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The card catalog

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.

Filtering by principle: The Short Card

28 tricks match your filters

Ordinary deck

Thought Spelling

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

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

Frank Squires' Speller

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

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

Think of a Card

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

Mind Reading15m
Ch. IILearn it
Prepared deck

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.

Discovery15m
Ch. VILearn it
Ordinary deck

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.

Reversal15mNo setup
Ch. XLearn it
Ordinary deck

A Pre-Arranged Pack Of Cards

A spectator removes a card from a freely riffle-shuffled deck, and you instantly name it.

Discovery15m
Ch. XIILearn it
Special pack

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.

Discovery8m
Ch. XIIILearn it
Special pack

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.

Assembly15m
Ch. XVILearn it
Special pack

A Novel Card Problem

Several freely chosen cards are produced one by one, each appearing at a number the spectator names.

Discovery15m
Ch. XVILearn it
Prepared deck

X-Ray Eyes

To an audience there is no visible effect here; this is the foundation behind countless locations.

Discovery25m
Ch. XVIILearn it
Prepared deck

Card From Nowhere

A chosen card vanishes from the deck on command and reappears somewhere impossible across the room.

Discovery15m
Ch. XVIILearn it
Prepared deck

On The Top

A freely chosen card is lost in a shuffled deck, yet it rises back to the top on command.

Discovery15m
Ch. XVIILearn it
Prepared deck

X-Ray Eyes

You claim to see through the deck and announce the exact position of a freely chosen, buried card.

Discovery15m
Ch. XVIILearn it
Prepared deck

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.

Discovery15m
Ch. XVIILearn it
Prepared deck

Cut Card Force

A spectator cuts the deck wherever they please, yet always lands on exactly the card you intended them to find.

Discovery15m
Ch. XVIILearn it
Prepared deck

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.

Coincidence40m
Ch. XVIILearn it
Prepared deck

To Any Number

A spectator names any number and their freely chosen card appears at exactly that position in the deck.

Discovery40m
Ch. XVIILearn it
Prepared deck

Horoscope Card Force

A spectator counts to the card matching their own birth month and finds a personalized card waiting just for them.

Discovery40m
Ch. XVIILearn it
Prepared deck

A Spelling Trick

A spectator merely thinks of one of four cards, and spelling its name aloud deals straight to their mental choice.

Mind Reading15m
Ch. XVIILearn it
Prepared deck

The Locator

A chosen card is returned, the deck is shuffled by the spectator, and you still cut straight to the selection.

Discovery15m
Ch. XVIILearn it
Prepared deck

Behind The Pack

A spectator privately chooses and buries a card while your back is turned, yet you find it.

Mind Reading15m
Ch. XVIILearn it
Prepared deck

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.

Reversal15m
Ch. XVIILearn it
Prepared 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.

Reversal15m
Ch. XVIILearn it
Prepared 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.

Reversal15m
Ch. XVIILearn it
Ordinary deck

'Say When'

Cards are dropped one at a time into a hat, and each spectator calls "Stop" exactly as their own card lands.

Discovery40mNo setup
Ch. XVIIILearn it
Ordinary deck

Poker Demonstration

You demonstrate how a card sharp stacks the deck, dealing yourself unbeatable hands across two rounds of poker.

Poker & Gambling15m
Ch. XVIIILearn it