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For those that may not see this, a stack
of quarters is covered with a plastic
cylinder and topped of with a ball of flash
paper. The paper is ignited and the
quarters are seen to be gone and found
under some playing cards that have been
placed in a circle about the cylinder and
coins.
A critical issue with me was to make the
coins in the middle disappear with a very
magical method. I did not want to use a
traditional stack of coins and merely lift
them with the cover and ditch them in the
process. I was driven to find a method to
simply tip back the cylinder and clearly
show there were no coins present. The
image of that stuck in my mind.
Thus, along the way I had several ways to
cause the stack of coins to vanish. I was
thinking of special stacks, shells of stacks
and so on. In the end just using real coins
seemed to be the best.
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Likewise, there were several ways to get
the coins under the cards. I made
special cards that would insert coins
under a card after a card was flipped,
special decks that would inject a coin into
your hand at just the right time and even
thought of a center piece that would inject
coins under the cards after they were
placed onto the table. Each of these met
with some kind of frustration. There was
also the idea of using a product on the
market called Coin Card. This is a
brilliant way to load coins under cards.
However, the method does not allow the
card to be shown on both sides before the
card is placed onto the table. The method
finally settled on seems a bit over
complicated but works well and gets the job
done.
The Props Used
Let's consider the props briefly so we
know what we are working with. The first
that meets our eye is the cards. They are
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