No Coin Trick

praetoritevong · May 19, 2010

Ok. Crazy idea, spur of the moment. Tell me whatever you first think of, see if you can create something interesting.

I want you to create a coin trick/routine/sequence. But it can't use any coins. By which I mean, no real coins, nothing resembling a coin, nothing in place of a coin... No chocolate coins, etc.

A coin trick without coins - what can you think of?

tokyoUW · May 19, 2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFmHlVnGj44

Starting at 1:50 into the video.

God's coin trick baby.

praetoritevong · May 19, 2010

I think I missed something - don't understand how that's a coin trick, but ok...

I think you missed something too - CREATE.

tokyoUW · May 19, 2010

I guessed you missed the joke... meh oh well

MattSmithies · May 19, 2010

I used to do a small routine a couple of years back with lipsticks/chap sticks I came up with some interesting vanishes, it isn't that original but it was fun experimenting with something else.

Oh and I have played with chocolate wrappers, SD cards and tea light candles just another thing to grab for impromptu fun!

worldwideme · May 23, 2010

recently i've started finger palm vanishing anything and everything small enough

praetoritevong · May 24, 2010

tokyoUW said:
I guessed you missed the joke... meh oh well

Yep, sorry, no idea what you're on about.

praetoritevong said:
But it can't use any coins. By which I mean, no real coins, nothing resembling a coin, nothing in place of a coin... No chocolate coins, etc.

Nothing resembling a coin or in substitute of a coin... Use a coin in a unique way!

Ok, let me contribute something then:

A mentalism routine involving an imaginary coin toss. The spec chooses heads or tails ten times, and the results is revealed on a pad of paper in view the whole time. It's not particularly original, but I can think of a few more original applications of an imaginary coin toss. How about a Russian Roulette based on an imaginary coin toss called by the spectator? If they get it wrong, you hurt yourself.

Think outside the box...

Randomwrath · May 25, 2010

I doubt this is what you had in mind, because as far as the spectator is concerned, there is a coin, but if you just mime picking up a coin and fiddling with it for a while casually, then turn to a friend and say 'watch' as you slowly vanish it, you have a ridiculously clean and impossible coin trick.

praetoritevong · May 26, 2010

Randomwrath said:
I doubt this is what you had in mind, because as far as the spectator is concerned, there is a coin, but if you just mime picking up a coin and fiddling with it for a while casually, then turn to a friend and say 'watch' as you slowly vanish it, you have a ridiculously clean and impossible coin trick.

It's not technically - but it's creative, and that was the point so that's a great idea! A full coin bluff handling...

Reminds me of when you perform a bluff pass in card magic without using a top card at all...

Nice thinking

Randomwrath · May 26, 2010

praetoritevong said:
It's not technically - but it's creative, and that was the point so that's a great idea! A full coin bluff handling...

Reminds me of when you perform a bluff pass in card magic without using a top card at all...

Nice thinking

Haha, I can't take full credit for this, it's something my friend and I have been playing around with for a while. It's good fun

worldwideme · May 26, 2010

Randomwrath said:
Haha, I can't take full credit for this, it's something my friend and I have been playing around with for a while. It's good fun

it kind of requires a serious rapport or a massive rep. as a magician to make it work though.

right?

Randomwrath · May 27, 2010

worldwideme said:
it kind of requires a serious rapport or a massive rep. as a magician to make it work though.

right?

I don't think so really, it's just about getting the moment right. For example, my friend was recently trying to learn how to roll a coin across his knuckles. There were loads of coins dotted around the table, and we were both just sat there fiddling with them. After a while, I just stopped using a coin and started miming rolling something over my knuckles. He didn't notice, because he was concentrating on what he was doing, nut he could see out the corner of my eye that I was still doing it. After a few minutes, I turned to him and said 'Watch this.' I mimed very end of a coin roll and then dropped the 'coin' into my other hand. He completely assumed that I had just dropped the coin into my other hand.

I suppose given that it was a close friend, there probably was quite a lot of rapport, but it's not something I've ever given thought to during that trick. I just do it when the situation seems right.

worldwideme · May 27, 2010

Randomwrath said:
I don't think so really, it's just about getting the moment right. For example, my friend was recently trying to learn how to roll a coin across his knuckles. There were loads of coins dotted around the table, and we were both just sat there fiddling with them. After a while, I just stopped using a coin and started miming rolling something over my knuckles. He didn't notice, because he was concentrating on what he was doing, nut he could see out the corner of my eye that I was still doing it. After a few minutes, I turned to him and said 'Watch this.' I mimed very end of a coin roll and then dropped the 'coin' into my other hand. He completely assumed that I had just dropped the coin into my other hand.

I suppose given that it was a close friend, there probably was quite a lot of rapport, but it's not something I've ever given thought to during that trick. I just do it when the situation seems right.

yeah, well i might try it.... sounds like a lot of fun... i do a similar thing after i drop a coin...but.. well its in bobos

Randomwrath · May 28, 2010

Go for it, I hope it serves you well.