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We're still hung over from celebrating the New Year, so we're taking a break from the bar. This week, Scam School is back in session at one of the martest universities in the country! Watch the Stanford Chess Club take on the "Eight Queens" puzzle.
Mark Watson, aka SoldierKnowsBest, is BACK to be scammed once again by Brian and Daniel Garcia! Learn how to rock your friends into thinking you've "programmed" them to think about a specific person or object...
Why handle a bunch of cards when you can sit back, drink and let your friends do it all for you? In this episode we learn an awesome card trick where you barely even have to touch the deck.
It's our third and final installment with the Stanford Chess Club. This week, we challenge these geniuses to solve three "Chess Minsesweeper" puzzles.
Our final episode with Daniel Garcia involves a simple yet amazing trick where your friends line up some coins in random order and you predict the order they choose!
Are you a topology whiz or a total dumbass? Put your brain to the test with these awesome napkin folding puzzles!
It's another kick-ass trick from the magical mind of Daniel Garcia! In this episode, we use FIRE to find a card in the middle of the deck. Watch and learn.
What you don't know about eggs will blow your mind! Watch Brian and special guest Anthony Carboni of New Challenger test out some common egg myths and misconceptions.
In this episode we stump our guests with a puzzle that requires the simplest of props! All you need are some matchsticks and either a coin, a paperclip, or in this case, an Altoid.
This week we give you the first in a series of episodes guest starring Brian's pal, the award-winning badass magician Diamond Jim Tyler! Be like Diamond Jim and explode your friend's brains with an easy-to-learn newspaper prediction trick.
Diamond Jim Tyler is back with another awesomely simple trick! In this episode, we learn how to figure out what number your friend rolled on a pair of "invisible dice." You'll have to do some basic math, but it's guaranteed to work every time and blow everybody's mind.
This week we've got two good brainteasers. One is tough, but the other is a real stumper! First, see if you can arrange six cigarettes (or pencils, or straws...) in a way so that each one is touch the other five. Next, try the same thing with SEVEN!
Diamond Jim Tyler is BACK with another trick up his sleeve. Using basic math and a smart phone calculator, he'll show you how to get a girl's digits. Guaranteed to impress the ladies! Or maybe creep them out a little..
Discover the perfect trick for office parties. All you need is a bowl of water and some paper clips. Question: Will they float? Answer: Yes! But how? Watch this episode and find out.
How do you get your friends to correctly guess the color of every card in a deck, face down? Wish ESP! Okay, not really. Just watch this episode and brian will show you the secret to this mind blowing card trick!
Can you hold an open beer bottle upside down without spilling it? Diamond Jim Tyler can! Watch this episode and learn how to amaze your friends!
You probably have a bunch of rubber bands lying around anyway - why not turn them into tools of trickery? In this episode, we'll learn some easy peasy lessons in rubber band magic!
If you want to perform advanced card tricks, you've gotta learn your fundamentals first. In this epsiode, Brian teaches four basic card flourishes that you should know before you go pro. All it takes is a little practice to nail these down!
In our final episode with Diamond Jim Tyler, we learn an awesomely simple card trick that requires no skill! It's based on Jim Steinmeyer's famous nine card trick, which you might remember from a previous episode of Scam School as the "Spelling Bee" trick.
In this episode, Brian teaches an earlier version of the "fast and loose" con game we've learned on Scam School before. This one's known as "pricking the garter" and instead of a chain, we use a rolled up belt.
WARNING: The ONLY safe way to learn fore eating is under the personal training of an experienced professional... which is exactly what our Revision3 hosts Veronica Belmont, Anthony Carboni and Max Scoville do in this week's episode!
Here's the first in a series of episodes where Michael blows our minds with an amazing performance and teaches us a thing or two about magic. This week: the card on the ceiling trick, followed by a lesson on how to break, then UNbreak, a rubber band.
In part two of Brian's fire eating lesson, our Revision3 hosts learn one of the advanced moves that makes fire eating look super badass! Watch Max Scoville, Anthony Carboni, Veronica Belmont and Andrew Bancroft attempt the vapor trick.
This week we're back at the bar for a poker trick that is almost brilliant in its simplicity! You can perform it anywhere, anytime and you don't even need a special deck for it. It starts with a prediction and an easy setup..
We're back at Misdirections Magic Shop in San Francisco to witness the wizardly of Michael Ammar! In this episode, we watch him rip and restore a torn card. Plus we'll learn how to fake our friends into thinking their phone screen is busted. Psych!
Counting cards isn't illegal, but you might get your butt kicked if you're caught. Don't let that stop you from trying! In this episode, Brian shows us a card counting method you can do on the sly.
In honor of the Fourth of July, we bring you more fire shenanigans! We literally toss and transfer fire! Get ready to be wowed.
In this episode we head back to Misdirections Magic Shop in San Francisco for another mind-blowing performance from Michael, PLUS he'll show you how to freak out your friends with a self-folding dollar bill.
In this episode, we'll see Rev3 Host Anthony Carboni learn advanced maneuvers - like the fire finger transfer, the pants on fire trick and the most visually stunning of all - the fire floor transfer! (Don't try this at home!)
You may have seen a variation of the cup and ball trick before, but in this episode our special guest, Michael Ammar takes it to a whole new level. Even Brian's mind was blown!
Be prepared to get messy because you're about to learn how to rip out people's guts using the precision of a mad scientist - with your bare hands!
Brian and guest Michael Ammar are back with even more quick and simple maneuvers guaranteed to impress anyone who asks you, "Can I have your card?" Plus watch Michael pull a scarf through a solid object!
You don't have to plunge the ocean depths to celebrate Shark Week. On Scam School, all you have to do is belly up to the bar with the lovely ladies of the Bite Club Show!
This week we attempt to answer the age-old question: Is pro wrestling real or fake? Watch the master become the student as Brian finds out the trade secrets behind this pre-determined "sport" from a wrestling school graduate.
Sometimes one short trick won't do on its own, but a bunch of them in a rapid succession can have awesome results! Watch Brian and guest magician Robert Strong run through a few fun little gags you can do with pencils or straws.
This week challenge your drinking buddies with a couple of fun brain teasers.
This week it's time to test the limits of your imagination! We've got two matchstick puzzles you can try out on your friends and see how you can improve them.
Brian's pro-wrestling schooling continues! This week, watch him learn some final advanced maneuvers before it's all choreographed into a final showdown between the teacher and the student.
In this episode, we follow Brian on his journey to "Mahakarya Magician" in Jakarta. The we go backstage before the show to meet two of Indonesia's most famous magic superstars and get a glimpse at their magic powers...
This week we're at the bar again with Brian and his fellow magician Robert Strong, who shows us a card prediction trick that's totally unbustable!
This week we show you more of Brian's Indonesian adventure. Follow him to Jakarta as he prepares for one of the biggest live televised magic specials in the world, get a glimpse of some of the onstage "Mahakarya Magician" performances...
Playing with fire never gets old! This week we learn how to create amazing jets of flame using ordinary matches and some powdered coffee creamer. BONUS: Another Scam School devotee gets his own personal fire-eating lesson from Brian.
In this episode, Brian harnesses the power of coffee creamer to create magnificent pillars of fire! In other words, Brian teaches a couple how to ignite animal fats in powdered coffee creamer. It results in a stream of combustable coffee creamer and you end up seeing a long line of fire! Plus, Brian personally teaches yet another Scam School devotee how to eat fire!
Brian's Indonesian adventure comes to a close as he and strongman/magician Dennis Rogers hit up a bar in Jakarta. Plus, see Rogers true strength at work and learn an amazing coin trick.
In this episode, we show you how to make some pretty gnarly flutes out of the plastic straws you'd typically find at your local bar!
In this episode, we show you how to make a stripper deck to perform a variety of card tricks, with the help of San Francisco magician Ryan Horsfall.
DON'T TRY THIS TRICK AT HOME!! After watching the look on Anthony Carboni's face, as he attempts to eat glass from an incadescent light bulb, you probably won't want to try it anyway. Brian Brushwood lays down the strategic way to "chew glass". DO NOT USE FLORECENT LIGHT BULBS!!!!
DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME! DO NOT USE FLORECENT LIGHT BULBS!!!! Fluorescent lights contain small amounts of mercury, a poisonous substance. The phosphor coating on the inside glass is also harmful. If a human or pet is cut, the phosphor will prevent blood from clotting. Once again, DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME! Enjoy though, as Brian shows you a dangerous sideshow trick that's been done for years.
In this episode, we show you how to have people read YOUR mind with this simple card trick!
So you can read people's mind in a card trick? That's child's play, get people to read YOUR mind to really blow them away. It's not that hard either, you'll just need a little help from a... ehem.. marked deck.
Today on Scam School, it's a two for one special! Two beautiful girls and two awesome scams all in one episode!
If you have four able bodied people and four chairs, then you can perform this awesome hypnotic levitation trick!
There's nothing more awesome than the ability to amaze people with little to no props. On today's Scam School, you'll learn how to weave your friends together as if they were one big sleeping pretzel, with nothing more than four chairs.
Suckers who don't see how pieces of toilet paper suddenly disappear while everyone else is in on the joke. Oh yeah... you also get a bonus hypnotizing switcheroo bonus trick today!
Learn how to warp a card and defy logic in this episode of Scam School.
You can't turn a card inside out. Right? Turns out you can and Brian Brushwood blows some minds by doing so under the cover of darkness. Learn the logic behind this simple card folding (and cutting) scam.
The only thing you need to pull off these two scams is a few dice. That and a few suckers with money in their pockets!
Learn how to scam your friends in this week's Scam School with just a few dice. The first trick involves a bit of dice-on-finger physics that will stump everyone. The second trick is a variation of the previously played "Nim". It's a race to the number 50!
