(haunting music)
- What's going on guys, welcome back.
I'm here at Magi-Fest in Ohio,
this is a yearly convention, a pretty big convention.
As per usual, we try to seek out the best magic trick
at the convention so I'm gonna take you guys with me
into the dealer's room.
Normally non magicians' not supposed to be there.
Leave a comment, which trick you think
wins this year's best trick of the convention.
Let's go.
Christian, last year, you showed us something really cool.
- And I have to do it again, right?
- No, you're going to have to top it.
Is this, the best trick at the convention?
- Oh, then I have to show two tricks
because there are two tricks that are the best
- [Chris] Okay lets see them.
- We use two queens and we use a complete deck of cards.
Where the two queens might influence you,
that's why I leave them in the wallet for a second.
I will spread the deck in front of you.
You will mentally select the card.
Are you ready?
- [Chris] Yes.
- Go for it.
Have a card in mind?
- [Chris] Yes
- Good.
By any chance, did you pick a red card, or not?
- [Chris] I did yes.
- That's how they influence you
because I showed you already, two red cards
and that's the cool part about it
but okay heres the deal,
they will do the whole trick on me now,
what will they do?
First they will start talking with me
and they tell me that you selected...
Oh was it a high card?
- [Chris] It was a high card, yep.
- There you go.
It was a diamond right?
- [Chris] Yeah.
- That's what I though.
Now I think...
Oh, damn it, they really already have a card in mind
now what they will do is they will pick your card,
they will pick the sole from the deck
inside here and move it in between the two queens
I guess that your card now
completely disappeared from the deck.
Is your card still in here?
- [Chris] No it is not in there.
- Its not in there?
Actually, what they will do is
they trapped the sole in between the two queens
but then they will release it one more time
to end up here in my trouser pocket.
Are you ready?
- [Chris] Yes
- Was that your card, the eight of diamonds?
- [Chris] Yes!
- Yeah, well, it was only really two queens
because here in my trouser pocket...
- [Chris] Whoa!
- Is the eight of diamonds.
- [Chris] Whoa!
- [Chris] Can you show us something today Garret Thomas?
- We have a random card...
I want it to be really random,
let's pick something super random.
Like, this one, this is random,
I like that, that's random.
Chris, say "stop."
- [Chris] Stop.
- Boom. Alright, I'll show you the card,
look at it, remember it.
Don't forget it.
- Chris, I'm going to ask you about what that is.
- [Chris] Okay.
But I want you to lie to me.
I want you to make up a different card,
not the one I just showed you.
- [Chris] Okay you got it.
- You can make it a popular card,
something nobody would say,
like, don't say a joker or the 14 of circles.
That's a horrible lie Chris.
- [Chris] Okay
- What was your card? Lie to me.
- Ace of spades.
- So I know it's gotta be a club,
because spades are...
- [Chris] Wait, what, okay!?
- Yep, it's gotta be like a...
Well ace is kinda high end though,
so it's gotta be something in the middle,
seven, eight, nine.
So I'm going to go with, and you could have named any card
very strange for Chris to name
the ace of spades, a very popular card.
He's trying to throw me off.
You said ace of spades, this has got to be the truth.
- Yes
- Why did you say the ace of spades, come back down.
Remember the lie?
- Yes,
- I put this down here before we started,
happened to be exactly the ace of spades,
so we got the truth and the lie.
Just a coincidence, just a coincidence.
- [Chris] Ladies and gentlemen, Garret Thomas.
- Thank you very much.
- [Chris] Hey, how's it going Josh?
- How are you?
- Here's the deal right, we're looking for
the best trick here.
- It's gonna take a long time to do, you don't have...
- [Chris] What's a long time?
- Two to three minutes.
- [Chris] Let's go.
- Really?
- [Chris] Yeah, let's do it, If this is the best thing here,
I want to see it, the people want, the people need to know.
- Well, the prop is examined,
but I don't know if that matters to you.
- It does matter to me actually.
She will vouch.
Is this a normal prop?
Is that a water bottle?
- Take a look at all this stuff.
- Okay
- Alright so...
Crayon box.
- Toothbrush.
- Card box.
Pencil, you can hold onto it.
All these items have in common,
is that they were sent to me by a guy in prison.
True story, he wrote me letters asking me
if I could do something with these props,
so let me see if I can do...
- [Chris] Is this a true story?
- This is 100% true.
And the guy is here now...
- [Chris] Are you serious?
- He doesn't want to be identified, but he is here.
(suspenseful music)
- Yo, guys, come on.
That's incredible.
You act like you see this every day.
You're like, yeah we've been at this booth for three hours,
literally we've seen it every day.
That's awesome, Josh, that's amazing.
This is for sale as well?
- It is, link bellow.
- [Chris] There you go, boom.
Thanks Josh.
Guys, you gotta check this kid out.
You're from South Korea?
And how old are you?
- Fourteen years old.
- Let's see it.
Whoa!
How long have you been doing magic?
- Two years tops.
- Okay
(group laughs)
- Choose a card.
- [Chris] That's insane.
- This card?
- Yes.
- Okay and in the back are these two cards.
These are two jokers.
- Yes
- First one...
Vanished.
Second one...
Totally...
- [Chris] Oooh.
- Vanished.
Now the two jokers are gone.
- [Chris] What?
Wow.
- Thank you.
- [Chris] Please don't ever stop doing magic
and I will be at your lecture next year.
- [Chris] Alright, we're going to get the sound,
guys I want you to listen very closely,
watch this coin very closely and listen very closely.
Here we go.
(coin clanks on teeth)
- [Chris] Whoa! What?
No added sound effects, okay.
What you heard was actually what I saw.
That's insane, thanks man.
State your name good sir.
- Hey, my name is Travis.
- Slightly_askew, got it.
Alright, let's see it.
- [Travis] It's hard to see,
put it on, maybe it's better,
maybe it's the lighting.
- [Chris] Whoa!
- And you will find there are beautiful ladies...
- [Chris] Oh yeah!
- Or whatever.
But you see this scratch?
This meaning...
Cockroach.
(Chris screams)
(screams)
(group laughs)
- [Chris] That was good, that was good.
- I brought these from home.
(everyone laughs)
- Have you seen the floating card?
You know, everybody wants to look behind the card.
It's interesting because...
I mean, why not?
You can show them.
Put it back.
- [Chris] Whoa!
- It's gotta be connected to
the top of the deck somehow, right?
- [Chris] That's great.
- Hovercard plus!
- [Chris] Blake, I'm looking for
the best trick at Magi-Fest.
- Oh, I've got it.
Alright, here it is, I've got a prediction right here.
- [Chris] Yep.
- Chris, name any card.
- [Chris] Any card in the stack?
- Yeah, any one.
- [Chris] Four of clubs.
- Perfect.
Right on top.
Great, so would you be impressed
if your card was on the other side of this note card?
- [Chris] Mildly.
- Mildly?
Well, it says "Your card".
But here, it gets better, watch.
If I just shake it,
it actually turns into
the one wanted.
- [Chris] How close can I get to that?
- [Blake] You can get as close as you want.
You have a nice camera but it looks...
(laughs)
I've got a regular box.
Ordinary box, you can examine this box.
Chris, just make sure for everybody at home watching,
there's no trap doors, there's no bunny rabbits,
there's no mirrors.
And Chris,
there's no extra decks of cards in there, are there?
- [Chris] Not to my knowledge.
- Not to your knowledge...
Actually Chris.
- [Chris] What!
You had one job, Chris.
- [Chris] That's super fun dude.
- You can get this stuff at BlakeVoid.com
by going to my shop.
- [Chris] Thanks Blake.
- Thanks Chris.
- [Chris] Is it Pop-Ah or Pope-Ah?
- Pope-Ah.
- [Chris] But the girls call you Papa?
- You bet.
Watch, we're going to take the chapstick,
we're gonna push it through the bill,
it's gonna happen right around the head there.
So watch.
(whistle)
Just like that.
- [Chris] What?
- And then we can get it to melt right back out,
and this was his bill, so there's nothing there.
- [Chris] And that was my chapstick, thank you very much.
- Yeah, there you go.
(both laugh)
- What I want to is, it's more magical,
it's a full deck of cards,
if you'd like to see here,
all cards in there
and we'll shuffle the cards and this time
it will be you, Chris, that you'll just think of a hand.
You will not name the hand,
so that I cannot really pick out the cards that you want.
Are you ready?
- [Chris] Yes.
- So you have a card, you have a hand in your mind,
so I can show you that they are all different.
Just say "stop" whenever you're ready.
- [Chris] St-
This one, yeah that's number one, go ahead.
- [Chris] Stop.
- This one?
That's number two,
- [Chris] Stop.
- That's number three.
- [Chris] Stop
- Four
- [Chris] Stop.
- This one or the other one?
- [Chris] That one.
- That one, that's fine.
Now you selected five cards right?
- Yep.
- Good, now let's take out the five cards and see,
one, two, three, four, and five.
I don't know which hand you wanted right?
- [Chris] Right, correct.
- And it doesn't matter, because you took out the five...
You selected the five cards and I took them out for you.
Which hand did you have in mind?
- [Chris] Royal flush.
- Royal flush, come down here,
I didn't switch anything right?
Here are the five cards...
And here's your royal flush.
How's that?
- [Chris] Whoa!
That's actually great.
- I know.
- Wow.
Christian did it again.
Let me know in the comments what you guys think.
Should this be the best trick at the convention?
Christian, thank you so much.
What if I said...
- Oh wait, yes, let me do this.
One, two, three, four, five cards.
Let me shuffle them one more time.
- [Chris] Yeah.
- Because it's more or less a packer trick,
let's do this.
We didn't set it up right?
- [Chris] Yeah no set up at all.
- Then name any hand you'd like.
- [Chris] I'm gonna go with full house.
- A full house, that's three of a kind and two of a kind.
Right?
- [Chris] Yes.
- Well, here we go.
Three aces, two kings.
- [Chris] What!?
Okay, wait...
- Wait, wait there's more to it.
Let me do it one more time,
it's really just one, two, three, four, and five cards.
What else do you want?
- [Chris] Two pairs.
- Two pairs, that would be cool.
Let's say the two kings, the two aces.
- [Chris] No!
- Everything is in there, trust me
- [Chris] That's insane.
Any hand you name is in there.
- How about...
A royal flush?
Oh wait, there's more.
Maybe four of a kind, it' doesn't matter.
- [Chris] Ahhh!
- Ahhhh!
- [Chris] What's happening?
What are you doing to my head?
Andrew, who we've seen in last year's video,
I don't know if you guys remember this guy,
but he's about to blow your mind.
- Pick any card.
- [Chris] Okay.
- I'm gonna have you sign it across the face.
- [Chris] Perfect, Xavier, do you mind doing the honors?
- [Xavier] You want me to sign it?
- [Chris] Yes, please.
- [Andrew] Across the top there.
I'm gonna take your card and I'll fold it here
like that.
And here too.
And the reason for me folding it
is so I can tear it up, alright.
So that's exactly what I'm gonna do.
I'm going to tear it down the center there.
- [Xavier] But then the card won't be good anymore.
You've ruined the whole deck.
- Don't worry.
I've got a plan.
- [Chris] Alright, alright, I trust you.
- As you can see, that's a genuine tear there right?
And I'm going to keep tearing.
So we got two halves here.
- [Chris] Yep.
- And we got four quarters, right?
The idea of the trick is to take the four pieces
and I'm gonna try and put them back together.
- [Chris] Okay.
- We're going to start with these two, right here.
That's the first piece.
This fits it right about there, like that.
Next piece right here.
See the front or back, no tape or glue or anything.
See this has gone back together.
Last piece, you can see that
it's the piece that fits the gap, right.
- [Chris] Um hm.
- It's kind of hard because
we've got two edges to fix, but I'm gonna do my best.
And you can also see your signature there at the bottom.
- [Xavier] Yes.
- That's the first edge.
- [Chris] Whoa
- That's the second edge, which means if I did that, right
and now I'm going to give you your card.
- What!
Guys, that about wraps up the search for
the best magic trick in the world.
Let me know in the comments again
which one you thought wins this years...
Look who's here, this is Cosmo.
- Hey.
- Cosmo, by the way, where were you?
We were looking for the best magic trick in the world.
And you were nowhere to be seen.
What's up with that?
- Well I was hiding.
- You were hiding?
- I want to keep it to myself.
- (laughs) sounds good.
What's that?
- Can we take a picture with you?
Yeah of course, you want to be in the vlog?
- It's so nice to meet you.
- You want to be in the vlog?
- That would be awesome
- You're in the vlog right now.
- Hi!
- It's happening
Charlie Wise?
- Say hi to Charlie Wise.
- Hello.
- I'm just finishing the video right now,
so you're going to be my outro.
This is happening, let's take a picture.
Alright guys, thanks for watching.
Don't forget to like, subscribe, all that stuff.
And what do I do at the end of the videos?
- Peace!
- Bye!