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Instructions
Make the Coin Stand on End
Hold your hand out straight with your palm up, with a straight pin hidden between two fingers.
Use the straight pin to prop up a quarter so that it stands in your hand.
Flex your fingers downwards, and it will appear as though the coin is standing on its side in your open hand.
Keep the straight pin hidden behind the coin.
Lower the coin and the pin into your pocket at the close of the trick.
Mind Reader
Go around the group or party and ask each guest what their favorite movie is.
When the first person tells you their favorite movie, write it on one of the strips of paper, fold it, and drop it in the box.
When each subsequent guest tells you their favorite movie, continue to write the name of the first movie on the strips of paper.
If the title of the movie a guest gives you is longer or shorter than the name you are actually writing, be sure to make it seem as though you are actually writing down what they are saying.
Chatter with the guests about their choices and the movies to keep them from focusing too hard on what you are doing.
After writing down all the guest responses and placing them in the box, tell your guests that you are now going to predict the future and tell them ahead of time which movie title one of the guests will draw out of the box.
On one last strip of paper, write the name of the first movie, the title that your wrote on all the slips of papers placed in the box. Have a young guest hold up the strip of paper.
Ask another guest to pull out a slip of paper from the box, and remind the children that you predicted that it will match the one you wrote on the paper that the child is holding up. The movie titles will match, since the paper that the child is holding up is the same movie title that you wrote on each of the papers you placed in the box.
Guess the card
For this trick, you will need one of the children to be in on the trick with you.
Arrange nine playing cards on the floor or table in two rows of four, with one card in the middle.
Have part of a deck of cards in your hand, with the "9" card of any suit on top.
Send your assistant out of the room, or to a location where he can't hear you.
Choose one of the children to point to one of the facedown cards in the arrangement of nine cards. Tell the audience to be sure to remember which card in the arrangement was chosen.
Subtly, and while looking at your hand as little as possible, place your hand over the symbol on the nine card that is in the same position as the card that the child chose. For example, if he chose the card in the top right corner, then you will place your thumb under the suit symbol in the top right corner.
When the helper is called back into the room, he will glance subtly at your hand to see which position you are indicating on the nine card.
Make a big deal that you are sending brain waves to your helper to let him know which card was selected while he was out of earshot.
Your helper will choose the card that was indicated by your thumb position, surprising the guests by picking the correct card. Repeat the trick again, encouraging the children to pick a card in a different position.