Effect: In this trick, you cause a toothpick that you're holding in your hand to vanish in a flash. At the end, you're holding your fingers wide apart.


Using your thumb, push the bottom end of the toothpick between your middle and ring fingers and into the finger ring.

This view from the back shows how your thumb feeds the toothpick into the finger ring.


With the entire tooth pick pushed through and behind your hand, briefly hold your thumb over the divide between your middle and ring finger. At this stage, make sure that the toothpick is completely behind your hand and securely held by the finger ring.

Open your hand and keep your fingers together.


Open your fingers so they are wide apart.



This shows the location of the toothpick behind your hand that your audience doesn't see.