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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.
94 tricks match your filters
Twin Souls
Two written predictions, sealed before anyone chooses, exactly name the cards a lady and a gentleman freely arrive at.
The Sagacious Joker No.1
Four spectators pocket unseen cards, yet you name every one by touching a Joker to their pockets.
The Sagacious Joker No.4
Four spectators pocket unseen random cards, and a wise Joker reveals each one by touch.
The Trio
Three cards are buried, pocketed, and handed out unseen, yet you reveal all three as if reading minds.
Cards Of Chance
Three named cards vanish from the deck, and your written predictions match them perfectly.
Push
A spectator peeks at a card buried in the deck, yet you name it without ever seeing it yourself.
Card Detectives
Two cards in your pockets mysteriously identify the two cards a spectator pocketed, through pure sympathy.
The Whispering Queen
A chatty Queen seems to whisper the identity of the bottom card of each of four heaps directly into your ear.
Color Divination
A spectator buries a random red card among the black cards, and you reveal it from a prediction you wrote before they even chose.
The Vanishing Pair
Two named cards vanish from a shuffled packet and reappear inside the card case sitting in plain view.
Self Control
A card freely pointed to turns out to be the very card a spectator only thought of moments later.
The Finger Points
A spectator merely thinks of a card while shuffling, yet you single it out of the spread without a single question.
New Card Discovery
A freely chosen card is lost in the deck through cuts and shuffles, yet you locate it with ease.
The Card Miracle-Certain
A spectator cuts the deck freely and remembers a card, yet you slice straight back to it moments later.
Abbott's Version. The Certain Card
A spectator peeks at a card, deals the deck into a grid, and you locate it from one simple question.
The Nelson Downs Original
A spectator cuts near centre and remembers a card, and you produce it from the deck, your hand, or your pocket.
Cut in Detection
A spectator cuts, returns a card to the centre, and you reveal it, sometimes found reversed in the heart of the deck.
Duplex Comedy Speller
Your spelling attempt to find the card seems to fail, then the spectator's own spelling lands on it perfectly.
Spellino Climax
You rapidly spell off the names of card after card, each one turning up correctly on its last letter, repeating as long as you like.
The Whispering Speller
The top card seems to whisper another card's name to you, and you spell straight to that card.
You Do As I Do
Two shuffled packs, you and a spectator each pick a card, and the two cards astonishingly match.
You Do As I Do
A streamlined two-pack coincidence where your card and the spectator's freely chosen card turn out identical.
Two Souls with a Single
An early two-pack coincidence in which your card and the spectator's selection turn out to be the same.
A Close Work Discovery
Two people each pick a card from separate shuffled packs, and the two chosen cards turn out to be identical.
Another Do As I Do
A spectator merely thinks of one card among several, yet your card and theirs turn out to be twins.
Follow Me
Two spectators each shuffle a deck, both pick cards, and your two chosen cards perfectly match theirs.
Mental Vision
Four cards are freely chosen and lost, yet you slowly divine the name of every one.
Tone Control
A spectator buries a freely chosen card, then names every card aloud, and you catch theirs by 'the sound of their voice.'
The Mystic Seven
A card chosen from one of seven cut piles is buried among the others, yet you divine its name from across the room.
Master Mental Mystery
While you are out of the room, any number of spectators take cards; on returning you name every one and how many were chosen.
Infallible Detection
A spectator merely thinks of a number, peeks at the card there, and you produce that exact card from your pocket.
Face-Down Detection
With your back turned, a spectator deals out a row of cards, quietly fixes one in mind, and then keeps dealing and mixing as freely as they like before gathering everything up. There is no force, no q
Comedy Twin Card Prediction
Two spectators each arrive at a card by counting their own freely chosen number, and your two written predictions match both.
The Nervous Card
A card seems to jump from your packet to the spectator's, landing right beside the card they freely chose.
Think Of A Card
A spectator stops you anywhere and merely thinks of one card among several, and you later find it without a word.
Initialed Card Telepathy
A spectator thinks of a number, the performer counts down, and the signed card lands exactly there.
A Subtle Method of Setting the Pack Openly
You borrow a deck, deal it openly, fail to spot a card, yet a hidden order quietly snaps into place.
Reading The Cards
After a genuine riffle shuffle, you appear to read the deck through its backs, naming cards while they lie face down.
The Perfect Guesser
A spectator stabs a knife into the deck and calls a color, and the card there matches their call.
Weirdo
You write a card's name, a spectator freely picks a counting number, and your written card appears at that exact spot.
Out On Location
A spectator buries a freely cut card in a deck they shuffled, and you find it without ever seeing them look at it.
Switching The Pack
The audience shuffles an ordinary deck, you take it back, and moments later that same deck performs an impossible feat.
Pythagoras
A small packet sits on the table.
Sensational Card Mystery
A brand-new deck is opened by a spectator.
New X-Ray Trick
Several people each hold a freely chosen card, and you reveal them one at a time as if reading minds across the room.
£1,000 Test Card Location
A spectator shuffles, cuts, peeks a card and loses it, yet you name it the instant the deck touches your hand.
Seeing With The Fingertips
A short routine of fingertip miracles: you read a whispered card, find a freely named card blindfolded, and divine sealed cards.
Count The Cut
Someone cuts a chunk from the deck and slips it into their pocket without counting it, so even they have no idea how many cards they hold.