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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.

Filtering by sleight: The Glimpse (Sleight)

24 tricks match your filters

Ordinary deck

Color Divination

A spectator buries a random red card among the black cards, and you reveal it from a prediction you wrote before they even chose.

Prediction40mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
Ordinary deck

The Vanishing Pair

Two named cards vanish from a shuffled packet and reappear inside the card case sitting in plain view.

Prediction15mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
Ordinary deck

Abbott's Version. The Certain Card

A spectator peeks at a card, deals the deck into a grid, and you locate it from one simple question.

Discovery15mNo setup
Ch. ILearn 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

You Do As I Do

Two shuffled packs, you and a spectator each pick a card, and the two cards astonishingly match.

Mind Reading40mNo setup
Ch. IIILearn it
Ordinary deck

The Mystic Seven

A card chosen from one of seven cut piles is buried among the others, yet you divine its name from across the room.

Mind Reading15mNo 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
Ordinary deck

Comedy Twin Card Prediction

Two spectators each arrive at a card by counting their own freely chosen number, and your two written predictions match both.

Prediction15mNo setup
Ch. IVLearn it
Ordinary deck

The Nervous Card

A card seems to jump from your packet to the spectator's, landing right beside the card they freely chose.

Discovery15mNo setup
Ch. IVLearn it
Prepared deck

A Slick Card Routine

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

Prediction60m
Ch. VLearn 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
Gaff cards

A Book Test

A card turns itself over in the deck to point at a page and word a spectator reads aloud.

Divination15m
Ch. VIILearn it
Ordinary deck

Pythagoras

A small packet sits on the table.

Mind Reading15m
Ch. XIILearn it
Ordinary deck

Sensational Card Mystery

A brand-new deck is opened by a spectator.

Discovery15m
Ch. XIILearn it
Ordinary deck

Seeing With The Fingertips

A short routine of fingertip miracles: you read a whispered card, find a freely named card blindfolded, and divine sealed cards.

Discovery15m
Ch. XIILearn it
Ordinary deck

A Discard Trick

A spectator buries two cards deep in the deck, deals it into heaps several times, and you still name both cards.

Discovery15m
Ch. XIILearn it
Ordinary deck

Psychic Card Test

A spectator draws a card and sketches it on a hidden slate; you sketch the very same card.

Discovery15m
Ch. XIILearn it
Special pack

The Mene-Tekel Pack

A versatile prepared deck that looks and shuffles like an ordinary pack yet quietly controls and reveals any chosen card.

Mind Reading40m
Ch. XIVLearn it
Special pack

Just The Reverse

A freely chosen card is sealed away in its own case, yet you read the spectator's mind and find it flipped face up inside the deck.

Mind Reading8m
Ch. XVLearn it
Special pack

The Midnight Marvel

Four twos repeatedly turn themselves face up inside a borrowed deck, even in total darkness with the deck never touched openly.

Poker & Gambling15m
Ch. XVILearn it
Ordinary deck

The Dream Card

A card sealed in an envelope before any selection turns out to match the very card a spectator stops the deck on.

Prediction40m
Ch. XVIIILearn it
Ordinary deck

Two-Card Slate Prophecy

Two slate prophecies correctly name the separate cards a lady and a gentleman each select.

Prediction15mNo setup
Ch. XVIIILearn it
Ordinary deck

Locating

A freely chosen card is returned, the deck is shuffled and cut, yet you name both the card and its exact position from the top.

Mind Reading15m
Ch. XXLearn it
Ordinary deck

Wizard's Whist

Four spectators are each handed a small group of cards and silently choose one to keep in mind, then return them all to you.

Mind Reading25m
Ch. XXLearn it