3. THE PASSAGE OF THREE COINS ONE BY ONE FROM ONE HAND TO THE OTHER
Effect. Three coins are taken in each hand; three are then made to pass invisibly, in succession, to the other hand, the coins in each hand being counted at each stage until finally all six are in one hand and none in the other.
1st Method. Borrow six coins of the same denomination and secretly hold a seventh palmed in your right hand. Or you may have six coins in your right trousers pocket; in bringing them out, palm one and count the remaining five onto the table, then, saying you need six coins, borrow one from a spectator. Any idea that you might have a supplementary coin is thus subtly negatived. Make two piles of three coins and place them a few inches apart.
Pick up one pile with the right hand and drop the coins into the left hand, secretly letting the palmed coin drop at the same time. Close the left hand. Pick up the other three coins with the right hand, close it, jingle the coins, get the bottom coin into the position for palming, and grip it there by the regular palm. Make a motion of throwing a coin across to the left hand; turn the right hand back upwards; and drop two coins, one by one, opening the fingers widely for a moment as the last coin drops.
Without pausing, open the left hand and drop its four coins onto the table, counting them.
Without haste, but without delay, pick up the four coins with the right hand and drop them into the left hand, again releasing the palmed coin. Show the right hand on all sides and pick up the other two coins. Again get one into the palm, making the throwing motion, and then drop one coin from the right hand. Count out five from the left hand.
For the last coin, sweep the five coins off the table into the left hand, releasing the palmed coin at the same moment. Give the lot into a spectators hand, making him close it on the coins and hold them above his head. Show the last coin and pretend to put it in the left hand, really palming it by the thumb grip. Extend the left arm and move the right hand over to the left shoulder to pull up the left sleeve and, as the hand passes over the left outside coat pocket, let the coin fall inside. Pull up the sleeve, make a throwing gesture with the left hand, and show both hands empty. The spectator counts the coins and finds that he has six.
2d Method. In this version the supplementary coin is suppressed, the effect remaining the same. A new move is necessary, which is not difficult but requires careful timing.
In order to save time you may very well provide all the coins yourself. It is never worth while to delay matters by borrowing articles unless the nature, of the effect makes this absolutely necessary. Arrange the coins in two piles of three on the table. Take one coin with the right hand and apparently put it in the left hand, really palming it by the regular palm; count “One.”
Take a second coin with the right hand; show it at the tips of the thumb and second and third fingers, with the back of the hand to the front; turn the hand palm downwards over the left hand, and apparently drop this second coin into the left hand, which opens just enough to receive it and then closes.
In reality, at the moment the backs of the right fingers touch the tips of the partly open left fingers, drop the coin from the palm of the right hand so that it strikes against the coin on the top joints of the right fingers in its passage into the left hand; immediately palm this second coin in the right hand by closing the two middle fingers, thus carrying it to the regular palm. Close the left hand and point to it with the right forefinger, counting “Two.”
Properly timed, the illusion is perfect—the jingle of the two coins being conclusive evidence to the spectators that the two coins are really in the left hand. Take a third coin with the right hand and really let it fall into the left hand, imitating the previous action exactly so that it produces the same sound by falling on the single coin already there. Take the other three coins with the right hand, counting them, close the hand, and hold both hands with the backs downwards and well apart. Make a throwing motion with the left hand toward the right. Open the left hand and drop the two coins it holds, one by one, onto the table. Then count out four coins from the right hand and again show both hands empty.
Pick up one coin with the right hand and apparently place it in the left hand, palming it as before; then take a second coin and repeat the move explained above, to produce the jingle in palming this coin, counting “One, two.” Pick up the remaining four coins with the right hand, counting “Three, four, five, six.” Make the throwing motion with the left hand toward the right; open the left hand, showing one coin only; drop the coin on the table. Drop the five coins from the right hand, counting them, and show both hands empty.
For the last coin the action is varied a little. Take one coin with the right hand and really place it in the left hand, using exactly the same gestures as when you palmed the coin. Pick up a second coin with the right hand; then stop and say, “I don’t want you to think that I use my sleeves”; put the two coins down and pull the sleeves back a little. Once more apparently place a coin in the left hand, palming it this time; close the left hand and stretch it out to the left. Take the five coins with the right hand, close it, and hold it extended to the right. Repeat the throwing motion; open the left hand, showing it empty, and drop the six coins, one by one, onto the table.
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