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Snap your left fingers. Move the sucker so it is vertical. The dime will be facing you (photo 3). Turn the stick so it revolves and the audience can see that the dime is adhering.

Bring the sucker back to a horizontal plane and snap your left fingers again. Do Larry Jennings’ “Jumping Shuttle Pass”:

Turn the right hand palm down over the left in a swatting motion, like you’re trying to flick off the dime. Simultaneously, turn the left hand palm up and flat. Inertia sends the loose dime into the air where it lightly hits the sucker and falls back down into the

left hand (photo 4).

Do the paddle move twice to show that the dime is no longer on the sucker.

Phase three: This is David Roth’s “Karate Coin” move. Toss the loose dime into the air. Bring the right hand toward it in a swatting motion and catch it in the fist, simultaneously turning the stick 180 degrees (photo 5). Try to get the coin on the way up, before it reaches the apex. Because you were coming down on the coin, the effect is that it penetrated and stuck to the sucker!

Phase four: Show your left hand empty. Snap your left fingers and apparently drop the dime off the sucker by turning your right hand palm down and letting the loose dime drop into the left hand (photo 6). Do the paddle move twice.

Repeat the moves in phase one, placing the loose dime on the sucker and letting it slide off and then switching it for the attached dime. Snap your fingers and show the dime is stuck.

Snap again and shake the daylights out of the sucker. Stop and look at it.

“Oh, I see what happened. On the second snap, it went a little deeper. It’s actually under the wrapper!”

Display the sucker to your right, then as you turn to display it on your left, ditch the loose dime in a pocket on your left. Don’t worry, everyone will be staring at the sucker!

Set the sucker on the table and let the spectators touch it and examine it.

Notes: Carry a supply of ungaffed suckers. If there are kids present, mention that money is dirty, so you don’t want to give them that sucker and give them each an untainted one instead. I close with this piece, and as I hand them the candy I say, “So

long, suckers!” and walk away during the laugh.

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The V-H Paddle Move: The paddle move apparently shows both sides of an object while actually showing the same side twice. This version of the paddle move comes from Guy Camirand’s “Automatic Coffee Stirrer” from The Camirand Academy of Magic. Done properly, it is extremely deceptive.

In the context of the preceding routine, you’re showing the empty side of the sucker twice to make the audience believe the sucker is unprepared. (However, this move is applicable to knives, paddles, swizzle sticks, pencils and many other items.) In essence, the fingers turn the item over at the same time the hand turns over. To learn this properly, we need to break it sown into the two movements first.

The finger flip: Hold the stick of the sucker between your right forefinger and thumb as shown in photo 7. Now push your thumb to the left toward your fin-gertip, causing the sucker to rotate 180 degrees to the left (photo 8).

The turnover: Typically, magicians perform the paddle move on a horizontal plane or a vertical plane. The latter has less hand movement but is easier for the eye to follow, while the former is harder for the eye to follow but requires a bigger movement with the hand. In this version, you move from vertical to horizontal (hence, the name, “V-H”).

Hold the sucker as in photo 7. Turn your hand palm down to the left to the position shown in photo 9. Turn it back as in photo 7.

The V-H Sequence: OK, now you just combine the two to do the V-H Paddle Move. Hold the sucker by the stick with the attached dime on the bottom of the sucker as in photo 7. Do the turnover, simultaneously executing the finger flip. Wait a beat and then turn your hand palm up again, while simultaneously pulling your thumb away from the fingertip to cause the sucker to rotate 180 degrees to the right. You are back to starting position.

Photos 10 and 11 show the vertical and horizontal positions from the audi-ence’s view.

Notes: Don’t move your whole arm when doing the move—just your wrist.

Don’t do the finger flip until you start to move your hand, or you will expose the move. This is an example of the larger movement covering the smaller; the finger flip is invisible when done during the turnover. Also, do the move fairly slowly. It will feel glaringly obvious to you, but it is completely invisible to the audience. Doing it quickly will only draw suspicion to it. After all, you’re sup-posedly simply showing the other side of an ungimmicked sucker!

Remember to move from vertical to horizontal and back to vertical.

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