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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.
24 tricks match your filters
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.
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.
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.
Another Thought Spelling
A spectator thinks of a card from a small packet and later spells it out, finding it automatically.
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.
Sympathetic Sympathy
From two shuffled packs, a spectator's freely pushed-out card matches a card you have set aside, again and again.
Double-Backed Card Routine
A flowing five-part routine where cards change color, refuse to stay put, and reverse themselves on command.
Under Cover
A chosen card is buried in the deck and covered by a handkerchief, then it visibly rises up through the cloth on its own.
Diabolical Transposition
Two spectators mentally pick cards from packets they hold, yet those cards vanish and reappear in two other packs.
Controlling Several Cards
Multiple people choose cards and replace them into what looks like an honest, shuffled deck. Each card seems lost in a different spot. Behind the scenes you have quietly gathered a duplicate of every
From A Hat
Three chosen cards are buried, the deck is dropped into a hat and shaken, yet you instantly pluck out each card.
The Pocket Rising Card
A chosen card is named, then visibly rises on its own from the performer's waistcoat pocket.
Cards From The Air
The magician hurls the deck into the air and snatches two chosen cards from the falling shower.
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
End Strippers
An explanation of end-tapered stripper cards and the clean ways they let you control a chosen card.
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.
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.
The Original 'Stop' Trick
Three chosen cards are buried in the deck, yet each spectator calls "Stop" at the exact instant their own card appears.
'Say When'
Cards are dropped one at a time into a hat, and each spectator calls "Stop" exactly as their own card lands.
The Slap Trick
A spectator's selected card keeps leaping invisibly to the top of the deck no matter where it is buried.
The Master Riddle
Six spectators each keep a freely drawn card, yet you name every one of their cards in turn without ever seeing them taken.
Weighing Chosen Cards
A card is freely chosen and you make a point of not looking at it.