Come now. Everyone was in on this trick. They probably have ear pieces that tell them which cards to stop on and what numbers to choose. Its an entertainment show after all.
@@Andytlp I found the explanation in less than 10 seconds instead of jumping to conclusions and making false accusations: watch?v=FhnKCKNbVnY Magic is entertainment, yes, that doesn't mean it's staged. This is even a self working trick, I can't imagine how you'd feel if you saw one that requires some skill. You're going to say it's fake just because you can't figure it out?
That look on Teller's face when someone gets past him is all the joy. You can see the lights go on as he realizes he's lost the thread and he loves it. :)
His look of "... heeeeeyyyy..." is the kind of second-hand joy that I personally love to see. Because watching someone get even that tiny glimmer of childlike wonder is so heartwarming, but so very rare in our current world.
Not related to magic but I ones saw Tracy Chapman perform in Cambridge Mass. She was playing on the platform and I remember saying to my self "she should be in concerts some where". About 2 years later I would see her on the idiot box live. It was crazy seeing her so humble and fresh.
naw life doesn't work out like that he prob went on with his own life long before they made it. People got their own life to live can't be following around others who are making it in life or you'll get no where. He made his own life and it seems like he did well for his self. Had he followed them around waiting for his hand out his life wouldn't have turned out the way it did. He wouldn't have been standing up there with two great friends being his own man had he followed them around he'd be in some hotel room watching them on TV bitching about how they used him and let him go type of shit. @@SBJ84
The second trick to me seems pretty simple, with the deck divided into bunches of 11 - where the Queens and Aces are in positions 10 and 11 of each bunch. When you count down from ten and then put aside what ever was remaining, the sum is always ten (10 - n) + n = 10 for all values of n. And then you set aside the right card in position 11. You need the eleventh card because if you went down to 1 you would have nothing to count out and it would immediately give away the trick if the last card in the bunch was the one that always was added out. But as for the first trick is a true head scratcher... no idea!
Choose a number 1 through 4, 16 possible combinations. Additionally he gets to see the numbers they choose prior to allowing them to choose so if needed he could pick for them. I suspect that the same card is strategically placed in the deck at locations that allow him to manipulate the numbers they tell him to get where he needs to be. Penn counted out 23 cards and then placed the 24th face down, so had the number chosen "at random" had been 24 then he tells them to place the 24th card as the choice. In the video there was another red seven in the pile, I suspect it was the 12th card in the case that 11 or 12 is the chosen number and had we seen more cards I suspect the same would have been true in the 30s and 40s
I thought Teller was making a cheeky nod to the fact that that was obvious to him by letting the count go down to 2, any further and the trick is ruined
How can any professional (performer, entertainer, any kind) be so classy and so hilarious at the same time? This act was like watching a cheeky, playful little child with the manners and the experience of a 65 year old. Funny, magical, class act, it had it all!
I had to watch this twice. Not because I was fooled, which I was, but because Chris is probably the top 10 most charismatic magicians I’ve ever seen. I’d kill to have a dinner and drink with this guy just to hear stories. What a boss ass master of his craft.
Seriously. Just watching this guy work and hearing him talk was enchanting. Some magicians when they do their bits, it's entertaining and endearing because they're clearly performing and doing a bit and they're very good at it. The way Chris talks is just disarming. I've never met the man or seen him before, but just watching this clip, my brain is going. "That's my buddy. This man is my friend. My friend is just talking with me and joking with me a little bit. I want to listen to him."
@@AngelicusImmortus Count ALL the cards he puts down in every pile, when he says 10, you count 1, His 9 = Yours 2 and so on. Then ad the cards in the "decided number pile" He counts 10, 9, *8* (You 1, 2, 3) He then counts *8* "decided" cards from the remaining he holds in his hand. 8+3=11... Next pile. 10, 9, 8 and so on until, lets say 5. (That is 6 cards on the table). Ad 5 to that, you'll have 11. You will always ad up to 11, no matter where they stop.
Yeah I have to imagine they were tricked by the first one and not by the second. I picked up the service one on the first number when he put down the remainder cards. But the first trick, everything seemed like free choice and he didn't interact with anything from what I could see.
Chris Capehart is seriously a genius. His comical approach and personality had me chuckling. Not only that, but the way he talks and how he chooses what to say completely shows he's a genius. Pure skill right here.
@@volodyanarchist Me too, dude...but I suck at math, but I love how any number times nine the addition of the sum always adds up to nine. I`m GenX so Ogre had a great deal of influence on my comment.
Yeah, the counting down part was simply just setting the deck up before hand with the cards set up in the same order every 10 cards (Never trust a magician when they say they aren't going to shuffle or cut the cards). If you say stop at 9, he's already dealt out 1 card and then he deals out 8 more cards, then places the 9th for 10 total. If you say stop at 4, then he's already dealt out 6, then he deals 3 more, and then places the last for another 10 total. The 7 definitely stumped me though, and he deserves the trophy for that one.
This is how the trick is done, but it's 11 cards, not 10, otherwise the deck wouldn't add up to 52. Kings (4) plus the Master series at the end (4). 52-8= 44/4=11. The part where you got the number wrong is probably because he counts from 10 so you assumed 10 cards, but you forgot about the card he's placing down. If you stop him at "10", he places that card down, and then counts to ten with new cards, making eleven total. If you stop him at 1, he's already counted through 10 cards to get to 1, then he counts out the 1 for eleven. In the example below, the top row is the number he's saying as he places cards down, and then the bottom row is the number of cards he's already placed. 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 + 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 ------------------------------------------- 11, 11, 11, 11, 11, 11, 11, 11, 11, 11 No matter which one you stop on, it adds up to eleven.
@@Lreclusa yeah, he's only screwed if they say stop at 1, not with the queens in this case, but with the ace. Since in that case he would have discarded the ace and would only have the queen left. You can see it at 5:30 with the last set of the 4, he even get's slower at the end, because he knew, at 1 he would have to improvise xD. But since it was stoped at 2, he could place the ace and the queen.
@@Shadoom90 no, because the number he's saying out loud is the number he's counting to lay the last one down to the queen. So when he's stopped at 1, the ace will still be the last one laid down before the queen, because it'll be the one he's laying down as he says "1". Try the trick for yourself. Take the kings out and line them up, place every tenth card as Ace and every Eleventh card as queen. Count backwards as you lay them down, and choose any number 1-10 to start counting back up from. The last two will always be ace/queen no matter what.
Ive dabbled in tricks before, but I will ALWAYS love seeing something that I cant even attempt to guess the tricks used. I have NO idea how this was done and that makes me so happy lol
Simple maths. Notice he didn't shuffle the deck at all when he pulled it out of the pack. They were all exactly where they needed to be. Had he counted up instead of down, this would be a mind bender. Counting down, however, always ensured the same result. The Queen was the 11th card, always. The Ace was 10th.
@@newdohl That was so easy, I got that from watching him once. The only thing I see, it must have been that thing with the shoes at the beginning that fooled them
@@camillecomeau6939 its cause they know him, these tricks were some of the more simple ones i've seen this guy do. Penn and Teller always let their friends "fool" them and they have had magicians who claim they did fool Penn and Teller but they did not get the trophy.
@@SocialPerspective101 if he had 4 of 7H in the deck, where are they at the end? Might be a switch due to a editing, but I doubt PT didn't notice this IRL.
This was one of the most entertaining trick. The showmanship itself is amazing and the execution was fabulous, and it kept that awe on faces of Penn and Teller too. PS: The shoes were there to steal the show and they did.
There are so many professions in the world..Magicians, sportsmen, actors etc and there are so many fantastic human who are masters at their craft. Crazy world. Crazy talent. Amazing stuff.
why did it fool you? he gave them 4 different possibilities. he said pick a number between 1 and 4. there's only two numbers. 2 and 3. so the possibilities are 22, 23, 32 & 33. You see how the first two are 1 number apart and the other two are also 1 number apart? all he had to do is deal 1 extra card or keep the one he already dealt. so in total there are two possibilities...depending on which one he would turn the deck the other way because there are 7 sevens in that deck. It was as forced as it could be. The second trick was plane awful. He just dealt the same number of cards no matter what. It's magician's choice but poorly executed there's no way they didn't realize that.
@@alexaras5767Lol. When someone says "think of a number between 1 and 100" you realize 1 and 100 are still in play right? Why are you so confident in writing something so pathetically wrong?
@@SirSamsung The aces are the hard part for sure but they still could have been bottom delt or something similar. The first part of the trick has me absolutely stumped though.
@@SirSamsung 2) Unless I'm missing something, I'm pretty sure the Aces were _not_ at the STOP position. 5:11 He counted 11 cards. The Aces were in the 11th position, and the Queens were in the 10th.
Last half of the trick: he's previously stacked the deck before the trick (he even says he's not going to shuffle or interfere with it). By counting down the cards from ten into a pile until the volunteer says "stop" then counting the rest of the cards *up* into another pile until he gets to that number again, he's really just counting out ten cards every time with extra steps to obscure what he's doing. All he's done is stack the deck so the aces/kings/queens are in the correct positions, then counted them out into four piles.
I saw this dude at The Magic Castle in Los Angeles. This dude is INSANELY good. Watching him up close doing his tricks, I left in utter awe of what he did when I'm 2 feet away from him. I saw a lot of magicians that night but this guy, I'll never forget.
@@iswm That's not a thing. They have enough diversity among their honest and true foolers, they don't need to gift trophys to any minority to keep diversity or something like that. If anything, it was a friendship trophy because as you heard he'd been their personal friend for many years now. But you know there is a Jury behind P&T, right? I don't think they'd allow simply handing out trophies for nothing.
If you stop at 9 counted backwards (10,9), then count 9 forwards, it's the same as stopping at 3 counted backwards (10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3), and then count 3 forwards. There are 11 cards in between each queen. That's simple math.
That must've sent that guys emotions into overdrive being called the greatest street magician Penn has ever seen. Loved his energy he seems like a great guy.
There is no way P&T did not know how these were done (force on the first deck memorizing position, placing an AandQ every 10th spot in the second deck full of blanks). This is just respecting their old friend, and gratitude for the purple kicks.
What? I mean: what? How? I mean... I am not a magician myself, so I have a completely different mindset than P&T and this isn't the first trick that fooled them but not me, but... this one was so damn obvious... I mean... that Siegfried Tieber and that one Rock, Paper, Scissors trick both worked on a mathematical principle that I as a mathematician recognized instantly (both on the same one, to be precise) so I understand why I got those but P&T didn't. But this one... How did they not understand this trick? It could be included in a "my first card tircks" book for children, so very basic was the method of this. It's very, very hard to believe that fooled them. Either they were expecting a trick that complicated and refined that they didn't even think of any easy way, or... but they are not allowed to gift trophies. The Jury hears every word they discuss and I'm quite sure they'd intervene if P&T said "Well, he didn't fool us but let's pretend and hand him a trophy because he's our friend...", wouldn't they? Anyway, Chris is hell of a performer and how he does this trick, even if the method is simple as hell, is very comvincing and funny. I really believe he's hell of a street magician and his first fool was very awesome. I just don't get it how he got away with this one...
Yes, others above have explained how both parts of the trick work, and they're both actually pretty simple forces. You're right about the 2nd part of the trick (every 10th card is an Ace and every 11th card is a Queen - though I see some people saying that they're every 9th and 10th card. Doesn't really matter either way). And for the first part, he just needs a 7 of Hearts in the 24th position and another in the 44th position, then depending on which numbers they choose, he can either have Penn count from the top or the bottom of the deck, and they would always end up at the 7 of Hearts - notice how they actually had the number 23, so Chris just had Penn count out 23 cards and then the NEXT card was the one they actually used. Also notice that he didn't shuffle the deck first, which clues us into the fact that he needed the cards to be in certain positions. He can just make a couple slight adjustments depending on the numbers they pick, and I think psychologically, the most common combination people would pick would be 23 or 32, and he would handle it accordingly. But if they had a different combo (11-14, 21-22, etc.), there happen to be four Jokers in the deck (2 on top and 2 on bottom), and if he needed to, he could've made them remove the Jokers in order to make it work, and I'm sure he had a funny line prepared for that potential situation. No matter what, he would force them to get to the 24th or 44th position.
Always loved Penn and Teller as a kid since the early 90's it's cool to still see them around and they haven't changed one bit. Just two stand up guys making the world laugh.
Teller is awesome. I was riding my longboard in Las Vegas near my home and I saw him coming out of the Jewelry & Minerals shop on Sahara Blvd right next to Sahara Casino. He was carrying a giant crystal geode he just bought. It looked super heavy. I said “Hey! Teller! You’re the man!” And instantly felt bad because he looked my way and made sure to say thanks, all while struggling to carry the giant thing. I’m surprised the store owners didn’t help him out somehow. But he shows love to his fans
Penn and teller literally gave this dude a trophy because theyre friends with him and they trying to help him out, they didnt even guess, both tricks are extremely extremely easy, the 2nd one is a trick that 8 year olds would learn as a first magic trick. both are "forces". Read below for how he did it. 1st trick: The deck is 57 cards; four jokers (2 on top and 2 on bottom) + two 7 of hearts (one in spot 24 and one in 44). depending on the numbers they choose he will tell them to reveal from the top or the bottom, when the jokers are revealed he may ignore them or will say "wait, we need to remove the jokers", finally when they get to the number chosen he will either say thats your card or "the next card is the card". if their number is: 24 - count to 24 and put the 24th card down 23 - count to 23 put the next card down (24th) 22 - oops jokers we need to remove those (2 jokers removed from top) count to 22 put it down 21 - oops jokers we need to remove those (2 jokers removed from top) count to 21 put next card down. they count from bottom instead if the number is 11-14 (hitting the bottom 7) or 31-34 (hitting the top 7). if the number is 41-44 they count from the top hitting bottom 7. 2nd trick: he is counting cards down to 10 and when they stop him he still counts down to 10 and puts the 10th card at the bottom of the king (the 10th card is always the queen), the 9th card is always the ace and is now on top of the last cards burned. the deck has a total of 44 cards in it. the remaining 4 cards (you only left me with 4 though!) are there not because they chose to leave him with 4 but because he literally counted down to a predetermined number regardless of when they told him to stop.
SPOILERS - the second trick was easy and has been explained by others. I agree it could not have fooled Penn and Teller. The first trick is also easy once you realize the deck has 55 cards in it and not 52. The deck includes both jokers (you see one at 2:27). It also includes a second copy of the forced card in position 41, which is why he didn't want Penn to look at the rest of the cards. It's a multiple out force. With a 55 card deck, counting 32 from the top brings you to the same card as counting 23 from the bottom. The same is true if you counted 41 from the top versus 14 from the bottom. Depending on the selection made by the audience, the magician merely instructs them accordingly so as not to reveal that the deck has two forced cards.
First of all, they actually got to the 24th card... which is also the 32nd card in the other direction. That still means there are 55 cards. Second, how do you get all 10 combinations? The card revealed in the trick covers 23, 24, and 13 (read as 31). A second one at position 44 seems like the most optimal; that would cover 11, 12, 34 (read as 43) and 44. That's still only 7 total. It seems like you'd have to put in at least 2 more 7Hs and that's getting awfully risky. I feel like there must be something else going on. Also, if this is truly the whole secret, he got really lucky that they picked 23/32, the only combination that allows the spectator to choose the order of the two numbers, and I'm sure P&T will be furious when they find that out.
It's magician's choice - multiple outs - force. All of the 7s are at the bottom of the deck. You're right , they got to the 24th card, meaning 2/3 and 2/4 just got covered by magician's choice. That also covers 3/1, 3/2 counting from the bottom (face down please). 11 from the bottom = 44 from the top, etc. @@just_some_commenter
The Ace and Queen part is fairly straight forward, just counting down with cards in place. No matter what number they stop him at, it always totals the same amount of cards laid out at the end, so they just have to have the cards needed in those places. Illusion of choice.
No, Penn and Teller were genuinely fooled here. Maybe, just maybe, they would have been a bit lenient the first time. But Capehart already had won a Fool Us trophy with his baloon trick in an earlier episode. They wouldn't have given him a second one unless they really couldn't figure the trick out.
the first half got me. the second half was obvious: count down from 10, placing down one card at a time. If you stop at 6, you have placed down 4 cards so there are 6 left to count down. you always count out 10 cards, and the 11th card can be whatever you want it to be. there wasn't any choice. One thing to note about the first half: there are only 16 amounts of cards to place down: 11, 12, 13, 14 21, 22, 23, 24 31, 32, 33, 34 41, 42, 43, 44 not sure how he used this, but it's possible that he put a repeating set of cards in those spots and put random ones in the rest of the deck to limit the options to 4 cards maybe, but idk how they wouldn't have noticed the repeats.
Explain? easily sleight of hand? NO! Theres no skill in this trick! Its the rigged deck it has no other way to turn out! 11 - x + x is always a total of 11 4x11 is 44 card, 4 kings is 48 cards plus the 4 in hand it wont ever be anything else. noticed the deck was not shuffled? Very low quality trick anyone watching can do this after setting the deck up! Its appalling a "magician" would do such a trick let alone on tv! first trick my what a bulky "empty" bag well empty apart from the thing in there that shouldnt be there the machine that dropped the card! thats why he had to hold it on his lap, so Teller knew this i how it was done! So another free pass or again im a better Magician than both them together!
Have you been submitting your auditions to get on the show since you say "or again im a better Magician than both them together!"? Would love to see you up there. And no magic on your channel. Let's see some of your skills. Start posting videos. Stop with the talk and prove it with action. If not then go stand in the corner and shut your pie hole ;)
@@RealButFake No, he's saying that since the trick is nothing more than a classic stacked deck routine that every magician in the world is familiar with, either Penn & Teller gave their friend a free pass, or the folks who have figured it out in the comment section are better magicians than Penn & Teller.
Appearing on Penn & Teller for most magicians results in more and better paying bookings. People have literally gone from a modest income to a very good income just from appearing on the show. Winning a "Fool Us" trophy increases that and often they can then start to pick and chose which events and places they want to perform at. It also opens more doors and more respect with other high level magicians. However, for those who are already at top who already have those things - it gets them professional recognition (especially if they win more than one) which is more meaningful than money at that stage.
For the first trick I think it is this or close to it. Using any two number combo of 1234 will always get you to position 14,24, or 41 in the deck. I think he has duplicates in those positions. You have a flexibility of +-1 because you can tell them to discard that number or choose the card of that number. You just have to cut the deck or tell them to deal from the bottom or top, to make it work. Notice how he interrupts Penn at card 13 and the camera pans away for 13-15. If you pause at 2:49 you can see a red seven which not any of the other cards shown on camera. So if it is a 56 deck, the card was actually position 24(52 cards + 2 jokers+2 duplicates) and they choose 3+2, discard 31 from the bottom or cut it and tell them it is card 32 (56-32=24) or remove 23 from the top. If it is 41 or 14 there duplicates in those position, so if they choose 2+4 that's position 24 or 42(56-42=14) the 14th position. If they choose 3 and 1, that is 31 or 13, again 14 or 41 since you you have a +-1 one card. You tell them this time to discard 31 or 13 instead of saying it is at that position.
"when I used to scam, oh oh i meant fool people" hehehee i respect the hustle brother, and best magic trick i have seen in years true master at your craft
For the first time I think I figured out the trick before they finished the trick. He told us when he joked with teller. But he is great can't believe they didn't know this
being called the greatest street magician Penn has ever seen is probably a higher honor than any trophy
Agreed 100%
Come now. Everyone was in on this trick. They probably have ear pieces that tell them which cards to stop on and what numbers to choose. Its an entertainment show after all.
@@Andytlp seems like that would hurt the integrity of the show, and Penn & Teller seem to have a lot of integrity.
@@Andytlp I found the explanation in less than 10 seconds instead of jumping to conclusions and making false accusations:
watch?v=FhnKCKNbVnY
Magic is entertainment, yes, that doesn't mean it's staged. This is even a self working trick, I can't imagine how you'd feel if you saw one that requires some skill. You're going to say it's fake just because you can't figure it out?
@@Andytlpdoubt it. Not that they would be beyond deceit, but it just isn’t required for the trick to work.
That look on Teller's face when someone gets past him is all the joy. You can see the lights go on as he realizes he's lost the thread and he loves it. :)
@karlwithak. Who cares. Most annoying voice ever.
His look of "... heeeeeyyyy..." is the kind of second-hand joy that I personally love to see. Because watching someone get even that tiny glimmer of childlike wonder is so heartwarming, but so very rare in our current world.
imagine Richard Turner and Chris playing cards.....
Imagine time traveling to see those three grinding on the streets of Philly back in the day
Not related to magic but I ones saw Tracy Chapman perform in Cambridge Mass. She was playing on the platform and I remember saying to my self "she should be in concerts some where". About 2 years later I would see her on the idiot box live. It was crazy seeing her so humble and fresh.
Imagine coming up on the street with Penn and Teller then they get a break, leave you behind and they become rich.
By what messure do you assume he was "left behind"? He appears do be doing well and is quite happy by what I could see.@@SBJ84
Steel sharpen Steel:).
naw life doesn't work out like that he prob went on with his own life long before they made it. People got their own life to live can't be following around others who are making it in life or you'll get no where. He made his own life and it seems like he did well for his self. Had he followed them around waiting for his hand out his life wouldn't have turned out the way it did. He wouldn't have been standing up there with two great friends being his own man had he followed them around he'd be in some hotel room watching them on TV bitching about how they used him and let him go type of shit. @@SBJ84
When Teller looks perplexed but enjoying the show it means its a wonder trick
" You're making noises, you're not supposed to make noises. " lol
Lol. When he said he didn't have an extra queen - and the look on Teller's face - I had a feeling he was going to win the trophy.
@@johnthegiant320Teller's such a blabbermouth.
The second trick to me seems pretty simple, with the deck divided into bunches of 11 - where the Queens and Aces are in positions 10 and 11 of each bunch. When you count down from ten and then put aside what ever was remaining, the sum is always ten (10 - n) + n = 10 for all values of n. And then you set aside the right card in position 11. You need the eleventh card because if you went down to 1 you would have nothing to count out and it would immediately give away the trick if the last card in the bunch was the one that always was added out. But as for the first trick is a true head scratcher... no idea!
Choose a number 1 through 4, 16 possible combinations. Additionally he gets to see the numbers they choose prior to allowing them to choose so if needed he could pick for them. I suspect that the same card is strategically placed in the deck at locations that allow him to manipulate the numbers they tell him to get where he needs to be. Penn counted out 23 cards and then placed the 24th face down, so had the number chosen "at random" had been 24 then he tells them to place the 24th card as the choice. In the video there was another red seven in the pile, I suspect it was the 12th card in the case that 11 or 12 is the chosen number and had we seen more cards I suspect the same would have been true in the 30s and 40s
Yeah I noticed that also, their choices don't matter. maths!
I thought Teller was making a cheeky nod to the fact that that was obvious to him by letting the count go down to 2, any further and the trick is ruined
@@bbfire29 Not ruined. If you go down to 1 in any of the piles, you just don't do the extra Ace reveal. The Queen is still right where it should be.
Will you go to Vegas with me sometime? if you are still allowed in Vegas that is. lol
How can any professional (performer, entertainer, any kind) be so classy and so hilarious at the same time? This act was like watching a cheeky, playful little child with the manners and the experience of a 65 year old. Funny, magical, class act, it had it all!
You described it perfectly!
Teller making noises killed me 😂
He speaks in this episode. At the end
I had to watch this twice. Not because I was fooled, which I was, but because Chris is probably the top 10 most charismatic magicians I’ve ever seen. I’d kill to have a dinner and drink with this guy just to hear stories. What a boss ass master of his craft.
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He's got such a pleasant and easy-going manner. Really one of the most agreeable people to watch.
Keep an eye on your watch and wallet!!! lol Seems like an awesome guy..Would be a blast to hang out with.
Seriously. Just watching this guy work and hearing him talk was enchanting. Some magicians when they do their bits, it's entertaining and endearing because they're clearly performing and doing a bit and they're very good at it. The way Chris talks is just disarming. I've never met the man or seen him before, but just watching this clip, my brain is going. "That's my buddy. This man is my friend. My friend is just talking with me and joking with me a little bit. I want to listen to him."
You'd kill? Fucking freak
He's so relaxed and not afraid to call them up.
Well he has known them for years and he's been performing for most of his life lol
First trick is interesting. Second trick relies on P&T being bad at math.
Okay, explain...
@@AngelicusImmortus Count to 11 ?
I just understood the second trick because of your explained it 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
@@AngelicusImmortus
Count ALL the cards he puts down in every pile, when he says 10, you count 1, His 9 = Yours 2 and so on.
Then ad the cards in the "decided number pile"
He counts 10, 9, *8* (You 1, 2, 3)
He then counts *8* "decided" cards from the remaining he holds in his hand.
8+3=11...
Next pile. 10, 9, 8 and so on until, lets say 5. (That is 6 cards on the table). Ad 5 to that, you'll have 11.
You will always ad up to 11, no matter where they stop.
Yeah I have to imagine they were tricked by the first one and not by the second. I picked up the service one on the first number when he put down the remainder cards.
But the first trick, everything seemed like free choice and he didn't interact with anything from what I could see.
Gotta love this man! Warm personality, calm demeanor, charisma, stage precense and a bag full of tricks... He's got it all!
Chris Capehart is seriously a genius. His comical approach and personality had me chuckling. Not only that, but the way he talks and how he chooses what to say completely shows he's a genius. Pure skill right here.
2:36 “homeschooled?” That joke deserved a bigger reaction
I'm was homeschooled and thought it was so funny. I had to rewind that bit.
@@mattd3993 "I'm was homeschooled" We can tell. 💀
I think no one heard what he said because he's talking over Penn when he's not expected to, now that I watch it back I can hear it.
ah! I initially thought he said "old school' - homeschooled makes way more sense.
....I thought he said "old school"?
His best trick is how smooth he is on stage. He was flawless and a natural ..Wish there was more Chris Capehart’s in the world
i actually think that is his worst trait, he didn't seem smooth to me.. but the trick was awesome
The first trick is awesome. The second one is trivial. I understood it by the first "stop".
(11 - x) + x = 11
Nerd 😉
@@ninjacrumbs More of a geek. But thanks non-the-less.
@@volodyanarchist Me too, dude...but I suck at math, but I love how any number times nine the addition of the sum always adds up to nine. I`m GenX so Ogre had a great deal of influence on my comment.
I was kinda dissapointed in that
It's the Aces I can't see.
Yeah, the counting down part was simply just setting the deck up before hand with the cards set up in the same order every 10 cards (Never trust a magician when they say they aren't going to shuffle or cut the cards). If you say stop at 9, he's already dealt out 1 card and then he deals out 8 more cards, then places the 9th for 10 total. If you say stop at 4, then he's already dealt out 6, then he deals 3 more, and then places the last for another 10 total. The 7 definitely stumped me though, and he deserves the trophy for that one.
This is how the trick is done, but it's 11 cards, not 10, otherwise the deck wouldn't add up to 52. Kings (4) plus the Master series at the end (4). 52-8= 44/4=11. The part where you got the number wrong is probably because he counts from 10 so you assumed 10 cards, but you forgot about the card he's placing down. If you stop him at "10", he places that card down, and then counts to ten with new cards, making eleven total. If you stop him at 1, he's already counted through 10 cards to get to 1, then he counts out the 1 for eleven.
In the example below, the top row is the number he's saying as he places cards down, and then the bottom row is the number of cards he's already placed.
10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
+ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
-------------------------------------------
11, 11, 11, 11, 11, 11, 11, 11, 11, 11
No matter which one you stop on, it adds up to eleven.
the only trick in the entire bit then is switching the deck out for white cards at the end. @@Lreclusa
@@PickUps he didn't switch the deck at all. The deck was always white cards. It's a prearranged deck, so it doesn't matter if it's mostly blank cards.
@@Lreclusa yeah, he's only screwed if they say stop at 1, not with the queens in this case, but with the ace. Since in that case he would have discarded the ace and would only have the queen left. You can see it at 5:30 with the last set of the 4, he even get's slower at the end, because he knew, at 1 he would have to improvise xD. But since it was stoped at 2, he could place the ace and the queen.
@@Shadoom90 no, because the number he's saying out loud is the number he's counting to lay the last one down to the queen. So when he's stopped at 1, the ace will still be the last one laid down before the queen, because it'll be the one he's laying down as he says "1". Try the trick for yourself. Take the kings out and line them up, place every tenth card as Ace and every Eleventh card as queen. Count backwards as you lay them down, and choose any number 1-10 to start counting back up from. The last two will always be ace/queen no matter what.
This man's character is humbling like a yogi, mysterious like a magi, and powerful like a samurai! Truly an amazing card act 🙌🏽 Bravo 👏🏽
This was great from beginning to end. He's such a showman, you can tell he earned his experience on the streets.
Ive dabbled in tricks before, but I will ALWAYS love seeing something that I cant even attempt to guess the tricks used. I have NO idea how this was done and that makes me so happy lol
Simple maths. Notice he didn't shuffle the deck at all when he pulled it out of the pack. They were all exactly where they needed to be. Had he counted up instead of down, this would be a mind bender. Counting down, however, always ensured the same result. The Queen was the 11th card, always. The Ace was 10th.
@@newdohl You are definitely correct.
@@newdohl That was so easy, I got that from watching him once. The only thing I see, it must have been that thing with the shoes at the beginning that fooled them
@@camillecomeau6939 its cause they know him, these tricks were some of the more simple ones i've seen this guy do. Penn and Teller always let their friends "fool" them and they have had magicians who claim they did fool Penn and Teller but they did not get the trophy.
@@newdohl can you explain how it works?
I had the chance to talk with him for a few minutes at a convention as well as see him perform on multiple occasions. He's a true master of the art.
One of the best and smoothest act ever 👏🏾
This was absolutely wholesome. Loved it.
Only a master can leave the mute guy speechless.
Fantastic! Excellent trick and great delivery! Outstanding magician!!
I saw this guy at the Magic Castle in LA (had a teacher who was also a magician who hooked us up), really stellar performer!
count down then count up always the same.
but the seven of diamonds was a miracle.
14, 23, 32, 41 are only possibilities. U saw d best version. If 2 select same fingers, he would tell u to make the digits different.
@@SocialPerspective101 if he had 4 of 7H in the deck, where are they at the end? Might be a switch due to a editing, but I doubt PT didn't notice this IRL.
@@nazarstriletski3753 They gifted him a trophy... !
@@SocialPerspective101 briliant! the deck was pre-arranged.
13 and 31 too
I love the background. This trick was also very well performed & fun to watch! Love you Chris 🤟🙌🫶
This was one of the most entertaining trick. The showmanship itself is amazing and the execution was fabulous, and it kept that awe on faces of Penn and Teller too.
PS: The shoes were there to steal the show and they did.
I love this show for many reasons- it gives a boost to the career of many magicians. And if they win, they get some time performing in Vegas.
He read my mind I thought this guy is not Chinese :) loved the act
Master Magician and Class Act! 🔥
Now that was awesome!!! Just loved it!!!
This performer is a Grandpa that everyone loves❤...🧙🏿♂️🧙🏿♂️🧙🏿♂️
Second trick is so simple yet is well hidden within the performance. So cool!
There are so many professions in the world..Magicians, sportsmen, actors etc and there are so many fantastic human who are masters at their craft. Crazy world. Crazy talent. Amazing stuff.
And they all the same suits. And the sense of humor is immaculate. Bravo 👏
The second trick was beautiful in it's simplicity and brilliantly performed.
The first one fooled the heck out of me 😊
why did it fool you? he gave them 4 different possibilities. he said pick a number between 1 and 4. there's only two numbers. 2 and 3. so the possibilities are 22, 23, 32 & 33. You see how the first two are 1 number apart and the other two are also 1 number apart? all he had to do is deal 1 extra card or keep the one he already dealt. so in total there are two possibilities...depending on which one he would turn the deck the other way because there are 7 sevens in that deck. It was as forced as it could be.
The second trick was plane awful. He just dealt the same number of cards no matter what. It's magician's choice but poorly executed there's no way they didn't realize that.
@@alexaras5767 1) they also could have chosen 1 or 4
2) the aces were in the position where Penn and Teller said "stop"
@@alexaras5767Lol. When someone says "think of a number between 1 and 100" you realize 1 and 100 are still in play right? Why are you so confident in writing something so pathetically wrong?
@@SirSamsung The aces are the hard part for sure but they still could have been bottom delt or something similar. The first part of the trick has me absolutely stumped though.
@@SirSamsung 2) Unless I'm missing something, I'm pretty sure the Aces were _not_ at the STOP position. 5:11 He counted 11 cards. The Aces were in the 11th position, and the Queens were in the 10th.
I love such minimalistic tricks
what a great, great act, loved every second of it
So much to love about this entire video
"you can go now" *micdrop* WOW!
First trick like this, where I don't care how it's done. It is plain greatness.
Absolutely amazing trick. Excellent.
Love how secure he is. Amazing performer
Last half of the trick: he's previously stacked the deck before the trick (he even says he's not going to shuffle or interfere with it). By counting down the cards from ten into a pile until the volunteer says "stop" then counting the rest of the cards *up* into another pile until he gets to that number again, he's really just counting out ten cards every time with extra steps to obscure what he's doing.
All he's done is stack the deck so the aces/kings/queens are in the correct positions, then counted them out into four piles.
Yeay, but that first trick though!
Yeah, how do people not get this?
No he didn't, legit he did magic. Real magic. Like a magical magician
I just commented the same, albeit less eloquently.
I'd love to have been a fly on the wall, backstage, when these folks met up to talk.
I will love to watch the secrets behind these tricks. They are magical.
I saw this dude at The Magic Castle in Los Angeles. This dude is INSANELY good. Watching him up close doing his tricks, I left in utter awe of what he did when I'm 2 feet away from him. I saw a lot of magicians that night but this guy, I'll never forget.
Sorry, I'm confused why they gave him the trophy. I'm confused about ELEVEN times.
diversity trophy
@@iswm That's not a thing. They have enough diversity among their honest and true foolers, they don't need to gift trophys to any minority to keep diversity or something like that.
If anything, it was a friendship trophy because as you heard he'd been their personal friend for many years now. But you know there is a Jury behind P&T, right? I don't think they'd allow simply handing out trophies for nothing.
@@ThamiorSilberdracheThey have given it to people they know for being 'good' and not fooling before...
Everyone knows how the second trick was done - its basic. The first trick on the other hand is harder to figure out.
If you stop at 9 counted backwards (10,9), then count 9 forwards, it's the same as stopping at 3 counted backwards (10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3), and then count 3 forwards. There are 11 cards in between each queen. That's simple math.
Shhhhhhhh
yes I'm thinking the same. this is just like a kids trick
I was amazed!!! So good!
That was amazing. Totally brilliant!
"Obviously you have issues".... This was awesome
😂
Bro this was amazing! Great tricks and so spectacular! ^_^
Wow, amazing trick and great friendship , loveeet!
That must've sent that guys emotions into overdrive being called the greatest street magician Penn has ever seen. Loved his energy he seems like a great guy.
That was so awesome.... Everything about it!
This is so beautiful
Thank you
~Good wholesome fun
Thank you for bringing some light to the internet x
What an entertainer Chris Capehart is!! Ageing just like fine wine.. 👏👏👏👏
There is no way P&T did not know how these were done (force on the first deck memorizing position, placing an AandQ every 10th spot in the second deck full of blanks). This is just respecting their old friend, and gratitude for the purple kicks.
I has to be more about swapping out the deck to blanks? Maybe they couldn't figure out when that happened.
He is simply the best of all - what a charisma!!!
Chris has the best threads! Great magic too :)
Wow... blown away by his trick and his personality.
Steven, you are a really good person to help like this and SMART keep it up,I am glad I found you. TAKE CARE
That first trick is sick, i figured out how he did it, but its still sick!!!
What? I mean: what? How? I mean... I am not a magician myself, so I have a completely different mindset than P&T and this isn't the first trick that fooled them but not me, but... this one was so damn obvious... I mean... that Siegfried Tieber and that one Rock, Paper, Scissors trick both worked on a mathematical principle that I as a mathematician recognized instantly (both on the same one, to be precise) so I understand why I got those but P&T didn't. But this one... How did they not understand this trick? It could be included in a "my first card tircks" book for children, so very basic was the method of this. It's very, very hard to believe that fooled them. Either they were expecting a trick that complicated and refined that they didn't even think of any easy way, or... but they are not allowed to gift trophies. The Jury hears every word they discuss and I'm quite sure they'd intervene if P&T said "Well, he didn't fool us but let's pretend and hand him a trophy because he's our friend...", wouldn't they?
Anyway, Chris is hell of a performer and how he does this trick, even if the method is simple as hell, is very comvincing and funny. I really believe he's hell of a street magician and his first fool was very awesome. I just don't get it how he got away with this one...
It's the first part of the trick that fooled them
That may have been the greatest card trick I have ever seen! Just... WOW!
It took me way too long to get it, or too short, because for an enjoyable but short time I really was convinced he was a master of the mind
Is it just me, or they didn't shuffle the cards and every 10th card he put on top of the kings.
Yes, others above have explained how both parts of the trick work, and they're both actually pretty simple forces. You're right about the 2nd part of the trick (every 10th card is an Ace and every 11th card is a Queen - though I see some people saying that they're every 9th and 10th card. Doesn't really matter either way). And for the first part, he just needs a 7 of Hearts in the 24th position and another in the 44th position, then depending on which numbers they choose, he can either have Penn count from the top or the bottom of the deck, and they would always end up at the 7 of Hearts - notice how they actually had the number 23, so Chris just had Penn count out 23 cards and then the NEXT card was the one they actually used. Also notice that he didn't shuffle the deck first, which clues us into the fact that he needed the cards to be in certain positions.
He can just make a couple slight adjustments depending on the numbers they pick, and I think psychologically, the most common combination people would pick would be 23 or 32, and he would handle it accordingly. But if they had a different combo (11-14, 21-22, etc.), there happen to be four Jokers in the deck (2 on top and 2 on bottom), and if he needed to, he could've made them remove the Jokers in order to make it work, and I'm sure he had a funny line prepared for that potential situation. No matter what, he would force them to get to the 24th or 44th position.
First time I’d ever seen Teller break. Charisma in spades this guy awesome bit, would love a special someday🔥
I have to say that is the smoothest card trick I've ever seen.
Always loved Penn and Teller as a kid since the early 90's it's cool to still see them around and they haven't changed one bit. Just two stand up guys making the world laugh.
Teller is awesome. I was riding my longboard in Las Vegas near my home and I saw him coming out of the Jewelry & Minerals shop on Sahara Blvd right next to Sahara Casino. He was carrying a giant crystal geode he just bought. It looked super heavy. I said “Hey! Teller! You’re the man!” And instantly felt bad because he looked my way and made sure to say thanks, all while struggling to carry the giant thing. I’m surprised the store owners didn’t help him out somehow. But he shows love to his fans
Penn and teller literally gave this dude a trophy because theyre friends with him and they trying to help him out, they didnt even guess, both tricks are extremely extremely easy, the 2nd one is a trick that 8 year olds would learn as a first magic trick. both are "forces". Read below for how he did it.
1st trick: The deck is 57 cards; four jokers (2 on top and 2 on bottom) + two 7 of hearts (one in spot 24 and one in 44). depending on the numbers they choose he will tell them to reveal from the top or the bottom, when the jokers are revealed he may ignore them or will say "wait, we need to remove the jokers", finally when they get to the number chosen he will either say thats your card or "the next card is the card".
if their number is:
24 - count to 24 and put the 24th card down
23 - count to 23 put the next card down (24th)
22 - oops jokers we need to remove those (2 jokers removed from top) count to 22 put it down
21 - oops jokers we need to remove those (2 jokers removed from top) count to 21 put next card down.
they count from bottom instead if the number is 11-14 (hitting the bottom 7) or 31-34 (hitting the top 7). if the number is 41-44 they count from the top hitting bottom 7.
2nd trick: he is counting cards down to 10 and when they stop him he still counts down to 10 and puts the 10th card at the bottom of the king (the 10th card is always the queen), the 9th card is always the ace and is now on top of the last cards burned. the deck has a total of 44 cards in it. the remaining 4 cards (you only left me with 4 though!) are there not because they chose to leave him with 4 but because he literally counted down to a predetermined number regardless of when they told him to stop.
Oh oh…it’s magic, we know! 🤣
But what if they said 11, 31, 13, 14, or 41 there would be 7's everywhere.
What a freaking talent! And those shoes are kick ass!!
That was very entertaining! Wishing you all the best and thans for fooling them again haha
SPOILERS - the second trick was easy and has been explained by others. I agree it could not have fooled Penn and Teller. The first trick is also easy once you realize the deck has 55 cards in it and not 52. The deck includes both jokers (you see one at 2:27). It also includes a second copy of the forced card in position 41, which is why he didn't want Penn to look at the rest of the cards. It's a multiple out force. With a 55 card deck, counting 32 from the top brings you to the same card as counting 23 from the bottom. The same is true if you counted 41 from the top versus 14 from the bottom. Depending on the selection made by the audience, the magician merely instructs them accordingly so as not to reveal that the deck has two forced cards.
First of all, they actually got to the 24th card... which is also the 32nd card in the other direction. That still means there are 55 cards.
Second, how do you get all 10 combinations? The card revealed in the trick covers 23, 24, and 13 (read as 31). A second one at position 44 seems like the most optimal; that would cover 11, 12, 34 (read as 43) and 44. That's still only 7 total. It seems like you'd have to put in at least 2 more 7Hs and that's getting awfully risky. I feel like there must be something else going on. Also, if this is truly the whole secret, he got really lucky that they picked 23/32, the only combination that allows the spectator to choose the order of the two numbers, and I'm sure P&T will be furious when they find that out.
@@just_some_commenterby telling the person to get rid of the jokers when needed
It's magician's choice - multiple outs - force. All of the 7s are at the bottom of the deck. You're right , they got to the 24th card, meaning 2/3 and 2/4 just got covered by magician's choice. That also covers 3/1, 3/2 counting from the bottom (face down please). 11 from the bottom = 44 from the top, etc. @@just_some_commenter
Only plausible if the counting is done with the cards faced down.. do take a good look at the first trick again
@@lionelkeks1074 If the other number was selected, then he would have given a different instruction to Pen.
"They're thinking: He's not Chineses!" xD
The Ace and Queen part is fairly straight forward, just counting down with cards in place. No matter what number they stop him at, it always totals the same amount of cards laid out at the end, so they just have to have the cards needed in those places. Illusion of choice.
One of the better card tricks I've seen featured on this show.
This is very impactful for the general crowd but should be very easy for professional magicians. I think they just conceded it
diversity trophy
Yeah, it was a free pass. They were nice to their old friend despite the obviousness of the stacked decks. I guess we can allow them that!
@@iswm Thanks for giving me the creeps.
@@leechap3 I'm sorry to hear that reality creeps you out.
No, Penn and Teller were genuinely fooled here. Maybe, just maybe, they would have been a bit lenient the first time. But Capehart already had won a Fool Us trophy with his baloon trick in an earlier episode. They wouldn't have given him a second one unless they really couldn't figure the trick out.
the first half got me.
the second half was obvious:
count down from 10, placing down one card at a time.
If you stop at 6, you have placed down 4 cards so there are 6 left to count down.
you always count out 10 cards, and the 11th card can be whatever you want it to be.
there wasn't any choice.
One thing to note about the first half:
there are only 16 amounts of cards to place down:
11, 12, 13, 14
21, 22, 23, 24
31, 32, 33, 34
41, 42, 43, 44
not sure how he used this, but it's possible that he put a repeating set of cards in those spots and put random ones in the rest of the deck to limit the options to 4 cards maybe, but idk how they wouldn't have noticed the repeats.
This man is a blessing
Chris Capehart should be a name known throughout the world. Respect the Master.
Explain? easily sleight of hand? NO! Theres no skill in this trick!
Its the rigged deck it has no other way to turn out! 11 - x + x is always a total of 11 4x11 is 44 card, 4 kings is 48 cards plus the 4 in hand it wont ever be anything else.
noticed the deck was not shuffled? Very low quality trick anyone watching can do this after setting the deck up! Its appalling a "magician" would do such a trick let alone on tv!
first trick my what a bulky "empty" bag well empty apart from the thing in there that shouldnt be there the machine that dropped the card! thats why he had to hold it on his lap, so Teller knew this i how it was done!
So another free pass or again im a better Magician than both them together!
Hey dude. What is not cool.
I still don't get it.
Have you been submitting your auditions to get on the show since you say "or again im a better Magician than both them together!"? Would love to see you up there. And no magic on your channel. Let's see some of your skills. Start posting videos. Stop with the talk and prove it with action. If not then go stand in the corner and shut your pie hole ;)
@@RealButFake No, he's saying that since the trick is nothing more than a classic stacked deck routine that every magician in the world is familiar with, either Penn & Teller gave their friend a free pass, or the folks who have figured it out in the comment section are better magicians than Penn & Teller.
Yeah, it was a free pass. They were nice to their old friend despite the obviousness of the stacked decks. I guess we can allow them that!
one of the best ones ive seen
I hope these guys get more than a trophy for being on the show!
Trophy winners get a five-star trip to Las Vegas and perform the opening act for Penn & Teller's show at the Rio Hotel & Casino.
@@vanmonroe4346 awesome! Good to know..thanks 👍
@@richeneflowease3622 😁✌️
Appearing on Penn & Teller for most magicians results in more and better paying bookings.
People have literally gone from a modest income to a very good income just from appearing on the show.
Winning a "Fool Us" trophy increases that and often they can then start to pick and chose which events and places they want to perform at. It also opens more doors and more respect with other high level magicians.
However, for those who are already at top who already have those things - it gets them professional recognition (especially if they win more than one) which is more meaningful than money at that stage.
Best card trick I have seen.
What a showman! Great great performance!
So good,this trick was awesome
Congratulations on the great performance
This is the best magician I have ever seen on Fool Us. Have watched his act a few times and he is so good.
For the first trick I think it is this or close to it.
Using any two number combo of 1234 will always get you to position 14,24, or 41 in the deck. I think he has duplicates in those positions. You have a flexibility of +-1 because you can tell them to discard that number or choose the card of that number. You just have to cut the deck or tell them to deal from the bottom or top, to make it work. Notice how he interrupts Penn at card 13 and the camera pans away for 13-15. If you pause at 2:49 you can see a red seven which not any of the other cards shown on camera.
So if it is a 56 deck, the card was actually position 24(52 cards + 2 jokers+2 duplicates) and they choose 3+2, discard 31 from the bottom or cut it and tell them it is card 32 (56-32=24) or remove 23 from the top.
If it is 41 or 14 there duplicates in those position, so if they choose 2+4 that's position 24 or 42(56-42=14) the 14th position. If they choose 3 and 1, that is 31 or 13, again 14 or 41 since you you have a +-1 one card. You tell them this time to discard 31 or 13 instead of saying it is at that position.
This was a delight to watch.
Love how not only Teller but also Penn both light up
He is truly a master!
"when I used to scam, oh oh i meant fool people" hehehee i respect the hustle brother, and best magic trick i have seen in years true master at your craft
Excellent tricks!
For the first time I think I figured out the trick before they finished the trick. He told us when he joked with teller. But he is great can't believe they didn't know this
a teacher at Raymond hill in new Britain showed me this trick back when I was in middle school. thanks for reminding me.