David Blaine

Coin Bite

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David Blaine borrows a coin and bites off about a half of it. He then spits it back into place and the coin is restored.

Explanation: This trick involves a gimmicked coin. The coin David Blaine uses consists of two parts held together by elastic bends. It can be folded so it looks like one half of the coin has dissapeared.

Blaine first secretly exchanges the real coin for the gimmicked one and then pretends he is biting it while he actually just folds it. He than shows the coin to the spectators and pretends to spit the missing piece back. As he does that, he simply lets the folded half of the coin jump back into place.

This is how a gimmicked coin looks like:

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