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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 Payne and welcome to Masters of Illusion. Right

for the first time on this show, I am going to reveal to you the secret.

to how our masters of illusion perform their fantastic feats. I know I'm not

supposed to do it, but are you ready?

You all right? You sure?

I have no idea.

Because it must be magic. I tried to figure it out. I got a trick for you.

ladies and gentlemen, Murray Sawtruck.

How you guys doing?

How's it going?

I just, uh... I brought a sword for you. Just this for you. You want to see it?

Uh, that's dangerous. It is very dangerous. Do not try this at home, all

Here we go. Watch.

No.

No.

That's not okay.

Do it again, Scott.

Oh, yeah.

All right, maybe I can do that one.

I'm always excited to bring this next performer on the stage. I'll be watching

as closely as the audience and everyone at home.

Here's Nathan Fann.

Hello, everybody.

You know, sometimes magic is art.

Sometimes it's a puzzle. Sometimes it's entertainment.

Tonight, I hope to be able to do all three for you using this martini glass,

this bag, and this packet of teal playing cards.

We need a playing card from the deck at random, so we'll go ahead and grab the

jack of hearts here. And I'm going to need someone at random from the

someone preferably who enjoys having a drink. Who here likes a drink? Raise

hand. We have, oh, you right over here. What's your name?

Esmeralda, now, I can either write your name on this card, Esmeralda, or you can

give me the name of your favorite drinking buddy.

Aurelia. Aurelia, so that's A -U -R -E -L -I -A? Yeah.

I'm going to write Aurelia, nice and big and bold, on that card there. We're

going to try to do something using the glass and this card, and first we're

going to start by folding this in half.

Sit, stay, good boy.

Fold it in half one more time.

Excellent. And now to create a cool and unique

puzzle art entertainment piece using this here and

this here.

Now, you remember those puzzles you used to get? Those metal puzzles you'd get

as a child and you always wanted to know how to get the things together or how

to get them off, right? Well...

Obviously, you never wanted other people to see exactly how it works, so I must

protect my secret as well. But I assure you that this is going to leave quite

the impression on you.

I think that's all it takes.

I want to see that this is

Aurelia's card linked.

On to here. Now, I want you to do me a favor. Aurelia, can you just pull on

and see that I haven't, like, torn a corner and it's just, like, the pure

of it?

That's really legitimately on there. Well, I hope that I've created a puzzle

that you can now keep as a piece of art, but hopefully I've entertained you as

well. That is for you to keep forevermore. That's for you, Aurelia.

I'm Ed Varelda, and you can share with Aurelia next time you have a drink.

Thank you very much!

Teleportation is a hypothesis that has yet to be proven.

Until now.

Let's welcome to the stage, Eric Jones.

I want to show you all something really interesting with a couple of old coins.

This is a really old illusion with some of the simplest props on the planet. Not

only am I using these four coins, I will also use an empty pocket.

And you're going to see.

Very simply, first thing I'm going to do is allow some gravity to happen.

I'm going to turn the pocket right side in, and here's the idea, folks. The idea

is that one at a time, you'll see the four coins, as I render them invisible,

toss them into the air, and they will land in the pocket, beginning with this.

One, two, three, four.

Hold on.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Now, see, I know it doesn't look like much, but three coins left to go.

of course, inside of the pocket is the first.

One coin here.

I'll place this coin into the pocket. You notice I do have a microphone.

The microphone is so that you can hear the sound of silver.

One, two, three, four.

Did you hear that?

It was subtle, but effective.

That means that there are two points that have left to go. Two points that

gone. We'll try it again.

And things are going to get more difficult as we travel across.

Two down.

Two, one,

one.

Did you hear that?

Which means that here inside of the pocket just happened to be one, two, and

three. Little coins.

I'm going to turn the pocket inside out one more time, placing all three coins

into the pocket, nice and slow so that you can't miss anything. The last one,

always the most difficult. Watch as closely as you can.

Which means that inside of the pocket, there just happens to be one, two,

and gravity.

Gravity, ladies and gentlemen.

Thank you.

Welcome up. We are in for a wild ride with this next act from Ben Barnes. When

we return.

Okay, I want you to go ahead and imagine the best card trick you've ever seen.

Got it?

Good. Because you're about to see a better one.

From Ben Barnes.

We are going to play an imagination game.

Now, the great thing about imagination games is you can't lose.

In one minute, everyone here and at home will be amazed because of what the four

of you are about to do.

Now, in addition to using your imaginations, we're also going to use

of playing cards. I'm going to hold on to the queens, but I'm going to give you

the pack.

And I want you to take about a quarter of the cards off the top and pass them

all the way down to the end of the row.

Or you can walk them down to the end of the row.

No, it's okay, it's okay. Now take about a third of those cards and hand them

down to the gentleman.

And then take half of the cards you have and give them to our friend next to

you. And you have a quarter. Now I'm going to give each of you one of the

queens.

So I'll put it right in there for you.

Hello?

I'm going to give you one of the queens as well.

Hello, sir. You take a queen.

And then lastly, you get a queen.

And from this moment on, I won't touch those cards.

Go ahead and push those cards square.

You guys already did it. Fantastic.

Great. All right, now we're going to...

Play the game. I won't touch the cards. I'm going to come back down by you.

And I want all of you to raise your right index finger into the air just

am mine.

Lower them very slowly onto the top of the cards.

Great. In a moment, I'm going to snap my fingers. When I snap my fingers, I want

you to raise those fingers back up. Do it now.

And imagine, just imagine the stuff to your fingers are your queens.

Just imagine that.

And look, if you look closely using the lens of your imagination, you can even

see it. Can you see it?

No.

Use your imagination.

Can you see it?

Yeah. Much better. Much better.

When I say go, I want you to point to any one of the three people next to you.

And the moment you do it, that queen will jump from your finger to there.

Go.

And so there's no confusion. Who did you point to?

Perfect,

perfect. Now you take one step back, one step back, and you get to do the same

thing. When I say go, point to anyone you want.

Go.

Who did you go to?

To her? All right. So you're skipping him and going to her, right? Yep. Okay.

Take one step back.

All right.

She skipped you. Take one step back.

And what I want you to do is lower your finger onto the top of the cards like

that and don't move.

Now these three people claim to have very powerful imagination.

Let's see just how powerful they are.

I want you to flip your cards over, all of them, turn all of them over, and if

your queens are gone, if they've disappeared, give me your card. Go

through them.

Gone?

Now you put your finger on top, yes?

One by one, deal them face down onto my hand.

One, two, three, four. Turn your cards over.

Look for the queens.

And that's because they were on top. There's the queen of clubs, the queen of

hearts, the queen of space, and the queen of diamonds.

That's the power of imagination.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Pay close attention.

We would hate for you to miss this next illusion from Ed Allant when we return.

With this magician, things are never quite what they seem.

Our very own master of illusion, Ed Allant.

This next performer might just have superpowers because it seems like he can

read minds.

Here's Eric Eaton.

So I have my four volunteers here from the audience, and tonight we are

going to go on a date.

I'm a magician, so I haven't had a date in 20 years, and I need you guys to help

me come up with ideas.

How's that sound?

Good? So I have this clipboard here, one for you, one for you, one for you, and

one for you. If I can get you guys to think of a date idea and write it down

me. Do not let me see it.

You guys good?

Perfect. Take it off the board if you haven't already, and now fold it and

it again.

All right. If I can get you to put your card into that bag, your card into that

bag, your card into that bag, and your card into that bag.

In the meantime, I'll go ahead and take this from you.

Take this from you.

Perfect. Look, you're catching on.

We learn quick here.

All right. Now, can I give you guys to give the bag to the man here? And if I

can get you to shuffle those bags, so I don't know whose bag goes to who. Just

mix them up well for me.

What I'm going to do is I'm going to take one bag at a time. And right here,

are going to take this one and open it up.

The first date we have is trip to Italy.

You, sir, you look like someone who would like to go to Italy. Am I correct?

Yes.

Everyone give him a round of applause.

Next, we have go to an escape room.

This is someone that clearly gets lost easily and needs help finding their way

out.

Let's see, looking around.

Good, good.

You seem quiet.

Do you like to go to escape rooms, Sam?

Everyone give her a round of applause.

That leaves us with two left.

See, we'll go ahead and open both. This first one says, a walk on the beach.

Someone likes to get their tan on.

And cooking class.

All right, cooking class and walk on the beach. That leaves me with you two.

Do you guys both like to eat?

Do you guys both like to swim?

Yeah. All right. That didn't help.

Let's see. And judging by the look of these, you seem to get me mom by. Did

pick cooking class?

Perfect. And did you pick walk on the beach?

Yeah.

Everyone give him a round of applause.

Thank you.

Get ready for a grand illusion like you've never seen before from Robert

when we return.

Now it's time for the always funny and equally exciting. Oh, and did I mention

talented Robert Ramirez?

Welcome, welcome. Okay, what is your name? My name is Ted.

Daniel, very nice to meet you. I'm Robert. Daniel is a volunteer from the

audience, and you're going to help me out with a very simple trick. We have a

paper bag. I'd like you to open the paper bag, look in the paper bag, make

there's nothing in the paper bag. So really look in there, really open the

yes. Reach in there with your hand, make sure there's no, like, magnets. This is

key, because you are the eyes and the hands of the audience at the moment.

Okay, he's very, he's being very polite, but it really just is a paper bag. It

really is a paper bag.

He's on very good behavior.

52 cards, 52 cards. Will you shuffle those cards for me? Shuffle those cards

me. You're going to kind of do all the work here. I'm not going to do any of

so I'm going to blindfold myself, and the best way to do that is with one of

these, not for the bottom half of my face, for the upper half of my face,

that. All right, you shuffled the cards, yes? I want you to cut about a third of

the cards, and I'll take the rest of them from you.

Okay. It's terrifying when you can't see. And you're going to take three

out, and I'll take the rest of the cards.

Good.

Perfect. This is terrifying.

Are these cards face down right now? They are down. Okay, perfect. So if I do

this, you can see them? Yes. Perfect. So you can see they're random cards. Now,

you shuffled the cards.

I almost couldn't find the bag. You shuffled the cards, and you picked three

random cards. Is that correct?

I did. All right. You're going to show the audience one at a time. Hold on.

You're going to show the audience one at a time each card, and then you're going

to drop it into the bag one at a time. So show the first card. Show the first

card to everybody so they can see and then drop it in the bag. Is it in the

Yes, first card. First card's in the bag. Second card. Show the second card.

Show the second card. Everyone's using the second card. Show the second card.

Remember, you can memorize the first card or the second card. It's up to you.

Second card in the bag?

Yes. Okay, perfect, perfect, perfect.

Okay, third card. Third card. Show everybody. Show everybody the last card.

card. Place it in the bag.

Is it in the bag? In the bag. Great. So, did you memorize at least one of those

cards? I did. Okay, good.

Good. All right, I've taken the bag. You take the bag because people think that

I'm holding on to the card. And you shake the bag. Shake it. Shake it to

heart's content.

As long as none of the cards fall out, we're good. Are they good?

Okay, I'm going to tape the blindfold off.

Yeah, I feel like... I'm all right.

I'm all right. I just need new eyes. All right, here we go.

The goal is I'm going to try to reach in the bag. I'm going to try to find out

all three cards as fast as I can, even though, A, I didn't see any of the cards

that you shuffled. B, I didn't see what...

stack you cut off of, and three, I didn't see any of the cards from the

that you picked as well. So there's a bunch of cards in here, three of the

that you picked, and you have some of them memorized. So I'm going to reach in

and try to find them as quickly as possible.

Here we go. Okay, here we go.

Yeah, okay, that one's getting more.

Nice one.

All right.

All right, that's two.

I just need one more. I just need one more. Okay, okay, perfect, perfect.

There's all of the rest of the cards. That's because I have three cards here,

three cards here.

All right, if I get it, a first applause to make sure that I got it. First card

is the Ace of Clubs. Is that one of them? Ace of Clubs? Yes, Ace of Clubs.

Joker was a Joker. The third and final card, the only card left in the bag

should be the Ace of Diamonds. Is that the third and final?

Well, that's our show for now. We have lots more magic coming up in the next

edition of Masters of Illusion. Don't you miss it. Until then, I'm Dean Cain.

Thank you for watching.