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Penn the Magic Dragon · Jun 25, 2018
52 acts across 13 episodes, 2018. 13 of them fooled Penn and Teller — one season of all 568 acts the show has billed.
13 performances in season 5 fooled Penn and Teller. Show the whole season.
Penn the Magic Dragon · Jun 25, 2018
The Rematch · Jul 2, 2018
Penn & Teller Get Loopy · Jul 9, 2018
Here Comes the Magic · Jul 16, 2018
Psych!! · Jul 23, 2018
Penn & Teller Against the World · Jul 30, 2018
Imagine (Magic) Dragons · Aug 6, 2018
Here Lie Penn & Teller · Aug 13, 2018
Teller's Gambling Problem · Aug 20, 2018
Penn & Teller Keep You In Suspense · Aug 27, 2018
Never Trust A Magician · Sep 24, 2018
Let's Hear It For The Kids · Oct 1, 2018
Fool Us has run for 11 seasons and 173 episodes, and nobody involved with the show keeps a public list of who performed on it. So we built one, from the episode-by-episode records below, and checked it act by act.
Acts are listed the way the show billed them, so a duo stays a duo. A magician who came back gets a separate entry for every visit, because the result can go either way on different nights — plenty of people lost one week and fooled Penn and Teller the next. When we could confirm a magician has a FindMagic profile, their name links straight to it, so you can see where they are performing now.
A red YouTube mark means we watched that link and it really is that performance. A grey one means we could not find the clip and the link runs a YouTube search instead — we would rather admit that than pass a guess off as the real thing. Right now 122 of 686 performances have a confirmed video, and we are still working through the rest.
A few segments where Penn or Teller competed instead of judging are kept in the list but left out of the Fooled them filter — somebody else was doing the judging, so they are not comparable. Last updated 2026-08-28, covering everything broadcast through 2025-12-05.
Checked against: Wikipedia — Penn & Teller: Fool Us · Reddit r/FoolUs — Complete Lists of Foolers, Performers, Performances · The CW Network YouTube · Magician Masterclass — Fool Us coverage
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