Well, back in 2012 Gregg ran a bunch of bonus issues, new stuff instead of the rehashes (albeit with some updates).
Then he ran out of new bonus things and went back to old stuff which won’t be re-opened, or unsealed, until 5555 AD! (Yay!)
This trick ran in 2000 or 2001.
Trimatrix Plus with 3 quarters and 3 cards and there is a kicker ending … producing 3 larger coins of a different color, English pennies unless you can classic palm old silver dollars.
Setup: Right hand classic palms 1 English penny and 3 quarters. In left pocket are 3 cards and 2 English pennies.
Quarters
There are two coins close to you, and the single coin is farther away. This is your performer's view. A. B. and C. are also the order the coins will be covered.
Reach in your left pocket with your left hand and classic palm one English penny and bring the other one out hidden under the three cards. Next we'll count and show the cards. Hold as shown, which is conducive to Kaps/Malini Subtlety to hide the load coin in right palm.
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Take one card with the left hand, and do a wrist turn to flash the other side. Care must be taken to not turn too far and expose the load in left palm. Return to normal palm-down position and slide the card under the stack, yet above the clipped coin under packet.
Since the right is clipping the coin by its extreme right side, just relax pressure and the left side droops so card can enter between card and coin. Repeat this two more times, until all three cards have been taken from top, shown on other side, returned to normal, and slid under packet but above load coin under packet. This is easy.
Now packet and hidden coin must be positioned for the Matrix deal and steal, with an extra feature of loading a "LOAD" coin under the first card at A. while also stealing away the quarter for Matrix.
Right hand and English penny omitted for clarity.
Here is how to re-grip. Encircle the cards with the left second finger and thumb, around the long sides, from above. Still controlling the large coin with the right hand, slide around to the right narrow end.
To load and pick-up simultaneously, move to above quarter A. Pick up quarter between second finger and thumb tips of left hand. Deal top card held by right narrow end, and load coin from below onto spot A as you move left hand cards and stolen quarter slightly to the left to make room for card and load coin on table. Next, move to over spot B. Deal the next card and deposit stolen quarter next to quarter at point B. Finally put last card over quarter at spot C., to end this phase. You have an English penny in each classic palm. An English penny is under card at spot A. Two quarters are under card at spot B., and a quarter is under the card at spot C.
Phase two - The next part is fairly standard Matrix procedure with only the added difficulty of having a coin in each palm to keep concealed and the large one under the card at spot A. Put your left hand on card C., and your right hand at card B. Do the standard Al Schneider pick-up move at spot C., with your left, and just snap the card at spot B to reveal two coins. It looks as if the coin at C has jumped to join the one at B. Put the card and concealed quarter under the card in the right hand and lower these as a unit over the two quarters at B, avoiding coin-talk.
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Put your left hand, still palming its final load, on the card at spot A. Again put your right, still palming its final load, on the two cards at spot B. Do the pick-up move with your left, lifting card and hidden load coin, from spot A. The right hand lifts both cards as a unit at point B, to end this phase.
Phase three - Put the left hand's card and concealed load coin under the two cards in the right hand, and use the left thumb and fingers to hold the three cards and load coin briefly while the right hand re-grips so that the right thumb is on top of cards and right fingers under cards and holding load coin by pressure up against the bottom of the cards. The right still has a load in right classic palm but concealed by Malini/Kaps et al Subtlety. The left hand also has a load classic palmed.
Use the tip of the left first finger to steady one quarter as you use the cards in right hand to scoop one quarter up onto cards. Scooping towards yourself helps your angles. Next it will seem as if you dump the scooped quarter into your left hand. In reality the first switch-in takes place. The right thumb holds back the quarter and really the load coin on your right fingers' side of the cards drops into cupped left hand - its load (for later) still being concealed with classic palm and Malini/Kaps Subtlety. The left does a wrist turn and rubs coin on mat and lifts to reveal - the first English penny as a surprise!
The right hand has to now alter its grip.
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What the drawing above shows is how the right second finger has swung around the side of the cards to clip the quarter, which frees the right thumb.
What happens next is that the side of the cards we see in the drawing and the quarter, are lowered to face-down. The far side of the cards in the drawing is now on top. Move the thumb around so that it is on top, too. The situation is quarter under cards, held by second finger. On top are the thumb and first finger.
To end this adjustment, the right first finger can now move out and around cards to underneath. The thumb has stayed on top, and underneath, all fingers together now hold and screen quarter for when that side gets flashed during upcoming moves.
We are now in position to use the cards in the right hand, and the quarter hidden underneath by the right fingers, to scoop another quarter up from the mat with a help from the left first finger which acts like a "stop" and keeps the quarter from sliding as it is scooped. The quarter will actually stay in place on the cards as you pretend to dump it into the left cupped hand. The quarter is held in place by the right thumb. The right hand is almost palm down now.
As the left turns almost palm up, to "accept" the "quarter", its concealed English penny is screened by Kaps/Malini Subtlety. The left does a wrist turn to palm down on the way to the mat and lets the English penny fall to left fingertip rest. This coin is rubbed on the mat and the hand lifted to reveal surprise ending #2.
Now a dodge which breaks the rhythm and gets us into position for the final load. The left hand picks up the final quarter, and rubs it on the mat and lifts to show the coin vanished. This is an application of a move I always credit to Paul Gertner. All that takes place is that on the way to the mat, the left hand classic palms the quarter before the
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rubbing action. After the vanish, the quarter "reappears" on the mat underneath the cards held by the still palm down right hand. All you have to do is release the quarter just held-back by the right thumb against the cards before the previous dumping to left hand (fake) action. Lift the cards, and turn the right hand palm up, to reveal the surprise reappearance of the quarter - actually a dupe.
Scoop this quarter up exactly as before, and again pretend to dump to left hand, again pinning it to cards with right thumb. In this case, the English penny from right classic palm falls into the waiting left hand, which rubs it on the mat and lifts to reveal the final change.
CLEANUP PHASE
The still palm down right hand has the three cards held as a unit. On top, but hidden under the right fingers, is one quarter. Under the cards, held by the thumb, is another quarter, and in the left palm is the third. Put the cards in the left hand, almost in dealing position. The left fingers take over control of the quarter under the cards. Maintain contact with the right fingers on the quarter on top of the cards. Now, slide the top quarter off of the cards, moving away from yourself. As this quarter clears the cards, press it up against the right flat fingers with the right thumb, but in such a way, see upcoming drawing, that the tip of the thumb is free and the pad of thumb way back by the joint is what is pressing on the quarter. This is so that you can go directly to the first English penny, lift it and put it on the second, and then lift these and put on the third.
Now put the fingers flat on the stack, loading the concealed quarter on top of the English pennies. Get your thumb under all. Turn your right hand palm up. The English pennies effectively hide the quarter.
Showing how quarter is held so tips of thumb and fingers can pick up and stack English pennies.
Take the left hand cards and hidden coins to a left pocket and the right hand's coins to a right pocket. The jingling of the right coins masks any sound of coin talk from the left pocket. -FEEN-
See you in 6565 AD or CE.
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