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A week or three ago, magician Eric Leclerc appeared on Penn & Teller Fool Us and fooled Penn & Teller with a trick involving styrofoam peanuts. I was unfamiliar with Mr. Leclerc. His main exposure on TV has been on a show that combines magic tricks with hidden camera stunts and I really, really don't like hidden camera stunts. I might just make an exception and catch his because he sure seems like a clever, fun-to-watch entertainer.

As a Magic Castle member and student of the art, I'm pretty good at figuring out the tricks on the Penn & Teller show. This one, I thought I kinda solved but it turns out I was wrong. Here's the trick. Watch it and see if you can guess how he dunnit…

And now here's the secret. Since he has no intention of ever doing this trick anywhere else and since it's his trick, Mr. Leclerc decided to make a video revealing the method involved. The trade-off for him was that loads of people, myself included, subscribed to his YouTube channel so they'd be alerted as soon as he posted the answer. See if you figured it out. I didn't.