FAQs! Hi! This video has been getting some renewed attention recently, so I figured I'd answer the top 10 questions that have popped up in the comments more frequently. 1: What's that 'the ring ain't a thing' business? - Penn makes his guess about the workings of a trick in code to protect the secrets. In this case, he was assuming my ring had something to do with finding the coin, which it didn't. 2: How do P&T know contestants are telling the truth? - Contestants are required to reveal the workings of their performance to a behind-the-scenes consultant. When I was on the show, this was the late Johnny Thompson (someone else now does the same job). The consultant watches the guessing process and, in cases where it's on the edge, makes the call on whether or not a trick has fooled Penn & Teller. There's also certain methods that are excluded from being used on the show, like having a confidante in the audience. 3: So it wasn't the ring. How'd you do it then, magic boy? - I'm psychic. 4: Very funny. But seriously, how'd you do it? - Ok, fine. How much do you know about Horcruxes? 5: Fine, don't tell then. Why'd the barstool move? - The barstool was part of a little comedic bit, similar to the awkward animals, which I used to fill the waiting time with Alyson while Penn & Teller were discussing (that part takes much longer than you see on the show). The comedy bit was then edited out, leaving us with a teleporting barstool. 6: Speaking of Alyson - is she a paid actress? - Yes, that's literally her job. But if you're asking whether I paid her, then no. I studied philosophy, so I really don't have that kind of money to spend. 7: What happened after you fooled Penn & Teller? - I got to go back to Las Vegas to perform as a guest in their theatre show. It was fantastic. 8: I liked your show! - Thanks so much! 9: I didn't like your show! - That's also fine! 10: Where do I go after having watched this video? - If you speak German, you could visit my live tour. If you speak German or Dutch, you could read my books "Du Bist Mentalist", "Kennen Wir Uns" and "Mensenkennis Voor Beginners". One of them is also available in Romanian. Otherwise, maybe check out my RU-vid Channel (some videos are in English, with the others I do my best to add subtitles when I get the chance) or watch my TEDx Talks. 11: Anything else you'd like to say? - Jurassic Park is literally the best movie franchise of all time and I will fight anyone who says otherwise. Thanks for watching & all the best!
Some people don't realize that sometimes Penn And Teller take a long time (10, 15 minutes) before Penn speaks to the potential Fooler and they edit down to about 30 seconds.
I tried the strategy where you repeat the trick guessing randomly over and over and keep the one where it works, but Penn guessed my strategy correctly ;-;
In Shawn Farquhar's first time in the show, during the interview he said something like 'Magic is better when it happens in another person's hands', to which Jonathan Ross replied: 'That's what I always tell my wife'.
Thomas Baumhauer Die Sendung wird geschnitten, weil Penn und Teller immer etwas mehr Zeit brauchen, sich zu beraten und eine verklausulierte Form finden müssen, ihre Vermutung dem Künstler mitzuteilen. Außerdem werden mehrere Shows an einem Tag hintereinander aufgezeichnet.
Did it start a fool us binge? It should have! Maybe watch some Penn and Teller acts as well, the algorithm gods may have blessed you inadvertently 🤷♂️
Wer will Alysson treffen?? Die ist eine hässliche versagerin die fuer nichts gut ist außer ein Dummes Maedchen zu spielen (American pie, how I met your mother)
I like the way that Penn uses a code to indicate how they think he did it, and his reply of “Dad wouldn’t approve.” indicting he didn’t use that method, keeping the actual method and Penn’s ideas secret.
This is mentalist! They hate this bs unskilled crap! So no ring he has another method (sleeve or various other ones) and just pretended it was the ring! to trick them as that how it was often done! AMAZING HE HAS A COUPLE OF POCKETS WITH PAPER IN IT! 🤦♂️🤣
While it's nice to give credit, it's also useless spam that is in every video. It's no different than the arrow to the knee BS comments back in the day around Skyrim's release.
@@GarrakS no it isn't. You don't know the RU-vid watch history of every person watching this video, and if the show is doing a good show they deserve to be acknowledged for it in each comment section. Arrow to the knee has zero relevance that's a random line from a guard in a video game.
@@cameronsmith1229 Thanks Redditoid. I never claimed to know everybodies' watch history but I see the same dumb virtue signaling drivel on almost every video. They don't need opinions like yours on their video so you can feel validated to know that giving people the rights to their own content is the right thing to do. P&T have always been class acts.
@@lucky-games335 the continent is called Oceania. Australia and New Zealand are countries which are not the same. Timon has learned his Mentalism in New Zealand.
He knew they'd think it was the ring. He planned for his introduction before the show to show him doing a ring trick. His included the reference to Allyson's marriage to cement it in their minds. His response to quickly when he said it was the ring was as if he was thinking "Aha! i knew that's what you'd think!"
What I love about this is that if he isn't using his ring to find the coin then he's instead using it to mislead P&T; which is a fantastic bit of misdirection. Mentalists are always my favourite magicians as it's not just misdirection and extremely well practiced hand movements. The best ones are taking some risk with things going a bit wrong as they're relying on their ability to predict what people will do/think. Ok yeah the mentalist tries to control as much as they can but there is always that risk of not quite reading a person correctly. It's fun to watch.
Actually I think the cleverest part of the trick might be the wearing of the ring and touching her hands before each guess all as a red herring.. KNOWING it would throw off Penn and Teller and he'd win.
Exactly! I knew of that trick before so watching it I felt so proud for noticing it the first two times, and on the third time I saw he didn't do it and was like wait no that's not right, just for it to cut to Penn and Teller seemingly doing the same thing lol
T: Do you like milking more, or being milked? A: I like milking more. T: Does your husband know that? A: That's why he married me! See, this one time at band camp...
@@nicholasjh1 Was the premise of that tell to be that if she said, "getting milked", then she was more agreeable and willing to be "wrong" or embarrassed?
@@furtim1 I'm sure that was part of it, but you can also program people to certain actions by doing something like that based on which side was milked first etc. People do that kind of thing all the time but unless you know to look for it out doesn't normally get tracked.
@@nicholasjh1 lmao you guys are funny, it's just a trick, no there's no actual "psychological" stuff involved, it's literally just a trick, and a very classical one actually, he just performs it so well that Penn & Teller didn't even notice he was using a very old and classic method.
@@deadvirgin428 Agreed - since Derren brown said he used 'Psychology and suggestion' and the whole NLP thing, I always read comments in mentalism videos of people saying things like 'Did you see how he said left and moved his left eyebrow higher?' - It's cool that people think this stuff could work - and it could about 1 in 10 times - but not for a pro working tables every night, imagine!
One of my favorite but also frustrating parts of Penn and Teller is the cryptic hints and speaking in riddles they give to indicate that they think they know how, lol
I think there might be a couple of ways something like this can be performed and Timon, very cleverly, made sure to "show off" the ring during the beginning of his performance, even hitting it with the coin to make it "ding" so Penn and Teller would 100% take that ring into consideration... The trick would always work 100% but the real "mentalism" was applied to Penn and Teller so they'd choose the Coin as the plausible answer instead of an alternative. Great work!
@@blusafe1 you didn't understand what OP meant - they're saying he tricked Penn and Teller into focusing on the ring so they would guess that's how it's done and therefore he would win since it was wrong.
I know Timon from doing his "magic" in german shows, he's a phenomenon. More often than not he isn't this confident. Either he had a multi layered success confirmation setup or just acting to cover up. My guess is the first. With more difficult tricks or persons to read he gets a bit more nervous but somehow still nails it so many times. It's really entertaining to watch, i loved every single trick i've seen so far. Keep up the good work!
@user-yb2jm6du8m If he messed up , or it looked wrong, he had an out to cover for it. Even if he failed, he had a way to pull something out of his sleeve that made it look like that was a joke ending and he would come out on top.
@@AR-ey1ur I am assuming he means the paper reveal. In his left pocket his paper says LEFT, LEFT, RIGHT, LEFT. In the right pocket it says LEFT, RIGHT, LEFT, RIGHT, etc. So he just grabs the correct paper. He doesn't have to be right from the start if he has many options covered. But I don't know how that would make him more confident. I assume he does that everytime, unless he doesn't and he was extra prepared for TV.
A person holding out two hands and holding an object in one will typically grip tighter with the hand holding something. Timon looks at Alyson's hands each time. A subtle difference if you're not paying attention but not as subtle to a keen observer. The attempts to influence (ala The Princess Bride) may not be attempts at all, but misdirection entirely.
My guess is that a stage hand with a magnifying sight is looking at Alyson and what hand she places the coin in and signals Timon electronically. He may receive a buzz or electrical sting etc, one or two times, two being right etc.
Das witzige ist, dass er Allison zwar nicht manipuliert, Penn und Teller aber sehr wohl. Durch seine Handbewegung und den Ring suggeriert er ihnen ziemlich offensiv, dass der Ring etwas damit zu tun hat, sodass sie blind für den eigentlichen Trick bleiben. Und das ist nicht nur Mentalism us sondern das Wesen der Magie selbst.
My friend, as a 40 something magic fan, you are the very first "mentalist" that I actually like. Your setup was great, your execution even better. Thank you for this amazing illusion.
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Either smartwatch or RFID in hand with proximity sensor that vibrates/signals some other way when it is close to the coin. About the ending - He basically had 8 double-sided cards inside his pocket with all possible outcome of first 3 rounds + 2 variants for final round. He chooses appropriate, "scans" the hands of an assistant and opens the right side of the card.
@@andriandrason1318 i think srdiogo is right about both the coin being large and obviously indicative of which hand you're holding it in, as well as the multiple possibility guess at the end. your method of a sensor in a coin would probably work too, i just think there's less chance for error with the oldschool big coin method, because if you feel the motion of someone moving a coin around and it turns out they kept it in the same hand, the trick would be a bust. ultimately, having a method of straight up seeing which hand it's in somehow is the best possible way to do a guessing trick. it's also kind of cool to think that you could do this trick 1000 years ago, and it still has the ability to convince people today that someone must be using motion sensors! :)
I have gone to see some of those mentalists do their show. Clearly I could see how some of them could start a cult or something like that . Glad to see Penn and Teller state they do not like it when the mentalist makes out like they are doing something supernatural
Penn & Teller were right at the "covered for all endings" part at least. The paper was rigged to open in different ways. And he would have to demonstrate, that the ring and coin are not magnetic or any thing of that sort.
@@Max-eh3gj If my maths is correct, all possible outcomes would have been 16 - not completely undoable, but keeping in mind where you hid each and every specific one could be a little challenging :)
@@pitecusH the multiple card outcomes is not challenging. if the first is left, keep it in the left pockets. if the second is left, keep it in the upper pockets. if the third is left, keep it in the inner suit pockets. then the fourth he would have to influence and do his magic, but he can just remember to put two papers in that pocket with one being left and right, one inside and one outside.
@@pitecusH it's 8 really, because he took the paper out before the last coin reveal, but he still had to have a way of correctly guessing that last one.
None of his explanation is the reason why he knows which hand. He knows because he watches the muscles in her arms, and those tell him which hand she has placed the coin in based on how they move.
My guess : 1) he can tell by looking at the closed hand which one it's in. I'd imagine this would be what P&T are guessing about as there would be alot of potential ways to do that -- magnets, muscle movements, something else? 2) he has 8 papers hidden in various pockets for the first 3 rounds. 3) each paper can open two ways for the last one.
That is how i guessed he did it. The coin is huge and if she held it tight like a normal person would it would be obvious to see up close the different hand size
I think people are over analyzing the hell out of this. It's just simple logic and reasoning skills. Potentially with a small amount of deception. That's it. I too predicted which hands she would have the coin in because it's simple once you understand how people think. It starts with the game name, "You don't have a choice." Instinctively, your reaction will be that you do, so already you've been primed to resist whatever is coming. The next set up is placing the coin in the right hand. Because he placed it in the right hand, and she wants to prove she has a choice, she swaps the coin into the left hand. He then takes the coin and places it back into her right hand. That's important, because she's still fighting against the idea that she doesn't have a choice. (I wasn't gonna break this next part all down but it'll help with the rest so...) Her instinct/subconscious desire to fight against the idea that she has no choice would tell her to put the coin in the left hand again. But since he already guessed the left hand, he's likely to pick it again. Thus, his statement about the statistic, that women place it in the same hand again. That reassures her belief that he's going to pick the same hand. But what if he's tricking her? And then the statement, "I'm not trying to influence you right now." comes into play. Whether or not she believes him is irrelevant. It reinforces her decision to place it into the right hand, whether she realizes it or not, on top of it already being likely he'd choose the left. Everything that's happened and been said has convinced her to put it into the right hand, and so she does. When he explains it, he's not lying. She tried to think 2 steps ahead, but wound up back in square 1. Things are simple from there. "The exact same thing" is just insurance to make sure she does it. She tried to outsmart him, by not switching the hand, but again he knows this behavior, the resistance. Last round. This is the only time lying/deception comes into play. He gets out the paper, showing the predictions. But as the other guy said, "the end could've played out differently and you were covered for all of those." That is to say, he had pieces of paper for every set of outcomes but since he doesn't fully know which set will be correct he can't give the judges the paper in advance until he has the right information. Because she picked right twice, she assumes that he'd think she was going to change hands at the end. So she keeps it in the right hand. Telling her it was "the last round" was, again, just to ensure she did it. But what if she did put it in the left hand? Unlikely. However, it definitely was possible. The true beauty of his perfomance was his confidence in his own abilities, because he chose to reveal the paper before making the final prediction, rather than waiting to see if he was correct. It sells the trick. If you don't understand the significance of the paper(s). Anyone can be correct in hindsight. If he by some chance got every single one of them incorrect, he chooses the paper with the exact outcomes that she chose. Boom. "I actually did get all of them right, and I wrote it down here." As for the Cow Test... I'm not 100% sure on what that was about, I don't think it was necessary (it wasn't for me at least) but I think it's as he said. To get to know her a little. If I had to guess, it's purpose would be to determine if she has a dominant or submissive personality. milked (submissive) or milker (dominant). that would let him know if she's the type to give in to suggestion or the type to try to resist it. she chose milker (dominant/resistant) which would tell him that she's going to try to resist his suggestions. but again, that all slipped by me, so idk for sure. It's not so much a trick as it is understanding how people behave and react to things.
@@R.E.E.D. I understand what you’re saying, and mostly agree with what you said. However, no magician is going onto this show with anything but a completely fail-proof act. If there’s even the remote possibility that the participants can mess up the act, that isn’t how it’s done.
I think the cow thing was definitely part of the trick. Getting to know her tells, which hand was dominant, and making her more comfortable with touch, maybe? Definitely got some sort of info out of it, aside from the thing to do with her husband lol
I think it 100% must be based on communication of some type, from the coin to the human. Otherwise he wouldn't need to bring a special coin he could ask for one from Teller.
So the way I undrstood it from reading another comment is, the two gentlemen sitting are magicians themselves, and if they understand how a certain magic trick works, it does not count as "fooled". However if they think they know how it works, they would not explain what they think the trick was, because that could ruin the magic for the audience. So apparently he suspects Timon might be wearing magnetic rings that tell him where the coin is, and he decided to cover that theory with the weird dad's ring story. But Timon, using his analogy, refutes that claim, he did not use his ring to detect the coin. So they don't know how he did it, so he fooled them.
I wonder if the size of the coin causes anyone's fist to be obvious when it's holding the coin, making it easy for a trained person to spot which hand is holding it. Would the trick still work if the coin was the size of a dime?
Good question, but whether or not he could tell due to the size of the coin is irrelevant, because the real trick was him having a paper predicting the pattern. And I have no clue how tf he did it, what a great mentalist performance
@@patches4170 well Penn actually says how he did that bit, it's his first sentence "covered for all endings". He had a specially prepared paper or a few of those cleverly made to be able to be unfolded in different ways to alter what the front size says. The actual trick is how he made it actually work each round. It might've been just propability based guessing, like a real mentalist does, but I don't think you would risk that for a tv show. There is magic envolved here but I cannot spot it.
@@patrickwehrstein8693 I'm really not smart, I read the first guys comment and thought"Yeah! I agree" But then I read the second guy and thought "Oh yeah, I meant that I agree with". Just when you think you're average, life reminds you you're not.
I wonder if the 'milking the cow' thing is a test to make sure the subject's hands are small enough/not double-jointed or something, to be able to pull it off more successfully :P
@@patrickwehrstein8693 I think it's a combination of probability and seeing which hand holds the large coin. He uses the first three rounds -- when he looks at her hands before "guessing" which one holds the coin -- to evaluate her response to his influencing triggers. Thus he has a pretty good idea what she will do in the last round and takes out that specific prediction before looking at her.
That was so incredibly impressive. I don't think anyone can do what he just did there. I mean it's one thing to read minds, but to get Alyson Hannigan to say *that* on American National television for a show that is watched worldwide, he really had to have gotten into her head.
ich hab mir das video jetzt 2 mal angesehen und ich glaube ich kann mir vorstellen wie du es gemacht hast. dabei spielt besonders der Cow test eine rolle oder? :)
Ein linken und einen rechten Daumen hoch für die gelungene Einleitung. Mein Vater hatte eine besondere Münze als Glücksbringer. Ich denke ihm würde der Trick auch gefallen.
Could be a subdermal magnet which lets you "sense" magnetic objects. Definitely one paper for each combination + sleight of hand (probably storing different papers in different locations)
the ring made a weird noise at the beginning. I think it could be magnetic. I also thought of magnets implanted in fingers but that would be going too far.
Hey, good job. That was nice to see you milking Willow for coins and stuff. Where can I find the full version of the episode? I'd like so see the continuation where you fooled Penn and Teller? I'm not familiar with the show so I don't even know where to look for it.
WTF. I hadn't thought of Alyson Hannigan in years... she came into my head about 30 minutes ago when I was walking down the street. Came home and this was on my suggested for you page.
The premise of the trick is that he always has her bring her arms out before he guesses, and looks at her hands. I’m guessing there is a tell in the way she holds the coin in one hand, which he would have seen when he placed the coin the first time. If he tried guessing when her hands were behind her back, it wouldn’t work.
The coin is pretty big for her hands. I think that's intentional. The milking was so he could gauge the size of her palms and choose the right coin to use which would just slightly cause her hand to bulge and give it away but not so obviously for those also watching.
@@robertrouthier2603 A event mentalist did this too me using a big dice. But he didn't realise what big hand I have and the instinct to hold them both exactly the same. He couldn't guess properly LOL so quickly (and very well I might say) made a joke of it and moved onto the next phase.
@@tomghzellol he was only in his early 20s in this video…he looks young because he still is young, he’s 28 now…your comment makes it sound like he’s 40…Alyson is her 40s.
This is crazy I've never looked this show up on RU-vid and like an hour ago I watched this show for the first time ever on television and now I got on RU-vid and this show just pops up while I'm scrolling through videos
By any chance is the coin so big that you can tell which hand is holding it and the answers on paper is based on the binary number system, in this case left or right so you would only need 16 pieces of paper in your pocket and pull the correct one when the trick is done?
only 1.3 mins in..and I have a question, are the hand puppets a way to make the audience more susceptible to his actions later on ie. make them more leadable especially in decision making ?
Finally ik how you did it and you have the balls of steel, knowing how you did it it makes the performance even better, this was sick, still my fave act
Penn insinuated that Timon's ring had something to do with the trick, which is weird because in the last two guesses Timon didn't use his left hand at all after making the prediction.... I think Penn said this because he didn't want to admit son quickly that they were fooled.
@@sebastianrodriguezlemoine8013 That's exactly what I commented. Penn couldn't be so blind to not see that he never touched her hands in the last round.
I think he treats ever turn completely different and has a way for each one. I think the third turn, he replaced the coin with a similar one but maybe one that was slightly bigger or smaller.
I've just been to a show of yours in Germany and have seen you performing the same trick, but you failed to predict the right hand 3 times in a row. So it looks like to me this trick is not a 100% chance at succeeding, which makes it really really brave to perform it on a show like this. Does this happen more regularly, or was my experience a once in a lifetime one?
@@Badhabit99Gaming and he motions different ways and says "right" and "left", whether to influence her or to give her the cue. And yeah the "i haven't picked yet" is funny
Allison is literally Michelle Flaherty. She embodies that character. You all thought she was just really good at ACTING awkward, but realistically, she just IS that awkward. She is amazing for that. She is still beautiful to this day; she is ageless.
Would the size of the actual coin be a telling sign in which hand it is in? If the coin in question was a penny, or even smaller, it might be more difficult to know.
Viele Künstler benutzen einen Ring, der ein kurzes elektronisches Signal ausstößt, wenn der Magier/Mentalist etc. seine Hand über die Hand mit der Münze hält. Falls er also kein Signal (z.B in Form eines kleinen Elektroschocks bekommt), weiß er dass die Münze in der anderen Hand ist. In dem Fall sagt Timon jedoch, dass dies nicht der Fall war und es ein ganz normaler Ring ist.
@@red_dll Es bedeutet einfach nur, dass der Ring nicht die Lösung des Tricks war. Vermutlich war die Münze selbst speziell. Mentalismus ist im Endeffekt auch nichts anderes als ein Zaubertrick, Timon ist nur einfach sehr, sehr gut darin seine Rolle als "psychologischer Beeinflusser" zu spielen, aber er weiss von vorn herein in welcher Hand die Münze ist. Das schöne bei dieser "ich beeinflusse deinen Verstand" - Sache ist, dass du immer beide Hände rechtfertigen kannst, egal wie man sich entscheidet. Das Opfer denkt immer, dass das Gegenüber seine eigenen Überlegungen einkalkuliert hat.
