How to Balance a Coin on a Dollar Bill

Video Transcript

"Alright everybody. Now we're going to do one called the coil and bill balance. You can do this with an index card, but it looks cooler with a dollar bill or a similar sized piece of paper, and you need a coin. This is going to require some practice to do it right; it is kind of quirky. What you tell people you're going to do and you challenge them to do is balance the coin on the edge of the dollar bill. That's obviously a difficult thing to do. What you can do is you can take the bill. You give it a nice sharp fold right here and then you stand it up like this. You can take this coin and lay it. You can lay it right there and it'll balance there. You do need to hold that in place. Now, if you practice you can actually move that out like that and that'll stay balanced on the edge and that's pretty cool. It will eventually fall, but you want to balance it there you tell them for a 2 count or a 3 count. If you have a steady hand and you haven't been drinking a lot of coffee that day, you'll get it to work. If you just want to do the one where it's folded like a V like this and you don't want to do the spreading apart one, you can use a paper clip and lay that on there. That will just stay there forever like that. You can walk away. As long as there's not a tornado or an earthquake you'll be fine. So that's how to do the coin and bill balance in variation with the paper clip. "