The Special Psychic Cards In Every Deck That Fool Everyone

[@wreams2964]

Thought Brian was gonna say “I was gonna ask if you showed your friends but then I remembered you don’t have any”

[@Pandsu]

I had nam flashbacks at that part

[@technowabbito8714]

I was expecting the same.

[@dakotalopez2923]

I did too, so sad

[@kendallchaos]

W Reams I was thinking the same thing

[@glichking6812]

Oh damn ouch

[@davidwing8428]

Not only is this a solid trick, but I love the fact that Brian has been introducing his daughter to the world of Scam Nation. I teach a magic class in the fall and I always tell the kids about what a great resource these videos are.

[@eMikecs]

At 2:12: Her: "Should I do the cassino wash?" Inside Brian's mind: "God please no!" Brian: "Nah, you do not have to..."

[@andymcl92]

Yup, caught that too :p Two things that make a good magician. 1) The ability to be this chill at critical moments. 2) The ability to change to a totally different trick if something goes wrong.

[@KarstenJohansson]

The technical term for this is spectator management. Or parenting in this case. Funny how they overlap.

[@evantilley]

@@andymcl92 interesting yeah I always wondered like what happens if they do something like flip the card, then I guess you'd have to change the trick

[@andymcl92]

@@evantilley Yeah, one of the key things in magic is that the spectator doesn't know what the trick is supposed to look like. So if something goes wrong, you can (hopefully) switch to a different trick and come back to the one you wanted. Otherwise, there are plenty of tricks that have "multiple outs," meaning there are various endings you can use. One of them is usually pretty mind-blowing, and the others are cool. But since the spectator hasn't seen the trick before, they'll be impressed regardless! :)

[@mata91yt]

2:12 Loving that super casual "you don't have to do that" when she's about to start mixing las vegas style by spreading them around the table possibly messing up the orientations...

[@technowabbito8714]

It was only when he explained how it worked that it twigged that it wasn't just a casual comment.

[@wreams2964]

Clicked on the vid for Scam Nation. Stayed for Josie’s personality. You’re a great dad, keep up the good content!

[@matthewdobbie6740]

Same here she has a hell of a personality

[@jacobrixen5437]

Only thing i have is that you should be cautious with letting the spectator shuffle - i know people who, in the process of shuffling the cards, invert some of the cards (some people do it when they riffle shuffle) It's probably a good idea to see how your spectator shuffle cards prior to doing this trick :)

[@bobbob123ful]

Jacob Rixen Yup, that’s why when she wanted to wash the cards he was quick to say “no you don’t have to”

[@nienke7713]

yeah, the way I typically riffle shuffle turns half of the deck upside down compared to the rest (for each shuffle)

[@kleontang6143]

I saw Chris Ramsey's version, Where he shuffled the 'non-physic' deck and ask the spectator to do the same, this should help not disorienting the deck. PS his version end up mixing the entire deck together, which is more convincing to me

[@andymcl92]

If this does happen, you just have to switch to a different trick!

[@KarstenJohansson]

I used to pretty much always put my thumbs at the top of both packets and then spin the bottom packet between thumb and pointing finger to set up a riffle. It looks like a cool sort of move, but I re-jigged that habit after seeing a magician friend's look of despair when I unceremoniously botched his brand new trick. So, I was once *that guy* lol, but we both learned a little something about spectator management that day.

[@Sheridantank]

The scam nation is undoubtedly one of my favorite KZbin communities. It’s hard to find negativity here. Love the dad daughter magic trick videos, the energy is great.

[@JackFate76]

Just kidding :-)

[@uncle0eric]

Just got to say I love these father-daughter videos.

[@lowstringc]

This girl is a star! Quick witted, personable, and adorable. The dynamic between daddy and daughter is so wholesome and enjoyable to watch.

[@DeviantOllam]

I can't even with how adorable the two of you are together. 💚😁🤜🤛

[@dariob9000]

Its so nice to see that daughter and dad bond! You guys are great

[@Qwentar]

Ohhh, she could've pulled a great gag on you, Brian. As she was going through identifying possible cards and she dealt yours in the reject pile, she could have gone through the entire "hand", pick up the "possibles", concentrate really hard, bet you a soda that the next card she flips over is yours... and then fish through the reject pile for yours to flip it face down. :)

[@vbkfivn]

That actually used to be a common carnival scam

[@Qwentar]

@@vbkfivn Yeah, it's also covered in another Scam School episode.

[@nephicus339]

That's a great twist.

[@deceptimus3688]

Brian: "Only cards I have a psychic connection with." Josie: *Knowingly* "Right..."

[@PetAllDogs]

This series of Brian teaching his daughter is honestly the most adorable thing I've seen lately that isn't a puppy or kitten.

[@rifatsiddique9643]

Just watched james grime on numberphile,and now you on scam nation. Night totally sorted. Love from India

[@Colin_Holloway]

I'm loving these videos! Please keep them as part of the regular show even after the world goes back to normal!

[@jeffcolorado]

I love this trick! Like you, I've been doing this since I was very young. I notice you haven't used the 8's. If you look closely, you'll find the 8 of Hearts, Clubs, and Spades are also one way cards. They all have 5 pips facing one way, while 3 face the opposite way. It's a bit more subtle than the 9's, but they work.

[@scamschool]

Great tip!

[@pardonmyyikes]

I just started watching the channel recently with some of the newer vids. As a father of 2 its always crazy to see how much kids grow in a year

[@BarryH1701]

You could actually use one more diamond...any diamond. If you don't see any card flipped when looking for the chosen card, then you will know it is the diamond with the symmetrical design.

[@quinnpowers7973]

Fist Toast! Essential for making a good knuckle sandwich!

[@kevinbroussard3803]

This comment needs an award of some kind

[@themaconeau]

Breakfast of Champions.

[@VhrenzAbasta]

If you forgot the orientation of the "Psychic" cards you are holding you can do it like " hey, I feel like there is a non"psychic" card that is in hand right now" (pick somewhere in the middle then put it on the garbage pile)

[@TheLK1997]

That's really clever!

[@hoodrichyb5372]

Yayyy another video with you guys!! This is best series so far.

[@mikerusso4775]

I have watched Brian grow from Chester Benington into Adam Savage. Look forward to years more of your awesome vids. Never stop.

[@drake11011]

Brian and josie are the best thing that happened during the quarantine

[@thetourminator]

Brian at 6:43: "think you can do it?" Josie at 6:44: surprised Pikachu face.

[@smains]

world's best magic assistant. A natural. Congrats!

[@HeadMinerve]

Your daughter is sooo cool, your relationship with her too. Those videos are so fun !

[@Pirite716]

i am totally loving these videos. something about "if she can learn this i better be able to" really makes me hope you do more of these even after quarantine is over with. (shes a better co host than that other guy LOL)

[@Zambonihomes]

I’ve been a magician for ten years. Screw him teaching us magic. I’m more happy that he is interacting with his daughter in such a cool way. Good man

[@robgrova6250]

Awesome! My great uncle who got me into card tricks when I was a little boy, younger than your daughter taught me about this when I was 7 or 8 and I was amazed. It's great cause not a lot of people know about it

[@themacocko6311]

Josie is the best thing to come out of quarantine.

[@MontyBoosh]

My dad did a variation of this trick where after picking the special cards out he would give you the option to swap one of the cards with the discard pile; I guess it still works since if they pick the one card with symmetry, all the other cards are the same way around and you can get it by process of elimination.

[@mrasmodee]

Man, that's crazy I was in the exact same situation you were: learned it when I was 10 or so, liked it and forgot it until I realized how clever it is! Thank you for reminding me!

[@MusicManiak123]

I already knew what the trick was by the time you were picking the first two cards :D Very simple yet magical... That was the first card trick I ever learned

[@RichboyJhae]

This is awesome. Any way to ensure the spectator changing the orientation when they're shuffling?

[@luigitp1358]

I love how this was one of the first I learned in scam school and the moment he started picking cards I knew it was it :D thx for remembering me this exists

[@ZER0--]

I remember that one too. Good trick.

[@Durge42]

It's been a long hot minute (couple years at least) since I was last watching Scam Nation content. Today I started bingeing for some reason and I have to say I am really enjoying the Brian/Josie episodes. She's a smart kid and it makes for an adorable episode, and then I got to the blockhead episode... and boy was I squirming (as intended I suppose lol) and it just reminded me how much enjoyment parents can take in tormenting their offspring hahaha - in a good hearted way of course

[@CaptN8G]

Another hit! You two are magic.

[@erwingifslang]

you have thought us this trick before and I always mess it up now I know why I don't turn it half way while they look at the card thanks

[@KB-ty2gc]

I do a variation of this trick. But select only 5. Then ask the spectator to pick 1-4 cards. One of the card can be symmetrical, sometimes also figure cards have their suits in the middle. My deck has two I can use. It makes it very hard to see any patterns.

[@bricepilard5267]

Josie deserve her own KZbin magic channel ! You rock ! FistToast !

[@jackwriter1908]

And the next Scam Nation Home Edition. I Love It.

[@3geek14]

One danger whenever you let the audience member shuffle is that they'll mess up the orientation. At 2:13, she asked if she should do a wash, which you had to prevent her from doing. I first learned to shuffle from my father, who plays bridge. Since many of his decks of cards have backs with orientations, it always bothered me as a young kid that the way he split the deck and squared the cards would always rotate one of the piles. When I was learning to shuffle, I was very conscious to avoid doing that, just to preserve some small bit of order. However, since I know my father always mixes the orientations when he shuffles, I would never be able to let him shuffle the deck when I perform this.

[@lycosanimations2970]

It’s so cute because at 0:20 her and Brian have the same laugh 😂

[@haleiwasteve8434]

I actually performed this at a Christmas party in 2014 after I saw it on Scam School. Super easy to perform, but you have to watch the orientation of the card in their hands very closely.

[@aditya7778]

Seen these on chris ramsay channel awesomly done... When u spread the cards on matt I completly fooled my self!!!

[@funforall9741]

Burned the cards and realized the method early, this is an awesome trick! It also looks so impromptu i love it!

[@ZER0--]

With some decks the printing can be slightly misaligned, and this means you can use most, if not all, of the court cards.

[@ehrichweiss]

I seriously love the interaction between you and your daughter. She needs to be in episodes even after the lockdowns are over. Yeah, I know, she can't go to a bar but maybe a coffee shop or the like?

[@marcusmorton7431]

Gotta love getting to see your videos before the rest of the world! #discordsquad

[@franchello1105]

I saw you picking a bunch of odd values, so I thougt about it had something to do with it. Then I saw the 6 and then realized how it exactly worked at that time.

[@michelsavoie6971]

Great Daughter dad time. Thanks for sharing :)

[@maxkim7937]

i learned this in 6th grade as well. in my case, i did it with hanafuda cards. they were super thick but still do-able.

[@CartoMagia]

Pleased continue with the girl 😍 she’s so smart

[@bartman9400]

Love your channel and all the tricks

[@mrwatson1741]

Dudes please stop i can only do the simple stuff ny entire routines are built from this stuff i had to watch years worth of video's and now you put me out to dry :-) love you guys really

[@landenhardy5915]

Brian is Best Internet Dad guaranteed. No arguing.

[@schiminski]

I do add one symmetrical card to the selected stack, to confuse critical spectators. If they randomly choose that card, there is then no card in different orientation. If they like to inspect the deck after the trick, this is a convincer... :-)

[@WyattJKR]

this was the first card trick I learnt while watching a scam school episode over a year ago

[@gawayne1374]

How'd you get the other person not to mess up the facing when they shuffle the cards? When riffle shuffling people tend to mix the cards head to head right?

[@kendallchaos]

I actually knew this one when he first introduced it, it’s one of the first couple magic tricks I learned

[@RealBenda]

You're a commercial for parenthood. I love it.

[@junwei2001]

what to do if they shuffle the card and mess up the orientation?

[@Kaepsele337]

I think it's more elegant if you only use all the sevens and all the aces. The ace of diamonds is symmetrical, so if none of them are flipped it's the ace of diamonds.

[@maxs713]

Doesn't letting the other person shuffle might turn some of the cards around?

[@brandoningram1805]

Great card trick. As always I love your videos.

[@baseboned]

Is there an out for people that flip cards around when they shuffle ruining the trick? I feel like lots of people do that

[@matthewdobbie6740]

Josie adds something I didn't know the show needed

[@LuukSwinkels]

I already knew this one, but it is a really fun and easy one for sure

[@rdloorz]

You have a good quarantine buddy Brushwood. The future of magic is in good hands everyone were all going to be OK, except those that ain't OK.

[@Maninawig]

Hey Brian, I can't wait to see you teach Josie your truck Naughty knotty (tying a knot while holding either end of the rope)... I wonder how many do-overs she'll ask for before losing hope?

[@casey037]

Holy dude it's so cute when she fans out the cards 7:28

[@Ltshark1980]

So what if the other person scatter shuffles the deck breaking the direction of the cards? Is there a bailout trick or is that usually a cue to perform a different trick?

[@hishaamkhan5664]

It's so sweet to see Brian with his daughter like this

[@beaugrylls7771]

Can this trick mess up if the shuffling technique is bad?

[@shellbournian]

I love this trick. I make a game out of it - tell them that you ARE reading their reaction (bonus hilarity if they're not sober), and they get super focused on "getting better at hiding it" each time you do the trick, to the point where they never figure it out, no matter how many times you do it.

[@danielali6571]

I thought I got it quite clearly and obviously but I'm confused by the end. Wernt the 5 cards she had left a mix of up and down? So how can she tell which Is the card??

[@TheCyberadam26]

That's a sick magic trick. Definitely going to try this one.

[@mc101]

Brian, you are being upstaged. I like it!

[@Yotanido]

I have a deck where all the cards are asymmetrical, but on both the back and the face. This trick works great

[@somerando1073]

When you let them shuffle, how do you prevent them from riffling the halves top to top which would totally mix up the orientation?

[@Neetutiwari74]

Hey Brian how to make this trick work when the spectator asks that if he or she could shuffle the cards and then they accidently drop a few cards while shuffling as they generally don't know how to shuffle. And then some cards are face up and some are face down. And this happend with me when i was performing it for my cousin *the one kids trick you were talking about 😂

[@ErdTirdMans]

She's adorable and you should hand the whole channel over to her already.

[@malkymoonchild]

Holy Hell! I can't wait till I'm quite a bit older, watching Josie teaching HER kids all these tricks.

[@andymcl92]

I'd say the 6❤️ and 9❤️ are pretty similar, unless you're looking at the pips. I actually thought that was a really good pair to end on, specifically because they're similar, but not similar in the way that really matters!

[@ZGBrickfilms]

Wow that’s dead simple yet fooled me! Great video!

[@scamschool]

nice!!

[@RoderickEtheria]

Wait, if you let the mark shuffle the cards, what happens if they shuffle the cards so they are both up and down? Where do you fix the order of the cards so that they are all pointed in the same way? Seems you would be better letting the mark shuffle the non-psychic cards while you shuffled the psychic cards, had them select from the psychic cards, and then you shuffle the psychic cards together with the non-psychic cards. Maybe even ask the spectator which of a few different piles you should deal the shuffled cards into, and then after they are dealt out, work on removing the piles. You already know which card they have by the point they start removing cards.

[@Kristian179]

what happens if the order of the card's suites get messed up during the shuffle?

[@scamschool]

order doesn't matter, as long as they're all pointed the same direction.

[@KuZaEpic]

I had to stop the video to take a look at the cards he chose cause of the camera movement but got it anyways. still a nice trick and completely different performance than i do it.

[@RalfvandeSand]

Love it. Saw it on your channel some time ago. Then I performed the trick for my girlfriend. I had everything set up. Went perfectly. Until I let her shuffle the cards... 😟😉

[@privat9605]

That deck looks rad! Mind telling what deck this is?

[@CharlydeBrosses]

I am so in love with this trick :)

[@scorpjitsu]

Brian’s daughter busted out the Vegas table shuffle! Nice!

[@JackCliffordWilliams]

I feel you Brian on the sadness of our kids not getting to see their friends!

[@NivMizzet13]

I wonder if they take your cards then split the deck and do a bridge shuffle, so now the cards are every direction...

[@tonymason6637]

Any reason to not use the 8's? They follow the same principle....

[@Physhi]

Whenever someone asked me in the past to shuffle I always went straight for the casino wash. Many magicians were not happy with me.

[@Alphadog2064]

Discord REPRESENT! Edit: just got the notification for the video, while watching the video

[@markuswaldispuhl4771]

it is a good one. but what do you do when someone mix them up un the table mixing them arround? then some are turned down and up

[@scamschool]

Just move into another trick.

[@TheMaz878]

I actually figured this out on my own when I was a kid.