THE TORN AND RESTORED BILL
Speaker: Hi, and welcome to yet another bar trick from EasyBarTricks.com. In this video I will show you a very nice trick that you can do with any bill. In this case, I'm using 100 Danish krone which is my local currency, but you can use any bill you like. Okay, first I will show you the trick, and afterwards I will explain to you in more detail, how to perform it. So take a close look at this bill. I am going to fold it once, I am going to fold it twice, and now I am going to tear a hole in this bill. So, as you can see here, I will actually tear real hole in this bill, like so, and now the chances for you to figure out how many holes would there be in this bill when I open it.
Will there be one hole, two holes, three holes, maybe even four holes, when I open it up, okay, have you made a guess? Alright, let's see. The thing is that there are no holes in the bill at all, that is the torn and restored bill from EasyBarTricks.com. Now let's see in more detail what actually happened here, and why you can produce the illusion that the bill is restored, because actually it isn't. If you look at it closer up, you will see that there are actually holes in the bill here, can you see that? And there another one there. So we actually have some holes in the bill.
The thing is, that if you hold it up flat like this, and at a bit of a distance, it's very hard to see those holes. It looks as if there are no holes in the bill at all, and you give the impression that the bill is restored. Okay, so how do you create this illusion? Well, you say that you have folded ones, and you do, and you fold it twice, and then you tear, and you actually do this tearing, you tear it, oops! Let's go fold it right, like so, and you tear it, and you actually do that, so -- but here the one, here's when you produced the illusion, because you will just fold this last part, and you'll hold on to it with your thumb, and that will give the illusion that you have created a hole.
Now, when you do it, you presented like, okay, we have to tear it and now, there we go. Just pretend that you actually teared it off and throw it away, so you can produce a good sound, and you can cover for the hole with your index finger and your thumb, like that, and pretend that you are actually tearing that last bit off and throwing it away, and now you can hold with your index finger to hide that this, line is a bit more straight, it doesn't look like a teared bill. So just cover that a bit with the index finger, and now to confuse people, you will start asking how many holes do you think there is. This is just to confuse people, because there are no holes, and the bills whole, but it will build an expectation, and people will be looking for a hole, and when there are none at all, which is surprising, they will be even more amazed. So it's a very good idea to build up this expectation, that there will be one or two or several holes in the bill, because it will be make some even more when there are none.
So when you unfold it, you just do like this, cover with your index finger and on the backside you'll straighten that bill out with your thumb, hold that up, unfold it. Second time, keep covering here, where the hole is, straighten it out of it, and open the bill, and hold it up like this, it will look as if it's completely restored. That is the torn & restored bill from EasyBarTricks.com. If you like this trick, you are very welcome to stop by our website, it's EasyBarTricks.com. We have a huge collection of bar tricks and easy to do magic tricks. Everything is free, and everything is presented in video with detailed instruction. Also, if you saw this at a video sharing site of the Internet, please rate this video if you liked it, and feel free to leave the comment. I hope to see you at EasyBarTricks.com.
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