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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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65 tricks match your filters

Ordinary deck

Self Control

A card freely pointed to turns out to be the very card a spectator only thought of moments later.

Prediction40mNo 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

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

Lloyd's Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde

A card the spectator chooses and a card you choose, each lost in the other's pack, prove to be the same card.

Coincidence25mNo setup
Ch. IIILearn it
Prepared deck

Everybody's Card

Several people each pull a card from a freely shuffled deck, yet every single one of them names the very same card.

Coincidence40m
Ch. VLearn it
Prepared deck

Stage Location

Three chosen cards travel from a deck tucked in a spectator's pocket to that spectator's own hand, one impossible production after another.

Discovery40m
Ch. VLearn 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

The Missing Card

A selected card vanishes from one deck and appears at a freely chosen number in a completely separate deck.

Coincidence40m
Ch. VILearn 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

The Funny Pack

You borrow a deck and show that, impossibly, it contains two of the same card.

Transposition40m
Ch. VIILearn it
Gaff cards

Kings And Aces

Four Kings and four Aces, placed in completely separate spots, magically trade places under a borrowed hat.

Transposition40m
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
Prepared deck

A Card Is Found Once More

A spectator moves a card between two packets entirely on their own, yet you instantly single it out from the whole deck.

Reversal40m
Ch. IXLearn it
Ordinary deck

U Bite

A chosen card seems to turn itself over in the deck, then does it again in the spectator's own hands.

Reversal40mNo setup
Ch. XLearn it
Ordinary deck

French's Extraordinary Aces

The four aces are openly shown and even passed for examination, then set aside under a rubber band.

Poker & Gambling40mNo setup
Ch. XLearn it
Ordinary deck

Projected Thought

A spectator merely thinks of a card, then opens a sealed prediction that names their card and even predicts its final position in the deck.

Prediction40mNo setup
Ch. XILearn it
Ordinary deck

Necromantic Calculation

From a shuffled deck the spectator deals a handful of face-up cards, and you build each into a small heap. With your back turned the spectator privately pockets three top cards, sets those heaps aside

Discovery40mNo setup
Ch. XILearn it
Ordinary deck

Odd Or Even

A spectator pockets an unseen card and deals the rest into heaps, yet you name the hidden card from across the room.

Poker & Gambling40m
Ch. XIILearn it
Ordinary deck

Cremo Card Restoration

A freely arrived-at card is torn to pieces, vanished, and then found whole again inside the spectator's own pocket.

Mind Reading40m
Ch. XIILearn it
Ordinary deck

Card Divination

A spectator mentally picks a card from a fanned half, and you guide him to find it himself in an uncanny way.

Mind Reading60m
Ch. XIILearn it
Ordinary deck

Out Of Sight

With his back turned, the performer lets a spectator remove a card and then names it.

Discovery40m
Ch. XIILearn it
Ordinary deck

Williams' Card Trick

The spectator calls any number, counts to it, and looks at the card waiting there, then shuffles the deck.

Discovery40m
Ch. XIILearn it
Ordinary deck

The Knockout

Three spectators pocket freely chosen cards unseen, and your medium across the room names all three without a word.

Discovery40m
Ch. XIILearn it
Ordinary deck

Count Down Detection

With your back turned, a spectator counts off a small number of cards, notes the card they reach, then buries it anywhere and shuffles the deck freely.

Reversal40m
Ch. XIILearn it
Special pack

Switching Packs

After a string of impossible-looking effects, the deck is handed out for free examination and found to be perfectly ordinary, leaving no trace of how anything was done.

Poker & Gambling25m
Ch. XIIILearn it
Special pack

The Prize Winner

A prediction names a card that vanishes from one deck and then appears, impossibly, inside a borrowed hat.

Prediction25m
Ch. XIIILearn 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

The Turned Card

A reversed card is instantly located in a shuffled deck thanks to a quietly tapered pack of cards.

Discovery40m
Ch. XVLearn it
Special pack

Card Through Handkerchief

A chosen card melts right through a handkerchief that completely wraps the deck.

Discovery25m
Ch. XVLearn it
Special pack

The Captain Card

A chosen card vanishes from the deck and is found alone inside a borrowed hat, the captain who stayed aboard.

Discovery25m
Ch. XVLearn it
Special pack

Rising Card

A chosen card slowly rises from the deck on its own as you hold the pack at your fingertips.

Rising Card25m
Ch. XVLearn it
Special pack

The Advantages of the Stripper Pack

This is a teaching discussion rather than a single trick, explaining what the stripper pack makes possible: cards genuinely vanishing from the deck, sure forces that survive a real shuffle, and effort

Prediction25m
Ch. XVLearn it
Special pack

End Strippers

An explanation of end-tapered stripper cards and the clean ways they let you control a chosen card.

Poker & Gambling25m
Ch. XVLearn it
Special pack

A 'Stop' Discovery

A spectator calls stop as you drop packets onto the table, and the very card stopped at is their chosen one.

Reversal25m
Ch. XVLearn 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
Special pack

Coincidentally

From two shuffled decks, a card chosen at one number is matched by a card found by a thrown die in the other.

Coincidence40m
Ch. XVILearn it
Special pack

Blind Man's Buff

Ten spectators each select and secretly mark a card from a freshly opened, shuffled deck. The cards are shuffled back in and the performer is blindfolded. Dealing through the pack, he finds every chos

Discovery40m
Ch. XVILearn it
Special pack

Telepathic Cards

Several spectators merely touch and remember cards, and a medium in another room returns moments later with those exact cards sealed in an envelope.

Prediction40m
Ch. XVILearn it
Special pack

Telepathic Selection

Someone writes the name of a freely thought-of card on a slip of paper, which they keep entirely hidden from you.

Mind Reading40m
Ch. XVILearn 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

A Means To An End

With a borrowed deck, cards slide along a ribbon between two hats and a spectator stops you on each chosen card.

Coincidence40mNo setup
Ch. XVIIILearn it
Ordinary deck

Miraskill

Before a shuffled deck is even sorted, you predict the exact outcome of a long color-pairing process, and you are right.

Prediction40mNo setup
Ch. XVIIILearn 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

Card In The Orange

A signed, torn playing card vanishes and is discovered whole inside a borrowed-looking orange, with one corner still missing.

Discovery40mNo setup
Ch. XVIIILearn it
Ordinary deck

The Conjurer's Touch

Three freely chosen cards are produced one by one from inside a borrowed-looking handkerchief, even penetrating it visibly.

Discovery40mNo setup
Ch. XVIIILearn it
Ordinary deck

The Card Through the Handkerchief

A chosen card visibly pushes its way through a borrowed handkerchief wrapped tightly around the deck.

Reversal40mNo setup
Ch. XVIIILearn it
Ordinary deck

The Penetrating Cards

A chosen card appears to pass through both its sealed card case and a borrowed handkerchief.

Discovery40mNo setup
Ch. XVIIILearn it