16 YEAR OLD magician FOOLS Penn and Teller with PHYSICS!? | Stanley Zhou on Fool Us 

That's great. By the way Stanley will you ever reveal the trick?

@@nochannel1276 nope. best magicians never reveal. dont reveal stanely. keep us guessing. wow 16 year old fooled the best.

@@SgtJoeSmith that's just a stupid quote in the words of Penn(Wired video). I am a magician and it's ok to reveal tricks to other magician's

@@nochannel1276 ok wheres the videos of you revealing yours? nothing on your channel than a 13 year old playing video games in his mommys basement

@@SgtJoeSmith I actually have a channel where I review and reveal magic so shur up

EXACTLY, kudos to the young man 👏👏

You forgot to say "Hold my Beer"

@@georgekellon2471 More like hold my Pepsi, he's 16 in the US XD

The last time he Made it was diferent, blacks on the top red on the bottom

When he started to do it a second time I was both pleased that I'd get a second chance to follow it, but also worried that he couldn't possibly get it past P&T a second time. Then there was a third, and a fourth, with it become more exposed each time! Dumbfounding!

Rumor has it that this kid has trained with Dr. Strange himself

Also, in physics, objects will fall at the same rate regardless of mass... real life wizardry confirmed!

@@ryeeeuwu only in an environment when there isn't any air to provide resistance against the object.

Wizards are a European thing. He is a Cultivator of the immortal realm who's really over the age of 1000 but still looks like a child.

"Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

when he says he splits them into red and black he dose not that's why when he puts them together he didn't show two of the card because if he did it would show they are not what he is saying but he did the time freeze thing for the other times

ZE WARUDO!

I would believe this.

Stopping time is easy. I would struggle with remembering which card is where.

he actually invented a heavier ink

No. Your wrong. He dont spoke bettur natives language or grammer den me. I spake gooder them him so I've disugree wit dat but he woll git der wun day if he kepts on prakticin his english 🔥

ye dat guy iz a fool

@@kanazhao7770 faks

I echo that....very nicely said....Bravo Stanley

I don't feel immensely surprised a teenager picks up a second language fast, kids learn a lot faster than adults so the earlier you can learn a second language the better. Spanglish is a common thing in the US likely for that very reason that kids grow up around both. Not surprised, but still otherwise very impressed.

Penn and Teller answer it. He used a prop. They knew immediately.

@@josephbuerkle9792 O.o

@@josephbuerkle9792 uM.... They took the prop. Apologized. And after looking at the prop found nothing wrong with it and they were fooled. What are you talking about lol they were stumped

@@OfTheiAm they say they took the prop and then they looked at it and were fooled. That doesn’t mean the prop wasn’t gimmicked, it can mean it was gimmicked in a way they didn’t expect and they had guessed wrong. Watch carefully at 4:08 when he deals the 9 of diamonds. It’s double up. Penn just being fair and this trick is probably using a unique method they don’t want to give away.

@@johndor11 No that's an 8 and a 9 of diamonds you saw it wrong (I just checked because of this)

Man...I thought your comment deserved a like and a laugh.....but true true it is

Nice eyes dude!

Unfortunately, you can see the swap at 4:31.

@@Strykar86 yeah, I saw that too, but he shows the cards afterwards, when he punched and stapled it together

@@Strykar86 Just seeing the swap does not explain anything magic. Before and after the swap, you can still see the cards mixed and then "unmixed" without any "swap" in between. The only thing the swap could explain anything is that he needs two different sets of 8s and 9s to do two different tricks (one with hole and one without) and the final set of cards examined by Penn consists of only 6 cards, but the first set might consist of more than 6 since the video seems to show at least one additional card seen at 4:11.

And Teller initially forgot to clap because he was so baffled

i always look to Teller for the reaction. He looked like a child here. ❤

He didn't do it the same each time though! That's the brilliance. I suspect each time was done in a different way. The first time was a very simple, but very well executed slight of hand... If you go frame by frame you can see it... but the other times?! I have no idea... It was definitely not done in the same way.

I think that's because P&T only give themselves one shot to guess how the trick was done. Penn took the shot without thinking about it or conferring with Teller.

@@divitu I think this is more of why the stare of fear came out. Not really because of the confidence, that was bold.. but because he wasn't consulted.

He knew it was against the rule but can't resist it coz the magic was too good. He didn't wanna pass the opportunity to learn the secret

@@divitu I think it's because they can say that the deck is rigged / a prop as part of their guess. But taking the prop and analyzing it prior to guessing is against the rules. I've seen them ask if the deck is a trick deck and when the magician says no then they usually respond with "well then you fooled us"

@@divitu This is patently false. They discuss for like a half hour sometimes dude. It's TV. It's edited.

That's so kind of you!

Teller, particularly. Letting him handle the cards-essentially giving him the chance to examine them-was a huge move. Very nice work on an impeccably clean performance.

I agree. The best trick I have seen to date. Bravo Zulu, young man!

@@stanleyzhou HEY KID ,how is it done ? that was smooth

@@stanleyzhou seriously. Really deserved. This was simply amazing. The close up. The repeats. Very impressive. 👍👍👍

And not just two celebrities, but 2 great magicians

Because he does fencing. Need to focus

No audience.

@Jon Hesson Wow really?

And speaking in a second language.... that’s the real magic trick. Whenever I try and speak in a second/third language in front of people I get so shy I stutter or forget words🥺 This kid is amazing!

But it's physics, not chemistry

Great observation!! I missed that! Thank you

teller totally gave him the professor's stink eye.

HAHA thats great.

"you shouldn't have done that, penn!!!!!"

Thank you so much, Michael!

This is a really great trick but I'd have to say the most impressive trick I've ever seen on the show had 3 tables 3 plates of food 3 envelopes and 4 audience members and and switching items without the magician touching them again

@@aaronkortas8336 Can you remember which magician and season?

@@jmhgaming7155 off hand no but Penn was fat with a ponytail and the host was a British guy if that tells you how old it is

Update I can't find it. I know I watched it on RU-vid several times but I just looked for a bit with no luck

Kid took it like a champ anyway

After his apology I was expecting Penn to demand one back for filling him so harshly 🤣🤣🤣 I think if he ever comes back Penn will swear like when he sees Shawn Farquhar’s name on the screen! 🤣🤣

Also because he is a good man.

@6:27 Teller is like 'WTF dude! you can't ask for that!!'

I've met them both, they do meet and greets after their shows. He really is a stand up guy, very sincere and funny.

Agreed, the Balls of it was amazing, and he got so lucky they didn't find out how it was gimmicked

I interpreted that look as "you shouldn't have done that. That's not fair"

@@shrikartummala8055Yes, that was a scolding and convicting stare . Quite the dirty look from the little guy

@@shrikartummala8055 I think it was more, "I could have worked it out, but now you've taken the prop, if it's not gimmicked, he's fooled us, even if I know how he did it."

@@kubalakhan2Yeah, Teller was actually pissed he did it.

thats an asian boi for you

All within 3 years. Most people would feel great about doing 1 of those, lol

I doubt his personal story. His English sounds like he grew up in America. Of course he has an accent, but a lot of people who grew up in America have an accent, like for example children of hispanic parents. With this guy, some details show he grew up speaking English. I say this as a language enthusiast and a second-language English speaker. As a second-language English speaker I have a good idea of details that make people sound native or immigrant. And by my experience this guy definitely did not learn English in 3 years after landing in America as a teenager without knowing nothing of English. To me that is a lie.

Geeks usually are this way :)

@@salvadormontgomery1819 I'm 57 years old. 1. I don't know any magic tricks. 2. I only know one language. 3. If I ever tried to swordfight, I'd accidentally probably do myself in. Actually, that would be a certainty. What a great young man, truly.

Thank you!

2:44 😉

​@@FluteManV You talking about how the Red cards bounced? Perhaps, but he flipped the Red cards over one-at-a-time, so the Black cards would have to be facing up in order to end up upside down, and then passed from one stack to the other without them noticing the cards passing through the gap. Even then, that wouldn't explain the part where he did the trick with the pin, or the rest of the deck.

I think that there are also plenty of performances where they clearly do know how the trick is done, but it was done so brilliantly that they simply could not turn the person away from being on the show. Remember, the prize for this is being on a Penn & Teller show, so, not only do they run the show to see some incredible magic, they are also running it as a recruiting platform. This kid, however, not only stumped them either with the entire trick, or some aspect of it, he was also able to pull it off in just 3 years soon after he moved away from his home country, and trying to figure out how to speak the damn language on the side. I would be very surprised if they turned this kid away at all, even if they knew every move he made.

You can always tell by the look on Teller's face at the end, and he looked completely surprised.

There are a lot of real fools on the show. You can look at things like Shin Lin (Insane Performance) or Asi Wind, or the card mechanic.

@@Electru522 They don't have to give someone the FU to recruit them. They absolutely loved Piff the Magic Dragon and, even though he didn't fool them, did a lot of work with him afterwards. They absolutely can and do work with people who didn't fool them.

@@Electru522 And they didn't even TRY to hazard any guesses. Usually if they think they might even have a shot at guessing it they throw it out there... but this one was just one big WTF. Brilliant.

Yeah the black ink is heavier than the red ink, you just need to drop the deck and the black cards will go on the bottom. It's just physics it's not that hard.

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@@mdrlolcat Have you done it yourself, though ? I think there's actually an other explanation behind the one gave

u mean PHYSICS happens

Do it yourself and lets see

I don't know enough about magic or Penn and Teller to understand what the look was. Did you see it as "Omg, you're so rude, I can't believe you asked to take the prop", or "Oh wow, it/he must be better than we think if he's letting us take the prop", or something else?

I think it was that their only theory was that the deck was somehow modified, so when Stanley just handed it over, that shot that theory down.

@@antcorn738 That makes sense, thank you!!

Yeah that "What the hell are you doing" face

@@antcorn738 no, it's against their code, if it was the deck having them take before guessing is them essentially stealing his act since they'd know the exact details. That's why Penn realized what he did out of instinct and apologized, and Teller gave him that look initially. They really are good people to own up to it on the show publicly right afterwards.

not really he takes props all the time, clearly it was a gaslight moment.

@@HollowWeird but during the trick like he did

@Hates Spam he literally explains himself in the video. He grabbed the cards while the pressure was still on the magician, he had no option but to let him take his prop or else it would ruin the magic trick. It would be a very party pooper moment. I guess you wouldn’t know.

@Hates Spam there’s a difference between taking the prop and asking questions about the prop. He said it himself. Stop arguing over points you don’t have. My comment was literally liked by the magician himself. Fuck outta here

@@justingood1443 yes all the time

Are they some of the best magicians though?

@@edntz Yep. They know all the tricks. There is only so much a human being can do. That being said, they appreciate the art enough to give a FU to people that deserve it.

the untouched deck was the impressive part

nuh props to Penn apparently haha 😂

​@@edntzyes. Question asked question answered

I think that was more because Penn asked to remove and inspect a prop, which he then apologized for. I'm guessing Teller may have chewed him out briefly when they sat down.

@@KS-lv5ue Yea I also see this as "wtf are you doing"

Here's what I honestly think is the reality here and it makes Penn and Teller look like good people. The deck is indeed a trick deck, there is no doubt about it but Penn and Teller doesn't expose the actual secrets to the audience, they usually talk in code with the magician on stage so they don't ruin the trick. Problem is once the cards were in Penn's hands and saw they were trick cards there was no way to not expose the secret so literally the only way to toss off the scent to it being the cards was to say they were fooled. They gave the kid a win. SPOILERS: Look at 4:11 in the video. The 9 of diamonds. Notice anything sticking out of the top?

@@RipperFromYT Not realy convinced... i think its more like 3 tricks. One for the deck one for the first half and one for the hole punching thing. The cards they got to examine are probably normal. They speak in code sometimes but those "codes" do give the trick away. You dont have to be a magician to understand the hints. They dont have a problem with this. Thats why i belive the set they examined is vanilla.

@@PatchworxStudios I agree the cards they examined were different from the trick cards (for the obvious reasons). Never said they weren't. The "trick" cards being discussed are clearly the set that Penn picks up at the end without them being offered to him. Thats why he realized he shouldn't have taken them. Not sure what your argument is.

I won't give anything away but the trick requires no sleight of hand. It's a 6 card version of Angelo Carbone's "out of order" also known as the "riveted" gimmick.

I came to comment the exact same thing … 😅

@@bennn82 me three

Yeah, the palming and the way he took something from under the table with his left hand right before that was the obvious part, I have no clue how the rest was done

Me 4

And taught himself English at age 13. Wow

There was no audience whatsoever.

And not even in his first language, to boot. Super impressive

He is Asian...

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@@V4zz33 I am also Asian and I couldn't have done that performance.

@@kvlpnd I hope you get the running joke though.

its a physics experiment as he said

they did figure it out as he said multiple times, they just let it slide because he's a kid. It was just simple slight of hand, but very well performed

@@chris-hu7tm BATMAN agrees 👍

@@soggybiscotti8425 Penn never said he figured it out

@@danielronay4831 ok, eluded to several times.

I thought the same ! Like there is NO way i cools go to China and learn that Quick

At his young age, with a level of diligence, you can become fluent rather quickly. Young people have a higher level of neuroplasticity than adults, and can learn languages MUCH more efficiently than say a 32 year old.

@@CreamyPesto505 I'm 32 years young.. thanks

@garlicbutter that’s true, but it’s his accent that makes it really impressive.

I came to NA when I was 15 and it only took me a year to speak English with a slight accent so 3 years are more than enough. I’m now 47 and still have that same slight accent but I do not want to change as it made me who I was and am

I felt the same way. Like "oh there's the switch" just before the hole punch. Then bam - he showed them again that they were mixed

@@mikewright798 That was by design. For me that was the "Fooled me" moment. Cause I believe there was a switch......just not sure why that helped the trick.

Just shows what stand up guys they are, genuine even though their profession is about slight of hand, tricking etc they still have class.

@@HenkJanBakker It's required to get rid of the initially used gimmicked deck and to pick up the deck for the riveted monty. I would still argue that apart from that noticable deck switch and a little flash happening before, it's a spotless routine and very well executed. Kudos to Stanley.

@@mikewright798 I think that's a misdirection. He did that on purpose so that Penn and Teller would focused on that move

damn asians always perfecting everything

@@AaronCross760 Way to bring race into it, idiot. Nice one.

yep, there are some really good magicians. that are boring. this kid made it fun, entertaining, and kept at least me on edge. and i am hard to keep interested.

That’s high praise from a dude who could walk on water

Check his Communism tie, these kids are extremely privileged in China, from expensive English private tutoring to expensive private international school and finally easy migration to the USA, I mean cmon fencing?

There was no live audience

and he did it 3 more times just for good measure

after going back and forth, I think he has 12 cards not 6

@@edsc86 I think two sets of six. And that Penn thought one set of twelve.

@@edsc86 I was pretty sure he had multiple sets at one point put the precision with which he placed the hole punch seemed hard to replicate

@@riverseaman81 perhaps because he did it so precisely is why they look so similar. I think he might have swapt it with a set identically punched. But i dunno

Right before he calls attention to the hole punch, he seems to draw the six closer to himself. That *may* have been when he pulled a switcher, but I find myself wondering if even that was a distraction like the hole punch. Because even with Penn being naughty and taking the stuck together cards, the trick held up. Especially the rest of the deck. Brilliant even if someone figures it out. I don't know how, and to be honest, I don't want to either. I'd rather enjoy as is.

Absolutely amazing! Love your take on this classic trick and you performed it so well! Congratulations!

They both had that look. The real tell (no pun intended) was that they couldn't even make a guess as to how it was done. That's almost 100 years of experience that didn't help one bit.

I don't think i have seen anyone so effortlessly and cleanly fool P&T. Usually you can see if someone is doing sleight of hand even if you can't see what they are doing. But this genuinely looked like he was just dropping cards on the table... blown away. I need to watch this a few times.

Mahdi The Magician did the same trick before, but this one was also cool

Go watch Shawn Farquhar’s first performance. His trick gives me a similar impossibility to this trick. It looks like there’s no possible way for him to have messed with the cards, but somehow he did. It’s unbelievable to say the least

@@markopolic9964 He is incredible, as are many others, but card control never actually gave me a physical reaction the way this did

@@markopolic9964 I just watched Ricard Turner. I would not wanna play cards with him unless he was a friendly. He’s amazing

Thank you!

@@stanleyzhou Yeah, really well done, hardly a hint of an accent as well. You could probably learn a ton of languages easily. Self-teaching yourself stuff is the best as opposed to going through years of mind-numbing classes.

It's not magic...its physics

@@tyroneloki5131 Exactly. Black is heavier than red! Didn't you guys watch the video!? lol

@@johnholmstrom4212 lol the trick was actually simple, if you wanna know how it was done then…… Lol

Black matter, but physics used "dark" instead of black

Well there was *something* going on I recon when he was palming the cards (4:34 onwards) whilst handing out the hole punch and staple thing to Penn and Teller, perfect misdirection - what exactly I don't know as I didn't see anything but then he holds all the cards together whilst he punched the hole and put the staple thing in - there's no other logical explanation but an awesome performance.

@@NickJay p and t is sitting a feet or two, I'm sure they were paying attention to any misdirections.

@@MrC8025 I know they were but he was definitely palming the cards and doing *something* - it's the only time he could have done before the hole was punched and the clip placed through them. :)

Heck yeah. Been there, done that.

@@MrC8025 : Yeah, but I think they'd have to deduce roughly what Exactly he was doing -- for it to generate a clue to connect the dots on How he did it. They couldn't. They can't just say "Yeah, I think I noticed a slight of hand for a hot second, but I don't know what you did."

I am flattered

One of the best tricks I've ever seen.. so simple but amazing.

Absolutely! None of that forced card bs that pretty much everyone knows by now.

Yes it is and he made it very clean with a nice way to talk ...but it is not the original one.. Rene Lavand from Argentina is the father of this trick i think with his NO SE PUEDE HACER MAS LENTO (es) ..but I'm very glad this generation is so good .. fantastic

I can't figure out this trick

It’s not a trick, it’s physics 🤣

yeah I thought I had it when he had one hand under the table but then he still came back up and showed the cards in order before dropping them and I was like "wat!?" :D

​@@NickHunter I caught that "what is most certainly a sleight of hand" moment too, but then he revealed the cards in opposing order while clipped, and was thinking this kid has massive cohones , and just fooled two of the best magicians in the world.

Thank you so much!

@@stanleyzhou Totally agreed! You were amazing on stage! You are literally a natural! So proud of you! Nothing but the best wishes for the future!

America's Got Talent next stop? However, since he was on this show, they may not take him. Get enough "tricks" where you can do a 1 hour show and you could find yourself in Vegas. Vegas loves magic acts because people like them and they are generally "cheap" to produce compared to singers.

Yup all the Cs he’s also Cute, Chinese and practices Cencing 🤺

You are right, if you watch very carefully at ~ 2:01 frame by frame, you can see that the penultimate card is indeed red.

Good catch. The sleight of hand is clearly when he splits the 6 cards into the two piles. But then... the control deck?!

I noticed that one. But how did he do the slight of hand when the cards were already pinned together?

@@colinjacobs176 That one was some clever shuffling at the beginning. But I am still fooled by his final pinned together trick. Edit: Nevermind I figured it out. Really impressive stuff.

@@DecoyAUT Came here to say this 2:01-2:02 you can see red on the card that is supposed to be one of the black cards

Yeah, I thought the point of this show was to see if they were fooled by the magician's performance as it happened. Asking to examine the props before deciding if they were fooled is really not cool, but at least Penn admitted as much. It might be that they were fooled initially but understood the trick after examining the props, and if so they did the right thing by saying they were fooled.

I was thinking that he's asked to examine props before, but it's always after they have sat down and discussed how the trick was done, because they suspect a trick prop, and that's their guess. That way the magician can either be like, no, I can't let you see it because you have obviously busted me, or they can say, sure, look all you want because that's not how I did the trick. And Penn and Teller can't just keep guessing so at that point they're fooled. But he shouldn't be able to look at it right after the performance to get some idea of how the trick was done because he's not sure yet. Huge props to admitting his mistake. It takes a big maj to do that.....and Penn is DEFINITELY a big man! 😂

I think Penn expected him to flinch and then Penn would say never mind.

By the way he was talking, I feel like he figured it out but realized that he cheated and gave it to him anyways. If that's the case, that was a really class move.

@@TheShadowBrigade I don't think that they would do that. If he didn't earn it then they wouldn't give it. If it was gimmicked cards then the kid is an even better actor than magician.

I agree with the above comment. It would be a great way to teach students how physics or any type of math and science can be used for fun not just for serious work. Great Job Stanley👏!

Ha ha ;-) Teaching him probably is a simple task. I personally find the harder tasks are the more interesting ones. Bringing a problem student to meager but honorable results and making him have a good life based on these skills is way more worth than feeding the elite. We need both, but I prefer the latter.