The trick that fooled Houdini

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Uploaded by on Jun 27, 2010

In 1922, Harry Houdini was the most famous magician in the world. The forty-eight year old Houdini was so confident in his knowledge of magic that he had an open challenge to all fellow magicians - 'show me any trick three times in a row and I'll be able to tell you how you did it.' At the Great Northern Hotel in Chicago, Dai Vernon took the great Houdini up on his challenge. But Vernon would not repeat his trick three times in a row - Dai Vernon repeated it SEVEN TIMES and Houdini could not get it!

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  • @100000zombies Nope. A normal deck, and one of the most basic, well-known fundamental card sleights there is. But if you do it very well... it will fool a LOT of people. Even knowing exactly what is happening, I have to concentrate very hard not to fall for the extremely compelling misdirection that this sleight employs.

  • @ihopeshesuffers

    Magic Duh

  • that was so smooth

    

  • Nice work. If you like we can also keep in touch if you text: magical to: 90210.

  • HOW

  • Love it, worked it out, took me awhile. Really appreciate you posting this, going to practice this 1,000,000 times over.

    Thank you

  • The smoothness of the move at 0:50 blows my mind. I've watched it five times and I still can't figure out how you do that move smoothly. The rest I've got though.

  • i love it :D

    its probly a fake deck

  • Very nicely done. Impressive.

  • Oh wow! This was so... Awesome ;)

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