the chances against him are astronomical, he just wanted to show his trick and keep the explanation to himself, if you want my take i think he got the target card on top of the deck before he started counting and then when he starts counting the cards he uses sleight of hand to deal the second card from the top each time, instead of the top card.
2vain4u, astronomical? You mean 1/52. There's a 1 in 52 chance almost a full 2%, that any random card you choose will be the one, even less than that when you consider people are very much more likely to choose cards towards, but not quite in, the middle. In fact, if you perform this trick 52 times, or even just randomly pick a card, you have about a 2/3 chance of having done this. Like Brian says, there are so many times in magic when people say "Of course it's not your card. But that would have been a great trick, wouldn't it?!"
@Robert Szafarczyk No need for a duplicate. Without saying too much, he is forcing the card and there are a number of ways to prepare a card to be able to find it instantly in a deck, and then be able to move it to a where you need it (there are camera cuts so you don't see him doing anything). He's giving a false explanation of it being a coincidence (false explanations are a common presentation in magic). Other than the force, his "random coincidence" has no relation to the trick he actually taught. If it was a lucky coincidence, the force was completey unnecessary and what he did would be a strange lead in (considering it would almost certainly fail) to teaching the Cut Deeper force.
Except the force was related to his pre-prepared pin. The original trick was going to be exactly as his second demo, except instead of the top card not being the 5 of clubs when turned over it would have been card 32 turned over not being the 5 of clubs and him saying, 'i never said that would be your card' then go into the build to the pin reveal.
I accidentally did something like this, wasn't even supposed to be a magic trick. I just finished eating at a Chinese buffet with my girlfriend at the time. When we got the fortune cookies, I took them both, put one in each hand, and held my hands under the table. I made a big deal out of making her pick a hand, then another big deal out of if she wanted to trade fortunes. I wasn't even trying to do anything, I was just being silly and making a big deal out of something stupid. We both broke open our fortunes, and I when I read mine out loud, she said "No way." And when she showed me her fortune, it was the exact same as mine. It was just coincidence, and I really wish I played it off like I knew that was going to happen. But I was too busy laughing my ass off
@@AverageFlamethrower I did something similar once. We make it a game to guess the other person's lucky numbers. She had already read her fortune though, and so I knew she had the same one I did. when It came time to guess her numbers, I got 100 percent of therm. She was amazed.
My dad once amazed my entire extended family by doing insane card tricks all night, we were all in disbelief as we'd never seen him do any before. The trick was, there was a huge mirror on the wall in a frame behind the dinner table and none of us realised the whole time. It was hilarious. He went full out, like saying what card we had, without even looking at the cards and stuff like that. I always think about that.
Lol it wasn't really a coincidence....... the trick is called ACAAN, Any card at any number, their are several methods to pull your card at any number. But hes not just gona give a gem like th as t to laymen
I know the feeling of getting lucky like that and oh man does it feel good. Once one of my friends was performing a card trick at a table for a couple of us, and he was like "name a card" (i later found out that it was completely unrelated to the trick) and then flipped over a random card in the deck for the whole "that would have been a good trick" and I jokingly said "Yeah, but what would be an even better trick? If this was it" and I flipped over the next card in the deck and it was the named card and I have to say the genuine shock on his face was priceless. I think he was convinced it was black magic for a second ahaha
ShadowStryker88 Get someone in the crowd to yell "dark magic!" Have an inside man lol. You might be subsequently burnt at the stake, but at least it'll be fun!
I had that happen before. I had my uncle shuffle the cards and I was going to jokingly pretend I made the card come to the top without doing anything, but it was the correct card. Everyone looked at me so shocked because nobody could think how I did that. My favorite moments in magic are when the joke reveal ends up being the real one. If you can keep your cool, those moments can make the best reactions. And that's also why a magician should never say what they are going to do before they do it. The trick could end better and sooner than you thought
I knew the force and when it came to the reveal i was like wait theirs no way he's that good at second dealing it must be something else... Even after that was the case I still didn't believe it. *Round of applause*
I always pause the videos after the trick is performed to try and see if I can work through it and solve it myself. I spent a good amount of time trying to figure it out... I'm glad I finally gave up and heard how it was done!!! Haha also was happy though to see the real trick performed. Alex is so good!
This was literally the first force I ever learned to do because I didn’t have the manual dexterity to do anything too crazy. It’s nice to see it come back in a new trick.
I literally come back to this video like once every 3 weeks because luck or not it’s just the perfect fucking trick. If someone could pull it off, it’s just so fast and impossible and absolutely perfect.
Loved that the camera happens to catch him with the card hidden in his hand right before he supposedly grabs the right one, you can even hear the card flick as he moves it into the right position
I've been performing for over 50 years, with cards being my specialty. I'd guess I've correctly gotten a spectator's card by accident maybe 10 or 12 times in my career, and it's reputation making when it happens.
For me, this video only boosts Brian's magic-credibility. "I just got fooled on my own goddamned show."... I submit to you all that it is a testament to Brian's supreme level of expertise that this trick (at least the "version" we see inside of the first four minutes, anyhow) is "the one" that left him speechless, because-- no different from Penn & Teller, who famously defy you to fool them-- he's simply seen/performed *so many* card tricks in his career that he can easily spot known trick components/techniques (such as forces, false deals, patter that deliberately misdirects, etc) along the way as they're happening... Considering only that 1) the VERY lucky, random "32" deal that miraculously produced the participants' chosen card left Brian completely dumbfounded, and 2) he could "tell by the look in his eyes" that the trick was successful due 100% to luck & coincidence is because Brian, the loveable goofball-barfly with your trick-of-the-week, is a legit & top-notch professional with a mind every bit as sharp as some printed, magician's almanac. Summarily/"tl;dr": this trick (once again: specifically the *lucky* one that transpired in the first four minutes) had NO right to work, hence it triggered all sorts of confusion in Shwood because it flew in the face of all his wisdom, and *that* is how we can tell Brian is quite legitimately a professional and an expert, and-- I further submit-- he is therefore one of our all-time living greats. ... I just felt compelled to finally recognize & give kudos here to Brian Brushwood after all the countless Scam School/-Nation hours I've ingested ungratefully in silence, as he is (clearly to me anyhow) the unsung hero of this video. And no, I'm not some relative/paid sponsor or anything. :) ~JM [Disclaimor/post-script: Not that I'm proud, but-- much like this show-- the length & intensity of this post was fueled greatly by alcohol, and I suppose I was feeling apologetic for some reason, and hereby shall that be known to posterity].
This has to be my favorite eposide. Like. Ever! Brian Brushwood's "Fool Me!" In fact ... imagine THIS happening on Pen and Teller. Sure win because they would also immeadiately jump to technical ideas instead of sheer luck. :D
YouTubsel actually funny enough, this one guy who went on Penn and Teller practiced one specific trick his entire life, literally, and Penn and Teller called him out on being that good and sure enough they were right. So he ended up not fooling them
Wow, that is so amazing how well Alex played it off when it was actually the card! I was so mind blown, I had no idea it wasn’t supposed to happen like that! Great trick!
I like this a lot, it's simple, it's funny, it's got a lot to teach. It's impact is directly related to one's timing and participant selection, but also it reminds me of the Max Malini quote. Malini was know to produce a brick from under his hat, when asked by magicians how he did it he said "First you put a brick in your hat and then you wait." They asked how long and he said "some times I wait a week." You put the pin on and then you wait for the right audience and moment and that can take some time.
So I grabbed a deck of shuffled cards just to look at the mechanics of cutting and then cutting deeper and when I cut deeper...it was the 5 of clubs. No joke! The coincidence is strong with this one.
I perform this at every show and have had two times where the counted down to card did match in the last three years. It does happen. There are so many different kinds of reveals you can end this with, but this illusion always amazes.
I'm pleased that I was able to pick out the two important bits! I knew it had to be important to show it twice. And then the force, I immediately thought, "but that's the same card!" But it's a great trick!
I once did something that worked that probably shouldn't have. I did the trick where you get them to think of a card and just repeat black, red, black, red then do the suit and so on. You look for when they blink, now obviously this is highly unlikely to work...but it did....once....still remember the card was 7 of hearts....
I had to watch it again because I was so fooled the first time, but when he counted 32 cards it really was just an INSANE coincidence that it was his card. That only happens like once in a lifetime lol.
I've been practising these great tricks during lockdown and today I performed this trick for my nephew's birthday. I have absolutely no previous experience and to my absolute delight exactly the same thing happened, before the actual reveal I got him to choose a number, counted through the pack and there it was, the card he had picked. Legendary status engaged 😂
I saw how he got them to just choose the top card while thinking it was random, but I didn’t see how he did the second part with the random number Edit: Ok well never mind 😂
@@guilhermecalheiros73 it wasn't suppose to appear at 32, it was pure coincidence, its suppose to be "Oh you would think this is a great trick?" and proceed to do whatever your ways to reveal their chosen card.
I had a moment like that once in a bar, my mind was self blown but i completely owned it in front of the audience then i told my friend later and highfived
I once did a trick like this to my sceptical friends. I cut the deck to a smaller number and used those cards. I then asked them to do everything from shuffling to picking up a card, while for every action I say "Most magicians would do it themselves, but I am not like most magicians, I will let you do it.". At the end, I take the smaller deck and randomly pull out a card without even looking, and well, most cases it would not be their card, that's when you say "Most magicians would get your card. I am not like most magicians.". Well, it's a gag so it's sorta meant to be fun, and if you actually get the card, you are a wizard :-P I actually got it the first time I ever tried it out with my friends :-P So, since this is a force, you always have an out. So it doesn't hurt trying out something that may seem impossible, something that if you get, cannot be explained by anyone. If you don't, then you just proceed to reveal the way you had initially planned :-D P.S. Also in the trick that I do, I like using a smaller deck, something they cut to, so that the chances of me pulling out their card at random is significantly higher than doing the same using the whole deck of 52. Hope this can help people learn a fun gag/trick :-)
I feel like the mark of true expertise in any field is not when you can tell what's possible, or when you can tell what someone's doing, but when you can look at something and _correctly_ tell that it _isn't_ possible. As they say, "Your strength as a rationalist is your ability to be more confused by fiction than by reality. If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge." And, "The usefulness of a model is not what it can explain, but what it can't."
A note: do not try to add even more finesse to this trick by handing them the deck and turning away, as to "prove you aren't doing any magical cheating", because the other person WILL ruin the trick somehow. I've tried this about two dozen times each way, half the standard way, and half with turning around while they do the cut deeper, and all 12 times I turned away, the other person absolutely ruined it, but all 12 times I did it as standard, it worked. You can't rely on the other person to know how to handle cards as well as you, or you will have to chalk this entire trick up to just messing with them.
Gifts like that are true treasures and when that happens take it and run with it. That was fantastic!!!! I had the same look on my face when he made the first reveal. I also was like, "wait! ... how the F*** did he just do that..."
I do a version of the first part where it's "pick a card. Any card as long as it's the jack of clubs" and when it fails I go, "one day that's gonna work" and then just use their chosen card for the next trick. I nailed it once and the SPECTATOR went "yeah, so what? It's the jack of clubs"...I wasted my one time of it probably ever working on someone who didn't understand the magnitude of what just happened... LOL
That's what we call "too perfect." You see, there comes a point in magic where when a trick is "too perfect" it often times gets discounted. The audience needs some little bit of reality to hold onto... for them to be amazed. They're amazed when your hand is faster than their eye, or when you've somehow pulled a crazy card assembly together. But... when there is no chance for sleight of hand, and no chance for any "funny business" you're essentially shutting them down... because the REALITY of it is that you'd truly have to be possessed by spirits (for real). Most people are okay believing that when it's part of a routine or patter... but they don't actually want to believe that someone possessed by spirits is standing right next to them. It's creepy and it's not fun at all. Since there is nothing for them to guess, nothing that they missed, and no perceived "skill" involved... it's dismissed. The only way for a trick like that to work, is if it's intermixed into a larger routine of more traditional card handling... so they get the impression that you're simply a master manipulator and also know them well enough to figure out what they're most likely thinking. I'm guessing when you showed this, and it worked, it wasn't part of a larger or more complex routine, and that it was simply "too perfect."
I have my entire class convinced that I am the patron saint of card magic because of a moment like this. Just do enough tricks with a random card and it will happen eventually.
How did he do the counting trick though? I can think of 2nd dealing, but the deck is shuffled and he wouldn't know where the card is. Was it really a coincidence?
I just had a patient I gave an xray to perform this trick, with a different flourish at the end (slapping the cards out from between my fingers). He said he had never heard of you Shwood so I sent him to the Scam School Page!!!
I got completely fucking fooled with the first trick ... i thought he used like some master card force or some shit and then he says it was a coincidence...😂😂😂😂
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To this day "If someone hands you a brick of gold, you say, "Thank you I've been expecting this." " Is a phrase I live by.
Petition to have a new series called Scam School: Deceive Brian
or Brian Brushwood : Deceive Me
Kusane Hexaku thats actually a way better title
That's bc it's a copy of "Penn and Teller: Fool Us" a show on mainstream tv that Brian was on.
King Kasper oh wow i DiD nOt kNoW tHAt
hahahahahaha i totally read that last part in oldschool Bobcat Goldthwait's voice hahahahahaha
6:28 - "If somebody hands you a brick of gold, you say, 'Thank you, I've been expecting this.'"
That he turned exactly to that random card is amazing, but that it happened to be the one time it was on camera like this is true magic!
the chances against him are astronomical, he just wanted to show his trick and keep the explanation to himself, if you want my take i think he got the target card on top of the deck before he started counting and then when he starts counting the cards he uses sleight of hand to deal the second card from the top each time, instead of the top card.
that implies he was able to basically unshuffle the deck after getting it back to get that card to the top.
2vain4u, astronomical? You mean 1/52. There's a 1 in 52 chance almost a full 2%, that any random card you choose will be the one, even less than that when you consider people are very much more likely to choose cards towards, but not quite in, the middle.
In fact, if you perform this trick 52 times, or even just randomly pick a card, you have about a 2/3 chance of having done this. Like Brian says, there are so many times in magic when people say "Of course it's not your card. But that would have been a great trick, wouldn't it?!"
@Robert Szafarczyk No need for a duplicate. Without saying too much, he is forcing the card and there are a number of ways to prepare a card to be able to find it instantly in a deck, and then be able to move it to a where you need it (there are camera cuts so you don't see him doing anything).
He's giving a false explanation of it being a coincidence (false explanations are a common presentation in magic). Other than the force, his "random coincidence" has no relation to the trick he actually taught. If it was a lucky coincidence, the force was completey unnecessary and what he did would be a strange lead in (considering it would almost certainly fail) to teaching the Cut Deeper force.
Except the force was related to his pre-prepared pin. The original trick was going to be exactly as his second demo, except instead of the top card not being the 5 of clubs when turned over it would have been card 32 turned over not being the 5 of clubs and him saying, 'i never said that would be your card' then go into the build to the pin reveal.
This was the absolute BEST reaction in all of Scam School. Brian's reaction at the best coincidence ever was absolutely priceless.
I just wish I could have held it together when I did something like that. I accidentally got the right card once but I lost my MIND!
I accidentally did something like this, wasn't even supposed to be a magic trick. I just finished eating at a Chinese buffet with my girlfriend at the time. When we got the fortune cookies, I took them both, put one in each hand, and held my hands under the table. I made a big deal out of making her pick a hand, then another big deal out of if she wanted to trade fortunes. I wasn't even trying to do anything, I was just being silly and making a big deal out of something stupid. We both broke open our fortunes, and I when I read mine out loud, she said "No way." And when she showed me her fortune, it was the exact same as mine.
It was just coincidence, and I really wish I played it off like I knew that was going to happen. But I was too busy laughing my ass off
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I did something similar once. We make it a game to guess the other person's lucky numbers. She had already read her fortune though, and so I knew she had the same one I did. when It came time to guess her numbers, I got 100 percent of therm.
She was amazed.
My dad once amazed my entire extended family by doing insane card tricks all night, we were all in disbelief as we'd never seen him do any before. The trick was, there was a huge mirror on the wall in a frame behind the dinner table and none of us realised the whole time. It was hilarious. He went full out, like saying what card we had, without even looking at the cards and stuff like that. I always think about that.
Lol it wasn't really a coincidence....... the trick is called ACAAN, Any card at any number, their are several methods to pull your card at any number. But hes not just gona give a gem like th as t to laymen
I know the feeling of getting lucky like that and oh man does it feel good. Once one of my friends was performing a card trick at a table for a couple of us, and he was like "name a card" (i later found out that it was completely unrelated to the trick) and then flipped over a random card in the deck for the whole "that would have been a good trick" and I jokingly said "Yeah, but what would be an even better trick? If this was it" and I flipped over the next card in the deck and it was the named card and I have to say the genuine shock on his face was priceless. I think he was convinced it was black magic for a second ahaha
Reminds me of the Penn&Teller April Fool’s episode where the “magician”s volunteer was the real magician every time
I like the trick but honestly nothing can look good after that amazing start
I saw the force...but the reveal got me
That first reveal... Top Notch.
I feel so proud I caught the force on the first trick, all these years of scamschool and finally getting a passing grade
You didn't see the force, you knew the force, since there isn't any sleight of hand to it
But what we didnt see is us looking at his crotch twice lmao
i got the force too, it was pretty easy to catch that, but the reveal... oh boy
5:54 Brian, great read off him, GREAT read!
I come back to this video every couple years just for this part.
That's awesome!! What a moment, right??
"DARK MAGIC!" Wish someone would exclaim that whenever I pulled off a wicked trick. More practice I guess.
ShadowStryker88 Pull off a good ACAAN in front of a magician and they will.
ShadowStryker88 Get someone in the crowd to yell "dark magic!" Have an inside man lol. You might be subsequently burnt at the stake, but at least it'll be fun!
Brian: "You're lying. You're LYING - Shifu didn't teach you that!" Me: "No. I figured it out"
Tzisorey Tigerwuf nice
SKADOOSH!
I had that happen before. I had my uncle shuffle the cards and I was going to jokingly pretend I made the card come to the top without doing anything, but it was the correct card. Everyone looked at me so shocked because nobody could think how I did that. My favorite moments in magic are when the joke reveal ends up being the real one. If you can keep your cool, those moments can make the best reactions. And that's also why a magician should never say what they are going to do before they do it. The trick could end better and sooner than you thought
And it allows for the originally intended effect to still be played out later on too!
Holy crap! An episode that's more than 8 minutes long? How long has it been, welcome back Brian!
Possibly my favorite Scam School video of all time.
You spoofed.
The Max Headroom. Channel intrusion.
For this ad.
I'm on the floor of my office laughing uncontrollably.
Good job!
I'm sorry what? I was just super confused about the ad
@@kutsen39 They parodied this:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom_signal_hijacking
The double crotch reveal was perfect, and the badge is 10/10!
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8:46 You’re welcome.
I knew the force and when it came to the reveal i was like wait theirs no way he's that good at second dealing it must be something else... Even after that was the case I still didn't believe it. *Round of applause*
You know your image is a part of a magician's trick for America's Got Talent
This is without doubt my favorite episode... Watched it four times... And I still grin my ass off several times watching it.
1:09 "I love your hair". Very random but very honest and definitely with deeper meaning.
best scam school episode, ever.
Just did this for family, but made it printed on my chest instead. So much fun. Thanks for the lesson!
I always pause the videos after the trick is performed to try and see if I can work through it and solve it myself. I spent a good amount of time trying to figure it out... I'm glad I finally gave up and heard how it was done!!! Haha also was happy though to see the real trick performed. Alex is so good!
This was literally the first force I ever learned to do because I didn’t have the manual dexterity to do anything too crazy. It’s nice to see it come back in a new trick.
I literally come back to this video like once every 3 weeks because luck or not it’s just the perfect fucking trick. If someone could pull it off, it’s just so fast and impossible and absolutely perfect.
dude same, i just spent like 45 minutes searching for this video. I saved it so now I can never lose it lol
Loved that the camera happens to catch him with the card hidden in his hand right before he supposedly grabs the right one, you can even hear the card flick as he moves it into the right position
One of the best card tricks I've seen on Scam Nation.
I was actually gonns say that was an amazing ACAAN, but you ruined it Brian. You shwood have let him get away with it.
I've been performing for over 50 years, with cards being my specialty. I'd guess I've correctly gotten a spectator's card by accident maybe 10 or 12 times in my career, and it's reputation making when it happens.
Brilliant. So funny. 😂 The look on your face Brian is priceless.
I enjoy watching Brian's head explode... It never gets old! Great job Alex! 😎
I love the fact that the original show of this trick here managed to just by coincidence to get the right card at the right location!
For me, this video only boosts Brian's magic-credibility.
"I just got fooled on my own goddamned show."...
I submit to you all that it is a testament to Brian's supreme level of expertise that this trick (at least the "version" we see inside of the first four minutes, anyhow) is "the one" that left him speechless, because-- no different from Penn & Teller, who famously defy you to fool them-- he's simply seen/performed *so many* card tricks in his career that he can easily spot known trick components/techniques (such as forces, false deals, patter that deliberately misdirects, etc) along the way as they're happening...
Considering only that 1) the VERY lucky, random "32" deal that miraculously produced the participants' chosen card left Brian completely dumbfounded, and 2) he could "tell by the look in his eyes" that the trick was successful due 100% to luck & coincidence is because Brian, the loveable goofball-barfly with your trick-of-the-week, is a legit & top-notch professional with a mind every bit as sharp as some printed, magician's almanac.
Summarily/"tl;dr": this trick (once again: specifically the *lucky* one that transpired in the first four minutes) had NO right to work, hence it triggered all sorts of confusion in Shwood because it flew in the face of all his wisdom, and *that* is how we can tell Brian is quite legitimately a professional and an expert, and-- I further submit-- he is therefore one of our all-time living greats.
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I just felt compelled to finally recognize & give kudos here to Brian Brushwood after all the countless Scam School/-Nation hours I've ingested ungratefully in silence, as he is (clearly to me anyhow) the unsung hero of this video. And no, I'm not some relative/paid sponsor or anything. :)
~JM
[Disclaimor/post-script: Not that I'm proud, but-- much like this show-- the length & intensity of this post was fueled greatly by alcohol, and I suppose I was feeling apologetic for some reason, and hereby shall that be known to posterity].
I never would have expected someone to use a Max Headroom reference for their ad. Bravo. You sure as hell got me to watch it.
This has to be my favorite eposide. Like. Ever!
Brian Brushwood's "Fool Me!"
In fact ... imagine THIS happening on Pen and Teller. Sure win because they would also immeadiately jump to technical ideas instead of sheer luck. :D
YouTubsel actually funny enough, this one guy who went on Penn and Teller practiced one specific trick his entire life, literally, and Penn and Teller called him out on being that good and sure enough they were right. So he ended up not fooling them
I doubt it.
Wow, that is so amazing how well Alex played it off when it was actually the card! I was so mind blown, I had no idea it wasn’t supposed to happen like that! Great trick!
I did this trick last week. Second performance managed to get their card by coincidence, didn't need to do the back up reveal.LMAO Super satisfying.
I did this the other night and had the exact same coincidence happen. I even got myself for a second. LOL
I like this a lot, it's simple, it's funny, it's got a lot to teach. It's impact is directly related to one's timing and participant selection, but also it reminds me of the Max Malini quote. Malini was know to produce a brick from under his hat, when asked by magicians how he did it he said "First you put a brick in your hat and then you wait." They asked how long and he said "some times I wait a week." You put the pin on and then you wait for the right audience and moment and that can take some time.
So I grabbed a deck of shuffled cards just to look at the mechanics of cutting and then cutting deeper and when I cut deeper...it was the 5 of clubs. No joke! The coincidence is strong with this one.
SimplyPaul whoa!
I perform this at every show and have had two times where the counted down to card did match in the last three years. It does happen. There are so many different kinds of reveals you can end this with, but this illusion always amazes.
This force was so good, I think I might cry!
im so glad you guys do these videos, they are just fun
I.....need....more....scamschool
This chann just keeps getting better,Thanks Brian....sooo cool...
I'm pleased that I was able to pick out the two important bits! I knew it had to be important to show it twice. And then the force, I immediately thought, "but that's the same card!" But it's a great trick!
That double shuffle increases the craziness of the result 100 times! Brilliant trick!
Put a shrinky dink on my dink. Makes sense
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I come back to this video sometimes just to see Brian's flabbergasted face
I once did something that worked that probably shouldn't have. I did the trick where you get them to think of a card and just repeat black, red, black, red then do the suit and so on. You look for when they blink, now obviously this is highly unlikely to work...but it did....once....still remember the card was 7 of hearts....
I had to watch it again because I was so fooled the first time, but when he counted 32 cards it really was just an INSANE coincidence that it was his card. That only happens like once in a lifetime lol.
I think this is the golden scam school. The best of the best.
That 5 of clubs is realllllllly hard to see on the hand
I've been practising these great tricks during lockdown and today I performed this trick for my nephew's birthday. I have absolutely no previous experience and to my absolute delight exactly the same thing happened, before the actual reveal I got him to choose a number, counted through the pack and there it was, the card he had picked. Legendary status engaged 😂
WIZARD POWWWEERRRSSS!!!
legit, one of the best card tricks I've seen in a long time!
I just tried this on my wife. It happened just like the gag on here. She picked 36 AND IT WAS HER CARD!!!
I saw how he got them to just choose the top card while thinking it was random, but I didn’t see how he did the second part with the random number
Edit: Ok well never mind 😂
5:52
Dude that was my reaction 😂
where is the answer?
@@guilhermecalheiros73 it wasn't suppose to appear at 32, it was pure coincidence, its suppose to be "Oh you would think this is a great trick?" and proceed to do whatever your ways to reveal their chosen card.
That sponsor ad was a great reference
3:36 Best moment ever caught on camera.
brian getting fooled his face was gold
Erwin Broekhoven solid gold.
I absolutely love your videos. Keep them coming Brian.
I came back here to watch Brian be happy. I know he is in a bit of a tough position right now, so I just wanted to go back here.
I had a moment like that once in a bar, my mind was self blown but i completely owned it in front of the audience then i told my friend later and highfived
My initial reaction was omg I can’t believe I’m about to learn this insane trick
making Brian speechless, DAMN SON! lol
Terrific episode!
Are y'all going to sell that point again? I really want it!!
I once did a trick like this to my sceptical friends. I cut the deck to a smaller number and used those cards. I then asked them to do everything from shuffling to picking up a card, while for every action I say "Most magicians would do it themselves, but I am not like most magicians, I will let you do it.". At the end, I take the smaller deck and randomly pull out a card without even looking, and well, most cases it would not be their card, that's when you say "Most magicians would get your card. I am not like most magicians.". Well, it's a gag so it's sorta meant to be fun, and if you actually get the card, you are a wizard :-P I actually got it the first time I ever tried it out with my friends :-P
So, since this is a force, you always have an out. So it doesn't hurt trying out something that may seem impossible, something that if you get, cannot be explained by anyone. If you don't, then you just proceed to reveal the way you had initially planned :-D
P.S. Also in the trick that I do, I like using a smaller deck, something they cut to, so that the chances of me pulling out their card at random is significantly higher than doing the same using the whole deck of 52. Hope this can help people learn a fun gag/trick :-)
I feel like the mark of true expertise in any field is not when you can tell what's possible, or when you can tell what someone's doing, but when you can look at something and _correctly_ tell that it _isn't_ possible. As they say, "Your strength as a rationalist is your ability to be more confused by fiction than by reality. If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge." And, "The usefulness of a model is not what it can explain, but what it can't."
I like the headroom broadcast themed ad, Brian, it was very nice!
legitimately awesome
That Hometown Hero shirt though.
A note: do not try to add even more finesse to this trick by handing them the deck and turning away, as to "prove you aren't doing any magical cheating", because the other person WILL ruin the trick somehow. I've tried this about two dozen times each way, half the standard way, and half with turning around while they do the cut deeper, and all 12 times I turned away, the other person absolutely ruined it, but all 12 times I did it as standard, it worked. You can't rely on the other person to know how to handle cards as well as you, or you will have to chalk this entire trick up to just messing with them.
Gifts like that are true treasures and when that happens take it and run with it. That was fantastic!!!! I had the same look on my face when he made the first reveal. I also was like, "wait! ... how the F*** did he just do that..."
Now that's an episode!!!....
I love the Max Headroom-esque commercial.
cheers! this was both the badassest scam school, and domain. com ad, ever.
Was The domain.com sponsor ad a play on the Max Headroom tv broadcast hack?
I do a version of the first part where it's "pick a card. Any card as long as it's the jack of clubs" and when it fails I go, "one day that's gonna work" and then just use their chosen card for the next trick. I nailed it once and the SPECTATOR went "yeah, so what? It's the jack of clubs"...I wasted my one time of it probably ever working on someone who didn't understand the magnitude of what just happened... LOL
Rvezz28 Bet he knew how to spell SPECTATOR though.
oh jeez, that's not even a typo. That's a completely different word.
Rvezz28 😂 Just blame it on predictive text 😉
That's what we call "too perfect." You see, there comes a point in magic where when a trick is "too perfect" it often times gets discounted. The audience needs some little bit of reality to hold onto... for them to be amazed. They're amazed when your hand is faster than their eye, or when you've somehow pulled a crazy card assembly together. But... when there is no chance for sleight of hand, and no chance for any "funny business" you're essentially shutting them down... because the REALITY of it is that you'd truly have to be possessed by spirits (for real). Most people are okay believing that when it's part of a routine or patter... but they don't actually want to believe that someone possessed by spirits is standing right next to them. It's creepy and it's not fun at all. Since there is nothing for them to guess, nothing that they missed, and no perceived "skill" involved... it's dismissed. The only way for a trick like that to work, is if it's intermixed into a larger routine of more traditional card handling... so they get the impression that you're simply a master manipulator and also know them well enough to figure out what they're most likely thinking. I'm guessing when you showed this, and it worked, it wasn't part of a larger or more complex routine, and that it was simply "too perfect."
“I just got fooled on my own goddamn show”😂😂😂😂😂
I have my entire class convinced that I am the patron saint of card magic because of a moment like this. Just do enough tricks with a random card and it will happen eventually.
Alex you son-of-a-gun. I love u.
Daniel Farcas much love
Alex Rangel not that it's any of my business, but why don't you have your own active channel? 😎
Daniel Farcas aww thanks man, one day sir.
Alex Rangel actually that wasn't Daniel who asked... 😁
ImDBatty1 oops, see, I'm terrible at this RUclips thing! 😃
Awesome trick is there a place online to buy the pin ?
How did he do the counting trick though? I can think of 2nd dealing, but the deck is shuffled and he wouldn't know where the card is. Was it really a coincidence?
that gag when he did the ok hand i died and cryed of laughter
I just had a patient I gave an xray to perform this trick, with a different flourish at the end (slapping the cards out from between my fingers). He said he had never heard of you Shwood so I sent him to the Scam School Page!!!
A M A Z I N G
To summarize the episode, "you son of a bitch"
He just made a masterpiece for all the world's greatest news nerds
Wow that was amazing!
You guys rock!
Alex revealed his best trick now he's gonna need a new best trick.
dragon master can't stop until I've drained my body of best tricks ever. Ever.....
Amazing episode
Mean things!
Love you Brian!! 😂
That was great :D I love how he did the Penn and Teller method of doing it twice, like the Cups and balls they do.
I got completely fucking fooled with the first trick ... i thought he used like some master card force or some shit and then he says it was a coincidence...😂😂😂😂
Lmao sooo many people really think he got lucky and it was a coincidence. The trick us called ACAAN.
Shut the front door
My favorite part was the max headroom reference