Penn did not shuffle the cards, just made it look like he did. When cards cut he you see him look at the bottom card, he knows the order, so he now knows how many cards in his hand. The person hiding under the chair also knows the order, so when Penn says the amount of cards, he then knows what card to put in the large trick pack to hand to Teller.
I think the same exact trick was done on Jimmy Kimmel's show some years ago. Penn then cut on 27th card, which means the trick is not about being halfway through the deck... Although I suspect in this trick, Penn, in fact, was not juggling!
I dont know how they did the trick, but if i had to recreate it, i would try and make the deck stacked in a certain order and peak the bottom of the top stack, and then id know how many are in my hand. Then aslong as teller also knows the pattern, just does the same process i did backwards, and add one. For example if the deck was factory order, and the peeked card is a queen of spades, you know that whats left is Jack-Ace, which is 11 cards, so you have 41 cards in your hand, and if your partner says he has 41 cards, you know that the top card is #11 in the sequence, which is the Jack of Spades, then you float that card out of the bought deck. Obviously it wouldnt be factory order, but theres plenty of stacks that have a pattern of some type that you could memorise, i personally use the Sti Stebbins stack pretty often
Penn 100% knew the order of the cards. And his "shuffle" wasn't random. So he still knew after he did that. But I do think he was able to tell how many cards he had by weight. And since he knew the order, he could subtly signal to Teller which card it was.
@@DraggadonsDen if you know the order, you know how many cards by looking at the one face up. Also Tellers deck is prob same order, so he just had to take out card #36
Penn did not shuffle the cards, just made it look like he did. When cards cut he you see him look at the bottom card, he knows the order, so he now knows how many cards in his hand. The person hiding under the chair also knows the order, so when Penn says the amount of cards, he then knows what card to put in the large trick pack to hand to Teller.
My buddy Si Stebbins used to do a similar trick.
LOVE !
This is one of those tricks that is so entertaining, I don't even want to know how it's done, I just want to enjoy it.
I think the same exact trick was done on Jimmy Kimmel's show some years ago. Penn then cut on 27th card, which means the trick is not about being halfway through the deck... Although I suspect in this trick, Penn, in fact, was not juggling!
I dont know how they did the trick, but if i had to recreate it, i would try and make the deck stacked in a certain order and peak the bottom of the top stack, and then id know how many are in my hand. Then aslong as teller also knows the pattern, just does the same process i did backwards, and add one.
For example if the deck was factory order, and the peeked card is a queen of spades, you know that whats left is Jack-Ace, which is 11 cards, so you have 41 cards in your hand, and if your partner says he has 41 cards, you know that the top card is #11 in the sequence, which is the Jack of Spades, then you float that card out of the bought deck.
Obviously it wouldnt be factory order, but theres plenty of stacks that have a pattern of some type that you could memorise, i personally use the Sti Stebbins stack pretty often
Penn 100% knew the order of the cards. And his "shuffle" wasn't random. So he still knew after he did that. But I do think he was able to tell how many cards he had by weight. And since he knew the order, he could subtly signal to Teller which card it was.
@@DraggadonsDen if you know the order, you know how many cards by looking at the one face up.
Also Tellers deck is prob same order, so he just had to take out card #36
Wonderful! Brilliant, not least because it's true.