+Carp Etlick first one to nail it .

that's the solution to every magic trick, what you dont see is the thousands and thousand of magicians who haven't sold their soul for that incredible luck.

This is my favorite part of the show !

Benjamin Tran yes I wish there was a compilation of their explanations to the magicians

Shhhhhh....

Dormamumu i've come to bargain

Dr Strange?

Shhhh....

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Jello Puddington You do an amazing job. Keep it up

Great use of a classic!

Tim Lutter dick

Great show! If I may be so bold to say, you didn't put the glass jar into the box and you used the 'force', to get the card into her hands. I'll leave out the how. Loved your presentation. Well done!

+Shaun Reynolds Thanks Shaun -- enjoy your weekend

Evin Sebastian Ha!

Nathan Coe Marsh awesome trick man! sure fooled me

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+Ryan Boyd so appreciated, Ryan -- glad you enjoyed it!

+oiurehj this sounds hokey, but the truth is that the secret is never as interesting as the effect...I wish (and P&T themselves have said this is one of the reasons for their interest in creating this series) that I got to experience magic without knowing the secrets -- because it can be a FAR more interesting experience, and we magicians no longer get to feel that, and it is what got us into magic in the first place... Thanks for taking the time to comment

There is some merit in knowing the secrets as well. Like P&T has shown in their own acts, you can reveal the secret to tricks without making the trick worse or less interesting. Their clear cups and balls and the liftoff act are good examples of this.

Sure -- but P&T will be the first to tell you that these are a very specific genre of trick, namely pieces where the secret is *more* entertaining than the trick itself. "Liftoff For Love" is a great example of this -- its an awful and uninteresting trick through the performance half, what gives it legs as a bit is the incredible entertainment value of watching Teller slide and spin around improbably to hit his marks. Those are rare pieces (and its the reason you won't see P&T exposing The Magic Bullet, or Shadows, as part of their show), far more often the secrets of the tricks are deflating and give you a "that was it?" feeling. Thanks for watching and commenting.

Sure, but I would still argue that knowing the secret is interesting for some people and does not break the magic. Take the Masked Magician(Val Valentino) as an example, he had a TV show where he exposed the secret of many tricks that shouldn't be exposed but watching that show made me more interested in magic and appreciate it more. I can see your line of thought tho, it might be hard for you as a magician to see a magic show from the angle of a non-magician because magic is your life, kinda. For us "mortals" that want to know the secrets but not practice them it's different. We can't look at a show from a magicians angle even if we know the secret, we will still get fooled and we will probably need to rewatch a trick multiple times just to catch things the magician do during a misdirection. I never get a "that was it?" feeling after I find out the secret of a trick even if the secret is really really simple. Heck, sometimes it just makes the whole trick better if the secret is something simple. I know that I'm not alone in thinking that knowing the secret adds to my appreciation of the trick but maybe people like me are a smaller minority than I think. With that said though, I'm not trying to persuade you to reveal the secret. Some, *read most*, magicians don't want to reveal their secrets and I respect that. It's just that, in my case, knowing the secret makes me appreciate it more. A magician once said "magic is 95% showmanship and 5% the effect or trick" and I agree with that, can't remember what magician said that tho. The secret to tricks shouldn't be revealed in the same act they are performed, but they shouldn't be guarded as corporate secrets either. Sure, some secrets could be kept so magicians can have their own original tricks.

MiniDemonic I agree. If a trick turns out to be simple, I get a "oh wow that's so clever" feeling. Also, I appreciate the showmanship that goes into tricks, whether I know how it works or not. I've watched how to do quite a few tricks, especially card tricks, and I still don't see how a new trick is done when I see it even if it only uses techniques I already "know" (at least not without rewatching many times) and it totally does not detract from my enjoyment of the trick. But of course I understand why maciacians don't like to reveal their tricks :) Its only natural.

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