owned this in hard cover many times. awesome book. i thought you were going to say rings in your fingers.

uhm, minor detail, penn wrote his name on the top of the card, not in the middle, the card that he got out from his trick, was Penn names in bigg letters in the middle....

Greetings from the Netherlands, hope all is well. Enjoying your tricks, as always:)

Such a bold energetic and interesting personality! Amazing Trick. Have watched countless times and I always enjoy it!

Card tricks always lead me to one thing! Heresy! 😂😂 always blows my mind

i've been watching this card routine on youtube for years now... it is one of my hopes that I get to see it live someday!

wheres the trophy

a masterpiece of a card trick

Ravenclaw The Sorting Hat....probably

Oh I figured it out. Shawn's head is up his own ass with joy and happiness (Canadian), and Allison has a nice one so when theirs touch, they link up like some kind of fleshy R2-D2 probing a wall socket and he can see what she sees.

Bonjour Commercialisez vous les 2 Livres en FRANCAIS ? Merci

The blank book is actually in brail

I learned how to do this one when I was 9, but it's a good trick for those who don't know.

At 3:14 you can see that he clearly has lenses on his glasses, by the way they reflect the lighting. They must allow him to see what's printed on the pages, and it's not visible to the naked eye. By the end he removes the lenses, but the glasses are key.

Every page in Allison's book is the same.

A fellow Canadian. I have zero idea how you did any of your tricks. But I loved watching you do them. Respect from Airdrie Alberta

you need to be an actor or audiobook narrator or podcaster or something my guy. your demeanor and way of speaking is like talking to an old friend

Penn's hair and him being himself, Jonathan Ross as the host; easily the best season.

OH MY GOD AFTER 8 YEARS I THINK I FIGURED THIS OUT. AND THERE IS NO WAY THIS IS THE METHOD. BUT I THINK IT IS 2?? OR MAYBE 1. PLUS SOMETHING IN THE BOOK IS FOR SURE CUT. @ShawnFarquhar what do you think?

Maybe he didn´t switch the book but only the glasses, and the book in his hand looks blank but is not exactly blank...😉

Hello from Kazakhstan thank you 😊

So the trick I’m presuming uses some form of a polarised print and his spectacles. Because the glasses do have lenses until he switches them before he turns to address Alyson. Then he points out that they don’t have lenses as a nice little misdirect. And it’s kinda genius because it masks the accusation of a book switch, when in actuality the switch is on his face. Veddddy noice trick!

The background set design with the giant packs of cards is amazing

what a great routine. i was not expecting you to get them in their cellophane again, and it seems like none of the commenters have figured out how or when or even the number of tricks you did>

4:31 you can see lenses in the glasses.

Best magician out there!

glasses switch

I imagine there is a glasses switch, and the book is printed in a way that only a special lens can see it, polarization for example

13 years later and this is still my favorite magic performance of all time.

Yeah that trick is easy with more than 1 book. He just needs to memorize the largest word on each page for the final reveal. No wonder that was not the trick, far too trivial. That book which he shows only has to look blank. There was no close examination other than by the self professed "easy target" so it could have been written white on white and he just slit a polarized piece of film over the page. Not even the entire page has to be noted as Alison had no control over what information was divulged. Shawn just rambled impressively.

Wow Mr. Farquhar! You really made Penn work hard for his code words on this one. At least it seemed that way to me. Great act either way

Why is it that when I watch Shawn perform, I feel like watching Michael Scott who is a decent guy and is good at magic?

Probably my favourite performance of a card trick I’ve ever seen. The dynamic is so brilliantly performed by both Shawn and Penn. This is the trick I show people to explain why magic is still amazing even when you know it’s a trick Penns reaction is all it takes

Such a dope Omni routine!

Im calling BS, i think he fooled them. Well done sir i needed that smile and amazement that magic brings today

He needs to slow down his speaking he seems very nervous

The trick is done by special ink that u can see with special glasses Shawn removed the plastic glasses at the end when he showed there is no glass he actually pushed them out so they are lost and now the glasses have no glass so pen and teller cant find out about his little cheat 😂

I think I have an idea on how it's done. Is it in any way related to colouring books?

Special glasses

Definitely saw the deck switch

You could know by the presence of glass in the glasses that this video is indeed quite new.

My grandma has one and I cried when she put it up

rubber cement!

This has to be the most wholesome reaction video I’ve ever seen!

If I had to guess, after seeing the description and watching multiple times, It would be tiny letters near the spine of the book. When he flips through it later, you could pinch the spine to only show the outer parts of the page and hide the inner text.

Its amazing how even though it was pointed out as the obvious part of the trick, the deck switch at 2:45 is so smooth I would not have noticed it

WOW 😲

I do believe in this video someone at the top left of the frame, when he raised it above the frame someone else grabbed and took the bottle away

The thing that boggles me is that you see the deck switch as penn mentions. But I have no clue how he put the plastic in, or when he switches the card

Love this trick a ton. The first time around was mind boggling for Shawn on Fool us, but this had utterly fantastic misdirection that caught penn and teller so hard.