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DEAN: 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.

Welcome to the Masters of Illusion.

Is the hand quicker than the eye?

Do you really see what you think you see,

or is it all just an illusion?

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In this painting, which way is the horse looking?

Is he looking right at you, or is he looking away from

you, or possibly looking for something about to happen?

I find it totally frustrating and impossible.

Well, equally impossible is this illusion performed by

Greg Frewin.

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DEAN: Everyone likes a really big card trick.

Well, here's one with really big cards and the very sly

Michael Turco.

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MICHAEL: Hey, guys. Thank you very much.

We're going to have some fun up here.

I need a little help from the audience.

What's your name?

Yeah. Kaylee?

Kaylee, come on up here for me.

Guys, give Kaylee a big round of applause.

How are you, Kaylee?

Good, come on over here.

What I would like you to do is I'd like you to take a

look at all the cards, check them out,

make sure they're all different.

Audience, take a look.

And Kaylee, if you don't mind,

just point to one, point to anyone you'd like.

That one right there?

You want to keep that one or change your mind?

KAYLEE: I want to keep it.

MICHAEL: All right. Take a look at that card.

Kaylee, don't let me see that card,

and when you're done memorizing the card,

turn that card around and show the audience from the

right side to the left side, of course everyone at home.

Hold it straight out there, Kaylee.

And when you're all done, Kaylee,

turn that card around, look at it one more time so you

don't forget it, and then place it back on top.

Cool.

You have it memorized?

KAYLEE: Yes. MICHAEL: Positive?

KAYLEE: Yes. MICHAEL: All right,

cool. Let me get rid of these cards.

Hey Kaylee, I'm not really the best artist,

but I'm going to try to sketch your card out today.

Sound cool?

KAYLEE: Yeah. MICHAEL: All right.

What I need you to do is I need you to think of the

number, the letter, the suit,

whatever it may be.

Just keep repeating that card in your mind.

Cool?

KAYLEE: Yeah.

MICHAEL: All right. I got it.

Here we go.

Kaylee, keep thinking of your card.

Repeat it in your mind as I draw it onto this piece of

paper.

Cool.

Kaylee, I got it, your card, the one you selected out of

the deck.

KAYLEE: No.

MICHAEL: For real?

KAYLEE: For real.

MICHAEL: Did you pick the wrong one?

KAYLEE: No. MICHAEL: No?

KAYLEE: No.

MICHAEL: Okay, well it happens.

There are 52 cards in the deck.

I might sometimes make a mistake,

but I have an idea.

Kaylee, you'll like this.

Look, this is actually the front of a deck of cards and

your card is somewhere inside.

That's good.

About five people like it.

That's about it.

Kaylee, let's do a little magic up here to make

everybody happy.

Hold on to that marker for me.

Keep thinking of the card.

Say it over and over in your mind.

And if you guys saw the card,

out there and at home, think of it over and over in your

mind.

Repeat it.

And Kaylee, watch carefully.

Kaylee, keep watching.

Kaylee, we're getting closer and closer to your card,

the one you selected out of the deck.

AUDIENCE: Wow.

MICHAEL: Kaylee, was that your card,

the five of diamonds?

I'll grab the marker.

You touch the paper.

Make sure it's really there.

It really is.

Kaylee, that's for you.

Guys, give Kaylee a big round of applause.

Take a bow.

DEAN: Get ready for the ride of your life.

Here's Tommy Wind.

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DEAN: Coming up, Jarrett & Raja, Barry and Stuart,

Christopher Hart, Les Arnold & Dazzle.

DEAN: Having fun with the dangerous side of life,

here are Jarrett & Raja.

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JARRETT: For over 100 years, even before the good old days

of Jack the Ripper magicians...

(LAUGHS) Magicians have been doing

unspeakable things to beautiful young ladies

sawing them in half, pursuing them with swords

blowing them up so tonight in keeping with tradition

I'm going to pick...

WOMAN: Go, get in the box!

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DEAN: Next, Berry and Stuart, Christopher Hart,

Les Arnold & Dazzle.

DEAN: Now, our favorite Scotsmen, two guys

infatuated with pirates.

Keep your eye on the guy with the patch over his eye.

Actually, they both have patches over their eye.

Here are Berry and Stuart.

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STUART: We've brought all the way from

Scotland my favorite trick.

It's a trick we call The Pirate Card Trick.

BARRY: Sorry, I actually can't do The Pirate Card

Trick tonight, because I've forgotten my eye patch.

STUART: Buddy, buddy, I knew you'd forget that,

so there's your eye patch.

Like I said, it's my favorite trick.

It's a trick we call The Pirate Card Trick.

BARRY: We need the cards, though.

We need the cards. Sorry.

In order to do The Pirate Card Trick,

you need the pirate cards.

I haven't got them.

STUART: Buddy, buddy, I knew you'd forget that,

so there's the pirate cards.

I've packed them.

I love this trick.

It's my favorite.

It's a trick we call The Pirate Card Trick.

BARRY: Stu, I can't do this, because I've got a sore leg.

STUART: Perfect for a pirate.

Come on, have someone pick one.

Get on with it.

BARRY: I hate doing this, you know?

STUART: I know.

BARRY: Right.

The first thing we need is a shipmate.

You there I don't know who I'm pointing at,

because I kind of only have one eye.

You there, me 'earty, the guy with the blue shirt,

yeah the guy going "Me?"

Yeah, you, me 'earty, I'm going to shuffle the cards.

Anytime you like, you can stop me by shouting out,

"Argh."

And the card you stop me at, that will be the card we'll

use tonight.

Makes sense?

AUDIENCE: Yeah.

BARRY: Okay.

Say "Argh" when you like.

AUDIENCE: Argh.

BARRY: Everyone, have a look at the card that he stopped

me at.

It's very, very important that you remember what this

card is, but it's really, really important that we do

not see what the card is.

STUART: Got it.

BARRY: Okay.

It's the four of spades, and it is the 28th card from the

top of the deck.

What's going to happen now is absolutely amazing.

It's a pirate miracle.

Stuart with his one good eye is going to get a pirate

sword and he's going to

STUART: Hey, buddy, buddy, buddy, you've

forgot the best bit the pirate shuffle.

We have to shuffle the cards.

BARRY: How's that?

Good? Fine, let's do

STUART: No, that's lame.

We have to shuffle them properly.

You know the pirate shuffle is the best bit.

I love it.

I love the music.

Can we have the hornpipe, please?

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Ah, look at Barry.

I think he's really enjoying himself.

BARRY: This is the lowest point of my career,

wee.

STUART: This is the first time Barry's been really

into this.

BARRY: I'm dying inside.

STUART: Oh great.

Here comes the best bit.

BARRY: Oh, no.

Here comes the worst bit.

STUART&BARRY: Argh, Argh, Argh!

STUART: It's the best bit.

I told you.

Come on, it's the best bit.

BARRY: Now, the cards have now been pirate-shuffled.

Stuart, can we get on with this?

Go and get the sword.

STUART: Aye aye, buddy.

BARRY: What's going to happen now?

I have half the cards in one hand,

half the cards in the other hand.

You could see right now it's all hands on deck.

Why do I have to do that joke?

STUART: It's the best bit.

I have the pirate sword.

BARRY: What's going to happen now?

It's a pirate miracle.

I'm going to throw the cards in the air.

Stuart with his one good eye will see your chosen card

and he will attempt to stab it on the very tip of his

pirate sword.

You feeling it?

STUART: Yeah.

BARRY: Here we go.

STUART: Ready. Drum roll, please.

I have a card.

BARRY: Wait, it could be any card.

What was the card you saw?

AUDIENCE: A four of spades.

STUART: Ah, it's only the four of spades.

That's it.

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DEAN: Next, Christopher Hart and Les Arnold &

Dazzle.

DEAN: The next time you visit your eye doctor,

try to impress him with this lesson from fast talker

Christopher Hart.

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CHRISTOPHER: Hi, I'm Christopher Hart and I

thought it would be fun to teach you a trick.

Do you want to learn a trick?

Say yes! AUDIENCE: Yes!

CHRISTOPHER: Great.

First, I will do the trick.

Then I will show you how it works.

It even comes with a story.

You see, I went to the eye doctor the other day and he

gave me a test.

He said, "Christopher, how many spots do you see?"

I said, "One, four, three, and six."

He said, "Cover the right eye.

Tell me how many spots."

I said, "One, four, three, and six."

I'm happy to say I passed the test,

but I was rather confused.

How can a card have a one on this side,

a four on this side, a three on this side,

and a six on this side.

That's impossible.

Well, it turns out he was an amateur magician as well as

an eye doctor and this was just an optical illusion,

and I'm going to teach it to you.

You want to learn, yes?

AUDIENCE: Yes!

CHRISTOPHER: Perfect.

Don't tell anybody the secret.

Here's what you do.

A white piece of cardboard in a rectangle shape and a

black marker, you take a marker and you draw a spot

in the center, but here's the secret.

You actually draw two.

It's kind of clever.

Look at how this works.

You cover this one, it looks like there's one.

You cover over here, the eye fills it in in the mind and

thinks there's actually three.

That's all there is to it.

Over here you cover it and it looks like there's four,

but there's really actually five.

It's that simple.

Cover the spot or the space as you turn the card.

And when you do this, make sure that you keep your

fingers together.

Don't separate your hand.

Otherwise they'll see how the secret works.

It's very important.

Same with this side here, never ever move your

fingers, because that only exposes the secret.

Now all you have to do is practice this,

oh, four or five minutes every day for about a month

and you'll have it down, but don't practice too much.

Otherwise you'll see spots before your eyes.

That's it.

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DEAN: Les Arnold is a true master magician,

poised and sophisticated.

But in competition, he is no match for Dazzle.

Here is Les Arnold & Dazzle.

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DEAN: And that's it, another amazing evening of

illusion and distorting reality.

You know how they did it?

Because I sure don't, and that's because they are the

Masters of Illusion.

Be sure to catch us next time.

I'm Dean Cain.

Good night.