Here I am watching random fool us videos on RU-vid when I see someone I recognize from high school. I still remember your act from our talent show, and my how you’ve moved up. Congratulations! You’re going places.
The amount of love this guy is getting in the comments by former classmates in high school is BEAUTIFUL. People can actually be happy for someone else's success. That makes the world a better place. I wish I could've had a magician classmate like you, Yang! Keep it up!
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.
Usually the comment section is full of people guessing how the trick would have been done but this time couldn't find even a single comment from anyone who could have revealed or even guessed your trick. Just superb.
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.
Important note for people who watch this show a lot and don't know the rules: They are not obligated to be respectful with revealing secrets. They often do, and if your trick is done using the most obvious method they will generally just say the method, things like "deck swap" and "palming" get said all the time. Second, you ARE allowed extra help, that can come in the form of anything except camera tricks. You ARE NOT, allowed to lie about audience members being randomly selected.
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.
The earpiece is old school, RC signal and receiving the information through vibration is the BEST WAY to go. I believe the cube has an internal remote signal inside and depending on the side is turned, it sends code vibrations to the magician that tell just few codes
There’s no way that Teller thought he had an earpiece. If they really thought that might be how he did the trick, Penn would’ve spoke in code. They’d never give away someone’s secret in such a blatant way.
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"
@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.
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.
Under his suit is a device that gives an electric shock to different body parts depending on what moves were made, using a signal sent via technology in the centre of the cube as there should be enough space. He played through the moves in his head to know the colours and their orientations (which is amazing visualisation). When it came to Alison fliping the cube to any side, the same mathod can be used using a gryoscope. That's my guess.
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.
I don't usually comment but since I don't see many comments saying how it was done: the magician just does a few simple turns at the beginning. It's not random. He only has to memorize 6 faces. Then when Alyson turns the cube, an accelerometer in the center detects which side is up and sends a signal over bluetooth to a device in his pocket (a thumper) that vibrates and tells him which side is up.
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.
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
The amount of balls it takes to go to another country without even knowing the language and by the age if 21, accomplish more than most of us will by the time we're 40. Great act, probably a great individual.
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.
@@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.
i like to believe that penn was right with his idea and teller intervened and said; "this kid is good, let him have it" and then the ACTUAL fooling of the evening took place in them saying they dont know it but they do
I'd say you were going places but you've already come so far and done so much. All there is, is up, and up, and up. Look to the sky, man! You've got the world ahead of ya!
Just a wild guess from a non magician: I think it was some kind of smartcube with a bluetooth connection. The question now is how did he receive the information? One way could be with a vibrating device that converts the color scheme of the cube into a vibration pattern that he can feel somewhere on his body. For example: red - short vibartion, green - long vibration, blue - two short vibrations etc.
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.
@@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.
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.
While briefing the act, he shuffled the cube as he wanted and then deliveried it to Alisson. I think it was the most important part of the act, but I’m not sure what happened after this
Clever item, good sir. I was really really stumped at first - then I came to the conclusion that there are very very few ways to do this. Kudos on the invention!
@@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. 😉
Amazing routine, really impressive. My guess is that the cube contains an accelerometer (it's pretty common in many devices). When You flip one of the faces, the device sends through RFID or Bluetooth signals a sequence to a receiver that you wear under your clothes, which vibrates somehow. Decoding the vibrations is just a matter of training.
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.
If you pause the video at 3:45 and play it just a fraction, you can clearly see the face of the cube (2 adjacent whites, red and the other rows), which is the exact face revealed on the board at the end. This shows that Alyson did not rearrange the cube. Therefore, she was the "not backstage" accomplice. Edit: I didn't notice this earlier, but it's the same case even the first time. Pause at 1:58 and note the shown cube face. It's the same face Alyson "lands on" at 2:28. The whole trick was literally doing absolutely nothing and only memorizing a couple of cube faces!
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.
In my first year of high school my dad got a job in a different state and we had to move. During my second year of high school, the job my dad got didn't cover the bills for the private school, so I switched to a public school halfway through the year. My parents were divorced, so the third year I went to stay with my mom back in my home state, but in a different city and school than my original high school. As crazy as it may sound, my mom moved us TWICE during my final year of high school. I totalled 6 high schools for those 4 years, and I had a class with Rabby Yang in each of them. I remember when we were in high school together you fooled me with that pencil trick. Glad to see you moving up! You've got so much talent :)
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
Congrats Rabby Yang! I am also a magician here in the Philippines and one of my favorite magic is rubiks cube magic! I also made a reaction video of you! Good job! ☺️😎🎩
I don’t think it really matters if Penn may have gotten a correct guess because there’s most likely some flaws in his guess that Teller can disagree and not be convinced. So chances are Penn’s guess is an imperfect answer (might’ve missed the critical point to answer this trick). Still doesn’t take away the fact that this trick is really well done 👍🏼
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?
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"
My guess: Each cube has a sensor built into it and a transmitter with a weighted pressure switch. When a cube is face up, it transmutes it’s colour and location in the grid. The receiver is likely built into his shoes, and taps the signal to his foot.
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.
@@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.
HELP ME reveal! (In every Penn & Teller video we do that so lets go!) 1:53 look at cube. It is exactly like in 3:01. He asked Alison to mix behind her back, because she could notice that it is not actually moving but how? Also the thing is that he did not asked her to mix a cube but "turn it around" ( 2:04 ) while showing her how to do that (she is looking behind his back, maybe she did not mixed it at all)
My guess is that this cube is high tech, with lights changing on the panels by themselves. So he always knows how all sides look. Notice he only lets her show one side, because revealing the others would show that they are all the same. In the final trick she could either choose to keep the side on top, or to change it to one adjacent side, so there were only 2 possibilities of combinations: top or any of the other sides which are the same.
3:19 proves he has someone watching with a camera telling him through an earpiece because they thought it was 2 orange because they're hard to distinguish and he quickly corrected the mistake. A mistake that can only be made by looking at the cube from a distance and mixing up the red for an orange.
@ 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.
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@@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 it's a sensory cube, depending what colors are up right will trigger a form of Morse code feedback to him maybe in his pocket and he can translate color and position.
Seems like the margin of error for that would be very high, especially in the last bit where he's guessing the exact layout. I don't have the answer, but I'd have to guess it is more complicated than that.
@@strongside4565 There would only need to be 54 sensors corresponding to the colored surfaces of the sectors, and then one additional sensor to sense the orientation of the cube - only 9 sensors would need to be in action for any given combination (or 10 if you were not particularly clever about how orientation of the whole cube was sensed). If you were particularly clever you wouldn't even need the 54, you could get by with 38 (corner cubes wouldn't need a sensor for each of the three colors displayed, only one).
It makes a sound only when you turn. He memorized the initial configuration and can make it mentally the rest of it. 8 different sounds/signals suffice.
This is a mentalism trick. If you notice he shows Allison how he wants her to "turn" it behind his back first. He is just flipping it around not rearranging it. It's an amazing trick bc we think allison is actually rearranging the cube but she's just turning it and flipping sides. A simple device in the cube can tell him which side is facing up (he will have 6 separate sensors on his body which one will vibrate depending what's facing up). Or can have delivered to his pendant. So essentially, he needs to remember orientation of 6 sides only. That's all the easy part of the trick. The real meat and potatoes of the trick is that she is NOT rearranging it behind her back as he showed her exactly how he wants her to turn it (which he did behind his back and the audience and Penn and Teller couldn't see). Simple and effective.
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.
I remember when the Rubik's Cube first came out (in the 1970s). Damn thing frustrated me so much I figured out how to take it apart and put back together correctly. Ingenious design when you see it disassembled. But that was 1975...miniature circuitry capability today? I dunno...but I WILL say that if Rabby Yang was clever enough to have "tricked out" that cube somehow? It still does NOT take away from his performance. MANY illutionists/magicians might incorporate electronics into their mega-stage illusions. AGAIN, that's part of the craft. And I think that Teller had a soft spot for Rabby after hearing his story. Penn & Teller will be excellent mentors.....
Nowadays there is a cube called "smart cube". Which you can pair with your phone using bluetooth and it can show the current state of you cube in you phone. Speedcubers use it to track their moves and make improvement. But I am not sure if he used any of those smart cubes or made one of his own or used a completely different technique to perform this magic.
I just noticed that Penn almost always starts with "Boy!" and then a compliment of sorts. But only when they are pretty sure they have the solution. But when they are unsure or have no idea Penn uses different lines. I instantly knew you had them. My guess: I bet you know how the actual self solving cube works? Not sure how you receive that info but the cube actually sends it to you.
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.
Yo I live in Berkeley...absolutely incredible you're from the city of the Great Bear...so honored to be a fellow Berkeleian. Congratulations on your achievement and I hope I get to see you perform soon! Also, P.S. Do you know fellow Berkeley magician Nathaniel Segal?
Within the cube is a transmitter that sends short vibrations into a device worn by Yang. An X number of vibrations represents a particular color, beginning from top left ending at bottom right. Yang counts the number of vibrations, and attends to their order.
If I had to guess, the cube has a gyroscope sensor which sends signals to vibrators sticking on his body. Each vibrator represents a color and a position. He probably has a button hidden somewhere (maybe in the shoes) that he can press when Allison is pointing the cube to the top.
@@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.
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
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
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.
My guess is trick cube + vibrations indicating the cube's position is the method used for all of the performances. I also believe all of the reveals performed were done in groups of the square's color instead of revealing each individual color in a sequence like reading order (top row to bottom row, left square to right square) because it's the more convenient way to do the reveals since the vibrations were happening simultaneously instead of a morse code like sequence. I also believe this method can't reveal the proper orientation of the top layer given Allison's perspective (you wouldn't be able to predict what color the top left square is if you asked Allison).
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.
EmRaLdSwRd I found a video of one in action. It's a cube that sends the orientation and positions of the cube. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QkfIPcIFGm0.html
@@10--50 yeah, probably has a display showing him the cube info in his jacket. you can see him glancing down into it when he's telling everyone what colors are on the cube.
He seems to give Allison the cube though. He could be betting she'd never open it up or anything, but I think Penn and Teller could have asked to see the cube. Still possible this is the solution, it was what came to my mind, but the fact he gave the cube away seems to imply the cube isn't gimmicked.
Penn actually gave away the secret, Yang had to know in some way. The cube has some sort of transmitter inside and he can received the message in some way. I guess it can only tell the upside of the cube. Yang answer Penn's question with hesitation. also, Yang knew the combination before he even ask Alice to thank about the color.
@@Zava183 An accelerometer inside the cube that tracks which way is up. I wouldn't be surprised if you can buy smart cubes with that, but you can definitely have it built. It isn't difficult on a technical level.
Now I only saw the routine one time and I believe that this could be done with a gyroscope inside the cube which sends a signal to the magician as to which side of the cube is pointed upwards. P.s. a gyroscope is a sensor inside cellular phones which flip the screen right side up when held at a different angle.
If someone is relaying the information to Rabby Yang secretly, well there is no “magic” in that. No wow factor. If it’s all done by himself, and there is no electronics or assistant, then WOW!!! 👏👏👏
He pretended to tell her to scramble the cube at the back. But all she was doing was changing the "face" position of the cube. From that point on though, I'm not too sure how he guessed each face correctly. You'll notice how he gives you the impression of asking Alisson to "scramble" the cube behind her back, but she's really only turning the faces at 2minutes in. To give more clarity. When he first "explains" how the cube has many possible combinations, he's already pre-setting the faces (you'll notice this if you keep staring at the patterns on the cube)
@@elohellol8481 - what the fuck are you talking about? Nobody would post a comment telling everyone what they were thinking _before_ they had even watched the video.
@@johncoops6897 No @el oh el lol was right, I had already watched the video and afterwords left my comment. Solving the rubix cube has nothing to do with his trick and more to do with his props, I just thought it would be an interesting thing to do. Theoretically if he could see or at least know what the cube's faces were and knew how to solve a rubix cube without looking (Which is apparently less hard than it sounds), then all it would take are some directions and he could get Alison to solve it. Although admittedly thats more of a skill and less of a trick so I think Penn would call it half juggling. I think it'd look really cool. Only issue I could think of are the time it could take being too long and making it boring, and maybe Alison or whoever he has up there not understanding or following the directions totally, because its hard to orient something you're holding behind your back.
