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I got it. The dragon can talk because it is actually a man in a costume. Didn't fool me at all.

I love Teller's reactions to really good magic. Even when they figure out how the trick was done, he still smiles, laughs, gasps, and sometimes bounces around in his seat like a little kid. You can see it here.

I love that Teller has a wireless microphone on him given he doesn’t speak for the show…Kinda a shame cause he’s extremely well spoken and a genuinely great dude!

after second watching i realized that he didn't even shuffle and cut at all and IM ABSOLUTELY sure Teller knew it and Penn knew he knows

Penn has a deck of cards. Can you believe that?

My guess: Penn had a prepared deck of cards consisting only of diamond sevens, which Teller picked. He also had the "wrong" cards in his sleeve and pulled them out under Teller's coat to put them on the table. He switched out the prepared deck of cards below the coat with a regular one sans the 7 of diamonds to give Teller in the end.

It's refreshing to see new magicians featured on Fool Us. Looking forward to many good things from this young guy!

I see two ways this could be done: 1: an ordered deck, with 1 or more cards having a touch-based tell. Then it's just a matter of counting for Penn to figure out Teller's card and perform the rest of the story. 2: We never get to see the cards before Teller makes his selection. It could just be a deck of 7 Diamonds. Then, when Penn's hands are under the jacket, he pulls out some other cards (sleeve, plant, doesn't matter). Then, he just uses those extra cards to perform the story, knowing the whole first deck was just 7 Diamonds.

This was super cute. I felt the love and caring between them. A true friendship.

The order of the cards appeared to matter a great deal, so I am guessing it is a very advanced math-based counting trick.

The fact that Piff the Magic Dragon has been in so much stuff that they do after performing for them is amazing. I absolutely love his act and it's great to see them bring him on XD

I like that part of the show, it is so great to see Teller genuinely surprised and excited.

You look like the nicest guy, I really hope your channel grows as much as you seem to deserve. I don't usually comment on videos, but I saw that you still have not that many comments and thought it would be good to show that your work was appreciated. It's always great to watch someone with good intentions doing a great work as an entertainer. I sincerely wish you the best.

Well, given the fable you shared, I think I have to say I appreciate you doing these reaction videos. They're interesting. Thanks!

Eric leclerc said before his act was 2 bad magicians.its why they loved his act and was refreshing to see. I never knew they had bad acts.i thought only the ones we saw , were the only ones who were on the show.

I Always appreciate the bonus content

Honestly, they are so cute together. You can tell they've enjoyed their nearly 4 decades working with each other.

Seems like he can feel by touch the cards, which means they are marked. He took a very long time talking slowly and concentrating on going through the deck and accounting for all the cards that are left while memorizing them. It's very impressive and must have taken a long time to learn. This also explains how he pulls out a card from under the jacket and already knows what it is without looking.

“ I exaggerate more than anybody in the world”😂😂😂😂

As well as being able to tell which card was Teller's, he also had to identify all the "wrong" cards as well. Since his hands were covered, that was quite a feat as well. As for the fable, I have always said, "If you give a group of people a plate of cookies, someone will always annoyingly ask, 'Where's the Oatmeal Raisin?'" Good point about us being grateful as well! :-)

Watching Piff just nonchalantly eating popcorn makes this great.

AESOP: If all you have to give is lead critique then give the golden gift of _silence_

Im so glad you said that about allison, I thought I was alone in that feeling! 😂😂

I love Fool Us....best magic "series" ever

You nailed it again JP !

Love your vids!!

This trick is called "I always miss, so I never miss" created by Ramon Rioboo who passed away in 2021. It is based on the “The Black-Hole Principle,” When card is removed from a particular stack, you know about the characteristics of other cards at certain positions.

Well I’ve watched this for the first time and I’m amazed that Penn really fooled Teller with this already published effect. I love Penn and Teller but the real creator should get all the credit it is a superb stack from a great thinker in Magic.👍😊👍

Teller looks like an emoticon 😯😄😮 ha ha!

It’s really magical how the 7 of diamonds keeps appearing as the card in question 🧐

My first guess was that, since Penn never actually showed the cards in the original deck to anyone (though we did see two cards that weren't the 7 of diamonds), the original deck could have had only 7s of diamond, and then Penn did a simple deck swap under the jacket. But that doesn't explain how Penn could ensure that Teller not pick one of those two cards we saw (double-sided tape on the bottom card before the cut doesn't really solve much), and it also doesn't explain how he could ensure that Teller not accidentally see that there were multiple 7s of diamond during the selection. I'm fooled.

I love to see that look of absolute wonder on Teller's face. I've commented on a few people's videos that I view it as more of a win than the FU trophy. When he realized that Alison was talking about Penn...priceless. My first impressions: Penn's "This shuffle is for the people at home" wasn't a shuffle, and "this cut is for people at home." wasn't a cut. So basically the only out of order cards were because of Teller's cut. The way he emphasized his words sounded kinda like an "Eeny-meeny-miney-mo" and it's possible he chose his words (or rather the length of sentences) very deliberately. I'd have to re-watch to be sure, but I think he legitimately didn't know which card Teller chose, and It wasn't magic, per se, so much as math. The whole thing reminded me of a computer program. If so, it was brilliantly executed. After hearing your thoughts and Teller's (well, Piff's anyway.) I stand by my theory. There were an awful lot of red herrings that Penn pulled, but I don't think the card was forced. I don't think there was a deck switch or any sleight of hand (Teller's too clever for that and Penn, frankly, isn't good enough to pull that on Teller,) I don't think it's a special deck, or special cards, and I don't think they were marked in any way. I do think they had a special order, and he used some kind of mathematical algorithm to find the card. I can think of a few ways that I would do it, but on the whole I consider myself, like Teller, half fooled. Maybe I'm wrong and it's a deceptively *simple* trick.

Yeah like. Who gets the F and who gets the U!!! lmao, but that was very heart warming. Penn Jillette "The best a man can get!"

Brilliant effect. 👏👏👏👏👏

Cool! That was pretty unexpected

I like your micro-braille theory. I do think Penn was feeling-figuring it out with the process of elimination. I very much enjoyed your candid explanations. Getting the mind in motion in this way will lead to new ways to expand the art.

Easiest way to do it would be this: Stacked deck, half the cards are marked, false shuffle, peak at the bottom card of the deck, cuts don't influence the stacking of a deck anyway. Go through the deck until you find either 2 marked or 2 unmarked cards in a row - the one between them has been taken out. Also, if you stack it so it alternates colours, you can simply pick either of those 2 same cards in a row and they will be of the wrong colour. If you also alternate suits (D-S-H-C-D-S-H-C-...), it means that the suit after the card you've shown will not be the suit of the picked card. Now, because you've shown the adjacent card to the chosen one, as well as the one following that, knowing the stack you can figure out the missing card, so you just have to look for face or number depending on what you need (which again is fairly simple for someone like Penn in a stacked deck). The rest follows the same principle.

Well apparently that was a surprise that teller did not see coming

Penn and Teller - anything they do is *mezmerizing* l was hooked from the outset

Great video. Love your videos!! I think he did a fake shuffle they were all in order. Once they were under the coat all he had to do was count and separate piles of cards (spades, clubs, hearts, diamonds) his pulling out the king of spades was to deduce which pile of cards he had ordered under the coat and to get any reaction from Teller. This is just a fresh deck that has been fake shuffled and cut once for misdireciton. Once the cards were under the coat he could pull any card out (the top card) see his reaction and count to 13 until he arrived at a different suit and continue to do it until he deduced which card Teller pulled. No slight of hand, no force, just simple deduction and counting from a freshly new deck of cards.

My thoughts: he had 2 decks of cards, the one he showed was all 7diamonds so he could only pick 7 of diamonds, then under the jacket he swaps out the packs and uses the second pack of cards that were in order and penn just had to count out the right cards under the jacket

Penn likes keeping his tricks simple. He also likes taping things to his forearm and dealing a loaded deck.

Teller isss absolutely ADORABLE. 😃

AESOP: When your life goes smoothly its easy to forget those who made it so.

I feel like pen had a way to feel the cards to know what one is missing

i watched something somewhere, if you are good enough, you can tell each card by its weight might have been on fool us, not sure but i do remember watching it

I'm assuming it's a backwards svengali setup, or Si Stubbins, but in backwards order. The reveal seems to be similar to when you count out "color" followed by counting "number" then "matching card" (no space) and end up with the same card of the opposing suit.

When Teller is squaring the cards after picking his own, you can see the bottom card looking very much like it's the 7 of diamonds. And so might the card on the bottom of the stack he cuts off the top after that. But as soon as Penn takes the deck and starts shuffling it, it shows black cards... so if he does have a 1 card deck for Teller to pick from, when does he do the switch?

I know how penns card trick is done. Nice video bro

I'm thinking either shaved cards or clipped corners and then just a very in depth observation of that under the coat? However, to be that multi tasked while talking as you count cards would be a magic trick in and of itself. Either way, talent at it's best! These guys are Kings!

Ur content is 🔥🔥

Great video again, jason. Yes, Penn fooled us all. Maybe a bit beyond the 'simple' moral of the story, but I like your last interpretation: Don't wait till it's too late to tell someone you're grateful for, happy with them. Enjoy your pizzaS ;-)

Penn rocking those fan-backed Tally Ho! like a boss.

waiting for you to go on this show! hurry before they end it maybe

Since the cards weren’t shuffled at all, they were likely in new deck order, making it easy for anyone who could see the deck, to know which one was missing. Since Penn isn’t looking at the cards at all, and he is still pulling out the wrong cards, my guess is someone else under the table was handed the deck, and then fed Penn the cards. I just can’t think of any other way. And Penn saying it’s just you and me, “one on one,” could also be a fun clue Penn through out there. He loves talking in code.

3:17 "I exaggerate more than anybody in the world" lol

The deck was in a cyclical order. The method he used to shuffle, taking a bunch of cards from the top and putting them on the bottom, doesn't change the cyclical order, it just changes where you start in the cycle. Same with a completed cut. Both are essentially the same as taking one card from the top & putting it on the bottom, but doing so multiple times. We'd have to examine the cycle he used to say anything beyond that

Someone under the table grabs the deck while hidden by the coat, finds the missing card and feeds the show cards back up to Penn, who is pretending to count cards to give them time. Magicians so rarely have hidden help like that, that I can totally see Penn arranging it, and also getting Piff in sort of as a hint. He /might/ even have had Piff be under the table and use a pre-existing fast-travel to the back of the theater, JUST to make it more of a magician’s joke.

My first thought is that there was a mirror on the table that he used to the coat to cover and on the side teller sat on was the reflection on the lip of the table... so as he was under the coat he could pause or ramble or draw out his words as he quickly searches for the missing card.

The method is much more sophisticated than you might think. It was taken from Second Thoughts by Ramon Rioboo. The effect is called "I Always Miss and I Never Miss". The whole principle is interesting. It's available from Penguin Magic.

I played the shuffle in slow motion. That is crazy! I don’t even know how that worked. It doesn’t seem like it should work. It sounded like a shuffle. I now have to go play around with this myself.

My first thought on this trick was an assistant under the table. Penn passed them the deck while his hands are covered with the coat. They then sorted the deck quickly and passed Penn the cards he needed to make the trick work. He used the very slow cadence to his speech in the beginning to buy them some time.

Love your channel. Great trick and it is in a book by a Spanish magician. RR are the initials.

i thought it was si stebbins stack mainly because at the beginning he never actually shuffled the deck it just looked like he did and second cutting the deck doesnt shuffle the deck it just puts the break point somewhere else and picked out the 'right cards' to decipher what his tellers card was

I'm writing this directly after he finished his trick i swear . I think he had 2 Deck of card one with only seven of Diamond cards and the other one with these King , ace ....

If penn ends up doing this trick again in a future season of penn and teller fool us I want to see him do it to Alyson

One possibility is a remote RFID reader placed in Teller's jacket by the wardrobe department. Reader gets the card upon placement to jacket, relays to Penn (via radio or other means), Penn now knows the specific card and can complete the trick by knowing the undisturbed order of the cards.

Agree with you on the micro braille, he had more than enough time to search through the deck to find the card missing and identify which cards he needed to pull out to lead up to the trick. Because Teller had been given the full deck to inspect, it might have been a variation of tactile markings which is why he got half credit.

My dude. Keep this quality content up! Literally feel like I know you... Weird to say. :)

The cards have been modified in some way, let's say small cuts in the edges or glued sand so that he can know exactly what card he is touching without looking, this allowed him to order the cards back to square one thus simply finding the missing card. For this trick, not all the cards were modified which increases difficulty, thats why he had to pull all odd diamonds to then visually determine the missing card.

Late to the party, but haven't read the other comments. Pen sub-divided his predictions by colour (color), suit (soot?) etc. He could have marked the cards accordingly by those categories to quickly identify the card in question. He didn't need 52 separate markings and his hands were under the jacket for quite a while.

There is a disposition with the cards and when teller cut and take a cart cut the bottom part to the top and pen mixing look the top one and make the trick

My guess: there was someone under the table. The table has a slit to pass the deck. The person down there has a machine to go quickly through the cards and in seconds finds out what the card is. The cards are given to Penn in the exact order he needs to show them to narrow down the selected card. They might even have told him what the card was in his earpiece

I imagine the cards had a subtle texture on them for suit and number, which he could feel during his monologue to figure out what card was missing. EG he felt 13 of each suit but only 12 diamonds, and he felt 4 of each number but only 3 sevens. Then used the same trick to pick the ‘opposites’. I imagine he was talking slowly to give himself more time to find the right cards Teller was only allowed to cut the cards, meaning the order might have been forced by Penn which would make this effect much easier. For full reference, this comment was sent directly after seeing the magic itself and before Jason’s own thoughts

I like you actually guessing what you think the trick is.

I'm a big fan... Been watching your videos and enjoy it... I'm sure you get asked all the time... I think you can get on the show.. Will you try to fool Penn and Teller?

I think the middle of the deck is loaded with 7 of diamonds, and Penn's story-telling cards are in order at a certain known position at the time he produces them. Penn's shuffle and cut "For the people at home" are totally fake and the order of the deck is preserved. Teller's cut is near the middle, so we know the cards are in sequence from around the middle to the end, and from the top to around the middle. Penn spreads the cards out, exposing mostly middle-to-bottom cards, and Teller pulls from near the bottom. So Teller is pulling from around the centre of the original deck. Teller cuts the deck again, almost cleanly in the middle, so the deck is now mostly in the original order, but with a few cards at the top or bottom which need to be swapped to the other side. You can see Penn hastily swapping cards around before asking for Teller's jacket. With the Jacket over Penn's hands, he just needs to queue up his story card sequence, which he'd know the position of by observing the cards beforehand. Rummaging around under the jacket is just misdirection. Another piece of evidence that supports my theory is that when Teller scrapes up the deck he just picked from, ready to do the second (real) cut, it looks like the card right on the bottom is also a 7 of diamonds.

Jason, any response to the question "When will you React to ASI WIND's stellar performance on Fool Us from their 2019 Christmas episode that aired 6 months ago?" ?

Teller picks a card, Teller cuts the deck (We see 7 of Diamonds and know it's been cut into the ~middle of the deck), Teller takes his jacket off while Penn shuffles the deck in his hands. Everything after doesn't really matter. - Penn can't have snuck anything into Teller' jacket unless its very light (ie. no deck inside his jacket) - Teller sees the cards from start to them being put under the jacket. - Penn says he half-fooled him. My guess: The deck isn't shuffled by Penn initially, and merely reset to their original place. What supports this, is if you go frame by frame when we see a close-up of Penn' shuffle, we see 3 of Clubs and 4 of Spades. The cut is 'real' - as in he probably puts exactly one half on top of the other and the cards are now back in their original order. So when Teller cuts, the trick is now for Penn to figure out where Teller has cut the deck. Note that when Teller puts the card in his pocket, he touches it with 6 fingers across the entire card. When Penn spreads out the deck (Penn touches the cards) and Teller picks a card - Penn can get a hint about the cards if they're marked here; but he'd have to fool Teller with it (but that might be the half he didn't fool him with). Penn touched the cards four times while spreading the deck with a flat hand - you feel for marks with you fingers. Remember that Teller has only cut the deck and picked a card - meaning that if the deck was in original order, it'd now have been cut and has a card missing. When Teller takes off his jacket, Penn shuffles the cards and looks at the deck + some cards at 2:44 after doing something with the deck 3-4 times in front of Teller. After this, the jacket is over his hands and he needs to have completed the trick. Conclusion: Marked cards is only possible, if they're small enough to fool Teller. But it seems like the best solution; Penn took almost 2 minutes hiding the deck under the jacket before revealing the first card. If he knew where the card was in the deck, it'd have taken him 5 seconds - but because this is the simplest and best solution, I believe it's a red herring. I actually believe Penn fooled Teller with his shuffles in front of his face - and I believe him having to take off his jacket and be moving while Penn handles the cards is the key. We see him do something with the deck 3-4 times but I believe he did something at least 5 times: We see Penn take a half out of each deck and look at each card - each time he does this, assuming the deck is in it's original order - he sees which two halves of the deck currently he is holding before cutting it. He then does it with one half of the deck, looks at the cards and resets the deck to the original order and repeats with the other half. He now knows 8 cards and which ones are out of order: 1) Sees one half' cards (each containing 1/4 of the deck) and checks if any are out of order. Let's say Penn sees a card out of order in one of these 1/4 of the deck cards - he now knows that quarter contains the card, because the removed card makes that pile 1 card thinner and when the half is cut, one of the cards has switched places and a new card is in the other half. He now knows which half of the deck the card is in. 2) Repeat, now he knows which 1/4. 3) Repeat, now he knows which 1/8. 4) Repeat, now he knows which 1/16 5) Repeat, now he knows which 1/32 6) Repeat, now he knows which 1/64 - and sees the card Teller picked. That's 6 shuffles - we do see 3-4, so we could easily have missed two because of camera. TL;DR Probably not marked. When Teller removes his jacket, Penn cuts the deck while looking at the cards and then figures out which card it is.

I think the main thing is that there are several ways it could have been done, and it's really hard to work out which one it is. For example we only ever see that there is a 4 of spade, 3 of clubs and an 8 (or 7) of diamonds (the card on the bottom of the deck you see after Teller takes his card) in addition to the 7 of diamonds Teller takes. We don't know the rest of the cards. Interesting to note is that the 8 or 7 of diamonds was the bottom card before teller completes the cut after he pulled his card from the deck (you can see it in the video). This is either some kind of coincidence that the 8 was on the bottom, or the deck could have been mostly 7 of diamonds duplicates with only a few other cards that Penn then knows and can identify. The trick could have been done by being made up of fifty 7 of diamonds cards with two others, and just hoping that teller doesn't take the 4 of spades or the 3 of clubs. There are several rules that Penn gives but I think most of these are just misdirection. Including the fake shuffles, which may not have been necessary, they could have been just to try and misdirect Teller.

I think he had two decks. One was all the same card except two cards in which he shows at the bottom of the deck while cutting/shuffling. The second he snuck under the jacket (or slipped in before the trick) that was organized so he couldn't alway pick the opposite color, suit, etc. Then revealed the card.

I have an idea. Penn didn't do a shuffle, and he only asked teller to cut. Meaning he couldve used a stack and all the cat does is circle the decks. If for example every card adjacent to every card was oppossite color (meaning black red black red) he can use the cards around the card to draw information. I am not sure about the specifics and I will try to attempt to create a stack like that, I don't even know if its possible, or it may be but penn used a different method entirely, but It will be a fun experiment for me.

I think this trick involves the order of the stacked deck, what makes it fun is Penn vs Teller.

I think in some cases the questions during the deliberation are prepared with the magician, so they have something to talk about, to bridge the time with some banter, or as a fallback if they're nervous... although i reckon some of them get so nervous that they even forget those prepared questions/answers, and that could get *real* awkward... kinda like that ending of the segment...

He did buy a LOT of time while his hands were under the jacket. Maybe raised bumps like you suggested?

Crazy idea

That what I was thinking too. I would assume he used a roughing-stick to have a set number of dots at the top-left / bottom-right corners of the cards. Awesome trick.

Teller knew it was Penn before Allyson announce Penn name. The way he turn to Penn

Penn was talking very slowly at the beginning of the trick when his hands first went under the jacket. That might have been because he was trying to talk while also feeling the cards and that takes a lot of concentration

Penn didn't actually shuffle or cut the deck in the beginning, and with the two cuts that Teller did, the deck would be pretty close to how it was at the start of the trick. My guess is he sorted the cards into suits if they weren't already, and then worked out which one was one short of a full suit. Proceeded as necessary.

Oh your idea is FAR more probable than mine!

Marked deck, chased order. Possibly a custom chased type order.

8:24 Penn did say that the trick he was doing was pretty procedural, he was definitely doing something with his hands under the jacket, and he was speaking in a weird pattern (as if he was saying a word per card taken off the top, for example. What that could be? I have no clue, but that's my only guess.

My thoughts were exactly the same I thought it might be some sort of Braille

we want that special HMMMM effect :D

There's quite a few ways to mark cards in a deck trimming in the Trading Card Game (TCG) I play, card casings sometimes come miscolored and they're cut unevenly so yeah... Also I still think your fables are cool.

I know I'm late to the game for commenting on this, but I have a few notes. Remember that Penn gives the deck to Teller after the trick, and Teller takes the deck back to his seat. If the cards were all alike, I'm pretty sure Teller would have noticed. If there were tactile clues, like bumps or cuts, they would have had to have been extremely subtle. If you want my opinion, this reminds a lot of a similar trick by Woody Aragon. I know P&T are big fans and friends with Woody, so it would not surprise me if Woody taught Penn this variation of his trick. I don't know if there is a way to PM on this format, if there is, hit me up and I'll tell you exactly where I saw this from Woody.

I assume it's a stacked deck. Like CHSD order. Whenever you only cut cards then the stack doesn't change. Plus you can literally see and hear him count off cards under the jacket.

How I think it was done before I listen to your explanation: The deck is gimmicked. So every other card feels different and since the deck is never shuffled you know that the missing card is between two cards that feels the same. So Penn just have to locate that point which is why he takes a long time to extract the first card. From there on there are several ways to go forward. I assume the deck is red, black, red, black etc. If he has memorized the deck, the first card after Teller's selection will tell him Teller's card. And from there on Penn can just find any deck he wants by counting. And if Penn doesn't want to memorize the deck, it might be set up in a way that every N card is the correct card to show Teller. A setup would require every two cards to switch colour. Every four card to cycle through the suits. Every four cards to go up one value. Which seems quite possible to pull off.