The Trick Library

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

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.

A reliable paper-and-pencil method for building any spelling arrangement so a deck spells out exactly as you want.

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

Three people merely think of cards from small fans, yet each thought-of card is spelled out and found.

Four people each think of a card from their own packet, and every thought-of card is spelled out and revealed.

A spectator thinks of a card from a small packet and later spells it out, finding it automatically.

A spectator thinks of one of several cards, then spells it themselves and turns up the very card.

A spectator merely thinks of a card glimpsed in a small spread, yet you spell straight to it.

After convincing riffle shuffles, you pull one whole suit and spell it perfectly from Ace to King.

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

After two convincing riffle shuffles, you spell every card of a chosen suit from Ace to King.

You spell card names one by one, but a single mischievous Joker keeps barging in until a final surprise.

You spell card values from a small packet and they appear on cue, while a single Joker keeps crashing the party.

An eleven-card packet deals itself into perfect order, then mixed, then back into order on command.

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

You spell every value from Ace to King and each one turns up exactly on its final letter, all the way through the pack.

A freely shuffled deck goes into your pocket, and you spell out any named card, producing it on the final letter.

A chosen card is shuffled back into the deck, yet spelling its name deals straight to it on the final letter.

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

A spectator merely thinks of one card in a long row, then spells its name to find it himself.

Working in unison, you and a spectator each reverse cards in your own packs, and the reversed cards match.

From two shuffled packs, a spectator's freely pushed-out card matches a card you have set aside, again and again.

A spectator and the performer each end up with a card, and the two cards match perfectly, even on a repeat.

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

You and a spectator each shuffle half a deck, deal together, and your turned-up cards match in perfect pairs.

A spectator freely cuts the deck, then deals down to a number set by the cut and arrives exactly at their own chosen card.

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

A red-backed Queen visibly travels from a separate blue deck across the room to rejoin two Aces tucked in a spectator's pocket.

A flowing five-part routine where cards change color, refuse to stay put, and reverse themselves on command.

A spectator's chosen card appears in one deck while the matching card in another deck vanishes and trades places.

A small packet of giant cards, dealt face-up and face-down, all snap to face the same way on command.

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

This is the foundation lesson for a whole family of mysteries: a spectator shuffles freely, yet you locate a chosen card every time. Because the secret lives in the deck's own back design, the effect

A spectator shuffles, freely picks a card, buries and shuffles again, yet you locate it without ever touching the deck.

A spectator freely picks a card, buries it, then cuts the deck repeatedly, yet you instantly find it.

A card is freely selected and returned, the deck is shuffled, and you still find the chosen card. The clever part is that it fools the wise guy who suspects a one-way deck, because checking the backs

You predict two named cards in writing, then those exact cards turn up on either side of a freely cut Joker.

You correctly call whether each freely cut packet holds an odd or even number of cards, then prove it by counting.

From a shuffled row of eight cards, a spectator turns one face down, and you instantly pick it out of the mix.

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

A volunteer chooses one card from a small packet and writes the name of someone who has passed away on its face.

A freely chosen card is lost in a shuffled, cut deck, then magically arrives at any number the spectator names.

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

Under the fairest possible conditions, the spectator cuts and buries their own card, yet you locate it without touching the deck first.

A spectator merely thinks of a card during a shuffle, and you slowly divine its color, suit, and value.

Three spectators each choose a card, and you name and produce all three with the deck never marked.

A card is freely chosen and lost, yet you find it, and any clever onlooker's suspicions are quietly defeated.