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Kostya Kimlat Fools Penn & Teller // Fool Us: Penn's Favorite Card Trick

Kostya Kimlat
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3 HN users recommended this demo3 months2017–2025 score 3.5
Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026

HN recommends it as a trick admired for both its method and its effect.

Magician Kostya Kimlat performs a card trick on Penn & Teller: Fool Us that fooled the duo, using Penn's favorite card trick as a basis.

“I like this one a lot as it is amazing on both method + effect.” (HN, 2022)

1 strong recommendations · 2 recommendations · Demos

3 Hacker News comments

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@fenomas Apr 2017 Recommends
on HN thread Teller Reveals His Secrets (2012)
That was real! I mean he wasn't really angry but he really did have his mind blown. The backstory is that the magician in question (Kostya Kimlat) did a trick that Penn & Teller also do, and he did it more or less the same way they do it - except that at the end, at the part where P&T do the sleights that make the trick work, in Kimlat's version the effect was already done because he'd done a different sleight, earlier, about five inches under P&T's noses. It was pretty glorious. The trick: [this video] Penn talking about it: [link]
Trick that genuinely fooled Penn and Teller with an earlier sleight

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