MonsterBaby Steve Wilson Exact same thing here! I was younger but I remember clearly how I ended up on the moon and was in complete disbelief when he found me!
He removes the three starting circles which means whatever number you choose you will always retrace your way to the top star and then move three extra times to land on the city. Once you're there you will always end up on the moon four steps from there in whatever direction. So people who say that they ended up somewhere else counted wrong.
I remember having to climb on the cabinet to reach our tv for this trick as a kid. That permanent limp I have from falling always adds salt to the fact he keeps getting it right
Wow this brings back memories. This was from a tv special probably from 1993. I had it recorded on VHS and watched it all of the time. I'll never forget watching him "fly" for the first time.
Haha so funny. Love Copperfield. I remember analyzing this for a half hour as a kid. Anytime you start three positions outside the puzzle and then go backwards the same number you started from, you will always be three positions past the entry point. On the second turn everyone was in the city.
@@badcornflakes6374 I was 8 and I would put “our” intelligence up against the 2000s generation every day of the week and twice on Tuesday. Go eat a tide pod.
So great to scroll through the comments and feel all the Nostalgia from people. Everybody knows it's just math and simple counting "trick" but everybody is / was happy. Man. The 90s were utopia and we didn't knew.
family reunited 30 years ago to watch this special, I remember my cousin touching the screen,. "You're on the moon" it's probably the coolest TV moment I've ever witness in my life.
The trick is amazing built. If you count 5 to 15, you step 3 to the first real symbol ("Star"), and 2 to 12. Because he took the "X" and the 2 arrow, if you step reverse 5 to 15, you will exactly 3 step from the first real symbol ("Star"), right on the "City". Because he left only 8 symbols, if you step 4, you can only be on Moon, which is 4 steps from the city both direction. This is only math, but the performance is great!
I remember this punk kid, Michael St. Pierre. who was in my middle school classroom (I think maybe 4th or 5th grade) he was such a bully. Anyway, he taped the trick off his TV at home & brought into class to show us. I remember him saying, "I'm not sure this will work off the videotape like it did on TV....... " 🙄
You will always end up on the City before he removes the tokens, after that its the moon for you. Pick any number 5-15, count it out on the wheel, reverse direction and count the same number. NEVER count your start point as 1. That is where a large number of people fail to have this work, this trick relies on math and if you can't count right it won't work.
Frank faustick public schools friend he did it wrong also ps it's based on card trick shape like a Q and max Marvin Phil Goldstein math number tricks and Martin Gardner
he removed the 3 starting points and asks to move backwards... so we'd always end up at the same spot. from there its just 4 spaces to the moon no matter clockwise or anticlockwise. the real magic is his charisma and technique in distracting the audience from seeing the obvious logic all the while. thats the illusion and he's a master at this no doubt
Born in 2002 but I vaguely remember the 80s/ 90s life (vhs tapes, box tv, 360p). I remember my old man showing this to me, my older brother, and two little sisters. Life was kind of good back then I guess.
he just simply told you to do a simple math function ([(x-2)mod(12)]*4)mod(8)]mod(3)=2 understand that (a)mod(b)=K [ K=b.n+a ] example (21)mod(5)=1 because 21=5.4+1 (15)mod(5)=0 ....... 15=5.3+0 everytime you do a circle,it's a MOD we have 1 is star, 2 is the moon,3 is Statue of Liberty...(after he remove some image 2 times at 3:06 ,and he want you stay in 2,the moon) set S=([(x-2)mod(12)]*4)mod(8)]mod(3) if x-2 is prime number,and [12
Is this a joke? I don't understand anything you said but even if it works, it's the long way to get there. You essentially started counting from the city but he misdirected you with the arrows. So when you count the same number backwards you will always end on the city. Then he takes some locations away and leaves 3 on either side of the city. So if you move 4 in either direction then you land on the moon. Simple. No 'Mod'
yes, the third time he asked you specifically to move 4 times, no more random number times in your head anymore lmao, in today's world this is silly but man back then it was the real deal.
You're told to pick a number between 5 and 15. But the trick still works if you choose 3. Regardless of what number you choose, when you count backward, you land on the city.
I remember this on the tv the first time it aired and played along with my parents watching me... i dont think i followed the instructions right as he didnt get my choice right lol
Wow it was fantastic. I was on the toilet when I’m doing this by the time arrow point at the moon the pooh feel down y not try on the toilet as well fellas... it’s amazing.
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The real magic is that hair
The Dork Knight its magical indeed
😂
When he said think of a number...i thought of 9.....Ofcourse......fucker saw my brain
😂😂
😅
I remember doing this in 1992 as the show aired. Simply awesome.
Must have been so dope!
@@allaheatsflipflops1286 indeed!
I still got the moon since 1994!
Ha! Old person 😏
I remember doing this too as a kid when it first aired live. My whole entire family gasped in astonishment. Good ol days.
After 30 years i touched the screen again and still amazes me
This is not David the Magician, this is David the Mathematician. 🙂
I remember when i was about 10 or 11 i did this trick at home and lost my damn mind!!!!, lol
MonsterBaby Steve Wilson Exact same thing here! I was younger but I remember clearly how I ended up on the moon and was in complete disbelief when he found me!
Dude it's fake I was on the city part
I am ten and I'm freezing out!!!!
I was freaked out too. Never forgot it.
OMG the same here! :O I love him. :D
if he didn't "find" you, that means you can't count or follow simple directions.
Except for putting your finger on the screen, because, come on.
jesetomson
Aaahhh DON’T THINK SO!!!
He is a demon! That’s all!
It was wrong followed the directions lol
Fuck you
lmao
I understand how this works now. But the first time I did this, I was twelve, and it blew my mind.
For real, wasn't that fun? 😃
damn, I´ve been doing this since the 90's, he always gets it!!
MayIUseYourBathroom you’re dumb since the 90’s
@@pointlessminutes3212 cmon have some fun in life
its a trick lol
''no matter where you are, I will find you''
He removes the three starting circles which means whatever number you choose you will always retrace your way to the top star and then move three extra times to land on the city. Once you're there you will always end up on the moon four steps from there in whatever direction. So people who say that they ended up somewhere else counted wrong.
Tell us more, captain.
@@theunknowndarkpassenger5632 lol
Tbf, I didn't know how it worked.
Though, saying that, I am a fucking idiot.
Regardless, thanks for the info.
Hi, David!!!!
I'm on the Statue of Liberty and I've counted correctly
Man I gotta say that James Earl Jones has such a soothing and comfortable voice :)
The vocal force is strong with him for sure.
He was awesome in, Field of Dreams.
I remember doing this live in 1992 and it dont hit different in 2024!!! David did that!!!💐💐💐💐
That's no moon. It's a space station.
I remember having to climb on the cabinet to reach our tv for this trick as a kid. That permanent limp I have from falling always adds salt to the fact he keeps getting it right
Wow this brings back memories. This was from a tv special probably from 1993. I had it recorded on VHS and watched it all of the time. I'll never forget watching him "fly" for the first time.
Holy shit, even after so many years and through TH-cam, he guessed right. Real magic...
Who remembers this as a kid in the 90s on Fox? Man what a time to be alive.
Of course its a simple trick. But when I saw this at a kid at home, it was mind blowing stuff°!
This boggled my mind for years back in the day. Of course now you know it's just a math trick but back then, it was an insanely impressive one.
That is still impressive; many people don’t think of Math as magical, yet here is a case where math lead to magic
Wait but it doesn't work?
Haha so funny. Love Copperfield. I remember analyzing this for a half hour as a kid. Anytime you start three positions outside the puzzle and then go backwards the same number you started from, you will always be three positions past the entry point. On the second turn everyone was in the city.
Nice
I analyzed this for 29 minutes, huh.. guess you aren't as smart as us 2000s kids. Still didn't get it though
@@badcornflakes6374 I was 8 and I would put “our” intelligence up against the 2000s generation every day of the week and twice on Tuesday.
Go eat a tide pod.
his voice is just hipnotisable and like computerised,very soothing to listen
Haha.. I remember watching this in my moms room by myself when I was knee high to a grass hopper. It freaked me out! 😂🤣
Bruh fr 😭😭 just watched it rn and I’m like am I to high or did he jus do some real ass magic
This is amazing!! No matter what number I choose, he always gets it right!!
So great to scroll through the comments and feel all the Nostalgia from people. Everybody knows it's just math and simple counting "trick" but everybody is / was happy. Man. The 90s were utopia and we didn't knew.
I found it. I finally found it. I remember doing this at home the night of. I was amazed! Yer a wizard, David! LOL!
family reunited 30 years ago to watch this special, I remember my cousin touching the screen,. "You're on the moon" it's probably the coolest TV moment I've ever witness in my life.
ahahahahaha the illusion of free choice! i love it! he's not an illusionist!.. he's a math wizard!
The very first time this went live on T.V. All the numbers were right! Amazing David Copperfield!
The trick is amazing built. If you count 5 to 15, you step 3 to the first real symbol ("Star"), and 2 to 12. Because he took the "X" and the 2 arrow, if you step reverse 5 to 15, you will exactly 3 step from the first real symbol ("Star"), right on the "City". Because he left only 8 symbols, if you step 4, you can only be on Moon, which is 4 steps from the city both direction. This is only math, but the performance is great!
Fantastic!
I was 8 when this aired. Brings back great memories.
aaah these Tv Specials and others like it through the 80s and 90s were just that MAGICAL. good old days of Tv. Now its nothing but crap n trash.
I remember seeing this as a kid and it really blew me away, Awesome!!
Watched this on tv as a kid and my mind was BLOWN
I remember this punk kid,
Michael St. Pierre. who was in my middle school classroom (I think maybe 4th or 5th grade) he was such a bully.
Anyway, he taped the trick off his TV at home & brought into class to show us. I remember him saying, "I'm not sure this will work off the videotape like it did on TV....... " 🙄
he was a bully? i hope he got kicked in the nuts, repeatedly
If I watched this as a kid, I'd have believed real magic exists.
man the real magic exists, believe
I remember voting "Yes or No" by tv touch screen on Nickelodeon. I was such a fool,....still fall for today.
When he says you can go in either direction 4 times, you end up in the exact same place
We all know. Lmao. It was still amazing seaing it first time.
i remember doing this at home too!!!! i was sooo excited!!!!
I did this originally and thought it was awesome. I did this when it first aired. This is still impressive.
You will always end up on the City before he removes the tokens, after that its the moon for you. Pick any number 5-15, count it out on the wheel, reverse direction and count the same number. NEVER count your start point as 1. That is where a large number of people fail to have this work, this trick relies on math and if you can't count right it won't work.
Maybe that's the reason he never found me or my sister when we watched this trick on TV.
Do people feel smarter stating obvious facts? Lol
It didn’t work
Frank faustick public schools friend he did it wrong also ps it's based on card trick shape like a Q and max Marvin Phil Goldstein math number tricks and Martin Gardner
he removed the 3 starting points and asks to move backwards... so we'd always end up at the same spot. from there its just 4 spaces to the moon no matter clockwise or anticlockwise. the real magic is his charisma and technique in distracting the audience from seeing the obvious logic all the while. thats the illusion and he's a master at this no doubt
He will find me because he had a very special set of skills.
Math can be fun.
Wow he really is magic! I was on the moon from the tower! Amazing magic! David Copperfield is the greatest magician of all times!
After almost 20 years later. This is still amazed me 😱😱
This trick simultaneously creeped me out and blew my mind. Something about the ethereal music and background mixed with the game pieces was weird.
Damn thats still good... I saw him live when he was in his prime.. it was INSANE....
Ted Cantu He's still in his prime. :P
Ah yes.. But of course !!! ;-)
Great!!!Ur amazing
Born in 2002 but I vaguely remember the 80s/ 90s life (vhs tapes, box tv, 360p). I remember my old man showing this to me, my older brother, and two little sisters. Life was kind of good back then I guess.
Awesomeness
Okay, mr. Darth Vader.
Eryk Pawlik yep James earl jones is the voice of darth Vader and person plays death Vader is David prouse
Eryk Pawlik bell enlantic yellow pages and movies he in is fields of dreams and meteor man and batteries not included
"You are on the moon!" once was being my earworm for years because he was correct. 🤣🤣
i didn't move close to my screen or touch it at all. I even had to pause it for a minute when i came back this fool still found me
this freaked me out as a kid. i asked my friend with me if the show was live lol.
He got me!😭
haha, nostalgic memories!
After 31 years I touched my screen and I paused the video by mistake 🤣🤣🤣
really cool 😎
That's so cool
he just simply told you to do a simple math function
([(x-2)mod(12)]*4)mod(8)]mod(3)=2
understand that
(a)mod(b)=K
[ K=b.n+a ]
example
(21)mod(5)=1 because 21=5.4+1
(15)mod(5)=0 ....... 15=5.3+0
everytime you do a circle,it's a MOD
we have 1 is star, 2 is the moon,3 is Statue of Liberty...(after he remove some image 2 times at 3:06 ,and he want you stay in 2,the moon)
set S=([(x-2)mod(12)]*4)mod(8)]mod(3)
if x-2 is prime number,and [12
Big Bang lmao nah I’m on the m o o n
Math is magic
Is this a joke? I don't understand anything you said but even if it works, it's the long way to get there.
You essentially started counting from the city but he misdirected you with the arrows. So when you count the same number backwards you will always end on the city. Then he takes some locations away and leaves 3 on either side of the city. So if you move 4 in either direction then you land on the moon. Simple. No 'Mod'
“Simple math”, you said?
well it's the function i found to show u guys with ANY number from 2 to 15, the last point is always on the moon. its not magic at all
It'll always be the moon no matter what you choose.
What a vanity look at him today all this beauty gone to ashes
I've done this 100 times and he still always finds me!!
You really don't get it
cool i like the title saying tv or computer screen
I was in the city!!
It's mathematical. Everyone ends up at the city the second time around. The third time no matter which direction you go you'll land on the moon.
I did not land in the city, but I did end up in the moon. In the end, the illusion of free choice.
yes, the third time he asked you specifically to move 4 times, no more random number times in your head anymore lmao, in today's world this is silly but man back then it was the real deal.
you will always land on the tree I'm guessing my connection is slow but I can't believe this astonished me as a kid
Thank you dear David!
You still are my hirror
AH SWEDEN
The only magic here is that mullet.
Omg it's true how does he know! And he does it to Ms.Green well
Dope
Force!
yup he got me nice
The Warlock, David Copperfield found me again! Even all these years later! There’s no hiding from him, even on the moon! 😎
I've actually tried every number from 5 through 15 & he gets it Everytime
You're told to pick a number between 5 and 15. But the trick still works if you choose 3. Regardless of what number you choose, when you count backward, you land on the city.
magic!
And he does know where she is!
I don’t even really care how’s it’s done 😂😂….. that was fun
i saw him in at the MGM, the night the guy shot out of the mandalay bay. he locked us in for security
Wow he gets ne every single time
I miss watching this as a kid, even though knowing that this is a trick you can't win lol. you'll end up on the moon no matter what
I remember this on the tv the first time it aired and played along with my parents watching me... i dont think i followed the instructions right as he didnt get my choice right lol
Wow it was fantastic. I was on the toilet when I’m doing this by the time arrow point at the moon the pooh feel down y not try on the toilet as well fellas... it’s amazing.
What’s cool is that, when you think about it, the key to the magic here is MATH
It's all about patterns. Whatever number you choose within his range, you'll end up at the same spot.
From Flaying Live The Dream...
Not going to lie he got it correct
He didn't find me I was on the clouds.
It's moon everytime
David Copperfield is of my favorite FAVORITE magicians
IT WORKED !
cool
Cool
What a freakin showman!
I remember this from my childhood. Mystery of the Orient Express I believe
lady Liberty
when I did this with him, that ending scared me and gave me a nightmare LOL
lol He FOUND ME!!!! LOL