This was easy to deconstruct though! If you look closely at the hamster you can see it's a resurrected Egyptian God. The necromancer with the hat (Jo) says so himself. So the trick is just literally an Undead Egyptian Deity reading the mind of a mere human. Busted.

@jo_de_rijck

3 ай бұрын

😅😅😅you 've made my day

@sailaab

3 ай бұрын

When even the producers and Penn's banter did not reveal this secret.. .. then why are you publicly revealing this secret¡¿ Can delete of edit now and hope that Lord Hamsaris🙇🏻‍♂️ does not cast a spell on you.

@SpammingY-pp2ru

3 ай бұрын

I mean at least say it in code, bro, come on!

Greetings to all from Hamsaris. He is enjoying himself here in Belgium.

@modalize

3 ай бұрын

I wish i could travel and get the ancient knolwdge from his highness

@MikerBikerB

3 ай бұрын

Groetjes terug!

@friedtheater

3 ай бұрын

Jo... je bent geweldig!! voorbeeld ook.. bedankt om zo inspirerend te zijn!! Fried Ringoot (lid van the Monday Magicians uit Middelkerke)

@dimivanderw9730

3 ай бұрын

Have seen you in Molenheide and you are great. Best of luck into fooling them a fourth time.

@EndlessNameless5

3 ай бұрын

I can only imagine the difficulty to pass customs in USA with a hamster! And to justify it is for a magic trick!

At 5:43, I could read Teller's mind: "I don't get paid enough for this! And that little rat better not take a dump on my hair!"

@jo_de_rijck

3 ай бұрын

🤣🤣 love that

@jigga2jones

3 ай бұрын

dead ass

@4saken404

3 ай бұрын

This one of my favorite parts of the act. Getting to put a hamster on Teller's head. I don't know why I found that so entertaining but I did!

@franzsperginand113

3 ай бұрын

Little bugger seemed right at home in that nest.

@JohnDlugosz

2 ай бұрын

@@franzsperginand113 Probably trained him/rehearsed using a dummy head that matched.

A two times fooler who clearly is very nervous on stage still - that's so relatable, I love it!

@jo_de_rijck

3 ай бұрын

Thank you, what a beautiful compliment. Makes me feeling less ashamed of shaking that much on cam :)

@solochristo65

3 ай бұрын

It is fine.....You are amazing.@@jo_de_rijck

@dougaltolan3017

3 ай бұрын

​@@jo_de_rijckYou could make use of the shakes... How impressive it would be to thread a sewing machine while it is running.

@johnsokolowski4433

2 ай бұрын

Just because he spoke with an accent I never got the impression he was nervous at all

@amptron1776

Ай бұрын

@@johnsokolowski4433Well, he did call Penn, Teller . . . Loved the act

My theory is that each tile image has a different scent to it. When the hat goes above it the scent gets transferred to the hat and the hamster is smelling it while in the hat then matches the scent to the tile in the maze. No idea if I'm even remotely close but great trick nonetheless!

@gaborcsontos3939

3 ай бұрын

My theory is that the hamster always turns right, so it was a given, that it will go to that corner. So always the fish was the choice, now the question is, how can you ensure that the fish is under the hat? I'm not sure of this, but it certainly is suspicious, that when Teller chooses the tile, he can't look at it and a hat is placed on top. Only when the hat is picked up to be a hamster blindfold, he can look :/

@volodyanarchist

3 ай бұрын

I, too, thought of the scent. And was surprised that they did not even try to guess.

@jo_de_rijck

3 ай бұрын

Thanks for the creative thinking :)

@liftacar

3 ай бұрын

@@jo_de_rijck Thank YOU for being so entertaining and great at your craft. Keep up the great work.

@DCteamtraceur

3 ай бұрын

Love the performance, and also creative thinking. While we're guessing... the hamster path is set. The tile is always the fish. Perhaps all tiles on the table start off different, but become fish while sliding them upside down.

I am not sure, but a theory: Each tile has an RF tag in it (like used in some chess pieces on automated boards). When the tile is place in the location by Teller, it is read by a sensor in the table. The sensor has an RF transmitter to send the chosen tile to the pyramid. Inside the pyramid are small ultrasonic emitters, one per tile location. The proper ultrasonic emitter is turned on and the trained hamster follow the sound he can hear (but not us humans) to the proper box holding the tile. Then again, it might have been done some other less technical way.

@jo_de_rijck

2 ай бұрын

I love this so much! I don't recall trying out this method but it might have crossed my mind, it would be a way to do it. This is the first time someone makes a guess that feels so familiar to how I think or make up ideas. Never easy fixes, always taking a hard route that takes months of r&d. You win an award! 🏆

@Dimencia

2 ай бұрын

That RF tag thing seems like the simplest way to read the tile, but as for getting the hamster in there, maybe it's just a little door that opens up to some food, and the hamster can smell it. The hamster would even dispose of the evidence for you, if there was some food in the correct tomb But the tomb boxes seem solid and with no real way to do that, so maybe it's just opening a 'door' underneath it, which lets the smell go up through it

This was so nice from beginning to end. The props, the setup, the song and dance, ... I liked it all. And a big plus for not giving away the result in the title too

@jo_de_rijck

3 ай бұрын

Thank you for appreciating my singing and dance skills. 🙃

The fact that you clearly love animals *and* you take the time to respond to so many replies on your videos tells me that you are a kind human being. The world needs more people like you.

@jo_de_rijck

3 ай бұрын

Wauw thats so kind of you, thanks!

Great trick, and Teller was the perfect partner, his mannerisms and facial expressions are so good. He's also very savvy, note how after he takes a tile and covers it with the hat, he then moves a different one into its former spot, just trying to throw any possible little wrench into the equation. Great stuff all around and congrats Jo!

@jo_de_rijck

3 ай бұрын

He is the best indeed, I love it so much meeting my hero's every time again. Thank you!

Teller allowing the hamster to read his mind with such an intense look on his face made this whole bit for me, amazing! 5:30

@jo_de_rijck

3 ай бұрын

I can't agree more, he is the best!

@skygh

3 ай бұрын

@@jo_de_rijck You knew that Teller would be totally fine with it. Well played

@danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307

3 ай бұрын

@@jo_de_rijck Its sad penn and teller have lost any skill and credibility as magicians they had!

@danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307

3 ай бұрын

Is teller legally blind? LOL I assume these days for the show they dont look at anything afterwards (which should have been spotted during the trick!) even tho they use to do this all the time! making it much easier for peoples tec crew to do the tricks so they dont know how it was done?

@nitedk

3 ай бұрын

@@danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307they shouldn't be allowed to look at the props unless invited. The premise of the show is to see if they are fooled watching it once. That's it.

A big smile always spreads on my face when I see you in the show.

@jo_de_rijck

3 ай бұрын

Thats the greatest compliment you can give, thank you!

One of a kind magician! Always so creative and unique!

@jo_de_rijck

3 ай бұрын

Thank you, very kind!

Congratulations! That was awesome! Enjoyed every minute of it, very entertaining!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

@jo_de_rijck

3 ай бұрын

thank you!!!!

It was great meeting you in Las Vegas, Jo. And I love your act, what a joy to watch! Hope to see you soon again!

It is indeed amazing to see acts such as this one on Penn and Teller! How ingenious to design such an intricate set-up that is impossible to decipher its method. What makes this especially unique is the use of a small animal to match the chosen article. Simply incredible!

@jo_de_rijck

3 ай бұрын

So many kind words, thank you!!!

What a great act! Loved both the presentation and the magic! :)

@jo_de_rijck

3 ай бұрын

Thank you thank you thank you :)

I like this so much! A great performance on so many levels.

@jo_de_rijck

3 ай бұрын

Thank you for the compliment, on so many levels :)

Phenomenal! Stunning! Greatly entertaining. Thanks for the smiles! (I have an idea of how the routine was done, but enjoy not knowing for sure, better!)

@jo_de_rijck

3 ай бұрын

Yes, thats the spirit! Just enjoy :) Thank you!

Your magic is the best, absolutely amazing. Congratulations! 🎉🏆🌟

@jo_de_rijck

2 ай бұрын

Wauw, thank you so much Joanne!

Brilliant, love it, hooray JDR!

@jo_de_rijck

2 ай бұрын

Thank you very much!😀

My hats off to Jo, once he flips that switch he is always unstoppable. Fooling Penn and Teller is like a maze for most but Jo and his hamster have the path to that trophey memorized.

1. I once played a memory game with a 6 year old that knew the pictures based on structure of wood pieces. 2. The fish inside the tomb is drawn and not stamped like the ones he turns over. 3. Gloves makes me suspicous. 4. That is one well fed hamster that knows where his food is. 5. He sticks his finger inside the box with the hamster So I'm guessing he knows the picture based on wood markings, mouse always runs right corner, he somehow marks the roof with his finger/gloves when he picks up the cage. Reading this again, I can see why I'm behind a keyboard and he is on the stage with Penn and Teller ;)

@jo_de_rijck

2 ай бұрын

I love deep thinking, so much fun to read, thanks! I didn't know mouse always run right corner, do they?

Super cool! Love it! Very well done! 🐹

@jo_de_rijck

3 ай бұрын

Thank you so much.

If I had to guess the tiles have some kind of electronic inside them that the hat can read. The hamster has been trained to always run to that specific spot. They pyramid itself loads the correct tile on top before it is lifted. I could also be completely wrong.

@DreamGamingS2

3 ай бұрын

This was also my thought. The secret is in the top of the pyramid.

@jo_de_rijck

2 ай бұрын

I love your thinking! It was done very different but I think your method could work and also fool them. Bravo! You should compete, they are making another season.

Amazing trick, thanks for not spoiling the ending. Love from Sydney Australia

@jo_de_rijck

3 ай бұрын

Awesome, thank you! Love back from Belgium. You guys have the absolute top of Fool Us, Helen Coghlan, love her.

Such a great act! Love all types of animals and this trick made me happy already by tne humster itself. Also, I don't have a faintes idea how you did it, amazing performance!

@jo_de_rijck

3 ай бұрын

Love it that you also love all types of animals 😊

Nice job Jo !! Congratulations!!!

@jo_de_rijck

2 ай бұрын

Thanks Kurt!

i enjoyed this, fooled me too although thats not difficult to fool me. Dont stop doing what you are doing, awesome stuff

@jo_de_rijck

2 ай бұрын

I love it that you let the magic just happen, beautiful! thanks

De derde op rij! Ongekend! Wat fantastisch weer Jo! Proficitat!

@jo_de_rijck

3 ай бұрын

thanks Victor!

Another amazing trick! Great jokes, interactions with Teller and Hamsaris!

@jo_de_rijck

3 ай бұрын

thank you :)

Keep up the creative magic. Can't wait to see what animal you bring next time to fool them

@jo_de_rijck

3 ай бұрын

thank you so much!

I love this guy's performances. It takes time to brfriend and figure out what animals can do but it's also very rewarding even if you do it just for your own and the animal's joy. Lovely.

@jo_de_rijck

Ай бұрын

This comment makes me so happy :)

@chrissibersky4617

Ай бұрын

@@jo_de_rijck And you and your animals make me happy.

Fantastic! You did so well!

@jo_de_rijck

2 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

There's something in the hat which turns whatever is under it to the image of a fish. And the hamster always goes for the fish in the labyrinth.

The key to the trick is when he picks up the hat and uses it to "blindfold" the hamster by bringing it close to him. In the normal sequence of the trick, he would have teller pick up and show the tile when it was first selected, or he would have had Teller pick a tile during this moment. Because he has Teller pick the tile early on, and then puts the hat over it early on, I believe this serves two purposes. First is that the hat needs to be over the tile for a period of time. My guess is that this is for something like an odor/scent it has, or something like an RFID reader or some kind of other sensor in the hat (but my top guess is still definitely scent). While this signal is imprinted/confirmed upon the hat, he then asks teller to check the tile and brings the hat directly over to the hamster. Again, the timing of this at this moment just doesn't make sense, particularly in combination with the earlier part of the trick. Whatever signal (likely scent) was imprinted onto the hat is then picked up on by the hamster, and it has then been trained to go to the appropriate place in the maze to match that signal. Assuming it is scent, then it wouldn't surprise me if the hamster doesn't need much training at all for this part ;)

@jo_de_rijck

Ай бұрын

Can't answer on method, but love your creative thinking.

A truly excellent performance!

@jo_de_rijck

3 ай бұрын

thank you, excellent compliment

Beautiful entertaining performance! Enjoyed it a lot 🎉

@jo_de_rijck

3 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Each tile has a different smell and the same matching tile in the pyramid has the same smell. when the cap covers the tile (2:49), the hat gets the smell (2:49) and you can see the hamster is covered by the hat (5:15) and he gets the smell. When he put in the maze, he just needs to find the tile smell that he got in the cap.

@franmartins3010

3 ай бұрын

That’s one hell of a trained hamster!

@Max_Jacoby

3 ай бұрын

Wow, knowing how it was done made it even more impressive!

@PhilBagels

3 ай бұрын

@@Max_Jacoby The trickiest part was disguising the bloodhound to look like a hamster.

@jo_de_rijck

3 ай бұрын

I can't comment on methods but thanks for the creative thinking!

@jo_de_rijck

3 ай бұрын

@@PhilBagels 🤣🤣🤣

i figured it out so im gonna write it here to let you also kniow how the trick was done since you let the hamster do all the work. well of course once you put in the hamster in the laby he could have go for any route it wuldnt have mattered . to make sure he takes any route at all you had to use osiris hamster because he did not eat for like 3000 years that way you could place some peonuts into the boxes to ensure he will go for them .. once he reached the box he was of course a very happy hamster and was busy listening and when you looked up the glyph of the fish that teller chose you said it out loud and of course the hamster thought sure a fish i can do that pulled up a penn and drew this nice fish on the upper ceiling of the box as a little thank you for the food. you get the trophy he got the nuts teller got to be on stage and even penn was involved everyone happy :) but dont let the hamster know i told you how it was done :)

@jo_de_rijck

3 ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣 Oh I love that!

that was awesome! well done

@jo_de_rijck

3 ай бұрын

Thank you for your kind words!

What an adorable wee hammy! Hello Hamsaris, you were the true star of the show! :) - with love from a 7 time hamster mum

@jo_de_rijck

3 ай бұрын

O wauw congratulations :) I'll pass it on to Hamsaris

This is the kind of trick we don’t really want to uncover. I can watch this many times and feel like a kid watching disney channel all the time.

@jo_de_rijck

Ай бұрын

Thats a huge compliment, thank you so much!

Awesome routine and I love Hamsaris

@jo_de_rijck

3 ай бұрын

Thanks, I share your love :)

I'm pretty good at deconstructing tricks. Your fool us tricks are so impressive because even if you know how they are done, they are impossible for the average person to recreate. Your time and patience working with these animals is the real trick here. You are an incredible person, and training animals to work this fluidly in one take on national TV is the real magic.

@jo_de_rijck

2 ай бұрын

Thank you! With Hamsaris it was easy, just dans, sing, resurrect and let his godness do all the work.

WOW congratulations on that HatTrick! 😉🎉

@jo_de_rijck

2 ай бұрын

thank you sir

What a great act, the silliness of it all. The dance and the singing, i cried of laughter. Honestly i'm not a fan of animals acts, i always wondered how they are treated, i hope hamsaris is living a nice life, since he is a god. All the best to the both of you.

@robbyfiveboy4862

3 ай бұрын

I produced a special for Animal Planet called The Secrets Of Animal Magic. I learned that the animals and the huge amount of hours to train them (a Tiger quietly hiding in a prop!?) Makes them very very valuable to the magician. Mistreat no. Respect and revere, yes. (Circuses being an occasional exception in the past).

@jo_de_rijck

3 ай бұрын

He and all my other animals are treated as gods, thank you for your concern and love towards them.

@jo_de_rijck

3 ай бұрын

@@robbyfiveboy4862 O thats so cool! Is there any way to see this?

Amazing performance!! 🎉

@jo_de_rijck

3 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Each tile is marked on the back side with the matching symbol, only it's in infra-red ink (invisible to the human eye). Hamsiris can see in the infra-red part of the spectrum, so he knows right away which symbol Teller chose. Then it's an easy trick for Hamsiris to work his way through the maze until he comes to a box which is also marked with the matching symbol, again in infra-red ink.

@jo_de_rijck

Ай бұрын

Love your creative thinking :)

Nice work Jo 🤩

@jo_de_rijck

3 ай бұрын

Thank you Bram ☺

I have no idea how this trick was done. But in looking at possibilities, I have thought of a way to do the same trick. Trick tiles. The tile choice was not forced. So trick tiles that when "up" show one way, and "down" all show the same fish. Not a forced choice, a fake choice. The song and dance is because it takes 30 seconds to switch from one to another, so that when handled on stage, they stay long enough to appear static. They all start up, then we see none of them after, other than the chosen one. If they all changed from their "unique" glyph to a fish, then the trick would work with a properly trained animal (always going to the same corner), or a maze board with every tile a fish, and two "demonstration" tiles with a second tile stacked, so if chosen extra slight of hand is needed to show the correct one, or no slight of hand to show they aren't all the same. Hopefully that's not the way you did it. But you can make it if you want.

@jo_de_rijck

2 ай бұрын

would love to know more about your up and down tile idea, I don't really see how it could work but it might be awesome. info@joderijck.com

Suggest that the tiles when flipped over and spun around change to all be the fish. The ink is wiped off when sliding the tiles around exposing the fish. This is the reason for the gloves

@jo_de_rijck

3 ай бұрын

I can't comment on methods but thanks for the creative thinking!

@danielj.8876

3 ай бұрын

That's actually an interesting approach. I think it's a rather sure bet to say that the fish is forced since I think relying on the hamster traversing the maze to a different location on the spot without him exploring one of the other tombs is very risky; while on the other hand it's easy to train him to always go straight for the fish tomb. So it's about the way how he made the tile Teller chose become a fish tile. I first thought it gotta be some sleight of hand but I don't see anything suspicious. I also don't believe the hat is rigged since Teller actually wore it and could possibly have examined it before putting it on or felt the extra tile hidden in there. So the next plausible thing is to assume the tiles are rigged and the way you describe it makes a lot of sense and also explains the need to wear gloves. Still this seems like a lot of work and there might be a simpler way to rig the tiles.

@ProuvaireJean

3 ай бұрын

I also came up with this theory and wrote it up in another comment, but hadn't noticed that you had already suggested it. 🤭

@michaelwisniewski6047

3 ай бұрын

⁠the question that remains is how does the hat change any tile into a fish tile. Or perhaps the table cloth does it. Or perhaps while they're mixing Jo makes sure to wipe each tile against the table which washes off the outer ink leaving fish everywhere...?

@Ridorim

3 ай бұрын

I thought somehow the tile was switched under the hat with some weird technology. Your idea of ink changing makes more sense. However I don't think it's about the ink rubbing off but instead it's time-related. A lot of time passes between Teller putting the tile face down and looking at it. Enough time for some chemical reaction to happen that would turn any tile to "fish". That would leave no ink-stains and also require gloves because one of the two chemicals would be on the table and the other on the tiles. The resulting fish is also large and "dense" enough that it would cover most blemishes if the chemical reaction doesn't make the previous picture 100% invisible.

Love the trick, I think the explanation is extremely simple and perhaps that is what got Penn and Teller

@jo_de_rijck

2 ай бұрын

I wish it was and didn't cost me so many months of hard work. All was free choice and examinable ;) Love that you love it

@kdziolak

2 ай бұрын

I have no doubts about that, fantastic work 💜

Jo picks up the hat and forces the tile , the hamster is already trained to go to that box with the fish. Penn and Teller were not fooled !

@jo_de_rijck

2 ай бұрын

creative thinking :) they where hard fooled, Brooke told me they never looked so amazed after filming was done when they came back on stage to check everything. Free choise

CONGRATS ON THE TROPHY! As a ROOKIE magician: I immediately think about smell (gloves, and enclosed spaces to let the smell build up), but it can’t be that simple if Penn & Teller obviously know about smell 🤔🤔🤔 What about the tiles is so special

@jo_de_rijck

3 ай бұрын

thank you!

@raymondmiller4981

3 ай бұрын

I'm thinking that each tile has a thumper transmitter that is set when flipped face down, then triggered when turned up to reveal one of five or six drawings. The thumper is in his shoe or pocket. There are then a similar number of hamster release points that have only one unblocked box caves and the rest in that area are blocked off and the hamster is unable to get in any other boxes. To get the fish box, release in one spot and everything else is blocked, from the path to the box entrances. Or a combination of a thumper for a release point and a scent released in the hat that matched all fish boxes. All fish tiles smell like the fish boxes. The hamster smelled what was collected in a few minutes under the hat and looked for the same smell in a box? Great act, regardless.

@JohnDlugosz

2 ай бұрын

@@raymondmiller4981 I don't follow. There was only one entrance to the maze, none of the boxes are blocked.

Your tricks are just so good, Jo. Pardon the terms as I'm not a magician by any means, but I'd assume most people that watch this act and give it a little thought will assume there has to be a force, a read, a switch or a combination at some point, but beyond that what are you gonna do, even if you're Penn & Teller. The trick is unguessable, and your props are designed in such a clever way. The magical powers I believe most animals truly do have is being able to tell good people from bad people. You're clearly such a good person, and the way you connect with the animals is super endearing. I don't know if you have children, but my 8 year old daughter loves your performances and I'm so sure you are/would be such a good dad. Congratulations on the 3rd win.

@jo_de_rijck

Ай бұрын

blush :)

Damn! all that shaking made me so nervous, I was on the edge of my seat afraid to see you make a mistake LOL

@jo_de_rijck

2 ай бұрын

I agree I shouldn't have done that. but it was hard magic. I try to relax and enjoy it more next time.

Amazing trick, and thank you for not spoiling the result in the title.

@jo_de_rijck

2 ай бұрын

thank you! 🙂

Funny how you took Teller up there. The closer you are to a trick the harder it is to see sometimes. Just stare into my eyes 😆

@jo_de_rijck

2 ай бұрын

Thanks 🙂

Love your magic and three times fooler well done! I wonder what animal will fool them next :D

@jo_de_rijck

3 ай бұрын

thanks! I'm working on something never done before, hope it works out :)

My theory as a non-magician: The symbols on the tiles are drawn using a special ink which reacts with a coating of some chemicals on the table surface (hence the need for gloves) that make the symbols disappear, to reveal the fish symbol underneath. Ie every tile will end up with a fish symbol, not just the one shown at 1:49. So the fish was forced. It just takes a little while for the symbols to be chemically replaced, hence the extended patter. The hamster is trained to always go to the container with the fish symbol. (There might also be several fish containers, with the non-fish ones somehow blocked so the hamster can't enter these.) The fish symbol that's revealed at the end of the trick around 6:39 looks to me very slightly different to the one that's shown face up earlier, which supports this theory. Alternatively: the hamster is a member of the Egyptian pantheon. That original chicken trick, by the way, is one of the most baffling, charming and amusing tricks ever done on the show, and it tickles me no end that they still get grief for it. Edit: reading the comments more thoroughly I see now someone else already suggested this theory.

@pierre-luchoude8456

3 ай бұрын

Or even simpler than that. Train the hamster so that if you pet him twice- or even recognize word, it go to the recognize word. The hamster find the right tile after it is reveal, or even to pick up on name so when he repeated, he got the fish, the hamster understand the word fish and go to fish.

@jo_de_rijck

3 ай бұрын

I can't comment on methods but thanks for the creative thinking, love it.

@jo_de_rijck

3 ай бұрын

@@pierre-luchoude8456 Love that idea :)

I think there's something like a RFID tag inside each of the wood brick and the helmet allows to read it. 2:04 is clearly seen that many of the briks look like if they consist of two parts, as their color and structure of the wooden pieces don't match. And that vapor 5:53 gives the hamster the direction.

@jo_de_rijck

2 ай бұрын

I can't mention on method but you are right I did glue papyrus paper on the tiles to make them look more ancient Egyptian old.

Congratulations for the hat trick of foolers. Hope you can get a ant to fool them next time 😅

@jo_de_rijck

3 ай бұрын

It has crossed my mind 😅 thanks!

Super interesting trick. Actually super fun because any idea I have about it feels less realistic than Hamsaris just actually being able to read minds.

@jo_de_rijck

Ай бұрын

Love that reaction, thanks!

Haha congrats Jo!

@jo_de_rijck

3 ай бұрын

Thanks Soorena! Also thank you for coaching me this year in personal growth!

I was really hoping that Hamsaris would grant Teller the ability to speak when he was on his head but I guess he works in mysterious ways...

@jo_de_rijck

Ай бұрын

🤣

Well done 👍 I don't know how you did it, such a great trick.

@jo_de_rijck

3 ай бұрын

Thank you, glad you liked it!

Very cute and clever act. Well done.

@jo_de_rijck

2 ай бұрын

Very cute an clever compliment. Well done.

@bhambhole

2 ай бұрын

@@jo_de_rijck lol 😆 thank u ❤️

A hamster on Tellers head is the real magic I needed that

@jo_de_rijck

2 ай бұрын

What a beautiful compliment, love it that you loved it.

I do however like your Egyptian act Jo

@jo_de_rijck

2 ай бұрын

thank you!

the best way to get the trophy is when there are so many ways the trick could be pulled off that Penn and Teller can't quite put their finger on it. I would have just replaced the log in 5:00. But since he's messing with the hat so much, it could be an RFID chip in the wood blocks. There may be a mechanism in the pyramid that closes all the openings that Teller didn't choose. The hamster runs purposefully into a box, it could also be that it replaces the lid when it turns its back on Teller. As the color is so strong it could also be a kind of stamp in the box, which then makes the fish on the lid from below.

@jo_de_rijck

2 ай бұрын

That is a way to fool them indeed but I like to believe that I worked extremely hard on developing a new never done before magic method and that this is what fooled them.

@zaubersalz

2 ай бұрын

@@jo_de_rijckthat's why I couldn't commit, because I actually couldn't figure out how you did it. In any case, I really like the story with pyramids, hamsters and mummies. Very funny too!

When magic takes a hell lot of time to explain what they are doing then magic is lost.

@jo_de_rijck

2 ай бұрын

easy fix, don't explain ;)

Chicken, a snake who identify itself as a dolphin and now a ancient Egyptian hamster... Penn needs to make Fool Us pet free before he gets fooled by a Fourth animal

@jo_de_rijck

2 ай бұрын

😅

3 ways I can think of it could be done and they don’t take a guess? RFID or something similar inside each tile. The hat, when placed over the tile, reads it and sends a signal to the maze to release a scent or food where the hamster needs to go. Reader could also be in the table hence the specific location he wanted the tile to be at. Maybe the hat shields the other signals. A rigged hat that swaps the tile is a second option. A hidden piece of metal in the tile allows a strong rare earth magnet to lift the tile which the force of it coming up causes a chosen tile to fall into place. Hat doesn’t appear to have space so highly unlikely. A pinhole camera in the hat or some other means of seeing the unique grain pattern of the wooden tiles would allow an off stage assistant to trigger the scent of food to be dropped into the correct tomb.

@jo_de_rijck

3 ай бұрын

Thanks for the creative thinking! I can't comment on methods. I can tell you that they do run down options while an external judge is listening to them. This goes on for about 10 minutes, on TV it gets cut very short. So when they start talking back to me they already know if they had any clue or not, usually knowing clearly if they are fooled or not. Then Penn's job is to make a speech as interesting as possible. So they did search and guess, just not on cam.

Hamsiris is so so cute. Congratulations!, 🏆

@jo_de_rijck

3 ай бұрын

I agree, love her like a god. Thank you!

I remember going to the state fair as a teenager, and getting beaten 12 times in a row by a chicken playing tictac toe with me!?! (definitely not one of my greatest moments as a human being, but memorable for sure)....

@jo_de_rijck

Ай бұрын

Ohhh I love that story!!! That chicken was trained by Bob Bailey, my teacher/guru/hero who gave me masterclasses in animal training.

Proficiat Jo!

@jo_de_rijck

3 ай бұрын

Dank je ❤

Helemaal onder de indruk! Top!

@jo_de_rijck

2 ай бұрын

Merci voor het compliment!

Great job! 🏆🏆🏆

@jo_de_rijck

3 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Many people try to discover how it was done, but is so simple, Hamsaris used Mind control to force Teller to Choose the fish, i think that Hamsaris sometimes identifies it self as an Irish Fishman (yes yes, irish, i got that from his accent). 😉

@jo_de_rijck

2 ай бұрын

Shoot. I try to never answer on methods but you got me.

@user-kn1vh2hr7o

2 ай бұрын

I got Hamsaris you mean @@jo_de_rijck

I ❤ animals! 4 days ago it was National Squirrel Appreciation Day(US) ! I had 5 squirrels visit me in Toronto! I fed them peanuts as their reward!

@jo_de_rijck

3 ай бұрын

Oh thats so cool!

I have to say, when I saw the title and thumbnail, I thought it'd be boring and cringey, but it was actually pretty funny and cute!

@jo_de_rijck

2 ай бұрын

Thank you for that comment! I can only admit that I'm not great in social media and KZread. If you have a good suggestion for a title and thumbnail you're more then welcome to email it: info@joderijck.com

My guess is all tiles were fish, and the ones you revealed on the table where removed during the mix up. And only fish tiles in the maze had scents / treats.

@jo_de_rijck

2 ай бұрын

I love that idea!

What fools me is how a resurrected Egyptian mummy hamster understand English so well😂

@jo_de_rijck

2 ай бұрын

Well, god moves in mysterious ways...

it was so simple, every tile had a certain smell, if u look closely he places the hat on the hamster @5:!0 while Penn is seeing what the tile had written on it, so the hamster got the smell of the fish tile and thats exactly where it went. i am very sure Penn and Teller are acting like fools just for ratings

@jo_de_rijck

Ай бұрын

I can't comment on method but if there would have been a smell they would have picked it up indeed and you can be sure they did not wanna be fooled a third time!

so the ink on the tile is temperature sensitive. where the main color gets removed from the wash of the tile making them all show the same image or table is either heated or cooled. to make the original image disappear and only a fish appear on each one. the maze has a few slots blocked off or has something the hamster is adverse to. all the rest of the cages show fish. so as long as the hamster makes into one of the "safe" ones he flips over ones that he knows are not fish and shows that it picks up on of the many cages that have a fish on it.

@jo_de_rijck

2 ай бұрын

I can't comment on methods but I love your creative thinking!

@T-Waldo

2 ай бұрын

@jo_de_rijck Thank you. I love to see all the hypothetical ways it can be done. Very cool trick. Keep up the good work.

That was a lot of fun, I’m working on idea that tiles scented with something we can’t smell but hamster can, but it’s prob not :)

@jo_de_rijck

2 ай бұрын

Thank you sir!

My only thought is that since he had teller reveal the fish first he is somehow able to switch the tiles to be a fish but that doesnt even seem possible saying the tiles would have to have some obvious mechanism to be able to show all possibilities

@jo_de_rijck

2 ай бұрын

Thats a big compliment. All was examinable indeed.

Bravo!

@jo_de_rijck

3 ай бұрын

Merci!

Why has enjoying this trick made me so hungry for a ham sandwich? :)

@jo_de_rijck

2 ай бұрын

😅 I won't let Hamsaris read this one.

Hat had scent of fav treat as did tellers head from hat and thus tile had scent so right to matching tile with same scent????😮😮😮😮

@jo_de_rijck

2 ай бұрын

can't answer on methods but thanks for the creative thinking

Tile is forced, either during the shuffling or some gimmick with the hat/table. Hamster is trained to always go to the same place in the maze. Ez.

@jo_de_rijck

2 ай бұрын

I don't answer on methods but sometimes I love to answer a little because I worked so extremely hard on this. Hamsaris truly is a god, goes to a different sarcophagus each performance.

@OurCognitiveSurplus

2 ай бұрын

@@jo_de_rijck well that would be quite something then 😅

Dang penn is in his element on this show.

@jo_de_rijck

3 ай бұрын

He is, such a genius all the time :)

@brianzembic

3 ай бұрын

He must be. A happy life.

When animal training is so well done it qualifies as magic...

@jo_de_rijck

3 ай бұрын

Thank you!

I think he did something to the tiles when shuffling, which is why he asked teller to stare at him, so that teller can't see what he's doing with his hands

@jo_de_rijck

3 ай бұрын

I can't comment on methods but thanks for the creative thinking!

@nitedk

3 ай бұрын

What would that accomplish? He could have just done it before the show.

Great job

@jo_de_rijck

2 ай бұрын

Thank you Jason!

The underdog Belgian pride! Go Jo goed bezig jongen 👊🏻

@jo_de_rijck

3 ай бұрын

Hey Ruben! Thanks!

Isn’t 3 a hat trick?

Two identical hamsters. The one in the maze vanished under the box.

@jo_de_rijck

3 ай бұрын

I don't comment on methods but boy do I love this idea!

Very nice act.

@jo_de_rijck

2 ай бұрын

thank you thank you thank you

Yes teller was the best especially the part of hamsaris going in his head. I saw comments about scent. Are you able to just answer yes or no, does it have anything to do with hamsaris's sense of smell?

@jo_de_rijck

2 ай бұрын

No, I can not answer on methods and Yes, Telled is the best indeed ☺