it as the trick requires. We will now describe various ways substitution, denoting them in the same numbers.

Change 1st. Let's say that you want to change the coin marked by the spectators for some other one.

You hide the last one, which we will call “dummy”, “changed”, in the palm of your left hand, trying to make this hand face away from the audience.

Taking the marked coin in your right hand, you hide it in the palm of your hand using technique 1, but instead of pinching your left hand when the fingers of your right touch it, you leave the first casually open and show a fake coin lying on it, which is taken by the public for a real one. just placed there with your right hand.

Substitution 2nd. It differs only in that you do the 2nd reception with your right hand instead of the 1st.

Substitution 3rd. And here you resort to technique 2, but instead of your right hand, you hide a counterfeit coin in your left. Taking the marked coin with the same hand, you do the 2nd technique with it, simultaneously lowering the counterfeit coin from its palm into your left hand.

This is a very elegant and effective substitution. Some conjurers are skillful enough to make this substitution by taking the 1st instead of the 2nd, so that the real coin takes the place of the counterfeit in the palm; but for this purpose more than ordinary dexterity is needed.

Substitution 4th. For this substitution, you must hold the fake coin in the palm of your right hand, and the marked coin between the thumb and second finger of your left.

Then, by means of the 4th technique, you take the coin with your right hand and at the same moment you find the counterfeit, which was already there.

Substitution 5th. Hide the fake coin in the palm of your right hand, and keep the marked coin open in the palm of your left.

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Take the latter with your right hand, at the same time dropping the counterfeit into your left hand, and the fingers of the left hand should be slightly bent in order to more conveniently hide the falling coin.

Show the marked coin in your right hand and say: “You saw that I openly took this coin. I will make her return invisibly to her original place.”

Hold the left hand, make the 1st or 2nd reception with the right hand, moving it to the left, but without bringing the hands together. The marked coin will be hidden in the palm of the right hand.

Immediately then open your left hand and show a counterfeit coin, which the audience will assume is real.

There are many other substitutions; their number is even too great to describe them all in this book. If you are skilled at hiding coins in the palm of your hand and performing various tricks, then you yourself can invent ways of substitution.

Coin magic tricks are a great starting point for the beginner illusionist. In this article, you will learn four easy magic tricks that, after some practice, will be able to spice up any boring moment. But in no case do not reveal your secrets, let your friends guess where you got these "magical" abilities.

Steps

Focus with coin teleportation

First, inform the audience that you are going to magically move the coin from one hand to the other. Let them doubt it for a second. But be persuasive and explain that you have been studying the forgotten art of telekinesis for some time now. The more the audience doubts, the funnier the effect of performing the trick will be.

• The success of a trick is entirely based on the confidence of the magician and his ability to distract attention. The more you try to "warm up" the audience, the less they will follow your hands and the manipulations you perform. If you put a little more emphasis on staging your show, the audience will be too busy being skeptical of you.

1. Make a fist, but leave tiny gap between index and middle fingers. Look at the video for this step, do you see a small gap between the magician's fingers? This is the ideal option.

   • In the future, the coin will have to pop out of this hand without her disclosure. It's easy to mess things up here, so at the very beginning, try to make sure that the coin is located correctly in the fist so that it can freely pass through this slot.

2. Bring the hand with the coin over the other hand, dropping the coin into it and not opening your fist. Everything should look like you are just shaking a coin in your fist over your other hand. Spectators should not notice how the coin falls into the second hand. As soon as the coin is in the other hand, squeeze it into a fist as well.

   • When dropping the coin, widen the gap between the fingers in the fist a little so that the coin passes to the other hand more easily, otherwise it may get stuck in the original hand.

3. Ask a volunteer to say which hand the coin is in. It is hoped that this person will choose the original hand, since you have never opened it to transfer the coin to the other hand.

   • If the volunteer chooses a new hand, ask him to explain how others possible In a way, if not by amazing telekinesis, you could move a coin from one hand to the other.

4. Slowly open both arms: empty initial and second with a coin. If you obviously did not move your fingers when you dropped the coin from your fist and managed to catch it in time with your other hand, your friends will be delighted! Can you now move the table from one place to another?!

   • If you find it difficult to master this trick, try taking a smaller coin. It will be easier to drop it through the gap between the fingers.

   Focus with the disappearance of the coin in the elbow

   1. Announce the focus to the audience. Let them know that you can make a five-ruble coin change color if you rub it hard enough on your elbow. That's not the point of the trick, but the audience doesn't need to know that. Such an explanation should only divert attention from the main trick so that the audience does not have unnecessary suspicions about your actions.

      • Or you can immediately tell the public that you are going to make the coin disappear. This is also acceptable, but at the same time, the audience will try to catch even the smallest movements of your hand.

   2. Take the five-ruble coin in your dominant hand. Place your other hand on the table with your elbow and prop your head with it. Instead of changing color, the coin will mysteriously "disappear". To do this, you will rub the coin on the elbow standing on the table.

      • Note that in order to further perform the trick, the second hand should prop up your chin not with an open palm, but with a fist.

   3. Start rubbing the coin on your forearm while holding it with your hidden hand. After a couple of movements, "accidentally" drop the coin on the table in front of you. Speak out about your own clumsiness. Here, in order to distract the attention of the audience from the hands, it can be mentioned that you should practice more, since the coins are very slippery.

   4. Pick up the five-ruble coin with the hand that propped up your chin. Nevertheless viewers shouldn't notice. This can be done in one of the two ways below.

      • Pretend to pick up the coin again in your dominant hand to get back to rubbing. Just make a fake move with a substitution very quickly.
      • Pick up five rubles with your dominant hand, but drop it into your other hand under the table. Success lies more in the timing of actions than in trying to hide the coin, as in the above trick.

   5. Continue to rub the coin on the elbow (despite its actual absence). This time you won't have a coin in your hand. Rub your elbow for a few seconds and then let the audience know that something strange is going on. Five rubles do not change their color... five rubles... disappear! Then you can open your empty hand to the public.

      • If people want to test your other hand, you can drop the coin discreetly behind your collar before opening your empty hand.

   6. Make the coin reappear. The trick can be completed with the previous step, or you can magically make the coin return. For this there is whole line in ways ranging from scratching your head with your non-dominant hand and acting out the situation with the appearance of a coin from under your hair, "taking out" a penny from someone's clothes, and ending with a simple "coughing out" of a coin. Use the illusion you like best.

      • If you want to present everything more artfully, wait until people forget about this trick. Then make the coin appear mystically: "Oh, that's where she shared. HM. Who would have thought?! How amazing!”

      Psychological coin trick

      Find a coin with different surface relief on both sides. For example, a five-ruble coin could be a good option. If you're not sure if the coins you have are good for a trick, sit down and study them. Perhaps on one side of a coin you will notice a thicker edge or a more raised relief. Make sure you can tell the side of the chosen coin with your eyes closed.

      • You can also put a scratch on one of the sides of the coin, but if anyone notices this, the audience may become suspicious and they will reveal the secret of your trick. Therefore, it is better to use a coin without obvious damage.

   7. Practice flipping a coin and guessing which side it will land on. Now you know by touch both sides of the coin and you can predict which side the coin will fall when you open it on the wrist of the other hand. The secret lies in the ability to catch a coin and feel it imperceptibly. Only make your "predictions" after the coin has already passed through your fingertips.

      • Take some time to practice tossing a coin, determining its side and opening it in one smooth movement that looks completely natural. The moment you evaluate the position of a coin should not be visible to an unsuspecting public.

   8. Invite a friend and try to guess which side the coin will be on. Let your friend toss the coin himself a few times so that he sees that there is nothing special about it and that there is no secret hidden. Then ask a friend to guess which side the coin will be when you throw her up. Flip a coin and catch it, but don't rush to put it on your wrist. Do this more slowly than usual, and in the process, feel the future underside of the coin (which can only be done with your thumb comfortably facing up when you catch the coin with your open palm).

      • If you are able to manipulate the coin, you can put it on the side you want. In this case, you can make your own prediction either immediately before opening the coin, or five minutes or ten seconds before that, and you will always be right.

   9. If necessary, skillfully manipulate the coin in your hand. Before putting the coin on your wrist, rotate it as you like so that the side you declared is on top. Your movements must be agile; remember that perfection comes from practice. After flipping the coin (or finding out you don't have to do anything), you'll be sure which side it's on, so you can lay it out safely. That's the whole secret.

      • The beauty of this trick is that it can be repeated an infinite number of times, unlike many other tricks that require special secrecy.
      • However, you won't be able to pull off this trick if someone else is tossing the coin. Tell the audience that in order to perform this trick, you need a special bond with the coin and direct physical contact with it.

      Focus with the disappearance of the coin in the napkin

      Take a napkin, a ruble coin and a piece of double-sided tape. Covertly stick double-sided tape in one of the corners of the napkin. Check that the coin can stick to it securely.

      • The napkin can be fabric or paper, you can also use a paper towel. It is not necessary to use a one ruble coin, but it has the most suitable average size.
      • It is better to use a small piece of duct tape (it will be less noticeable if you have not yet reached perfection in manual dexterity), however, this increases the risk that the coin will not stick to the duct tape during the trick.

   10. Take a napkin and show it to the audience. Keep the tape hidden from prying eyes on the side of the napkin facing you. The public need only know that this is a regular paper napkin (or whatever you use instead).

       • Be careful when placing your finger on top of the tape, as the sticky properties of the tape cannot be damaged by the fatty secretions of the fingers before the trick begins.

   11. Place the ruble in the center of the napkin facing up side with tape. Show items to the public. It's just an ordinary ruble in a paper napkin, right? All right. Just make sure your hand doesn't let the audience see the tape.

       • The softer the napkin, the better. In this case, when demonstrating its middle, the edges will sag by themselves and fall out of sight.