Easy Magic Tricks That Use Sleight of Hand

Magic by no means is an easy art and magicians take years of sheer hard work and patience to develop the art of sorcery. To know how difficult the execution of magic tricks are, one can try to perform only a basic ones using simple props and sleight of hand.

Now what makes a magic trick so difficult to execute. There are various steps involving a successful magic trick. Sleight of hand is a basic technique that forms an indispensable part of learning and conjuring these magic tricks. Without learning this technique, a magician cannot execute his craft. This single technique will help the magician conjure many magic tricks at the same time. For close-up magic especially, sleight of hand is an obligatory proposition. Let us examine some of the magic tricks that require the basic technique of sleight of hand.

The Vanishing Coin- The oldest trick in the book! The Vanishing Coin still has many takers who believe in the classical old school magic tricks involving sleight of hand. Here, what the magician does. He/she takes say four coins in his palms. He makes the audiences see the number of coins properly so that there is no problem of counting later on. The magician then closes his palm with the four coins inside and then rubs it with the palm of other hand or crushes the coins with a single hand only. When the magician open up his/her palms, to everybody's amazement, there are only three coins left. The audiences are awe struck and cannot believe their eyes. The trick seems to be as clean as a whistle. However, the magician has played the trick hours before the show only. The magician has used an aluminium foil made coin along with the three real coins and then using a basic sleight of hand technique; he/she crushes that aluminium foil coin and reveals the three real coins.

The Vanishing Coin but With a Card- The Vanishing Coin trick also has a variant. Let us first see how the magician executes the trick. The magician displays a card with a coin resting upon it. Then the magician places his other palm directly beneath the card and propels the card upside down. The coin drops to his/her other palm and the magician keeps the card in his/her pocket. However, when he opens up the other palm, the coin seems to be nowhere. The coin disappears into thin air! However, here again the trick was played way before the show. Actually, the magician uses a glue to fix the coin on the card and when he/she propels the card upside down, the coin remains stuck to the card because of the glue. Then comes the sleight of hand technique where the magician very cleanly keeps the card into his pocket without giving any hint to the audiences that the coin is stuck upon it. The magician's mystique takes care of the rest.