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Being a huge P&T fan who's watched them all, of the tricks where they get fooled there are a small handful where someone just flat-out, stone-cold bewilders them. But there are a lot more where they clearly know pretty much what's going on, but either they take a 50/50 guess and miss, or there's some hangup about wording or somesuch. But definitely I agree that they don't miss on purpose for TV reasons.



Deliberately taking advantage of that 50/50 guess is one way to improve your prospect of winning on Fool Us.

Have a trick that could be done in several different ways. P&T propose one method, and if that wasn't the way you did it, then you win.


DO N tricks of that sort in a row for a chance of 1 - 1/2^N of fooling them!


Agreed. I happened to watch a video earlier today of one (from the US series) and it seems like one that really does fool them [0]. Worth watching if others haven't seen it.

[0] https://youtu.be/3gpq4ML2DDo


Think he dipped each card in something seperately and memorized the taste for 52 cards?


I did a little Googling after I watched and supposedly he has denied several potential methods, with that being one of them.




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