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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 Reversed Card

191 tricks match your filters

Ordinary deck

Reversed Court Card

Four face-up cards lie in a row; while you look away one is turned around, and you instantly spot which.

Reversal15mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
Ordinary deck

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
Ordinary deck

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
Ordinary deck

The Five Card Mental Force

Five cards lie face up; a spectator merely thinks of one, and you hand them the very card they pictured.

Mind Reading15mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
Ordinary deck

The Magic Thrust

A spectator pushes a card into the deck behind their own back and somehow finds their own chosen card.

Reversal8mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
Ordinary deck

U Find Your Card

Following your instructions behind their own back, a spectator locates their own freely chosen card.

Reversal15mNo 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

Wizard Spelling Master

Three spectators each take a packet and choose a card, and every card is spelled out to land exactly on its name.

Spelling15mNo setup
Ch. IILearn it
Ordinary deck

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
Ordinary deck

The New Spell

A freely chosen card is lost, and when the spectator spells its name behind their back, the card appears face up on top.

Mind Reading15mNo setup
Ch. IILearn it
Ordinary deck

Spellino

Instead of spelling a card's name, you spell the spectator's own name and their chosen card appears on the last letter.

Spelling15mNo setup
Ch. IILearn it
Ordinary deck

Another Thought Spelling

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

Spelling25mNo setup
Ch. IILearn it
Ordinary deck

The Shuffled Spelling Bee

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

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

Follow Me

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

Coincidence15mNo 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

A Strange Coincidence

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

Reversal15mNo setup
Ch. IIILearn it
Ordinary deck

Sympathetic Sympathy

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

Coincidence40mNo setup
Ch. IIILearn it
Ordinary deck

Synthetic Sympathy

Two borrowed packs of different colors each give up a card, and the two cards prove to be a perfect match.

Coincidence15m
Ch. IIILearn it
Ordinary deck

Backs Up

A court card is freely reversed in one deck while a second deck sits sealed in a pocket, yet the matching card turns up reversed there too.

Coincidence15m
Ch. IIILearn it
Ordinary deck

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
Ordinary deck

Coincidence

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

Discovery15mNo setup
Ch. IIILearn it
Ordinary deck

Paradox Of Pairs

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

Coincidence25mNo setup
Ch. IIILearn it
Ordinary deck

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
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
Prepared deck

The Queen Turns Over

Three cards are shown, the Queen is laid aside face down, yet she mysteriously flips face up among the others.

Reversal15m
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

Turno

A signed selection is placed back into the deck the right way, yet it is later found mysteriously reversed.

Reversal25m
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

Flyaway Cards

An initialed card vanishes, another card reverses itself in its place, and finally the signed card reappears reversed in the spectator's own hands.

Reversal25m
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
Gaff cards

Alice In Wonderland

A freely chosen card reverses itself deep in the deck, then magically travels to be spelled out letter by letter.

Spelling25m
Ch. VIILearn 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

Turnover

A freely chosen card is shuffled back into the deck and is later found turned face up in the middle.

Reversal15m
Ch. VIILearn it
Gaff cards

Repeating Card Turnover

A chosen card flips itself face up in a face-down deck, and does it again on command.

Reversal15m
Ch. VIILearn it
Gaff cards

A Reverse Location

A freely chosen card is lost in the deck, yet when the cards are spread it sits face down between two reversed cards.

Reversal15m
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

Reversi

Three freely chosen cards are pushed back into the deck, and when the cards are dealt off, those three have turned themselves face up.

Reversal60m
Ch. VIILearn it
Gaff cards

Chameleon Backs

Two cards repeatedly seem to swap which back belongs to which face, then make one final impossible color change.

Reversal25m
Ch. VIILearn it
Gaff cards

Satan Behind You

Both you and a spectator handle the deck behind your backs, yet the spectator ends up locating their own chosen card.

Coincidence15m
Ch. VIILearn it
Gaff cards

The Double Card Prediction

A spectator inserts a card anywhere and a sealed prediction names the two cards landing on either side of it.

Prediction15m
Ch. VIILearn it
Gaff cards

Giant Acrobatic Cards

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

Reversal15m
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

Hat And Card Change

Two cards dropped into a hat trade places with one that mysteriously turns face up inside the deck.

Transposition15m
Ch. VIILearn it
Gaff cards

U Can't Do As I Do

A spectator mirrors your every action with their own five cards, yet their packet keeps disagreeing with yours.

Reversal15m
Ch. VIILearn it
Gaff cards

The Spotter Cards

A freely chosen card is lost in the deck, yet a single card flips over and points straight to it.

Discovery15m
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