Response: Mentally Unsolvable Card Trick Tutorial

[wwechess]

scamschool sent me here :D

[affablegiraffable]

is there some kind of algebra for cards?

[hellodere94]

wheneva i cut it it changes??? =/

[HornsteinBro]

That is genius. Pure genius.

[deanmat]

Who invented this trick?

[stickfigtree]

so you could also do it with 6 piles of 6 or 4 piles of 4 and it should still work?

[FatLingon]

@stickfigtree the safest way (never fails) is to do it with 1 pile of 1.

[avemunsayac]

Ericsurf6 somehow brought me here..

[anejad3000]

well done for working out the trick, mate. good video idea of using coloured cards too :)

[Mewigi]

I get it. Because the 5 cards from the pile all get distributed into the same "layer" of card. I posted this before you said "think of the answer".

[hellsing233x]

I actually followed the trick mentally, so I needed no explanation. The last video though I couldnt do it

[siddharthjoshi91]

you don't need the five key cards.You let the spectator shuffle the cards initially and then as you take the deck in your cards, you just spread the deck out and show that there is no setup. While you're doing this,memorise just 4 cards.The fifth one you don't need to remember since when you later ask the spec to name the pile in which his fifth card is, you just find the card by eliminating all other positions.This way, the trick is much more convincing since the spec has done the shuffling.

[pragette1]

I just tried it with colored paper myself. Amazing.

You can actually shuffle it more than once.

Let's say the two x'es are the 2heart and the chosen card.

000x0 000x0 000x0 000x0 000x0. now if i put two cards in the back:

0x000 0x000 0x000.. still the same position... and so on.

If you don't want to prepare the key-cards or you don't want to trick at all, just also remember the first card of the pile where the person chooses a card. You just need to remember more cards!

[singingbanana]

@pragette1 Nice!

[siddharthjoshi91]

just out of curiosity, are those coloured cards actually monopoly notes?

[singingbanana]

@siddharthjoshi91 Not monopoly notes, just some coloured card.

[MSprodukshuns]

@singingbanana i think he means what you said at the end, "as usual, if your happy(or have been or whatever),thanks for watching." so his guest lecturer quoted you and said the same thing, and this indicated to our dear friend here that his lecturer was a fan of yours. :)

[looney1023]

@J003S3PH

Nope because the "pink" cards are still 5 cards away from each other. This would merely change the chosen card and key card's "layer" (how far down they are in the stack), but they'd still be in the same position.

[Arsential27]

I dong get how u would no that 4 clubs would be their card.theres 5 cards in there and it could be anyone of them so how would u no if it's there card since there's 5 key cards no to mention the key card could be there cards

[Ryan01729]

@Arsential27 Since in the beginning the five key cards are placed on top, in order, there will be one in each pile and you can keep track of which pile each key card is in. You know that the first volunteer has picked from the pile with the 2H. At the end the plies each have one card from each original pile in the same numerical position. So since you know that the first person's key card is 2H they tell you which pile it is in and from the position of the key card you know what they picked.

[Arsential27]

@Ryan01729 thx i get now

[Ryan01729]

@Arsential27 Glad to help.

[jsung8070]

A guest lecturer for my Population Health paper in Epidemiology said "If you have been, thanks for watching". I dont think many people realised at that point that she was a fan; but i did >=D

[singingbanana]

@jsung8070 What?! :O

[jsung8070]

@singingbanana Yep you gotta start charging royalties now.

[jsung8070]

@singingbanana Oh and she said it like "if you have been, thanks for watching", looking around with a faint smile on her face, searching the lecture hall for recognition probably.

[bluecobra95]

How is this mentally unsolvable? I figured it out as you went through the original trick. It's not really that difficult to follow.

[stenvag]

If the volunteer shuffles one of the piles, won't the layering be ruined? Don't really get it then /:

[SeraphAP]

@sten: nope, because all the cards will be the same group (all "pink cards", so to speak) and all the cards will still be on the same layer. if any piles get shuffled after the first layout, you will be screwed then.

[gC222SA]

do you have some sort of method for figuring out the tricks in the card tricks?how long did this one take

[HappyMemoryXD]

Did you solve this just by the first look?

[falconseye97]

oh mathematics is the best.

[TheHehhoi]

In What collage are you? :D

[nelsyeung]

@TheHehhoi I think he is a professor at Cambridge, pretty hardcore. :P

[3DMFailure]

I hate mathematics, hate it. Not so big on magic either, but i will continue to watch your videos, i dont know what it is, but you have this incredible ability to make anything interesting.

[xXextraslastaXx]

I thought it ;)

[SoySauce4Lube]

you should wear a bow tie, bow ties are cool...

[pizzagek]

Well that is exactly what I said in a comment to Zach :P I asked if I should make a video response, but then he said that we all know how it worked. Good 'tutorial' anyway =)

[EighteenCharacters]

Actually Banannaman, your logic is severely flawed. Lets say that you have a number of cards(n), and an unknown variable x. Well, in this, X = MC, because it's energy (E = MC²). So, This variable MC needs an I and an A. So multiply them in and rearrange them with the Letter G. You wind up with MAGIC. This trick works purely on Magical energy (E-MC²), and your foolish mathematics are no match for logical reasoning or made-up youtube comments. Magic isn't quantifiable. :-)

[jackrc11]

@EighteenCharacters

So then the popsicle must taste like Raspberry!

[EighteenCharacters]

@jackrc11 Yes. Because the Stick is Raspberry. The magic permiates the Ice. There is a mathematical formula for Permutations (and combinations for that matter), but Magic can't be quantified. Bannathematics is no match for my self-made up Quatium mechanical theories.

Period :-)

[mudkippy998]

@EighteenCharacters what happened to E?

[EighteenCharacters]

@mudkippy998 E = the MC in MAGIC. It's MC², but you factor out a C in the rhudementerary arythmatic. Thus left with the components of the totally real Magical energy properties. See? :-D

[mudkippy998]

@EighteenCharacters so its Math Magic?

[singwithme2186]

you're really amazing ...

[FHomeBrew]

I got this as soon as he started shoveling. But it's most impressive to come up with these things. The math doesn't impress me half as much as the creative mind that must be behind this. The best card trick would be to come up with a new card trick imo, which I bet is something these people regularly do :D

[Abvance]

Get some Bicycle cards SB.

[KiloSierraAlpha]

Revealing someone else's trick is not cool. This trick is now mismag822's. He's just taking other people's tricks and exposing them.

[singingbanana]

@KiloSierraAlpha Do magicians have the right to take a mathematical effect or a logic problem and say "this is a secret now". Maths isn't secret.

[KiloSierraAlpha]

@singingbanana Math isn't but the trick itself and the presenation is.

[P4C4N0W5K1]

@KiloSierraAlpha And so that's why there's a damn tutorial on his channel?

[KiloSierraAlpha]

@P4C4N0W5K1 Every trick on mismag822's channel is stolen from someone else. They're not his tricks.

[P4C4N0W5K1]

@KiloSierraAlpha And that means that James can't reveal the maths behind them?

I'm not sure I follow.

At all.

[SirWilliamCo]

@P4C4N0W5K1 nobody follows because there is no logic behind it

[Alfalotter]

@KiloSierraAlpha I have to agree with you that revealing magic tricks (that obviously haven't been created by the person revealing it) is wrong. But when tricks use simple mathematical principals that have been around longer than the tricks have, James is right. Magicians have no right to claim a mathematical principal as their own "secret". They can use it of course but they don't have the right to tell people not to reveal it as it was never their's in the first place.

[KiloSierraAlpha]

@Alfalotter singingbanana didn't change a thing when he revealed this well known and copyrighted trick. he should have talked about math behind it without showing how the trick is done.

His excuse is that some other guy revealed it... the guy that steals other people's stuff and makes money off Yutube for doing so.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

Revealing other people's copyrighted tricks is wrong!

[Alfalotter]

@KiloSierraAlpha Well maybe the creator was wrong to copyright it in the first place (if they even did). Creating entirely new magic with new principals is an entire different thing to taking maths and claiming in for yourself. Also it's quite hard to talk about the maths behind a trick when the maths IS the trick. "His excuse is that some other guy revealed it" - He doesn't need an excuse because it's just maths - there is nothing wrong with explaining maths.

[materiasacra]

@singingbanana The (true) fact that math is not secret is insufficient in this case. What matters is the information you put into the analysis. If you put in secret information and publish your analysis you'd be violating secrecy (regardless of whether that is good or bad in a moral or legal sense). But you didn't! Your analysis is based on what everyone can see when the trick is performed. It is just careful thinking about information that is already out there, and hence perfectly legitimate.

[GiaIsTheBest]

@KiloSierraAlpha singingbanana and mismag822 made a deal. they are "YouTube-friends". mismag822 even sayd that singingbanana would reveal the mathematical part in thes 2 tricks.

[elemes09]

@KiloSierraAlpha in mismag822's video, he also said that he hopes singing banana will explain the math behind the trick.

[Padarom]

I am under the 300 viewers mark :)

But a cool card trick tutorial of course

[10Dante4]

that man is a genius

i would never have gotten that in a billion years.....bravo

[xXextraslastaXx]

@10Dante4 Sì, è davvero bravissimo :D

[GlitcherTom]

Very good explanation as always. I understood what was happening until you cut the deck which slightly confused me, but when you showed it with the coloured cards i realized it made no difference to the pattern in which they where in.

[ruckusrofl]

Ninth

[slaytesics]

but wouldn't it be impossible if you shuffled one of the small decks, like you said

[ilklr]

@slaytesics No, because he's only allowed to shuffle the first time, when the cards are in their original piles. In the case of his demonstration, it doesn't matter if you shuffle all of the pink cards. The point is, all of the pink cards are still together in that pile.

[GlitcherTom]

@slaytesics He shuffled the small deck at the start, or in his second example when the pile only consisted of the same colour cards, so it made no difference.

[lulhoofd1]

@slaytesics

no because when you do the ''shuffle-step'' it's during the phase where all the stacks are still the same colour.

[slaytesics]

@lulhoofd1 oh yes, thankyou for the clarification!

[Robzter96]

Singing banana>bananarama?

[MrGummyman]

You lost me at 3:00

[SexyPanda939]

hi

[IR335]

QUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD!

[Wabblenator]

third..

[Connorvic11]

second

[weflylow2183]

@Connorvic11 we aren't impressed that you can count...we just watched a singingbanana video

[toon2912]

first

[BassmrDK]

@toon2912 @Connorvic11 @Wabblenator @IR335 & @ruckusrofl Get some girls and stop spending SOO much time talling people which number you were to watch the video....

And @SexyPanda939 nice atempt on not saying 5th