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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 Force

100 tricks match your filters

Ordinary deck

Cards Of Chance

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

Prediction15mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
Ordinary deck

Stampedo

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

Transposition15m
Ch. ILearn it
Ordinary deck

The Vanishing Pair

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

Prediction15mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
Ordinary deck

Spelling A Card

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

Spelling15mNo setup
Ch. IILearn it
Ordinary deck

Farelli's Impromptu Speller

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

Spelling15mNo setup
Ch. IILearn it
Ordinary deck

Frank Squires' Speller

A chosen card finds itself as the spectator answers simple questions about it, letter by letter.

Spelling15m
Ch. IILearn it
Ordinary deck

Lazybones

Two spectators each lose a card, then one finds the other's card reversed in the deck and spells straight to its match.

Spelling25mNo setup
Ch. IILearn it
Ordinary deck

Do As I Do In The Dark

In total darkness two people each draw a card from the other's pack, and the lights reveal a perfect match.

Coincidence15mNo setup
Ch. IIILearn it
Prepared deck

Everybody's Card

Several people each pull a card from a freely shuffled deck, yet every single one of them names the very same card.

Coincidence40m
Ch. VLearn it
Prepared deck

A Slick Card Routine

A chosen card is matched, predicted in writing, and found again across a chain of seemingly impossible coincidences.

Prediction60m
Ch. VLearn it
Prepared deck

The Flying Card

A chosen card vanishes from the shuffled deck and reappears inside a previously empty card box.

Transposition25m
Ch. VILearn it
Prepared deck

The Missing Card

A selected card vanishes from one deck and appears at a freely chosen number in a completely separate deck.

Coincidence40m
Ch. VILearn it
Prepared deck

Diachylon Force

A spectator freely chooses one card from a spread on a tray, yet it is always the card you intended.

Prediction15m
Ch. VILearn it
Prepared deck

Diachylon Book Test - Forcing

Spectators freely cut the deck several times, yet the random cards they land on spell out a number you predicted.

Reversal15m
Ch. VILearn it
Prepared deck

Another Diachylon Force

A spectator points to any card in a freely fanned deck, yet always lands on the one card you intended.

Discovery15m
Ch. VILearn it
Prepared deck

Reversed Color Surprise

A chosen card mysteriously turns face up in the deck on command, then reveals an impossibly mismatched back color.

Reversal15m
Ch. VILearn it
Prepared deck

The Diachylon Do As I Do

Two people each lose a card in their own deck, yet the cards left behind turn out to be an exact match.

Coincidence15m
Ch. VILearn it
Prepared deck

The Sympathetic Pair-No. 2

Two named cards are lost in a shuffled deck, yet they mysteriously find each other and end up side by side.

Discovery15m
Ch. VILearn it
Gaff cards

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
Gaff cards

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

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
Gaff cards

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
Gaff cards

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
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

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

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
Prepared deck

Gardener's Unique Principle

A shuffled, unprepared deck is examined, a card is freely taken, and you somehow track it down.

Poker & Gambling25m
Ch. IXLearn it
Ordinary deck

Coincidence

A spectator buries two cards in a deck, and a second sealed pack is found to contain those exact same cards reversed.

Coincidence15m
Ch. XLearn it
Ordinary deck

French's Extraordinary Aces

The four aces are openly shown and even passed for examination, then set aside under a rubber band.

Poker & Gambling40mNo setup
Ch. XLearn it
Ordinary deck

Assistance Card Trick

A spectator merely thinks of a suit and freely picks one card from it, yet you instantly name the value they chose.

Discovery15mNo setup
Ch. XILearn it
Ordinary deck

Coincidence Extraordinary

After free choices of piles, the cards left in your hands exactly match a total the spectator never could have predicted.

Coincidence15m
Ch. XILearn it
Ordinary deck

Switching The Pack

The audience shuffles an ordinary deck, you take it back, and moments later that same deck performs an impossible feat.

Discovery15m
Ch. XIILearn it
Ordinary deck

The Transposed Cards

After a shuffle, a spectator cuts the deck, secretly counts off a few cards, and transfers them, all while your back is turned. A second spectator later helps choose a card from a casual deal, and tha

Discovery15m
Ch. XIILearn it
Ordinary deck

Dead Easy Location

After all the previous handling, a freely noted and buried card is located in a deck dealt openly face up.

Discovery15m
Ch. XIILearn it
Ordinary deck

The Wonder Force

A spectator riffle shuffles the deck and freely picks a card, yet it matches your prediction written beforehand.

Prediction15m
Ch. XIILearn it
Ordinary deck

Psychic Prediction

You predict a number in a sealed envelope, then a freely chosen run of cards adds up to exactly that figure.

Prediction15m
Ch. XIILearn it
Ordinary deck

Dual Sympathy

You and a spectator each take a deck.

Coincidence15m
Ch. XIILearn it
Ordinary deck

Cremo Card Restoration

A freely arrived-at card is torn to pieces, vanished, and then found whole again inside the spectator's own pocket.

Mind Reading40m
Ch. XIILearn it
Ordinary deck

Card Divination

A spectator mentally picks a card from a fanned half, and you guide him to find it himself in an uncanny way.

Mind Reading60m
Ch. XIILearn it
Ordinary deck

Location

A spectator picks and buries a card, shuffles, and the performer cleanly finds it.

Discovery15m
Ch. XIILearn it
Ordinary deck

A Card And A Number

A number is named, a card is chosen, and a pocketed deck reveals that exact card at that exact number.

Coincidence15m
Ch. XIILearn it
Ordinary deck

Four-Fold Sympathy

A spectator's red deck and your blue deck end up with four matching cards face up in perfect sympathy across four piles.

Coincidence15m
Ch. XIILearn it
Ordinary deck

The Adventures Of Diamond

A comic story unfolds where every twist is illustrated by the perfect card appearing on cue, like a deck-powered movie.

Mind Reading25m
Ch. XIILearn it
Special pack

Various Methods Of Handling

Audiences watch you shuffle and riffle a deck that plainly shows every card different, then freely choose a card by stopping you or inserting a knife.

Discovery15m
Ch. XIIILearn it
Special pack

Simple Effects

A set of beginner-friendly routines for the special deck, from mind-reading a chosen card to a free 'Stop' location.

Prediction15m
Ch. XIIILearn it
Special pack

The Three Heaps

A chosen card vanishes from one pile and chases across three heaps before finally turning up on top of the deck.

Transformation8m
Ch. XIIILearn it
Special pack

Cutting The Pack With A Knife

A knife is pushed blindly into a riffled deck, and the card it stops at proves to be the very one chosen.

Discovery8m
Ch. XIIILearn it