Glass Thru the Table

Glass Thru the Table - Magic Tricks Revealed

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Video Transcript

"Hi Malik the magic guy now I'm going to show you a cool trick that you can do if your office has a kitchen or break room something like that. You need a glass I'll discuss some variations on this in a minute and you need a quarter and we're going to do this right down on the table. Now I'm going to do this trick with a quarter but because it's a secret magic thing I'm also going to take this sheet of newspaper and sort of make the glass a little more so we're going to roll this up in a newspaper here just like this because I don't want you to see the secret magic guy stuff. We're going to twist this around kind of fold it over like that so the idea is I'm going to make the quarter disappear just by covering it just like that with the cup. Now if I cover it like this and takes a snap of a fingers (no it's still there) a snap of the fingers (still there) oh I forgot tails up is the snap of the fingers (still there) no okay no alright let's try it like this and it goes right through the table."


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"Alright everybody so lets talk about the glass through the table and some props and some alternatives of how to do the trick. Now we're doing this standing up here but cause of the formative of the video but this is really a good trick to do sitting down at a table or when your on a chair you got a big table in front of you.

So that's why when you watch the performance part of it you might of seen how it was done early. But we're going to go through it now, now I used a piece of newspaper for the performance I'm going to show you how do with a like a piece of standard this is yellow photo copier paper I'm sure your boss will love you taking paper out of the copier to do this.

And I'm using a glass you know I'm sure you have a kitchen and your office may have a glass or not any sort of cup with some weight to it. If you have one of those thermo coffee cups that have a little weight that'll work too but you'll have to find another reason to wrap it up.

But basically with the glass right over the quarter you can also do it with a salt shaker, if there's a salt shaker in your office. You want to borrow a quarter, the quarter is really just to take the focus off the glass, so we're going to cover it up you know I'm going to take this paper, wrap it around the glass just like this, give it a little twist on top you can do this with a stiff paper napkin, you can do it with paper towel.

The key part is you want this to happen you want the glass to be able to slide out of the paper just like that. Cause that's really going to be the secret to the trick so we're going to cover up the quarter and do a little magic thing, it didn't disappear. Now we're going to oh it needs to be tails up, now each time you bring it back you bring it toward the edge of the table.

Okay though we have the heads oh it didn't disappear we're coming back toward the edge, back edge towards you. We do it tails up we come back and on the third time we're going to drop the glass right out of the paper into your hand but your going to do this under the edge of the table, like this.

And your still focus on the quarter now your going to do your best to act like the glass is still in here, your going to put this down and your just going to slap that like that and it looks like you just pushed the glass right through the table.

And you can do that with you know find alternative props use a salt shaker you know use something else other than a quarter so that's the way to do the glass through table, have fun with that one."