Amazing Nickel Trick

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To begin the amazing nickel spiral tower, first gather a bunch of nickels together, and we'll get started with the stunt.

First of all, you grab three nickels and arrange them as shown in the picture below.

Three nickels are arranged side by side as in the coin picture.

Now, you place three more nickels, like in the first step, but off-set them a little bit,touching the one counter-clockwise away from it, as shown in the photo below.

Three more coins are placed on top of the first layer of coins. Make sure that each layer is slightly off set from the previous layer.

Repeat the previous steps a few times until you get the height that you desire, off-settingeach layer slightly from the one below.

Repeat the process as many times as you wish. Dont forget to slightly off set each layer of nickels from the previous one and you will eventually acheive a spiral tower shape as in the photo.

Here is a photo of a completed Nickel Spiral. You can make the tower higher, but itwill take up a lot more nickels. The coin spiral shown here took up about 50-70 nickels.

This pictire is of a completed spiral comprising of between 50 to 70 nickels. You could continue to build the nickel spiral tower higher but make sure that you have plenty of coins.

Reasons why this is a great trick :

Good exercise to improve your concentration and patience.
Good practice with handling coins.
Very visual and a great end result.

Amazing Nickel Trick

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