Magician REACTS to Wes Iseli HEADS OR TAILS coin flipping on Penn and Teller FOOL US 2020

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Magician reacts to Wes Iseli 2020 performing magic tricks with heads or tails coin flipping for Penn and Teller on their show Penn & Teller Fool Us 2020. Wes Iseli is an American magician, and here he involves the whole audience in making guesses about heads or tails while flipping a coin, and somehow shows with a prediction that either he knows the future... or he's really good at flipping coins! ;-) Will he fool Penn & Teller and become a fooler winner? Will he walk away with the fool us trophy? This video shows the reaction of someone familiar with magic so you can see how someone in this field feels about the performance! This is Fool Us Season 7 2020.
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[@FusionDeveloper]

You can flip a coin without it flipping. You can control how many times a coin will flip in the air, such as 3 times. It looked like it was spinning fast enough and enough times to be difficult to reliably count the rotations. Maybe a large enough, physically distinguishable enough coin, can easily be felt to know the side. I know if you were to feel both sides of a quarter you could easily tell which side is heads, but not sure if you could do it discreetly.

[@icthulu]

Looks like he picked an audience member before the start, and as you mentioned, slight of handed the results to always have that one guy win. Still a good trick.

[@wongjason6719]

I think he saw the guy before the show started and he wrote the prediction. He kept his eyes on the guy the whole time even though it looked like he’s looking everywhere. Simply feeling the coin can create that affect. Penn mentioned feeling the coin is not what he did but what if that really is how he did it (looking at his face after). Sometimes Penn says multiple methods to the magician. I feel like he couldve done that here.

[@unbroken1010]

In the bag was the gift of knowledge the answer to the age-old question how much wood could a woodchuck could chuck wood if a woodchuck could chuck wood... One pound per day..

[@lawofficeofprestonparkpllc4918]

​@@FusionDeveloper He knows which side he needs to be facing up before he slaps it on the back of his hand. The trick is to throw the coin in the air, catch it, and put it down on the correct side. That just takes a lot of practice. I'm sure he could do it with any half dollar. I bet he couldn't do it with a dime. He gave the trick away when he told Penn, "You're gonna get it wrong." Penn accepted defeat when he guessed wrong with the "gaffed coin." He was just having fun with it after that.

[@brandongiles6875]

Friend of Wes here, regarding your question about the grand prize. According to Wes it was a bottle of Dom Pérignon. It was provided by the studio and subsequently cut during editing.

[@ballenf]

I wonder if Penn was referencing that when he said he loved that Wes only traveled with a coin.

[@zacharycallred]

I was at this taping. The gift bag had a bottle of Champaign in it.

[@SheepdogSmokey]

***Sham Pag Nay - Walken taught us that on SNL, when it was still funny.

[@johnsmall5901]

That might explain why the winner was all bubbly.

[@coolaid5272]

@@johnsmall5901 so close to funny, still made me chuckle

[@johnkean6852]

I'm on a Champagne Campain

[@ballenf]

@@johnsmall5901 nice one, champ.

[@yandrifadli]

I think actually P&T didnt get fooled. They just loved the act

[@johnjamesbaldridge867]

You are exactly correct, Yandri. As others have pointed out, I agree he did NOT feel the coin but rather is able to control the flip. You can "flip" a coin causing it to wiggle but not turn over . THIS IS JUGGLING!!! And that is precisely WHY Penn was so impressed as to give this guy a chance to prove his skill at the end, because this is the kind of act they want to feature later on. The wife and daughter made it just that more irresistible. Beautiful performance.

[@johnjamesbaldridge867]

I must admit I don't actually have any skills in this area! So I very much appreciate niveo123's comment pointing out mechanical details from someone who actually knows what he (or she) is talking about. Thanks!

[@stevem719]

@@johnjamesbaldridge867 The other issue with the idea that he's controlling it, is that he's asking people to make their choice AFTER he throws. That's what rules out the wiggle throw. Even at the end with Penn, Penn's arm goes up after Wes catches. The only way the wiggle throw works is you have to prep it, knowing the outcome you want before the throw. Now you could use the wiggle to "load" the result, and then knowing which side is up, flip if it needed, but that's not the "best" way. Half dollars are actually fairly easy to tell which side is which by touch.

[@ryanm1254]

@@johnjamesbaldridge867 No, he didn't control the flip. He needed to know how his target audience member voted after he'd already flipped the coin. It's why he looks out into the audience after he's caught the coin. At that point he can control which side is face up when he flips it onto his hand. He is feeling the coin in his hand. This actually doesn't require a super sensitive sense of feel, or a lot of practice. It's a pretty old technique. Grab a quarter, for example, and rub your thumb once over the heads side, and then try it on the tails side. You will notice the heads side has a smoother feel to it than the tails side. This difference is much more pronounced on a half dollar, to the point it's difficult not to feel the difference.

[@educationforkidscambodia7061]

u are right

[@burndead]

11:37 - "You're gonna get it wrong" - best confirmation about the coin manipulation.

[@jdrodrigues7]

Moreover, he placed his hands in him pocket when Penn mentioned the coin which is a standard body language sign of insecurity and protection of the coin. Also, every magician who doesn't have something to hide gives them the object in question for inspection.

[@heww3960]

​@@jdrodrigues7 That is however overanalyzing. People constantly put their hands in their pocket, when they confident and relaxed to.

[@lewisreeves9843]

his daughters face after this is the best

[@rigafraction1653]

@@jdrodrigues7 It's a regular coin

[@RianaFelblade]

@@rigafraction1653 Yeah, 100% a regular coin that's not been worn down. Dude just controlled the coin really smoothly.

[@coleeg69]

"Show about magic" was waiting for the overhype explosive effects, but you didn't! Made me laugh 😂

[@chialor1945]

Wes and Penn standing at the end reminded me of a classic gun fight about to draw their guns. LMFAO

[@yggdrasil7942]

Which meant he wasn't fooled just enjoyed the routine and had fun.

[@Hanbei]

You can tell this guy is amazing because he got his start by appearing in the acclaimed Sonichu comics :^)

[@thecourier6601]

He is the one in the Anchuent Prophesy

[@AlexSarkissian]

Just tried this with a quarter, it's ridiculously easy to pull off. After throwing the quarter up, I catch it and place it over the tip of my ring finger while making a fist. I can easily feel the difference between the smooth heads side and rougher tails. Tried with this 5 different types of quarters and super easy to know when you finger runs over the heads side. Some newer quarters with a rough tails side work a bit better than the standard eagle. Probably even easier with a half dollar. You don't even need to manipulate the coin while it's in your hand. You only flip the coin if necessary when revealing if it's heads or tales. In the video you can see him pointing around at the audience after he catches the quarter. That gives him ample time to rub his finger on the surface and know which side the coin is. Try it out, hold a quarter in your hand while making a fist and rub your ring finger over either side. It's so simple. I tried 30 flips in a row, and was able to flip the side I wanted.

[@GravitoRaize]

Yup, I have a half-dollar coin and was able to replicate this trick with ease after getting a good "feel" for it. I immediately thought of this as well, I tried a dollar coin, silver dollar, and half-dollar, and what was really nice was the half-dollar coin was the easiest to use a combined middle and ring finger to "feel" out the smoother heads and the rougher tails. It does take a little bit of training, but it is surprisingly simple and easy once you get used to it. What's odd is that I immediately thought of this based on what I knew of the half-dollar's design as he spoke of it. I suspect that maybe either Penn and Teller knew this was possible and just made up the gaff guess because they wanted him to win for having such a good trick design, or maybe they didn't know just how unique the printing of the half-dollar was. For its numismatics, the half-dollar is known to be one of the more well-defined coins ever minted. When they fist printed the original 1964 version, Jacqueline Kennedy took issue with how well the hair was defined, so they quickly modified it and most half-dollars after that first printing have a very smooth "heads" side because of this. It's very noticeable, but if P&T weren't privy to this info, they might not have known.

[@dismalthoughts]

I think Penn knew this. They were probably torn between either a Gaff coin or controlling it (although idk why they would lean towards the former), and so when Wes said it wasn't Gaff, Penn's charade was his way of letting Wes know that they know how it's done.

[@bigkeb1]

It was his bottle of champagne he got from the show he talks about it in his tutorial download

[@kasroa]

This trick demonstrates exactly why you always ask the other person to call after you've slammed the coin down on the back of your hand, not before.

[@MikkoRantalainen]

Or flip the coin so that it falls to ground. That's even harder to control.

[@DiHandley]

Exactly

[@truegret7778]

He had a view of the audience from behind the curtains. Picked out this particular person, and wrote the prediction. Then came out on stage and gave the note to Alyson. He has extreme sensitivity of the side of the coin, and always managed to "turn it" (sleight of hand, within his hand to control the outcome) to match the predicted audience member. When there were two, he tells them they must be different, this ensures he is "the last man standing". In my never to be humbled opinion. Very impressive performance, concise, and included the audience completely.

[@TripleDouble32]

1.) The audience guy is his accomplice 2.) The magician has control of which side of the coin to show 3.) The guy in the audience controls what the magician shows based on what he chooses 4.) The magician can switch the side of the coin in the last second, right before he shows Allison.

[@warp00009]

I've seen Wes Iseli perform many times at a local street festival here in his native Virginia over the years, and his show is always different and never ceases to amaze. He can do amazing slight of hand tricks wearing a short sleeved shirt and surrounded by an audience on three sides, all of whom are looking closely at everything he's doing. He also has some neat tricks with animals too, changing a dove into a rabbit or making them disappear altogether. Wes is a class act with a beautiful family!

[@mvs6380]

Next time you see him can you ask him what was in the gift bag? I feel really uncomfortable not knowing.

[@tk20channel]

I've never seen this performance until your video. I really loved his performance in a very different way than Shin or DK...What a stand up, family based guy. Loved seeing how excited his wife was when she realized he was going to fool them. Also, this is the best ending to any performance what he did with Penn. Just awesome.

[@chris1407]

I'm more impressed by how incredible clean and thus invisible the rotation of the coin in his hand is than with being able to feel the correct side.

[@pgaboury]

You do not need to rotate the coin in your hand. You flip the coin to the correct side as you open your hand. Either you let the coin follow your fingers out which effectively flips it or you leave the coin in your palm which does not.

[@MarkNiceyard]

You can learn to throw the coin with a certain number of turns (2 is enough, 3 is even better and still doable) so it lands in your hand the way you want it. This way you don't have to feel the sides.

[@alejofossati]

@@MarkNiceyard Dude he threw the coin like 3 feet high.

[@QCreyton]

@@MarkNiceyard you could go to all that effort... Or you could use the built in design of a coin to do the trick without having to do any practice. I've been doing this trick since school and it works with almost every coin I've come across. Only time I've had an issue is if both sides are too similar.

[@SDesWriter]

I saw this on the show and immediately thought he was manipulating the coin after it lands. He picked out one guy from the audience and just had the result be whatever that guy chose until he won. Then Penn thought he was doing something else so tried to beat him.....OF COURSE Iseli won! Somehow he was changing the result after the flip. {Edited} I wrote that before watching the video. Funny you thought the exact same thing. Funnier that Penn & Teller assumed it must be something more technical.

[@PhilBagels]

I think Penn knew he was fooled at that point. He did the coin-flip "bet" just to let the magician know that he figured it out on his second guess. His fist guess was wrong, so it was still a fool.

[@SDesWriter]

@@PhilBagels That seems likely. I thought it was weird that he went for a 2nd bite since they don't do that anymore. Then he stood up like a gunslinger which was probably more of an act for the camera than a serious attempt. Maybe he and Teller figured that was his likely technique and he had Teller watch him to confirm. He did say he really loved that trick and the whole idea of the audience participation.

[@wimpow]

I completely agree but still don´t know how he can feel the coin and flip the coin once it landed. He also says it is not a gaff coin. To my understanding, that means that the coin is a normal coin. If he slightly changes the coin (a hook, a point, magnetism), it is a gaff. Feeling the tails or the heads is a remarkable skill.

[@chrisp9824]

@@wimpow It seems like it is, but try it yourself and most likely you will find it extremely easy, like I did. After 5 miutes I was able to control the coin pretty much every time and I never ever did any magic, sleight of hand or feel or anything. Also my coin was way smaller, thinner and both sides were similar. That's first magic trick I learned and I love this guy for it :D

[@wimpow]

@@chrisp9824 You are right. I suck at it but with a bit of training totally possible.

[@marthdaeglin]

I agree with you, and if we're right it would be so beautifully simple. A guy with a trick coin and a disguised assistant and a couple of clever machines behind a table can be just as astonishing to watch, but believing that it's just a skilled guy with a (perhaps mostly) normal coin just adds a layer of satisfaction to the routine.

[@BecauseBinge]

I think I know how he did it. Before his act started he looked at the guests and picked one, quickly writing the prediction matching his appearance. When act started, looking at the chosen person and his choices he manipulated the coin by feeling it (coin stayed in his hand for a very long time after each flip while he was pointing at audience) until only his chosen one was standing.

[@incollectio]

Yep. Imagine the audience member leaving just when he walks on stage. What a nightmare that would be.

[@vikingmetaldragon]

@@incollectio oh god, haha.

[@LukeAmaral]

Or imagine his chosen guest messing up what he chose and sitting down thinking he chose it wrong. Or maybe even not willing to play along or have a knee/foot problem that he would rather not stand up and participate.

[@EFreD-ed4ds]

Well first of all, the chosen person is probably an accomplice. Only with an accomplice would you be sure that your subject would not bail on you. Secondly, the suggested method of picking an audience member in advance, then controlling the coin and therefor the outcome, eliminates the possibility of the last two persons both chosing the wrong side. Because whenever they would chose the same side, the performer would manipulate the coin to show that particular side, so that neither contestant would be eliminated and the procedure could continue. Where as in the other circumstance, both persons would be eliminated and the game would be over without a winner.

[@44r0n-9]

Yeah, and if that's how he did it, it's really not impressive at all... idk, I don't like it

[@Lambent_Haze]

Sometimes Penn and Teller aren't actually fooled ... sometimes they see a good act they enjoy and would love to have then open for them one day. Richard Turner episode as well ... they absolutely know what he was doing, but you dont say no to richard turner ... and him opening for you for essentially the price of a hotel room is pretty cool.

[@sbaxter4207]

i think even though they know much of what he does, he does it so well, he still fooled them. Teller wanted the trophy down half way through the act he was so good . lol

[@kason8002]

Having been to a Penn and Teller Show, I can tell you that they aren't the opener. They preform close to the end, but not the final. At least that's when the fooler perform when I was there in September.

[@LaStNLiNe]

Yea i agree with this comment... If theres a sob story... Or a friend that shows up... They are fooled... Its not a perfect judgement but at least ita an entertaining show... So i dont nit pick about this like its the Supreme Court... I just enjoy the showmanship of it... After all... Its just a television show.... PS Richard Turner deserves his due... Hes an amazing blind upclose magician .. u try to do better than he? I never will... Though i strive to be

[@hoorahforsnakes]

Surprised they were fooled by this, i'm no magician, but i've been able to do exactly what you suggested, where you feel the coin with you're hand and choose which side you put face up as you place the coin on the back of your hand. That's why he got pen to call it before placing it on his hand

[@MJUSlK]

So smartass how did he do it? We all now that he feels the coin, but how? Penn guessed that it has a marker or something and he was wrong.

[@88porpoise]

There are different ways to select the outcome of the flip. A gaffed coin would probably be the easiest and most reliable way to do this. So Penn and Teller went with that, they were wrong. Remember, Penn and Teller aren’t there to guess all the various possible ways to perform a trick to prove their superiority but to make an entertaining show. So they usually take one or two guesses and give up.

[@thepunisher1951]

@@88porpoise same thoughts

[@rickscholz]

He did this trick with a half dollar coin, and specifically he mentioned it was the variety with an eagle on the back. If you get one of these coins, it is actually much smoother on the heads side than the tails side. It is actually very easy by feel to determine which side is heads, and since he holds it in his hand for several seconds, it would be very easy to manipulate the coin. My question is if that explanation is included in Penn's suggestion that he had a "glimpse" of the coin. Does feeling the coin count as a glimpse? Apparently not, in the opinion of both the magician and the judges.

[@QargZer]

9+ years ago I figured out how to flip a quarter and be able to "blindly" know which side was which in my hand and manipulate it. No gimmick is needed heads side is smooth and tails is rougher. State quarters are even easier because the texture is more rough on tails side. Once you flip it you can feel and manipulate the quarter and decide which side you want up very quickly.

[@rigafraction1653]

Been doing this for 25 yrs now... was surprised it fooled them

[@QargZer]

@@rigafraction1653 I guess this trick is so simple they never thought of it.. or because there was a 50/50 chance on it being a gaff or real coin they assumed it was a gaff

[@darrenaitcheson1675]

Riga Fraction it didn’t fool them. They just liked the act and wanted to give him a break

[@brad9548]

As soon as I read ur reply, I grabbed a quarter to feel each side! :-)

[@QargZer]

@@brad9548 it's slight but enough to tell the difference. I clinch my hand into a fist and slide a finger just enough to feel the texture. If you point like in this video it makes it more difficult to see the hand muscles contracting and can move the pinky quite a bit before the top side of your hand shows sign you're moving a finger

[@kathrynnpetersen8876]

I liked how at the end ( teaming up with penn) he decided to use alyson's "head and tails" calling skills one last time to come to a decision on whether or not he fooled them.

[@msterdam]

First i was always watching these magician videos on other channels. But then i found your channel and it’s even MORE enjoyable with you thoughts and jokes in between! Thanks a lot for doing this Jason!👍🏼😁

[@JasonParkerMagic]

Thank you very much! So nice to hear this :)

[@bjordsvennson2726]

6:20 he totally winks at the dude loool

[@leogothisoscar271]

I think you are completely right. Notice how when it was down to 2 he said "Don't pick the same thing." I don't usually like tricks with a very specific prediction because it typically gives away how it's done and it often reveals there isn't near as much skill involved (I'm a sleight of hand fan). This one is different, though, because it's fun and very clever and obviously requires a skill to perform and it could go SO wrong.

[@samogeto]

Of course they had to be different otherwise they would both be wrong or right, in which case it would go on to infinity if they both chose the same every time

[@leogothisoscar271]

@@samogeto Well yeah lol. I meant more like he told them that immediately rather than letting it play out a couple of rounds first.

[@voltaquake]

@@leogothisoscar271 probably didn't want to waste time

[@mohdsameer5766]

You are absolutely correct

[@ericcadwell5193]

**Puts his fingers to his temple in the stereotypical "mind reader" gesture** The bag contained... handcrafted soap.

[@mikemclenison8200]

My take: He was in control of the outcome. After he saw whether the chosen person in the audience's hand was up or down he would force the outcome. The same with Penn at the end. How did he do it? I agree with you something identifiable on the coin could let him know how to make it land on his wrist. If the guy with the preset description only chose heads that would have been funny since Iseli would have to call all tails throughout the performance.

[@bigglesy4679]

I think the rings he is wearing on his hand may have something to do with him being able to determine which way the coin is facing in his fist?

[@bigglesy4679]

@alphadawn2015 lennon Actually, I'm guessing there are at least 1000 ways in which I could have been more wrong, but whatever...

[@ab39bfreed81]

No..actually if he call out heads..the coin will be heads..at any scenario this man with glasses and beard will won

[@lukeparker4063]

At mike mclenison I totally agree with you

[@E942-h2d]

But is the person in the audience not something like a "semi-stooge"?

[@gachimuchienjoyer]

That's some very high functioning true and honest magic here

[@harmonslytherin]

I love this trick so much! I've watched it over a dozen times since it aired and have been waiting for your reaction to it.

[@RichardP539]

Being able to do it quickly and stealthily IS the trick

[@johnkean6852]

Aesop Next time the old guy on the metro says: "it's gonna rain tomorrow" remember to take a brolly!

[@Lethoras]

You can see him catch the coin in such a way that he can touch it with the tips of his fingers. At that point you can distinguish the faces of any large coin by touch. You then simply control it when you smack it on the back of your hand.

[@toolebukk]

I think you're spot on about the fingerspitzgefühl, to use a perfectly awesome german word

[@hellsong23]

I think that is my favourite deliberation on the show ever!

[@d_e_a_n]

A long time ago I read an old book and I know there’s an old bar keepers trick where they simply develop the skill to either flip the coin heads or tails or the feeling it method. Here it would be feeling it because he waits until he looks at the hands to decide what it’s going to be. You do this enough you can tell by feel.

[@Bzuhl]

I have no idea of the method, but I love how he is taking an effect that would be underwhelming done once and making it into a magic mentalist/psychic act

[@pedroaboffa]

simple but one of the best performance on this show.. !! amazing his skills!!

[@peterkramer2965]

He gave the answer how is was done on the end. He sayd to Teller that he will lose. So he could choose after Teller what is on top. And so there is only one way to do it. Great idea!! Can I use for my shows to choose a person I need.

[@MasterFhyl]

This was truly and honestly a good trick.

[@nickyhaflinger]

He specified it was a half dollar, I can say from experience determining a half dollar by feel after catching it on edge in the fold of your palm and then picking the side during the slap onto your arm takes about 30 minutes to master. Quarters are actually hard but Kennedy half dollars are very smooth on the the Kennedy head side and quite rough on the seal of the US side. The only hard part of this trick is thinking it up.

Penn said they were looking for an fx like this for 10 year to have in their show. Lucky they were surprisingly fooled by it, so now they have it in the show ;) ;)

[@Cadolots]

Penn and Teller did the exact same trick at Rio show in Vegas, I should’ve notice Penn and Teller keep looking at one person at the stand.

[@bringonthereviews]

This trick reminds me of the time when Kostya Kimlat trained long enough to catch any card he wanted from out of the air. I think Wes Iseli trained really hard to be able to flip the coin to either side he wanted.

[@Wtnwdl]

That last part was like a cowboy standoff. Penn vs Wes 🕵🏻‍♂️🕳👨🏼‍🌾. (Thats 2 cowboys and a coin 😂😂😂😂😂)

[@jvanamb]

I once saw Wes Iseli and family do their act live. I did lose at the coin toss effect. But there are somethings I noticed in this video presentation I did not, could not, would not notice live. BUT it all depends on the definition of A GAFFED COIN. Iseli always used his right hand for the toss and retrive. Iseli wears two rings on his right hand. An ornate onyx ring on his pinky and a band on his ring finger. Thank you Denny Rosenblatt for catching that on camera. So could one of the rings be magnetic. Here's why, There is no doubt that the audience stooge was preselected. Not only is he a Director's dream subject. But his looks are so defined and easy to differentiate from the others. HOWEVER, one of the rules of the game portion of the show is the artist can have NO PRE-SHOW SET UP. So Iseli would not be allowed to peruse the audience que to pick the stooge. But his wife could. Also the stooge was the only one of the final group to be sitting in a quick grab shot for the cameras. On the "aisle", with no need to climb over any other audience member. And there I think is the force. The wife pass the info to Iseli who is the pick. Back stage before his spot he writes down his forced prediction. Now to the gaffed coin. Is a coin that is naturally magnetized on one side and not on the other gaffed? IF SO, Iseli does a legit flip. He has the audience make their call while the coin is in the air. Paying attention to the stooge's choice. Remember during the flip and retrieve he is constantly scanning the audience for a show of hands. In fact in the Jillette one on one flip Iseli lost control of the flip and throw it out in front of himself. He had only one stooge at that time to play with. Carny trash Penn Jillette. So to the reveal. Iseli catches the coin, on a ring held magnet, and waits for the stooge's call. If Iselli wants the stooge to win and the winning side is magnetically attached to his hand. He would know to backhand the coin, part his fingers, and release the coin. But if Iseli confidently declares "Your going to lose." and the stooge calls the same coins position as in his right hand Iseli does a finger roll. Flipping the coin, off the magnet, as he is about to back hand the coin. Stooge loses. To me the sole question is, "What is is," a GAFFED COIN? Great episode Jason. As for Aesop, I'm not telling anyone anything as what to do. ~Jim

[@jvanamb]

@Shannon Robson Absolutely correct. What my question was based on was if Iseli used a coin which is naturally charged magnetic on one side and base on the other is that gaffed? Did the mint mix the alloys to be polarized? I have a few in my own Magic Hat. And I feel confident he did not rig the coin himself. But your correct that a gaffed coin is rigged. ~Jim

[@iWhacko]

You shouldn't call it a stooge. A stooge is someone who is in on the trick acting like a stranger. This audience member was not in the loop, but pre selected by the magician so he could manipulate the coin to be whatever the audience member was doing. This also is not pre-show stuff. Because what they mean by that (as they stated in multiple podcasts), is mainly used for mentalists, who would try to find out information about a person in the audience before the show so they can have impossible predictions. In this case it's perfectly fine to just look into the audience and pick someone you want to win and write a prediction for that.

[@StrangeDuck]

Jason's best trick so far, hes just a floating head in this video!

[@AJLikesCats]

Classic lame joke! Or should I say lame duck joke? 🤔

[@SuperRams16]

Well..for starters he was working in a bank...that itself proves that he is quite good in touch and recognise..like how a blind person can feel even a dollar note .

[@adamefamily2594]

LOVE your videos! Very entertaining!! Thank you for the entertainment sir!

[@JasonParkerMagic]

Thanks :)

[@matkov80]

Many years ago I practiced coin flipping. I was able to learn how to flip it to the same side that was on the top before the flip. There is no need to double check by touch. He still had to reverse it as people called it while coin was in the air. I think that at 5:10 you can see that he is manipulating the coin.

[@cwinz789]

I just saw Penn & Teller perform last week and they have actually started using this trick in their shows

[@DavidPalmer]

Of all the FU episodes and all the great magicians, this is now my favorite just because he says, "You're going to get it wrong"....

[@Tedybear315]

Interesting to see the comments. The slight of hand to control Heads or Tails was extremely clean. While his hand is coming down just after the flip? He's already read the coin and manipulated it for the desired outcome. It was just that clean of a performance. Penn had 2 ways to go. He choose the easy 'not a lot of skill required' and didn't get it right. Usually they do not get 2 bites of the same apple. So he conceded as the routine was that good

[@coolaid5272]

ez, as he catches the coin, he point to the audience, he uses his middle finger to feel the coin, in the movement to the hand he flips it to his preferred side, making sure that his prediction keeps standing. I practiced it a bit, and it's easy to recognise the sides. after just a couple of tries. some coins work better than others.

[@edwardpridgen7707]

Brian Brushwood has a KZbin video showing a method of controlling a coin. The coin doesn’t actually flip but just wobbles in the air which makes it appear to flip.

[@blazejecar]

i did this as a kid, heads and tails feel slightly different and there's a small move you can make when slamming the coin down that looks perfectly natural but lets the coin turn. It's quite easy. He even asked the audience to choose before slamming the coin down. He 100% did it that way. I'm guessing his idea was P&T wouldn't think that a children's trick would get on fool us and it worked

[@Iyerbeth]

I practiced something that looked identical to this as a kid/teenager, I'd flip it so that when I had to look to catch it I already knew which way up it was and then the reveal was how I'd pick which side showed. I got so fast at it that no one seemed to notice that I was just looking at the answer, it was concealed behind "making sure I catch it". Been years since I did that.

[@miguelfontelooliveira7938]

God you're a layman. xD being on Penn and Telelr with a coin you can feel which side it is. Astounding.

[@argentconcepts]

hahaha you standing up just had me spit my coffee everywhere. priceless man. truly

[@moupriyamal8956]

I loved his performance 😃😃

[@HR-wd6cw]

I just watched this episode again and the one thing that Penn did not ask is to see the coin. Which makes me wonder if there was actually two coins (with the same on each side, heads or tails but not like a typical coin). He asks the host to check the coin, so maybe there was three. And through slight of hand, he was able to choose which coin to use so he knew the outcome, although the audience participation is still the unknown part. Sometimes I have heard that there is a person in the audience who is in on the trick the whole time but the host and others don't know, but only the magician and the person involved knows, so that's possible.

[@eytanz]

I think Penn gave him the win - he guessed a gaffed coin because if it was a gaffed coin, he wouldn't have been impressed. Then he went through the "let's toss the coin to see if you won" routine to show the guy he knew it was skill.

[@giovannigam]

exactly!

[@birthdefectthehedgehog3461]

chrischan's rival does some crazy magic, was that sarah hammer in the audience?

[@himwhoisnottobenamed5427]

😂😂😂 I was hoping this was here. Thank you fellow Christorian.

[@birthdefectthehedgehog3461]

@@himwhoisnottobenamed5427 Chris probably astroprojected himself there too, like on their wedding😂

[@NetAndyCz]

I really like knowing the prediction was for a change actually made before the trick was performed. It is so nice to see a real prediction in a magic trick.

[@djcbanks]

I saw the video on his KZbin channel the other day and commented the same thing you said. I feel he was able to control which side came up which (to me) is obvious by him telling Penn he was going to get it wrong. Just how he was able to tell the difference could be up for speculation and your suggestions were the same thing that came to my mind. Regardless though, I thought it was a great trick.

[@vwisse]

This works with almost any coin. When I was young I did a variant of this in school. Would throw the coin catch it on my hand and immediately put my other hand flat on top of it. Then classmates made their guess. I could feel which side of the coin was facing down. All I did during the guesses was lower my hands. Bring them back up with the coin flipped to the side I wanted to show. The kids, nor teachers, ever noticed that sometimes my thumbs started facing to the left but when my hands came back up were facing to the right. Obviously Wes is using a much more sophisticated method to control the coin then 8 year old me but I'm sure he's controlling the coin to get the outcome he wanted.

[@CharlieShay]

I guess if you use the right quarter you can easily tell which side the coin is on. Those “state” quarters have very distinguishable tail side. If you take a Utah quarter, for instance, you can easily distinguish which side by running your finger down the center of the coin.

[@fuzzydrawrings269]

With a normal Kennedy half-dollar, it is fairly easy to use your fingertip to feel the difference between the relatively smooth side with the bust of Kennedy and the bumpy side with the eagle. Sometimes I think P&T deliberately let someone win, for whatever reason.. A gaffed coin makes no sense as I can't think of any type of gaff that would be needed, or that would even help with this effect. Just to elaborate: he didn't produce the prediction until he was on stage and had looked the audience over. He probably had several different paper predictions he could have used, depending on the clothing/hair/glasses he saw in the audience. From there it was a simple matter to turn whichever side was the same as what the person who matched his prediction was gesturing. The fact that he held the coin in his hand while he looked around the audience before slapping it down and locking in a choice makes the method painfully obvious.

[@DarioAgullo]

Totally agree with you, that trick is damn obvious, and I think P&T want to give a prize to that person for any reason.

[@The_Lightless]

That’s what I was thinking. I don’t think it was a friend/paid actor. I think he just chose a person and manipulated the results based on the chosen individual’s predictions.

[@paulsomers6048]

Check the timing of Penn's final challenge: he put his hand in the air AFTER Isle put the coin on Allison's arm. But he still lost. Was the final challenge an actual chance bet?

[@paulsomers6048]

Iseli*

[@DarioAgullo]

@@paulsomers6048 you should re-watch the video, he puts the coin in his own arm, and he did after Penn move his arm.

[@rehiza]

His wife scouted someone in the theater and texted him the articles of clothing what the person is wearing physical description & approximate seat location, he then writes the prediction down back stage. He uses a trained sense of touch to feel the groove on each side to indicate if it’s heads or tails and then switches midair during the movement towards the slap on top of his wrist to insure the person that his wife selected wins in the end.

[@MonteD1]

I like that, after their attempted bust, the game with Penn basically proved what was probably their next guess

[@ChrisMangano]

Found these videos recently because I watch a lot of magic videos on here and I really like them. Keep them up Jason!

[@fosterchild4523]

The trick is all in the way that he catches the coin. Normally when you catch a flipped coin, you catch it palm up.......but he grabs it out of the air with his palm down....once he catches the coin, he basically has it in a finger palm style position. He is able to feel the coin face with his curled fingers....he knows what side of the coin is facing his palm....now he has to place the coin on the back of his opposite hand......he can do one of two things....he can put the coin on the back of his opposite hand as is or he can flip it around so that it faces the opposite side........both of his choices use the exact same hand move......if he wants to place the coin as is, he simply opens his hand and slaps the coin down on his opposite hand.....if he wants to flip the coin around he uses the exact same hand motion but this time, as he uncurls his fingers the coin stays with his fingers.......once his fingers are extended, the coin has been flipped around.......when done quickly, both of these hand moves look exactly the same.

[@NoeticDynamics]

I am sure that the last person is the magician's companion. He had simple instructions: just stand and not sit down until the victorious end.

[@ryanbabb3344]

He feels the coin. Has them pick before he flips. He either has an accomplice or picked someone with identifying traits. The reason why he makes them pick differently at the end is to get an outcome.

[@DanTuber]

11:45 Penn has already made his choice. Wes got his hand facing away, then can easily flip the coin.

[@chrisp9824]

He doesn't need his nad to be facing any particular way. I never did any magic but after watching this i tried controling the coin when I'm putting it down on my other hand. It's extremely easy, the motion is EXACTLY the same even for someone who NEVER EVER done any magic. Question is, how did he know which side the coin landed when he caught it. Thats why Jason is speculating about that part, everything else in this trick is just obvious for magician or non magician.

[@QargZer]

@@chrisp9824 it's easy to do with a quarter. Heads side is smooth and tails is rough

[@chrisp9824]

@@QargZer I'll take your word for it, I never had an american quarter in my hands. Polish coins have eagle on tail side, I told myself "if you're not sure it's tails" and it works every time :D

[@QargZer]

@@chrisp9824 I would imagine the same thing would apply to some other coins with a head on one side and a different textured tails side. I have some Japanese currency that has a smooth side and rough side. American Penny's and dimes are not very rough on tails side and are fairly small which is why I use a quarter

[@maddogminecrafter8828]

the head side of a coin is always smoother then the tails side

[@seanwightman2752]

I am surprised Penn teller went with the Gaff coin. He was just using a normal coin and could feel if it was heads or tails. As for the prediction he wrote the prediction and then found someone in the audience that match that description and controlled the outcome by feeling the coin. Honestly it does not take a lot of practice to control coin flips by feel. A friend and I used to do that when we were kids to win in certain games.

[@thetruealiascas5475]

There's a way to thumb flick a coin where it rotates and appears to spin but it doesn't, then he catches it knowing what side is which and places it thusly. Basically if he flicks it heads up, he knows it'll come down heads up cause it wavers in the air and doesn't actually flip, then he flips it how he needs it viewing the dude he projected to win before the performance. I can barely do it low flicking though, it is fooling, but for him to do it this high is impressive. Tutorials for this are pretty easy to come by though.

[@bribriskiable]

Scam school did a tutorial on this one last year. There is a way of throwing a coin up without it flipping, it looks really convincing even up close. He just needs to flip the coin in his hand when he knows what mr leather jacket chose. Notice he only puts it on Alison's hand after the pick.

[@trentallan5347]

I thought that he flipped the coin normally but there was a small marking that he could feel and could put it on heads or tails or whatever he want, and the guy who won was in on it and had a certain order in which to put his hands for example : heads, heads, tails, heads etc.

[@thesammyjenkinsexperience4996]

Using an audience plant is against the rules of the show. The guy holds the coin for a good 4-5 seconds and looks at the audience (and later Penn) before revealing the coin, giving him enough time to change which side is up based on whatever the guy in the audience has picked.

[@fulstaak]

Tricked coin for sure (Wes could feel which side landed on each flip then controlled the outcome when showing it to Alyson), otherwise he would have asked Penn/Teller to examine it first instead of asking Alyson, and could have asked for a coin from someone in the public (ie: a coin provided by Teller). Also I think Penn&Teller clearly knew what the trick was but wanted that trick on their show so bad because Penn loved it so much. Hence the lame "gaffed coin" theory which doesn't really mean anything here since he had various results on each flip. Penn kinda proved it with his challenge at the end. He knew Wes could control the outcome via the tricked coin and that he would lose. Otherwise he would have never offer that challenge. A nice trick but the gimmick is easy and Penn can't fool me (I'm sorry! you definitely can!)

[@zyxzevn]

Coin-trick reminds me of how the elections in some US state were decided. He could have trained to get a perfect throw each time. I would use a magnet or a gimmick coin that can change with an internal mechanic.

[@sankarry]

I do a small routine using coin and I do predict the outcome of coin flip consecutively multiple times. I don't know if the magician is using same method or not but I can assure you that coin flip outcome prediction is possible and for my case, I use a perfectly normal coin.

[@fishingthepnwwithdave7833]

My guess is he is able to feel the difference and revel it how he wants it to be shown through sleight of hand. He's watching the purple shirt dude the whole time (glances) and reveals the coin in the purple shirts dude's favor every time. He's selling the effect online now, haven't bought it, but thinking about it.

[@kmktruthserum9328]

it was a note that said "not only did i fool penn and teller but i made you look like a fool too muahahaha!"

[@markdesprez3311]

I got this first time, he is on the right track. I have found I can only do this with one version of the coin, its shown in the video, in your face. Once he flips and catches a finger brush tells me what the outcome will be, if flipped normaly, then learn how to flip the coin at the last split second, i did!

[@MyCallAsz]

I actually learned how to control the outcome of a coin flip with any coin a long time ago. It really comes in handy sometimes lol.

[@ballenf]

That alone would not help here.

[@AndrewCheshire]

Seriously, I was about to pause the video and make a Mos Eisley joke but then you did it for me.

[@JasonParkerMagic]

haha finally someone responds to this! :) Intelligent minds... THINK ALIKE ;)

[@AndrewCheshire]

@@JasonParkerMagic People don't appreciate the intelligence it takes to produce a good, quality, dumb joke. I LIVE FOR DUMB JOKES.

[@DiHandley]

He was definitely “feeling” the coin before he slapped it down on his hand.

[@rudyramirez5554]

He controlled the out come and picked which person he would want to win... That's why he had them raise their hand before he put the coin down.

[@PsychoMurdoctor]

He was obviously controlling the outcome based on what the "predicted person" in the audience was voting, but I can think of two different methods for doing this. One method -- the way many people here seem to believe he did it -- involves feeling the face of the coin after catching it (which I've tried practicing myself, with limited success), and the other involves a fake flip where the coin stays relatively flat and just wobbles in the air to make it appear to be flipped (I've seen videos online that teach this technique). One way or the other, he determines or controls how it lands in his hand, and turns it if necessary when placing it on his wrist.

[@imeddiewilson1572]

Very very subtle but he got the timing of the flips. Example: at .02 seconds the coin is tails up. .03 tails down. It was all in the timing of the grab.

[@kadsyy]

This guy has permanent +100% luck buff

[@zach6960]

2:12 i actually laughed so hard 😂😂😂

[@ahorrayretirate3369]

My wife and I went to their show last week and they performed that trick. I was one of 3 left standing. The winner went up to the stage where they revealed a picture of her drawn with magic markers. They both signed it and gave it to her. After the show my wife and I went to get an Uber and met the winner with her husband as they took pictures before they got into their ride.

[@user-zi8lg5qu1h]

I like how Penn took a stance like he is in a cowboy stand off. And that that "I don't think so"

[@wesleyrattray4236]

His sense of touch was the essence of the trick.

[@namerandom7767]

I think the coin trick was done by choosing an audience member before the trick and telling them a specific order to vote in. Since flipping a coin that started on heads normally lands on heads then he flips it over when putting it on his hand, so he could have used that if it works to do it.

[@LoreCattleRanch]

"Wes Iseli, a magician who appears to be from america and who I've never heard of before" Do yourself a favor and Don't google "wes iseli sonichu".

[@bobbysanchez6308]

What do you get if you do?

[@Sprinkles0139]

@@bobbysanchez6308 you really don't wanna know

[@k-teezy6423]

Top tier christorian right here

[@ReaperCH90]

@@bobbysanchez6308 a very, very big and deep rabbit hole which won't let you off ever again

[@reloadpsi]

I don't think coming here and saying that was the best idea dude.

[@BvBCrafty]

For me as non magician this is the most surprising fooler I have ever seen... if I get some training done I could do the same trick. At least with the same effect. Throw - Feel - Flip or not - Show...