Hand Flip Easy Coin Trick
Easy coin vanish sleight video that when mastered will allow you to perform lots of amazing magic and coin tricks
Flip The Coin Trick
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1. Lay two coins in the palms of your hands like this - the positions are very important! Notice that the coin in my left hand is right in the middle of my palm. The coin in my right hand is near my thumb. |
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2. In one quick motion, flip
both hands over and slap them straight down onto the table.
The coin in your right hand should get flicked across and under your left hand. The coin in your left hand should simply fall straight down. |
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3. Ask your audience where they
think the coins are – they'll probably guess there's
one under each hand.
If you move your right pinkie finger a bit, people usually guess the coins are under your right hand – then you can reveal they are wrong! |
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4. Reveal both coins under
your left hand.
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What's going on?
The position of the coins in your palms
makes this trick work. As you rotate your hands from "palms
up" to "palms down", the coin in the
centre of your palm stays put and falls straight down. But the
coin near your thumb travels around the centre of your palm and
gets catapulted towards the other hand. With a bit
of practice, it is almost impossible to see this coin shooting
across before you slap your hand down to cover it.
The reason one of the coins gets flicked across is easy to
understand if you imagine using a table tennis bat instead of your
hand. Imagine laying one coin smack bang
in the centre of one of a bat. As you rotate the bat, the coin
rotates around its own centre too, but it does not get flicked
away.
If you lay the second coin right on the outside edge of the other
bat, something quite different happens. This coin travels around
the centre of the bat in a big semi-circle and if you rotate the
bat quickly enough, it will get flicked away.
How fast the coin gets flicked across depends on how far it is
from the centre of your palm and the speed with which you flip
your hands over. If you want to sound smug when people ask how
this trick works, just say "it's just simple rotational mechanics
. baby!"
Oh and if you really like annoying people with coin tricks, try
the Coin
Melting Through Paper Trick too.