Quirkology

Richard Wiseman (born: September 17, 1966), also known as Quirkology, is a Professor of the Public Understanding of Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom. He is also a magician and a psychologist. He uses both psychology and science to his simple, but mindblowing tricks to catch eyes of his audience. He is famous for his illusion videos, but his most famous series on YouTube is "10 Bets You Will Always Win".

Real Life
Wiseman was born and raised in Luton. He learned his trade as a teenage magician working the crowds in Covent Garden.

''Like most magicians I got into magic really young. You open that book when you're in the library, and go "this is for me". It happened to me at about age eight.''

— Richard Wiseman

He studied psychology, while he was working as a street performer. He moved to Edinburgh where he obtained his PhD in Psychology from the University of Edinburgh for research.

He has won many awards for his books on his scientific research and psychology.

YouTube
Richard created his channel in 2007 wanting to show people on the internet some cool magic tricks. This later turned into showing off some illusions and science experiments that he thought would make his audience chuckle a little. He later went on to make more complex videos to show off everything he knows about magic and sometimes features his wife in his videos.

10 Bets You Will Always Win
This is his most successful series where he shows 9 bets you make with your friends with a high probality that you might trick your friends and win some bets. In his videos he uses normal, every day things like glasses, matches, notes and balloons to create a challenge for people to use on their friends with a goal to trick them and make them lose the bet. 10th "bet" is a special bet where Richard will create a scenario where you will lose a bet, but make your friends angry by tricking them. In these scenarios he features a young man who purposely is bad at acting, so these bets are the highlight of the series.

10 Amazing Illusions
As the name suggests he shows off some pretty cool and simple illusions for entertainment.

Catchphrases and Quotes

 * They'll fail everytime
 * You'll lose the bet, but your friend will be very angry