Four Coin Assembly
Description: A handkerchief is spread on the table and four coins are placed near the corners, with the two cards lying along with them. Picking up cards, the magician shows various ways in which they can be used to cover any two of the coins. After deciding on diagonal corners, he takes the uncovered coins, one at a time, under the handkerchief and causes each coin to mysteriously penetrate the cloth under the card at the Corner A. At the end of the trick, all four coins appear under the card - including the coin at Corner D - which the magician apparently never touched during the entire performance.
Materials: four coins, either half-dollars or quarters; two playing cards, and a handkerchief.
How to do the trick: (1) Begin by laying out four coins, one on each corner of the cloth, as shown. The cards are tossed on the handkerchief as you say, "Here are four coins, two cards, and one handkerchief."
Next: (2) Pick up a card in each hand, thumb on top, fingers below and cover the two coins at the bottom of the handkerchief (as shown) and say "I can use these cards to cover the two coins in this row."
(3) Lift the cards and move them to cover the coins at the top of the handkerchief and say "or I can cover the coins in this row."
Next: (4) Your right hand again moves to cover the coin at the bottom while your left hand moves its card across the handkerchief to cover the other coin on the top and say "Also, I can cover two coins at the sides." (See picture below).
(5) Here as you cover the coin on the bottom, your right thumb presses down on the left edge of the coin so that the fingers of your right hand can slide under the coin and secretly pick it up and hold it against the card. (NOTE) (6) when you "secretly" pick up the coin, it is important that your right fingers make as little motion as possible. Your right hand should look completely natural with no suspicious movements that might give you away. Also, you will find the "pick-up" much easier to do if you are performing on a soft surface, such as a close up mat.
(7) Your left hand draws its card toward you, sliding it over the right-hand card, as if to cover the coin at the bottom corner.
(8) Then, your right hand draws its card toward you, holding the coin under it. Your left hand leaves its card at the bottom corner over the exact spot where the "stolen" coin was located.
(9)Your right hand then places its card over the coin at corner A, leaving with it the coin that it secretly brought from corner D. Leave the cards at corner A and D as you comment,"Or I can cover two coins, criss-cross, like this."
