Rabby Yang - 1st Fooler from China // Penn & Teller Fool Us -HD
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- čas přidán 21. 07. 2019
- Rabby is the first Chinese magician to ever Fool Penn and Teller! A lot of time and hard work went into this routine. Thanks for watching my video!
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Here I am watching random fool us videos on CZcams when I see someone I recognize from high school. I still remember your act from our talent show, and my how you’ve moved up. Congratulations! You’re going places.
Haha thanks!
The talent show we did together was the first time I performed in English... could not have made it without the support along the way
@@rabbyyang4107 That's pretty awesome
Thallimarikanda
That's Awesome guys
The cube was a paid actor
LoL
With an accelerometer inside
and what did the accelerometer do?
@@sailaab tell what colors are in the top duh
@@sailaab it accelerated the meter
"Ever since I was Yang". I see what you did there :D
Theodosis Sourgkounis haha
@@rabbyyang4107 When were you another name?
@@elephantgrass631 bruh
basiQ you stupid stupidddd (talking about the other guy 😂😂)
He's been a Yang ever since he took his first breath coming out of his mother's womb.
7:30 lol listen to all the random noise Alyson makes from this point on.
Never pictured her as a squeaker.
lmao
Why did they get rid of the British guy? He was a WAYYY better host
@@geraghtybj nice
Well that one time at band camp... 🤔
The amount of love this guy is getting in the comments by former classmates in high school is BEAUTIFUL. People can actually be happy for someone else's success. That makes the world a better place. I wish I could've had a magician classmate like you, Yang! Keep it up!
Yeah sure.. Giving love when he's famous, doubt it was like that in high school
L3n good magic will always be something that people appreciate you for. even in its high school, one of the cliquiest places in the country. Idc if someone is a bully or they are one of those popular people who think they are above you, being able to stump them with a good trick may win you just the slightest bit of respect even if they dont want to admit it.
Trashed him in high school..
Fake as hell fame seeking now. Hey I walked by this guy!
Well I don't even know him and the moment brought tears of joy for him
"An extra sensory ability to detect color"
*Police heavy breathing*
Then says that red is orange
@@alexandresurferboy That was orange...
Your excellent joke was lost on your other commenters....
@Andrew Todd you are
Lol
I feel like I'm the only one that didn't go to highschool with Rabby Yang :/
You're not the only one, my grandma didn't either. :)
Me tooo
Lol
I didn't but I was best friends with his backpack.
There’s no way that Teller thought he had an earpiece. If they really thought that might be how he did the trick, Penn would’ve spoke in code. They’d never give away someone’s secret in such a blatant way.
It's actually one of the conditions of the show is they can't use stooges in any way. Saw it in an article about the show during season 1.
@@followNoxville Stooges are fake audience participants, not assistants or backstage people feeding info :)
@@aerospliff69 true, but I thought that was also covered separately sorry ^
That’s just how they thought it was done, they use code words when it’s a trick they’ve seen or even done before which is 99% of the time, this just fell into that 1%
I figured that if the trick was done by blaringly obvious means (even an idiot can suggest a guy backstage helping him) that they won't speak in code.
Like if the trick hinged on a guy running out in a gorilla suit, banging on cymbals, they'll just say "we were distracted by the guy in a gorilla suit"
I love how Allison loves her job. She gets so excited for people when they fool P and T.
She's an actress
@@nisse18 did I say she wasn’t?
@@Oncearanger88 it's her job to be(or to look) excited
@@mrp0001 no, it’s not actually. Her job is to interview the people and to introduced to people. She does not have to be excited.
Wow! I remember you fooling me from sitting by me in AP Calc AB and now look at you! Congrats on all your success man!!
Thanks so much man!!
ha a UCLA alumni here
Ear piece and an accomplice?! Pff they knew that was wrong lol
How do we know for sure yang was not wearing an earpiece
@@ryeckley7267 I'm guessing you do not lie to Penn and Teller. Integrity still has some value, especially in magic.
Because the contestant has told his trick to one producer before the show. If he tries to lie to P&T, they will know.
It’s not a lie, it’s the creed, a magician never reveals his secrets
@@ryeckley7267 You're dumb. Which is why Penn and Teller speak in code when figuring out methodology. Instead of blatantly telling everyone.
After watching each show as i always do is to check the comments section and that’s where the REAL magic begin.
@Jamie Nelson Well, that may be because we know how movies are made. Also, what's wrong with seeking an explanation for things that seem mysterious? If we never did that we wouldn't have much of the medical technology we have, we wouldn't have the satellites that allow you to use your GPS, we wouldn't even have the scanners they use at the checkout stand at the grocery store. If anything, we should applaud the younger people for relying on their instinct to get to the bottom of things instead of being lazy and saying eh, must have been a wizard or something.
@Jamie Nelson Also, puzzles and art forms are not mutually exclusive to one another.
Usually the comment section is full of people guessing how the trick would have been done but this time couldn't find even a single comment from anyone who could have revealed or even guessed your trick. Just superb.
mayank mishra Appreciate it! The secret is never just the method :-)
Because people are still in high school or not entered it. It needs a graduated mind to explore the trick :) congrats Rabby Yang. You stole our minds and win our hearts.
I guess it's in music.. like the out of body trick!!
I like this one, because there are two puzzles, actually. How the trick was done and what Penn thought.
Penn has the same hypothesis as I do:
Chinese dude used real magic
Penn knows it’s done with an electronic tunic cube which transmits the side facing up to a morse code or similar device in his pocket to tell him the sides and location of each colour on the side facing up.
That in its self is hard work and not easy, remembering the code and rehearsing for months.
To penn threw the young budding magician a bone and went with the less likely “teller thinks someone backstage”
@@christeamhound is this really how its done, because this is immediately what I thought of, some sort of device in the cube that is able to tell what the facing side reads and then he finds out somehow.
Dru Nature look at 2:12 - the side that is showing where his thumb is is exactly the side that supposedly showed up after Allison mixed up the Rubik’s cube. This shows that either A) The show is rigged and Allison was in on the trick or B) it is a type of mechanical cube that automatically switches to that side?? Now I know that only solves the first one but I’m guessing the 2nd trick had something to do with that too.
@@alexstallo9770 This is the best guess I've heard. A cube that doesn't really shuffle, but has some trick to it. If it wasn't for Allison's mistaken shuffle in full view I'd go for it but only b/c of that I think it is wrong.
I like when Alyson is genuinely happy for a magician fooling the fellas. Like in this video. She was just so happy. And that makes me smile.
Willswalkingwest Yes I actually chatted with her a little after. She is super nice
Hm she did seem more excited than usual.
P&T are happy too. You gotta figure that after decades of being at the top of their craft, they are BORED, and ready for someone to show them something that they haven't seen (or done) before.
Important note for people who watch this show a lot and don't know the rules:
They are not obligated to be respectful with revealing secrets. They often do, and if your trick is done using the most obvious method they will generally just say the method, things like "deck swap" and "palming" get said all the time.
Second, you ARE allowed extra help, that can come in the form of anything except camera tricks. You ARE NOT, allowed to lie about audience members being randomly selected.
And Third, if I'm not mistaken, there's someone backstage who knows how the trick is done, and who will be able to verify and/or be the third judge in case an impasse happens between Penn & Teller, and the magician performing (I believe there was a coin trick on this show, where this happened, where neither Penn, Teller nor the magician, could agree on whether or not a "fool" occured, where the backstage judge's verdict was that it was indeed a "fool". I forget the name of the magician though).
Yes, one magician that was on the show said the producers actually pick the members from the audience. They make sure they want to be on stage and on TV, that they are TV ready (not drunk, dressed appropriately, look "attractive", and not related to the preformer in any way.) They also mic them up so everyone can hear them. The Magician is told who to pick but only just before. They do this so there isn't a break in the performance to get the audience member ready for TV.
It's also a gameshow in Las Vegas and I think it's actually a law that you can't have an "inside man" to help win a competition. Vegas has a lot of laws and regulations with all the gambling that takes place there. Not sure if that's 100% true for this, but the magicians do sign a pretty lengthy pile of papers before going on the show, which another magician has also stated.
@@esilva8349 I didn't know this when I posted that 3 years ago, but the producers will actually cut stuff from the video if you accidentally mess up and expose your own trick. To preserve the magic for the tv audience I suppose but I still felt mislead.
The amount of balls it takes to go to another country without even knowing the language and by the age if 21, accomplish more than most of us will by the time we're 40. Great act, probably a great individual.
distantmyth Thank you!
@Gemein Hardd Let me know what you've accomplished at 21
Gemein Hardd and you think you're the norm for a 21-year-old? The bygone era as you call it, almost all 21-year-olds were out on their own. Most, not saying all, 21 year olds now still live at home.
Gemein Hardd in short you said, “Okay Boomer 💥!”
@@photomanwilliams4147 that's not true at all. for most of human history, children stayed and lived with their parents in generational families for their entire life. Only until recently (as in the past 200 years) and virtually only the case in immigrant countries (i.e., USA, Canada, Australia, etc.) did people strike out on their own upon reaching adulthood.
The earpiece is old school, RC signal and receiving the information through vibration is the BEST WAY to go. I believe the cube has an internal remote signal inside and depending on the side is turned, it sends code vibrations to the magician that tell just few codes
Fuck I think you guess it
the earpiece is code for the device that receives those vibrations you know
This would explain why he would want her to hold it in a specific way (hold the side she wants up.) Clever.
Yes, I am a speedcuber, so I know a lot about Rubik's cubes and this does propably seem like the the only way to do this
so in other words, he didn't actually fool them because they knew how he did it, sort of
I'd say you were going places but you've already come so far and done so much.
All there is, is up, and up, and up.
Look to the sky, man! You've got the world ahead of ya!
thanks for the kind words!
@@rabbyyang4107 Up up up is code word, how many times did he mention the word up in his show.....same amount of times....
Thinking to himself, "it wasn't a earpiece, it was a toothpiece"
quelorepario Bluetooth? Lol
@@theunknown5921 no, I actually meant a contact speaker in your tooth. Sound travels faster in the bone through your teeth, you can hear through your teeth.
I was joking however but I’m glad you taught me something I didn’t know
it was actually Alison being his assistant. he turned the cube, remembered the colors of the sides and then alison just had to show the correct side of the cube. She just pretended to rearrange the cube but it was the same all the time.
@@Tintop not at all
Great job! And a kudos for rocking the Peewee Herman look lol
SHHHH! I'm listening to reason!
Peewee Herman is never a look or act you want to imitate.
I thought this immediately and needed to know that someone else saw The Pee Wee Suit too
You're a stud!! The Great Rabby never disappoints.
Love to see you still in the game, and getting better!! Amazing act!
Thanks!
Love the confidence! Great performance. Congratulations!!
Under his suit is a device that gives an electric shock to different body parts depending on what moves were made, using a signal sent via technology in the centre of the cube as there should be enough space. He played through the moves in his head to know the colours and their orientations (which is amazing visualisation). When it came to Alison fliping the cube to any side, the same mathod can be used using a gryoscope. That's my guess.
Alison didn't mix the cube, so just the gyroscope is enough for this whole trick.
Caught this at random. Very, very...very nice! Got my instant sub, and I wish you great success in all your future endeavors, magical or otherwise!
What an incredible performance! Absolutely mindblowing, I haven't the slightest idea how the trick was done. 👏
Sorry about that.
Great job. It was an astonishing performance.
Saw it before but it's a very clever performance. Thanks Mr Yang.
Rabby was my old class mate I remember his performance at the talent show. Go Rabby!!
i like to believe that penn was right with his idea and teller intervened and said; "this kid is good, let him have it" and then the ACTUAL fooling of the evening took place in them saying they dont know it but they do
Great job Rabby!! 🙌🏼😄
Great performance man! Amazing stuff
Wow this was amazing! I hope you go on and do big things!
Yay Rabby! Congratulations! Fantastic mentalism. I can't believe you fooled Penn and Teller
Nathaniel Wall neither can I
Nathaniel Wall what part of this was mentalism?
I remember all the group projects Robby and I worked on together. What a hard worker!
Rabby Yang, you're dressed fresh as hell and your English is impeccable! Keep it up!
This is incredible insane, I was thinking that is backstage work but it wasn’t
Fantastic mentalizm routine. No idea how you did it. Entertaining and intriguing
That’s what I was thinking. He’s the one who mixed up the cube and gave to Alyson who just flipped the cube around vs mixing it up more. But, how he knew exactly what sides she was on each time I have no idea.
Damn, that was excellent. Well done, Rabby :)
Cool and unique trick man, congrats! The best way to fool them is with something really original like this.
I gotta know how it's done lol good job man. Glad to see you succeeding
This is the best fool us episode I've seen yet! Nice work!
This act was amazing Rabby. Congrats on fooling them.
Austin Janik thanks buddy
this was just awesome!!!! woow good job
Penn's attempt to guess has to be one of the funniest of all the seasons
Clever item, good sir. I was really really stumped at first - then I came to the conclusion that there are very very few ways to do this. Kudos on the invention!
What do you mean? 😅
@@amyk9813 well, not going to spoil anything here, but basically it's technical/electric in nature. I do not claim that I know the exact workings but it's his invention and it works so well it fools a lot of people. 😉
This was amazing Rabby
Meeeeen, this so good. Congratulations, hope you´re doing good.
Another level of Mentalism awesome..Btw Is Alison a wolf at the end?😂😂😂
Alison sounds like a wolf howling when he fools them
I can't unhear it now 😂
😂
☠️☠️☠️☠️
That's freaking hilarious
After reading your comment now thats all i hear! X3 ahahaha
Great act, wonderful presentation. Fun!
Congrat, great performance.
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
Exactly. Saw this trick in "Magic for Humans" on Netflix and I think even David Blaine did it. These Rubik cubes are high tech for sure.
So, a cube with sensors in it that track position of the colours and the rotation of the Cube? Possibly some earpiece that reads the Color sequence or other device that tells him the sequence with haptic feedback
Twoface698 No that would not work.
@@Twoface698 Sounds too complicated and error prone. Magic is always simple and foolproof. Anything else is not worth the risk of public failure.
I could build something like this using Arduino. An accelerometer can tell which face is up. The 9 colors can then be transmitted to a receiver inside the clothes. The receiver has a way to notify through a set of vibrators the colors and the positions.
I don't usually comment but since I don't see many comments saying how it was done: the magician just does a few simple turns at the beginning. It's not random. He only has to memorize 6 faces. Then when Alyson turns the cube, an accelerometer in the center detects which side is up and sends a signal over bluetooth to a device in his pocket (a thumper) that vibrates and tells him which side is up.
I thought the same thing but the difference was in the cube there is a detector which visualize on the screen of another nearby person (maybe backstage) and says through "mobile molar" in his teeth. Be careful on his speakings like smth is disturbing his tongue or teeth.
i think the table will do something with sending the signals.
alison changed tye cube further behind her back...so his initial shuffle was shuffled again by alison and after that alison decided which side of this complete new shuffle to use...maybe a masterpiece of technology hidden inside a rubic cube...and yes w. bluetooth its possible
Great performance. Really cool
Yay! Congrats 🎊
While briefing the act, he shuffled the cube as he wanted and then deliveried it to Alisson. I think it was the most important part of the act, but I’m not sure what happened after this
Oh god.. the uploader is Yang himself..
Haha.. congrats man.. nice trick.. cool presentation..
What a brilliant performance. You are a talented individual
Zed's Tech Tips (Mobilography) Thank you!
Quality of magic level is very high, amazing.
Awesome routine. I have a feeling it had something to do with the mysterious pendent you’re wearing... 🤔🤔🤷🏻♂️
You have a good point.
"And turn it around just like so."
She turns the cube around like he just showed her, without mixing it.
Wow that was amazing.Well done!
Kyle Stephens thank you
That is so awesome. Congratulations.
This is real nice and fresh considering most of the rubik cube magic has to do with random patterns.
if you look close, the patterns arent random. He turned the cube in a specific way and gave it to Allison, and he instructs Allison to turn / rotate the cube, not change the pattern. Hence if you look at the 2nd side Allison selects, and rewind to compare how he held the cube, it is the same pattern. He just had to guess which side. Pretty simple
@@ShengYu1995 how could he be sure she didn't change the pattern? and just instructing to rotate the whole cube must have seemd pretty silly to her. I think she acted as his assistant and just pretended to change the pattern (obvidously that's what the audience should think). It's a TV show after all, and a show is also using tricks to stay interesting and "mysterious"
Amazing routine, really impressive. My guess is that the cube contains an accelerometer (it's pretty common in many devices). When You flip one of the faces, the device sends through RFID or Bluetooth signals a sequence to a receiver that you wear under your clothes, which vibrates somehow. Decoding the vibrations is just a matter of training.
I had the same theory, except instead of vibrations it could be a device similar to a braille screen reader, except scaled up so you can tell the difference with, say, your back. Anyway.
But this doesn't explain how he knew which side Allison was holding to her self. Your correct in the fact he could figure out the pattern on each side.
@@shinobistream1256 Which face is up is easily decided by a gyroscope in the cube
@@achdetoni5008 I guess you can be right. One comment mentioned his pendant and the magician liked his comment
Up, down, right, left is easily detected by sensors but sensor cannot detect colour pattern. How do you describe that?
Congrats!!! Well deserved!!
Frankie Foti thank you man
I would take your class that's for sure! Bravo!
Teller: You had a magic feather and a shark.... [No]
Wow this was legendary! Congrats on fooling them
Great set. 👍
Awesome trick that I can only hope that the cube had some sort of a gimmick signaling Rabby the colours on the face up... Because I can not think of a single way this would work otherwise.... Fooled me there!
I just LOVED the act!
But I think that this must also be the episode that of which Penn had the most creative way of saying "We don't know how you did it" :D... "I will be choosing Teller idea" :D Had me laughing out loud and I just knew it was going to go to a "Oh then.. Well you fooled Teller" the minute he mentioned an earpiece...
GREAT act Rabby... You are very good and very entertaining!
Pretty easy trick honesty. He obviously read Alison's mind with wizardry. I don't know why Penn and Teller couldn't figure it out.
well Penn figured it out, but Teller didn't want to believe him.
Wizardry? Are you being serious? Wizardry?? Lol WOW! Its obvious he's related to the flash and he ran over to peak at the cube. Wizardry lol
@@joeysane416 whoosh
@@deegunggong1625 whoosh^2
Wtf you guys talking about. Its obviously a clone jutsu from naruto universe.
He said its all done by himself, which is not wrong.
The clone is also part of his chakra, so its still him. Not a double
Yo I live in Berkeley...absolutely incredible you're from the city of the Great Bear...so honored to be a fellow Berkeleian. Congratulations on your achievement and I hope I get to see you perform soon! Also, P.S. Do you know fellow Berkeley magician Nathaniel Segal?
Thanks! And yes I do know Nathaniel
Wow congrat very very nice move
Congratulations Robby
I like this guy's personality a bunch.
Congrats Rabby Yang! I am also a magician here in the Philippines and one of my favorite magic is rubiks cube magic! I also made a reaction video of you! Good job! ☺️😎🎩
I love how after so many foolers, Alison can still be so excited every time someone fools them!
Not to take away anything from her, but she is an actress.
Loved the act, so different from the rest.
That was incredible
His guess was far more explicit than normal.
If you mean straight forward, they will fully say what they think if they think it requires another person, because your not much of a magician if it's not just u
@@coldclearkt Illusions and magic sometimes requires someone else, is more of the sorts, if it's an electronic device that requires someone or something else to get the info
I would like to say congratulations
KieraBeatBox I would appreciate it!
@@rabbyyang4107 thank you for the heart and congratulstions on fooling penn and teller.
Respect from the Bay bro keep it lit ♣♦♠💯
Yungdoe NewCali 🙌🙌
Good job man!
Penn’s “act” in “explaining the trick” was the real thing that tried to fool us. Congrats to all four of you.
Totally agree.
@ He was speaking in code. It wasn't an accomplice "backstage", Allison was the accomplice. She didn't actually shuffle the cube.
So he didn't fool them, he just took their speaking in code literally. It's likely why he kept saying "no earpiece" rather than the whole thing, "ability to hear and an accomplice". I doubt they would even allow backstage accomplices in this show.
@@grawss It was a fooler. If there is any doubt, the jury will clarify as they know how the trick is done. And yes, while they don't allow plants in the crowd, you can freely communicate with people from the outside.
I remember when the Rubik's Cube first came out (in the 1970s). Damn thing frustrated me so much I figured out how to take it apart and put back together correctly. Ingenious design when you see it disassembled. But that was 1975...miniature circuitry capability today?
I dunno...but I WILL say that if Rabby Yang was clever enough to have "tricked out" that cube somehow? It still does NOT take away from his performance. MANY illutionists/magicians might incorporate electronics into their mega-stage illusions. AGAIN, that's part of the craft.
And I think that Teller had a soft spot for Rabby after hearing his story. Penn & Teller will be excellent mentors.....
Nowadays there is a cube called "smart cube". Which you can pair with your phone using bluetooth and it can show the current state of you cube in you phone. Speedcubers use it to track their moves and make improvement. But I am not sure if he used any of those smart cubes or made one of his own or used a completely different technique to perform this magic.
Great job bro , I just sub 😍
Awesome! Great job!
guillaume lavigne 🥳🥳
Jesus am I the only one that didn't go to high school with him
Haha
I seem to recall him, but I am 60 so unless he has mastered time travel..you are not the only one.
Im willing to bet Jesus also didnt go to school with him.
So i think that if your question is legit and Jesus could answer it for you, he would say: No, dont worry my Son, i also never went to school with him.
Infact i think Jesus never went to school at all.
Did they even have schools back then?
Hmm.
bertjesklotepino im sure they had some form of school or place of learning, atleast i know the romans did, idk much about the middle east during the Roman Empire though.
No, but I did own a rubix cube at one point in high school, is that close enough?
"If you fool Teller, you fool Penn & Teller"- Mac King
Awesome trick !! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Really made me laugh and enjoy those 8 minutes, and I have no idea how your trick was done
I don’t think it really matters if Penn may have gotten a correct guess because there’s most likely some flaws in his guess that Teller can disagree and not be convinced. So chances are Penn’s guess is an imperfect answer (might’ve missed the critical point to answer this trick).
Still doesn’t take away the fact that this trick is really well done 👍🏼
The way the show works is that they only get 1 guess. They may know 20 different ways to perform any given trick, and one of those 20 ways may have been used to perform it, but if they guess the incorrect method used to perform it, they were "fooled".
Right? A prop can be rigged in ways that are a bit unique, and I think they thought a win because the exact mechanism wasn’t correct would seem worse than the other guess?
Anything that involves technology, Penn and Teller will get it wrong lol. That or an "Oreo" lol.
rubik's a tech? ok..
Oreo? The sleight of tongue lol
@@hilozil It is, if it is rigged to send information about the turns it performs.
@@Zava183 An accelerometer inside the cube that tracks which way is up. I wouldn't be surprised if you can buy smart cubes with that, but you can definitely have it built. It isn't difficult on a technical level.
JustusLM gyroscopic sensor u mean
great show
Congratulations!
I can’t believe that Teller would think it was something that cheap and easy
Yea and even crazier.. that Penn would think that Teller’s answer would be better than what he thought
I mean, they got fooled by a cookie and a napkin, so...
@@theunknown5921 I think there have been a few acts that were so dumb they got by. Someone just handed the random audience member a piece of paper to lie and he got passed because they couldnt figure out how they got there.
Oh yea you’re right... and like that time that teenager fooled then with the smart watch with that Michael Jackson song Beat It
They never said out loud how the trick was done. Its always a code. So there is something like an earpiece but not an earpiece do u know what i mean?
Just a wild guess from a non magician: I think it was some kind of smartcube with a bluetooth connection. The question now is how did he receive the information? One way could be with a vibrating device that converts the color scheme of the cube into a vibration pattern that he can feel somewhere on his body. For example: red - short vibartion, green - long vibration, blue - two short vibrations etc.
Interesting.
only one problem.. it does not explain him knowing the pattern.. unless said device gives the color in order for instance top left is green, top middle is red, top right is orange .. on and on..
For this you need a device with nine LEDs and sensor inside the cube that allocates the top side of the Rubik's cube, and just sends the picture of it to this device.
@@MrNeytrall how does the sensor know which side is on top?.. very interesting rubiks cube that has all this stuff inside and still twists and turns like a regular cube..knows which colors are there and knows which side is face up..
@@Wolfgame30 First. notice that he did not let them to look closer at this cube. For 'top side' you can use position sensor (magnetic - find online). They are very small and can easily fit into the rubik's cube. For colors you just need short code that remembers rotations, and transforms the initial pattern using this rotations, aaaand the function that transfers this transformations into the light signal. I would use 9 small LED lights. Don't think that is is possible to do with less lights.
Congratulations,
This was a very nice trick! Congratulation!