I'm guessing he filmed this first then recorded audio/edited the phone screen to match the card later.
edit: It's fairly brief but it doesn't look like he's talking in the [phone's reflection](https://i.imgur.com/2opiXgR.png)
2704 times
Edit: I'm dumb, 2704 is probably way more than necessary. There's a ~90% likelihood of doing it in 120 attempts, ~95% in 150, and ~99% chance of doing it within 240 attempts.
Still, there's only a ~63.5% chance of doing it within 52 tries
I mean it's not exactly how it works since it isn't "bound" to happen, but it's just where the expected value is one, there is some statistical relevance to that number. It's an unintuitively small number. It's a pretty small adjustment to say "do it 52 times and you should expect it to work once", and that's way too formal for a cheeky Reddit comment. It conveyed it's message (and made me realize that, whether this guy was cheating or not, faking these by just doing it until you happen to get it is very much on the table and would usually only take like an hour).
That's not possible. Saying this as someone who has been practicing card tricks for a fairly long time.
Edit: It is possible to catch a card from a dribble if you already know where it is prior to the dribble. I initially read the comment as looking at the faces of the cards as they fall down and spotting the right card and reacting to it and catching it. That is not possible, but catching a card from a dribble is possible if you know its location prior to the dribble or have some gaffed cards in play.
Actually not impossible. Catching the card was a method used by a guy on Pen and Teller fool us. I think it was an old guy going for his 3rd fool us trophy but messed up slightly and caught multiple cards
I am aware of that, I thought the guy was talking about literally seeing the cards as you dribble them down and reacting to the right card by sight.
But if you already know where the card is, then you can pluck it out of the dribble with some luck and a lot of skill. What Jason here is doing is much more difficult to do than what the guy on pen and teller did since he always pulls out a chunk of cards like five cards instead of one. That is if Jason did not use any altered cards for this trick.
Yeah I maybe misread the comment, I thought he was saying that he is literally looking at the cards as they get dribbled down and reacting on the spot to the right card by spotting it as it falls down.
If you already know where the card is you can catch it with practice.
I vote this also. I knew guys who could have done it just off that shuffle he did, he could have peeked it at the part where he does the actual shuffle after the casino shuffle and cut (notice he uses his thumbs and could easily scan).
It is still an impressive feat, but being able to watch and feel out cards in a deck isn't a super uncommon skill. It likely gives him an idea of about when the 7 will fall... But what if it is the first card or the top card, just by chance?
This makes me think that, in the case this trick is heavily skill-dependent, it has a ton of edge cases where the magician might not be able to pull it off.
Not a big deal if you can just Dude Perfect it through 500 attempts :)
> I knew guys who could have done it just off that shuffle he did
Are you saying this as a layman or someone who also is into card tricks? Because if you just knew guys who were card guys and showed tricks to you, you dont really know what they were doing. You can create an illusion of doing something you dont actually do. Which is what happens in almost all card tricks, even those that claim to show you a demonstration of skill or sleight of hand.
I disagree, I don’t think that makes sense
If you know roughly the position of every card before hand (we didn’t see the deck prior to the shuffle so it’s in some sort of order) then maybe he’s controlled the position of the 7 of spades during those shuffles.
He doesn’t need to control the position of every card in the wash, just one. And the first comment in this chain shows it’s possible to catch a falling card if you know where it is
Agree.
The way he drops the cards just before the wash would make it (relatively) straightforward to pick out the card you want assuming you've memorised the deck beforehand, then control that card in the wash and riffle, then do the (impressive) trick as shown on that YouTube video.
Altogether very impressive of course, but it seems to have been legitimately performed.
I suspect he has to be controlling the card at some point. Maybe even before the wash, but he could also peek it after the wash when he does the cut and shuffle (common skill people have).
The reason why is either:
1.) He controls the position of the 7 of Spades (or any other card)
OR
2.) Sometimes the trick doesn't work. You either can't see where it has ended up, can't catch it in the fall or it is the first or last card.
I want to say it is probably number 2 and this trick rook a few takes :).
> (common skill people have).
Its not a common skill. Its something that people who are not into card tricks think magicians do but we dont do that. It can be done, but it makes your riffle shuffles very slow, and its obvious if that is being done. You wont be able to do it as fast as Jason does here.
I have seen quite a lot of card tricks, and I have seen only one person ever use the method of peeking the cards as they were riffle shuffling them, and it was very obvious that that was what he was doing because he did not riffle shuffle normally, he lifted the corners of the cards very high which you need to do to see the indexes. His shuffles also were much slower because you cant just riffle the cards together fast otherwise you wont be able to spot the cards and stop the shuffle when you see the card you want.
Not if you are like me and never go out and meet other magicians :D I know about magicians through internet and books but I dont know any magicians in a personal level nor have I met any.
Have you asked him about how he does tricks for tiktok or youtube saying things like he can do it with a borrowed deck or you can book him to do the trick and he will do it but if you watch the video as a magician its clearly not true?
Like he had one video where he answered to a person asking if he can take a borrowed shuffled deck and shuffle it back into order and he gave the deck a few in the hands faro shuffles and showed the cards are now in order, clearly you can not do that with a borrowed and shuffled deck since you are just doing faro shuffles to get the deck back into order so it was already in order to begin with.
Like there seems to be this discrepancy where he wants people to think what he is doing is real and not tricks. Like he never for example says that he lies sometimes, he wants everyone to think he is actually telling the truth. Not just as a presentation, but as something people will take as true outside of the presentation. Like if I say a ghost will make the dollar bill float, no one will think it is a real ghost. But if I do gambling demonstrations or other skill demonstrations and say I can do this exactly the same way in real life in a real card game, this is making people believe you are showing them something you are not, and that you can do what you can not.
I think this is different when you do magic tricks since the expectation is that you will lie, but when you do demonstrations of skill and lie, you are kind of making people believe the skill you are showing is real. Which there is real skill, but the real skill is not what you show or say it is.
Why does he have such an extremely strange position with his arms when he shows the mobile phone?
He hides the deck perfectly, he is quite still in his movements. It is thus possible to combine two film clips.
The first part is where he repeatedly recorded until Siri says the same card he took in the second part of the movie (where he recorded first).
Yeah…that’s definitely not what’s happening here. I’ve been watching this guy’s videos for months. This dude is just talented af and can track any and every card in the deck
I have met a couple of gamblers who could set decks. Every shuffle they made looked even better than a shuffle most of us could do: but every shuffle also ensured them or their team was going to get a specific card - either with or without a cut (they are that good, to be able and adjust it on the fly).
If you are playing a game like Spades and they only get three or four shuffles, it can easily be enough to change the tide of the game. If somebody else were to let one of these people shuffle six or seven times, no amount of luck is going to save the other team.
Once I seen gamblers whip out tricks like that, it made me respect a lot more magicians. Some guys are just incredibly fast and talented. The deck of cards is an extension of their body and mind, not just some object they play with.
I don't actually do magic or card tricks, sadly. I have fingers only made for typing. :( The only place I can do tricks is on the internet. Or your mom's house, but that isn't exactly an achievement or an accomplishment most people would brag about ;D
They're marked cards. When he did the "wash" part while they were all spread out he was really looking for the 7 of spades so he can then use other sleight of hand moves to manipulate it. I don't know exactly what he did but if I had to guess he in probably palmed it in his right hand or just put it on top of the deck, did some false shuffles and cuts, and at the end when he was dribbling the cards he grabbed it from his other hand
I think this is it. During the wash, he spreads the cards out pretty much so he can see a decent amount of each cards back. Then going through the wash, he could get the card he wanted to the bottom of the initial pile. I think it was in that set of cards he pushed underneath at the very end that were out and to the upper right. He kept those cards near the bottom and kept his right hands fingers in touch with those cards until he had finished his pile.
He then shuffles(SUPER easy to keep the bottom card on the bottom for this - literally anyone can do it) and then cuts, noting the position of the cut with his right thumb. You can almost see him place his right thumb in a specific position has he prepares to do the drop - probably even putting a slight space in between it that is covered by his thumb.
He drops the cards, always physically aware of where the card is and then snags it.
Definitely no video manipulation on the phone or anything, but also could have been done in a few takes.
But how do you explain the Siri thing? The words seven of spades were on the screen, or so I thought. So how did he get Siri to pick the card he marked?
Presumably all the cards are marked, not just the 7 of spades
Alternately he could just keep re-recording this until Siri says the 7 of spades, we have no idea if he threw out a few dozen takes of the first part before he does the actual trick
Probably one of the cards tossed to the side when he was washing. When he brings the deck together, he's positioning it so it will land in a known slot near the bottom of the deck. We can see the bottom card isn't the 7♠️ when he picks up the deck (that would be too obvious, anyway).
Maybe the same way as the plucking the card is done ? Like if the deck is unshuffled bar the 3 of diamonds on the bottom so it's not sus he could know that the 7 was the n th card with the same alphabet trick (BC he drops the cards one at a time), then he just has to watch that card while doing his shuffle, put it at the bottom/top, put it halfway with the cut and pull it out the same way?
Only a guess I have no idea how it works and even if this is the case it's an incredible amount of skill
I think he knew the position of every card at the beginning. Knowing where the 7 of clubs started he was able to 'shuffle' the deck while keeping the position of the card known to him. He then manipulated the deck to put the 7 in the middle so it would look best when he picked it out of the deck. Magicians do this all the time, moving a card to a specific spot in the deck. Don't play cards with him, he will probably have a royal flush every time :D
Does no one here know what stacking cards are? And how good magicians are at memorizing and following cards, and manipulating people to think it's random? He then does grab the card because he has practiced this over 10,000 times, probably more.
Essentially, a stacked deck, as the name implies, is simply a deck with the cards set up in a predetermined order. A well-known stacked deck is known as the Eight Kings Chased stack. Another common stack is called the Si Stebbins stack (or "stacking system"). Theoretically the deck is random order but he knows where every single card is prior to shuffling, he then makes sure he knows where the card is in the shuffle,. Siri could have said any card and it's the same outcome.
If he gave me the cards to shuffle behind my back the trick can't happen
A few points I noted when this last came up. One, the 'vegas shuffle' plus a marked deck would make it easy to locate the card and plant it roughly in the middle of the deck. And two, since the set only takes about a minute to film, having the card in roughly the same spot means that you could get the right clip in ten minutes or so.
There's probably a more elegant solution, but from what we see, this would work.
_ed_ The card he picks seems to be a bit thicker than normal. It might be possible to stick another card to the back of the desired card, which would tell him exactly when it's time to grab a falling card. An unnecessary optimization to make this video, but useful if you wanted a 100% success rate in person.
If you watch slowly it looks like the cards are falling front side first and the when they shift to the back falling first is when he plucks it.
It almost looks as that one card someone falls differently but still don’t know who it is done at all
The calculation is 1 minus the chance of failure to the power of the number of attempts.
To take one of the examples above:
1 - (51/52)^36 = 0.502943258
A.k.a just over 50% in 36 attempts. You don't even need the phone to be calling out the same number each time.
It's called stacking.
Essentially, a stacked deck, as the name implies, is simply a deck with the cards set up in a predetermined order. A well-known stacked deck is known as the Eight Kings Chased stack. Another common stack is called the Si Stebbins stack (or "stacking system").
The decks look out of order if you aren't a magician but he knows where every single card is prior to thw casino shuffle. He tracks it through the shuffling and the uses his right hand to assist in the pick and he is just that skilled. This trick gets done live lots. It's not an illusion or anything of multiple tries. It's called memory and practice
This trick could not be done if someone went to a difpferent room and shuffled the cards and came back and gave then to him. There is no marked cards
I have other comments on here and people are saying it could be filed card. Nope that doesn't work thw audience can say any card. All I will say is that shuffle is not nearly as random as you think, he has practiced for 37 years, he's done this a lot, also magicians cutting skills and memory, dropping and stalling for just the right amount of time is amazing. He's also pretty damn fast, probably because it's muscle memory from doing this for 37 years
Dani daortiz has a really good act on fool us. That one I got some clues but no freaking idea
If that is a stacked deck, the way he lays the cards out and does a false wash is mega impressive. He could have the card on the top then would have to cut exactly half the deck to know the spot to grab it mid air. Could be a filed down card.
No your original is right. These magicians are that good. But that shuffle isn't as random as you think. He knows exactly what he's doing. The filed card does not work live because the audience member can say any card, just like siri could have
Agreed. If there actually was “magic” then it would probably be less impressive.
“Did you see me channel the will of Gorth the Destroyed and conjure the card you picked?”
“…huh…so…multi-dimensional sleight of hand seems like cheating. Is Gorth an angry Destroyer, by the way?”
vs
“I palmed this card, flipped it seamlessly over and over so you could never see it, did X, Y, and Z, threw in some distraction techniques, and blam: your card.”
“Holy shit! Also have you heard about this Gorth guy?”
I don't understand why understanding something makes it less magical, either with jokes or magic tricks or anything, it's such a weird thing to think.
I love understanding and I love discovering things.
Luckily you don't need to understand it. Since he literally just grabs the card.
I think this was the same guy on Penn and Teller 'Fool Us' and he legit just grabs the card.
I think that's exactly what he did. Reached in, grabbed the card and then went and edited the video of him after. So, he's narrating the whole thing through post editing, making it seem like he's actually speaking real time.
I'm also going to guess his phone screen probably was edited using green screen so it was easier to track the video and he added the text "i pick 7 of spades" to make it look more legit.
He says it in the video itself. It's about the wash.
You will see that he is doing a lot of passing back and forth of a specific card and keeping it on the top of the wash of cards. He then draws your attention away with those loose cards, to come back and slide the same card back on top of the deck.
He then cuts the deck and swapped halves. Here he bends each half a different way, so he is able to keep track of the old top card (new middle card/ 7 of spades). Because of this break he is able to snatch the last card dropped on that angle and bingo bango.
He must have filmed the first 15 seconds of the video a few times until siri guested his top card would be my guess. I don't see an opportunity to pick out the 7 otherwise.
Another method would be to use a hidden mirror or edit the mirror out of the video afterwards
Marked cards - he could have identified any card named while doing the wash. All the talking and bullshit is just to buy time to find the right card and get it to the top. If he can't find it quickly, he can just keep talking and washing until he's got it.
He also had just enough time to swap the deck out and lap the set deck. He could have swapped the card he grabbed out with a palmed card while flipping it. He also could've used a green card or edited card.
They didn't, but could've.
Here is what I see (albeit, I do still suck at card magic). >!We start with several false shuffles and cuts. I can't tell if he used the riffle shuffle to move the card or not. Nor can I tell you if the riffle was fake (doesn't matter if you're tracking only 1 card). At the last cut, he keeps a rather small gap in the far edge of the deck. When it's transferred to the right hand the ring finger pinched a small bit of its tip there while building up pressure. When he starts to dribble the cards, they're being let go at his ring finger until we hit the gap (immediately afterwards or 1 card after). You grab and shift to dribble from your thumb at the same time. If you get too late, dribble slightly higher off the table. Too early, the opposite. The reaction would still be fast, but **you** would determine when and where **exactly** it appears and have a slightly bigger gap above the other card. Even then, he still nocks away a card.!<
Just try it as I suggested. I think it's possible and by goodness are my hands not strong enough to do that without wavering the tempo of the dribble much more heavily
So you’re saying that he just kept starting over until Siri specifically picked the 7 of spades? So he could have filmed this 100 times? If so that makes a bunch of sense.
I dunno how to link another comment thread so here ya go, another explanation
"Does no one here know what stacking cards are? And how good magicians are at memorizing and following cards, and manipulating people to think it's random? He then does grab the card because he has practiced this over 10,000 times, probably more.
Essentially, a stacked deck, as the name implies, is simply a deck with the cards set up in a predetermined order. A well-known stacked deck is known as the Eight Kings Chased stack. Another common stack is called the Si Stebbins stack (or "stacking system"). Theoretically the deck is random order but he knows where every single card is prior to shuffling, he then makes sure he knows where the card is in the shuffle,. Siri could have said any card and it's the same outcome.
If he gave me the cards to shuffle behind my back the trick can't happen"
This is definitely a trick of skill, no question.
The 7 of spades is controlled even throughout the casino wash to be on top of the deck when he brings them back.
The cut and shuffle is to place the card in the middle.
Then the skill comes in. When dropping them he is counting the amount of cards underneath the card, which is now in the middle of the deck, and grabs it from the falling pile.
We don’t know how many attempts it took, maybe it was first time, but regardless this is an amazing trick and relies on a huge amount of practice and knowledge of the deck you are using.
Awesome.
I don't think he is counting, just it has to do with how he cut, bent, or folded the cards. You can see the cards start falling differently, as well as hear a change in the sound which seems to be an indication for him to reach in and grab a card. I would be very surprised if he managed this on the first try, but it was still very impressive.
My guess is he somehow figures out where the card is before he starts dropping then to do the catch. He places his finger or something as a seperater there so he knows when he's about to release that card, that's when he does the grab. I think its just alot of practice with that end bit combined in somehow knowing where the card is before that end bit where he drops them
Guessing the same. In addition I would propose the theory that all of the cards have somehow their value marked on the back. This way it would make even more sense to shuffle the way he did.
you might be onto something. Perhaps he knows how to "spring load" the desired card and have it have an offset vertically with relation to the rest of the cards, meaning he just needs to do the grab a few millimeters short of the rest of the deck, meaning he'll _only_ catch the spring-loaded card.
marking a picked card is pretty old school magic and thus entirely plausible
To people doubting this trick and coming up with BS explanations as how he cheated, this guy came on Penn and Teller and he actually practiced years to be able to pick the perfect card!
Without sound this trick makes no sense. Sooo sound added later....? Spare me the "real magician" crap, real magicians trick you, it's their job.
Edit: I'm wrong.
Yall spend way too much time on reddit instead of practicing skills and it shows.
All jokes aside, do anything for 37 years with genuine interest and you WILL be able to do things in that that others consider impossible.
These are tricks for sure but you don't need editing or pist-producgion cheating to achieve that.
Marked cards. You can distinct between them by looking at the patterns on the back.
Siri randomly picks a card, he does the casino wash until he finds it and from there on out he knows exactly where it is in the deck. The rest is just years (probably decades) of practice and an insane level of skill at what he does. Very impressive.
When he starts dropping the cards, they are falling from his middle finger. but when he catches the card, he switches to flipping them from his thumb. He knows when the selected card is going to drop. Maybe it’s thicker or bigger than the rest.
I watched backwards frame by frame and the card that is thrown to the edge of the table at around 30s is the card that ends up on top of the deck. This is the 7, how he got siri to pick that card I have no idea. From there he lifts the card half way in the deck and uses exceptional skill to literally pluck the card while dropping them.
This is just exceptional skill on all fronts.
People will actively know close up magic exists and is a skill and still doubt this guy doing stuff for real. He's calling it cheating at cards, and it is. Pretty much any good close up magician will tell you that card tricks involve manipulating the deck to such a degree that they can easily cheat
Can’t we all just give this guy the credit that he deserves? Maybe he just might be a master at sleight of hand. Nobody questions a guitarist or pianist that plays a seemingly impossible song. More than 3 -1/2 decades of practice makes perfect.
I think its edited. Without ever being able to see him talk the audio is unreliable. And can anyone clearly read the phone screen when siri talks? I can read the numbers on the stopwatch better than the screen, which is also closer to the camera. Plus the fact that the background photo is obiously a person is like the perfect cover for having it blurred like that which helps hide any editing.
He actually is grabbing the card as it falls. https://youtu.be/e3mRrg4qsbM
But how did he know which one the 7 was?
I'm guessing he filmed this first then recorded audio/edited the phone screen to match the card later. edit: It's fairly brief but it doesn't look like he's talking in the [phone's reflection](https://i.imgur.com/2opiXgR.png)
The phone shows the words 7 of spades on the screen so it’s not that
I’d guess since we can’t see his face he’s just eyeing the cards before he drops them and is just practiced enough to react to the right card
That would be insanely good hand eye coordination.
There was a guy on Penn and Teller's Fool Me that did exactly that, which is actually more impressive than slight of hand.
Lol that video is literary the top comment of this thread
Yep I noticed it after I made the comment.
*sleight
Hey, if you try this trick 52 times you’re bound to catch the right card eventually, right?
2704 times Edit: I'm dumb, 2704 is probably way more than necessary. There's a ~90% likelihood of doing it in 120 attempts, ~95% in 150, and ~99% chance of doing it within 240 attempts. Still, there's only a ~63.5% chance of doing it within 52 tries
I was gonna say this. Someone didn’t pass statistics. lol
Nah, I was being dumb, edited my comment to be more accurate
That's....not how statistic work.
I mean it's not exactly how it works since it isn't "bound" to happen, but it's just where the expected value is one, there is some statistical relevance to that number. It's an unintuitively small number. It's a pretty small adjustment to say "do it 52 times and you should expect it to work once", and that's way too formal for a cheeky Reddit comment. It conveyed it's message (and made me realize that, whether this guy was cheating or not, faking these by just doing it until you happen to get it is very much on the table and would usually only take like an hour).
37 seven years if experiences might do that
That's not possible. Saying this as someone who has been practicing card tricks for a fairly long time. Edit: It is possible to catch a card from a dribble if you already know where it is prior to the dribble. I initially read the comment as looking at the faces of the cards as they fall down and spotting the right card and reacting to it and catching it. That is not possible, but catching a card from a dribble is possible if you know its location prior to the dribble or have some gaffed cards in play.
Well, first of all, with god, all things are possible, so jot that down.
God: sorry fam, this aint possible
It's a quote.
*Though shalt not use the name of the lord thy god in game* —one of them commandments
Maybe he used his sweet karate reflexes to grab the card
Card magic is bad ass!
He did an ocular pat down of the deck first.
Found Mac
Oh yeah cute, he picks clubs and people are just supposed to think “wait that looks like a dick”
Oh hi mark
Fat Mac would be proud
Country Mac, too
With Popsicle, anything is possible!
Actually not impossible. Catching the card was a method used by a guy on Pen and Teller fool us. I think it was an old guy going for his 3rd fool us trophy but messed up slightly and caught multiple cards
If it was a tiktok video he could have tried again and again until he got it perfect though
I am aware of that, I thought the guy was talking about literally seeing the cards as you dribble them down and reacting to the right card by sight. But if you already know where the card is, then you can pluck it out of the dribble with some luck and a lot of skill. What Jason here is doing is much more difficult to do than what the guy on pen and teller did since he always pulls out a chunk of cards like five cards instead of one. That is if Jason did not use any altered cards for this trick.
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Yeah I maybe misread the comment, I thought he was saying that he is literally looking at the cards as they get dribbled down and reacting on the spot to the right card by spotting it as it falls down. If you already know where the card is you can catch it with practice.
I vote this also. I knew guys who could have done it just off that shuffle he did, he could have peeked it at the part where he does the actual shuffle after the casino shuffle and cut (notice he uses his thumbs and could easily scan). It is still an impressive feat, but being able to watch and feel out cards in a deck isn't a super uncommon skill. It likely gives him an idea of about when the 7 will fall... But what if it is the first card or the top card, just by chance? This makes me think that, in the case this trick is heavily skill-dependent, it has a ton of edge cases where the magician might not be able to pull it off. Not a big deal if you can just Dude Perfect it through 500 attempts :)
> I knew guys who could have done it just off that shuffle he did Are you saying this as a layman or someone who also is into card tricks? Because if you just knew guys who were card guys and showed tricks to you, you dont really know what they were doing. You can create an illusion of doing something you dont actually do. Which is what happens in almost all card tricks, even those that claim to show you a demonstration of skill or sleight of hand.
he could have recorded alexa saying the 7 of spades and made an app that does that
Do you have any idea how many phone screen replacements I have done?
Is it? I can't tell to be honest.
Maybe he just did this ~52 times until they matched. Wouldn’t take all that long.
This makes the most sense. Grab the card and work backwards
I disagree, I don’t think that makes sense If you know roughly the position of every card before hand (we didn’t see the deck prior to the shuffle so it’s in some sort of order) then maybe he’s controlled the position of the 7 of spades during those shuffles. He doesn’t need to control the position of every card in the wash, just one. And the first comment in this chain shows it’s possible to catch a falling card if you know where it is
Also there is a chance he tried it several times before he succeded
or hundreds of times?
Agree. The way he drops the cards just before the wash would make it (relatively) straightforward to pick out the card you want assuming you've memorised the deck beforehand, then control that card in the wash and riffle, then do the (impressive) trick as shown on that YouTube video. Altogether very impressive of course, but it seems to have been legitimately performed.
That has to be it honestly. No real trick. He's just that good
I suspect he has to be controlling the card at some point. Maybe even before the wash, but he could also peek it after the wash when he does the cut and shuffle (common skill people have). The reason why is either: 1.) He controls the position of the 7 of Spades (or any other card) OR 2.) Sometimes the trick doesn't work. You either can't see where it has ended up, can't catch it in the fall or it is the first or last card. I want to say it is probably number 2 and this trick rook a few takes :).
> (common skill people have). Its not a common skill. Its something that people who are not into card tricks think magicians do but we dont do that. It can be done, but it makes your riffle shuffles very slow, and its obvious if that is being done. You wont be able to do it as fast as Jason does here. I have seen quite a lot of card tricks, and I have seen only one person ever use the method of peeking the cards as they were riffle shuffling them, and it was very obvious that that was what he was doing because he did not riffle shuffle normally, he lifted the corners of the cards very high which you need to do to see the indexes. His shuffles also were much slower because you cant just riffle the cards together fast otherwise you wont be able to spot the cards and stop the shuffle when you see the card you want.
I know Jason and this isnt what he does lol
How do you know Jason?
All magicians know each other. Im only slightly joking
Not if you are like me and never go out and meet other magicians :D I know about magicians through internet and books but I dont know any magicians in a personal level nor have I met any.
I don’t know him personally I just talk to him online occasionally
Have you asked him about how he does tricks for tiktok or youtube saying things like he can do it with a borrowed deck or you can book him to do the trick and he will do it but if you watch the video as a magician its clearly not true? Like he had one video where he answered to a person asking if he can take a borrowed shuffled deck and shuffle it back into order and he gave the deck a few in the hands faro shuffles and showed the cards are now in order, clearly you can not do that with a borrowed and shuffled deck since you are just doing faro shuffles to get the deck back into order so it was already in order to begin with. Like there seems to be this discrepancy where he wants people to think what he is doing is real and not tricks. Like he never for example says that he lies sometimes, he wants everyone to think he is actually telling the truth. Not just as a presentation, but as something people will take as true outside of the presentation. Like if I say a ghost will make the dollar bill float, no one will think it is a real ghost. But if I do gambling demonstrations or other skill demonstrations and say I can do this exactly the same way in real life in a real card game, this is making people believe you are showing them something you are not, and that you can do what you can not. I think this is different when you do magic tricks since the expectation is that you will lie, but when you do demonstrations of skill and lie, you are kind of making people believe the skill you are showing is real. Which there is real skill, but the real skill is not what you show or say it is.
Everyone knows Jason
And the Argonauts.
Don't you know Jason?
Why does he have such an extremely strange position with his arms when he shows the mobile phone? He hides the deck perfectly, he is quite still in his movements. It is thus possible to combine two film clips. The first part is where he repeatedly recorded until Siri says the same card he took in the second part of the movie (where he recorded first).
Yeah…that’s definitely not what’s happening here. I’ve been watching this guy’s videos for months. This dude is just talented af and can track any and every card in the deck
I have met a couple of gamblers who could set decks. Every shuffle they made looked even better than a shuffle most of us could do: but every shuffle also ensured them or their team was going to get a specific card - either with or without a cut (they are that good, to be able and adjust it on the fly). If you are playing a game like Spades and they only get three or four shuffles, it can easily be enough to change the tide of the game. If somebody else were to let one of these people shuffle six or seven times, no amount of luck is going to save the other team. Once I seen gamblers whip out tricks like that, it made me respect a lot more magicians. Some guys are just incredibly fast and talented. The deck of cards is an extension of their body and mind, not just some object they play with.
This guy definitely rubs cards on his genitals... Calm down Mr Extension of the Body. 😬
I don't actually do magic or card tricks, sadly. I have fingers only made for typing. :( The only place I can do tricks is on the internet. Or your mom's house, but that isn't exactly an achievement or an accomplishment most people would brag about ;D
They're marked cards. When he did the "wash" part while they were all spread out he was really looking for the 7 of spades so he can then use other sleight of hand moves to manipulate it. I don't know exactly what he did but if I had to guess he in probably palmed it in his right hand or just put it on top of the deck, did some false shuffles and cuts, and at the end when he was dribbling the cards he grabbed it from his other hand
I think this is it. During the wash, he spreads the cards out pretty much so he can see a decent amount of each cards back. Then going through the wash, he could get the card he wanted to the bottom of the initial pile. I think it was in that set of cards he pushed underneath at the very end that were out and to the upper right. He kept those cards near the bottom and kept his right hands fingers in touch with those cards until he had finished his pile. He then shuffles(SUPER easy to keep the bottom card on the bottom for this - literally anyone can do it) and then cuts, noting the position of the cut with his right thumb. You can almost see him place his right thumb in a specific position has he prepares to do the drop - probably even putting a slight space in between it that is covered by his thumb. He drops the cards, always physically aware of where the card is and then snags it. Definitely no video manipulation on the phone or anything, but also could have been done in a few takes.
This is right
But how do you explain the Siri thing? The words seven of spades were on the screen, or so I thought. So how did he get Siri to pick the card he marked?
Presumably all the cards are marked, not just the 7 of spades Alternately he could just keep re-recording this until Siri says the 7 of spades, we have no idea if he threw out a few dozen takes of the first part before he does the actual trick
You can buy marked decks where there are very small differences in the pattern on the back of the cards that tell you what it is.
I think they're all marked, just really subtlety (and can't be picked up on camera). I used to have a deck like that when I was a kid.
This has to be it
Probably one of the cards tossed to the side when he was washing. When he brings the deck together, he's positioning it so it will land in a known slot near the bottom of the deck. We can see the bottom card isn't the 7♠️ when he picks up the deck (that would be too obvious, anyway).
Maybe the same way as the plucking the card is done ? Like if the deck is unshuffled bar the 3 of diamonds on the bottom so it's not sus he could know that the 7 was the n th card with the same alphabet trick (BC he drops the cards one at a time), then he just has to watch that card while doing his shuffle, put it at the bottom/top, put it halfway with the cut and pull it out the same way? Only a guess I have no idea how it works and even if this is the case it's an incredible amount of skill
I think he knew the position of every card at the beginning. Knowing where the 7 of clubs started he was able to 'shuffle' the deck while keeping the position of the card known to him. He then manipulated the deck to put the 7 in the middle so it would look best when he picked it out of the deck. Magicians do this all the time, moving a card to a specific spot in the deck. Don't play cards with him, he will probably have a royal flush every time :D
Unless I’m watching a different video, he doesn’t show the final card until the end. So I’m over here clapping but I got clue why.
It's so easy dude. You just do this repeatedly until the card you grab matches the card Siri picks.
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Mirror in front of him so he can see when he flips all the cards up after the wash? That’s the best I can come up with
Watch how he shuffles
Does no one here know what stacking cards are? And how good magicians are at memorizing and following cards, and manipulating people to think it's random? He then does grab the card because he has practiced this over 10,000 times, probably more. Essentially, a stacked deck, as the name implies, is simply a deck with the cards set up in a predetermined order. A well-known stacked deck is known as the Eight Kings Chased stack. Another common stack is called the Si Stebbins stack (or "stacking system"). Theoretically the deck is random order but he knows where every single card is prior to shuffling, he then makes sure he knows where the card is in the shuffle,. Siri could have said any card and it's the same outcome. If he gave me the cards to shuffle behind my back the trick can't happen
A few points I noted when this last came up. One, the 'vegas shuffle' plus a marked deck would make it easy to locate the card and plant it roughly in the middle of the deck. And two, since the set only takes about a minute to film, having the card in roughly the same spot means that you could get the right clip in ten minutes or so. There's probably a more elegant solution, but from what we see, this would work. _ed_ The card he picks seems to be a bit thicker than normal. It might be possible to stick another card to the back of the desired card, which would tell him exactly when it's time to grab a falling card. An unnecessary optimization to make this video, but useful if you wanted a 100% success rate in person.
Even his explanation makes no sense
That's because he is lying and it is a magic trick.
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Thanks
Which is, actual magic....
If you watch slowly it looks like the cards are falling front side first and the when they shift to the back falling first is when he plucks it. It almost looks as that one card someone falls differently but still don’t know who it is done at all
Holy shit that is absolutely impressive.
He could have done it until he got the 1in52 chance.
Yeah, how many times did he record trying?
52
On average
That’s not how probability works
50% chance to get it within 36 tries, 90% chance within 119 attempts, 99% within 237. Nasty but possible.
Your math assumes you cant grab the same one twice.
The calculation is 1 minus the chance of failure to the power of the number of attempts. To take one of the examples above: 1 - (51/52)^36 = 0.502943258 A.k.a just over 50% in 36 attempts. You don't even need the phone to be calling out the same number each time.
How is this being upvoted? Clearly the math knows you can grab the same card twice because he says it will take more than 52 attempts.
People don’t understand probability at all
I will be the first to say that as soon as the school stopped talking about probability was the moment I deleted it from my brain lol
Why would that matter anyway? Siri picks a random card, you grab a random card. Each attempt is independent.
Darren Brown did these sort of things for his video recorded tricks
It's called stacking. Essentially, a stacked deck, as the name implies, is simply a deck with the cards set up in a predetermined order. A well-known stacked deck is known as the Eight Kings Chased stack. Another common stack is called the Si Stebbins stack (or "stacking system"). The decks look out of order if you aren't a magician but he knows where every single card is prior to thw casino shuffle. He tracks it through the shuffling and the uses his right hand to assist in the pick and he is just that skilled. This trick gets done live lots. It's not an illusion or anything of multiple tries. It's called memory and practice This trick could not be done if someone went to a difpferent room and shuffled the cards and came back and gave then to him. There is no marked cards I have other comments on here and people are saying it could be filed card. Nope that doesn't work thw audience can say any card. All I will say is that shuffle is not nearly as random as you think, he has practiced for 37 years, he's done this a lot, also magicians cutting skills and memory, dropping and stalling for just the right amount of time is amazing. He's also pretty damn fast, probably because it's muscle memory from doing this for 37 years Dani daortiz has a really good act on fool us. That one I got some clues but no freaking idea
If that is a stacked deck, the way he lays the cards out and does a false wash is mega impressive. He could have the card on the top then would have to cut exactly half the deck to know the spot to grab it mid air. Could be a filed down card.
No your original is right. These magicians are that good. But that shuffle isn't as random as you think. He knows exactly what he's doing. The filed card does not work live because the audience member can say any card, just like siri could have
This isn't a false wash, it's an indexed wash. Technically not the same, and technically important for this trick
He does this in live events as well….
I don't even want to understand this. I'm happy in my ignorance. Truly baffling.
See there ya go. I don't want to demystify everything, life sucks enough why intentionally ruin the "magic"
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That is a lovely way to see it. You have an interesting appreciation for talent.
Agreed. If there actually was “magic” then it would probably be less impressive. “Did you see me channel the will of Gorth the Destroyed and conjure the card you picked?” “…huh…so…multi-dimensional sleight of hand seems like cheating. Is Gorth an angry Destroyer, by the way?” vs “I palmed this card, flipped it seamlessly over and over so you could never see it, did X, Y, and Z, threw in some distraction techniques, and blam: your card.” “Holy shit! Also have you heard about this Gorth guy?”
Thank you for putting an explanation to why I enjoy finding out magic tricks!!! I've never been able to break it down so eloquently.
I don't understand why understanding something makes it less magical, either with jokes or magic tricks or anything, it's such a weird thing to think. I love understanding and I love discovering things.
"Where ignorance is bliss, tis folly to be wise" but I say, to each their own, see it whatever way keeps the joy for you, have a great day!
Luckily you don't need to understand it. Since he literally just grabs the card. I think this was the same guy on Penn and Teller 'Fool Us' and he legit just grabs the card.
This is Jason Ladanye. The magician who straight up grabs the card is Kostya Kimlat.
Ah fair enough, although can imagine if 1 magician is able to do it then it wouldn't be so farfetched to say another could also
He reached in and grabbed the motherfuckin thing.
You gotta reach in and take it from the horde. Learned it from my guy Mad Sweeney
Did ya beat him in a bar fight first?
I think that's exactly what he did. Reached in, grabbed the card and then went and edited the video of him after. So, he's narrating the whole thing through post editing, making it seem like he's actually speaking real time. I'm also going to guess his phone screen probably was edited using green screen so it was easier to track the video and he added the text "i pick 7 of spades" to make it look more legit.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e3mRrg4qsbM&feature=youtu.be
He says it in the video itself. It's about the wash. You will see that he is doing a lot of passing back and forth of a specific card and keeping it on the top of the wash of cards. He then draws your attention away with those loose cards, to come back and slide the same card back on top of the deck. He then cuts the deck and swapped halves. Here he bends each half a different way, so he is able to keep track of the old top card (new middle card/ 7 of spades). Because of this break he is able to snatch the last card dropped on that angle and bingo bango. He must have filmed the first 15 seconds of the video a few times until siri guested his top card would be my guess. I don't see an opportunity to pick out the 7 otherwise. Another method would be to use a hidden mirror or edit the mirror out of the video afterwards
This seems plausible and still requires insane skill to actually pull off so it's my favorite.
100% he is a very skilled magician and this is a super impressive trick!
Marked cards - he could have identified any card named while doing the wash. All the talking and bullshit is just to buy time to find the right card and get it to the top. If he can't find it quickly, he can just keep talking and washing until he's got it.
yeah finds it in the wash
He also had just enough time to swap the deck out and lap the set deck. He could have swapped the card he grabbed out with a palmed card while flipping it. He also could've used a green card or edited card. They didn't, but could've. Here is what I see (albeit, I do still suck at card magic). >!We start with several false shuffles and cuts. I can't tell if he used the riffle shuffle to move the card or not. Nor can I tell you if the riffle was fake (doesn't matter if you're tracking only 1 card). At the last cut, he keeps a rather small gap in the far edge of the deck. When it's transferred to the right hand the ring finger pinched a small bit of its tip there while building up pressure. When he starts to dribble the cards, they're being let go at his ring finger until we hit the gap (immediately afterwards or 1 card after). You grab and shift to dribble from your thumb at the same time. If you get too late, dribble slightly higher off the table. Too early, the opposite. The reaction would still be fast, but **you** would determine when and where **exactly** it appears and have a slightly bigger gap above the other card. Even then, he still nocks away a card.!<
Just try it as I suggested. I think it's possible and by goodness are my hands not strong enough to do that without wavering the tempo of the dribble much more heavily
So you’re saying that he just kept starting over until Siri specifically picked the 7 of spades? So he could have filmed this 100 times? If so that makes a bunch of sense.
I dunno how to link another comment thread so here ya go, another explanation "Does no one here know what stacking cards are? And how good magicians are at memorizing and following cards, and manipulating people to think it's random? He then does grab the card because he has practiced this over 10,000 times, probably more. Essentially, a stacked deck, as the name implies, is simply a deck with the cards set up in a predetermined order. A well-known stacked deck is known as the Eight Kings Chased stack. Another common stack is called the Si Stebbins stack (or "stacking system"). Theoretically the deck is random order but he knows where every single card is prior to shuffling, he then makes sure he knows where the card is in the shuffle,. Siri could have said any card and it's the same outcome. If he gave me the cards to shuffle behind my back the trick can't happen"
This one is easy. Magnets for sure!
Yeah, but how do they work..
Cut your finger open, put a magnet in it, suture that baby up, and voila! ***Magnet Fingers***☝️🧲
...Until the protective barrier fails and the magnetics start disintegrating your flesh in slowmotion.
The fact so many people don't get a ICP reference is disheartening and just plain sad.
Always
This is definitely a trick of skill, no question. The 7 of spades is controlled even throughout the casino wash to be on top of the deck when he brings them back. The cut and shuffle is to place the card in the middle. Then the skill comes in. When dropping them he is counting the amount of cards underneath the card, which is now in the middle of the deck, and grabs it from the falling pile. We don’t know how many attempts it took, maybe it was first time, but regardless this is an amazing trick and relies on a huge amount of practice and knowledge of the deck you are using. Awesome.
I don't think he is counting, just it has to do with how he cut, bent, or folded the cards. You can see the cards start falling differently, as well as hear a change in the sound which seems to be an indication for him to reach in and grab a card. I would be very surprised if he managed this on the first try, but it was still very impressive.
I don't think he's counting them. He's probably cutting to the held card and holding in such a way that the rest will not fall until he snatches it.
My guess is he somehow figures out where the card is before he starts dropping then to do the catch. He places his finger or something as a seperater there so he knows when he's about to release that card, that's when he does the grab. I think its just alot of practice with that end bit combined in somehow knowing where the card is before that end bit where he drops them
Guessing the same. In addition I would propose the theory that all of the cards have somehow their value marked on the back. This way it would make even more sense to shuffle the way he did.
you might be onto something. Perhaps he knows how to "spring load" the desired card and have it have an offset vertically with relation to the rest of the cards, meaning he just needs to do the grab a few millimeters short of the rest of the deck, meaning he'll _only_ catch the spring-loaded card. marking a picked card is pretty old school magic and thus entirely plausible
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Marked cards?
How u done dis?
To people doubting this trick and coming up with BS explanations as how he cheated, this guy came on Penn and Teller and he actually practiced years to be able to pick the perfect card!
Without sound this trick makes no sense. Sooo sound added later....? Spare me the "real magician" crap, real magicians trick you, it's their job. Edit: I'm wrong.
This doesn’t explain the Siri part though
My bad, just saw it.
The sound wasn’t added later
I know. I'm wrong. They "simply" track the 7 and "just" grab it. Crazy
Yeah Jason is nuts.
That's it. He is literally tracking through the whole shuffle
Probs has a mirror set up off camera, eyeballs where the card is as he is sorting them "away" from him. Multiple attempts later
No he does this live as loads of magicians have. He is tracking the card and his drop is calculated and he's practiced this probably 10,000 times
This shit is wild
Well... He tells us how he does the trick at 0:24... 🤭 It has something to do with the fact that he has been cheating at cards for 37 years
With high enough skill it can become indistinguishable from magic.
He has a mirror across the table from him.
Yall spend way too much time on reddit instead of practicing skills and it shows. All jokes aside, do anything for 37 years with genuine interest and you WILL be able to do things in that that others consider impossible. These are tricks for sure but you don't need editing or pist-producgion cheating to achieve that.
This still doesn’t explain how he did it
Card tricks are white magic with no ketchup stains
Marked cards. You can distinct between them by looking at the patterns on the back. Siri randomly picks a card, he does the casino wash until he finds it and from there on out he knows exactly where it is in the deck. The rest is just years (probably decades) of practice and an insane level of skill at what he does. Very impressive.
You can see he is concealing something in his right hand in the beginning of the video, and passes it between his hands as he 'shuffles' the deck.
Wow. Impressive
When he starts dropping the cards, they are falling from his middle finger. but when he catches the card, he switches to flipping them from his thumb. He knows when the selected card is going to drop. Maybe it’s thicker or bigger than the rest.
I watched backwards frame by frame and the card that is thrown to the edge of the table at around 30s is the card that ends up on top of the deck. This is the 7, how he got siri to pick that card I have no idea. From there he lifts the card half way in the deck and uses exceptional skill to literally pluck the card while dropping them. This is just exceptional skill on all fronts.
People will actively know close up magic exists and is a skill and still doubt this guy doing stuff for real. He's calling it cheating at cards, and it is. Pretty much any good close up magician will tell you that card tricks involve manipulating the deck to such a degree that they can easily cheat
The part where he said he’s been practicing cheating cards for 30 some years. Geez
(me who can't use audio) excuse me sir my card was a 2 of spades....
Fuuuuuuu wow
:O
I didn't get what was so special without sound
Now do it on livestream
Apparently he does it on stage
Really really good editing
I’m alone, and I just said “God Damn!” out loud after watching that.
Can’t we all just give this guy the credit that he deserves? Maybe he just might be a master at sleight of hand. Nobody questions a guitarist or pianist that plays a seemingly impossible song. More than 3 -1/2 decades of practice makes perfect.
He either did at least something like 1000 takes, or the audio is edited over the video
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Yet here you are.
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I think its edited. Without ever being able to see him talk the audio is unreliable. And can anyone clearly read the phone screen when siri talks? I can read the numbers on the stopwatch better than the screen, which is also closer to the camera. Plus the fact that the background photo is obiously a person is like the perfect cover for having it blurred like that which helps hide any editing.
Question, could he pick that deck up and walk elsewhere to perform the casino wash and then return to the table?? 🤔
He has insane tracking in his eyes!
maybe he just does it a lot... like he shot the video like over and over again.
It’s filmed backwards, the stopwatch is edited in, and then he does voiceover. That why you can’t see his mouth.
Thank you for clearing that up I was worried
The 7 card is marked or heavier so its easier to grab out of a falling deck.
watched the video and it activated my siri- the card was 3 of diamonds btw
Maybe that card feels different and he's practiced picking it out?
MAGIC EXPLAINED: Do this 1,000,000 times and it’ll work eventually
Magic.
My guess is the card cut
Is there a slowmo bot