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After watching every Fool Us I can, this is probably the most mind boggling one
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The guy with his hand in the box. best trick.
The guy is pretty awkward. I don’t think he has the showmanship necessary to sell what is already a pretty boring magic trick.
Pretty great. Seems like a phenomenal father.
Cool, but sadly not very entertaining and it’s extremely distracting how he only has one eyebrow.
Neat trick but ya it was pretty boring. Felt like he was showing magic to a child.
I have children. Did I tell you I ❤️ my children. Because I love my kids. So much. If you don’t have children, fuck you, this trick is not 4u. I have 5 wizards in my home and you don’t. Youhave two? Looooser. I lie to 5 kids at once. and to wife. She not important. She birth machine. Also job. Kids inspired this trick. But none of them fuckers are as important as me. Anyways*:* *is this your card!?!*
The show is called Foll Us I can?
So how does he do it?
Teller hasn’t aged a bit. Pen…
lol at :32 he’s literally mashing the keyboard on [hacker typer](https://hackertyper.net/)
I don’t think Penn and Teller are the only one’s he is fooling…
I don’t know how the trick is done but it feels like a gimmick trick. The best one I’ve seen is Kostya Kimlat, that dude has pure sleight of hand skill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCFXV6o7cro
Jesus redditor commenters are harder to please than Penn and Teller. Of course no one can explain it, they just don’t like him.
I think it is something like a [De Bruijn Sequence](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Bruijn_sequence) I think it is entirely mathematical. The cards he is using must help him decode what is going on. [Persi Diaconis](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persi_Diaconis) has invented a couple tricks using this sort of thing with the same style in presentation.
Penn is close, by guessing that the magician has somehow controlled the book that is chosen.
He didn’t control the book, but he does control the environment.
*He* has set up two tables, rather than one – which would be the logical choice. The tables are not even close to each other, so the other person is far away enough not to notice any movement or sleight-of-hand at his table.
*He* works at Google, where he writes code.
*He* admits he uses technology in his magic.
*He* chooses the book out of the books she has brought. The book he chooses notably has a best-seller sticker on the front, which heavily increases the likelihood that an ebook version of that book exists.
*He* supplies the formula: two long words together – “two long words, long and interesting so that we can have something to play with”, because if it was two short words, e.g. “go to”, he would never be able to narrow it down.
*He* even asks her the number of letters in each word, narrowing down the available options even further.
*He* says the book title (picked up on his microphone). This title is heard by a partner backstage. The partner runs the program *he* has written (find a six letter word followed by a ten letter word) on the ebook, which takes less than a second. No-one needs to be a Google coder to write such a simple program. The partner tells him the phrase through his headset.
*He* stretches out and adds drama to the trick by revealing only the first letter of the first word (“p”) before using up further time by distracting with the nonsense guess “pennywhistle”. That word is not only not either 6 or 10 letters long, but does not even appear in the book in question. Besides taking up time, it also brings back the viewers mind to his kids, and the card they had written him.
At 4:14, we see him use an awkward hand position while picking up the marker. He is pushing the “good luck card” that his children allegedly wrote for him into a box on the table while picking up the marker.
*He* has taken this excess time because, even though he has known both words for minutes now, he needs extra time for the person hidden underneath his table to write the text on the “good luck card” that his children allegedly wrote for him. Remember, we have only seen the back of this card, so we have no way to confirm that there is any text at all on the other side when he throws it down on the table.
After even more time-consuming awkward banter, he finally reveals the good luck card with the first word.
Either a) a person on a headset hidden under the table -possibly even one of his children – was given the card when he surreptitiously moved it into the box, or b) the box is a bit of technology that he made whereby the partner backstage -also possibly even one of his children – wrote on a surface and this image was transferred to the card electronically.
Ok, I did the coding exercise. I grabbed the full text of “Wonder” and computed a histogram of all pairs of lengths of consecutive words.
(I spent zero effort trying to clean up the raw data: I didn’t remove section headings etc. from the raw data. But this is good enough to get a sense of the statistics.)
The results: [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-LF2vM6skLI5aIoM_61OlOHnsRQE3y6Th-mdw1kO5aU/edit?usp=sharing](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-LF2vM6skLI5aIoM_61OlOHnsRQE3y6Th-mdw1kO5aU/edit?usp=sharing)
There are 44 instances of a six-letter word followed by a 10-letter word in Wonder. So if you think the trick was done by a confederate running a computer analysis of the raw text, there must be some other ingredient to the trick to narrow down which of those 44 Alyson chose.
Note also that if Alyson had chosen two consecutive 6- or 7-letter words, there would have been hundreds of possibilities Seth would have had to narrow down.
EDIT: Here are all the possibilities for (6,10) specifically:
always forgetting
always understood
anyway everything
auggie completely
before continuing
better especially
course sweetheart
crowds everywhere
doctor absolutely
doesnt understand
finish stampeding
folded everything
friend completely
havent understood
helmet everywhere
heyday throughout
joseph recognized
junior counselors
justin lastminute
letter explaining
lights zigzagging
looked everywhere
olivia pullmannot
petosa cheerfully
plague apparently
played basketball
played pictionary
pretty straightup
really considered
really interested
scared thankfully
school auditorium
school eventually
school graduation
school scholastic
seemed especially
single nucleotide
spring production
taller definitely
theres leadership
throat throughout
twoday suspension
violin everywhere
It’s the same old trick as all the others where text mysteriously appear.
For example one magician opens up an orange and lo and behold, there’s a piece of paper with the word on it.
And the solution is the same in ALL of these cases. Also the reason that in all these tricks they asks for the word before showing the paper instead of showing the paper first: it’s trick paper. the word is written on the paper remotely.
It’s a boring trick and I am so damn tired of ALL these variants.
Magicians are the worst
She’s wearing a wireless microphone, so it might be possible to pick up some subvocalizations from it. Or the device on the table in front of her could be imaging her throat. It seems to be positioned to get a good 3D view of it.
He reminds me of the world Scrabble champions that memorize words with specific character lengths. There is a Scrabble champion in French, that actually doesn’t speak the language. He just memorized the words.
The set up was boring, and he lacked charisma.