The Shell Game (Magic Trick Explained)

is the shell game which is usually played for money but in this case we'll do it for fun the magician shows that he has three shells completely empty nothing in his hands and just a single p he flips the shells over and he puts the middle shell over the p now he tells you that he's going to mix the shells up and all you have to do is pay attention to where the p is now he'll ask you is it under this one and you'll obviously say no everybody says no now he'll say is it under this one this is probably where you think it is of course if you bet on that you'd be wrong it's always under this one secret to this trick is all sleight of hand it has nothing to do with the actual shells there's no holes in the shells or or magnets or anything like people always think and you don't actually have to use any fancy props like these shells you could use walnuts like a half a walnut that would still work but if you do plan on doing this trick professionally i would suggest going out and buying some nicer like i have these metal shells they're painted gold and i'll put a link in the comments on where you can get these uh they're definitely worth the money so here's how this works everyone always thinks there's a magic table involved or something about this mat and it's really not although the mat itself the surface definitely helps with the move when the shell is on top of the p and this p is made of rubber if you roll the shell forward and backward the piece slides out from under it that just happens automatically so if you slide forward the piece slides out so now when your hand is behind it between these two fingers you're going to catch the p as it comes out and now you move your hand around of course they don't see that because your fingers are blocking it you can move your hand to this shell and when you slide it backward it automatically rolls over the p like that your hands are going to cover the motion of course so here's how to look you're going to show the shells empty you'll show your hands are empty and just a single p and you'll flip them over now it's all about the motions right so you put this under the p clearly you do sometimes they don't believe you you've got to show them again that it's there show them nothing in your hands now this is the motion i use but of course you can figure out your own movement that you like to follow i move both of these up here then i move this one forward and now as i move it forward it's jumping over the p and the p is now out and free and i catch it on my fingers so it's gonna look like this now i can take my hand back and i'm holding the p i move this one here i slide this now i'm going to pop it right under i slide this back just popping it back under they think it's there so they're watching that one pretty intensely now very simply easily move this one back you show your hands you flip them over

Channel: Mind Blown Magic Illusion

Views: 940,569

Keywords: Shell game, Scam exposed, Shells and pea game, Shell and pea, Close up magic, Sleight of hand

Id: GumWeVdcof4

Length: 2min 37sec (157 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 05 2020

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[u/DodgyNDN]

Nice!