- The magician introduces
a deck of playing cards,
a Sharpie and a Post-it notepad.
He writes down a prediction
on one side of the notepad,
a playing card,
but he keeps his playing
card to himself for now.
He then writes something on
the other side of the notepad,
which he allows everybody to see,
it is the word, red.
He leaves this on the table
where everybody can see it,
he then shuffles the
playing cards one last time.
He then begins to slowly but
fairly deal playing cards,
until Susan Sausage calls stop.
- [Susan Sausage] Stop it.
- He fairly takes the
stop that playing card
and reveals it to be the nine of clubs.
I wrote down two things
on the notepad, red,
I also wrote down a
prediction, the nine of clubs.
Although impressed with the
revelation of the nine of clubs,
Susan Sausage is left slightly
confused at the word, red,
until the magician points
out that the nine of clubs
is the only red playing card in use.
He invites Susan to inspect
the rest of the playing cards,
where she discovers that
the deck is completely blue.
(mellow melodic music)
I am Daniel Madison and
this is The Stranger.
You alright down there?
Uh!
I am Daniel Madison, welcome back.
Thanks for being here,
thanks for choosing to
spend more time with me
and Charlie Madison
today, we appreciate it.
In this video I'm gonna
teach you a dope trick
called The Stranger,
it gives me an excuse to finally start
using these playing
cards a little bit more.
In fact both of these
decks of playing cards,
when I'm done with this video,
I'm gonna give these decks
along with the box set that they came with
to some lucky person watching
this video right now.
Stay tuned all the way until the end
and I'll tell you how you can win these.
These by the way, have just been launched
on Kickstarter, July the 1st,
from the Expert Playing Card Company.
This is a lovely box,
it's a Kickstarter project
and they've got quite a
few little add-on things,
very interesting, I'll leave
link in this video description,
if you wanna go check it out, there it is.
Now let's talk about The Stranger.
I teach so much sleight of hand
and so many sleight of hand techniques,
a lot of people have been asking me
to start teaching tricks, so
that the sleight comes second
and I feel that way too,
I feel like I wanna start
teaching more and more tricks.
This is a good place to start
on this trick, The Stranger
and timing is perfect,
because I've just released
The Second Deal Masterclass
over at my website,
The Second Deal is the deceptive art
of secretly dealing
the second playing card
from the top of the deck,
whilst appearing to deal
it fairly from the top.
This is a heavy masterclass,
that's added to the library
along with The Bottom Deal Masterclass,
Greek Deal, Centre Deal and all the rest,
I leave no stones unturned
and I teach everything I
know about the Second Deal,
I'll leave a link in
this video description.
The reason I mention this,
the reason I talk about this,
The Stranger relies on a Second Deal.
So although I'm gonna talk a little bit
about the Second Deal
and I'm gonna show you
in its most basic form the
Second Deal in this project,
I'm by no means gonna use this video
to teach the Second Deal,
this video is all about the trick,
it's a dope trick, that
involves a prediction
and then in the end there's
a very lovely surprise,
when they realise that the
deck is now a different colour.
I'm Daniel Madison.
Get yourself two decks of playing cards,
this is The Stranger.
So we're using two decks
of playing cards for this
and it's important that
there's a good contrast,
that's why these decks work really well,
the blue deck and the red deck.
If you wanna do this
exactly the way that I do,
the final prediction will make more sense,
because we're talking about
the colour of the back design,
not of the playing card, which
will make sense in a second.
We're gonna talk about the
psychology of the performance
and of the session itself afterwards,
right now we wanna focus on the mechanics.
We're gonna use the blue deck in play,
this is gonna be the play deck,
but it's gonna appear to be
a red deck of playing cards.
So we're gonna take the nine of clubs,
this is our prediction card,
we're gonna take the nine of clubs,
don't need the deck anymore.
and I put this on top.
I wanna convince my
participant from my audience
that this is a red deck of playing cards
and it's very easy to do,
leave the red card on top.
I can shuffle,
as long as you only see
the faces of the cards
and I can just stand
with the card like this
talking the whole time.
More importantly, the
biggest convincer of this,
which we'll talk about a little bit later
is the fact that we're
gonna have been using
a red deck of playing
cards for the whole set,
while we've been with that audience,
we're gonna be using a red deck
and then just as we get to
this trick, we're gonna switch,
not as a technique, not as a deck switch,
but we're just gonna switch the decks
and put the prediction
card on top of this,
so that when we come
back to do another trick,
oh, by the way, here's another trick,
they see the red deck
that they're used to,
they believe it's the same deck.
So I put the deck down,
we can always see it's always inside,
we can always see that it's a red deck.
I write down my predictions.
Now, I messed up when filming,
so I've already done this,
I've already done the prediction,
so we write the prediction on one side,
I write nine of clubs
and don't worry, anybody can see this.
I then turn this down and write
red on the back quite big,
so I write red on the back,
I do want people to see this,
so I put a prediction down,
nine of clubs face down,
pen on top, securing it,
making sure no one's gonna
move it or tamper with it,
the word red is in plain sight.
Now I kind of want them to
believe that red is a prediction
for either heart or diamond,
but I'm never gonna say that,
I just write down the word red,
that's why we use the
deck of red playing cards
or it appears to be a
deck of red playing cards.
I shuffle the playing cards
and I say I'm gonna deal playing
cards and as I'm shuffling,
I'm showing them the faces of these cards,
I'm not showing them
the back, so they can't,
if I do this, then I've
ruined the whole deception.
So all the while all I'm doing
is pressing my fingers against the deck,
so that the red card always stays there,
it's a very simple idea,
so I shuffle the playing cards
and I say I want, I want,
I want to stutter really badly.
I'm gonna deal playing
cards out onto the table
and I want whenever you feel like it,
just call stop and that
will be our playing card.
I don't like the idea of saying
give me number two or a 52,
it's too formulaic, it's too strict,
there's no ifs, and and buts
and we draw attention to that moment
when we get to their number,
when we ask them to just call stop,
then it's very momentary,
it's very in the moment,
it's very easy to, it feels normal,
it feels like a real situation,
it feels more relaxed.
So I keep showing the
back, not going like this,
look, I've got a red deck, but
I keep it kind of on display
until I get to the deception.
So now I'm gonna deal playing
cards on to the table face up,
so I'm gonna be dealing them all face up
one at a time on top of each other,
all the while I'm gonna be Second Dealing,
so I'm not taking the top card,
Second Dealing is the art
of deceptively dealing
the second card down in the deck,
whilst appearing to give
fairly from the top,
so the Second Deal, when
we do it for this trick,
it looks like this, I
push the top card over,
I take the next card down,
which is blue like this
and then turn it face up
and I turn it face up in a Faro deal,
I believe that's, forgive me if I'm wrong,
I believe that's a Faro deal,
when you take it like this
and then turn it face up outwards like so,
so that all the while
only I can see the back,
so I can see a lot of blue,
but I'm always flashing red to you,
so from here to here,
here's what, I'll get you in focus,
I will move the camera in a second,
so you can see this properly.
The red, they see the red,
I push this all the way over,
my thumb takes the blue card from here
and as soon as my finger takes it away,
my finger and thumb,
it's turned face up and placed down,
so they do see the back of this card,
I wait until my wrist is twisted enough,
before I push the top card over,
because if I do it here,
there's gonna be a problem,
so I get here very slowly and carefully
take that second card
and as I put the card down,
I flash the back once again
all the while you believe
that you're seeing
red-backed playing cards.
They can call stop at any point,
so when they do call stop, call stop,
by the way, when you're
dealing these playing cards,
you don't wanna rush,
you don't wanna hold the deck too tight,
everything that I know
about the Second Deal
and the application and execution of it,
the philosophy, the psychology,
the body language, the behaviour,
everything is on The
Second Deal Masterclass,
which is on my website right now,
kind of what led me to do
this trick in the first place.
Anyway,
so flash up here, show the face down,
as you put this playing card on the table,
that's when you show
the back of this again,
it's like a perfect
compromise and marriage
between these two hands,
they're making the same motion,
almost like a music conductor,
they're doing the same thing,
they're mirroring each other
and they're both doing a seperate job,
whilst appearing to be one thing.
So we come together like this, up,
we take the card and then go back down,
meanwhile I show you the red card here,
I'm taking the card
very slowly, very fairly
and putting it down to
show you this card here,
you believe it's red,
because you see it red here,
you always believe it's red,
but really they're all blue
and this is the deception itself.
So when we get to here and they call stop,
they can call stop at any point,
ideally there's quite a few playing cards
on the table already, they
call stop at this point,
you say do you wanna keep
going or do you want this card,
do you want this card?
Are you out of focus?
I'm sorry.
Do you want this card?
At this point, if they wanna keep going,
you don't say do you want
this card or this card,
obviously we don't want
any of those cards,
'cause they're blue, you
want to say specifically,
do you want this card or
do you wanna keep going?
Or do you wanna stop there
or do you wanna keep going?
If they say stop there,
then this is the card,
if they wanna keep going,
it makes the trick a little bit better,
because you're free with it,
you're like okay, whatever
you want, let's keep going
and then they go, okay, stop there,
I get it, it could be any card.
That's the message that you wanna give,
you wanna give 'em that it's not strict,
there's no definite rule
to it, it's just any card,
the whole purpose of tricks like this
and using things like this in the trick
is that the playing cards
don't really matter,
they're not a big deal and
that's the message I wanna give,
I don't really care, I don't care,
we just need a playing card
for this trick to work,
that's all, so the more
hands off, the more relaxed,
the more you seem to step back
and not give a flying
monkey about the deck,
the more real it feels,
the more real it looks,
the more real the magic
will feel in the end.
So they call stop and
we're in this position,
where if I take this
card away, we see blue,
I don't want that, we
really don't want that,
so I'm gonna take it in the
same way that I take these
and I'm just gonna tilt the
deck, twist my wrist enough,
so that I know that you can't
see the backs of these cards,
I'm not gonna do this,
I'm not gonna do that,
I'm gonna be very casual, very
relaxed with it like this,
of all the cards, you
settled on this nine of clubs
and I put it down face down,
this does a few things for our deception,
one, it allows us to
protect the blue backs
from being seen at this
point, so I'm here,
I take a card, two, it fairly
shows that playing card,
I'm not being secretive about it,
I'm not taking it off
and keeping it hidden,
because all the methods that
you have to take that card off,
whilst protecting the back
of these playing cards
makes it look suspicious,
it looks like something's up to no good
where you go like this
or you might lift it like
this, it all looks weird,
make it look as fair as possible
and it feels more real and more fair,
because you're revealing the playing card
right there, right then,
you're not hanging about,
you're not wasting time,
you're just going this is
the card you stopped on,
the nine of clubs,
everyone's looking at here,
no one's looking at the deck.
So I put this down face down,
so that you see the red back,
for one last time you're gonna see red,
I put the playing cards,
look at the position of this right now.
I can hear someone screaming outside,
I think it's an annoying small person.
So look at the position of
my hand, this whole position,
my hand, the backs are facing me
and it's very natural now
for my hand to just go down
and I add these to the pile,
it looks like such a natural thing
and it's such a suggestive thing to do,
because that's where all the cards are
and we're finished, we've got our card,
I can get rid of these
and I don't wanna rush it,
I don't wanna get rid of 'em quick,
I don't wanna take my time,
I don't wanna look like
I'm protecting these blues,
so I just put it down casually
and don't even make a point of it.
Now I'm hands off, I'm free, I'm clean,
everything's ready for the
participant to inspect.
I now point to the, I was
gonna say prescription,
like I'm a doctor, but I
point to the prediction,
I say when I wrote red
down, I didn't mean that,
I thought it was gonna
be a heart or a diamond,
I mean the card's got a red back, right,
I'll show you what card I predicted,
you chose any card from the deck
and you chose the nine of clubs
and I predicted the nine of clubs.
Let it sink in a little bit
that you've got this right,
that this went right,
the whole point of this is you're setting
a little bit of confusion
into them by using the red,
it's a distraction, it's kind of like a,
what's he talking about that for?
It's one of those beautiful moments,
where it doesn't make sense,
but the magician's talking so confidently,
a red, 'cause I didn't think
it was gonna be a heart or a diamond,
it's just the word, red,
because this card is red
and they're like in their mind,
well, yeah, so are all the other cards,
so you're setting the seed,
you're putting this in their mind.
So then you say my prediction
is the nine of clubs and you got it right,
then you put it down, the prediction,
so the nine of clubs is face down,
so we can all see the word, red
and then I'm gonna say and
the reason why the word, red
is so important and the
reason why I wrote red down
and the reason why you
chose the nine of clubs,
you could've chose any other playing card
is because it's the only
red-back deck card in this deck,
allow them to pick the deck up and inspect
to discover that every single playing card
in the deck is blue and your job's done,
everything can be
inspected, nothing to hide,
completely clean and because
you set that seed of doubt
or that seed of confusion
in them about the red,
maybe they've figured it out
before you even showed them
and that's a beautiful thing
and if they didn't, again
it's a beautiful thing,
'cause what a beautiful moment,
when you're stood there,
hands empty, you've not
done anything suspicious,
you've dealt as fairly
and as slowly as possible
and you've stopped on any playing card,
you wrote your prediction
down before you even began,
you didn't touch it, it's
one of the cleanest tricks,
one of the cleanest tricks,
in terms of brainwave,
call it change of decks and all that.
So I think I've covered
everything about The Stranger,
the trick, The Stranger,
I've performed this for years
and I've always kept it a secret,
but with the arrival of The
Second Deal Masterclass,
I wanted to get this on
film and share it with you,
so that's The Stranger.
I'm gonna change the camera angle
and we're gonna have a little
chat about the approach to it
and the way that you're gonna
switch this deck into play,
'cause I think it's important
that we at least address
a method for that.
Yes!
Ha ha, so The Stranger,
The Stranger, ooph!
Ooh, that's the noise you make.
So The Stranger, yes, I make that noise,
'cause it's one of those tricks, you know,
it's one of those what?
Especially when you do the work first
and when I say the work first,
oh, before we get into that,
there's something
beautiful, don't you think
about sharing a prediction,
having it open, so that they can all see
and this gives you the
best of both worlds,
like part of it's hidden,
part of it's mysterious,
but a huge part of it's open,
I think that's a beautiful thing.
By the way, you need Post-it notes,
maybe use a few, so that
it's not see through,
because you can see straight through that,
you can see straight through to the,
to the nine of clubs.
So especially when you do the
work, do you know what I mean?
Especially when you do the
work, when you're doing tricks,
when you're doing tricks
and you're showing tricks
and tricks and tricks and dope tricks,
all the tricks I've taught you,
you're showing 'em all with this red deck
and the whole time you're showing people
tricks with this deck
and then you do a mother
flipping deck switch,
you know what I mean?
So here's just a silly idea, you know,
we get the nine of clubs
to the top of the deck,
nine of clubs to the top
and this is after we've
shown loads of tricks
with this deck already,
so now we're in a down
mode between tricks,
so we've just done a trick
and maybe we're talking
about sausages a little bit,
you know, just mixing it up,
getting attention away from the deck.
Meanwhile you're still
holding the playing cards,
because you're still in
a performance, you know,
so I'm gonna hold on to the deck
from above here with the free hand
and I'm gonna steal the deck away,
I taught this I think in a video recently,
remind me what it is, where
you hold this card like this
and it looks like the full deck,
oh yeah, it was the F-ing Aces,
so it looks like you're
holding the full deck,
meanwhile you take the deck to your pocket
and it looks like you're
still holding the deck here.
So we've got the nine of clubs
and I take this to my pocket,
still talking about sausages,
oh, that's a lovely sausage,
do you like this one?
Do you like that one?
Look at this one here.
So while you're having your
chat, your sausage chat,
you're getting the blue deck
out of a different pocket,
you're bringing the
blue deck now into play
underneath the top card.
So now I've loaded and I'm ready to go,
I'm ready to go for this trick.
The beautiful thing about that,
now the argument is up there,
because you could just put
the deck in your pocket
and then say oh, do you
wanna see another trick?
I'll show you a trick
and then bring this out
all ready to go, all
ready to go, you know,
just have it like this in your pocket
and then just bring it out.
I do like the idea that
you're setting in their mind
for a while now that you've
been using the right deck
and I like the idea that you're never seen
to take this deck to your pockets,
it's always in front of them like this.
So once you've loaded that blue deck
and the neat thing you
can go straight into it,
I'm gonna show you something else.
There's some nice subtleties,
I like playing with the idea
of having two red cards,
now the reason, I was gonna teach this,
but the reason I didn't,
if you have two red cards,
nine of clubs, seven of spades on top,
this allows you to show this
off as a red deck so much more,
so you can push the top card
over and show underneath
or you could drop a card by accident
or you could just handle them more freely,
especially the moment where
when you've dealt your cards
to the table face up of course,
when you get to that point,
at this point you can do this,
you can go this was your card
and now I'm showing a red
card here and a red card here
and then at the end,
once I've put this down,
I steal that red card and
put the blue deck down
and I'm now gone, now
I'm completely clean.
The dilemma that brings,
the reason I don't teach it
is because it would involve
me having to teach you
a very intricate card technique,
which is a Third Deal basically,
dealing the third card down in the deck
and I don't wanna get into
that yet, it's not my place
and I want this Second Deal
Masterclass to settle in,
but there's that idea of
making it a further convincing,
that you're using a red
deck the whole time,
not that you ever need to,
you don't need to
convince somebody of that.
A really nice thing as
well, which this leads into
is once the trick's
done and the deck's blue
and you've got a red card,
the amount of tricks that you can do now
with a red card and the
blue deck is incredible,
there's some fantastic tricks
and I've got some on my list
that I'm gonna teach on this channel,
maybe I'll follow this video up with one,
maybe, I don't know,
I haven't decided yet.
But there's so many cool tricks
that you can do at this point,
you can change this card,
change the face of it,
now we know there's one red card in play
and it's a blue deck,
then we can play with that in
a very, very interesting way.
I did say in this video
that I'm gonna give these decks away,
now that I've used them,
so I'm gonna sign a few
playing cards in this deck,
I usually sign the nine
of clubs, so I will sign,
in fact you know what, I won't do that,
I won't sign these cards,
because I want the person to have them,
whoever has them for these
to be usable at least
and if I'm signing them,
then that kind of ruins them,
but I will put something
in the package too,
but we're gonna go to the outro now,
so I can tell you how you can get hold
of these playing cards,
ha, that's right, Charlie, let's go.
That was The Stranger,
if you wanna learn the Second
Deal in much more detail,
head over to my website,
there's a link in this video description,
The Second Deal Masterclass
is available right now.
I'm gonna give these two
decks of playing cards away
in this box set along
with my personal note
from Bill Kalush, I'm
gonna give you everything,
I'm gonna give it to somebody
watching this video right now,
all that you have to do, make me laugh,
make me smile, tickle me,
I'll choose someone from the
comments in the next video,
somebody who made me laugh,
somebody put a smile on my face,
that person will be the lucky winner
of these Jerry's playing cards.
I'll be back soon with
some more dope tutorials
all I ask in turn, make
sure you subscribe,
so you get that notification
bell going ding, ding, ding
the next time I drop a new tutorial.
Links to everything is
in this video description
including a link to my new dope merch.
I'm Daniel Madison, see you next time.
(mellow melodic music)
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