I have only one advice to those who are watching these magic videos just don't watch it..You will get addicted to these videos like me..I want to sleep early but can't help coming on these videos again and again..I have been watching it for 2,3 hours and I wanted to go to bed since then but I can't go .
not funny once you get into it. same thing with me. so i try to break the spell and watch cute animal videos, science or universe/evolution stuff or other stuff intermittently and still keep on binge watching!
Who else came here from People I Mostly Admire? One of the best interviews I've heard in awhile, and what a great appearance on Fool Us. Congrats Joshua Jay!
+Moby Ostrep Even then, the performers can't lie, they'll get called out on it. They all have to perform the trick and tell the guy they perform it to how it works. There's a video where they had to call "Johnny"because Penn and Teller were close but didn't get it right so Johnny had to decide if they were fooled
Definitly! The look on his face, when he understood that THEY glt it all wrong, was absolutely priceless! It was the very first time he reacted that way
I love his reaction after they told him that he fooled them. You can tell he has a lot of respect and admiration for Penn and Teller and hearing that must have been emotional.
I love the way Penn maintains the tension for as long as he possibly can, and you can see from this guy's reaction when he finally delivers the news what an impact it creates in the performer! Bravo!
It's a lot easier to figure out tricks on youtube when you can replay the footage over and over again in slow motion. The goal is to fool penn and teller in real life in real time, not to fool people on youtube replaying the footage 50 times
I always love that on these videos. xD With nearly a combined knowledge of a century, Penn and Teller can't figure out how it's done. But fear not! Some teenager on UA-cam is all over that shit!
I love this guy. I've seen so many of these videos and this is the first guy to have a real emotion of joy after having fooled them. And what a great trick this was.
I love Teller he’s genuinely happy for these people when they are able to fool them he really doesn’t need to speak his facial expressions speak enough for him I love his personality you can’t tell he is just a great genuine man he gets excited like a little kid, and I know we all wish we could still get that excited for things in life that make us feel like a kid again, he’s living his best life it just makes me smile seeing how much he loves his craft
joshua is one of they greatest magicians that ever lived and one of my favourite because of the smooth way he handles the cards and says his patter he really does tell a story with his magic and if your reading this congratulations
His patter gets an F minus! He did this trick for a blind kid???? "Is this card, the 4 of diamonds?" "How should I know?" "As you can see, all the other cards are blank." "No, I really can't see that...." The trick itself is phenomenal though.
ahh i figured it out finally after reading comments and getting few clues. its sorted deck he knows the exact order face cards + aces removed and replaced with blank white cards number cards are covered with white disappearing ink that rubs off on hands or rubbin on the the felt table he knows the card guy thinks of by changing the feel of the backs of 2 cards, top and bottom. so then he just has to count to his card in the deck and then rub off whatever dissapearing ink he has on it, hence why the pausing and smiling and slowing down. semi clean ending because guy can inspect the 16 pure white cards, just not the other ones or they will start to rub off and show the number cards underneath. Thats why he wants to toss the card pack on top of them so the guy takes his "gift" of the 16 cards josh gave him.
+Blitz Krieg, +Jason Neal: no deck switch, no card switch, no unseen sorted deck, and it really was a free choice. Everything used in the trick was in plain view the whole time. Ricky Jay says that if you want to fool magicians, use an old trick presented in a new way... they will be so busy watching for a tricky move that they will miss the simple, obvious truth.
If there is one man alive who can fool penn and teller it's Joshua jay I watched him as a little kid and he was the only magician that I ever really enjoyed watching he was kind of a role model to me and he has gotten so much better since I last saw one of his performances over 11 years ago. I am 17 btw. You are so funny and beyond impressive that I got no words to describe your different performances. Finally I think you are the ultimate magician in terms of really creating a memory for your audience not just the classic fooled you cliche' trick. Keep it up man!
That was a great trick! Great performance & presentation. Also, prolly the most best looking magician on Fool US I’ve seen so far. Great attitude & humility. Congrats!
You don't have to see the card for the trick to work. The "blind girl" thought of a card, and then went through some motions, and he called out the card she had not revealed. Us "sighted people" just get the bonus of seeing that not only did he know the card, but he actually pulled it from the deck. And then a double bonus because the rest of the deck is blank, just the same as a blind girl would experience it.
Couple of things . . . you don't have to see the card for the trick to work, but the audience member does do some things to indicate the answer. There's a clue. My thought about the story - does a blind 7-year-old know playing cards? I guess there are braille ones.
Congrats Josh! Joshua Jay is by far one of my favourite magicians and creators! He taught this effect somewhere (I won't say where though :)) and the method is deviously clever (although I'm kinda surprised Penn and Teller didn't get it, but that's for the best!). But you deserve it Josh!
I love how Penn curiously leans behind the table to look for something after giving the trophy away. It's like being a kid again, trying to figure it out.
how could pen and teller miss that with a blank deck you only need to slip in one single card? after this show they were probably like 'oh for fuck sake thats dirty!'
Incredible! I thought it was going down the path of The Seer, then BAM! Left turn into craziness. LaughOutLoud. Great job on fooling not only Penn and Teller, but everybody else as well.
Okay there are two steps to this trick. The first one: marked top and bottom cards. Look at the very strange way that he is asked to deal the cards. This is to allow for him to identify the selected card. The bottom card is marked somehow, probably with an abrasive material so that it feels rough. He puts four cards from the top of the deck (including the marked card) and places them on the table. Then the deck (with the second marked card at the bottom) is placed on top of this. Then another four cards are placed to indicate the suite. When he is feeling the cards, he detects the first marked card. From here, he only has to count until he feels the next marked card. This gives him the value. Then he counts the remaining cards to discover the suite. Notice that he has exactly 8 cards left when he noticeably pauses. 4 of diamonds would equal 8 cards. The remainder of the trick is remarkably simple. The deck is filled with blanks, but it is also filled with normal cards. Look up a Svengali deck for more details.
JOSHUA JAY has been doing amazing things with card magic for years. He knows so many techniques so equally well. Thats not easy to do especially at his age. As you see here he is superb/ amazing with his sleight of hand & inventing. So not suprised he fooled them. UNREAL MIND GAME WITH CARDS THIS WAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If the top and bottom cards have a different feel to them, the first part of the trick is rather easy. Say you made the lamination a bit different. He will place a trick card, then three cards, then the deck on top makes the fourth card be a trick card. So now the deck is completely normal until the bottom five cards - trick card, three cards, then trick card on the bottom. Then, when the guy does the suit, it results in normal cards at the bottom. He just has to count how many cards from the bottom to the first trick card to know the suit, and then to the next trick card to know the value. I'm guessing that under the table are piles of numbers, sorted specifically so he can feel for a certain card, palm it, and work it into the trick.
no idea how you got the card out of the deck XD the second time with the suit he dealt pretty loudly though, not that that explains everything but youd think hed try to be a little quiet lmao
Sometimes I'm not sure about the intro the performers have, the short video about what magic means to them and how it affected their life. In Joshua's case, I know he's sincere and it does show in his performances. He loves magic and people, and it means a lot to him, in turn it means a lot to the people he performs for because you can feel when someone cares about what they do. I also love the look on Penn & Teller when he first names the card, this is the look of astonishment and wonder, the best payment a magician can ever receive. Doubly so from two of the biggest names in magic!
Just found a crazy editing mistake! Watch Joshua's hands on the cut between 2:53-2:55, right after he says "you'd accuse me of listening". They're on his lap and when it cuts, they are up in the air... now, I know this doesn't help in solving the trick, but if this edit is here, it could explain why we don't see him getting the 4 of Diamonds from an index.
+Eric Bullen I said nothing about the box on the table... I just said look at his hands! In one shot they are on his lap and then it immediately cuts to them being in the air! Just shows how the program is actually edited and perhaps could explain things later on in the trick.
+PRFRMR20 This is true and can be for a number of reasons, such as remove something such correcting a mispronunciation (and then backtracking to correct himself), technical difficulties or the like. I don't think this impacts the performance at all.
I know that some magicians got involved with the released tape, some wanted the audience to be able to figure out how the trick is done with more revealing shots, I suppose it is entirely possible that opposite was done in some cases and the video will not give away the method.
Fishy looking "blindfold" that doesn't prevent him from looking directly down at his own hands - where he hides a mirror so he can see how many cards the guy deals. First deal reveals the cards rank is 4. At 3:42 his right hand switches the two cards (the jokers, I guess?) he was holding for cards from under the table (probably a 4 of each suit). Then after he watches him deal the cards for the suit, he sleeves the 4D. 4:18 as he handles the blank deck he puts the 4D on the bottom, then as he's fanning through the cards at 4:48 he moves the 4D to the middle and removes it.
@@brianmagicman3556 I don't know what I was smoking when I came up with that explanation for the trick. Now it seems obvious that the cards are marked and stacked (and of course he can see via down the nose peek with the blindfold on). Each time the audience member is finished dealing cards, the magician turns around and can see which card is on the top card because of the marking, and since the deck is also stacked he knows how many cards were dealt.
This trick is just as amazing as how low the pixelation of this video are and the inability of Jonathan Ross to pronounce an L or an R. Amazingly, he's in show business.
After he said he was on another show where things didn't go well when he was trying to fool a 7 year old girl I was like "Oh sh*t. He's gonna say something like 'To Catch A Predator'." He didn't and I was relieved... until... "She was bliiiiiind". You just can't win in this world. You just. can't. win. *siiiiiigh*
It's brilliant and going to be a shame for people to 'reveal' this. I will be performing this in my career. Hopefully I'll be as entertaining and folks will go for that. :) Thanks Joshua
I must be a mind reader. As soon as he asked him to think of a card and the suit, I said to myself "4 of diamonds" Freaky shit. Now to see what the rest of the trick is about.
+Brian McGovern no really freaky. 1 in 52 people will think 4 of diamonds. of the 6000 people who have view this video so far over 100 will feel the same as you
+Brian McGovern Wow, the same thing happened to me! I just thought, 4 of diamonds! Just to make sure, I watched again and once more picked the right card. When I tried a third time, however, I got it wrong...
+Martin Landart Here we go. Dipshit of the day. I will assume you are a child since no sane adult would question the logic presented. please prove me wrong
Because with a blind person the trick would end when he announces the card. He can't 'show' that he picked out the card, or that the rest of the deck is blank.
Right, but if there was an audience with the girl, even just a couple of other people, like her mother or something, they could confirm to the girl that he drew the right card and that the rest of the deck was blank.
+Strazman Yea, except then he could do any trick and wouldn't have to come up with a new trick if allowing others to verify was part of the trick. You aren't really tricking someone, if you trick someone else, and have them confirm that they've been tricked, if that makes any sense. That being said the whole blind girl part is just banter to introduce the trick, the trick obviously can't be done 1 on 1 with a blind girl, that would be actual mind reading not a trick. The trick only works because of the part that includes the audience in it, I would assume the bit on the blind girl is part of the illusion to make it seem like the whole deck thing is there just for the audience and isn't even part of the original trick he claimed to have performed.
The deck is blank. One different textured card on top, one on the bottom. When the audience guy counts off the cards for number (from the top) the first marked card will be on the bottom. Then he puts the deck on top, so now the cards he counted are between the textured cards. Then he counts the suit and placed the deck on top, so they end up on the bottom below the last textured card. So all he has to do now is feel through the deck until the first textured card (you can see when he finds it at 4.36), count the cards until the next textured card to know the number, then count the cards below that to know the suit. Then all he has to do is find the appropriate card somewhere from a hidden deck and sneak it in.
By the end of the performance, I just assumed that Joshua had done a deck switch and has got incredibly good at them as of some of the products he has released. I was as amazed as Penn was that that wasn't the case!
@@stanleyzhou When people pur whoosh or Rwhoosh or anything similar, it's a way of saying "No way you don't fucking say I didn't know that" I actually got the joke thank you very much - they OP is actually a friend of mine and we do it all the time Next time, keep your nose out of what doesn't concern you and worry about yourself - not other people or what they put If I want your opinion, I'll fucking ask for it I don't get involved in your comments so don't get involved in mine, OK !!!!
He heard how many times he put down a card and did the math in his head to figure out what number and suite he had, then he added that card into the blank deck that the participant was holding in the center, keeping a finger hold. He just broke to the cut and revealed the card
+Bradley Green at the beginning he says that a randomly selected audience member was picked for this trick. All he needed to do was place this member as his random audience member and he has a set person that he told previously to simply place the cards down hard enough for him to hear it's simple really
+Andrew Girard With "Fool Us", "Randomly Selected Members of the Audience" aren't chosen by the performer, but in fact chosen by a computer to choose the participant. The performer has zero control over the selected participant.
+Jason Neal so they say, but to start the trick he simply needs to say that he wants to pick the audience member for the trick and its up to pen and teller to figure out how he did it
Andrew Girard, I can think of half a dozen ways to figure out which card he was thinking of. Remember he "feels" the deck after the cards were laid down? He doesn't need a confederate and when you're trying to Fool P&T, only an idiot would count on having one.
My guess at this card trick would be... He got the card from listening to when he placed the cards on the table. Then he just placed that card from a hidden deck in to the blank one.
+Jollofloff More than likely, because in magic a deck switch is a different thing than a card switch, which is why Teller's guess of a Deck switch was "incorrect". I'd say it comes down to semantics with that one, but they gave him the win.
+DarkSoul There was no card switch. This has been discussed on the show before, with Jonathan having to query the producers for a judgement call. "Deck switch" can mean entire deck, smaller packet of cards, even one card. More importantly, Joshua Jay didn't switch anything in this trick... what he did is much simpler than that.
+Louis Bert sure there was no switch neither the deck nor a card switched. because i guess he just added the correct card to the blank deck later. there is no need to switch a blank card with a normal one. so no switch needed. at least that's what I think he did not sure though
I think the cards were marked so he could feel them and because there was no shuffle they were in a specific order so he could feel which card the person thought of and then he used sleight of hand to put the card into the deck (probably the moment Penn thought there was a deck switch) and then did the reveal
I love how everyone thinks their professional magicians even though they've had like a month of practice and penn and teller have had over 50 years of experience
It was the simplicity of the trick that fooled them - I saw how it could be done after one viewing. I watched a few more times to confirm what I initially thought.
@@lokzim Ask yourself why did he need to turn away *with a blindfold on* - it's possible it was the only way he could see what was going on behind him through a very small mirror on the lower left inside of the blindfold. That in MY OPINION is the simplicity that fooled P&T, The rest of the trick requires little explanation in fact it could be done several different ways. Check the way he carefully lines up so he can see how many cards are counted revealing the card that was mentally selected. Getting the card could have been done several ways I suspect he might have had them under table. His hand went under it enough times - the first few times to make it look natural when he eventually went for the selected card.
Let's see...doing some quick math...621k views...each card in the deck has been selected by a viewer an average of nearly 12k times. So about 12k viewers think its the power of suggestion and 600k viewers know it is not.
That's really crazy because the first thing I thought when they were going through the card selection was four of diamonds as well. Like no joke, I was freaked out the audience member chose the same card I thought of... Something subliminal maybe? lol
he did say in the clip to pick a number. at the end he gave very forgettable suits 1 is hearts 2 is clubs 3 spades 4 diamonds or w.e. so the last one was just the easiest to remember
To allow for completely free choice he, very intentionally, gave the method of communicating his card to the audience after he had him choose his card. Normally, things are causal and therefore one would assume you cannot influence someones choice after they have already made that choice.
No, notice that there aren't a ton of other comments like yours. Someone was BOUND to think of the same card; you just happened to be that someone. Also anyone who did pick the same card is very likely to mention it, but if everyone mentioned their card without fail, you would have a lot more trouble finding matches. The "power of suggestion" is not even remotely reliable.
I'm no magician but here is an easy way it could be done: Deck is always blank, on the back of 2 cards (the top and bottom) is a texture that feels different but the cards look exactly the same. We'll call the bottom card B, the nonspecial cards N, and the top card T. Since he always puts the deck on top of the new pile we can figure out how many he put down just by feeling the deck afterwards. (From top to bottom) Step 0: T(50xN)B After he counts off 2-10 cards [The T will be the first of the cards] for the number of the card he is thinking about, and then puts the rest of the deck on top, the deck will look like Step 1: (49-41xN)B(1-9xN)T After he counts off 1-4 cards for the suit of the card he is thinking about, and then puts the rest of the deck on top, the deck will look like Step 2: (48-37xN)B(1-9xN)T(1-4xN) Then he goes through the deck until he feels the first texture and discards all cards prior to it (they are irrelevant) then he goes through until he feels the next texture, this will be 2 cards 10 cards prior to it (based on how many the guy counted off) he now knows the number. Then he discards all the cards up to this second texture card (the T card) he will have 1-4 cards left, he then can figure out the suit. All it really takes is being able to feel a different texture on a set of cards quickly, and doing stuff with cards quickly is what magicians need to be good at. This leaves us with the final step, which is producing the card. Again if you are good with cards you can produce a single card from somewhere on your body somewhat easily. In theory this limited things to 9 cards (2-10) of 4 suits, so maybe he had 9 pockets with four on him and just had to pull the right one once he knew what it is (which he knew when he quickly felt the deck). Basically I'd think most magicians could pull a given card once they know what it is. The real trick of this was that because he kept talking about cards and what cards looked like, we all implicitly assumed it was a normal deck to begin with, but he doesn't ever prove it is. Thus since all the cards but the last one he puts in were always blank he never did a "deck switch", rather he did a single "card switch" or a "card insertion" (nobody counted the total cards at the very end). The real trick he did for Penn and Teller was tricking them into thinking it was a normal deck in the beginning, when in fact it never was.
esotericVideos very good explanation, but his hands never leave the table once he starts to feel the cards until the reveal, and like you clearly said he cant know the chosen card before handling the deck, so when would he take the card ?
Okay, wait... His assistant chose the card. So, what if he and his assistant predetermined the card beforehand and just went off of that? No matter what his assistant is the one who chooses the card...if he would have had Penn or Teller choose a card it would have been better.
+RideTheBear If I'm hearing Jonathan correctly at 1:20, the assistant was randomly selected from the audience--and not by Joshua, either. Sounds like Joshua had no contact with the guy before he came out to do the trick.
+Roy Loveday I kind of have figured out how it is done without a insider job. The deck is all blank cards so that the magician can stamp a card "in the field". The magician does have a pressing motion when he sift through the card at 4:33. The stamping can be done on a thin film, kind of like a temporary tattoo. After the pressing of the half deck, he picks it up and stacks the stamped bottom card on to the middle of the whole deck. Then he finds the stamped card again at the second round of sifting. The sleep blind is a see-through silk fabric so that he can be signaled for the card's number, and the thin film is prepared between 4:12 and 4:18. "Coincidentally" the camera lens pans away during the 6 seconds without showing his hands. During the 6 seconds, the thin film is transferred from a device attached between his body and the table and on to the underside of his left palm. Between 4:18 and 4:33, he has 15 seconds to press the thin film on to the "target" blank card. The FU series episodes have many splicing of the show, all done at the critical moment that would reveal the trick.
Guys, stop guessing. I own the routine and the method is too ingenius for you to guess. No switching, loading or lapping. I think Joshua is one of the best Magicians in our days...
That "WOA" from Penn is why I am getting this trick. That "WOA" is worth paying for. Joshua Jay. Keep making magic man. I love your tricks. They are super easy to do with minimal effort needed and pack such a huge punch. All we have to do with most of your products is really be a good showman and present it well.
Classic flavour. Come to my magic mind the effect I have see befor by jay but. The printing of a card is original new is a blockbuster in my book and when dost put it to print! any who learn it. Will cool cat! His magic
The real magic here is Jonathon saying "wow" without opening his mouth at 8:06
lmao
loooool indeed, awesome trick he did there.
Wow
It's the wow that went missing from 6:22.
Lol!
I have only one advice to those who are watching these magic videos just don't watch it..You will get addicted to these videos like me..I want to sleep early but can't help coming on these videos again and again..I have been watching it for 2,3 hours and I wanted to go to bed since then but I can't go
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LOL YOURE SO FUNNY HAHAHA
not funny once you get into it. same thing with me. so i try to break the spell and watch cute animal videos, science or universe/evolution stuff or other stuff intermittently and still keep on binge watching!
HAHHAHA is it deeper than one would think?? are you speaking of a conspiracy to distract the attentions of the masses??
i know what you mean ahahah
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One of the best interviews I've heard in awhile, and what a great appearance on Fool Us. Congrats Joshua Jay!
Great interview and an even greater magician. Glad there are other listeners out there!
Me!
penns face when he finds out there was no deck switch is amazing it's the first time I've seen that
last moment of the clip he's checking behind the desk to make sure
+Moby Ostrep Even then, the performers can't lie, they'll get called out on it. They all have to perform the trick and tell the guy they perform it to how it works. There's a video where they had to call "Johnny"because Penn and Teller were close but didn't get it right so Johnny had to decide if they were fooled
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Definitly! The look on his face, when he understood that THEY glt it all wrong, was absolutely priceless! It was the very first time he reacted that way
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I love his reaction after they told him that he fooled them. You can tell he has a lot of respect and admiration for Penn and Teller and hearing that must have been emotional.
I love the way Penn maintains the tension for as long as he possibly can, and you can see from this guy's reaction when he finally delivers the news what an impact it creates in the performer! Bravo!
I love how P&T give a big FU when they are fooled ;-)
+MrNateSPF it gets me every time xD
u preformed this trick to a 7 y/o blind girl?
"is this card the 4 of diamonds"
"i don't know!"
where's the like button
"But notice that all the other cards are blank!"
"I still currently do not notice!"
Okay I want you to put down as many as the color, WHATS A COLOR?
LOL That's what I was thinking. Amazing trick but awful patter.
Apache Attack-helicopter He asked her to think of a card, doesn't require vision/sight.
I love how people in the comments are so sure they know how he did it when even Penn and Teller had no idea.
Penn and Teller said that they often figured out tricks after reviewing the tape.
Mike Blarney There seem to be many different ways to perform this trick. It would be nearly impossible to figure out which method he chose.
It's a lot easier to figure out tricks on youtube when you can replay the footage over and over again in slow motion. The goal is to fool penn and teller in real life in real time, not to fool people on youtube replaying the footage 50 times
I always love that on these videos. xD With nearly a combined knowledge of a century, Penn and Teller can't figure out how it's done. But fear not! Some teenager on UA-cam is all over that shit!
somehow the 4d was the only card he could have selected
I love this guy. I've seen so many of these videos and this is the first guy to have a real emotion of joy after having fooled them. And what a great trick this was.
I absolutely love this trick , huge fan of Joshua Jay's work
the look on Penn's face when he heard him say "I didn't do a deck switch" lol
Love this guy! Great magician, he absolutely deserves it
I love Teller he’s genuinely happy for these people when they are able to fool them he really doesn’t need to speak his facial expressions speak enough for him I love his personality you can’t tell he is just a great genuine man he gets excited like a little kid, and I know we all wish we could still get that excited for things in life that make us feel like a kid again, he’s living his best life it just makes me smile seeing how much he loves his craft
joshua is one of they greatest magicians that ever lived and one of my favourite because of the smooth way he handles the cards and says his patter he really does tell a story with his magic and if your reading this congratulations
+Heisenberg Magic!
His patter gets an F minus!
He did this trick for a blind kid????
"Is this card, the 4 of diamonds?"
"How should I know?"
"As you can see, all the other cards are blank."
"No, I really can't see that...."
The trick itself is phenomenal though.
Apple Cider I agree with you 100%
I met him😇
The joy in Teller's face at the end says it all.
By the way things were going I was expecting a good trick, but that ending made my jaw drop. Well done!
His reaction to when they said he fooled them was priceless, you could tell how honored he felt
ahh i figured it out finally after reading comments and getting few clues.
its sorted deck he knows the exact order
face cards + aces removed and replaced with blank white cards
number cards are covered with white disappearing ink that rubs off on hands or rubbin on the the felt table
he knows the card guy thinks of by changing the feel of the backs of 2 cards, top and bottom.
so then he just has to count to his card in the deck and then rub off whatever dissapearing ink he has on it, hence why the pausing and smiling and slowing down.
semi clean ending because guy can inspect the 16 pure white cards, just not the other ones or they will start to rub off and show the number cards underneath.
Thats why he wants to toss the card pack on top of them so the guy takes his "gift" of the 16 cards josh gave him.
No "white disappearing ink" used in this trick. Trust me. Actually, no weird trick inks used at all.
Its the only explanation, he couldn't have done it any other way.
Hey, weren't you the one who told me that there is no other explanation than listening to the cards or a stooge? You hypocrite. get out
Usually not big on card tricks, but this was beautifully done. More touching because of the story. Love it!
wow, man! The best tricks are simple, because to the layman, such as myself, you can't see any trickery and you can't even IMAGINE it. Well done!
I don't know why they guessed a deck switch. As soon as he revealed the blank deck I started to think "When did he show us a normal deck?"
one deck
dsndicmsa there is no deck switch
be the deck switch
still no deck switch.
The main reason is youd think hed have a deck for multiple possibilities and switched the appropriate deck into his hand. Or Well just a single card.
Dear lord that audio quality. I feel like I went back to 2002
Lucky for him, a Card Switch and a Deck Switch are two separate things.
+Blitz Krieg My thoughts exactly.
+Blitz Krieg how did he know the card to begin with then?
He didn't. He just made sure he was able to access any of the needed cars on a whim. A sorted deck can accomplish that for a skilled artist.
+Jason Neal He didn't need a card switch either. No second sorted deck needed.
+Blitz Krieg, +Jason Neal: no deck switch, no card switch, no unseen sorted deck, and it really was a free choice. Everything used in the trick was in plain view the whole time.
Ricky Jay says that if you want to fool magicians, use an old trick presented in a new way... they will be so busy watching for a tricky move that they will miss the simple, obvious truth.
Dang. He taught this at a lecture,many I have forgotten how to do it. If history says anything, though, this will be on sale in no time.
If there is one man alive who can fool penn and teller it's Joshua jay I watched him as a little kid and he was the only magician that I ever really enjoyed watching he was kind of a role model to me and he has gotten so much better since I last saw one of his performances over 11 years ago. I am 17 btw. You are so funny and beyond impressive that I got no words to describe your different performances. Finally I think you are the ultimate magician in terms of really creating a memory for your audience not just the classic fooled you cliche' trick. Keep it up man!
Why you gotta write spoiler alerts?
That Was Completely And Utterly Brilliant!!
My favorite trick on fool us ever!!
That was a great trick! Great performance & presentation. Also, prolly the most best looking magician on Fool US I’ve seen so far. Great attitude & humility. Congrats!
I loved that kicker ending!
I loved the attitude of that dude! He seemed to genuinely enjoy it
One of the best magician intros I've seen on this show
You don't have to see the card for the trick to work. The "blind girl" thought of a card, and then went through some motions, and he called out the card she had not revealed. Us "sighted people" just get the bonus of seeing that not only did he know the card, but he actually pulled it from the deck. And then a double bonus because the rest of the deck is blank, just the same as a blind girl would experience it.
Couple of things . . . you don't have to see the card for the trick to work, but the audience member does do some things to indicate the answer. There's a clue. My thought about the story - does a blind 7-year-old know playing cards? I guess there are braille ones.
"Penn and Teller do the heavy lifting" Obviously he never saw youtube commenters before, who overthink everything.
Pink panther
so true
Congratulations Josh you are a Genius. I would hev been very surprised if you didn't FOOL them. Well done.
Garry
That was amazing, great presentation, smooth, steady, that was very very cool
His reaction when Penn told him he fooled them was absolutely adorable.
Congrats Josh! Joshua Jay is by far one of my favourite magicians and creators! He taught this effect somewhere (I won't say where though :)) and the method is deviously clever (although I'm kinda surprised Penn and Teller didn't get it, but that's for the best!). But you deserve it Josh!
+148MrSam Why won't you say where? You would be supporting him....
magicards73 I suppose... ok. It's on his 4 DVD set Unreal.
+148MrSam Thanks. Time to torrent it.
ssbrosking36 .................. Come on man, pay respect to Josh.
Audio is magical as well
He is a very nice and humble man.
I love Penn's reaction 😂
I love how Penn curiously leans behind the table to look for something after giving the trophy away. It's like being a kid again, trying to figure it out.
that was fabulous
I love how excited the guys get when they're fooled.
how could pen and teller miss that with a blank deck you only need to slip in one single card?
after this show they were probably like 'oh for fuck sake thats dirty!'
yep
That was my assumption as well. 😎
Nope not even close to how this is done.
Incredible! I thought it was going down the path of The Seer, then BAM! Left turn into craziness. LaughOutLoud. Great job on fooling not only Penn and Teller, but everybody else as well.
Mind boggling !
Okay there are two steps to this trick. The first one: marked top and bottom cards. Look at the very strange way that he is asked to deal the cards. This is to allow for him to identify the selected card. The bottom card is marked somehow, probably with an abrasive material so that it feels rough. He puts four cards from the top of the deck (including the marked card) and places them on the table. Then the deck (with the second marked card at the bottom) is placed on top of this. Then another four cards are placed to indicate the suite. When he is feeling the cards, he detects the first marked card. From here, he only has to count until he feels the next marked card. This gives him the value. Then he counts the remaining cards to discover the suite. Notice that he has exactly 8 cards left when he noticeably pauses. 4 of diamonds would equal 8 cards. The remainder of the trick is remarkably simple. The deck is filled with blanks, but it is also filled with normal cards. Look up a Svengali deck for more details.
No the deck is all blank, all of them
the "guessing the card" part is easy to figure out but the fucking white deck at the end with, as he said, no deck switch...wow...
The video startet when I was in another room, and for a moment I thought Zack Braff was doing a magic trick.
JOSHUA JAY has been doing amazing things with card magic for years. He knows so many techniques so equally well. Thats not easy to do especially at his age. As you see here he is superb/ amazing with his sleight of hand & inventing. So not suprised he fooled them. UNREAL MIND GAME WITH CARDS THIS WAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That was amazing and definitely fooled me
If the top and bottom cards have a different feel to them, the first part of the trick is rather easy. Say you made the lamination a bit different. He will place a trick card, then three cards, then the deck on top makes the fourth card be a trick card. So now the deck is completely normal until the bottom five cards - trick card, three cards, then trick card on the bottom. Then, when the guy does the suit, it results in normal cards at the bottom. He just has to count how many cards from the bottom to the first trick card to know the suit, and then to the next trick card to know the value.
I'm guessing that under the table are piles of numbers, sorted specifically so he can feel for a certain card, palm it, and work it into the trick.
Explain that in this video then........
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no idea how you got the card out of the deck XD the second time with the suit he dealt pretty loudly though, not that that explains everything but youd think hed try to be a little quiet lmao
Sometimes I'm not sure about the intro the performers have, the short video about what magic means to them and how it affected their life. In Joshua's case, I know he's sincere and it does show in his performances. He loves magic and people, and it means a lot to him, in turn it means a lot to the people he performs for because you can feel when someone cares about what they do. I also love the look on Penn & Teller when he first names the card, this is the look of astonishment and wonder, the best payment a magician can ever receive. Doubly so from two of the biggest names in magic!
The routine was actually done beautifully.
Just found a crazy editing mistake! Watch Joshua's hands on the cut between 2:53-2:55, right after he says "you'd accuse me of listening". They're on his lap and when it cuts, they are up in the air... now, I know this doesn't help in solving the trick, but if this edit is here, it could explain why we don't see him getting the 4 of Diamonds from an index.
+Eric Bullen I said nothing about the box on the table... I just said look at his hands! In one shot they are on his lap and then it immediately cuts to them being in the air! Just shows how the program is actually edited and perhaps could explain things later on in the trick.
+PRFRMR20 This is true and can be for a number of reasons, such as remove something such correcting a mispronunciation (and then backtracking to correct himself), technical difficulties or the like. I don't think this impacts the performance at all.
I know that some magicians got involved with the released tape, some wanted the audience to be able to figure out how the trick is done with more revealing shots, I suppose it is entirely possible that opposite was done in some cases and the video will not give away the method.
Yeah I was wondering too. However the trick works, he still needs to get that card from somewhere.
what the f is up with the audio
To prevent copy right programs that flag "audio"
I guess you could say, it's to fool the identification algorithm.
Congratulations !
wow! how had I never seen this one
Fishy looking "blindfold" that doesn't prevent him from looking directly down at his own hands - where he hides a mirror so he can see how many cards the guy deals.
First deal reveals the cards rank is 4. At 3:42 his right hand switches the two cards (the jokers, I guess?) he was holding for cards from under the table (probably a 4 of each suit). Then after he watches him deal the cards for the suit, he sleeves the 4D.
4:18 as he handles the blank deck he puts the 4D on the bottom, then as he's fanning through the cards at 4:48 he moves the 4D to the middle and removes it.
This guy is right!! He has cards under the table.
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Try watching this video THEN tell us that he "sleeves" the cards
@@icepick859 oh yeah, really?????
Then how do you explain that in this video here then......
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@@brianmagicman3556 I don't know what I was smoking when I came up with that explanation for the trick. Now it seems obvious that the cards are marked and stacked (and of course he can see via down the nose peek with the blindfold on). Each time the audience member is finished dealing cards, the magician turns around and can see which card is on the top card because of the marking, and since the deck is also stacked he knows how many cards were dealt.
I think Penn and Teller are telling the magicians something with that "F U" trophy.
His book s brilliant
Congratulations ,👏👏 👏👏
everyone he did not hear the cards hit the table
8:07 Woah that's not Correct?!
Very good trick. Great presentation.
This trick is just as amazing as how low the pixelation of this video are and the inability of Jonathan Ross to pronounce an L or an R. Amazingly, he's in show business.
I always found it funny they give a big F U to the foolers :D
After he said he was on another show where things didn't go well when he was trying to fool a 7 year old girl I was like "Oh sh*t. He's gonna say something like 'To Catch A Predator'." He didn't and I was relieved... until... "She was bliiiiiind". You just can't win in this world. You just. can't. win. *siiiiiigh*
Joshua is the best!
It's brilliant and going to be a shame for people to 'reveal' this. I will be performing this in my career.
Hopefully I'll be as entertaining and folks will go for that. :)
Thanks Joshua
I must be a mind reader. As soon as he asked him to think of a card and the suit, I said to myself "4 of diamonds" Freaky shit. Now to see what the rest of the trick is about.
+Brian McGovern no really freaky. 1 in 52 people will think 4 of diamonds. of the 6000 people who have view this video so far over 100 will feel the same as you
+Brian McGovern Wow, the same thing happened to me! I just thought, 4 of diamonds! Just to make sure, I watched again and once more picked the right card. When I tried a third time, however, I got it wrong...
+Martin Landart Here we go. Dipshit of the day. I will assume you are a child since no sane adult would question the logic presented. please prove me wrong
omg, you cannot be this dumb. There's a blue pill and a red pill. whats the probability you pick the blue pill.
whats the answer to my question
still wouldnt be a trick for a blind person
why not?
Because with a blind person the trick would end when he announces the card. He can't 'show' that he picked out the card, or that the rest of the deck is blank.
+sanket baxi Its a continuation of the trick for the show, the trick for the girl ended with him saying her card.
Right, but if there was an audience with the girl, even just a couple of other people, like her mother or something, they could confirm to the girl that he drew the right card and that the rest of the deck was blank.
+Strazman Yea, except then he could do any trick and wouldn't have to come up with a new trick if allowing others to verify was part of the trick. You aren't really tricking someone, if you trick someone else, and have them confirm that they've been tricked, if that makes any sense. That being said the whole blind girl part is just banter to introduce the trick, the trick obviously can't be done 1 on 1 with a blind girl, that would be actual mind reading not a trick. The trick only works because of the part that includes the audience in it, I would assume the bit on the blind girl is part of the illusion to make it seem like the whole deck thing is there just for the audience and isn't even part of the original trick he claimed to have performed.
The deck is blank. One different textured card on top, one on the bottom. When the audience guy counts off the cards for number (from the top) the first marked card will be on the bottom. Then he puts the deck on top, so now the cards he counted are between the textured cards. Then he counts the suit and placed the deck on top, so they end up on the bottom below the last textured card. So all he has to do now is feel through the deck until the first textured card (you can see when he finds it at 4.36), count the cards until the next textured card to know the number, then count the cards below that to know the suit. Then all he has to do is find the appropriate card somewhere from a hidden deck and sneak it in.
Geert van der Plas you think p and t would have guessed textured cards tho...
Explain your findings in this video then......
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By the end of the performance, I just assumed that Joshua had done a deck switch and has got incredibly good at them as of some of the products he has released. I was as amazed as Penn was that that wasn't the case!
the look on penn's face "You didn't do a deck switch?!!!!!!!!"
That was the best trick I've ever watched,,,and I'm blind too~!!!
BULLSHIT !!!
@@brianmagicman3556 whoooosh
@@stanleyzhou The fuck is your problem asshole???
@@brianmagicman3556 it wasn't even an insult. I was just letting you know you didn't get the joke. Why are you coming off so rude?
@@stanleyzhou When people pur whoosh or Rwhoosh or anything similar, it's a way of saying "No way you don't fucking say I didn't know that"
I actually got the joke thank you very much - they OP is actually a friend of mine and we do it all the time
Next time, keep your nose out of what doesn't concern you and worry about yourself - not other people or what they put
If I want your opinion, I'll fucking ask for it
I don't get involved in your comments so don't get involved in mine, OK !!!!
The guy in the purple shirt is so smooth. :D
Just meet Josh Jay in Sydney, I was his assistant for this trick!! What an honour
:D
Vanishing Inc. Magic, omg its yo guys 😄😄😄
He heard how many times he put down a card and did the math in his head to figure out what number and suite he had, then he added that card into the blank deck that the participant was holding in the center, keeping a finger hold. He just broke to the cut and revealed the card
+Andrew Girard So the most important aspect was picking a volunteer who can't deal quietly, because that's leaving an awful lot to chance?
+Bradley Green at the beginning he says that a randomly selected audience member was picked for this trick. All he needed to do was place this member as his random audience member and he has a set person that he told previously to simply place the cards down hard enough for him to hear it's simple really
+Andrew Girard With "Fool Us", "Randomly Selected Members of the Audience" aren't chosen by the performer, but in fact chosen by a computer to choose the participant. The performer has zero control over the selected participant.
+Jason Neal so they say, but to start the trick he simply needs to say that he wants to pick the audience member for the trick and its up to pen and teller to figure out how he did it
Andrew Girard, I can think of half a dozen ways to figure out which card he was thinking of. Remember he "feels" the deck after the cards were laid down?
He doesn't need a confederate and when you're trying to Fool P&T, only an idiot would count on having one.
My guess at this card trick would be... He got the card from listening to when he placed the cards on the table. Then he just placed that card from a hidden deck in to the blank one.
+Jollofloff More than likely, because in magic a deck switch is a different thing than a card switch, which is why Teller's guess of a Deck switch was "incorrect". I'd say it comes down to semantics with that one, but they gave him the win.
it's a marked deck, he used a blindfold peak... as for not switching the deck well idk.
+DarkSoul There was no card switch. This has been discussed on the show before, with Jonathan having to query the producers for a judgement call. "Deck switch" can mean entire deck, smaller packet of cards, even one card.
More importantly, Joshua Jay didn't switch anything in this trick... what he did is much simpler than that.
+Nexio Septimus omg what is it then ????
+Louis Bert sure there was no switch neither the deck nor a card switched. because i guess he just added the correct card to the blank deck later. there is no need to switch a blank card with a normal one. so no switch needed. at least that's what I think he did not sure though
Whoa! lol. I was expecting a deck switch too. Cool trick. Congrats on the Trophy. 😎
I think the cards were marked so he could feel them and because there was no shuffle they were in a specific order so he could feel which card the person thought of and then he used sleight of hand to put the card into the deck (probably the moment Penn thought there was a deck switch) and then did the reveal
I love how everyone thinks their professional magicians even though they've had like a month of practice and penn and teller have had over 50 years of experience
No one cares
Bionic janitor yeah but Penn and Teller have 30 secs to figure it out. And on Yt you can rewatch clip 100's of times.
It was the simplicity of the trick that fooled them - I saw how it could be done after one viewing. I watched a few more times to confirm what I initially thought.
@@DelTangBrav pls share what your thoughts are?
@@lokzim Ask yourself why did he need to turn away *with a blindfold on* - it's possible it was the only way he could see what was going on behind him through a very small mirror on the lower left inside of the blindfold. That in MY OPINION is the simplicity that fooled P&T,
The rest of the trick requires little explanation in fact it could be done several different ways.
Check the way he carefully lines up so he can see how many cards are counted revealing the card that was mentally selected. Getting the card could have been done several ways I suspect he might have had them under table. His hand went under it enough times - the first few times to make it look natural when he eventually went for the selected card.
Oddly enough, I thought of the Four of Diamonds, too. It's gotta be some kind of suggestion thing.
Nope
Let's see...doing some quick math...621k views...each card in the deck has been selected by a viewer an average of nearly 12k times. So about 12k viewers think its the power of suggestion and 600k viewers know it is not.
That's really crazy because the first thing I thought when they were going through the card selection was four of diamonds as well. Like no joke, I was freaked out the audience member chose the same card I thought of... Something subliminal maybe? lol
he did say in the clip to pick a number. at the end he gave very forgettable suits 1 is hearts 2 is clubs 3 spades 4 diamonds or w.e. so the last one was just the easiest to remember
To allow for completely free choice he, very intentionally, gave the method of communicating his card to the audience after he had him choose his card. Normally, things are causal and therefore one would assume you cannot influence someones choice after they have already made that choice.
This is so heartbreaking
Really nice.
I thought of the four of diamonds. That was a wild demonstration of the power of suggestion.
No, notice that there aren't a ton of other comments like yours. Someone was BOUND to think of the same card; you just happened to be that someone. Also anyone who did pick the same card is very likely to mention it, but if everyone mentioned their card without fail, you would have a lot more trouble finding matches.
The "power of suggestion" is not even remotely reliable.
+PickyMcCritical - Ladies and gentlemen, let's all give a warm welcome to the aptly named, "Picky McCritical!"
Bikewithlove Okay... I laughed; you caught me (didn't mean to sound dickish)
Great performance Josh
I'm no magician but here is an easy way it could be done: Deck is always blank, on the back of 2 cards (the top and bottom) is a texture that feels different but the cards look exactly the same. We'll call the bottom card B, the nonspecial cards N, and the top card T. Since he always puts the deck on top of the new pile we can figure out how many he put down just by feeling the deck afterwards.
(From top to bottom)
Step 0: T(50xN)B
After he counts off 2-10 cards [The T will be the first of the cards] for the number of the card he is thinking about, and then puts the rest of the deck on top, the deck will look like
Step 1: (49-41xN)B(1-9xN)T
After he counts off 1-4 cards for the suit of the card he is thinking about, and then puts the rest of the deck on top, the deck will look like
Step 2: (48-37xN)B(1-9xN)T(1-4xN)
Then he goes through the deck until he feels the first texture and discards all cards prior to it (they are irrelevant) then he goes through until he feels the next texture, this will be 2 cards 10 cards prior to it (based on how many the guy counted off) he now knows the number. Then he discards all the cards up to this second texture card (the T card) he will have 1-4 cards left, he then can figure out the suit.
All it really takes is being able to feel a different texture on a set of cards quickly, and doing stuff with cards quickly is what magicians need to be good at.
This leaves us with the final step, which is producing the card. Again if you are good with cards you can produce a single card from somewhere on your body somewhat easily. In theory this limited things to 9 cards (2-10) of 4 suits, so maybe he had 9 pockets with four on him and just had to pull the right one once he knew what it is (which he knew when he quickly felt the deck). Basically I'd think most magicians could pull a given card once they know what it is.
The real trick of this was that because he kept talking about cards and what cards looked like, we all implicitly assumed it was a normal deck to begin with, but he doesn't ever prove it is. Thus since all the cards but the last one he puts in were always blank he never did a "deck switch", rather he did a single "card switch" or a "card insertion" (nobody counted the total cards at the very end). The real trick he did for Penn and Teller was tricking them into thinking it was a normal deck in the beginning, when in fact it never was.
esotericVideos very good explanation, but his hands never leave the table once he starts to feel the cards until the reveal, and like you clearly said he cant know the chosen card before handling the deck, so when would he take the card ?
esotericVideos Overthink much? Jesus Christ dude.
anybody think the 'randomly selected member' of the audience is a little fishy. just started out sittin there.
they cut putting on the lapel mic so they probably just cut his walking on stage. also, the show doesn't allow plants
Every audience member gets a mic and nobody is planted. When it comes to a Pen and Teller show there's non of that shady Chris angel bullshit.
A plant is not needed for this trick.
well then explain me shin lims multi signatures of spectators?
Nobody can explain Shin Lim. Not even Shin Lim himself. It just happens.
who else thought of 4 of diamonds
I think he published a similar effect in one of his older DVDs. And as he says, it doesn't require a deck switch haha
In 3:42 you can see when he change the cards used for instruction with the 4s. Look at his right arm when he approach to the table.
Okay, wait... His assistant chose the card. So, what if he and his assistant predetermined the card beforehand and just went off of that? No matter what his assistant is the one who chooses the card...if he would have had Penn or Teller choose a card it would have been better.
+RideTheBear If I'm hearing Jonathan correctly at 1:20, the assistant was randomly selected from the audience--and not by Joshua, either. Sounds like Joshua had no contact with the guy before he came out to do the trick.
he wasn't his assistant he was randomly selected by penn from the aidience
+Roy Loveday I kind of have figured out how it is done without a insider job. The deck is all blank cards so that the magician can stamp a card "in the field". The magician does have a pressing motion when he sift through the card at 4:33. The stamping can be done on a thin film, kind of like a temporary tattoo. After the pressing of the half deck, he picks it up and stacks the stamped bottom card on to the middle of the whole deck. Then he finds the stamped card again at the second round of sifting.
The sleep blind is a see-through silk fabric so that he can be signaled for the card's number, and the thin film is prepared between 4:12 and 4:18. "Coincidentally" the camera lens pans away during the 6 seconds without showing his hands. During the 6 seconds, the thin film is transferred from a device attached between his body and the table and on to the underside of his left palm. Between 4:18 and 4:33, he has 15 seconds to press the thin film on to the "target" blank card.
The FU series episodes have many splicing of the show, all done at the critical moment that would reveal the trick.
Nope not how it works. Luckily I know
Guys, stop guessing. I own the routine and the method is too ingenius for you to guess. No switching, loading or lapping. I think Joshua is one of the best Magicians in our days...
apostolos PAPADOPOULOS what's the trick name? I would like to buy ti :)
Out of sight by Joshua Jay
Papadopoulos... boy that's a famous name in the news this morning.
apostolos Papadopoulos is
I have it, great trick
That "WOA" from Penn is why I am getting this trick. That "WOA" is worth paying for.
Joshua Jay. Keep making magic man.
I love your tricks. They are super easy to do with minimal effort needed and pack such a huge punch. All we have to do with most of your products is really be a good showman and present it well.
Classic flavour. Come to my magic mind the effect I have see befor by jay but. The printing of a card is original new is a blockbuster in my book and when dost put it to print! any who learn it. Will cool cat! His magic
I. CANT AFFORD IT