I downloaded the video at the highest available resolution and stepped through it frame by frame. It’s clear to me that there’s some slightly reflective black substance covering the sealed mouth of the can. It’s probably ink from a dry-erase marker, not tape, but it’s certainly not a hole showing the inside of the can.
Yeah, I finally realized that as some point, I think after going back and trying to catch the eyes moving several times. It is pretty good effect.
Now that it’s on Fridays I end up watching these after midnight and I’m too exhausted at the end of the week and miss a lot of stuff. I need to find some time to look at the past episodes again. This last episode, and the week before I think had guys doing remote tricks that were baffling me.
I don’t know how to even begin trying to figure out how Simon Coronel did that trick with the $5 bill.
That was astonishing.
Just so clean!! Empty hands! Short sleeves! No pockets! Amazing.
That was just beautiful to watch. I’m sure P&T are right, he had no gimmicked bills, he was just really good at it.
The next guy up had me baffled at first because I missed a few key parts of the act and had no idea what he was doing. Obviously it’s a code as the guys said, but we didn’t get to see enough of that book to figure out what it was. But the order of the images read out to him didn’t matter, and he only needed four of them when Teller did it. The code could be very simple as Morton claimed, it’s just hard to tell with only 4 examples.
Alberto Giorgi performed a version of a classic, very dramatic but also very obvious.
Makoto Halverson was impressive with his card handling skills. Penn suggested his deck had cards of different sizes as in a Svengali deck or some form of stripping, and he mentioned double lifts as well. P&T worked out enough of his techniques to prevent him from getting the prize but he was still very good.
Seconded. The only moves I caught were as follows:
- Whenever he shows us that a bill is apparently ungimmicked by holding it up and flipping it, he does so in such a way that at least one corner is always hidden. Presumably he’s hiding the other two folded bills behind this corner. But exactly which corner is hidden changes as he manipulates the exposed bill, and he’s very good at shuffling the folded bills around so that they’re always behind the corner he’s hiding.
- Both times he waves the folded bill to transform it, he uses his ring finger to push or pull away one of the corners and reveal a different bill.
Apart from that, I didn’t catch anything, and these two clues aren’t enough to figure out how he does the trick.