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a card trick that'll fool yourself and
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I'm your host Brian brushwood as this
week we are back with Diamond Jim Tyler
who has an awesome card trick miracle
this thing totally fried me and the best
part is it uses a principle we learned
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male scientist rock star theoretical
physicist a magician Diamond Jim Tyler
blow our minds go sir all right
and are you a shuffling well hold on
that's a personal so I'll go and
treating into your personal aiyah
if you like give them mix shuffle them
up a little bit just you know I didn't
prearranged anything now if you would
Ted I want you to cut them into three
approximately equal stacks
awesome and I'd like each of you to take
a stack of cards whichever one they want
I don't know all of that and I'd like
you to each go through and pull out a
card at random but remember that card
remember the number and the suit of that
call not going to look I'm going to hi
my eyes I want to see it either but I
guess what's in it in front of you
Center right oh yeah there you go now
remember your card and just place the
other cards on top of it just so in case
the cards remark there's no way I can
see the backs or not but you can borrow
the deck of cards put them in a line
there now there's a bow you eat probably
have about 10 to 15 cards in your hand I
don't know how many so I want you to
pick up your stack and you're each going
to think of a number between 10 and 15
it's your own secret number so think of
a number now got one Monica pick up your
cigar David and I will turn up look away
and each of you're going to count that
many cards onto the table just a moment
when I look away now if you run out of
cards before you get your number that's
okay all right here all hi my is two in
case you think I'm like a secret
conspirator for Diamond Jim Tyler now
the cards that you have left in your
hand just put those on top of the others
excellent done okay so let's see we're
gonna randomly here will you take these
and here we'll do this take those and do
the same thing whatever your secret
number is pick up the cards and deal
that secret number on to the table again
I'm not gonna love her I ain't gonna
look this yeah I'm a Boyer and people
think you can't you know we can count
when they finish they have to put the
card on top put the other card right
yeah there you go got let's see let's do
this just one more time just yeah and do
it one last time count your secret
number
now you guys remember you shuffle the
cards secret card at random you counted
your own secret number we mix them up
all random
nobody knows where those cards are now
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king of clubs read our case turn over
the king of clubs shut out of the red
heart ace shut up
and what's the three of clubs turning
over Oh seriously
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now I love this because there's a lot of
process but the process is distributed
over three different people so it's not
overwhelming for anyone of you guys but
all together it creates the super
complicated mishmash to where you think
there's no way we've mixed them up all
eight ways sideways and we got three
different secret numbers and three
different secret cards and then at the
end when it all matches I love to this
and explain to me how the hell do we do
it uh well it's based on gemstone Myers
GaN card trick right which we taught as
the spelling bee like over 150 episodes
yeah yeah this is like it on steroids
yeah totally so it's really great so
they use their own card doesn't have to
be a full deck I mean this is the great
impromptu trick it just looks impossible
and you want them to cut the deck into
about three equal stacks okay and then
they go through and they choose a card
at random we've just placed these cards
on top so it's easy to follow to Sharia
cards whatever cards they choose they
put facedown on the table in front of
them we're going to leave it face up so
you can kind of follow along sure for
the explanation and the the motivation
for this is I tell them I don't want to
see what the car is in case it's marked
on the back right so that's the reason
that they bury it amongst the others and
then they each think of their own secret
number and let's just say and you tell
them to pick a number between about 10
and 15 about 10 20 will work but just to
be safe 10 and 15 of it and then the
number does matter
yeah it could be below 10 because the
cards have to go through a complete
rotation of cycle right so let's just
say your numbers 10 your numbers 11 and
your number is 12 so count down 10 you
count down 11 you count down
up
and then once they've done that you tell
them to place the remaining cards in
their hand on top of the stack leave the
cards on the table reverse air you got
there yo and the card and the cards it
were in your hand these cards go right
on top of ways perfect now think of this
as pile a b and c it's actually let's
actually pull this back right here so we
can get a good visual on this in fact
III think of it in a line I think that's
the best way if you think about it as a
line with a B and C I'll do you were
doing the advanced version where it's
all spread around the table but I think
it's easier to think of outside and
inside and that kind of okay so now
think of this is a B and C you switch
piles a and C and then I switch with the
new a pile with a default and then you
ask them to count down to their secret
number again so do the same thing again
so 10
and so now switch piles B and C alright
and then piles BN a and then you ask
them to count down one last time to
their secret number so literally the
third time is the charm on this this is
what makes the magic happen it's right
ano I was going cos that's right on top
so now I got to name their cards out
loud and I think it is important that
they say in advance what you want to
find out what the cards is because when
you deal with people at the bar those
are the jerks are gonna be like oh I won
my card and then later they're like what
it totally was my card but I showed it
to that round right so you get them to
say in advance in front of everyone and
then you turn it over and you show that
it exactly matches dude how simple is
that
do you guys remember the steps yeah
David you think gaveled it takes to go
through it and show it for us alright
David go time what do I do
all right am i understanding what you
want to do is cut the deck into thirds
all right here on the Shelf look where
scores should be shared yeah there you
go all right three equal piles won-soon
that's not quite equal there we go three
equal piles got it
et you take one take a pack got it
doesn't matter which one what should I
do you want to pick out a card and don't
tell me what it is place down on the
table yep like that and then put the
other cards on top done now wants you
all to pick secret numbers between 10
and 15 I got it
don't tell me what it is and I want you
to count out that number all right
little table and put the rest of the
cards on top
done now we're going to switch it up a
little bit so you get this one and
scaping pretty mixed up in this business
yeah shuffle it up a little bit now if
that happens you want to make sure to
keep that bottom part on the bottom
right yeah all right now I want you guys
to all count out your secret number once
again oh you got it
whoo and we're gonna shuffle it up once
more nicely done man this is some crazy
mixed-up deck business so I am
unprepared for the level of mixing this
here what next so kind of count it out
once more and check that magic card on
the top
wait a minute wave it oh wait should you
ask us what our cards are before we turn
them over
I should okay hey sometime he said I'm
an ace of spades they flunk King the
clubs okay let's see what we got shut up
yeah Pass well then David that was
fantastic thank you so much Jim Tyler
that was freaking rad I love the fact
that on the surface this game looks so
overly complicated and yet each
individual piece is totally simple these
guys have been drinking all night and
they were able to pull it off I want to
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that all of these are written up in
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