The Astonishing Pocket Switching Coin Illusion

This classic illusion is a great trick that can quickly spice up any social conversation. It doesn\’t require any props or set up, and you can work it into the conversation so easily they won\’t know what happened.

This is how it will appear to your audience. You\’re standing around at a party, or sitting at a table. You mention that you have discovered a really strange hole in your pocket, and that you can\’t understand why it this strange problem follows you no matter what pair of pants you wear. People will naturally be confused, so you naturally volunteer to illustrate your strange problem to them.

You ask one of your friends for a specific coin. Ask them to mark it somehow so they know you\’re pulling a fast one. You take the coin, put it in your right pocket, and shake your right leg. Then you reach down, and pull the coin out from under your left leg. Bewildered, you give them the coin back, and explain you have no idea how this happens.

Here\’s the trick. When nobody is looking, you reach down and place a coin under your left foot. Later on you ask for the same coin described above. Then place it in your right pocket, and pull the their coin from under your left foot. But before you give it back to them, place it in your right pocket, as if you\’d forgotten you borrowed it from them. Quickly switch coins as soon as you stick your hand in your pocket. That way, the one you give back to them will be the one they marked.

This is a trick that is best done by itself, and best done without announcing you are doing any kind of tricks. You\’ll need to play along the whole time, and pretend you have no idea what is going on. No matter how much they press you, claim that you have no idea how or why this happens, only that it happens sometimes, and doesn\’t happen other times.

What is likely the trickiest part is how to introduce the topic without sounding too obvious once you\’ve hidden the coin under your shoe. Usually it works pretty well when you wait for somebody to talk about money, and then you can gently guide the conversation into losing money and what not. That way they\’ll have no idea you\’ve set this whole trick up. This trick is great for throwing a monkey wrench into an otherwise normal social conversation. Have fun with this.

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