By Paul Gertner.. 

So… as I mentioned in my last blog post “What’s the Trick to Fooling Penn & Teller?  Part One,” I was booked to appear on Penn & Teller:  Fool Us on the CW Network to perform my trick Unshuffled.  The problem was that Penn and Teller already knew the secret to how the trick works.  How was I going to go about fooling Penn and Teller? There was no way I was going to fool them with a trick they already knew… unless I threw in an unexpected twist.  That became the plan.

I rehearsed the routine about 50 times and then began to video tape each performance.  Once I had a smooth looking performance, I posted it on a private YouTube Channel and sent the video link to about 10 friends. This included some of the top sleight-of-hand magicians in the country.  My request to them was that they view the video once and only once then tell me if it fooled them. Read more at:  http://gertner.com/whats-trick-fooling-penn-teller-part-two/