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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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Ordinary deck

Cards Of Chance

Three named cards vanish from the deck, and your written predictions match them perfectly.

Prediction15mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
Ordinary deck

Card Detectives

Two cards in your pockets mysteriously identify the two cards a spectator pocketed, through pure sympathy.

Coincidence15mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
Ordinary deck

Matching The Aces

A spectator freely lays down one of their four Aces, and it matches the Ace you set out before they chose.

Mind Reading15mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
Ordinary deck

The Secret Mathematician No. 1

A pocketed packet of cards instantly yields a card matching any named suit and value with arithmetic precision.

Coincidence15mNo 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

Follow Me

Two people each pick a card from their own shuffled deck, and the two chosen cards turn out to be identical.

Coincidence15mNo setup
Ch. IIILearn it
Ordinary deck

Coincidence

Two spectators freely cut two shuffled packs, and each happens to cut to the very same named card.

Coincidence15mNo 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
Ordinary deck

Another Do As I Do

A spectator merely thinks of one card among several, yet your card and theirs turn out to be twins.

Mind Reading15mNo setup
Ch. IIILearn it
Ordinary deck

Do As I Do In The Dark

In total darkness two people each draw a card from the other's pack, and the lights reveal a perfect match.

Coincidence15mNo setup
Ch. IIILearn it
Ordinary deck

Domination of Thought

Framed as an experiment in mental influence, your chosen card and the spectator's turn out to be the same.

Prediction25m
Ch. IIILearn it
Ordinary deck

Coincidence Again

A spectator merely thinks of a card, hides it in their pack, and you instantly produce its twin from yours.

Mind Reading15mNo setup
Ch. IIILearn it
Ordinary deck

Sympathetic Sympathy

From two shuffled packs, a spectator's freely pushed-out card matches a card you have set aside, again and again.

Coincidence40mNo setup
Ch. IIILearn it
Ordinary deck

Synthetic Sympathy

Two borrowed packs of different colors each give up a card, and the two cards prove to be a perfect match.

Coincidence15m
Ch. IIILearn it
Ordinary deck

Backs Up

A court card is freely reversed in one deck while a second deck sits sealed in a pocket, yet the matching card turns up reversed there too.

Coincidence15m
Ch. IIILearn it
Ordinary deck

Mental Coincidence

Two cards are sealed in pockets unseen, and when finally revealed they prove to be an exact match.

Mind Reading15m
Ch. IIILearn it
Ordinary deck

Coincidence

A spectator and the performer each end up with a card, and the two cards match perfectly, even on a repeat.

Discovery15mNo setup
Ch. IIILearn it
Ordinary deck

Another Marvelous

A spectator silently picks a number and deals down to it in one deck, noting the card there. From the second deck, you deal as he calls stop, and your stopping card matches his exactly. Two freely han

Coincidence15mNo setup
Ch. IIILearn it
Ordinary deck

A Card Sympathy

A card chosen from one shuffled deck is matched by a card freely drawn from a second deck, in perfect agreement.

Discovery15m
Ch. IIILearn it
Ordinary deck

Paradox Of Pairs

You and a spectator each shuffle half a deck, deal together, and your turned-up cards match in perfect pairs.

Coincidence25mNo setup
Ch. IIILearn it
Ordinary deck

Follow Me

Two spectators each shuffle a deck, both pick cards, and your two chosen cards perfectly match theirs.

Coincidence15mNo 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

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
Prepared deck

The Diachylon Do As I Do

Two people each lose a card in their own deck, yet the cards left behind turn out to be an exact match.

Coincidence15m
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
Prepared deck

The Sympathetic Pair-No. 3

Two people each choose a card from a shuffled deck, and the two selections are found resting together at the finish.

Discovery15m
Ch. VILearn 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

Insto-Transpo

A spectator's initialed card and the performer's initialed card instantly trade pockets across the table.

Transposition15m
Ch. VIILearn it
Gaff cards

Satan Behind You

Both you and a spectator handle the deck behind your backs, yet the spectator ends up locating their own chosen card.

Coincidence15m
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

A Spirit Message

Three ordinary cards are shown and banded together, and a written spirit message appears on one of them.

Divination15m
Ch. VIILearn it
Prepared deck

Odd Or Even

You correctly call whether each freely cut packet holds an odd or even number of cards, then prove it by counting.

Coincidence15m
Ch. IXLearn it
Prepared deck

Card Location Supreme

A freely chosen card is lost and the deck cut repeatedly, yet you find it every time.

Discovery15m
Ch. IXLearn it
Ordinary deck

Coincidence

A spectator buries two cards in a deck, and a second sealed pack is found to contain those exact same cards reversed.

Coincidence15m
Ch. XLearn it
Ordinary deck

Coincidence Extraordinary

After free choices of piles, the cards left in your hands exactly match a total the spectator never could have predicted.

Coincidence15m
Ch. XILearn it
Ordinary deck

Stop And Think

Two halves of the deck are shuffled and traded, yet you instantly find the single card a spectator slipped into your packet.

Discovery15m
Ch. XIILearn it
Ordinary deck

Red And Blue Back Mix-Up

Two shuffled decks of different back colors are mixed together, and at freely called numbers the cards emerge as three perfectly matched pairs.

Coincidence15m
Ch. XIILearn it
Ordinary deck

Dual Sympathy

You and a spectator each take a deck.

Coincidence15m
Ch. XIILearn it
Ordinary deck

A Quaint Happening

A spectator shuffles, cuts, and notes a card in their own deck, and the matching card sits at that very number in yours.

Reversal15m
Ch. XIILearn it
Ordinary deck

Double Divino

A spectator and the performer each lay out cards, and the cards they freely push forward turn out to match perfectly.

Coincidence15m
Ch. XIILearn it
Ordinary deck

Divino

A spectator cuts the deck, deals two piles, names any number, and looks at a card you instantly know.

Mind Reading25m
Ch. XIILearn it
Ordinary deck

A Card And A Number

A number is named, a card is chosen, and a pocketed deck reveals that exact card at that exact number.

Coincidence15m
Ch. XIILearn it
Ordinary deck

Four-Fold Sympathy

A spectator's red deck and your blue deck end up with four matching cards face up in perfect sympathy across four piles.

Coincidence15m
Ch. XIILearn it
Special pack

Coincidence Mene-Tekel

Two cards chosen from different decks, placed unseen in a glass, prove to be an exact match.

Coincidence8m
Ch. XIVLearn it
Special pack

Like Thoughts

A card chosen from one deck is matched, face down, by its exact twin pulled from a completely separate, shuffled deck.

Mind Reading8m
Ch. XVLearn it
Special pack

The Mentalist's Card

A spectator merely thinks of one card from a small row, yet you reveal it without ever looking.

Coincidence15m
Ch. XVILearn 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