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This week, it's a totally self-working card trick
that you can't possibly screw up.
Plus, it'll actually fool you!
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This episode of "Scam School," brought to you by Go Daddy.
Welcome to the show that's exactly
like Disneyland, only drunk and highly unfriendly--
and may have stolen your wallet.
"Scam School"-- the only show dedicated
to social engineering at the bar and on the street.
And this week, we have a gem that I absolutely love.
It's a card trick that people have
told me dozens of time I should have on "Scam School,"
and finally we're making it happen.
It's one that requires no sleight of hand,
no mental mathemagic-ery whatsoever.
And the best part is, it actually
fools the person performing the trick.
Let's check this guy out.
OMG, I am so super-stoked.
We've got Simone and Stephen and Mike all here in the same place
at the same time.
And I'm going to show you guys a card trick that people have
been suggesting for "Scam School"
since, I kid you not, like, episode three.
Now we're all the way up to episode, like, 200.
This thing, it's really weird, because it's simultaneously
100% self-working, requires no slight of hand, no mental math.
It's, like, follow three steps.
And here's the best part-- it actually
fools the magician who's doing it.
Like, I've done this for myself, like, 20 times in the hotel
room before here.
That's how sad I am.
Here's what we're going to do.
First of all, I need you guys to shuffle up the cards.
Here-- all of you.
Just mix them up.
Make sure there's no possible way I could possibly
know what order any of the cards are, because it truly doesn't
matter what order the cards are.
All right, we're good?
Everything's 100%?
All right, now here's the best part,
is that I can even describe in detail every single thing I'm
going to do, the entire trick long,
and hopefully the ending will still be amazing.
First thing I'm going to do is make
a bunch of piles based on the order of cards
that you guys picked.
I'll tell you in advance that the total of each pile
is going to be 13.
Now, in this case, we have a king.
And it by itself is worth 13.
So now I'm going to take the nine.
So from nine, we go 10, 11, 12, 13.
Now I go to the next one, four, which
means I do five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13.
Two, which means two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight,
nine, 10, 11, 12, 13.
Three-- four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13.
Six-- seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13.
Nine-- 10, 11, 12, 13.
And we've got a couple of extras that I'll set right over here.
So we have a bunch of piles here-- one, two, three, four,
five, six-- seven piles.
I'm going to turn around.
I'm not going to look.
Each of you guys pick one of these piles
to flip over, and then gather up all the remaining face-up
cards.
Make sense?
Each of you pick one pile, turn it face down,
take all the other cards, gather them up in a pile.
I'm being very good, looking in the other direction.
You'll have to tell me when you've finished, by the way.
Do we?
Or we could sit here awkwardly for the remainder
of the evening.
OK, you've got it.
Excellent.
All right, so we've got three face downs,
and we've got a bunch of discards over here.
Now, here's the thing.
I honestly don't know what card is
on top of the piles you guys picked.
I wasn't paying attention.
And if I was a wizard, I couldn't have possibly kept
track of all the different things.
But we've got a few cards left over,
and maybe they know which cards are where.
So here's what I want you to do.
Simone, I want you to reach forward and turn over
the top card of one of those piles.
All right, we've got a two.
We'll let Mike pick one of those remaining piles,
turn over the top card.
I'll stick to the outside.
Six.
But now here's the best-- I'm going
to ask the cards what's up.
And I'm going to start-- you just deal off 10 cards-- two,
three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10.
And we got two over here, so we'll go one, two.
And we've got six over here-- one, two, three, four, five,
six.
And wouldn't it be amazing if the cards could tell us?
We've got one, two, three-- four cards left.
And the last face down card is-- the four.
Awesome.
Wow.
All right, now seriously, this thing is amazing.
It absolutely blows away the person who performs it.
It requires no skill, and it works 100% of the time.
Are you guys ready to figure out how this Works
Yeah.
Then toast me.
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All right, now, it make look like there's
a lot of steps to this.
But trust me-- it's super, super simple.
And no matter how smart or dumb or skilled or unskilled you
are, as long as you follow the steps,
you cannot screw this up.
Who wants to be my guinea pig here?
All right, Simone.
That was awfully fast.
Everyone looked right over at Simone.
All right, so here's what we're going to do.
First step is you do have to arrange
in that bizarre kind of ordering where
each pile has a total value of 13.
Even though the deck is totally shuffled--
you honestly have no idea what order
the cards are in-- start with any card.
We'll have the ace be one, so two, three, four, five, six,
seven, eight, nine, 10, jack, queen, king-- 13.
Five-- six, seven, eight, nine, 10, jack, queen,
king-- that's 13.
Eight-- nine, 10, jack, queen, king.
Four-- five, six seven, eight, nine, 10, jack, queen, king.
Nine-- 10, jack, queen, king.
Queen, king.
And then you've got extras.
And the extras you always just set face down off to the side.
It doesn't matter which ones they turn over
when you turn your back.
Now, in this case it worked out great
because we had three people.
I was able to turn my back.
Each of you picked a pile, so we'll just
say randomly that it's these three.
And then just gather up all the remaining ones
and make one giant pile.
Once you do, have two of the piles-- turn over the top card,
and you're going to figure out the value of the last card.
So here, you guys turn over two.
So in this case, we want to know the last one.
You always start by dealing off 10.
Now, if you can make up some kind of reason
why it has to be 10, that's great.
But I say keep it simple and just go one, two, three, four,
five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10.
Then deal off the value of the cards.
So you've got one for the ace and then one, two, three, four,
five, six, seven, eight.
And amazingly, every single time when
you deal off the remaining cards, that
will be the value of the last one.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine--
and it matches nine.
Any questions?
No.
You ready?
Yeah.
All right, here-- go ahead and gather them all up.
In fact, we'll go ahead and shuffle them for you,
and then you show us your amazing rock star magic skills.
I'm not so good at this.
All right, here.
So we'll start off.
We're going to shuffle up the deck.
Here, give that a cut.
Boom.
All right, Simone.
Blow us away with that totally shuffled up deck.
OK, so that's one.
Up to 13.
There you go.
So five six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13.
Queen-- king.
Wow, look at that.
Well, hello.
So 10, 11, 12, 13.
And then keep on going.
10, 11, 12, 13.
Four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13.
And one more, right?
You can stop right now.
But what I like to do is create as many piles as possible.
So I would keep on going if you can.
Nine, 10, 11, 12 13.
And now at this point, you see there's a six,
and there's clearly not enough cards to hit 13,
then you cut it off at that.
Right?
And now what do we do, Simone?
Oh, I have to turn around.
And what are we going to do?
You're gonna flip three of the piles over.
All right.
And then you're going to put all the rest together in one pile.
Good call.
I'm going to do that.
Don't look.
It's our secret piles.
All right.
We got them-- three piles for you.
Boom.
So now I put those with this.
And then I have you guys turn over
two of the piles, the top cards.
Two of the top cards.
All right, go for it, sir.
An ace.
Bet you didn't plan on that.
No.
Mike?
Four.
You can't handle the four.
You're screwed.
You'll never be able to tell us what
this final card is, Simone.
Yes, I will.
Nu-uh.
Uh-huh.
Yuh-huh?
Because I'm gonna deal 10 cards.
And then I'm going to deal one card for the ace.
And then four cards for the four.
The amount of cards left is going
to tell me what that top card is.
No way.
Yeah.
No way.
No, I got bets against it.
It should be five.
Five?
If this is a five, I'm buying a beer for everyone
at this freakin' table.
Oh!
Oh, nice.
Amazing wizardry.
Well done, Simone.
Good job.
Now, is this the single most impressive card
trick you're ever going to learn?
Of course not.
But is it a hell of a lot of fun, dead simple,
and it works every time?
Absolutely.
That's why I want you to actually grab a deck of cards
and start playing with this thing.
That first time that you get the moment of counting the cards,
seeing there's eight of them, and you turn over the top card
and it's perfectly matches, you are
going to be in love, just like I am.
And speaking of which, I want to hear about your success stories
and failure stories, so I want you to hit us up
at the boards at scamschool.tv, where
you can see all of our episodes right back to episode one.
If you want to follow me personally,
why don't you hit up my Google Plus account?
Head on over to gplus.to./shwood,
and you and I could be BFFs.
And of course if you want to suggest your favorite bar scam,
write me directly at brian@revision3.com.
Make sure to join us next week, because I am personally going
to physically assault every single person who
posts the word first on this video.
I'm talking to you, mister.
Why don't you put a nice word for a change?
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