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The magic coin
You need quick You will need:
actions and plenty ǩ $ FRLQ
ǩ $ IULHQG
of practice to make
this trick work.

Step 1
In front of your friend, place the coin
in the palm of your left hand, near
p
y
,
the thumb.
Step 3
Ask your friend to say which hand
the coin is under. Lift your hands
Step 2 to reveal the answer!
Quickly turn over both hands,
flicking the coin from under the
left hand to under the right hand.
Because the coin was not seen to
move, your friend is tricked into thinking
that it is still under your left hand.

Where’s the cup?
You will need:
Can you make ǩ $ FRLQ Step 4
something vanish? ǩ 7DEOH Place the paper (which is still in the
shape of the cup) back over the coin.
You’ll need to try ǩ &KDLU Then smash your hand down on the
this a few times ǩ 3DSHU paper to show that the cup has
before the trick ǩ 3ODVWLF FXS vanished. Say, “Oops, I’ve made the
ǩ $ IULHQG
works perfectly. wrong thing disappear!” Only you
know that you made the right object
vanish after all.

Step 1 Step 2
Place the coin on the table Wrap the paper tightly
and the cup over the coin. around the cup so that you
Tell your friend you will can see the shape of the cup
make the coin disappear. underneath the paper.

Step 3
Lift up the cup and the paper
to show that the coin is still
there. While you and your
friend are still looking at the
Because you have
coin, move the paper and cup
directed all the attention
over the edge of the table
to the coin, not the cup,
and drop the cup out of the
your friend’s brain isn’t
paper into your lap.
focusing on what is
really happening.
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