This was easy to deconstruct though! If you look closely at the hamster you can see it's a resurrected Egyptian God. The necromancer with the hat (Jo) says so himself. So the trick is just literally an Undead Egyptian Deity reading the mind of a mere human. Busted.
When even the producers and Penn's banter did not reveal this secret.. .. then why are you publicly revealing this secret¡¿ Can delete of edit now and hope that Lord Hamsaris🙇🏻♂️ does not cast a spell on you.
The fact that you clearly love animals *and* you take the time to respond to so many replies on your videos tells me that you are a kind human being. The world needs more people like you.
I am not sure, but a theory: Each tile has an RF tag in it (like used in some chess pieces on automated boards). When the tile is place in the location by Teller, it is read by a sensor in the table. The sensor has an RF transmitter to send the chosen tile to the pyramid. Inside the pyramid are small ultrasonic emitters, one per tile location. The proper ultrasonic emitter is turned on and the trained hamster follow the sound he can hear (but not us humans) to the proper box holding the tile. Then again, it might have been done some other less technical way.
I love this so much! I don't recall trying out this method but it might have crossed my mind, it would be a way to do it. This is the first time someone makes a guess that feels so familiar to how I think or make up ideas. Never easy fixes, always taking a hard route that takes months of r&d. You win an award! 🏆
That RF tag thing seems like the simplest way to read the tile, but as for getting the hamster in there, maybe it's just a little door that opens up to some food, and the hamster can smell it. The hamster would even dispose of the evidence for you, if there was some food in the correct tomb But the tomb boxes seem solid and with no real way to do that, so maybe it's just opening a 'door' underneath it, which lets the smell go up through it
This was so nice from beginning to end. The props, the setup, the song and dance, ... I liked it all. And a big plus for not giving away the result in the title too
Great trick, and Teller was the perfect partner, his mannerisms and facial expressions are so good. He's also very savvy, note how after he takes a tile and covers it with the hat, he then moves a different one into its former spot, just trying to throw any possible little wrench into the equation. Great stuff all around and congrats Jo!
My theory is that each tile image has a different scent to it. When the hat goes above it the scent gets transferred to the hat and the hamster is smelling it while in the hat then matches the scent to the tile in the maze. No idea if I'm even remotely close but great trick nonetheless!
My theory is that the hamster always turns right, so it was a given, that it will go to that corner. So always the fish was the choice, now the question is, how can you ensure that the fish is under the hat? I'm not sure of this, but it certainly is suspicious, that when Teller chooses the tile, he can't look at it and a hat is placed on top. Only when the hat is picked up to be a hamster blindfold, he can look :/
Love the performance, and also creative thinking. While we're guessing... the hamster path is set. The tile is always the fish. Perhaps all tiles on the table start off different, but become fish while sliding them upside down.
My hats off to Jo, once he flips that switch he is always unstoppable. Fooling Penn and Teller is like a maze for most but Jo and his hamster have the path to that trophey memorized.
Your tricks are just so good, Jo. Pardon the terms as I'm not a magician by any means, but I'd assume most people that watch this act and give it a little thought will assume there has to be a force, a read, a switch or a combination at some point, but beyond that what are you gonna do, even if you're Penn & Teller. The trick is unguessable, and your props are designed in such a clever way. The magical powers I believe most animals truly do have is being able to tell good people from bad people. You're clearly such a good person, and the way you connect with the animals is super endearing. I don't know if you have children, but my 8 year old daughter loves your performances and I'm so sure you are/would be such a good dad. Congratulations on the 3rd win.
I love this guy's performances. It takes time to brfriend and figure out what animals can do but it's also very rewarding even if you do it just for your own and the animal's joy. Lovely.
If I had to guess the tiles have some kind of electronic inside them that the hat can read. The hamster has been trained to always run to that specific spot. They pyramid itself loads the correct tile on top before it is lifted. I could also be completely wrong.
I love your thinking! It was done very different but I think your method could work and also fool them. Bravo! You should compete, they are making another season.
Super interesting trick. Actually super fun because any idea I have about it feels less realistic than Hamsaris just actually being able to read minds.
I don't answer on methods but sometimes I love to answer a little because I worked so extremely hard on this. Hamsaris truly is a god, goes to a different sarcophagus each performance.
1. I once played a memory game with a 6 year old that knew the pictures based on structure of wood pieces. 2. The fish inside the tomb is drawn and not stamped like the ones he turns over. 3. Gloves makes me suspicous. 4. That is one well fed hamster that knows where his food is. 5. He sticks his finger inside the box with the hamster So I'm guessing he knows the picture based on wood markings, mouse always runs right corner, he somehow marks the roof with his finger/gloves when he picks up the cage. Reading this again, I can see why I'm behind a keyboard and he is on the stage with Penn and Teller ;)
Is teller legally blind? LOL I assume these days for the show they dont look at anything afterwards (which should have been spotted during the trick!) even tho they use to do this all the time! making it much easier for peoples tec crew to do the tricks so they dont know how it was done?
@@danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307they shouldn't be allowed to look at the props unless invited. The premise of the show is to see if they are fooled watching it once. That's it.
creative thinking :) they where hard fooled, Brooke told me they never looked so amazed after filming was done when they came back on stage to check everything. Free choise
What a great act, the silliness of it all. The dance and the singing, i cried of laughter. Honestly i'm not a fan of animals acts, i always wondered how they are treated, i hope hamsaris is living a nice life, since he is a god. All the best to the both of you.
I produced a special for Animal Planet called The Secrets Of Animal Magic. I learned that the animals and the huge amount of hours to train them (a Tiger quietly hiding in a prop!?) Makes them very very valuable to the magician. Mistreat no. Respect and revere, yes. (Circuses being an occasional exception in the past).
Teller is the perfect guy to just go with the flow while you plop a hamster on his head. I assume the producers told you to just roll with that idea. 🤣🤣
Phenomenal! Stunning! Greatly entertaining. Thanks for the smiles! (I have an idea of how the routine was done, but enjoy not knowing for sure, better!)
It is indeed amazing to see acts such as this one on Penn and Teller! How ingenious to design such an intricate set-up that is impossible to decipher its method. What makes this especially unique is the use of a small animal to match the chosen article. Simply incredible!
Thank you for that comment! I can only admit that I'm not great in social media and RUclips. If you have a good suggestion for a title and thumbnail you're more then welcome to email it: info@joderijck.com
the best way to get the trophy is when there are so many ways the trick could be pulled off that Penn and Teller can't quite put their finger on it. I would have just replaced the log in 5:00. But since he's messing with the hat so much, it could be an RFID chip in the wood blocks. There may be a mechanism in the pyramid that closes all the openings that Teller didn't choose. The hamster runs purposefully into a box, it could also be that it replaces the lid when it turns its back on Teller. As the color is so strong it could also be a kind of stamp in the box, which then makes the fish on the lid from below.
That is a way to fool them indeed but I like to believe that I worked extremely hard on developing a new never done before magic method and that this is what fooled them.
@@jo_de_rijckthat's why I couldn't commit, because I actually couldn't figure out how you did it. In any case, I really like the story with pyramids, hamsters and mummies. Very funny too!
Each tile has a different smell and the same matching tile in the pyramid has the same smell. when the cap covers the tile (2:49), the hat gets the smell (2:49) and you can see the hamster is covered by the hat (5:15) and he gets the smell. When he put in the maze, he just needs to find the tile smell that he got in the cap.
I think there's something like a RFID tag inside each of the wood brick and the helmet allows to read it. 2:04 is clearly seen that many of the briks look like if they consist of two parts, as their color and structure of the wooden pieces don't match. And that vapor 5:53 gives the hamster the direction.
Such a great act! Love all types of animals and this trick made me happy already by tne humster itself. Also, I don't have a faintes idea how you did it, amazing performance!
CONGRATS ON THE TROPHY! As a ROOKIE magician: I immediately think about smell (gloves, and enclosed spaces to let the smell build up), but it can’t be that simple if Penn & Teller obviously know about smell 🤔🤔🤔 What about the tiles is so special
I'm thinking that each tile has a thumper transmitter that is set when flipped face down, then triggered when turned up to reveal one of five or six drawings. The thumper is in his shoe or pocket. There are then a similar number of hamster release points that have only one unblocked box caves and the rest in that area are blocked off and the hamster is unable to get in any other boxes. To get the fish box, release in one spot and everything else is blocked, from the path to the box entrances. Or a combination of a thumper for a release point and a scent released in the hat that matched all fish boxes. All fish tiles smell like the fish boxes. The hamster smelled what was collected in a few minutes under the hat and looked for the same smell in a box? Great act, regardless.
I have no idea how this trick was done. But in looking at possibilities, I have thought of a way to do the same trick. Trick tiles. The tile choice was not forced. So trick tiles that when "up" show one way, and "down" all show the same fish. Not a forced choice, a fake choice. The song and dance is because it takes 30 seconds to switch from one to another, so that when handled on stage, they stay long enough to appear static. They all start up, then we see none of them after, other than the chosen one. If they all changed from their "unique" glyph to a fish, then the trick would work with a properly trained animal (always going to the same corner), or a maze board with every tile a fish, and two "demonstration" tiles with a second tile stacked, so if chosen extra slight of hand is needed to show the correct one, or no slight of hand to show they aren't all the same. Hopefully that's not the way you did it. But you can make it if you want.
i figured it out so im gonna write it here to let you also kniow how the trick was done since you let the hamster do all the work. well of course once you put in the hamster in the laby he could have go for any route it wuldnt have mattered . to make sure he takes any route at all you had to use osiris hamster because he did not eat for like 3000 years that way you could place some peonuts into the boxes to ensure he will go for them .. once he reached the box he was of course a very happy hamster and was busy listening and when you looked up the glyph of the fish that teller chose you said it out loud and of course the hamster thought sure a fish i can do that pulled up a penn and drew this nice fish on the upper ceiling of the box as a little thank you for the food. you get the trophy he got the nuts teller got to be on stage and even penn was involved everyone happy :) but dont let the hamster know i told you how it was done :)
My only thought is that since he had teller reveal the fish first he is somehow able to switch the tiles to be a fish but that doesnt even seem possible saying the tiles would have to have some obvious mechanism to be able to show all possibilities
The key to the trick is when he picks up the hat and uses it to "blindfold" the hamster by bringing it close to him. In the normal sequence of the trick, he would have teller pick up and show the tile when it was first selected, or he would have had Teller pick a tile during this moment. Because he has Teller pick the tile early on, and then puts the hat over it early on, I believe this serves two purposes. First is that the hat needs to be over the tile for a period of time. My guess is that this is for something like an odor/scent it has, or something like an RFID reader or some kind of other sensor in the hat (but my top guess is still definitely scent). While this signal is imprinted/confirmed upon the hat, he then asks teller to check the tile and brings the hat directly over to the hamster. Again, the timing of this at this moment just doesn't make sense, particularly in combination with the earlier part of the trick. Whatever signal (likely scent) was imprinted onto the hat is then picked up on by the hamster, and it has then been trained to go to the appropriate place in the maze to match that signal. Assuming it is scent, then it wouldn't surprise me if the hamster doesn't need much training at all for this part ;)
Many people try to discover how it was done, but is so simple, Hamsaris used Mind control to force Teller to Choose the fish, i think that Hamsaris sometimes identifies it self as an Irish Fishman (yes yes, irish, i got that from his accent). 😉
Each tile is marked on the back side with the matching symbol, only it's in infra-red ink (invisible to the human eye). Hamsiris can see in the infra-red part of the spectrum, so he knows right away which symbol Teller chose. Then it's an easy trick for Hamsiris to work his way through the maze until he comes to a box which is also marked with the matching symbol, again in infra-red ink.
so the ink on the tile is temperature sensitive. where the main color gets removed from the wash of the tile making them all show the same image or table is either heated or cooled. to make the original image disappear and only a fish appear on each one. the maze has a few slots blocked off or has something the hamster is adverse to. all the rest of the cages show fish. so as long as the hamster makes into one of the "safe" ones he flips over ones that he knows are not fish and shows that it picks up on of the many cages that have a fish on it.
Suggest that the tiles when flipped over and spun around change to all be the fish. The ink is wiped off when sliding the tiles around exposing the fish. This is the reason for the gloves
That's actually an interesting approach. I think it's a rather sure bet to say that the fish is forced since I think relying on the hamster traversing the maze to a different location on the spot without him exploring one of the other tombs is very risky; while on the other hand it's easy to train him to always go straight for the fish tomb. So it's about the way how he made the tile Teller chose become a fish tile. I first thought it gotta be some sleight of hand but I don't see anything suspicious. I also don't believe the hat is rigged since Teller actually wore it and could possibly have examined it before putting it on or felt the extra tile hidden in there. So the next plausible thing is to assume the tiles are rigged and the way you describe it makes a lot of sense and also explains the need to wear gloves. Still this seems like a lot of work and there might be a simpler way to rig the tiles.
the question that remains is how does the hat change any tile into a fish tile. Or perhaps the table cloth does it. Or perhaps while they're mixing Jo makes sure to wipe each tile against the table which washes off the outer ink leaving fish everywhere...?
I thought somehow the tile was switched under the hat with some weird technology. Your idea of ink changing makes more sense. However I don't think it's about the ink rubbing off but instead it's time-related. A lot of time passes between Teller putting the tile face down and looking at it. Enough time for some chemical reaction to happen that would turn any tile to "fish". That would leave no ink-stains and also require gloves because one of the two chemicals would be on the table and the other on the tiles. The resulting fish is also large and "dense" enough that it would cover most blemishes if the chemical reaction doesn't make the previous picture 100% invisible.
My guess is all tiles were fish, and the ones you revealed on the table where removed during the mix up. And only fish tiles in the maze had scents / treats.
Most people know that Penn refers to himself as “carney trash” and that Teller is the actual magician of the two. What most people don’t know is that Penn can communicate with animals telepathically. The only problem is that the hamster speaks Flemish and Penn doesn’t. Otherwise he’d have figured it out.
4:59 he was able to see the back of the tile. Could have memorized the wood grain on the back of each tile and then planted a treat or switched the tile in the pyramid
I remember going to the state fair as a teenager, and getting beaten 12 times in a row by a chicken playing tictac toe with me!?! (definitely not one of my greatest moments as a human being, but memorable for sure)....
ruclips.net/video/IdPTurhb9Hk/видео.html it's a mind reading dolphin actually. Normally at the end of this clip it should link to the chicken and the dolphin act. Thanks for your kind words.
My theory as a non-magician: The symbols on the tiles are drawn using a special ink which reacts with a coating of some chemicals on the table surface (hence the need for gloves) that make the symbols disappear, to reveal the fish symbol underneath. Ie every tile will end up with a fish symbol, not just the one shown at 1:49. So the fish was forced. It just takes a little while for the symbols to be chemically replaced, hence the extended patter. The hamster is trained to always go to the container with the fish symbol. (There might also be several fish containers, with the non-fish ones somehow blocked so the hamster can't enter these.) The fish symbol that's revealed at the end of the trick around 6:39 looks to me very slightly different to the one that's shown face up earlier, which supports this theory. Alternatively: the hamster is a member of the Egyptian pantheon. That original chicken trick, by the way, is one of the most baffling, charming and amusing tricks ever done on the show, and it tickles me no end that they still get grief for it. Edit: reading the comments more thoroughly I see now someone else already suggested this theory.
Or even simpler than that. Train the hamster so that if you pet him twice- or even recognize word, it go to the recognize word. The hamster find the right tile after it is reveal, or even to pick up on name so when he repeated, he got the fish, the hamster understand the word fish and go to fish.
Chicken, a snake who identify itself as a dolphin and now a ancient Egyptian hamster... Penn needs to make Fool Us pet free before he gets fooled by a Fourth animal
I think he did something to the tiles when shuffling, which is why he asked teller to stare at him, so that teller can't see what he's doing with his hands
Yes teller was the best especially the part of hamsaris going in his head. I saw comments about scent. Are you able to just answer yes or no, does it have anything to do with hamsaris's sense of smell?
The real stars are the animals. Their ability to learn simple tasks and perform them on command is the key to all of Jo's magic tricks. In this case , i guess the hamsters sense of smell is used. Thats why both have to wear gloves, to not contaminate the sample blocks
One possible way of doing it: All the tiles have the same fish symbol on them, but they have something painted over that with a special friction or heat-sensitive ink. The top layer of ink rubs off or fades away when they are mixing up the tiles. This means no matter what Teller chooses, it will ultimately be the fish symbol. The hamster is simply trained to go to the same spot every time, likely with a reward of food.
It's a uncommon way people would pronounce "the rick". In some dialects in America, people put a D sound in front of The or Tha instead of T. The is sometimes thrown in before someone's name as like a joking way to make them sound important. Instead just being a James, they might call me THE James. So, "Yo, it's de rick" or "Yo, de rick" is legit something someone might say as a greeting. @@jo_de_rijck
Amazing trick and training, i know you wont tell how it was done ;) but combining gloves, hat, tiles, even the sme.../mindreading on tellers head might put the nose into the right direction :)
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Greetings to all from Hamsaris. He is enjoying himself here in Belgium.
I wish i could travel and get the ancient knolwdge from his highness
Groetjes terug!
Jo... je bent geweldig!! voorbeeld ook.. bedankt om zo inspirerend te zijn!! Fried Ringoot (lid van the Monday Magicians uit Middelkerke)
Have seen you in Molenheide and you are great. Best of luck into fooling them a fourth time.
I can only imagine the difficulty to pass customs in USA with a hamster! And to justify it is for a magic trick!
This was easy to deconstruct though! If you look closely at the hamster you can see it's a resurrected Egyptian God. The necromancer with the hat (Jo) says so himself. So the trick is just literally an Undead Egyptian Deity reading the mind of a mere human.
Busted.
😅😅😅you 've made my day
When even the producers and Penn's banter did not reveal this secret..
.. then why are you publicly revealing this secret¡¿
Can delete of edit now and hope that Lord Hamsaris🙇🏻♂️ does not cast a spell on you.
I mean at least say it in code, bro, come on!
A two times fooler who clearly is very nervous on stage still - that's so relatable, I love it!
Thank you, what a beautiful compliment. Makes me feeling less ashamed of shaking that much on cam :)
It is fine.....You are amazing.@@jo_de_rijck
@@jo_de_rijckYou could make use of the shakes...
How impressive it would be to thread a sewing machine while it is running.
Just because he spoke with an accent I never got the impression he was nervous at all
@@johnsokolowski4433Well, he did call Penn, Teller . . . Loved the act
The fact that you clearly love animals *and* you take the time to respond to so many replies on your videos tells me that you are a kind human being. The world needs more people like you.
Wauw thats so kind of you, thanks!
Yes I do.
I am not sure, but a theory: Each tile has an RF tag in it (like used in some chess pieces on automated boards). When the tile is place in the location by Teller, it is read by a sensor in the table. The sensor has an RF transmitter to send the chosen tile to the pyramid. Inside the pyramid are small ultrasonic emitters, one per tile location. The proper ultrasonic emitter is turned on and the trained hamster follow the sound he can hear (but not us humans) to the proper box holding the tile. Then again, it might have been done some other less technical way.
I love this so much! I don't recall trying out this method but it might have crossed my mind, it would be a way to do it. This is the first time someone makes a guess that feels so familiar to how I think or make up ideas. Never easy fixes, always taking a hard route that takes months of r&d. You win an award! 🏆
That RF tag thing seems like the simplest way to read the tile, but as for getting the hamster in there, maybe it's just a little door that opens up to some food, and the hamster can smell it. The hamster would even dispose of the evidence for you, if there was some food in the correct tomb
But the tomb boxes seem solid and with no real way to do that, so maybe it's just opening a 'door' underneath it, which lets the smell go up through it
This was so nice from beginning to end. The props, the setup, the song and dance, ... I liked it all. And a big plus for not giving away the result in the title too
Thank you for appreciating my singing and dance skills. 🙃
Great trick, and Teller was the perfect partner, his mannerisms and facial expressions are so good. He's also very savvy, note how after he takes a tile and covers it with the hat, he then moves a different one into its former spot, just trying to throw any possible little wrench into the equation. Great stuff all around and congrats Jo!
He is the best indeed, I love it so much meeting my hero's every time again. Thank you!
My theory is that each tile image has a different scent to it. When the hat goes above it the scent gets transferred to the hat and the hamster is smelling it while in the hat then matches the scent to the tile in the maze. No idea if I'm even remotely close but great trick nonetheless!
My theory is that the hamster always turns right, so it was a given, that it will go to that corner. So always the fish was the choice, now the question is, how can you ensure that the fish is under the hat? I'm not sure of this, but it certainly is suspicious, that when Teller chooses the tile, he can't look at it and a hat is placed on top. Only when the hat is picked up to be a hamster blindfold, he can look :/
I, too, thought of the scent. And was surprised that they did not even try to guess.
Thanks for the creative thinking :)
@@jo_de_rijck Thank YOU for being so entertaining and great at your craft. Keep up the great work.
Love the performance, and also creative thinking. While we're guessing... the hamster path is set. The tile is always the fish. Perhaps all tiles on the table start off different, but become fish while sliding them upside down.
My hats off to Jo, once he flips that switch he is always unstoppable. Fooling Penn and Teller is like a maze for most but Jo and his hamster have the path to that trophey memorized.
Your tricks are just so good, Jo. Pardon the terms as I'm not a magician by any means, but I'd assume most people that watch this act and give it a little thought will assume there has to be a force, a read, a switch or a combination at some point, but beyond that what are you gonna do, even if you're Penn & Teller. The trick is unguessable, and your props are designed in such a clever way. The magical powers I believe most animals truly do have is being able to tell good people from bad people. You're clearly such a good person, and the way you connect with the animals is super endearing. I don't know if you have children, but my 8 year old daughter loves your performances and I'm so sure you are/would be such a good dad. Congratulations on the 3rd win.
blush :)
WOW congratulations on that HatTrick! 😉🎉
thank you sir
I love this guy's performances. It takes time to brfriend and figure out what animals can do but it's also very rewarding even if you do it just for your own and the animal's joy.
Lovely.
This comment makes me so happy :)
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And you and your animals make me happy.
A big smile always spreads on my face when I see you in the show.
Thats the greatest compliment you can give, thank you!
A hamster on Tellers head is the real magic I needed that
What a beautiful compliment, love it that you loved it.
It was great meeting you in Las Vegas, Jo. And I love your act, what a joy to watch! Hope to see you soon again!
This is the kind of trick we don’t really want to uncover. I can watch this many times and feel like a kid watching disney channel all the time.
Thats a huge compliment, thank you so much!
i enjoyed this, fooled me too although thats not difficult to fool me. Dont stop doing what you are doing, awesome stuff
I love it that you let the magic just happen, beautiful! thanks
If I had to guess the tiles have some kind of electronic inside them that the hat can read. The hamster has been trained to always run to that specific spot. They pyramid itself loads the correct tile on top before it is lifted.
I could also be completely wrong.
This was also my thought. The secret is in the top of the pyramid.
I love your thinking! It was done very different but I think your method could work and also fool them. Bravo! You should compete, they are making another season.
Super interesting trick. Actually super fun because any idea I have about it feels less realistic than Hamsaris just actually being able to read minds.
Love that reaction, thanks!
Funny how you took Teller up there. The closer you are to a trick the harder it is to see sometimes. Just stare into my eyes 😆
Thanks 🙂
Love the trick, I think the explanation is extremely simple and perhaps that is what got Penn and Teller
I wish it was and didn't cost me so many months of hard work. All was free choice and examinable ;) Love that you love it
I have no doubts about that, fantastic work 💜
Fantastic! You did so well!
Thank you so much!
There's something in the hat which turns whatever is under it to the image of a fish. And the hamster always goes for the fish in the labyrinth.
One of a kind magician! Always so creative and unique!
Thank you, very kind!
Tile is forced, either during the shuffling or some gimmick with the hat/table. Hamster is trained to always go to the same place in the maze. Ez.
I don't answer on methods but sometimes I love to answer a little because I worked so extremely hard on this. Hamsaris truly is a god, goes to a different sarcophagus each performance.
@@jo_de_rijck well that would be quite something then 😅
1. I once played a memory game with a 6 year old that knew the pictures based on structure of wood pieces.
2. The fish inside the tomb is drawn and not stamped like the ones he turns over.
3. Gloves makes me suspicous.
4. That is one well fed hamster that knows where his food is.
5. He sticks his finger inside the box with the hamster
So I'm guessing he knows the picture based on wood markings, mouse always runs right corner, he somehow marks the roof with his finger/gloves when he picks up the cage.
Reading this again, I can see why I'm behind a keyboard and he is on the stage with Penn and Teller ;)
I love deep thinking, so much fun to read, thanks! I didn't know mouse always run right corner, do they?
Congratulations! That was awesome! Enjoyed every minute of it, very entertaining!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
thank you!!!!
Teller allowing the hamster to read his mind with such an intense look on his face made this whole bit for me, amazing! 5:30
I can't agree more, he is the best!
@@jo_de_rijck You knew that Teller would be totally fine with it. Well played
@@jo_de_rijck Its sad penn and teller have lost any skill and credibility as magicians they had!
Is teller legally blind? LOL
I assume these days for the show they dont look at anything afterwards (which should have been spotted during the trick!) even tho they use to do this all the time! making it much easier for peoples tec crew to do the tricks so they dont know how it was done?
@@danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307they shouldn't be allowed to look at the props unless invited. The premise of the show is to see if they are fooled watching it once. That's it.
Jo picks up the hat and forces the tile , the hamster is already trained to go to that box with the fish. Penn and Teller were not fooled !
creative thinking :) they where hard fooled, Brooke told me they never looked so amazed after filming was done when they came back on stage to check everything.
Free choise
What a great act, the silliness of it all. The dance and the singing, i cried of laughter. Honestly i'm not a fan of animals acts, i always wondered how they are treated, i hope hamsaris is living a nice life, since he is a god. All the best to the both of you.
I produced a special for Animal Planet called The Secrets Of Animal Magic. I learned that the animals and the huge amount of hours to train them (a Tiger quietly hiding in a prop!?) Makes them very very valuable to the magician. Mistreat no. Respect and revere, yes. (Circuses being an occasional exception in the past).
He and all my other animals are treated as gods, thank you for your concern and love towards them.
@@robbyfiveboy4862 O thats so cool! Is there any way to see this?
Keep up the creative magic. Can't wait to see what animal you bring next time to fool them
thank you so much!
Teller is the perfect guy to just go with the flow while you plop a hamster on his head. I assume the producers told you to just roll with that idea. 🤣🤣
What an adorable wee hammy! Hello Hamsaris, you were the true star of the show! :) - with love from a 7 time hamster mum
O wauw congratulations :) I'll pass it on to Hamsaris
Phenomenal! Stunning! Greatly entertaining. Thanks for the smiles! (I have an idea of how the routine was done, but enjoy not knowing for sure, better!)
Yes, thats the spirit! Just enjoy :) Thank you!
It is indeed amazing to see acts such as this one on Penn and Teller!
How ingenious to design such an intricate set-up that is impossible to decipher its method.
What makes this especially unique is the use of a small animal to match the chosen article.
Simply incredible!
So many kind words, thank you!!!
I have to say, when I saw the title and thumbnail, I thought it'd be boring and cringey, but it was actually pretty funny and cute!
Thank you for that comment! I can only admit that I'm not great in social media and RUclips.
If you have a good suggestion for a title and thumbnail you're more then welcome to email it: info@joderijck.com
the best way to get the trophy is when there are so many ways the trick could be pulled off that Penn and Teller can't quite put their finger on it.
I would have just replaced the log in 5:00. But since he's messing with the hat so much, it could be an RFID chip in the wood blocks.
There may be a mechanism in the pyramid that closes all the openings that Teller didn't choose. The hamster runs purposefully into a box, it could also be that it replaces the lid when it turns its back on Teller. As the color is so strong
it could also be a kind of stamp in the box, which then makes the fish on the lid from below.
That is a way to fool them indeed but I like to believe that I worked extremely hard on developing a new never done before magic method and that this is what fooled them.
@@jo_de_rijckthat's why I couldn't commit, because I actually couldn't figure out how you did it.
In any case, I really like the story with pyramids, hamsters and mummies. Very funny too!
Your magic is the best, absolutely amazing. Congratulations! 🎉🏆🌟
Wauw, thank you so much Joanne!
I do however like your Egyptian act Jo
thank you!
Each tile has a different smell and the same matching tile in the pyramid has the same smell. when the cap covers the tile (2:49), the hat gets the smell (2:49) and you can see the hamster is covered by the hat (5:15) and he gets the smell. When he put in the maze, he just needs to find the tile smell that he got in the cap.
That’s one hell of a trained hamster!
Wow, knowing how it was done made it even more impressive!
@@Max_Jacoby The trickiest part was disguising the bloodhound to look like a hamster.
I can't comment on methods but thanks for the creative thinking!
@@PhilBagels 🤣🤣🤣
What a great act! Loved both the presentation and the magic! :)
Thank you thank you thank you :)
I think there's something like a RFID tag inside each of the wood brick and the helmet allows to read it. 2:04 is clearly seen that many of the briks look like if they consist of two parts, as their color and structure of the wooden pieces don't match. And that vapor 5:53 gives the hamster the direction.
I can't mention on method but you are right I did glue papyrus paper on the tiles to make them look more ancient Egyptian old.
Another amazing trick! Great jokes, interactions with Teller and Hamsaris!
thank you :)
Such a great act! Love all types of animals and this trick made me happy already by tne humster itself. Also, I don't have a faintes idea how you did it, amazing performance!
Love it that you also love all types of animals 😊
CONGRATS ON THE TROPHY!
As a ROOKIE magician: I immediately think about smell (gloves, and enclosed spaces to let the smell build up), but it can’t be that simple if Penn & Teller obviously know about smell 🤔🤔🤔 What about the tiles is so special
thank you!
I'm thinking that each tile has a thumper transmitter that is set when flipped face down, then triggered when turned up to reveal one of five or six drawings. The thumper is in his shoe or pocket. There are then a similar number of hamster release points that have only one unblocked box caves and the rest in that area are blocked off and the hamster is unable to get in any other boxes. To get the fish box, release in one spot and everything else is blocked, from the path to the box entrances.
Or a combination of a thumper for a release point and a scent released in the hat that matched all fish boxes. All fish tiles smell like the fish boxes. The hamster smelled what was collected in a few minutes under the hat and looked for the same smell in a box?
Great act, regardless.
@@rayjeep I don't follow. There was only one entrance to the maze, none of the boxes are blocked.
Why has enjoying this trick made me so hungry for a ham sandwich? :)
😅 I won't let Hamsaris read this one.
Amazing trick, thanks for not spoiling the ending.
Love from Sydney Australia
Awesome, thank you! Love back from Belgium. You guys have the absolute top of Fool Us, Helen Coghlan, love her.
Brilliant, love it, hooray JDR!
Thank you very much!😀
I have no idea how this trick was done. But in looking at possibilities, I have thought of a way to do the same trick.
Trick tiles. The tile choice was not forced. So trick tiles that when "up" show one way, and "down" all show the same fish.
Not a forced choice, a fake choice.
The song and dance is because it takes 30 seconds to switch from one to another, so that when handled on stage, they stay long enough to appear static.
They all start up, then we see none of them after, other than the chosen one. If they all changed from their "unique" glyph to a fish, then the trick would work with a properly trained animal (always going to the same corner), or a maze board with every tile a fish, and two "demonstration" tiles with a second tile stacked, so if chosen extra slight of hand is needed to show the correct one, or no slight of hand to show they aren't all the same.
Hopefully that's not the way you did it. But you can make it if you want.
would love to know more about your up and down tile idea, I don't really see how it could work but it might be awesome. info@joderijck.com
i figured it out so im gonna write it here to let you also kniow how the trick was done since you let the hamster do all the work. well of course once you put in the hamster in the laby he could have go for any route it wuldnt have mattered . to make sure he takes any route at all you had to use osiris hamster because he did not eat for like 3000 years that way you could place some peonuts into the boxes to ensure he will go for them .. once he reached the box he was of course a very happy hamster and was busy listening and when you looked up the glyph of the fish that teller chose you said it out loud and of course the hamster thought sure a fish i can do that pulled up a penn and drew this nice fish on the upper ceiling of the box as a little thank you for the food. you get the trophy he got the nuts teller got to be on stage and even penn was involved everyone happy :) but dont let the hamster know i told you how it was done :)
🤣🤣🤣 Oh I love that!
That was a lot of fun, I’m working on idea that tiles scented with something we can’t smell but hamster can, but it’s prob not :)
Thank you sir!
Congratulations for the hat trick of foolers.
Hope you can get a ant to fool them next time 😅
It has crossed my mind 😅 thanks!
My only thought is that since he had teller reveal the fish first he is somehow able to switch the tiles to be a fish but that doesnt even seem possible saying the tiles would have to have some obvious mechanism to be able to show all possibilities
Thats a big compliment. All was examinable indeed.
De derde op rij! Ongekend! Wat fantastisch weer Jo! Proficitat!
thanks Victor!
Super cool! Love it! Very well done! 🐹
Thank you so much.
The key to the trick is when he picks up the hat and uses it to "blindfold" the hamster by bringing it close to him. In the normal sequence of the trick, he would have teller pick up and show the tile when it was first selected, or he would have had Teller pick a tile during this moment. Because he has Teller pick the tile early on, and then puts the hat over it early on, I believe this serves two purposes. First is that the hat needs to be over the tile for a period of time. My guess is that this is for something like an odor/scent it has, or something like an RFID reader or some kind of other sensor in the hat (but my top guess is still definitely scent). While this signal is imprinted/confirmed upon the hat, he then asks teller to check the tile and brings the hat directly over to the hamster. Again, the timing of this at this moment just doesn't make sense, particularly in combination with the earlier part of the trick. Whatever signal (likely scent) was imprinted onto the hat is then picked up on by the hamster, and it has then been trained to go to the appropriate place in the maze to match that signal. Assuming it is scent, then it wouldn't surprise me if the hamster doesn't need much training at all for this part ;)
Can't answer on method, but love your creative thinking.
i figure there had to be a force, but I can't for the life of me think how he forces the fish
Thank you!
Many people try to discover how it was done, but is so simple, Hamsaris used Mind control to force Teller to Choose the fish, i think that Hamsaris sometimes identifies it self as an Irish Fishman (yes yes, irish, i got that from his accent). 😉
Shoot. I try to never answer on methods but you got me.
I got Hamsaris you mean @@jo_de_rijck
Damn! all that shaking made me so nervous, I was on the edge of my seat afraid to see you make a mistake LOL
I agree I shouldn't have done that. but it was hard magic. I try to relax and enjoy it more next time.
I like this so much! A great performance on so many levels.
Thank you for the compliment, on so many levels :)
At 5:43, I could read Teller's mind: "I don't get paid enough for this! And that little rat better not take a dump on my hair!"
🤣🤣 love that
dead ass
This one of my favorite parts of the act. Getting to put a hamster on Teller's head. I don't know why I found that so entertaining but I did!
Little bugger seemed right at home in that nest.
@@franzsperginand113 Probably trained him/rehearsed using a dummy head that matched.
Each tile is marked on the back side with the matching symbol, only it's in infra-red ink (invisible to the human eye). Hamsiris can see in the infra-red part of the spectrum, so he knows right away which symbol Teller chose. Then it's an easy trick for Hamsiris to work his way through the maze until he comes to a box which is also marked with the matching symbol, again in infra-red ink.
Love your creative thinking :)
Nice job Jo !! Congratulations!!!
Thanks Kurt!
so the ink on the tile is temperature sensitive. where the main color gets removed from the wash of the tile making them all show the same image or table is either heated or cooled. to make the original image disappear and only a fish appear on each one.
the maze has a few slots blocked off or has something the hamster is adverse to. all the rest of the cages show fish. so as long as the hamster makes into one of the "safe" ones he flips over ones that he knows are not fish and shows that it picks up on of the many cages that have a fish on it.
I can't comment on methods but I love your creative thinking!
@jo_de_rijck Thank you. I love to see all the hypothetical ways it can be done. Very cool trick. Keep up the good work.
Suggest that the tiles when flipped over and spun
around change to all be the fish. The ink is wiped
off when sliding the tiles around exposing the fish.
This is the reason for the gloves
I can't comment on methods but thanks for the creative thinking!
That's actually an interesting approach. I think it's a rather sure bet to say that the fish is forced since I think relying on the hamster traversing the maze to a different location on the spot without him exploring one of the other tombs is very risky; while on the other hand it's easy to train him to always go straight for the fish tomb.
So it's about the way how he made the tile Teller chose become a fish tile. I first thought it gotta be some sleight of hand but I don't see anything suspicious. I also don't believe the hat is rigged since Teller actually wore it and could possibly have examined it before putting it on or felt the extra tile hidden in there.
So the next plausible thing is to assume the tiles are rigged and the way you describe it makes a lot of sense and also explains the need to wear gloves. Still this seems like a lot of work and there might be a simpler way to rig the tiles.
I also came up with this theory and wrote it up in another comment, but hadn't noticed that you had already suggested it. 🤭
the question that remains is how does the hat change any tile into a fish tile. Or perhaps the table cloth does it. Or perhaps while they're mixing Jo makes sure to wipe each tile against the table which washes off the outer ink leaving fish everywhere...?
I thought somehow the tile was switched under the hat with some weird technology. Your idea of ink changing makes more sense. However I don't think it's about the ink rubbing off but instead it's time-related.
A lot of time passes between Teller putting the tile face down and looking at it. Enough time for some chemical reaction to happen that would turn any tile to "fish". That would leave no ink-stains and also require gloves because one of the two chemicals would be on the table and the other on the tiles. The resulting fish is also large and "dense" enough that it would cover most blemishes if the chemical reaction doesn't make the previous picture 100% invisible.
My guess is all tiles were fish, and the ones you revealed on the table where removed during the mix up. And only fish tiles in the maze had scents / treats.
I love that idea!
Helemaal onder de indruk! Top!
Merci voor het compliment!
Beautiful entertaining performance! Enjoyed it a lot 🎉
Thank you!
Hamsiris is so so cute. Congratulations!, 🏆
I agree, love her like a god. Thank you!
The underdog Belgian pride! Go Jo goed bezig jongen 👊🏻
Hey Ruben! Thanks!
Hat had scent of fav treat as did tellers head from hat and thus tile had scent so right to matching tile with same scent????😮😮😮😮
can't answer on methods but thanks for the creative thinking
Awesome routine and I love Hamsaris
Thanks, I share your love :)
Most people know that Penn refers to himself as “carney trash” and that Teller is the actual magician of the two.
What most people don’t know is that Penn can communicate with animals telepathically. The only problem is that the hamster speaks Flemish and Penn doesn’t. Otherwise he’d have figured it out.
What is your next magical animal?
My girlfriend
@@jo_de_rijck thx 4 answering. Good luck.
4:59 he was able to see the back of the tile. Could have memorized the wood grain on the back of each tile and then planted a treat or switched the tile in the pyramid
Love your magic and three times fooler well done! I wonder what animal will fool them next :D
thanks! I'm working on something never done before, hope it works out :)
Was there a tile switch under the hat
and replaced on the table?
Did the hamster really have a free
choice he choice?
Would I tell? 🙃
I remember going to the state fair as a teenager, and getting beaten 12 times in a row by a chicken playing tictac toe with me!?! (definitely not one of my greatest moments as a human being, but memorable for sure)....
Ohhh I love that story!!! That chicken was trained by Bob Bailey, my teacher/guru/hero who gave me masterclasses in animal training.
I ❤ animals! 4 days ago it was National Squirrel Appreciation Day(US) ! I had 5 squirrels visit me in Toronto! I fed them peanuts as their reward!
Oh thats so cool!
A truly excellent performance!
thank you, excellent compliment
When magic takes a hell lot of time to explain what they are doing then magic is lost.
easy fix, don't explain ;)
Great trick, and I remember the chicken, but I've never seen the trick with the snake. I can't find it on RUclips, where is it?
ruclips.net/video/IdPTurhb9Hk/видео.html it's a mind reading dolphin actually. Normally at the end of this clip it should link to the chicken and the dolphin act. Thanks for your kind words.
Nice work Jo 🤩
Thank you Bram ☺
My theory as a non-magician: The symbols on the tiles are drawn using a special ink which reacts with a coating of some chemicals on the table surface (hence the need for gloves) that make the symbols disappear, to reveal the fish symbol underneath. Ie every tile will end up with a fish symbol, not just the one shown at 1:49. So the fish was forced. It just takes a little while for the symbols to be chemically replaced, hence the extended patter. The hamster is trained to always go to the container with the fish symbol. (There might also be several fish containers, with the non-fish ones somehow blocked so the hamster can't enter these.) The fish symbol that's revealed at the end of the trick around 6:39 looks to me very slightly different to the one that's shown face up earlier, which supports this theory.
Alternatively: the hamster is a member of the Egyptian pantheon.
That original chicken trick, by the way, is one of the most baffling, charming and amusing tricks ever done on the show, and it tickles me no end that they still get grief for it.
Edit: reading the comments more thoroughly I see now someone else already suggested this theory.
Or even simpler than that. Train the hamster so that if you pet him twice- or even recognize word, it go to the recognize word. The hamster find the right tile after it is reveal, or even to pick up on name so when he repeated, he got the fish, the hamster understand the word fish and go to fish.
I can't comment on methods but thanks for the creative thinking, love it.
@@pierre-luchoude8456 Love that idea :)
HAMSTER POWER!
All honor to Hamsaris indeed :)
Chicken, a snake who identify itself as a dolphin and now a ancient Egyptian hamster... Penn needs to make Fool Us pet free before he gets fooled by a Fourth animal
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Haha congrats Jo!
Thanks Soorena! Also thank you for coaching me this year in personal growth!
I think he did something to the tiles when shuffling, which is why he asked teller to stare at him, so that teller can't see what he's doing with his hands
I can't comment on methods but thanks for the creative thinking!
What would that accomplish? He could have just done it before the show.
What fools me is how a resurrected Egyptian mummy hamster understand English so well😂
Well, god moves in mysterious ways...
Amazing trick, and thank you for not spoiling the result in the title.
thank you! 🙂
Yes teller was the best especially the part of hamsaris going in his head. I saw comments about scent. Are you able to just answer yes or no, does it have anything to do with hamsaris's sense of smell?
No, I can not answer on methods and Yes, Telled is the best indeed ☺
Dang penn is in his element on this show.
He is, such a genius all the time :)
He must be. A happy life.
The real stars are the animals. Their ability to learn simple tasks and perform them on command is the key to all of Jo's magic tricks.
In this case , i guess the hamsters sense of smell is used. Thats why both have to wear gloves, to not contaminate the sample blocks
One possible way of doing it: All the tiles have the same fish symbol on them, but they have something painted over that with a special friction or heat-sensitive ink. The top layer of ink rubs off or fades away when they are mixing up the tiles. This means no matter what Teller chooses, it will ultimately be the fish symbol. The hamster is simply trained to go to the same spot every time, likely with a reward of food.
I just want to know how many people in America shout "Yo, it's de rick!"
I maybe don't get the joke :) does de rick means something? lost in translation
It's a uncommon way people would pronounce "the rick". In some dialects in America, people put a D sound in front of The or Tha instead of T. The is sometimes thrown in before someone's name as like a joking way to make them sound important. Instead just being a James, they might call me THE James. So, "Yo, it's de rick" or "Yo, de rick" is legit something someone might say as a greeting. @@jo_de_rijck
Got it, thanks!!! :)
excellent act brother where do u find these animals 😂
Thank you! This on I found in Egypt 🙃
I was really hoping that Hamsaris would grant Teller the ability to speak when he was on his head but I guess he works in mysterious ways...
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Any plans to put out a book or DVD of some of your routines?
The hat is somehow able to tell what it is and transfers that information to the pyramid where it dispenses food that the hamster can smell?
Are you sure you weren't watching Harry Potter? Loved your comment.
Amazing trick and training, i know you wont tell how it was done ;) but combining gloves, hat, tiles, even the sme.../mindreading on tellers head might put the nose into the right direction :)