Penn & Teller get Fooled. "You Blew Our Minds."

we're magicians try to hoodwink our in-house Houdini's let's meet our next trickster my dad inspired me to have a career in magic he did these homemade movies he would call them crazy shots and they all had a magical quality to them they're kind of practical jokes and sometimes I was the butt of the joke I do the cups and balls routine that involves the element of sound the steel balls came about because I found a steel ball bearing in my dad's toolbox no magicians were impressed by the fact that I was fooling them with sight and with sound at the same time magicians they're not often formed because they know the secrets and what you do is you sort of try to use that information against them bowling other magicians was a wave carrying on my father's life Thank You Allison would you mind joining me at the table I have a trick that you've never seen before and I want you to see it up close I would love to thank you now pan and tell her it's a pleasure to be here and I brought something special to show you it might even look a little familiar because I brought a deck of mark cards you see Ellison pennants how I know an awful lot about marked cards and they would tell you that of course most magicians mark the cards on the back however I marked them a little differently I marked them on the edge yeah see you can see on the edge of the deck it's like a little pattern like a barcode pattern there's information there you just don't know how to read it and I'm gonna teach you right now oh thank you now I actually marked each card with this permanent marker and that's important because each card has a unique code on it but it's permanent and I can't alter it or change it in any manner now if you take a look at the cards now listen I want you to confirm for everybody that all the cards are mixed up in other words they're not all the red cards here in black card sir it's a shuffled pack of cards right yes and I'm going to begin by actually having you select a card so as now this works with any card in the deck so I want you to choose one at random so just say stop as I riffle the pack stop okay look at the card remember the name of the card okay and we'll let Penn & Teller's see it I'm going to place it in the pack and normally at this point in a card trick the magician squares up the deck and shuffles the card right guys yeah that's magic 101 but I'm not going to do that I'm going to give these cards what we call an unruffled now it's the opposite of a shuffle in fact if you take a close look right here I'm going to show you that you can see it looks like a shuffle it sounds like a shuffle but it's actually an uncial and if you watch the marks on the edge of the deck you'll see it's starting to read unfelt four times the side of the pack see because I'm actually unshelled these cards into four different groups parts clubs spades and diamonds the four suits in the death yeah but if I give the cards another uncouple just like this and you can see when I give the cards a nun shuffle it looks like a shuffle it sounds like a shuffle but it's not that's an unruffled and in fact take a look it's now starting to read unruffled two times on the side a because I've now separated all the high cards from all the low cards yeah but it gets even more interesting if I give the cards one more uncial and if I do it I want you to stare at the edge of the deck and see if you can tell the moment that these cards become but Alison if it says unruffled I have to prove it remember in the beginning I showed you they were all mixed up on the take a look at them now because from the ace through the King of Hearts of clubs of diamonds of spades it's a completely unfold deck thank you away we there's one minor detail in the beginning you selected a card yeah and it's somewhere here in this uncoupled deck now I could look for your card face-up but they're all in sequence perfect order that wouldn't be too difficult to find and besides it probably wouldn't fool pennants held her but if I found your card facedown it would be a little more impressive for the first time tell me and everyone knows what was the name of your card the King of Spades if I give the cards one more uncial and if I rearrange almost every card in the pack except for the top and bottom cards I think I can hit it and I did thank you and tell her yes I think it's pretty clear at this point I can find any card in this deck I want to find and I can also put these cards in almost any order I want them look if I give them one more on shuffle take a look at now the cards have been separated all the red cards and all the black so there's really only one final question answered and that is bid I fooled pen and tell thank you okay that is a trick that you know Penn has asked you blue red your turkey cars Penn bought my book a number of years ago to learn that trick in fact I saved his email I still have his email so you did a trick that you know Penn knows ah yes that's true but there was a little twist at the end that I that I think might have made them smile okay and now how do you come up with like the little change are you just like driving down the street you're like ah wait a second I got it that's about ten days of thinking and about another week of preparation and then another week showing it to the top sleight-of-hand artist in the world okay on video to say is this gonna this is gonna work and keep my fingers crossed here I don't know all right that was a wonderful performance let's see what Penn & Teller think okay gentlemen with the notebook I want to say first before we get to the hard part I am a huge fan of Paul Garner's huge fan you are deliberating but he saved your email that you wrote him years ago I did buy the book from him and worked forever and I'm not gonna even give one word of how that's done because he knows that I read the book he knows I worked on it I think he also knows I failed I never got good enough at it to perform it oh but I'm not dead yet okay I'm gonna keep working so it's only the ending we're talking about when the Penn & Teller comes into view at the end it kind of blew our minds and we think it's the same deck of cards he started with I'll also go out with that we don't think he did anything big and gross on that even though he's gonna table the size of an apartment yeah it could happen we don't think he did anything there so we then have two choices for what he did and I'm gonna ask this in two different ways um one is could we look at the cards can you you mean look at the cards that you used yeah yeah I mean it that will tell you something but not a hole not a hole not all than I'm sure cuz we think I'll tell you before this Miller space uh well it says says Penna teller inspecting the props pretty clearly and if we do that and we do that hello look we did nothing and we do this yeah yeah we actually it does we did learn something from this deck I don't know if you can see the angle on this pole but if you look I don't want to screw up your whole debt but if I do a shuffle like this I watch just watch the edge I think you'll see it coming to focus it says Paul ghertner you fooled us can lightning strike tonight come back and find out you

Channel: Paul Gertner

Views: 757,329

Rating: 4.9323325 out of 5

Keywords: Magic, Penn & Teller, Penn and Teller, Fool Us, Fooler, Fooled Penn & Teller, magician, paul gertner, Unshuffled, Shuffling Trick, sleight-of-hand, Gertner, Corporate Magician, trade show magician, Fools Penn & Teller, Fools Penn and Teller, Penn & Teller get fooled, who fooled Penn & Teller

Id: _fpUi89LIR4

Length: 9min 50sec (590 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 17 2016

Reddit Comments

[u/DaLateDentArthurDent]

Jonathan's not hosting the show anymore?

[u/Is_Meta]

The King of Spades was forced- if you look at where she says stop, there is no black card. He even mashes both stacks together again to hide the fact that he didn't want the diamond card (which would be the card where "stop" was called) to be used.

I don't know how he did the writing and in my opinion, the trick would have been cooler without the King of Spades- part.

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This trick features the perfect shuffle, or Faro shuffle. Simply put, a perfect shuffle interleaves the two halves of the deck perfectly, equivalent to taking the two halves of the deck and re-stacking them by one card from each half at a time. If you do 8 perfect shuffles in a row, you get back to the original state of the deck. Therefore there are 8 different permutations of the deck, each of which will display a different image on the side of his deck. You can see when Penn is inspecting the deck that there's writing on both sides of the deck. One side of the deck say's "UNSHUFFLED". Because of the block letters that he uses, interleaving the cards creates the effect of multiple repeats of the words without anything actually changing on the cards. My guess is that the other side of the deck is used for both "KING OF SPADES" and "PENN & TELLER". The spacing of those two phrases is the same. It's just a matter of knowing what permutation of the cards he uses to rearrange the dots to go from one phrase to the other. After he reveals "King of Spades" he does another perfect shuffle, then splays out the cards and rolls them over. Perhaps that's all it takes, but he might also put in a hidden cut or something.