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What's up guys?
Hope you guys are doing well.
Hope you're having a nice Christmas Eve Eve.
Today we're gonna look at something really interesting.
Some of my favorite playing cards
as you may know are the David Blaine White Lions
playing cards whether they are
the black ones or the red ones or the blue ones.
But today I'm gonna share with you a few secrets
that you may not know about these playing cards.
Secrets that David Blaine himself has hidden
into the design that might make these
some of your favorite cards as well.
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All right let's jump right into it.
First thing.
Before anything we're gonna look at the tuck cases
because on these boxes are something very special
that you may have completely overlooked.
There are card reveals.
What is a card reveal?
A card reveal is when a spectator chooses a card
and you find a magical way to reveal it.
Well on these boxes or tuck cases as they're known,
there are some reveals.
Now on the White Lions series B red,
there is a hidden seven of diamonds.
Have a look at that.
You see it right there?
(bell dings)
Seven of diamonds.
So the spectator can choose the seven of diamonds
and you can reveal it on the tuck case itself.
As for the Black Lions,
you have a five of hearts reveal.
Can you find it?
Can you see it?
Right about the center of your screen right there.
(bell dings)
And that is a five of hearts.
Cool little nugget of hidden Easter egg magic.
Number two on the White Lions on the back
of the flap.
So you have the flap here.
Well on the back of this flap you have a sticker.
Now, it reads, supposed to read,
playing cards, as you can see.
Play ards, right?
So, I mean the mind assumes that the
word playing cards is written there.
No, no, no.
A surprise awaits you.
Actually, what's written on there
if you take off the little seal, gluey little seal.
Wup.
There's a word.
And that word reads, Indigo.
So normally, it would say, playing cards.
But it says, Play in indigo, and then cards.
So you might be wondering to yourself,
what the word Indigo means.
And if you've ever seen a David Blaine special,
it is a word that he uses as a reveal as well.
You see him do this in one of his
latest specials where he reveals a
word on the wall, a color.
He asks them, basically, to think of
any color and the most random word of all,
they think of, indigo.
Think of any color.
You're thinking of it.
Do you wanna tell everybody what your color is?
- No I want you to tell me.
(whooshing)
- In-di-go. - [Man] I N D G I O.
- Now how did they think of indigo?
Well that's a trade secret, known to
David Blaine and we won't get into that,
but he uses that and there's a little
another piece of nugget of information.
Now for the next secret, this is really
super intricate and really brilliant.
This is probably why these cards are my
favorite playing cards of all.
It's a combination of multiple hints and
Easter eggs that David's left us in this deck.
First of all, the name
is White Lions.
White Lions.
Sounds normal, but it's actually a hint
and we'll get to that hint in a second.
The other interesting fact about these
cards is that they are marked.
You can look at the back of the card
and you can tell exactly what that card is.
The marking system is incredible ingenious and super smart.
Kinda hard to read, but if you get the
hang of it, you're just like, it blew
my mind the first time I found out how
these cards were marked.
Here's another hint that tells you that
these cards are marked.
It's right here.
On the side of the tuck case, the person
who designed this, is Mark Stutzman.
And it says Mark D. Stutzman.
As in, marked.
Now that may seem a little trivial to you,
but if you have the black editions,
you also have designed by Mark Stutzman.
It's gonna be a little hard to read here.
Designed by Mark Stutzman, but there's no D.
It's simply, Mark Stutzman, not Mark D. Stutzman.
That is the first hint that these cards are marked,
and as I said, the second hint is
the name itself of the cards.
They are called White Lions.
Now what is white lions sound like when you say it quickly?
Say it. White Lions.
White Lions.
White Lines.
Whoa.
See what I'm saying?
The back of this playing card design
is made up of those spade logos.
If you look at the negative space,
you kind of start to see some white lines,
going down diagonally everywhere in both directions.
Well, those lines are exactly what
you need to read what these cards are.
Here's the interesting part.
Let's start with this one.
I'm not gonna show you what the card is,
but if you kind of unfocus your eyes a little bit,
and I'm not sure this is gonna work
for the camera or not, but if you kind
of unfocus your eyes, you start to see
two lines that are kind of more prevalent
than any other line on there.
Let's see if you can spot them.
(bell dings)
Two lines down the middle, close together,
right down the middle.
If you unfocus your eyes, are a little
bit more prevalent than all the other lines.
Now, it's kind of like one of those
optical illusions when you were in school
and you pressed your nose to like a
thing and then you backed up and then
you start to see the image.
Kinda like that.
You have to unfocus and relax your eyes
and you will see those lines.
When they're in the middle like that, it means it's a two.
That determines the value.
Now this is a three.
Can you tell where the lines are now?
(bell dings) (jazzy music)
But this time, they are a little bit more spaced out.
Four, consequently, would also be more spaced out.
As you can tell, there's one right here.
And another one, right here.
(bell dings)
Naturally, you go to the five, even more spread out.
(bell dings)
And here's the seven.
This is the seven.
Seven's probably one of the hardest
ones to read, because it's right along the edges.
So if you, the outside right around here.
Those ones are gonna be a little bit harder to read,
but here's the beauty of these.
You can read these markings from 20 feet away.
Don't believe me?
I've left a link in the bio where you
guys can check out these cards for yourself.
You literally can have somebody hold a
card up, 10 feet away, and look at the
back of it because the way the design is,
and the distance allows your eyes to
relax even more and sort of blurs it out of focus.
You can see those lines much more
clearly than if you were up close.
That's two through seven.
So what about eight through king?
Same thing, except the orientation is
now on the other side as you can see,
there are two lines, one, two, down the center
which are a little bit wider.
You can probably make that out if you
just relax your eyes for a second.
(bell dings)
And that would be the King.
So now we're opposite.
We're starting at the King, and then
it's gonna go, queen, which looks a
lot like the three, but in the other orientation.
Again you can make the two lines out,
which go down here and here.
And then jack, 10, nine, eight, those are the markings,
except we're missing one.
Let's see if you guys can spot the
marking for the ace, yourselves.
(bell dings)
Starting on my index all the way
down to the other corner, which is a
little bit thicker than the other ones.
It's just one simple line, that would be the ace.
So, that's how you determine the value of the cards.
To determine the suits of the cards is a different method.
It's a different tactic which is kinda cool.
If I flip through the top corner,
you might be able to see subtle changes.
(cards flipping)
Do that again.
(cards flipping)
Keep your eyes on the spade logos.
Notice some of them get darker and some of them get lighter.
These four spades here (bell dings),
one of them will always be darker.
Now this one here is currently darker,
that means it's a club.
So all you really have to do is go
through your cards, have a look at
the different suits, notice the differences
and you will automatically know what
suit in what number or value that
card is simply by looking at the back of it.
Now those are the markings.
Again, some of my favorite marking systems.
I don't use 'em as much as I should,
just because they're a little bit hard to read,
but I do think that it is very cool.
It's kinda like an Easter egg and you gotta figure this out.
So, it took me a while to figure it out,
but eventually got it down.
Another secret is in the ace of spades.
The ace of spades depicts this beautiful
woman standing there.
But if you look very closely at her chest,
you can make out the face of a lion.
(bell dings)
David's always about adding these
beautiful visual illusions into his cards.
Another reason why I really like them.
And another thing, and this is not really a secret,
but the faces of the cards actually
depict people that are close to David.
For instance, you have David Blaine,
himself on the king of spades, looking broody as ever.
And you have one of my very close
friends and consultant to David Blaine,
and one of his best friends in the world,
super genuine guy, featured him on
the channel before, you got my buddy,
Doug McKenzie, right here.
Such a good lookin' guy, Douggie.
And finally, I'm going to leave you
with one final reveal that David
left us to find in the white lions cards.
So let's say for instance, the spectator chooses a card,
and they choose this one, without looking it,
I lose it into the deck and I say,
you know what, I think your card is
a (card flips) right here.
Have a look.
And they go, no it's not.
And I say, no, no, no.
But she's holding your card.
And then they freak out.
So cool little reveal on the queen of spades.
And there is one more secret in this deck,
and that is the order that the cards come in.
Unfortunately, I will not get into that,
as that is a magician's secret.
It's something that I use all the time,
but if you're willing to put the time
in and effort in, to learn more about
this sequence that the cards are in,
it can be a very powerful tool.
But for now, I will leave that a secret.
And that's up to you if you choose to
pursue and fall down the rabbit hole.
Again, I'll leave the link below.
You can get these cards and you can
find out for yourself, what other secrets
that this deck may hold.
All right guys, thank you so much for watching.
Hope you found this information to be valuable.
I felt like making this video because again,
I want to showcase why these are some
of my favorite cards in the entire world,
and they handle very, very well.
They last super long.
I perform at gigs with David Blaine's cards,
all the time because they look super fancy,
they handle really well, plus they
have a whole bunch of little built-in
secrets that I use for my own performances.
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new tutorial, which is Monday.
So until then, have a Merry Christmas
Eve and we will see you on Monday.
Peace, rock.
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