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@King, Penn explains how he believes the magician pulled off their trick in code so that only the magician on stage will understand. The song from the broadway show probably being relevant because the song name is the code to how he pulled the card tricks off. This is so he doesn’t explicitly out the magician’s trick to “average” international viewers/the audience, so that he can continue to use this trick without people knowing how it is done. Only those “in the know” will understand Penn. All the audience needs to know is whether or not the magician fooled Penn and Teller, which Penn will explicitly state to the magician and audience.
@@madhumenon man, idek what ironically means anymore with how it's been butchered on the internet. Can someone confirm whether or not this is irony, it seems off.
@@itsnottimetostop4462 You could stretch it to irony as a song called Memory was misremembered, but no one would pitch a fit if you said it wasn’t irony. An edge case.
I wouldn’t have expected Daniel to fool Penn and Teller with this trick - it’s 100% their area of expertise. But they rightly praised his performance and his skill with the cards, and that’s high praise indeed.
This show brings positive emotions independently if one won the prize or not. They are all good positive guys! Particularly I like how Penn&Teller handle magicians with respect and do not shout out secrets of the tricks.
I thought your performance was spot on and entertaining. The progression was compelling and it was a very entertaining path. Good on you, I'm glad I got to see this.
Gorgeous slight of hand. I'm not surprised that you didn't fool Penn and Teller. They've been around long enough to know all the card deck techniques and as they said, it was all pure skill rather than any gimmick, but a great showcase noneless.
I think I've looked at every one of your performances I could find on the net 2-3 times. The way you work with cards is fascinating, It's been a year since I've practiced the art of sleight of hand so I've looked at a lot of magicians. which you perform is unparalleled. p.s.what does one big fan of yours have to do to get one signed card ?? / I would be honored to keep it as a souvenir by the fireplace
I've loved magic since I have memories. That makes it around 40 years of my life. I've watched a few of your videos and your performances are amazing. Well done.
After seeing his video on stacking the deck and 3 card Monte, I still had to check the comments after the "memories" clue. Impeccable card control, and had me truly baffled!
good job dude! What a nice day to perform for those legends. I got to meet them after a show in Vegas and they made sure they met EVERYONE that was at the show and they were as kind as could be! Keep going brother!
imagine wanting something from your parents tho? "Ask your mom" "No your other mom" "okay you know what ask dad." "No the other dad" and in the end all 4 say no :(
You are very charismatic and congenial! I loved the performance and the intrigue behind it! I'm not big into magic, but I occasionally stumble across vids recommended by TH-cam, and it's always a pleasure to see a great personality entertain with skill and grace, as well as kindness.
OMG one of my favourite magicians and arguably the greatest modern day, I know this will be up there with the best even before watching. YOU FOOLED ME ALREADY! Keep it up Daniel and keep the content flowing on your channel. You deserve greatness. Thanks.
i mean honestly. it is super hard to make them say you fooled them when they can just say. "you did trick shuffles for the whole time and knew every card apart from the last one, which you just flavored the spades cards differently and knew which taste is which card" or something like that. but still super impressive skills. like actually mindblowing.
Every time I have seen them being incredibly vague about the majority of the act, it is because they know that the performer knows that they know all of the most common techniques, and fully explaining them all would take too long and be pretty much impossible to clearly do through code. Most of the acts on the show only have one or two trickier bits that might be able to fool them, and they only need to indicate that they saw through those bits for the performer to know that they didn't fool them. Some of the acts don't even have a single thing that stands a chance of fooling them and they just want to showcase an entertaining magician.
I found the comment about "turning attention inward" the most interesting. I'm planning to check out more videos to see if there's more neuroscience incorporated.
The point is to fool Penn and Teller. You either do or you don’t. Most card tricks they know how they’re done. Jibrizi used unique props they didn’t know how they worked.
@Olli Koskiniemi Perhaps he has a deck of cards which are one third king of diamonds, one third 8 of spades, and one third 7 of spades, and he know where each third of the deck is.
That was fantastic. The moment I saw the way you have your sleeves rolled up, put the card box away into your jacket pocket; to the way you handle cards and delivery, I can't help but notice a huge influence by one of my all time fav. Darwin Ortiz ("Card$#@* vol.2 VHS was my introductory to magic). It was a very fun presentation man, bravo.
Someone, somewhere said that when Penn starts the sentence with something like "boy" or "oh boy" then it's not a fooler, well he did it again! But Daniel looks and sounds like Peter Parker in Spiderman xD Specially the last "see you next time" and the wave lol. anyway amazing performance.
Guy does not ever show the whole deck of cards face up and does not mix them in very beginning, so you should have a good idea of how he did that. But he still manages to take not the card girl picked at 1:39 . Just takes the next card as it's not a big deal and she did not even mention )
@Ambroise AMAND I mean, let's look at it. First part (seeing), instead of telling her to pull the card, he says to the person to put the hand on the table, while handling the deck with the other hand. Of course, you know that he put the card he actually wanted to there. Second trick (hearing), he himself puts the card back into the deck and he shuffles it one time in a very specific way. So it's clear that he knows where the card will land. Third part of the trick is him saying, the guy is only allowed to take around 25% of the upper deck (and the guy never looks at his portion of cards) which implies that all of the cards are the same. For the smelling part, after the card is chosen, he shuffles the rest of the cards and looks at the bottom card (which is the one that would come after the chosen card after the shuffle). Lastly, he only shows the first card of the 25% portion of the deck where he uses taste instead of the whole set, so he replaced the first card with another one, while all the others are the same. Of course, I am not saying this doesn't take skill to do in a scenario where people sit directly in front of you. It does. And of course there is a potential chance that he did it in a completely different way. However, I would say (considering the song is also called Memories) that even if you can't see HOW he does it exactly, you can have a very good idea of how it's done.
When she touches the first card and he says "this card here" its very clear to see that he leaves that card in the right hand and gives her the following one
If I were the guy volunteer, I would've peeked under the table to ensure that I was tearing off a blank corner. That would make the trick even more impressive!
I have to say, having seen your incredible skill in the Level 1-10 video before this one, I immediately guessed the trick. However, that to me makes it more impressive than if it was done through gimmicks. I mean, in this case fooling P&T would have needed something like, "I'm not actually as skilled as I appear, it's a trick deck!" The display of pure skill is much more amazing.
@@TheSpyWhoCriedMedic The trick is incredible card control and memory. He is keeping track of the position of every single card in his mind at all times, even when the audience members are cutting it he can tell exactly how many cards are in each pile, which cards and in what order. If you watch his other video he can literally move every card anywhere he wants with his shuffling and dealing techniques. He's a master of nearly undetectable center dealing. He's the best cardist I've seen since Richard Turner. It's kinda like the other magician whose trick was the ability to snatch a specific card out of falling deck of cards. The "trick" was that he'd practiced it so much for decades that he could actually just do it for real, probably the only person in the world with that ability.
At 5:31 you see how he looks focused on the back of the cards and telling 'he didn't want this card and this...' i mean why showing the cards he did NOT want..it's like there are makings on the back of the card so he can figure out which card is under the table
having seen other videos from you this must be really easy for you at least regarding raw hand skills, but unless there’s a camera cut, even with penn’s hint I have no idea how you did the last one.
Daniel has the skill to take the mantle when Richard Turner is ready to pass it down. I do wonder how or if Turner will try and one up those “impossible” Dai Vernon magic lessons…”
First half of the performance was card mechanics, he didn't let the girl take the card herself and forced a card, which made the first guess easy, then he used pure skill to put the king 6 cards down, faro shuffle the deck and grab the king from 13 cards down. After that I don't know how you'd do that with card mechanics, but penn and teller hinted edges and memories so I suspect he flavor marked the deck.
Actually nevermind the marking, penn said the cards weren't marked. I guess he memorised the deck, controlled the shuffles and used the size of the piles to figure out which cards were picked
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4 gay parents and he hasn't seen Cats on Broadway. Penn probably didn't see that one coming.
Haha
FOOLED
I didn't understand that part of the video what has a song gotta do with the trick
@King, Penn explains how he believes the magician pulled off their trick in code so that only the magician on stage will understand. The song from the broadway show probably being relevant because the song name is the code to how he pulled the card tricks off. This is so he doesn’t explicitly out the magician’s trick to “average” international viewers/the audience, so that he can continue to use this trick without people knowing how it is done. Only those “in the know” will understand Penn. All the audience needs to know is whether or not the magician fooled Penn and Teller, which Penn will explicitly state to the magician and audience.
Wait I thought that was the magic trick, didn't he fool them then?
The real magic is two dads and two moms living in harmony.
Comment of the day. Lol
True that
but everything changed when the fire nation attacked.
Holy shit!
I'm gueaaing that's because the dads don't live with the moms.
4:57 "no Morgan do not talk while I talk, the question was rhetorical, I will reveal that it is indeed the 8 of spades"
He did it every time. Before he was done asking what card, he was already saying "indeed it is the..." 🤦♂️😂😂😂
I wanna see this guy, Daniel Radcliffe, and Elijah Wood in the same room. Pretty sure it's one guy
The real secrets of magic, revealed
And Sheldon
I have most certainly never heard all of these comparisons before... :)
Aaand Mr Bean.
And Rowan Atkinson
Alyson Hannigan whispered "memories" into your ear.
You won.
I swear she said "pancreas"
Which, ironically, is not the name of the song. It's "Memory".
@@madhumenon man, idek what ironically means anymore with how it's been butchered on the internet. Can someone confirm whether or not this is irony, it seems off.
@@itsnottimetostop4462 You could stretch it to irony as a song called Memory was misremembered, but no one would pitch a fit if you said it wasn’t irony. An edge case.
@@itsnottimetostop4462 the album name is memories apparently
I’ve eaten 37 cards so far and they all taste the same. Help!!
Great job sir!! 👍
Only 15 left to go. I believe in you
It's just the 7 of spades that tastes like sh*t
@@-Me_ Yeah. You can't tell the difference if you haven't tasted all of them. Trust me, I tried.
you might have lost the sense of taste because of Covid :p
Sorry his cards are pre-covid, he has a stash. Cards all taste the same now they taste like corona disinfectant spray
I wouldn’t have expected Daniel to fool Penn and Teller with this trick - it’s 100% their area of expertise. But they rightly praised his performance and his skill with the cards, and that’s high praise indeed.
Totally. You could tell how serious Penn was watching him. He knew what he was looking for and he knew what he was dealing with.
He actually did fool Penn and Teller! Just the part that fooled Penn didn't fool Teller and the part that fooled Teller didn't fool Penn.
@@petergriffin8767 It's what makes them such a powerful team!
Alyson's "so a narcissist is your best audience!" was so quick! ;'D
She was on a sitcom for like 10 years so it probably helped her comedic timing a lot
Or maybe she could detect too that he's a narcissist
She must have learned some tricks of the trade working there.
@@ElMamuco she wasn't very good with the interviews her first few years.
It’s TV therefore rehearsed.
This show brings positive emotions independently if one won the prize or not. They are all good positive guys! Particularly I like how Penn&Teller handle magicians with respect and do not shout out secrets of the tricks.
I completely agree. They sincerely compliment everyone.
at 7:46... OH SHIT I LEFT THE OVEN ON
😂
this made me laugh on an otherwise shitty day. Thank you for that
Ahhahahahahah nice one
limao
This dude when he's a doctor be like: look I ate your heart, now it's gone Mageik💀
Penn said 'oh boy', it gave away there itself that you didn't fool them. Great performance 👍
This guy doesn’t showcase it here but he is a great card mechanic too
Oh, yeah. Facts right there.
He does showcase it with the King of Diamonds
@@Qriz-Topher Nah I think that was more of a showcase of biology.
the shuffle and the 13 card selection was great card mechanic stuff.
If he perform his card mechanic skills then that wont be enough to fool penn and teller
I thought your performance was spot on and entertaining. The progression was compelling and it was a very entertaining path. Good on you, I'm glad I got to see this.
Great performance! Well done. Structure, progression and plot was superb
thank you! glad you enjoyed :)
Gorgeous slight of hand. I'm not surprised that you didn't fool Penn and Teller. They've been around long enough to know all the card deck techniques and as they said, it was all pure skill rather than any gimmick, but a great showcase noneless.
one of the best magic tricks I've seen 👍🏻👍🏻❤
Wait, lord bahaa wtf you doing here! Big fan ❤️
Lmao another magician here
he's a master in stacking the deck and controlled shuffling, cutting. hats off, daniel. well done
whatever he did, Teller looked thrilled so it must have been impressive
I think I've looked at every one of your performances I could find on the net 2-3 times. The way you work with cards is fascinating, It's been a year since I've practiced the art of sleight of hand so I've looked at a lot of magicians. which you perform is unparalleled. p.s.what does one big fan of yours have to do to get one signed card ?? / I would be honored to keep it as a souvenir by the fireplace
I've loved magic since I have memories. That makes it around 40 years of my life. I've watched a few of your videos and your performances are amazing. Well done.
After seeing his video on stacking the deck and 3 card Monte, I still had to check the comments after the "memories" clue. Impeccable card control, and had me truly baffled!
good job dude! What a nice day to perform for those legends. I got to meet them after a show in Vegas and they made sure they met EVERYONE that was at the show and they were as kind as could be! Keep going brother!
That was brutal :D Great performance, mate! Great pace, confidence. Awesome.
2 mom and 2 dads? Birthdays must be great lol
imagine wanting something from your parents tho? "Ask your mom" "No your other mom" "okay you know what ask dad." "No the other dad" and in the end all 4 say no :(
@@Mirro18 I 100% tried this as a kid
I love the male audience member’s reaction, it was so adorable lol, just “whaaaattt”
You are very charismatic and congenial! I loved the performance and the intrigue behind it! I'm not big into magic, but I occasionally stumble across vids recommended by TH-cam, and it's always a pleasure to see a great personality entertain with skill and grace, as well as kindness.
Thank you so much!!
Delightful . . . Daniel and his magic!
Wonderful patter and impeccable sleight of hand. Bravo, Dr Marvel.
OMG one of my favourite magicians and arguably the greatest modern day, I know this will be up there with the best even before watching. YOU FOOLED ME ALREADY! Keep it up Daniel and keep the content flowing on your channel. You deserve greatness. Thanks.
What grace everyone communicated with! Absolutely love it.
"Ive got your nose"
"Im not a kid, doctor Roy "
*holds up your nose*
😐😬
i mean honestly. it is super hard to make them say you fooled them when they can just say. "you did trick shuffles for the whole time and knew every card apart from the last one, which you just flavored the spades cards differently and knew which taste is which card" or something like that. but still super impressive skills. like actually mindblowing.
Every time I have seen them being incredibly vague about the majority of the act, it is because they know that the performer knows that they know all of the most common techniques, and fully explaining them all would take too long and be pretty much impossible to clearly do through code. Most of the acts on the show only have one or two trickier bits that might be able to fool them, and they only need to indicate that they saw through those bits for the performer to know that they didn't fool them. Some of the acts don't even have a single thing that stands a chance of fooling them and they just want to showcase an entertaining magician.
@@SuperBobKing I think "edgy" and "memory" were enough for him to know that they know.
I found the comment about "turning attention inward" the most interesting. I'm planning to check out more videos to see if there's more neuroscience incorporated.
Thanks! And yes, there will be more of those soon.
There's a ted talk by a famous pick pocket. Same subject
@@AbrCae yes, Apollo Robbins. He’s amazing!!
@@AbrCae that video is just too good
Wow! that card trick is multi-layered! Pretty slick maneuvers
Penn saying ur act is done by pure skill is a great complement
Terrific performance. Bravo!!! It’s so refreshing to see a magician combine intellect, charisma and a sleight off hand!!
Force, card control, and photographic memory.... pleasure to watch!!
Having seen your other video I’m pretty sure you know where all relevant cards are at all times
Dude, you are now my new fav!
Keep up the good work.
Good luck to you.
Wow, thanks!
He goes to the University of Penn, Penn and Teller.
Great trick and performance.
Jibrizi gets a trophy and this guy doesn't? There's no justice in this damn world.
The point is to fool Penn and Teller. You either do or you don’t. Most card tricks they know how they’re done. Jibrizi used unique props they didn’t know how they worked.
1:51. He definitely knows what that card is.
The real magic happens when you watch it in x.25 speed and Daniel instantly sounds and acts drunk!
Going back and watching this again now that I've seen all your youtube stuff, you've definitely improved since this was filmed.
You can see the Darwin Ortiz influence what a wonderful magician Mr. Roy is❤️🔥
Pen: "Yeah the card tricks were impressive but we still have no idea how you pulled off the 4 homosexual parents trick!"
Penn with every performer: “so a lot of people try doing what you did and they just frickin suck so bad, you however....”
yeah lol! "Oh Boy!! We love it.."
He cannot say anything else cause he has said it all. And teller has nodded it all.
Neurotransmitter release at synapses is the *original* cups and balls.
That’s actually a really funny/interesting analogy
Well you didn't fool Penn and Teller, but you sure fooled ME. It is your cousin David in New Hampshire.
NH reppin
@Olli Koskiniemi Perhaps he has a deck of cards which are one third king of diamonds, one third 8 of spades, and one third 7 of spades, and he know where each third of the deck is.
That was fantastic. The moment I saw the way you have your sleeves rolled up, put the card box away into your jacket pocket; to the way you handle cards and delivery, I can't help but notice a huge influence by one of my all time fav. Darwin Ortiz ("Card$#@* vol.2 VHS was my introductory to magic). It was a very fun presentation man, bravo.
thanks Nash! Love your Fool Us performance, too!
When Penn said main song of the show Cats I was like.. Mr. Mistoffelees??
You have a great personality, loved the routine!
Absolutely awesome performance....confident, competent yet charming and non threatening. Beautiful job, love the routine too
1:38 I saw that haha
Yeah if it was me I would say mmm no the other one. But hey knowing this guy he knew half of the deck.
@@ponysherks6806 he gave her the other card
@@Fs2k18 he gave her the exact card he wanted. Heck it was probably the top card. Hes very swift with his hands.
@@ponysherks6806 The whole deck, he memorised the whole deck before the performance
My parents got me this magic book when I was 10 about stacking a deck and memorizing the order. Still I like the presentation.
Next day 7 of spades showed up again.
i love how the judges are so unimpressed
I truly enjoyed you and your trick. Thanks for performing it.
i've been watching your videos for a while now and never knew you were on fool us, congrats
1:38 See how he smartly gives her the card next to what she chose. She doesn't get the card she actually selected
Doesn't matter. He gave her the Top card. It was a force
in 2064: i have 27 dads and 27 moms.
Hey it's the first time Alyson did say a code word on stage, isn't it? Well done Aly!
I thought your trick was original and fun! Thank you. It would have fooled me... oh wait... it did!
That was so clean! I can't imagine how much work it needs to be that good! This is the kind of thing that keeps me motivated to practice!
How many decks did he have to chew through before he got it right?
Mr. Roy, WELL DONE. You may not have fooled P&T, but you sure fooled me. Amazing!
bro 2 moms n 2 dads this guy got double the gifts, allowances, n support lmaoo
Someone, somewhere said that when Penn starts the sentence with something like "boy" or "oh boy" then it's not a fooler, well he did it again!
But Daniel looks and sounds like Peter Parker in Spiderman xD Specially the last "see you next time" and the wave lol.
anyway amazing performance.
Great work
Guy does not ever show the whole deck of cards face up and does not mix them in very beginning, so you should have a good idea of how he did that. But he still manages to take not the card girl picked at 1:39 . Just takes the next card as it's not a big deal and she did not even mention )
@Ambroise AMAND
I mean, let's look at it. First part (seeing), instead of telling her to pull the card, he says to the person to put the hand on the table, while handling the deck with the other hand. Of course, you know that he put the card he actually wanted to there. Second trick (hearing), he himself puts the card back into the deck and he shuffles it one time in a very specific way. So it's clear that he knows where the card will land. Third part of the trick is him saying, the guy is only allowed to take around 25% of the upper deck (and the guy never looks at his portion of cards) which implies that all of the cards are the same. For the smelling part, after the card is chosen, he shuffles the rest of the cards and looks at the bottom card (which is the one that would come after the chosen card after the shuffle). Lastly, he only shows the first card of the 25% portion of the deck where he uses taste instead of the whole set, so he replaced the first card with another one, while all the others are the same.
Of course, I am not saying this doesn't take skill to do in a scenario where people sit directly in front of you. It does. And of course there is a potential chance that he did it in a completely different way. However, I would say (considering the song is also called Memories) that even if you can't see HOW he does it exactly, you can have a very good idea of how it's done.
I wonder why my salad tastes like the 7 of clubs...
Oh, god... that's not a salad...
I know how hard some of those moves were. You clearly put a lot of time into your art.
“Now I have put anthrax on the back of all of these card accept yours, let’s see if I live.”
You are fantastic....I loved your Level 1 through 10 skills video as well. Some of the way you speak reminds me of Ricky Jay.
8:17 Penn doing a Columbo impression. Nice.
Misread the title and thought it said “child” instead of “card”. Great trick, love your videos!
When she touches the first card and he says "this card here" its very clear to see that he leaves that card in the right hand and gives her the following one
It was a bit of a mean time to do a very close shot. Haha.
@1:38
Yea they kind of screwed him on that one, but I think teller knew anyways. Hard to beat these guys with modded decks.
Also, that was the least interesting part of the trick, a simple force. The real dexterity came in the shuffle.
How does this help him to know the card ?
6:21 oh you should have said, "It tastes like chicken every time!"
If I were the guy volunteer, I would've peeked under the table to ensure that I was tearing off a blank corner. That would make the trick even more impressive!
That didn't matter, he knew the card before it was torn
@@guzmas31 Think it through; imagine it from the audience's perspective.
I have to say, having seen your incredible skill in the Level 1-10 video before this one, I immediately guessed the trick. However, that to me makes it more impressive than if it was done through gimmicks. I mean, in this case fooling P&T would have needed something like, "I'm not actually as skilled as I appear, it's a trick deck!" The display of pure skill is much more amazing.
So what’s the trick then?
@@TheSpyWhoCriedMedic The trick is incredible card control and memory. He is keeping track of the position of every single card in his mind at all times, even when the audience members are cutting it he can tell exactly how many cards are in each pile, which cards and in what order. If you watch his other video he can literally move every card anywhere he wants with his shuffling and dealing techniques. He's a master of nearly undetectable center dealing.
He's the best cardist I've seen since Richard Turner.
It's kinda like the other magician whose trick was the ability to snatch a specific card out of falling deck of cards. The "trick" was that he'd practiced it so much for decades that he could actually just do it for real, probably the only person in the world with that ability.
@@Reldan
What about the last bit when he "tasted" the 7 card?
He never saw that pile
@@strangeclaims "take something about a quarter of the deck". Maybe half deck was only 7s of spades.
@@patrickimbrizi7795 I agree, that’s why he asked the spectator to shuffle the deck under table
This is AMAZING! Omg! One of the best magic videos I've ever seen.
Fantastic trick but what did Penn mean when he said it got a little edgy for them near the end? Was that a code?
At 5:31 you see how he looks focused on the back of the cards and telling 'he didn't want this card and this...' i mean why showing the cards he did NOT want..it's like there are makings on the back of the card so he can figure out which card is under the table
nice performance
Great stuff mate!! You are an excellent entertainer.
having seen other videos from you this must be really easy for you at least regarding raw hand skills, but unless there’s a camera cut, even with penn’s hint I have no idea how you did the last one.
_You are beyond talented; you ARE magic itself!!!_
Congrats!!! So good!!
Thanks man, hope all is well!
Memories~
You, along with your other sleight of hand videos inspired me to buy a Svengali deck and show tricks to my kids lol
Insane performance :D Great job, mate!
Major terrific magic ! Enjoyed !
Great act!
After 1 year This Video Magically popped up In my Suggestion 😊
Good job 👌👌 very nice trick and presentation
Daniel has the skill to take the mantle when Richard Turner is ready to pass it down. I do wonder how or if Turner will try and one up those “impossible” Dai Vernon magic lessons…”
I just saw his video: "10 levels of sleight of hand" ... I know everything :O
What an incredible and entertaining performance! Wow!
1:40 that wasn't a free choice! 🥂
Easy trick to do with a marked deck.
Simply beautiful routine... loved every part of it. Best of magic... I'm wracking my brain to figure out how it's done, and I don't have a clue!
First half of the performance was card mechanics, he didn't let the girl take the card herself and forced a card, which made the first guess easy, then he used pure skill to put the king 6 cards down, faro shuffle the deck and grab the king from 13 cards down. After that I don't know how you'd do that with card mechanics, but penn and teller hinted edges and memories so I suspect he flavor marked the deck.
Actually nevermind the marking, penn said the cards weren't marked. I guess he memorised the deck, controlled the shuffles and used the size of the piles to figure out which cards were picked