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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