Stranger Card

86 entries in Cards / Principles / Stranger Card
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Charles T. Jordan The Bare-Faced Detection No. 13, card chosen by cutting, found with the faced towards the spectators at all times
Related toAlso published here 1919/1920
Thirty Card Mysteries
45
T. Nelson Downs Transposition Extraordinary No. 2, deck separated in red and black, card from red half put in black half, it is predicted and transposes with another red card, halves rubber-banded
Also published here 1920
Ten New Sleight of Hand Card Tricks
5
Theodore Annemann Nightmare Effects (Second Effect) spectator chooses card and seals it in an envelope without looking at it, another card selected with riffle peek, that card vanishes and is found in envelope
Variations 1928
Nightmare
1
Theodore Annemann The Migrating Pasteboard card travels from red half to black half, corner-short stranger card
 		1935
The Jinx (Issue Summer Extra 1935)
44
Jean Hugard The Torn and Restored Card, Using a Borrowed Deck
1935
Card Manipulations (Issue 4)
99
Everywhere and Nowhere 1. (using two duplicates)
2. Using a Short Card
3. With a Borrowed Deck
4. With an Ordinary Deck without Duplicates
 		1935
Card Manipulations (Issue 4)
112
Seeing is Believing card put in envelope turns out to be later selection
 		1936
Card Manipulations (Issue 5)
155
Frank Lane Count-Down see no. 9, stranger card
 		1937
Encyclopedia of Card Tricks
102
The Razzle Dazzler combo
 		1940
Expert Card Technique
266
The Stranger Card whole chapter with applications
 		1940
Expert Card Technique
362
Theodore Annemann The Ghost Card stranger card, card is put in envelope
 		1940
Expert Card Technique
363
Introducing the Stranger method of adding a stranger card to the pack
 		1940
Expert Card Technique
379
Forcing a Stranger Card
1940
Expert Card Technique
380
Double-Faced Cards using double facers as strangers
 		1940
Expert Card Technique
380
Herb Runge Hidden Mystery two cards selected with dealing procedure, performer places another card next to them one by one
Related toAlso published here Mar. 1940
The Jinx (Issue 83)
535
Hen Fetsch In the Mind performer really blindfolded
  • think stop with one selection
  • think stop with three selections
  • a chosen card is named
Also published here 1940
The Jinx (Issue 88)
554
Paul Curry Odd! card chosen and spectator draws design on its face, performer locates it behind his back and also the divines the design
 		1941
Something Borrowed, Something New
[21]
Jean Hugard, Frederick Braue The Three of Spades writing appears on face of selection
 		1942
Prepared Cards and Accessories
14
Jean Hugard, Frederick Braue Under Foot one card under foot, sticky stranger card
 		1942
Prepared Cards and Accessories
14
Jean Hugard, Frederick Braue Ringing the Changes card and its position remembered, optional stranger card
 		1942
Prepared Cards and Accessories
31
Martin Gardner For the Man in Uniform back of selection changes to picture of uniformed man, performed for soldier
 		1942
Cut the Cards
27
Jean Hugard, Frederick Braue Chosen Card to Pocket at any Number between five and twelve cards to trouser pocket, selection last, duplicate, credit information
 		1943
Tricks and Sleights
10
Theodore Annemann The Migrating Pasteboard card travels from red half to black half, corner-short stranger card
 		1943
Full Deck of Impromptu Card Tricks
45
Hen Fetsch In the Mind performer really blindfolded, routine with three parts
  • think stop with one selection
  • think stop with three selections
  • a chosen card is named
Also published here 1944
Practical Mental Effects
254
Hen Fetsch In the Mind reprint
Related to 1945
My Best
84
Warner Perry To the Top with stranger card (which is not the selection)
 		July 1945
Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 3 No. 2)
133
George G. Kaplan The Card in the Shoe using a stranger card
 		1948
The Fine Art of Magic
93
Tony Kardyro Welcome Stranger handkerchief force, card vanishes from deck and appears anywhere else
 		1948
Your Deck — Your Card
10
Al Baker, Dai Vernon Al 'n Dai Again stranger card, sandwiched, see p. 1061 for more details
Related to Sep. 1952
The Phoenix (Issue 263)
1050
Stewart James The Open Prediction #18 with stranger card
 		Aug. 1955
Ibidem (Issue 3)
13
Stewart James The Open Prediction #19 with stranger card
 		Aug. 1955
Ibidem (Issue 3)
14
Stewart James The Open Prediction #20 with stranger card
 		Aug. 1955
Ibidem (Issue 3)
14
Ric Schonblum When You Can't Face It gag when a magician gets handed a "wolf pack" (erotic images), chosen card is still normal
 		Sep. 1958
Ibidem (Issue 14)
7
P. Howard Lyons Codicil deck cut into two piles, spectator looks at top cards, top cards are tabled, both transform and are brought from the pocket, with challenge presentation in which spectator must point to originally seen cards
Inspired by
  • "Never Bet on the Other Man's Game" (The Testament of R. W. Hull)
Variations 		July 1959
Ibidem (Issue 17)
7
Edward Marlo Holograph deck cut into two piles, spectator looks at top cards, top cards are tabled, both transform and are brought from the pocket, with challenge presentation in which spectator must point to originally seen cards
  • 1st Variation
  • 2nd Variation
  • An Original Method
  • Other Thoughts
  • A New Thought
  • Addenda re 3H idea
Inspired by June 1960
Ibidem (Issue 21)
7
Charlie Miller Version of Jack McMillen's Prophesied Leaper selection vanishes from one half and reappears in other at predicted position, stranger card
Inspired by 1961
The Magic of Charles Earle Miller
26
North Bigbee Stranger Interlude new card in old deck as stranger card, see p. 156 for corrections
 		May 1965
The New Jinx (Vol. 4 No. 37)
154
Edward Marlo Air Mail Prediction featuring finesse for a Henry Christ force beneath table
Related toVariations Winter 1969
The Hierophant (Issue 2)
65
Edward Marlo "Collect Double" three stranger Aces or ungaffed
  • First Method
  • Second Method (The Repeat)
  • Third Method (nothing extra)
 		Fall-Spring 1971
The Hierophant (Issue 5-6)
237
Roger Smith Ultimate Sandwich card travels to tabled sandwich cards
Inspired by 1971
The K-S Control System
26
Alex Elmsley Between Your Palms card between spectator's palm turns out to be a later signed selection, using stranger card
Variations Mar. 1973
The Pallbearers Review (Vol. 8 No. 5)
606
Edward Marlo Extra Collectors stranger Ace and Face Up Switch
 		1974
The Unexpected Card Book
6
Larry West Ace in the Case cased Ace of Spades transposes with selection
 		1975
Card Cavalcade 3
27
Edward Marlo A Sandwich Approach sandwiched card on table turns out to be later selection, seven methods
Related toVariations 1975
The Hierophant (Issue 7 Resurrection Issue)
35
T. Nelson Downs Transposition Extraordinary deck separated in red and black, card from red half put in black half, it is predicted and transposes with another red card, halves rubber-banded
Also published here 1975
Charles T. Jordan: Collected Tricks
77
Charles T. Jordan The Bare-Faced Detection card chosen by cutting, found with the faced towards the spectators at all times
Also published here 1975
Charles T. Jordan: Collected Tricks
113
Jon Racherbaumer, Ed Brown Between Elmsley, Brown, and Himber using Himber Wallet and Stranger
Related to 1976
Kabbala — Volume 3 (Vol. 3 No. 1)
1
Karl Fulves Strange Secrets chapter intro
 		1976
Self-Working Card Tricks
79
Impossible Location No. 52, selection located first without looking at faces, then in pocket, stranger card
 		1976
Self-Working Card Tricks
79
It's in the Bag No. 55, deck and case dropped in paper bag and shaken, case then has selection inside
 		1976
Self-Working Card Tricks
84
Philip T. Goldstein Nijinsky Two selected ace travels into deck, card in hand, stranger
 		1977
Card Cavalcade Four
117
Karl Fulves A Device, Cloaked joker as open prediction, it changes to the card left face down
 		1978
51 Faces North
13
Edward Marlo Reversed Assembly using stranger Ace
 		1979
Marlo's Magazine — Volume 3
17
Edward Marlo Un-Gaffed Approach three methods for "New Approach to a Revisit" from page 172
 		1979
Marlo's Magazine — Volume 3
175
Stranger Corner sticking corner on card making a fake index card
 		1980
Marlo's Magazine — Volume 4
28
Frank Garcia, Ken Krenzel Switchcraft Outdone! three methods (one with duplicate, one impromptu, one with stranger)
Inspired by 1982
The Close-up Magic of Frank Garcia — Part II
22
Edward Marlo Transposition Card To Wallet Tip usage of stranger card
Related to 1984
Marlo's Magazine — Volume 5
Dai Vernon Al 'n' Dai at the Hop one card sandwiched
 		1988
The Vernon Chronicles — Volume 2
98
Edward Marlo Signature Transfer nine methods, ungaffed, stranger, duplicate, double backer, partial roughed menetekel (method 8)
 		1988
Marlo's Magazine — Volume 6
189
Edward Marlo Latest Observation Test using duplicate strangers
 		1988
Marlo's Magazine — Volume 6
206
Edward Marlo Siamese Strangers
  • First Method (stranger card)
  • Second Method (double facer)
Inspired byVariationsAlso published here
  • The New Tops, Nov. 1964
 1988
M.I.N.T. — Volume I
106
Bruce Florek Post-It Prediction prediction on post-it stuck on face card to deck, spectator cuts and faces deck below table at predicted card, with handling without stranger card by Ed Marlo
Inspired by 1990
Cardfixes
66
Edward Marlo Unhappy Students three methods
Related to 1990
Cardfixes
122
Edward Marlo Instant Ace Assembly three x-cards on one Ace, other Aces in deck, three x-cards become Aces, three stranger Aces
 		July 1991
The Olram File (Issue 7)
1
Edward Marlo I'll Do It Again! two halves on table, face-up card travels from half to half, repeat, red and black sections transpose, three stranger cards
 		Oct. 1991
The Olram File (Issue 10)
1
Edward Marlo Logical Reverse Assembly - Third Method four Aces with three x-cards, fifth packet to which Aces travel, then all back, stranger Aces
 		Oct. 1991
The Olram File (Issue 10)
7
Edward Marlo Neo Jazz Aces three stranger cards
 		Apr. 1992
The Olram File (Issue 11)
5
Edward Marlo Marlo's Transposition Routine with stranger card, first phase Buffalo'd, then two repeats
Inspired by Apr. 1992
Tech-Notes (Issue 2)
17
T. Nelson Downs Transposition Extraordinary No. 24, deck separated in red and black, card from red half put in black half, it is predicted and transposes with another red card, halves rubber-banded
Also published here 1992
Charles Jordan's Best Card Tricks
31
Charles T. Jordan The Barefaced Detection No. 54, card chosen by cutting, found with the faced towards the spectators at all times
Also published here 1992
Charles Jordan's Best Card Tricks
63
John Scarne Trapped Under Glass card inside inverted glass transposes with card outside, visible
 		1993
Rigmarole (Issue 5)
60
Alex Elmsley Between Your Palms card between spectator's palm turns out to be a later signed selection, using stranger card
VariationsAlso published here
  • Abracadabra, Vol. 13 No. 335, June 28, 1952, p. 361
 1994
The Collected Works of Alex Elmsley — Volume 2
246
Ariel Frailich If I Were a Real Magician... selection turns over and its back changes color
Inspired by
  • early Edward Marlo effect
 1997
Card Stories
52
David Regal Sending It Through Card goes through a series of changes when pushed sideways through the deck
Inspired by 1999
Close-Up & Personal
43
Herb Runge Hidden Mystery two cards selected with dealing procedure, performer places another card next to them one by one, reprinted from Jinx
Also published here 1999
The Fine Print (Issue 10)
318
Edward Marlo Borrowed-Deck Transposition with stranger card
  • First Phase
  • Second Phase
  • Final Phase
 		1999
Collected Card Notes
107
Al Baker, Dai Vernon Al-N-Dai stranger card
Related toAlso published here
  • marketed 1941
 2003
The Secret Ways of Al Baker (Issue Instructions)
523
Juan Tamariz Prediction prediction of named card, with odd backed card
  • A. The Hofzinser Mehod
  • B. With a Regular Deck and Two Jokers
  • C. With a Regular Deck, without Jokers
  • D. With a Stranger Card
  • E. A Stage Version: "The Joker"
 		2004
Mnemonica
91
Burling Hull, Karl Fulves Mid-Nite Marvel performer finds a four-of-a-kind below table, those transpose with some card in the deck, changed from dark room effect to below table
  • Second Approach (involving the location of a selection)
Inspired by
  • "Mid-Nite Marvel" (Burling Hull, Clever Card Collection of 1932)
 2005
Latter Day Secrets (Issue 10)
403
Ken Krenzel Strange Hummer red-black separation by spectator beneath table with ten-card packet, suggests CATO as false trail
 		2009
Relaxed Impossibilities
211
Aldo Colombini A Card Gag apparently destroying card from borrowed pack, stranger card
 		2010
Card College Lightest
111
Joseph Barry A Narrowed Thought card thought of and after small dealing procedure it is named, hands-off
Inspired by
  • "Mind Reader's Lucid Dream" (Justin Higham, Clairvoyant, Mental Topper and The Mind-Reader's Dream, 2011)
 2014
Reverie
22
Tomas Blomberg Joseph Kerr prediction written on back of Joker, it is cut in deck and ends up next to predicted card
Related to July 2015
Genii (Vol. 78 No. 7)
69
Howard Hamburg The Heavy Deck extra card secretly added to the deck and the removed as skill demonstration
 		Sep. 2023
Genii (Vol. 86 No. 9)
64
Tony Giorgio The Tony Giorgio Mercury Fold card folded in borrowed deck as gag
 		Sep. 2023
Genii (Vol. 86 No. 9)
65
Aimar Garcia, Allan Ackerman Revisiting the Hofzinser Ace Problem two-phase routine
Inspired by
  • Aimar Garcia routine with double facer
 2024
All In — Volume 2
154