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Easy Magic Tricks: The Magnetic Pencil

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You can now lift your hand and the pencil will appear to stick to your hand. Notice that there is a discrepancy as you only show three fingers gripping your wrist, but this is usually not a problem if you perform the trick quickly.

Bring your hand down onto the table and as you come down, slip your first finger out from under the pencil and then wrap it around your wrist along with the other fingers.

With the pencil on the table, you can lift your hand slowly to show that there is seemingly nothing that caused the pencil to stick to your hand.

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