- [David] I want seven spades.
That's sick.
- That's weird.
- Holy crap.
These all have your nudes on them.
How did you do that?
That's awesome, thanks.
- Yo, yo, yo, what is going on everybody?
Alex Pandrea here.
Welcome back to another video.
Today we're gonna be talking about
how do we force something on a spectator
whether it be a card or
a number or an object
and not make it the traditional way of
let's say if you wanna force a card
do a riffle force every time
'cause that could be
boring and the options
are limited for that.
So we're gonna talk about
how we can use things
like magician's choice and verbal forces
to get to where we wanna
be in our routines.
So before we start today,
a little bit of news.
If you like playing
cards, you'll notice that
in the description
there's a new secret deck
out released on House of Playing Cards.
And the reason I say secret
deck is not much of a secret.
But since I am here in
Bermuda, I was not able to
send a deck for me to have for pictures
so that deck is back in New York
so now I'm gonna have to
go all the way back to
New York if I do wanna take nice pictures
but there is no time because
of the way that we structured
this release so go ahead if you do want
the Snake Oil playing cards designed by
Randy Butterfield Midnight
Cards, they're awesome.
I'm sure they're gonna
be one of my favorites.
I've yet to see the deck,
but if you do want that,
we only have a few available and
link is in the description below.
And before we go into actually
what this video is about
I wanna thank everybody out there for
30,000 subscribers here on YouTube.
It means so much to me.
I've only started this maybe
half a year ago and I love it.
I love doing these videos
and I love the feedback
that you guys give me and the comments.
I do read all the comments.
I'm there in the beginning.
So leave a comment, I
always try to respond.
Thank you, thank you, thank you very much
for all the subscribers and like I said in
one of the previous
videos, once I hit 100,000
subscribers, I'm gonna
start making daily content,
daily videos for everybody
and that's scary but exciting.
I think that's gonna be a lot of work,
but I think it's gonna be very fun.
To preface this tutorial, I'm gonna
show you a video that was shot
a few weeks ago in Los Angeles.
I'm working on a secret project
that I can't say much about right now,
but this was sort of an extra.
So I performed for David Dobrik.
Now at the time, I'll be honest,
I had no idea who David Dobrik was,
just a guy on the street,
but I did perform for him
and apparently another
YouTuber slash Instagrammer
whose name is Corinna.
Corinna?
Corinna?
So they stopped and watched some stuff and
one of the things I'm gonna show you
the video of here is how I do
one of my favorite effects with
a verbal force that I use.
Now I'm part of something
that is called the 52.
Now the 52 is something that I
can't get into full detail on
but basically, you might
have seen this around
Instagram and stuff,
I've got a tattoo here of
the seven of spades and
I use this as a force.
Now there's 52 of us, 52
different cards on the finger
and I use this for a trick.
I use this for a force.
Basically forcing the
seven of spades and then
it appears on my finger.
Now the easiest way to
do this is obviously
you force a card.
Here you go.
And then it appears on the
finger but that's not very good.
That's just straightforward.
You might as well just do
any other reveal with that.
But this I use a verbal force.
Now the way that I do it
is I force everything from
the number to the color
to the suit to the hand
to the finger and then have them do it.
So this is the full routine
from start to finish
performing for them.
Let me see.
Alright let me try...
You know what?
I'll try something with that.
That's funny I would love to
get a tattoo of a card, right?
Give me a number one to
ten, it doesn't matter.
- Okay.
- What?
Say it.
- Seven.
- Seven?
We'll use our imagination, hold the cards.
- [David] Okay.
- There's black cards
and red cards, right?
I take out either the blacks or the reds.
Which ones did I take out?
- Okay.
- Which ones?
- Blacks.
- Blacks.
There's clubs and spades,
the blacks, right?
Clubs and spades?
- Uh huh.
- Think of one in your
head, don't say it out loud.
Just think of one.
Change your mind when I snap my fingers.
You're gonna keep changing your mind.
Clubs, spades, clubs, spades.
So it's random.
- Okay.
- Keep going.
Clubs, spades, in your head though.
Keep going, change your mind.
Change your mind.
And stop.
- Okay.
- Now if you were to change
your mind one more time
where would you be, clubs or spades?
- Spades.
- Spades.
That was a free choice right?
Left or right?
- Left.
- Left.
Okay here's my left hand.
This is all your choices, yeah?
- Yeah.
- Look, say stop any...
You said a number in the beginning, right?
What did you say?
- Seven.
- Oh seven.
So seven of spades you
made out of nowhere right?
- Yeah.
- Out of thin air.
Just say stop anywhere you want.
- Stop.
- [Alex] Okay give me your finger.
Seven of spades, yes?
Here we go.
Three, two, one, go.
(Corinna laughs)
- What the fuck?
- [Alex] The hell?
- [David] Tattoo one on me.
I want one.
I want seven spades.
That's sick.
- That's weird.
- Holy crap.
These all have your nudes on them.
How'd you do that?
That's awesome, thanks.
- Alright so there you have it.
That was the full
routine of how I do this.
Now we're gonna talk
a little bit about it.
I'm not gonna teach you everything exactly
of how I force everything
'cause some of the stuff
is not mine to teach,
but I do wanna talk about
one thing that I use
all the time and that's
the number seven of course.
Now the seven force is
something very very cool
that you can use for other things too.
Just even making a prediction,
writing down a seven
on a piece of paper and
then having the say it
and you predicted it.
Now, the way that you do the
seven force is very easy.
You just ask somebody, hey
give me a number one to ten.
Now, when you ask them
something like this,
usually, they're gonna say seven.
More than not they're gonna say seven,
but there is a lot of things you can do
to actually make them
say the number seven,
which is the force number, even more.
So if you were to just ask somebody,
give me a number one to ten.
They might say seven five
out of ten times, right?
But the way that I sort
of put touches on it,
I wanna say that eight out of ten times,
nine out of ten times, I get
them to say the number seven.
And here are the subtleties
that I use for that.
So the first thing is what I actually say.
I say, if you were to give
me a number one to ten,
what would it be?
Right before I say that, I put
my hands like this to my face
and then I go like this in
front of their face, okay?
Like this.
Now what I'm doing is I'm
actually putting up the
number seven with my fingers
in front of their face.
Alright, doing something like
this or drawing in the air
the number seven, you
have to do it sort of
backwards I guess to
them, it does work, okay?
So you could either go,
give me a number one to ten,
it really doesn't matter.
Give me a number one to
ten, say it out loud.
If you were to give me
a number one to ten,
what would it be?
And I place the number
seven like this, okay?
And curl your fingers a little bit.
You don't wanna go like this.
If you were to give me
a number one to ten,
what would it be?
Give me it, just tell me.
What was it?
No?
So I do something called a stutter.
Now, what the stutter is, I don't know
how good it picked up on video,
but I say this.
If you were to give me
a number one to ten,
what would it be?
Do the seven.
And as you're saying it, I
don't wait for them to respond.
I go, ss say it.
So I actually stutter the word say it
or the phrase say it and
before that I go ss say it.
Alright, so I go ss ss twice to get them
to mimic me in the phrase
and they just come out
and they go seven.
Alright it's the weirdest thing.
You have to try it out.
So if you were to give
me a number one to ten,
what would it be?
Go ss say it.
So they might think there's
something wrong with you
a little bit but I think it's worth it
for you to get the force down.
Now as far as the other stuff's concerned
you can pretty much work that
out using magician's choice,
equivoque, or as it's more
formally known, equivoque.
And using things like
that where you're saying
you know, I have a deck of
cards we'll use our imagination,
and from the box I dump
out the reds or the blacks,
which ones?
And you wanna force the
blacks, in this case.
If they say blacks I go,
okay we'll use the blacks.
If they say reds, I go
we're gonna eliminate
down to one card, okay?
So all the time, what you say after
makes what they said
before legitimate, okay?
So you don't wanna switch up
your vocabulary every time
when you do this magician's choice.
So if you say, if I dump
out reds or black cards,
get rid of them, which ones?
They say black, you go
okay and in the blacks.
So I don't even acknowledge that they
made the decision of reds and blacks.
They say blacks and I
go okay so in the blacks
there's spades and clubs.
I go forward.
If they say red, I go,
remember we're gonna
eliminate down to one card.
So now that's left spades and
clubs in the blacks, right?
The next part forcing the spade
is something from Michael Murray.
I don't exactly remember the name for it.
I learned it from Peter Turner.
He does this a lot where you're
having them choose between
two items in their mind,
changing back and forth.
So if you do wanna look that up,
it's a Michael Murray
technique I do believe.
Left and right hand is
pretty straightforward.
If they say left, the
tattoo's on my left hand,
so I say okay, we'll use my left hand.
If they say right, I say
okay I need your right hand.
And then the stop force with the finger
is pretty straightforward,
you just time it, okay?
So you wanna hold it a
little bit further up.
You don't wanna do this.
You wanna hold it further
up so that even if they
say stop here, you can move a little bit.
Alright, so say stop anywhere.
Alright and it's always this timing.
Say stop anywhere and they go stop.
Say stop anywhere, stop.
Okay, so you move according
to it, depending on
how far your fingers are from each other,
you can get this force pretty nicely.
If for some reason, I do
this and and they go stop
and you don't have time to do it,
okay I say pinky, I need your pinky.
Goes off great.
So one thing that I realize is that
obviously not everyone is gonna have
a tattoo on their left middle finger to go
from all the steps from
the number to the color
to the suit to the hand
to the finger, okay?
But there's other ways you
could do it for yourself.
So for instance, let's say
you put the seven of spades
or I would go for the seven of hearts.
I have the tattoo of the
seven of spades so I'm
sort of stuck forcing it.
So you're taking a card, let's
say it's the seven of hearts
and you put it in your pocket.
Now, I like the seven of
hearts better when I do a force
with a card rather than a seven of spades
because a lot of times
people say red more than they
say black so instead of
having to eliminate and
all the time in magician's
choice it's always
more awkward to be like
okay we're eliminating
that, like hey who said that?
And instead of doing it on the finger,
you just do it in the pockets.
So left or right pocket,
if they say left or right
and if it's in your left
pocket if they say right,
go okay I need your right hand and they're
gonna go into the pocket.
So always, no matter
what decision they make,
make it so that it makes sense.
If they say left, I go okay
we'll use my left pocket, look.
And then I take it out and
the card that they named,
that they freely chose out of nothing,
they chose everything as far
as even down to the pocket
then it comes to you
and you can pull it out.
Boom, look, one card in my pocket.
Seven of hearts.
Very, very strong stuff.
Alright guys so there you have it.
That's just a little bit
of inside on the video
and the verbal forcing that I use.
All in all, it's just the
way that you present it.
And the way that you make it seem like
everything is super fair, okay?
And this was all their decision.
So even though this wasn't
a full in-depth tutorial
of a full routine, this is
something that you can use
to customize your own
magician's choice to make it
into a full routine
instead of just using it
for the things that we
know in a packet trick.
You have to eliminate
four cards down to one.
You can take it up a notch
and just do this whole routine
like you saw with the tattoo,
that you can take it and
make it your own.
So as long as you know the verbal forces
like seven is great.
By the way, the second choice after seven
is always three, I've always seen that so
if you wanna say, say you
wanna definitely force a three,
you can say something
like this and try it out.
If it works, great.
If you were to give me
a number one to ten,
what would it be?
And don't say seven that's
very common, gimme one?
And you'll notice they'll
jump back to three.
So if you guys wanna do me a favor,
you can tweet @daviddoberik
to watch this video.
I was trying to get him
on here and watch it,
and maybe we could do a
collab, an actual collab
where I show him magic
where I know who he is
and actually do something
besides the simple
stuff that I did for him on the street.
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Peace.
