Here is a fantastic up close magic trick that never fails to mesmerize any audience, regardless of how much experience they have watching skillful magic. This trick relies heavily on props, and you'll have to switch the props in and out quickly and without being noticed, but this trick will stun them all.
Here's how it will look like to your naive spectators. You have a normal wine glass, upside down on a table. You ask to borrow a coin from anybody in the audience. You tell them that you will make it disappear, but not to be anxious, as you will rapidly bring it back once more.
You lay their coin next to the glass. You cover up the glass with a napkin, and then lift up the goblet and the napkin at the same time. You place the glass on top of the coin and get rid of the napkin. The coin has magically vanished, and is nowhere to be seen. You leave the napkin back over the glass, and move it back to its first location on the table. The astonished audience will gasp with glee as the coin has magically reappeared. You cleanly give the coin back to the owner, and move on immediately to your next trick.
This is a easy gimmick, or setup trick. The secret is to have the glass on a tablecloth. White is finest. Then take a piece of paper that is the same color as the tablecloth, and cut it cautiously, so that it is exactly the same shape as the rim of the glass. Then certainly connect it to the rim of the glass using glue or rubber cement. If you use tape, it might be visible.
Then when you place the glass over the coin, it will appear as if the coin has vanished, when in truth it is only under the trick glass. When you move the glass back, away from the coin, the coin will become perceptible again.
This works best if you focus the awareness on the actual napkin, or handkerchief that you will use to coat the glass with. If you have a great silk handkerchief, then that will work better. And make sure to explain that it's the handkerchief that will do the magic, and not the trick glass. You can make a show of demonstrating that the coin is not veiled anywhere in the handkerchief after you've placed the trick glass over the coin.
Be sure to focus on the glass itself as little as possible. If somebody suspects the glass is part of the trick, then it might ruin it, so be careful. It helps to do this trick in the midst of many others where you have a table where you do the tricks, and a group of props off to the side. Also take care when you remove the glass, cover it with the magic handkerchief first, or else they will see the false bottom. Have fun with this. - 31879
Here's how it will look like to your naive spectators. You have a normal wine glass, upside down on a table. You ask to borrow a coin from anybody in the audience. You tell them that you will make it disappear, but not to be anxious, as you will rapidly bring it back once more.
You lay their coin next to the glass. You cover up the glass with a napkin, and then lift up the goblet and the napkin at the same time. You place the glass on top of the coin and get rid of the napkin. The coin has magically vanished, and is nowhere to be seen. You leave the napkin back over the glass, and move it back to its first location on the table. The astonished audience will gasp with glee as the coin has magically reappeared. You cleanly give the coin back to the owner, and move on immediately to your next trick.
This is a easy gimmick, or setup trick. The secret is to have the glass on a tablecloth. White is finest. Then take a piece of paper that is the same color as the tablecloth, and cut it cautiously, so that it is exactly the same shape as the rim of the glass. Then certainly connect it to the rim of the glass using glue or rubber cement. If you use tape, it might be visible.
Then when you place the glass over the coin, it will appear as if the coin has vanished, when in truth it is only under the trick glass. When you move the glass back, away from the coin, the coin will become perceptible again.
This works best if you focus the awareness on the actual napkin, or handkerchief that you will use to coat the glass with. If you have a great silk handkerchief, then that will work better. And make sure to explain that it's the handkerchief that will do the magic, and not the trick glass. You can make a show of demonstrating that the coin is not veiled anywhere in the handkerchief after you've placed the trick glass over the coin.
Be sure to focus on the glass itself as little as possible. If somebody suspects the glass is part of the trick, then it might ruin it, so be careful. It helps to do this trick in the midst of many others where you have a table where you do the tricks, and a group of props off to the side. Also take care when you remove the glass, cover it with the magic handkerchief first, or else they will see the false bottom. Have fun with this. - 31879
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