Penn and Teller: Fool us - Rubik's Cube Magic

[Sidster]

Thats really cool! Nice job

 

[newtonbase]

Did this come from being stopped by the police?

 

[adimare]

That was amazing! Congratulations!

http://gyazo.com/708b4f4cba6332eb99c7c5afafa446ea.png
I wonder how much thought was put into that trophy design....

I think they know exactly what they're doing. The sentiment seems to be "FU, you fooled us".

 

[supercavitation]

http://gyazo.com/708b4f4cba6332eb99c7c5afafa446ea.png

I wonder how much thought was put into that trophy design....

Quite a lot. If you've ever seen them perform live, you know that them doing the trophy like that is not in the least bit surprising. Hilarious, but not surprising.

 

[Dene]

Great show!

 

[Tim Major]

Penn got olddd

Really impressive, I assume you do this trick differently to all the other scramble toss like tricks, and that you haven't revealed how? Are the cubes perfectly as functional as a normal cube/different in any way?

Was the match the scramble trick just a 50/50 that went your way, and if Teller chose the cube Penn had scrambled instead of the cube you scrambled, you would've had to've gone a different path?

 

[stoic]

Absolutely outstanding!
I love Penn and Teller, and to see them give in so quickly like that is just incredible.
:tu

 

[pdilla]

I watched it yesterday but forgot to comment on it...

Friggen amazing! I remember watching the video of you with the police some time ago and thought it was great! It's pretty neat that the cube is such an enigma to most people that even Penn and Teller would be fooled by a strong left pinky. Very smooth executions and covers. Love it!!

 

[Isaac Lai]

I'd love to know how they were done. That being said, magicians don't often reveal their secrets

 

[Berd]

Very cool!

 

[TheCoolMinxer]

Wow! That was an outstanding performance! I would love to see more from this guy in the future

 

[JohnnyReggae]

That was an amazing performance. I'm really stunned ... wow !!! Nice job.

 

[AlexMaass]

I'd love to know how they were done. That being said, magicians don't often reveal their secrets

I think I know how most of the tricks were done, I can post if you guys want to know.

 

[Berd]

I think I know how most of the tricks were done, I can post if you guys want to know.

I knew at least one of them

 

[Username]

I think I know how most of the tricks were done, I can post if you guys want to know.

maybe not post here, but PM the ones who want to know, some people might not want to even accidentally read it. That being said I definitely want to know, I have some kind of idea how they might work but I'm not sure except for like one of them

 

[tseitsei]

Some of them should be quite obvious for cubers IMO.

But some of them really amazed me too :tu So gj!

 

[newtonbase]

I think I can work out most of them but would like to hear others take on it.

I'm going to try and find time to come up with a short alg that makes a cube look more scrambled than it it that can be reversed quickly out of sight.

 

[Stefan]

Was the match the scramble trick just a 50/50 that went your way, and if Teller chose the cube Penn had scrambled instead of the cube you scrambled, you would've had to've gone a different path?

Teller did choose Penn's cube.

 

[Chree]

Penn got olddd

I googled "Is Penn sick". Turns out he had high blood pressure and his doctor told him to lose weight. So he went on some crazy diet. 4 months and 105 pounds later, he looks like a raisin. That's a real magic trick.

 

[cmhardw]

I think I can work out most of them but would like to hear others take on it.

I'm going to try and find time to come up with a short alg that makes a cube look more scrambled than it it that can be reversed quickly out of sight.

I don't know if this was used on the show, but (RULD)*2 is great for what you're looking for.