Penn & Teller Fool Us: Kostya Kimlat's IMPOSSIBLE Card Trick // Season 5

Thank you all for your comments. I love reading them and hope to respond to many of you soon! Want to know exactly how I did the trick? I just made this video for you: https://youtu.be/e3mRrg4qsbM

Damn, the first time that a magician not fooling Penn and Teller was actually WAY more impressive than actually fooling them. What the hell.

The real trick: escaping a beating from Penn by telling him he was right 😂

I've seen him achieve this trick perfectly, picking exactly one card on the fly, and making it look seamless. I think he got nervous this time and that's how his skill seemed a little rough. And that's how Penn and Teller realized this could be done by pure skill. Best thing about this trick, it can't be copied. You have to put the work.

Plot twist: he did actually fool them, but didn't want Penn to kick his butt! 😆

This was so good it doesn't even follow the guidelines of what a card trick is it wasn't even a card trick he literally just did it

WOW! That's highly satisfying lmao. They basically said "IT'S NOT MAGIC IT'S SKILL!" and he's like "YUP!"

7:39 You can see that as soon as Penn started going into his "juggling vs magic" spiel, Kostya knew where they were going. The "aw shucks" begins to appear.

He fanned the cards out, memorized the exact position of every card, when Penn told him the card he knew exactly where it was in the deck, and he timed his grab perfectly. That’s more impressive than any magic trick I’ve ever seen

I can tell ya how the trick is done, but it'll Kostya

"He's better than you think, I can you tell you that!" Honestly, I think that's the most praise Penn could give someone

"lol, no tricks, im just that good" well played man, i love it.

This is really impressive, imagine the pressure on him and how easily this could fail since it's not actually a magic trick. I think he grabbed 4 cards simply out of nervousness, in his prep video he often actually catched the one card alone or two at most.

The real trick is that he knew they would not be fooled and that they would then explain to the world that Kostya's skill is beyond human, which would astonish the crowd even MORE than if he actually fooled them. He still gets the last laugh.

The funny thing is they stood up and walked on stage to shake hands as if you had fooled them. That says everything. Congratulations.

What's just as astounding as the will and devotion necessary to making this trick work, is that Penn & Teller do something most people also can't do, which is step outside their usual frame of reference, in this case magic, to understand the trick as an act of juggling; and that they, unlike many people because they also have the will and devotion, could fathom someone doing what Kostya did. On top of that their bust is a textbook illustration of the Sherlock Holmes maxim, "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." The trick there is accepting that improbability as the truth. Which most people, bound by their personal biases, their particular normal, also can't do. So amazing.

Magicians typically never reveal their tricks. But since there's actually no trick here, you were free to say how you did it and it's so increadible it's indistinguishable from magic. Very impressive!

That might be the best "Not fooled" Ive ever seen! That is so impressive!

Penn ability to organize his words to explain characteristically and professionally statements in a very short time is a talent i wish to have.

Seeing this for the first time made me realize once he grabbed a couple of cards that this wasnt a trick. He was literally doing it. The whole story of him practicing this trick for over a decade and putting in that time, it was shocking to me seeing that. I've heard he does this much more efficiently and can actually grab any card called upon in the deck. Scary how amazing he is and his personality is just contagious. Amazing stuff!