Mentalist Fools Penn & Teller by Influencing Decisions // Alyson Hannigan vs Mentalist Timon Krause

[@TimonKrause]

FAQs! Hi! This video has been getting some renewed attention recently, so I figured I'd answer the top 10 questions that have popped up in the comments more frequently. 1: What's that 'the ring ain't a thing' business? - Penn makes his guess about the workings of a trick in code to protect the secrets. In this case, he was assuming my ring had something to do with finding the coin, which it didn't. 2: How do P&T know contestants are telling the truth? - Contestants are required to reveal the workings of their performance to a behind-the-scenes consultant. When I was on the show, this was the late Johnny Thompson (someone else now does the same job). The consultant watches the guessing process and, in cases where it's on the edge, makes the call on whether or not a trick has fooled Penn & Teller. There's also certain methods that are excluded from being used on the show, like having a confidante in the audience. 3: So it wasn't the ring. How'd you do it then, magic boy? - I'm psychic. 4: Very funny. But seriously, how'd you do it? - Ok, fine. How much do you know about Horcruxes? 5: Fine, don't tell then. Why'd the barstool move? - The barstool was part of a little comedic bit, similar to the awkward animals, which I used to fill the waiting time with Alyson while Penn & Teller were discussing (that part takes much longer than you see on the show). The comedy bit was then edited out, leaving us with a teleporting barstool. 6: Speaking of Alyson - is she a paid actress? - Yes, that's literally her job. But if you're asking whether I paid her, then no. I studied philosophy, so I really don't have that kind of money to spend. 7: What happened after you fooled Penn & Teller? - I got to go back to Las Vegas to perform as a guest in their theatre show. It was fantastic. 8: I liked your show! - Thanks so much! 9: I didn't like your show! - That's also fine! 10: Where do I go after having watched this video? - If you speak German, you could visit my live tour. If you speak German or Dutch, you could read my books "Du Bist Mentalist", "Kennen Wir Uns" and "Mensenkennis Voor Beginners". One of them is also available in Romanian. Otherwise, maybe check out my KZbin Channel (some videos are in English, with the others I do my best to add subtitles when I get the chance) or watch my TEDx Talks. 11: Anything else you'd like to say? - Jurassic Park is literally the best movie franchise of all time and I will fight anyone who says otherwise. Thanks for watching & all the best!

[@muthukirthik2292]

i would like you to keep editing this comment when more interesting question comes....thank you XD

[@adripin13]

question 12 for your top 10's 11 question, bless u

[@Barn0Music]

Romanian? How did you discover that as a target market?

[@gonzs64]

I will just quote Jeff Goldblum´s line from The Jurassic Park: "You did it. The crazy son of a bitch, you did it" That was a nice roll!

[@batflarrow]

The link in the post script was the best thing that happened in my life, it has really helped me jump start my career as a mentalist thanks!

[@francisk3978]

I think it's more impressive that Alyson correctly predicted which hand the mentalist was going to guess each time

[@cubertmiso]

Are Alyson and Teller relatives? They look so similar and have same facial expressions.

[@kathrynnpetersen8876]

Umm I don't think so

[@suryahr307]

@@cubertmiso Same doubt here

[@maaaaaap]

@@cubertmiso brother and sister

[@Ribeanie]

@@maaaaaap and also father and daughter. What are you doing step-magician???

[@randydee024]

Some people don't realize that sometimes Penn And Teller take a long time (10, 15 minutes) before Penn speaks to the potential Fooler and they edit down to about 30 seconds.

[@Kyrelel]

Can you name them both?

[@awsomebot1]

@@Kyrelel Penn Jillette and Teller

[@Cola.Cube.]

Most people don't care. Nor should they.

[@pterodactylptroll]

@@Cola.Cube. Maybe the audience members care. 😄

[@fergusonja8]

@@Cola.Cube. and why oh great one should we not care?

[@guilhermetorresj]

I tried it. Works 100% of the time, 6.25% of the time.

[@ayo0o0o0o0]

Easy with the budget Anchorman quote

[@itchykami]

I tried the strategy where you repeat the trick guessing randomly over and over and keep the one where it works, but Penn guessed my strategy correctly ;-;

[@artistsanomalous7369]

1/2 this game is 90% mental.

[@logansummers1551]

You're an 1d1ot 100% of the time 100% of the time.

[@QueLastima]

@@artistsanomalous7369 A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.

[@craigrussell3062]

T: Do you like milking more, or being milked? A: I like milking more. T: Does your husband know that? A: That's why he married me! See, this one time at band camp...

[@RFC-3514]

The most impressive part was when he telekinetically moved that stool at 6:02.

[@MayerHonza]

wtf

[@Der_Dudee]

:D magic

[@duskfern9041]

@@MayerHonza camera angle :)

[@gaboelexo]

@@duskfern9041 it is not, they record various times the routine.

[@duskfern9041]

@@gaboelexo i doubt they do that, more likely it was a cut and the producer said get the fkin stool out of the way.

[@ThePeperich]

„That’s why he married me.” Said on National TV, excellent quote about milking. The trick is great.

[@pedroteran5885]

In Shawn Farquhar's first time in the show, during the interview he said something like 'Magic is better when it happens in another person's hands', to which Jonathan Ross replied: 'That's what I always tell my wife'.

[@phattjohnson]

@@dragonchaserkev Hey, the trick was pretty cool! But I'll admit Alison's been keepin' it fine since '99 (when I first saw her in American Pie)

[@LawlTwins]

@@phattjohnson Exactly, its what i expect from that hilarious woman lol.

[@aAaAAA-ppgg]

She was so red lol, the thumbnail made me think she cried

[@vdussaut9182]

She is married to the hottest guy my 10 year old eyes had ever seen-the guy from the music video for “Got My Mind Set On You”, who flirts with a blonde in an arcade and tries to win a ballerina toy for her. His smile in that video still makes my knees weak to this day. Lucky woman!

[@thomasbaumhauer7565]

Der Stuhl ist auch ein Magier o.O 6:02 --> 6:06

[@cyrusaminparsa6848]

bester kommentar :D

[@Mikail_199]

Ist einfach nur eine Frage der Perspektive Buchstäblich denn wenn man die untere Ecke vom Logo hinten an der Wand betrachtet ist alles verständlich

[@mangekyousharingan7335]

@@Mikail_199 Das stimmt nicht,

[@Rippafratta]

Thomas Baumhauer Die Sendung wird geschnitten, weil Penn und Teller immer etwas mehr Zeit brauchen, sich zu beraten und eine verklausulierte Form finden müssen, ihre Vermutung dem Künstler mitzuteilen. Außerdem werden mehrere Shows an einem Tag hintereinander aufgezeichnet.

[@kuhnibert7542]

Bei 6:12 sieht man eindeutig einen Unterschied zu 6:02

[@gaijininja]

I like the way that Penn uses a code to indicate how they think he did it, and his reply of “Dad wouldn’t approve.” indicting he didn’t use that method, keeping the actual method and Penn’s ideas secret.

[@danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307]

This is mentalist! They hate this bs unskilled crap! So no ring he has another method (sleeve or various other ones) and just pretended it was the ring! to trick them as that how it was often done! AMAZING HE HAS A COUPLE OF POCKETS WITH PAPER IN IT! 🤦‍♂️🤣

[@Kyrelel]

Thank you, Captain Obvious

[@luckyskin09]

NO WAY!!

[@hasnainshabbir2002]

Coin was so big that you could easily guess in which hand she was holding it.

[@FumblkruschLP]

@@hasnainshabbir2002 Thought so too. But watch again the last round, her hand without the coin is the larger one.

[@weijieli5623]

Born in Germany, education in Australia and lives in Amsterdam for the special mind bonus.

[@jukansivalingam8278]

I thought he was education in New Zealand 😅😅😅

[@lucky-games335]

@@jukansivalingam8278 Australia is a country and a continent so it is in Australia and it's not

[@colahunter8180]

Education in New Zealand not Australia.

[@makromizer]

@@lucky-games335 New Zealand neither part of the Australian country nor continent.

[@arminkhani6136]

@@lucky-games335 the continent is called Oceania. Australia and New Zealand are countries which are not the same. Timon has learned his Mentalism in New Zealand.

[@thatdudesalim]

The youtube algorithm gods are on some strange drug

[@vtteq]

Same in 2022

[@95JakX]

Did it start a fool us binge? It should have! Maybe watch some Penn and Teller acts as well, the algorithm gods may have blessed you inadvertently 🤷‍♂️

[@Jake_Hamlin]

AI codes dont take drugs

[@jordanbridges]

KZbin algorithm is biased and it helps their bottom line(money)

[@utubeSome]

😅

[@martharahmann582]

Wtf er hat Alyson Hanningan getroffen und war dort in einer Show. Wie cool

[@Deadpool_the_Merc_with_a_Mouth]

und hat auch noch Penn und Teller gefoolt.

[@Sayako-sf2bn]

Willow :-D

[@maikdft]

Und er kann fließend perfektes Englisch sprechen.

[@bannerherr8815]

Eine wirklich süße Frau

[@VeronikaSchmoll-id7rt]

Wer will Alysson treffen?? Die ist eine hässliche versagerin die fuer nichts gut ist außer ein Dummes Maedchen zu spielen (American pie, how I met your mother)

[@PsyCoCinematics]

What really woulda sent em in a tizzy is if he had Alyson read the coin aloud and it had "It's not the ring" engraved in it.

[@CapAnson12345]

Actually I think the cleverest part of the trick might be the wearing of the ring and touching her hands before each guess all as a red herring.. KNOWING it would throw off Penn and Teller and he'd win.

[@Kasia120612]

Exactly! I knew of that trick before so watching it I felt so proud for noticing it the first two times, and on the third time I saw he didn't do it and was like wait no that's not right, just for it to cut to Penn and Teller seemingly doing the same thing lol

[@TheThursty100]

But the thing is, he told the hand before touching and even wrote it down on a paper in the end before doing anything near Alyson

[@artoriasentertainment4004]

@@youtube_chaplain hail satan

[@cameronsmith1229]

I love that they let people post these videos on their own channels, I can't imagine another show doing this.

[@destroyerdestroy87]

every single video someone says this as well🙄

[@cameronsmith1229]

@@destroyerdestroy87 good, it's good to be pointed out that a good thing is being done, give them credit.

[@GarrakS]

While it's nice to give credit, it's also useless spam that is in every video. It's no different than the arrow to the knee BS comments back in the day around Skyrim's release.

[@cameronsmith1229]

@@GarrakS no it isn't. You don't know the KZbin watch history of every person watching this video, and if the show is doing a good show they deserve to be acknowledged for it in each comment section. Arrow to the knee has zero relevance that's a random line from a guard in a video game.

[@GarrakS]

@@cameronsmith1229 Thanks Redditoid. I never claimed to know everybodies' watch history but I see the same dumb virtue signaling drivel on almost every video. They don't need opinions like yours on their video so you can feel validated to know that giving people the rights to their own content is the right thing to do. P&T have always been class acts.

[@laughingachilles]

What I love about this is that if he isn't using his ring to find the coin then he's instead using it to mislead P&T; which is a fantastic bit of misdirection. Mentalists are always my favourite magicians as it's not just misdirection and extremely well practiced hand movements. The best ones are taking some risk with things going a bit wrong as they're relying on their ability to predict what people will do/think. Ok yeah the mentalist tries to control as much as they can but there is always that risk of not quite reading a person correctly. It's fun to watch.

[@richardmahn7589]

Best way to win on FU is to make it so there are different ways it LOOKS like you did the trick. P&T can only guess one of those or other ways.

[@matt.stevick]

The host, I want to make love with her

[@DL-kc8fc]

There must be a "B" plan if the person is low sensitive.

[@DarkSaruman]

Actually this is a very cheap way of fooling them. I think in one of the podcasts P&T said they introduced a rule that the magicians are not allowed anymore to show red herrings, as for example handling a prop in a way that signalizes palming even though they don't palm. They realized many magicians structured their acts in such a way that it really hurt the performance just because they wanted to fool them.

[@noelicious3172]

I kinda like the way they are all saying „Timoooooon“. Idk why but that was all I could think about.

[@robinr2385]

Especially the fact that Timon himself adapted it😂

[@ilook_atyou]

Komme von Klaas und Joko ^^

[@georgeausdemjungle6594]

Too

[@Dom-oe8ri]

Das heisst Joko & Klaas

[@darkduck189]

@@Dom-oe8ri die 2 menschen dahinter heissen immernoch klaas und joko also macht es doch kein unterschied

[@Dom-oe8ri]

@@darkduck189 Aber es hört sich beim Aussprechen doof an und es wird ja immer Joko & Klaas gesagt und nicht Klaas & Joko😉

[@MrDaBu]

@@Dom-oe8ri Steven Gätjen sagt in seiner Moderation aber schon ziemlich oft Klaas und Joko, wenn er die beiden direkt anspricht

[@retroboomer3197]

This man basically "predicted" that people hate to be wrong and will undoubtedly try and manipulate you that they're not.

[@nicholasjh1]

No he predicted Alyson by doing the cow trick

[@furtim1]

@@nicholasjh1 Was the premise of that tell to be that if she said, "getting milked", then she was more agreeable and willing to be "wrong" or embarrassed?

[@nicholasjh1]

@@furtim1 I'm sure that was part of it, but you can also program people to certain actions by doing something like that based on which side was milked first etc. People do that kind of thing all the time but unless you know to look for it out doesn't normally get tracked.

[@deadvirgin428]

@@nicholasjh1 lmao you guys are funny, it's just a trick, no there's no actual "psychological" stuff involved, it's literally just a trick, and a very classical one actually, he just performs it so well that Penn & Teller didn't even notice he was using a very old and classic method.

[@LockPickingLegend]

@@deadvirgin428 Agreed - since Derren brown said he used 'Psychology and suggestion' and the whole NLP thing, I always read comments in mentalism videos of people saying things like 'Did you see how he said left and moved his left eyebrow higher?' - It's cool that people think this stuff could work - and it could about 1 in 10 times - but not for a pro working tables every night, imagine!

[@JohnGouvalisJD]

I think there might be a couple of ways something like this can be performed and Timon, very cleverly, made sure to "show off" the ring during the beginning of his performance, even hitting it with the coin to make it "ding" so Penn and Teller would 100% take that ring into consideration... The trick would always work 100% but the real "mentalism" was applied to Penn and Teller so they'd choose the Coin as the plausible answer instead of an alternative. Great work!

[@blusafe1]

He states the ring had nothing to do with the act.

[@loklan1]

@@blusafe1 it had nothing to do with knowing where the coin was, it was still important to the act.

[@juegodynamics]

@@blusafe1 you didn't understand what OP meant - they're saying he tricked Penn and Teller into focusing on the ring so they would guess that's how it's done and therefore he would win since it was wrong.

[@blusafe1]

@@juegodynamics oh ok. got it.

[@robpolaris7272]

How do they know he is telling the truth when he says the ring isn’t part of it? Does someone backstage know how it is done?

[@odanedmcdonald]

He knew they'd think it was the ring. He planned for his introduction before the show to show him doing a ring trick. His included the reference to Allyson's marriage to cement it in their minds. His response to quickly when he said it was the ring was as if he was thinking "Aha! i knew that's what you'd think!"

[@Thrash230723]

He actually touched her right hand too, after she “milked his hand” cow milking. Not sure what that means but it happened and seemed intentional

[@barcag6001]

@@Thrash230723 Good spot! That must be something right?

[@Nako3]

I dont understand the ring part at the end

[@giln4689]

this went directly over my head LMAO

[@jusleejolm1042]

@@JewTube001 I wondered that too.

[@TJ_104]

I know Timon from doing his "magic" in german shows, he's a phenomenon. More often than not he isn't this confident. Either he had a multi layered success confirmation setup or just acting to cover up. My guess is the first. With more difficult tricks or persons to read he gets a bit more nervous but somehow still nails it so many times. It's really entertaining to watch, i loved every single trick i've seen so far. Keep up the good work!

[@mlml8018]

Maybe he is more confident speaking English than German?

[@AR-ey1ur]

Tf is a multi layerd success confirmation setup?

[@iancormier7550]

@user-yb2jm6du8m If he messed up , or it looked wrong, he had an out to cover for it. Even if he failed, he had a way to pull something out of his sleeve that made it look like that was a joke ending and he would come out on top.

[@michaelq4965]

@@AR-ey1ur I am assuming he means the paper reveal. In his left pocket his paper says LEFT, LEFT, RIGHT, LEFT. In the right pocket it says LEFT, RIGHT, LEFT, RIGHT, etc. So he just grabs the correct paper. He doesn't have to be right from the start if he has many options covered. But I don't know how that would make him more confident. I assume he does that everytime, unless he doesn't and he was extra prepared for TV.

[@SuperAwesomeMovies]

A person holding out two hands and holding an object in one will typically grip tighter with the hand holding something. Timon looks at Alyson's hands each time. A subtle difference if you're not paying attention but not as subtle to a keen observer. The attempts to influence (ala The Princess Bride) may not be attempts at all, but misdirection entirely.

[@sohaibdanish3982]

isn't that Lily 😍

[@marceldavis6239]

Best women in the World

[@tommalatesta6313]

Alyson Hannigan. There is no Lily.

[@proteam6513]

Tom Malatesta ..

[@nilsmullah3447]

@@tommalatesta6313 so its lily.

[@gromtex5462]

No that is Ted.

[@americanpancakelive]

My guess is that a stage hand with a magnifying sight is looking at Alyson and what hand she places the coin in and signals Timon electronically. He may receive a buzz or electrical sting etc, one or two times, two being right etc.

[@Mark-xh8md]

One of my favorite but also frustrating parts of Penn and Teller is the cryptic hints and speaking in riddles they give to indicate that they think they know how, lol

[@carlosruiz1656]

My friend, as a 40 something magic fan, you are the very first "mentalist" that I actually like. Your setup was great, your execution even better. Thank you for this amazing illusion.

[@speedfastman]

You don't like Derren Brown?

[@Nako3]

Not to be rude but do you have dementia? You said 40 something.

[@user-ws8uw2jy2w]

@@Nako3 good one

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[@Nako3]

@@DoubleMonoLR It was not a joke.... anyway, have a nice day!

[@tp5284]

Der Designer des Preises hatte ja mal richtig Bock drauf XD

[@ThrillPanda]

T P das ist sinn und zweck. aus den anfangsbuchstaben von fool us wird F U oder auch F*ck You weil er sie „verarscht“ hat

[@makromizer]

@@ThrillPanda Das U bei F U steht für you.

[@dcr9600]

@@makromizer ja hat er doch gesagt

[@makromizer]

@@dcr9600 Ja, und U ist nicht der Anfangsbuchstabe von You. Nachtrag: ok, hat er auch nicht behauptet, hab das damals wohl zu ungenau gelesen.

[@dcr9600]

@@makromizer ja wie gesagt genau das meinte ThrillPanda

[@xs1972]

Great stage presence, this guy deserve a spot in the star ⭐ system!

[@strangelylookingperson]

Star system?

[@alcazar123456]

Simplistic looking tricks like this are the most fun and the most magical in my opinion.

[@dale4039]

man i love Alyson she was my first celeb crush, she's adorable, hilarious and gorgeous, she just gets more beautiful every day

[@TiTo0407]

Das witzige ist, dass er Allison zwar nicht manipuliert, Penn und Teller aber sehr wohl. Durch seine Handbewegung und den Ring suggeriert er ihnen ziemlich offensiv, dass der Ring etwas damit zu tun hat, sodass sie blind für den eigentlichen Trick bleiben. Und das ist nicht nur Mentalism us sondern das Wesen der Magie selbst.

[@MultiTomatojuice]

jop

[@benitofranklyn4237]

Penn & Teller were right at the "covered for all endings" part at least. The paper was rigged to open in different ways. And he would have to demonstrate, that the ring and coin are not magnetic or any thing of that sort.

[@Max-eh3gj]

Or there could have been lots of pieces of papers in different pockets - other then that I’m stumped

[@pitecusH]

@@Max-eh3gj If my maths is correct, all possible outcomes would have been 16 - not completely undoable, but keeping in mind where you hid each and every specific one could be a little challenging :)

[@aimansyakirinn]

@@pitecusH the multiple card outcomes is not challenging. if the first is left, keep it in the left pockets. if the second is left, keep it in the upper pockets. if the third is left, keep it in the inner suit pockets. then the fourth he would have to influence and do his magic, but he can just remember to put two papers in that pocket with one being left and right, one inside and one outside.

[@pairot01]

@@pitecusH it's 8 really, because he took the paper out before the last coin reveal, but he still had to have a way of correctly guessing that last one.

[@TonkarzOfSolSystem]

And if he gets the guesses wrong at any step, he can produce the paper and take credit.

[@designerelefant]

"Und damals, im Ferienlager.... da war plötzlich die Flöte weg...." 🤔🤣

[@justintripperlakeytk8789]

Haben wir damals nicht alle im Ferienlager die Flöte versteckt?

[@honkytonk4465]

Du Pfeife

[@vincentgronen2761]

Ehrenmann

[@wouterluijten9033]

@lI Amerikanischer Kuchen*

[@badcornflakes6374]

German 🥧 Polish 🥧 Swedish 🥧 Netherlands 🥧

[@Xombigod]

The coin is of such a size, that when her hand is closed over it her middle two fingers protrude slightly forward.

[@dontich]

My guess : 1) he can tell by looking at the closed hand which one it's in. I'd imagine this would be what P&T are guessing about as there would be alot of potential ways to do that -- magnets, muscle movements, something else? 2) he has 8 papers hidden in various pockets for the first 3 rounds. 3) each paper can open two ways for the last one.

[@jimkubak]

They didn't care about them paper

[@fpod8498]

That is how i guessed he did it. The coin is huge and if she held it tight like a normal person would it would be obvious to see up close the different hand size

[@R.E.E.D.]

I think people are over analyzing the hell out of this. It's just simple logic and reasoning skills. Potentially with a small amount of deception. That's it. I too predicted which hands she would have the coin in because it's simple once you understand how people think. It starts with the game name, "You don't have a choice." Instinctively, your reaction will be that you do, so already you've been primed to resist whatever is coming. The next set up is placing the coin in the right hand. Because he placed it in the right hand, and she wants to prove she has a choice, she swaps the coin into the left hand. He then takes the coin and places it back into her right hand. That's important, because she's still fighting against the idea that she doesn't have a choice. (I wasn't gonna break this next part all down but it'll help with the rest so...) Her instinct/subconscious desire to fight against the idea that she has no choice would tell her to put the coin in the left hand again. But since he already guessed the left hand, he's likely to pick it again. Thus, his statement about the statistic, that women place it in the same hand again. That reassures her belief that he's going to pick the same hand. But what if he's tricking her? And then the statement, "I'm not trying to influence you right now." comes into play. Whether or not she believes him is irrelevant. It reinforces her decision to place it into the right hand, whether she realizes it or not, on top of it already being likely he'd choose the left. Everything that's happened and been said has convinced her to put it into the right hand, and so she does. When he explains it, he's not lying. She tried to think 2 steps ahead, but wound up back in square 1. Things are simple from there. "The exact same thing" is just insurance to make sure she does it. She tried to outsmart him, by not switching the hand, but again he knows this behavior, the resistance. Last round. This is the only time lying/deception comes into play. He gets out the paper, showing the predictions. But as the other guy said, "the end could've played out differently and you were covered for all of those." That is to say, he had pieces of paper for every set of outcomes but since he doesn't fully know which set will be correct he can't give the judges the paper in advance until he has the right information. Because she picked right twice, she assumes that he'd think she was going to change hands at the end. So she keeps it in the right hand. Telling her it was "the last round" was, again, just to ensure she did it. But what if she did put it in the left hand? Unlikely. However, it definitely was possible. The true beauty of his perfomance was his confidence in his own abilities, because he chose to reveal the paper before making the final prediction, rather than waiting to see if he was correct. It sells the trick. If you don't understand the significance of the paper(s). Anyone can be correct in hindsight. If he by some chance got every single one of them incorrect, he chooses the paper with the exact outcomes that she chose. Boom. "I actually did get all of them right, and I wrote it down here." As for the Cow Test... I'm not 100% sure on what that was about, I don't think it was necessary (it wasn't for me at least) but I think it's as he said. To get to know her a little. If I had to guess, it's purpose would be to determine if she has a dominant or submissive personality. milked (submissive) or milker (dominant). that would let him know if she's the type to give in to suggestion or the type to try to resist it. she chose milker (dominant/resistant) which would tell him that she's going to try to resist his suggestions. but again, that all slipped by me, so idk for sure. It's not so much a trick as it is understanding how people behave and react to things.

[@bybit2554]

Or he’s influencing her subconscious via induction. Yeah that’s much more likely.

[@JoshuaWillis89]

@@R.E.E.D. I understand what you’re saying, and mostly agree with what you said. However, no magician is going onto this show with anything but a completely fail-proof act. If there’s even the remote possibility that the participants can mess up the act, that isn’t how it’s done.

[@bobbates6642]

I have gone to see some of those mentalists do their show. Clearly I could see how some of them could start a cult or something like that . Glad to see Penn and Teller state they do not like it when the mentalist makes out like they are doing something supernatural

[@TimonKrause]

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[@ireallyreallyhategoogle]

@@TimonKrause That's a tempting offer.

[@phattjohnson]

@@TimonKrause A full year? I thought $666 got us for a LIFETIME 🤣🤣😈

[@LegendLength]

@@phattjohnson no you're thinking of Windows 12

[@jawstrock2215]

@@TimonKrause Long live the hypno-Krause

[@BR-qg5jd]

He didnt touch her hand for the last one and he already had the paper unfolded

[@Alex-fc8xn]

I think the cow thing was definitely part of the trick. Getting to know her tells, which hand was dominant, and making her more comfortable with touch, maybe? Definitely got some sort of info out of it, aside from the thing to do with her husband lol

[@LegendLength]

I think it 100% must be based on communication of some type, from the coin to the human. Otherwise he wouldn't need to bring a special coin he could ask for one from Teller.

[@shokojimhollingsworth3940]

The way you lace your fingers naturally is an indicator of which hand is dominant

[@JoshuaWillis89]

I would assume it’s to transfer some sort of substance to her hands that helps determine which hand she has the coin in.

[@TOAOM123]

Probably also gives a reading as to her general level of compliance

[@leiolevan9527]

@@LegendLength Yes, it's a radioactive coin and he wear dosimetric lenses :D

[@Knuckles2761]

The ring code means he stole her jewelry and blackmailed her to choose left-right-right-right or else.

[@TimonKrause]

I'd appreciate if you didn't go around revealing my subtle secrets.

[@scottnorton2732]

@@TimonKrause The way I howled at this

[@sergemoulin5110]

Alyson was already an actress when I was a teenager (Buffy the Vampire Slayer). She never gets old?

[@Excuse711]

I guess she was a vampire

[@srdiogo]

the size of the coin, 8 papers with double outcomes. simple and clever.

[@andriandrason1318]

He has a sensor that vibrates and let's you know in which hand a person has hidden the magnetic coin.

[@ImHeadshotSniper]

@@andriandrason1318 i think srdiogo is right about both the coin being large and obviously indicative of which hand you're holding it in, as well as the multiple possibility guess at the end. your method of a sensor in a coin would probably work too, i just think there's less chance for error with the oldschool big coin method, because if you feel the motion of someone moving a coin around and it turns out they kept it in the same hand, the trick would be a bust. ultimately, having a method of straight up seeing which hand it's in somehow is the best possible way to do a guessing trick. it's also kind of cool to think that you could do this trick 1000 years ago, and it still has the ability to convince people today that someone must be using motion sensors! :)

[@J_Hasselhoff]

Ein linken und einen rechten Daumen hoch für die gelungene Einleitung. Mein Vater hatte eine besondere Münze als Glücksbringer. Ich denke ihm würde der Trick auch gefallen.

[@TiTo0407]

Aber wie? (nicht verraten!) dass es was mit der Münze zu tun hat, wenns nicht der Ring ist, ist mir logisch. Aber wie genau bleibt mir ein Rätsel.

[@chainonsmanquants1630]

@@TiTo0407 ich nähme an dass es ein elektronishes signal von der munze Zum zwei receptor gibt. es vibriert damn in seine tashe irgendwie.

[@tim..indeed]

The ring was such obvious misdirection that I also wondered if it maybe wasn't misdirection at all. I'm sure Penn and Teller thought the same.

[@alexadame436]

2:17 "I think that's why he married me"😏 AYOOO WHAT???🤣🤣 that deserved more than mere chuckles

[@aa1bb2cc3dd4]

Allison is literally Michelle Flaherty. She embodies that character. You all thought she was just really good at ACTING awkward, but realistically, she just IS that awkward. She is amazing for that. She is still beautiful to this day; she is ageless.

[@I666I]

Ikr. I would totally fill her up with my lifejuice.

[@benh1350]

confidently awkward

[@frydac]

so not literally then

[@logansummers1551]

Learn what literal means, dumb@ss.

[@thierryfaquet7405]

@@Purple9721. Forever, yes.

[@HotRatsAndTheStooges]

I wonder if the size of the coin causes anyone's fist to be obvious when it's holding the coin, making it easy for a trained person to spot which hand is holding it. Would the trick still work if the coin was the size of a dime?

[@patches4170]

Good question, but whether or not he could tell due to the size of the coin is irrelevant, because the real trick was him having a paper predicting the pattern. And I have no clue how tf he did it, what a great mentalist performance

[@patrickwehrstein8693]

@@patches4170 well Penn actually says how he did that bit, it's his first sentence "covered for all endings". He had a specially prepared paper or a few of those cleverly made to be able to be unfolded in different ways to alter what the front size says. The actual trick is how he made it actually work each round. It might've been just propability based guessing, like a real mentalist does, but I don't think you would risk that for a tv show. There is magic envolved here but I cannot spot it.

[@ctakitimu]

@@patrickwehrstein8693 I'm really not smart, I read the first guys comment and thought"Yeah! I agree" But then I read the second guy and thought "Oh yeah, I meant that I agree with". Just when you think you're average, life reminds you you're not.

[@phattjohnson]

I wonder if the 'milking the cow' thing is a test to make sure the subject's hands are small enough/not double-jointed or something, to be able to pull it off more successfully :P

[@dhaenir]

@@patrickwehrstein8693 I think it's a combination of probability and seeing which hand holds the large coin. He uses the first three rounds -- when he looks at her hands before "guessing" which one holds the coin -- to evaluate her response to his influencing triggers. Thus he has a pretty good idea what she will do in the last round and takes out that specific prediction before looking at her.

[@experimenteight4550]

6:02 Magically transported the stool too ;)

[@ideegeniali]

I would have liked hearing his reply to Alison's question. They edit out a lot on this show to allow PnT time to think about how the trick was done.

[@llodavid]

That was so incredibly impressive. I don't think anyone can do what he just did there. I mean it's one thing to read minds, but to get Alyson Hannigan to say *that* on American National television for a show that is watched worldwide, he really had to have gotten into her head.

[@JTProductions3]

Haaaaaave you watched American Pie?

[@llodavid]

@@JTProductions3 Well yeah, this one time at band camp.

[@SamMissileSystem]

"So Alyson, did you enjoyed, being milked by me?" Damn, what a question on tv, since she could be his mother.

[@scribe570]

Yeah, I thought it was creepy, like something a sleazy guy would try to get a woman to take part in as a bar move.

[@MTBExtraordinaire]

@@scribe570 Except it was onstage, during a performance.

[@emilyriley1262]

I really enjoyed this piece, it evokes a lot of emotion and yet, tranquility. Thank you

[@tmcleanful]

None of his explanation is the reason why he knows which hand. He knows because he watches the muscles in her arms, and those tell him which hand she has placed the coin in based on how they move.

[@fbmbassist]

The premise of the trick is that he always has her bring her arms out before he guesses, and looks at her hands. I’m guessing there is a tell in the way she holds the coin in one hand, which he would have seen when he placed the coin the first time. If he tried guessing when her hands were behind her back, it wouldn’t work.

[@robertrouthier2603]

The coin is pretty big for her hands. I think that's intentional. The milking was so he could gauge the size of her palms and choose the right coin to use which would just slightly cause her hand to bulge and give it away but not so obviously for those also watching.

[@pitprok]

@@RaveyDavey While reading your comment I thought it said "A event mentalist did this too me using a big dick" I had to stop and read it again

[@WeirdMotionsLab]

Either smartwatch or RFID in hand with proximity sensor that vibrates/signals some other way when it is close to the coin. About the ending - He basically had 8 double-sided cards inside his pocket with all possible outcome of first 3 rounds + 2 variants for final round. He chooses appropriate, "scans" the hands of an assistant and opens the right side of the card.

[@freeway394]

no tech involved

[@Julian-jt8qt]

Wer kommt auch alles von Nightwash haha

[@Deadpool_the_Merc_with_a_Mouth]

Genau umgekehrt, ich gucke Fool Us Videos hab das deshalb vorgeschlagen bekommen und bin dann von hier zu Nightwash. :D

[@honkytonk4465]

Woher soll ich die Typen kennen?

[@Deadpool_the_Merc_with_a_Mouth]

@@honkytonk4465 Penn und Teller? Gehören zu den besten Magiern der Welt. Sind halt nur im deutschsprachigen Raum nicht allzu bekannt.

[@honkytonk4465]

@@Deadpool_the_Merc_with_a_Mouth nee, ich meine die Typen die von nightwash zu diesem Video geflutscht sind.

[@Deadpool_the_Merc_with_a_Mouth]

@@honkytonk4465 achso. hab ich falsch verstanden, sry. ^^

[@theempirebruh9697]

I always love coming back to these videos and being reminded the fooler gets a big "F U" at the end

[@omikronweapon]

feels a very Penn thing to do xD "yeah, you fooled me, but now there's a trophy in your room that says FU, so who really has the last laugh here?"

[@dolphmanity]

I think I got Rick Rolled by a Dutchman.

[@davidallison9618]

Could be a subdermal magnet which lets you "sense" magnetic objects. Definitely one paper for each combination + sleight of hand (probably storing different papers in different locations)

[@HeavyMetalGamingHD]

Nah it's not a magic trick. he is manipulating allison at every part of the show with every word he says.

[@PWALYM]

the smartest thing is, you answer the code with a code like it is a real story XD

[@AcaTea]

Penn thought there was a magnet in the ring for those who weren’t sure.

[@charleskelemen737]

What you just did is called exposure in case you weren't sure.

[@slaxxderechte]

@@charleskelemen737 wtf, it was wrong in the end

[@theresa594]

@@charleskelemen737 if Penns guess is wrong anyways it doesn't matter

[@alecman95]

Thank you, watched it like 5 times and couldn't figure out the whole ending

[@jackjazzhands2357]

Thanks i wasnt sure XD And Charles Kelemen: Maybe Aca Tea is not a magician bound to that kind of kodex to not tell anyone

[@joshparks82]

Ok, so let's assume some things: 1) he can tell which hand the coin is in when he looks at how they're holding them, and 2) he has different papers in different pockets based on what they chose during the first three times. He pulls out the LEFT RIGHT RIGHT paper before she chose the final hand. So he either knew she would choose RIGHT or that paper can have either RIGHT or LEFT on it in the #4 spot based on what he sees in her hand. Is there a way to manipulate the paper when he's opening it so that #4 will be RIGHT (when he sees it's in her right hand)? Look at the way the words are written. My guess is that's part of the trick.

[@ryan.jajaa7]

if you pause at around 5:15 you can see the difference between Alyson's hands. Her bottom knuckles on her left hand and inward while on her right hand they are sticking out, indicating that the oversized coin is in the right hand.

[@trickytank]

Notice Timon doesn’t choose straight away, but talks about the hands in a way that Alyson would give away tells. I agree with Penn who says he’s sure Timon wasn’t influencing Alyson.

[@xcalibur4376]

But what about the paper in which he wrote down all those predictions beforehand??

[@AzureKite]

@@xcalibur4376 The paper is rigged to open in multiple ways.

[@chrisscy0802]

@@xcalibur4376 couldve also have several results in different pockets

[@nicolaim4275]

@@xcalibur4376 There are 16 possible combinations of left and right. If he kept all papers with left as the first choice in his left pocket, then he would have to sort through eight different papers in that pocket. If he also had inner pockets he could reduce that to four pieces. Since it is fairly easy to make a sorted system he wouldn't have to do too much to find the right paper.

[@AtaTheKin]

i think the milking part was to figure out what was Alyson dominant hand, so he could figure it out later about the tells you said she did

[@tjt4286]

I think there is a hint to how he does it if you freeze frame at 1:27. It's way more simple than other people think. No chemicals, no magnets, no mind games. It would be a fool proof way to get the right answer every time. I also think the "cow test" is a crucial component to the setup.

[@Yoni123]

@TJT What do you mean with 1:27? I don't see anything suspicious

[@tjt4286]

@@Yoni123 I'm not sure I want to give away what I think the trick is, but just take that whole frame in. Combine it with frame 3:31

[@Smrda1312]

@@Yoni123 the reflective floor i guess

[@michaelq4965]

@@Smrda1312 Lol, no way he relies on that on a stage he doesn't use.

[@tjt4286]

@@michaelq4965 he has an unused stool as a reference point (he made sure that she was positioned between him and the stool at 1:28), and he surely had a run-through beforehand.

[@dj.sauerkraut9022]

1:38: my name is Timon and I'm amsterdams most awkward animal.

[@Balou]

Oh sooo good

[@honkytonk4465]

Wieso sagst du das nur du frecher Bumsdings?

[@sliceoflife5812]

2:25 This is the first act and already hes influencing her.. Wow this is going to be a treat He basically started influencing all of her decisions from the very start of their interaction.. Im probably late too, it mightve started earlier.. Thats impressive

[@freeway394]

No influence took part in this trick :)

[@Gen_66]

I think it has to do with the slight deviations in how the hands look like when you are holding firmly something and when not. You can see the slight changes in the muscles and also the hand is a bit tighter when you are holding something. The empty hand is always a little bit more relaxed and not so tight. The coin is big enough to force her hand to actually squeeze it a bit instead of staying relaxed. It's an instinct when you have something in your hand and have to hold it to put some effort doing it in comparison to staying relaxed. The way to fool him would be to either intentionally relax both hands or put pressure and strengthen both hands. Or Even better would be to relax the coin hand and the strengthen the other one :)

[@Josh-bw4qi]

How do you explain his sheet of paper with the four predictions made ahead of time then? There's 16 combinations for all four predictions, I supposed he could have had 16 sheets on his body somewhere and grabbed the correct one but that seems like a stretch, especially given how big this sheet of paper was. It does look like he's holding the paper strangely, as well as unfolding and folding very specifically. But I can't work out how he'd be manipulating it.

[@DabDabGoose]

​​​@@Josh-bw4qi he doesn't bring out the paper till the last decision, by then he would only need two papers to get it correct as he gets to look at her hands before he does the reveal, the clue on the whole performance is why he unfolds and re-folds the paper in a odd way which suggest there is two there, and that's his method to hide the second paper. But it doesn't stop there, he would of had multiple papers in his suit for any situation depending on how it would of lead via the 4 choices. .

[@Josh-bw4qi]

@@DabDabGoose i wrote that he would need 16 sheets of paper and given the size of the one he pulled out it seems unlikely he would have that many on him?

[@DabDabGoose]

@@Josh-bw4qi he only needs 2, the other 14 can be in different parts of his suit depending on the first 3 questions, they would all be paired with a second option for the final that can easily be done.

[@Josh-bw4qi]

@@DabDabGoose don't know why I keep repeating the same thing lol this is literally the first thing I said. Even by your response, he needs 16 sheets of paper that size within his suit or in his trousers or wherever. Not saying that's completely impossible just seems improbable.

[@chandir7752]

3:41 is kind of a funny phrase, he doesn't say "it was 50-50 so I could have just been lucky" instead he says "it could have been 50-50", meaning it was not a random choice.

[@DerMichael]

Why is that funny? His point was to proof that it was no 50-50.

[@chandir7752]

@@DerMichael no yes you're absolutely right, I'm just highlighting this subtle semantic difference

[@p3rformer]

no he means that it could have been 50/50 that he was right. Just saying that it isn't proof and the probability of winning is high.

[@danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307]

@@chandir7752 If it was not 50/50 then alysson is working for him, which is not true!

[@tmattoneill]

WTF. I hadn't thought of Alyson Hannigan in years... she came into my head about 30 minutes ago when I was walking down the street. Came home and this was on my suggested for you page.

[@srhatfield]

Google has telepathy now, apparently....

[@JaySinghIsImmature]

You're an exceptional performer and very talented 'conjurer'. Blessings and Respect from Canada 🙏🍁✊🏽

[@cecilwampler8733]

Timon, did you share how you did it with Penn and Teller after the show? Great performance.

[@arjunbaisla86]

And I got Rick Rolled by a Mentalist, Fooled me as well

[@johannes_floehr]

Sehr gut, Timon! Grüße! :)

[@Anomalous-One]

Gosh, Alyson is really something special. She hardly ages at all!!

[@tomghzel]

Timon doesn't neither! He must be drinking virgin blood xD

[@fatoumfatoumeh]

@@tomghzellol he was only in his early 20s in this video…he looks young because he still is young, he’s 28 now…your comment makes it sound like he’s 40…Alyson is her 40s.

[@Cymricus]

Alyson looking hostage the whole time is a mood

[@Ian_Synnott]

If you look closely you will see that whenever Alyson had the coin in her hand, her thumb was to the side of the closed fist. On the hand that didn't have the coin, the thumb was under or to the front of the fist. I wonder was this the method??

[@timmarrier]

3:07 - he puts the coin in her right hand, she knows the audience saw it so she switches accordingly to appear slightly more clever than lame as a fair yet eager neutral 'audience' participant. Psychology 101. 3:50 - this one's easy, by implying a lameness to the so-called 'typical female predictability', he again forces her to take responsibility for the show's excitement level (and her own intelligence). Who'd pick left again then? 4:24 - "...going to do the exact same thing again..." need I say more? 5:03 - his final cue for her to go right (due to its obvious-albeit-awkward nature, the awkwardness is just a distraction), while simultaneously excluding left by saying it out loud...if you were her, are you really going with left now and (yet again) be responsible for a slightly more anti-climactic ending? Probably not, he's hoping. Still fun, he did a good job overall.

[@Kanoog]

No matter what I see her in, even after so many tears I just think “This one time at band camp”

[@dasmiauz]

Wieso ist Alyson Hanningan immer so süß? ^^ Und er hat echt eine tolle englische Aussprache.

[@outis01123]

@@christophb2736 Das, und seine Ausbildung in Australien ist bestimmt auch ein Faktor.

[@geisteswissenschaft]

Wenn du englische Worte deutsch aussprichst und deutsche englisch bist du nah am holländischen dran.

[@costo2100]

I dont wanna play rock paper scissors against this guy

[@mjsmcd]

Give it a try Let us know how you do kzbin.info/www/bejne/rH21loVojd90qJI

[@TJ_104]

Right. Actually he's an expert in that game. Not kidding.

[@RioTGeaRMusic]

Reminds me of that scene in The Princess Bride when they have the battle of wits drinking the poison

[@joes9545]

He touched her hands for a LONG time for a reason in the beginning. Possibly marking them with something or applying oil, etc that would react to the coin..This was clearly a set up to help him guess the hand. Not simply a cute joke. At exactly 3:38 you can see a small spot on her left hand near her thumb which he immediately covers with his hand to hide the mark. Plus he was using a large coin. Then the paper reveal at the end had multiple outs as Penn correctly guessed.

[@arminhenkel552]

I've just been to a show of yours in Germany and have seen you performing the same trick, but you failed to predict the right hand 3 times in a row. So it looks like to me this trick is not a 100% chance at succeeding, which makes it really really brave to perform it on a show like this. Does this happen more regularly, or was my experience a once in a lifetime one?

[@cloudhigh6582]

@@Badhabit99Gaming It's a shame that she was in on it.

[@anderivative]

@@Badhabit99Gaming and he motions different ways and says "right" and "left", whether to influence her or to give her the cue. And yeah the "i haven't picked yet" is funny

[@MavisRileyJunior]

@@cloudhigh6582 ALison is not allowed to be "in on it" with any act.

[@cloudhigh6582]

@@MavisRileyJunior Not in on it per se as in before the show but she wanted him to succeed so she followed his cues to choose the right hand.

[@MavisRileyJunior]

@@cloudhigh6582 Cues etc is not how it was doen.

[@Ladada-to1zn]

I guess the code here is: "We think the coin in some way is magnetized or you are wearing a magnetic ring which helps you find the coin in allisons hand" and it certainly looks like that by the way that he's waving his left hand (with the ring) above allison's [hand] to check. What I think actually happened: The one thing we're not allowed to see much of, is the coin. The ring is the mis-direct for P&T, the coin itself which is slightly larger than average. In a magician's hands the coin is held 'naturally', but if it's brand new to you, it's easy to drop, so you adjust to holding it. As for the paper? I'd wager he had 16 sheets of paper folded up in his pocket.

[@KouwMC]

But he guessed before she revealed her hands tho

[@Nloveru]

He had already written the answers down before the show. How could he have known if it's about the way she is holding the coin?

[@AppLe-cn1zo]

@@Nloveru there were different papers with different answers

[@cinoss5]

paper is brought out before hands are shown so I guess the paper can be unfold to show either left or right on the last one

[@vanessagiesbrecht4885]

"timoooone krauß" lol

[@emilianadamson4606]

I wonder what he is doing at 1:54 by touching her right-hand fingers in an unusual way and pointing his eyes to that while he is doing it

[@tohtorrent]

I think the hand with a coin looks slightly different than empty hand and he trained himself very hard to notice the difference in fingers. The trick is to make the paper reflect those choices. he propably had several versions of them and/or a tricky paper.

[@Clockworkonthewindow]

imagine playing rock paper scissors against this guy

[@counterstrikejoe]

no game no life

[@smart-sloth-1630]

He would stand no chance against my always rock tactics.

[@benyyyo]

80% of the poeple play scissor first - try it out ! Then scissor again and as 3rd rock / so winning tactics is ROCK, ROCK, PAPER

[@smart-sloth-1630]

@@benyyyo Bart Simpson already knew that rock always wins

[@birdie-oj9wh]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/rH21loVojd90qJI

[@hcnuup]

This one has a simple secret. The man is psychic and he could do this by reading her mind.

[@TimonKrause]

I'm out of work now, thanks a lot for revealing my secret.

[@byrospyro4432]

@@TimonKrause I think i know how you did it :P

[@barneyreilly9101]

@@TimonKrause Good one.

[@rufio171]

I know what happened. He has a special device in his jacket that can electromagnetically sense which hands its in. At the end, he has a sheet of paper for every combination and picks the one based on the combinations picked

[@gdgd5194]

lol, what mushrooms are you on :D

[@jheckerman]

huh that sounds plausible. it seems like it can't be a force, since she puts her two hands together behind her back and can genuinely pick anything. and we know that mentalism/influencing/mind-reading is BS. my only other guess was that he trained himself at recognizing when one hand was slightly bigger than the other, but just using a metal detector seems a lot more reliable. not sure why that guy thinks you're on mushrooms, metal detectors are very ordinary devices.

[@gdgd5194]

@@jheckerman Because it's much easier to act it all out instead of using gadgets

[@rufio171]

@@jheckerman The people who think I'm on mushrooms are the people who have no idea how magic works

[@jheckerman]

@@gdgd5194 my understanding is that contestants on fool us arent allowed to use audience plants or tell allison what to do

[@maelshecknael7446]

This is crazy I've never looked this show up on KZbin and like an hour ago I watched this show for the first time ever on television and now I got on KZbin and this show just pops up while I'm scrolling through videos

[@dollydiamond426]

Let me in I wanna be closer to you Open up your soul Let me find that part of you A part that nobody ever knew Let me touch your mind (Tina Turner - Let Me Touch Your Mind)

[@a.b.productions2055]

Ich feier den Typen auf allen Sprachen alter 😂

[@TJ_104]

Underrated comment

[@catharsis0]

It's a fairly large coin, though. And Alyson is quite small, with hands to match (although I defer to her husband's views regarding the milking). So there's the possibility of small differences in fist shape, but I'd have expected P&T to spot that.

[@quantummidget]

Though the end trick of having written down the full sequence would have likely been incorrect had he not been influencing her decisions.

[@whocares2277]

@@quantummidget Have multiple papers in different pockets. 8 papers, two ways to open each one, that's enough.

[@thefantasyreview8709]

If it was something as simply as the coin being so large, that her hand appearred to be larger because she had to make a bigger fist... Penn and Teller would have guessed that. Clearly looking at it, it wasn't large enough to do that.

[@owenbartrop8963]

@@thefantasyreview8709 read his book.

[@Mario1234mario3s]

Multiple reading methods: - Reactions from her and the crowd after suggesting his choice -Thumb placement (after seeing natural grip on Cow test) -Last one he may be cueing the participant by obviously displaying the paper and leaving the person free to choose whether he will fail or not. If the person has agreeable personality he goes with his cue, otherwise he changes it.

[@DoubleMonoLR]

It has nothing to do with 'reading', it's normal magic tricks. Magicians routinely rely on lying and misdirection, "mentalism" is just one of those, and he only even seems to take a joking tone about his supposed mentalism anyway. As with yourself, people want to believe in mentalism, so they try to find the supposed mental trickery, and are distracted from trying to find the actual trick. The paper is the most basic aspect, he already knows which hand it's in before he opens the paper... simply selecting the matching piece of paper, or folding it the right way which will allow him to show the matching choices. Penn even said that they know he can't read minds and he didn't influence her, which he was completely unbothered about, and likewise only said that the ring wasn't what was being used(or at least not in the way they meant) - ie: he used a different trick. The show is literally about fooling Penn & Teller, anyone genuinely claiming to be a mentalist would have been more likely to have been a topic on their 'Penn & Teller: Bullshit! ' show.

[@blacksky9397]

How impressive it is thru the word of magic...they can understand so well...

[@donaldclark2693]

Coin emits high frequency beyond human hearing - sensor in sleeve, hence he passes his hand over both her hands - triggers a movement as he passes over coin.

[@chriscash782]

How would he be able to write them all down beforehand If that was the case?

[@twilight4ever516]

can someone pls explain to me what happened in the last 30 seconds :DDD

[@sebastianrodriguezlemoine8013]

Penn insinuated that Timon's ring had something to do with the trick, which is weird because in the last two guesses Timon didn't use his left hand at all after making the prediction.... I think Penn said this because he didn't want to admit son quickly that they were fooled.

[@StarGamingPubgMobile]

@@sebastianrodriguezlemoine8013 That's exactly what I commented. Penn couldn't be so blind to not see that he never touched her hands in the last round.

[@Kyrelel]

@@StarGamingPubgMobile Using the "ring method" you do not need to touch the persons hands at any point.

[@aaranlawley510]

My guess for what it's worth, the guessing the hand is the easy part. The hand/finger warm ups pulsate blood around so then when you grip an object it's easy to tell which hand the object is in. This is really old and classical to do with children. Whether that's his method or not it's still cool. The prediction part, as others have said, he is prepared for all eventualities. Only thing I question is it all seems and sounds rather obvious, so if it fooled P&T then to be honest, it's clearly done differently lol

[@majnuker]

Haha all these people getting caught up on the prediction part. He's a mentalist, he just manipulated her. 1. She's right handed. She switched to left. He determined this with the cow thing. He also made her uncomfortable, naturally inclining her to switch to a non-dominant hand. 2. He gives her a moment to think but subverts it. Alysson is confused and feels caught, saying 'wait wait' as she hasn't switched yet but wanted to. So she doesn't, even if it seems obvious to do it, plus he's mind gaming with the levels of you know i know you know, and again, natural inclination is to do the opposite of the expected. Right hand it is. 3. He is already inside her head at this point. 'Exact same thing' is said, and it's a little louder than the rest, so she doesn't switch. The 'predictions' are throwing her off. 4. Now she knows he's inside her head. When he says 'Left' he says it VERY obviously so she notices, so she chooses to subvert him and go right, as it could be him doing the thing he just did again. This is subconscious most likely, but could be conscious. Sadly, the result is the same: she sticks with right hand. Brains are complex, but with pattern recognition, instinct, and subversion you can get people to do things. It looks like magic, but it's just Inception :P

[@TheSandvichTrials]

@@majnuker Are you experienced as a mentalist?

[@GuillotineDani]

@@majnuker oh no it's retarded

[@frankjohnson123]

@@majnuker this is such nonsense. You really think he’d risk embarrassment on the chance he got a perfect read on someone he’s never met?

[@logansummers1551]

Not even close, d#mmy.

[@Leo-sd3jt]

This seems pretty straight forward. Ask a friend to pick stick a quarter into one of their hands and then to hold their hands out in front of them. Then proceed to pick which hand the quarter is in. But when you point to one hand say "this is the hand that the quarter is in....or so you'd think". When you say "this is the hand the quarter is in", see the person's reaction. You can clearly see Alyson nod yes when he picked the hand in the beginning. Her smile widely when he tapped her left hand for the second guess and so on and so forth. The last part of the trick is the paper. Either he has 16 pieces of paper on him or just 4 and each one can be opened in 4 different ways to reveal all of the possible 16 combinations of events.

[@cultoftyler9045]

nope, just psychology.

[@freeway394]

@@cultoftyler9045 no psychology involved in this one.

[@cultoftyler9045]

@@freeway394 it is purely psychology

[@freeway394]

@@cultoftyler9045 absolutely not.

[@cultoftyler9045]

@@freeway394 you are wrong

[@fillip13]

When Timon shows the "awkward cow" he hides the left hand of Alyson and holds briefly aflter 01:44 . When he does the awkward cow on Alyson he holds briefly her right hand after 1:53 . I think there is something to do with it.

[@8691man]

Guys! He tells how he did it in the link in the description! Check it out!!! It's actually pretty amazing. . .