The Best, Fairest Coin Flip Cheat Ever (Thanks to Rick Smith Jr.)

World-record holder Rick Smith Jr. shows off his dead-simple way to control a coin-flip to be whatever side you want. Can you pull this off? Send us a clip of you doing this to @shwood @ricksmithjr1 and @scamnationshow on Twitter!
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This video made by:
Brian Brushwood
Bryce Castillo
Roberto Villegas
John Rael
Music:
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Tut Tut Child - Idyll
F.O.O.L. - Underground Raver
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[@RickSmithJr]

Filming with you guys was a blast!!! Thanks for posting this on your channel! Heads or Tails!!!!!

[@loganeasley4343]

Rick Smith, Jr. oh hi sir! Excellent video. I used this to scam my brother out of twenty bucks lol.

[@Matt-uk3fm]

Heads

[@AH-nc6vv]

Hey wait a minute, shouldn't your YT channel name be Rick Smith, Jr. 1? :)

[@Nudgeworth]

This is awesome. I almost can't believe you shared it on KZbin :)

[@abijose2793]

Y

[@tyemaddog]

Rick Smith : "I've been working on this for the last 5 years.".. Brian "I got it in like 10min".. Lol!

[@ussgordoncaptain]

It took 5 years to make the technique and 10 minutes to teach it

[@jamesfair9751]

Exactly it’s a big difference doing trial and error changing multiple variables and learning what does and doesn’t work. Then honing it down to the perfect hold and action. Versus hey hold it like this and do that at this specific moment. Honestly for a magician like Brian taking 10 minutes to key in on that after being told everything is kinda long. I mean he already has much more skill and dexterity in slight of hand movements with plenty of practice manipulating cards and coins you would really think he should be able to do it by after third try.

[@michaelpartlow455]

Actually it’s pretty easy.

[@iKleb]

Rick is the best! He came to my school over ten years ago when I was in middle school as a reward for one of those fundraisers. I participated in the fundraiser just to see him. I then annoyed my family by throwing cards all over the house like for a year after that 😂

[@chinecheremedeh]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@ThatScrubWolf]

This is by far the easiest trick I've learned and also one of the most impressive. I picked up a coin while watching this and did it several times in a row. There are some minor things to improve on such as getting the wobble to look more like a flip and preventing an actual flip from occurring but it's still good enough to impress the laymen 9/10 times. I've loved this show since I was a kid and will occassionally go some time without watching but whenever I come back you never disappoint. Keep it up Brushwood, you're a legend and a funny magician which is rare.

[@scamschool]

Thanks so much, man. Means the world to hear.

[@jamesfair9751]

Scam Nation I totally agree not only are you a great magician but your personality and just overall likable demeanor you really know how to make things interesting and funny. Only time I’ve ever seen you lose your cool was that time Jason shot that blow dart right by your head and you didn’t even have on any glasses. For one slit second I thought you was really gonna beat his ass hahaha. We joke and kid but that was very serious you could have lost an eye. Anyways always love your videos keep them coming and we will keep watching.

[@chinmonk11]

its so true! but also like the 95/100 percent accuracy is perfect for betting so people dont get so mad they quit😂

[@Paul-gr1pv]

-Give me tails! -Cool -Give me *head* -Oh -Oh

[@oppositereality3792]

I fell sorry for your dog.

[@thedefault4121]

R/cursedcomments

[@AydenRose04]

The Default r/ihavereddit

[@kubaharaszkiewicz5397]

r/andalsoamobile

[@noahswoodcreationsus3055]

I have watched this show forever it’s so good

[@r.4945]

People kept insisting to slap it on my wrist all the time and call it in the air. this provided an issue. So here is how i dealt with the "call it in the air & must-slap issue": Start with heads up, flip it, catch it the normal way (coin from above, hand below), then slap it on your wrist. ta-dah; tails up. Start with heads up, flip it, catch it in the air from top to bottom (hand above your coin), slap it on your wrist, ta-dah; heads up. This is my favourite thing to do now. I'm getting a job as a professional coin flipper.

[@zammer8]

That's shown in the video.

[@DerMichael]

That requires some quick reflexes and quite some practice I guess. Other than that, who is gonna call you out for "not catching the coin the same way every time". :D

[@nhojryad]

A trick I figured out in highschool to slap a heads up coin onto my wrist and keep it heads up works here really well. It's hard to describe, but during the slap onto the wrist if you pull your hand away and above the coin and slap down it doesn't flip at all because you're stealing the momentum to actually turn it. So you fake a heads up flip and have them call it in the air, if they ask for a tails you actually flip the coin onto your wrist. If they want a heads, do the twist trick to keep it heads up as you slap it onto your wrist.

[@wellesradio]

If you have been practicing this truck for hours, all told, spread out over a couple of months. One say it just clicked and the floodgates flew open. I can flip it fast, slow (for demonstrations of the principle), high, low. And today I hit upon the overhand catch. I LOVE THIS TRICK! It’s so science-y.

[@Natenator77]

A really cool addition to this trick I've found is to catch the coin just in your open palm - don't close your fist around it. Really visually shocking when it just lands dead in your hand exactly as you predict - and there's no room to doubt that you potentially turned it over in your hand in the brief moment before you reveal!

[@ohiodevildog85]

Brian, the way you sometimes reach up and grab the coin adds to the illusion. I kept thinking that it was going to be flipped the wrong way. Great trick! I love all your shows.

[@cyberyuki6001]

5:01 You left him hanging.

[@CountCocofang]

That's his left hand and the guy clearly isn't a lefty. He would high five with his right. So he wasn't waiting for one, he was just lifting up his arms like "Bro, sick!"

[@Claudanne2]

My biggest problem is that every time I flip a coin I can't catch it.

[@royklein12]

Learn to juggle

[@TheAstip]

Third time trying.. I lost the coin behind my sofa...

[@Claudanne2]

At 80 wpm

[@alexvpaq]

That's why you should have let your parents make you play baseball as a kid 😂

[@1161909]

Practice makes perfect that's why everybody is not a magician

[@DWish808]

That's awesome! Funny thing is, the first 12-15 times I tried it, it kept landing on the opposite side. I was holding heads up and no matter how I caught it, it was always tails. In just a few minutes I've gotten to where I can do it a good 9/10 times so I need some more practice. Awesome stuff as always, Brian and Rick!

[@El-Tejaso]

You may have accidentally found a revolutionary new coin flipping techinque

[@hulk239239]

Okay, I don't normally comment on videos, but my god this video is amazing! not only is the trick great (I'm doing it with a 50p coin), the presenters are great together, but also the ending with the close-ups is really well done. In lots of magic DVDs, they explain a trick and don't bother showing close-ups of the moves and so it ends up with a ton of guesswork or me giving up. I got 7 heads in a row within about 5 mins of practicing, so thanks, Brian and Rick. Great little party trick and a must-try

[@995cool]

in todays episode i learned that brian has a tail

[@xanadu1215]

So much better than "Heads I win, Tails you lose" lol

[@caf110]

Steph Beach I know right I tried it on my 8 year old brother and he figured it out instantly

[@PJDuffield]

don't tell Thanos about this trick

[@scamschool]

this joke was inevitable

[@jamesfair9751]

I know right like what would be left after he did all that snapping lol.

[@juliancabrera3414]

Thanos: I have a coin. Perfectly balanced, as all things should be. I will flip it. You may predict what will face up. The head of the coin, or the tail. Guess right, you live. Guess wrong, you die. Me: SH*T! Uhhhhhh... tails? Thanos: *Flips coin* Me: Oh. Oh no Thanos: You should’ve gone for the head Me: .... Me: Flipped the coin with a snap, I was dead anyways, wasn’t I Thanos: Get gimped LOL Me: *Perishes*

[@gamerpolice8235]

Or two face

[@ObeyCamp]

Check it out: I just accidentally discovered an even better way to control the outcome when the "coinflip" is called in the air, and this method doesn't require you to suddenly start using the "slap your wrist" thing to switch from heads to tails. It's super easy too. I literally did it on accident lol. Catch the coin with a closed hand every time, no matter what the results, however, if you catch the coin on your _fingers_ and especially closer to your fingertips, and then close your hand around it, that action of closing your hand will flip the quarter over and leave it 180° from whichever position you flipped/caught it as. Alternatively, if you catch the quarter on your _palm_ and and close your hand, then there is no flip, and the result will be whichever orientation you flipped/caught the coin as. •Catch the coin in a closed hand every time. •If you want to reveal the coin in the orientation you flipped/caught it as, then _catch the quarter on your palm_ and close your fingers around it (no flip, it stays in original orientation.) •If you want to reveal it in the opposite orientation from how you flipped/caught it, then _catch the quarter on your fingers, toward fingertips_ and by closing your hand you will be flipping the coin over automatically, non-suspiciously, apparently identically to not flipping the coin over. This way, all your catches and reveals look absolutely identical, and people won't ask why you sometimes reveal it as you caught it and sometimes flip it on your wrist after you caught it. This gives the added bonus of being able to keep your hand closed and draw out "the moment" for added impact. But mainly, I feel like this just makes the effect look so much more seamless and unquestionable.

[@ScannerMan929]

Holy shit that was so simple and intuitive to learn! And I was skeptical of how it would look but I am honestly fooling myself. Whelp time to create some chaos and mess with family and friends in exchange for beer.

[@ZGBrickfilms]

Mind Blown! I’ve been wanting to learn this for so long, great video! I was so fooled then I lost it when I saw how simple it was! Amazing video Brian!

[@weezy591]

I love how excited Brian gets evertime he gets to learn something new or see someone put a new spin on a trick!

[@Known_as_The_Ghost]

Thank you Rick Smith, Thank you Modern-... Scam Sch-... Scam nation! A great trick!

[@jigarat]

That was ridiculously simple to learn, I've only tried it for five minutes and I'm at a 80 percent success rate! EDIT: after a few more tries it looks like holding the coin vertically helps a lot. Also choosing a large yet light coin (eg. 50p) makes it much more believable

[@Ceiphied]

Awesome video, I tried it and it started working for me after only a few minutes of practice. I Went for all heads up while practicing, and for forcing a tails I would do the same thing forcing a heads up but I would snatch it out of the air with my hand palm down so that when I turned my hand over for the reveal it would be tails. It works nicely as long as the call for heads/tails is done early enough for you to react with the correct catch.

[@hanoi97]

i nailed it on the first try, this tutorial is so easy to learn, thank you :))

[@RonDLite]

Lol point at tail to overcome language barrier... It's coin and heads in my language

[@dudeover]

It's eagle and something similar to grid in my language 😃

[@upinarms79]

Learned this trick years ago, but Rick pulls it off waaay smoother than I ever could. I could fool people occasionally in the right light, but watching him do that, I'd never think he was doing anything but flipping that coin.

[@ivanvalentin3898]

The NFL uses this to rig games lol

[@jamesmorris4530]

If you master this truck you always win and when you RARELY mess up, you still have 50% to win. The odds are really in your favor

[@BattleKing00]

I got this almost right away. My main issue is that the coin doesn’t go strait up. It fires off in a random direction so I can’t catch it.

[@Balandinis]

This is soooo good! Extremely easy to do, was able to do it instantly! Now I just have to practice this for a few months until it's seemless

[@PonDiEndz]

My addition to this is that I have them call in the air and roll the coin over (if I need to, depending on the call) after I catch it and about to slam it on the back of my hand. The momentum of the catching hand makes it easy to roll over in the hand if it needs to.

[@stenmago8163]

Matt Damon is a great magician

[@VedantArora]

Thanos is not happy......

[@manymedia]

Brian your comment was spot on. I'm fool myself doing this too. Once I got the technique I honestly couldn't tell if it was flipping, but it always came up the way I planned.

[@cheeseontoast3434]

I have a tip for those trying to learn this. Try this with a bigger coing, the bigger, the better. At least I find it easier when the coin is heavier. So if you have some kind of commemorative coin or something I recommend practicing with those, then move on to regular coins once you master it.

[@balloonguymagicvideoreview1079]

Hey Brian, first off, flipping amazing. Just a quick suggestion. When heads is chosen and lands heads in your right hand I would catch in my hand, close my hand which puts the tails face up then smack your hand on the back of your left hand revealing heads. By doing it this way, it looks consistent when they select tails. Instead of catching when heads is picked and opening your hand. Hopefully you know what I mean. Thanks again.

[@Kazutoification]

5:01 Brian, you can't just leave a homie hanging like that.

[@AlexBoyer]

I will TOTALLY perform this! Great job guys! Again.. !!!

[@TheGoreyDetails]

Ricky Smith Jr is the man. Ran into him a few times in Cleveland.

[@sixela3455]

I’m ambidextrous and I learned how to do this with both hands, then had 2 people call it when both coins were in the air.. easy $25 😂

[@silhuette2227]

From Scamschool to Scam Nation!!!

[@Mr_Phox]

This is so simple, I literally figured it out as they were gearing up to actually explain it.

[@kristopf]

This effect is INSANE. I was able to replicate it on my 2nd try (I think - as Brian says, you fool yourself with this effect) The craziest part of the video though is that it still almost looks like a flip in slow motion! I wonder if you could incorporate that into the routine, inviting a bystander to shoot slow-mo on their phone to "prove" that it's not sleight of hand or a trick flip.

[@cloudfinraptor]

I love this. Dead simple, super easy, but it still has that amazing awe effect. I couldn't believe it was gonna be as easy as it was. Personally I like to use a half dollar coin because it's weirder and makes the coin feel more special, however I think smaller coins look more fair. But this is dead simple and looks great.

[@skygh]

This is just dangerous. I like it!

[@ehrichweiss]

I just learned this in like 30 seconds. Awesome!!

[@scamschool]

so good, right?

[@jamesfair9751]

Scam Nation it is great but I’m still having trouble making it wobble but not flip. Oh and it a magnitude harder trying with a silver dollar.

[@Ubersnuber]

Man that’s such a good trick! Simple, but you’ll be seen as borderline psychic if you perfect it, and throw in the variations.

[@Jrome3]

That's pretty impressive. Next I want to learn how to always win at rock, paper, scissors.

[@showd300]

I have to say this Rick Smith man his tips and tricks helps a lot a specialy for coin flips and the fabel coin tos

[@kingjoey52a]

I remember Brian showing us this in San Diego after a live Night Attack

[@scamschool]

that was the best night!!!!

[@PrinceOfMischief2225]

I love head, but like chasing tail.

[@aplasticplant1729]

Top tier comment

[@ThePurpleBlackDragon]

This looks so nice. Time to learn a new trick!

[@benodonnell6540]

This is the best video I’ve ever come across

[@brandoningram9278]

That's awesome. Thanks for the videos Brian. Thanks to Rick Smith Jr. for this amazing coin trick. It looks real. I'm going to practice.

[@Wh0isTh3D0ct0r]

Can't wait to try this on friends and family.

[@itslooigi]

NFL needs to update their overtime rules ASAP

[@Waterfawl]

Woohoo now I can bet everyone which side for money... heh

[@mrratha3190]

so funny and well play👍👍🇰🇭

[@foodflare9870]

I'm aware this is old, but at one point I spent a lot of time flipping quarters, nickels, and pennies(didn't feel like flipping dimes because they're tiny and my hands are on the larger side) and got to a point that I could control the results with a high degree of accuracy with actual flips. From what I can tell, it's a similar sort of skill as practicing flipping knives(just a lot safer to practice and get good at). Also, when I got the knack I was able to control whether it kept the face that was on top or switched to the face that was on bottom, so all I had to do was know my starting state and my desired result and was able to get the results I wanted. And if someone wanted me to do the calling in the air and/or the slap on wrist reveal consistently, I just changed where I caught it. Since I knew what the result would be if I revealed it, then I could just catch it on my fingers if I needed to flip it or on my palm if I didn't.

[@michihaba4435]

That is incredibly simple to pull off. I just tried it and it works every single time like magic :D I love this effect!

[@GuideauxPelagos]

I wonder what FIFA will do now. ;-)

[@QlueDuPlessis]

High speed cameras to catch cheats.

[@bfitz82]

Yo, Shwood, you done good and this is a great cheat.

[@SD18-videos]

If you are doing the call it in the air, what you can do is if it is opposite then close your hand and let it flip over from your palm to your fingers

[@God-hr9tm]

2 face always did this

[@JacobEaves]

Why does this dude sound like Ed Helms to me? hahah

[@SylvianVFX]

You could use that as a massive prediction effect, you write a random series of n H & T, remember it, and then do it in order to n people, flipping the coin, catching it and hiding it from everyone except the current person and then have the big reveal one person at a time ! No prep and 100% impromptu

[@RickSmithJr]

SylvianR Great Idea!!!

[@jeremyatwood5166]

This makes the Two Face plot line in The Dark Knight very interesting 🤔

[@adamjensen7870]

I am going to rewatch this until I learn this seamlessly

[@chrissherer2047]

I had a teacher who was doing this back in '84 and blowing us away!!! Shout out to Senor Hissong.

[@antoniollove]

hand down the best trick. like wtf

[@scamschool]

right??? It's so good!

[@ThePFBoD]

@@scamschool It's always fun watching Brian learn some new magic, because it's always something so simple that fools you as you do it! And this damn trick does it, first try I thought I messed it up and really flipped it, nope came up tails like it should have. The only times it doesn't are when I don't catch it.

[@techfreak244]

I wonder how Jason is doing with throwing his Ken Griffey Jr. Ricky card. If you have seen the extended outtakes you will get your reference

[@Prikesh_learn_2_fret]

THIS IS SO FREAKIN COOOOL!!!!!!!! 😱😱😱

[@Jamesyoung450]

Brilliant trick, simple but effective 😍

[@jonkaplan5243]

What about the "Snapping" sound? That's the 'convincer' everyone will expect. Does this method create a snapping sound? Thanks! DJ

[@DadBodDrumming]

I have a version of this and the coin really flips in the air! I would love to show it to you sometime. And you control how it is displayed either H or T.

[@RickSmithJr]

Chad Sanborn That would be sick!!!!

[@normalminecraftgamer1643]

Can you record on youtube

[@Lovuschka]

Finally I can win those coin flips in Magic The Gathering.

[@TheRealAlpha2]

Dammit, you guys owe me a quarter. When I flicked my fingers it shot off behind me and vanished... and I see you typing Brushwood, don't you say "Taa-daa!"

[@Sinaeb]

Taa-daa!

[@TheRealAlpha2]

@@Sinaeb (Shakes fist menacingly in your general direction)

[@spritz19]

So that's how they did it in that 2016 NFL Divisional Round with Green Bay and Arizona

[@forzex96]

I feel like this video should have like tons of views because is freaking amazing but at the same time I would like it to go silent to be one of the privileged that knows this trick.

[@paulgarcia2887]

Exactly so shhhhh....

[@A.P_Productions]

I'm blown away by the GENIUS

[@magicman506]

Who's all here after watching the 2020 Iowa caucus coin toss? lol

[@benmercado9626]

Me 😂

[@Doktor_Vem]

I tried this trick out on some friends, and immediately realized that they get super suspicious when you don't always either slap it on your arm or your hand, so maybe stick to asking them to tell you what side before you throw it in the air, so you can position it before *hand* (see what I did there?)

[@distorted_heavy]

I wouldnt be surprised if the algorithm actually doesnt know what to categorize your channel as. AI generally has a confidence score, which could be low enough that it genuinely has no idea

[@sstoi]

I almost thought the other dude was the president of my country

[@1elgran]

This is absolutely unbelievable awesome! It's just a real skill that looks like magic! Wtf :D Thanks scamschool

[@demixenicsgo]

Just tried this for the first time while sitting on a sofa, flipped the coin, got the result I wanted, got excited (even though I did it horribly) and the coin fell from my hand into the cushion oblivion. Lost forever, rest in peace lmao.

[@pakotas6642]

Any tips on how to make it look more realistic? I have no problem landing the coin on the right side, but it is way too stable in the air.

[@PineapplesJuice]

My problem is that I kinda don't want to share that video because you know, I don't want my friends to know the secret.

[@ahmadghous9689]

This is gold

[@pedrocaballero1497]

This is a very good trick. However, there weren't any cold beverages. Fail! 😎 👍👍👍👍👍

[@moeenuddin6756]

Flick w/ Rick Smith Jr!!!

[@jediconsular]

Similar to the coin spin control you done with Diamond Jim :)

[@fiegelp]

How do you get the coin to fly up then come down? Whenever I do it the coin flys off somewhere unpredictable so it seems like I am throwing it at the wall rather than up in the air.

[@JulioRegis]

I accidentally learned this when I was like 10 and became obsessed... I had even forgot about it

[@clydeb7713]

They told him to go play with himself and this is what he came up with

[@MrCScottie]

By far the hardest part of the trick is catching the coin

[@KusaneHexaku]

Do you have any other recommended way I can pull this effect off but I don't know how to snap my finger?

[@charlesbrown8117]

That is diabolical

[@snisnisnusni6fidjsij665]

I’m so gonna abuse the shut out of this lmao

[@agentcoulson5581]

Wow! Great trick, got it in minutes.