Knuckle roll coin tricks

How to roll or flip a coin on your knuckle fingers. A coin is flipped over the fingers to create the illusion of a coin walking across the back of the hand.

One of the well known coin manipulation. It is more about a demonstration of skill to amaze the audience, rather than a coin magic ricks. It is one of the most famous coin flourishes. It is known as the coin walk, coin dance, coin roll, knuckle roll, or the steeplechase coin flourish. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coin_walk)

Knuckle roll coin tricks video tutorial:

Step by step instruction how to roll a coin on your fingers.

  • Step 1. Pick a coin with the right size and the right weight for you fingers. Test and pick the one that you feels most suitable.
  • Step 2. Start by putting the coin on the tip of your thumb and then placing (balance) it on top of your index finger.
  • Step 3. Roll the coin to the next finger by slightly raising your next finger, and then pulling down (clip and drag down) the coin. It will make it roll onto your next finger. Do the same motion untill it reach your pinky finger.
  • Step 4. When the coin reach the position (clip) between your ring finger and pinky finger, bend your thumb to get the coin place on your thumb's tip again.
  • Step 5. Then start the motion all over again, repeat as often as you like.

It will require practice for balancing the coin and to gain the speed.

Coin through table tricks

A simple coin through table tricks. There are some different method / tricks that used to make a coin through table tricks, but the one that will be explain below is the easy one. No gimmicked coin, no special coin, just a real coin that can be borrowed and a simple sleight of hands.

These magic video tutorial below will explain how to do coin through table trick.

What you need:
1. a coin (can be borrowed)
2. a table, normal table (not a glass table)

Step by step how to perform the trick:

  • Step 1. Borrow a coin from one of your audience
  • Step 2. Put the coin at the table and let it seen by your audience
  • Step 3. Seize the coin by one smooth movement with your right hand. Make one smooth movement, drag the coin with the tip of your right finger into the edge of the table then "pick up" the coin. While it seem like you pick up the coin and keep it at your right hand, you actually drop the coin to your lap.
  • Step 4. Show that your left hand is empty. Then draw your left hand off the table to pick up the coin at your lap. Then at the same time as you move your right hand to "tap the coin to the table", bring your left hand under the table and tap the coin to the table. So when you tap the table with "your empty right hand" it will make "tapping sound", that will make the audience think that the coin still pinched at your right hand.
  • Step 5. Count at three, 1 2 3 and whala the coin vanish. Bring your left hand over the table to show to the audience that the coin penetrate through the solid table.

You could ask one of the audience to sign the coin to make it more dramatic to your magic performance.

Easy? want to see more advance technique?
See this demo video coin through glass table.

Cigarette through coin magic tricks

One of the coin penetration tricks that popular is cigarette through coin tricks. Famous magician like David Blaine also used this kind of coin tricks on one of his performance. A cigarette that borrowed from the audience being pushed through the middle of a coin.

This is a simple magic tricks that use gimmicked coin. The gimmicked coin had a "magic door" on the middle that temporarily open when being push by the cigarette and then automatically closed when the cigarette pulled out. The angle and position is important when you perform the tricks. The cigarette itself can be replace with a pen, pencil, or a rolled dollar bill.

You can purchase this gimmicked coin at your local magic store. This coin tricks is simple and need no practice, the thing you need to consider when perform the tricks is just the angle, so you won't accidentally reveal "the magic door" to your audience.

And if you want to learn a simple sleight hands, you could also bring the level of this cigarette through coin magic tricks higher. You just need another coin, a real coin that does not have "magic door" and a simple sleight of hands to change the gimmicked coin with the real coin and then let your audience check the coin after the performance.

How to do coin vanish tricks

How to do coin vanish tricks. Basic magic coin trick that make a coin or other small object vanish, disappear into the air and then reappear again.

  • Hold the coin between the tip of your left thumb and your middle finger
  • Grab the coin with your right hand
  • While you grab the coin, right before you grab it with your right hand, release the coin from the tip of your left finger and let it drop to your palm
  • Continue with the movement of grabbing the coin with your right hand and pretend like you actually grab and hold the coin with your right hand
  • Then you can blow your right hand and then open your right hand and show that you make the coin vanished
  • and then you could also continue the trick by making the coin to reappear
How to do vanish coin magic tricks video tutorial:

This basic coin sleight of hand trick is a well known as french drop vanish coin trick.