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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 Glimpse

94 tricks match your filters

Ordinary deck

Twin Souls

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

Prediction15mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
Ordinary deck

The Sagacious Joker No.1

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

Discovery25mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
Ordinary deck

The Sagacious Joker No.4

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

Discovery15mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
Ordinary deck

The Trio

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

Mind Reading15mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
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

Push

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

Discovery15mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
Ordinary deck

Card Detectives

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

Coincidence15mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
Ordinary deck

The Whispering Queen

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

Discovery15mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
Ordinary deck

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.

Prediction40mNo setup
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

Self Control

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

Prediction40mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
Ordinary deck

The Finger Points

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

Mind Reading15mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
Ordinary deck

New Card Discovery

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

Discovery15mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
Ordinary deck

The Card Miracle-Certain

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

Discovery15m
Ch. ILearn it
Ordinary deck

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.

Discovery15mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
Ordinary deck

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.

Discovery60mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
Ordinary deck

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.

Reversal25mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
Ordinary deck

Duplex Comedy Speller

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

Spelling15mNo setup
Ch. IILearn it
Ordinary deck

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.

Mind Reading15mNo setup
Ch. IILearn it
Ordinary deck

The Whispering Speller

The top card seems to whisper another card's name to you, and you spell straight to that card.

Spelling15mNo setup
Ch. IILearn it
Ordinary deck

You Do As I Do

Two shuffled packs, you and a spectator each pick a card, and the two cards astonishingly match.

Mind Reading40mNo setup
Ch. IIILearn it
Ordinary deck

You Do As I Do

A streamlined two-pack coincidence where your card and the spectator's freely chosen card turn out identical.

Mind Reading15mNo setup
Ch. IIILearn it
Ordinary deck

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.

Discovery15mNo setup
Ch. IIILearn it
Ordinary deck

A Close Work Discovery

Two people each pick a card from separate shuffled packs, and the two chosen cards turn out to be identical.

Discovery25mNo setup
Ch. IIILearn it
Ordinary deck

Another Do As I Do

A spectator merely thinks of one card among several, yet your card and theirs turn out to be twins.

Mind Reading15mNo setup
Ch. IIILearn it
Ordinary deck

Follow Me

Two spectators each shuffle a deck, both pick cards, and your two chosen cards perfectly match theirs.

Coincidence15mNo setup
Ch. IIILearn it
Ordinary deck

Mental Vision

Four cards are freely chosen and lost, yet you slowly divine the name of every one.

Mind Reading15mNo setup
Ch. IVLearn it
Ordinary deck

Tone Control

A spectator buries a freely chosen card, then names every card aloud, and you catch theirs by 'the sound of their voice.'

Discovery15mNo setup
Ch. IVLearn it
Ordinary deck

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.

Mind Reading15mNo setup
Ch. IVLearn it
Ordinary deck

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.

Discovery15mNo setup
Ch. IVLearn it
Ordinary deck

Infallible Detection

A spectator merely thinks of a number, peeks at the card there, and you produce that exact card from your pocket.

Mind Reading15mNo setup
Ch. IVLearn it
Ordinary deck

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

Discovery15mNo setup
Ch. IVLearn it
Ordinary deck

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.

Prediction15mNo setup
Ch. IVLearn it
Ordinary deck

The Nervous Card

A card seems to jump from your packet to the spectator's, landing right beside the card they freely chose.

Discovery15mNo setup
Ch. IVLearn it
Ordinary deck

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.

Mind Reading15mNo setup
Ch. IVLearn it
Gaff cards

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
Prepared deck

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.

Reversal15m
Ch. IXLearn it
Prepared deck

Reading The Cards

After a genuine riffle shuffle, you appear to read the deck through its backs, naming cards while they lie face down.

Discovery15m
Ch. IXLearn it
Prepared deck

The Perfect Guesser

A spectator stabs a knife into the deck and calls a color, and the card there matches their call.

Discovery15m
Ch. IXLearn it
Ordinary deck

Weirdo

You write a card's name, a spectator freely picks a counting number, and your written card appears at that exact spot.

Prediction15mNo setup
Ch. XILearn it
Ordinary deck

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.

Discovery15mNo setup
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

Pythagoras

A small packet sits on the table.

Mind Reading15m
Ch. XIILearn it
Ordinary deck

Sensational Card Mystery

A brand-new deck is opened by a spectator.

Discovery15m
Ch. XIILearn it
Ordinary deck

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.

Mind Reading15m
Ch. XIILearn it
Ordinary deck

£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.

Discovery15m
Ch. XIILearn it
Ordinary deck

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.

Discovery15m
Ch. XIILearn it
Ordinary deck

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.

Discovery15m
Ch. XIILearn it