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Every effect from Hugard's Encyclopedia, rebuilt as a searchable index. Filter by what you have in your hands and what you want them to feel.

Filtering by principle: The Double-Back Card

39 tricks match your filters

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The Queen Turns Over

Three cards are shown, the Queen is laid aside face down, yet she mysteriously flips face up among the others.

Reversal15m
Ch. VILearn it
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Ace Transposition

Two aces sealed in separate glasses on opposite sides of the table magically trade places on command.

Transposition25m
Ch. VILearn it
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Remote Control Improved

A spectator merely points at any face-up card in a red deck, and that very card turns out to be the blue-backed, initialed card they chose minutes earlier.

Discovery15m
Ch. VILearn it
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A Real Magical Vanish

A red-backed Queen visibly travels from a separate blue deck across the room to rejoin two Aces tucked in a spectator's pocket.

Transposition15m
Ch. VILearn it
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Transposition Extraordinary

A brief look at the gaffed card that launched a whole family of double-back card mysteries.

Transposition15m
Ch. VIILearn it
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Alice In Wonderland

A freely chosen card reverses itself deep in the deck, then magically travels to be spelled out letter by letter.

Spelling25m
Ch. VIILearn it
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Double-Backed Card Routine

A flowing five-part routine where cards change color, refuse to stay put, and reverse themselves on command.

Transformation60m
Ch. VIILearn it
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Transposition Extraordinary

A spectator's chosen card appears in one deck while the matching card in another deck vanishes and trades places.

Transposition25m
Ch. VIILearn it
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Insto-Transpo

A spectator's initialed card and the performer's initialed card instantly trade pockets across the table.

Transposition15m
Ch. VIILearn it
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Remote Control

The performer places a single card sight-unseen into a deck behind their back.

Mind Reading15m
Ch. VIILearn it
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Initialed Card Telepathy

A spectator thinks of a number, the performer counts down, and the signed card lands exactly there.

Mind Reading15m
Ch. VIILearn it
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Turnover

A freely chosen card is shuffled back into the deck and is later found turned face up in the middle.

Reversal15m
Ch. VIILearn it
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Repeating Card Turnover

A chosen card flips itself face up in a face-down deck, and does it again on command.

Reversal15m
Ch. VIILearn it
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A Reverse Location

A freely chosen card is lost in the deck, yet when the cards are spread it sits face down between two reversed cards.

Reversal15m
Ch. VIILearn it
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Double-Backed Card Force

A spectator stops you at a random spot and freely removes a card, yet it is exactly the card you intended.

Reversal15m
Ch. VIILearn it
Gaff cards

Reversi

Three freely chosen cards are pushed back into the deck, and when the cards are dealt off, those three have turned themselves face up.

Reversal60m
Ch. VIILearn it
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Chameleon Backs

Two cards repeatedly seem to swap which back belongs to which face, then make one final impossible color change.

Reversal25m
Ch. VIILearn it
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Satan Behind You

Both you and a spectator handle the deck behind your backs, yet the spectator ends up locating their own chosen card.

Coincidence15m
Ch. VIILearn it
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The Double Card Prediction

A spectator inserts a card anywhere and a sealed prediction names the two cards landing on either side of it.

Prediction15m
Ch. VIILearn it
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Comedy Relief

You make a chosen card flip face-up by tossing the deck, then a smug volunteer fails to repeat it.

Reversal15m
Ch. VIILearn it
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Giant Acrobatic Cards

A small packet of giant cards, dealt face-up and face-down, all snap to face the same way on command.

Reversal15m
Ch. VIILearn it
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Single Card Force

A spectator pushes a finger into a riffling deck and stops on the very card you intended all along.

Discovery15m
Ch. VIILearn it
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The Perfect Force

A spectator cuts the deck wherever they please and ends up holding the exact card or cards you chose.

Reversal15m
Ch. VIILearn it
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Double-Back Card Force

A spectator pushes a card into the deck and freely chooses the two cards on either side, exactly as you planned.

Reversal15m
Ch. VIILearn it
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Easy Coin Switch

You take a borrowed coin balanced on a single card and carry it to your table without ever closing your hand over it. You openly tip the coin off the card into a glass, pointing out that your fingers

Discovery15m
Ch. VIILearn it
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The Sympathetic Card

A card pulled from the blue deck is rubbed against the red deck and visibly takes on a red back.

Transformation15m
Ch. VIILearn it
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U Can't Do As I Do

A spectator copies your every move with their own cards, yet their packet never ends up matching yours.

Discovery15m
Ch. VIILearn it
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Hat And Card Change

Two cards dropped into a hat trade places with one that mysteriously turns face up inside the deck.

Transposition15m
Ch. VIILearn it
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The Funny Pack

You borrow a deck and show that, impossibly, it contains two of the same card.

Transposition40m
Ch. VIILearn it
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U Can't Do As I Do

A spectator mirrors your every action with their own five cards, yet their packet keeps disagreeing with yours.

Reversal15m
Ch. VIILearn it
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New Card Monte

A card placed in a spectator's pocket keeps changing identity, baffling them about which card they are actually holding.

Transformation25m
Ch. VIILearn it
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A Book Test

A card turns itself over in the deck to point at a page and word a spectator reads aloud.

Divination15m
Ch. VIILearn it
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A Changing Card

A freely stopped-at Ace stubbornly transforms into a King, then mends itself face up inside a banded packet.

Divination60m
Ch. VIILearn it
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The Improved Burned Card

A freely chosen Ace is sealed in an envelope and burned, only to rise unharmed and face up inside the deck.

Prediction15m
Ch. VIILearn it
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A Spirit Message

Three ordinary cards are shown and banded together, and a written spirit message appears on one of them.

Divination15m
Ch. VIILearn it
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A Transposition

A King dropped into a hat and an Ace placed in a covered glass mysteriously trade places.

Transposition15m
Ch. VIILearn it
Special pack

Coincidence Mene-Tekel

Two cards chosen from different decks, placed unseen in a glass, prove to be an exact match.

Coincidence8m
Ch. XIVLearn it
Special pack

One Ahead

A card is freely chosen from a red deck, and a card set out from a blue deck beforehand proves to be its exact match.

Reversal15m
Ch. XVILearn it
Special pack

Movie Color Cards

Two packs, one blue and one red, apparently trade places entirely while sealed in their matching cases.

Transposition15m
Ch. XVILearn it