*7 diamonds goes between the 6 and 8 sorry! Turns out I cant count 😂

man this trick has haunted me for over a decade so thank you for waking me up from my nightmare. this is an amazing trick. not sure how you figured it out but I'll try to perform this myself.

Brilliant! Knowing how it's done makes it even mo0re impressive that Shawn pulled off such a bold trick right under Penn's nose!

Theres not even a single snowball's chance of me even trying to learn this ❤

Omg I guessed 2/3rds! The force, the flap at the bottom, using glue. But the second deck switch is the genius part. That’s besides the top tier sleight of hand and performance from Shawn

I had everything except for how he got the card in the right spot. Using the other flap of the box to mark the spot like a bookmark is brilliant. You don't even have to look at it, you can just feel it

Ah I had tried doing that trick some 5 years ago but I was missing the front flap and proper glue so that the back would easily open but properly close... But my box back was even better than yours : you can actually use the side flaps to build a sheath that controls the vertical position of the card entirely! (So it's easier to control that it goes exactly at the correct position) So much investment in building the gimmick and two packets opened for an epic fail 😅
From that I keep my practice of the deck switch that I got from a class taught by Shawn where he explains how he "learnt his lesson" about performing a deck switch in front of somebody as tall as Penn 😅
I still use that deck switch regularly for other tricks 😊
Maybe with the front flap, proper glue and OMG the second switch of course 😂 I'll find the motivation to attempt it again 😊
Thanks!

This all makes perfect sense, except the force. Shawn dumps the deck into Penn's hands, he pulls out the advertising cards and the one joker. He then has Penn fan them out in new deck order ( the 7D is in there in its usual place). He then has Penn shuffle the deck himself a few times. He then puts them into Shawn's hand and Shawn appears to simply square the deck and then spread the cards for Penn to choose.

Unless there's an edit, or Shawn has palmed a 7D and has planted it in the deck after getting it back from Penn, I don't know how or when he would have located the 7D after Penn's shuffle in order to force the card. It makes perfect sense that it's a force given the rest of the trick, but unless there's an edit, I don't see where it happens.

You gotta have a lot of balls to do a deck switch in front of Pen and Teller and they would be looking for that when you reach in for the Pen. But it is amazing how people focus on what they’re supposed to focus on or not what they could have focussed on, which would’ve been him pulling that deck of cards out of his pocket

This is genius !!!

Still need some super confidence to pull this beauty off !!

Superb explanation

You have yourself a new subscriber sir !!!

always wondered what the gimmick was to get the card into a closed deck. I guessed it would be something like this, but i could never work it how  exactly he did it! Massive props to Shawn for the rubber cement idea and the whole trick which is one of the greatest tricks ever. Well done for working it out, just as impressive

Nice explanation, but you don't want to bend the bottom flap behind the 8 of diamonds (as you say in your video) because that will cause you to slide the forced 7 of diamonds to go between the 8 and 9 instead of the 6 and 8. You want to fold the flap in front of the 8 (so it's below the 8 and above the 6.) You should have up jogged the 6 of diamonds (instead of the 8) and folded the flap behind the 6. Thanks for the detailed video!

Where I come from that is called an "exacto knife" : )

Fantastic video! One thing I noticed. You load the advertisement cards and one joker into your pocket at the start of the trick and then load the gimmick joker into that pocket after the deck switch. Both "Jokers" should be in that right side pocket.

So when constructing your gimmick at 14:06 you shouldn't put the remaining joker in the deck because it should "already be in your pocket". Instead that joker should be pre loaded in your right pocket before the start of the trick so you can verify both jokers and advertisements at the end while leaving the gimmicked joker safe in your pocket.

The only part I don't get is how he forced the seven after Penn shuffled the deck 4 times, cut it and gave it back without him seeing the bottom card for control.

So he went on fool us expecting that a classic force would work on penn? Doesnt sound plausible.

Ty for the reveal some set up but worth it plus you can still use the gimmicks for a thought of card to the box from being placed in the deck so reusable nice

Hey Steven, you should be awarded the “FOOL US” trophy for figuring out and explaining how this trick worked. Beautifully done! Thanks!

Yeah I was going to say you put the flap at the wrong spot. Good catch!

How does Shawn forced a card from a thoroughly mixed deck.  He doesn't even flip the cards over to locate where the 7 of diamonds is.