LogFAQs > #880178805

The way the video skips makes it look like the video itself may have been edited. It would be a neat trick to sleight-of-hand the tapes >_>

Otherwise, I assume he just palmed the cards. The surface of the table *might* have had sheets of black material on it which were moved when he was moving the cards over them, which would have hidden or revealed coins in the process. At the end, the way he primes his fingers suggests that static electricity may have been used to flip over pieces of cloth to switch the coins and petals. Alternatively, he *could* have had petals affixed to the palm of his hand and used the gesturing to drop them over the coins.

However, given that he likely chose the camera angle, the entire board could be heavily contrived with tricks visible from any other angle. Camera magic is basically meaningless. By controlling the camera angle, you can easily hide things that people would see if they were actually there.

At any rate, the judges look like they're seeing a magic trick for the very first time. Those reactions were overblown.
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