How does the disappearing coin trick work

Make sure you know how to snap. If you don't already know how to snap your fingers with one hand, you'll need to learn before learning this trick. Get a loose jacket or shirt. Use an item of clothing with extra room in the wrist. Put the long-sleeve shirt, sweater, or jacket on. Make sure whatever long-sleeved article of clothing you wear has long enough sleeves to partially cover your hand. Start your performance. Ask your audience for a coin.

In case they don't have one, make sure you have one handy. Pull one sleeve down. Discreetly pull or let fall one of your sleeves so that it is slightly covering your hand. Do this to the hand opposite of the one which you can snap best with.

It'd be wise to do some misdirection at this point, so that the audience doesn't see you purposely letting one of your sleeves cover your hand. Hold the coin in your other hand and wave it around while you talk to the audience, preparing them to see the coin disappear. Turn your hand upwards. Turn the hand with the sleeve partially covering it so that your palm faces upwards.

This is the hand that will hold the coin. Place the coin. With your dominant hand, place the coin on your upturned hand. The coin should lie in the center of your palm. Snap the coin into your sleeve. First, snap your hand above the coin a few times, close to the coin but never touching it.

On your last snap, make your snapping finger hit the coin so that it flies into your sleeve. You'll need to practice this trick a few times by yourself to make sure you can reliably flick the coin into your sleeve. Show how the coin has disappeared. Hold both of your hands with palms facing upward to show the audience how the coin can't be seen. Then turn both hands downwards.

You can do this a few times and make a show of it, and the coin will rest in your sleeve as long as you don't tilt your arms too far downward.

Method 3. Gather your materials. For this trick, you'll need a piece of cloth or other fabric, two coins, and a table to perform the trick on. Prepare the trick. Place one of the coins on the table. Lay the cloth on top of the coin so that the coin is under the center of the cloth. The edge of the cloth needs to be flush with the edge of the table. For this trick to work, you'll need to either have something under the table that will muffle the sound of a coin falling, like soft carpet, or a rug, or you'll need to be standing so that the hand not doing the trick can discreetly catch the coin.

Now is the time to gather your audience. Ask the audience for a coin to borrow for the trick. If no one has one, use the other coin you brought. Place the coin on the cloth. Put the coin down on the center of the cloth. Try to place it close to where the other coin beneath the cloth is, but don't worry if it's not exact.

Pull the coin off the cloth. Start making a rubbing motion with your hand over the coin, so that your hand is making circles just above it. With each circular motion, touch the coin very gently so that your hand pulls it towards the edge of the table a few inches.

Continue doing this until the coin falls of the edge. If your table isn't over something that will muffle the sound of the coin falling, catch the coin with your other hand. You may need to practice this so that you can do it discreetly. While you're pulling the coin off the table with each circular motion, do some misdirection with your other hand and voice to keep the audience from looking too closely at the place the coin originally was.

Reveal the other coin. Remove your hand from above the cloth to show how the coin has disappeared. Then pull the cloth off with your other hand to show the coin beneath the cloth. If you caught the coin as it fell with the other hand, do this quickly so that you can pull the cloth off with the coin still hidden in your hand. All you have to do is distract your audience.

This simple science magic trick is sure to impress family and friends! Place a glass on top of a coin and ask a friend if they can still see the coin. Hopefully they will say yes! Pour water into the glass and ask your friend if they can see the coin now. They should say that the coin has disappeared.

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