How to Do the Magic Pen and Coin Trick

Amaze your friends by making a quarter disappear before their eyes and reappear inside a pen cap. If this sounds completely impossible to you, it is. But you can do it through illusion and a trick of the hand and leave everyone wondering how you did it.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Quarter or other coin
• Pen with a cap

1. Place a quarter in the palm of your left hand.

2. Hold a pen in between the thumb and pointer finger of your right hand while keeping the rest of your fingers relaxed and loose so you can catch the quarter.

3. Bring the tip of the pen down toward your palm.

4. Flick your left hand up quickly and slightly as the pen comes toward your hand, causing the quarter to fly up toward your other hand. Make sure you do this when your hands are close together so you can catch it easily and it is unnoticeable.

5. Catch the quarter in your right hand as the pen taps your left palm. Turn your left hand over so they can see it isn't behind your hand.

6. Remove the pen cap and shake it out into your left palm.

7. Drop the quarter from your right hand into your left hand as you do so to make it appear that the quarter was inside the pen cap.

Tips & Warnings

• You can practice, before attempting the trick, throwing the quarter from your left hand to your right hand while trying to use the least amount of motion of your left hand.
• Don't give up if you can not get this trick to work the first few times you practice it. This trick requires a lot of practice to master.