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The Trick Library
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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Thought Spelling
Three people merely think of cards from small fans, yet each thought-of card is spelled out and found.
Another Thought Spelling
A spectator thinks of a card from a small packet and later spells it out, finding it automatically.
Frank Squires' Speller
A chosen card finds itself as the spectator answers simple questions about it, letter by letter.
Lazybones
Two spectators each lose a card, then one finds the other's card reversed in the deck and spells straight to its match.
Think of a Card
A spectator merely thinks of one card in a long row, then spells its name to find it himself.
The Sympathetic Pair-No. 2
Two named cards are lost in a shuffled deck, yet they mysteriously find each other and end up side by side.
The Haley Reversed Card
A freely chosen card is buried in the shuffled deck, yet moments later it is found completely turned over among all the others.
A Pre-Arranged Pack Of Cards
A spectator removes a card from a freely riffle-shuffled deck, and you instantly name it.
Cutting The Pack With A Knife
A knife is pushed blindly into a riffled deck, and the card it stops at proves to be the very one chosen.
The Limit Four Ace Trick
Four aces are dealt out and buried, yet they all gather invisibly into a single pile standing in a glass.
A Novel Card Problem
Several freely chosen cards are produced one by one, each appearing at a number the spectator names.
X-Ray Eyes
To an audience there is no visible effect here; this is the foundation behind countless locations.
Card From Nowhere
A chosen card vanishes from the deck on command and reappears somewhere impossible across the room.
On The Top
A freely chosen card is lost in a shuffled deck, yet it rises back to the top on command.
X-Ray Eyes
You claim to see through the deck and announce the exact position of a freely chosen, buried card.
A Color Change
A freely chosen card is buried, found under impossible conditions, then revealed to be the only card with a different colored back.
Cut Card Force
A spectator cuts the deck wherever they please, yet always lands on exactly the card you intended them to find.
Another Force
Three different spectators each freely name a number and count to it, yet every one of them arrives at the very same card.
To Any Number
A spectator names any number and their freely chosen card appears at exactly that position in the deck.
Horoscope Card Force
A spectator counts to the card matching their own birth month and finds a personalized card waiting just for them.
A Spelling Trick
A spectator merely thinks of one of four cards, and spelling its name aloud deals straight to their mental choice.
The Locator
A chosen card is returned, the deck is shuffled by the spectator, and you still cut straight to the selection.
Behind The Pack
A spectator privately chooses and buries a card while your back is turned, yet you find it.
Double Location
Two spectators each remember a freely chosen card, and both cards turn up clinging to a single mysteriously reversed card in the deck.
A Reversed Location
A freely chosen card is buried by the spectator, yet moments later it is found mysteriously turned face up inside the deck.
Vanishing Card
A spectator stops you at a card, looks at it, and loses it in the deck, yet it vanishes from the pack and then returns on command.
'Say When'
Cards are dropped one at a time into a hat, and each spectator calls "Stop" exactly as their own card lands.
Poker Demonstration
You demonstrate how a card sharp stacks the deck, dealing yourself unbeatable hands across two rounds of poker.