Penn & Teller: Fool Us // Indianapolis Magician Caleb Wiles

Welcome back Pen and Teller,

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s, let's meet our next trickster. Hi, I'm Caleb Wilds and I'm The Puzzle Master. I'm a little obsessed with wrestling and Rubik's cubes. I've been a wrestling fan for as long as I can remember. I think that's where I learn to have energy when doing magic on stage within the Wizarding World. I am better known as a Creator and a theorist than as an actual

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. The magic is about solving the Rubik's Cube puzzle you only have a certain amount of colors to work with with a certain amount of pixels, it's almost a magical object in itself, the way it stays together even though it is move, magic can sometimes be created from very simple ideas and you can create something extraordinary.

From Indianapolis, please welcome Caleb Wild tonight. I want to try something different, something that's never been done before on this show. As you normally see, the idea is for a

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to come here and show everyone a trick that will hopefully

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Pin and Teller, uh, but. I want to take things to the next level and do something maybe even more amazing. You see, I have created a trick that has been specially designed to be performed by someone who is not a magician, someone who does not practice the hand and who has not read Magic books, in fact, it is someone who does not even know that I am about to call her here on stage.

Allison. I created this trick specifically for you. Would you mind coming here to give me a hand? Ok, pen and Teller, you can join me on stage and get a front row seat. Let's give him a big round of applause. Alison, you can back up here. Thank you so much. Allison, if all goes well tonight at your first magic trick. You're going to trick pin, tell him that if something goes wrong you're going to take all the blame, so no pressure, okay, but don't worry, I'll guide you every step of the way, please, in fact, we'll get started. with the most basic step for any card trick and that is to draw the jokers, so I'm going to spread the cards here and I'm going to draw the jokers and while I'm doing that Pen and Teller, you can notice that there are some special cards in the deck that I prepared for Allison earlier, those are some instruction cards that will help guide her through the trick, actually the first one is up here, so from here on out, Allison. you're going to do everything you're going to be the magician I'll be your lovely assistant okay it's ready are you ready?

Sure, okay, ladies and gentlemen, making her magical debut with the incredible Allison Hanan, so you're going to hug Alison. about the cards and I'm going to show the instructions so everyone can see that step number one says to select a card, so that's a pretty typical step for a card trick and we're going to do it in a very fair way. because this is Pen and Teller, so I have an idea for this, Alison. I want you to deal the top card face down on the table, okay? and then I want you to deal the next card face down on top of that one and you're going to continue dealing the cards, but I want you to do it at a very slow and deliberate pace, okay, and the reason is that you notice, at one point you're going to scream "stop", you can keep dealing Alison, but every time you feel the need, I'm just going to yell stop, how can I stop, oh my god, were you referring to this letter or did you want the letter she was about to Deal the card I was about to deal Now you're the magician here, so don't do it?

You'll be able to see the card, okay, but I'll show it to the audience and we'll make sure that the pen and the bead have a chance to take a look as well, okay, we'll put the card here and move on to Step number two, you are. doing well so far. Step number two says to bury the card in the deck, so I have an idea for that and extend it all the way to the next instruction card. Ah, it's almost near the top. take these cards and place them on top and in fact since it's so close to the top take the whole deck and put it on top too that way we know that the Pin card is actually buried in the deck and you can pick up the cards in Your hand again and I'll read the next instruction, so next step number three of the instruction instruction says to make the cut.

Blend now, that's a magician's term, Allison, I'll explain what that means, basically, you're going to cut about half of it. deck okay and I want you to put those cards on the table and then the cards that are left I want you to give them a quick little shuffle okay awesome not so good now you're doing it perfect you're doing it perfect okay and then I want you to take about half , go, yeah, say you're ready, then take about half of those cards, cut them to the table perfect and I want you to shuffle those cards again, just give them a quick little shuffle, perfect and take everything. those cards and place them here and now we'll move on to step number four step number four says build the deck now this is where things get interesting you can stack them in any order you want just make a nice neat stack all the cards in the table, okay, perfect, so pick up those cards, okay, and I want you to spread them out until you get to the next instruction card and we just hope it's the right one, so keep going, keep going, I can.

I see one coming here soon, it keeps going down the deck, aha, okay, there it is, so cut these cards to the bottom, we put these on the top, okay, and we need step number five and we have the step number five, so that's a good sign. I'll look at step number five next, it says ask your participant to mix, so that would be me, Allison, and I want you to watch this very carefully. Okay, I'm going to shuffle the cards, but Allison, Pen and Teller. I want you to make sure that this isn't one of those fancy wizard type shuffles, those cards are really shuffling throughout the entire deck and you can even see that there are other instruction cards that are now moving into new ones. the positions are fine and I will square them as well as I know how we will square the cards like this and Allison, you can take them now, here it is, we have selected a card fairly, you have shuffled the cards I have shuffled the cards the card is completely lost now we have to find it so we'll move on to step number six step number six says deal a bunch of cards so this is the exciting part now that we're actually I'm looking for Pen's card so I want you to deal a card down there and keep dealing a pile quickly so we can look for the next instruction letter.

Wait, wait, wait, okay, I messed up, okay, move on. keep going keep going there's the next one uh yeah you're doing great Alison stay with the cards deal a new stack of cards so keep dealing keep dealing keep dealing keep dealing oh says keep it up Allison you're almost there it's me' I'm getting really excited keep going keep going this has to be the next one says you're killing it Alison wait, wait, pin pin's The card is only three cards away, so look, that's card number one, that's card number two, don't do it. show this but put that card away now I want you to think about this look, you shuffled these cards there's no way for any of us to know the order yeah I'm going to spread them out on the table that you could have finished those instruction cards with Any cards on the deck, right, they took us to the card you're holding for the first time.

Place which card you chose. Three of spades. Allison, if that's a three of spades, we're all going to freak out. Yes, show him. We understand? Yes, I'm so good, amazing, it's amazing, okay, but wait, wait, wait, there's more, there's more, there's more because look, pen, you stopped at the three of spades, you could have stopped at any card that could have, but Allison and I. We knew you'd stop exactly at the three of Spades, didn't we, Allison? Totally, yes, we want proof, we went to proof. Look, hers, on the three of Spades, and look, I have other instruction cards here and on the back of the instruction cards. they have a perfect combination look there's the three of diamonds there's the three of clubs there's a three of hearts a perfect prediction but wait there's more because look Allison if even one card had been moved this pile could have been in a completely different order this one If I had more or fewer cards, this stack could have ended up here instead of where it is, so I guess there's just one last question to ask Canen and Teller.

Are we deceiving you? Wow, did you see their faces? I did, they really are Well, they were impressed by your driving skills. I think we might have a show in Vegas with the new duo. I think so. I think so. I think I'll be The Silent One. Yes. Is this a trick you invented for this show? uh, this is a trick that's been many years in development uh, the original version was maybe six or seven years ago that I created and I've been refining the method uh, more and more, until you see the final product that you saw tonight, if I.

So, I think we could get a trophy now if, if you trick them, I can keep the trophy. I think that would be fair. I think they've had enough time. Let's talk to a little bit about Alison. Yes you did a wonderful job well thank you it was really great thank you I think it's silly yeah let's call it I just give us trophies it's such a beautiful trick I'm tempted to cheat a little in your favor because really I want you on our show, I'm okay with that, but I also stop there, it's really very complicated and Teller came up with a question and I have to tell you honestly, okay, I don't know the answer to this question and neither is the

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okay. and we are willing to bet everything on this one question.

Okay, the hard part about this is how clean my selection was. I said to stop whenever I wanted. Yes, so that selection was really very real or was really. all right, all right, and if that pick was really real, we should be able to go up right now and look at the faces on all those cards, if you want us to look at those faces on those cards, that trophy is going to drop, so now, sir. Yeah, as cool as you were, you fooled us, I didn't fool you, but I'm so happy to be here and I'm telling you when you said that, it broke my heart too.

I didn't want to win this one because you're so good. well thank you so much, that was amazing, thank you so much Caleb, more fantastic magic on the way, don't say I didn't warn you, we'll be back.