This guy is a great magician no doubt about that , i wasnt able to figure out majority of his tricks, but i think was able to decode some of his tricks:- 1) 1:14 - 2:31= the trick was that there were NOT 2 cubes in the bag, but 3 cubes. One was the solved one, second was the one simon jumbled up and the THIRD was a cube that was jumbled up by the magician before the trick. Now he put in the cube simon had and while doing his trick switched out the cube simon jumbled with the cube he had jumbled before the trick. The rest was him just jumbling up the cube to achieve the result as he already knows what combination are needed in order to match it with the switched out cube 2) 3:36 - 5:17= Now this one was a fabulous trick, but if you see him spreading out the cards for heidi to choose, he intentionally spread them out in a way that only 9-10 cards were visible for heidi to choose from. Now here is where the answer to the trick is , EVERY SQUARE ON THE BOTTOM OF THE CUBE HAD A PIECE OF CARD IN IT, EACH PIECE BELONGING TO ONE OF THE CARDS THAT HE SHOWED TO HEIDI TO CHOOSE FROM. Now he tore the card heidi chose in a practiced way so that the piece already inside the cube would fit in , magnifying the awe of the trick. And he then proceeded to break off the square of the cube that he knew had the piece of 6 of diamond in it. 3) 12:06 -13:12 = In this one, the magician had a pre jumbled cube in his right pocket of jacket, now when howie mixes up his cube and the magician mixes up his cube to match the pre jumbled cube, you can see that the cube howie jumbled is clearly different if you pause at 12:27. Now he takes howie's cube , puts it under his cube and rotates his arm to put both the cubes behind his back distracting the crowd by talking about what was happening, but during that rotation when he rotated to his back and then to the front again, if you look very carefully, he switched howie's cube with the pre jumbled cube in his right pocket. Now the cube he solved would obviously match the cube that was pre jumbled and to add more depth to the trick, the big cube that simon had was pre jumbled to match the cubes from the very start as no one jumbled the big cube.
For the last trick he definitely switched howies cube with another to make all three match but I slowed it down and you cannot see the switch at all. Extremely well done sleight of hand You definitely can’t “see” the switch as you described in the comment
The blasting solving has to be a tainted cube. Something with springs? that reshuffles on air (on #1 he has to throw it every time), or another trigger. On #3 the "solved" cubes positions are a "mixed" version, that matches the big one with simon. When he gets from howie he squeeze them, goes to back, etc, thats when he triggers and they realign to the pre-recorded mixed state. No one knows how it was in howies hands exactly
I think is way simpler than that. For #2 he made the card piece disappear. Magicians do that well and hide somewhere in their hands. When he gets the rubiks to break it, at that moment he puts the piece there. It has to be the same to fit right.
For 2) I noticed him carefully control the shuffle and distribution, and when you pointed out the missing corners I slowed the playback down and you're absolutely right - what's funny is when watching it the first time my mind just barely noticed the improper card outlines where the torn corners are, but it happened so fast it didn't sink in enough for an ah-ha moment. Great catches!
This guy deserved the finals at the least man, his acts increased in complexity in each stage, his presentation was nice, he was polite as well, indulged the judges in all the acts, they were all genuinely suprised. I don't know why he didn't get the chance thou.
Take a closer look at the last act. Steven strategically scrambles his cube behind his back to obviously match Simon's cube which was set up before the show. Now Steven's cube is the same as Simon's. Howie scrambles his cube and hands it to Steven. If you stop the video at the exact moment of the handoff you'll see one entire side of Howie's cube with a distinct pattern. Steven then puts both cubes behind his back. THE MAGIC HAPPENS BEHIND HIS BACK !!! When Steven brings the cubes back into view and compares them to Simon's cube, you'll notice that Howie's cube no longer has his original distinct pattern on any of its sides. So yeah, Steven switched Howie's cube with one that matched his own cube and Simon's cube when he put both cubes behind his back. Oldest trick in the book! It's called 'the old switch-a-roo' !!
Exactly. Remembering how to mix up the cube in a specific 'mixed up' way is simple. The cube Howie hands back has yellow, yellow, orange as the top row red, green, yellow as the middle row blue, red, orange as the bottom row The performance was sleight of hand and showmanship. Still great to watch, but the ability to pause and rewatch kills the 'magic' element.
The card trick with rubicks cube is pretty simple if you look closely in 4:10 you can see that part of the cards was already torn apart. The card was already torn apart that is why he was hiding the top left part with his hand ..so thats why he made it look like he tear it up it made it look like the torn part dissapeard from his hand because there was not a torn piece in his hand it was already inside the cube and also he manipulated the judge to pick a card in the middle part that he didnt shuffle so that he can only have fewer cards to remember to where he placed the torn piece of card on the rubicks cube 😊 The first trick he did on simon the one that he copies the rubicks cube that simon mixed up was pretty easy.. The trick to that is that he has 3 rubicks cube already prepared.. The cube no 1 was the one simon mixed up the cube no 2 was a cube already solve the cube no 3 was a cube that he already mixed up that he remembered the pattern.. So what he did was to manipulate all to think that he only has 2 cubes the cube that simon mixed is already hidden on the paper bag that he pretend to smash the paper bag but it was only a diversion because the cube that simon mixed is still inside that paper bag.. I put the video on slowmotion when simon mixed the rubicks cube there was a side that 4yellow color is compressed but when the final act that he showed the copied pattern there was no 4 yellow color part thats because it is not the one that simon mixed up.. 😊
I watched it again, i absolutely loved this guy. not just for his talent but also to see the dumbness of judges as well. He is an absolute expert with Rubik's cube. I know he mixes them to the point where one move will solve the Rubik's cube. That's how he does the trick of solving inside the paper bag as well as throwing the cube in air. But he is an expert in this area though and it's a talent. Always love talent related to intelligence.
Over the years I went out on a quest across the world to find out how he does his magic tricks with the rubric cube, and I've come back here to let you all know I'm still clueless 😃
Actually downloaded it, watched it in superslowmo. The trick is he is superfast with rotating them and they are oiled or something. Like when he throws it to judge, it rotates mid air.
He is a genius observer he watched Simon do the turns and remembered them for that trick. When he picked up each of the 4 cubes and put them in the holes he twisted them in his hand. He must be able to figure out instantly how to twist each one to get all red and white on one side with one or 2 twists The big picture was all in red and white. When Howie turned his cube the guy was matching those turns on his cube behind his back . Then he took one of the cubes and twisted it in his hand to match the big cube .So he has genius Rubik cube ability and genius visual and spatial memory. As for the card and the color trick, Darren Brown gets people to pick the card he wants with the power of suggestion. His you tube posts are fascinating to see how that part of the truck is done. ( the test would be for Howie to have twisted his cube under the table. And to compare the Howie cube after the big cube comparison) So I think I know the trick mechanism, but even so the guy is brilliant to be able to do all of this because it takes several different expertly honed skills.
I have never been able to do a Rubik's cube. Not even when I wrote down every move I made, after I made it, and then tried to do what I did in reverse order. This guy does it without touching. RESPECT.
3:20 fun fact: 3 sides are already solved so he hide them by using the 3 more sides As a Cuber he memorize every pattern that could happen and he solved it pretty fast cuz its just a few moves *But hes very good to memorize every pattern that could come up*
He switched up the cubes at the very end. It is quick slight of hand. I screenshot the cube that Howie mixed up and it was not the same cube that he showed matching.
3:23 i know that trick. He shows only 2 sides while shuffling and he memorizes a certain pattern that makes the 3 other sides done but the 2 sides he showed not done, all he has to do now is hide the 2 sides undone 5:50 how he does this is that every card is repeated twice. And in every cube there is a different card. When she tells him the card he looks for the cube that has that card
The REAL talent doesn't lie in the "magic" of this. It's controlling yourself so much that you don't reach out and bitchslap Simon all the way back to that row boat on the Thames River for giving him the finger multiple times. On national tv no less.
Amazing, I mean it’s obviuos that when the three cubes at the end matching up, he solves the cubes behind his back so all the cubes matches, no one is going to remeber how it looked before, but still very impressive to be able to do that.
Ok first of all, when he flips the cube and magically solved it, he actually only solved three sides, but they were hidden from view on the other side where you can’t see. In the last few finishing turns of the scramble, you can see he completed a pair of green and slid it back. Meaning that he solved three sides only and not the whole thing. When he flips it, it looks like the cube is solved, but in reality, only three sides are. The other side which is unsolved is concealed from view.
This is exactly how he did a lot of his tricks: All real cubers will understand Please note I'm not hating on Steven, he is an amazing performer and he did an impressive job. All I'm doing is explaining how he did them *Act 1:* First trick: He memorized a short algorithm to scramble the cube and which he could easily reverse with one hand. And yes one-handed cubing isn't as difficult as most people imagine it to be, he had enough time to reverse it as he was placing it in the bag. Second trick: The second trick is very easy actually. He uses the first trick to "convince" the judges there are no other cubes. But then reveals a second one surprising everyone, nobody thought about there being a third cube did they? If you look at the colour patterns on Simon's cube (before it was put in the bag), you'll notice that they're different to the cubes after. Steven had three cubes. The first one was Simon's actual cube, the second one was Simon's fake cube and the third one was the solved one. He obviously memorised the algorithm used to scramble Simon's fake cube and when he put Simon's actual cube in the bag, he swapped it with the fake one. The third cube was obviously the one Steven used and he applied the scramble to it so it was the same as Simon's fake cube. You'll even notice that he is firmly holding the bag when it's upside down. We can check this by comparing the yellow face at 1:19 with the yellow face at 2:27 *Act 2:* First trick: For the first trick was really impressive but if you pause the video at 3:01 you can see that he already had the yellow middle row solved in the front face, with the yellow top row on the right, the bottom white row (which is opposite to yellow on a solved cube) on the left face and matching opposite corners and edges as well. This can be easily solved in three moves. Take a solved Rubik's Cube and hold it with yellow in front and green on top, if you then perform a S U' D' (or z F' B U' D'), you'll get the cube in the same state he has it at 3:01 Second trick: He uses a special algorithm to solve the cube on one side while leaving the other side scrambled. This will allow you to flip the cube and make it seem like you solved it. 3:21 you'll notice that the only colours mixed are yellow, orange and blue. 3:22 the only solved colours he shows are white, red and green Coincidence? I think not. Right after he finishes the trick and scrambles the cube, you'll notice that in the first move, the cube is already scrambled on one layer. The algorithm for this set up is: U' D L2 U B2 D2 B2 D2 L F' U D' R U' F2 L F' B' Third Trick: The last trick is actually very smart. The first part of the trick where he makes Heidi choose a card you'll notice that he only gives her the option of about 15 cards since he squeezes the front and backside of the deck. At 4:11 if you look at the back of the deck you'll notice that all the cards in the centre (which are the ones Heidi was forced to choose) all have a ripped angle. Basically, Steven prepared 15 cards that he placed strategically and ripped all of them in the corner. He then places half the card in the deck to cover the ripped corner and using slight of hands he makes you think he ripped the card and made it disappear. Now for the last part, a Rubik's Cube has 12 edge pieces and 8 corner pieces, making a total of 20 pieces. This means that all Steven had to do was place a ripped corner piece in every piece of the cube and memorize where each of them was. The card that was chosen would then determine the cube piece he would open. *Act 3* The Brad Pitt trick I was really confused. I had several things I noticed and looked at. Firstly, I assume he purposely made them pick Brad Pitt, there's no way he could prepare a Rubik's cube picture for every single person. This probably involved some slight of hands, but I have no idea how it was done. If you look at the Rubik's cubes, the first thing that you can see is a lot of green colours around the top layer of the board (or whatever you want to call that big thing with hundreds of cubes) before he reveals who it is. When he revealed Brad Pitt, the top layer was completely covered in green making me think why there weren't colours replacing the green pieces that are on the backside (the other side of the board, not where Brad Pitt is). This may be because there is a second layer of cubes which was prepared in advance. This is just a theory. Another thing to point out is how insignificant the four cubes that were randomly placed are. Steven makes them randomly mix the cubes and randomly place them to make it feel like they had an impact on the mosaic. But in reality, it didn't really matter. If you follow the cubes' position as he rotates the board and then reveals the picture, you'll see that those four cubes are actually mixed, but because they're on the outer side of the face of Brad Pitt, you don't actually notice them and they don't actually matter. He just focuses so much on those four cubes that it makes you think that they were the main factors of the results. So my theory is, is that he purposely made them pick Brad Pitt, then everything was prepared in advance. The four cubes were just to make the act more interesting and to involve the judges. *Act 4* For the first part of the act, I think his cubes were set up so that he could easily solve any colour while making it seem like the rest of the cube is scrambled. If you look closely at the colours when he reveals the red and blue faces, you'll notice that there are a lot of colours paired up together, almost like they were all ready to be placed together. To non-cubers, this may seem like a complete coincidence, but cubers will know that these sort of patterns where there are several pairs of colours matched are often seen at the beginning of scrambling a cube. These are patter are very familiar to the ones someone may see after doing a few moves to a solved cube. The red colour was obviously told to him but the blue one I don't know, maybe he peaked and so it or something else happened. For the final part of the act, I really had no idea how he did it. The first part with Howdie is sort of easy to understand, it's very similar to his first act. He simply follows Howdie's moves and does the same to his own cube. He holds it behind his back to make it seem that he is randomly scrambling, but everyone knows, or at least every cuber knows, that you don't need to look at the cube to know what you're doing. So all Steven had to do was follow Howdie. For the second part of the last trick of the act, I got stuck, I had no idea what he did. I have a theory but it seems unlikely that it's true. If you pay attention to Howdie's moves, he did a full 360° rotation, meaning he went back to the same position, and he did a couple of other moves. So my theory is that before comparing Howdie's cube to his own cube, he somehow quickly reversed Howdie's moves to go back to what the cube looked like, which matched with Simon's big cube. If you have any ideas on what he did, let me know in the comments *Again, I'm not hating on Steven, I'm just breaking down his tricks based on my understanding.*
I guess there's some switch kind of thing activates when rotated or pressed against and rotated or some kind of key move that makes the cube to come back to the original position it supposed to be. I guess all of the trick is the same including brad pitt thing, after that guy picked the card, he saw the remaining cards while placing them at desk, so he got to know the one missing was brad Pitt and probably there was some kind automated rotation activated when he placed his left hand on that large cube photo set and pressed something. I mean i have a theory that explains which gives the probability of success to be 1. But i don't know much about rubics
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@living my life 2 can't remember haha, honestly when I saw this and wrote it I was pretty addicted to Rubik's cubes. So I wouldn't be surprised if I spent a day trying to figure out every trick
For the Brad Pitt trick, I thought it was rather obvious that he altered the cubes by hand just before placing them into the holes. It's funny because he makes you pay attention to the tongs but then he does end up touching them with his hands -- I thought it was dead giveaway. One of the only parts of the whole video where I felt like I could see through what he was doing!
12:34 this is where he changes the cubes. Just check one of the cube faces after Howie mixed it. It doesn’t appear on the final cube. So he had 2 identical cubes hidden and at 12:34 he did the switch. 12:27 look at the green face, it doesn’t match the green face at 13:05.
@Daniel Dieniu r correct, it has elastic properties or like spring it restore it self to original state once tension is released no need of button, he holds the cube when twisted and just release it and cube does the trick
i read it, what i meant was on a regular cube. even if you reassemble it differently, that would not help him solve the cube fast. the way he is doing it is with a short scramble (6 moves) that looks scrambled but is quite fast. anyways bye i dont know why i bothered commenting a year ago
I know quite a few magic tricks, know how to solve the rubix cube in a reasonable time and I spotted how he made most of his tricks. But DAMN is he good. Both magic and with the cube! Amazing performer.
I don’t think he is wrong. You can see him move the cube when he did the pic of brad Pitt. It’s very possible he moved the rubric cube while he put it in the bag.
I still think that all these videos the reveal how magic tricks are done, are breaking the magicians code. A magician isn't supposed to reveal the tricks secret. If you do, it stops it being, amazing and mysterious.
It's funny how the rubik's cube is a different pattern going into the box as it is coming out :) And how the cube Howie handed over is a different scramble from the one he pulled out and compared to Simon's 😂
I know how he does it. First, in the first trick when he told Simon to mix it up. After he hands the cube back to him there are 4 yellow squares together . And when he pulls it out of the bag, the cube is different and there are no 4 yellow square together. He grabs a different cube that is all mixed up and he knows how many moves it take to make it look like the one Simon mixed up . Next trick, the card trick. Each side of the cube has a different cut up card in it. He slows down the cards so Heidi only can select 10-12 of the cards in the deck. He knows which cut up pieces of cards are in each cube piece. If you noticed, the cut up card doesn’t match up exactly to the 6 of diamonds. He has a great memory.
1:30 to be honest, I’d assume there were 3 cubes in that bag. One was the solved one, one that he pre-prepared, and the third was Simon’s mixed cube. If you look carefully, the shape of the bag is a cube when he scrunches it / looks solid still.
I KNOW HOW TO DO THE SECOND ONE if you look closely, he turns it a few times before flipping it. And after he turns it, 3 sides are solved while the other 3 are not. So he just flips the cube in front of Simon to show the 3 solved faces
I am a cuber myself, and I know that when he drops it, he immediately mixes it back up, so i think that he used a pattern where 3 sides were solved and just used the other sided to show its 'scrambled'.
El último truco fue sencillo, el toma el cubo de Howie y lo iguala a la combinación que tiene el y a su vez Simon. Si se fijan bien, Howei le entrega una combinación que nunca es replicada, pasa que ni el mismo Howei la recuerda
The solution he provides and says matches the combination that Simon gave him actually isn't the same as what Simon handed back. There were 4 yellow in the lower right corner of the one Simon handed back and the solution he provided didn't have that.
in case anyone wondering how the 2nd trick is done with simon , the jumbled cube that he took out to give simon saying that its the one he solved is not it , you can pause the video to check the any of the sides of the cube while simon hand it back to him , take a screenshot , and check again when he compare them side by side , no pattern that initially simon shuffled is seen on both the cubes , which means he made a pattern on his on , one initially and then he made it again on the perfect to cube to make the exact same one , The same goes to the last trick , the pattern that howie shuffled is not the one that he shows up as two ones with the same pattern and simons big one
And u realise that at 7.13 he actually puts his hand behind his back for quite sometime and solved it with one hand behind his back as he did a specific mix which could be solved in less than ten turns.
He put the cube in his pocket and took it out within 5 seconds. Why can he do that ???? I have watched this video so many times ! how wonderful ❤🧡💛💙 💯💯
5:01 its easy. a rubic cube has 9+9+9 = 27 cubes and a deck of cards has 52 cards :D And as you can see, he doesnt show all cards in his deck. Im sure his deck includes 27 different cards. so the only job is you have to remember which card was in which cube :D
At 12:27, when the judge handed him the cube after mixing, we can see the specific color pattern on cube. But when he showed the two cubes together, that pattern wasn't there both times. So bigger cube and the cube he mixed were set to same already, and he swapped the judge's cube with the third set cube while handling them. I wouldn't be as amazed as people watching this.
Уникальный человек!!! Спомобность вслепую по памяти и тд развио так что кубик собирает одной рукой за секунлы как надо,да еше и пальцы как надо развить!!! Этл просто фантастика! С кубиками его мозг как компьетер!!) А руки это сверх руки киборга,пальцы точнее!!! Он уникален,так развить пространственное мышление и память!! Да это правда,тут нет фокуса ,он просто собирает кубик в пакете,за спиной и тд одной рукой !!!! Видел видео как там обьяснялось как он все деоает!! Ну и коннечо иногда у него есть элементы фокусов и обманов тоже,но все завязано на его супер способности!!
as a cuber in the first trick when he put the cube in while you couldn’t see his hand because it was inside the bag, he actually onehanded solved it . :) just my opinion
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I really love this new generation of magicians. So fun to watch and get blown away.
Its staged
Yes, so many creative new ideas.
This guy is a great magician no doubt about that , i wasnt able to figure out majority of his tricks, but i think was able to decode some of his tricks:-
1) 1:14 - 2:31= the trick was that there were NOT 2 cubes in the bag, but 3 cubes. One was the solved one, second was the one simon jumbled up and the THIRD was a cube that was jumbled up by the magician before the trick. Now he put in the cube simon had and while doing his trick switched out the cube simon jumbled with the cube he had jumbled before the trick. The rest was him just jumbling up the cube to achieve the result as he already knows what combination are needed in order to match it with the switched out cube
2) 3:36 - 5:17= Now this one was a fabulous trick, but if you see him spreading out the cards for heidi to choose, he intentionally spread them out in a way that only 9-10 cards were visible for heidi to choose from. Now here is where the answer to the trick is , EVERY SQUARE ON THE BOTTOM OF THE CUBE HAD A PIECE OF CARD IN IT, EACH PIECE BELONGING TO ONE OF THE CARDS THAT HE SHOWED TO HEIDI TO CHOOSE FROM. Now he tore the card heidi chose in a practiced way so that the piece already inside the cube would fit in , magnifying the awe of the trick. And he then proceeded to break off the square of the cube that he knew had the piece of 6 of diamond in it.
3) 12:06 -13:12 = In this one, the magician had a pre jumbled cube in his right pocket of jacket, now when howie mixes up his cube and the magician mixes up his cube to match the pre jumbled cube, you can see that the cube howie jumbled is clearly different if you pause at 12:27. Now he takes howie's cube , puts it under his cube and rotates his arm to put both the cubes behind his back distracting the crowd by talking about what was happening, but during that rotation when he rotated to his back and then to the front again, if you look very carefully, he switched howie's cube with the pre jumbled cube in his right pocket. Now the cube he solved would obviously match the cube that was pre jumbled and to add more depth to the trick, the big cube that simon had was pre jumbled to match the cubes from the very start as no one jumbled the big cube.
For the last trick he definitely switched howies cube with another to make all three match but I slowed it down and you cannot see the switch at all. Extremely well done sleight of hand
You definitely can’t “see” the switch as you described in the comment
@Shawn NHL you're right, although there's one time where all six are solved as well. In that upclose he did the trick you mentioned
The blasting solving has to be a tainted cube. Something with springs? that reshuffles on air (on #1 he has to throw it every time), or another trigger. On #3 the "solved" cubes positions are a "mixed" version, that matches the big one with simon. When he gets from howie he squeeze them, goes to back, etc, thats when he triggers and they realign to the pre-recorded mixed state. No one knows how it was in howies hands exactly
I think is way simpler than that. For #2 he made the card piece disappear. Magicians do that well and hide somewhere in their hands. When he gets the rubiks to break it, at that moment he puts the piece there. It has to be the same to fit right.
For 2) I noticed him carefully control the shuffle and distribution, and when you pointed out the missing corners I slowed the playback down and you're absolutely right - what's funny is when watching it the first time my mind just barely noticed the improper card outlines where the torn corners are, but it happened so fast it didn't sink in enough for an ah-ha moment. Great catches!
This guy deserved the finals at the least man, his acts increased in complexity in each stage, his presentation was nice, he was polite as well, indulged the judges in all the acts, they were all genuinely suprised. I don't know why he didn't get the chance thou.
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Because he didn't have a bleeding heart back story and wasn't a singer that can churn out 10 hits then be dumped.
@Chito Chito look at the scramble pattern it is the same but at a different angle
These were super easy tricks
@gertjan van der meij He doesn't what
Take a closer look at the last act. Steven strategically scrambles his cube behind his back to obviously match Simon's cube which was set up before the show. Now Steven's cube is the same as Simon's. Howie scrambles his cube and hands it to Steven. If you stop the video at the exact moment of the handoff you'll see one entire side of Howie's cube with a distinct pattern. Steven then puts both cubes behind his back. THE MAGIC HAPPENS BEHIND HIS BACK !!! When Steven brings the cubes back into view and compares them to Simon's cube, you'll notice that Howie's cube no longer has his original distinct pattern on any of its sides. So yeah, Steven switched Howie's cube with one that matched his own cube and Simon's cube when he put both cubes behind his back. Oldest trick in the book! It's called 'the old switch-a-roo' !!
Exactly.
Remembering how to mix up the cube in a specific 'mixed up' way is simple.
The cube Howie hands back has
yellow, yellow, orange as the top row
red, green, yellow as the middle row
blue, red, orange as the bottom row
The performance was sleight of hand and showmanship. Still great to watch, but the ability to pause and rewatch kills the 'magic' element.
If you pay close attention to his hands... you will still realize I have no idea how he does it.
Right
I find his act very entertaining and very well done, great magic!
@Cheni Panexactly!!! I noticed the same! He swapped it after getting it from Hawy’s hand
Watch in 0.25x still nothing
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Magic is the best of all 💞 love this so much ♥
I love this guy, the artistry, the presentation, the judge influence and involvement.. this guy was meant to be a performer and he does it so well
its possible but not easy
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Very good magic👍
The card trick with rubicks cube is pretty simple
if you look closely in 4:10 you can see that part of the cards was already torn apart. The card was already torn apart that is why he was hiding the top left part with his hand ..so thats why he made it look like he tear it up it made it look like the torn part dissapeard from his hand because there was not a torn piece in his hand it was already inside the cube and also he manipulated the judge to pick a card in the middle part that he didnt shuffle so that he can only have fewer cards to remember to where he placed the torn piece of card on the rubicks cube 😊
The first trick he did on simon the one that he copies the rubicks cube that simon mixed up was pretty easy.. The trick to that is that he has 3 rubicks cube already prepared.. The cube no 1 was the one simon mixed up the cube no 2 was a cube already solve the cube no 3 was a cube that he already mixed up that he remembered the pattern.. So what he did was to manipulate all to think that he only has 2 cubes the cube that simon mixed is already hidden on the paper bag that he pretend to smash the paper bag but it was only a diversion because the cube that simon mixed is still inside that paper bag.. I put the video on slowmotion when simon mixed the rubicks cube there was a side that 4yellow color is compressed but when the final act that he showed the copied pattern there was no 4 yellow color part thats because it is not the one that simon mixed up.. 😊
As a competitive cuber I can see how he does some of his tricks, but still a ton of them are just insane
@TheScribe that sounds good but you can see four side mixed up and after he throws it up and catch's it you can see four side solid
As a 'competitive cuber' you would see that none of the cubes used are actually normal cubes and all gimkicked.
@jedskillz he obviously put it before he auditioned
@Pete what do you mean going solid
@Craig Ayotte look up WCA, kid
at 3:20 he only solves 3 sides of the cube, sides white, green and red while the others are still mixed up
I'm speechless, such a talent, such a master of Rubik's Cube. Totally impressive.
Cubes must have lights inside that change colours.
I love when Simon goes speechless with those expressions.
I love how he Subtlety gives the finger all the time
Он ГЕНИЙ!!!
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We know our cube is magic but this takes things to a whole new level! ✨
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This ain't magic... is just technology 😎🎮🪄👨💻😄 those aren't regular cubes 🧬📡👨🔬🛰
What if..hear me out. The rubix cubix cubes are solid coloured square led lights. And someone changes the colours back stage.
This guy takes the whole thing magic to the highest level. So incredible..and look at his presentation; amazing.
do It's not magic, it just hides the other cube. Pay close attention when he puts his hand in his back pocket.
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I watched it again, i absolutely loved this guy. not just for his talent but also to see the dumbness of judges as well. He is an absolute expert with Rubik's cube. I know he mixes them to the point where one move will solve the Rubik's cube. That's how he does the trick of solving inside the paper bag as well as throwing the cube in air. But he is an expert in this area though and it's a talent. Always love talent related to intelligence.
The only reason he did not get a golden buzzer is so the judges can see more cube magic.
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Easy and fun! Involvement, presentation, laugh, amazement. This is why we love magic!
Over the years I went out on a quest across the world to find out how he does his magic tricks with the rubric cube, and I've come back here to let you all know I'm still clueless 😃
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You mean to say cubeless? 😂
If you pay close attention to his hands, you'll notice that I don't know how he does this.
In the second trick there're three cubes inside the bag.
Caraleo ele lembra onde estão todos os pedaços de todas as cartas...que memória
The ministry of magic is coming for this man.
Yep
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Actually downloaded it, watched it in superslowmo. The trick is he is superfast with rotating them and they are oiled or something. Like when he throws it to judge, it rotates mid air.
Nobody here realise these cubes are changing colors?
This is the greatest magic trick I've ever seen. It's probably easy to understand once you learn the secret but I'm baffled.
i love how he enjoys the applause and smiles everytime in between
Increddible ! Amazing ! WoW !
He is a genius observer he watched Simon do the turns and remembered them for that trick. When he picked up each of the 4 cubes and put them in the holes he twisted them in his hand. He must be able to figure out instantly how to twist each one to get all red and white on one side with one or 2 twists The big picture was all in red and white. When Howie turned his cube the guy was matching those turns on his cube behind his back . Then he took one of the cubes and twisted it in his hand to match the big cube .So he has genius Rubik cube ability and genius visual and spatial memory.
As for the card and the color trick, Darren Brown gets people to pick the card he wants with the power of suggestion. His you tube posts are fascinating to see how that part of the truck is done. ( the test would be for Howie to have twisted his cube under the table. And to compare the Howie cube after the big cube comparison)
So I think I know the trick mechanism, but even so the guy is brilliant to be able to do all of this because it takes several different expertly honed skills.
I have never been able to do a Rubik's cube. Not even when I wrote down every move I made, after I made it, and then tried to do what I did in reverse order.
This guy does it without touching.
RESPECT.
3:20 fun fact: 3 sides are already solved so he hide them by using the 3 more sides
As a Cuber he memorize every pattern that could happen and he solved it pretty fast cuz its just a few moves
*But hes very good to memorize every pattern that could come up*
I like the thing that he himself was excited & happy while he was doing the magic.🌼💕
Rule number 1: Hogwarts students are not supposed to use magic in front of muggles.
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But it's not a good trick. Any cuber knows how easy and lame it is lol.
Règle numéro 2 : toutes magie est baser sur une arnaque.
Has this dude done this for penn and teller yet? I’d love to see if they know what he’s doing. Phenomenal
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He did appear on Penn and Teller Fool Us and was like “we got nothing. You fooled us”
He switched up the cubes at the very end. It is quick slight of hand. I screenshot the cube that Howie mixed up and it was not the same cube that he showed matching.
Remember, it’s not magic, but brilliantly clever slight of hand, this is so good
Everybody knows it’s not real magic dude 🤣
Yup great slight of hand. I screenshot the cube that Howie mixed up and it was not the same cube that he showed matching.
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@boomerboi56 ye, ik lol
@PiNeApPle literally you just have to be good at one handed and the rest is super easy
3:23 i know that trick. He shows only 2 sides while shuffling and he memorizes a certain pattern that makes the 3 other sides done but the 2 sides he showed not done, all he has to do now is hide the 2 sides undone
5:50 how he does this is that every card is repeated twice. And in every cube there is a different card. When she tells him the card he looks for the cube that has that card
This guy was one of my favorites this season.
The real definition of talent, hats off to this man , master at his work
The REAL talent doesn't lie in the "magic" of this. It's controlling yourself so much that you don't reach out and bitchslap Simon all the way back to that row boat on the Thames River for giving him the finger multiple times. On national tv no less.
Sol Kemi well ik what you’re saying
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I believe him when he said he is the only person in the world that can perform the mind bending tricks.
This guy is so amazing. I love his own facial expression of amazement
Amazing, I mean it’s obviuos that when the three cubes at the end matching up, he solves the cubes behind his back so all the cubes matches, no one is going to remeber how it looked before, but still very impressive to be able to do that.
He’s really good I just went to fetch my old cube that I’ve never solved and found it matches. And I live in Australia 😳
One trick is the pattern which you make with an algorithm.
This is led cube. Lights control the colours
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Ok first of all, when he flips the cube and magically solved it, he actually only solved three sides, but they were hidden from view on the other side where you can’t see. In the last few finishing turns of the scramble, you can see he completed a pair of green and slid it back. Meaning that he solved three sides only and not the whole thing. When he flips it, it looks like the cube is solved, but in reality, only three sides are. The other side which is unsolved is concealed from view.
This is exactly how he did a lot of his tricks:
All real cubers will understand
Please note I'm not hating on Steven, he is an amazing performer and he did an impressive job. All I'm doing is explaining how he did them
*Act 1:*
First trick:
He memorized a short algorithm to scramble the cube and which he could easily reverse with one hand. And yes one-handed cubing isn't as difficult as most people imagine it to be, he had enough time to reverse it as he was placing it in the bag.
Second trick:
The second trick is very easy actually. He uses the first trick to "convince" the judges there are no other cubes. But then reveals a second one surprising everyone, nobody thought about there being a third cube did they? If you look at the colour patterns on Simon's cube (before it was put in the bag), you'll notice that they're different to the cubes after. Steven had three cubes. The first one was Simon's actual cube, the second one was Simon's fake cube and the third one was the solved one. He obviously memorised the algorithm used to scramble Simon's fake cube and when he put Simon's actual cube in the bag, he swapped it with the fake one. The third cube was obviously the one Steven used and he applied the scramble to it so it was the same as Simon's fake cube. You'll even notice that he is firmly holding the bag when it's upside down. We can check this by comparing the yellow face at 1:19 with the yellow face at 2:27
*Act 2:*
First trick:
For the first trick was really impressive but if you pause the video at 3:01 you can see that he already had the yellow middle row solved in the front face, with the yellow top row on the right, the bottom white row (which is opposite to yellow on a solved cube) on the left face and matching opposite corners and edges as well. This can be easily solved in three moves. Take a solved Rubik's Cube and hold it with yellow in front and green on top, if you then perform a S U' D' (or z F' B U' D'), you'll get the cube in the same state he has it at 3:01
Second trick:
He uses a special algorithm to solve the cube on one side while leaving the other side scrambled. This will allow you to flip the cube and make it seem like you solved it.
3:21 you'll notice that the only colours mixed are yellow, orange and blue.
3:22 the only solved colours he shows are white, red and green
Coincidence? I think not. Right after he finishes the trick and scrambles the cube, you'll notice that in the first move, the cube is already scrambled on one layer.
The algorithm for this set up is:
U' D L2 U B2 D2 B2 D2 L F' U D' R U' F2 L F' B'
Third Trick:
The last trick is actually very smart. The first part of the trick where he makes Heidi choose a card you'll notice that he only gives her the option of about 15 cards since he squeezes the front and backside of the deck. At 4:11 if you look at the back of the deck you'll notice that all the cards in the centre (which are the ones Heidi was forced to choose) all have a ripped angle. Basically, Steven prepared 15 cards that he placed strategically and ripped all of them in the corner. He then places half the card in the deck to cover the ripped corner and using slight of hands he makes you think he ripped the card and made it disappear. Now for the last part, a Rubik's Cube has 12 edge pieces and 8 corner pieces, making a total of 20 pieces. This means that all Steven had to do was place a ripped corner piece in every piece of the cube and memorize where each of them was. The card that was chosen would then determine the cube piece he would open.
*Act 3*
The Brad Pitt trick I was really confused. I had several things I noticed and looked at. Firstly, I assume he purposely made them pick Brad Pitt, there's no way he could prepare a Rubik's cube picture for every single person. This probably involved some slight of hands, but I have no idea how it was done.
If you look at the Rubik's cubes, the first thing that you can see is a lot of green colours around the top layer of the board (or whatever you want to call that big thing with hundreds of cubes) before he reveals who it is. When he revealed Brad Pitt, the top layer was completely covered in green making me think why there weren't colours replacing the green pieces that are on the backside (the other side of the board, not where Brad Pitt is). This may be because there is a second layer of cubes which was prepared in advance. This is just a theory.
Another thing to point out is how insignificant the four cubes that were randomly placed are. Steven makes them randomly mix the cubes and randomly place them to make it feel like they had an impact on the mosaic. But in reality, it didn't really matter. If you follow the cubes' position as he rotates the board and then reveals the picture, you'll see that those four cubes are actually mixed, but because they're on the outer side of the face of Brad Pitt, you don't actually notice them and they don't actually matter. He just focuses so much on those four cubes that it makes you think that they were the main factors of the results.
So my theory is, is that he purposely made them pick Brad Pitt, then everything was prepared in advance. The four cubes were just to make the act more interesting and to involve the judges.
*Act 4*
For the first part of the act, I think his cubes were set up so that he could easily solve any colour while making it seem like the rest of the cube is scrambled. If you look closely at the colours when he reveals the red and blue faces, you'll notice that there are a lot of colours paired up together, almost like they were all ready to be placed together. To non-cubers, this may seem like a complete coincidence, but cubers will know that these sort of patterns where there are several pairs of colours matched are often seen at the beginning of scrambling a cube. These are patter are very familiar to the ones someone may see after doing a few moves to a solved cube. The red colour was obviously told to him but the blue one I don't know, maybe he peaked and so it or something else happened.
For the final part of the act, I really had no idea how he did it. The first part with Howdie is sort of easy to understand, it's very similar to his first act. He simply follows Howdie's moves and does the same to his own cube. He holds it behind his back to make it seem that he is randomly scrambling, but everyone knows, or at least every cuber knows, that you don't need to look at the cube to know what you're doing. So all Steven had to do was follow Howdie.
For the second part of the last trick of the act, I got stuck, I had no idea what he did. I have a theory but it seems unlikely that it's true. If you pay attention to Howdie's moves, he did a full 360° rotation, meaning he went back to the same position, and he did a couple of other moves. So my theory is that before comparing Howdie's cube to his own cube, he somehow quickly reversed Howdie's moves to go back to what the cube looked like, which matched with Simon's big cube.
If you have any ideas on what he did, let me know in the comments
*Again, I'm not hating on Steven, I'm just breaking down his tricks based on my understanding.*
I guess there's some switch kind of thing activates when rotated or pressed against and rotated or some kind of key move that makes the cube to come back to the original position it supposed to be. I guess all of the trick is the same including brad pitt thing, after that guy picked the card, he saw the remaining cards while placing them at desk, so he got to know the one missing was brad Pitt and probably there was some kind automated rotation activated when he placed his left hand on that large cube photo set and pressed something. I mean i have a theory that explains which gives the probability of success to be 1. But i don't know much about rubics
@Lorenzo Peccini woww that's just awesome...the amount of brain cells I used trying to understand everything hehe 😂
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@living my life 2 can't remember haha, honestly when I saw this and wrote it I was pretty addicted to Rubik's cubes. So I wouldn't be surprised if I spent a day trying to figure out every trick
Okay this is just amazing..but now the thing I wanna ask even more how long did it take you to write this.??
For the Brad Pitt trick, I thought it was rather obvious that he altered the cubes by hand just before placing them into the holes. It's funny because he makes you pay attention to the tongs but then he does end up touching them with his hands -- I thought it was dead giveaway. One of the only parts of the whole video where I felt like I could see through what he was doing!
12:34 this is where he changes the cubes. Just check one of the cube faces after Howie mixed it. It doesn’t appear on the final cube. So he had 2 identical cubes hidden and at 12:34 he did the switch. 12:27 look at the green face, it doesn’t match the green face at 13:05.
To me, this guy should be the AGT winner
I've watch it many times but still can't get over with it i don't believe still he did this omg he's just unbelievable👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👌👌👌💓💓
3:20
At least one trick I already know how it's done. The 3 backsides (which you can't see) have already the correct color. Still fascinating.
Ya ik right
lol no there are 4 colors visible. read about speed cubing. it doesn't even help when 3 sides are solved
I saw a video about it
lol everyone knew that
He should have broken the official world record for fastest solved Rubik's cube.
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i read it, what i meant was on a regular cube. even if you reassemble it differently, that would not help him solve the cube fast. the way he is doing it is with a short scramble (6 moves) that looks scrambled but is quite fast. anyways bye i dont know why i bothered commenting a year ago
@Artur Hale huh what are we talking about i forgot i even commented on this video
@Mystotic not possible? take a cube apart and reassemble as your liking.
Simon's initial expression compared to his expression of amazement is priceless
I love the look on Simon's face when he tossed the cube in the air and it landed in his hand solved. It was like "What the hell did I just see???"
He had the cube set where he knew it, then he watched what Simon did and counted. Simon only moved it a few times.
Memorizo todas las vueltas que dio, no es magia, pero es genial!
I know quite a few magic tricks, know how to solve the rubix cube in a reasonable time and I spotted how he made most of his tricks. But DAMN is he good. Both magic and with the cube!
Amazing performer.
Reskamo Well, he managed to fool Penn & Teller.
Amount of non cubers
I don’t think he is wrong. You can see him move the cube when he did the pic of brad Pitt. It’s very possible he moved the rubric cube while he put it in the bag.
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I still think that all these videos the reveal how magic tricks are done, are breaking the magicians code. A magician isn't supposed to reveal the tricks secret. If you do, it stops it being, amazing and mysterious.
I think he memorizes the cube then solves it with just the right amount of force
I've tried his cube tricks many times and finally came to realize that it's a magic
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It's funny how the rubik's cube is a different pattern going into the box as it is coming out :)
And how the cube Howie handed over is a different scramble from the one he pulled out and compared to Simon's 😂
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I know how he does it.
First, in the first trick when he told Simon to mix it up. After he hands the cube back to him there are 4 yellow squares together . And when he pulls it out of the bag, the cube is different and there are no 4 yellow square together. He grabs a different cube that is all mixed up and he knows how many moves it take to make it look like the one Simon mixed up .
Next trick, the card trick. Each side of the cube has a different cut up card in it. He slows down the cards so Heidi only can select 10-12 of the cards in the deck. He knows which cut up pieces of cards are in each cube piece. If you noticed, the cut up card doesn’t match up exactly to the 6 of diamonds.
He has a great memory.
What a talent he has😱
1:30 to be honest, I’d assume there were 3 cubes in that bag. One was the solved one, one that he pre-prepared, and the third was Simon’s mixed cube. If you look carefully, the shape of the bag is a cube when he scrunches it / looks solid still.
I KNOW HOW TO DO THE SECOND ONE
if you look closely, he turns it a few times before flipping it. And after he turns it, 3 sides are solved while the other 3 are not. So he just flips the cube in front of Simon to show the 3 solved faces
How the judges doing such great magic tricks 😳
I am a cuber myself, and I know that when he drops it, he immediately mixes it back up, so i think that he used a pattern where 3 sides were solved and just used the other sided to show its 'scrambled'.
Hogwarts must send a school invitation to this man to be a teacher 😂
I just seen a whole 14 minute video of Simon being lost and confused....
It was brilliant!!
Ahahahah bro true asf
El último truco fue sencillo, el toma el cubo de Howie y lo iguala a la combinación que tiene el y a su vez Simon. Si se fijan bien, Howei le entrega una combinación que nunca es replicada, pasa que ni el mismo Howei la recuerda
Simon's reaction worth it all 🔥😂
He is incredible no words to say
This guy is actually too good this that it's losing some impact, he could make it even more dramatic and draw it out more
I LOVE how Simon reacts to magic acts!! He's always mesmerized hahaha
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2:54 i can see how he did it because i’ve done it before but the rest is just crazy
The solution he provides and says matches the combination that Simon gave him actually isn't the same as what Simon handed back. There were 4 yellow in the lower right corner of the one Simon handed back and the solution he provided didn't have that.
in case anyone wondering how the 2nd trick is done with simon , the jumbled cube that he took out to give simon saying that its the one he solved is not it , you can pause the video to check the any of the sides of the cube while simon hand it back to him , take a screenshot , and check again when he compare them side by side , no pattern that initially simon shuffled is seen on both the cubes , which means he made a pattern on his on , one initially and then he made it again on the perfect to cube to make the exact same one , The same goes to the last trick , the pattern that howie shuffled is not the one that he shows up as two ones with the same pattern and simons big one
Best Rubik’s Cube action since Edward Snowden
how was he not the winner, that's a better act than anyone else, it's original, creative, and super impressive
Taxi looks like simon had figured some of them but just isn't spoiling it.
Yea but it does get tiresome and a few of his tricks are solvable
It’s was called the “Magic Cube” by Erno Rubik, the creator of the Rubik’s Cube.
5:13 in every box there is a diffrent card so he had to shuffel it perfectly
I like his style, although I know how he done few stuff I am not capable to do it… what a style and skill very impressive
And u realise that at 7.13 he actually puts his hand behind his back for quite sometime and solved it with one hand behind his back as he did a specific mix which could be solved in less than ten turns.
This man is Dio Brando,
he stops time and solves the Rubik's cube.
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Oh shit I see the resemblance
When he snaps his fingers
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He put the cube in his pocket and took it out within 5 seconds. Why can he do that ???? I have watched this video so many times ! how wonderful ❤🧡💛💙 💯💯
Everything happens.... Behind his back. I know it... But can't prove it... 😂
5:01 its easy. a rubic cube has 9+9+9 = 27 cubes and a deck of cards has 52 cards :D
And as you can see, he doesnt show all cards in his deck. Im sure his deck includes 27 different cards.
so the only job is you have to remember which card was in which cube :D
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Absolutely
At 12:27, when the judge handed him the cube after mixing, we can see the specific color pattern on cube. But when he showed the two cubes together, that pattern wasn't there both times. So bigger cube and the cube he mixed were set to same already, and he swapped the judge's cube with the third set cube while handling them. I wouldn't be as amazed as people watching this.
I feel bad to whoever came on after him.
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Except actually no because his is fake
@A C he spilt the four yellow.
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Уникальный человек!!! Спомобность вслепую по памяти и тд развио так что кубик собирает одной рукой за секунлы как надо,да еше и пальцы как надо развить!!! Этл просто фантастика!
С кубиками его мозг как компьетер!!) А руки это сверх руки киборга,пальцы точнее!!! Он уникален,так развить пространственное мышление и память!!
Да это правда,тут нет фокуса ,он просто собирает кубик в пакете,за спиной и тд одной рукой !!!! Видел видео как там обьяснялось как он все деоает!!
Ну и коннечо иногда у него есть элементы фокусов и обманов тоже,но все завязано на его супер способности!!
Love it, love it and love it. Thanks.
as a cuber in the first trick when he put the cube in while you couldn’t see his hand because it was inside the bag, he actually onehanded solved it . :) just my opinion
My guess for the very last trick is that he had 2 cubes already matching to the big one and quickly hid Howie’s cube.
14mins of Simon being lost😂😂
anyway the magician is a real genius
@quandlalious ringlenut ok but what about the last trick? Fucking explain it
The chicken nugget god shut the fuck up, nobody cares
Frigging sick
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At least he has a giant Rubik's cube