Some guy once told me, "Not many people is talented enough to do a single coin routine... because when there is only 1 coin, people instinctively know if it's not here, it must be there..."

What do you all think? Is it really a human instinct or is it in the presentation?

Now, I have seen quite a number of excellent routines using only a single coin. For myself, I had actually amazed (fooled is a bad word) many people doing just a single coin vanish and production.

By the way, you guys know of any good single-coin routines?

david stone's the real secrets of magic

I do a 1 coin routine that i think almost everyone does. Mine goes like this:

1)Retention coin into left hand, show gone, appears in right
2)French drop into right hand, show empty, coin appears below in left hand.
3)Take coin in right, squeeze and 'throw it away', show left hand empty, show right hand empty using caps subtlety, and produce behind spec's ear.

I agree that caps subtlety is VERY angle sensitive but i prefer it to normal hand wash because firstly i am lazy to learn a proper hand wash. And secondly, the hands do not touch when using caps. and it really sells the idea that both hands are empty. Normal hand wash normally requires both hands to touch or come close to each other so sometimes the spec may still think 'well he is showing his hands one at a time so if it's not in the hand he's showing than it HAS to be in the hand he's NOT showing'

But again, don't beat me up if you do a hand wash. i am just a lazy boy.

Anyway the routine i do is well shown to me by a magician friend. i loved it the moment i saw it being perform, because it really slowly sets up the spec to something they were not expecting. The first two phases somewhat condition them to think that if the coin is not in one hand it must be in other hand. So when you hit them with the third phase, the coin momentarily disappears and reappears, they never fail to be amazed. Once, during the 3rd phase this girl was convinced that the coin has to be in my left hand and so she grabbed it and spread my fingers. It was not there and she looked at me and gave me the 'big eyes, mouth opened' face. It's quite good to experience such reactions once in a while.

(Of course i'm not saying that im good, just that the way this routine has been built is ingenious.)

I am not much of a coin worker and this is probably the only coin trick that i know how to do. But i have gotten alot of mileage with this one.


ZiAn

muscleaxl, In the beginining there were coins DVD by Jay noblezada ( penguinmagic) has a neat 1 coin routine that i use

Stuck is a nice one coin routine. It is one of those coin magic where you can vanish the coin and show both hands empty with short sleeves.

Slide is nice too, but it is not as easy as stuck. You just squeeze the coin and the coin vanished. Shoot is also a sweet clean one hand coin vanish.

I second "In the beginning were coins", for nice easy to master sleights and tricks.

Stuck is nice too. Quite Stunning.

for my will be

a) Coin appear from right empty hand, by using BP;
B) Retention coin into left hand, right hand finger point left hand and show gone, point to right also not there by using big movement cover small movement by using the P, appears it in left;
c)FD drop into left hand, put the coin into right eye by right hand, coin appears from the black of the neck;
d)FD drop into in right hand, and 'throw it up', show right hand empty, S into the pocket, show both hands empty.

had fun......... B)

There a very good one coin routine in john Shryock Live At Caesars dvd which i use to do. Do check it out it a pretty good routine.