Kostya Kimlat Fools Penn & Teller // Fool Us: Penn's Favorite Card Trick on HackerTube: recommended by 3 Hacker News commenters across 3 separate months, 2017–2025.
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Magician Kostya Kimlat performs a card trick on Penn & Teller: Fool Us that fooled the duo, using Penn's favorite card trick as a basis.
HN recommends it as a trick admired for both its method and its effect.
“I like this one a lot as it is amazing on both method + effect.”
3 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.
I like this one a lot as it is amazing on both method + effect. Effect: ▶ this video I won't reveal the method but here it is in Penn's words (from 1:20): [link]
in “The Nettle Magic Project: Scanner for decks of cards with bar codes on edges” · View on HN
I can just reiterate my prior comment: * ▶ this video (-: For M. Kimlat's own commentary and someone else's particularly insightful comment: * [link] For the time spent on prep for the second appearance: * [link]
in “After 50 years, The Magic Circle finally inducts Penn and Teller” · View on HN
That was real! I mean he wasn't really angry but he really did have his mind blown. The backstory is that the magician in question (Kostya Kimlat) did a trick that Penn & Teller also do, and he did it more or less the same way they do it - except that at the end, at the part where P&T do the sleights that make the trick work, in Kimlat's version the effect was already done because he'd done a different sleight, earlier, about five inches under P&T's noses. It was pretty glorious. The trick: ▶ this video Penn talking about it: [link]
in “Teller Reveals His Secrets (2012)” · View on HN