@@AZEROONE but can he look through the cards so fast? I think he count the cards between the Aces, P&T knows that, but is he fast enough to see the missing card in the deck?
7:14 how has no one noticed the deck? See anything odd about the card ordering? The cards were definitely in sets before the shuffle so he by the looks of it certainly had jacks, kings and queens clumped together. That undoubtedly were in the centre of the deck during the cut this made it much easier to do exactly what he did which was look through the deck and determine which card was missing.
I love one thing in particular. If you go through the Fool Us videos on youtube, you very often stumble upon magicians trying to misguide you by the video title, such as "Magician astonishes Penn and Teller" in order to trick people to watching it hoping they wont"t notice the title not actually saying "fooled". Aand here is the double fooler that is humble enough to let the video tell the story and only lets the title tickle your curiousity. A je pěkné vidět, že takováhle skromnost pochází z naší krásné domoviny, tohle se myslím v Karpatech nehledalo :-)
I absolutely loved this video and it was refreshing to see a will he fool them... all the ones I've been watching say that... but then I'm disappointed. Keep up the great work smarty pants! Ugh but no more bugs 😂😂
@@OndrejPsenicka i know how you did that...is written up in the comments...now i'll do like penn did... i let you decide to tell me that im right or not....lol...p.s. im not a magician
@@eatmyshortsanytime -- actually, the Czech Republic uses a parliamentary form of government. It is a joke made in juxtaposition of their national freedom after the fall of the Soviet Union. I guess it would be considered mean by anyone not familiar with history or a russian sympathizer...(FYI Putin just made a power move this past January to tighten his control over the country.)
@@AleksandarIvanov69 If you knew how terribly certain regimes have affected certain countries, and continue to do so today, you'd know that your joke is just wrong. If they were dumb, it would be easy to overthrow them.
@@thomasjbrablec don't you know that dumb people outnumber the smart ones ? That's the reason it's difficult to overthrow them when they catch the commie virus.
I just understood why he looked at the cards. It was entirely to misdirect Penn & Teller. It forces that to be their guess (that he actually just looked for the missing card and memorized the location). That way, they've wasted their guess on something that's wrong and they normally don't take a second guess. That's absolutely brilliant.
But it doesn't take too much time to realise an Ace is missing --__-- He even took his time before saying after only having 3 Aces in his hands, I really didn't understand the trick there...
@@-_Nuke_- Part of it is that he also picked the card out facedown, since the cards were unmarked (since Penn and Teller examined them). The rules of the game mean that they get one guess on how he did it, they said he picked the cards out facedown by memory, which he didn't (based on other episodes, if he did do it by memory, the magician backstage would have told Penn and Teller they're right).
Yup, that was a misdirect. I think he wanted them to guess an assigned value sum kind of system, which is what Penn did. He would have been over the moon as soon as Penn was talking about counting and he could do it but not as fast. Ondrej knew it worked right then.
@@-_Nuke_- maybeeee. Just maybe... how he manage to get those 3 aces and use it as a “clue” after shuffling the card all over was the actual trick.. I don’t know.. I don’t know magic that well, but that’s all i can think about
@@LatenightRunner I mean, he did look at the deck. If we assume that the chosen card wasn't random, then all he has to do while looking through the deck to remember the positions of the three aces. Which I think you can do if you practice it enough. I just think the chosen card wasn't random.
jfc it took a lot of rewatching and reflecting on this piece to even wrap my head around what Penn was talking about or why Teller eating a scarab made one man so happy. I feel like I’m in a tough position
@@Doubleozero0000 Obviously the beetles were fake, probably candy of some sort, but he gave one to Teller to show him IF the beetles were part of the trick or just misdirection.
The scarab was just a prop (misdirection). Key Phrase at the end: "You had a pretty good idea what you were looking for"... yes the location of the other 3 Aces since he knew Allison was sitting on the Ace of Spades. The banter at the end was Penn essentially asking "Did you force the Ace of Spades? If you did we have no idea how you did it."
I love this man. He is the best kind of artist, one who takes what he does seriously but doesn't take himself too seriously. Gotta love a silly magician.
I think I figured it out. The deck is at first ordered in a way so that the memorable cards (ace, king, queen, joker) are all next to each in groups of four at the center of the deck. His bet was that she would cut the deck around the middle which is what most people do, and she did that. The deck is shuffled and handed back. The first search was to identify which of those sets of cards was missing one, and he identified it as the ace. You wouldn't need to check the numbered cards which is why it went so quickly. The second search was to count the number of cards for the two gaps between the three aces. In this case, the shuffling didn't separate two of them so he only had to remember one number. At the last ace he finds, you can see he cuts the deck and places the rest of the cards on the bottom. This puts one ace on top, and the other two the memorized number of cards in. He brought four beatles as a contingency. If he needed more time or another look, he could eat another one and "increase his power". So he had four chances to look at the cards, but luckily he only needed two. If she had cut the cards in an odd way, say a few cards in one pile and the majority in the other, she would have drawn a number card. He would have had to search the whole deck instead of just the memorable cards he put in the middle and probably would have needed another look. Finally, when he lays down the cards it seems like he also memorized their color, value, and suit to be able to lay them down in order. He lays the three cards down, stating what each is as he goes. When he picks them back up, he looks at them and places them down in a different order. This means it didn't matter where the cards were or in what order. To me it seems like Penn and Teller's explanation is pretty spot on, and I'm not sure he completely fooled them. It seems like they didn't think he could have searched for the missing card in the time he did and that he did something else, so maybe there is a little more to it and he did fool them. It took me several watch throughs to get this so I'll say you fooled me, I don't think I could do it like you did.
That was my thoughts exactly after watching the lookthrough at the 3rd time. After 1st wach I actually did not even understood, how tgis "trick" fooled them... I didn't think about that he camt remember the cards order as fast as he looked them
Like U Said usually people Cut in the middle, but I think, when U are at this Show u dont want to have a offchance to fail. I think he had 100% chance. And when i see a performance from a top magician ending up on 4 aces it's usually not a Lucky coincedence. So i would admit that U could do this trick like U descriped but i think there is one more think.
yeah that's what I'm wondering too. Cause I mean anyone is capable of doing this. In a much slower way, but we can all do it. So with some special training it's not that surprising to be able to do it very fast.
I thought the same thing, and I am not saying it isn't possible, but I had the wife randomly take a card out of a deck and rifled through them at roughly the same speed (and to be honest it was slower) and if that is how he did it, still really impressive, I couldn't get below 30 seconds to find it. Give it a try.
Dirt Merchant yea but here’s my thought, he wanted her to complete the cut so he knew that one of the cards that’ll be missing had to have been in the middle, so I was thinking he probably memorized 10 of the cards in the middle and and once teller shuffled all he had to do was to look for one of those cards.
@@arimaelcosme1310 Oh, that would make it easier, I think. I only say I think because I like to watch magic, but know nothing about it. I keep seeing "force the cut" but have no idea what that means. I play cards, and have a sneaky way of offering a cut then putting it back the same way, is it like that? By sneaky I mean, we are all drinking and no one is paying attention.
My thought too, He ask her to cut the deck in two, now if the card are placed like 1-2-3-4-5-6 and you ask to have them cut and then the second half placed on top you can assume the card are 4-5-6 1-2-3, so i think the card are not shuffled that when he ask to split the deck and place the half on top and take the top card, you can assume that the number will be one wich was in the second split of the deck so you narrow all the deck by 50 pourcent or so, he probably know all the card that were in the second half of the deck that is now on top, and when he looks at all the cards, he KNOWS a bit what to look for, its pretty hard to explain with my broken english
@@Alowne00 Kinda my thought, if you arrange the cards so that all four of each type of card are together in the middle of the deck. So we'll say all aces 2's 3's 4's are all clumped together in the middle of the deck, then the odds of it splitting on one of those is pretty high when forcing a cut. One of those will be on the top, have someone shuffle to hide the evidence. Now when you search the deck you are only looking for 16 cards instead of 52. After the first search he knew which card, the 2nd search was just memorizing where the other aces were once he knew it was an ace.
I think it is simple. The cards are made to be cut preferably in one spot. To be sure, around the centre of the deck before Alison initial cut, there are only Kings, Queens and Aces or so in the middle. She cuts, and puts one of these selected few cards under her butt. He goes through the cards TWICE and simply looks which of these 12 or 16 cards are missing. That is a skill that can be practiced. Then he just selects the three other cards to finish the trick.
Get yourself a deck of cards, take a good look at them for a few hours, shuffle them, remove one without seeing it and try to figure the missing card in two 10 second glimpses. It's virtually impossible. And look how he sorted the 3 faced down aces. There's no human memory capable of that. The trick is supposed to make you think exactly what you're thinking, but that's not it.
@@juniorlks1 I thought he did the first pass to figure out the missing card. On the second pass, he was counting the number of cards to each of the other 3 suits of the missing card. But the thing is he was very quick at it, Penn didn't believe he could do that and so suggested he had some other way to get there. From what I understood of Penn's question at the end, he was asking Ondrej if he did it another way other than counting and if he did count, he definitely fooled them.
@@busybillyb33 my guess judging from the comments is that he was banking on Alison cutting near the middle(asking a spectator to cut a deck, 99 times out of 100 they will probably cut around there), so there is probably a high concentration of the court cards and the aces, which reduces the search parameters.
Are the people in these comments trolling, or does everyone actually think it's possible to quickly look through a shuffled deck twice and determine one card that's missing?
To everyone saying "He looked through the deck to see what was missing." Did you not listen to the end? Did you hear Penn essentially explain "We know how we think you did it....but we don't know if that is how you actually did it? You can us doctored cards in the past and tried to make us think that is how the trick was done...but it wasn't. So, you tell us... did you simply look for a missing card?" This episode doesn't go to air if he lied. P&T's producers are in on the trick and they will confirm that the magician was telling the truth when he said that he fooled them. This is a great trick because it is a real trick indie a apparently obvious yet fake trick!
Honestly i think that all the cards (when heated) shows ace of spades. Thats why Aly had to sit on it so he just remembered the placement of the rest aces...yet it is still very impressive :D
@@v3nd3lin I would agree, that sounds like a good way to do it. But then how do you make sure the other cards dont do that when examined by Penn and Teller?
@@rje613 there was a clue about Alyson having to do something for the trick to work, which is what got me doubting my first assumption which was that the cards all change to the Ace of spades if heated for a while
@@tomcads1604 Pesonally, and I know based on the way the show works that this shouldn't really be possible, but I think he lied to get the trophy for a second time. I can do the exact same effect the same way he does it. There's also indicators in the way the deck finishes that tells me he does it the way I do it which is just by putting the aces, kings, queens, and jacks in the middle so if someone. were to cut the deck in half, they'd almost definitely get one of these cards.
He had to also memorize exactly where the other 3 aces were, because he took them out of the well-shuffled deck face-down, and because he thumbed through from the bottom of the deck, had to pull them out in reverse order to how he saw them.
There's a kind of short-hand going on here. The odds of it being that card are 1 in 52. Not the least likely outcome, but with this, the way he's played the trick, I think he's saying that he forced Alison to pick the Ace of Spades, which is, in most decks of cards, the most decorated deck. I think he was saying that he forced her to pick the Ace of Spades, and how could he have done that if she picked the card without his vision even touching the deck? I think that's the question he had them wondering.
@@SirOee He didn't have to know which allison WOULD take. He looked through the deck and could obviously see, which card is missing. It'd be impressive if he did that all in one take. But he took another look at the cards. And if he knew after the first look, which card is missing, he could easily start counting in the second look-through to know where the other aces are. Penn & Teller are probably the only people who will be impressed by this because everyone else would just think: "Didn't you just look through the cards and see which one is missing?"
He couldn't have forced the card if he had Allison pick the card, and if he did, when Teller shuffles the cards it throws off any order the cards might be in. If he can notice a card that's missing in a deck of 52 that would be impressive, but then to remember where the other ace's were is even more impressive. So I completely agree with Penn and Teller, it was up to him if he fooled them.
@@nuberiffic yes, that is proven. except, you have not only a photographic memory, but are quick in counting as well - in one word, member of one of the secret agencies
I love how he takes the focus off himself and has the participants do the magic for him. The only time he has focus on himself is when he's being silly and eating bugs.
Not an illusion so much as just incredibly impressive. And I will say he is the first magician on this show that has made me laugh out loud throughout the entire act!
I feel like this trick is an inside joke for the magicians. To the laymans, it seems like nothing magic or impressive happened. For the experts, it seems impossible. So many mixed feels.
@KABIR KASHIF Grab a deck of cards and shuffle them a couple times face down. Take the top card and remove it from the deck without looking at the value. Set that card aside face down. Now look through the deck and see how long it takes to find the missing card.
From what I know, it's just another feature of the butterfly playing cards and he said somewhere it's not that difficult to learn it when you buy them.
@KABIR KASHIFJust try it. Give it a go, he had 3 bugs ie he was prepared to look 3 times through the deck. Its fully shuffled deck. Teller shuffled it. Only thing you can try to bet on is that missing card is in the middle'ish as Alison cut the deck first to pick a card - you can hope for roughly middle of deck cut. He spotted the missing card in first look, in second he memorised where are all the other aces.
You can obviously understand the codes in which Penn was speaking when he was describing the trick like "we know you were counting on alison doing something that she did" You can see how he emphasis counting as in counting the cards and looking for means he was looking in the cards which one is not there and they said that they can't do it as fast as he can
Maybe that's a deck of termic cards. Every single card becomes the ace of spades with heat. So when Alison seats on it for a certain amount of time the trick is done. Obviously if you check the deck for a few seconds nothing happens.
i dont think so because when penn looks through he cards he would of noticed two Ace of Spades in that case and instantly realised how the trick was done, and if there was no ace of spades at all and all cards just became the ace of spades after a certain amount of heat then either penn would of noticed two duplicate cards as there has to be 52 cards in the deck or if there isnt 52 cards in the deck then he can see what was missing
@@momosbiryani It is very much real. Google for Thailand edible beetle. A Holotrichia sp. that is the colour of chocolate. I thought it was fake chocolate too first but it wasn't.
Of course he did. The question is how he did it that fast. Did he force one of the aces, and only have to look for the missing ace, or was the deck gimmicked in some way so that he could quickly see which card was missing? That's what they weren't sure about.
Before I get to P&T's analysis, what am I missing here? You looked at a deck with a missing card and told us what it was with the other three it belongs to. A bit of shuffling and ordering and you pull out the cards. Seems simple.
I think I didn’t understand the trick here. What made them fool? No offence but one can easily guess the missing card while looking at the whole deck twice. No?
The essence of this trick is one of two things in my opinion, it's either memorization or force. To me it sounds like P&T guess memorization, but the ace is in fact a force and that's why the trophy came down.
It’s a trick deck, the card changes when activated with heat (Being sat on) hence why he had to eat at least two Beatles. . . . I’m just talking out of my ass IDK I made that shit up haha.
He said to cut the deck, so he memorized the middle cards of the deck. This can be dome by him putting all the aces, 2,3 cards in the middle so that he can find them easy.
Well I think he has the ability to notice a missing card in a deck and remember the placement of other cards. It should be doable for some people with lots and lots of practice
Teller shuffled cars before he went through. So he didn't know the order. Yes he could have super memory and fast eyes and just flick through and know which card where missing. But I think he did it differently.
@@RodelIturalde He went through the cards twice though: The first time he only searched the missing card and the second time he memorised the position of the 3 other aces. It takes a lot of skill to find the missing card this quickly, but there are very skilled magicans perfoming on the show.
@@RodelIturalde it is a thing. people memorize the order of entire shuffled deck of cards in that speed. but with technique and practise. I used to practice that so i know. finding a missing card and memorizing 3 card position wouldn't be hard
@@ZergosaurusRex I really want to agree with you. I guess the only thing that goes against it is the fact that that is what they said, and asked if he fooled them. If there wasn't something else going on, he wouldn't have fooled them (and the backstage person who knows how the trick is done would have had a word). Prop chair, helper and communication through the box maybe? Then the use of the cards is just to remember the card placement.
I don't get it...? Unless I'm wrong the trick was EASY to figure out, and I can't guess magic tricks worth a crap. He "looked" at the Cards TWICE, thus knowing every card in a deck, he can easily SEE WHAT CARD is "missing", and then he just picked the cards which match, easy, done.
I think the cards were somehow stuck together so as long as Alison grabbed above the forced split the cards she wasn't holding would get lifted as well forcing the split at the ace of spades. But then would easily come unstuck when shuffling he fooled them by making they think he could add all the face values real fast to see what # was missing then count to see where other aces were. But I think he only had to count where other aces were and mis directed them into thinking it was free choice counting trick when it was a simple force.
In his other videos he pulls off very similar effects (Finding missing cards, knowing the location of certain cards in the deck). He did show P&T how the cards are marked, but he probably didn't fully explain exactly what that allows him to do. I think that he didn't have to look at the cards for the trick to work, and that it was just misdirection. P&T completely missed how the trick is done, and that's why he deserved to get the trophy. The mechanics of the trick were disguised very well, and the act was designed to specifically fool P&T. It's really beautiful.
@@wilt2303 He's using his own brand of marked cards, called Butterfly Playing Cards. I don't own a pack, but I do know that you can achieve many seemingly impossible effects with them. You can know which card is missing or locate any card within the deck-all without looking at the cards, and even after the spectator shuffles them. That's all there is to the trick, really. Identifying that Allison picked the Ace of Spades and locating the other aces. The rest is done to throw off Penn and Teller (eating beatles, looking through the cards, etc) He has a RUclips channel called Butterfly Playing Cards where he demonstrates similar effects and more. I don't know how he does it technically because I didn't learn the marking system, but I think you can find the instructions online (or buy the cards, of course).
@@melxb that wasnt the point. The point was he created a force. And they dont know how he did it. (The force happened at the beginning. He made her cut. But they cant explain how she ended up wotht he card he wanted her to pick). Also its pretty hard to find a card when you look through it that fast. Plus some cards were skipped.
Ondrej, I’ll never forget meeting you at The Castle the night Dani Da’Ortiz did his last show that Sunday night and you were one of his “helpers” onstage. All the heavies were in the crowd that night, and Dani made you SCREAM ... TWICE (for real)!! It was THEE funnest show EVER at the Castle and everyone came out smiling and STUNF**KED!! Your natural (if inebriated 😄) reactions made the performance THAT much more of a kick in the nuts!! What a great dude! 👏👏👏👏👏
What does really astonish & annoy at the same time is when some smart ass ppl think that it's a forced card OR he could find it by relying on a pure luck since it was a missing Ace & not some other card figures!! I mean, come on?!! Do you really think that such a professional magician would come in such a big show to perform REGULAR/KNOWN forced card tricks before the Grand Master Magicians like Penn & Teller?!!! Or to just rely on a pure luck when trying to locate the missing card to have them fooled for the second time?!! Besides, those who claim that he could notice the missing card in two card glance attempts in a belief that it can be done by a few skilled ppl & several practices!! Well .... Ondrej replied back to one of the comments below ((Medo Ads)) & stated: "You're wrong. :) I knew what card is missing before I even started spreading the cards" So please get over it & let's just admit that it was masterly performed in a very deceptive way that it even fooled the Grand Master Magicians!! Hence, sit back & just enjoy the show!
It is a forced card, as he himself said, he knew what card was missing before he even started spreading the cards. Its just HOW did he force the card, that's the part penn and teller couldn't figure out.
the only purpose of this trick was to make them think you did it in a way you didn't, at the expense of the trick itself. It did just that, removed all value from the trick but got the trophy
Weeeeeeeell calling him smarty-pants-communist wasnt exactly as funny as penn thought. Thumbs up for ondrej to just laugh it off. Our country had communism kinda against our will by soviet army marching in our cities with tanks and saying that we are part of soviet union and will have communism. Its not something we exactly chose. And ondrej is still young but if penn said that to someone older who personally remembers that era very well then penn would have very high chance to trigger some painful memories in that person.
I am not a magician. I really thought, that first time he looked though the deck of cards, he calculated which one is missing. (I hope it is possible). Then the second run, he needed to remember the ordinal numbers of the cards he needed. He would pick the remaining 3 cards of the same value, so you just need to memorize their positions. Is that doable? Or there is another trick?
It's doable and he steered penn and teller to believe that's what it was but they said he done it faster than others could and would have to be a math genius. I think he forced Alisons deck split somehow. I've seen forced deck cuts before. That's why he had her cut once and not shuffle then had teller shuffle. The shuffling knocked the sticky stuff off top half of deck or however it was done.
Okay, so you forced the ace of spades, and then counted where the other aces were. Still, that was done really fast and I don't know how the forcing was done. It's also done very well and in an entertaining fashion right in front of Penn and Teller. Even if I could figure it out completely it wouldnt diminish the trick in terms of skill or spectacle. And this might be wrong too.
Nothing magic, she took a card, he looked at the deck twice what card is missing, put it in a order where he can pick out the other 3 acting like it’s random
Exactly, I have no idea what is going with P&T and ppl here in the comments section !! Even Penn said it himself , and pointed that out that he was really looking at the cards , and he also told him that he is so fast at doing it.
Here's my take on how he did the trick. We didn't see the order of cards before Allison made the cut. So normally people cut decks right around middle. Especially when it's someone as Allison. I believe all the spade cards were placed in the middle of the deck. So he knew only a Spade was picked. When he went through the cards the first time he looked for which spade was missing, which I believe is quite possible out of 13 cards. The second time he went through the cards he memorized or tracked the rest 3 Aces to complete the end of trick.
Definitely not.. Too much at stake, to let trick work only 4 out of 52 times. Do you really think this dude, who fooled them once with his own invented deck would let second try just in Alisons hands and pray to god she cut the deck almost perfectly in the middle? Nah dude.. he definitely did some trick in this one as well.
Clearly looking through the cards was the trick. Then knowing the order of the other aces from pure practice. Even takes one and puts in the first position.
Since the last part of the trick (the revelation one) is he showing 3 aces, and the card we are looking for is the fourth ace, can we just think he forced the ace of spades and just had to organize, whilst looking at the cards, the other three aces so he can do that final part? I think this would be the easiest way to perform this trick.
@@brahimi3776 how did he do the force then? He had Allison cut the cards and choose the top, never touching the deck after she does until Teller gives it back.
@@wyattashley7827 so why did he say color, value, and suit in the begining ?? It means 3 cards one card will be the color (black) , one card will be yhe value (ace) one card wilk be the suit (ace) ..
Adv. AQ A what you’re saying is correct. But since they were all aces, and it was already established that it was a black ace, by putting down all the aces you would know the missing one is the ace of spades. Which he further proved by revealing the card.
@@jadentkac9498 Yeah, I'm really confused about how this is a trick. He literally fans through the entire deck looking at the cards. I understand he had to find a way to get the aces to the top of the deck, but that doesn't seem like a thing that would fool Penn and Teller.
Its impossible to find a missing card that fast. he looked at the deck like 5 sek each so imagine the card Alison took would have been a 5 of Hearts. Then would you find it so quick by faning trough? He didnt force the Ace cause Alyson herself cut the deck, so there must be another way
@@phm310 Well it's certainly not impossible, although I'll acknowledge that it's not likely how he did the trick. Then again, if he was that one in a million person who could do it that way, he found a good and true way to fool them didn't he?
There are 52 cards in a deck, 4 suits of 13. To be able to count that quickly and index the seen cards fast enough to find one missing card is insane. Penn and Teller know this, and even messed with the cards as much as they could to throw off any roughing. Their options were to say that you did this totally legit IE the magic was real or you hid a tell so well that we missed it.
I don't really understand how he fooled them on this one, the first time he looked at all the cards, it would be easy to determine what card was missing, its the only one to only have 3 of left in the deck, and you can see he went through the entire deck before asking for another beetle, and the 2nd time to find the location of the other 3 of that type of card to complete the trick, he stopped before he reached the end of the deck because he had found them. The hard part is learning to do it as fast as he did, and that is very impressive, and makes the trick impressive. but as to how he did it. it seems to be a easy trick to figure out.
Without reading the comments.. so this guy scans a deck of cards three times and announces which ones missing with a load of silly sweet eating in the middle... am I missing something ?
Yeah, the ace of spades was forced. It's never explicitly stated, but the fact that the card was the ace of spades is sort of meant to communicate a force.
@@melxb it seems like the trick was about aces. Like she took some random card and it was ace. And with every new performance of this it would always be exactly that ace. At least that makes more sense than fooling Penn&Teller with watching through deck 2 times...
I don’t get it. He literally sat there and flipped through all the cards, twice. Couldn’t he have just looked for whatever card was missing and that’d be her card? (Penn even says he saw him looking through the cards and he was just able to do it faster than they could.) So what’s the “extra” part that fooled them?
From what I understand, when he goes through the cards he’s not actually scanning all the cards. As Penn says, he goes too fast for him to actually scan it. What he is doing is looking for where the Aces are to take them out of the deck and counting (this id why he takes out the first Ace then counts an x amount of cards without any explanation). Which means, he managed to somehow force Allison to pull the Ace of Spades from a random deck cut, and they didn’t understand how he did that. The same thing with his last performance, which also fooled them.
The ace of spades is a really important card in magic. The trick was to force Alyson to pick it. The scanning the deck part was just for show. It was basically a big "You have no clue how i did this" in Penn and Teller's faces.
With regullar butterfly deck, you know what card is missing and you search the deck for the position of other 3. But with this deck, I have no clue how to find out, which card is the missing one. Very nice one.
Great trick Ondrej, but I do want to know, were the scarabs real? I know that they are edible, I'm from India, but did you actually eat the real ones or were they candies of some sort? Regardless, amazing set of videos.
In this comment section he said they were, and where from Thailand. A comment by Mackenzie Herring that as I'm typing this is 2 years old with 20 replies if you want to see it for yourself.
César Rincón she probably had some kind of facial reconstruction. May have been in a fire or a terrible accident. I have an in law who had to have that done after a motorcycle accident.
By searching thrue the cards 2 times makes it easy for him. Think like this, you have 2 chances to filtrate your search.. First time you decide to count Red or Black cards - it should of course have 24 of respective but one of this colours will be 23pcs. That leads you to the next search, now you know what color is missing in the deck so second run you only look for 23 cards of the color that missed one card. Memory practice and you have this trick done. His schets is aweful and borring.
@Ondrej Psenicka The scene Alyson throwing bugs and you catch one in your mouth. Is it a pre-arranged? It looks like spontaneous but it's hard to believe.
The issue here is that Teller shuffled the deck. This means that he cataloged 4 suits of 13 cards in just a few moments. This is what he told the audience he did. If he did it, then it is magic because Penn and Teller agreed it would be crazy to do it that fast.
(1) they get thirty seconds to try to throw out a guess in code for tricks that often have multiple layers, whereas we get infinite time and replays; (2) the objective of the show from P/T point of view is not to crush as many guests as possible. They’re often generous about awarding trophies, and the show works better as a result.
The final glance through the desk, was to keep all the Aces in order, nothing else. He purposely put the 2nd card few cards away just to confuse He purposely showed the 3rd card as the “Ace of Heart” instead of “Spades” 😁 All part of a big distraction drama, after a simple Salt trick at the start. All to confused Penn&Teller
I don't see how they were fooled, or how this was a magic trick. The guy lets allison take a card, then had teller shuffle, but so what? He literally takes the deck and looked through it, so he could easily see which one he was missing! How's that a trick? It's not even card counting, Haha.
exactly.. its not even a trick..he was just looking for the missing card and even went through it twice to confirm what was missing. maybe they knew that and didn't know how to make the decision whether its a fooler or not, so they gave him the opportunity to decide it
Guy xD they have to present the trick to someone else from production. The trick wasnt done like this 😂😂 they wouldnt let him come with this "trick" thats the problem he done it by different method
Seems like all of you are missing the point - the key was that the card Alison took was the missing Ace (or he might have had just swapped them, since no one really saw what she picked) and that he was able to so quickly remember the positions of the other ones. If it was just a random set of cards he wouldn't get the prize. The trick in its principle is easy, he got the prize for being extremely quick and how well he did it.
ah ah ah you shouldn't be showing this, now all the dumb kids will be eating beetles and when parents are like "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" then kid is like "i saw on fool us that eating beetles gives you magical powers". Anyway I'm sure that beetle wasn't real, had to be some snack.
The first two cards said it had to be an ace and it had to be a black card. The third card was another ace, and so it showed that there was only one ace left. It wasn't direct, it was just eliminating the other options. The only suit left was a spade.
"What are we looking for? How the goddamn trick is done."
Love it.
He can see all the cards except the card he would predict.. So he will only have to find the missing card. that's it. Judy my thoughts
@@AZEROONE but can he look through the cards so fast? I think he count the cards between the Aces, P&T knows that, but is he fast enough to see the missing card in the deck?
Thank goodness they bleeped out the word "goddamn" I can only imagine the societal collapse that would ensue if people had heard that
Doujangul Misao - that sounds way to simple & P & T would have caught it.
7:14 how has no one noticed the deck? See anything odd about the card ordering? The cards were definitely in sets before the shuffle so he by the looks of it certainly had jacks, kings and queens clumped together. That undoubtedly were in the centre of the deck during the cut this made it much easier to do exactly what he did which was look through the deck and determine which card was missing.
Can we take a moment to admire how readily Ondrej caught mid-air the two Beatles that Allison threw at his mouth?
It was Paul and John!
It was just the one, but yeah
That's the real trick
There were two thrown, but he only caught one, pause in 4:48, as they are in mid-air.
@ omfg 😍
I love one thing in particular. If you go through the Fool Us videos on youtube, you very often stumble upon magicians trying to misguide you by the video title, such as "Magician astonishes Penn and Teller" in order to trick people to watching it hoping they wont"t notice the title not actually saying "fooled".
Aand here is the double fooler that is humble enough to let the video tell the story and only lets the title tickle your curiousity.
A je pěkné vidět, že takováhle skromnost pochází z naší krásné domoviny, tohle se myslím v Karpatech nehledalo :-)
To je milé, děkuji. :)
Yeah I hate spoilers in the title. This video title was a nice change of pace.
Exactly why I chose to click on this vid.
I absolutely loved this video and it was refreshing to see a will he fool them... all the ones I've been watching say that... but then I'm disappointed. Keep up the great work smarty pants! Ugh but no more bugs 😂😂
@@OndrejPsenicka i know how you did that...is written up in the comments...now i'll do like penn did... i let you decide to tell me that im right or not....lol...p.s. im not a magician
I love when Penn rages, anyone else?
Meeeeeeeeeee
he has a high quality friendly rage :>
Except that communist insult was very mean
@@eatmyshortsanytime intentionally so lol the meaner it is, the clearer it should be that it's in jest XD
@@eatmyshortsanytime -- actually, the Czech Republic uses a parliamentary form of government. It is a joke made in juxtaposition of their national freedom after the fall of the Soviet Union. I guess it would be considered mean by anyone not familiar with history or a russian sympathizer...(FYI Putin just made a power move this past January to tighten his control over the country.)
"smarty pants communist"
I'm dead
that was code
If only Penn knew how offensive saying that is in a country ravaged by communism.
Smarty pants communist is a paradox...
You can be either one or the other.
@@AleksandarIvanov69 If you knew how terribly certain regimes have affected certain countries, and continue to do so today, you'd know that your joke is just wrong. If they were dumb, it would be easy to overthrow them.
@@thomasjbrablec don't you know that dumb people outnumber the smart ones ?
That's the reason it's difficult to overthrow them when they catch the commie virus.
Good thing Teller didnt eat two beatles, he could have guessed it, gteat trick man.
Thank you, Milen! It is true - it was a big risk to give him one to eat. :)
@@OndrejPsenicka was that real? I hoped it was chocolate or something
@@mcnagynorbi Most certainly real. It'd be next to impossible to imitate that *crunch* with chocolate.
@@L4sket crispy rice could work.
@@L4sket
Chocolate with a hard candy coating, like M&Ms
I've watched all three. Ondrej, you are a true genius. Much respect to you.
Thank you, John, you are very kind.
I just understood why he looked at the cards. It was entirely to misdirect Penn & Teller. It forces that to be their guess (that he actually just looked for the missing card and memorized the location). That way, they've wasted their guess on something that's wrong and they normally don't take a second guess. That's absolutely brilliant.
But it doesn't take too much time to realise an Ace is missing --__-- He even took his time before saying after only having 3 Aces in his hands, I really didn't understand the trick there...
@@-_Nuke_- Part of it is that he also picked the card out facedown, since the cards were unmarked (since Penn and Teller examined them). The rules of the game mean that they get one guess on how he did it, they said he picked the cards out facedown by memory, which he didn't (based on other episodes, if he did do it by memory, the magician backstage would have told Penn and Teller they're right).
Yup, that was a misdirect. I think he wanted them to guess an assigned value sum kind of system, which is what Penn did. He would have been over the moon as soon as Penn was talking about counting and he could do it but not as fast. Ondrej knew it worked right then.
@@-_Nuke_- maybeeee. Just maybe... how he manage to get those 3 aces and use it as a “clue” after shuffling the card all over was the actual trick.. I don’t know.. I don’t know magic that well, but that’s all i can think about
@@LatenightRunner
I mean, he did look at the deck. If we assume that the chosen card wasn't random, then all he has to do while looking through the deck to remember the positions of the three aces. Which I think you can do if you practice it enough. I just think the chosen card wasn't random.
jfc it took a lot of rewatching and reflecting on this piece to even wrap my head around what Penn was talking about or why Teller eating a scarab made one man so happy. I feel like I’m in a tough position
My theory is that the Beatle is fake and he wanted Teller to know.
@@Doubleozero0000 Obviously the beetles were fake, probably candy of some sort, but he gave one to Teller to show him IF the beetles were part of the trick or just misdirection.
The scarab was just a prop (misdirection).
Key Phrase at the end: "You had a pretty good idea what you were looking for"... yes the location of the other 3 Aces since he knew Allison was sitting on the Ace of Spades. The banter at the end was Penn essentially asking "Did you force the Ace of Spades? If you did we have no idea how you did it."
@@livewire2759 The beetles were very real. Thailand stuff.
@@Doubleozero0000 Tellar would have eaten it anyway, he's done it on other shows too.
I love this man. He is the best kind of artist, one who takes what he does seriously but doesn't take himself too seriously. Gotta love a silly magician.
I think I figured it out. The deck is at first ordered in a way so that the memorable cards (ace, king, queen, joker) are all next to each in groups of four at the center of the deck. His bet was that she would cut the deck around the middle which is what most people do, and she did that. The deck is shuffled and handed back.
The first search was to identify which of those sets of cards was missing one, and he identified it as the ace. You wouldn't need to check the numbered cards which is why it went so quickly. The second search was to count the number of cards for the two gaps between the three aces. In this case, the shuffling didn't separate two of them so he only had to remember one number. At the last ace he finds, you can see he cuts the deck and places the rest of the cards on the bottom. This puts one ace on top, and the other two the memorized number of cards in.
He brought four beatles as a contingency. If he needed more time or another look, he could eat another one and "increase his power". So he had four chances to look at the cards, but luckily he only needed two. If she had cut the cards in an odd way, say a few cards in one pile and the majority in the other, she would have drawn a number card. He would have had to search the whole deck instead of just the memorable cards he put in the middle and probably would have needed another look.
Finally, when he lays down the cards it seems like he also memorized their color, value, and suit to be able to lay them down in order. He lays the three cards down, stating what each is as he goes. When he picks them back up, he looks at them and places them down in a different order. This means it didn't matter where the cards were or in what order.
To me it seems like Penn and Teller's explanation is pretty spot on, and I'm not sure he completely fooled them. It seems like they didn't think he could have searched for the missing card in the time he did and that he did something else, so maybe there is a little more to it and he did fool them. It took me several watch throughs to get this so I'll say you fooled me, I don't think I could do it like you did.
That was my thoughts exactly after watching the lookthrough at the 3rd time. After 1st wach I actually did not even understood, how tgis "trick" fooled them... I didn't think about that he camt remember the cards order as fast as he looked them
Like U Said usually people Cut in the middle, but I think, when U are at this Show u dont want to have a offchance to fail. I think he had 100% chance.
And when i see a performance from a top magician ending up on 4 aces it's usually not a Lucky coincedence.
So i would admit that U could do this trick like U descriped but i think there is one more think.
You’re close but missing that 10%. Guess you were fooled 😉.
7:17 How things usually go when you ask your boss a stupid question.
But you looked through the deck, wouldn't you notice what card was missing and memorize where the other aces were placed? Am i missing something here?
yeah that's what I'm wondering too. Cause I mean anyone is capable of doing this. In a much slower way, but we can all do it. So with some special training it's not that surprising to be able to do it very fast.
@@sowon5030 Teller shuffled the deck
@@simonlind44 Even with a shuffled deck you can find a missing card.
Asking mysielf same question. Where is the trick?
He just looked through the deck twice
Penn even says it himself "you did it much faster then we can" and then he says "there's something more".
c mon, the guy looked at the whole deck looking for the 1 missing TWICE
I thought the same thing, and I am not saying it isn't possible, but I had the wife randomly take a card out of a deck and rifled through them at roughly the same speed (and to be honest it was slower) and if that is how he did it, still really impressive, I couldn't get below 30 seconds to find it. Give it a try.
Dirt Merchant yea but here’s my thought, he wanted her to complete the cut so he knew that one of the cards that’ll be missing had to have been in the middle, so I was thinking he probably memorized 10 of the cards in the middle and and once teller shuffled all he had to do was to look for one of those cards.
@@arimaelcosme1310 Oh, that would make it easier, I think. I only say I think because I like to watch magic, but know nothing about it. I keep seeing "force the cut" but have no idea what that means. I play cards, and have a sneaky way of offering a cut then putting it back the same way, is it like that? By sneaky I mean, we are all drinking and no one is paying attention.
My thought too, He ask her to cut the deck in two, now if the card are placed like 1-2-3-4-5-6 and you ask to have them cut and then the second half placed on top you can assume the card are 4-5-6 1-2-3, so i think the card are not shuffled that when he ask to split the deck and place the half on top and take the top card, you can assume that the number will be one wich was in the second split of the deck so you narrow all the deck by 50 pourcent or so, he probably know all the card that were in the second half of the deck that is now on top, and when he looks at all the cards, he KNOWS a bit what to look for, its pretty hard to explain with my broken english
@@Alowne00 Kinda my thought, if you arrange the cards so that all four of each type of card are together in the middle of the deck. So we'll say all aces 2's 3's 4's are all clumped together in the middle of the deck, then the odds of it splitting on one of those is pretty high when forcing a cut. One of those will be on the top, have someone shuffle to hide the evidence. Now when you search the deck you are only looking for 16 cards instead of 52. After the first search he knew which card, the 2nd search was just memorizing where the other aces were once he knew it was an ace.
He reminds me of the guy from the movie, "Master Of Disguise." The actual character.
Turtle, turtle 🐢
Its like Garth from Wayne's World became a magician
I was Thinking the same thing..lol
I think it is simple. The cards are made to be cut preferably in one spot.
To be sure, around the centre of the deck before Alison initial cut, there are only Kings, Queens and Aces or so in the middle. She cuts, and puts one of these selected few cards under her butt.
He goes through the cards TWICE and simply looks which of these 12 or 16 cards are missing. That is a skill that can be practiced. Then he just selects the three other cards to finish the trick.
Spot on
But didn't he literally just check which card is missing from the deck? So it's a memory trick
_pudu that’s exactly my thought
Get yourself a deck of cards, take a good look at them for a few hours, shuffle them, remove one without seeing it and try to figure the missing card in two 10 second glimpses. It's virtually impossible. And look how he sorted the 3 faced down aces. There's no human memory capable of that. The trick is supposed to make you think exactly what you're thinking, but that's not it.
@@juniorlks1 you obviously don't know Richard Turner, check him out
@@juniorlks1 I thought he did the first pass to figure out the missing card. On the second pass, he was counting the number of cards to each of the other 3 suits of the missing card. But the thing is he was very quick at it, Penn didn't believe he could do that and so suggested he had some other way to get there. From what I understood of Penn's question at the end, he was asking Ondrej if he did it another way other than counting and if he did count, he definitely fooled them.
@@busybillyb33 my guess judging from the comments is that he was banking on Alison cutting near the middle(asking a spectator to cut a deck, 99 times out of 100 they will probably cut around there), so there is probably a high concentration of the court cards and the aces, which reduces the search parameters.
Are the people in these comments trolling, or does everyone actually think it's possible to quickly look through a shuffled deck twice and determine one card that's missing?
yes but it was a forced cut. IDN why they gave him trofy
I don't think that's how he did the trick, but yes, it is definitely possible.
@@mrpicky1868 they gave him the trophy because they didnt know how he created the force. Doesnt matter if its a force or not. Its how he did it
There are magicians who can do that kind of stuff, memory tricks or quick memory stuff
The ace of spades is a very obvious card to see that it is missing. Did he just luck out that she picked it? Or was it a force somehow?
To everyone saying "He looked through the deck to see what was missing."
Did you not listen to the end? Did you hear Penn essentially explain "We know how we think you did it....but we don't know if that is how you actually did it? You can us doctored cards in the past and tried to make us think that is how the trick was done...but it wasn't. So, you tell us... did you simply look for a missing card?"
This episode doesn't go to air if he lied. P&T's producers are in on the trick and they will confirm that the magician was telling the truth when he said that he fooled them.
This is a great trick because it is a real trick indie a apparently obvious yet fake trick!
Honestly i think that all the cards (when heated) shows ace of spades. Thats why Aly had to sit on it so he just remembered the placement of the rest aces...yet it is still very impressive :D
@@v3nd3lin I would agree, that sounds like a good way to do it. But then how do you make sure the other cards dont do that when examined by Penn and Teller?
RJ i got no clue :D
@@rje613 there was a clue about Alyson having to do something for the trick to work, which is what got me doubting my first assumption which was that the cards all change to the Ace of spades if heated for a while
@@tomcads1604 Pesonally, and I know based on the way the show works that this shouldn't really be possible, but I think he lied to get the trophy for a second time. I can do the exact same effect the same way he does it. There's also indicators in the way the deck finishes that tells me he does it the way I do it which is just by putting the aces, kings, queens, and jacks in the middle so if someone. were to cut the deck in half, they'd almost definitely get one of these cards.
I love how Penn looks so confuse for the entire act..
Im not confused simple trick
He saw the missing card... and he just took all the other Aces out, isn’t this just math or am I missing something?
He had to also memorize exactly where the other 3 aces were, because he took them out of the well-shuffled deck face-down, and because he thumbed through from the bottom of the deck, had to pull them out in reverse order to how he saw them.
How did he know which card Allison would take?
There's a kind of short-hand going on here. The odds of it being that card are 1 in 52. Not the least likely outcome, but with this, the way he's played the trick, I think he's saying that he forced Alison to pick the Ace of Spades, which is, in most decks of cards, the most decorated deck. I think he was saying that he forced her to pick the Ace of Spades, and how could he have done that if she picked the card without his vision even touching the deck? I think that's the question he had them wondering.
@@SirOee He didn't have to know which allison WOULD take. He looked through the deck and could obviously see, which card is missing. It'd be impressive if he did that all in one take. But he took another look at the cards.
And if he knew after the first look, which card is missing, he could easily start counting in the second look-through to know where the other aces are.
Penn & Teller are probably the only people who will be impressed by this because everyone else would just think: "Didn't you just look through the cards and see which one is missing?"
@@djhokage1 how could you tell which card out of 52 is missing just by looking through the deck a couple times?
wait, so she took a card out of the deck and then looked through the deck a couple times to see which one was missing?
...ok?
No one can seek missing card in one glance
And predict every card so he can take out 3 aces when the card is flipped
@@priabernamadimas Are you sure about that?
Doesn't seem that incredible compared to everything else on this show
He couldn't have forced the card if he had Allison pick the card, and if he did, when Teller shuffles the cards it throws off any order the cards might be in. If he can notice a card that's missing in a deck of 52 that would be impressive, but then to remember where the other ace's were is even more impressive. So I completely agree with Penn and Teller, it was up to him if he fooled them.
@@nuberiffic yes, that is proven. except, you have not only a photographic memory, but are quick in counting as well - in one word, member of one of the secret agencies
@@nuberiffic besides, that wouldn't fool penn and teller. I mean, that wouldn't wow them either
I love how even though penn and teller are fooled they still get back at the fooler with a big FU on the trophy
I love how he takes the focus off himself and has the participants do the magic for him. The only time he has focus on himself is when he's being silly and eating bugs.
Not an illusion so much as just incredibly impressive. And I will say he is the first magician on this show that has made me laugh out loud throughout the entire act!
I feel like this trick is an inside joke for the magicians. To the laymans, it seems like nothing magic or impressive happened. For the experts, it seems impossible. So many mixed feels.
@KABIR KASHIF Grab a deck of cards and shuffle them a couple times face down. Take the top card and remove it from the deck without looking at the value. Set that card aside face down. Now look through the deck and see how long it takes to find the missing card.
From what I know, it's just another feature of the butterfly playing cards and he said somewhere it's not that difficult to learn it when you buy them.
@KABIR KASHIFJust try it. Give it a go, he had 3 bugs ie he was prepared to look 3 times through the deck. Its fully shuffled deck. Teller shuffled it. Only thing you can try to bet on is that missing card is in the middle'ish as Alison cut the deck first to pick a card - you can hope for roughly middle of deck cut.
He spotted the missing card in first look, in second he memorised where are all the other aces.
@@xbread31 the deck was never shuffled before the card was picked.
@@mario50000 Not talking about how the trick was done in the video...
I really love your work Ondrej , such an entertaining concept , great performance and well done on the second FU trophy!
4:46 And he catches it.
The REAL impressive part of the trick
Best unrehearsed trick ever
Oh man I had to take a breather after this performance! Amazing job Ondrej!
Hahahaha! I wish I could rely on breaks like that. ;)
One of the best ever on the show! You couldn't even have paid for a better reaction from Penn! 👍✊️💯
You can obviously understand the codes in which Penn was speaking when he was describing the trick like "we know you were counting on alison doing something that she did" You can see how he emphasis counting as in counting the cards and looking for means he was looking in the cards which one is not there and they said that they can't do it as fast as he can
No longer is it the "Ace" of Spades; it is now the "ASS" of spades.
Maybe that's a deck of termic cards. Every single card becomes the ace of spades with heat. So when Alison seats on it for a certain amount of time the trick is done. Obviously if you check the deck for a few seconds nothing happens.
Those exist?
i dont think so because when penn looks through he cards he would of noticed two Ace of Spades in that case and instantly realised how the trick was done, and if there was no ace of spades at all and all cards just became the ace of spades after a certain amount of heat then either penn would of noticed two duplicate cards as there has to be 52 cards in the deck or if there isnt 52 cards in the deck then he can see what was missing
Nope
It changes depending on if the person has shit within the last 30 minutes
lmao no way you’re being serious rn 😭😂
Oh I love how Teller willingly ate a beetle. Absolute lad
Idk but it might have been a chocolate specially made to look like a beetle. A sugar shell would give the right crunch :)
Lmao u really thinks those were real insect..
He didn't. He put it in his mouth and made chewing motions. Then when seemingly washing it down with his drink spitting it in his cup. 🤷♂️
@@momosbiryani It is very much real. Google for Thailand edible beetle. A Holotrichia sp. that is the colour of chocolate. I thought it was fake chocolate too first but it wasn't.
Great catch on that second beetle.
He looked at the deck to see what card is missing, why it fooled them?
Of course he did. The question is how he did it that fast. Did he force one of the aces, and only have to look for the missing ace, or was the deck gimmicked in some way so that he could quickly see which card was missing? That's what they weren't sure about.
"A ritual to make my senses sharp as a spoon" made me choke laughing. Incredibly FUN performance
Before I get to P&T's analysis, what am I missing here? You looked at a deck with a missing card and told us what it was with the other three it belongs to. A bit of shuffling and ordering and you pull out the cards. Seems simple.
Teller can eat everything
I think I didn’t understand the trick here. What made them fool? No offence but one can easily guess the missing card while looking at the whole deck twice. No?
The essence of this trick is one of two things in my opinion, it's either memorization or force. To me it sounds like P&T guess memorization, but the ace is in fact a force and that's why the trophy came down.
It’s a trick deck, the card changes when activated with heat (Being sat on) hence why he had to eat at least two Beatles.
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I’m just talking out of my ass IDK I made that shit up haha.
He said to cut the deck, so he memorized the middle cards of the deck.
This can be dome by him putting all the aces, 2,3 cards in the middle so that he can find them easy.
iTrypio nope that’s not true. The trick is called “inhale the flat” it’s been around for 1000 years and 2 months.
@@sleepyjoe8459 There's no such thing. Send a link
Well I think he has the ability to notice a missing card in a deck and remember the placement of other cards. It should be doable for some people with lots and lots of practice
Teller shuffled cars before he went through. So he didn't know the order.
Yes he could have super memory and fast eyes and just flick through and know which card where missing. But I think he did it differently.
@@RodelIturalde He went through the cards twice though: The first time he only searched the missing card and the second time he memorised the position of the 3 other aces. It takes a lot of skill to find the missing card this quickly, but there are very skilled magicans perfoming on the show.
@@RodelIturalde it is a thing. people memorize the order of entire shuffled deck of cards in that speed. but with technique and practise. I used to practice that so i know. finding a missing card and memorizing 3 card position wouldn't be hard
@@ZergosaurusRex I really want to agree with you. I guess the only thing that goes against it is the fact that that is what they said, and asked if he fooled them. If there wasn't something else going on, he wouldn't have fooled them (and the backstage person who knows how the trick is done would have had a word). Prop chair, helper and communication through the box maybe? Then the use of the cards is just to remember the card placement.
@@ZergosaurusRex - And you think it was just a coincidence that the card was the Ace of Spades? I don't know...seems like there was something else.
Wow. Thank you for actually leaving it a surprise and not giving it away in the video title.
I don't get it...? Unless I'm wrong the trick was EASY to figure out, and I can't guess magic tricks worth a crap.
He "looked" at the Cards TWICE, thus knowing every card in a deck, he can easily SEE WHAT CARD is "missing", and then he just picked the cards which match, easy, done.
The real trick is in the first minutes, somehow making the card picked become a specific card. The rest is mostly performance.
I think the cards were somehow stuck together so as long as Alison grabbed above the forced split the cards she wasn't holding would get lifted as well forcing the split at the ace of spades. But then would easily come unstuck when shuffling he fooled them by making they think he could add all the face values real fast to see what # was missing then count to see where other aces were. But I think he only had to count where other aces were and mis directed them into thinking it was free choice counting trick when it was a simple force.
In his other videos he pulls off very similar effects (Finding missing cards, knowing the location of certain cards in the deck). He did show P&T how the cards are marked, but he probably didn't fully explain exactly what that allows him to do. I think that he didn't have to look at the cards for the trick to work, and that it was just misdirection. P&T completely missed how the trick is done, and that's why he deserved to get the trophy.
The mechanics of the trick were disguised very well, and the act was designed to specifically fool P&T. It's really beautiful.
How did he do it?
@@wilt2303 He's using his own brand of marked cards, called Butterfly Playing Cards. I don't own a pack, but I do know that you can achieve many seemingly impossible effects with them. You can know which card is missing or locate any card within the deck-all without looking at the cards, and even after the spectator shuffles them.
That's all there is to the trick, really. Identifying that Allison picked the Ace of Spades and locating the other aces. The rest is done to throw off Penn and Teller (eating beatles, looking through the cards, etc)
He has a RUclips channel called Butterfly Playing Cards where he demonstrates similar effects and more.
I don't know how he does it technically because I didn't learn the marking system, but I think you can find the instructions online (or buy the cards, of course).
Congratulations on fooling Penn and Teller again!!! Amazing act, loved every second of it 😁👍.
didnt he get to look through the cards tho
@@melxb no
@@melxb Yes, twice (asking for the extra scarab).
@@melxb that wasnt the point. The point was he created a force. And they dont know how he did it. (The force happened at the beginning. He made her cut. But they cant explain how she ended up wotht he card he wanted her to pick). Also its pretty hard to find a card when you look through it that fast. Plus some cards were skipped.
@@CrAzY6tothe6 yeah depends if he has markings on his cards too
Ondrej, I’ll never forget meeting you at The Castle the night Dani Da’Ortiz did his last show that Sunday night and you were one of his “helpers” onstage.
All the heavies were in the crowd that night, and Dani made you SCREAM ... TWICE (for real)!! It was THEE funnest show EVER at the Castle and everyone came out smiling and STUNF**KED!! Your natural (if inebriated 😄) reactions made the performance THAT much more of a kick in the nuts!! What a great dude! 👏👏👏👏👏
What does really astonish & annoy at the same time is when some smart ass ppl think that it's a forced card OR he could find it by relying on a pure luck since it was a missing Ace & not some other card figures!!
I mean, come on?!!
Do you really think that such a professional magician would come in such a big show to perform REGULAR/KNOWN forced card tricks before the Grand Master Magicians like Penn & Teller?!!! Or to just rely on a pure luck when trying to locate the missing card to have them fooled for the second time?!!
Besides, those who claim that he could notice the missing card in two card glance attempts in a belief that it can be done by a few skilled ppl & several practices!!
Well ....
Ondrej replied back to one of the comments below ((Medo Ads)) & stated:
"You're wrong. :) I knew what card is missing before I even started spreading the cards"
So please get over it & let's just admit that it was masterly performed in a very deceptive way that it even fooled the Grand Master Magicians!!
Hence, sit back & just enjoy the show!
It is a forced card, as he himself said, he knew what card was missing before he even started spreading the cards. Its just HOW did he force the card, that's the part penn and teller couldn't figure out.
First time seeing the magician tell everyone what the card was before asking the person to reveal it first. Props man
Teller eating the scarab is totally awesome.
the only purpose of this trick was to make them think you did it in a way you didn't, at the expense of the trick itself. It did just that, removed all value from the trick but got the trophy
The real magic is to pronounce his name properly
Doopravdy kámo, lol Pšenička, co takhle Řeřicha 😂
Slav superpowers make it easy
Андрей Пшеничка, that's was easier if you repeat it 5-6 times
Weeeeeeeell calling him smarty-pants-communist wasnt exactly as funny as penn thought. Thumbs up for ondrej to just laugh it off. Our country had communism kinda against our will by soviet army marching in our cities with tanks and saying that we are part of soviet union and will have communism. Its not something we exactly chose. And ondrej is still young but if penn said that to someone older who personally remembers that era very well then penn would have very high chance to trigger some painful memories in that person.
I am not a magician. I really thought, that first time he looked though the deck of cards, he calculated which one is missing. (I hope it is possible). Then the second run, he needed to remember the ordinal numbers of the cards he needed. He would pick the remaining 3 cards of the same value, so you just need to memorize their positions.
Is that doable? Or there is another trick?
It's doable and he steered penn and teller to believe that's what it was but they said he done it faster than others could and would have to be a math genius. I think he forced Alisons deck split somehow. I've seen forced deck cuts before. That's why he had her cut once and not shuffle then had teller shuffle. The shuffling knocked the sticky stuff off top half of deck or however it was done.
I think he already knew which card when alyson cut it... probably a force... then the reading through the cards were only to find the aces...
Okay, so you forced the ace of spades, and then counted where the other aces were. Still, that was done really fast and I don't know how the forcing was done. It's also done very well and in an entertaining fashion right in front of Penn and Teller. Even if I could figure it out completely it wouldnt diminish the trick in terms of skill or spectacle. And this might be wrong too.
Nothing magic, she took a card, he looked at the deck twice what card is missing, put it in a order where he can pick out the other 3 acting like it’s random
Exactly, I have no idea what is going with P&T and ppl here in the comments section !!
Even Penn said it himself , and pointed that out that he was really looking at the cards ,
and he also told him that he is so fast at doing it.
How is this not just a Dana Carvey act?
Here's my take on how he did the trick.
We didn't see the order of cards before Allison made the cut. So normally people cut decks right around middle. Especially when it's someone as Allison. I believe all the spade cards were placed in the middle of the deck. So he knew only a Spade was picked. When he went through the cards the first time he looked for which spade was missing, which I believe is quite possible out of 13 cards. The second time he went through the cards he memorized or tracked the rest 3 Aces to complete the end of trick.
Definitely not.. Too much at stake, to let trick work only 4 out of 52 times. Do you really think this dude, who fooled them once with his own invented deck would let second try just in Alisons hands and pray to god she cut the deck almost perfectly in the middle? Nah dude.. he definitely did some trick in this one as well.
@@MrLuke. Yeah. Also the producers probably wouldn't let him do the trick based on just luck.
It was performed with a different method
@@gregluv5294 yeah I'm sure it would have been. I just guessed how I think it could have been done based on my knowledge of magic
@@krishanmourya3008 trust me I wouldn't be able to figure it out in a million years. Want an idea? Bye the Butterfly V2 deck 😉
I don't even care about the trick. I love the presentation! Lol
Clearly looking through the cards was the trick. Then knowing the order of the other aces from pure practice.
Even takes one and puts in the first position.
doesn't explain how he forced the first Ace
@@AGallegos288 He doesn't need to force an ace. He can pick the card that is missing.
I wonder if those "scarabs" have hazelnut stuff in them like those nice Belgian chocolates
Since the last part of the trick (the revelation one) is he showing 3 aces, and the card we are looking for is the fourth ace, can we just think he forced the ace of spades and just had to organize, whilst looking at the cards, the other three aces so he can do that final part? I think this would be the easiest way to perform this trick.
I dont get how he actually fooled them. It seemed pretty easy to me.
@@brahimi3776 how did he do the force then? He had Allison cut the cards and choose the top, never touching the deck after she does until Teller gives it back.
@@struful i think its with the help of salt between the cards around the middle . Also notice how he didn't shuffle before the cut.
5:54 color value suit .. black ace - okay - ace of hearts "value" then he showed a diamond Ace and told ace of spades ?? 😵😵😵 wazzup ..?? How ?
it was the only missing ace
@@wyattashley7827 so why did he say color, value, and suit in the begining ?? It means 3 cards one card will be the color (black) , one card will be yhe value (ace) one card wilk be the suit (ace) ..
Adv. AQ A what you’re saying is correct. But since they were all aces, and it was already established that it was a black ace, by putting down all the aces you would know the missing one is the ace of spades. Which he further proved by revealing the card.
He was looking at the cards, couldn't he just have seen that the Ace of Spades was missing?
Lol I was thinking the exact same thing. He also looked at them twice to count where the aces were lol 😂😂 should be Chris and Jaden Fool us.
@@jadentkac9498 Yeah, I'm really confused about how this is a trick. He literally fans through the entire deck looking at the cards. I understand he had to find a way to get the aces to the top of the deck, but that doesn't seem like a thing that would fool Penn and Teller.
Its impossible to find a missing card that fast. he looked at the deck like 5 sek each so imagine the card Alison took would have been a 5 of Hearts. Then would you find it so quick by faning trough? He didnt force the Ace cause Alyson herself cut the deck, so there must be another way
@@phm310 Well it's certainly not impossible, although I'll acknowledge that it's not likely how he did the trick. Then again, if he was that one in a million person who could do it that way, he found a good and true way to fool them didn't he?
There are 52 cards in a deck, 4 suits of 13. To be able to count that quickly and index the seen cards fast enough to find one missing card is insane. Penn and Teller know this, and even messed with the cards as much as they could to throw off any roughing. Their options were to say that you did this totally legit IE the magic was real or you hid a tell so well that we missed it.
I don't really understand how he fooled them on this one, the first time he looked at all the cards, it would be easy to determine what card was missing, its the only one to only have 3 of left in the deck, and you can see he went through the entire deck before asking for another beetle, and the 2nd time to find the location of the other 3 of that type of card to complete the trick, he stopped before he reached the end of the deck because he had found them. The hard part is learning to do it as fast as he did, and that is very impressive, and makes the trick impressive. but as to how he did it. it seems to be a easy trick to figure out.
Without reading the comments.. so this guy scans a deck of cards three times and announces which ones missing with a load of silly sweet eating in the middle... am I missing something ?
Ace of spades signifies a force. He made Allison pick that card.
Yeah, the ace of spades was forced. It's never explicitly stated, but the fact that the card was the ace of spades is sort of meant to communicate a force.
Not a force
This doesn't seem like a fool us for experienced magicians.
I think this is the best routine ever on the show. It really plays with the Fool Us format.
Could this bordered butterflies be a decoy for P&T to think of all the complex solutions and not think abt the simplest ones?
i agree he literally got to look at the damn cards to see which is missing and twice at that by eating another bug lol
@@melxb it seems like the trick was about aces. Like she took some random card and it was ace. And with every new performance of this it would always be exactly that ace. At least that makes more sense than fooling Penn&Teller with watching through deck 2 times...
@@Dmitopur yeah that makes sense too
The trick is forced aces,
I don’t get it. He literally sat there and flipped through all the cards, twice. Couldn’t he have just looked for whatever card was missing and that’d be her card? (Penn even says he saw him looking through the cards and he was just able to do it faster than they could.) So what’s the “extra” part that fooled them?
From what I understand, when he goes through the cards he’s not actually scanning all the cards. As Penn says, he goes too fast for him to actually scan it. What he is doing is looking for where the Aces are to take them out of the deck and counting (this id why he takes out the first Ace then counts an x amount of cards without any explanation). Which means, he managed to somehow force Allison to pull the Ace of Spades from a random deck cut, and they didn’t understand how he did that. The same thing with his last performance, which also fooled them.
How he was able to eat 2 beetles. That takes magic
The ace of spades is a really important card in magic. The trick was to force Alyson to pick it. The scanning the deck part was just for show. It was basically a big "You have no clue how i did this" in Penn and Teller's faces.
With regullar butterfly deck, you know what card is missing and you search the deck for the position of other 3. But with this deck, I have no clue how to find out, which card is the missing one. Very nice one.
damn this guy memorized the whole deck..
Great trick Ondrej, but I do want to know, were the scarabs real? I know that they are edible, I'm from India, but did you actually eat the real ones or were they candies of some sort? Regardless, amazing set of videos.
In this comment section he said they were, and where from Thailand.
A comment by Mackenzie Herring that as I'm typing this is 2 years old with 20 replies if you want to see it for yourself.
9:59 there is a demon woman in the audience.
Kjartan Hewitt damn right hahaha
Stop doing drugs. Listened like 5 times, nothing noticeable.
@@deridivisstar884 look instead of listening
holy crap what is that
César Rincón she probably had some kind of facial reconstruction. May have been in a fire or a terrible accident. I have an in law who had to have that done after a motorcycle accident.
Awesome tricks. Can't wait to see you Fool them a 3rd time
By searching thrue the cards 2 times makes it easy for him. Think like this, you have 2 chances to filtrate your search.. First time you decide to count Red or Black cards - it should of course have 24 of respective but one of this colours will be 23pcs. That leads you to the next search, now you know what color is missing in the deck so second run you only look for 23 cards of the color that missed one card. Memory practice and you have this trick done. His schets is aweful and borring.
Wow, what a prediction.
@Ondrej Psenicka The scene Alyson throwing bugs and you catch one in your mouth. Is it a pre-arranged? It looks like spontaneous but it's hard to believe.
Is it just a memory trick? If so that's honestly more impressive then any other way he could have accomplished the same effect
I'd assume it was more than memory, and P＆T knew that
Alyson: Andréé Pšenička
If she only pulled one card, anybody who’s memorized a deck can see which card is missing am I right?
I'm thinking exactly the same thing.
The issue here is that Teller shuffled the deck. This means that he cataloged 4 suits of 13 cards in just a few moments. This is what he told the audience he did. If he did it, then it is magic because Penn and Teller agreed it would be crazy to do it that fast.
Not a big Allison fan. Kind of a weird hostess.
"I CAN'T EVEN SAY YOUR NAME!!!"
I love it lolllll
Yeah, it's been butchered so bad too
yeah heaters you guys don';t understand that ithis is animal cruelty. Image andrew eating an elephant on stage! bet you feel stupid now hawhawhywaw
@@JorgTheElder am from America please stop eating bugs in Europe there are many other forms of protein
Is this Stephen Merchant if he became a magician?
Is nobody gonna point out the fact that the card that was supposed to tell the suit was diamonds but the suit of the card was spades?
The people in the comments are smarter than Penn n Teller with their 100 years combined magic experience apparently, and are not fooled. Lol
trofy does not mean to them that much. they give it to everyone who has added anything new to craft
(1) they get thirty seconds to try to throw out a guess in code for tricks that often have multiple layers, whereas we get infinite time and replays; (2) the objective of the show from P/T point of view is not to crush as many guests as possible. They’re often generous about awarding trophies, and the show works better as a result.
They have about 5 minutes to figure it out. Sometimes they take 10 or even more.
I know how the trick was done. I’ll give one emoji as hint -> 🧂
I cant believe, I just put salt on my deck, just to test it. And it fucking works! Words can not describe how angry I am right now.
der Zurak and by asking her to sit on it, any particle/grains will be stuck to her clothes
Making it a clean card once revealed 😁
The final glance through the desk, was to keep all the Aces in order, nothing else.
He purposely put the 2nd card few cards away just to confuse
He purposely showed the 3rd card as the “Ace of Heart” instead of “Spades”
😁 All part of a big distraction drama, after a simple Salt trick at the start.
All to confused Penn&Teller
Congratulations! 🎉 And there is another question: Will Ondrej Fool Penn & Teller for the third time? 🎩
Man i was trying to eat some TBell, this video made that hard
I don't see how they were fooled, or how this was a magic trick.
The guy lets allison take a card, then had teller shuffle, but so what? He literally takes the deck and looked through it, so he could easily see which one he was missing!
How's that a trick? It's not even card counting, Haha.
that's what i thinking , how is that a trick , you can practice it and you will have a quick eyes .
exactly.. its not even a trick..he was just looking for the missing card and even went through it twice to confirm what was missing.
maybe they knew that and didn't know how to make the decision whether its a fooler or not, so they gave him the opportunity to decide it
Guy xD they have to present the trick to someone else from production. The trick wasnt done like this 😂😂 they wouldnt let him come with this "trick" thats the problem he done it by different method
@@janskopec1004 regardless of how it was done, it's a shitty trick compared to the other acts that have "fooled" Penn and Teller.
Seems like all of you are missing the point - the key was that the card Alison took was the missing Ace (or he might have had just swapped them, since no one really saw what she picked) and that he was able to so quickly remember the positions of the other ones. If it was just a random set of cards he wouldn't get the prize. The trick in its principle is easy, he got the prize for being extremely quick and how well he did it.
I need a comp of all the shit Teller has put in his mouth on this show
An oreo that was in somes mouth once
I think teller gave a subtle hint about the box
ah ah ah you shouldn't be showing this, now all the dumb kids will be eating beetles and when parents are like "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" then kid is like "i saw on fool us that eating beetles gives you magical powers". Anyway I'm sure that beetle wasn't real, had to be some snack.
THE BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!! I had to buy is playing cards. They are BEAUTIFUL!!!!!
Lmao he looked through the deck TWICE ??!!! Are you serious ??!!!
I know right..I’m confused 😆
I have no words, it was just so much more impossible and divine than last time. Awesome job !
but he got to look through the cards and see which is missing isnt that it?
mel b I’m confused he said the third card that would reveal the suit was a spade but it was a diamond
I think, It is meant as elimination method joke.
frantisek Kitzberger so you think it was on purpose
@@thefarrahrose I am sure with that
How did he catch the bug?
‘Twas the true magic trick.
Wow, what an entertainer!
:)
@@OndrejPsenicka How did you catch both of the beetles in your mouth at 4:46?
He said the 3rd card represented the suit of her card, then he pulled out a diamond? Am I missing something?
The first two cards said it had to be an ace and it had to be a black card. The third card was another ace, and so it showed that there was only one ace left. It wasn't direct, it was just eliminating the other options. The only suit left was a spade.