A LOT of people are extremely tired of sandbox games, it's one reason ND et al are so successful. Lots of folks want a focused, episodic experience
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Including the best and most time-honored one, the shill One of the other people was in on it and when he did the piece de resistance ("I'll leave the room, you shuffle the deck, pick a card, put it back, I'll come back and just tell you what it was") it was the shill doing it
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And when he finishes the trick that way people are so exhausted from all the other iterations of the trick no one even thinks to ask "Okay now so that exact same thing again with a different person"
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My other fav Penn and Teller moment was on their Magical Myatery Tour, when Teller was in (China? India?) and a local magician wanted to do the cup and ball routine for him. 1/
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Teller humours him, and decides to play the role of the mark. He watches the guy do his whole routine, and then picks the cup where the mark would think the ball is. 2/
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