Can Speedcuber Magician Sydney Weaver Fool Penn & Teller? [Fool Us]
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- My routine on season 8 episode 8 of Penn and Teller: Fool Us!
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Absolutely mind-blowing. As for myself, I am fully capable of entering a room already having forgotten why I went there.
Lol
I open the fridge and stare in it like an idiot, closing it baffeled of why I open it.
You told us that twice before already!
@@b4ph0m3tdk9 then go sit down and be like ahh I wanted a drink lol
How did she force the 2? Does anyone know what that move is called
Incredibly impressive. I think it's worth going over how this was done just to show how impressive it is:
There's no force.
It's a marked deck of cards (Penn says "it's right on the mark").
She has memorized the deck order (Penn mentioned memorizing everything), so after Alison takes a card, she looks at the next card on top, can tell what that is from the mark and from memory knows what card should be on top of it.
Then she has the ability to create any of the 52 cards on the cube, she's either memorized an algorithm for each one, or perhaps more impressively, she knows the cube so well that she can move any pieces to any location, and therefor might be able to create any image she wants.
I'm not a magician and I don't know how she knows the card but I know the cube and if you know the card it is really simple to create a pattern you want, and learning the cube is peace of cake, I liked a guessing the card part more :)
If this trick was done the way I think it was, Alyson truly had a free choice and could have picked any card from the deck. This means that Sydney is capable of creating every combination of card value and suit on that cube in real time with pure skill. That in itself is completely amazing and although Penn and Teller were able to figure out how it was done, know for fact that neither of them could ever duplicate it. Absolutely incredible!
Yes, not a force. Which makes it 52 times more amazing. And it's remarkable that Sydney can do all that while maintaining the patter that keeps you engaged while the solve is happening.
@@jwolfe01234 that would be mind blowingly insane!
@@RCinginSC That's not how it was done. Alyson could have chosen any card.
@@RCinginSC No, there would be too many ways for the trick to mess up that way. She knew the order of the cards (which is why she never asked Allison to shuffle it) and the cards were marked, so after Allison picked her card, she could look at the mark on the next card to know what Allison chose. After that, she did the cube wizardry, which she could do for any card.
Serious skill on display here from both Ms. Weaver and Mr. Jillette. The skill Ms. Weaver demonstrated should speak for itself. Mr. Jillette's ability to rightfully praise, while hinting, is great as well.
I am envious of both.
Wonderful trick. I believe the mark on the cards is the identity of the card above it so when Alison took her card the one left on top identified what card she took.
Could you please explain how?The cards were shuffled?
They were cut twice. That is hardly a shuffle. Odds are greatly in her favor of choosing 2 cards that were not separated in the cut. And actually, only the first cut might have messed anything up. The second cut meant nothing.
You cant mess the order up with deck cuts....
@@jonglazer9416 Basically it doesnt matter how many time you cut the cards if the cards are marked in circular fashion. As the top of the top most card is the bottom most card always
It's actually much simpler than that. Marked cards can be interrupted. But if you switch the decks, to an all 2 of clubs deck, you can never pick the wrong one, it's practically the biggest force. This is my guess of what happened.
Stilllllll.... if that's the gimmick, until I watch it a second time, I didn't see it but seems the most plausible.
Update: definitely could've been a marked card that was also based on order in the deck.
She was definitely playing the odds though, either cut could've threw it off. But only 2 cuts, lessens that chance.
So she memorized the order of the cards in the deck.
Cutting the deck does not change the order of the cards (think about the deck as being on a ring and you are just taking cards from the top and bringing them around the ring to the bottom.)
The deck was marked and she knew what the "new" top card under the "old" top one was by looking at the new top card when she put the deck back into the box. And when she suggests that there is no way that she could know what the card was, and neither could Allison, that was the deception suggestion. The Ouija and the devil references were also a good suggestion to throw you off. She obviously knew what the card was before she started manipulating the cube.
Penns key words: hit the mark, the algorithms aren't the only thing you memorized, good card selection.
And very entertaining.
It's not memorizing the deck, per se, but setting it up according to a system. Starting with whatever card you want (usually an ace), you place them in order where each card is three more than the last, wrapping around when you get to the end. You use a different suit for each of the first four cards, and keep the suits in the same order throughout. Then, when you see the card before or after, you add or subtract three and all you have to remember is the order of the suits. You can see this setup exists when she spread the deck (2-5-8, 6-9-Q, etc.). The easiest way to do it is to keep the suits in alphabetical order, but it's not necessary as long as you can remember the order you're using. I wish I could remember the name of the system so I could give it proper credit.
That aside, the cube work is magical in and of itself. This sort of mentalist routine is one of the few tricks I can do because I have absolutely no hands, but I couldn't imagine doing it using her method.
Thank for this, after about 5 minutes of wrapping my head around this thought process I got it! Lol
ZyliahWar 🥺❣😭🤗🤗🤗 you are better than those with hands.. in sooo many ways
It’s probably the Si Stebbins deck stack.
@@vickielawson3114 It was a marked Si Stebbins deck setup. You can see the setup in the spread. But wow.. still hugely impressive that she can cube out any card and suit combination on the cube and that quickly.
This was absolutely incredible. People are saying the actual magic trick involved is easy but even if that were true, the execution and sheer skill involved is just mind-boggling.
The trick itself simple enough but I think people are missing the big picture as making any card you need to in a cube that big with that speed is insane. Amazing!
Well she trained for 10 years and practiced Rubik her entire life, of course it's impressive, but it's her life passion somehow.
the cards are in a certain order...cutting them doesnt change the order...so peeking at the bottom card while putting it in the box lets you know what the card was on the top...the true amazing part is working the cube to make it into what the card was...if the cards were shuffled then it would make it not work
Yeah, but even if they are, how can she know where Alyson will cut. It can be any card
@@TheJovan211 lets say you have 1-10 and you cut now on top would be say 8 9 10 but then the rest would be 1-7....you still know the card ORDER so if you flip to the ten you will know 1 is next....
The cube part was just pure skill. The knowing what card she picked was the magic trick part. All together . Mind blowing
"mind blowing" as in a person who doesnt under flight is mind blown? its a simple pattern!
@@danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307 This person lectured at ivy league universities and you can't even construct a proper sentence, much less do what Sydney did (or design an airplane for that matter, as you mentioned flight). That you think you could viably take a swing at this individual is truly what's mind-blowing.
@@phrog4662 GREAT LOGICAL FALLACIES - THE TOOL OF THE UNEDUCATED WHO HAS NOTHING VALID TO SAY!
" This person lectured at ivy league universities"
Who? what is their qualifications? what did they lecture?
Who do you think im taking a swing at?
It was at the idiot who doesnt know the stacked deck is a simple pattern thats not hard to remember!
Its a childrens party magician grade trick!
IT IS NOT WORTHY OF THE SHOW!
Im guessing you are so dumb you are also "mind blown" by a person remembering a simple pattern! or learning to use a rubics cube! 🤦♂🤣
The comedic timing was also incredible (adding on to penns praise)! So much fun to watch!
I „hate“ you for being able to reveal any card on a 7x7 cube in less time than it takes me to solve a 3x3! Seriously, great skill.
Awesome
Yes
I love how the moment they praised her, her expression changed cuz she knew that they weren’t fooled.
What a great way to introduce the cubing community into the magic community! As a member of both, really enjoyed it
25,000 hours?! Omg that's dedication. I had a rubik's cube from a secret Santa when i was 14. I tried it for 5 minutes, got mad and threw the cube. I didn't know at the time but the color pieces breaks off.
OKAY JUST FINISHED YOUR PERFORMANCE PART. I HAVE NOT A CLUE. This was incredibly impressive
...so was it just math? Not that it makes sense to me, but i kept hearing "algorithm"
She memorised the order of the deck and looked at the bottom card so she knows what the top would have been.
She also memorised how to get from a perfectly solved cube to displaying any number and symbol in the cards.
It's all completely memory based so could really only be done by people who practiced cubing for many years.
Basically this is 100% cube skill attached to a very basic magic.
It's impressive but very odd choice for a magic show
An algorithm is a series of steps needed to achieve a solution.
For example a 3x3 cube has an algorithm per stage, some mirror algorithms (for example if you sometimes need to move a square to the right and in other times to the left) etc, even in the small 3x3 cube we are taking about sequences that are pretty long, so presumably in the big cube she needed to figure out and then memorise various sequences of steps she would then use for example to "draw" one of the leaves of the club.
Just wonderful NeeNee. You did great. You were very poised and well spoken. I'm so proud of you. Love Butchie.
Yes...well said
Forget the cards... the fact that you are able to memorize how to reveal any playing card selection that quickly on a 10x10 cube is beyond magic and into the realm of deep-space celestial sentience. UnbeLIEvable!
I'd probably need 3000 years at my current rate of learning abilities to reach her level.
And being entertaing while doing the solve. Amazing
I went into this thinking it was a force… which in itself is still impressive to create the number and suit. But then Penn all but said that she’d memorised all 52 ways to create the result… which is just nuts.
Penn said something about "right on the mark" and "algorithms... not the only thing you memorized ". So either a marked deck or a memorized deck. Penn covering all his bases there. And this is my problem with it. It's either one or the other. My guess it's a marked deck because she smiled at that hint.
@@georgeb9088 I mean, it's most definitely marked. But that's not the trick. In fact, there isn't really a trick - the mark is obvious. She's memorized how to create 52 different outcomes with the cube, that's the incredible part. It's not a magic trick, it a feat of pure intelligence.
@@monodescarado If you listen closely Penn said that those algorithms for creating the card out of that cube are not the only things she memorized. So he was hinting that she memorized the deck and had a peak on the first card.
@@georgeb9088 Right, but none of that matters. Anyone can use marked cards, and there are a hell of a lot of people that can memorize the order of a deck.
But the important thing is that it's a free choice. Which means she needs 52 multiple outs... all of which need to be made a massive rubix cube.
If we're just judging it by the magic, the trick isn't very good. She's not a magician and she looked positively awkward on stage. But what she is is a savant that can memorize how to create 52 different permeatations on a large rubix cube.
the devil joke is absolutely hilarious. loved the delivery of it as well
The way she handles that cube is fascinating, it's always a joy to watch dexterous people at their best. That must take a LOT of practice. Kudos!
Just watching her hands and the cube spin alone looks like pure magic! Honestly I would love to see more of your magic. You have a wonderful way to marry something palpable that we all relate to (the cube) with math and magic. I think thats a great formula for amazing magic.
Just the dexterity and memory you need to work with a cube that big is amazing. The magic was just a bonus on top.
Easy to figure out in principle, but likely only one person on Earth that can do it
Yeah that's the thing with this trick: there is only one logical way for this trick to be done, which makes it very difficult to fool P&T.
thank goodness "winning the contest" doesn't really matter here because you deserve everything and you will have it
seems like a simple force with a very difficult reveal. I can't solve a 3 by 3, so solving that puzzle is insane.
That would have been the easy way. It wasn't a force. That's why this is not just a difficult reveal, but a COMPLETELY INSANE reveal.
Cards has its individual mark & Order. Sydney know the picked card by the top card. Cube part was great.
Your explanation really sucks.
Mind-blowing, wonderful skills and quite a refreshing act! Too bad it didn’t fool them, but damn this was just wonderful to watch
Let's just say she had the whole order memorized, so Allison could pick ANY card. You would still have to memorize the steps on the cube at the same time as remembering the order of the cards. This girl is an absolute genius!
But how did she know which card she picked? Only thing i can imagine is that the cards were marked. Like „right on the mark“.
This becomes so much more impressive when you try to handle a cube like that and feel how difficult that is !!
even if it didn't fool them, it was still an incredible trick. some magicians have quick hands. you make them look like an arthritic 90 year old.
A genius lends their hand to a magick trick. Stellar performance.
wow. just the sheer fact you found a way to make that pattern and got it down to a tee is incredible
Being Hungarian, it'd really heartwarming to see you cubing on this insane level. Also, congrats on your performance!
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is it bad that the card trick is almost irrelevant to me? i mean it's great, sure, but the CUBE. the absolute skills there, i just cannot even fathom what i'm seeing much less have it end up spelling something!
This trick is impressive not by how she did it, but the way she did it! Really love it!
Like penn said. Somewhat simple trick but the execution is so impressive. She may be the only person able to execute this trick as such with her ability to memorize and retort algorithms necessary. She is a genius playing a finite game
While the magic was not impossible to figure out, wow, the memorization and dexterity is amazing! I am glad they brought you on so you could show off a little bit lol
Do you know how she knew it was 2 of clubs?
@@Skatelifefool Marked deck.
@@barisyakut7970 It can't be true...she did not see at all before Alyson sat on it
@@truthonly2114 It is. After Alyson picked her card, the performer carefully checks the top card which is enough to figure out the selected card. Penn also says “right on the mark” which is a code for marked deck and also check her reaction when Penn says that.
@@barisyakut7970 Thanks! Ya seems so
Wow that's really great! I'm only at 40s avg with the standard 3x3, I know the CF, getting the first few OLL algs in but very very slowly. That said, I am already taking my step into the bigger cubes, and no not towards the 4x4 or above, but towards the tesseract and the other higher dimension ones. Btw what I always wondered is why it's called an nxn cube, I mean it's a cube, all sides are the same, just call it an n cube.
So I get how how she knew what the card was, but being able to manipulate the cube into showing the answer is insane.
I don't. How did she figure it out?
@@Nuclearburrit0 marked deck
@@iami3rian394 but she didn't look at the card at any point before the reveal.
@@Nuclearburrit0 I'll give you a hint, if you'd like. The "mixed up deck of cards" isn't randomly mixed. She knows the order of the cards.
@@iami3rian394 ah, yeah I get it then.
you can see how the deck is prearranged, all numbers are in sets of 3, and all suits are following the order spade, diamond, clubs, hearts. She checks the top card after the pick and calculates the previous one taken. Then she proceeds to do the cube, which she is a champion, of course
The moment I realised what was about to happen I was like "THERE'S NO WAY YOU'RE GONNA DO WHAT I'M THINKING!" and you did it! That was just brilliant and flawlessly executed! Please keep it up!
Great job, Sydney! So much skill and joy on show here.
There's a reason you asked for the deck to be cut and stacked and not shuffled :) But regardless it is still an awesome routine! You are way more proficient with that cube than I ever was with a 3x3
so how did she knew the card?
@@MetalGuitarTimo Memory, cuts don't change the order of a deck no matter how many you make, she looked at the bottom card while putting the deck back, the bottom card is the one before the top one, the deck looks shuffled but in fact it isn't.
It was wonderful, I really enjoyed watching this show
Wish you the best in everything and keep going!!
This is the most terrific card magic that any begineer can learn, the card is not mixup and its arrange properly by plus 3
Wonderful trick amazing just to watch those hands!
i have no idea how she did this trick. that is crazy. nice job sydney!
If you want to know... Read on....
Of course she knows the card before she touches the cube. How? Well the deck is in a prearranged order that is meant to look random. she has this order memorized. After Allison has taken her card, the magician looks at the bottom of the deck while putting the cards in the box. Knowing that card, she just has to think what the card next to it is, and that's Allison's choice.
First she learned how to do a combination (suit+number) of all the 52 cards on 6*6 cube!!
Then she memorised a random order of the deck!!!
That's mind blowing
No switched deck! You can tell by the keenness to hide the switched deck in the box! 😁 It was cut out most prob because it was not fooling the camera! In the part of the show missing!
Force card. Plus a pre prepared Rubix cube which when solved for all colours reveals 2 clubs. She solved the Rubix cube as if solving a normal one for all colours except when she's done it has 2 clubs
@@HappyBloke81 there was no force or deck switch. What would be the point of switching the deck after Alison selected the card??? The cards are marked, she has the order of the deck memorized, and she knows which card was before the one left at the top after the selection from memory. She actually does have to memorize all the algorithms for presenting the cube at the end of the trick. It’s simply a matter of practice. Extremely impressive, and not easily replicated.
Very unusual Rubik’s cube magic. I enjoyed . Thank you
Penn is a master of Code Talk.
I have caught a few of his codes and figured out what he said or which trick or maneuver he was referring to but most of the time I have No Clue.
I can't see any force or switch. So the only thing that's left is - what Penn said - memory. The order of the deck is never changed by shuffling, the top card is removed. So it's not very hard for a woman much smarter than me to tell which card it was by just looking at the new top card. ;-)
Then it was just routine: Turning the cube's elements to show the card.
I don't think you would even need to memorize anything. I'm sure you could get a special deck of cards that sits in a specific 'random' order' where the back of each card indicates that value of the card above it. If that was the case you'd just have to learn how to read that code.
@@seamusmaguire2160 You still have to memorize the order, because you can't see the chosen card. ;-)
@@DaveChimny I don't think you do,
I'm hypothesizing about a deck where the card value indicator on the back is actually for the card above it in the deck and not for the same card. Get what I mean? If that was the case she would just have to learn a simple code and check the back of the card before putting them away.
As you mentioned in your first comment, the impressive part is making symbols with the cube
@@DaveChimny Dont think she went on the show to fool P & T other than showing her un believable skill with the cube ,dont want to exposé how the card was chosen but will say the card routine has been around for a long time and experience magicians know this
Awesome Sydney!! You looked very excited as Alyson revealed her card!!!
That was crazy how you worked the “FU” into the cube as well as the top card, too bad you didn’t get to show it .
Sydney, you're a Cube genius, so it was only the well-known method for the magic that let you down. Talk to an established magician and get that side of the equation to a higher level, then add your unique skill, and I'm sure you could come back and blow their minds.
I believe P&T have seen every card force known to man. Very difficult to fool them in that regard. Still amazing Cube work. 👏
I've seen comments saying it was a setup and marked deck . Now I'm not sure if two cards were trimmed forcing the cuts or was each card setup in such a way to indicate the card on top of it 🤔
Great trick. I figured out how she knew the card. From that point on was the crazy skills with that cube which I cannot fathom.
How’d she know the card?
@@bransonmiller6550 As a card magician myself, not going to share. It is quite easy though.
The cube part is not that difficult if you know the basics of the cube. It's relatively simple to switch the middle parts using commutators. The speed is impressive, but the concept is straight forward.
@@jimmckay2337 Deck switch clearly! I dont know how these people come up with the memorise the deck and count where the cut is!
Sydney you’re amazing and you’re so respectful human being
Yes, go ahead and throw jokes around while doing the most elaborate reveal of Fool Us history. Might've not been the most fooling of performances, but certainly impressive.
OH I don't think Penn was able to capture Sydney's intelligent ... This girl is a savage on that cube it's incredible ... magic requires doing dirty work but on this trick ... there isn't really cheating ... I did not feel I'm being tricked at any moment ... everything looked so fair and seamless like a breeze .. Awesome job I can't believe I'm watching this a year later
Skilled handling of the cube but a simple handling of the cards meant that Penn and Teller or any seasoned magician would not be fooled.
Amazing
Wow congratulations Sydney. That was amazing!
Unlike other people here, I'm not trying to understand how a magic trick is done. I just want to be entertained and amazed, and you did just that, Thank you!
Even having figured this one out, this young woman has a fantastic memory, both mental and physical. Not only does she have to know which card, but which algorithm for the cube to arrange for the reveal and quickly execute. I'd give an FU trophy just on manipulating the 7x7 because I sure as sugar can't.
I love how a red center is on the white side.
That is by far the best cube trick I have ever seen! I am just stunned by this!
There was no cube trick. Just a card trick.
holy shit the skills to make a fucking number out of that
amazing
Good for you exposing the world to cubing and getting to be on the show! Thats insane!
*Spoiler*
If I heard Penn right, it was a marked deck. Like he said, in addition to memorizing the tiny marks, did she literally memorize 52 different results on that cube? If true, that is fucking insane.
She didn’t memorise the results she used commutators to swap the peices to show the number and suit
@@rujon288 what? How does that work? Sounds wild
Yeah, I feel like this trick would be much easier by just using a force lol. But very impressive.
@@jayblack5231 ua-cam.com/video/n3G1DfwTkSc/v-deo.html this explains it kind of
Really good card selection, and a cool way to include the cube gimmick.
How is the cube a gimmick, if hes genuine?
@@eirtars, sorry, I was using the word "gimmick" in the sense of "novelty". I don't know if the cube is tricked out or not.
@@sm5574 Aight. I think it is not. Shes a cube lover. Her pride is to solve cube fast. There is no way shes faking some kind of resolution. The cube is genuine and her performance is about to reproduce the card display with it. The magic trick in itself, is an easy one for the magicians, seems so, thats why shes didn't get the trophy.
I loved the trick so so much, only problem is that it was too good to be true and not enough misdirection, memorization must have been a factor. It's not so hard to spot the method since it's actually about the only possible method that this trick could be executed. Also the skill required to perform this trick is unfathomably hard, hats off to you for being able to perform such amazing trick!!!
My quess is that she memorized the order of cards, and there was small mark in the back side , so she knew what card was before or in top of that, and then she learned how to make it with the cube .
If this is the righ way....
Damn woman!!!!!
The most impressive thing is there’s no “magic” involved. Just pure skills.
I see. The whole deck is marked so she knows which one allison took by looking at the top card. Then she just does her cube thing to match the card.
@@BzBlade :) She wouldn't be able to do that. The cards were simply jingled and sequenced. :)
She was turned around when Alison chose the card so how could that possibly be the case
@@BzBlade You are stupid? I do not mention that it is Svengali, but that the cards are clinkled (marked) and in the sequence (sorted if you do not understand magic terms). That it is Svengali, you write the second post a month ago. Be good !!!
The deck is marked, but she can only see which card is missing because the deck is organized as a "Si Stebbins stack" (Wikipedia has a good explanation of it), which is evident when she fans out the cards at 1:54. A Svengali deck, as others suggest, wouldn't really help much and would also be obvious when fanning the deck.
‘Just’.
The act, as Penn said, is glorious. But the card selection, and how you knew, was pretty much a magic 101 (From what I can tell, at least).If you put some time into making a new way to select the card, you could take this trick to new heights, as even non-magical viewers can take guesses about how you knew based on your instructions. Had the deck been shuffled by Allison, a card selected at random, or you didn't even handle the deck yourself, and you still got the card right? This trick would have fooled them for sure, and impressed them even more in the process.
such a great performance and as far as im aware, incredibly innovative idea - i LOVE the cube being the one who has the knowledge and uses you to reveal the answer. so good! excited to see what types of tricks you come up with in the future :) !!
Besides smart, she's quite pretty too. And seems genuine in nature, nothing about her seemed fake and she put herself out there. Good on you Sydney, I hope things work out for you in the future. I've also seen a lot of people say the cards were marked, even if that is the case, that means you had to memorize each and every possible outcome. All 52. I can't even fathom what the heck that must've taken to accomplish.
It's a literal man with very poor dental hygeine, that's you're idea of pretty? A man who claims to hold world records for the first woman to do something isn't your idea of fake?
@@marcosolo6491 I couldn't be any more serious if I tried. That's a fucking dude.
That was incredible. Actually blown away.
I was pretty confident that this wouldn't fool Penn and Teller, but honestly, if the card selection part was removed and she simply cubed a displayed card by itself, it would still be super impressive.
Amazing display of skill
It really sucks that in terms of magic this is a really basic trick because the sheer incredible skill it takes to memorize all the algorithms for 52 cards is astonishing and deserves a mountain of praise. Take the trick up to the next level by perfecting a better selection and this is a serious killer
Who said she knows 52 algorithms and not only one?
She only needs to memorize 17 algorithms, 4 suits and 13 numbers.
I think she only has to memorize one, the 2 of clubs
@@danielal3868 Allison cut the deck
@@thememaster7 So?
I did this trick (without the cube, obviously) for a few friends who had no knowledge of different deck stackings and it blew their minds. lol. If I could've also done the thing with the cube I'm pretty sure their heads would've exploded.
Did she legit memorize the entire order of cards and saw the card next to the one that Alyson chose when putting them back into the box, and then memorized how to create every single card on that cube? Insane
It's impressive memorization/skill, but as a magic trick it is very simple to figure out, and won't work out 100% of the time. The first cut of the deck could potentially disturb the order of the proceeding top 2 cards. Very unlikely, but possible. The cube added nothing to the trick except as a means to show the selected card. She could just as easily have just said it out loud.
Awesome trick
No, she memorized the pattern of the cards. And she learned how to manipulate the cube very well.
@@nitedk 1 premode, do 1 alg, unpremove.
Not much to memorize....
A real blind solve is more impressive, to someone who understands it.
source: i blind solve cubes...
@@MoonLiteNite are you sure you're talking to me?
Yeah, the cubing is definitely more impressive than the magic trick itself. But so what? It is very impressive overall, and it being such a different take, even if it is on a relatively "regular" magic trick, makes this quite entertaining to watch.
This is pure genius.
I am guessing "on the mark" expression by Penn is a reference to some mark at the back of the card on the table, which tells you what card was picked.
And then there is this genius and artist par excellence who made the card appear on the cube.
It would be a gimmicked deck of cards. She gave very specific instructions how to cut the deck. Since she knew it would be a 2 of clubs picked by Allison, she only needed to memorize one cube-twisting routine to obtain the desired display at the end. It's a lot of showmanship and talking but ultimately the trick is brutally simple, it's just a card force.
@@armacham fair point... Even a marked card set needs her to have Alyson cut the cards and pick, shuffling will spoil the order...
Plus you saw how she examined the top card and put it in right after the selection. It's marking mate, not forced selection
@@armacham yeah there’s no possible way this is forced unless the whole deck of cards was of the 2 of clubs. Alyson obviously didn’t even cut the deck in a perfect half leaving room for error when “Cut the deck in half” is said.
If the deck was marked, the cards could have been shuffled...
Here,it only got cut twice. Which means, if Sidney memorizes the entire sequence of the deck beforehand -- which I am sure she can do -- she could take a peek at the bottom card while putting the cards back into their box -- which I am pretty sure she did. Knowing what this bottom card is, she can guess what the following card in the sequence is.
Still, I am so impressed by this original and spectacular routine.
@@MamaBB94 They couldn't be shuffled because she only saw the card *under* the card that was picked. So she most likely memorized the order of the cards, looked at the markings of top card, deduced what was previously on top of that card, and "drew" that with a cube.
Much easier said than done though.
My guess is that all of the cards turn into a 2 of clubs when warmed (which is why Alysson had to sit on it for a sufficient amount of time). We have mugs with print that change with temperature, so why not. Still this is amazingly difficult to do. It takes me forever to brute force a picture in a 3x3x3 cube. Doing that on a 7x7x7 that fast is insane.
She said she’s pretty good at big cubes bld so she’s probably quite good at forcing images using comms
Good guess
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Nah, it's a ridiculous guess. Why don't you just put a computer inside the freaking card and let it be controlled from backstage.
You know how this is done.
Or, she just memorized the whole card deck; There are cards that are marked on the top, each card having a different marking. You won't see the markings if you don't know what to look for, so memorizing the whole deck she could have known which card came before the one that was on the table.
This might sound rather difficult, but if you for example lookup Daniel Roy (i believe his name was) on UA-cam, he does a lot of card tricks, and some of them require you to memorize the whole deck (or big parts of it), and having her smarts I don't think it would be impossible to just memorize 52 or so elements, considering how much she must have to memorize in order to "paint" certain symbols on the cube.
(Then again, as a software developer, I would assume there to be a nifty algorithm to do just that, and if she memorized it, she might be able to put any kind of symbols onto the cube; It would be far too difficult for me (unless I was allowed to use a computer to write a program that would then display me what to move where), but I am also not exactly someone who can solve a rubicks Cube as quickly as she can, so...)
That was my thought too, but nothing in Penn's response suggested that. But now I have a new theory.
This trick is fabulous, and I have no idea how she did it. I can barely solve a simple Rubik's cube, let alone figure out how she made it come up with the number of a card she didn't see and presumably had no clue as to what it was. Wow!
Obviously she does know what it was. Otherwise she wouldn't be able to put the number on the cube.
A hint for you: Alyson did not shuffle after taking the card
Thanks Max
The cards are marked, which is why she wanted them cut and not shuffled. Seeing the card underneath what Allison chose tells her the card, and from there she can make it on the cube.
I’m just an amateur who can solve a 3x3 in 1.5 mins. She really is amazing to do this. Great hand mechanics
I still haven't solved one so you're doing pretty good!
Maybe is she did some more 'fake' things with the cards to throw off pen and teller, that might have fooled them. I think the card deck cutting thing was too simple and they figured out out right away.
No, they were not fooled because it's solving a cube. Unless it was solved out of view, no amount of tricks could fool them because they know how smart she is. Honestly it's a compliment IMO.
What a great trick and a great routine.
Love this trick - great job!
Having the marked deck of card cut twice could reveal the chosen card while the skill of creating rhe suit and number in the rubics cube is really amazing.
The cards are marked and she knows how to make every card on the cube. So impressive.
She didn’t look at the card. Allison was sitting on the card while her back was turned
@@LeagueOfLou well maybe i understanc marking cards well. But if you know the order of them and you see the card below, you can kno which card the took away.
@@LeagueOfLou The back of the deck is marked, and it's stacked in a particular order, so by looking at the back of the top card she can easily deduce which card Alison took.
The Si Stebbins stack is a really easy one to remember, the cards are arranged in the pattern clubs, hearts, spades, diamonds, increasing by a value of 3 each time (where Jacks are 11, Queens are 12, Kings are 13, and Aces are 1).
So if you start with the 3 of clubs, the next card in the stack would be the 6 of hearts, followed by the 9 of spades, then the Queen of diamonds, then the 2 of clubs, and so on.
That was amazing Sydney loved the trick
The only thing I can figure is that the cards were marked and when she got the deck back she saw the top card and then knew what card was on top of it because she had the order of the deck memorized. Other than that I have no guesses. This was a great trick. Penn said " right on the "MARK" so that where I got the hint at. If it's not that I'm stumped. And then the algorithms Penn talked about would be every solution to make every card in the deck on the cube? That is insane in itself. And I do believe Allyson had a completely free choice of cards also. If the marked cards are the case. And having all of those solutions memorized on how to make each number, face card and then suit on the cube is maybe what he was talking about when he said she is the smartest person they've ever had on the show. Really cool and just incredible really.
Since the suit and value are on different sides you would only need 17 algorithms. One for each suit and one for each card value. Still a million times better than my cubing skills and a really entertaining trick.
She should rework the trick to use rfid chips in the cards, keep the same selection method, and go get a trophy.
Svengali Deck. You are thinking too hard.
@@jonnawoodward1256 You can narrow it down to 2 algorithms, though you could memorize more to make it faster. The only 2 you need is swapping each part of a face except center and swapping 2 specific faces. if you memorize those 2 you can make any 5x5 grid pattern on demand. Doing it fast without the cube exploding is the HARD PART!!!!!
I really hope you keep do more magic. Your amazing skill and intelligence is such a interesting combination. It’s very much like David Blaine only you do the stunts with your head and fingers. You blur the line between reality and magic. Imagine a routine where you combine super simple but fooling methods with your amazing skill with tricks like these. You have tools maybe no other magicians have. I really hope I see more magic from you. Also the sound from your cube was amazing. Take care!! 💪💪💪
Not really surprised that it wasn't a fooler, but _wow_ nevertheless. Going places regardless of one of them maybe not being P&T's live show.
Fun performance! Very good! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
My brain just melted. I failed algebra 101 in college and had to cheat the rest of the way through school.
Besides the cube part which is great , I was impressed with the card trick. How can you have a person cut the deck twice in a random way, and with a turning back be able to know which card was selected?
This is just a guess but based on Penn saying something about it being just on the mark, the card deck MAY have been marked in some way. Also as cutting the deck doesn't change the actual order of the cards (IE: if the Ace of spades is next to the Queen of Diamonds, the worst that a cut will do, is put one at the top of the deck and the other at the bottom, but otherwise they'll be in the same spot).
Also, Penn suggests memorization was in play, so it may be that the deck was in some specific order so by looking at the top card of the deck still on the table, Sydney would then know what card was selected.
Lastly now knowing what card was selected, it was then just a matter of making the pattern on the cube as the reveal. Considering she's been doing cubes for so long, I don't think that there was any "trick" there, just that she knew the image she wanted to create for any card in the deck and knew how to get it there in a quick way. I'm FAIRLY sure that even if I'm wrong about how she knew about what card was selected, she could have set the cube into a state to reveal any of the cards in the deck. That again isn't a trick, but instead, just skill with the cube.
That's not to suggest the trick wasn't impressive. Heck if I'm right and the trick could have truly allowed for any of the cards in the deck to be selected, then that's even more amazing with how much she had to know how to manipulate the cube to put it in the pattern she wanted.
Stacked deck. She knew which card was picked by looking at the bottom card while putting the deck back in the box.
@@djsyntic Not diminishing her skill at all, but with only 2 simple algorithms she has memorized she would be able to make any 5x5 pattern appear on up to 3 faces of the cube.
The first one swaps ALL the pieces of one face with another face. (blue -> yellow) 3:12 . The second one swaps a single piece from one face back to another. (Yellow ->blue) in order to rebuild the shape. If the center needs to not change then she would skip the first step and go straight into the 2nd. A bunch of rubiks algorithms are written in such a way that you end where you started with only a single part of the cube changing.
The hardest part of this trick was doing it fast without the cube exploding. It would take me probably an hour to follow the route she did while chatting.
@@SocialPerspective101 That can work for one cut, but not for a deck cut twice. I think the method was simpler: watching the cut on a monitor, or by looking at the top of the card revealed by the removal of the top card.
@@djsyntic Yes its a stacked deck and the pattern to the cards is pretty simple so easy to remember!
I have a normal 3x3 picture cube and while I know how to solve the colors I still can barely rotate the center picture to be correct on all sides at the same time. Spelling/drawing something with a 19x19 cube is nuts.
This is so crazy impressive, doing an incredibly difficult trick and adding an incredibly difficult trick on top of it! I can barely manage the first part of the trick, but I'm working on it and hopeful. She must be really, really smart, TONS to memorize with this performance, if she's able to do all 52 cards, that's just incredible.
What a great trick. You fooled me kiddo! Great job!