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Hold the ball secretly in your hand using the natural curl of your fingers to keep the ball in place without being seen.

Move the cups around after placing a ball under one, and challenge the audience to guess the right cup.

Secretly introduce a new ball under a cup while pretending to just show it empty.

Rotate a cup upside down while a ball is on top, showing it does not stick.

Lift a cup to reveal more balls than previously shown.

Stack one cup on top of another as part of the routine, often to show nothing in between or to conceal a move.

Make it seem like the cup goes through a ball sitting on top of it.

Display your hands empty in a dramatic way before starting the trick to preemptively dispel suspicions of sleight of hand.

End with a surprising element such as a large ball or different object under a cup.

Bring a member of the audience to assist in the routine, such as lifting a cup or holding an object.

Pretend to place a ball in your other hand, but retain it in the original hand.

Show that a ball magically penetrates through the bottom of the cup.

Hold a ball between your fingers and thumb. Pretend to take it with the other hand, but actually let it drop into your palm.

Make the magic wand vanish using sleeving or a topit.