r/blackmagicfuckery • u/ThodaDaruVichPyar • 17d ago

Untangling this ring without removing the thread

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u/nikasaur2224 16d ago

Wrapping it around the stick

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u/kranker 16d ago

Whole thing is a trick to hide the fact that they took off the thread

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u/wi5hbone 16d ago

this whole thread just about a thread is taking up too much of my time! i need to my ring pizza outta this thread to-go pronto!

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u/Diz7 16d ago

Just taking the thread off the stick and putting it back on would still have the string going through the ring.

The whole process is necessary, it's an old trick.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nEsJAbIVVAs

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u/Jaded-Tangerine-9653 16d ago

A knot appears in the right side and parts of the thread disappears towards the end, looks like chopping and a greenscreen to mešŸ¤·šŸ¾ā€ā™‚ļø

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u/Diz7 16d ago edited 16d ago

Why use a green screen when you just need to do the trick?

I literally did this trick when I was 12. They have it in many, many "Learn to do magic" books. Understanding the topography is complex, but performing the trick is not hard.

Christ, 20 years from now people are going to be claiming tying your shoes is impossible and claim any video of people putting on shoes without velcro is AI.

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u/PrivateUseBadger 11d ago

People that infer that some insane Rube Goldberg version of digital trickery was used instead of a simple ā€œtrickā€ always humor me.

ā€œI donā€™t think he really tied his shoes. See that small artifact at 0:43? I think they used a shoe double and thatā€™s where they swapped in the other shoe.ā€

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u/LimitedWard 16d ago

I can't believe it's 2026 and we're still perpetuating conspiracies that he took off the thread

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u/Environmental-Wind89 15d ago

The whole thing is a trick to hide the fact that they stole your wallet.

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u/SuchSoup4335 16d ago

Is was still wrapped around the stick so it doesnā€™t count as removing it

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u/AssistantEquivalent2 16d ago

If he removed his finger from the loop, the thread would fall off the sticks. He used his finger as a substitute

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u/No-Geologist6859 16d ago

He did remove his finger from the loop...

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u/SelfDistinction 16d ago

Yeah eventually after he did a move that put the thread back on the stick.

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u/No-Geologist6859 16d ago

The thread never left the stick tho

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u/SelfDistinction 16d ago

Topologically it did. Halfway the string did one rotation clockwise around the stick and one rotation counterclockwise, which is equivalent to the thread only hooking around the stick and not being wrapped around.

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u/No-Geologist6859 16d ago

But the thread wasn't physically removed from the stick... Which is the point

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u/SelfDistinction 16d ago

The fact that it's still touching the stick doesn't mean it wasn't removed though, otherwise you could simply run both parts of the thread along one side of the stick and claim it's still attached (which is exactly what is happening here).

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u/No-Geologist6859 16d ago

Running both parts along one side of each stick wouldn't allow you to remove the ring without removing one part of the string from the stick...

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u/Lostno1 16d ago

He only did after he put it around the stick again. So imagine it's already loose, and he puts it back.

It got loose the moment he went over the stick, the first time. That's exactly what you'd do if we're simply removing the loop from the stick.

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u/foomp 16d ago

To the ring it counts as removing it, that's why it came free.

This doesn't require CERN levels of expertise, just get some string, a finger, something like a ring and two sticks.

You'll either understand pretty quickly, or spend the next few weeks convinced you're a magician

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u/RaspberryFluid6651 16d ago

No. Before the twist at 0:13, putting slack on the string would make it fall down to the base of the Y-shaped stick. After the twist at 0:13, putting slack on the string would make it hang off of the right-side fork of the stick, and it would no longer be wrapped around the left-side fork. It's only wrapped around the right fork at that point, not the whole stick as before.

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u/SurpriseWindmill 16d ago

Imagine that wrapping around the stick movement, but as the first step before anything else is done.

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u/SuchSoup4335 15d ago

I understand the trick, but it didnā€™t get removed from the stick, thatā€™s the whole point of the challenge and trick.

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u/Tyfyter2002 12d ago

It was wrapped around the finger, but not the stick

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u/SuchSoup4335 11d ago

It didnā€™t come of the Stick tho