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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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34 tricks match your filters

Ordinary deck

The Sagacious Joker No.1

Four spectators pocket unseen cards, yet you name every one by touching a Joker to their pockets.

Discovery25mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
Ordinary deck

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
Ordinary deck

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
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

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 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
Ordinary deck

The Joker Spelling Routine

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

Spelling60m
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

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
Prepared deck

The Flying Card

A chosen card vanishes from the shuffled deck and reappears inside a previously empty card box.

Transposition25m
Ch. VILearn it
Prepared deck

Twin Aces

A freely chosen card is shuffled into the deck, yet it is found trapped between two matching Aces.

Discovery25m
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

Melrose

A freely shuffled, freely cut card vanishes from the pack and then reappears the instant a spectator silently thinks 'stop'.

Discovery25m
Ch. VILearn it
Prepared deck

Two Viewpoints

Two spectators each lose a freely chosen card in a shuffled deck, then you find both blindfolded by stabbing them with a borrowed knife.

Discovery25m
Ch. VILearn it
Prepared deck

Diachylon Stop Trick

A freely chosen card is hopelessly lost and shuffled, yet you locate it by feel while dealing face down, naming it before it's turned.

Mind Reading25m
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

Ace Transposition

Two aces sealed in separate glasses on opposite sides of the table magically trade places on command.

Transposition25m
Ch. VILearn it
Prepared deck

Card In Pocket

A freely chosen card vanishes from a shuffled deck and is found waiting in the performer's pocket.

Discovery25m
Ch. VILearn it
Prepared deck

The Sympathetic Pair-No. 1

Two people each think of and write down a card, yet those very cards are found nestled together in the shuffled deck.

Prediction25m
Ch. VILearn 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
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

Transposition Extraordinary

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

Transposition25m
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

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
Gaff cards

New Card Monte

A card placed in a spectator's pocket keeps changing identity, baffling them about which card they are actually holding.

Transformation25m
Ch. VIILearn it
Gaff cards

A Changing Card

A freely stopped-at Ace stubbornly transforms into a King, then mends itself face up inside a banded packet.

Divination60m
Ch. VIILearn it
Ordinary deck

Ne Plus Ultra

Five cards are freely chosen and lost in a shuffled deck, yet you read four minds and produce the last card in a striking finish.

Mind Reading25mNo setup
Ch. XILearn it
Ordinary deck

Name O' Card

A spectator merely thinks of any card and names it, and you instantly produce it in a way that fits that card.

Mind Reading40m
Ch. XIILearn it
Special pack

The Ambitious Card

A chosen card is buried in the deck again and again, yet it stubbornly keeps climbing back to the top.

Reversal40m
Ch. XVLearn it
Ordinary deck

X-Ray Everywhere And Nowhere

A chosen card is shown displayed on a stand, yet it keeps changing identity until it seems to be everywhere and nowhere at once.

Mind Reading60mNo setup
Ch. XVIIILearn it
Ordinary deck

Think 'Stop'

A spectator shuffles, cuts the pack near the middle, peeks at a card, buries it, and cuts repeatedly.

Reversal25mNo setup
Ch. XVIIILearn it
Ordinary deck

The Slap Trick

A spectator's selected card keeps leaping invisibly to the top of the deck no matter where it is buried.

Discovery25mNo setup
Ch. XVIIILearn it
Ordinary deck

Transposition — Box to Envelope

One spectator draws a card and seals it inside a small card box; another spectator has a card placed into an envelope.

Transposition25mNo setup
Ch. XVIIILearn it