Will Ondrej Fool Penn & Teller a Second Time?

[@N.I.R.A.T.I.A.S.]

"What are we looking for? How the goddamn trick is done." Love it.

[@AZEROONE]

He can see all the cards except the card he would predict.. So he will only have to find the missing card. that's it. Judy my thoughts

[@JO-ns7zo]

@@AZEROONE but can he look through the cards so fast? I think he count the cards between the Aces, P&T knows that, but is he fast enough to see the missing card in the deck?

[@finncullen]

Thank goodness they bleeped out the word "goddamn" I can only imagine the societal collapse that would ensue if people had heard that

[@jasonjackson5696]

Doujangul Misao - that sounds way to simple & P & T would have caught it.

[@Hunter-os5yx]

7:14 how has no one noticed the deck? See anything odd about the card ordering? The cards were definitely in sets before the shuffle so he by the looks of it certainly had jacks, kings and queens clumped together. That undoubtedly were in the centre of the deck during the cut this made it much easier to do exactly what he did which was look through the deck and determine which card was missing.

[@f52_yeevy]

Can we take a moment to admire how readily Ondrej caught mid-air the two Beatles that Allison threw at his mouth?

[@etme1000]

It was Paul and John!

[@titavaughns7698]

It was just the one, but yeah

[@souplife1]

That's the real trick

There were two thrown, but he only caught one, pause in 4:48, as they are in mid-air.

[@deviousbug54]

@ omfg 😍

[@thalapeng]

I love one thing in particular. If you go through the Fool Us videos on youtube, you very often stumble upon magicians trying to misguide you by the video title, such as "Magician astonishes Penn and Teller" in order to trick people to watching it hoping they wont"t notice the title not actually saying "fooled". Aand here is the double fooler that is humble enough to let the video tell the story and only lets the title tickle your curiousity. A je pěkné vidět, že takováhle skromnost pochází z naší krásné domoviny, tohle se myslím v Karpatech nehledalo :-)

[@OndrejPsenicka]

To je milé, děkuji. :)

[@jackbandit2114]

Yeah I hate spoilers in the title. This video title was a nice change of pace.

[@RickReasonnz]

Exactly why I chose to click on this vid.

[@crunchyyellowlion]

I absolutely loved this video and it was refreshing to see a will he fool them... all the ones I've been watching say that... but then I'm disappointed. Keep up the great work smarty pants! Ugh but no more bugs 😂😂

[@ichiryu87]

@@OndrejPsenicka i know how you did that...is written up in the comments...now i'll do like penn did... i let you decide to tell me that im right or not....lol...p.s. im not a magician

[@johnny_chouinard]

I've watched all three. Ondrej, you are a true genius. Much respect to you.

[@OndrejPsenicka]

Thank you, John, you are very kind.

[@basicsandslightlybeyond]

I just understood why he looked at the cards. It was entirely to misdirect Penn & Teller. It forces that to be their guess (that he actually just looked for the missing card and memorized the location). That way, they've wasted their guess on something that's wrong and they normally don't take a second guess. That's absolutely brilliant.

[@-_Nuke_-]

But it doesn't take too much time to realise an Ace is missing --__-- He even took his time before saying after only having 3 Aces in his hands, I really didn't understand the trick there...

[@basicsandslightlybeyond]

@@-_Nuke_- Part of it is that he also picked the card out facedown, since the cards were unmarked (since Penn and Teller examined them). The rules of the game mean that they get one guess on how he did it, they said he picked the cards out facedown by memory, which he didn't (based on other episodes, if he did do it by memory, the magician backstage would have told Penn and Teller they're right).

[@dm0065]

Yup, that was a misdirect. I think he wanted them to guess an assigned value sum kind of system, which is what Penn did. He would have been over the moon as soon as Penn was talking about counting and he could do it but not as fast. Ondrej knew it worked right then.

[@LatenightRunner]

@@-_Nuke_- maybeeee. Just maybe... how he manage to get those 3 aces and use it as a “clue” after shuffling the card all over was the actual trick.. I don’t know.. I don’t know magic that well, but that’s all i can think about

[@Modie]

@@LatenightRunner I mean, he did look at the deck. If we assume that the chosen card wasn't random, then all he has to do while looking through the deck to remember the positions of the three aces. Which I think you can do if you practice it enough. I just think the chosen card wasn't random.

[@kotalee2106]

I love this man. He is the best kind of artist, one who takes what he does seriously but doesn't take himself too seriously. Gotta love a silly magician.

[@johnrutkowski9005]

I think I figured it out. The deck is at first ordered in a way so that the memorable cards (ace, king, queen, joker) are all next to each in groups of four at the center of the deck. His bet was that she would cut the deck around the middle which is what most people do, and she did that. The deck is shuffled and handed back. The first search was to identify which of those sets of cards was missing one, and he identified it as the ace. You wouldn't need to check the numbered cards which is why it went so quickly. The second search was to count the number of cards for the two gaps between the three aces. In this case, the shuffling didn't separate two of them so he only had to remember one number. At the last ace he finds, you can see he cuts the deck and places the rest of the cards on the bottom. This puts one ace on top, and the other two the memorized number of cards in. He brought four beatles as a contingency. If he needed more time or another look, he could eat another one and "increase his power". So he had four chances to look at the cards, but luckily he only needed two. If she had cut the cards in an odd way, say a few cards in one pile and the majority in the other, she would have drawn a number card. He would have had to search the whole deck instead of just the memorable cards he put in the middle and probably would have needed another look. Finally, when he lays down the cards it seems like he also memorized their color, value, and suit to be able to lay them down in order. He lays the three cards down, stating what each is as he goes. When he picks them back up, he looks at them and places them down in a different order. This means it didn't matter where the cards were or in what order. To me it seems like Penn and Teller's explanation is pretty spot on, and I'm not sure he completely fooled them. It seems like they didn't think he could have searched for the missing card in the time he did and that he did something else, so maybe there is a little more to it and he did fool them. It took me several watch throughs to get this so I'll say you fooled me, I don't think I could do it like you did.

[@Kacsinszki]

That was my thoughts exactly after watching the lookthrough at the 3rd time. After 1st wach I actually did not even understood, how tgis "trick" fooled them... I didn't think about that he camt remember the cards order as fast as he looked them

[@SR-et2gz]

Like U Said usually people Cut in the middle, but I think, when U are at this Show u dont want to have a offchance to fail. I think he had 100% chance. And when i see a performance from a top magician ending up on 4 aces it's usually not a Lucky coincedence. So i would admit that U could do this trick like U descriped but i think there is one more think.

[@Crazymadpsycho33]

You’re close but missing that 10%. Guess you were fooled 😉.

[@anythingbutserious5587]

I love when Penn rages, anyone else?

[@HaLe-xr3lx]

Meeeeeeeeeee

[@outseeker]

he has a high quality friendly rage :>

[@eatmyshortsanytime]

Except that communist insult was very mean

[@outseeker]

@@eatmyshortsanytime intentionally so lol the meaner it is, the clearer it should be that it's in jest XD

[@timq6224]

@@eatmyshortsanytime -- actually, the Czech Republic uses a parliamentary form of government. It is a joke made in juxtaposition of their national freedom after the fall of the Soviet Union. I guess it would be considered mean by anyone not familiar with history or a russian sympathizer...(FYI Putin just made a power move this past January to tighten his control over the country.)

[@NeurovisionGorn]

But you looked through the deck, wouldn't you notice what card was missing and memorize where the other aces were placed? Am i missing something here?

[@sowon5030]

yeah that's what I'm wondering too. Cause I mean anyone is capable of doing this. In a much slower way, but we can all do it. So with some special training it's not that surprising to be able to do it very fast.

[@simonlind44]

@@sowon5030 Teller shuffled the deck

[@sowon5030]

@@simonlind44 Even with a shuffled deck you can find a missing card.

[@TheFurious74]

Asking mysielf same question. Where is the trick? He just looked through the deck twice

[@thire10]

Penn even says it himself "you did it much faster then we can" and then he says "there's something more".

[@milentanev7340]

Good thing Teller didnt eat two beatles, he could have guessed it, gteat trick man.

[@OndrejPsenicka]

Thank you, Milen! It is true - it was a big risk to give him one to eat. :)

[@mcnagynorbi]

@@OndrejPsenicka was that real? I hoped it was chocolate or something

[@L4sket]

@@mcnagynorbi Most certainly real. It'd be next to impossible to imitate that *crunch* with chocolate.

[@holocaust_2.0]

@@L4sket crispy rice could work.

[@Slovenec5]

@@L4sket Chocolate with a hard candy coating, like M&Ms

[@huzzzer6083]

"smarty pants communist" I'm dead

[@shinjisan2015]

that was code

[@thomasjbrablec]

If only Penn knew how offensive saying that is in a country ravaged by communism.

[@AleksandarIvanov69]

Smarty pants communist is a paradox... You can be either one or the other.

[@thomasjbrablec]

@@AleksandarIvanov69 If you knew how terribly certain regimes have affected certain countries, and continue to do so today, you'd know that your joke is just wrong. If they were dumb, it would be easy to overthrow them.

[@AleksandarIvanov69]

@@thomasjbrablec don't you know that dumb people outnumber the smart ones ? That's the reason it's difficult to overthrow them when they catch the commie virus.

[@NecumNaTo]

I think it is simple. The cards are made to be cut preferably in one spot. To be sure, around the centre of the deck before Alison initial cut, there are only Kings, Queens and Aces or so in the middle. She cuts, and puts one of these selected few cards under her butt. He goes through the cards TWICE and simply looks which of these 12 or 16 cards are missing. That is a skill that can be practiced. Then he just selects the three other cards to finish the trick.

[@thehandleisuseless]

Spot on

[@mackenzieherr]

jfc it took a lot of rewatching and reflecting on this piece to even wrap my head around what Penn was talking about or why Teller eating a scarab made one man so happy. I feel like I’m in a tough position

[@Doubleozero0000]

My theory is that the Beatle is fake and he wanted Teller to know.

[@livewire2759]

@@Doubleozero0000 Obviously the beetles were fake, probably candy of some sort, but he gave one to Teller to show him IF the beetles were part of the trick or just misdirection.

[@Terpe75]

The scarab was just a prop (misdirection). Key Phrase at the end: "You had a pretty good idea what you were looking for"... yes the location of the other 3 Aces since he knew Allison was sitting on the Ace of Spades. The banter at the end was Penn essentially asking "Did you force the Ace of Spades? If you did we have no idea how you did it."

[@OndrejPsenicka]

@@livewire2759 The beetles were very real. Thailand stuff.

[@Zerbey]

@@Doubleozero0000 Tellar would have eaten it anyway, he's done it on other shows too.

[@odinsmeadhorn196]

7:17 How things usually go when you ask your boss a stupid question.

[@RyanNerd]

I love how he takes the focus off himself and has the participants do the magic for him. The only time he has focus on himself is when he's being silly and eating bugs.

[@BigDH28]

One of the best ever on the show! You couldn't even have paid for a better reaction from Penn! 👍✊️💯

[@Damaged7]

Wow. Thank you for actually leaving it a surprise and not giving it away in the video title.

[@patrickbyrne5070]

i love how much their eyes light up seeing you! what a great performer

[@Mo_Ketchups]

Ondrej, I’ll never forget meeting you at The Castle the night Dani Da’Ortiz did his last show that Sunday night and you were one of his “helpers” onstage. All the heavies were in the crowd that night, and Dani made you SCREAM ... TWICE (for real)!! It was THEE funnest show EVER at the Castle and everyone came out smiling and STUNF**KED!! Your natural (if inebriated 😄) reactions made the performance THAT much more of a kick in the nuts!! What a great dude! 👏👏👏👏👏

[@creativewaves4640]

You can obviously understand the codes in which Penn was speaking when he was describing the trick like "we know you were counting on alison doing something that she did" You can see how he emphasis counting as in counting the cards and looking for means he was looking in the cards which one is not there and they said that they can't do it as fast as he can

[@saucemagic]

Oh man I had to take a breather after this performance! Amazing job Ondrej!

[@OndrejPsenicka]

Hahahaha! I wish I could rely on breaks like that. ;)

[@newsteinchang7340]

First time seeing the magician tell everyone what the card was before asking the person to reveal it first. Props man

[@leafonhead777]

Not an illusion so much as just incredibly impressive. And I will say he is the first magician on this show that has made me laugh out loud throughout the entire act!

[@WXVA9]

I think this is the best routine ever on the show. It really plays with the Fool Us format.

[@odinsmeadhorn196]

4:46 And he catches it.

[@creepykoala7255]

The REAL impressive part of the trick

[@AL-fo3jj]

Best unrehearsed trick ever

[@hankscorpio8928]

Congrats Ondrei! I can always tell when penn and teller have gotten bested by the volume and pitch in Penns voice. Heard it immediately.

[@kitster900]

"A ritual to make my senses sharp as a spoon" made me choke laughing. Incredibly FUN performance

[@kasimselamat7129]

I love how Penn looks so confuse for the entire act..

[@mikeychars2536]

Im not confused simple trick

[@TheMarylandMartins]

To everyone saying "He looked through the deck to see what was missing." Did you not listen to the end? Did you hear Penn essentially explain "We know how we think you did it....but we don't know if that is how you actually did it? You can us doctored cards in the past and tried to make us think that is how the trick was done...but it wasn't. So, you tell us... did you simply look for a missing card?" This episode doesn't go to air if he lied. P&T's producers are in on the trick and they will confirm that the magician was telling the truth when he said that he fooled them. This is a great trick because it is a real trick indie a apparently obvious yet fake trick!

[@v3nd3lin]

Honestly i think that all the cards (when heated) shows ace of spades. Thats why Aly had to sit on it so he just remembered the placement of the rest aces...yet it is still very impressive :D

[@rje613]

@@v3nd3lin I would agree, that sounds like a good way to do it. But then how do you make sure the other cards dont do that when examined by Penn and Teller?

[@v3nd3lin]

RJ i got no clue :D

[@tomcads1604]

@@rje613 there was a clue about Alyson having to do something for the trick to work, which is what got me doubting my first assumption which was that the cards all change to the Ace of spades if heated for a while

[@rje613]

@@tomcads1604 Pesonally, and I know based on the way the show works that this shouldn't really be possible, but I think he lied to get the trophy for a second time. I can do the exact same effect the same way he does it. There's also indicators in the way the deck finishes that tells me he does it the way I do it which is just by putting the aces, kings, queens, and jacks in the middle so if someone. were to cut the deck in half, they'd almost definitely get one of these cards.

[@Allan_Melon]

I really love your work Ondrej , such an entertaining concept , great performance and well done on the second FU trophy!

[@Anddroiden]

The essence of this trick is one of two things in my opinion, it's either memorization or force. To me it sounds like P&T guess memorization, but the ace is in fact a force and that's why the trophy came down.

[@applejacks971]

That was fun!!! Knowing the exact card Allison had woulda been the easy part because he literally looked at all the cards after eating the beetle, he knew which card was missing. I wouldn't be able to notice a missing card that fast nor eat a beetle. But how he got the 3 Aces to come up in that order is amazing!!! Great act, love it!!!!

[@Claudio-hc6tg]

Maybe that's a deck of termic cards. Every single card becomes the ace of spades with heat. So when Alison seats on it for a certain amount of time the trick is done. Obviously if you check the deck for a few seconds nothing happens.

[@notaspamaccount8936]

Those exist?

[@Wavero]

i dont think so because when penn looks through he cards he would of noticed two Ace of Spades in that case and instantly realised how the trick was done, and if there was no ace of spades at all and all cards just became the ace of spades after a certain amount of heat then either penn would of noticed two duplicate cards as there has to be 52 cards in the deck or if there isnt 52 cards in the deck then he can see what was missing

[@jaswik2023]

Nope

[@sleepyjoe8459]

It changes depending on if the person has shit within the last 30 minutes

[@aminlofi]

lmao no way you’re being serious rn 😭😂

[@joshuagraham5750]

Oh I love how Teller willingly ate a beetle. Absolute lad

[@flyingpenandpaper6119]

Idk but it might have been a chocolate specially made to look like a beetle. A sugar shell would give the right crunch :)

[@momosbiryani]

Lmao u really thinks those were real insect..

[@RolandGiersig]

He didn't. He put it in his mouth and made chewing motions. Then when seemingly washing it down with his drink spitting it in his cup. 🤷‍♂️

[@busybillyb33]

@@momosbiryani It is very much real. Google for Thailand edible beetle. A Holotrichia sp. that is the colour of chocolate. I thought it was fake chocolate too first but it wasn't.

[@MrDorian001]

He reminds me of the guy from the movie, "Master Of Disguise." The actual character.

[@brandonpage4653]

Turtle, turtle 🐢

[@jaybee1844]

Its like Garth from Wayne's World became a magician

[@AXL4LIFE229]

I was Thinking the same thing..lol

[@yoavsigler4457]

In his other videos he pulls off very similar effects (Finding missing cards, knowing the location of certain cards in the deck). He did show P&T how the cards are marked, but he probably didn't fully explain exactly what that allows him to do. I think that he didn't have to look at the cards for the trick to work, and that it was just misdirection. P&T completely missed how the trick is done, and that's why he deserved to get the trophy. The mechanics of the trick were disguised very well, and the act was designed to specifically fool P&T. It's really beautiful.

[@wilt2303]

How did he do it?

[@yoavsigler4457]

@@wilt2303 He's using his own brand of marked cards, called Butterfly Playing Cards. I don't own a pack, but I do know that you can achieve many seemingly impossible effects with them. You can know which card is missing or locate any card within the deck-all without looking at the cards, and even after the spectator shuffles them. That's all there is to the trick, really. Identifying that Allison picked the Ace of Spades and locating the other aces. The rest is done to throw off Penn and Teller (eating beatles, looking through the cards, etc) He has a KZbin channel called Butterfly Playing Cards where he demonstrates similar effects and more. I don't know how he does it technically because I didn't learn the marking system, but I think you can find the instructions online (or buy the cards, of course).

[@Marlon_19_]

Congratulations on fooling Penn and Teller again!!! Amazing act, loved every second of it 😁👍.

[@melxb]

didnt he get to look through the cards tho

[@filipjirasek861]

@@melxb no

[@DavidGolder]

@@melxb Yes, twice (asking for the extra scarab).

[@CrAzY6tothe6]

@@melxb that wasnt the point. The point was he created a force. And they dont know how he did it. (The force happened at the beginning. He made her cut. But they cant explain how she ended up wotht he card he wanted her to pick). Also its pretty hard to find a card when you look through it that fast. Plus some cards were skipped.

[@melxb]

@@CrAzY6tothe6 yeah depends if he has markings on his cards too

[@CarsCollectorUK]

I love how even though penn and teller are fooled they still get back at the fooler with a big FU on the trophy

[@frantisekkitzberger6837]

I have no words, it was just so much more impossible and divine than last time. Awesome job !

[@melxb]

but he got to look through the cards and see which is missing isnt that it?

[@thefarrahrose]

mel b I’m confused he said the third card that would reveal the suit was a spade but it was a diamond

[@frantisekkitzberger6837]

I think, It is meant as elimination method joke.

[@thefarrahrose]

frantisek Kitzberger so you think it was on purpose

[@frantisekkitzberger6837]

@@thefarrahrose I am sure with that

[@RachelsSweetie]

Great catch on that second beetle.

[@user-io2rd8xi7x]

He said to cut the deck, so he memorized the middle cards of the deck. This can be dome by him putting all the aces, 2,3 cards in the middle so that he can find them easy.

[@sleepyjoe8459]

iTrypio nope that’s not true. The trick is called “inhale the flat” it’s been around for 1000 years and 2 months.

[@rje613]

@@sleepyjoe8459 There's no such thing. Send a link

[@krishanmourya3008]

Here's my take on how he did the trick. We didn't see the order of cards before Allison made the cut. So normally people cut decks right around middle. Especially when it's someone as Allison. I believe all the spade cards were placed in the middle of the deck. So he knew only a Spade was picked. When he went through the cards the first time he looked for which spade was missing, which I believe is quite possible out of 13 cards. The second time he went through the cards he memorized or tracked the rest 3 Aces to complete the end of trick.

[@MrLuke.]

Definitely not.. Too much at stake, to let trick work only 4 out of 52 times. Do you really think this dude, who fooled them once with his own invented deck would let second try just in Alisons hands and pray to god she cut the deck almost perfectly in the middle? Nah dude.. he definitely did some trick in this one as well.

[@krishanmourya3008]

@@MrLuke. Yeah. Also the producers probably wouldn't let him do the trick based on just luck.

[@gregluv5294]

It was performed with a different method

[@krishanmourya3008]

@@gregluv5294 yeah I'm sure it would have been. I just guessed how I think it could have been done based on my knowledge of magic

[@gregluv5294]

@@krishanmourya3008 trust me I wouldn't be able to figure it out in a million years. Want an idea? Bye the Butterfly V2 deck 😉

[@brianscottcutter69]

THE BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!! I had to buy is playing cards. They are BEAUTIFUL!!!!!

[@nuberiffic]

wait, so she took a card out of the deck and then looked through the deck a couple times to see which one was missing? ...ok?

[@priabernamadimas]

No one can seek missing card in one glance And predict every card so he can take out 3 aces when the card is flipped

[@nuberiffic]

@@priabernamadimas Are you sure about that? Doesn't seem that incredible compared to everything else on this show

[@ryanrusch3976]

He couldn't have forced the card if he had Allison pick the card, and if he did, when Teller shuffles the cards it throws off any order the cards might be in. If he can notice a card that's missing in a deck of 52 that would be impressive, but then to remember where the other ace's were is even more impressive. So I completely agree with Penn and Teller, it was up to him if he fooled them.

[@nursen2106]

@@nuberiffic yes, that is proven. except, you have not only a photographic memory, but are quick in counting as well - in one word, member of one of the secret agencies

[@nursen2106]

@@nuberiffic besides, that wouldn't fool penn and teller. I mean, that wouldn't wow them either

[@ryaneglinton8970]

Clearly looking through the cards was the trick. Then knowing the order of the other aces from pure practice. Even takes one and puts in the first position.

[@AGallegos288]

doesn't explain how he forced the first Ace

[@SKyrim190]

@@AGallegos288 He doesn't need to force an ace. He can pick the card that is missing.

[@johannborchersfriends]

Star wars is one of my favorite movies Ondrej. Indexing at it's finest.

[@tiffinal]

Teller eating the scarab is totally awesome.

[@MariusRiley]

: I loved all three of your appearances on the show. This one's my favorite. :)

[@Gimic2]

Your reaction to Penn not being able to say your name is just awesome :)

[@SDW90808]

How fun! I’ve been binging on these for the last couple of days but this one is great. Especially the ending.

[@CraZgamr101]

Are the people in these comments trolling, or does everyone actually think it's possible to quickly look through a shuffled deck twice and determine one card that's missing?

[@mrpicky1868]

yes but it was a forced cut. IDN why they gave him trofy

[@QuotePilgrim]

I don't think that's how he did the trick, but yes, it is definitely possible.

[@CrAzY6tothe6]

@@mrpicky1868 they gave him the trophy because they didnt know how he created the force. Doesnt matter if its a force or not. Its how he did it

[@kevina5337]

There are magicians who can do that kind of stuff, memory tricks or quick memory stuff

[@zarneywhoop]

The ace of spades is a very obvious card to see that it is missing. Did he just luck out that she picked it? Or was it a force somehow?

[@dominikdobrotic8298]

Well I think he has the ability to notice a missing card in a deck and remember the placement of other cards. It should be doable for some people with lots and lots of practice

[@RodelIturalde]

Teller shuffled cars before he went through. So he didn't know the order. Yes he could have super memory and fast eyes and just flick through and know which card where missing. But I think he did it differently.

[@ZergosaurusRex]

​@@RodelIturalde He went through the cards twice though: The first time he only searched the missing card and the second time he memorised the position of the 3 other aces. It takes a lot of skill to find the missing card this quickly, but there are very skilled magicans perfoming on the show.

[@namuunbaatar6800]

@@RodelIturalde it is a thing. people memorize the order of entire shuffled deck of cards in that speed. but with technique and practise. I used to practice that so i know. finding a missing card and memorizing 3 card position wouldn't be hard

[@monodescarado]

@@ZergosaurusRex I really want to agree with you. I guess the only thing that goes against it is the fact that that is what they said, and asked if he fooled them. If there wasn't something else going on, he wouldn't have fooled them (and the backstage person who knows how the trick is done would have had a word). Prop chair, helper and communication through the box maybe? Then the use of the cards is just to remember the card placement.

[@rekcusdoo]

@@ZergosaurusRex - And you think it was just a coincidence that the card was the Ace of Spades? I don't know...seems like there was something else.

[@kathrynnpetersen8876]

I liked how Alyson tapped penn on the shoulder to get his attention so she could ask him well what she needed to ask him

[@bobbob465]

Alyson is woefully underused in this show. When she has to read pre-scripted (and not all that good) introductions, it's very awkward. However, when she's free to be herself, either as a trick assistant, or in cute little spontaneous moments like this, she's wonderful.

[@robertpurnell2960]

He saw the missing card... and he just took all the other Aces out, isn’t this just math or am I missing something?

[@BattleSpew]

He had to also memorize exactly where the other 3 aces were, because he took them out of the well-shuffled deck face-down, and because he thumbed through from the bottom of the deck, had to pull them out in reverse order to how he saw them.

[@SirOee]

How did he know which card Allison would take?

[@IanOPadrick]

There's a kind of short-hand going on here. The odds of it being that card are 1 in 52. Not the least likely outcome, but with this, the way he's played the trick, I think he's saying that he forced Alison to pick the Ace of Spades, which is, in most decks of cards, the most decorated deck. I think he was saying that he forced her to pick the Ace of Spades, and how could he have done that if she picked the card without his vision even touching the deck? I think that's the question he had them wondering.

[@djhokage1]

@@SirOee He didn't have to know which allison WOULD take. He looked through the deck and could obviously see, which card is missing. It'd be impressive if he did that all in one take. But he took another look at the cards. And if he knew after the first look, which card is missing, he could easily start counting in the second look-through to know where the other aces are. Penn & Teller are probably the only people who will be impressed by this because everyone else would just think: "Didn't you just look through the cards and see which one is missing?"

[@mysticalpotato447]

@@djhokage1 how could you tell which card out of 52 is missing just by looking through the deck a couple times?

[@nursen2106]

I would love to see you again on that show - I am from Austria. I don't know, where you live now, but if you perform somewhere around, even in Czech Rep., I would love to see you on stage or close up. English, German, Czech - language doesn't matter

[@OndrejPsenicka]

Hello Funny Girl, I have "52 Lovers" show in Prague in the end of November - on the 30th in English. You can find the event on Facebook. 😉

[@nursen2106]

@@OndrejPsenicka Thank you for the tip. I know right now, that I am not able to be there at the end of November, but now I know, I can keep track and that you really are performing in Prague

[@norealnameno739]

@@OndrejPsenicka Thank you for wonderful performance. Will definitely try to get to your show from Berlin and advertise it for some friends. You may want to put future announcement in description of this video, I'm pretty sure a lot of people will find it there.

[@TheDreadedZero]

I don’t get it. He literally sat there and flipped through all the cards, twice. Couldn’t he have just looked for whatever card was missing and that’d be her card? (Penn even says he saw him looking through the cards and he was just able to do it faster than they could.) So what’s the “extra” part that fooled them?

[@diegojacobo9487]

From what I understand, when he goes through the cards he’s not actually scanning all the cards. As Penn says, he goes too fast for him to actually scan it. What he is doing is looking for where the Aces are to take them out of the deck and counting (this id why he takes out the first Ace then counts an x amount of cards without any explanation). Which means, he managed to somehow force Allison to pull the Ace of Spades from a random deck cut, and they didn’t understand how he did that. The same thing with his last performance, which also fooled them.

[@spudgamin]

How he was able to eat 2 beetles. That takes magic

[@therabbits69]

The ace of spades is a really important card in magic. The trick was to force Alyson to pick it. The scanning the deck part was just for show. It was basically a big "You have no clue how i did this" in Penn and Teller's faces.

[@jakubmatejka4289]

With regullar butterfly deck, you know what card is missing and you search the deck for the position of other 3. But with this deck, I have no clue how to find out, which card is the missing one. Very nice one.

[@ef2b]

There is another guest magician who was previously on this show, also with East European origins, and also loudly threatened by Penn, who I suspect is highly relevant to the core part of this trick. That's not to say I know how either of them are able to do what they do, but in addition to being fooled, I am awed that anyone can develop the ability to do what I am guessing was done. There's also a thing at the very beginning that must be done and I have no idea how that was done, but it sounds like Penn did. I love the way Alison is so quick and able to make up and lob out little lines that helps everyone with the patter. (Those who are saying there's no trick because he looked through the deck are forgetting that the aces need to be dealt out.)

[@Steve-fe4lq]

I don't even care about the trick. I love the presentation! Lol

[@bs-gi3gs]

"What are you looking for?" "How the goddamn trick is done" - the anger and sass 🤣

[@thedogtutor4998]

c mon, the guy looked at the whole deck looking for the 1 missing TWICE

[@Cocpain]

I thought the same thing, and I am not saying it isn't possible, but I had the wife randomly take a card out of a deck and rifled through them at roughly the same speed (and to be honest it was slower) and if that is how he did it, still really impressive, I couldn't get below 30 seconds to find it. Give it a try.

[@arimaelcosme1310]

Dirt Merchant yea but here’s my thought, he wanted her to complete the cut so he knew that one of the cards that’ll be missing had to have been in the middle, so I was thinking he probably memorized 10 of the cards in the middle and and once teller shuffled all he had to do was to look for one of those cards.

[@Cocpain]

@@arimaelcosme1310 Oh, that would make it easier, I think. I only say I think because I like to watch magic, but know nothing about it. I keep seeing "force the cut" but have no idea what that means. I play cards, and have a sneaky way of offering a cut then putting it back the same way, is it like that? By sneaky I mean, we are all drinking and no one is paying attention.

[@Alowne00]

My thought too, He ask her to cut the deck in two, now if the card are placed like 1-2-3-4-5-6 and you ask to have them cut and then the second half placed on top you can assume the card are 4-5-6 1-2-3, so i think the card are not shuffled that when he ask to split the deck and place the half on top and take the top card, you can assume that the number will be one wich was in the second split of the deck so you narrow all the deck by 50 pourcent or so, he probably know all the card that were in the second half of the deck that is now on top, and when he looks at all the cards, he KNOWS a bit what to look for, its pretty hard to explain with my broken english

[@crazyivan1745]

@@Alowne00 Kinda my thought, if you arrange the cards so that all four of each type of card are together in the middle of the deck. So we'll say all aces 2's 3's 4's are all clumped together in the middle of the deck, then the odds of it splitting on one of those is pretty high when forcing a cut. One of those will be on the top, have someone shuffle to hide the evidence. Now when you search the deck you are only looking for 16 cards instead of 52. After the first search he knew which card, the 2nd search was just memorizing where the other aces were once he knew it was an ace.

[@thefandom6243]

My best guess is that the aces where each filed down slightly, and when he was looking through he was looking to confirm that one of the aces were missing

[@clockworkpotato]

I am not a magician. I really thought, that first time he looked though the deck of cards, he calculated which one is missing. (I hope it is possible). Then the second run, he needed to remember the ordinal numbers of the cards he needed. He would pick the remaining 3 cards of the same value, so you just need to memorize their positions. Is that doable? Or there is another trick?

[@SgtJoeSmith]

It's doable and he steered penn and teller to believe that's what it was but they said he done it faster than others could and would have to be a math genius. I think he forced Alisons deck split somehow. I've seen forced deck cuts before. That's why he had her cut once and not shuffle then had teller shuffle. The shuffling knocked the sticky stuff off top half of deck or however it was done.

[@final1037]

I think he already knew which card when alyson cut it... probably a force... then the reading through the cards were only to find the aces...

[@Antis14CZ]

Už je to dlouho, co jsem byl na magické šou. Možná je zase čas. Kultura v Matce měst žije =)

[@OndrejPsenicka]

Je Čas! 52 Lovers in English na GoOutu! Ondro! ;)

[@Wooktent]

"I CAN'T EVEN SAY YOUR NAME!!!" I love it lolllll

[@tomas-gp3vv]

Yeah, it's been butchered so bad too

[@KidFury27]

Start with a stacked deck. Notice where into that deck Alison cut. Know the range that was within that area of the cut. Teller helps to hide the stack by shuffling the cards to reorder. Simply look for the missing card within the range. Everything else was fluff.

[@RemedieX]

I love how simple the trick looks to make one think he's just glancing to determine which card was taken, but in reality it's much more than that and those trying to figure it out are focusing on the wrong details. Genius

[@AwesomeMetalBands]

The method is very basic but effective in making it look more complex

[@shadwills8594]

@@AwesomeMetalBands It's basic to understand, but still this was an extremely technical performance.

[@shmookins]

Fantastic act. But I was shocked (shocked I say!) when Teller said he rotated the card on purpose. Magicians are so sneaky I can't even imagine trying to be one!

[@wallingfordd]

I think teller gave a subtle hint about the box

[@Creshex8]

I think I know how it could be done. Something was very slightly unusual about him shaking Allison’s and Teller’s hands at the beginning. If he is putting invisible ink on their hands in this way, either Allison or Teller would just need to touch the bottom of the deck after Allison cut it, but before Teller shuffled it, to mark that card. Notice the deck was not shuffled in the beginning, so it could be stacked. By finding that marked bottom card, he would know what card was taken even AFTER it was shuffled. The second scanning was to find the location of the other Aces for the final draws at the end of the trick.

[@clockworkpotato]

I had same Idea about the second scan. And your guess about some invisible ink is brilliant!

[@cameronwalker4581]

My face hurts from laughing so hard at the gags in this routine -- Especially when you crunched the beetle in her face. Comedic genius.

[@MrVanhovey]

Aces in the middle, then queens, then kings, then jacks. Alison was told to cut the deck, which she did perfectly as she would. She picked an A. Looking at the deck was to pull out other three aces.

[@johannborchersfriends]

Not correct. The chance of pulling out the highest valued card in the deck kinda gives it away.

[@DragonessKim]

I feel like this trick is an inside joke for the magicians. To the laymans, it seems like nothing magic or impressive happened. For the experts, it seems impossible. So many mixed feels.

[@xbread31]

​@KABIR KASHIF Grab a deck of cards and shuffle them a couple times face down. Take the top card and remove it from the deck without looking at the value. Set that card aside face down. Now look through the deck and see how long it takes to find the missing card.

[@Posiman]

From what I know, it's just another feature of the butterfly playing cards and he said somewhere it's not that difficult to learn it when you buy them.

[@gottimw]

@KABIR KASHIFJust try it. Give it a go, he had 3 bugs ie he was prepared to look 3 times through the deck. Its fully shuffled deck. Teller shuffled it. Only thing you can try to bet on is that missing card is in the middle'ish as Alison cut the deck first to pick a card - you can hope for roughly middle of deck cut. He spotted the missing card in first look, in second he memorised where are all the other aces.

[@mario50000]

@@xbread31 the deck was never shuffled before the card was picked.

[@xbread31]

@@mario50000 Not talking about how the trick was done in the video...

[@tssteelx]

Ace of spades would normally be near the bottom(or top depending on how you describe it), so its clearly a loaded deck. So he knows what cards are in he middle. Then It's a simple matter of looking for whats missing, but man he praticed that look he did it fast. Probably the best card trick ive seen on penn and teller Fu.

[@kelvinburigo2430]

Since the last part of the trick (the revelation one) is he showing 3 aces, and the card we are looking for is the fourth ace, can we just think he forced the ace of spades and just had to organize, whilst looking at the cards, the other three aces so he can do that final part? I think this would be the easiest way to perform this trick.

[@brahimi3776]

I dont get how he actually fooled them. It seemed pretty easy to me.

[@struful]

@@brahimi3776 how did he do the force then? He had Allison cut the cards and choose the top, never touching the deck after she does until Teller gives it back.

[@brahimi3776]

@@struful i think its with the help of salt between the cards around the middle . Also notice how he didn't shuffle before the cut.

[@looly7555]

Oh man what a show!! Great Magic

[@magicmiracles]

Skvelý akt Ondrej, s priateľkou sme as veľmi pobavili. :D :) A gratulujeme. :)

[@JOE-mt2qk]

damn this guy memorized the whole deck..

[@Forlorn79]

The real trick is in the first minutes, somehow making the card picked become a specific card. The rest is mostly performance.

[@SgtJoeSmith]

I think the cards were somehow stuck together so as long as Alison grabbed above the forced split the cards she wasn't holding would get lifted as well forcing the split at the ace of spades. But then would easily come unstuck when shuffling he fooled them by making they think he could add all the face values real fast to see what # was missing then count to see where other aces were. But I think he only had to count where other aces were and mis directed them into thinking it was free choice counting trick when it was a simple force.

[@newmagicfilms]

How did I missed this? I am a huge fan Ondrej!

[@ajmittendorf]

No longer is it the "Ace" of Spades; it is now the "ASS" of spades.

[@JanSmetana]

Jo no, někdy je to opravdu oříšek tyhle česká jména spávně vyslovit. Parádní číslo Ondro :)

[@OndrejPsenicka]

Moc děkuju, Honzo! :)

[@_pudu661]

But didn't he literally just check which card is missing from the deck? So it's a memory trick

[@chechevite]

_pudu that’s exactly my thought

[@juniorlks1]

Get yourself a deck of cards, take a good look at them for a few hours, shuffle them, remove one without seeing it and try to figure the missing card in two 10 second glimpses. It's virtually impossible. And look how he sorted the 3 faced down aces. There's no human memory capable of that. The trick is supposed to make you think exactly what you're thinking, but that's not it.

[@thefallentrading]

@@juniorlks1 you obviously don't know Richard Turner, check him out

[@busybillyb33]

@@juniorlks1 I thought he did the first pass to figure out the missing card. On the second pass, he was counting the number of cards to each of the other 3 suits of the missing card. But the thing is he was very quick at it, Penn didn't believe he could do that and so suggested he had some other way to get there. From what I understood of Penn's question at the end, he was asking Ondrej if he did it another way other than counting and if he did count, he definitely fooled them.

[@glendunbar]

@@busybillyb33 my guess judging from the comments is that he was banking on Alison cutting near the middle(asking a spectator to cut a deck, 99 times out of 100 they will probably cut around there), so there is probably a high concentration of the court cards and the aces, which reduces the search parameters.

[@janskopec1004]

Gratulace a zase prekrasna prezentace vasi prace. Je super ze mame takove lidi i u nas v takove male zemi. Za chvilku si budete moct otevrit muzeum trofeji z fool us :D smartypants comunist :D

[@OndrejPsenicka]

:D Moc děkuji, to je opravdu milé.

[@TheMatthiasRiots]

It’s a trick deck, the card changes when activated with heat (Being sat on) hence why he had to eat at least two Beatles. . . . I’m just talking out of my ass IDK I made that shit up haha.

[@anthonyg6083]

Awesome tricks. Can't wait to see you Fool them a 3rd time

[@SuryoyoEntertainment]

By searching thrue the cards 2 times makes it easy for him. Think like this, you have 2 chances to filtrate your search.. First time you decide to count Red or Black cards - it should of course have 24 of respective but one of this colours will be 23pcs. That leads you to the next search, now you know what color is missing in the deck so second run you only look for 23 cards of the color that missed one card. Memory practice and you have this trick done. His schets is aweful and borring.

[@InvertedPieceSacrifice]

Wow, what a prediction.

[@VarunGupta3009]

I think I may have an idea as to how you have done it. You had three beetles because you were gonna look through the deck three times. Given that there are 52 cards, you were first gonna count each of the Reds and Blacks. Then for the color with 25 cards, you would count the cards in each of the suites. Then with the suite with just 12 cards, you would figure out which one was missing. All the while, you would just have to memorize the location of a card from that color, suite, and number. In each iteration, you would've counted the cards, and memorized the location of a card. But given that the Ace of Spades is a rather noticeable missing card, you were able to do it in just 2 iterations. I hope I guessed it. But I loved the trick nonetheless.

[@xxxhypoxxx]

Your right - how did Penn and Teller give it to him, considering its easy to work out. Something is afoot!

[@VarunGupta3009]

@@xxxhypoxxx I've seen it a lot. They probably just have a quota of trophys to give away to satisfy the network, and to increase TRP. I mean, people won't get excited when no one wins a single FU in an episode, right? This only shows in some part how humble Penn and Teller are, but if this decision is fueled by money, then I have no words.

[@niero4201]

@@xxxhypoxxx It is designed to LOOK like all he did was look for the missing card, but if he did, and said he didn't, the producers would no he lied and step in, as he has to show them exactly how the trick worked, him looking like he searched the deck inhumanly fast was misdirection to hide how he actually did it.

[@crunchyyellowlion]

😂😂 I love it when Penn gets mad! Keep it up! And please tell me those were chocolate bugs 😐 that's the only part of the trick I want to know...

[@OndrejPsenicka]

So... they... were... REAL. No chocolate. Just 49% protein little bug.

[@crunchyyellowlion]

@@OndrejPsenicka ohhhh oh u gross little man 😂😂😂 still we love your act! The kids were wanting more.. I hope u make more videos, maybe with... no bugs this time 😷

[@OndrejPsenicka]

@@crunchyyellowlion I promise no more bugs. I can't promise other things. 😂

[@crunchyyellowlion]

@@OndrejPsenicka I have subscribed to make sure we don't miss a thing! You're the best since David Copperfield in my opinion 💖🎩🏆

[@stefanhuemer3770]

Is it possible that all the cards in the deck are changing to the ace of hearts when they get warm? Because alyson sits on the card for quite a while.

[@Koushakur]

Can't be the case unless Penn and Teller did a really bad job inspecting the deck. It would by necessity be an incomplete deck, missing 1 card. It can't contain the real ace as that would in 51 out of 52 cases be an extremely obvious duplicate making it a deck of 51 cards in total, and the "transformed" card would be missing.

[@weirwindle111]

Can one card be changed to another with heat? I think Allison actually did pick a random card, and I think that any card in that deck can be changed to the Ace of Spades with heat added, which there is after you sit on a card for 4+ minutes.

[@EthanNZ]

Exactly my thought too! Then would just require counting where the last 3 aces are

[@gregluv5294]

The Butterfly playing cards are the most Brilliant playing cards ever made, hands down!! Mpravo sir!!

[@OndrejPsenicka]

Thank you so much Greg! That is very nice of you to say.

[@KozenaDrzka]

Alyson: Andréé Pšenička

[@CatandCook1989]

Take a look at the deck of cards laid out at 7:14 of the video. Freeze the screen. You would have seen clumps of Jack and Kings He put 4 J, 4 K and 4A in the middle of the deck He actually depended on alysson to cut to the middle and pick either of the 12 cards. (as what Penn has said) Since he looked away. Teller didn't shuffle that much. So some of the cards are still intact. You can see teller just did a simple overhand shuffle. That's why he's able to look through the cards at that speed. And quickly identify that a Ace is taken on the first look. Second look is to just find the position of the other 3 aces and complete the trick.

[@michaelwarder9064]

that sounds nice, but the fact is that shuffling can cause random clumping just as easily as stacking the deck.

[@Rhewin]

I love that this is such a trick for magicians. I won't pretend to know how it was done, but the amount of people who think it has to do with scanning for the missing card is incredible. If I could pick the exact missing card from a shuffled deck with only going through it twice, I would just go on the road with my inhuman ability to memorize.

[@willieforty15]

It’s easy to scan through the deck of cards once to determine what’s missing, I can do that. The question is how he forced it to be the ace of spades and not just a random card.

[@Rhewin]

@@willieforty15 not in the short amount of time he had. If you can I suggest you take that show on the road. Your effects will look like miracles.

[@blackmancer]

@@Rhewin its entirely possible to scan a deck that fast. people speed read books, they can speed read 51 characters.

[@Rhewin]

@@blackmancer people who are good, really good, can find a missing card from a single suit in about 2 seconds. That means all the same suit and no repeating values. Doing it with a shuffled deck isn’t going to happen in that short amount of time. If they deck had a pattern which was broken it could be done, but otherwise it’s not happening. Not only would you have to read all of the cards that fast, you’d have to take the next step to determine which is missing. Did you see every ace? Every 7? Every 3? Maybe, *maybe* some kind of savant could do something similar given a few more seconds, but this guy isn’t a savant. He’s a magician.

[@blackmancer]

@@Rhewin how do you know he's not a savant? I'll assume you're the authority on savant spotting.....

[@dominicdelprincipe2583]

This was one of the best ones!!

[@TinkerTailorSoldier1]

Indeed it is.

[@michaljanza]

Ani nevíš jak moc jsem ti věřil že si tam jedeš pro druhou trofej. Gratuluji.

[@onradioactivewaves]

Dober tek!

[@tonalityludwigvon5748]

Not everyone got the chance to get lost in Penn's eye, Ondrej take that oppoturnity perfect :v Great trick

[@furrukhjamal00]

Could this bordered butterflies be a decoy for P&T to think of all the complex solutions and not think abt the simplest ones?

[@melxb]

i agree he literally got to look at the damn cards to see which is missing and twice at that by eating another bug lol

[@Dmitopur]

@@melxb it seems like the trick was about aces. Like she took some random card and it was ace. And with every new performance of this it would always be exactly that ace. At least that makes more sense than fooling Penn&Teller with watching through deck 2 times...

[@melxb]

@@Dmitopur yeah that makes sense too

[@priabernamadimas]

The trick is forced aces,

[@jalontf2]

Is the chair mesh? Couldn't he see the reflection in the floor when he leaned over Allison?

[@MohsenDelsouz]

He looked at the deck to see what card is missing, why it fooled them?

[@stevenpurtee5062]

Of course he did. The question is how he did it that fast. Did he force one of the aces, and only have to look for the missing ace, or was the deck gimmicked in some way so that he could quickly see which card was missing? That's what they weren't sure about.

[@Reisende193]

He didn't shuffle before making allison cut the deck and take the card that would have been in the middle. so all he had to do was take note of the cards that were around the middle of the deck and then keep an eye out for them when he looks through it afterwards no? am I wrong?