and its packet (it appears as if it's moving with only the face-up queen) away from you. Of course, your left hand is moving with the entire deck - the face-up queen is on it. Look at figure 5 again. The indifferent cards coalesce with the deck as you deal the face-up queen onto the table.
instantly, during a gesture. This is as clean a change of four cards as I've seen. Get it working right and see for yourself. When I originally showed this to a few of the "boys," Ken Krenzel said that one thing bothered him. Why turn the first queen down again after it has been turned face up? He thought that was illogical. Although I don't entirely agree, I did think about it.
That's it; the change has been accomplished. Move your left hand back to your right hand and take the bottom card of the right-hand cards. Turn it face up and deal it onto the first tabled queen. Now come back to your right hand again, take the bottom queen, and turn it face up as your right hand turns its queen face up. Drop both of these onto the tabled queens.
I came up with the following, which eliminates the turning down of that first queen. It also makes the move more direct. You decide which you like better. Do it exactly as described until you turn that first queen face up. Prepare for the top change of packets, also as described. But, instead of turning the face-up queen face down onto the right-hand packet, move your left hand
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Instead of dropping the queens onto the table you may prefer to deal them onto a spectator's open hand.
Untouched
Here's an interesting coin interlude in, basically, Jon's words: Effect: The magician freely displays a half dollar and an English penny, then gives a spectator the half to hold while he spins the penny on the table. Untouched by the performer, the color of the spinning coin begins to change, and when it settles it is found to have been transformed into a half dollar. The penny is found in the spectator's hand. Both coins are passed out for examination. Requisites: One half dollar, one English penny and a specially prepared double-faced copper/silver coin. What you have to do is to machine or file the edge of the gaffed coin so that it has a slight downward bevel toward its COPPER side. (See Fig. 1, in which the bevel is exaggerated.) The routine should be performed on a smooth tabletop without a tablecloth.
ceal the half in the palm, simultaneously turning your left hand up to catch the penny. The double-facer and the penny appear to your audience as the straight coins they saw a moment ago. Immediately gesture to a spectator with your right hand, asking him to hold out his own right hand, and place the two visible coins onto his palm. Tell him to close his fingers around the coins and to turn over his hand. Patter as follows: "You may have heard of the phenomenon called psychokinesis, the power to move objects without touching them. The difference between this and simple physical movement can be easily demonstrated. This is physical movement..." As you say this, perform the standard feint of removing the gaffed coin, copper side up, from your assistant's hand with your right fingers. He'll believe that he still holds the half dollar, but he's holding the penny, of course. Say, "You could see and feel me do that." (The patter justifies the actions, which otherwise would be senseless. Why give someone two coins and immediately take one back?) "I have the penny. You have the half dollar - please hold it tightly. THIS is psychokinesis." Prop the gaffed coin on the table at a perpendicular angle and hold it there with your left first finger, the copper side facing your assistant. (See Fig. 2.) Tell everyone to watch carefully, then set the coin spinning by tapping it with your right forefinger. At first, the color of the coin will be an indefinite blur, then will oscillate between copper and silver for a couple of seconds before it begins to settle. Because of the bevel in the coin's edge it will stop with the silver side up. If, during the spin, you call attention to the fact that you're not touching the coin while it is being transformed, you'll have performed a rather striking color change.
Preparation: Classic Palm the doublefacer in your left hand, silver side out. Performance: Show both the regular coins in your right hand, turning them over with your left fingers and moving the half into a position preparatory to the Classic Palm. Comment on the coins, then perform a Shuttle Pass (or Utility Coin Switch) tossing the penny into your left hand while retaining the half dollar in right-hand Classic Palm. You should turn over your right hand during this move to con-
Pick up the gaffed coin with your right thumb and forefinger to display it, and state that you now have the silver coin. Ask your assistant to open his hand, and the moment all
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