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

Use a magic wand to tap a ball. Cover the ball briefly with the wand, and then lift both. The ball remains in your hand, hidden, while the wand shows no ball.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Make the magic wand vanish using sleeving or a topit.

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