REVEALED | EXPOSED - IMPOSSIBLE Card Magic Trick by 12 Year Old STUNS Penn & Teller Fool Us

As requested, here's another "reverse Engineered" reveal of the great card trick by Zoe LaFleur. PLease provide in the comments your ideas for how you think it worked!

Zoe Lafleur is an amazing 12 Year Old Magician who appeared on Penn and Teller Fool Us and attempted to Fool Penn and Teller with a card magic trick. The trick she performed can be seen by searching YouTube for Zoe and Fool Us. Although she didn't manage to Fool Penn or Teller it was an incredible card trick

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[Creshex]

I study magic defensively. I watch a trick, and I don’t look at the solution until I figure it out myself. Magic tricks are sort of like puzzles to figure out for me....
And this freaking trick...I cannot tell you how much time I’ve devoted to trying to figure this out. I eventually concluded that it was impossible for me to figure out and I gave up. I am so glad someone like you finally told me that the trick edited out the crucial part. You are the savior of my sanity.

[cslloyd]

thanks for this video. knowing how she did it actually increases my appreciation for what she did. this was not the card magic I did as a kid, all of which were simple mathematic phenomena. i think the show producers robbed her a bit by making it seem like she needed help in terms of editing. she didn't. there was a ton of effort in learning/performing this trick. much more than I would be willing to put in. and it could very easily have gone wrong which is a big risk on national tv (although I suppose they could have dropped the segment in editing if she really blew it).

[its-a-kind-of-magic]

I did not understand how she had managed the end of the trick but I had not thought about editing. Thank you for this excellent explanation. I love your channel...

[hawkeye]

Thanks for sharing sir.... Appreciated your work

[oldschoolwarrior]

I was really impressed by her poise and by how great she pulled this trick off. Seeing the explanation makes me appreciate her routine even more. To manage all of that right in front of them with the confidence that she had says a lot about her. Yes, they saw the crimp, but it was still incredibly impressive that she actually made it all work so smoothly.

[DanielPIRBR]

Yeah I've been fooled by the editors 😂😂😂😂

[lane]

@11:07: just to correct a small point...the presumed video cut takes place not between her putting the cards down and her asking Teller to replace his cards...but rather the cut happens (which is when we see the blonde lady with the glasses) *after* Teller has already replaced his cards.

[anti-apathy]

She's just a kid. We all know it's a slight of hand TRICK. Pulling it off flawlessly, THAT is the very hard part of it. And that is what she did. She really impressed me! I saw nothing that gave her trick away. Cute, articulate, so much poise and so talented!

[Alex]

Very nicely explained. Hadnt thought that this trick is so complicated (at least for a newby). Thanks for sharing, keep doing that great work!

[briansmith]

I really enjoyed her impressively confident, very skilful performance. Even without the edit it's very good but watching this several times I can see that the cards are in a different position on the table after the unseen cut.

[martinjf]

Well done spotting the cutaway and what it hid! No point doing that with Dynamurrrr’s shows because they are riddled with camera cons! Keep those tricks coming and thank you.

[kyleleon]

After Teller places cards on top and bottom, we don’t see her cut the deck. There’s a camera cut at that point.

[LoDijoTuAlmohada]

Didn't want to believe there was a missing scene but looking at the performance again, you can see that after the random woman scene, the shape of the deck is a bit different than what it was the moment Teller put his cards there.

[eyewaves...]

Thanks for sharing your thoughts - I agree with you. It is brilliant that you reverse engineered this amazing trick.

[Totaro]

But she asked teller what number he was thinking of. He said 10. And there was no cut away. What if he said 16. This part confuses me. Unless it’s just more editing. And she cut the cards after he said the number he was thinking of.

[daveshereduh]

Even without the "movie editing magic" if I saw her do the final cut she would have fooled me! This young lady is very good!

[juliusreyes]

great explanation, now i felt like i'm being cheated by the show itself, i really couldn't figure out the last part of the act when i saw the video. never thought that the show would cut such an important part of the act.

[samwyckoff]

Great explanation!!! Thank you. I agree with you that there must have been a cut seen, and I believe this is done to prevent the tv audience from watching over and over eventually figuring it out. In a live audience that saw her do the final cut it is still impressive and the audience would never remember the steps.

[gunnak]

Now I get the Penn talking about his hair when he said he had to put a crimper on to straighten out his hair :)

[gothicbagheera]

Here's a way she could have done it without having any parts of the trick edited out to help fool people watching it on television, that so many have jumped at believing that's the only way she could have successfully done the trick.

When the chosen card is put back in the deck she knew exactly how many cards were on top and bottom of it, from the way she "randomly" put groups of cards down until she was told to stop. When she deck cut shuffled the couple of times before the remaining cards were added back, she could have used the crimp to get the right card on the top of the deck, and as she placed the deck back on the table before the remaining cards were added, she could have palmed the top card as she was moving her hands back out of the way. When she turned away to not see the final cards added back to the top and bottom, she didn't just turn facing away like all the other times, but also put her hand up to help block her view of seeing the cards put back, and that was the only time she.did.that. To me, she did that as a distraction so people didn't see what she was doing with her right hand, putting the palmed card somewhere at the back of the table where she could palm it again and reveal it as the final card drawn from the top of the deck. If you notice, her right hand drops behind the table momentarily while she's keeping her finger on top of the deck after counting to the number that Teller showed her he added back to the top and bottom of the deck. After asking what the card was supposed to be, and she's told the 5 of Hearts, when she draws up the card she's had her finger on, she's holding both hands in a very unnatural way, and then turns the card around in a very unnatural way as well, but all in ways that it would be easier to flip out the 5 of Hearts she had palmed in her right hand onto the back of the card in her left hand, and made it appear like she just turned the top card around, to reveal the 5 of Hearts.

I don't know if that's how she did it or not, but it is a possible way she did it, and is a way that doesn't downplay her at all, by implying the only way for her to successfully do the trick was by having parts of it being hidden by jump-cuts done by television editors.