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are presenting, the Level of Believable
Impossibility serves to drive it even
higher. Let's look at another popular
effect. Coppenetro is a trick that consists
of a wooden base upon which two glasses
rest. A shot glass is placed mouth up on the
middle of the round wooden base. A larger
glass is placed mouth down over the mouth
up shot glass. The audience can clearly
see inside the large glass and see the shot
glass. This unit is capable of suddenly
causing a coin to appear in the shot glass.
I saw a performance of this once. The
assistant held the unit with one glass over
the other. The master magician picked up
a coin and caused it to vanish. Then the
coin apparently appeared in the shot
glass. It was beautiful. This was done four
times. It got quite a good reaction.
Then I saw it performed a different way.
While hanging around the magic shop one
day, I bumped into a magician that
performed the trick. I mentioned I saw it
performed at a show and explained what I
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had seen. He responded that method of
doing it was odd. Then he showed me his
version. There happened to be a lady
browsing in the shop at that time. Also
there was a unit in the shop. He set up the
trick so the coins were displayed on a
little stand. He showed the two glasses and
put them on the round base. Then he
apparently picked up one of the coins
from the stand and pressed it against the
bottom of the large mouth down glass.
Suddenly the coin seemed to pop through
the large glass and fall into the shot glass.
The lady watching it was shocked. My new
friend lifted the large glass from the unit
and showed it to the lady. She tapped the
bottom of the glass with wonder. He
repeated this three more times. Her
response was one of awe. Clearly this
seemed a better way to present the effect.
As I look back on the first performance
of the effect, I realize that it was not highly
believable. While very pretty magically, I
did not think the audience really believed
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