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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.
59 tricks match your filters
Cards Of Chance
Three named cards vanish from the deck, and your written predictions match them perfectly.
Card Detectives
Two cards in your pockets mysteriously identify the two cards a spectator pocketed, through pure sympathy.
Matching The Aces
A spectator freely lays down one of their four Aces, and it matches the Ace you set out before they chose.
The Secret Mathematician No. 1
A pocketed packet of cards instantly yields a card matching any named suit and value with arithmetic precision.
You Do As I Do
Two shuffled packs, you and a spectator each pick a card, and the two cards astonishingly match.
Follow Me
Two people each pick a card from their own shuffled deck, and the two chosen cards turn out to be identical.
Coincidence
Two spectators freely cut two shuffled packs, and each happens to cut to the very same named card.
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.
Another Do As I Do
A spectator merely thinks of one card among several, yet your card and theirs turn out to be twins.
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.
Domination of Thought
Framed as an experiment in mental influence, your chosen card and the spectator's turn out to be the same.
Coincidence Again
A spectator merely thinks of a card, hides it in their pack, and you instantly produce its twin from yours.
Sympathetic Sympathy
From two shuffled packs, a spectator's freely pushed-out card matches a card you have set aside, again and again.
Synthetic Sympathy
Two borrowed packs of different colors each give up a card, and the two cards prove to be a perfect match.
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.
Mental Coincidence
Two cards are sealed in pockets unseen, and when finally revealed they prove to be an exact match.
Coincidence
A spectator and the performer each end up with a card, and the two cards match perfectly, even on a repeat.
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
A Card Sympathy
A card chosen from one shuffled deck is matched by a card freely drawn from a second deck, in perfect agreement.
Paradox Of Pairs
You and a spectator each shuffle half a deck, deal together, and your turned-up cards match in perfect pairs.
Follow Me
Two spectators each shuffle a deck, both pick cards, and your two chosen cards perfectly match theirs.
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.
A Slick Card Routine
A chosen card is matched, predicted in writing, and found again across a chain of seemingly impossible coincidences.
The Missing Card
A selected card vanishes from one deck and appears at a freely chosen number in a completely separate 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.
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.
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.
Transposition Extraordinary
A spectator's chosen card appears in one deck while the matching card in another deck vanishes and trades places.
Insto-Transpo
A spectator's initialed card and the performer's initialed card instantly trade pockets across the table.
Satan Behind You
Both you and a spectator handle the deck behind your backs, yet the spectator ends up locating their own chosen card.
Double Reverse
Two freely lost cards each turn themselves face up in the deck, one after the other, matching a pair.
A Spirit Message
Three ordinary cards are shown and banded together, and a written spirit message appears on one of them.
Odd Or Even
You correctly call whether each freely cut packet holds an odd or even number of cards, then prove it by counting.
Card Location Supreme
A freely chosen card is lost and the deck cut repeatedly, yet you find it every time.
Coincidence
A spectator buries two cards in a deck, and a second sealed pack is found to contain those exact same cards reversed.
Coincidence Extraordinary
After free choices of piles, the cards left in your hands exactly match a total the spectator never could have predicted.
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.
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.
Dual Sympathy
You and a spectator each take a 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.
Double Divino
A spectator and the performer each lay out cards, and the cards they freely push forward turn out to match perfectly.
Divino
A spectator cuts the deck, deals two piles, names any number, and looks at a card you instantly know.
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.
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.
Coincidence Mene-Tekel
Two cards chosen from different decks, placed unseen in a glass, prove to be an exact match.
Like Thoughts
A card chosen from one deck is matched, face down, by its exact twin pulled from a completely separate, shuffled deck.
The Mentalist's Card
A spectator merely thinks of one card from a small row, yet you reveal it without ever looking.
Coincidentally
From two shuffled decks, a card chosen at one number is matched by a card found by a thrown die in the other.