Magic cat

[Azrael 5]

Im being slightly disingenuous not technically a magic cat but a tough audience for a magic trick and its funny
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYUbISQ48T8

 

[Trebuchet]

Curse you! Curse you, I say! I have just wasted 40 minutes watching funny cat videos! YOU DID THAT ON PURPOSE!

 

[rjh01]

Curse you! Curse you, I say! I have just wasted 40 minutes watching funny cat videos! YOU DID THAT ON PURPOSE!

Ditto.

 

[fuelair]

Me too, and it was worth it!!!

 

[marplots]

I think it was done by taping a mouse on the side of the cup we couldn't see.

 

[Trebuchet]

It would be pretty easy to cue the cat from off camera. Of course, that would require the human involved to be able to follow it while scrambling.

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

It would be pretty easy to cue the cat from off camera. Of course, that would require the human involved to be able to follow it while scrambling.

A small dimple on the cup would do that fine. More dimples would indicated numbered cups. They wouldn't show on camera, suggesting that the low angle was ... convenient.

 

[rjh01]

I would also point out that the cup where the object was did not change at any time.

 

[Gardenjayne]

a strong smell,and a cat's heightened sense of smell
le voila
magic

 

[Garrette]

Nonsense. It was pre-show work.

 

[Howie Felterbush]

The thing under the cup looked like a little "jingle bell" type thing.

Maybe it keeps making a little noise after it stops moving and the cat hears it?

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

The thing under the cup looked like a little "jingle bell" type thing.

Maybe it keeps making a little noise after it stops moving and the cat hears it?

Yeah, those big cup-like things on its head. They may have something to do with this.

 

[bluesjnr]

Maybe it was just that one could follow up the object cup with very little effort.

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Maybe it was just that one could follow up the object cup with very little effort.

I could follow it on the screen, three for three.

Which makes me almost as smart as a cat?

 

[bluesjnr]

I could follow it on the screen, three for three.

Which makes me almost as smart as a cat?

Careful, they can totally read!

 

[marplots]

Nonsense. It was pre-show work.

Plus dual reality!

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Careful, they can totally read!

Just so long as they never learn to talk.

 

[John Jones]

Im being slightly disingenuous not technically a magic cat but a tough audience for a magic trick and its funny
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYUbISQ48T8

Hows does that cat cheat so well?

 

[Trebuchet]

Having just watched it again, I think there's a very subtle cut between the mixing and the cat's final selection.

 

[Howie Felterbush]

Maybe a guy off screen shining a laser pointer of the back of the appropriate cup?