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The Floating Ring - a magic trick

Make some really thick salt water. REALLY thick.

Soak a piece of thread in it somewhere between 45 and 60 minutes. Take it out and let it dry.

Now you are ready. Ask someone for a ring.

Tie it to the end of the thread. Hold the string so its like a pendulum. Now take a match and light the string down by the ring.

The string will burn but the salt crystals can hold up a fairly light ring. An awesome magic effect.

Ice Baby magic trick

Effect of magic trick : Pour some water into a cup, blow on the cup and then turn it upside down where out pops some ice cubes. You need a cup or glass that you can't see through. You also need a small sponge and and some ice cubes.

Method of magic trick : Prepare the cup by placing the sponge into the bottom of the cup. Then, drop a few ice cubes on top of the sponge and you're ready to go. To perform pour a small amount of water (about an inch) into the cup. The sponge will absorb the water. Blow into the cup, wave your hands over it and dump out the ice cubes. If you are using a disposable plastic cup for the trick, just throw it away at this time. Watch the look of surprise on your friends faces with this magic performance.

Palm Penetration

A clever impromptu trick where a coin appears to pass through your hand

Effect: You ask the spectator to hold out his or her hand palm up . You in turn place your hand on top of theirs, palm down . With your other free hand, you place a quarter or other coin on top of your hand and explain to the spectator that with one quick slap of the coin, you will make it pass through your hand and into theirs !

Materials needed: 2 identical coins, a small piece of transparent adhesive tape or magician's wax, ( for advanced magicians super fast sleight of hand will do ) .

Method: When you place your hand on top of the spectators open hand, you will already have the coin in your palm. If you place your hand on top of theirs quickly enough, the coin will not fall nor will the spectator already feel it in their hand ! You then place the " other " coin on top, on the back of your hand.

On the palm of your other free hand, is where the tape or wax will be. Then with a quick motion, you smack the top of the coin, which will stick to the tape/wax. Slowly remove your other hand to let the surprised spectator see how it " magically " passed through your hand! For those advanced magicians out there (you know who you are) you can quickly grab the quarter instead of using the tape/wax.

If you do not wish to use the spectators hand, you can do the same trick on your lap, but performing the trick in their hand is much more convincing to them.

Handkerchief And Vanishing Coin Trick

Effect : The magician sticks the coin into the handkerchief, turns it over and then the coin disappears from inside the handkerchief.

Secret :You secretly wrap a rubber band around your fingers and thumb.

Then you place the handkerchief in that hand. With your other hand place the coin into the handkerchief.

Then let the rubber band slide off of your fingers and onto the handkerchief, so it surrounds the coin and it is under the handkerchief.

You then slide your hand up to the end of the handkerchief and shake it.

This makes it look like the coin has disappeared.

But it is really stuck in the handkerchief, held by the rubber band.

A simple to do but very cool magic trick.


1) Place elastic band round fingers.	2) Place coin into handkerchief.

3) Slip band around coin.	4) Spectator's view of handkerchief.

Magic Coin Pouch

Easy coin trick where a coin vanishes from inside a magic pouch that you made, right in front of the spectators eyes. Astounding free close up magic trick.

This is a clever coin trick that can be done as impromptu magic using only two simple props, a coin and a square of paper. This stunt is easy to do and gets an amazing reaction from your audience. A classsic of close up magic and an easy trick for beginners to perform.

Obtain paper square and coin to perform this close up magic trick.

1. Get hold of the materials to perform the trick and show them to the audience as being everyday objects,

Place the coin in the centre of the piece of paper

1. Holding the piece of paper, take the coin and place it in the centre of the paper

Fold bottom edge of paper up to cover the coin.

2. The next step is to fold the bottom edge of the paper up to cover the coin.The bottom edge should not be folded up all the way up to the top edge but should be about 5 millimetres below it.

3. The right edge of the paper is then folded back behind the coin as shown in the picture.

4. The left edge of the paper is then folded back behind the coin a shown in the picture.

5. The last fold is made by bending the top flap of the paper behind the coin. This will appear to the audience member to have completely sealed in the coin . Unknown to them there is actually an opening at the top of the paper pouch.

Turn pouch upside down and allow the coin to fall into the palm of your hand.

6. Turn the paper pouch upside down in your hand and let the coin gently fall into your palm where you can conceal it from the audience.

Tear the paper in two and the coin appears to have vanished.

7. For a finale, you can tear the paper pouch in two, where the audience see that the coin appears to have vanished. Use a little patter to make this trick more entertaining.