Penn & Teller Fool Us: Kostya Kimlat's IMPOSSIBLE Card Trick // Season 5 

Greetings from India, kostya ! Just wanted to congratulate you cause you entertained us all with your wit , your humour and ofc your magic. Please consider visiting our country, as people here are mad about you and would love to see your magic !

I bought your DVD for your first trick on Fool Us. That's gonna take a few years of my life ...

Kostya Kimlat you sir, are incredible! Loved both of your fool us appearances and love your “reveal” video. You are incredibly talented!

So you watched the cards fly by, memorized the order of all 52 cards and are able to precision time the exact location and how many microseconds into it that it will take to hit the card. Wow.-- But you did have a tell that I picked up when i watched the trick for the first time. You move your lips when you read the cards. That revealed that when you dribbled the cards , or whatever it is called, it had a purpose. It was giving you information. As a professional software developer, i know that everything in well written code has a purpose, and the most elegant software does a job with as few lines as possible. Dribbling the cards a few times *HAD* to give you information that you were going to need to locate the card. Still -- again, wow. Great talent, but not an illusion.

Kostya! Your first performance was already on my top five foolers, but now your second performance is my favorite non-fooler! Congratulations!

I mean that kinda happened with Shin Lim's first performance. Penn explained how even though they caught some of the tricks that he did, he felt the performance was perfect

@@kinnexion Yes, but I feel like when they are dealing with Card Tricks, Cups and Balls etc. they set a different bar, e.g. if they didn't catch most of the stuff.

@@B20C0 Shin Lim's trick was with cards... I really don't get your point here. I was just simply correcting your original statement by pointing out that its not the first time that Penn and Teller figured out a trick, but yet were still fooled and it was a perfect trick

@@kinnexion With Shin Lim they said they caught "some" of the things he did, but not all of them (remember the marker), with Kostya they essentially caught the essence of what he did (in fact it was only the one move). That's what I meant. Sorry, I'm no native English speaker, I might have not made myself clear enough.

@@B20C0 no I get what you mean with the Kostya trick, but when Penn said they caught some of what Shin did, he means pretty much all of the trick, however they still don't know how he did the pen trick. So my point was that even though one of the two magicians fooled them, and the other didn't, it wasn't the first time that a trick was pretty much complete figured out by Penn and Teller, that was still extremely impressive

Maybe that was the one lie he said he was going to tell. lol

@@JimFortune either way he wins. He basically had one of the world's greatest magicians tell him he's otherworldly good at card magic. Yeah fuck the trophy I'd be out on that note

@@maddasahattter ....Hear Hear!!

Yesssssss!

@@JimFortune un 9m9n89898 89n99m n9

Yes I agree I thought I was the only one who picked that up

Exactly... I did not like the outcome of this trick. He grabbed like 7 cards. And before that he asked Penn what was his card. Like what? Kostya supposed to figure that out.

Yea I thought he screwed it up but they didn't want to wreak the bit

@taxid3rmy Exactly. Not that brilliant of a trick.

I heard him talk about it on a podcast. He practiced to the point where he could pick out the single card with 95%+ accuracy but he felt off on the day of the show so he played it safe with grabbing 5 cards

Hey you stole my comment lol

Ohai holy koolaid

No he actually gave the "trick away". He said it himself that was he practicing this move for 18+ years.

@@26mamunbro ir really yappin on a yt comment

Lmaooo

I didn't expect to laugh on the comment section but you got me!

Go home.

It’s the guys like you I scroll down for

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How could he disagree? It was a nice out they gave him.

It’s a cruel summer

In this case, it's even better to not fool them

....you seriously believe Magic is real Magic^^.....wow......you need to stop watching Harry Potter movies bro.....it's ALL skill.

@@blaze1148 its just means no hiding no deceiving did the trick straight up

nah, he already knew where the card was in the deck. he just wanted to know what it was so he can pick it out just in case he grabs more than a few as a failsafe.

He had it under control

Im pretty sure thats wrong. The way he riffles through the cards for penn allowed him to count. He knew the position of the card. He never shuffled after that. He just knew it was card number 25 or whatever. So when he dropped the cards he grabbed the area of where it would be. Others mentioned it. He can usually grab just the one card. Here for a variety of reasons he had to grab 4 and he asked before hand to ensure among those 4 he got the right one for the audience.

What throws me off was the fact that he grabbed 4 or 5 card, not just the one that Penn picked and that was what made it less impressive as a magic trick because it obviously was admittedly not a magic trick. Not to mistake, that’s also what makes it much more impressive just not as a magic trick. It flawed when he picked 4-5 card and still had to looked at those 4-5 cards to single out the one card Penn picked. If he picked only one card or Pick out the card without looking at the 4 or 5 card he initially picked, I definitely think both of them could have be fooled because it will be too well executed for them to think there was no trick.

​@@hankocpharung1383 Exxxactly

Kinda like some of the shit David Blaine does

Didnt they say he had control over where he put that king of spade in the deck?

@@rotgertesla he knows where every card is in the deck. Even after "shuffling." And his control is so accurate that he can instantly retrieve the card when asked. It's not a trick. It's almost superhuman dexterity and memory. Pure, raw, hardworking skill.

When the "trick" is just you practicing how to snatch specific cards out of thin air for 17 years lol

vgambit It’s impossible to know where every card is, he has control of where he puts the card so he might for example put it fifteen cards down every time

I never heard that's what he said until the show aired and it blew my mind. These guys are the greatest and I am forever grateful to them for their kindness. Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment.

At what timestamp did he say that? :O

@@hipstergod 9:05

Kostya Kimlat you’re a great pleasure to watch sir, and a true artist. I look forward to watching you perform one day.

I think the even more endearing line was, "We've sat in hotel rooms with you, and watched you do this stuff for us." Imagine that-- two of the most renown magicians in the world were so curious that they said, "Hey, let's get a suite. We want you to show us how you did this stuff."

Totally agree, he probably didn't want to risk failure in front of a live audience so he grabbed four.

Well shit, for the rest of us it may very well be magic

false, its an act, hes a magician, hes trying to make it look like an accident when in reality there's likely some kind of adhesive holding that group of cards together which is much easier to catch. might not even have to catch it just use sleight of hand to make it look like hes catching them when hes really just quickly grabbing them .

@@NocturnalIntuition nope. There's no trick involving this. This is pure dexterity and slight of hand which takes years of practice and some genetics due to the massive eye to hand coordination needed.

i think it went a little wrong, he wanted to catch one card but botched it just a little

Totally, and that fucking smug on his face.. God this dude is the Negreanu of tricks. I love him

The look on his face when they did exactly what he wanted says it all I was thinking your comment but then I was like nah no one has that much hindsight

Technically he still won. Know don't get it FOOLED he didn't FOOL them but this I don't even think follows the rule of a trick THERE WAS NONE he by the numbers threaded that needle countlessly for 17 years to the point even Penn and Teller knew that shit is fucking not possible and he had to be that good. It is as easy to point to the bottom as it is to the top and Penn and Teller pointed to the conclusion that was only possible...THAT WAS PURE SKILL

Dj Micth You mean foresight.

For performers, this show is not about the trophy. It's about promoting their show and skills to potential clients or promoting their tricks to potential buyers. This is a way better promotion for him than if they guessed a wrong technique and he just said he fooled them.

I fully agree

He didn't fool them because he taught/showed his skills when he won last time, as Pen mentioned.

Shizuku not this trick

I agree as well. It wasn't a card trick or "magic"...it was pure skill. So he wins no matter what.

It's not about skills, it's about busting the mystery behind the trick 💭

I think you might want to watch Dani Daortiz, both on Penn&Teller and outside

lol. wow. Are you seriously making that comment with a straight face? I only ask because...it's the PREMISE OF THE SHOW!!!

"He's better than you think, I'm tellin' you that." What an amazing compliment from Penn!

What the man just did is absolutely insane.

Beau Burchfield he caught a bunch of cards as he was riffling vertically. Is that it?

@@Wrrohm I think it's "He's better than a fake", because he actually pulled off the "impossible" move.

this is so meta.

could not have said it any better

I was thinking the exact same thing. Now all I have to do is leave this comment, and hit "Like".

When I watched this episode the other day, my jaw actually dropped when he confirmed that he was "just that good," and that there really wasn't a trick other than controlling the chosen card.

I kinda tought that was the case when he actualy grabbed 4 cards instead of one, I believe he meant it to be just the king of spades, but that being such an absurdly hard feet he ended up getting 4 cards with the king of spades amongst them.

I personally do not like his personality. It feels too pushy and arrogant. His skill is utterly undeniable which makes him worst kind of person to be around: braggart who can back it up and you know it.

yeah i literally say he grabbed 4 or 5 wtf?

I think they take much longer in actual performance to discuss. They take around 5 mins according to Penn's Sunday school but the show just edits it out to keep it entertaining.

It's a talent I wish he could bestow on president tRump. 😂

Are you some kind of salesman or ?

@@ahmadkhaled28 No

@@shawnyu3666 True that will help, but still in middle of his conversation he can apply that easily.

i'm not sure, many people don't see the trick the same way if they have the slightest idea how it's done. It was a very risky trick to perform, the dropping of the cards is kinda funny as it reminds us of the "card on a sword" trick, maybe they would've gone with this idea if it wasn't done close up !?? Anyway that was absolutly crazyyyyyy

he knew he was gonna get busted, its an old trick (the point is the exposure anyway).. thats why he brought his participation trophy .. because that literally is the point. hes on national TV (and now we know his name, and that he impressed Penn & teller) either way.

Good business decision, that's for sure lol

Wait....I they didnt figure it out he would have fooled them? Oh so that's how it works.....thanks.

@@m.r.p5674 In his reaction video, Kostya says it would've been much harder for P&T to guess what was up if he hadn't accidentally let it slip that he'd been practicing this for years, as this automatically told them it was a skill-focused trick. He also said he could have potentially gotten the trophy on a technicality, similar to many other magicians on the show, as Penn was equivocating over _how exactly_ he had caught the right card, but he specifically chose not to because, as @j v said, impressing Penn and Teller by not fooling them was worth much more than the trophy itself.

I thought that was against the rules

manaherb no they only have to tell someone in the back

@gilbert martinez Cograts to your sisters. Guy's got some amazingly dextrous fingers

Accurate😂

Still, the guy has some serious ability to catch a particular card in the air. Don't worry, he'll be back in another 17 years with a much better "FU" trick. xD

That's the funny thing though. When skill reaches a certain level, it seems like magic. Everyone assumed that he was using a shortcut or a method of sleight of hand, but he actually honed a skill to the point where it became magical.

Like @@Malhaloc says, it's a honed skill, so not 'actual' magic. Magic is the art of sleight of hand, illusions, deception. This was real.

Prism Glider Great comment!

@@SAFeCRACKeR09 tru its not magic thats the same thing I thought

It would be a magic trick if it seemed to be an illusion but not reality. In this case, he used pure skill and reality so its not magic

John Abbott Not only that, after they busted him they still went up and congratulated him. I don’t remember them doing that on other busts.

@@tjestelle4886 I've seen them do it at least a couple of times. But it has to be that special moment, where they grasp just how hard the trick is to do. And yeah... so much fun.

* than you think

*THAN*

Irregardless of how you spelled it, I knew what you meant.

He could grab just 1 card like what he did in the "reveal". But I think he wasn't that confident to catch just 1 card during the performance so he asked what card it is before he dribbled the deck.

he miscalculated the abc’s when penn change the card so he asked for penn’s card and grabbed 5 cards just to make sure he caught the card. because in other videos he cam catch only 1 card and without asking for the card.

Doppe1ganger I know I thought wtf how can they be fooled!

It was the card in the middle. edit: I should elaborate on middle as the second from closet card to him and clean up my post

ok but why did he catch five cards?

No 1 trick wont make u magician

It's kick and not trick.

@@deker7050 sleight of hand?

I'd be scared o a man that knew 1 million tricks.

True

They've often praised non-foolers too, when they do something really cool. I generally find this show to be a celebration of the art form.

yeah, that wasw a technical artist looking at another technical artist and saying "there is no one else in this room that is qualified to recognize your skills"

@@thexalon Exactly. Penn even said it himself that it is because he likes seeing magic being done for him even if he knows the trick because he appreciates the actual art. It's like a professional chef cooking a meal for another professional chef.

6:51 They are both amazed and determined to "go for it"

Right? at 5:43 you can see Teller's face going, "Dafuq just happened?" then that realization that what he saw wasn't a sleight of hand, just a really fast hand was absolutely perfect.

Kostaya just seems so warm, friendly, and professional :)

What, threaten each other with bodily harm if they did their job well?

@@SillyMakesVids I seen that movie. It's called The Prestige.

I mean... I assume most do. People generally enjoy meeting others than are very proficient in what they do every day. I look at highly skilled programmers and admire them; it's incredible how skilled they are when I compare what they know to what I have learned thus far.

Comedians

surprised to see you here, but maybe I shouldn't xD

@@emilyscloset2648 and you are???

@@ireallyreallyhategoogle a random person raging at the world

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The most insane thing is he probably can catch a single card in a normal day, but caught 5 couse he was nervous

@@yisusoflare6225 yeah u can tell he was really nervous. Still impressive as shit tho.

@@yisusoflare6225 also if he caught a single card, way bigger chance of missing by one and getting trick wrong, which makes it look way worse than just grabbing 4

I think it is more difficult to grab just 1 card that way... If he could Fling 1 Card, and Know where to Stop; he knows where the Card is.

He pulled six cards out not one

@@patterdale4332 But his hans was on that card. Beside. You do it in one try then

I'm not knocking the talent but the math starts to open up the margins of success a bit. Picking any 1 card if you snatch up to 5 to find it, gives the magician a ~10% chance of getting it right, even if he was blindfolded and not in control of anything but the snatching. No placement, no cascade, just grabbing the card(s). Being able to precision place that card at exactly, say, 26th position or wherever he's most comfortable. Significantly increases those odds to closer to ~50%, even if he was blindfolded after he placed it and not in control of the deck. Being able to time the fall twice before performing the trick AND being able to feel what is left on the deck as he's holding them... I'd bet he can get closer to 80% success rate, or better, even if he were blindfolded. That extra ~20% is a HUGE hurdle though. Getting it wrong just 1 in 5 times would be horrible odds to take the stage with. Regardless, I suspect he had to work on that 20% the longest and it was that gap that he had to bridge before performing the trick for an audience. I also think Penn and Teller guessed how he did it because of his monologue. Had he said nothing and simply done the trick, they may have been stumped.

@@xmarine73 snatching 5 cards was not the trick, if you watched his prep videos he was always able to grab that single card, him grabbing 5 here was a mistake most likely due to nerves

@@xmarine73 Shup up, I give you 20 years and you'll never do that

@@supermanbrz I'm not trying to do the trick and I gave the guy props by saying the last 20% was a huge hurdle to overcome. Maybe reading comprehension is a problem for you? Between that and the atrocious spelling, maybe you need 20 years to fix your literacy?

i enjoyed that analogy mmmmmm

So what you're saying is that this is the ultimate force.

The beginning says he's going for his second fooled

That’s not what he said. He said he would be the third person to fool them for a second time. Two people have already fooled them twice

duh.. you're regurgitating what p&t said!! ^ CrazyVisitors.com ^

All these people saying it’s “not a trick, it’s pure skill”… most of these guys tricks, are all skill with few exceptions. It’s quite literally one the same.

So true

@@anthonyalvarezjr4304 i think he can do it or at least less than five cards like 2 or 3, but doing it on stage is kinda a risky play, graping five card accurately under that kind of pressure is way more than good enough

@@s.a.okirito701 He can catch 1 card with pretty decent success rate, but it would be very high risk on the stage so I bet he just went a safer route, catching 5.

He'll be practising that for the next 17 years so come back later lol

I did think that was odd that he had 4 then picked out one card. I agree with your theory and I suspect he might actually be able to do just the one and what we saw was not a miss but not a clean run either. I'm still impressed!

That's just the joker card

No he didn't. He picked 5-6 cards, then asked what the card was, picked it out of a group of cards. He said he was going to grab the card they picked, not 5, then ask what the card was

@@g-shack3655 congrats, you missed the point. But thanks for reiterating how magic tricks work.

@@rasberryiceify. Perhaps you worded it wrong, or failed to project sarcasm?

@@g-shack3655 no sarcasm. I was impressed by his skills. Then you randomly popped along to point out that a magic trick is a… trick. It’s like… no shit Sherlock.

nah G shack is right. he didn't point out it was a trick, he pointed out that he failed his trick and didn't do what he said he would

Nice HIMYM reference

Because it was still something that required some incredible hand-eye coordination and memorization of how he shuffled the deck.

Dan Sperry and Mac King were enjoyable non foolers as well.

@@musicwarrior3755 There is no hand-eye coordination when your eyes are closed.

I felt Kostya wanted Penn and Teller not be fooled only then to reveal the trick.

JxC I completely agree. But she’s not a good host.

cute as shit

She is simply adorable. Hard to believe she is just as cute as she has always been. She is simply going to be perpetually cute for the rest of her life. I just adore her cheeks when she smiles.

@@jsusna1972 Jh

Willow.

This comment wins youtube for the day

@jqbtube in this case, by revealing that he is actually that skilled, P&T gave him much more respect than a simple FU trophy. Imagine David Blaine being "busted" by revealing that he can actually levitate, and there is no illusion at all.

@@ferdinandkraft857 I don't think David Blaine would get respect for that. I think he would disappear from the public eye and be experimented on by the government XD

Greebob11 XD

except that it wasn't sleight of hand, it was pure card mechanics

ursafan40 it really is awesome. Being able to blow people's mind without any real sleight of hand in the actual important part is really cool, and not something you see often at all!

unlike all other tricks that use real magic

I found him very irritating and one of the rosy magicians I’ve ever seen

E Derrick he’s wearing 100lb weights on his wrists. If he took them off, no one in the audience would’ve seen him pick up the card

E Derrick Great Naruto reference btw.

Some said, he can open up to 8 gates...

I'm glad I watched Naruto just to understand this reference