Surely the only way was to use to gesture trickery to make pen say 3 with his fingers

I think its some type of marked card, he spreads them when Teller gives the deck back. Maybe oil disturbed or heat

AI is fun.

2:43 watching magicians do crazy fancy shuffles is cool, but there's something so reassuring about seeing a magician who you know is really skilled with cards like Teller shuffle cards in the simplest way like any regular person would

I'm no magician but I enjoy trying to figure these card tricks out. I honestly have no idea how he did this but I suspect the trick happened around the 3:50 mark. Notice that even after Teller picked his card, he continued fanning out the cards in his hands, and then controlled where the card re-entered the deck. How the rest of the trick works, I have no idea

Tie your hands behind your back and get penn and teller to do the trick and STILL not know how it’s done. That’s your next assignment. Well done on this one.

I'm not a magician but this is how I think the trick was done. I have not read this anywhere else.: Once Teller selected the card. Boris takes the two of spades card back and places it in the 3rd position somehow. Before Boris gives the cards to Teller for a final shuffle, he palms the top 3 cards and lets Teller shuffle the remaining 49 cards. After Teller hands the deck of cards back to Boris, the palmed cards are placed on top of the deck, giving the illusion that the selected card has been shuffled around. Depending on what number Penn chooses will determine how Boris goes about fishing for the chosen card. Let's say Penn chooses 50. In this case, Boris would start dealing from the bottom of the deck and the two of spades would actually turn out to be the 50th card with no sleight of hand tricks needed. Penn happened to chose #3, which happens to be where the card was placed. Again, no sleight of hand needed. If Penn chose 15, then Boris would have to keep skipping the two of spades card by dealing below it. When it gets to 14, then Boris would grab the two of spades that he kept skipping.

Penn and Teller are the ones doing the trick, for the audience. Teller positions the card at 4:36, Penn of course chooses 3, as they already predetermined. Reality TV is fake as it has always been.

I'm 99% sure I know how he did it, and his methodology is tricky, and he must have practiced an extraordinary amount to do this. 1/2 the trick he does while looking away at 3:42 and half the trick he does at 4:39, 4:39 is the crucial part. Now it's not like I can say 'he did this, then he did this, then he did this, this is how it was done' but after analyzing it a LOT, using logical deduction, and narrowing down the possibilities, this is the most likely result. look at his composure during the majority of the trick. 95% of the time you can tell when a magician is 'doing the trick' and when 'the trick is done' by their calmness or anxiety. If they are anxious and they are moving quickly, they fidget, etc etc the trick is not done and there's more to come. But look. From 4:40 to 5:52 when the cards are handed off, he's completely relaxed, he has no nervous movements, darted worried eye movements, hand gestures to distract, nothing. The trick is done. Before I knew how, I knew the trick was long done by this time. Next, he never even once has nervous hand movements, quick reactions, nothing, even while doing the trick! Some of the only indication is his eyes. At 4:36 he has the same eyes as a coyote or a snake. It knows something, it's hunting. He hasn't yet done the trick, he is waiting for something else. Even when I first heard it, it striked me as extremely strange at 5:14 how calm and out of breath he is. The way he said 'so (pant)' always stuck out to me. It makes sense now, he knows the trick is over, he's overacting to sell the story of the joke, but he's exhausted and he wants to show the big reveal already, mentally he's tired of the routine and wants to move to the final part. Further evidenced by 5:18-5:21 being so slow it's like a written part in a movie. So slow, so calm, so perfect, there is no longer a trick, just a reveal. If you were a sleight of hander, you would never move this slow. So now that you've seen the circumstantial evidence. What can we deduce. It's not sleight of hand. At 3:57, the perfect and only time to do sleight of hand as many many people incorrectly suggested that he palmed the card, his left palm is totally revealed to Teller. 0% chance he palmed left hand without Teller noticing. 3:59 to the camera, right palm is completely revealed and it's empty. So the only time he could palm it, he didn't, and as I said his movements are so slow at 5:18 that sleight of hand was impossible. Not sleight of hand. For me that only leaves 1 option: marked card. Do I know how it was marked, how he read the mark, or how he presented it so well? No, no clue. It is a fact that he forced the card onto the exact position at 3:53. This position was determined as the ideal position earlier that I mentioned 3:42 after Teller took the card, for some reason he continued to fan out the cards until he had a marked card ready to be in position for 3:53. Finally, at 4:39 for a few frames you can see after Teller gave him the 'perfectly random cards' he peeked at them fanned out to find his marked card. Now everything was set in place. Everything I've said up until this point makes sense from a technical standpoint, the only problem I had believing was how 3 was the perfect number, because I established SOH was impossible. Someone online mentioned a few times he was so surprised that Penn said '3' because that was the perfect position. Statistically it's highly improbable that he had the card in the perfect position already. He knew what card it was, we established that, but he didn't have to do *any* hand work to force it to the right position, which is just astronomical luck. I do find it hard to believe, but that's why the trick worked so well. It seems like a miracle because it is. If he actually had to move the cards around, then it would be any old card trick and P&T would point it out immediately. This was done after lots of independent research so most of the ideas are not my own, I did not find this stuff on my own, I don't even still have the sources for the people pointing out the crucial moments of 3:42 and 4:39. After this, I hope someone can understand it much better. I am not a magician and I don't know the proper terminology, this was the best I could do. The acting was perfect, the comedy of the routine was perfect. For a long time I had no clue, and it was like solving a Sherlock riddle to figure this much out. I hope it helped.

Great job!!!!

Y. E. S. P. O. O. K. I. E.

Just a thought. Maybe I missed it, but doesn't every new deck have jokers?.

That was so clean. Wow.

I have only just started having an interest in Magic and after watching a few tricks, I'm wondering how long does it take to get a trick really good so no mistakes are made.

oh Boris that is an impossible trick. Cheers from PHILIPPINES

Thumbs for beeping out what Penn said.

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I Bought Your trick In Vegas!!! #WeOldNow Penns VoiceOver Sounds "RIGGED" , No LAWSUIT HERE;) #WAKEUP #Frenchy 9:00 Not Impressed.

HONESTLY THIS WAS A SERIOUS FOOLER. TO PENN AND TELLER AND ALL OF US TOO.

He just got lucky. The chance of picking the right card is 1/52, or just under 2%. If he hadn't gotten lucky, the episode would not have been aired. Edit: It's actually 1/54, because a brand-new deck contains 2 jokers.

OMG i know how he did it! Is so simple!

Its always the best when they bring comedy to thier acts!

There is definitely a control card used. When Teller picks the card (2s), watch the magicians hands.. he is shuffling his left hand down along the deck to locate the control card. And that's where he cuts to and places the control card on top of the selected card. As for Penn's free choice, I don't know. Multiple outs maybe. But Penns choice seems too perfect. It's an amazing trick if Penn is not in on it. Probably the best card trick I've seen.

i missed the first time, but when teller picked the card i saw him counting the cards somehow so he new it was 2 of spades, how the card was put there still makes this the best card trick ever

3:42 "to Penn too" card is a two, spooky coincidence.

I do believe for the very first time we just witnessed real magic. 😮

The only idea I could get is when Teller put the card back he might put it next to a key card. But Teller then re-shuffled the deck and Penn picked a very tricky number #3. That is an absolutely mind-blowing effect just like the BERGLAS EFFECT

This and Kostya Kimlat are the two most amazing card tricks to fool Penn and Teller. So beautiful and impossibly simple.

At 6:00, Pen had 2 cards. He tried to hide it.

Im upset that this trick is so good, because I really don't like that he used AI voice replication in the act. I really hope that Penn consented to it.

4:45 - no nothing here, but he's holding up 3 fingers, is this where he planted the number 3 in Penn's mind?

4:36 4:37 Teller is checking to make sure the card is in fact in the right spot.

I very very honestly think you got lucky and was able to skip the last part of the trick due to the incredible luck you had

He said it's direct from factory but there weren't any jokers or ad cards in the deck

Man if I could do this trick I would be getting so many events and making so much money then.

Definitely not a brand new cards deck without the jokers!😂

Alison: "Penn had the look I have in every trick!" 😂

when we buy a new deck of card...the deck contain 2 jokers and 2 commercial card design...these 4 cards are not in the deck..what a beautiful vanish

Does it mean that Penn and Teller don't know how the trick works?

I know how he didn’t do it.

That was fucking insane

Whether he squared the deck or not he was fully fooled cause no one saw much of anything! You sir must not be allowed on a roullete table....

The genius of this trick, apart from the trick itself is the "Penn" thought narration as a form of misdirect but also just fantastic entertainment for the whole routine. Well done!

This is essentially the Berglas effect but his execution of it seems nearly impossible. Really well done.

I love Alyson, she is the best hostess ever! Fun, clever, a great speaker and so beautiful.

That’s a whole new level of mastery!💪🏼

Nice magic... unfortunately its on screen, that means you can watch it again and again... visually beautiful - but of course i guess there is a very material thing beyond.... i guess in this situation Boris put a mark on the back of the chosen deuce with his thumb, when he got the chosen card back from Teller - and Teller was his helping assistant team mate - Teller recognizing Boris's marked card while shuffling carefully the deck - observing the marked card - when Teller shuffling the deck, Teller recognized the marked card - he placed that very card onto the top of the deck, then handled to Boris and Boris, when received the deck, placed the Top Chosen Deuce to the bottom of the deck (very nice slight and Teller stare and admire that hand and movement with smile.... he is a fellow comrade magician) ... But the key moment was not on screen (to get the deuce the 3rd place) This is only an option - myguess - i think that was a gesture from Teller accepting the "dance" i mean teamwork.... bringing back historical magic showing to the recent world - respecting the "uniform" and history and magician heroes - coz old school magic has died, since social life takes place as EGO on internet... i'd have been happy to see this act in the Real Life only... not online... actually real magic used to need a team... many cases needed assistants ;-) and that is a beautiful human thing, coz magicians is for audience only, to entertain and fill their life with happiness and mistery. .. do not forget magicians are teampayers - our happiness is their victory.... but only - observing their beautfiul acts in ONLY Real Life on the Stage! ....unfortunately that golden age has been gone... that is why i started my monologe with "unfortunately".... i am sure this is one of the most amazing and beautiful teamwork between comrades... teamwork for oldschool audience... i am sure they worked together.... for us...

Where are the jokers in a new pack??

I think that was pure coincidence. He was supposed to say ( in penns voice) when the 3rd card was not the card something like " that would be pretty good trick if the 3rd card was the selection" and move on with the original trick. but coincidently it was and he just went along with it. If not then this is really mindblowing.