In any company there is always a person who knows how to cheer up and lift your spirits. Often this is a good storyteller, a lover of jokes, or a born entertainer. You don't have such talents, but you also wouldn't 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 tricks with coins. So, we reveal the secrets of illusionists.

You will need:

Appearance inside the glass

You need to prepare in advance, and you can only perform the trick once per evening. You will need: a transparent glass, a coin, glue and a scarf.

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

Throw a scarf on top and announce that a coin will now appear inside. Here it is appropriate to say some abracadabra or make magical passes with your hands. Remove the scarf 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, you get the impression that there is nothing in it; you can only see the object from above.

Invisible Rise

Place the penny 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 you need to hold your hand 5 cm from the coin and blow on it with enormous force. Thus, the air is able to lift an object and throw it directly into the palm. We don’t promise that the trick will work the first time, but after several trainings you will learn everything.

Edge stand

Ask the audience for a 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 point is an ordinary pin. As you place the penny on the fingers of your right hand, push the small pin head down with the thumb of your left hand, positioning it just behind it. The coin will stand straight on its edge, supported by a support invisible to the viewer.

Lemon

Prepare some fruits and put them on a plate. Invite the audience to see that the lemons in front of them are ordinary. Ask which lemon needs to be cut. Divide it into two parts with a knife - there will be a coin inside.

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

Brush

Place the coin in your palm. Take a regular brush in your other hand. Invite any spectator to clean the 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 this cunning way, the object always remains in the center of the palm.

Disappearance

Take a penny from your pocket and clasp it in your fist. Then ask someone who wants to hold your hand and make sure that the coin does not disappear. He won’t be able to do this, because as soon as you open your fist, there will be no coin in it.

How to do this trick? Take out a lot of small change of different denominations from your pocket. Pick one, say you don't need the others and throw them back. Create the appearance of holding a coin between the thumb and index finger of your right hand. In fact, there is no trace of it, since it went into the pocket along with the others.

These are all the simplest coin tricks that are easy to teach even to 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 practice several manual techniques until they become automatic:

Holding a coin in an open palm

Place 5 pennies 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 swing your hand as you please without fear of it falling out.

Practice on both hands. In this case, you should show only the outer or side part of your palm to the audience.

Hiding

There are several techniques to make it appear as if an object is moving from one hand to another. We recommend studying them all, since the same method will quickly arouse suspicion among an attentive counterpart.

1. Take the coin with your index and middle fingers, holding it with your thumb. Then bend it back and pull the coin towards your palm - it will fall exactly in the place that you determined 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 needs to be opened and lowered freely.
2. Hold the coin between the index and ring fingers of your right hand. While moving it towards the left, simultaneously place your thumb on the coin, covering it with the upper knuckle. Bend your finger and hide the coin in this place, keeping it slightly bent. Make a movement with your other hand as if the money is already in it.
3. Place the 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 safe hollow.
4. The coin lies on the open hand. Move the other one so that your thumb goes under it and the rest on top, and immediately close your palm. From the outside it looks like you picked up the object, but in reality you drop it back, covering it with your fingers.
5. The penny is held with the index, middle and thumb, with the inside of the palm facing the magician. With the same fingers of your other hand, you seem to grab it, meanwhile allowing it to slide into your half-bent palm.
6. Ideal for using a large coin. Hold it with your index, middle and thumb fingers and, as if placing it on your other hand, use the tip of your thumb to move it to the middle phalanges. The hand remains open, and the coin is held at the ends by the pressure of the index and little fingers.

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

There are other methods, but to get started, it’s enough to master the ones described. Don't forget that these are just techniques, not actual tricks. You shouldn’t limit yourself to just hiding - you can surprise the audience a couple of times with your dexterity, but at the same time you will half reveal your secrets. We recommend that you always accompany all actions with magic spells and waves of your hands; it doesn’t hurt to have a “magic” wand, which often helps to hide the location of money and hide it in a secluded place.

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

Penetration through glass

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

To do such a trick, you need two absolutely identical pennies. One is shown to the audience, and the other is hidden in an open palm. Cover the container with this hand, tap the bottom with the first coin, and with the last movement, release the secret money inside, and quickly and discreetly hide the one with which you knocked.

The missing money

Place your left elbow on the table, and with your right hand begin to rub the coin into your forearm. Let it fall out on the table after a few seconds - this is necessary for the trick.

In this article you will be taught tricks with a coin. Learning directly depends on your patience. You need to practice until everything becomes automatic. This is the most important rule for performing these tricks, and tricks in general.

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Trick with glass and coin

You need the following items: a 50x50 cm scarf, a coin and a glass.

Show the viewer a glass filled with water. Glue a coin to its bottom in advance. But it won’t be visible if you show the glass from the side. Hold the glass in your hand, then cover it with a handkerchief, after a while remove the handkerchief and finally invite the viewer to look into the glass from above. He will see that a coin has somehow appeared in the glass.

The Secret of Focus

Glue the coin to the bottom of the glass in advance. When it is empty, it can be seen through the walls. However, when you fill it with water, the coin will not be visible unless viewed from the side. It can only be seen from above.

Talking bottle and coin trick

You need: an assistant, a 30x30 cm scarf and a coin.

Place a coin on the table, cover it with a scarf and ask the audience to come up and make sure that the coin is under the scarf. When this happens, take the handkerchief, transfer it from your right to your left hand and show that the coin has disappeared. Say that it is now in the viewer's pocket. Go to him and take it out.

The Secret of Focus

You need a partner-assistant. He must be among the spectators. While they come up to see that the coin is under the scarf, your partner should come last and quietly take it away.

Trick with handkerchief and coin

You will need: an elastic band, a 30x30 scarf and a coin.

How to make a magic scarf

To do this, you need to sew 2 identical scarves, and sew a coin into the center of them. The coin should be inside the scarves.

Ask the audience for a handful of coins and choose one. Take a handkerchief out of your pocket, spread it out and place the coin you chose in the center. The scarf should be turned over so that the coin remains under it. Take out the elastic ring from your pocket, put it on the scarf and squeeze it under the coin. Ask the viewer to place his palm, and stretching the scarf at the corners, make sure that the elastic band comes off the coin. However, the viewer's palm will be empty - the coin did not fall into it. You need to pretend that you are taking it, for example, from a closet or from a table, where it somehow miraculously ended up.

The Secret of Focus

When you take a coin from the spectator during a trick and turn the handkerchief over, it should fall imperceptibly into your hand. There will be a coin sewn into the scarf, and put an elastic ring on it. And you must hold the spectator’s coin in your fingers during the trick and after the demonstration.

Micromagic (tricks performed at close range) often uses objects that are completely ordinary in everyday life and are familiar to almost any viewer. Making an ordinary coin levitate and defy the laws of physics can easily stun and baffle the public. There are several different coin levitation tricks. Many of them are based on sleight of hand, so you will have to spend some time practicing to hone your skills. By training your hands from tossing a coin in the air to making it disappear and finally levitating, you'll be sure to impress your friends.

Steps

Muscular hand passes

Find the magic area on your palm and grab the coin with it. Muscular hand passes are one of the most impressive displays of manual dexterity, and they can also be used to create the appearance of levitating a coin. In order for the trick to be performed to look quite impressive, the muscles of the palm must be quite well developed. The trick itself is performed with the pad of the palm located next to the thumb; it is with its help that the coin is thrown into the air.

• Open the palm of your dominant hand and examine it. Notice the large bump at the base of the big toe. It is this that is considered the magical part of the palm where you will place the coin.
• Take a US half dollar or other foreign coin about 30mm in diameter, or a poker chip. In most cases, Russian five rubles will be too small to successfully perform the trick.
• With your other hand, place the coin in your palm. Place your thumb over the coin. Pay attention to how the muscles work and the pad at the base of the thumb behaves, covering the coin. Play with different placements of the coin until you are confident in gripping it with the pad.

1. Turn your hand palm down. Holding the coin in your palm, turn your hand over. See if the coin falls or remains in your hand. Slowly spread your fingers until the coin falls out.

   Practice jumping a coin out of your hand using muscle passes. It will probably take you several weeks to master this step. Muscular hand passes belong to the advanced category of tricks, and practical training with them can lead to pain.

   • Place the coin on the magic area of ​​your palm and press down. You can press the coin into your palm either with the fingers of the other hand or with the middle and ring fingers of the same hand. Using the fingers of the same hand that holds the coin makes the whole process more natural.
   • Place your thumb on the coin. It is necessary to move the thumb so that the muscle and pad at its base grab the coin. Try not to twist your hand too much. If the fingers of the hand are strongly bent, the coin will not be able to jump out of the hand, but will simply hit the fingers.
   • Pull your thumb back and down sharply. This movement will subsequently allow you to toss the coin upward, causing it to “fly”.

2. Adjust the position of the coin. If you feel like the coin doesn't have enough grip when you move your thumb back, adjust its position. It will take you some time to find the most suitable point for placing the coin in your palm.

   • To master muscular hand passes, you need to practice a lot. However, there must be moderation in everything. As soon as your hand starts to hurt or become red, stop the activity to rest. Don't give up on your training and, in the end, you will be able to toss a coin up with one movement of your palm.

3. Perform the trick with a well-honed muscular hand pass. To perform a trick based on a skillful hand pass, you will need to show the spectator a coin and explain that it will magically fly out of the bottom palm and fly into the top.

   • Do not explain to the viewer the technique of performing the trick, otherwise it will have a bad effect on their visual perception. Don't talk about making muscle passes with your arms. Just say you're going to make the coin fly up.
   • Place your other palm over the palm with the coin and move your fingers for a special effect.
   • While you do this, use your middle and ring fingers to check that the coin is in the right place in your palm.
   • If you want, say some magic words. Then move your thumb back, performing a muscle pass.
   • Catch the coin that jumps up with your other hand.

   An invisible coin disappears, freezes and appears out of thin air

   1. Make a coin “disappear.” This trick is less about levitation and more about creating the illusion of a coin disappearing and reappearing.

   2. Take the invisible coin to make it fly. Here we can explain how to levitate a coin, you must first make it invisible so that the flight is no longer hampered by excess weight.

      • Pretend to pick up the coin as if it were really there. The subsequent stages of performing the trick will require you to convincingly perform actions with an invisible object.
      • Also note that when you pick up an invisible coin, you will be using the hand that actually holds the coin. Hold the real coin with a finger grip and always position your hand so that spectators cannot see it.
      • Before performing the trick, practice holding a real coin in your hand. Feel the weight of the coin with your hand, pay attention to the position of your fingers and the movements of your hand.
      • Pretend that you are picking up an invisible coin. Remember what this process looked like with a real coin. Don't squeeze your fingers all the way. Even though the coin is quite flat, there must be a small gap between your fingers. Also, do not forget about the weight of the coin.
      • Lift the coin into the air and release. Explain that you simply hung an invisible coin in the air where it will hang until you need it again.
      • Do not forget that all this time the real coin is held by the finger grip. With an invisible coin suspended in the air, tilt the hand holding the coin so as to show the audience an empty palm, but keep the coin itself covered, pinching it between your fingers.

   3. Grab the invisible coin. Once you've convinced your audience that an invisible coin is floating in the air, snatch the coin out of the air with your free hand.

      • Take an invisible coin, paying special attention to the technique of using an empty hand with an imaginary object.
      • Raise the hand with the real coin towards the hand with the imaginary coin.
      • At the same time, hold the coin with your finger grip, tilting your palm so that the audience can see that there is nothing in your palm.
      • Tell them that the coin will appear at any time you wish, you just need to make it visible again.

   4. Make a coin appear. When placing an invisible coin in the hand containing the real coin, curl your fingers around the empty hand.

      • As you form your fist, allow the coin to slip out of your finger grip, landing on the index finger of your empty hand.
      • With your outer hand still clenched into a fist, pinch the coin between the thumb and index finger of your inner (previously empty) hand.
      • Now the coin will be in the hand in which you took the invisible coin from the air.
      • Open your outer fist to show the viewer that the coin is visible again.

   Levitation of a coin between the palms

   1. Take a large souvenir coin. To perform this trick, you will need a fairly large coin (larger than those in circulation in the Russian Federation). The coin will levitate in the space between two slightly cupped palms. This trick is difficult to perform close to spectators because you will be touching the coin all the time.

      • The size of the coin is very important as it must be large enough to be easily viewed between your fingers.
      • To perform the trick, pick up the coin with either hand.
      • Bring your other hand to the coin so that you can now grab it with both hands, with your thumbs facing you.

   2. Place your fingertips around the perimeter of the coin. Make sure the pads of your thumbs are on the left and right edges of the coin.

      • The thumbs should press on the coin and thereby hold it.
      • The remaining fingers should be slightly bent, and their tips should only lightly touch the front edge of the coin.
      • Remember that only your thumbs should actually hold the coin.

   3. Extend your arms forward. You can enhance the effect of the illusion by moving your arms forward slightly and then moving them back towards your body. Constant movement helps distract viewers.

      • Slowly straighten your fingers. Straighten your fingers (except your thumbs) opposite each other. In this case, the fingertips of the left and right hands should be at a distance of about 2.5 cm from each other.
      • Keep your fingers as close to each other as possible. They should provide a kind of screen through which the audience will not be able to see that you are holding the coin with your thumbs.
      • With your fingers straight, begin to lightly move the coin up and down with your thumbs. This will create the effect of a coin floating between your palms.

   4. Practice levitating a coin until you are completely free of clumsy movements. It will take some time for the focus to look as natural as possible.

      • Once you have mastered the actual act of grabbing a coin, start observing your actions through a mirror. Be sure to take into account the audience's point of view.
      • Do not forget that the coin should not be very visible. Also practice in the same conditions in which you will perform. If you plan to sit at a table, practice at a table, as this will put you noticeably closer to your audience.
      • Try to achieve through practice that you can grasp the coin so easily between the pads of your thumbs that it is not even noticeable from the outside that you are holding it.
      • See if you can't rotate the coin so that it doesn't fall to enhance the illusion. This will require some practice. Remember to cover your thumbs with your other fingers so that they are not visible.
   • If you are using a regular coin, don't focus on it too much. Drawing the viewer's attention to the fact that the coin is completely ordinary can distract him from thinking about coins with tricks. Let the audience guess that the coin is simple by the way you handle and talk about it.
   • To perform a trick, it is necessary to take into account the viewing angles of the audience (different perspective points).
   • Spend enough time practicing until you can do magic tricks confidently. Self-confidence and the ability to accompany the performance with a whole story will allow you to captivate the audience and introduce distracting maneuvers into the process that will divert the attention of the audience directly from your hands.
   • Practice in front of a mirror or film yourself to get a better idea of ​​how you'll look in public.