Stranger Card

67 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 to 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
 		1920 Ten New Sleight of Hand Card Tricks 5
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
Unknown 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
Unknown 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
Unknown The Razzle Dazzler combo
 		1940 Expert Card Technique 266
Unknown 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
Unknown Introducing the Stranger method of adding a stranger card to the pack
 		1940 Expert Card Technique 379
Unknown Forcing a Stranger Card
1940 Expert Card Technique 380
Unknown 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 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
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 — Volumes I, II, III and IV (Vol. 3 No. 2) 133
Unknown 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 1952 The Phoenix 251 — 300 (Issue 263) 1050
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
Edward Marlo Air Mail Prediction featuring finesse for a Henry Christ force beneath table
Related toVariations 1969 Hierophant (Issue 2) 65
Edward Marlo "Collect Double" two phases, three stranger Aces or ungaffed
 		1971 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. 5-8 (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 Hierophant (Issue 7 Resurrection Issue) 35
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
Unknown Impossible Location No. 52, selection located first without looking at faces, then in pocket, stranger card
 		1976 Self-Working Card Tricks 79
Unknown 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
Unknown 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
 		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
 		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
 		1991 The Olram File (Issue 10) 7
Edward Marlo Neo Jazz Aces three stranger cards
 		1992 The Olram File (Issue 11) 5
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
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 to 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
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