The Best, Fairest Coin Flip Cheat Ever (Thanks to Rick Smith Jr.)

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World-record holder Rick Smith Jr. shows off his dead-simple way to control a coin-flip to be whatever side you want. Can you pull this off? Send us a clip of you doing this to @shwood @ricksmithjr1 and @scamnationshow on Twitter!

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This video made by:
Brian Brushwood
Bryce Castillo
Roberto Villegas
John Rael

Music:
CloudNone - Midnight Underground
Tut Tut Child - Idyll
F.O.O.L. - Underground Raver

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Filming with you guys was a blast!!! Thanks for posting this on your channel! Heads or

RickSmithJr
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Rick Smith : "I've been working on this for the last 5 years."..
Brian "I got it in like 10min".. Lol!

tyemaddog
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Rick is the best! He came to my school over ten years ago when I was in middle school as a reward for one of those fundraisers. I participated in the fundraiser just to see him. I then annoyed my family by throwing cards all over the house like for a year after that 😂

iKleb
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-Give me tails!
-Cool
-Give me *head*
-Oh
-Oh

Paul-grpv
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People kept insisting to slap it on my wrist all the time and call it in the air. this provided an issue. So here is how i dealt with the "call it in the air & must-slap issue":

Start with heads up, flip it, catch it the normal way (coin from above, hand below), then slap it on your wrist. ta-dah; tails up.
Start with heads up, flip it, catch it in the air from top to bottom (hand above your coin), slap it on your wrist, ta-dah; heads up.

This is my favourite thing to do now. I'm getting a job as a professional coin flipper.

r.
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This is by far the easiest trick I've learned and also one of the most impressive. I picked up a coin while watching this and did it several times in a row. There are some minor things to improve on such as getting the wobble to look more like a flip and preventing an actual flip from occurring but it's still good enough to impress the laymen 9/10 times. I've loved this show since I was a kid and will occassionally go some time without watching but whenever I come back you never disappoint. Keep it up Brushwood, you're a legend and a funny magician which is rare.

ThatScrubWolf
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I have watched this show forever it’s so good

noahswoodcreationsus
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My biggest problem is that every time I flip a coin I can't catch it.

Claudanne
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in todays episode i learned that brian has a tail

cool
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don't tell Thanos about this trick

PJDuffield
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That's awesome! Funny thing is, the first 12-15 times I tried it, it kept landing on the opposite side. I was holding heads up and no matter how I caught it, it was always tails. In just a few minutes I've gotten to where I can do it a good 9/10 times so I need some more practice.

Awesome stuff as always, Brian and Rick!

DWish
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Brian, the way you sometimes reach up and grab the coin adds to the illusion. I kept thinking that it was going to be flipped the wrong way. Great trick! I love all your shows.

ohiodevildog
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Okay, I don't normally comment on videos, but my god this video is amazing! not only is the trick great (I'm doing it with a 50p coin), the presenters are great together, but also the ending with the close-ups is really well done. In lots of magic DVDs, they explain a trick and don't bother showing close-ups of the moves and so it ends up with a ton of guesswork or me giving up. I got 7 heads in a row within about 5 mins of practicing, so thanks, Brian and Rick.


Great little party trick and a must-try

hulk
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Holy shit that was so simple and intuitive to learn! And I was skeptical of how it would look but I am honestly fooling myself.

Whelp time to create some chaos and mess with family and friends in exchange for beer.

ScannerMan
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That was ridiculously simple to learn, I've only tried it for five minutes and I'm at a 80 percent success rate!

EDIT: after a few more tries it looks like holding the coin vertically helps a lot. Also choosing a large yet light coin (eg. 50p) makes it much more believable

jigarat
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Check it out: I just accidentally discovered an even better way to control the outcome when the "coinflip" is called in the air, and this method doesn't require you to suddenly start using the "slap your wrist" thing to switch from heads to tails. It's super easy too. I literally did it on accident lol.

Catch the coin with a closed hand every time, no matter what the results, however, if you catch the coin on your _fingers_ and especially closer to your fingertips, and then close your hand around it, that action of closing your hand will flip the quarter over and leave it 180° from whichever position you flipped/caught it as.

Alternatively, if you catch the quarter on your _palm_ and and close your hand, then there is no flip, and the result will be whichever orientation you flipped/caught the coin as.

•Catch the coin in a closed hand every time.
•If you want to reveal the coin in the orientation you flipped/caught it as, then _catch the quarter on your palm_ and close your fingers around it (no flip, it stays in original orientation.)
•If you want to reveal it in the opposite orientation from how you flipped/caught it, then _catch the quarter on your fingers, toward fingertips_ and by closing your hand you will be flipping the coin over automatically, non-suspiciously, apparently identically to not flipping the coin over.

This way, all your catches and reveals look absolutely identical, and people won't ask why you sometimes reveal it as you caught it and sometimes flip it on your wrist after you caught it.
This gives the added bonus of being able to keep your hand closed and draw out "the moment" for added impact. But mainly, I feel like this just makes the effect look so much more seamless and unquestionable.

CNSninja
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So much better than "Heads I win, Tails you lose" lol

xanadu
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Awesome video, I tried it and it started working for me after only a few minutes of practice. I Went for all heads up while practicing, and for forcing a tails I would do the same thing forcing a heads up but I would snatch it out of the air with my hand palm down so that when I turned my hand over for the reveal it would be tails. It works nicely as long as the call for heads/tails is done early enough for you to react with the correct catch.

Ceiphied
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Thank you Rick Smith,
Thank you Modern-...
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Scam nation!

A great trick!

knownas
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A really cool addition to this trick I've found is to catch the coin just in your open palm - don't close your fist around it. Really visually shocking when it just lands dead in your hand exactly as you predict - and there's no room to doubt that you potentially turned it over in your hand in the brief moment before you reveal!

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