The core component of this show is that P&T don't *want* to catch people out. They do catch people, all the time, because them's the rules. They're consummate pros, and exceptionally knowledgeable, and if you can't fool them, tough - they're going to say so. They'll settle for "We know how you did it, but it was beautiful to watch" because they have the respect that all craftsmen should have for one another, and find joy in inspecting a near-perfect piece of work. But what they really want is to be amazed - and they don't mind letting it show when it happens.
It’s two different signatures guys just see the first and see the one he shows at the end it’s not the same look the lining and the thickness and the positioning
Congratulations to you. The story behind the illusion is very creative and the moment when you change the old cards to new cards is really magical. Well deserved trophy.
@@hoopyfrood4391 thats the easiest part.. you don't even have to slow it down because of the angle... before changing he already deck swapped...one old card on top, you can see him pass it to near the bottom, then when he lays them out on the table, you can see the one old card hiding under the others, just peaking out a bit at the bottom. Pretty clear, but only because of the camera angles...not noticeable to PT
I noticed it too, i had to screenshot both of them to verify my suspicion, but this is why he shows the card under different angles, to make it harder to notice ... i keep wondering, would Alyson even say something if she noticed it wasn't actually her signature or would she just go with the flow?
@@you_dont_wanna_know1969 I hope not .. i like watching illusions, but i think you should always call it out if something doesnt seem right, she should be like "HEY! this is not my signature!"
As a non-magician, I just love watching magic tricks and just being amazed and entertained with the tricks and not having the overriding desire to dissect the tricks to figure-out how it's done. Impressive, entertaining and nice job!
I think the cards are either gimmicked or he has kosta kimlat level card handling abilities.. he has to do some kind of weird card flutter to make them change and he does some switching as well which might be the 2nd signature card, the bicycle deck was just a two sided box or some kind of gimmick deck...
Yeah I was able to spot a tell from the top view as well. Plus I was able to discern some slight of hand from the same angle due to the benefit of slow-mo (which IMO is sort of cheating). But neither of them quite explains the entire deck swap. Not to mention this was only one trick of many. (And as to the signature, yeah sadly it is different. I spotted that upon first viewing.)
Compare the signatures at 2:32, 3:17, 4:13, 4:55 and 5:46. The first three are the real card Allison signed. The last two (old and new) are prepared forgeries. They're both different from the original, and different from each other. Allison probably signed many cards on stage. He prepared cards with her signature.
@@absterok I watched that at 0.25 speed, really looking at these cards to see if they came from somewhere or anything but they didn't. Must be a gimmicked deck, no? Because I can't understand what else it would be
@@arnaudleroij3996 if you watch it frame by frame (with '' , '' & '' . '' ) it's _possible_ it's slight of hand? but honestly even then yeah... it looks like they all just change instantly.
@@MrJoosebawkz It very well might be but you're literally watching him touch the cards and the only thing that hides the cards a bit is the shade of his hands and body. No cards going anywhere so if that's sleight of hands, he's controlling space and time because to me it seems he pulls it out of thin air. I had the impression that his deck seemed a bit more fresh before he picked them up again so maybe he pulled something before but I'm cluesless
@@arnaudleroij3996 My assumption is that IF it is slight of hand, all he’s doing is taking the top card off? maybe that doesn’t make sense. I felt like one of the frames _could _ be him removing a card but that’s really up to interpretation. I mean there are a lot of slight of hand tricks that dont show up on youtube videos even frame by frame bc of the angle and/or sudden motion by the magician to blur over what’s happening. But then at that point you could just argue _everything_ is slight of hand. And idk why I think I’d figure out what P&T didn’t. That’s just my best guess at some sort of “evidence”
That was so smooth. I love watching this kind of magic, where you know what's going to happen but the magician is so good that you just can't see it. And the story makes it much more entertaining. Far more than big theatrical music and lights and compartments with hidden assistants.
When you hit the spacebar over and over, watching the cards just... change. That was magical and no one ever tell me a method to do this. I'm fully entertained by magic like this that was built to be displayed up close and on camera.
At some point, probably when the camera wasn't looking, he swapped the deck with a deck that had dirty looking backs on one side and clean on the other, except for the top card. Then to 'change' them he took the top card off and slid it into the deck, when he lays the clean cards out on the table you can see the dirty card mixed in. At 5:11 you can see when he sets the deck down he turns it over, which should be face up but it still shows the backs.
Szép és ügyes trükkök sorozatát mutatta be! A 3 különböző trükk, illetve a Penn és Teller számára felismerhető taktikák elég jól elterelték a figyelmüket, hogy aztán a 3. verzió nehezebben lehessen követhető számukra és annál varázslatosabb legyen. Gratulálok a győzelemhez!
Wow!! This to me was really magical!! I felt like I kid watching it.. it just wowed me .. even if I have the option to know how the new deck came along and how he got the sign on the new card I wouldn’t even want to know. I love feeling this way.. wouldn’t want to ruin this feeling. It’s the best I have ever seen. Simple yet magical..
Well done! The camera makes it easier for us to follow the first two (although I wonder how much of that is also to give some red herrings). But I was blown away by the ending! It was so clean and so beautiful. I don’t even want to watch it again because it was a pure delight and the mystery of it shall remain fun for me! Bravo!! 👏🏻👏🏻
i think i was able to follow along in every (very classical) step of your grandfathers trick by pausing and rewinding a lot (with quite a bit better vantage point than p&t had) and some of the steps of your fathers trick, but after that i’m completely clueless! absolutely amazing routine! ❤
That was so clean dude. I can only barely follow it even in super slow motion. Unbelievable. You could legit perform alot of that at half speed and people still wouldnt see it. Kudos!
there is a commercial product that you can buy at magic stores that let you transfer a signature, for example, from a bill to another bill. He could have been using that product or just have a similar but not identical signature on the "new" card.
@@DStek42 Of course, trick number 3 and 4 were about separate signature imitations - Penn was smiling. But to win a trophy is to deceive in principle and method. This includes a lot of fake switches. In addition, several tricks were performed. Penn and Teller must decide which course of action was correct. They didn't watch it enough. Well done Kolos!!!
The whole trick is based on a wonderfully timed slight of hand and forgery (the signature). The switch of the cards for the last part of the trick was done while Alison was signing the card, so in fact the whole time he was playing with different deck of cards (two-sided, one "old", other "new"), which he just rotates for the last part and only leaves and then takes away the first card (the "old"). He tries all the time to hide the other side of the cards, but closer look at 4:37 clearly shows that the cards are two-sided.
They're pre-prepared cards. Alyson's signature is well known. There was even another act on the exact same episode of Fool Us that with a performer that had a dollar bill with Alyson's signature already on it. With covid and the theater being empty, Alyson is pretty much the only participant in most acts now.
@@pawelbator No need to be cryptic about the "second guy under the table" method or some kind of signature replicator down there. The signatures are proportionally different so there's no transfer going on, and while the second guy method is a possibility, I'm going to say that didn't happen here for the following reason. Rachel Wax's act on the very same show relied on an obviously prepared signature. I believe the producers are assisting some of these magicians with their performances (to get more people on the show, they're really starting to pad it out with repeat performers) and that Alyson has been instructed to do things in particular ways. She signed both objects the exact same way, lengthways across it and in proportion to the dimensions of it. In Rachel's case she was kind of limiting her options, but with Kolos she was already signing the card before Kolos told her how to.
I absolutely love that Penn And Teller are willing to admit that they’ve been fooled. I saw their show on Broadway years ago and LOVED it. I’ve been a fan for many years, but now I have nothing to say, but I admire both of them as people, not just magicians. I’m
I saw the sleight of hand and the moves with the grandfather trick. I saw some of it with the father's trick, but then Kolos just got incredibly smooth with it. But with the signature on the new card, that was phenomenal. Loved the performance. I think it'd be a heck of a fun time to watch a full length performance in Budapest! Bravo, Sir!
he was incredibly smooth. I did notice 3 different cards with signatures on them. The one Allison signed, the one he pulled out of the box, and the new one. All different signatures.
@@AmplifyChris It's very easy to get something with someone's signature on it. Especially from a celebrity. That's not a problem. when he tried to copy them onto other cards, the signatures are not quite the same. But more importantly they are not in the same place on the cards. That's what gives that part of the trick away,
@@tchevrier i feel it would be a huge risk to pre-sign the cards with a signature they found online or from clips from p&t. hoping allison would sign the card in a similar enough size and alignment. guess it was close enough no one caught it in real time.
I can figure out 85+% of the routines on FU and I have a very good idea about the additional 10%, but about 4% fool me on some level and less 1% totally baffle me. This is one of those. BUT, unlike P&T, I have the ability to watch this more than once, I have the ability to look at things I did not look at the first time, plus I have the ability to slow things down. After doing all of that, I did see something, but I am still completely stumped at this. What a beautiful and entertaining routine. Bravo!
3:05 he puts to top card on the bottom of the box. The top card is her card. He put her card on the top of the deck when, after he puts her card back in the deck, he does a fan of the cards in 2 fans, then when we reassembles the fanned cards, he pinky breaks where he had dropped her card, then puts that pile on top, so that her card is on top of the deck.
all the Hungarians i personally met or know of _are_ amazing, brilliant, extraordinary, admirable . basically in all fields (science, engineering, IT, languages, arts, music, medicine, magix, a.o.) . just in pro sports, football, and olympic games they're behind . imho .
Penn and Teller said it many times, most of the time they catch 90% of what the magicians are doing but like they said; even though they know how the tricks were done, it's a matter of them not seeing what shouldn't be seen (eg. obvious double lift/obvious gimmick used etc). so the "fooler" job is to hide every possible "logic" regardless if P&T knows how it's done 👍 Hope it helps to those saying the signature was changing which i saw too!
Wow..That trick was beautiful..Smooth and so perfect. The only thing I can think of is that the original card stuck to the new deck card and that's just a simple answer. As fir the rest of the routine the skill level is way way on another level.
It would be easier to transfer the signature honestly, but it's way more impressive he replicated it without been seen. That surely was why they gave him the trophy. Amazing trick
Yeah. Its a good routine, but I can't imagine that could've fooled them, unless they were just down to guessing at the specific signature method and decided to let it go, rather than have a technical judgement. The new deck reveal seemed a little sloppy, but thats pretty tough to do on camera. I can get away with that move 100% of the time, with actual people and it even looks good in a mirror, but when I watch myself on video, I always cringe. Especially when its loud, like this was 😬
@@springbloom5940 Penn & Teller aren't watching it close up on youtube. From that distance wouldn't be able to see the signature well enough. Yes they have hand-monitors but as are looking mainly at stage would've missed it on the monitor (and don't get a 2nd chance). Teller wouldn't have that amazed look otherwise. The "fool" doesn't have to be the act, nor even a specific trick, but just something they are unsure of. There's also an adjudicator off set & if the fool isn't really one it will be denied by the adjudicator. There's been couple acts where that's happened, as well as the several acts where Penn & Teller said they weren't fooled but it then comes from adjudicator that they were, as P&T "code words" were wrong suggestion. Alison has an ear piece & being spoken to all the time. Some of the corny line she sometimes says after the act are told to her. Though many are hers also. Been watching these (full episodes) from since before Alison started hosting, when Jonathan Ross stated hosting, & have noticed a lot re the production. As well as am in entertainment industry so know production tricks. Must easier to notice/work out lol, than much of the magic. I know a magician Simon Coronel who was on Fool Us & Penn & Teller weren't fooled. However Simon was given us a fool us trophy a year later (when able to go again to the U.S.) as P&T had made a wrong assumption while on-air, & realised it after the episode was recorded
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I don't even think it was the signature that fooled them. That was way too obvious. First counterfeit was semi plausible and could have been missed, but the second one wasn't even close. There was something different in his handling I think they weren't able to figure out. I know I can't, but I'm no magician.
Okay, I think most people (including Penn & Teller) noticed that each 7 of Diamonds isn’t the same (Her signature getting bolder and appearing in different spots). The real “Magic” of it, is when he started “his” trick. Changing a whole deck of cards from old to new within a second is quite astonishing. His slight of hand game throughout the whole performance is super impressive. Also, very curious how he got Allison to pick the 7 of Diamonds. Definitely a mind game with that, but curious as to how that worked without any psychical touch. Great trick & magician!
If I am right, London has unique busses, but I think those in Budapest must be even bigger. It is always nice to let people give a hand so you can grasp the essence of the art 😁 Very impressive and very nice work. Congratulations 👍
not totally different. The style is the same. The intensity of the ink and the position on the card kept changing which lends itself to some kind of ink transfer.
@@timq6224 Disagree. The spacing between the scribbles is very small on Allyson's real signature at 2:36 while on the fake signatures the gap is big. It wasn't ink transfer.
Each A/G after grandpa looked different than what Allison signed. Especially the second one had a much thicker marker. But the new card also. Still if you can do this while performing the tricks (sign new cards) it is quite amazing.
Yeah, even I could tell the signatures were different, but having watched this a few times, I have absolutely no clue where or when he had the time to sign two cards during his routine. Just amazing trick, really.
I have always wondered something about P&T. I know that they like explaining how older acts or tricks are performed so that it inspires magicians to evolve their acts and not rely on the comfort of what came before. I always wondered what their time frame was before they considered an act or trick old enough to highlight.
If you play the handling of the cards very slowly and freeze frame at the right time, you see a friendly and magical leprechaun granting Kolos the ability to move while time is frozen. He then takes a brand new deck out of his jacket and carefully traces Alison's signature. That, or each card is rigged. Not with a mechanic, obviously, but with the magic of the God of Misschief himself, Loki.
Magic? Here's some magic for you. Stop the video where Alyson signs the card. Then open up another browser tab with the same video but go to the part where her signature appears on the new deck. Now compare the two. Should be obvious at that point.
@@nazfrde Yes... that, or a friendly and magical leprechaun. Occam's Razer applies. The simplest answer makes more sense, hence the friendly and magical leprechaun.
Everybody caught the fact that the signature was not the same. I guess P&T also did...But how did he replicate the signature? I didn't catch any force on the 7 of diamond, so the signature must have been replicated on the fly. This is for me how P&T didn't find any answer. There could have been a pack switch at 2:29 when during the cut on Alison signing the card. But if such a switch really happened, P&T should have caught it and then the whole trick would have become quite trivial to understand.
compare the signatures with a video editor and you will see they are exactly the same handwriting. They are only different in intensity and position on the card, meaning the trick was done with some kind of transfer tech P&T are not aware of -- thus fooled.
When I saw the deck switch to the new deck my statement was WOW that was clean! I thought then you'd pull the new deck out of the new box.....NOPE! Super clean on that too! Then the card out of the box that was new with her signature? MIND BLOWN!
The signature moves on each card reveal. When she first signs it, when held sideways she dots the i in her last name just to the left of the top right diamond and on all subsequent cards the dot of the i is in a different spot. Also the size of the signature, the alignment on the card, and how bold the lines are also change.
It is obvious if oyu can pause a video, watch it on a big screen etc. Lots of people commented "oh, yea, teh signature". Like it's something really relevant... Interesting that nobody talks about the new deck, because they ahve no idea what happened...
@999slawter I wasn't pausing or inspecting under digital magnification. The copy of her signature is poorly done and I believe it is fairly obvious with some attention to detail. I'm not sure what you are saying about the "new deck". Decking switching is fairly common in card tricks. To clarify, I do like this guy's card trick, but I think it would have been a better trick for me without the sloppy signature copying...that part of the trick was unnecessary.
So, most people noticed that the last two signatures are faked (and also different from one another). As it's very unlikely that he's had 104 cards prepared, my best guess is that there's an assistant beneath the table who signed the 2 correct cards and loaded them in the box they handed to Kolos halfway through the trick, or that there's some stamp/ink-transfer tomfoolery going on. 🤔 It's really a bit of a shame that the signatures are so obviously different, the trick is amazing nevertheless but were they more similar it would have been even more effective. 😍 Anyway, the key moments of the trick, if I managed to suss them out correctly: 🕵 2:30 - offscreen deck switch from the normal aged deck to a so-called doubleback deck of cards - where each card is printed with 2 backs, in this case one side looks like an aged back of the card, the other side looks like a brand new back of the card. For the whole rest of the trick, he is using that doubleback deck, even though the reveal comes at the very end. You can confirm it's a doubleback deck for a split second here and there during closeups, at 4:37 for example. 2:40 - quick card switch to keep the signed card at the top of the deck, while he throws a random card in the middle pretending he threw the signed one. 3:06 - he quickly sticks the top card from the deck (the signed card) to the bottom of the box before he says 'allison come can you see it' 3:13 - he flips the box and pulls out the signed card from underneath 3:46 - after he places the card in the middle and starts dropping the new batch of cards from above, you can see a gap forms which stays there even after he 'squares everything up real nice'. I suppose it could be as simple as just a piece of rolled up blue tack or whatever he snuck in, just to keep that separation. At 3:52 you can barely catch he's sneaking the card out, he then cuts the deck and sticks the signed card underneath the fan of cards he makes in his right hand. 4:08 - he grabs the box with his finger beneath the left fan, and drops the signed card which he was holding beneath the right fan. 4:12 - possibly the moment he quickly ditches the box over the edge of the table? bad camera angle to catch it better 🤷 4:15 - the table is conveniently just the right height to hide his hand, which is now grabbing the new box, preloaded with 2 faked signed cards (one aged and one new). At 4:21 you can see the awkward hand position, he's holding and hiding the new box, and at 4:23 he is just revealing it. 4:55 - obvious faked signature is obvious. 5:14 - he flips the deck 180 degrees after tapping the box. So far, all the aged backs were facing up, now the brand new backs are facing up (except the very top card, which is there to hide that fact) 5:22 - just flips the box, nothing special 5:30 - he slips the very top card to the bottom and that's it. He has already flipped the deck 180 degrees 15 seconds earlier so all the other cards are facing the right way and ready to be spread out. You can actually see the aged card that he slipped from the top peeking as the second from the bottom at 5:33 5:42 - this card was also in the box since 4:15 Overall this was one of my favorite tricks on the show, very clever and wonderfully executed. Well done Kolos!! 👏👏👏
It's not unlikely that he had prepared cards at all. There have been plenty of acts on Fool Us that have gone to great lengths to have as many outs as possible, there's no reason it couldn't happen here. Alyson's signature is well known. Unless the performer specifically asks Penn & Teller to come up, they're always going to get Alyson as a participant because there's literally nobody else. There was even another act on the exact same show that used a faked signature of Alyson's that was obviously prepared ahead of time. And it's not ink transfer going on, because the signatures are proportionally different from each other.
@@thesammyjenkinsexperience4996 I meant ink transfer in the way that he had a forged signature ready to be transfered to the right card, not that he transfered the ink from her signature :)
Well, the signature on the new card was different on the first sight (thicker stroke, closer the right edge), but obviously it's not that hard to fake Alyson's signature beforehand. The real question is - how was it the 7◇? My best guess is a helper below the table loading him the correct card
more likely some kind of transparency. The signature was always the same in style, but the darkness of the stroke and the position on the card kept changing.
That was quite noticeable. The last two signed cards didn’t look anything like Alyson’s signed card. I suppose Alyson would not point that out though during a performance.
I didn't and posted the time s of the first and last, I did however not even think to look at the middle one DOH! Great minds and all that but yours is greater ;)
My theory is that the old deck and the new deck were the same. It was printed with ultraviolet ink. The "old" deck is shown in normal light. When the UV light shines on it, the "aged" parts light up and conceals the aging.
The deck was switched after Alison picked a card. The new deck is double sided, old on one side and new on the other. When he does the transition at the end he quickly flips the deck over.
@@rdfleming I see that card, but the deck is definitely double sided. There are a couple of moments when you can see it, if you look closely. 4:37, for sure.
In which case, to make it easier and more seamless, he's probably doing both and we're both right. Instead of a quick deck flip, he has already flipped it and has one old card on top (reversed) and he's making a quick pass. Nice.
The end I actually got somehow it was in my memory, but the middle with the card appearing in the box I just cannot understand haha loved the story loved the trick I wish I could do this level of magic it is pure class. I may add although I got the end I still dont know how you swapped things out to get there haha great job thank you for sharing this with the world!
The most magical part is how Allison's signature gets bolder each time :D
I was wondering why nobody else is talking about that lol
@@katherinepollock See Phillip Craggs comment from 13 days ago.
Terrible
Even at that ... she named a card, he didn't do a force. so prepping fake signature cards in advance would have been out
@@rmhartman which lends credence to the accomplice under the table theory.
I love Teller's face when he gets fooled.
Yes cuz it’s close to impossible to fool teller.
The core component of this show is that P&T don't *want* to catch people out. They do catch people, all the time, because them's the rules. They're consummate pros, and exceptionally knowledgeable, and if you can't fool them, tough - they're going to say so.
They'll settle for "We know how you did it, but it was beautiful to watch" because they have the respect that all craftsmen should have for one another, and find joy in inspecting a near-perfect piece of work. But what they really want is to be amazed - and they don't mind letting it show when it happens.
It's the best thing ever :)
the lighting was the thing
It’s two different signatures guys just see the first and see the one he shows at the end it’s not the same look the lining and the thickness and the positioning
Congratulations to you. The story behind the illusion is very creative and the moment when you change the old cards to new cards is really magical. Well deserved trophy.
I have watched the changing old cards to new over and over and cannot imagine how it was done. Incredible sleight of hand is my only guess, but how?
@@hoopyfrood4391 He's not going to tell us!
@@runnergo1398 I never expected that he would.
@@hoopyfrood4391 thats the easiest part.. you don't even have to slow it down because of the angle... before changing he already deck swapped...one old card on top, you can see him pass it to near the bottom, then when he lays them out on the table, you can see the one old card hiding under the others, just peaking out a bit at the bottom. Pretty clear, but only because of the camera angles...not noticeable to PT
@@portalteam5832 so?
That signature couldn't have been more different! 😂😂😂
I think it's off on purpose
@@MilosBelic Think again Einstein! 😂😂😂
I noticed it too, i had to screenshot both of them to verify my suspicion, but this is why he shows the card under different angles, to make it harder to notice ... i keep wondering, would Alyson even say something if she noticed it wasn't actually her signature or would she just go with the flow?
@@SethiozProject she'd go with the flow 100%. She ain't no heckler. She is working there.
@@you_dont_wanna_know1969 I hope not .. i like watching illusions, but i think you should always call it out if something doesnt seem right, she should be like "HEY! this is not my signature!"
I love how excited Allison gets every time Penn says they were fooled.
As a non-magician, I just love watching magic tricks and just being amazed and entertained with the tricks and not having the overriding desire to dissect the tricks to figure-out how it's done. Impressive, entertaining and nice job!
Yeah signature was totaly diferetnt from alison.
@@stagemusic2950 You are correct but its still very nicely done
@@stagemusic2950 Who cares honestly
I so much agree with you! But my question is how do you feel about people who reveal Magic Online
That was so good. With the camera angle I did see one tiny tiny tell, but still baffled at how the whole trick was done. Complete surprise at the end!
Name the tell and stamp
I think the cards are either gimmicked or he has kosta kimlat level card handling abilities.. he has to do some kind of weird card flutter to make them change and he does some switching as well which might be the 2nd signature card, the bicycle deck was just a two sided box or some kind of gimmick deck...
yeah, he was using 2 sided cards...im still trying to find out how he got the signature
@@tatergaming The signatures are different. Pause at 4:55 and then again at the last card shown, different signatures.
Yeah I was able to spot a tell from the top view as well. Plus I was able to discern some slight of hand from the same angle due to the benefit of slow-mo (which IMO is sort of cheating). But neither of them quite explains the entire deck swap. Not to mention this was only one trick of many.
(And as to the signature, yeah sadly it is different. I spotted that upon first viewing.)
I like how this started with a trick where I'm like "Oh, I could probably learn that", then a middle "okay, not bad", then "wtf did he just do"
Lol i thought the same.
Compare the signatures at 2:32, 3:17, 4:13, 4:55 and 5:46. The first three are the real card Allison signed. The last two (old and new) are prepared forgeries. They're both different from the original, and different from each other. Allison probably signed many cards on stage. He prepared cards with her signature.
The signature was clearly different. Night and day. Different marker and penmanship. Still very intriguing
Richly deserved that's a wonderful performance. Could see the ending coming but felt the rush of wonder from the way it was delivered. Bravo.
Congrats Kolos!!! Loved all 3 versions!
The change to the new deck was definitely one of the best effects I’ve ever seen.
yeah there was some voodoo on that, even at slow mo
@@absterok I watched that at 0.25 speed, really looking at these cards to see if they came from somewhere or anything but they didn't. Must be a gimmicked deck, no? Because I can't understand what else it would be
@@arnaudleroij3996 if you watch it frame by frame (with '' , '' & '' . '' ) it's _possible_ it's slight of hand? but honestly even then yeah... it looks like they all just change instantly.
@@MrJoosebawkz It very well might be but you're literally watching him touch the cards and the only thing that hides the cards a bit is the shade of his hands and body. No cards going anywhere so if that's sleight of hands, he's controlling space and time because to me it seems he pulls it out of thin air. I had the impression that his deck seemed a bit more fresh before he picked them up again so maybe he pulled something before but I'm cluesless
@@arnaudleroij3996 My assumption is that IF it is slight of hand, all he’s doing is taking the top card off? maybe that doesn’t make sense. I felt like one of the frames _could _ be him removing a card but that’s really up to interpretation. I mean there are a lot of slight of hand tricks that dont show up on youtube videos even frame by frame bc of the angle and/or sudden motion by the magician to blur over what’s happening. But then at that point you could just argue _everything_ is slight of hand. And idk why I think I’d figure out what P&T didn’t. That’s just my best guess at some sort of “evidence”
Awww. You left the stage quick to shed those proud tears. Congratulations! That was an awesome trick! You deserved the trophy!
That was so smooth. I love watching this kind of magic, where you know what's going to happen but the magician is so good that you just can't see it. And the story makes it much more entertaining. Far more than big theatrical music and lights and compartments with hidden assistants.
Your grandmother would be so proud, amazing job. Keep up the hard work, love it.
I absolutely love when Alison reacts to learning that Penand Teller were fooled. ! Her celebration is so adorable and sincere!! Ty Alison.
You ever have to undo your whole life?
That was cool trick. Liked how you use old decks. Very entertaining story behind your relatives too. Great work!
When you hit the spacebar over and over, watching the cards just... change. That was magical and no one ever tell me a method to do this. I'm fully entertained by magic like this that was built to be displayed up close and on camera.
At some point, probably when the camera wasn't looking, he swapped the deck with a deck that had dirty looking backs on one side and clean on the other, except for the top card. Then to 'change' them he took the top card off and slid it into the deck, when he lays the clean cards out on the table you can see the dirty card mixed in. At 5:11 you can see when he sets the deck down he turns it over, which should be face up but it still shows the backs.
he just takes the top card away sneaky. the deck switch is already done. Only possible solution
Wow that was priceless/perfect. Well done looking forward to seeing more of your magic.
All the hard work paid off! Congrats. GREAT trick! Very smooth and clever presentation.
The smoothness of the trick is what makes it almost impossible to figure out. Nice job!
Szép és ügyes trükkök sorozatát mutatta be! A 3 különböző trükk, illetve a Penn és Teller számára felismerhető taktikák elég jól elterelték a figyelmüket, hogy aztán a 3. verzió nehezebben lehessen követhető számukra és annál varázslatosabb legyen. Gratulálok a győzelemhez!
Wow!! This to me was really magical!! I felt like I kid watching it.. it just wowed me .. even if I have the option to know how the new deck came along and how he got the sign on the new card I wouldn’t even want to know. I love feeling this way.. wouldn’t want to ruin this feeling. It’s the best I have ever seen. Simple yet magical..
Fantastic trick especially when you got to your version at the end! My jaw dropped down and my eye lids went up.
This performance blew my mind. So eloquent and magical, and that new deck and the signature thing, wow. Brilliant and beautiful.
Then you are stupid. Its not her signed card in the box. obviously Not.
@@charlesnewborn3760 Wow, sounds like someone needs a hug, lol.
Well done! The camera makes it easier for us to follow the first two (although I wonder how much of that is also to give some red herrings). But I was blown away by the ending! It was so clean and so beautiful. I don’t even want to watch it again because it was a pure delight and the mystery of it shall remain fun for me! Bravo!! 👏🏻👏🏻
Great job, love the pageantry, excited to see what you come up with!
Scary good. Totally love the look of that old deck. So nice and fluffy.
I loved how they make the auditon disapear and they still sounded so loud. Bravo to all. And ofc to Kolos to fool Penn and Teller
What a great magician! Elegant, smart, magical, 10 out of 10 skills.
man hands down best card trick I've seen for a looooong time! Bravo!!
Top of the line super hot trick, congrats on winning. Well deserved. Thank you for the show and good luck.
Solid performance all through, well done.
Great stuff! Mind-blowing tricks!
i think i was able to follow along in every (very classical) step of your grandfathers trick by pausing and rewinding a lot (with quite a bit better vantage point than p&t had) and some of the steps of your fathers trick, but after that i’m completely clueless!
absolutely amazing routine! ❤
That was so clean dude. I can only barely follow it even in super slow motion. Unbelievable. You could legit perform alot of that at half speed and people still wouldnt see it. Kudos!
The signatures are different. Look closely what Allison signs and what is shown later. :)
This was very well done. Even in slow mo, it's hard to find out how you made the signature appear on the new deck of cards. Congrats!
thank you
Here's a hint. The signatures weren't the same. But still a great trick.
@@DStek42 you beat me to it.
there is a commercial product that you can buy at magic stores that let you transfer a signature, for example, from a bill to another bill. He could have been using that product or just have a similar but not identical signature on the "new" card.
@@DStek42 Of course, trick number 3 and 4 were about separate signature imitations - Penn was smiling. But to win a trophy is to deceive in principle and method. This includes a lot of fake switches. In addition, several tricks were performed. Penn and Teller must decide which course of action was correct. They didn't watch it enough. Well done Kolos!!!
This was just beautiful. Like poetry - very European, smooth, and classy Old World magic.
Congrats Kolos!! Loved watching your magic!!✌️ You deserved the FU trophy -definitely fooled them!!🤯
Absolutely masterful! Wonderful presentation and inspiring magic!
The whole trick is based on a wonderfully timed slight of hand and forgery (the signature). The switch of the cards for the last part of the trick was done while Alison was signing the card, so in fact the whole time he was playing with different deck of cards (two-sided, one "old", other "new"), which he just rotates for the last part and only leaves and then takes away the first card (the "old"). He tries all the time to hide the other side of the cards, but closer look at 4:37 clearly shows that the cards are two-sided.
Good spot
That's cool but how did he transfer the signature on the 7 of diamonds that looked new too?
He also tuns the deck over at 5:11 when he sets it down but its still showing the backs when it should be face up.
Very cool! One of the best performances I've seen by far
the signature does keep changing, but how he kept replicating it was impressive.
He’s not gonna be forging cheques anytime soon. 😂
They're pre-prepared cards. Alyson's signature is well known. There was even another act on the exact same episode of Fool Us that with a performer that had a dollar bill with Alyson's signature already on it. With covid and the theater being empty, Alyson is pretty much the only participant in most acts now.
Alyson changes her signature sometimes (adds smileys etc). But the table is quite big :)
@@pawelbator No need to be cryptic about the "second guy under the table" method or some kind of signature replicator down there. The signatures are proportionally different so there's no transfer going on, and while the second guy method is a possibility, I'm going to say that didn't happen here for the following reason.
Rachel Wax's act on the very same show relied on an obviously prepared signature. I believe the producers are assisting some of these magicians with their performances (to get more people on the show, they're really starting to pad it out with repeat performers) and that Alyson has been instructed to do things in particular ways. She signed both objects the exact same way, lengthways across it and in proportion to the dimensions of it. In Rachel's case she was kind of limiting her options, but with Kolos she was already signing the card before Kolos told her how to.
@@pawelbator Actually, instead of deleting my comment I'm just gonna say... 2:36 seems to be the moment where what you are implying is happening.
This is one of the best storytelling acts I have seen
well you should really watch some more ticks 😂
I absolutely love that Penn And Teller are willing to admit that they’ve been fooled. I saw their show on Broadway years ago and LOVED it. I’ve been a fan for many years, but now I have nothing to say, but I admire both of them as people, not just magicians. I’m
One of the better cards tricks I've seen. great magic!
Congratulations! or should I say, Egészségedre!
Wow, awesome trick, my jaw got dropped at the last one. Proud to be hungarian!
I saw the sleight of hand and the moves with the grandfather trick. I saw some of it with the father's trick, but then Kolos just got incredibly smooth with it. But with the signature on the new card, that was phenomenal. Loved the performance. I think it'd be a heck of a fun time to watch a full length performance in Budapest! Bravo, Sir!
he was incredibly smooth. I did notice 3 different cards with signatures on them. The one Allison signed, the one he pulled out of the box, and the new one. All different signatures.
@@tchevrier how does he duplicate the signature?
@@AmplifyChris It's very easy to get something with someone's signature on it. Especially from a celebrity. That's not a problem. when he tried to copy them onto other cards, the signatures are not quite the same. But more importantly they are not in the same place on the cards. That's what gives that part of the trick away,
@@tchevrier i feel it would be a huge risk to pre-sign the cards with a signature they found online or from clips from p&t. hoping allison would sign the card in a similar enough size and alignment. guess it was close enough no one caught it in real time.
@@strescicca it would be a definite risk, but the signatures are different on 3 cards.
Phenomenal trick, Kolos. Congratulations!
As soon as I saw the pin on your suit, I knew you will do something amazing, congratulations 🎉❤
All three versions are absolutely perfect! Loved them all. I’ll give you an electronic trophy by a 👍.
I was impressed with the first trick, amazed by the second, and my brain broke on the last.
Such a lovely story and presentation!
I can figure out 85+% of the routines on FU and I have a very good idea about the additional 10%, but about 4% fool me on some level and less 1% totally baffle me. This is one of those. BUT, unlike P&T, I have the ability to watch this more than once, I have the ability to look at things I did not look at the first time, plus I have the ability to slow things down. After doing all of that, I did see something, but I am still completely stumped at this. What a beautiful and entertaining routine. Bravo!
What are you stumped by?
3:05 he puts to top card on the bottom of the box. The top card is her card. He put her card on the top of the deck when, after he puts her card back in the deck, he does a fan of the cards in 2 fans, then when we reassembles the fanned cards, he pinky breaks where he had dropped her card, then puts that pile on top, so that her card is on top of the deck.
Just from watching it, I noticed that Alison’s signature was different.
Incredible trick! You are so talented, Kolos! Blessings from the USA!
That was a really fantastic trick! Well done :)
all the Hungarians i personally met or know of _are_ amazing, brilliant, extraordinary, admirable . basically in all fields (science, engineering, IT, languages, arts, music, medicine, magix, a.o.) . just in pro sports, football, and olympic games they're behind . imho .
"A Hungarian is a man who enters a revolving door behind you and exits in front."
Hungarians are usually in the top 10 in the olympics, compared to the population we are 2nd or so and our football past is huge as well :D
@@fioninquo Yiep, when Hungarians peal onions, the onions cry, etc...
Penn and Teller said it many times, most of the time they catch 90% of what the magicians are doing but like they said; even though they know how the tricks were done, it's a matter of them not seeing what shouldn't be seen (eg. obvious double lift/obvious gimmick used etc). so the "fooler" job is to hide every possible "logic" regardless if P&T knows how it's done 👍 Hope it helps to those saying the signature was changing which i saw too!
What a fantastic trick! Well done!
Wow..That trick was beautiful..Smooth and so perfect.
The only thing I can think of is that the original card stuck to the new deck card and that's just a simple answer. As fir the rest of the routine the skill level is way way on another level.
When Teller's jaw drops, it's usually a Fooler.
Yup
It would be easier to transfer the signature honestly, but it's way more impressive he replicated it without been seen. That surely was why they gave him the trophy. Amazing trick
Yeah. Its a good routine, but I can't imagine that could've fooled them, unless they were just down to guessing at the specific signature method and decided to let it go, rather than have a technical judgement. The new deck reveal seemed a little sloppy, but thats pretty tough to do on camera. I can get away with that move 100% of the time, with actual people and it even looks good in a mirror, but when I watch myself on video, I always cringe. Especially when its loud, like this was 😬
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Problem is theres too many cuts in the video. But, I get why they do it. Its cool.
@@springbloom5940 Penn & Teller aren't watching it close up on youtube.
From that distance wouldn't be able to see the signature well enough.
Yes they have hand-monitors but as are looking mainly at stage would've missed it on the monitor (and don't get a 2nd chance). Teller wouldn't have that amazed look otherwise.
The "fool" doesn't have to be the act, nor even a specific trick, but just something they are unsure of. There's also an adjudicator off set & if the fool isn't really one it will be denied by the adjudicator. There's been couple acts where that's happened, as well as the several acts where Penn & Teller said they weren't fooled but it then comes from adjudicator that they were, as P&T "code words" were wrong suggestion. Alison has an ear piece & being spoken to all the time. Some of the corny line she sometimes says after the act are told to her. Though many are hers also. Been watching these (full episodes) from since before Alison started hosting, when Jonathan Ross stated hosting, & have noticed a lot re the production. As well as am in entertainment industry so know production tricks.
Must easier to notice/work out lol, than much of the magic.
I know a magician Simon Coronel who was on Fool Us & Penn & Teller weren't fooled. However Simon was given us a fool us trophy a year later (when able to go again to the U.S.) as P&T had made a wrong assumption while on-air, & realised it after the episode was recorded
I don't even think it was the signature that fooled them. That was way too obvious. First counterfeit was semi plausible and could have been missed, but the second one wasn't even close. There was something different in his handling I think they weren't able to figure out. I know I can't, but I'm no magician.
What an amazing effect changing the old deck to new, it looks like real magic.
Well done. May the magic STAY with you!
At last a hungarian and instantly a winner! ---- Gratulálok! SZÉP MUNKA!
Okay, I think most people (including Penn & Teller) noticed that each 7 of Diamonds isn’t the same (Her signature getting bolder and appearing in different spots).
The real “Magic” of it, is when he started “his” trick. Changing a whole deck of cards from old to new within a second is quite astonishing. His slight of hand game throughout the whole performance is super impressive.
Also, very curious how he got Allison to pick the 7 of Diamonds. Definitely a mind game with that, but curious as to how that worked without any psychical touch.
Great trick & magician!
Not sure how but before she said 7 of diamonds i was already looking at it.
@@vintageplanet9376 Haha same with me. For some reason I was looking at that card too, I don't know why though but I was.
@@vintageplanet9376 I wasn't xD
Amazing🎉🎉🎉🎉 I’m Hungarian an you make the country proud 🎉🎉🎉🎉❤
If I am right, London has unique busses, but I think those in Budapest must be even bigger. It is always nice to let people give a hand so you can grasp the essence of the art 😁 Very impressive and very nice work. Congratulations 👍
The signatures at 04:55 and 05:50 are totally different from the signature that Alyson did at the start.
not totally different. The style is the same. The intensity of the ink and the position on the card kept changing which lends itself to some kind of ink transfer.
@@timq6224 Disagree. The spacing between the scribbles is very small on Allyson's real signature at 2:36 while on the fake signatures the gap is big. It wasn't ink transfer.
Each A/G after grandpa looked different than what Allison signed. Especially the second one had a much thicker marker. But the new card also. Still if you can do this while performing the tricks (sign new cards) it is quite amazing.
Yeah, even I could tell the signatures were different, but having watched this a few times, I have absolutely no clue where or when he had the time to sign two cards during his routine. Just amazing trick, really.
@@henrytawnn8694 They were already signed
@@Kyrelel That would make some sense.
@@Kyrelel Already signed? How did he know it was the of diamonds to be pre signed?
Incredible magic, incredible performance! Well won!
I have always wondered something about P&T. I know that they like explaining how older acts or tricks are performed so that it inspires magicians to evolve their acts and not rely on the comfort of what came before. I always wondered what their time frame was before they considered an act or trick old enough to highlight.
If you play the handling of the cards very slowly and freeze frame at the right time, you see a friendly and magical leprechaun granting Kolos the ability to move while time is frozen. He then takes a brand new deck out of his jacket and carefully traces Alison's signature.
That, or each card is rigged. Not with a mechanic, obviously, but with the magic of the God of Misschief himself, Loki.
Magic? Here's some magic for you. Stop the video where Alyson signs the card. Then open up another browser tab with the same video but go to the part where her signature appears on the new deck. Now compare the two. Should be obvious at that point.
Alison has signed her name plenty of times before on the show. It was easy to make two cards ahead of time with crappy copies of her signature.
@@nazfrde Yes... that, or a friendly and magical leprechaun. Occam's Razer applies. The simplest answer makes more sense, hence the friendly and magical leprechaun.
If you watch it back in slow motion around 5:30 you see the old deck in one frame and then a new deck in the next, what an incredible trick.
Awesome man, congratulations! I saw a young guy doing magic tricks at lake Balaton last summer, so cool to see!
Everybody caught the fact that the signature was not the same. I guess P&T also did...But how did he replicate the signature? I didn't catch any force on the 7 of diamond, so the signature must have been replicated on the fly. This is for me how P&T didn't find any answer. There could have been a pack switch at 2:29 when during the cut on Alison signing the card. But if such a switch really happened, P&T should have caught it and then the whole trick would have become quite trivial to understand.
The signature is different. I’m surprise Penn and Teller didn’t catch that
Especially when they caught it with the woman magician who also copied Alyson's signature.
@@SnoopyDoofie I need to see or re-see that episode
compare the signatures with a video editor and you will see they are exactly the same handwriting. They are only different in intensity and position on the card, meaning the trick was done with some kind of transfer tech P&T are not aware of -- thus fooled.
the trick is just smooth and amazing, i enjoyed watching it!!!!!!! 10/10!!!!!
When I saw the deck switch to the new deck my statement was WOW that was clean! I thought then you'd pull the new deck out of the new box.....NOPE! Super clean on that too! Then the card out of the box that was new with her signature? MIND BLOWN!
If you compare the signatures they are different.
Both the signatures are DIFFERENT, he must have had an assistant under the table !
Im sure he has seen her signature before and just "tried" to reproduce it, not very well.
The signature moves on each card reveal. When she first signs it, when held sideways she dots the i in her last name just to the left of the top right diamond and on all subsequent cards the dot of the i is in a different spot. Also the size of the signature, the alignment on the card, and how bold the lines are also change.
It is obvious if oyu can pause a video, watch it on a big screen etc. Lots of people commented "oh, yea, teh signature". Like it's something really relevant... Interesting that nobody talks about the new deck, because they ahve no idea what happened...
@999slawter I wasn't pausing or inspecting under digital magnification. The copy of her signature is poorly done and I believe it is fairly obvious with some attention to detail. I'm not sure what you are saying about the "new deck". Decking switching is fairly common in card tricks. To clarify, I do like this guy's card trick, but I think it would have been a better trick for me without the sloppy signature copying...that part of the trick was unnecessary.
Brilliant story and trick! Thank you for your art!
Congratulations Kolos this was amazing!
I get so much enjoyment of seeing Teller amazed and entertained.
So, most people noticed that the last two signatures are faked (and also different from one another). As it's very unlikely that he's had 104 cards prepared, my best guess is that there's an assistant beneath the table who signed the 2 correct cards and loaded them in the box they handed to Kolos halfway through the trick, or that there's some stamp/ink-transfer tomfoolery going on. 🤔
It's really a bit of a shame that the signatures are so obviously different, the trick is amazing nevertheless but were they more similar it would have been even more effective. 😍
Anyway, the key moments of the trick, if I managed to suss them out correctly: 🕵
2:30 - offscreen deck switch from the normal aged deck to a so-called doubleback deck of cards - where each card is printed with 2 backs, in this case one side looks like an aged back of the card, the other side looks like a brand new back of the card. For the whole rest of the trick, he is using that doubleback deck, even though the reveal comes at the very end. You can confirm it's a doubleback deck for a split second here and there during closeups, at 4:37 for example.
2:40 - quick card switch to keep the signed card at the top of the deck, while he throws a random card in the middle pretending he threw the signed one.
3:06 - he quickly sticks the top card from the deck (the signed card) to the bottom of the box before he says 'allison come can you see it'
3:13 - he flips the box and pulls out the signed card from underneath
3:46 - after he places the card in the middle and starts dropping the new batch of cards from above, you can see a gap forms which stays there even after he 'squares everything up real nice'. I suppose it could be as simple as just a piece of rolled up blue tack or whatever he snuck in, just to keep that separation. At 3:52 you can barely catch he's sneaking the card out, he then cuts the deck and sticks the signed card underneath the fan of cards he makes in his right hand.
4:08 - he grabs the box with his finger beneath the left fan, and drops the signed card which he was holding beneath the right fan.
4:12 - possibly the moment he quickly ditches the box over the edge of the table? bad camera angle to catch it better 🤷
4:15 - the table is conveniently just the right height to hide his hand, which is now grabbing the new box, preloaded with 2 faked signed cards (one aged and one new). At 4:21 you can see the awkward hand position, he's holding and hiding the new box, and at 4:23 he is just revealing it.
4:55 - obvious faked signature is obvious.
5:14 - he flips the deck 180 degrees after tapping the box. So far, all the aged backs were facing up, now the brand new backs are facing up (except the very top card, which is there to hide that fact)
5:22 - just flips the box, nothing special
5:30 - he slips the very top card to the bottom and that's it. He has already flipped the deck 180 degrees 15 seconds earlier so all the other cards are facing the right way and ready to be spread out. You can actually see the aged card that he slipped from the top peeking as the second from the bottom at 5:33
5:42 - this card was also in the box since 4:15
Overall this was one of my favorite tricks on the show, very clever and wonderfully executed. Well done Kolos!! 👏👏👏
It's not unlikely that he had prepared cards at all. There have been plenty of acts on Fool Us that have gone to great lengths to have as many outs as possible, there's no reason it couldn't happen here. Alyson's signature is well known. Unless the performer specifically asks Penn & Teller to come up, they're always going to get Alyson as a participant because there's literally nobody else. There was even another act on the exact same show that used a faked signature of Alyson's that was obviously prepared ahead of time.
And it's not ink transfer going on, because the signatures are proportionally different from each other.
Hrmm... Actually... At 2:36. That does seem like he's showing the card and signature to something or someone beneath the table.
@@thesammyjenkinsexperience4996 I meant ink transfer in the way that he had a forged signature ready to be transfered to the right card, not that he transfered the ink from her signature :)
Well, the signature on the new card was different on the first sight (thicker stroke, closer the right edge), but obviously it's not that hard to fake Alyson's signature beforehand. The real question is - how was it the 7◇?
My best guess is a helper below the table loading him the correct card
more likely some kind of transparency. The signature was always the same in style, but the darkness of the stroke and the position on the card kept changing.
Well done, Kolos! Well deserved! 🏆⭐️👏🔥
Teller’s face at the end of this trick was priceless. 😂
The signature changed after the second trick (on the third trick). and was different again for the last trick. How did you all miss that?
Exactly! 😂 these people are fools!
That was quite noticeable. The last two signed cards didn’t look anything like Alyson’s signed card. I suppose Alyson would not point that out though during a performance.
Oh yeah… also, a fifty-year-old deck of cards probably would not have had a bar code on the bottom flap of the box.
@@hoopyfrood4391 Lol nice find indeed.
I didn't and posted the time s of the first and last, I did however not even think to look at the middle one DOH! Great minds and all that but yours is greater ;)
My theory is that the old deck and the new deck were the same. It was printed with ultraviolet ink. The "old" deck is shown in normal light. When the UV light shines on it, the "aged" parts light up and conceals the aging.
The deck was switched after Alison picked a card. The new deck is double sided, old on one side and new on the other. When he does the transition at the end he quickly flips the deck over.
Not a deck flip, he moved the top card (only old card left) towards the bottom. You can see it second from bottom at 5:34.
@@rdfleming I see that card, but the deck is definitely double sided. There are a couple of moments when you can see it, if you look closely. 4:37, for sure.
In which case, to make it easier and more seamless, he's probably doing both and we're both right. Instead of a quick deck flip, he has already flipped it and has one old card on top (reversed) and he's making a quick pass. Nice.
That was awesome! Congratulations!
The end I actually got somehow it was in my memory, but the middle with the card appearing in the box I just cannot understand haha loved the story loved the trick I wish I could do this level of magic it is pure class. I may add although I got the end I still dont know how you swapped things out to get there haha great job thank you for sharing this with the world!
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It was at the back of the pack not middle.
penn: the real surprise... is that you fooled us
this guy: -_- ok
(4:55) That's not Allison's signature...just saying...
Edit: (5:46) and that's also not Allison's signature.
Correct and P&T didn’t catch that
This is brilliant! Thanks for sharing. Regards from Portugal.
It amazes me how well a magician can guide a persons focus.
It was a wonderful act, congratulations my fellow Hungarian 😃😃🤩😘
I’ve been following foolers since the pandemic and this is just sorcery