The Penetrating Pinky Illusion Magic Trick Explained

Video Transcript

" Hi! This is Dave Foydel with expertvillage.com. In this next bit you will learn the penetrating pinky. Hello, we will do another rope trick here; this is called the penetrating pinky. I will need my handy dandy assistant Darrel. Come on up here Darrel. I will need to borrow Darrel’s hand for a second here. We are going to take this rope, put it over his hand, just like this and have the rope go right through his pinky. Did it hurt? No. So here is how it works. We are going to put the rope on the hand and then I will show here. This is the back of his hand, this is the front, so you are going to take the rope that is in the back of his hand and put it in front. The reason you do that if you put it this way, it will hurt his finger. So you put it like this, I am going to put it around his finger like this, now I keep it kind of tight, and I am going to do it in slow motion here, so you see what happens. As I go to pull this, just relax your hand there Darrel, you see his finger moves out of the way, because your pinky does not have as much muscles as the other ones, so as you do this here at full speed, I am going to do it again here and you go full speed and this finger just moves right out of the way, just like that. "