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Focus Description:

A handkerchief is spread on the table, four coins are placed in its corners, and two cards are placed between the coins. Taking the cards in hand, the magician shows various options for how to cover any two coins with cards.

Deciding to eventually cover the diagonally placed coins, the magician takes the uncovered coins one at a time and places them under the handkerchief. He causes each coin to mysteriously penetrate the fabric, causing the coin to appear on top of the handkerchief, under the card in corner A. The trick is completed by collecting all four coins under one card, including the coin lying in corner D, to which the magician is in the process views never touched.

Focus secret:

The performance is built on a carefully designed procedure that diverts the attention of the audience from a few simple movements. If you try to accurately reproduce the procedure according to the method, then you can easily master this trick.

1. Starting, place four coins in the corners of the handkerchief or napkin. Then you drop two cards on the napkin with the words "Here are four coins, two cards and one napkin."

2. Take a card in each hand, thumb up, and cover the two coins in corners C and D with them. Say, "I can use these cards to cover the two coins in this row."

3. Raise the cards and cover the coins in corners A and B. Say, "Or I can use these cards to cover the coins in this row."

4. Next, you cover the coin in D with your right hand, and with your left hand transfer the card from A to B, while saying: "Again I can cover two coins of the row."

5. At this point, when you cover the coin at point D, with the thumb of your right hand you press on the left edge of the coin, and the fingers of your right hand get the opportunity to pick up the coin, secretly lift it and press it against the card.

6. Note. When you secretly lift the coin, it is very important that the fingers move as little as possible. The movements of the right hand should look as natural as possible: suspicious fuss should not be allowed. And you will also understand that tearing a coin off a napkin is easier to do on a soft surface, in particular, on a special mat for table tricks.

7. The left hand carries the card towards you and passes it over the card held by the right hand, you supposedly intend to cover the coin in corner D.

8. Then the right hand moves towards you, holding a coin under the card. The left hand leaves the card at point D, exactly where the stolen coin was.

9. The right hand places the card on the coin in corner A, leaving it there along with the coin secretly moved from corner D. Covering the card in corner A and the place of the coin in corner D, comment on your actions: "Or I can cover two coins by diagonals like this.

10. Pay attention to the schedule according to which you have shifted the cards up to this point. Covering C - D, then B - D, you accustom the viewer to the stereotype: the audience expects another simple movement of cards. The fact that the left hand moved first, showing the coin at point B, makes the spectators think that they saw the coin at point D before the left hand card covered this place.

11. Say that you have now covered the coins at the diagonal points (A and D). Take the coin from point C with your right hand, lift the same corner C of the napkin with your left hand. Say that you will now magically push the coin through the fabric, causing it to join the coin under the card in corner A.

12. Now you make another secret move. Putting the coin with your right hand under the napkin, grab it with the fingers of your left hand. The right hand continuously, without pause, continues to move forward until angle A, when you pass the coin from the right to the left hand.

13. In this picture, the "secret transfer" of the coin is shown from a different angle.

14. When the empty right hand is under the coins in corner A, make a slight upward movement with your finger so that the coins under the card jingle. Explain that the coin has just penetrated the cloth and joined the coin underneath the card.

15. The right hand comes out from under the napkin, and you, holding it out to the card in corner A, casually show that it is empty. The fingers of the left hand still hold the coin, but under the napkin.

16. With your right hand, you pick up the card in corner A and in the same movement move the card to your left hand until it is directly above corner C.

17. In one continuous movement, you wind the card under the thumb of your left hand with your right hand, at the same moment the left hand pulls the clamped coin from under the fabric and presses it to the card.

18. Then with your left hand you place a card in corner A on top of two coins, secretly adding the coin to those already there.

19. The left hand returns to Corner C and lifts the napkin while with your right hand you pick up the coin in Corner C. Announce that you will push another coin through the cloth.

20. Place your right hand under the napkin in the same way as you already did, passing the coin to the left hand, where it remains, while the right hand continues to crawl under the napkin.

21. With your right hand, you mimic pushing a coin through the fabric under the card in corner A (clinking like the first time).

22. Pull your right hand out from under the napkin, then pick up the card in corner A.

23. Demonstrating three coins, turn the card to the left hand, in which the fourth is at the ready. Explain: "And another coin goes through the cloth!"

24. As before, the right hand passes the card to the left, which presses a coin towards it from below. Place the card on three coins in corner A, as before, secretly adding another, fourth, to them. Note: be careful not to let the next coin tinkle against the previous ones when you lay down the card.

25. There are no more coins in the spectators' field, and you remind the audience that one coin is still under the card in corner D. So you instruct it to join the other three coins. When you hold up the card in corner D, the spectators are amazed: the coin has indeed disappeared.

26. Raise the card in corner A with your left hand, showing that all four coins are there.

The whole procedure must be learned by repeating it many times until your actions become confident, without the slightest hesitation, especially when performing "secret" movements. You can try a different technique to cover the coins if you find it more effective as a maneuver to distract the audience from the movement of the right hand when removing the coin at point D. For example, cover the coins at A and B, then with your right hand pass the card to D so that there are points A and D are covered. Now you move the card from A to B with your left hand, while the right hand secretly picks up the coin at point D - all the attention of the public at this moment is directed to the card that the left hand manipulates. From this moment onwards - according to the procedure according to the methodology. Pay close attention to the audience's reactions as you demonstrate the close-up trick, and you'll have your own ideas on how to improve the procedure.

The following four tricks are based on "sleight of hand" and nothing else. Each of them is performed using ordinary items that you always have with you. When you master them and polish them properly, you will not only add to your arsenal a number of magnificent magic tricks that will be useful for you anytime and anywhere, but you will also open the way for the development of many additional, sensational hoaxes.

Author: Mark Wilson

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