RICK LAX on FOOL US

See whether Rick Lax can fool Penn & Teller on CW's breakout hit show. And watch more episodes Monday night at 8pm.

[@e.mitchell9388]

This is the only place you can make fun of him without getting your comment deleted.

[@nataliehill3326]

Finally there is somewhere where we can call him out on his bullshit 😂

[@yuckybummcswag7446]

Surprised he didn't say, "For this to work you've got to like and share this video"

[@moonsister3515]

@BroskyWhoDatedHoski cos he always does for his social media

[@paramountx]

Lmao

[@randomisedjacob]

2:03 teller did exactly what I've wanted to do to rick lax for ages now

[@AlexJWWylie]

"Alright Penn, think of your birth month number. Now add 6 and take away your birth month number. Now multiply your NEW UNIQUE number by 2. Your number is..." *lifts shirt to reveal 12 carved into his chest*

[@sptony2718]

*opens the trunk of a car to reveal 12 corpses*

[@aristology6912]

Werecarebear and pans back to show two more corpses, Penn. and Teller.

[@Daniel-vu4qu]

But he didn't ask people to share and like his facebook page

[@Scoffslaphead72]

Or ask people to lock in their number

[@benji3063]

*+ScoffSlaphead72* 2 years after

[@Feigned0Sanity]

In a right hand corner of the kitchen

[@7616lydeth]

If I fool you, you've got to like and share the video. Deal?

[@loodlebop]

Chen Vannlydeth nailed it. except those ones never work on me. this one was better

[@EternalMagikarp]

like and share the videauoo

[@TomazWangOrigin]

Chen Vannlydeth lol

[@nickjimenez9983]

Did not fool me with simple math and tricks

[@seariakett6929]

You were unable to fool me and I'm sure many other people.

[@fronkdonk8311]

The uncesonsored version of Teller flipping the bird would make an amazing gif!

[@nikkoXmercado]

haha

[@amazed66]

I thought that was him saying he only knew the first verse.

[@kangarooedmund]

Nikko M the

[@josephgilbert3632]

Why can't he talk?

[@1995GabrielxD]

Joseph Gilbert he does but he'a decided not to talk in public. part of his image

[@briansager3744]

"Alright guys, I want you to think of a number between 1 and a billion. Now.....add 3. Now....subtract the number you started with and let's see if I can guess your number. Is it 3?"

[@meboring1174]

When penn says “you fooled us” I could see rick lax’s thoughts and all he was thinking was: “I’m going to have a great career on Facebook”

[@deaneccles8875]

🤣🤣🤣

[@JackWolfDM]

If he can do cool things like this, then why does he make all the shit he does on facebook??

[@sagarvarsani7367]

JackWolfDM my thoughts exactly!

[@ivenstorm]

advertising. His stuff on facebook, I wouldn't say the stuff of legend, but it gets his name and face out there, so people want to see if he can do that live or not. Even if he gets the answer wrong, it still gets people interested.

[@dubsinthetubs]

what part of this did you find cool?

[@julietravelvlog]

He probably knows they're dumb, but he also understands it's what gets views. How he comes up with dumber ideas every time I don't know.

[@PaulPaul-jw7jx]

JackWolfDM because this is nowhere near as impressive as it looks

[@sawyernorthrop4078]

Rick Lax discovered algebra but 800 years after everyone else

[@jessejibran3508]

Nothing says humble magician like "I made up literally ever magic trick ever and I didn't even mean to I just sort of did it after becoming the best lawyer"

[@saevarito]

A real piece of shit

[@sneilfama]

Look at the face he makes after, it was supposed to come off as sarcasm

[@crystal.machinery]

r/punchablefaces

[@Chinookman]

They use A LOT of editing. I bet it was quoted out of context. If not, he’s the source he appears to be on FB.

[@JakoMako89]

Apparently everyone has seen this guy on Facebook, but me.

[@hebt9mlk]

And me

[@Lancoo57]

Clicked one video one time, and now the FB algorithm has him popping up every time I watch any video 🙃

[@jessicamay9567]

same lol

[@LawandOrderCyraxxVictimsUnit]

why dont you do stuff like this on your Facebook as opposed to your sellout 'like this' crap

[@QUBED]

Jacob Williams no shit.

[@kishanthakurdin5738]

Jacob Williams a

[@Nethezbet]

This. The Facebook stuff is SO groan worthy. Add 5 ! Now subtract 5! srsly?

[@1TotalJabroni]

Jacob Williams because people are dumb as shit and he capitalizes off their stupidity. Can't blame him I guess, he's just so god damn annoying...

[@kurotoshi6129]

because people are retarted and love sharing simple shit

[@DAMIENDMILLS]

Teller giving Rick Laxitive the bird was so satisfying.

[@julietravelvlog]

When I saw this in my recommendations I thought someone edited Rick Lax's facebook videos into P&T as a meme. Oh boy...

[@evok_trip_toke]

J S i thought maybe it was green screened for like half the video. Cause the setup looked similar to a previous trick

[@cassetiquette]

Same

[@suppohkram]

Wow reading all these comments just confirmed the feeling I got from him just by seeing the type of jacket he chose to wear

[@RC.41]

Ohhh he was a lawyer. It ALL makes sense now 😂

[@potsbaker]

I actually enjoyed it, too bad his fb page is pure cancer

[@TurtleCat3000]

It is now 2020, and his FB page is alive and well and still "pure cancer"; people are still eating it up, sadly...

[@jamesconkey1480]

I 'liked' the video after Teller flipped Rick off.

[@KanjoosLahookvinhaakvinhookvin]

Does anyone realize how cool it is he recited Casey? That was the first thing Penn and Teller did on their first TV special!

[@Merlewhitefire]

I'm like 90% sure he just used the poem as a mnemonic device and speed-memorized the cards.

[@ruiming]

This guy is the reason ad blocker happened.

[@payney8121]

I genuinely do think it’s just a memory trick, he has incredible memory

[@ademno8551]

3:43 the woman on the right was a volunteer for Shin Lim's performance

[@RamanTvOfficial]

Why are so many people so mean to this guy in the comments section? I personally met him at a magic convention once and he was one of the nicest most welcoming magicians at the event.

[@LadyDragonsblood]

Jealousy of how incredibly smart he is maybe? I do know that he is a bit snooty sounding... but that isn't a reason not to like someone.

[@buddysalinas2508]

all lawyers are good on fooling people!!

[@Loiyaboy]

+Buddy Salinas *at* fooling. Lol. But if that's true, what does that say about you?

[@drunkbyu7515]

Loiyaboy how da fuck do u know wat he does

[@BillM1960]

LOL. Ain't it the truth

[@MrStreetshowkeith]

Buddy Salinas guess that's why he calls himself a magician

[@themitickgamer]

@Mentally Awakened no he said he got very close to being one

[@manofmystery5191]

He chose Casey at Bat not because it’s more TV appropriate, but because he didn’t want to admit he didn’t know Howl, one of the greatest poems of the last 70 years.

[@hunterburrill2241]

5:48 Teller looked adorable when he was pointing out the cards

[@chrisflynn6739]

press the "like" button to LOCK IN your answer

[@beatz04]

Gawd, his arrogance and slimeball-y-ness are hard to top.

[@brandaccountname9833]

beatz04 not really, he wasn’t arrogant or slime ball y

[@dustingrimmmagic1067]

@@brandaccountname9833 when you see a magician on Television perform a Trick, they probably didnt think of it, I DID! 😂

[@Jasonmascelli]

Teller at 2:02 is all of us when we see Rick Lax on FB or anywhere else

[@TwistPickle]

okay he obviously put the cards in red black red black order while he was looking at them and tossed the cards that were not in that order. Then he just did a series of cuts so that they remained in red black red black order and then he just put one on each side repeatedly.

[@eddiegness]

2:01 - sums up pretty much how people feel about Rick Lax XD

[@treschlet]

"i'm gonna go through the cards right now, I'm gonna take out those twelve" to which twelve is he referring? something was edited out

[@yousha4198]

To the people saying it is not magic he memorized the card. Grab a deck take out 21 cards. Memorize them in 10-15 sec. Divide them into 5 packets mix those packets. Pick them back up in random order. Count random numbers of card put at the bottom do this two times. Then seperate them as qucikly as he did. Now you get it. It is impossible lol

[@VinzyHighlights]

2:06 that's the girl on stage during " Shin Lim "

[@briangarber8784]

They film multiple episodes at a time.

[@ChonkyMonkey1]

Do you mean, they have more than one act in in an episode? If so, you would be correct.

[@Vincent_Beers]

@Pi it's both. They film multiple acts in a day with one audience. Those acts are then cut into more than one episode (and each episode is multiple acts). It get's hard to keep track of the original broadcast order if you are watching the individual acts on youtube, and it was never possible to know what order they were filmed in (unless you were there) since they are often rearranged in editing before broadcast anyway.

[@SurvivalGamer1X]

Ikr

[@SatsuiEvilRyu]

@decent balderas you're one stupid fuck bud.

[@sisterruperta]

I really enjoy Rick Lax and think he does a great job.I follow him on facebook and I am never disappointed !

[@wiskyr6510]

Rick lax: "I invent magic tricks" Also Rick lax: "Take 100 and subtract your age, and that number should be that many years less than 100"

[@drewskimcgrewski7033]

I’m surprised he didn’t use Red Bull in his act am I right Drew Gooden fans

[@amberco21]

You went from an actual good magician to a facebook meme-fuck.

[@camusreviews6877]

“I passed the BAR and then tried writing an entire book on deceptions” typical lawyer

[@isaacstorey170]

he just memorised card, magic my arse😭😂

[@alecmills2315]

so much yes

[@aniketh_arya]

Penn says "boy" when he starts addressing the magician which usually means they haven't fooled but this is the rare occasion where the magician actually fooled them when he mentions that word

[@lazcano5596]

He uses advanced memory techniques, he saves the order of the cards in the poems.

[@benjaminlehman3221]

I've always loved it that TELLER doesn't talk.😄

[@HypAzTubE]

to bad, he has a really soozhing voice. i love it when he talks :) his stage persona is one of the best out there. to me, there is only one silent actor who did at least as great as teller does and thats cardini

[@TheSqoou]

+Benjamin Lehman It makes me wonder if PEN doesn't write ..

[@Charmz75]

+The Sqoou 😂😂

[@directfromwoopwoop1914]

If you break down the trick A) The first segment was memory. B) The cards are sorted to even red and black by "Eliminating" combinations that are greater than 2 cards of Red-Red or Black-Black and thrown into the air. C) The cards are now red-black-red-black etc D) the cards are "split" into piles which has no bearing on the trick as the bottom card will never have more than one red/black combination. E) Re-stacking the cards he asks Penn and Teller to give him a number, again, it will never be more than two Red-Red-Black-Black combinations and never three of a kind. F) The remaining part is simple, know where the multiple combinations are, otherwise use hand motions to make it seem more complicated than it is. The essential combination overall (working backwards) is: Red-Red-Black-Black-Red-Black-Red-Black-Red-Black-Red-Black-Red-Black-Red-Black-Red-Black-Red-Red-Black. #didn'tfoolme

[@OSCXR]

They are going to sit over there and delibewate

[@henrywilson5072]

Don't be mean! Johnathan Woss is gweat!

[@JoshCassar]

Weally guys gwow up

[@coachvaz242]

Cmon! That's weally insensitive!!

[@matthewmarsic8986]

Wick lax was weally good

[@CoolAsFreya]

obScurity this is why he got replaced

[@nickster1716]

This isn't magic, this is a memorization routine that is just well done

[@mazemir1]

NickSkam well what is magic? All magic is just pretending you're doing something you're not. Whether it be via memory, or a double lift lol.

[@loodlebop]

This isn't mentalism or memory

[@cassetiquette]

Imagine the trick if he’d poured Red Bull on those cards.

[@BanduBlaze]

He’s best trick is turning a 10second video on fb into a 5 minute one

[@villelotjonen5491]

Rick Lax makes me feel the way I feel when I get stuck at a family reunion talking to family members I hate

[@TarePandaHelp]

That was the cutest little middle finger i've ever seen.

[@Reldif3]

How did he fool them wasn’t that just good memory

[@redzoom727]

Magician turned Facebook Con-Man Rick Lax.

[@AllAmericanOutlaw]

2:02 Good Job Teller

[@noreason6]

I’ve never seen more than 2 minutes of content from this guy other than this video

[@user-gi2od4zg9q]

3:31 "so if I did that right, you gotta like and share this video, alright?"

[@herpderp7113]

All I'm going to say is its a simple algorithm. All he has to do is remember what order to place the cards in which pile after he has simply forced the same types of shuffles. It does take memory, not memorizing where they where just memorizing how to repeat the shuffles and separating them afterwards.

[@NimbusTheCloud]

i remember when i first started doing card tricks as a hobby this was the first trick i learnt lol.

[@drgnflms7]

Definitely miss this Rick Lax on Social Media... this was the man I started follow so long ago.

[@jesse_sweed]

I get all of the hate because of his Facebook games, but I've probably watched this routine 6 or 7 times over the last couple of years just because of how impressive it is. To memorize and recite a poem like that with the energy and pauses, plus handling and keeping track of the cards, PLUS making the jokes and playing with Penn and Teller. Simply impressive.

[@casualpolice7710]

To memorize anything and recite it like that is not difficult, I bet there are plenty of songs you could recite, after some practice you could easily increase the speed. The handling and keeping track of cards is a good skill but no more impressive than any other magician who has spent a few years at his craft. PLUS the jokes...well each to their own I suppose.

[@RuyLopezTheSicilian]

Never underestimate a lawyer's memory

[@Fooglmog]

I'm pretty disappointed in how Rick cut this... instead of showing this as it aired, he cut out the deck swap as well as the moment when Penn and Teller actually say what he did. He'll probably delete this comment when he sees it, but it would be nice if he just let the act stand as it was performed and aired.

[@NotoriousDRC]

there was no deck switch though, I assume he did that fake move just to throw penn & teller off, but considering the real method doesn't actually involve any switches I am surprised he would cut out the 'faked move'

[@loodlebop]

@@NotoriousDRC what's the real method?

[@FrenchysPlaysTV]

When he looked Penn in the face saying Strike 2 he switched them.

[@20catsRPG]

@@FrenchysPlaysTV He didn't. The cards are sitting on the table at the time, he's not holding them.

[@you0neville0tube]

he never let anyone shuffle the second set. also, the entire video you can notice him NOT showing the second set spread out to anyone. if cards were alternatively arranged, they would not be affected by being split into 5 or rearranging the deck from top to bottom. At the end when he splits them, he keeps switching hands but notice closely and they are just alternate cards

[@gyrosbounty5566]

I'm surprised he didn't ask them to like the video to lock in their answer

[@knottreel]

I liked this trick so much that I'll come back in a few days and finish the video.

[@chadjohnson6718]

This trick was really dumb the cards were just in red black alternating order. He set them up in this order when he was looking at them and throwing cards around. It’s the same style trick he does on Facebook where nothing actually changes, he seems to be a one trick pony. The pile making does nothing because you just make sure every pile has an even number of cards and no matter what order they go back you still have a red black alternating order. Moving cards to the bottom doesn’t switch the order either. When he separates them into two piles in the end it’s a dead giveaway because he is just putting every other card in a different pile one at a time but he does some handwork by crossing his arms etc to make it look like this isn’t what he is doing. Penn and teller could have gotten this if they had thought for a bit longer. I am surprised they didn’t notice the handwork in the end that was the most obvious part to me

[@emmami8508]

Just like his Facebook page, he spent a lot of time tricking instead of actual magic. He spent time for the initial "small" version to try to give the idea of him actually memorizing, then he targeted Penn and Teller who is a magician who first instinct is to think he marked the cards in some way because he spent time to act as if he was. Totally misdirected Penn and Teller thinking he actually has some skill or some new way of marking it as we all notice Teller was trying to find the mark even when he went back on stage and check to see if that cup has some smell or something. Anyone who knows magic would have thought he marked the cards too. Like you said, surely was a matter of time Penn and Teller figure it out. That was no trick, no move nothing but math and acting that targeting magicians. He is still the same shameless self claim "magician"

[@xweirddudex]

This might be the only act I thought wasn’t enjoyable personally. Don’t understand how they were fooled unless to give him a trophy so he doesn’t come back on the show lol

[@hellfire8883]

In the beginning segment on him you can tell in order to make the flowers disappear he used a special table that sucked the flowers in. If you look in slow motion you see a hole in the top of the table where the flowers went then confetti falls to cover the hole. In real speed its impressive but slowed down it's still very quick but you can see the secret.

[@tommyzdoesstuff342]

I love this trick but it doesn't top Shawn farhuquar

[@shad0wzstarz]

I think what I should say about the trick is that a alternately coloured order would make the trick incredibly easy to perform.

[@elliottenriquez]

Go to 0:17 and put it on slow motion. It is actually hilarious.

[@josephelmurr1402]

and actually shows how the trick is done

[@guyfawkes9951]

I'd imagine Starbucks would look at you a bit oddly if you walked in with your own table...

[@torganya]

Really wish he hadn't fooled them, really hate this guy

[@Mr.Coincidence]

Still by far one of my favorites

[@NoobMaster-ob8df]

remember to like and share

[@chefmarcg]

you guys may not know this, but the "nice long poem" was used by penn and teller in one of their acts, penn recited the poem while teller escaped from a stright jacket, as he was hanging upside down from the ceiling. its pretty cool of the guy to use the same poem...he is obviously a huge fan

[@chefmarcg]

oh, i guess he did mention at the end that they had used it in an act, at least now you know what act

[@jordanhenry1406]

This is the magic I like Rick come back to this

[@jordanhenry1406]

Not just me others also

[@sw1ftly2]

+RasPE Nitros Just you

[@MrVidau]

There is not one person who doesn't want to sleep with him in that auditorium. Sexiest magic act I've ever seen.

[@WeMakeVideosCA]

I'm pretty sure you just memorized those 21 cards

[@MrIcelander]

+WeMakeVideosCA Spot on what I was thinking. I was genuinely baffled that P&T then went on to say he fooled them, when "all" the guy did was doing precisely what he said he was going to do - and how is that even a "trick" then?! I have to put that "all" in quotes though, for that level of memory skills is admittedly very impressive.

[@NotoriousDRC]

the first half of the trick was just real memorization, but the second half of the trick was not

[@MrIcelander]

Darcy Willowhite Ok, if you have an alternative, I sure would like to hear it, then.

[@NotoriousDRC]

he sells the effect, I bought it, so I do know the actual method, and like I already said the first half really was just memorization, while the second half was trickery... of course I'm not just gonna expose the full method here, if you really want to know how it's done, go buy the trick, its only $10, and its called binary code

[@rrteppo]

he still technically memorized the 21 cards, the trick is he messed with how he memorized the cards.

[@Tonbizzle]

What a beautiful game. 5 years later I can only offer my best of support now.

[@bernd_the_almighty]

The trick itself looks simple to me as a programmer. As it's about red&black, you only need 0 and 1 (base-2). So, for example, 8 cards go like: 0010-1101 (black-black-red-black etc.). Binary code is easily translatable without calculation (unlike decimal) to hexadecimal (base-16), for example, 0010 in binary is 0x2 in hexadecimal, and 1101 in binary equals to 0xD in hexadecimal. You basically need to remember only 16 such matches by heart. In the end you get a row of hexadecimal values. In my example above, 8 cards get translated to just two letters: "2D". Then you use the usual trick of assigning words to every hexadecimal letter and constructing a story from it. Say, 2D would mean "2 dudes". And that's it. To "remember" the original cards, you need to do the same but backwards. 2 dudes is translated to 2D; value '2D' is translated to binary '0010-1101' (just 16 matches to remember). Voila, you've remembered the order of 8 cards. The rest of the trick is a combination of classical techniques and some other mathematical quirks like that. However the guy does it by reciting a poem, and that's which is pretty impressive.

[@bernd_the_almighty]

+carsten There are also things in programming like binary trees. Basically, 0 can mean "go to the left" and 1 can mean "go the right". So if you have imagined some sort of a labyrinth imagined in your head, where each dead-end contains some object, a stream of binary code can lead you to the answer. That's how some of the compression schemes work.

[@wesleysuperman]

+carsten That really does seem like a simple theory, but would you feel confident you could memorize 21 cards, while reciting a poem, that quickly (Both speaking the poem, and memorizing) ?

[@michaelgurzhiev1272]

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[@FusionDeveloper]

+Michael Gurzhiev (tms5) You didn't finish your comment. What do you think?

[@henryegan7953]

That’s not how it’s done, it’s not by memory

[@SidneyJupiter]

Thank you teller for giving him the finger

[@D45TR1K3F0RC3]

Lemme guess how he did it. He memerised the order and has good memory abilities

[@NotoriousDRC]

no

[@Ketroc]

There is actually no memory required at all. He wants you to think that is how it is done.

[@NotoriousDRC]

there is some minor memory techniques used for the first half

[@ciprianoroi]

Yes, you're quite right. You need a good memory to memorize the poem.

[@forestschoenrock3040]

He ensures his shuffles and discards leaves him with alternating red and black so cuts don't matter

[@thomasjefferson1457]

Is it possible that he really does have that good of a memory.

[@lidoz]

He didn't do a trick, his "trick" was he actually memorized the cards and followed the sets with simple math rules. Couple of years practice and it's second nature

[@BlueIsLeet]

Just because you practice a trick doesn't mean it's not a trick

[@erinbrown9033]

Well, if its not a trick. Can you do it? To be honest, he did well here as he fooled Penn and Teller. However, his facebook is still cancer.

[@kyan1645]

His name sounds like what a drunk person would say to an antsy person. "Rick Lax, maaaaaaaannn"

[@nicholaip.4647]

Somebody please enlighten me about the irony on Teller's name ;)

[@oksills]

I don’t think there is any ; other than the obvious.

[@sw1ftly2]

"I create my own tricks." See's everything that everyone has done.

[@GollyVids]

Didn't like the trick myself. I found it a bit dull but I do acknowledge it was clever none the less

[@michaelconnelly6405]

The things on FB are awful, they are just simple algebreic formulas applied to have a physical manifestation to give the affect that something wonderful is happening when its just simple mathematics and probability; but this.... this is just wonderful

[@nateforlaw]

Relax, Rick lax.

[@reillyschimmel9323]

For the flower trick, he pulled them out through a hole in the table. Watch it again at the slowest speed.

[@danmitchell6126]

Special contact lenses huh? That would assume he didn't use Penn's deck then.

[@tattoodfreeek]

Loved this, great trick, no idea how it's done, especially as I never want to understand magic, I want to be ignorant and amazed all at once

[@CouchEconomyTX]

Duude Don’t do all that crap on Facebook Do this This will catch peoples attention

[@gamegeekx]

He did graduate law school. Of course he's really smart to memorize the poem and the cards. The two piles one, he glimpsed the order, and quickly memorized them, flipped them on their back hidden, and know which card comes next. That's how smart he is. Which is impressive.

[@NaudVanDalen]

The remembering the red and black card order in the beginning is pretty easy. Remember the number of red and black cards in succession instead of color after color and then alternate between left and right piles. That's why he didn't want the applause back then. The second time was truly deserving of applause though. Especially with the poem in between, which would completely ruin my memory. And the stacks and reordering.

[@loodlebop]

The poem is part of the memorization

[@asymmetricfuzion970]

I don’t think it was memorisation. I think I’ve worked it out from looking at it (and this is no comment on rick. This was an awesome routine and a MILLION miles better than the crap that goes on Facebook with the sticky notes). Well, worked out a way he could have done it? He said there were 21 cards. I think it was either 20 or 22. I think when he “memorised” them (remember he was throwing one or two away) he just ordered them red black red black alternating, culling cards across. Then when he came to deal down the piles he just had them in even numbers (so they alternated throughout. I.e whatever was on top, the opposite was on the bottom). Then it wouldn’t matter which order they were stacked up in. Then the cards from top to bottom doesn’t change the order of the cards. Then when dealing them down he does lots of little like cross hand type things where he’s distracting from the fact he is just colour sorting them from the red black order. That visual distraction mixed with the incredible poem memorisation made for a really slick little routine. I am always more interested in the method than the actual punchline for whatever reason but I really like this routine either way :)

[@charliecramp20]

Just what the world needed, someone with a talent, Nay a gift, of simple arithmetic. Fuc q

[@rust3dtinmanrichards615]

sequencing and shuffle theory

[@elwhyify]

+Ryan Correia go on...

[@rust3dtinmanrichards615]

+elwhyify it's the same as shuffle tracking and sequencing like you would in the game of blackjack only this time it's easier and you don't need to know the exact sequence rather than just red or black which is easier,

[@declanp1]

He also knew that Penn always keeps a deck of cards in his jacket pocket. Good stuff.

[@magnanova]

He wore special contact lenses that allowed him to see an otherwise invisible mark on the back of all the red cards.

[@kyrabeitans]

Jonathan Boler it’s Penns deck of cards I believe unless he swapped them