Turn­ing the Him­ber Wal­let

The Him­ber Wal­let is a very use­ful tool. But some­times, it is easy to get con­fused as to which side to open. I know that a seasoned pro has no prob­lem with that, but this hint is dir­ec­ted at the am­a­teur and cas­u­al per­former.

In or­der to make this fool­proof, I use a tech­nique which I want to call “body memory”. In­stead of think­ing “left” or “right” (which is eas­ily con­fused in the heat of a per­form­ance) you will only think “thumb”, which is much easi­er to re­mem­ber for the body. And you know it from Face­book …

The wal­let is on the table with the first com­part­ment to be opened up. The right hand ap­proaches the wal­let in or­der to open it. You will see the thumb is at the left side of the wal­let. Think “thumb” and open the wal­let with the thumb. Pick up the wal­let and place it onto the left hand.

Re­move the ob­ject and put it onto the table (there must be a mo­tiv­a­tion for that, of course). Now the clos­ing: Again, you think “thumb”. This time, the left thumb closes the wal­let, thereby giv­ing it auto­mat­ic­ally that secret turn. Put the wal­let onto the table.

Next time you pick up the wal­let with the right hand, again think “thumb”. The right thumb opens the wal­let as be­fore, this time the oth­er com­part­ment will be opened. All the dirty work done and you have a nice and in­con­spicu­ous secret turnover as well!

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