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4Minutes 5 seconds is where the magic happened he must of put all the cards face up to one pile in his hand as he was going through them just before this then he put the face up face down with the others face up he just put them 2 cards face down on the face up deck thats why it wouldnt of mattered if they picked face up or face down cards could of been done with either

In maybe my tenth watch I got what and how you did, and I join the ovation that is hundred percent deserved. Wonderful technique, Mr. Kimlat!

he could have easily (!) fooled them, if he just removed the deck. he could have known the card without asking by a mark, by a mirror, any sequence of cards etc. there are many ways to prepare a deck to make it so easy, that i can somewhat do it with a few months or years of practice. but he gave them the deck! he took that all away: "HERE are the cards" and they can exclude all options. and only one solution remains: yes you did not fool us, because you really are just amazing!!!

maybe it was a trick really and he not only "not fooled " them but also fooled them and us.

This trick is a perfect example of structure of the method makes the method invisible. One of my favorite tricks to do.

he eliminated all possible explanations but one from the beginning. this made it really easy for them to come to the only valid conclusion.

That's awesome for this guy to say that man I mean you can reach into any deck 20 years and pick out any card you want and this guy says oh yes I can and that's f****** Magic

That is amazing! O_O

Y is this the only video on this? It's not a joke. It makes 100% sense.

Penn and Teller knew how this was done. They always can be bought off.

One of the absolute best tricks on Fool Us

Really amazing I had to recheck the scene where you find the king of spades.

Just like how David Blaine's eating glass trick is hin legitimately eating glass

I really like how Blaine does triumph where he picks another person in the crowd and tells them at the beginning that their gonna be the ones to find the card. It makes a bigger build up because now the audience is wondering how the magician is gonna make someone else find the card. Then the amazement when they find out the magician made all but one card face up

Just to see Penn's reaction again

arggg.. he had to know what card it was.. pick some cards. he knows proximaly where the card is. then he looked at the bunch off cards and picked the card he was told. i wuold have been more impressed if he did not know the card.

its just crazy what people can do after MAAANY YEARS of repetition of same thing. i have a feeling in the future, maybe far future from today, people genetically will get the skills and properties to do such crazy things and it will be a more often and casual thing. or AI or biomechanics like CPU chips in our heads in the future will do that for us. i just have a feeling these type of crazy special things one day wont be so special anymore (sadly?). then i just cant even think and imagine what will be special for people, what will amaze them in those futuristic days. will have to be REALLY CRAZY things.

Penn abruptly standing up from the table in shock is the fucking best.

I lost my favorite fooler moment--can't find it on CZcams. A dude sort of was busted how he did a trick but unknown to Penn & Teller he had a second real trick up his sleeve that they both missed and were essentially fooled.

I keep coming back and re-watch this over and over. Magnificent!

*starts cuttingpenn: "NOOOoooo.... >:("

I've always loved tricks that make you think that what you're seeing isn't real when in fact it isn't just real it's a skill not deception. The deception is in the presentation not the actual act. Those type of magic shows are always some of my favorites. And it's all very on point for who you present yourself to be, as someone who melds business minded ideas and skills with stage performance. It's one of the reasons you're one of the most memorable people I've ever seen on the show.

Around 3:55 when he is asking penn and teller to put the cards in wherever, is he just sorting the cards into the top half and bottom half. And when he brings the cards together he flips one half so they’re faced the same way? That’s my best guess

5:07 they're checking for the stripper deck hah

There are no tricks there, so this is real magic and a pure moment of beauty.

This reminds me of the movie "Rain Man", with Dustin Hoffman (brilliantly imho) acting as a guy with autism. He was able to remember and count cards, which his brother - played by Tom Cruise - exploited to make easy money in a casino. The point is: Some people have extraordinary skills, even not necessarily due to a special condition. First of all you have to discover that gift, and then it takes a lot of time and training to reach a level of "perfection" (if you aren't born a genius on that field); not everyone is willing / able to put that much effort into it. So if Kostya applies those techniques, is equipped with a remarkable hand-eye-coordination and able to catch a certain card in this trick after practicing for years, it only makes me appreciate it even more! As for revealing "magic": Some is based on the use of special (sometimes really expensive) equipment; once known, it loses most or all of its charm. While someone initially had to come up with that idea, and it is developed or modified, it's somehow more or less a "scam". Other tricks are performed extremely quickly, so your eyes can't follow the movements; with a ton of exercise many may learn the same. But I enjoy those illusions even when I understand how they're done, because for me it's a kind of artistry. And then there are people with outstanding endowments: Beyond anything I could achieve in a million years, because I'm simply not blessed with that talent!

Honestly the fact you actually count the cards falling and grab one is more impressive than using a trick or gimmick.

And TBH, he didn't even do the "trick" very well. He usually snatches a single card. It was a bit messy this time.

The best part is it doesn't take away from the amazement at all

This is an odd case of knowing how it was done makes it better. The trick is that its not a trick. When other people go up on stage you're immediately watching carefully for sleight of hand etc and could forget that they could be that good and be fooled for that reason

So he asked the card before he grabbed a HANDFULL of cards and picked his card out of the handfull lol. Wheres the trick lol?

Im here in 2024 who else? Kostya where you at?

After watching your reveal, I think you DID fool them. Penn thought you moved the card to a specific position, that you could "grab any card from a specific place", i.e.: force their card into the exact middle of the deck and grab it. Instead you could "grab any card from any place" i.e.: giving a true free choice, _leaving it there_, then grabbing it. As impressive as their solve was, this is significantly more so.

He did this trick in the most balls to the wall pain in the ass way possible. He just legit turned every facedown card over in a single motion after sorting them on yhe fly.

Very good trick, the guidance of where you can only pick from, the specific shuffle, the area that you know you can grab from and memory localization. Hats off for a seamless trick

Hi, please pick the jack of clubs and when I ask you what your card is refuse to tell me as this will make me look better

It’s the Magician’s equivalent of Joni Hendrix performing Sgt Pepper live for the Beatles 3 days after the album came out

Love this act. One of my all time favorites.

kostya is not a real magician, he is a wizard

He caught multiple cards and removed the k of spades from 4-5 cards what is so impressive here?

THAT had to have just been actual magic. What the heck.

Great

Penn was very rude to you. But you were so graceful and took it like a champ! Best performance I’ve ever seen on P and T !

Imagine him in the Wild West gambling saloon.

I used to love watching Wile E Coyote and whatever that bird was as a kid. Damn, forgot what I was going to say.

Is Teller a mute??

Best Triumph ever

I thought that putting the 3 of Clubs as the bottom card was a tip of the hat.

Is it magic or just showing that a person can remember the location of 52 cards in a deck?

Wow