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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.

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114 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
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The Sagacious Joker No.2

Four pocketed, unseen cards are each named by the Joker, with no awkward fumbling at the pockets.

Discovery15mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
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The Sagacious Joker No.3

A spectator cuts, freely buries cards, and pockets three; the Joker names all three correctly.

Discovery15mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
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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
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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
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Cards Of Chance

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

Prediction15mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
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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
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Card Detectives

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

Coincidence15mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
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Prediction

You write two card names in advance, and after a spectator freely cuts the shuffled deck, those exact two cards land on either side of your sealed prediction.

Prediction15mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
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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
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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
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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
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Tucker's Version

A spectator cuts, peeks, and buries their card with endless cuts, yet you produce it from the deck, your hand, or your pocket.

Mind Reading60mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
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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
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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
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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
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Spelling A Card

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

Spelling15mNo setup
Ch. IILearn it
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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
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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
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Peculiarities of the Pasteboards

Three spectators pick cards, and one by one each card answers its name, appears on top, then turns over by itself.

Spelling60mNo setup
Ch. IILearn it
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The Automatic Speller

Using the spectator's own shuffled pack, a thought-of card is found when the spectator simply spells its name aloud.

Mind Reading15mNo setup
Ch. IILearn it
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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
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Spelling Any Card Called For

A spectator names any card at all and you instantly spell straight to it from a shuffled-looking deck.

Spelling15m
Ch. IILearn it
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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
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The Spelling Bee

Three spectators each merely think of a card, and you spell every one of them to its hidden card.

Mind Reading15mNo setup
Ch. IILearn it
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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
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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
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Identical Thought

Two packs, a buried freely-chosen card in each, and both selections prove to be the same card.

Discovery15mNo setup
Ch. IIILearn it
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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
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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
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A Follow-Up Effect

After two matching cards appear, both packs are cut and the new top cards also turn out to be a perfect pair.

Discovery15mNo setup
Ch. IIILearn it
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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
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Domination of Thought

Framed as an experiment in mental influence, your chosen card and the spectator's turn out to be the same.

Prediction25m
Ch. IIILearn it
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Mental Coincidence

Two cards are sealed in pockets unseen, and when finally revealed they prove to be an exact match.

Mind Reading15m
Ch. IIILearn it
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A Card Sympathy

A card chosen from one shuffled deck is matched by a card freely drawn from a second deck, in perfect agreement.

Discovery15m
Ch. IIILearn it
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Follow Me

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

Coincidence15mNo setup
Ch. IIILearn it
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A Couple Of Cards Get

Two cards are chosen by two people, shuffled into the deck, yet they end up resting side by side.

Discovery15mNo setup
Ch. IVLearn it
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Mental Vision

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

Mind Reading15mNo setup
Ch. IVLearn it
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Phenomenal Thought Cards

A spectator freely chooses a card and loses it in the deck, which is shuffled and cut.

Discovery15m
Ch. IVLearn it
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Indetecto

A spectator buries a card, cuts repeatedly, and deals, yet you instantly name its exact position in the deck.

Discovery15mNo setup
Ch. IVLearn it
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Detected By Fingerprints

A spectator freely cuts the deck and looks at a card, yet you find it as if reading their fingerprints.

Discovery15mNo setup
Ch. IVLearn it
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The Three Heaps

Three spectators each remember a card from their own pile, yet you find all three after the heaps are shuffled together and cut.

Discovery15mNo setup
Ch. IVLearn it
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Double Prediction

You predict two numbers in advance, and two freely chosen cards turn up exactly at those positions in the deck.

Prediction15mNo setup
Ch. IVLearn it
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Impenetrable Stop Trick

A spectator shuffles, marks a card with the joker, then deals while you call stop exactly on their card.

Discovery15mNo setup
Ch. IVLearn it
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Mephisto's Prediction

You write a prediction in advance, and a freely chosen card is found counted down to that exact number.

Prediction15mNo setup
Ch. IVLearn it
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The Sequel

Two numbers you wrote down in advance turn out to mark the exact spots where two freely thought-of cards end up.

Prediction15mNo setup
Ch. IVLearn it
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A Count Down Mystery

A spectator shuffles, thinks of any number from one to twenty-six, and while your back is turned deals to that number, notes the card there, and buries everything with a cut. When you return you someh

Mind Reading15mNo setup
Ch. IVLearn it
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The Card and Number

The spectator shuffles, you cut off a small packet, and they freely touch and remember one card from a fan.

Mind Reading15mNo setup
Ch. IVLearn it