Penn & Teller Fool Us // John Michael Hinton "completely blows away" with a Rubiks Cube

[@Emteon]

"Just a little shake" *has seizure*

[@jasontaylor2503]

LMAO. I saw your comment before I saw the video and could not stop laughing

[@moodisback]

HahahahahahagadhFu my thought exactly. Ur comment gave me a seizure .

[@dmitry7905]

Lmfao

[@mofojungle]

@@jasontaylor2503 same LOLLLLL

[@BusinessRaptor520]

@@jasontaylor2503 lol same (edit: LMAO)

[@KZ-hu9uj]

There was a hollow cube with a side missing still in the bag, thats why he had to let the naked cube roll out of the bag because he couldnt reach in and grab it. He poured the cube stickers into the hollow cube, inserted the “naked” (most likely colored on the side he never showed the audience) cube back into the hollow case, and then pulled the whole thing out. The camera cuts away for a bit but I believe he does a slight of hand during his bow before walking down to Penn and Teller in order to swap the phony cube for a real one to hand him - banking a bit on the fact that they would stop paying attention once the trick seemed finished. Penn hinted towards the bow being important so the guy knew they caught him

[@skills_hd]

wow

[@haraldgeiger47]

You, sir, should be at the top

[@brandonjones5096]

Youre right. If you slow the video down and look at the first side you see once the trick is done, its the yellow side, and you can see something is clearly off with that side of the cube. He then quickly rotates it around to that the yellow side is no longer facing outwards.

[@mrlugh]

but why would he hand such of obviously gimmicky cube for them to look at?

[@patio87]

@@mrlugh he didn't he handed penn a legit cube that he swapped out as he was bowing which we can't see from the edit.

[@BlokenArrow]

That 20 move opener was actually just two made to look like it needed 20. Most moves were counter turns.

[@KucheKlizma]

Even worse for the second trick. "No matter which way I turned this thing, it's always solved". Proceeds to pretend he's turning it, but counters every move immediately.

[@mersarultmit5577]

#HatersAlert 😉 Give 'em cuddles

[@Infinite_Archive]

You know, you didn't NEED to post this...

[@greischwitz]

@@Infinite_Archive wtf

[@Infinite_Archive]

@@greischwitz What? Sometimes I like my magic tricks unspoiled

[@not.aghost]

Alright, for a speed cuber like myself the first trick is really easy, he is 20 moves away going backwards but just 4 going forwards.

[@ChildrenOfOwls]

Idk how that works but I’ll take your word for it haha

[@CptCage]

@@ChildrenOfOwls it’s basically like this. If you turn it the same way 4 times it ends up back where it started right. So if you turn it 3 times the same way, you can either undo what you just did by turning it back the other way 3 times, or just turn it one more time. So you are both 3 moves and 1 move away from it being solved at the same time.

[@_flyingcat_7527]

@@CptCage that actually clears it up thank you

[@Valican11]

I learnt to do the rubiks cube back in highschool and i definitely wouldn't call myself a speed cuber, but it's still probably the most super obvious "trick" i've ever seen on this show. It takes 5 minutes playing with a cube to know that one.

[@ZekePolarisBSH]

@@Valican11 I learnt cube tricks before learning how to solve them. Which turns out not hard at all.

[@MagyarGaben]

The guy pushes everybody into the friendzone instantly. A living legend.

[@blue-chaos96striker72]

Well Allison sent him first just in case he would change his mind.

[@AppleYou]

He grew up in Saudi Arabia

[@jayme1776]

Alpha move, can't get friend zoned if you friendzone them first

[@mikefor7458]

Tou introverts are fun

[@TheSaintBigFoot]

Better safe than sorry

[@stevegiggles7247]

"Completely blows away" Instantly knows how the trick is done.

[@TheRealQuickSilver]

True, that is kind of funny, but I guess the point is that Penn and Teller may know how the trick was done, but because they know how the trick was done they also know that it was probably very hard to do. Thus, although they weren't taken by surprise necessarily, they were able to recognize that this man has an extremely special talent in magic. Again though I agree that the title was very misleading, that's KZbin for you I guess.

[@christiangriffin1683]

Magic is 90% performance. Even if they know how the trick, technically, was performed, they can still be blown away by the magician's stage presence and performance.

[@reidpattis9478]

Agree with the replies. It's just like Kosya's trick with grabbing the cards. It takes YEARS of practice to do that trick consistently under high pressure with magicians watching. Even if Pro Magicians know how to do the trick doesn't mean they can do it.

[@Rachara]

@@TheRealQuickSilver It's called, "that's the magician creating his own headline on his channel". Can't blame the algorithm for everything.

[@30803080308030803081]

Why do so many people on KZbin have that picture as their avatar?

[@adailyodyssey]

The only show on planet where you never ever get to learn something new

[@crawfordzlaw]

haaaaaaaahahahahahahaha =D

[@greghughes6098]

Depends how you learn, whether you need to be taught

[@adailyodyssey]

@@greghughes6098 im the general public 😆

[@C4ndleJ4ck]

Turning a solved rubik's cube 20 times does not make it "20 turns away from being solved." Pretty sure that was only like 3 or 4 turns from being solved. I'll admit though it probably takes a lot of practice to do it in one seamless movement like that.

[@Grimmjar]

3 turns.

[@MikeGreenwood51]

I think it was a trick cube. Sort of spring loaded double jointed factory reset button. He was holding the left wheel. But in a single fram the bottom left changed to yellow from green. He moved the right wheel upwards with out any visible lateral movement. But the bottom right side changed to yellow as if there was lateral rotation.

[@kerry9008]

Michael Greenwood there was no trick cube, he scrambled it with specific moves so that he could easily solve it with few moves you can do as fast as you can see in the video so it looks like a black magic

[@MikeGreenwood51]

To Kerry. I never thought it was 'black magic!' But using 0.25 speed I couldn't see any lateral rotations so could not see how the bottom right turned yellow. But that may explain why he removed his finger from the bottom right (To turn the bottom laterally). Maybe the fps camera was too slow to capture the rotation. So one frame it is green then the next it is yellow. So with out trickery it just looked impossible to me. But the hand can be faster than the camera. TY.

[@Grimmjar]

Watch when he scrambled the cube forth and back. Watch his fingers befor and after he solved the cube. Also notice the patterns. He is doing one turn with his left hand and then flicks two fingers to rotate the left plane the top plane and the bottom plane. He is very fast no doubt about it.

[@lforlight]

Fun fact: 20 moves is indeed the shortest sequence to solve the most scrambled cube. That very specific sequence, which you can look up on Wikipedia as "super flip", has all the edge pieces turned the other way while all the corners are aligned properly. Every other scramble of a cube has an optimized solution shorter than 20 moves. In the first trick, he just made 20 moves that ended in an almost-solved state that needed a really few turns to solve.

[@GuidoLexikos]

Thanks for the explanation of the trick, guys! The main part that struck me was the fact that the solved cube looked bigger than the black cube. I did notice it right away, it's quite obvious I think. I did only wonder in the middle of the show if it was just the camera coming up for a close shot that made for the impression. But in hindsight that's probably the stage director to help the magician. As the show progresses quickly the audience will forget about it and so the magic works. Other commenters have then given the reason for it - the solved cube is a hollow box that the black cube fits into. The yellow side is a cap. At 4:11 one can see the grooves around the yellow cap as it sits on the box falling to the side, and up to 4:12 one can compare the edges of the yellow side to the new top and the orange side to the top being different - until the cube is turned to hide the yellow side in the back. Remember, that's all done in about one second with the cube falling over which the eye can hardly focus on. So without a video a human can hardly recognize that there is a yellow cap during the show. Solving the first normal cube with a normal double move will only help to distract the audience when he hands over the second cube for a second time. You are less critical by that time to look for a moment when the trick cube is exchanged with a normal cube. Actually, at 4:26 his hand moves to his body before stepping forward. Again, the camera is very nice to the magician. And that's the first time that I realized - it's not a competition, P&T are helping their guests as good as they can. It's all part of a show.

[@totokoostudios]

It's confirmed that the cameras are used in a way to help the trick. But i dont think Penn & Teller are in on it. They will play along with the performer if they already figured out how it works. But if they havent they will try to work it out

[@MercedesLefrancois]

Hey man, I had like zero self confidence and I was kinda nervous every time I left my house, but learning magic gives you this really weird confidence knowing you have a way to talk to almost anyone through magic and it's just the coolest thing. I just wanted to say that it's really cool to hear someone else that loves magic because it helps them make friends

[@BTokinn]

He didn't refer to it as a "nude cube" and for that reason i'm out

[@edgarricardo8257]

oh hello shark

[@prettyboiiswavey324]

FOUND YOU BARBARA

[@mrdisrespectful8182]

Wrong show Barbra lol

[@brandonwalker7947]

Jenny

[@bluskamqko]

de chavelier de testevain

[@robertofontiglia4148]

I like that even when Penn and Teller aren't fooled, it doesn't feel like anyone has "lost" anything.

[@connorallen8703]

Yeah this guy was like "I got to perform in front of my heroes (probably idk) and on tv, this is sick!"

[@chinor3999]

Yes Alison is still a babe either way... wait what were we taking 'bout?

[@glowy.]

"My dad taught me magic" *audience goes wild*

[@martiniproductions2109]

Yes he once demonstrated how to do a vanashing act I still haven't seen him, I wonder where he is

[@theotherwalt]

He was able to switch on the applause light and press play on the sound board without being anywhere near them!

[@KombatGod]

There clearly was a cut there.

[@AlehandroSosa]

I wonder what job his dad had over there.

[@AlehandroSosa]

@Redhead Update Yeah, for the troops. 😂

[@charliefortson2080]

John Michael Hinton, proud that you made it on Penn and Teller! We loved having you amaze us at VRC in February for Valentines dinner. You are incredible and absolutely fun to watch. Thankyou.

[@lewigao]

Charlie Fortson lmao

[@ceatonbusch]

These clips always confuse me because Penn basically explains how the guy did the trick, but wtf is he talking about lmao

[@Revert2010]

Ceaton Busch Hahahahaha you’re absolutely right how he explained no idea hahaha

[@ceatonbusch]

@@Revert2010 I just wish I understood what he's saying lmao

[@lloydboats4443]

Basically he’s making us believe that the rubix cube wasn’t solved already, when in actual fact it was

[@ceatonbusch]

@@lloydboats4443 I get that but how lmao

[@NotMyActualName_]

@@ceatonbusch the gist of what he said is that the cube appeared to be randomly scrambled but it wasnt. It was actually only a couple turns away from being solved and with a good quality competition cube you can execute those moves so fast they're barely visible. Takes practice though. The other thing he said is that he knew how he had gotten a fully stickered cube into the bag and gotten the unstickered one out. The thing about watching him doing the bow is that was how he hid the evidence after the trick.

[@Justgregular88]

Did he do his haircut with a vacuum cleaner?

[@anthonyguilianoii8836]

Greg Dundee yeah, the FLOWBEE!!!

[@arkanglegeibriel]

a vacuum cleaner would have a cleaner lift

[@sithlorddread8721]

Greg Dundee it really sucks

[@randymagnum6680]

Anthony Guiliano II I came down to comment the same thing lol

[@gradydoesstuff2960]

Maybe he used the suck cut. It sucks as it cuts. As you can clearly see it certainly does suck. (That joke courtesy of Wayne's World)

[@nopejhonson958]

penn just looks pissed half the time "you really are doing this shit, in front of me and i have to be nice afterward"

[@StuartBakerUK]

I love it when Teller is genuinely surprised you can really see it on his face.

[@cameronanderson2309]

Watch it in 0.25x speed a few times. You can see him do 4 individual rotations. 1. Right hand rotates up a quarter turn. 2. Left middle finger flicks the bottom around a quarter turn. 3. Right index finger flicks the top around a quarter turn. 4 Right hand continues rotating up another quarter turn. Super impressive how fast and smooth he does it though.

[@lawlietriver8869]

Penn gave away this trick with his comments about random. Obviously a rubix cube does not work that way. He had to make like 3 moves to get it solved. It is impressive, but I am guessing he is only able to do that with that exact order. 20 "random" turns that actually just leads you 3 turns away from solving, not 20. Then they give away that he switched during bowing. They mentioned it too much and how they were looking. The "solved" cube was a fake that he switched out before giving a real one to Penn. The bag seemed to have something in it, as he made sure never to pressure the bottom. I am guessing the black cube had a shell inside the bag to be slit into. That is also where the stickers went. Then he placed the "black" cube in its shell. Which is why we never saw more than 5 sides, the 6th was in his palm, already "solved." Then when he puts it into the presolved shell, it looks like magic. BlamoO!

[@dex8498]

Lawliet River actually useful comment

[@ihatemylifenot4887]

@@YOLO-sp5bi When the camera panned to the audience and Penn and Teller the performer bowed and switched the cubes.

[@TheTigero]

What are you talking about, he shows every side of the cube at 4:20... But just before that it's easy to see that it's in a shell, right after he opens the bag.

[@30803080308030803081]

That makes sense. I think you’re right. I thought the solved cube looked funny, because the color squares look like they’re raised too high off the surface.

[@IamNotU]

now how often does a performer get Penn and Teller to get up and shake their hand without fooling them? well done, sir.

[@dawn8293]

Here's my guess: in the bag was a shell with a lid that looks like a Rubik's cube. He dumped the stickers in and placed the naked cube in, and shut the lid. After revealing the cube, he used sleight of hand to replace that cube with a functioning one.

[@sailblue10]

The second trick, there is a hollowed "solved" cube in the bag the whole time, the naked cube and stickers go into the solved cube box, and then it's closed. You can see he is holding something in the bag when he dumps out the naked cube. You can also see the solved cube's corners look funny when he pulls it out (compare it to the one Penn holds up at the end). At about 4:25 they cut to a wide scene and you can see him take a brief bow and do something with the cube near his coat, that is the bow Penn is talking about when he switches out the fake solved cube box with a real cube.

[@praevasc4299]

Probably not. You can see it if you watch very carefully, that he palms the black cube and puts it in his pocket. No idea how he got rid of the stickers, though.

[@tookie36]

@@praevasc4299 John is right. if you look at the cube when he pulls it out of the bag you can tell its a shell. Thats why he displayed it the way he did. Also Penn talking about watching him take his bows is when he switched the cubes... but they didnt show that part

[@1550Nanometer]

That's why he doesnt collapse the bag after he takes the nude cube out of the bag.

[@Hope_Prevail]

Isn't that technically cheating the show hosts ?

[@supersucks]

And used sleight of hand and switched the cube before giving it to Penn, that’s why Penn is emphasizing his comment about how they “looked carefully to his bow”

[@BlackMetalGraffiti]

I love the whole magicians codes and secret ways of speaking that is so cool. I love how he was able to explain how the trick was done without giving the slightest hint (to me anyway) how he explained it.

[@Kennysmelle]

Great attitude and awesome performance will look for you if you ever come into town.

[@RoyceRemix]

6:07 So I think we should add the phrase "ya know..." to the tell-tale signs that Penn knows the trick, along with "boy let me tell ya."

[@hardstylerforlife]

His dad was a great magician, my favorite trick from him was the "boom, where did the kids go?"

[@kevina5337]

If Penn calls your act "wonderful" you ain't leaving with a trophy lol

[@victorafjp]

How glad i'm to see this videos of people with real hard worked talents

[@Francesco_fiordi]

He’s a really nice guy, i like his attitude and his manners.

[@roylec]

In the first trick, although it looks like he makes 20 random turns, this is carefully practised so that many of the turns are reversed, and the cube is only 3 or 4 turns from solving which can be done instantly with an oiled competition quality cube. The second trick is revealed at 4:12 when in a few frames you can see that the yellow side is actually the lid of a box in which he has placed the stickers and the blank cube. What is not shown in this film is that he switched this box for another regular cube while taking bows after the reveal. Bows edited out, probably because of camera angles revealing too much. Incredibly clean execution of a well planned trick.

[@bubbamike4743]

Christian Royle explains why he quickly turned the yellow side away from the camera

[@chautauquatrail]

Good catch! That does explain why he rotated the yellow side away, also explains why he dumped the stickers in first to be collected by that box. Although, how did he make the cube without stickers have a side with the yellow stickers, or was it a flap that comes down after the empty cube is inserted into the box?

[@roylec]

@@chautauquatrail The yellow side is a lid. The stickers and the blank cube are completely in the box. The box is the size of a regular cube. Because the blank cube is all black, you don’t realise that it is smaller than a regular cube. You don’t have the colour reference to help you mentally assess its size. After the reveal, and the slightly obvious turn of the yellow lid away from camera, he moves to the side and bows several times, during which he switches the cube and places the box in his right jacket pocket. As he approaches Penn & Teller to hand over the cube, you can see the box in his pocket. When he returns to (beautiful) Alison, you can see him attempt to hide that pocket… Every movement a magician makes is important. Of course P&T know this. So the extravagant bowing, turning the cube away, trying to keep the pocket out of their line of sight etc., these are all huge clues.

[@wileecoyote4988]

He dropped the stickers in a secret pocket in the bag on the top end. That's why he had to fold the top twice and hold on to it while shaking the bag so the stickers don't fall out. And that's why he had to tear the bag to reveal the solved cube because had he turned it upside down the stickers would have fallen out and he had to show that the stickers have disappeared so he couldn't have reached into the bag and pulled the cube out. Showing the empty bag later by turning it to the camera would have revealed the secret pocket. And the solved pixels were metal pieces stuck on five sides of the insides of the bag meticulously arranged in a grid. And they get magnetically attached to their exact places when he turns the electromagnet inside the cube on (notice his left hand goes behind the table to turn it on using a remote). And the sixth side was already solved. Notice he never shows the sixth side of the naked cube and never shows the insides of the bag. That side, he turned it on top while placing the cube inside the bag. And the cube he gave to Penn was a different cube which he switched while bowing down (this part they don't show in the video but Penn gave it away). And the torn bag with the hidden pocket with the stickers in it goes inside his pocket. And for the first trick it was never 20 moves away. it was just four moves away. Anyone who's solved a 3x3 would know that. R'D'RD. These four moves would solve it and it can be done in under a second with a lot of practice. But i could be wrong. So don't call me a dumbass; just tell me your solution and if it's better than mine then i'll accept it.

[@MavisRileyJunior]

If that were the case he wouldnt hand it to P&T they would know it was magnetic.

[@wileecoyote4988]

Read the whole thing.

[@philrose6226]

My guess was that it was an all black cube accept one side which he kept hidden from us, inside the paper bag was a hollow shell, (box with out a top) that the black cube neatly fits into creating the appearance of a completed Rubix, the stickers could be dropped into the shell before the black cube, which cleans that up, when he handed the cube to Penn I thought ooh maybe not, what else could it be, but then Penn tipped a switch, so I still think that's probably the easiest way to create the effect

[@wileecoyote4988]

He switched the cube while bowing to the audience. That's what Penn was saying at the end

[@wileecoyote4988]

Damn it you're right. it's much easier and cleaner. Plus no need of secret pockets. The stickers fall into the box. You are GOD Philip Rose. Why didn't i think of that?

[@GeorgePop]

In the bag there is a box that looks like the cube, the black cube is smaller and fits in that box, along with the stickers which went first so they're on the bottom. After shaking the top of the box closes magnetically and he pulls out the box that looks like a real cube from far away, he switches it with a real cube which he gives to Penn.

[@varunv.p.7180]

Maybe that's why Penn was referring to the bows. That's where he switched!

[@scottyalto]

To those who know how it's done. I am disappointed they cut to the long shot when he makes the switch. It robs people who don't know it's done of the chance to figure it out.

[@f3nt0]

Which part was the "cut to the long shot"?

[@lorenzbabel5191]

I feel the same

[@vissenekku]

Oh they did? I've been sitting here replaying it even in slow speed trying to catch it, thinking he's just insanely good at sleight of hand. So I wonder what they cut.

[@bubbamike4743]

My theory is that the black cube was a hollow cube that would easily fall apart when shaken, with the real cube in the bag as well. When he ripped the bag, he somehow got the black cube and bag with stickers up his sleeve or in a pocket.

[@CyrilViXP]

@@bubbamike4743 or the black cube is smaller than the cube he's taking from the bag and is placed inside of it

[@PuckDudesHockey]

What a classy performance and response afterward. Wonderful!!

[@jonedr.rahadian3908]

It does not matter how you did it or if we knew how you did it. It was an entertaining performance!

[@JohnnyBfromOKC]

That Haircut works as a great misdirection! Lol! Just kidding! This trick is Amazing! Great work!

[@Marknordsp]

3:53 looks like he got a little nervous

[@FusionDeveloper]

That was crazy. Great show. Keep up the great work.

[@DuckSmokezQuack]

"I'm used to working under pressure ...." "I grew up in Saudi Arabia" What?!

[@rattusnorvegicus4380]

That could focus you!

[@LightBlade717]

Oscar Gold internet idiots everywhere

[@itssk1092]

@@LightBlade717 he's not wrong

[@LightBlade717]

@@itssk1092 who are you to tell?

[@kewltony]

Give it a little sheik

[@JarodHaws]

His hair inspired the title of the goblet of fire

[@xclimatexcoldxx]

I like how when he's done shaking, you hear a chime like it was done cooking.

[@garcipat]

Such a beauiful trick. I didnt realize he was talking code the second part. I thought you get the trophy instantly.

[@JaxKeiMusic]

As a speedcuber myself, what he did was really obvious, especially with his first "trick". The color patterns were as similar to a 3-move solve 2x2 scramble.

[@143huskies]

How does being a speed cuber make the second truck obvious. I must be missing something.

[@JaxKeiMusic]

@@143huskies pattern recognition

[@pureloor8634]

@@JaxKeiMusic The second trick tho was not obvious just for speed cubers. The first one was pattern recognition sure and all those blocks really tell a 3 move scramble. He should probably rework it to a 5 mover to make it a little less obvious what hes doing

[@yodawar54]

I think it’s super cool that the actually magicians post their videos from fool us on their actual channel

[@AvenWildsmith]

"we were WATCHING you all the way through your bows ... you took your bows and we were WATCHING YOU carefully ... you deserved every bit of applause you got as you took your bows that we were WATCHING so CAREFULLY"

[@jeffbanks8767]

Aven W. I guess that’s when he made the switch

[@tafadzwamunezvenyu7623]

wow that was an amazing magic trick. I feel happy just from watching it

[@leagueoftuga174]

"The first thing I do when I go to the stage, is say hey friends" Walks into the stage and starts talking about rubik cubes Nice men now I wint belive anything u say

[@logaritym1]

Nice trick! Very positive and entertaining performance!

[@jomo999]

John: Teller, will you be my friend? Penn's face: Am I a joke to you?

[@rithikmadhava6005]

Excuse me, Nurse? Can you take my temperature? 'Cause I think I got John Michael Hinton Quadrant Vincent fever over here!

[@DaddyBeanDaddyBean]

Since a producer knows in advance how each trick is done, you'd think they would have some input into editing so there isn't a cut away at a critical moment, like when the guest is taking a bow at the end of a trick where the trick ain't over until after the bow. Great tricks, bad editing. Well done!

[@Xanthopteryx]

DaddyBeanDaddyBean They deliberately do that. Idiotic. The best magic tricks on TV are performed without any cuts whatsoever!

[@nowonmetube]

Wrong, he didn't need to swap out the cube.

[@AdamDaley1]

See that's what I figured as well but then saw him give the cube to Penn... but we didn't see the bow he made so that's our loss

[@Vincent_Beers]

There was no bow, it was not cut. Penn was talking in code, the bow is the bow he made with the top of the bag, he pockets the black cube while shaking the bag, that's why he takes so long, he's distracting you from where he's putting the black cube. There's no hollow cube nonsense, its an already solved cube in the bag, the black cube goes in his pocket, nothing was cut You people were fooled by both him and by Penns explanation, there was no bow cut And before you ask where the color squares went, look how he dumps them into the top of the bag, there's a little pocket of paper there and then he folds them into the top so they dont fall out, which is why he rips the bottom of the bag, the color squares are in the top, the solved cube is in the bottom and the black cube went into his pocket while the bag was being shaken You were all distracted, which is what Penn was talking about

[@Papercutdx]

the black cube isn't in his hands after he puts it in the bag. you can clearly see

[@TheCFDon]

Great trick, I loved it! Thanks for enterteining us.

[@clownphabetstrongwoman7305]

"you blew our minds but not really"

[@JoeSatelite]

Well done and thank you for the magic!

[@newyorkrebel5142]

My brother had a cube. We would dismantle it versus taking off the stickers (like Alyson mentioned on the show). lol

[@SayItAintDash]

New York Rebel that’s what I did lol

[@molonlabe9602]

Yep, the people claiming the hollow cube are correct. The outline of the cube in the bag is bigger than the "naked cube" and at 4:11/4:12 you can definitely see the yellow corner against his thumb background is not completely seated and is out of face. He also turns the yellow side back towards him to hide it after it comes out of the bag.....he didn't need to do that if the cube was truly a pure cube. Also, he never turns any part of the cube that came out of the bag. The camera does cut away because before the shot changes (4:26) he is directly behind his table putting things into his jacket/vest, after the seemingly instantaneous shot change (4:29) he is already out in front and away from his table. This missing part is when he was taking a bow(s) and he switches the cube to give to Penn. You can indeed see a bulge (trick cube) in his right side pocket too.

[@NicoMagic]

I was watching him to this with the rubix cube live at magifest 2018 in Columbus Ohio! It was really cool!

[@richardgargya4961]

NicoMagic rubik's after Rubik Ernő

[@Kyle_Riel]

1:27 - unfortunately his nazi-Yewden devil horns ruin his performance. He's a Nazi

[@mohammedshabbir699]

At 2:03 you can pause the video and use . and , to move frame by frame. The color just magically changes. No movement can be seen. Can someone explain this?

[@BigMac8008]

Wtf I had an ad of teller talking before this video. I’m shook.

[@plebshno975]

Same. Was it the masterclass add?

[@ML-mx3mm]

Awesome performance bro, very entertaining

[@Ravenbones]

2:00 As someone who messes around in Rubiks Cubes... i did that with an online guide when was 12.... because there is a certain way of turning the sides so that it mixes back up again and just comes back to be solved by itself.

[@MaskedGuyCh]

As an Arabian, it's very cool to know that he grew up in my country. Amazing performance!

[@ChrisKramer_]

i love the fact that penn and teller keeps it cryptic when telling them that they know the trick so they don't ruin it for others

[@dynamo_spade]

class acts 💫

[@rigobrayan8933]

Fantastic show.

[@TheJoni0012]

Damn so this is Jimmy Neutron now? I feel old

[@rickschweitzer9845]

I was impressed and entertained regardless .

[@jennylynn8314]

Woohoo! So so proud of you my friend to have come this far. You’ve always been so engaging from the first time you sat down at the bar at Starbucks and I made your coffee. Always rooting for you and your sweet family!!!

[@arkanglegeibriel]

this entire performance was cringey!

[@jennylynn8314]

Maybe to someone that doesn’t know him. I know him personally and he is just as genuine in person as he is on tv. He’s always looking to make friends. To me, it’s about embracing we’re all different. Who cares if he wants more friends? Who cares if he’s different? It would be boring if we were all the same.

[@minifuzz2531]

Jennifer Lynn wish I had a friend when I was a kid

[@Colincarpenter2]

I wold be his friend, way better at magic then I am, and the irony of people complaining about a guy trying to fool two guys on a show called Fool Us whilst themselves watching the show isn't lost on us

[@jennylynn8314]

mini fuzz I actually saw John answer the question after I posted the first comment here on why he’s always looking to make friends. He said when he was younger he didn’t have many friends. That is a horrible feeling growing up feeling like you don’t fit in anywhere. So it makes sense. People do what they do for a reason. ❤️

[@mushroomgames1721]

Hi I saw your show at church my brother was Marshall the kid That went on stage

[@harrisonbaylor1432]

For anyone who isn’t familiar with cubes. The first “trick” you could learn in an afternoon easily.

[@beefknuckles]

I just this it's really cool that they let you guys upload these clips on your own channels to (hopefully) get you some extra money from KZbin lol

[@ChristianNuckels]

SOOOOOO AWESOME! Proud of you man.

[@cullendillistone402]

he was the main speaker at my state youth conviction he's one the nicest people youll ever meet

[@EPrimeify]

John: I wanted to do something that's never been done before. Steven Brundage: ......

[@syedarslanalishah6905]

EPrimeify *Brundage

[@Iamone1111]

He never took off the stickers and did it that way but he could match up mixed up rubix cubes and toss it behind his back unsolved and catch it solved

[@Vincent_Beers]

Brundage never did it this way. If you listen he said "never been done with a cube before" meaning he knows many OTHER tricks have been done with cubes, but no ones done the reverse sticker trick

[@cinnamonbulla]

I was looking for this

[@blakehenderson8828]

Hard not to think of that guy after seeing him on here with the cube but nothing saying another magician can't do cube illusions.

[@EmpyreanLightASMR]

3:47 after reading the comments, I think I finally get it. So was he putting his left hand into his pocket as a means of trying to fool P&T? (He wasn't palming anything, in the end.)

[@kurtismacgillivray889]

You are truly an inspiration to all who you encounter, and this proves just that! I love you john and you did amazing!! #makingnewfriends #yasssssssss

[@JohnMichaelHintonM]

thanks!!

[@rickracine9758]

this guys really good we all watch AGT, BGT with the cubix cub and most magicians can figure it out but JMH is out of this world got me fooled, great job friend

[@Maakeys]

My favorite part about this is that he just wanted to entertain everyone, so humble.

[@veronakallo4804]

Excellent show.

[@TalestoryJL]

even 0.25 Speed + Pause & play in millionth second did not help me to catch that :O 2:03

[@horzen4227]

It's an algorithm. If you were to come up with a sequence of moves and executed them repeatedly, no matter how complex the sequence, the Rubik's Cube will always return to its original state- so long as you don't change the sequence midway. For a super-simplified example, if you rotate just a single side of the Rubik's Cube, after 4 turns you'll return to the base position. It's the same principle but instead of just a single turn 4 times, you do multiple turns a number of times. Basically: repeating a pattern a number of times will always take you back to the point from which the pattern started from as long as the pattern was not altered midway. If the pattern was altered midway, it becomes a completely new pattern and from that point, you'd have to do every single move you'd completed from start to present multiple times. Say your pattern was flipping the right-side twice, bottom twice, left twice, and finally the top twice. If you did that entire sequence once, but on the second time did: right twice, bottom once, left twice, and then top twice, now your entire pattern has changed. Instead of right twice, bottom twice, left twice, and top twice, your pattern has become: right twice, bottom twice, left twice, top twice, right twice, bottom once, left twice, and lastly top twice. You'd have to repeat that new pattern until you've returned to the base position except most times you won't even realize you've accidentally messed up your first pattern, and now that it's become a new pattern, repeating the first pattern will not return the cube to its base position because even the base position changes when the pattern changes (if you stick to the first pattern instead of the new pattern). It's nothing special, if you have a cube lying around- try it yourself. If you follow the set pattern all the way through, it will always return to the base position. I've tried this multiple times when I was learning how to solve the Rubik's Cube- some of them took over an hour to return to the base position! (Yes, I spent hours flipping a 3x3x3 square, don't judge me- I was addicted) I'm unsure of how the complexity of the pattern correlates to the number of repeats it requires to return to the base position but I'm pretty sure that the way it works is: the more complex the pattern, the more repeats it takes.

[@VK-pd8zz]

@@horzen4227 Thanks sir

[@maxmccann5323]

It's legit like two turns away anyone can do that, not even magic 😂

[@jaredolson7543]

Great act. You got a new subscriber here!

[@schmal911]

I don't want to say it's not impressive, but with a frame-by-frame at the end of 2:03 there is a very obvious jump cut where the cube is instantaneously adjusted to being one move away.

[@yusufbaskoro5580]

I like your attitude man 👍

[@daviddemar8749]

JMH that was just AWESOME . in spite of the fact that this has been a very bad MS week and year for me so far, you made me smile the biggest smile that I've smiled in a really long time. Thank you and God bless you and I wish you much success in all of your future endeavors 😊

[@geo_cuber]

I love busting rubik's cube tricks. had a little hard time with the second one but i realized that i missed it because of the editing. nice trick, friend!

[@sule0098]

Geo Cuber Can u explain tje second one?

[@geo_cuber]

I'm not very confident with my guess but maybe you can add something if i share. 1 side of the unstickered cube already has stickers. i assume it's yellow. he turned it several times without exposing the yellow part. he put the stickers inside the bag first right into a cube shell with an open top. you can see that when he put the black cube, he has to put the bottom part to the top because the yellow is there. he put it inside the cube shell that has the other 5 colors. you can see the he hides the yellow part at 4:12 to hide the opening of the cube shell. lastly, while taking his bow (not seen on cam) he switched it to a normal rubik's cube then gave it to penn.

[@omgimanooblolol5247]

The camera can see under it and he spins top and (his) right vertical. If any side was stickered, we would've seen it when he was playing with it.

[@geo_cuber]

he twisted it right vertical up then right vertical down. in cubing notations. we call it R then R'. buy doing that move, the stickered part only stay at the bottom and back part. there's no way for you to see. then finally he turns the top layer 360 degrees. that;s ok because the stickers are resting at the bottom.

[@ecando54]

"I've been working under pressure my entire life." That explains his hair.

[@sanidhyasaraswat]

I think the video is edited. I saw the video frame by frame using some external plugin. In the first trick, the unsolved rubik cube changes to a solved one in 2 adjacent frames. How is that possible ? Supposing the video is 30fps, that means he solved the cube in 1/30th of a second.

[@SwikeOne]

the cube was 3 moves away from being solved.

[@nikitgoel7370]

Warning: Second trick spoiler..... . . . . . . . . . . There is a gimmick cube in the bag which is hollow and has the Black plain cube, if you notice the black cube is smaller in size. Also the bag retains the cube shape and check how he holds the empty bag. Into this gimmick cube box he dumps the stickers and the plain cube. Then when taking a Bow he switched this with actual Rubik's cube which he gives to Penn. That's why Penn mentioned Bow.

[@quasarproductions2690]

Rock on man! Great work, keep kicking ass my dude.

[@Dorelaxen]

Everyone in the comments is obviously a pro magician.

[@jasonahdjfhsdfg]

I know right. Everyone's a critic these days. I don't understand what people get out of putting others down for no reason.

[@Dorelaxen]

It's the only way they can make themselves feel better.

[@johann-martinstrydom3509]

It's a show about trying to figure out how a magic trick was done, If you came to the comment section thinking that everyone interested in figuring out how a trick works wouldn't be speculating and giving their opinions here then you're gonna have a bad time.

[@Dorelaxen]

That's not the point. The point is that everyone in the comments on almost every one of these types of videos says crap like "Oh, that is SO easy a child could do it." or gives hilariously wrong descriptions of how it's done, while being completely self-assuredly correct. Pigeon and chess. Learn a little context, man.

[@Domtronic]

Thanks. I get it from my dad. He's really good. He made himself disappear.

[@AntonioBarba_TheKaneB]

I don't know how the second trick is done, and I must say whatever you did, you did it perfectly! But I often do variations of the first trick to impress people, as a speed cuber it's easy to do :)

[@supersucks]

Theres a shell of colored cube inside the bag, he dumped the blank one inside the shell and closed the lid, you can tell by how the cube looks after. He then bowed at the audience to use sleight of hand to switch the cube before giving it to Penn. That’s why Penn is always saying “we looked at your bow carefully” because Penn and Teller already knows how its done.

[@rickniu4153]

How to get free Rubik's Cube: 1) Get ridiculously famous and good at magic 2) Start a show where you get magicians to perform for you 3) Invite this guy and ask for a Rubik's Cube trick. 4) Profit.

[@13anomalous16]

bingo bongo when he turns the blank cube, he makes sure the side facing him never gets revealed, then when he puts the cube in the bag, he puts it exactly upside down and right before the cube goes in, precisely 3:42 you can kind of tell that there is a slight yellow reflection on his palm (take note of that color). Also notice how carefully he places the stickers and the cube and how gently he holds the bag. Now when he reveals the cube, take a look at 4:11, and then the overall shape of the cube after that point. It's one of those hollowed out rubik's cube holders. Took a little bit to figure this out but still a great trick.

[@KiryokuYT]

This guy brings class to a-whole-nother level. We could really use a lot more people in the world like him.

[@danjbundrick]

Penn to Teller: "We're going to have to learn more about Rubix cubes or we're going to be giving out a lot of trophies"

[@Ayy-Lmao]

The real trick is how he got his hair to stay like that

[@wolfieeeee256]

This trick was absolutely amazing!!!!!!!!!

[@RollingxBigshot]

Absolutely obvious

[@dloental]

I think I went to high school with you! Rolla High School class of '99? Did you do magic in the Mr. RHS pageant and win?

[@T-Bone21]

You were great at the Magic Castle last night...and yes you can be my friend!!!

[@owenkordyzon]

Is Teller short or is Penn just an absolute unit

[@Ben-pr9qo]

Pelvis Pressley both mate ahahhahahah

[@paulb6716]

Penn is 6 ft 7ins and Teller is 5ft 8ins

[@christopherblackwell264]

That's how myself and a friend looked - I'm 5'6½'' and he's 6'7''.

[@crowscrumbs]

I saw him live once and I love him!!!

[@Rachara]

If you love him so much why don't you marry him?

[@RollingxBigshot]

Steven how old are you 10?