Penn & Teller's M&M Faceoff - Matt Baker

Penn & Teller's M&M Faceoff - Matt Baker - Fool Us Season 10

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5 ай бұрын

Will Penn & Teller fool themselves with a bag of M&Ms? Watch Matt Baker's performance on Penn & Teller: Fool Us to find out!
Two-time Greater Atlanta Magician of the Year and Georgia Tech Professor of Mathematics Matt Baker challenges Penn and Teller to play a game with M&Ms and predict the outcome themselves! Will Penn & Teller's predictions come true? Will they fool themselves in the process? Watch the video to find out!
"Unequivocably a great trick... You created a really beautiful thing."
-- Penn Jillette
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-- Teller
S10, E5 "The Bill-In-Penn's-Head Trick", Air date: December 1, 2023
For more about me and my magic, see www.mattbakermagic.com

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@freemagicfun 5 ай бұрын

I love Teller's look at 5:06. He knows he picked the 2, but has not yet shown us. He is already deep in thought trying to figure it out. 😎

@tobyfitzpatrick3914 4 ай бұрын

I think you're wrong. He knows he _didn't_ pick the 2, and is wondering how it's gonna end up 'turning' into a two.

@scottm85 4 ай бұрын

Yep, electromagnetic dice and or cup is what I believe he's hinting at. The rest is math, David Copperfield did this as a card trick thirty years ago on cbs. Still fun to see a new take on it

@JohnDoe-ol3yz 4 ай бұрын

@@tobyfitzpatrick3914 I was thinking that would sorta be cheating. I think what happened is, somehow the color of those disks changed to whatever would give Teller a 2 pt advantage. The color of the disks were not revealed until after the m&ms were decided.

@tobyfitzpatrick3914 4 ай бұрын

@@JohnDoe-ol3yz That's a possibility, but maybe too complicated. Have a read of my Observations in the post above.

@Blu3ManiC 3 ай бұрын

@tobyfitzpatrick3914 no I think he picked the two already but is doing the math in his head to see if he had another mathematical out or if there's a magnet that would have always changed it to two.

@mattjantzi1814 5 ай бұрын

The real magic here is having 20 M&Ms in one snack sized pack!

@drewclinton4304 5 ай бұрын

lol

@2-minutephysiatry506 5 ай бұрын

How many are there, normally ?

@joebloggs2534 5 ай бұрын

@@2-minutephysiatry506I dunno I eat them all in one lol

@DustinPlatt 5 ай бұрын

According to the company: "You can expect to receive 17 M&M's in a “Fun Size” bag of M&M's. You can also expect that to vary by 1 M&M. The lowest amount of M&M's you can expect to receive in a “Fun Size” bag is 15 M&M's. The highest amount of M&M's you can expect to receive in a “Fun Size” bag is 19 M&M's."

@kingcosworth2643 5 ай бұрын

@@DustinPlatt Sounds like the company is confused regarding tolerances...

@Ylyrra 5 ай бұрын

I feel the real magic here is the sleight-of-face to hide the arithmetic you're doing in your head while you talk. Loved the framing of the trick using concepts everyone can understand, Georgia Tech students are lucky to have someone who can demonstrate the concepts so cleanly and clearly.

@garychap8384 5 ай бұрын

This one took me a while to figure out. I immediately understood the interchangeability of the M&Ms... but, man, the disk colours really got me : ) Ended up coding up a little simulation to test a few variations and that let me see where the trick was. It's absolute genius once you figure it out. It's just such a shame that this superb trick didn't get through - especially when the '3 card monty' had previously won a fool-us trophy : / This trick deserved the win SO much more... but I don't think he should have mentioned mathematics quite so much. Without the unnecessary rationalisation, it would have been an absolute mind-bender. Almost felt like REAL magic for a moment.

@AgiHammerthief 5 ай бұрын

what really impressive every time is Teller coming up with his Code Talk on the fly.

@zbrenhz 5 ай бұрын

I don't think Matt had to do the math in his head. When handing out the winner/loser stickers, he quickly looks at the back of the paper, where I believe he has all the variations to double-check the order of things and the number of things to add (this time I believe 1 green) during the magical moment of the trick

@jluck1590 4 ай бұрын

Teller is the one who doesn't talk@@AgiHammerthief

@nitedk 3 ай бұрын

@@AgiHammerthiefalso, they come up with it together while the magician talks to the hostess. The length of the interview is edited down.

@JoshuaWillis89 5 ай бұрын

This trick just became an assignment for my stats students. lmfao

@sailaab 5 ай бұрын

The respect, admiration in Teller's eyes for you.. and your humility and graceful presentation.. has us inspired Professor

@garychap8384 5 ай бұрын

Yeah, that was a near-perfect magic trick. It's a shame we knew his background was in mathematics though... without that, it was an absolute mindbender. In fact, I doubt I would have figured it out if it wasn't for the math clue. That made me think about the interchangeability of the M&Ms and how the disk selection altered things... and once you start pondering, you can drill down and isolate the trick. Still, it's bloody impressive - really deserved the win.

@michaelrichter9427 5 ай бұрын

Winner or no, that was a staggering work of beauty. Well done.

@nevenmazic 5 ай бұрын

Great performance Matt! Shame that they were not fooled 😥 I was definitely fooled even though I saw your lecture about this exact, or at least similar trick at The Session 2023 😅

@PoshakDua 5 ай бұрын

Had the honour of watching this Trick live !! it’s mind blowing ⚡️ And Matt is one of the kindest person you’ll ever meet.❤

@CB-xr1eg 5 ай бұрын

"one of the kindest *person* ??

@ParkinT 5 ай бұрын

Yes. Matt Baker is a great guy.

@rmhartman 4 ай бұрын

was there a different margin?

@stevenospam4216 5 ай бұрын

Loved it! Thanks, Professor Matt!

@davidstorrs 5 ай бұрын

Mind blowing. Wow. Thank you for sharing.

@michaelgordon8813 5 ай бұрын

Amazing! Great performance, Matt!!!

@crestfallenraven 5 ай бұрын

OUTSTANDING! So many smiles. Thanks so much. What a gorgeous procedure -- tricky indeed (I sure don't get it) ... greatly entertaining!

@roger1011 5 ай бұрын

Go Jackets! Congrats on making it to the show. Penn and Teller have always been my favorite Magic duo. Hope to meet you one day!!

@Bob-bs3ev 5 ай бұрын

Lots of fun to watch. Had me fooled. Thanks

@richardwiese9054 5 ай бұрын

My gracious, beautifully done!!

@playmotion.trailer 13 күн бұрын

now THIS is magical ! I loved it and the originality ... and Teller's face ! Bravo !

@GuilhermeCarvalhoComposer 4 ай бұрын

That is an excellent trick, so many things along the way proving it's completely impossible. Well done!

@Rrashescostas 5 ай бұрын

A very cool and amazing trick. I couldn't take my eyes off it

@themagicbuzz5728 5 ай бұрын

What looked like it may be a convoluted trick turned out to be entertaining as all heck! Well done 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

@edblitch3549 5 ай бұрын

Wow. Definitely fooled me Matt! Great routine.

@jmbeckers5512 5 ай бұрын

Great and very smooth performance ! Congrats.

@CalebWilesMagic 5 ай бұрын

Awesome job! What a fooling trick!

@bethedagramling 5 ай бұрын

That was really fun. Thanks

@Bevator 23 күн бұрын

Was able to vaguely understand how the trick worked untill the dice had two on it, had my jaw dropped.

@JimmyIchihana 2 ай бұрын

Bravo! Great performance!

@oopswrongplanet4964 5 ай бұрын

I saw how you cheated: 1/2 of the M&Ms were actually W&Ws.

@tuck2727 5 ай бұрын

fabulous

@RealRickCox 5 ай бұрын

Did you have a special connection with the people packing those M&Ms?!? I can't think of another way to do the trick. Very well done.

@Mike__B 5 ай бұрын

Well I immediately know this trick started with loaded M&M bags because there's zero way you get that many M&Ms in one of those Halloween candy sized bags.

@emergentform1188 4 ай бұрын

Wow, crazy complex trick I'm guessing, so wild they figured it out geez. Love it!

@freemagicfun 4 ай бұрын

They tend to get the complex, because they think that way. Some of the simple tricks fool them (check out Moxi fooling them with an over the counter trick deck - great performance, though).

@Tamoetaddieme 5 ай бұрын

Very special performance. Really impressive❤❤

@peterlee3016 5 ай бұрын

you can change the rules after you see how they distribute the m&m's

@leszeknowak9434 5 ай бұрын

Amazing trick! 💚 Even when I'm good at math, even when I sat down I thought about possible ways of doing this... I stil don't see full picture (& I want to left it at this status). Matt, great job! :) Cheers from Poland

@karen-kn3om 5 ай бұрын

What an amazing trick, i loved it.

@Liriq 17 күн бұрын

You can see Teller's brain on fire

@jensenat 5 ай бұрын

With the only assumption that the M&M bags are all props with the same number of pieces of the same colors, I could make some math work, but there was still a few "random" things that would make the math more complicated than what I wanted to spend time thinking about this trick. Well done Sir.

@shaidyn8278 Ай бұрын

Yeah at this point any time I see a magician give participants a choice of sealed and branded items I just assume they've been opened, fixed, and resealed.

@thomasking9524 Ай бұрын

Its like a shuffle resulting in a mixed deck. Why would you?

@Defossion1 5 ай бұрын

Pause at 4:39 - Given what's on the table, you can distribute the M&M's any way you want and Teller always wins and the margin is always 2. The mechanics grip he used to open the candy package means he revealing his chosen candies, not a random set from inside a sealed bag. He knows what arrangement of candy to use because the electronic dice (available at any magic store) told him Teller's chosen number via a thumper. He did a great job though--his sleight of hand was great!

@edward9643 5 ай бұрын

Are you saying that teller didnt originally choose the die to be 2?

@flparg2 5 ай бұрын

If l get this right he is saying that the dice told him what number was chosen and then he swapped the pack to match the difference. Any way this is pretty fun

@stantheman143 5 ай бұрын

@@edward9643 No no, teller chose the 2, but the dice 'told' the magician that it was in fact - 2. So from that point on he could set up the game as he wanted.

@samiraisanen5831 5 ай бұрын

And why are you telling every thing that you know or might know😅😢😂

@edward9643 5 ай бұрын

@@stantheman143 still don't quite get it

@sjinzaar 5 ай бұрын

It's the prediction on the dice that throws me... ❤

@dustindoesstuff374 5 ай бұрын

Remember that Penn referred to that as an “electric” moment. Since Teller doesn’t speak on stage, it’s safe to assume the die was gimmicked.

@esta7763 3 ай бұрын

True. Teller never actually states whether he originally set the die to a 2 or not. We only know when he lifts the bowl it's on a 2. Watch his face as he lifts the bowl. I think Teller knew what happened but the audience doesn't.

@branchwhitney2140 5 ай бұрын

Very nice. You fooled me!

@jupitermoonacres 4 ай бұрын

Really liked this trick!

@EweChewBrrr01 3 ай бұрын

That was awesome. I was positive you had them fooled by the look on Teller's face knowing that he had chosen the 2. His mind was processing what was happening. I really like the cryptic style they give with the explanations of how it's done. Sorry mate that you didn't get through. You had me thoroughly fooled.

@marcogiuliocamurri 3 ай бұрын

Nice one! I feel like this is one of those tricks that I could teach my 7 years old how to do. Not because it's easy, but because there is a lot of self-working math involved that he'd only need to adjust a few things. The only change I'd make is to change the dice with a loaded dice and make it a "random" roll under the cup. Very nice work! I loved it!

@adfasfuiuiui1056 Ай бұрын

A loaded die will not roll the same number every time. It just has more probability for a number.

@joebloggs2534 5 ай бұрын

Damn this was a good routine!

@noonmoon2553 5 ай бұрын

Professor should teach math using magic tricks, it will be fun😮

@RuneCarlsen 5 ай бұрын

Great work Matt :)

@mattbaker4838 5 ай бұрын

Thanks, Rune!

@jerrycoleman882 18 күн бұрын

Even I got this one (after watching this twice). 🎉

@biggusdickus2312 5 ай бұрын

M&M’s….. Maths&Magic. Great trick.

@Max_Jacoby 5 ай бұрын

He shouldn't tell he is a math teacher. Hearing that I instantly know direction I need to figure it out.

@matthewklein660 2 ай бұрын

How?

@russofamerica Ай бұрын

Thanks for making math more befuddling for me! Strong performance; lots of fun!

@SangilOum 5 ай бұрын

Amazing! I still don't understand how it works

@nitedk 3 ай бұрын

Great trick. Pretty clever 🤓

@mroutcast8515 4 ай бұрын

Man is way too much thinking for me to ruin the enjoyment of the trick. But I'm impressed they figured out it so fast. You can see at 5:04 Teller has turned into NASA super computer running all permutations in his head 😂

@ilakya Ай бұрын

I love how Tellers seems to be in deep thoughts when he knows the scores.

@GeoffNelson Ай бұрын

I really enjoyed that trick

@SpiritLife 2 ай бұрын

If he never spoke about equations or being a math teacher, they might not have guessed his technique

@MahdiTheMagician 2 ай бұрын

Wow, bring this man to the casino!

@mguerra79 2 ай бұрын

I really thought you fooled them, but they are indeed very knowledgeable (I hope that it is properly written) and it might the reason. Great trick, anyway... Congrats!

@lyghtkruz 5 ай бұрын

😮 great performance 👏🏼 totally fooled me. I could see the slight of hand for the cards to calculate the points for either side but the die is what totally throws me off.

@bretth4988 5 ай бұрын

Yes exactly for Teller randomly picked it...

@cookiescure7160 4 ай бұрын

@@bretth4988it was a gimmick dice, look up electronic dice or specifically “unifi dice.” That die comes with a bluetooth piece that produces a thump sound for whatever number is facing up.

@tobyfitzpatrick3914 4 ай бұрын

Observations: 1. I believe the Professor performs what is known as a "sloppy shuffle". It doesn’t matter how many times this is done before being told to stop. 2. With an eagle-eye, the Professor watches whether Teller cuts an odd or even number of cards. This will determine who he will ask to deal, knowing that Penn has already chosen to be the loser. 3. So, as Penn has chosen to be the loser, he will always be dealt the Brown, Red & Orange cards. If he is to be the winner, then _he_ would have been asked to deal, with Teller receiving these cards. 4. The mathematical magic is that now, no matter how Penn chooses to swap, _he will somehow always lose by two!_ 5. As Penn suggested, the die has been electronically set to flip to a two.

@Ustaleone Ай бұрын

What if you chose a 5? Would it then still flip to a 2? And if so, wouldn't that be a number not chosen by the participator and thus be invalid?

@benjaminwatson543 Ай бұрын

I don't actually think that the dice was electric, Teller obviously selected a number and put it under the bowl.

@insanigo 5 ай бұрын

You can see Teller thinking hard when he blinks at 5:36

@lenpenqypss8542 Ай бұрын

If Pen and teller could explain how they dont fool them. It would be great

@Ilandria. Ай бұрын

They do, but they provide their explanation through analogy, metaphor, etc. in hopes that those who have figured out the trick (i.e. the performer) understand, and those who haven't don't. It's very rude and unprofessional to spoil someone else's work.

@TomiTom1234 2 ай бұрын

I want a reveal, now!

@spicytrashpanda 2 ай бұрын

Thinking like a mathmegician I have an idea how you worked this one out, but i just can't work out the numbers.

@Charles-re4vd 5 ай бұрын

Ok i wasn't expecting that 😊. Normally there's some card trick 👍 or something.

@marctompkins3001 3 ай бұрын

I was waiting for Penn to say that Teller and him were “two peas in a pod” but he never said it.

@funlovingvoyeur 4 ай бұрын

Very impressive trick, although being a bit of math nerd myself I figured it out. But to perform it and make the magic happen is another story. Nicely done.

@KhanakJoshi Ай бұрын

I hate how Penn laughed in the end.....superb trick professor

@bobthemonkey9 4 ай бұрын

I want know how this trick is done

@juandiegogonzalezloaiza2757 3 ай бұрын

How did he do it?

@PimpMacSlickBac 4 ай бұрын

Isn't that card trick in the intro mathieu's from the original series?... kinda rough to use a trick in your intro that a previous winner used on the show.

@carloxjimenez458 3 ай бұрын

I usually decipher most of the tricks done in this show but I have to admid I do not know how this one was done, he beat me at math.

@acousticide 5 ай бұрын

someone explain it to me.... i'm dumb. i cant figure out how this trick works ...

@RyanLynch1 4 ай бұрын

i had this guy at GT for a math class, and he's awesome! what a bunch of malarkey though! i want them to prove they understand the trick by writing a paper about it :D

@sampersonguy5337 3 ай бұрын

I really want to know how he did it

@uxgfreestyles6830 5 ай бұрын

I miss my band camp girl .....

@keithnaylor1981 3 ай бұрын

A barbie doll is no substitute for the magical presence of Alyson.

@walle5667 3 ай бұрын

Alyson was super cringy. Jonathan was the real deal.

@fourierbird 2 ай бұрын

Alyson didn’t have Jonathan’s charisma, but she still had her own quirky charm. The new lady has a raspy voice, can’t project, and seems robotic.

@chrystianmarrero 19 күн бұрын

That is no Barbie doll.

@NaaneVinu 2 ай бұрын

Keep aside that game, how did he guess the hidden dice have value 2? Genius. Fine know how Pen and Teller got this.. great trick.

@dust09100 5 ай бұрын

Hahah teller sitting there like how the hell hahah

@Kaiasky 4 ай бұрын

Normally math magic doesn't do much to *feel* magical. Even if I don't have the exact method, I can still feel the hint of something. This just feels flat-out impossible. If Teller had chosen a win by 6, how do you possibly force that? There's outs, like changing the rules so you lose a point for mismatches, but even so?! It's a brilliant trick and I loved it!

@Kaiasky 4 ай бұрын

Rewatching and working the math, I've figured out a lot more about how this has to be done. but this is just so cool.

@arsenigold9470 2 ай бұрын

I can wrap my head around everything but the dice, if the magician had known the number It would all make sense, and yet he doesn't

@Kaiasky 2 ай бұрын

@@arsenigold9470 Penn says "really an electric moment, when you revealed the dice", and I had the same conclusion when I first watched the trick.

@SunsetWingman 5 ай бұрын

Well I usually know how stuff is done but I didn't get this one.

@vincentjohnflorio 5 ай бұрын

Awesome trick!

@florianwiedenfeld2189 4 ай бұрын

I want Alyson back!!! But the trick fooled me completely.

@LetsMars 5 ай бұрын

I’m pretty sure i know how this was done, and yet the part that fooled me wasn’t the math… it was the magic. I have no idea how you did the load of the inconsequential bits! You clapped first! How is that possible?!

@CB-xr1eg 5 ай бұрын

Yep, me too. The word *electric* did it for me although I kinda had it figured out before then.

@LetsMars 5 ай бұрын

@@CB-xr1eg The die is a known gimmick, but the color decks were new to me. Reminds me of those pucks they would give you when waiting for a table at a restaurant.

@veemontana718 5 ай бұрын

i really feel penn and teller was fooled

@insideoutsideupsidedown2218 21 күн бұрын

Um……does it depend on the number and colors in the bag?

@wyradinata 4 ай бұрын

when they said "boys", it means they didn't fooled

@shannonrobson2237 5 ай бұрын

I would say this was to obvious because of the colors of m&ms.. and they would have been the same in other packets too based on the color cards .. if pen didn’t give or exchanged anything there would have been another move before the trick ended

@garychap8384 5 ай бұрын

No need for 'another move' ... if Penn and Teller didn't exchange anything at all, then Teller still wins by two. And no matter what they exchange, Teller wins by two... that's not where the trick is. But it IS where half of the math lives ; )

@ecastag 5 ай бұрын

And the yellow ones?

@MsCartman74 5 ай бұрын

Huh. It sounded to me like Penn was hinting the dice was gimmicked with his "electric" comment, but I don't see why that would matter since Teller knew the number he chose before he placed it under the bowl.

@yourboyfriend3583 5 ай бұрын

its part of the method

@timmyingelbrecht6977 5 ай бұрын

They mean the magician knew what number teller picked.

@garychap8384 5 ай бұрын

The dice doesn't 'change' ... it just tells the magician which way up it is. The table 'reads' the dice electronically, and then informs the magician wirelessly - usually using a vibrating device placed on an arm or a leg. But, even when you know this - it's still one hell of a good trick. There are even dice that don't even need an under-table reader... they are charged wirelessly and send out a signal each time the top face changes using a tiny internal sensor. I have a set of two and they were quite expensive... once you take them out of their carrier they start signalling once the top face is unchanged for about 4 seconds. The benefit is that you can use them anywhere.

@jamesskeary366 2 ай бұрын

Why does Brooke wear same outfit everyday..

@HerbertTowers 3 ай бұрын

BTW - the attempt at showing the digits of pi on that dome wall is wrong. It appears that the designers chopped off the right margin of a printed version of pi before making the graphic. Groups of 'n' digits are missed at regular intervals.

@adfasfuiuiui1056 Ай бұрын

are you lost?

@hamsicle 4 ай бұрын

That's a great trick. I have to think the die is gaffed in some way. Seems like Penn thinks there was something electric? Magnet perhaps? Either way, I enjoy these math based tricks. Really nice job.

@1GrilledFoot 3 ай бұрын

It's an electronic die, the magician is wearing a hidden sensor that tells him the orientation of the die after Teller places it. Still a great trick though, the math behind it is very fun to figure out and there's still some sleight of hand involved to ensure that the prediction comes out to be correct!

@OurCognitiveSurplus 2 ай бұрын

My guess is that he has multiple outs in the first phase. Like maybe mms of those colors don’t count or the first dics is double or something. He comes up with rules on the fly that result in a winner by six or less. The dice is the hard part. It could just be a dice that changes its face under the bowl. I think that was the hint. But that’s a bit lame.

@stevewiley8409 5 ай бұрын

oh my...,Brooke Burke

@Karasaph 3 ай бұрын

Oh man. Penn and Teller speak way less in code for this season.

@fatsilentbob 27 күн бұрын

I miss allison

@bretth4988 5 ай бұрын

If Teller had the TRUE pick of the dice... explain that ( not say N ) but ...

@aaronanderson6958 5 ай бұрын

Teller could freely choose what number he wanted and the outcome of the game wouldn't have changed. What bag of candy was opened could have changed.

@superdingo9741 3 ай бұрын

@@aaronanderson6958 the bag was chosen by Pen and BEFORE the dice pick.

@NeekSquad 4 ай бұрын

I have no idea what even happened

@RandomActsOfRandom 4 ай бұрын

She attaches herself to the fence using concealed rods she had prepared in her clothing before. She can stabilize herself and lift the lower section of the box. Tip it ober and shes out. This task was too effortless.

@beezul 4 ай бұрын

What the heck are you talking about? Fence? Clothing? box? You're obviously not describing the M&M trick the rest of us out here have just watched.