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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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Twin Souls
Two written predictions, sealed before anyone chooses, exactly name the cards a lady and a gentleman freely arrive at.
The Magic Breath
A spectator tries to send their card to a chosen number by breathing on the deck, fails, then you make it work.
Reversed Court Card
Four face-up cards lie in a row; while you look away one is turned around, and you instantly spot which.
The Sagacious Joker No.1
Four spectators pocket unseen cards, yet you name every one by touching a Joker to their pockets.
The Sagacious Joker No.2
Four pocketed, unseen cards are each named by the Joker, with no awkward fumbling at the pockets.
The Sagacious Joker No.3
A spectator cuts, freely buries cards, and pockets three; the Joker names all three correctly.
The Sagacious Joker No.4
Four spectators pocket unseen random cards, and a wise Joker reveals each one by touch.
The Trio
Three cards are buried, pocketed, and handed out unseen, yet you reveal all three as if reading minds.
Cards Of Chance
Three named cards vanish from the deck, and your written predictions match them perfectly.
Push
A spectator peeks at a card buried in the deck, yet you name it without ever seeing it yourself.
The "Easy" Card in Wallet
A freely chosen, marked card impossibly appears inside a wallet taken from your pocket.
A Smart Location
A spectator buries their freely chosen card in the deck, yet you control it to any position you wish for a clean reveal.
The Whispering Queen
A chatty Queen seems to whisper the identity of the bottom card of each of four heaps directly into your ear.
The Card Doctor
A signed selected card is torn to pieces during a hospital story, yet at the end it is whole again and still bears the spectator's initials.
Stampedo
A postage stamp marks a chosen card placed among ten others, yet the stamped card vanishes from the packet and reappears in the deck.
The Unknown Leaper
A card merely thought of, never touched, mysteriously jumps from the spectator's hand to yours during a fair counting deal.
Self Control
A card freely pointed to turns out to be the very card a spectator only thought of moments later.
The Finger Points
A spectator merely thinks of a card while shuffling, yet you single it out of the spread without a single question.
"Just Think" Mental Mystery
A spectator writes their thought-of card among four others, yet you pluck it from a fully shuffled deck.
New Card Discovery
A freely chosen card is lost in the deck through cuts and shuffles, yet you locate it with ease.
Naming Cards in the Dark
In total darkness a spectator drops a card into your hand and you name it instantly, every time.
The Magic Thrust
A spectator pushes a card into the deck behind their own back and somehow finds their own chosen card.
The Secret Mathematician No. 2
A spectator buries random cards in their own pocketed packet, yet your fingertips pluck out any card named on demand.
The Card Miracle-Certain
A spectator cuts the deck freely and remembers a card, yet you slice straight back to it moments later.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Sleight Of Foot
A spectator buries their chosen card in the deck, yet you find it without ever touching the cards.
System for Arranging Cards
A reliable paper-and-pencil method for building any spelling arrangement so a deck spells out exactly as you want.
Spelling A Card
A freely shuffled deck spells out the spectator's chosen card, landing on it letter-perfect.
Duplex Comedy Speller
Your spelling attempt to find the card seems to fail, then the spectator's own spelling lands on it perfectly.
Farelli's Impromptu Speller
A chosen card is shuffled back into the deck, yet it spells out perfectly on the final letter.
Knock Out Speller
The deck is shuffled and spread wide on the table.
A Single Speller
A freely shuffled deck is dealt into piles, a card is chosen and lost, yet it answers exactly when its name is spelled aloud.
Superlative Speller
A spectator cuts a borrowed deck and peeks a card, then you spell its name and arrive exactly on it.
Impromptu Speller
A freely chosen card is lost in a shuffled deck, then spelled out letter by letter to appear on cue.
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.
The New Spell
A freely chosen card is lost, and when the spectator spells its name behind their back, the card appears face up on top.
The Automatic Speller
Using the spectator's own shuffled pack, a thought-of card is found when the spectator simply spells its name aloud.
Spellino
Instead of spelling a card's name, you spell the spectator's own name and their chosen card appears on the last letter.
Spellino Climax
You rapidly spell off the names of card after card, each one turning up correctly on its last letter, repeating as long as you like.
Howard's Simplex Speller
A freely chosen card is spelled out, and it appears on the last letter no matter how many letters its name has.
U Spell Your Card
A shuffled, freely chosen card is buried, lost in cuts, then spelled to letter by letter and revealed.
An Easy Speller
A freely chosen, shuffled card is later spelled out by the spectator themselves and arrives on the final letter.
Thought Spelling
Three people merely think of cards from small fans, yet each thought-of card is spelled out and found.
Quadruple Spelling
Four people each think of a card from their own packet, and every thought-of card is spelled out and revealed.
Improved Spelling Trick
A spectator thinks of one of several cards, then spells it themselves and turns up the very card.