"Alright Penn, think of your birth month number. Now add 6 and take away your birth month number. Now multiply your NEW UNIQUE number by 2. Your number is..." *lifts shirt to reveal 12 carved into his chest*
Nothing says humble magician like "I made up literally ever magic trick ever and I didn't even mean to I just sort of did it after becoming the best lawyer"
"Alright guys, I want you to think of a number between 1 and a billion. Now.....add 3. Now....subtract the number you started with and let's see if I can guess your number. Is it 3?"
advertising. His stuff on facebook, I wouldn't say the stuff of legend, but it gets his name and face out there, so people want to see if he can do that live or not. Even if he gets the answer wrong, it still gets people interested.
@Pi it's both. They film multiple acts in a day with one audience. Those acts are then cut into more than one episode (and each episode is multiple acts). It get's hard to keep track of the original broadcast order if you are watching the individual acts on youtube, and it was never possible to know what order they were filmed in (unless you were there) since they are often rearranged in editing before broadcast anyway.
He chose Casey at Bat not because it’s more TV appropriate, but because he didn’t want to admit he didn’t know Howl, one of the greatest poems of the last 70 years.
okay he obviously put the cards in red black red black order while he was looking at them and tossed the cards that were not in that order. Then he just did a series of cuts so that they remained in red black red black order and then he just put one on each side repeatedly.
To the people saying it is not magic he memorized the card. Grab a deck take out 21 cards. Memorize them in 10-15 sec. Divide them into 5 packets mix those packets. Pick them back up in random order. Count random numbers of card put at the bottom do this two times. Then seperate them as qucikly as he did. Now you get it. It is impossible lol
to bad, he has a really soozhing voice. i love it when he talks :) his stage persona is one of the best out there. to me, there is only one silent actor who did at least as great as teller does and thats cardini
Penn says "boy" when he starts addressing the magician which usually means they haven't fooled but this is the rare occasion where the magician actually fooled them when he mentions that word
Dear Rick, I'd say it takes more balls to post your trick on a CZcams channel than it does to show it off in front of Penn and Teller. These guys know tricks, they know sleights, they know almost all the prestidigitation methods of misdirection and tomfoolery out there. So all you gotta do is trick them with a fascinating trick where you lose the "how" and become more wrapped up in the presentation. CZcams commenters will frequently pick apart the trick, piece by piece, until they have theories, and then they scrutinize and sorta bully - calling your trick easy, simple, pathetic, etc. So hats off to you, Sir. I enjoyed the presentation, I enjoyed the idea, and I enjoyed the whole effect. It doesn't matter at this point if you know what trick you used, you made a fun and enjoyable act. And you posted it on CZcams, and as of now, you have 1635 likes to your 71 dislikes, that's a 95.8% approval rating. Big cajones, man. *applauds*
Rex Spaulding the method to this is really simple. Im a magician as well and I own his video where he teaches this same effect. Obviously the way he is doing it is a lot more difficult with him reciting a poem which was amazing. Also you cant just sign up for fool us. The magician gets a phone call and they either decline or agree to be on the show
Rex Spaulding The thing is no one really fools Penn and Teller. its just the fact that they have around 30 seconds to crack the trick that someone was developing for months. Give them few hours and I'm sure they'd crack it. Just like a lot of people on yt did. Unrelated to that I'd like to say that this guy lacks charisma. He tryed way to hard to make it interesting and it was just boring to watch. One of the worst performers so far on Fu.
So I do mean cojones... I blame it on Spanglish and Gringo pronunciation. Although you could say his drawers are big, in order to house the underwear that hold his big _cojones_. *shrugs*
+WeMakeVideosCA Spot on what I was thinking. I was genuinely baffled that P&T then went on to say he fooled them, when "all" the guy did was doing precisely what he said he was going to do - and how is that even a "trick" then?! I have to put that "all" in quotes though, for that level of memory skills is admittedly very impressive.
he sells the effect, I bought it, so I do know the actual method, and like I already said the first half really was just memorization, while the second half was trickery... of course I'm not just gonna expose the full method here, if you really want to know how it's done, go buy the trick, its only $10, and its called binary code
+Rick Lax I think you partnered with a display company to make ultra high resolution displays and used those instead of cards. Also I have some other crazy and untenable ideas.
I'm pretty disappointed in how Rick cut this... instead of showing this as it aired, he cut out the deck swap as well as the moment when Penn and Teller actually say what he did. He'll probably delete this comment when he sees it, but it would be nice if he just let the act stand as it was performed and aired.
there was no deck switch though, I assume he did that fake move just to throw penn & teller off, but considering the real method doesn't actually involve any switches I am surprised he would cut out the 'faked move'
All I'm going to say is its a simple algorithm. All he has to do is remember what order to place the cards in which pile after he has simply forced the same types of shuffles. It does take memory, not memorizing where they where just memorizing how to repeat the shuffles and separating them afterwards.
I get all of the hate because of his Facebook games, but I've probably watched this routine 6 or 7 times over the last couple of years just because of how impressive it is. To memorize and recite a poem like that with the energy and pauses, plus handling and keeping track of the cards, PLUS making the jokes and playing with Penn and Teller. Simply impressive.
To memorize anything and recite it like that is not difficult, I bet there are plenty of songs you could recite, after some practice you could easily increase the speed. The handling and keeping track of cards is a good skill but no more impressive than any other magician who has spent a few years at his craft. PLUS the jokes...well each to their own I suppose.
The remembering the red and black card order in the beginning is pretty easy. Remember the number of red and black cards in succession instead of color after color and then alternate between left and right piles. That's why he didn't want the applause back then. The second time was truly deserving of applause though. Especially with the poem in between, which would completely ruin my memory. And the stacks and reordering.
I don’t think it was memorisation. I think I’ve worked it out from looking at it (and this is no comment on rick. This was an awesome routine and a MILLION miles better than the crap that goes on Facebook with the sticky notes). Well, worked out a way he could have done it? He said there were 21 cards. I think it was either 20 or 22. I think when he “memorised” them (remember he was throwing one or two away) he just ordered them red black red black alternating, culling cards across. Then when he came to deal down the piles he just had them in even numbers (so they alternated throughout. I.e whatever was on top, the opposite was on the bottom). Then it wouldn’t matter which order they were stacked up in. Then the cards from top to bottom doesn’t change the order of the cards. Then when dealing them down he does lots of little like cross hand type things where he’s distracting from the fact he is just colour sorting them from the red black order. That visual distraction mixed with the incredible poem memorisation made for a really slick little routine. I am always more interested in the method than the actual punchline for whatever reason but I really like this routine either way :)
The trick itself looks simple to me as a programmer. As it's about red&black, you only need 0 and 1 (base-2). So, for example, 8 cards go like: 0010-1101 (black-black-red-black etc.). Binary code is easily translatable without calculation (unlike decimal) to hexadecimal (base-16), for example, 0010 in binary is 0x2 in hexadecimal, and 1101 in binary equals to 0xD in hexadecimal. You basically need to remember only 16 such matches by heart. In the end you get a row of hexadecimal values. In my example above, 8 cards get translated to just two letters: "2D". Then you use the usual trick of assigning words to every hexadecimal letter and constructing a story from it. Say, 2D would mean "2 dudes". And that's it. To "remember" the original cards, you need to do the same but backwards. 2 dudes is translated to 2D; value '2D' is translated to binary '0010-1101' (just 16 matches to remember). Voila, you've remembered the order of 8 cards. The rest of the trick is a combination of classical techniques and some other mathematical quirks like that. However the guy does it by reciting a poem, and that's which is pretty impressive.
+carsten There are also things in programming like binary trees. Basically, 0 can mean "go to the left" and 1 can mean "go the right". So if you have imagined some sort of a labyrinth imagined in your head, where each dead-end contains some object, a stream of binary code can lead you to the answer. That's how some of the compression schemes work.
+carsten That really does seem like a simple theory, but would you feel confident you could memorize 21 cards, while reciting a poem, that quickly (Both speaking the poem, and memorizing) ?
Yes, that was cool ... but we know HOW he did it. It's a memory trick. Definitely impressive, no doubt. He's got a great mind. But the truly amazing magic tricks are the ones in which we do NOT know how he did it. And I've definitely seen more amazing tricks.
I recall seeing a sleight-of-hand where it looked like he cut the cards but he really didn't. If you watch closely, you can see it. If I have the time, I'll review the tape and post the time/point at which it occurs.
+Crimson Kng He didn't memorize anything but the original 12 cards. this time he didn't use the whole deck but he could have if he did a true false shuffle. Im not calling it a false shuffle because the deck was already shuffled. Rick Lax sells his tricks, you could buy this one if you wanted to.
he never let anyone shuffle the second set. also, the entire video you can notice him NOT showing the second set spread out to anyone. if cards were alternatively arranged, they would not be affected by being split into 5 or rearranging the deck from top to bottom. At the end when he splits them, he keeps switching hands but notice closely and they are just alternate cards
+elwhyify it's the same as shuffle tracking and sequencing like you would in the game of blackjack only this time it's easier and you don't need to know the exact sequence rather than just red or black which is easier,
"Alright Penn, think of your birth month number. Now add 6 and take away your birth month number. Now multiply your NEW UNIQUE number by 2. Your number is..."
*lifts shirt to reveal 12 carved into his chest*
*opens the trunk of a car to reveal 12 corpses*
Werecarebear and pans back to show two more corpses, Penn. and Teller.
Surprised he didn't say, "For this to work you've got to like and share this video"
@BroskyWhoDatedHoski cos he always does for his social media
Lmao
2:03 teller did exactly what I've wanted to do to rick lax for ages now
This is the only place you can make fun of him without getting your comment deleted.
Finally there is somewhere where we can call him out on his bullshit 😂
The uncesonsored version of Teller flipping the bird would make an amazing gif!
haha
I thought that was him saying he only knew the first verse.
Nikko M the
Why can't he talk?
Joseph Gilbert he does but he'a decided not to talk in public. part of his image
If I fool you, you've got to like and share the video. Deal?
Chen Vannlydeth nailed it. except those ones never work on me. this one was better
like and share the videauoo
Chen Vannlydeth lol
Did not fool me with simple math and tricks
You were unable to fool me and I'm sure many other people.
But he didn't ask people to share and like his facebook page
Or ask people to lock in their number
*+ScoffSlaphead72* 2 years after
In a right hand corner of the kitchen
Nothing says humble magician like "I made up literally ever magic trick ever and I didn't even mean to I just sort of did it after becoming the best lawyer"
A real piece of shit
Look at the face he makes after, it was supposed to come off as sarcasm
r/punchablefaces
They use A LOT of editing. I bet it was quoted out of context. If not, he’s the source he appears to be on FB.
"Alright guys, I want you to think of a number between 1 and a billion. Now.....add 3. Now....subtract the number you started with and let's see if I can guess your number.
Is it 3?"
When penn says “you fooled us” I could see rick lax’s thoughts and all he was thinking was: “I’m going to have a great career on Facebook”
🤣🤣🤣
If he can do cool things like this, then why does he make all the shit he does on facebook??
JackWolfDM my thoughts exactly!
advertising. His stuff on facebook, I wouldn't say the stuff of legend, but it gets his name and face out there, so people want to see if he can do that live or not. Even if he gets the answer wrong, it still gets people interested.
what part of this did you find cool?
He probably knows they're dumb, but he also understands it's what gets views. How he comes up with dumber ideas every time I don't know.
JackWolfDM because this is nowhere near as impressive as it looks
Rick Lax discovered algebra but 800 years after everyone else
Apparently everyone has seen this guy on Facebook, but me.
And me
Clicked one video one time, and now the FB algorithm has him popping up every time I watch any video 🙃
same lol
why dont you do stuff like this on your Facebook as opposed to your sellout 'like this' crap
Jacob Williams no shit.
Jacob Williams a
This. The Facebook stuff is SO groan worthy. Add 5 ! Now subtract 5!
srsly?
Jacob Williams because people are dumb as shit and he capitalizes off their stupidity. Can't blame him I guess, he's just so god damn annoying...
because people are retarted and love sharing simple shit
Teller giving Rick Laxitive the bird was so satisfying.
When I saw this in my recommendations I thought someone edited Rick Lax's facebook videos into P&T as a meme. Oh boy...
J S i thought maybe it was green screened for like half the video. Cause the setup looked similar to a previous trick
Same
Ohhh he was a lawyer. It ALL makes sense now 😂
Wow reading all these comments just confirmed the feeling I got from him just by seeing the type of jacket he chose to wear
I actually enjoyed it, too bad his fb page is pure cancer
It is now 2020, and his FB page is alive and well and still "pure cancer"; people are still eating it up, sadly...
I 'liked' the video after Teller flipped Rick off.
2:06 that's the girl on stage during " Shin Lim "
They film multiple episodes at a time.
Do you mean, they have more than one act in in an episode? If so, you would be correct.
@Pi it's both. They film multiple acts in a day with one audience. Those acts are then cut into more than one episode (and each episode is multiple acts). It get's hard to keep track of the original broadcast order if you are watching the individual acts on youtube, and it was never possible to know what order they were filmed in (unless you were there) since they are often rearranged in editing before broadcast anyway.
Ikr
@decent balderas you're one stupid fuck bud.
Does anyone realize how cool it is he recited Casey? That was the first thing Penn and Teller did on their first TV special!
5:48 Teller looked adorable when he was pointing out the cards
Teller at 2:02 is all of us when we see Rick Lax on FB or anywhere else
"i'm gonna go through the cards right now, I'm gonna take out those twelve" to which twelve is he referring? something was edited out
all lawyers are good on fooling people!!
+Buddy Salinas *at* fooling. Lol. But if that's true, what does that say about you?
Loiyaboy how da fuck do u know wat he does
LOL. Ain't it the truth
Buddy Salinas guess that's why he calls himself a magician
@Mentally Awakened no he said he got very close to being one
Gawd, his arrogance and slimeball-y-ness are hard to top.
beatz04 not really, he wasn’t arrogant or slime ball y
@@brandaccountname9833 when you see a magician on Television perform a Trick, they probably didnt think of it, I DID! 😂
I'm like 90% sure he just used the poem as a mnemonic device and speed-memorized the cards.
3:43 the woman on the right was a volunteer for Shin Lim's performance
This guy is the reason ad blocker happened.
2:01 - sums up pretty much how people feel about Rick Lax XD
press the "like" button to LOCK IN your answer
he just memorised card, magic my arse😭😂
so much yes
2:02 Good Job Teller
He chose Casey at Bat not because it’s more TV appropriate, but because he didn’t want to admit he didn’t know Howl, one of the greatest poems of the last 70 years.
I genuinely do think it’s just a memory trick, he has incredible memory
7:20 those are contestants on agt
They are going to sit over there and delibewate
Don't be mean! Johnathan Woss is gweat!
Weally guys gwow up
Cmon! That's weally insensitive!!
Wick lax was weally good
obScurity this is why he got replaced
This was amazing , what a great job by this man. Must be smart to remember all the patter
You went from an actual good magician to a facebook meme-fuck.
okay he obviously put the cards in red black red black order while he was looking at them and tossed the cards that were not in that order. Then he just did a series of cuts so that they remained in red black red black order and then he just put one on each side repeatedly.
i remember when i first started doing card tricks as a hobby this was the first trick i learnt lol.
Still by far one of my favorites
I really enjoy Rick Lax and think he does a great job.I follow him on facebook and I am never disappointed !
Rick lax: "I invent magic tricks"
Also Rick lax: "Take 100 and subtract your age, and that number should be that many years less than 100"
He uses advanced memory techniques, he saves the order of the cards in the poems.
To the people saying it is not magic he memorized the card.
Grab a deck take out 21 cards. Memorize them in 10-15 sec. Divide them into 5 packets mix those packets. Pick them back up in random order. Count random numbers of card put at the bottom do this two times. Then seperate them as qucikly as he did. Now you get it. It is impossible lol
Definitely miss this Rick Lax on Social Media... this was the man I started follow so long ago.
I've always loved it that TELLER doesn't talk.😄
to bad, he has a really soozhing voice. i love it when he talks :)
his stage persona is one of the best out there. to me, there is only one silent actor who did at least as great as teller does and thats cardini
+Benjamin Lehman It makes me wonder if PEN doesn't write ..
+The Sqoou 😂😂
3:31 "so if I did that right, you gotta like and share this video, alright?"
Penn says "boy" when he starts addressing the magician which usually means they haven't fooled but this is the rare occasion where the magician actually fooled them when he mentions that word
“I passed the BAR and then tried writing an entire book on deceptions” typical lawyer
Dear Rick,
I'd say it takes more balls to post your trick on a CZcams channel than it does to show it off in front of Penn and Teller. These guys know tricks, they know sleights, they know almost all the prestidigitation methods of misdirection and tomfoolery out there. So all you gotta do is trick them with a fascinating trick where you lose the "how" and become more wrapped up in the presentation.
CZcams commenters will frequently pick apart the trick, piece by piece, until they have theories, and then they scrutinize and sorta bully - calling your trick easy, simple, pathetic, etc.
So hats off to you, Sir. I enjoyed the presentation, I enjoyed the idea, and I enjoyed the whole effect. It doesn't matter at this point if you know what trick you used, you made a fun and enjoyable act.
And you posted it on CZcams, and as of now, you have 1635 likes to your 71 dislikes, that's a 95.8% approval rating. Big cajones, man. *applauds*
Rex Spaulding the method to this is really simple. Im a magician as well and I own his video where he teaches this same effect. Obviously the way he is doing it is a lot more difficult with him reciting a poem which was amazing. Also you cant just sign up for fool us. The magician gets a phone call and they either decline or agree to be on the show
Rex Spaulding The thing is no one really fools Penn and Teller. its just the fact that they have around 30 seconds to crack the trick that someone was developing for months. Give them few hours and I'm sure they'd crack it. Just like a lot of people on yt did.
Unrelated to that I'd like to say that this guy lacks charisma. He tryed way to hard to make it interesting and it was just boring to watch. One of the worst performers so far on Fu.
Where do you get the idea that they only have 30 seconds to crack it? The show is just edited to appear that way for the sake of brevity.
So I do mean cojones... I blame it on Spanglish and Gringo pronunciation.
Although you could say his drawers are big, in order to house the underwear that hold his big _cojones_. *shrugs*
Rex Spaulding You just transformed a fail into a win xD Awesome.
I’m surprised he didn’t use Red Bull in his act am I right Drew Gooden fans
I liked this trick so much that I'll come back in a few days and finish the video.
That was the cutest little middle finger i've ever seen.
remember to like and share
Imagine the trick if he’d poured Red Bull on those cards.
I was hoping clicking on one of the Penn and Teller videos would take me to a tutorial.
Take care and God bless.
This isn't magic, this is a memorization routine that is just well done
NickSkam well what is magic? All magic is just pretending you're doing something you're not. Whether it be via memory, or a double lift lol.
This isn't mentalism or memory
How did he fool them wasn’t that just good memory
Rick Lax makes me feel the way I feel when I get stuck at a family reunion talking to family members I hate
Been binge watching Fool Us all week. Such a good show. T^T
What a beautiful game. 5 years later I can only offer my best of support now.
I'm pretty sure you just memorized those 21 cards
+WeMakeVideosCA Spot on what I was thinking. I was genuinely baffled that P&T then went on to say he fooled them, when "all" the guy did was doing precisely what he said he was going to do - and how is that even a "trick" then?!
I have to put that "all" in quotes though, for that level of memory skills is admittedly very impressive.
the first half of the trick was just real memorization, but the second half of the trick was not
Darcy Willowhite Ok, if you have an alternative, I sure would like to hear it, then.
he sells the effect, I bought it, so I do know the actual method, and like I already said the first half really was just memorization, while the second half was trickery... of course I'm not just gonna expose the full method here, if you really want to know how it's done, go buy the trick, its only $10, and its called binary code
he still technically memorized the 21 cards, the trick is he messed with how he memorized the cards.
Sounds like I didn't just fool Penn & Teller...I fooled all the CZcams commenters, too.
+Rick Lax I think you partnered with a display company to make ultra high resolution displays and used those instead of cards. Also I have some other crazy and untenable ideas.
+Rick Lax if you can fool youtube commenters, that actually says a lot lol
+Rick Lax Very cool. Though I have to guess that there is no trick.
+Rick Lax To be fair, CZcams commenters can be pretty stupid. ;)
Oh, uhm, that includes me I guess...
+Rick Lax To be fair, CZcams commenters can be pretty stupid. ;)
Oh, uhm, that includes me I guess...
love how the host says "coowage" lol
Loved this, great trick, no idea how it's done, especially as I never want to understand magic, I want to be ignorant and amazed all at once
I'm surprised he didn't ask them to like the video to lock in their answer
Relax, Rick lax.
I was half expecting him to say "and make sure to like the video and share he video"
There some kind of surface textures on the cards ? One texture for black one for red ?
This is the magic I like Rick come back to this
Not just me others also
+RasPE Nitros Just you
I'm pretty disappointed in how Rick cut this... instead of showing this as it aired, he cut out the deck swap as well as the moment when Penn and Teller actually say what he did. He'll probably delete this comment when he sees it, but it would be nice if he just let the act stand as it was performed and aired.
there was no deck switch though, I assume he did that fake move just to throw penn & teller off, but considering the real method doesn't actually involve any switches I am surprised he would cut out the 'faked move'
@@NotoriousDRC what's the real method?
When he looked Penn in the face saying Strike 2 he switched them.
@@FrenchysPlaysTV He didn't. The cards are sitting on the table at the time, he's not holding them.
He’s best trick is turning a 10second video on fb into a 5 minute one
"I create my own tricks." See's everything that everyone has done.
Go to 0:17 and put it on slow motion. It is actually hilarious.
and actually shows how the trick is done
I'd imagine Starbucks would look at you a bit oddly if you walked in with your own table...
Really wish he hadn't fooled them, really hate this guy
Lemme guess how he did it. He memerised the order and has good memory abilities
no
There is actually no memory required at all. He wants you to think that is how it is done.
there is some minor memory techniques used for the first half
Yes, you're quite right. You need a good memory to memorize the poem.
He ensures his shuffles and discards leaves him with alternating red and black so cuts don't matter
All I'm going to say is its a simple algorithm. All he has to do is remember what order to place the cards in which pile after he has simply forced the same types of shuffles. It does take memory, not memorizing where they where just memorizing how to repeat the shuffles and separating them afterwards.
I enjoyed your performance. Well done!
I love this trick but it doesn't top Shawn farhuquar
I get all of the hate because of his Facebook games, but I've probably watched this routine 6 or 7 times over the last couple of years just because of how impressive it is. To memorize and recite a poem like that with the energy and pauses, plus handling and keeping track of the cards, PLUS making the jokes and playing with Penn and Teller. Simply impressive.
To memorize anything and recite it like that is not difficult, I bet there are plenty of songs you could recite, after some practice you could easily increase the speed. The handling and keeping track of cards is a good skill but no more impressive than any other magician who has spent a few years at his craft. PLUS the jokes...well each to their own I suppose.
you're amazing dude. Greetings from Brazil
His name sounds like what a drunk person would say to an antsy person.
"Rick Lax, maaaaaaaannn"
The remembering the red and black card order in the beginning is pretty easy. Remember the number of red and black cards in succession instead of color after color and then alternate between left and right piles. That's why he didn't want the applause back then. The second time was truly deserving of applause though. Especially with the poem in between, which would completely ruin my memory. And the stacks and reordering.
The poem is part of the memorization
I don’t think it was memorisation. I think I’ve worked it out from looking at it (and this is no comment on rick. This was an awesome routine and a MILLION miles better than the crap that goes on Facebook with the sticky notes). Well, worked out a way he could have done it?
He said there were 21 cards. I think it was either 20 or 22. I think when he “memorised” them (remember he was throwing one or two away) he just ordered them red black red black alternating, culling cards across. Then when he came to deal down the piles he just had them in even numbers (so they alternated throughout. I.e whatever was on top, the opposite was on the bottom). Then it wouldn’t matter which order they were stacked up in. Then the cards from top to bottom doesn’t change the order of the cards. Then when dealing them down he does lots of little like cross hand type things where he’s distracting from the fact he is just colour sorting them from the red black order. That visual distraction mixed with the incredible poem memorisation made for a really slick little routine.
I am always more interested in the method than the actual punchline for whatever reason but I really like this routine either way :)
The trick itself looks simple to me as a programmer. As it's about red&black, you only need 0 and 1 (base-2). So, for example, 8 cards go like: 0010-1101 (black-black-red-black etc.). Binary code is easily translatable without calculation (unlike decimal) to hexadecimal (base-16), for example, 0010 in binary is 0x2 in hexadecimal, and 1101 in binary equals to 0xD in hexadecimal. You basically need to remember only 16 such matches by heart. In the end you get a row of hexadecimal values. In my example above, 8 cards get translated to just two letters: "2D". Then you use the usual trick of assigning words to every hexadecimal letter and constructing a story from it. Say, 2D would mean "2 dudes". And that's it. To "remember" the original cards, you need to do the same but backwards. 2 dudes is translated to 2D; value '2D' is translated to binary '0010-1101' (just 16 matches to remember). Voila, you've remembered the order of 8 cards.
The rest of the trick is a combination of classical techniques and some other mathematical quirks like that.
However the guy does it by reciting a poem, and that's which is pretty impressive.
+carsten There are also things in programming like binary trees. Basically, 0 can mean "go to the left" and 1 can mean "go the right". So if you have imagined some sort of a labyrinth imagined in your head, where each dead-end contains some object, a stream of binary code can lead you to the answer. That's how some of the compression schemes work.
+carsten That really does seem like a simple theory, but would you feel confident you could memorize 21 cards, while reciting a poem, that quickly (Both speaking the poem, and memorizing) ?
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+Michael Gurzhiev (tms5) You didn't finish your comment. What do you think?
That’s not how it’s done, it’s not by memory
I’ve never seen more than 2 minutes of content from this guy other than this video
Never underestimate a lawyer's memory
Yes, that was cool ... but we know HOW he did it. It's a memory trick. Definitely impressive, no doubt. He's got a great mind. But the truly amazing magic tricks are the ones in which we do NOT know how he did it. And I've definitely seen more amazing tricks.
+Crimson Kng You are trolling right?
+Charles Dubber I don't even know what that means
To memorize a deck of cards is close to impossible, and no that wasn't the method
I recall seeing a sleight-of-hand where it looked like he cut the cards but he really didn't. If you watch closely, you can see it. If I have the time, I'll review the tape and post the time/point at which it occurs.
+Crimson Kng He didn't memorize anything but the original 12 cards. this time he didn't use the whole deck but he could have if he did a true false shuffle. Im not calling it a false shuffle because the deck was already shuffled. Rick Lax sells his tricks, you could buy this one if you wanted to.
Somebody please enlighten me about the irony on Teller's name ;)
I don’t think there is any ; other than the obvious.
7:18 has the danger-act-couple from AGT (the one where she shot him w/the arrow)
he never let anyone shuffle the second set. also, the entire video you can notice him NOT showing the second set spread out to anyone. if cards were alternatively arranged, they would not be affected by being split into 5 or rearranging the deck from top to bottom. At the end when he splits them, he keeps switching hands but notice closely and they are just alternate cards
sequencing and shuffle theory
+Ryan Correia go on...
+elwhyify it's the same as shuffle tracking and sequencing like you would in the game of blackjack only this time it's easier and you don't need to know the exact sequence rather than just red or black which is easier,
9:06 what was teller smelling?
if there was any chemical substances attached to the cards that allows him to identify if it's red or black
+WeMakeVideosCA im probably completely wrong , but he may be smelling rick's drink to see if the scent was potent enough to mark the cards?
+Zrkled He was checking what the drink was- it was coffee flavoured tequila, apparently.
WeMakeVideosCA if he use any substances u dumbfuck
Smelling Ricks shit content
Cool trick. Shame fool us isn't available here in Belgium, so thank you sir for sharing.
Hey man good job. That was a really cool act.
7:21 OH MY GOD
Special contact lenses huh? That would assume he didn't use Penn's deck then.
Enjoyed it, and I enjoy all your tiktok videos too 👌
6:33 whats very closely to the card he flicks on the left it turns over