I love how respectful and honoring Penn and Teller are to their contestants, even those that don’t fool them. Compare and contrast to other shows that judge performers. We need more of this in the world. Of course, the show is also just fascinating and entertaining without this, but that respect and kindness really elevates the whole thing to me.
So much agreed. This is why I love watching this show. Even the "losers" are fantastic and I love watching them just as much as the winners, if not more. Everything is designed around loving the art of magic and they aren't going to ruin that by dog piling.
@@Katosepe I love how the whole premise for the show, and really Penn and Teller's entire career is that magic is just a trick, but it takes an immense amount of skill and practice to pull off. It's a stark contrast from nearly every magician that came before them.
the network needs to play a practical joke on them where they get called up on stage and theyre so engaged with whats in front of them they dont realise the audience has disappeared
The problem with the trick is that there are waayyyy too many bells and whistles. Every single aspect of the trick points back to a force of some type. If he had ended with just the 3, and that was it, Penn and Teller would have had to consider different solutions. However, when he shows that he knew that the card was a 3, then it defacto shows them where the trick actually takes place.
Honestly, I think what spoiled it for him was the very end. Revealing the 3s _proved_ he was very much in control of the deck. If he didn't show them, P&T might not have had enough information to figure out the end. I think showing the other instruction cards also may have hinted as to what was coming. The ending is great for the audience, but it told P&T too much.
Still, having so much control on the deck when you are not touching the deck at all is very impressive. The problem is that card tricks like this are almost always forced draw or controlled shuffle. If there is no controlled shuffle, it must be a forced draw.
No..I mean it's not about the information,it's about the knowledge of magic penn and teller have which make no sense for me so if they know every trick how can someone fool them ? and i suppose..on the other side they were fooled by apple watch just because they don't know much about technology..I don't know the parameters of this show
he still would have shown is in control of the deck because : 1st : the deck was not shuffled beforehand, therefore showing there is a stack. 2. Even with instructions, he still needs to say to Allison what to do.
@@arlimando9745 well for one thing they don't know *every* trick, that's impossible. But unlike audiences, when a trick fools a magician it's not typically because they don't know how it was possible, but rather they know *several* ways it's possible but the trick was so smooth and well performed that they can't figure out which of those possibilities it is.
@@Weird_Alchemist42 I agree with you, but not only that, they're both independently talented performers, each with his own deep and abiding history of skills and training. I.e., Penn is a graduate of Ringling Brothers, whereas Teller is an academic scholar in various fields of magic and illusion-based stagemanship. (I find myself vaguely wanting to say that Teller has a PhD somewhere, but I'm not 100% certain of that fact, and I'm too lazy to google, so there it is.)
What I love about great appearances on Penn & Teller is that a "loss" is still an amazing win! Doesn't matter if they were fooled or not... a great performer like this has still amazed the audience.
Not entirely 3 of spades but more probably the first 10 cards or so (from the top to the next instruction card I would say). The jokers removal at the beginning is surely a misdirection to make us assume of the validity of the deck but we can see that some cards at the top are not visible. Hence the refusal of showing the cards at the end and the slow pace for the card picking.
Not the *top* 10 cards, as there's a period where he's "killing time" whilst Alyson deals some cards. I'm guessing he plans on that taking a minimum number of cards, but not more than a few more, and then plans that Penn (in this case) will say 'stop' before too many more are dealt. So a set of cards somewhere near the top of the deck that are all the 3 of diamonds indeed. I'm absolutely no magician, but I'd guess there's a chance that after showing the cards face up he has chance to manipulate if needs be. There were *some* cards on what is meant to be the top of the deck not spread out, but it didn't look like enough 02:20. Counting quickly, skipping the jokers, there's more than 52 cards there.
Great trick! I saw the article the FC magazine just had on you and knew I had to watch! I graduated Franklin in '13, so we never overlapped, but I remember going through a magic stint probably about the time you were graduating and would've loved to have been on this show someday. Glad you got the chance to perform and get such awesome compliments from P&T, and good luck in your future endeavors!
I hate Alyson. She's an airhead and super awkward. That doesn't work for magic. As a host, you need to be fucking slick, smart, and full of shit (in a good way).
WHAAAATTTT??????!!!!! That was awsome! the best part of this whole show is the; i don't know if it's the right word, but the honesty. even though p&t are not fooled, the performers are very professional... Good job and keep on freaking everyone out...i know I was
They audition with a series of tricks and the producers will pick the performers and tricks they want. I remember one of them on his own RU-vid channel said the producers told him to do a trick of his that was almost 20 years old and surely wouldn't fool P&T, but that's the one they wanted. That said, I'm not sure the performers are always honest. For the sake of avoiding controversy and awkward arguments, the producers have sometimes forced Alyson to just say fool or no-fool; likewise I doubt they will interrupt the show and embarrass a performer who says, "no, that's not how I did it," when they could always just quietly take the award away later.
absolutely killing trick.i was just stunned,because i have also done a trick in which spectator has to do all the stuff but i failed miserably.but its soo nice to see that you have done it so wonderfully.and also very glad to see that although you have a busy routine you still give your precious time to your fans.so good job all-round
Showed the 3 was super impressed. Then he turned over all the 3's and thought "oh it was a force to begin with trick sucks" Know when to stop. Sometimes less is better.
The "tell me when to stop" was very clearly a force, but being able to force all those cards in such an order was impressive to watch as it was rather unexpected.
@@qwertyb18 the point they make at looking at the cards is there are many 3s or many "did we fool you" cards under the ones shown. There are many of those and he masters his shuffle to keep it alive. The sides everything is on is different. Dope trick though. The common man would flip out over this
Pen & Teller do use the 3 of spades a lot in their tricks to signal it was a force. The fact he used it was a nod to that such as saying "I want you to know this is a force, can you figure how I did it?"
He wanted them to say it's a force. But it wasn't, just a pile of 3s of spades (with a corner looking different to not show it when he spreads out at the start). They knew it was either a force (which would have been "really really good" to do a force while she deals them slowly), or it was a "really really real" free choice, meaning that there would have to be several 3s of spades (with fake corners). In that case they wouldn't be allowed to see the faces of all the cards (because they would discover the fake cards). Since they called him on seeing the cards, they weren't fooled. It was 50/50, they could have guessed the force.
Im so stoked. I actually got to meet this dude at my post prom, best thing is, he told me he was thinking about auditioing again. He totally got me with his book trick.
Awesome job Caleb!You fooled the heck out of me.Very interactive and entertaining routine. I still perform your ReSewindled and is one of the strongest impromptu routines I do. All the best in your future endeavours. CheersAljaž
@@LeslieJayBoschPhoto It's a 4 year old comment, but it's not an oxymoron, in the sense that he means the trick is the "routine" that they go through whenever they feel like, thus is impromptu
Man,I actually think you gave yourslf when you showed it was a force.I really think if there wasnt the other 3s part,and if instead of those on the 3 piles were just the question words,they would be fooled.I mean,they STILL dont Know how you d.d. it,I dont Know,its obviously a VERY complicted mathematical trick (no one can recap all of that in their head on the pot) but everybody can go "if it was a force,there must be more 3s of spades".You gave it yourself
It's not math. It's a half of a deck with 3 of spades cards with false corners so a tight spread will reveal only the false corner, and the other half of the deck is setup ahead of time and just protected from actually being shuffled.
That was an incredibly smart, well-executed, and layered trick. Sometimes I find it more impressive when I see someone intellectually engage P&T like that. This guy was fantastic.
what a brilliant effect, I fairly new to magic and love tricks like this that use little or no slight of hand although now lining a little slight of hand, hard thing when they say you did not fool us were they only knew one thing .......what a great trick
Thanks, Trevor. Yeah, this one has absolutely no sleight of hand involved. If you're into those sort of effects, I would highly recommend looking into the work of Steve Beam, Ryan Schlutz, and John Bannon.
Yes caleb yes love John bannon his move zero DVD are excellent just got bullet party so trying to learn a bit more slight, loads of big blind media.love Penn and teller but sometimes they play the we know the moves card too easy , sure there was more to the trick than that one point , excellent trick with a kicker ending
I think where he lost this one was when he turned over the instruction cards with the threes on. It screamed out loud that he knew they would have chosen a three.
That is because he wanted her to stop at any one card in the deck but imagine what would happen if he screamed at her to stop at any one card from the deck but then she refused to do so and kept on going
good job. I have this deck and it's cool to see someone do a different trick with it then the other one that was already on this show. though I don't know how all of it was done. my deck also only forces the 3 of spades!
When any time at the end of the trick the magician reveals a 4 of a kind based on your pick. It was a forced card period. The way he did it, most likely that beginning portion of the deck is all 3 of clubs.
Not true. _Spellout with a Hitch_ by Dai Vernon, for example; also the variation by Bruce Cervon. Those are just two examples (off the top of my head) where the selected card is is revealed by the 4 of a kind lead up.
It actually doesn't. The performers have to reveal the method of the trick to the producers, and there are judges that help determine if Penn and Teller have correctly deduced the method.
Love this show. I think Alyson is adorable, cute as a button, but as 'host' of this show, she looks out of place and uncomfortable. But still nice to watch.
very well executed, and a great performance all around. but after a second look, i know how this is done. i'm not sure if Penn and Teller know 100% how (or even IF) you forced the card, because it was a really well camouflaged force. but if they did on the first watchthrough: they are absolute gods. if they didn't know 100%, but just had this 1 guess on how you forced it, then i believe you fooled them! congrats anyway
As a fellow Hoosier who has met and had conversations with Penn and Teller, I appreciate the hell out of this. They are great guys who really seem to appreciate and care for every fan and person they meet. Damn Good job with the representation, man!
Great performance and i love this trick. I still can't get one thing and it bugs me today, as I don't see anything for the ending question.. I can see how the card that Allison was able to present was placed, and the prediction which is so smooth. I can't get how the question came at the end, as she shuffled and you couldn't have "shuffled" the cards in order that quickly to read out a question. Is it technology?
Caleb, you had an amazing performance here. The 3 of Spade is pre-arranged and so too several of the other cards. Your math is good and your creativity, genius. Create more tricky moves like this.
@@TickleMyResearch Her tone often clashes with the show, whereas Jonathan Ross's reinforced it. He knew how to make the guest magicians feel comfortable, but her tone often fails to. But here her tone allowed the magician to perform and be himself, and it was cool to see.
Really nice trick Very interesting to watch. As non-magician trying here to "crack" the tricks I do not have even closest guess how you did it. Well done!
Jason Jackson the actual answer is they film over multiple days and can edit the order of the acts to space out any successful fools, without it being obvious they are doing it.
David Foster - your actual answer is idiotic. Vanna White & the many other game show hostesses as well as the hosts, changed between shows to keep it fresh. The change of clothes takes less than 10 minutes.
The effect of her wearing the same horrifically cut dress for an entire series is far worse than if an episode had no fools, or a couple of fools in it
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