The Trick Library

Two written predictions, sealed before anyone chooses, exactly name the cards a lady and a gentleman freely arrive at.

A spectator tries to send their card to a chosen number by breathing on the deck, fails, then you make it work.

Four face-up cards lie in a row; while you look away one is turned around, and you instantly spot which.

Four spectators pocket unseen cards, yet you name every one by touching a Joker to their pockets.

Four pocketed, unseen cards are each named by the Joker, with no awkward fumbling at the pockets.

A spectator cuts, freely buries cards, and pockets three; the Joker names all three correctly.

Four spectators pocket unseen random cards, and a wise Joker reveals each one by touch.

Three cards are buried, pocketed, and handed out unseen, yet you reveal all three as if reading minds.

Three named cards vanish from the deck, and your written predictions match them perfectly.

A spectator peeks at a card buried in the deck, yet you name it without ever seeing it yourself.

Two cards in your pockets mysteriously identify the two cards a spectator pocketed, through pure sympathy.

A freely chosen, marked card impossibly appears inside a wallet taken from your pocket.

You write two card names in advance, and after a spectator freely cuts the shuffled deck, those exact two cards land on either side of your sealed prediction.

A spectator buries their freely chosen card in the deck, yet you control it to any position you wish for a clean reveal.

A chatty Queen seems to whisper the identity of the bottom card of each of four heaps directly into your ear.

A signed selected card is torn to pieces during a hospital story, yet at the end it is whole again and still bears the spectator's initials.

A postage stamp marks a chosen card placed among ten others, yet the stamped card vanishes from the packet and reappears in the deck.

A spectator buries a random red card among the black cards, and you reveal it from a prediction you wrote before they even chose.

Two named cards vanish from a shuffled packet and reappear inside the card case sitting in plain view.

A card merely thought of, never touched, mysteriously jumps from the spectator's hand to yours during a fair counting deal.

A card freely pointed to turns out to be the very card a spectator only thought of moments later.

A spectator merely thinks of one of three cards, and you produce that exact card from your pocket.

Five sealed envelopes are mixed, yet you unfailingly identify the one holding the Queen among four Aces.

You predict a card in writing, then a freely inserted card lands precisely beside your written forecast.

A spectator merely thinks of a card while shuffling, yet you single it out of the spread without a single question.

Five cards lie face up; a spectator merely thinks of one, and you hand them the very card they pictured.

A spectator writes their thought-of card among four others, yet you pluck it from a fully shuffled deck.

A spectator freely lays down one of their four Aces, and it matches the Ace you set out before they chose.

A spectator buries their card in the cased deck while your back is turned, yet you instantly produce it.

A freely chosen card is lost in the deck through cuts and shuffles, yet you locate it with ease.

A spectator merely thinks of one card from a small group, yet you pluck it from a pocketed deck instantly.

In total darkness a spectator drops a card into your hand and you name it instantly, every time.

A spectator pushes a card into the deck behind their own back and somehow finds their own chosen card.

Following your instructions behind their own back, a spectator locates their own freely chosen card.

A card placed unseen in your hand behind your back is divined by gazing into a small crystal ball.

A pocketed packet of cards instantly yields a card matching any named suit and value with arithmetic precision.

A spectator buries random cards in their own pocketed packet, yet your fingertips pluck out any card named on demand.

A spectator cuts the deck freely and remembers a card, yet you slice straight back to it moments later.

A spectator cuts, peeks, and buries their card with endless cuts, yet you produce it from the deck, your hand, or your pocket.

A spectator peeks at a card, deals the deck into a grid, and you locate it from one simple question.

A spectator cuts near centre and remembers a card, and you produce it from the deck, your hand, or your pocket.

A spectator cuts, returns a card to the centre, and you reveal it, sometimes found reversed in the heart of the deck.

A spectator buries their chosen card in the deck, yet you find it without ever touching the cards.

A reliable paper-and-pencil method for building any spelling arrangement so a deck spells out exactly as you want.

A freely shuffled deck spells out the spectator's chosen card, landing on it letter-perfect.

Your spelling attempt to find the card seems to fail, then the spectator's own spelling lands on it perfectly.

A chosen card is shuffled back into the deck, yet it spells out perfectly on the final letter.

The deck is shuffled and spread wide on the table.