Magic Secrets

	Try this trick with a foreign coin. It looks more unusual – and it prevents your spectators from cheating.
While you are out of the room, one spectator is chosen by the rest to hold a coin to his – or her – forehead for 20 seconds. Then all hands are laid on the table and you are called back into the room. Your magic wand tell you who has the coin.
And the wand is used – slowly and mysteriously – to point to each hand. When it points to the hand which you noted as being white when you came back to the room (and which will be its normal colour now) make the wand quiver dramatically and tell the person to open that hand and show the coin!

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Magic Secret #21
Through The Fourth Dimension

That’s how the coin passes through a borrowed handkerchief.
1) Hold a penny or other large coin between the left thumb and forefinger. 2) Cover coin and hand with the handkerchief.
3) Grip coin and handkerchief firmly at X and turn coin over towards yourself. 4) Fling handkerchief back over left hand, carefully nipping against the coin – to prove that the coin is still there.
5. Shake handkerchief forward (coin is now gripped in an outside fold of linen), and twist the handkerchief. 6. Keep on twisting and relax the grip of the left finger and thumb. The coin will slowly be squeezed out of its fold.
7. The handkerchief is undamaged although the coin has passed right through it. It must be the Fourth Dimension – or Magic!

Magic Secret #22 Your Coin, Sir!

A number of pennies are gathered from the audience on a tray and are tipped into a hat. One spectator is then asked to contribute another penny and to make it secretly and put it in the hat and shake the coins up. At once you put your hand in the hat and bring out the marked coin!
SECRET – The tray is of metal and the coins placed on it become cold quickly.
But the secretly marked coin has never been on the tray, so is still warm from the pocket when it’s dropped in the hat. So all you have to do is feel for the coin that is warmer than the others.

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Magic Secret #23 Guess Which!

From your pocket, you take four  coins and four small pill boxes. Which your back is turned, the audience cover the coins with the boxes and move them round.  When you turn round, you can at once tell which coin is under which box and which way up it is – without lifting the boxes.
	The coins are two pennies and two dimes; one of each has short fine hair glued to it.  The prepared coins are laid down with the “Tails” side up. The other coins have their “Heads” side up.
NOTE:  You only need move two boxes to name all coins – a box showing a hair and one that has no hair.
When the coins are covered, look for the hair (A & C boxes in the above sketch).  Move one box forward.  If it rattles, it contains the dime, which is not as tight a fit as the penny7. If it has a hair showing, it’s a “tail”, yet if no hair, a “head”.
So you can name the coin under any box indicated by the audience, or all the boxes, if you prefer.

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Magic Secret #24 A Valuable Coin Sleight

	This piece of slight of hand with a coin is known as the French Drop, or the Tourniquet. It is used to make the audience believe you have taken a coin in one hand from the other. Coin is held by its edges between left forefinger and thumb.   1) Right hand approaches to take coin from left hand.
	2) When right hand forefinger and thumb are about to close on coin, left thumb allows it to fall into left palm.
	3) Right hand is closed and moved away as if it held coin. Left hand is held in an easy position and allowed to fall naturally to the side.
	SECRET The moves are easy but the secret lies in steady practice before a mirror.

Magic Secret #25 1 - 2 - 3 - Gone

This is the vanish of a coin which baffles many conjurers – and yet it is so easy you can do it first time you try.
1) A penny or other large coin is shown in your right hand.
2) You slap it down firmly on to your left hand three times. The third time, you lift your hand – and the coin has gone! And it’s not up any sleeves.
The Secret – Lies in the way you raise the right hand to lap the coin into your left hand.
3) Each time you raise the right hand, take it as high as your shoulder, and keep your head bent, the eyes on the left hand..
4) The last time you raise your right hand, bring it near your collar, and let the coin slip down between your shirt and your neck.  Immediately, bring the right hand down (empty) to slap the left hand as before.
Conjurers call this “misdirection”. The audience, having seen the coin slapped down twice, will watch your left hand while the right and does the work!

Magic Secret #26 The Acrobatic Coin –

... balances on the tips of the fingers steadily.  Then, it sways slowly back until it lies flat on the hand. Your audience can lift it off your hand, but they’ll never find –
1) Hold the pin behind a silver coin with finger and thumb. You can change it from hand to hand safely.
2) Place the coin on the finger-tips and hold it in place with the thumb until the pin is gripped between the fingers.
3) When the pin is strongly gripped, raise the thumb and the coin stands firmly, leaning on the pin.
4) Now slowly release the fingers’ pressure on the pin, allowing the coin to settle back into the fingers. When it is laid flat, open the fingers slightly and let the pin fall to the ground.