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No mention of latest magic act on AGT?

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Postby Jack Shalom » June 14th, 2017, 9:11 pm

Except for some clumsy matching issues with the balloons, I really enjoyed that. Thanks.

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Postby erdnasephile » June 14th, 2017, 9:15 pm

Two thumbs up for that one! Bravo!

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Postby Richard Kaufman » June 14th, 2017, 9:53 pm

A lot of work went into that.
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Re: No mention of latest magic act on AGT?

Postby Steve Bryant » June 14th, 2017, 11:27 pm

What do you do for a follow-up?

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Postby Richard Kaufman » June 14th, 2017, 11:53 pm

They've already blown the fact that there are two sets of twins. I would have used this act for the finale, and used other illusions where the twins were used secretly for the earlier competitions.
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Re: No mention of latest magic act on AGT?

Postby TCG » June 15th, 2017, 2:26 am

I have to agree with Mr. Kaufman on this one.
They took what was perhaps their greatest tool and element of surprise and used it in the first round.
That being said, I do look forward to their next performance.

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Postby Tom Moore » June 15th, 2017, 3:28 am

They are experienced contestants in the "got talent" world, they know what they are doing and have follow-up acts.

Hiding the fact they are twins and revealing it later is a reductions idea as that final reveal would undo all the magic they had created previously and leave an audience bitter and disheartened.
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Postby Jack Shalom » June 15th, 2017, 5:42 am

Steve Bryant wrote:What do you do for a follow-up?

Triplets? :o

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Postby performer » June 15th, 2017, 6:35 am

All this reminds me of an off topic question I had a lot of fun with when I was young. Call it a puzzle if you like.

There were two brothers who joined the army. They were both born on the same day on the same month and the same year within a very short time of each other. Minutes in fact. They had the same birthday and looked very similar to each other. But yet they were not twins. Can you explain why?

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Postby Bill Mullins » June 15th, 2017, 10:42 am

performer wrote:All this reminds me of an off topic question I had a lot of fun with when I was young. Call it a puzzle if you like.

There were two brothers who joined the army. They were both born on the same day on the same month and the same year within a very short time of each other. Minutes in fact. They had the same birthday and looked very similar to each other. But yet they were not twins. Can you explain why?


Martin Gardner posed this same question (more or less) in his column in Scientific American in Apr, 1963, and reprinted it in The Unexpected Hanging.

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Postby Jonathan Townsend » June 15th, 2017, 11:49 am

The act was entertaining.
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Re: No mention of latest magic act on AGT?

Postby performer » June 15th, 2017, 11:55 am

Bill Mullins wrote:
performer wrote:All this reminds me of an off topic question I had a lot of fun with when I was young. Call it a puzzle if you like.

There were two brothers who joined the army. They were both born on the same day on the same month and the same year within a very short time of each other. Minutes in fact. They had the same birthday and looked very similar to each other. But yet they were not twins. Can you explain why?


Martin Gardner posed this same question (more or less) in his column in Scientific American in Apr, 1963, and reprinted it in The Unexpected Hanging.


It must be even older than that. I first read it when I was a kid at school. And that was way before 1963.

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performer wrote:All this reminds me of an off topic question I had a lot of fun with when I was young. Call it a puzzle if you like.

There were two brothers who joined the army. They were both born on the same day on the same month and the same year within a very short time of each other. Minutes in fact. They had the same birthday and looked very similar to each other. But yet they were not twins. Can you explain why?


Were they half-brothers?

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performer wrote:All this reminds me of an off topic question I had a lot of fun with when I was young. Call it a puzzle if you like.

There were two brothers who joined the army. They were both born on the same day on the same month and the same year within a very short time of each other. Minutes in fact. They had the same birthday and looked very similar to each other. But yet they were not twins. Can you explain why?


Is it because they were brothers to someone other than each other?

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Postby Jonathan Townsend » June 15th, 2017, 12:47 pm

Tom Moore wrote:... that final reveal would undo all the magic they had created previously and leave an audience bitter and disheartened.


There was a contestant with a cat act - and much fuss after when there turned out to be more than one cat in the named role.
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Postby Jonathan Townsend » June 15th, 2017, 1:30 pm

Jonathan Townsend wrote:
Tom Moore wrote:... that final reveal would undo all the magic they had created previously and leave an audience bitter and disheartened.


There was a contestant with a cat act - and much fuss after when there turned out to be more than one cat in the named role.


Whoops - that was a dog. Link: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebri ... trope.html
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Postby MagicbyAlfred » June 15th, 2017, 3:32 pm

performer wrote:All this reminds me of an off topic question I had a lot of fun with when I was young. Call it a puzzle if you like.

There were two brothers who joined the army. They were both born on the same day on the same month and the same year within a very short time of each other. Minutes in fact. They had the same birthday and looked very similar to each other. But yet they were not twins. Can you explain why?


Were they dogs who joined the K9 corps?

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Postby Tom Stone » June 15th, 2017, 3:39 pm

performer wrote:All this reminds me of an off topic question I had a lot of fun with when I was young. Call it a puzzle if you like.

There were two brothers who joined the army. They were both born on the same day on the same month and the same year within a very short time of each other. Minutes in fact. They had the same birthday and looked very similar to each other. But yet they were not twins. Can you explain why?

Simple. A married female gay couple, both pregnant with the same donator.

...or, did they maybe also have one brother who was pacifist?

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Postby Brad Jeffers » June 15th, 2017, 3:49 pm

They were Marianists, like Brother John Hamman.

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erdnasephile wrote:
performer wrote:All this reminds me of an off topic question I had a lot of fun with when I was young. Call it a puzzle if you like.

There were two brothers who joined the army. They were both born on the same day on the same month and the same year within a very short time of each other. Minutes in fact. They had the same birthday and looked very similar to each other. But yet they were not twins. Can you explain why?


Were they half-brothers?


Nope

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Re: No mention of latest magic act on AGT?

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I.M. Magician wrote:
performer wrote:All this reminds me of an off topic question I had a lot of fun with when I was young. Call it a puzzle if you like.

There were two brothers who joined the army. They were both born on the same day on the same month and the same year within a very short time of each other. Minutes in fact. They had the same birthday and looked very similar to each other. But yet they were not twins. Can you explain why?


Is it because they were brothers to someone other than each other?


Nope

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Re: No mention of latest magic act on AGT?

Postby performer » June 15th, 2017, 6:37 pm

MagicbyAlfred wrote:
performer wrote:All this reminds me of an off topic question I had a lot of fun with when I was young. Call it a puzzle if you like.

There were two brothers who joined the army. They were both born on the same day on the same month and the same year within a very short time of each other. Minutes in fact. They had the same birthday and looked very similar to each other. But yet they were not twins. Can you explain why?


Were they dogs who joined the K9 corps?


Nope

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Tom Stone wrote:
performer wrote:All this reminds me of an off topic question I had a lot of fun with when I was young. Call it a puzzle if you like.

There were two brothers who joined the army. They were both born on the same day on the same month and the same year within a very short time of each other. Minutes in fact. They had the same birthday and looked very similar to each other. But yet they were not twins. Can you explain why?

Simple. A married female gay couple, both pregnant with the same donator.

...or, did they maybe also have one brother who was pacifist?



Dearie me! Certainly not!

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Brad Jeffers wrote:They were Marianists, like Brother John Hamman.


Nope.

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Re: No mention of latest magic act on AGT?

Postby Jack Shalom » June 15th, 2017, 8:22 pm

Uhh.. I think the answer was already given by a certain landmark.

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Postby Tom Stone » June 15th, 2017, 8:33 pm

performer wrote:
Tom Stone wrote:
performer wrote:All this reminds me of an off topic question I had a lot of fun with when I was young. Call it a puzzle if you like.

There were two brothers who joined the army. They were both born on the same day on the same month and the same year within a very short time of each other. Minutes in fact. They had the same birthday and looked very similar to each other. But yet they were not twins. Can you explain why?

Simple. A married female gay couple, both pregnant with the same donator.

...or, did they maybe also have one brother who was pacifist?



Dearie me! Certainly not!


Well, both answers fully answer the puzzle as given. But neither gay parents nor triplets are accepted as viable solutions.
So it is not a puzzle to be solved with logic, but more like a guessing game akin to "I think of a number between one and a million, guess which one"?

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Postby Jonathan Townsend » June 15th, 2017, 9:35 pm

Jonathan Townsend wrote:...
Quintuplets with early transgender issues handled and one who runs the lighting?


@Tom, we've names for a few more including octuplets, or less including triplets.

Sextuplets taking turns doing the act? :)
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Postby I.M. Magician » June 15th, 2017, 9:58 pm

One or both were adopted?

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Jack Shalom wrote:Uhh.. I think the answer was already given by a certain landmark.


That is perhaps what made me think of it. However, I was hoping people wouldn't notice. And they haven't. And didn't. May I remind you of the old adage "silence is golden". I rather think you should emulate Mr Mullins in this matter who knows the secret but ain't telling.

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I.M. Magician wrote:One or both were adopted?


Nope. I should have mentioned that they had the same mother and same father. I knew I missed something out.

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Re: No mention of latest magic act on AGT?

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Tom Stone wrote:
performer wrote:
Tom Stone wrote:Simple. A married female gay couple, both pregnant with the same donator.

...or, did they maybe also have one brother who was pacifist?



Dearie me! Certainly not!


Well, both answers fully answer the puzzle as given. But neither gay parents nor triplets are accepted as viable solutions.
So it is not a puzzle to be solved with logic, but more like a guessing game akin to "I think of a number between one and a million, guess which one"?


Nope on two counts. You have made two incorrect statements. It seems that Swedes are not as clever as I first thought.

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Postby MagicbyAlfred » June 15th, 2017, 10:49 pm

It would seem that if the two brothers belonged to a set of triplets, that would be at least a correct (if not the correct) solution to the puzzle.

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MagicbyAlfred wrote:It would seem that if the two brothers belonged to a set of triplets, that would be at least a correct (if not the correct) solution to the puzzle.


Correct!

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Re: No mention of latest magic act on AGT?

Postby BillMorrison » June 16th, 2017, 2:38 am

Tom Stone wrote:Well, both answers fully answer the puzzle as given. But neither gay parents nor triplets are accepted as viable solutions.
So it is not a puzzle to be solved with logic, but more like a guessing game akin to "I think of a number between one and a million, guess which one"?


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Postby performer » June 16th, 2017, 5:32 am

I must say that I am really a master of getting things off topic.

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BillMorrison wrote:
Tom Stone wrote:Well, both answers fully answer the puzzle as given. But neither gay parents nor triplets are accepted as viable solutions.
So it is not a puzzle to be solved with logic, but more like a guessing game akin to "I think of a number between one and a million, guess which one"?


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Postby erdnasephile » June 16th, 2017, 7:59 am

performer wrote:I should have mentioned that they had the same mother and same father. I knew I missed something out.


That's a bit wonky, Sir! ;) Half-brothers is a viable answer under the initially proposed puzzle as well.

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Postby Jonathan Townsend » June 16th, 2017, 8:15 am

Jack Shalom wrote:Uhh.. I think the answer was already given by a certain landmark.


multiple births -

how many do you know about (for sure...) ?
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Postby erdnasephile » June 16th, 2017, 8:42 am

Steve Bryant wrote:What do you do for a follow-up?


Good point. Running out of "A" material before the finale afflicts many of the magicians on these contest shows.

On a somewhat related note: although I really enjoy watching some of the great performances on television, I can't help but wonder if the increased magic presence of late is an overall positive for the layperson's perception of magic.

That is, it seems that the abundance of shows has allowed more mediocre performances than ever to be broadcast. Do these subpar acts just serve to confirm the bias on the part of the public that magicians are all the same "Meh" bunch? Or does the current abundance work for good, in that the public will begin to realize that like other artists, magicians vary widely in quality. Would the public then begin to not take every poor in-person magician as representative of the whole? Then again, can bad magic ever be for "good"?


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