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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

Twin Souls

Two written predictions, sealed before anyone chooses, exactly name the cards a lady and a gentleman freely arrive at.

Prediction15mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
Ordinary deck

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.

Transformation15mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
Ordinary deck

Reversed Court Card

Four face-up cards lie in a row; while you look away one is turned around, and you instantly spot which.

Reversal15mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
Ordinary deck

The Sagacious Joker No.1

Four spectators pocket unseen cards, yet you name every one by touching a Joker to their pockets.

Discovery25mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
Ordinary deck

The Sagacious Joker No.2

Four pocketed, unseen cards are each named by the Joker, with no awkward fumbling at the pockets.

Discovery15mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
Ordinary deck

The Sagacious Joker No.3

A spectator cuts, freely buries cards, and pockets three; the Joker names all three correctly.

Discovery15mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
Ordinary deck

The Sagacious Joker No.4

Four spectators pocket unseen random cards, and a wise Joker reveals each one by touch.

Discovery15mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
Ordinary deck

The Trio

Three cards are buried, pocketed, and handed out unseen, yet you reveal all three as if reading minds.

Mind Reading15mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
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

Push

A spectator peeks at a card buried in the deck, yet you name it without ever seeing it yourself.

Discovery15mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
Ordinary deck

The "Easy" Card in Wallet

A freely chosen, marked card impossibly appears inside a wallet taken from your pocket.

Discovery15mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
Ordinary deck

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.

Discovery15mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
Ordinary deck

The Whispering Queen

A chatty Queen seems to whisper the identity of the bottom card of each of four heaps directly into your ear.

Discovery15mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
Ordinary deck

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.

Transformation25mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
Ordinary deck

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.

Transposition15m
Ch. ILearn it
Ordinary 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.

Mind Reading15mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
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

The Finger Points

A spectator merely thinks of a card while shuffling, yet you single it out of the spread without a single question.

Mind Reading15mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
Ordinary deck

"Just Think" Mental Mystery

A spectator writes their thought-of card among four others, yet you pluck it from a fully shuffled deck.

Mind Reading15mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
Ordinary deck

New Card Discovery

A freely chosen card is lost in the deck through cuts and shuffles, yet you locate it with ease.

Discovery15mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
Ordinary deck

Naming Cards in the Dark

In total darkness a spectator drops a card into your hand and you name it instantly, every time.

Discovery15mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
Ordinary deck

The Magic Thrust

A spectator pushes a card into the deck behind their own back and somehow finds their own chosen card.

Reversal8mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
Ordinary deck

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.

Discovery15mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
Ordinary deck

The Card Miracle-Certain

A spectator cuts the deck freely and remembers a card, yet you slice straight back to it moments later.

Discovery15m
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

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.

Discovery15mNo 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

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.

Reversal25mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
Ordinary deck

Sleight Of Foot

A spectator buries their chosen card in the deck, yet you find it without ever touching the cards.

Discovery15mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
Ordinary deck

System for Arranging Cards

A reliable paper-and-pencil method for building any spelling arrangement so a deck spells out exactly as you want.

Prediction25mNo setup
Ch. IILearn it
Ordinary deck

Spelling A Card

A freely shuffled deck spells out the spectator's chosen card, landing on it letter-perfect.

Spelling15mNo setup
Ch. IILearn it
Ordinary deck

Duplex Comedy Speller

Your spelling attempt to find the card seems to fail, then the spectator's own spelling lands on it perfectly.

Spelling15mNo setup
Ch. IILearn it
Ordinary deck

Farelli's Impromptu Speller

A chosen card is shuffled back into the deck, yet it spells out perfectly on the final letter.

Spelling15mNo setup
Ch. IILearn it
Ordinary deck

Knock Out Speller

The deck is shuffled and spread wide on the table.

Spelling15mNo setup
Ch. IILearn it
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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.

Spelling15mNo setup
Ch. IILearn it
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Superlative Speller

A spectator cuts a borrowed deck and peeks a card, then you spell its name and arrive exactly on it.

Spelling15mNo setup
Ch. IILearn it
Ordinary deck

Impromptu Speller

A freely chosen card is lost in a shuffled deck, then spelled out letter by letter to appear on cue.

Spelling15mNo setup
Ch. IILearn it
Ordinary 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.

Spelling60mNo setup
Ch. IILearn it
Ordinary deck

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.

Mind Reading15mNo setup
Ch. IILearn it
Ordinary deck

The Automatic Speller

Using the spectator's own shuffled pack, a thought-of card is found when the spectator simply spells its name aloud.

Mind Reading15mNo setup
Ch. IILearn it
Ordinary deck

Spellino

Instead of spelling a card's name, you spell the spectator's own name and their chosen card appears on the last letter.

Spelling15mNo setup
Ch. IILearn it
Ordinary deck

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.

Mind Reading15mNo setup
Ch. IILearn it
Ordinary deck

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.

Spelling15mNo setup
Ch. IILearn it
Ordinary deck

U Spell Your Card

A shuffled, freely chosen card is buried, lost in cuts, then spelled to letter by letter and revealed.

Spelling15mNo setup
Ch. IILearn it
Ordinary deck

An Easy Speller

A freely chosen, shuffled card is later spelled out by the spectator themselves and arrives on the final letter.

Spelling15mNo setup
Ch. IILearn it
Ordinary deck

Thought Spelling

Three people merely think of cards from small fans, yet each thought-of card is spelled out and found.

Spelling15mNo setup
Ch. IILearn it
Ordinary deck

Quadruple Spelling

Four people each think of a card from their own packet, and every thought-of card is spelled out and revealed.

Spelling15m
Ch. IILearn it
Ordinary deck

Improved Spelling Trick

A spectator thinks of one of several cards, then spells it themselves and turns up the very card.

Spelling15mNo setup
Ch. IILearn it