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MATH WHIZ LEFT STUNNED AFTER STREET MAGIC DEFIES LOGIC
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By Dev Yadav
A street magician left a confident math lover completely shaken after a card trick unraveled everything he thought he understood about logic and probability.
The video, filmed by magician Baenedict K Thiveanathan at Rundle Mall in Adelaide, Australia, shows a passerby confidently claiming he could figure out any mathematical trick.
As the performance unfolds, the magician repeatedly challenges probability, guiding the man through a series of choices involving numbers and cards.
With every reveal, the man grows more unsettled, watching the odds collapse in real time as sixes appear exactly where they “shouldn’t.”
What begins as calm curiosity quickly turns into disbelief as the final impossible outcome lands perfectly.
By the end, the stunned spectator can only laugh and admit defeat, declaring that his “life was a lie,” as his understanding of math meets the chaos of magic.
The clip was shared on Instagram. One user commented: “This was THE perfect guy to do this on! Lol awesome.”
Another added: "This made me chuckle i love this trick so much."
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00:00I know how maths works, so if it's a mathematical trick, I can figure it out.
00:04Are you good at math? You love math.
00:06Name a number between 1 and 10, any number you want.
00:096.
00:10Just reach in, grab a card out. Just take a card. Go, go, go.
00:12Just take a card.
00:13Oh, yeah, yeah. All right, all right.
00:15Just right here.
00:16Now, take this card face up.
00:17Oh, is that a 6? Yeah, yeah, a 6, huh?
00:19You waited a bit as well, yes? You waited a bit.
00:22We'll try this one more time.
00:23Back of it. Face up, like this.
00:24Oh, okay.
00:24Yeah, yeah, all right. Anywhere.
00:26Go ahead.
00:28All right, good. Very precise, right?
00:30Now, look, this is where it gets a little freaky, right?
00:32So, there's one card above, there is one card below where you placed it.
00:36Which do you think could be the next 6?
00:37The top or the bottom one?
00:41Probabilistically, neither of them.
00:43Yeah, based on probability will be...
00:453 upon 25 is the probability that either one of them is...
00:483 upon 25. We have a math genius here.
00:50But which do you think could be?
00:52Because I shuffled the cards.
00:53The bottom one.
00:53Bottom now, that's a guess, right?
00:54Now, I'll show you the top.
00:57That's a 2.
00:58But you place it anywhere you want.
00:59Although the odds are against us.
01:016.
01:03Now, look.
01:04Hold on to these for me.
01:05We have 2 out of 50 left to go, right?
01:08So, 1 in 25 chance.
01:09I'll drop the cards like this.
01:11At some point, I'll mix once again.
01:12So, you don't know where it is.
01:13I don't know where it is.
01:14So, say stop.
01:15Stop.
01:15Right here?
01:16Exactly here?
01:17One card.
01:18One card back?
01:19Yeah.
01:20All right, all right.
01:20I don't know.
01:21This is your decisions.
01:22Hold it.
01:23Have a look.
01:28Odds are against us, my friend.
01:30Odds are against us.
01:31Now, and what's the last one that we have left?
01:34Another 6 of...
01:36The hearts.
01:36Hearts.
01:37Could you hold on to this for me?
01:38And you can mix it up if you want to.
01:40We're left with the hearts.
01:41And actually, could you lift up about half the cards anywhere you want?
01:45Lift up anywhere you want.
01:46All right.
01:46I'll place the 6s here and you can place on top.
01:49I swear, if you get another 6, I have 3 cards.
01:52Place on top.
01:53Just place the rest on top.
01:54Yes, yes, perfect.
01:55Now, look.
01:56The 6s are in the middle.
01:57Now, everything we've done so far is based on probability.
02:01Yes.
02:01But I'm a magician.
02:02It has to go beyond probability.
02:03It has to be impossible.
02:04You cut anywhere you want.
02:06You shuffle the cards.
02:07Right now, what if the last 6 is in between the other 3 6 right now, right?
02:13Without moving, without...
02:14That's impossible.
02:15Exactly, impossible.
02:16Now, if you spread through slowly, just spread through.
02:18And look through and look for the 6s.
02:21Yeah.
02:22Right there, you see there's one 6.
02:25There's one in between right now.
02:28Now, have a look at this.
02:29You can take it out yourself.
02:33His brain is ticking.
02:35His brain is ticking.
02:36I'm glad I managed to kind of excite your math brain over here.
02:40I got goosebumps.
02:43Thank you, my friend.
02:44How do you do this?
02:45My life is a lie.
02:46My life is a lie.
02:47I'm happy to describe it.
02:49My life is a lie.
02:51You
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