Rabby Yang - 1st Fooler from China // Penn & Teller Fool Us -HD 

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With an accelerometer inside

and what did the accelerometer do?

@@sailaab tell what colors are in the top duh

@@sailaab it accelerated the meter

Haha thanks!

The talent show we did together was the first time I performed in English... could not have made it without the support along the way

@@rabbyyang4107 That's pretty awesome

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That's Awesome guys

Then says that red is orange

@@alexandresurferboy That was orange...

Your excellent joke was lost on your other commenters....

@Andrew Todd you are

Lol

Theodosis Sourgkounis haha

@@rabbyyang4107 When were you another name?

@@elephantgrass631 bruh

basiQ you stupid stupidddd (talking about the other guy 😂😂)

He's been a Yang ever since he took his first breath coming out of his mother's womb.

Never pictured her as a squeaker.

lmao

Why did they get rid of the British guy? He was a WAYYY better host

@@geraghtybj nice

Well that one time at band camp... 🤔

Yeah sure.. Giving love when he's famous, doubt it was like that in high school

L3n good magic will always be something that people appreciate you for. even in its high school, one of the cliquiest places in the country. Idc if someone is a bully or they are one of those popular people who think they are above you, being able to stump them with a good trick may win you just the slightest bit of respect even if they dont want to admit it.

Trashed him in high school.. Fake as hell fame seeking now. Hey I walked by this guy!

Well I don't even know him and the moment brought tears of joy for him

You're not the only one, my grandma didn't either. :)

Me tooo

Lol

I didn't but I was best friends with his backpack.

It's actually one of the conditions of the show is they can't use stooges in any way. Saw it in an article about the show during season 1.

@@followNoxville Stooges are fake audience participants, not assistants or backstage people feeding info :)

@@aerospliff69 true, but I thought that was also covered separately sorry ^

That’s just how they thought it was done, they use code words when it’s a trick they’ve seen or even done before which is 99% of the time, this just fell into that 1%

I figured that if the trick was done by blaringly obvious means (even an idiot can suggest a guy backstage helping him) that they won't speak in code. Like if the trick hinged on a guy running out in a gorilla suit, banging on cymbals, they'll just say "we were distracted by the guy in a gorilla suit"

And Third, if I'm not mistaken, there's someone backstage who knows how the trick is done, and who will be able to verify and/or be the third judge in case an impasse happens between Penn & Teller, and the magician performing (I believe there was a coin trick on this show, where this happened, where neither Penn, Teller nor the magician, could agree on whether or not a "fool" occured, where the backstage judge's verdict was that it was indeed a "fool". I forget the name of the magician though).

Yes, one magician that was on the show said the producers actually pick the members from the audience. They make sure they want to be on stage and on TV, that they are TV ready (not drunk, dressed appropriately, look "attractive", and not related to the preformer in any way.) They also mic them up so everyone can hear them. The Magician is told who to pick but only just before. They do this so there isn't a break in the performance to get the audience member ready for TV. It's also a gameshow in Las Vegas and I think it's actually a law that you can't have an "inside man" to help win a competition. Vegas has a lot of laws and regulations with all the gambling that takes place there. Not sure if that's 100% true for this, but the magicians do sign a pretty lengthy pile of papers before going on the show, which another magician has also stated.

@@esilva8349 I didn't know this when I posted that 3 years ago, but the producers will actually cut stuff from the video if you accidentally mess up and expose your own trick. To preserve the magic for the tv audience I suppose but I still felt mislead.

She's an actress

@@nisse18 did I say she wasn’t?

@@Oncearanger88 it's her job to be(or to look) excited

@@mrp0001 no, it’s not actually. Her job is to interview the people and to introduced to people. She does not have to be excited.

How do we know for sure yang was not wearing an earpiece

@@ryeckley7267 I'm guessing you do not lie to Penn and Teller. Integrity still has some value, especially in magic.

Because the contestant has told his trick to one producer before the show. If he tries to lie to P&T, they will know.

It’s not a lie, it’s the creed, a magician never reveals his secrets

@@ryeckley7267 You're dumb. Which is why Penn and Teller speak in code when figuring out methodology. Instead of blatantly telling everyone.

Thanks so much man!!

ha a UCLA alumni here

Penn has the same hypothesis as I do: Chinese dude used real magic

Penn knows it’s done with an electronic tunic cube which transmits the side facing up to a morse code or similar device in his pocket to tell him the sides and location of each colour on the side facing up. That in its self is hard work and not easy, remembering the code and rehearsing for months. To penn threw the young budding magician a bone and went with the less likely “teller thinks someone backstage”

@@christeamhound is this really how its done, because this is immediately what I thought of, some sort of device in the cube that is able to tell what the facing side reads and then he finds out somehow.

Dru Nature look at 2:12 - the side that is showing where his thumb is is exactly the side that supposedly showed up after Allison mixed up the Rubik’s cube. This shows that either A) The show is rigged and Allison was in on the trick or B) it is a type of mechanical cube that automatically switches to that side?? Now I know that only solves the first one but I’m guessing the 2nd trick had something to do with that too.

@@alexstallo9770 This is the best guess I've heard. A cube that doesn't really shuffle, but has some trick to it. If it wasn't for Allison's mistaken shuffle in full view I'd go for it but only b/c of that I think it is wrong.

mayank mishra Appreciate it! The secret is never just the method :-)

Because people are still in high school or not entered it. It needs a graduated mind to explore the trick :) congrats Rabby Yang. You stole our minds and win our hearts.

I guess it's in music.. like the out of body trick!!

distantmyth Thank you!

@Gemein Hardd Let me know what you've accomplished at 21

Gemein Hardd and you think you're the norm for a 21-year-old? The bygone era as you call it, almost all 21-year-olds were out on their own. Most, not saying all, 21 year olds now still live at home.

Gemein Hardd in short you said, “Okay Boomer 💥!”

@@photomanwilliams4147 that's not true at all. for most of human history, children stayed and lived with their parents in generational families for their entire life. Only until recently (as in the past 200 years) and virtually only the case in immigrant countries (i.e., USA, Canada, Australia, etc.) did people strike out on their own upon reaching adulthood.

Willswalkingwest Yes I actually chatted with her a little after. She is super nice

Hm she did seem more excited than usual.

P&T are happy too. You gotta figure that after decades of being at the top of their craft, they are BORED, and ready for someone to show them something that they haven't seen (or done) before.

@Jamie Nelson Well, that may be because we know how movies are made. Also, what's wrong with seeking an explanation for things that seem mysterious? If we never did that we wouldn't have much of the medical technology we have, we wouldn't have the satellites that allow you to use your GPS, we wouldn't even have the scanners they use at the checkout stand at the grocery store. If anything, we should applaud the younger people for relying on their instinct to get to the bottom of things instead of being lazy and saying eh, must have been a wizard or something.

@Jamie Nelson Also, puzzles and art forms are not mutually exclusive to one another.

Alison didn't mix the cube, so just the gyroscope is enough for this whole trick.

quelorepario Bluetooth? Lol

@@theunknown5921 no, I actually meant a contact speaker in your tooth. Sound travels faster in the bone through your teeth, you can hear through your teeth.

I was joking however but I’m glad you taught me something I didn’t know

it was actually Alison being his assistant. he turned the cube, remembered the colors of the sides and then alison just had to show the correct side of the cube. She just pretended to rearrange the cube but it was the same all the time.

@@Tintop not at all

Fuck I think you guess it

the earpiece is code for the device that receives those vibrations you know

This would explain why he would want her to hold it in a specific way (hold the side she wants up.) Clever.

Yes, I am a speedcuber, so I know a lot about Rubik's cubes and this does propably seem like the the only way to do this

so in other words, he didn't actually fool them because they knew how he did it, sort of

SHHHH! I'm listening to reason!

Peewee Herman is never a look or act you want to imitate.

I thought this immediately and needed to know that someone else saw The Pee Wee Suit too

Sorry about that.

I thought the same thing but the difference was in the cube there is a detector which visualize on the screen of another nearby person (maybe backstage) and says through "mobile molar" in his teeth. Be careful on his speakings like smth is disturbing his tongue or teeth.

i think the table will do something with sending the signals.

alison changed tye cube further behind her back...so his initial shuffle was shuffled again by alison and after that alison decided which side of this complete new shuffle to use...maybe a masterpiece of technology hidden inside a rubic cube...and yes w. bluetooth its possible

Thanks!

thanks for the kind words!

@@rabbyyang4107 Up up up is code word, how many times did he mention the word up in his show.....same amount of times....

That’s what I was thinking. He’s the one who mixed up the cube and gave to Alyson who just flipped the cube around vs mixing it up more. But, how he knew exactly what sides she was on each time I have no idea.

Nathaniel Wall neither can I

Nathaniel Wall what part of this was mentalism?

Exactly. Saw this trick in "Magic for Humans" on Netflix and I think even David Blaine did it. These Rubik cubes are high tech for sure.

So, a cube with sensors in it that track position of the colours and the rotation of the Cube? Possibly some earpiece that reads the Color sequence or other device that tells him the sequence with haptic feedback

Twoface698 No that would not work.

@@Twoface698 Sounds too complicated and error prone. Magic is always simple and foolproof. Anything else is not worth the risk of public failure.

I could build something like this using Arduino. An accelerometer can tell which face is up. The 9 colors can then be transmitted to a receiver inside the clothes. The receiver has a way to notify through a set of vibrators the colors and the positions.

well Penn figured it out, but Teller didn't want to believe him.

Wizardry? Are you being serious? Wizardry?? Lol WOW! Its obvious he's related to the flash and he ran over to peak at the cube. Wizardry lol

@@joeysane416 whoosh

@@deegunggong1625 whoosh^2

Wtf you guys talking about. Its obviously a clone jutsu from naruto universe. He said its all done by himself, which is not wrong. The clone is also part of his chakra, so its still him. Not a double

Austin Janik thanks buddy

I can't unhear it now 😂

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That's freaking hilarious

After reading your comment now thats all i hear! X3 ahahaha

if you look close, the patterns arent random. He turned the cube in a specific way and gave it to Allison, and he instructs Allison to turn / rotate the cube, not change the pattern. Hence if you look at the 2nd side Allison selects, and rewind to compare how he held the cube, it is the same pattern. He just had to guess which side. Pretty simple

@@ShengYu1995 how could he be sure she didn't change the pattern? and just instructing to rotate the whole cube must have seemd pretty silly to her. I think she acted as his assistant and just pretended to change the pattern (obvidously that's what the audience should think). It's a TV show after all, and a show is also using tricks to stay interesting and "mysterious"

Haha

I seem to recall him, but I am 60 so unless he has mastered time travel..you are not the only one.

Im willing to bet Jesus also didnt go to school with him. So i think that if your question is legit and Jesus could answer it for you, he would say: No, dont worry my Son, i also never went to school with him. Infact i think Jesus never went to school at all. Did they even have schools back then? Hmm.

bertjesklotepino im sure they had some form of school or place of learning, atleast i know the romans did, idk much about the middle east during the Roman Empire though.

No, but I did own a rubix cube at one point in high school, is that close enough?

If you mean straight forward, they will fully say what they think if they think it requires another person, because your not much of a magician if it's not just u

@@coldclearkt Illusions and magic sometimes requires someone else, is more of the sorts, if it's an electronic device that requires someone or something else to get the info

You have a good point.

What do you mean? 😅

@@amyk9813 well, not going to spoil anything here, but basically it's technical/electric in nature. I do not claim that I know the exact workings but it's his invention and it works so well it fools a lot of people. 😉

Frankie Foti thank you man

Interesting.

only one problem.. it does not explain him knowing the pattern.. unless said device gives the color in order for instance top left is green, top middle is red, top right is orange .. on and on..

For this you need a device with nine LEDs and sensor inside the cube that allocates the top side of the Rubik's cube, and just sends the picture of it to this device.

@@MrNeytrall how does the sensor know which side is on top?.. very interesting rubiks cube that has all this stuff inside and still twists and turns like a regular cube..knows which colors are there and knows which side is face up..

@@Wolfgame30 First. notice that he did not let them to look closer at this cube. For 'top side' you can use position sensor (magnetic - find online). They are very small and can easily fit into the rubik's cube. For colors you just need short code that remembers rotations, and transforms the initial pattern using this rotations, aaaand the function that transfers this transformations into the light signal. I would use 9 small LED lights. Don't think that is is possible to do with less lights.

Kyle Stephens thank you

I had the same theory, except instead of vibrations it could be a device similar to a braille screen reader, except scaled up so you can tell the difference with, say, your back. Anyway.

But this doesn't explain how he knew which side Allison was holding to her self. Your correct in the fact he could figure out the pattern on each side.

@@shinobistream1256 Which face is up is easily decided by a gyroscope in the cube

@@achdetoni5008 I guess you can be right. One comment mentioned his pendant and the magician liked his comment

Up, down, right, left is easily detected by sensors but sensor cannot detect colour pattern. How do you describe that?

Not to take away anything from her, but she is an actress.

Zed's Tech Tips (Mobilography) Thank you!

Thanks! And yes I do know Nathaniel

Yea and even crazier.. that Penn would think that Teller’s answer would be better than what he thought

I mean, they got fooled by a cookie and a napkin, so...

@@theunknown5921 I think there have been a few acts that were so dumb they got by. Someone just handed the random audience member a piece of paper to lie and he got passed because they couldnt figure out how they got there.

Oh yea you’re right... and like that time that teenager fooled then with the smart watch with that Michael Jackson song Beat It

They never said out loud how the trick was done. Its always a code. So there is something like an earpiece but not an earpiece do u know what i mean?

KieraBeatBox I would appreciate it!

@@rabbyyang4107 thank you for the heart and congratulstions on fooling penn and teller.

Thats exactly the case .. But why did Alyson assist him?

The simplicity of it actually makes me like it even more. You got an incredibly bright guy that moved to the US, learned English, designed a college course etc. THAT is the key to the trick. Your first thought is he is smart enough to memorize a tremendous number of patterns or he has invented some sort of signaling device and a trick cube. Beautifully done.

Totally agree.

@ He was speaking in code. It wasn't an accomplice "backstage", Allison was the accomplice. She didn't actually shuffle the cube. So he didn't fool them, he just took their speaking in code literally. It's likely why he kept saying "no earpiece" rather than the whole thing, "ability to hear and an accomplice". I doubt they would even allow backstage accomplices in this show.

@@grawss It was a fooler. If there is any doubt, the jury will clarify as they know how the trick is done. And yes, while they don't allow plants in the crowd, you can freely communicate with people from the outside.

I think that would be way too risky. Considering that he gives the impression of her rotating the slices and mixing the cube he would be lost if she actually did that when she is not supposed to.

bingo

The way the show works is that they only get 1 guess. They may know 20 different ways to perform any given trick, and one of those 20 ways may have been used to perform it, but if they guess the incorrect method used to perform it, they were "fooled".

Right? A prop can be rigged in ways that are a bit unique, and I think they thought a win because the exact mechanism wasn’t correct would seem worse than the other guess?

To emphasize, the cube is NOT changing it's arrangement from the original arrangement at the beginning of the trick.

this is the earpiece they were talking i think, so it cant be

Teodor Oprea ‘earpiece’ is too specific to mean a device in his shoe. He denied having an earpiece and an accomplice, which is entirely consistent with HeliRy’s guess.

How would you signal color and position? It would feel like Morse code. What would the code for 9 separate colors AND positions be?

@@Blackdog4818- you could use Haptic Feedback (a tiny buzzer motor), same as used in mobile phones. The code could be something like (eg): BZ BZ = #1 (top left) Yellow BZ BZ BZ = #2 (top centre) Red BZ BZ BZ BZ BZ = #3 (top right) Green BZ = #4 (middle left) White BZ = #5 (centre) White ... codes for other 4 BZZZZZZZZ = end, then repeat from the start. There are 9 positions signalled in a pre-set order, and only SIX codes to remember (the 6 colours), which is hardly a difficult task.

@@Blackdog4818 Tons of ways it could be coded really, using either one shoe or both. Wouldn't be the first guy to use a transmitter in his shoes in Vegas. Quite a few casino cheats have been busted in the past using them. He also wouldn't be the first guy to fool Pen and Teller using rigged shoes. Of course I could be way off the mark. But as stated, if it wasn't an ear piece or a confederate, it's the only way that comes to mind for me.

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