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Illusion, the art of tricking the brain, distorting the senses, challenging

perception. You can't trust what you see, even with your own eyes. Meet the

Masters of Illusion.

Hello, everyone. I'm Dean Cain, and welcome to Masters of Illusion. Did you

that in the old days, magic was not performed as a form of entertainment?

Many magicians, or sorcerers as they were known, claimed to have actual

supernatural powers.

Well, our magicians are not making those same claims, but when you see what

you're about to see, you might just wonder.

Some of the... Oh, wait, no. It's Alexander de Vivier.

I know I'm French, so I do very silly things, but see, I put some holes in my

cards. But what I like to do is to just take one hole and put it here.

I'd like to take one of the holes and put it there.

Thank you.

That's not right.

Let's push this one here.

But I have not seen them. That's a prefer when they were in the corner.

Do you know what? Can you snap your fingers at one, two, three?

I'm a magician's assistant.

Now, when you or I get a stain on our clothes, we probably just throw it in

laundry. Well, this next performer has opted for the full experience.

Let's welcome to the stage Rudy Kobe.

So I go.

They say diamonds are forever.

Coincidentally, this is how long the next act will have you wondering how it

done. Here's Joshua J.

I am now joined by two people I just met from our audience. Your name is? I'm

Brooke.

Alicia. Nice to meet you both.

When I was in Ecuador, I saw a magician there do something I will never forget.

A traditional magic trick from his village. He would borrow something

from someone. It was usually a lock of hair or, strange as it sounds, a

fingernail. You burn it, and then from the ashes, you read that person's

So, Brooke, I thought we would try that today. We need to create something

personal for you. So to do that, I will have you pick a card.

A little less personal.

Say stop as I riffle through.

Stop. Right there. This will be your card. This will be Brooke's card.

What are your initials?

BSJ. Please, write BSJ right in the middle of that card.

And it's important you see how she signed her name and initials on this

And that goes in the middle of the deck.

Now. We need something personal for you to find

your own future. So on this piece of paper, I would like you to write those

initials the same way that you did on the card, and then roll that into a

ball. My friend, it's about to get real.

Here's the idea.

Your future has just been told. If you look very carefully, you will

see that your initials have turned into two things. Hold those up. What do you

see there?

Diamonds. Diamonds.

But place one of these here. There's not just diamonds. These are two diamonds.

Did you by any chance pick the two diamonds?

I did.

But here's what's even crazier.

Are they real diamonds? These are not real diamonds like you wear on your

finger, but these are real diamonds from a playing card.

I said that this would predict your future, and this is what I meant.

In this deck of cards, one card has now been burnt.

It's missing.

It's actually missing holes right where the diamonds are supposed to be.

Now, if this was just a two of diamonds, that would be an interesting trick.

But if this is the card you signed your name on, that would be completely

impossible.

We'll be right back with a super quick hand of Anna de Guzman.

Next.

She is known for her sleight of hand, partnered with a bit of flair.

Let's give a warm welcome to Anna de Guzman.

I have a lovely member of our audience here on stage with me. What's your name,

sir? My name is Damien.

Damien, that's so funny. I actually, I think I have something of yours, Damien.

Is this, is this your wallet?

That is my wallet. It is?

How did you get that? Is this your wallet?

It was. Are you sure?

That's pretty hot. What happened?

This is the hottest magic trick you'll ever see in your life, right?

That's pretty hot. That's pretty hot.

You have a lot of things in here. Actually, something interesting I saw

like magic too. You have a card in here. I do. See, I know normally I do card

tricks. So people are so used to seeing me with cards, but I know you really

want to see a money trick.

There we go. So let's do a money trick.

You don't have much in here. You actually only have a few bucks. One,

three, four, five dollars.

If you hold out your hand, though, I think I can help you. Okay. Watch the

Okay.

This is the best magic trick. It's everyone's favorite.

One, two, three, four, five hundred dollars.

That's for you.

You can check it out. Make sure it's real. Hold it up against the light.

Everything good?

Everything looks great to me.

Do you want to keep it?

Oh, well, you know, it is my wallet, right?

Well, you see, I do this trick for people all the time and see when anyone

to leave with the money, this is what happens. Watch. One, two.

They actually go right back.

Well. Do you want to keep this? Yeah, here. I'm broke again. Thank you so

Give it up for Damon. Thank you so much.

The odds are stacked against our next performer.

But can he make a prediction that's nearly impossible?

Here's Chipper Lowell.

Oh, nice to be here once again. We're going to try a little experiment, and

is going to involve our studio audience, but also you at home.

So pay attention. This is really, really cool. Let me bring something up here on

the screen. I call them Chipper stickers, as the sign says up there.

Select them all. Look, it's pictures of me.

Yes. There's 70 -plus pictures, and there are probably, well, I don't know,

you've got a ton of different colors. You have red, green, blue, orange,

gray, silver, on and on and on. So, in order for this to work, everybody here

the studio audience and also at home, I want you to figure out which of your

eyeballs is your less dominant eye.

Could be your right, could be your left. But whatever it is, cover that one up

with one of your hands. You got that? At home, you got that? Right? Some people

are just discovering they have a less dominant eye.

Awesome. All right.

Whichever one is covered up with the other hand, give me a thumbs up.

Everyone. Excellent. Now, your thumb, I want you to turn that into one finger,

holding it high in the air. And thank you all for choosing the right finger.

Excellent. Everyone take a look at the screen, and I want you to put your

onto one of the stickers, wherever it's at. Reach out to put your finger onto a

sticker. Once you've done that, say, I did that, Chipper.

I did that, Chipper.

Very nice. I want you to look around and find the closest, nearest red sticker.

The closest, nearest red sticker. Once you find that, slide your finger over to

that close red sticker now and say, I did that, too, Chipper. I did that, too.

Very nice. Now, I would like you to look around and find the closest nearest

yellow sticker.

The closest nearest yellow sticker.

Once you find that, slide your finger over to that one and say, I did that as

well, chipper.

I did that as well, chipper. Very nice.

Now, I would like you to look around and find the closest nearest blue sticker.

The closest nearest blue sticker.

And once you find one, slide your finger over to that and say, I did that as

well, chipper.

I did that as well, chipper. All right.

So, wherever you are on the board right now, I want you to keep concentrating on

the sticker that you've landed on, because I made a little prediction

show, and it goes like this.

Yeah! Give yourself a hand! You did not just!

Congratulations!

You're all now masters of illusion!

When we return, the always amazing sleight of hand of Andy Glatton.

Mentalism, sleight of hand, and illusions are used by magicians to amaze

audiences. But what happens when you combine all three?

Let's find out with Andy Gladwin.

We have three people up in the audience to help with a trick inspired by this

book, Alice in Wonderland.

Oh my gosh, I love that book. You love this book? Perfect. I'm glad you're here

to help. Actually, it's inspired by something the queen says. She says... I

experienced as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

I haven't eaten yet, so I feel like we can actually do six impossible things

right now, inspired by the book Alice in Wonderland.

And the first thing we know about the book is it uses playing cards a lot,

right? There's some on the cover.

So let's have somebody pick a card, first of all. You can pick one of these

cards, and we'll do it in the fairest way. I will deal through the cards, and

you can just say stop whenever you like, okay? So I'll deal the cards onto the

table. Whenever you like, you can just say stop. Right here, this one.

Or this one?

This one?

Okay, totally up to you.

You can have a look at the card. Remember the card.

And actually, would you hold out your hand for me and place your other hand on

top of the card?

Don't forget the card. We're going to try and come back to it in a minute.

You're up next. You're going to pick a time because also the book uses the

element of time. There's even a clock on the cover.

So we'll pick a time on my watch.

I'm going to pull out the pin, and then I will spin it around so that the hands

move, and you're going to randomly pick one of those times. So pinch your

fingers like this for me.

Hold on to the pin, and you can go forwards or backwards. It's totally up

you.

Good. Okay, you're really going for it. Okay.

And press.

All right. I'll push the pin in. So we lock that time in, and I'd like you to

remember that time for me.

All right. You have it? Okay. And would you hold out your hand as well and place

your other hand on top of the watch?

And now the book itself.

We're going to have you pick a word from the book. So first of all, you should

pick a page. I'll just go through like this, and you can just say stop whenever

you like. Stop. Here? Okay, first of all, I'd like you to take hold of the

You can look at either page. Just remember the page number that you're on.

And then once you're on that page, I'd like you to think of a word from that

page. Go for a long word, one that's going to be tricky for me. And once you

have it, close up the book and hold it between your hands as well.

You have it? Great. And you can take a finger out the page and then hold it out

like this. So I have no idea what page it is or what word it is.

So here's the first.

three impossible things. You picked a card.

There's one, it's 52 chance of me getting this right, but I think if you

picture that card in your mind, I should be able to name it. I think your card

was the five of hearts. Did I get it right?

What?

How? No.

It's my job. It is my job.

But there's a time.

Time's actually harder. There are actually over 3 ,000 combinations of

a watch. And I have to try and work out your time.

You were going quite a bit, so I think you turned it a lot. So I think your

is five minutes past five. Did I get it right?

Yeah. Perfect.

And now the word's even harder. There are 29 ,000 words in Alice in

I Googled it. I didn't count. I promise.

And I'm going to try and get just the one that you're thinking of.

Let me try and work this out. First of all, just think of the first letter.

That'll be easier for me to break it down.

I can see like a straight line.

Is it a T?

Yes. It is. Okay.

Let's try and go. T.

I think it's almost like two words put together. Is it themselves?

It is.

Perfect. So that's three impossible things.

But I said six. I promised six impossible things. So the last three

and do really quickly. You've been holding on to that five of hearts the

time, and I've been nowhere near it.

Check this out.

It should happen now. Open up your hand.

You see, that five of hearts you picked no longer exists. That five of hearts is

completely blank.

And you picked a time. Your time was five minutes past five.

But that's impossible.

Because there are no hands on this watch. This watch has no hands. There is

way you would have picked five past five.

And the word, you picked the word themselves on a random page. Do you

the page number? Yeah. What was it?

46. 46. Let me show everyone. I will go to page 46. You can just make sure I'm

being completely honest here. Look, we're on page 19, 23, 31, 37, 41, 45.

page 46 is completely blank there's no way you could have picked a word on that

page and that is impossible amazing

is the only way to

describe clairvoyance after this

There are tons of stakes in this out -of -the -box performance.

So without further ado, let's hear it for the Clairvoyants.

Well, we hope you enjoyed this edition of Masters of Illusion. I know I did. Be

sure to join us next time. Till then, I'm Dean Cain.

Good night.