- "Coin magic is the manipulating of coins to entertain audiences."
Performing magic tricks with coins, including vanishing, producing, and manipulating coins.
Palming Techniques: The ability to conceal coins in the palm of the hand.
Sleight of Hand: The manipulation of coins that are apparently impossible, confusing or surprising.
Misdirection: The art of diverting attention from a point of focus, often used in coin magic to mislead the viewer.
Vanishing and Production The ability to make a coin appear or disappear from sight.: Vanishing and Production: The art of making a coin magically appear or disappear from view, captivating audiences with the illusion of its presence or absence.
Switching: The technique of replacing one coin for another without being detected by the viewer.
Retention of Vision: A technique of keeping an audience's focus on one point for an extended time.
Coin Transposition: An effect where one coin is magically transported from one hand to another.
Coin Matrix: Where four coins are placed on a table then one by one they disappear and reappear in one location.
Three Fly: Similar to the coin matrix, where coins seemingly fly from one hand to the other.
Miser's Dream: A classic coin magic act where coins appear out of thin air and are collected in a bucket or a hat.
Basic Sleights: The foundation of all coin magic tricks where performers manipulate the coin using sleights, switches, and vanishes.
Production: A coin magically appears from nowhere or transforms from another object.
Vanish: A coin disappears from the hand or from a previously visible location.
Palm: A coin is held secretly in the hand or fingers, without detection from the audience.
Switches: A coin is secretly replaced with another, or another object is secretly exchanged for the coin.
Shuttle Pass: A coin transportation trick where a coin moves from one hand to another in a quick and seemingly impossible manner.
Matrix: A popular coin trick where multiple coins are placed on a table and then covered with playing cards. The coins move, seemingly without human intervention, and gather together in one location.
Penetration: The coin passes through a solid object, mostly a table or a bottle.
Miser's Dream: A magician produces multiple coins out of nowhere, making them look as if they were materializing from thin air.
Transposition: A magician magically swaps two coins, each of which is in a separate location.
Coin through Glass Table: A coin is made to pass through a glass or acrylic surface.
Unique Coin Tricks: Customized coin magic tricks created either by the magician or other magicians that require specialized skills to perform.
- "Most coin tricks are considered close-up magic or table magic."
- "the audience must be close to the performer to see the effects."
- "stage conjurers generally do not use coin effects."
- "coin magic is sometimes performed onstage using large coins."
- "a close-up coin magician (or 'coin worker') will use a large video projector so the audience can see the magic on a big screen."
- "Coin magic is generally considered harder to master than other close-up techniques such as card magic."
- "it requires great skill and grace to perform convincingly."
- "this requires much practice to acquire."
- "manipulating of coins to entertain audiences."
- No specific quote.
- "coin magic is sometimes performed onstage using large coins."
- "a close-up coin magician (or 'coin worker') will use a large video projector so the audience can see the magic on a big screen."
- "Coin magic is generally considered harder to master than other close-up techniques such as card magic."
- "it requires great skill and grace to perform convincingly."
- "this requires much practice to acquire."
- No specific quote.
- "most coin tricks are considered close-up magic or table magic."
- No specific quote.
- "a close-up coin magician (or 'coin worker') will use a large video projector so the audience can see the magic on a big screen."