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My only question is: Penn is offered the chance to change his number when the pen is already in his pocket. What if he’d done so? Every pick was blue and every card was the jack of diamonds, but that possibility doesn’t seem accounted for and it didn’t need to be offered. Maybe he’d have to hand the pen over in the process of rewriting the number?😊
First of all he has 4 small dices. 0:19 if you watch carefull he is putting the 4th dice in the hat with his right hand 0:25 he passes the dice to his right hand and then at 0:30 he puts the 4th dice with his right hand in the hat and the the throws the other one 0:40 he passes the dice to his right hand and when he reveals the hat you see the two he put before 0:57 he puts the big dice in the hat and he holds it inside making a bit of pressure with his right hand 1:28 he puts big dice 2 and so on, is the cups and balls trick basically
I could see every move except one. The 2nd big dice. When he lifted it off the first one but it went right to the table with no classic load. That one move stumped me.
Man, he did that trick, in close-up with the hosts, Penn and Teller actually figured out how he did it, Penn gave it to him in improvised code disguised as pleasant banter, and Gertner understood what he meant. I'm impressed by every aspect of that.
Ok, I know this routine is half a decade old, but I absolutely love the cups and balls, I’m not a magician and have no interest in how he did it, but it’s makes me feel warm and happy… great job Paul.
So he broke his promise to his wife because he thought of a good trick. He then does a bunch of old tricks and finishes with one that Penn and Teller performed… and he admits he saw them perform! What am I missing? 🤔
There aren't enough complimentary words. When I watch someone this skilled and they make it look so easy, I wan to hide all my magic tricks in the closet. Just beautiful!
This was a classic of magic that still surprised me not because I’m not versed on the secret but because of your presentation, skill, and showmanship. The ending got to me, though. The first time I saw you was on the first World’s Greatest Magic back in the 90s. Anytime I see the Cups and Balls, I ALWAYS think of you, Paul. Great performance, you are a master!
I can see the force but I can't see how 47 was delivered because it's written on the pen before it got to Pen. "It was lucky guess I think", quoted because Paul is full of surprises.
Heres my take, I could be wrong but here is how I believe how the trick is done. It begins with a classic force, a technique used to make the audience think they chose the card, but the magician already knew that was the card the audience will pick by 'forcing' it. Next, the deck is pre shuffled, not unshuffled like the magician would have you believe, and they are in a VERY specific order. Notice how the magician doesn't shuffle the deck beforehand to make it ACTUALLY unshuffled. Anything other than a casino wash is able to be faked with skill. The cards are pre marked with a marker while they are in this specific pattern on BOTH sides of the deck, (only one side is shown until the end of the trick) one side says UNSHUFFLED and the other side says the name of the forced card. Next begins the hard part. A technique called the 'Faro shuffle' is used to perfectly intertwine the cards evenly, with 1 Faro shuffle resulting in the cards being in a new order and the pattern repeats until the deck is in perfect order. One side says UNSHUFFLED once, and the other side has the name of the forced card. Paul am I correct? A very impresive trick.
I can't believe he tricked them twice tbh. You can work on a trick for years and become the best at sleight of hand, but at the end of the day someone just has to say "force" and you're debunked. Still a fantastic performance and I'm sure Paul has benefitted a lot from his time on the show too.
I'm still not convinced by any of these explanations for how Penn could have changed numbers. Anything that involves ignoring the pen would have ruined the trick, and anything where he takes the pen back into his possession would have ruined the trick. It's either a huge bluff where the trick is dead (from the perspective of the judges) if he calls him on it, or there's something you guys are missing.
Something about the cheers to your dad in this seems even more genuine (not that it wasn't on FU) than on the show. I thought the execution on the show was flawless untill I saw this. Holy fuck. An emotional twist that is out of pocket and still on topic? Brilliant.
I caught all the sleight of hand. There was no good sleight of hand, it was his weakest attempt yet. He blew my mind with his card tricks but this is kind of magic is not his wheelhouse . It was blatantly obvious everytime he loaded the hats or where the dice were (palming them while holding the hat simultaneously ) you could see by expressions during the performance he was kind of disappointed.
Penns code talk: "with a real force" - the blue pick was forced, probably by using a gimmicked "deck of cards" with two partitions. "I should have an index of all Penn jokes, perhaps more than 50 of them" - Paul Gertner had an index of pens with all possible numbers written on them.
