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BookOfCardTricks

The card catalog

The Trick Library

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-Face Card

19 tricks match your filters

Ordinary deck

The Card Doctor

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.

Transformation25mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
Prepared deck

Ace Transposition

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

Transposition25m
Ch. VILearn it
Gaff cards

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
Gaff cards

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
Gaff cards

The Funny Pack

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

Transposition40m
Ch. VIILearn it
Gaff cards

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
Gaff cards

The Spotter Cards

A freely chosen card is lost in the deck, yet a single card flips over and points straight to it.

Discovery15m
Ch. VIILearn it
Gaff cards

Sundry

A card seen as one value visibly transforms into another, or rises wrong and then corrects itself before your eyes.

Transformation15m
Ch. VIILearn it
Gaff cards

The Four Aces

Four Aces are dealt into piles, one pile is chosen, and all four Aces gather together in that chosen pile.

Assembly25m
Ch. VIILearn it
Gaff cards

Kings And Aces

Four Kings and four Aces, placed in completely separate spots, magically trade places under a borrowed hat.

Transposition40m
Ch. VIILearn it
Gaff cards

The Triangle Trick

Two ladies merely think of cards, and those exact cards vanish and reappear inside a ribbon-bound packet across the room.

Mind Reading25m
Ch. VIILearn it
Gaff cards

Double Reverse

Two freely lost cards each turn themselves face up in the deck, one after the other, matching a pair.

Coincidence25m
Ch. VIILearn it
Gaff cards

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
Gaff cards

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
Gaff cards

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
Gaff cards

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
Gaff cards

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
Gaff cards

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

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