The Magical Rendezvous (Dai Vernon's GREAT Force) 

“I saw two eights in a row, something suspicious is going on” - Every spectator ever

I love both beards. Oh, having the text explanation at the end is amazing.

This trick can work without a joker in the deck and with 52 cards only. The only difference is to locate the 26th card and not the 28th card and find it’s match, then when you do the reveal, count down the spectator’s number of cards and the match will be the next card always. I think it’s the same effect in the reveal since you will be showing which is the card that we reached after discarding the counted down cards.

God. I’m so scared to try this. Just watching it feels like watching a train that’s barely on the rails. But I know it has to work.

Loving the Text recap at the end. It helps a lot !

I think what a lot of us would really like to know is if the 2 8's in a row she was suspicious of ended up being the 2 8's in the trick? Because that was a cool coincidence either way!

Brian you have helped me be a better magician you rock man love watching you

Thank you for these videos and high quality editing job, camera angles and subtle background music. Appreciate it! 👍🤙🤘✌👏👏👏

How do you keep coming up with so much great content for so many years straight? And for free too. You’re a legend, Brian.

That was pretty good ngl, even after watching this channel for 5 years I was fooled!

Brain Brushwood. Dude. You have literally come a long way! I literally grew up watching Scam School when you had the pineapple hair. You've never lost your energy! To be SOOO consistent in everything for SOO long is amazing and should and will be applauded forever!

This would have been so much better if the prediction was a blank card with "you chose the 8 of spades - now buy me a drink" written on it.

It's a wonderful magic trick I ever seen before.♥️♥️♥️

I've tried it 15 times in a row and cant get it to work smoothly yet. Not to mention everybody flips out when I have them shuffle then immediately look at the card faces. They lose interest

I absolutely love the text recap at the end of the video

Super interesting!

5:45 watching this far, I still have no idea how this works.

Very cool very strong just love it

What would you do if the joker is 28th card? It rarely going to happen, but it is important to know. Edit: Nevermind, I practiced it a bit, you can move 1 or 2 cards to the top. 1 if the pair is on the bottom 2 if it is on the top. I would need to work on doing more sneakily. Other than that thanks for adding another self-working card trick to my collection. ^.^

So, what if the 28th card is the joker? Since you only have one... there’s the “jokers are wild” but but I don’t feel like that has the impact.

Nice effect.

on the reveal,when you count the number of cards from your deck equal to the number of cards in theirs, i seem to be one card short. I'm following the setup exactly as he explains it...EDIT: I figured it out. I had given the spectator the wrong packet...

Ι miss Brian's spiky hair!I guess that we are getting old!The first time i saw a video from this channel was 10 years ago.Time flies!

Didnt get the part of the 28th card position do i take it out or its match and what if the match is before or after or like that

I took this trick and modified it slightly. I took cards from identical decks, placed them both on the bottom of the deck and shuffled the cards so that those remained on the bottom. Then I had the participant cut the cards and complete the cut so the identical cards were about half way. I followed the same steps as Brian from there, just placing my prediction card as the 28th card. I just thought that since you have to add a card anyway (in his case the Joker), then why not make it an identical card?

prediction patter could reinforce the focus on free shuffle, some numerology/chaos theory/tarot bit

mat not making it hard on himself and just saying I'm going to make a prediction is really smart and the way I'm going to do this trick

This one intrigues me. I’m going to have to play with this one. I don’t see how it works. Very unintuitive. Thanks for the cool trick!

Now this is something.

What should i do when 28th card is the single joker ?

I dont know if I’m crazy but for me the only time this trick works is when I have to add an extra card to the top half of the deck. If the pair card is in the bottom I have to add it but if its in the top half I have to add a random card. Am I crazy

I thought you would just find the match of whatever is on the bottom post shuffle. Make that your prediction. give any number of cards to the player starting from the top. Your match is still at the bottom. and now you make a pile to match their pile. Starting from the top. you have three piles now. the one of unequal size gets turned around and you match up.

its weird how this already so obviously feels like a previous era.

I've learned that this shuffle, when taking the bottom and top card off the deck, is also known as the klondike shuffle,

For bonus points, put your deck down, and get them to count their deck first, then yours without you touching anything.

You know what's real bad luck? Getting the Joker as the center card.

I literally have not been able to do this trick and i have done this for about 2 hours now but i couldnt get it right i only got it close literally once and that was the very first attempt i dont know what im doing wrong can someone explain simpler (im not this dumb normally i swear)

To make sure they don’t go past half of the deck on dribble, just tell then they will pick any number of cards less than half the deck and ripple the card from half the deck toward the bottom of the deck and have them say STOP

Given that this is mathematically sound, if they do let you dribble cards too long such that you go past the middle card, can't you then use multiple outs to just give them the other pile instead (keeping the one with the dribbled cards, containing the middle card, for yourself) and then deal down the cards in your (under the guise of counting them out loud) to reverse the order and get you back on track?

Am I having a fever dream or is this really a trick that works

Shouldn't there be some kind of explanation as to why the prediction comes up as a different suit? It seems like that would make it better than just "oh look there's two 3's here now."

I tried it but I can't seem to get it to work, I do the steps exactly the same but the end card is not the same as the prediction

I keep making mistakes in the milking part. How do I know the deck is small enough to work?

I’m really annoyed, because I don’t know how the math works, but I just figured out that if you use a 52 card deck this trick works with an exact prediction of the card, but you have to predict the 27th card from the bottom and not pull any card out. I did this by pulling out the same card from another deck, but you could just as easily write it down!

The speed squad

Cows on. - Temple Grandin

🐄 I'd have to add running theme of "milking" to the routine so that it wouldn't seem so confusing to the spectators. 🥛

How the math works- You’re forcing the 27th card from the bottom (you find the 28th, but if your prediction card isn’t below it, you’re moving a card from bottom to top- so it ends up being the 27th from the bottom). With the prediction card removed, you have 52 cards left. 25 above the forced card, the forced card, and 26 below the forced card. The spectator gets a pile of x cards. Now there’s 52-x cards in your pile. Still 25 cards above it, but now only 26-x cards below it. By “milking” your pile until you’ve got a smaller pile than the spectator’s, you’re basically doubling the number of cards below the forced card in your pile. So your pile now has 2*(26-x)=52-2x cards below the forced card. How many cards does this leave above the forced card in your pile (52-x cards)? Well, there’s 52-2x cards below it. Then there’s the forced card, so that leaves 52-x-(52-2x+1)= 52-x-52+2x-1= 52-52-1-x+2x= x-1 cards above the forced card. Which makes the forced card the x’th card from the top of your pile. And x is the size of the spectator’s pile, so there ya’ go. MATHEMAGIC!

i'm doing something wrong?? I've tried about 15 times n cant get it to work??? lol

I am not getting it to work everytime. Good trick but too many things can go wrong I guess?

You don’t need 53 cards for this trick. Just take a normal 52 card deck without jokers and find the 27th card from the bottom. Write it down on a piece of paper or pull the exact card from another deck. Then do the trick the same way and it will work.

Brian I know how to perform same type of force with just 52 cards and would love to teach you reply this to learn it's easier than this one you showed but the process is 99% similar!

Since this is math-based, can I assume that it’ll work with a 51 card deck if I just count to the 27th card instead?

I hate this. Ive been sitting here for 15 minutes with a pen an paper trying to understand this ridiculous thing ... Im gonna use it all the time.

How to explain it mathematically?

Scam school rocks😎😎😎

Hiyahiyahiyaa

I performed it and the joker was the 28th card.🤣

that is one heck of a beard-

Like your beard

*DISCORD SQUAD REPRESENT*

Magic...getting free drinks and chicks since the beginning of time!

It did not make sense, or I was a little bit too drunk :P

Does anyone remember when Brian had his douchey, punk rock, dagger hair and then he changed it and now he looks like a normal, approachable, good-looking dude? Yeah, someone else is in dire need of a hair intervention.

I think I could actually do this... and I'm not good with card tricks.

I miss the scam school intro

Beards, beer and magic tricks.

Brian still smells like hotdog water.

Hilarious! She does not trust Brian at all! 🤣

Is that urine ?

6th !!!!!

Holding the cards face up, you're saying "top half" is really bottom half, and bottom half you're calling "top half", and moving a card to the top, you're literally taking a card from the top half, putting it on the bottom, and then turning the deck over. Seriously Brushwood, WTF.

This doesnt work wtf

meth

3 clubs IS NOT A MATCH for 3 spades. You need to spend at least one sentence somwhere in the entire video explaining what you're going for.