The Trick That Fooled Winston Churchill - Revealed

[Music] they say heed one of the greatest minds this planet has ever seen they say that he and he alone led the war effort to bring britain to victory in world war ii but in 1941 even he even winston churchill was fooled by this trick [Music] magician harry green sat down with churchill and openly and genuinely shuffled the deck of cards in front of him [Music] he then looked through the deck and pulled out four cards two red cards and two black cards [Music] green took one red card and one black card and placed them face up in the middle of the deck [Music] the other two cards were left on the table he told churchill that the black card left on the table would represent the black pile and the red card would represent the red pile green took the top card off the deck and asked churchill to guess which pile red or black it belonged in churchill correctly guessed it was a black card therefore belonging in the black pile green then gave churchill the entire deck and instructed him to guess which pile red or black each card belonged in without looking churchill began to deal the cards face down onto both piles if he thought the card was red he would put it in the red pile and if he thought the card was black he would put it into the black pile churchill kept dealing until he reached the two face-up cards green had put in the middle of the deck earlier green now changed the piles around moving the red pile to the left and the black part to the right he gave churchill the cards again and told him to keep guessing the colour of the cards until he reached the end of the deck [Music] despite the cards been fairly shuffled despite churchill deciding which pile each card went into all the cards in the first red pile were red [Music] all the cards in the first black pile were black all the cards in the second black pile were black and all the cards in the second red pile were red churchill asked green to show him this trick six more times but each time he was truly and utterly fooled [Music] to perform the trick that full churchill split the deck so that half of it is black and the other half is red you can begin the trick like this or perform an overhand shuffle for a more convincing mixed deck to do this hold the cards between your thumb and fingers and using the thumb of your hand peel off chunks of the cards when you get to roughly the middle of the deck start peeling cards off one at a time once you're over halfway through you can start to peel chunks off the cards again this will create the illusion that the cards are thoroughly shuffled when in reality they're still half black and half red go through the cards without showing the spectator and pull out two red cards and two black cards [Music] place one black and one red card face up in the middle of the deck and leave the other two cards separate on the table now instruct the spectator to guess which pile red or black the top card belongs in so they understand what the trick is about in this case the card was red so is placed into the red pile remember which pile this card goes in as it will become the correct pile as i'll explain later now simply hand them the deck and let them deal through the cards until they reach the middle two cards it is important to note that all the cards on the left are in the correct pile they're all red whilst all the cards on the right are wrong they are red but in the black pile something which we'll fix later just remember whichever pile the first card goes into is the correct pile next take the face up cards and invert the piles and let the spectator deal down the rest of the cards [Music] again the pile on the left is the correct pile so you can immediately reveal that all the black cards are black and all the red cards are red [Music] the pile on the right however is incorrect as the colours are the wrong way round to solve this simply collect up all with the last card and quickly turn over all the cards now it will seem as if the piles are correct and that is how you perform the highly deceptive trick that fooled winston churchill [Music] you

Channel: Oscar Owen

Views: 3,648,817

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Id: CmfgxPy_Ehk

Length: 6min 14sec (374 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 15 2017

Reddit Comments

[u/Jimmni]

This was an interesying trick but the hyperbole and over-dramatising of everything made it rather annoying to watch.

[u/robdob]

It's cool, but why should I be impressed it fooled a politician? Was Churchill known for being good at magic or something?

"Up next, the shocking coin vanish that fooled former Tennessee governor Phil Bredesen!"

[u/AmazeCPK]

This has to be one of the most pretentious videos I've seen on here. Well, I think so at least, couldn't get past the intro.

[u/benmarvin]

What if Churchill knew how the trick was done from the beginning, but he let the magician keep doing it because he could see he enjoyed it. Like when a kid shows you a magic trick and you act fooled.

[u/Crispyanity]

What a fucking weird intro, I couldn't even get past 10 seconds.

[u/ScrithWire]

Whether or not the whole Winston Churchill bit is accurate, this is a fucking great card trick.

You have to have some modicum of sleight of hand, and some social finesse, but the trick is entirely in the hands of the spectator. Which is what makes it so impressive.

Though if done more than once, it seems easy enough to figure out.

I sort of doubt that it was performed 6 times in a row and wasn't figured out, unless there's subtle changes you can make each time to throw off your scent.

[u/morerokk]

This is just clickbait in its purest form.

LOOK, A MAGICIAN FOOLED A NON-MAGICIAN WHO HAPPENED TO BE A WELL-KNOWN POLITICIAN!!!!

[u/[deleted]]

Sure are a lot of butthurt douches in this thread.
Nice trick OP.

[u/jampk24]

Churchill had one of the greatest minds this planet had ever seen? I know a lot of physicists and mathematicians who might disagree.