True, that is kind of funny, but I guess the point is that Penn and Teller may know how the trick was done, but because they know how the trick was done they also know that it was probably very hard to do. Thus, although they weren't taken by surprise necessarily, they were able to recognize that this man has an extremely special talent in magic. Again though I agree that the title was very misleading, that's CZcams for you I guess.
Magic is 90% performance. Even if they know how the trick, technically, was performed, they can still be blown away by the magician's stage presence and performance.
Agree with the replies. It's just like Kosya's trick with grabbing the cards. It takes YEARS of practice to do that trick consistently under high pressure with magicians watching. Even if Pro Magicians know how to do the trick doesn't mean they can do it.
Even worse for the second trick. "No matter which way I turned this thing, it's always solved". Proceeds to pretend he's turning it, but counters every move immediately.
@@ChildrenOfOwls it’s basically like this. If you turn it the same way 4 times it ends up back where it started right. So if you turn it 3 times the same way, you can either undo what you just did by turning it back the other way 3 times, or just turn it one more time. So you are both 3 moves and 1 move away from it being solved at the same time.
I learnt to do the rubiks cube back in highschool and i definitely wouldn't call myself a speed cuber, but it's still probably the most super obvious "trick" i've ever seen on this show. It takes 5 minutes playing with a cube to know that one.
There was a hollow cube with a side missing still in the bag, thats why he had to let the naked cube roll out of the bag because he couldnt reach in and grab it. He poured the cube stickers into the hollow cube, inserted the “naked” (most likely colored on the side he never showed the audience) cube back into the hollow case, and then pulled the whole thing out. The camera cuts away for a bit but I believe he does a slight of hand during his bow before walking down to Penn and Teller in order to swap the phony cube for a real one to hand him - banking a bit on the fact that they would stop paying attention once the trick seemed finished. Penn hinted towards the bow being important so the guy knew they caught him
Youre right. If you slow the video down and look at the first side you see once the trick is done, its the yellow side, and you can see something is clearly off with that side of the cube. He then quickly rotates it around to that the yellow side is no longer facing outwards.
@@ceatonbusch the gist of what he said is that the cube appeared to be randomly scrambled but it wasnt. It was actually only a couple turns away from being solved and with a good quality competition cube you can execute those moves so fast they're barely visible. Takes practice though. The other thing he said is that he knew how he had gotten a fully stickered cube into the bag and gotten the unstickered one out. The thing about watching him doing the bow is that was how he hid the evidence after the trick.
Turning a solved rubik's cube 20 times does not make it "20 turns away from being solved." Pretty sure that was only like 3 or 4 turns from being solved. I'll admit though it probably takes a lot of practice to do it in one seamless movement like that.
I think it was a trick cube. Sort of spring loaded double jointed factory reset button. He was holding the left wheel. But in a single fram the bottom left changed to yellow from green. He moved the right wheel upwards with out any visible lateral movement. But the bottom right side changed to yellow as if there was lateral rotation.
Michael Greenwood there was no trick cube, he scrambled it with specific moves so that he could easily solve it with few moves you can do as fast as you can see in the video so it looks like a black magic
To Kerry. I never thought it was 'black magic!' But using 0.25 speed I couldn't see any lateral rotations so could not see how the bottom right turned yellow. But that may explain why he removed his finger from the bottom right (To turn the bottom laterally). Maybe the fps camera was too slow to capture the rotation. So one frame it is green then the next it is yellow. So with out trickery it just looked impossible to me. But the hand can be faster than the camera. TY.
Watch when he scrambled the cube forth and back. Watch his fingers befor and after he solved the cube. Also notice the patterns. He is doing one turn with his left hand and then flicks two fingers to rotate the left plane the top plane and the bottom plane. He is very fast no doubt about it.
Fun fact: 20 moves is indeed the shortest sequence to solve the most scrambled cube. That very specific sequence, which you can look up on Wikipedia as "super flip", has all the edge pieces turned the other way while all the corners are aligned properly. Every other scramble of a cube has an optimized solution shorter than 20 moves. In the first trick, he just made 20 moves that ended in an almost-solved state that needed a really few turns to solve.
The second trick, there is a hollowed "solved" cube in the bag the whole time, the naked cube and stickers go into the solved cube box, and then it's closed. You can see he is holding something in the bag when he dumps out the naked cube. You can also see the solved cube's corners look funny when he pulls it out (compare it to the one Penn holds up at the end). At about 4:25 they cut to a wide scene and you can see him take a brief bow and do something with the cube near his coat, that is the bow Penn is talking about when he switches out the fake solved cube box with a real cube.
Probably not. You can see it if you watch very carefully, that he palms the black cube and puts it in his pocket. No idea how he got rid of the stickers, though.
@@praevasc4299 John is right. if you look at the cube when he pulls it out of the bag you can tell its a shell. Thats why he displayed it the way he did. Also Penn talking about watching him take his bows is when he switched the cubes... but they didnt show that part
And used sleight of hand and switched the cube before giving it to Penn, that’s why Penn is emphasizing his comment about how they “looked carefully to his bow”
Hey man, I had like zero self confidence and I was kinda nervous every time I left my house, but learning magic gives you this really weird confidence knowing you have a way to talk to almost anyone through magic and it's just the coolest thing. I just wanted to say that it's really cool to hear someone else that loves magic because it helps them make friends
He dropped the stickers in a secret pocket in the bag on the top end. That's why he had to fold the top twice and hold on to it while shaking the bag so the stickers don't fall out. And that's why he had to tear the bag to reveal the solved cube because had he turned it upside down the stickers would have fallen out and he had to show that the stickers have disappeared so he couldn't have reached into the bag and pulled the cube out. Showing the empty bag later by turning it to the camera would have revealed the secret pocket. And the solved pixels were metal pieces stuck on five sides of the insides of the bag meticulously arranged in a grid. And they get magnetically attached to their exact places when he turns the electromagnet inside the cube on (notice his left hand goes behind the table to turn it on using a remote). And the sixth side was already solved. Notice he never shows the sixth side of the naked cube and never shows the insides of the bag. That side, he turned it on top while placing the cube inside the bag. And the cube he gave to Penn was a different cube which he switched while bowing down (this part they don't show in the video but Penn gave it away). And the torn bag with the hidden pocket with the stickers in it goes inside his pocket. And for the first trick it was never 20 moves away. it was just four moves away. Anyone who's solved a 3x3 would know that. R'D'RD. These four moves would solve it and it can be done in under a second with a lot of practice. But i could be wrong. So don't call me a dumbass; just tell me your solution and if it's better than mine then i'll accept it.
My guess was that it was an all black cube accept one side which he kept hidden from us, inside the paper bag was a hollow shell, (box with out a top) that the black cube neatly fits into creating the appearance of a completed Rubix, the stickers could be dropped into the shell before the black cube, which cleans that up, when he handed the cube to Penn I thought ooh maybe not, what else could it be, but then Penn tipped a switch, so I still think that's probably the easiest way to create the effect
Damn it you're right. it's much easier and cleaner. Plus no need of secret pockets. The stickers fall into the box. You are GOD Philip Rose. Why didn't i think of that?
Thanks for the explanation of the trick, guys! The main part that struck me was the fact that the solved cube looked bigger than the black cube. I did notice it right away, it's quite obvious I think. I did only wonder in the middle of the show if it was just the camera coming up for a close shot that made for the impression. But in hindsight that's probably the stage director to help the magician. As the show progresses quickly the audience will forget about it and so the magic works. Other commenters have then given the reason for it - the solved cube is a hollow box that the black cube fits into. The yellow side is a cap. At 4:11 one can see the grooves around the yellow cap as it sits on the box falling to the side, and up to 4:12 one can compare the edges of the yellow side to the new top and the orange side to the top being different - until the cube is turned to hide the yellow side in the back. Remember, that's all done in about one second with the cube falling over which the eye can hardly focus on. So without a video a human can hardly recognize that there is a yellow cap during the show. Solving the first normal cube with a normal double move will only help to distract the audience when he hands over the second cube for a second time. You are less critical by that time to look for a moment when the trick cube is exchanged with a normal cube. Actually, at 4:26 his hand moves to his body before stepping forward. Again, the camera is very nice to the magician. And that's the first time that I realized - it's not a competition, P&T are helping their guests as good as they can. It's all part of a show.
It's confirmed that the cameras are used in a way to help the trick. But i dont think Penn & Teller are in on it. They will play along with the performer if they already figured out how it works. But if they havent they will try to work it out
John Michael Hinton, proud that you made it on Penn and Teller! We loved having you amaze us at VRC in February for Valentines dinner. You are incredible and absolutely fun to watch. Thankyou.
Here's my guess: in the bag was a shell with a lid that looks like a Rubik's cube. He dumped the stickers in and placed the naked cube in, and shut the lid. After revealing the cube, he used sleight of hand to replace that cube with a functioning one.
I love the whole magicians codes and secret ways of speaking that is so cool. I love how he was able to explain how the trick was done without giving the slightest hint (to me anyway) how he explained it.
Watch it in 0.25x speed a few times. You can see him do 4 individual rotations. 1. Right hand rotates up a quarter turn. 2. Left middle finger flicks the bottom around a quarter turn. 3. Right index finger flicks the top around a quarter turn. 4 Right hand continues rotating up another quarter turn. Super impressive how fast and smooth he does it though.
"The first thing I do when I go to the stage, is say hey friends" Walks into the stage and starts talking about rubik cubes Nice men now I wint belive anything u say
In the first trick, although it looks like he makes 20 random turns, this is carefully practised so that many of the turns are reversed, and the cube is only 3 or 4 turns from solving which can be done instantly with an oiled competition quality cube. The second trick is revealed at 4:12 when in a few frames you can see that the yellow side is actually the lid of a box in which he has placed the stickers and the blank cube. What is not shown in this film is that he switched this box for another regular cube while taking bows after the reveal. Bows edited out, probably because of camera angles revealing too much. Incredibly clean execution of a well planned trick.
Good catch! That does explain why he rotated the yellow side away, also explains why he dumped the stickers in first to be collected by that box. Although, how did he make the cube without stickers have a side with the yellow stickers, or was it a flap that comes down after the empty cube is inserted into the box?
@@chautauquatrail The yellow side is a lid. The stickers and the blank cube are completely in the box. The box is the size of a regular cube. Because the blank cube is all black, you don’t realise that it is smaller than a regular cube. You don’t have the colour reference to help you mentally assess its size. After the reveal, and the slightly obvious turn of the yellow lid away from camera, he moves to the side and bows several times, during which he switches the cube and places the box in his right jacket pocket. As he approaches Penn & Teller to hand over the cube, you can see the box in his pocket. When he returns to (beautiful) Alison, you can see him attempt to hide that pocket… Every movement a magician makes is important. Of course P&T know this. So the extravagant bowing, turning the cube away, trying to keep the pocket out of their line of sight etc., these are all huge clues.
As a speedcuber myself, what he did was really obvious, especially with his first "trick". The color patterns were as similar to a 3-move solve 2x2 scramble.
@@JaxKeiMusic The second trick tho was not obvious just for speed cubers. The first one was pattern recognition sure and all those blocks really tell a 3 move scramble. He should probably rework it to a 5 mover to make it a little less obvious what hes doing
Brundage never did it this way. If you listen he said "never been done with a cube before" meaning he knows many OTHER tricks have been done with cubes, but no ones done the reverse sticker trick
Penn gave away this trick with his comments about random. Obviously a rubix cube does not work that way. He had to make like 3 moves to get it solved. It is impressive, but I am guessing he is only able to do that with that exact order. 20 "random" turns that actually just leads you 3 turns away from solving, not 20. Then they give away that he switched during bowing. They mentioned it too much and how they were looking. The "solved" cube was a fake that he switched out before giving a real one to Penn. The bag seemed to have something in it, as he made sure never to pressure the bottom. I am guessing the black cube had a shell inside the bag to be slit into. That is also where the stickers went. Then he placed the "black" cube in its shell. Which is why we never saw more than 5 sides, the 6th was in his palm, already "solved." Then when he puts it into the presolved shell, it looks like magic. BlamoO!
What are you talking about, he shows every side of the cube at 4:20... But just before that it's easy to see that it's in a shell, right after he opens the bag.
That makes sense. I think you’re right. I thought the solved cube looked funny, because the color squares look like they’re raised too high off the surface.
2:00 As someone who messes around in Rubiks Cubes... i did that with an online guide when was 12.... because there is a certain way of turning the sides so that it mixes back up again and just comes back to be solved by itself.
"we were WATCHING you all the way through your bows ... you took your bows and we were WATCHING YOU carefully ... you deserved every bit of applause you got as you took your bows that we were WATCHING so CAREFULLY"
In the bag there is a box that looks like the cube, the black cube is smaller and fits in that box, along with the stickers which went first so they're on the bottom. After shaking the top of the box closes magnetically and he pulls out the box that looks like a real cube from far away, he switches it with a real cube which he gives to Penn.
Awesome John...I'm taken back to that little chateau in France where we met you and Maribeth...you were captivating us after dinner and the kiddos surrounding you were so entranced! Blessings as you journey on....!
That was sooooo awesome! My kids saw John Michael Hinton at Round Lake in Northeast Ohio a year or two ago and we love what he does and how he does it. That was such a cool trick and I have no idea how that was done!
At a guess - one of the cubes (neither of the ones given to Penn & Teller) is rigged to appear unsolved when it's actually solved on some side, and he sleight of hands that out before giving it to the lads (reference to bowing suggests that's when the sleight occurs).
The first one is just straight up lying about how many moves it was from being done; it really only needed a few twists, which he deftly did all at once. Second one was a 5-sided shell of a cube in the bag. He holds the bag from the bottom to keep the shell from sliding out when he dumps the naked one out, then he tilts the cube up when he twists the side so that you don't see the back side has stickers, then he slides it back into its shell in the bag. What made it hard to be sure was that the camera didn't show a bow where he swapped it with a regular cube before giving it to P&T.
To those who know how it's done. I am disappointed they cut to the long shot when he makes the switch. It robs people who don't know it's done of the chance to figure it out.
Oh they did? I've been sitting here replaying it even in slow speed trying to catch it, thinking he's just insanely good at sleight of hand. So I wonder what they cut.
My theory is that the black cube was a hollow cube that would easily fall apart when shaken, with the real cube in the bag as well. When he ripped the bag, he somehow got the black cube and bag with stickers up his sleeve or in a pocket.
Woohoo! So so proud of you my friend to have come this far. You’ve always been so engaging from the first time you sat down at the bar at Starbucks and I made your coffee. Always rooting for you and your sweet family!!!
Maybe to someone that doesn’t know him. I know him personally and he is just as genuine in person as he is on tv. He’s always looking to make friends. To me, it’s about embracing we’re all different. Who cares if he wants more friends? Who cares if he’s different? It would be boring if we were all the same.
I wold be his friend, way better at magic then I am, and the irony of people complaining about a guy trying to fool two guys on a show called Fool Us whilst themselves watching the show isn't lost on us
mini fuzz I actually saw John answer the question after I posted the first comment here on why he’s always looking to make friends. He said when he was younger he didn’t have many friends. That is a horrible feeling growing up feeling like you don’t fit in anywhere. So it makes sense. People do what they do for a reason. ❤️
JMH that was just AWESOME . in spite of the fact that this has been a very bad MS week and year for me so far, you made me smile the biggest smile that I've smiled in a really long time. Thank you and God bless you and I wish you much success in all of your future endeavors 😊
How to get free Rubik's Cube: 1) Get ridiculously famous and good at magic 2) Start a show where you get magicians to perform for you 3) Invite this guy and ask for a Rubik's Cube trick. 4) Profit.
Since a producer knows in advance how each trick is done, you'd think they would have some input into editing so there isn't a cut away at a critical moment, like when the guest is taking a bow at the end of a trick where the trick ain't over until after the bow. Great tricks, bad editing. Well done!
There was no bow, it was not cut. Penn was talking in code, the bow is the bow he made with the top of the bag, he pockets the black cube while shaking the bag, that's why he takes so long, he's distracting you from where he's putting the black cube. There's no hollow cube nonsense, its an already solved cube in the bag, the black cube goes in his pocket, nothing was cut You people were fooled by both him and by Penns explanation, there was no bow cut And before you ask where the color squares went, look how he dumps them into the top of the bag, there's a little pocket of paper there and then he folds them into the top so they dont fall out, which is why he rips the bottom of the bag, the color squares are in the top, the solved cube is in the bottom and the black cube went into his pocket while the bag was being shaken You were all distracted, which is what Penn was talking about
It's a show about trying to figure out how a magic trick was done, If you came to the comment section thinking that everyone interested in figuring out how a trick works wouldn't be speculating and giving their opinions here then you're gonna have a bad time.
That's not the point. The point is that everyone in the comments on almost every one of these types of videos says crap like "Oh, that is SO easy a child could do it." or gives hilariously wrong descriptions of how it's done, while being completely self-assuredly correct. Pigeon and chess. Learn a little context, man.
I love busting rubik's cube tricks. had a little hard time with the second one but i realized that i missed it because of the editing. nice trick, friend!
I'm not very confident with my guess but maybe you can add something if i share. 1 side of the unstickered cube already has stickers. i assume it's yellow. he turned it several times without exposing the yellow part. he put the stickers inside the bag first right into a cube shell with an open top. you can see that when he put the black cube, he has to put the bottom part to the top because the yellow is there. he put it inside the cube shell that has the other 5 colors. you can see the he hides the yellow part at 4:12 to hide the opening of the cube shell. lastly, while taking his bow (not seen on cam) he switched it to a normal rubik's cube then gave it to penn.
he twisted it right vertical up then right vertical down. in cubing notations. we call it R then R'. buy doing that move, the stickered part only stay at the bottom and back part. there's no way for you to see. then finally he turns the top layer 360 degrees. that;s ok because the stickers are resting at the bottom.
"Just a little shake" *has seizure*
LMAO. I saw your comment before I saw the video and could not stop laughing
HahahahahahagadhFu my thought exactly. Ur comment gave me a seizure .
Lmfao
@@jasontaylor2503 same LOLLLLL
@@jasontaylor2503 lol same (edit: LMAO)
The guy pushes everybody into the friendzone instantly. A living legend.
Well Allison sent him first just in case he would change his mind.
He grew up in Saudi Arabia
Alpha move, can't get friend zoned if you friendzone them first
Tou introverts are fun
Better safe than sorry
"Completely blows away"
Instantly knows how the trick is done.
True, that is kind of funny, but I guess the point is that Penn and Teller may know how the trick was done, but because they know how the trick was done they also know that it was probably very hard to do. Thus, although they weren't taken by surprise necessarily, they were able to recognize that this man has an extremely special talent in magic. Again though I agree that the title was very misleading, that's CZcams for you I guess.
Magic is 90% performance. Even if they know how the trick, technically, was performed, they can still be blown away by the magician's stage presence and performance.
Agree with the replies. It's just like Kosya's trick with grabbing the cards. It takes YEARS of practice to do that trick consistently under high pressure with magicians watching. Even if Pro Magicians know how to do the trick doesn't mean they can do it.
@@TheRealQuickSilver It's called, "that's the magician creating his own headline on his channel". Can't blame the algorithm for everything.
Why do so many people on CZcams have that picture as their avatar?
That 20 move opener was actually just two made to look like it needed 20. Most moves were counter turns.
Even worse for the second trick. "No matter which way I turned this thing, it's always solved". Proceeds to pretend he's turning it, but counters every move immediately.
#HatersAlert 😉 Give 'em cuddles
You know, you didn't NEED to post this...
@@TCM464 wtf
@@greischwitz What? Sometimes I like my magic tricks unspoiled
Alright, for a speed cuber like myself the first trick is really easy, he is 20 moves away going backwards but just 4 going forwards.
Idk how that works but I’ll take your word for it haha
@@ChildrenOfOwls it’s basically like this. If you turn it the same way 4 times it ends up back where it started right. So if you turn it 3 times the same way, you can either undo what you just did by turning it back the other way 3 times, or just turn it one more time. So you are both 3 moves and 1 move away from it being solved at the same time.
@@CptCage that actually clears it up thank you
I learnt to do the rubiks cube back in highschool and i definitely wouldn't call myself a speed cuber, but it's still probably the most super obvious "trick" i've ever seen on this show. It takes 5 minutes playing with a cube to know that one.
@@Valican11 I learnt cube tricks before learning how to solve them. Which turns out not hard at all.
There was a hollow cube with a side missing still in the bag, thats why he had to let the naked cube roll out of the bag because he couldnt reach in and grab it. He poured the cube stickers into the hollow cube, inserted the “naked” (most likely colored on the side he never showed the audience) cube back into the hollow case, and then pulled the whole thing out. The camera cuts away for a bit but I believe he does a slight of hand during his bow before walking down to Penn and Teller in order to swap the phony cube for a real one to hand him - banking a bit on the fact that they would stop paying attention once the trick seemed finished. Penn hinted towards the bow being important so the guy knew they caught him
wow
You, sir, should be at the top
Youre right. If you slow the video down and look at the first side you see once the trick is done, its the yellow side, and you can see something is clearly off with that side of the cube. He then quickly rotates it around to that the yellow side is no longer facing outwards.
but why would he hand such of obviously gimmicky cube for them to look at?
@@mrlugh he didn't he handed penn a legit cube that he swapped out as he was bowing which we can't see from the edit.
"My dad taught me magic"
*audience goes wild*
Yes he once demonstrated how to do a vanashing act
I still haven't seen him, I wonder where he is
@@martiniproductions2109 points!
Hahaha
He was able to switch on the applause light and press play on the sound board without being anywhere near them!
There clearly was a cut there.
I wonder what job his dad had over there.
The only show on planet where you never ever get to learn something new
haaaaaaaahahahahahahaha =D
Depends how you learn, whether you need to be taught
@@greghughes6098 im the general public 😆
6:07 So I think we should add the phrase "ya know..." to the tell-tale signs that Penn knows the trick, along with "boy let me tell ya."
His dad was a great magician, my favorite trick from him was the "boom, where did the kids go?"
If Penn calls your act "wonderful" you ain't leaving with a trophy lol
penn just looks pissed half the time "you really are doing this shit, in front of me and i have to be nice afterward"
These clips always confuse me because Penn basically explains how the guy did the trick, but wtf is he talking about lmao
Ceaton Busch
Hahahahaha you’re absolutely right how he explained no idea hahaha
@@Revert2010 I just wish I understood what he's saying lmao
Basically he’s making us believe that the rubix cube wasn’t solved already, when in actual fact it was
@@lloydboats4443 I get that but how lmao
@@ceatonbusch the gist of what he said is that the cube appeared to be randomly scrambled but it wasnt. It was actually only a couple turns away from being solved and with a good quality competition cube you can execute those moves so fast they're barely visible. Takes practice though. The other thing he said is that he knew how he had gotten a fully stickered cube into the bag and gotten the unstickered one out. The thing about watching him doing the bow is that was how he hid the evidence after the trick.
Turning a solved rubik's cube 20 times does not make it "20 turns away from being solved." Pretty sure that was only like 3 or 4 turns from being solved. I'll admit though it probably takes a lot of practice to do it in one seamless movement like that.
3 turns.
I think it was a trick cube. Sort of spring loaded double jointed factory reset button. He was holding the left wheel. But in a single fram the bottom left changed to yellow from green. He moved the right wheel upwards with out any visible lateral movement. But the bottom right side changed to yellow as if there was lateral rotation.
Michael Greenwood there was no trick cube, he scrambled it with specific moves so that he could easily solve it with few moves you can do as fast as you can see in the video so it looks like a black magic
To Kerry.
I never thought it was 'black magic!' But using 0.25 speed I couldn't see any lateral rotations so could not see how the bottom right turned yellow. But that may explain why he removed his finger from the bottom right (To turn the bottom laterally). Maybe the fps camera was too slow to capture the rotation. So one frame it is green then the next it is yellow. So with out trickery it just looked impossible to me. But the hand can be faster than the camera. TY.
Watch when he scrambled the cube forth and back. Watch his fingers befor and after he solved the cube. Also notice the patterns. He is doing one turn with his left hand and then flicks two fingers to rotate the left plane the top plane and the bottom plane. He is very fast no doubt about it.
Fun fact: 20 moves is indeed the shortest sequence to solve the most scrambled cube. That very specific sequence, which you can look up on Wikipedia as "super flip", has all the edge pieces turned the other way while all the corners are aligned properly.
Every other scramble of a cube has an optimized solution shorter than 20 moves. In the first trick, he just made 20 moves that ended in an almost-solved state that needed a really few turns to solve.
The second trick, there is a hollowed "solved" cube in the bag the whole time, the naked cube and stickers go into the solved cube box, and then it's closed. You can see he is holding something in the bag when he dumps out the naked cube. You can also see the solved cube's corners look funny when he pulls it out (compare it to the one Penn holds up at the end). At about 4:25 they cut to a wide scene and you can see him take a brief bow and do something with the cube near his coat, that is the bow Penn is talking about when he switches out the fake solved cube box with a real cube.
Probably not. You can see it if you watch very carefully, that he palms the black cube and puts it in his pocket. No idea how he got rid of the stickers, though.
@@praevasc4299 John is right. if you look at the cube when he pulls it out of the bag you can tell its a shell. Thats why he displayed it the way he did. Also Penn talking about watching him take his bows is when he switched the cubes... but they didnt show that part
That's why he doesnt collapse the bag after he takes the nude cube out of the bag.
Isn't that technically cheating the show hosts ?
And used sleight of hand and switched the cube before giving it to Penn, that’s why Penn is emphasizing his comment about how they “looked carefully to his bow”
Hey man, I had like zero self confidence and I was kinda nervous every time I left my house, but learning magic gives you this really weird confidence knowing you have a way to talk to almost anyone through magic and it's just the coolest thing. I just wanted to say that it's really cool to hear someone else that loves magic because it helps them make friends
He dropped the stickers in a secret pocket in the bag on the top end. That's why he had to fold the top twice and hold on to it while shaking the bag so the stickers don't fall out. And that's why he had to tear the bag to reveal the solved cube because had he turned it upside down the stickers would have fallen out and he had to show that the stickers have disappeared so he couldn't have reached into the bag and pulled the cube out. Showing the empty bag later by turning it to the camera would have revealed the secret pocket. And the solved pixels were metal pieces stuck on five sides of the insides of the bag meticulously arranged in a grid. And they get magnetically attached to their exact places when he turns the electromagnet inside the cube on (notice his left hand goes behind the table to turn it on using a remote). And the sixth side was already solved. Notice he never shows the sixth side of the naked cube and never shows the insides of the bag. That side, he turned it on top while placing the cube inside the bag. And the cube he gave to Penn was a different cube which he switched while bowing down (this part they don't show in the video but Penn gave it away). And the torn bag with the hidden pocket with the stickers in it goes inside his pocket. And for the first trick it was never 20 moves away. it was just four moves away. Anyone who's solved a 3x3 would know that. R'D'RD. These four moves would solve it and it can be done in under a second with a lot of practice. But i could be wrong. So don't call me a dumbass; just tell me your solution and if it's better than mine then i'll accept it.
If that were the case he wouldnt hand it to P&T they would know it was magnetic.
Read the whole thing.
My guess was that it was an all black cube accept one side which he kept hidden from us, inside the paper bag was a hollow shell, (box with out a top) that the black cube neatly fits into creating the appearance of a completed Rubix, the stickers could be dropped into the shell before the black cube, which cleans that up, when he handed the cube to Penn I thought ooh maybe not, what else could it be, but then Penn tipped a switch, so I still think that's probably the easiest way to create the effect
He switched the cube while bowing to the audience. That's what Penn was saying at the end
Damn it you're right. it's much easier and cleaner. Plus no need of secret pockets. The stickers fall into the box. You are GOD Philip Rose. Why didn't i think of that?
I like that even when Penn and Teller aren't fooled, it doesn't feel like anyone has "lost" anything.
Yeah this guy was like "I got to perform in front of my heroes (probably idk) and on tv, this is sick!"
Yes Alison is still a babe either way... wait what were we taking 'bout?
now how often does a performer get Penn and Teller to get up and shake their hand without fooling them? well done, sir.
Thanks for the explanation of the trick, guys!
The main part that struck me was the fact that the solved cube looked bigger than the black cube. I did notice it right away, it's quite obvious I think. I did only wonder in the middle of the show if it was just the camera coming up for a close shot that made for the impression. But in hindsight that's probably the stage director to help the magician. As the show progresses quickly the audience will forget about it and so the magic works.
Other commenters have then given the reason for it - the solved cube is a hollow box that the black cube fits into. The yellow side is a cap. At 4:11 one can see the grooves around the yellow cap as it sits on the box falling to the side, and up to 4:12 one can compare the edges of the yellow side to the new top and the orange side to the top being different - until the cube is turned to hide the yellow side in the back. Remember, that's all done in about one second with the cube falling over which the eye can hardly focus on. So without a video a human can hardly recognize that there is a yellow cap during the show.
Solving the first normal cube with a normal double move will only help to distract the audience when he hands over the second cube for a second time. You are less critical by that time to look for a moment when the trick cube is exchanged with a normal cube. Actually, at 4:26 his hand moves to his body before stepping forward. Again, the camera is very nice to the magician. And that's the first time that I realized - it's not a competition, P&T are helping their guests as good as they can. It's all part of a show.
It's confirmed that the cameras are used in a way to help the trick. But i dont think Penn & Teller are in on it. They will play along with the performer if they already figured out how it works. But if they havent they will try to work it out
Did he do his haircut with a vacuum cleaner?
Greg Dundee yeah, the FLOWBEE!!!
a vacuum cleaner would have a cleaner lift
Greg Dundee it really sucks
Anthony Guiliano II I came down to comment the same thing lol
Maybe he used the suck cut. It sucks as it cuts. As you can clearly see it certainly does suck. (That joke courtesy of Wayne's World)
John Michael Hinton, proud that you made it on Penn and Teller! We loved having you amaze us at VRC in February for Valentines dinner. You are incredible and absolutely fun to watch. Thankyou.
Charlie Fortson lmao
I love it when Teller is genuinely surprised you can really see it on his face.
"I'm used to working under pressure ...."
"I grew up in Saudi Arabia"
What?!
That could focus you!
Oscar Gold internet idiots everywhere
@@aseel8158 he's not wrong
@@itssk1092 who are you to tell?
Give it a little sheik
He didn't refer to it as a "nude cube" and for that reason i'm out
oh hello shark
FOUND YOU BARBARA
Wrong show Barbra lol
Jenny
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Here's my guess: in the bag was a shell with a lid that looks like a Rubik's cube. He dumped the stickers in and placed the naked cube in, and shut the lid. After revealing the cube, he used sleight of hand to replace that cube with a functioning one.
I love the whole magicians codes and secret ways of speaking that is so cool. I love how he was able to explain how the trick was done without giving the slightest hint (to me anyway) how he explained it.
"you blew our minds but not really"
Watch it in 0.25x speed a few times. You can see him do 4 individual rotations.
1. Right hand rotates up a quarter turn.
2. Left middle finger flicks the bottom around a quarter turn.
3. Right index finger flicks the top around a quarter turn.
4 Right hand continues rotating up another quarter turn.
Super impressive how fast and smooth he does it though.
"The first thing I do when I go to the stage, is say hey friends"
Walks into the stage and starts talking about rubik cubes
Nice men now I wint belive anything u say
I like how when he's done shaking, you hear a chime like it was done cooking.
SOOOOOO AWESOME! Proud of you man.
How glad i'm to see this videos of people with real hard worked talents
In the first trick, although it looks like he makes 20 random turns, this is carefully practised so that many of the turns are reversed, and the cube is only 3 or 4 turns from solving which can be done instantly with an oiled competition quality cube.
The second trick is revealed at 4:12 when in a few frames you can see that the yellow side is actually the lid of a box in which he has placed the stickers and the blank cube. What is not shown in this film is that he switched this box for another regular cube while taking bows after the reveal. Bows edited out, probably because of camera angles revealing too much.
Incredibly clean execution of a well planned trick.
Christian Royle explains why he quickly turned the yellow side away from the camera
Good catch! That does explain why he rotated the yellow side away, also explains why he dumped the stickers in first to be collected by that box. Although, how did he make the cube without stickers have a side with the yellow stickers, or was it a flap that comes down after the empty cube is inserted into the box?
@@chautauquatrail
The yellow side is a lid. The stickers and the blank cube are completely in the box. The box is the size of a regular cube.
Because the blank cube is all black, you don’t realise that it is smaller than a regular cube. You don’t have the colour reference to help you mentally assess its size.
After the reveal, and the slightly obvious turn of the yellow lid away from camera, he moves to the side and bows several times, during which he switches the cube and places the box in his right jacket pocket.
As he approaches Penn & Teller to hand over the cube, you can see the box in his pocket. When he returns to (beautiful) Alison, you can see him attempt to hide that pocket…
Every movement a magician makes is important. Of course P&T know this. So the extravagant bowing, turning the cube away, trying to keep the pocket out of their line of sight etc., these are all huge clues.
i love the fact that penn and teller keeps it cryptic when telling them that they know the trick so they don't ruin it for others
class acts 💫
He’s a really nice guy, i like his attitude and his manners.
I was watching him to this with the rubix cube live at magifest 2018 in Columbus Ohio! It was really cool!
NicoMagic rubik's after Rubik Ernő
1:27 - unfortunately his nazi-Yewden devil horns ruin his performance.
He's a Nazi
As a speedcuber myself, what he did was really obvious, especially with his first "trick". The color patterns were as similar to a 3-move solve 2x2 scramble.
How does being a speed cuber make the second truck obvious. I must be missing something.
@@143huskies pattern recognition
@@JaxKeiMusic The second trick tho was not obvious just for speed cubers. The first one was pattern recognition sure and all those blocks really tell a 3 move scramble. He should probably rework it to a 5 mover to make it a little less obvious what hes doing
John: I wanted to do something that's never been done before.
Steven Brundage: ......
EPrimeify *Brundage
He never took off the stickers and did it that way but he could match up mixed up rubix cubes and toss it behind his back unsolved and catch it solved
Brundage never did it this way. If you listen he said "never been done with a cube before" meaning he knows many OTHER tricks have been done with cubes, but no ones done the reverse sticker trick
I was looking for this
Hard not to think of that guy after seeing him on here with the cube but nothing saying another magician can't do cube illusions.
What a classy performance and response afterward. Wonderful!!
Well done and thank you for the magic!
Penn gave away this trick with his comments about random. Obviously a rubix cube does not work that way. He had to make like 3 moves to get it solved. It is impressive, but I am guessing he is only able to do that with that exact order. 20 "random" turns that actually just leads you 3 turns away from solving, not 20.
Then they give away that he switched during bowing. They mentioned it too much and how they were looking. The "solved" cube was a fake that he switched out before giving a real one to Penn. The bag seemed to have something in it, as he made sure never to pressure the bottom. I am guessing the black cube had a shell inside the bag to be slit into. That is also where the stickers went. Then he placed the "black" cube in its shell. Which is why we never saw more than 5 sides, the 6th was in his palm, already "solved." Then when he puts it into the presolved shell, it looks like magic.
BlamoO!
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@@YOLO-sp5bi When the camera panned to the audience and Penn and Teller the performer bowed and switched the cubes.
What are you talking about, he shows every side of the cube at 4:20... But just before that it's easy to see that it's in a shell, right after he opens the bag.
That makes sense. I think you’re right. I thought the solved cube looked funny, because the color squares look like they’re raised too high off the surface.
Damn so this is Jimmy Neutron now? I feel old
That was crazy. Great show. Keep up the great work.
Rock on man! Great work, keep kicking ass my dude.
My brother had a cube. We would dismantle it versus taking off the stickers (like Alyson mentioned on the show). lol
New York Rebel that’s what I did lol
You are truly an inspiration to all who you encounter, and this proves just that! I love you john and you did amazing!! #makingnewfriends #yasssssssss
thanks!!
Fantastic show.
he was the main speaker at my state youth conviction he's one the nicest people youll ever meet
3:53 looks like he got a little nervous
For anyone who isn’t familiar with cubes. The first “trick” you could learn in an afternoon easily.
Good spirit! Good trick as well!
Great trick, I loved it! Thanks for enterteining us.
2:00
As someone who messes around in Rubiks Cubes... i did that with an online guide when was 12.... because there is a certain way of turning the sides so that it mixes back up again and just comes back to be solved by itself.
"we were WATCHING you all the way through your bows ... you took your bows and we were WATCHING YOU carefully ... you deserved every bit of applause you got as you took your bows that we were WATCHING so CAREFULLY"
Aven W. I guess that’s when he made the switch
Great attitude and awesome performance will look for you if you ever come into town.
Excuse me, Nurse? Can you take my temperature? 'Cause I think I got John Michael Hinton Quadrant Vincent fever over here!
In the bag there is a box that looks like the cube, the black cube is smaller and fits in that box, along with the stickers which went first so they're on the bottom. After shaking the top of the box closes magnetically and he pulls out the box that looks like a real cube from far away, he switches it with a real cube which he gives to Penn.
Maybe that's why Penn was referring to the bows. That's where he switched!
John: Teller, will you be my friend?
Penn's face: Am I a joke to you?
DUDE! AWESOME!
I saw him live once and I love him!!!
If you love him so much why don't you marry him?
Steven how old are you 10?
It does not matter how you did it or if we knew how you did it. It was an entertaining performance!
This is the exact haircut of that bully from 'Doug'
You mean Roger Klotz?!
Excellent show.
Awesome John...I'm taken back to that little chateau in France where we met you and Maribeth...you were captivating us after dinner and the kiddos surrounding you were so entranced! Blessings as you journey on....!
yes!!
Story of O
LET'S GO BROTHER!!!
Jake Hawney OH YEAAAAHHHH BRRROOTHER!!!!
OOOOOOOOOHHHHH YYYYEEEEEEAAAAAHHHH BRRRROTHER
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Riotous Rebel god damnit
That was sooooo awesome! My kids saw John Michael Hinton at Round Lake in Northeast Ohio a year or two ago and we love what he does and how he does it. That was such a cool trick and I have no idea how that was done!
thanks!!
At a guess - one of the cubes (neither of the ones given to Penn & Teller) is rigged to appear unsolved when it's actually solved on some side, and he sleight of hands that out before giving it to the lads (reference to bowing suggests that's when the sleight occurs).
The first one is just straight up lying about how many moves it was from being done; it really only needed a few twists, which he deftly did all at once. Second one was a 5-sided shell of a cube in the bag. He holds the bag from the bottom to keep the shell from sliding out when he dumps the naked one out, then he tilts the cube up when he twists the side so that you don't see the back side has stickers, then he slides it back into its shell in the bag. What made it hard to be sure was that the camera didn't show a bow where he swapped it with a regular cube before giving it to P&T.
Nice trick! Very positive and entertaining performance!
To those who know how it's done. I am disappointed they cut to the long shot when he makes the switch.
It robs people who don't know it's done of the chance to figure it out.
Which part was the "cut to the long shot"?
I feel the same
Oh they did? I've been sitting here replaying it even in slow speed trying to catch it, thinking he's just insanely good at sleight of hand. So I wonder what they cut.
My theory is that the black cube was a hollow cube that would easily fall apart when shaken, with the real cube in the bag as well. When he ripped the bag, he somehow got the black cube and bag with stickers up his sleeve or in a pocket.
@@bubbamike4743 or the black cube is smaller than the cube he's taking from the bag and is placed inside of it
"I've been working under pressure my entire life." That explains his hair.
Wtf I had an ad of teller talking before this video. I’m shook.
Same. Was it the masterclass add?
Best performance on fool us
AMAZING!
This guy brings class to a-whole-nother level. We could really use a lot more people in the world like him.
Woohoo! So so proud of you my friend to have come this far. You’ve always been so engaging from the first time you sat down at the bar at Starbucks and I made your coffee. Always rooting for you and your sweet family!!!
this entire performance was cringey!
Maybe to someone that doesn’t know him. I know him personally and he is just as genuine in person as he is on tv. He’s always looking to make friends. To me, it’s about embracing we’re all different. Who cares if he wants more friends? Who cares if he’s different? It would be boring if we were all the same.
Jennifer Lynn wish I had a friend when I was a kid
I wold be his friend, way better at magic then I am, and the irony of people complaining about a guy trying to fool two guys on a show called Fool Us whilst themselves watching the show isn't lost on us
mini fuzz I actually saw John answer the question after I posted the first comment here on why he’s always looking to make friends. He said when he was younger he didn’t have many friends. That is a horrible feeling growing up feeling like you don’t fit in anywhere. So it makes sense. People do what they do for a reason. ❤️
JMH that was just AWESOME . in spite of the fact that this has been a very bad MS week and year for me so far, you made me smile the biggest smile that I've smiled in a really long time. Thank you and God bless you and I wish you much success in all of your future endeavors 😊
I like your attitude man 👍
My favorite part about this is that he just wanted to entertain everyone, so humble.
Great stage presence, and he got right to the trick without an overly elaborate set-up. Very cool.
Such a beauiful trick. I didnt realize he was talking code the second part. I thought you get the trophy instantly.
what a gleaming personality, I love it.
Dude, great attitude. Nice work on your performance.
Apart from the first thing that‘s visually obvious in an affronting way, that was very impressive.
I love u & ur showmanship!
Fantastic
How to get free Rubik's Cube:
1) Get ridiculously famous and good at magic
2) Start a show where you get magicians to perform for you
3) Invite this guy and ask for a Rubik's Cube trick.
4) Profit.
Since a producer knows in advance how each trick is done, you'd think they would have some input into editing so there isn't a cut away at a critical moment, like when the guest is taking a bow at the end of a trick where the trick ain't over until after the bow. Great tricks, bad editing. Well done!
DaddyBeanDaddyBean They deliberately do that. Idiotic. The best magic tricks on TV are performed without any cuts whatsoever!
Wrong, he didn't need to swap out the cube.
See that's what I figured as well but then saw him give the cube to Penn... but we didn't see the bow he made so that's our loss
There was no bow, it was not cut. Penn was talking in code, the bow is the bow he made with the top of the bag, he pockets the black cube while shaking the bag, that's why he takes so long, he's distracting you from where he's putting the black cube.
There's no hollow cube nonsense, its an already solved cube in the bag, the black cube goes in his pocket, nothing was cut
You people were fooled by both him and by Penns explanation, there was no bow cut
And before you ask where the color squares went, look how he dumps them into the top of the bag, there's a little pocket of paper there and then he folds them into the top so they dont fall out, which is why he rips the bottom of the bag, the color squares are in the top, the solved cube is in the bottom and the black cube went into his pocket while the bag was being shaken
You were all distracted, which is what Penn was talking about
the black cube isn't in his hands after he puts it in the bag. you can clearly see
Very respectful that the magician knew that Penn and Teller knew how he did it.
Penn to Teller: "We're going to have to learn more about Rubix cubes or we're going to be giving out a lot of trophies"
The real trick is how he got his hair to stay like that
Everyone in the comments is obviously a pro magician.
I know right. Everyone's a critic these days. I don't understand what people get out of putting others down for no reason.
It's the only way they can make themselves feel better.
It's a show about trying to figure out how a magic trick was done, If you came to the comment section thinking that everyone interested in figuring out how a trick works wouldn't be speculating and giving their opinions here then you're gonna have a bad time.
That's not the point. The point is that everyone in the comments on almost every one of these types of videos says crap like "Oh, that is SO easy a child could do it." or gives hilariously wrong descriptions of how it's done, while being completely self-assuredly correct. Pigeon and chess. Learn a little context, man.
Thanks. I get it from my dad. He's really good. He made himself disappear.
THAT scramble pattern *speedcuber's rolleyes*
John, you really are a very nice person. Love you bro.
Oh my god this one made me jump up
Praise the lord it's a miracle! Did you leave the scooter parked in aisle 7?
I like the suits that penn and Teller are wearing here, much more flattering for their coloring as opposed to their regular grey
I was impressed and entertained regardless .
wow that was an amazing magic trick. I feel happy just from watching it
I think I went to high school with you! Rolla High School class of '99? Did you do magic in the Mr. RHS pageant and win?
Great trick john , Greetings from Saudi Arabia
I love busting rubik's cube tricks. had a little hard time with the second one but i realized that i missed it because of the editing. nice trick, friend!
Geo Cuber Can u explain tje second one?
I'm not very confident with my guess but maybe you can add something if i share. 1 side of the unstickered cube already has stickers. i assume it's yellow. he turned it several times without exposing the yellow part. he put the stickers inside the bag first right into a cube shell with an open top. you can see that when he put the black cube, he has to put the bottom part to the top because the yellow is there. he put it inside the cube shell that has the other 5 colors. you can see the he hides the yellow part at 4:12 to hide the opening of the cube shell. lastly, while taking his bow (not seen on cam) he switched it to a normal rubik's cube then gave it to penn.
The camera can see under it and he spins top and (his) right vertical. If any side was stickered, we would've seen it when he was playing with it.
he twisted it right vertical up then right vertical down. in cubing notations. we call it R then R'. buy doing that move, the stickered part only stay at the bottom and back part. there's no way for you to see. then finally he turns the top layer 360 degrees. that;s ok because the stickers are resting at the bottom.
Awesome john. Well done. :)