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How to get it to bounce higher without rotating (or imparting kinetic energy on it directly)? Probably heating it up until its molten and under pressure inside then dropping it.

Any kind of structural failure on impact could theoretically send a shard higher then where the system was released, but I remembered the under pressure sugar held by a crust from a Myth Busters episode about jawbreakers and would certainly look more interesting and less like "cheating", kind like a rocket or a popcorn, which would incidentally also look great.