Come now. Everyone was in on this trick. They probably have ear pieces that tell them which cards to stop on and what numbers to choose. Its an entertainment show after all.
@@Andytlp I found the explanation in less than 10 seconds instead of jumping to conclusions and making false accusations: watch?v=FhnKCKNbVnY Magic is entertainment, yes, that doesn't mean it's staged. This is even a self working trick, I can't imagine how you'd feel if you saw one that requires some skill. You're going to say it's fake just because you can't figure it out?
That look on Teller's face when someone gets past him is all the joy. You can see the lights go on as he realizes he's lost the thread and he loves it. :)
His look of "... heeeeeyyyy..." is the kind of second-hand joy that I personally love to see. Because watching someone get even that tiny glimmer of childlike wonder is so heartwarming, but so very rare in our current world.
If you think for one second that Teller doesn't know what's going on you're the one being duped. There is absolutely 0% chance that this trick fooled either of them. This is junior high magic at best.
How can any professional (performer, entertainer, any kind) be so classy and so hilarious at the same time? This act was like watching a cheeky, playful little child with the manners and the experience of a 65 year old. Funny, magical, class act, it had it all!
The man is just a born entertainer. The charisma oozes out of him. While being amazed by the trick, I was enjoying just watching him more, and wished he was my grandad.
The second trick to me seems pretty simple, with the deck divided into bunches of 11 - where the Queens and Aces are in positions 10 and 11 of each bunch. When you count down from ten and then put aside what ever was remaining, the sum is always ten (10 - n) + n = 10 for all values of n. And then you set aside the right card in position 11. You need the eleventh card because if you went down to 1 you would have nothing to count out and it would immediately give away the trick if the last card in the bunch was the one that always was added out. But as for the first trick is a true head scratcher... no idea!
Choose a number 1 through 4, 16 possible combinations. Additionally he gets to see the numbers they choose prior to allowing them to choose so if needed he could pick for them. I suspect that the same card is strategically placed in the deck at locations that allow him to manipulate the numbers they tell him to get where he needs to be. Penn counted out 23 cards and then placed the 24th face down, so had the number chosen "at random" had been 24 then he tells them to place the 24th card as the choice. In the video there was another red seven in the pile, I suspect it was the 12th card in the case that 11 or 12 is the chosen number and had we seen more cards I suspect the same would have been true in the 30s and 40s
I thought Teller was making a cheeky nod to the fact that that was obvious to him by letting the count go down to 2, any further and the trick is ruined
I had to watch this twice. Not because I was fooled, which I was, but because Chris is probably the top 10 most charismatic magicians I’ve ever seen. I’d kill to have a dinner and drink with this guy just to hear stories. What a boss ass master of his craft.
Seriously. Just watching this guy work and hearing him talk was enchanting. Some magicians when they do their bits, it's entertaining and endearing because they're clearly performing and doing a bit and they're very good at it. The way Chris talks is just disarming. I've never met the man or seen him before, but just watching this clip, my brain is going. "That's my buddy. This man is my friend. My friend is just talking with me and joking with me a little bit. I want to listen to him."
Not related to magic but I ones saw Tracy Chapman perform in Cambridge Mass. She was playing on the platform and I remember saying to my self "she should be in concerts some where". About 2 years later I would see her on the idiot box live. It was crazy seeing her so humble and fresh.
naw life doesn't work out like that he prob went on with his own life long before they made it. People got their own life to live can't be following around others who are making it in life or you'll get no where. He made his own life and it seems like he did well for his self. Had he followed them around waiting for his hand out his life wouldn't have turned out the way it did. He wouldn't have been standing up there with two great friends being his own man had he followed them around he'd be in some hotel room watching them on TV bitching about how they used him and let him go type of shit. @@SBJ84
Thank you for posting this! I had been talking with Chris a day earlier at Stan Allen's convention, and he never mentioned that he was doing this show. My wife and I were at the taping. She was amazed and I got a real kick out of it. Sadly, she unexpectedly passed away two weeks later. I'm so glad that she got to see this.
@@AngelicusImmortus Count ALL the cards he puts down in every pile, when he says 10, you count 1, His 9 = Yours 2 and so on. Then ad the cards in the "decided number pile" He counts 10, 9, *8* (You 1, 2, 3) He then counts *8* "decided" cards from the remaining he holds in his hand. 8+3=11... Next pile. 10, 9, 8 and so on until, lets say 5. (That is 6 cards on the table). Ad 5 to that, you'll have 11. You will always ad up to 11, no matter where they stop.
Yeah I have to imagine they were tricked by the first one and not by the second. I picked up the service one on the first number when he put down the remainder cards. But the first trick, everything seemed like free choice and he didn't interact with anything from what I could see.
Bro, I learned this trick 30 years ago as a ten year old. Haven't seen it done in about the same amount of time... What a funny memory that I had completely forgotten about.
Chris Capehart is seriously a genius. His comical approach and personality had me chuckling. Not only that, but the way he talks and how he chooses what to say completely shows he's a genius. Pure skill right here.
@@MDNQ-ud1ty What does stuttering and stumblng over words have to do with intelligence? There are geniuses who stumble over everything they say and complete morons who work for radio and can say the stupidest things in the smoothest manner.
Ive dabbled in tricks before, but I will ALWAYS love seeing something that I cant even attempt to guess the tricks used. I have NO idea how this was done and that makes me so happy lol
Simple maths. Notice he didn't shuffle the deck at all when he pulled it out of the pack. They were all exactly where they needed to be. Had he counted up instead of down, this would be a mind bender. Counting down, however, always ensured the same result. The Queen was the 11th card, always. The Ace was 10th.
@@newdohl That was so easy, I got that from watching him once. The only thing I see, it must have been that thing with the shoes at the beginning that fooled them
@@camillecomeau6939 its cause they know him, these tricks were some of the more simple ones i've seen this guy do. Penn and Teller always let their friends "fool" them and they have had magicians who claim they did fool Penn and Teller but they did not get the trophy.
Had the happy experience of meeting Chris in my street show when he passed through Brisbane working a cruise ship. A helluva nice guy and great company. Hats off to him. Thanks for sharing this
@@volodyanarchist Me too, dude...but I suck at math, but I love how any number times nine the addition of the sum always adds up to nine. I`m GenX so Ogre had a great deal of influence on my comment.
After my days long binge of watching these- Chris is my favorite. He's so calm and easy, and just seems like such a good guy. If I was rich I'd pay for him to perform for me all the time. Heck I'd give him a guest house to stay in.
I saw this dude at The Magic Castle in Los Angeles. This dude is INSANELY good. Watching him up close doing his tricks, I left in utter awe of what he did when I'm 2 feet away from him. I saw a lot of magicians that night but this guy, I'll never forget.
Yeah, the counting down part was simply just setting the deck up before hand with the cards set up in the same order every 10 cards (Never trust a magician when they say they aren't going to shuffle or cut the cards). If you say stop at 9, he's already dealt out 1 card and then he deals out 8 more cards, then places the 9th for 10 total. If you say stop at 4, then he's already dealt out 6, then he deals 3 more, and then places the last for another 10 total. The 7 definitely stumped me though, and he deserves the trophy for that one.
This is how the trick is done, but it's 11 cards, not 10, otherwise the deck wouldn't add up to 52. Kings (4) plus the Master series at the end (4). 52-8= 44/4=11. The part where you got the number wrong is probably because he counts from 10 so you assumed 10 cards, but you forgot about the card he's placing down. If you stop him at "10", he places that card down, and then counts to ten with new cards, making eleven total. If you stop him at 1, he's already counted through 10 cards to get to 1, then he counts out the 1 for eleven. In the example below, the top row is the number he's saying as he places cards down, and then the bottom row is the number of cards he's already placed. 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 + 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 ------------------------------------------- 11, 11, 11, 11, 11, 11, 11, 11, 11, 11 No matter which one you stop on, it adds up to eleven.
@@Lreclusa yeah, he's only screwed if they say stop at 1, not with the queens in this case, but with the ace. Since in that case he would have discarded the ace and would only have the queen left. You can see it at 5:30 with the last set of the 4, he even get's slower at the end, because he knew, at 1 he would have to improvise xD. But since it was stoped at 2, he could place the ace and the queen.
@@Shadoom90 no, because the number he's saying out loud is the number he's counting to lay the last one down to the queen. So when he's stopped at 1, the ace will still be the last one laid down before the queen, because it'll be the one he's laying down as he says "1". Try the trick for yourself. Take the kings out and line them up, place every tenth card as Ace and every Eleventh card as queen. Count backwards as you lay them down, and choose any number 1-10 to start counting back up from. The last two will always be ace/queen no matter what.
@@SocialPerspective101 if he had 4 of 7H in the deck, where are they at the end? Might be a switch due to a editing, but I doubt PT didn't notice this IRL.
This was one of the most entertaining trick. The showmanship itself is amazing and the execution was fabulous, and it kept that awe on faces of Penn and Teller too. PS: The shoes were there to steal the show and they did.
why did it fool you? he gave them 4 different possibilities. he said pick a number between 1 and 4. there's only two numbers. 2 and 3. so the possibilities are 22, 23, 32 & 33. You see how the first two are 1 number apart and the other two are also 1 number apart? all he had to do is deal 1 extra card or keep the one he already dealt. so in total there are two possibilities...depending on which one he would turn the deck the other way because there are 7 sevens in that deck. It was as forced as it could be. The second trick was plane awful. He just dealt the same number of cards no matter what. It's magician's choice but poorly executed there's no way they didn't realize that.
@@alexaras5767Lol. When someone says "think of a number between 1 and 100" you realize 1 and 100 are still in play right? Why are you so confident in writing something so pathetically wrong?
@@SirSamsung The aces are the hard part for sure but they still could have been bottom delt or something similar. The first part of the trick has me absolutely stumped though.
@@SirSamsung 2) Unless I'm missing something, I'm pretty sure the Aces were _not_ at the STOP position. 5:11 He counted 11 cards. The Aces were in the 11th position, and the Queens were in the 10th.
There are so many professions in the world..Magicians, sportsmen, actors etc and there are so many fantastic human who are masters at their craft. Crazy world. Crazy talent. Amazing stuff.
This second trick is desceptively simple. If you pick 9, he's only laid out 2 cards then he lays out another 9: 11 total. If you pick 3, he's laid out 8 cards then he lays out another 3: 11 total, again. The queens and the aces are always in the same place regardless of what number you pick.
Last half of the trick: he's previously stacked the deck before the trick (he even says he's not going to shuffle or interfere with it). By counting down the cards from ten into a pile until the volunteer says "stop" then counting the rest of the cards *up* into another pile until he gets to that number again, he's really just counting out ten cards every time with extra steps to obscure what he's doing. All he's done is stack the deck so the aces/kings/queens are in the correct positions, then counted them out into four piles.
Am I right in thinking the queens were all 11 cards apart and when he counted down from 10 Penn or Teller stopping the cards was irrelevant, because if you stop on the number 8 (2 cards placed) he would just count 8 cards after... (10th card being the ace and 11th being the queen), I haven't seen the reveal but with only seeing this once and guessing that much I don't understand how it would have fooled Penn and Teller... I couldn't figure out how he did the first part of the trick though... so maybe thats what got them?
SPOILERS - the second trick was easy and has been explained by others. I agree it could not have fooled Penn and Teller. The first trick is also easy once you realize the deck has 55 cards in it and not 52. The deck includes both jokers (you see one at 2:27). It also includes a second copy of the forced card in position 41, which is why he didn't want Penn to look at the rest of the cards. It's a multiple out force. With a 55 card deck, counting 32 from the top brings you to the same card as counting 23 from the bottom. The same is true if you counted 41 from the top versus 14 from the bottom. Depending on the selection made by the audience, the magician merely instructs them accordingly so as not to reveal that the deck has two forced cards.
First of all, they actually got to the 24th card... which is also the 32nd card in the other direction. That still means there are 55 cards. Second, how do you get all 10 combinations? The card revealed in the trick covers 23, 24, and 13 (read as 31). A second one at position 44 seems like the most optimal; that would cover 11, 12, 34 (read as 43) and 44. That's still only 7 total. It seems like you'd have to put in at least 2 more 7Hs and that's getting awfully risky. I feel like there must be something else going on. Also, if this is truly the whole secret, he got really lucky that they picked 23/32, the only combination that allows the spectator to choose the order of the two numbers, and I'm sure P&T will be furious when they find that out.
It's magician's choice - multiple outs - force. All of the 7s are at the bottom of the deck. You're right , they got to the 24th card, meaning 2/3 and 2/4 just got covered by magician's choice. That also covers 3/1, 3/2 counting from the bottom (face down please). 11 from the bottom = 44 from the top, etc. @@just_some_commenter
There is no way P&T did not know how these were done (force on the first deck memorizing position, placing an AandQ every 10th spot in the second deck full of blanks). This is just respecting their old friend, and gratitude for the purple kicks.
Teller is awesome. I was riding my longboard in Las Vegas near my home and I saw him coming out of the Jewelry & Minerals shop on Sahara Blvd right next to Sahara Casino. He was carrying a giant crystal geode he just bought. It looked super heavy. I said “Hey! Teller! You’re the man!” And instantly felt bad because he looked my way and made sure to say thanks, all while struggling to carry the giant thing. I’m surprised the store owners didn’t help him out somehow. But he shows love to his fans
The first trick I have no idea. The second trick was a fresh deck of card that he pre sorted, and each time he was just going to the 11th card, and then the aces were the last 10th card each time, so nothing too magic there, just counting.
Am I missing something about the second trick? The way he did it he always dealt the 11th card under the king, and the 10th card in on top, so just doing that patter with a stacked deck of 9 blanks, queen ace and the master of the mind cards on the bottom would always work. The input from Penn and Teller didn't matter a bit. Am I missing something about that?
@@iswm That's not a thing. They have enough diversity among their honest and true foolers, they don't need to gift trophys to any minority to keep diversity or something like that. If anything, it was a friendship trophy because as you heard he'd been their personal friend for many years now. But you know there is a Jury behind P&T, right? I don't think they'd allow simply handing out trophies for nothing.
@@ThamiorSilberdrache I think they'd allow it id P & T told them to. But you're right, it was a friendship trophy, and they wanted him to have it. Regardless of the trick, Chris has something most magicians don't have: showmanship. He also has the gift of charisma, and that can't be learned from a magic book or video.
If you stop at 9 counted backwards (10,9), then count 9 forwards, it's the same as stopping at 3 counted backwards (10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3), and then count 3 forwards. There are 11 cards in between each queen. That's simple math.
I very much love these mathematical card tricks. Always fun to do them. The audience never understands how the magician knew the card's order without even looking, but it is all just math, and pretty simple
Yes, others above have explained how both parts of the trick work, and they're both actually pretty simple forces. You're right about the 2nd part of the trick (every 10th card is an Ace and every 11th card is a Queen - though I see some people saying that they're every 9th and 10th card. Doesn't really matter either way). And for the first part, he just needs a 7 of Hearts in the 24th position and another in the 44th position, then depending on which numbers they choose, he can either have Penn count from the top or the bottom of the deck, and they would always end up at the 7 of Hearts - notice how they actually had the number 23, so Chris just had Penn count out 23 cards and then the NEXT card was the one they actually used. Also notice that he didn't shuffle the deck first, which clues us into the fact that he needed the cards to be in certain positions. He can just make a couple slight adjustments depending on the numbers they pick, and I think psychologically, the most common combination people would pick would be 23 or 32, and he would handle it accordingly. But if they had a different combo (11-14, 21-22, etc.), there happen to be four Jokers in the deck (2 on top and 2 on bottom), and if he needed to, he could've made them remove the Jokers in order to make it work, and I'm sure he had a funny line prepared for that potential situation. No matter what, he would force them to get to the 24th or 44th position.
It's just you bro. It's Penn & Teller. If you think you figured it out with the first theory that popped in your head, you're just as fooled as the crowd
Penn and teller literally gave this dude a trophy because theyre friends with him and they trying to help him out, they didnt even guess, both tricks are extremely extremely easy, the 2nd one is a trick that 8 year olds would learn as a first magic trick. both are "forces". Read below for how he did it. 1st trick: The deck is 57 cards; four jokers (2 on top and 2 on bottom) + two 7 of hearts (one in spot 24 and one in 44). depending on the numbers they choose he will tell them to reveal from the top or the bottom, when the jokers are revealed he may ignore them or will say "wait, we need to remove the jokers", finally when they get to the number chosen he will either say thats your card or "the next card is the card". if their number is: 24 - count to 24 and put the 24th card down 23 - count to 23 put the next card down (24th) 22 - oops jokers we need to remove those (2 jokers removed from top) count to 22 put it down 21 - oops jokers we need to remove those (2 jokers removed from top) count to 21 put next card down. they count from bottom instead if the number is 11-14 (hitting the bottom 7) or 31-34 (hitting the top 7). if the number is 41-44 they count from the top hitting bottom 7. 2nd trick: he is counting cards down to 10 and when they stop him he still counts down to 10 and puts the 10th card at the bottom of the king (the 10th card is always the queen), the 9th card is always the ace and is now on top of the last cards burned. the deck has a total of 44 cards in it. the remaining 4 cards (you only left me with 4 though!) are there not because they chose to leave him with 4 but because he literally counted down to a predetermined number regardless of when they told him to stop.
Yes, of course it helped that he was an old and special friend with whom they shared a lot of special times and memories,, but he's also great showman and entertainer, and P & T recognize that. I believe that a magician who's entertaining and likable and who does nothing but self-working tricks will go over with lay audiences far better than the most advanced sleight of hand artist who has a dull and boring personality and doesn't know how to connect with people.
No, Penn and Teller were genuinely fooled here. Maybe, just maybe, they would have been a bit lenient the first time. But Capehart already had won a Fool Us trophy with his baloon trick in an earlier episode. They wouldn't have given him a second one unless they really couldn't figure the trick out.
Pretty sure they knew the trick. They gave him the price cause he was their friend. The second trick is fairly easy to do and almost Impossible to mess up.
The trick is actually quite easy to figure out how it was pulled of: If you count down from 10, and then stop at any arbitrary number (let's say 3), that means you have discarded 7 cards, because 10 - 3 = 7. Then, you count up from 1 all the way to the same number, that means you have discarded 10 cards in total (because in our case 7 + 3 = 10). The fun thing about this trick is that the number of cards you discard is always 10, because (10-x) + x = 10. Always 10. So you just need to carefully place your cards before hand, in a way to separate each figure with with 10 blank cards in between, and you're ready to perform the same trick. Chris is incredibly charismatic and funny. That's where the performance stands out for me.
the first half got me. the second half was obvious: count down from 10, placing down one card at a time. If you stop at 6, you have placed down 4 cards so there are 6 left to count down. you always count out 10 cards, and the 11th card can be whatever you want it to be. there wasn't any choice. One thing to note about the first half: there are only 16 amounts of cards to place down: 11, 12, 13, 14 21, 22, 23, 24 31, 32, 33, 34 41, 42, 43, 44 not sure how he used this, but it's possible that he put a repeating set of cards in those spots and put random ones in the rest of the deck to limit the options to 4 cards maybe, but idk how they wouldn't have noticed the repeats.
That must've sent that guys emotions into overdrive being called the greatest street magician Penn has ever seen. Loved his energy he seems like a great guy.
What? I mean: what? How? I mean... I am not a magician myself, so I have a completely different mindset than P&T and this isn't the first trick that fooled them but not me, but... this one was so damn obvious... I mean... that Siegfried Tieber and that one Rock, Paper, Scissors trick both worked on a mathematical principle that I as a mathematician recognized instantly (both on the same one, to be precise) so I understand why I got those but P&T didn't. But this one... How did they not understand this trick? It could be included in a "my first card tircks" book for children, so very basic was the method of this. It's very, very hard to believe that fooled them. Either they were expecting a trick that complicated and refined that they didn't even think of any easy way, or... but they are not allowed to gift trophies. The Jury hears every word they discuss and I'm quite sure they'd intervene if P&T said "Well, he didn't fool us but let's pretend and hand him a trophy because he's our friend...", wouldn't they? Anyway, Chris is hell of a performer and how he does this trick, even if the method is simple as hell, is very comvincing and funny. I really believe he's hell of a street magician and his first fool was very awesome. I just don't get it how he got away with this one...
For the first time I think I figured out the trick before they finished the trick. He told us when he joked with teller. But he is great can't believe they didn't know this
Explain? easily sleight of hand? NO! Theres no skill in this trick! Its the rigged deck it has no other way to turn out! 11 - x + x is always a total of 11 4x11 is 44 card, 4 kings is 48 cards plus the 4 in hand it wont ever be anything else. noticed the deck was not shuffled? Very low quality trick anyone watching can do this after setting the deck up! Its appalling a "magician" would do such a trick let alone on tv! first trick my what a bulky "empty" bag well empty apart from the thing in there that shouldnt be there the machine that dropped the card! thats why he had to hold it on his lap, so Teller knew this i how it was done! So another free pass or again im a better Magician than both them together!
Have you been submitting your auditions to get on the show since you say "or again im a better Magician than both them together!"? Would love to see you up there. And no magic on your channel. Let's see some of your skills. Start posting videos. Stop with the talk and prove it with action. If not then go stand in the corner and shut your pie hole ;)
@@RealButFake No, he's saying that since the trick is nothing more than a classic stacked deck routine that every magician in the world is familiar with, either Penn & Teller gave their friend a free pass, or the folks who have figured it out in the comment section are better magicians than Penn & Teller.
I love it when a good magician does a trick and then says "Wait! That wasn't it!" Misdirection, playing with expectations, planting seeds. He truly is a master of the mind.
