The Trick Library

Five sealed envelopes are mixed, yet you unfailingly identify the one holding the Queen among four Aces.

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

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

After convincing riffle shuffles, you pull one whole suit and spell it perfectly from Ace to King.

A chosen card is shuffled back into the deck, yet spelling its name deals straight to it on the final letter.

A chosen card vanishes into a freely shuffled deck, yet you locate it again as if the pack reported its position to you.

A chosen card is matched, predicted in writing, and found again across a chain of seemingly impossible coincidences.

This is the foundation lesson for a whole family of mysteries: a spectator shuffles freely, yet you locate a chosen card every time. Because the secret lives in the deck's own back design, the effect

A shuffled, unprepared deck is examined, a card is freely taken, and you somehow track it down.

You demonstrate a gambler's mirror trick, deal out the aces, then reveal the mirror never existed.

Noticing a one-way-back deck in play, you remark that manufacturers secretly mark their cards. After apparently studying the backs, you let the deck be shuffled, then deal it face down and unerringly

A comic tale of a tipsy bridge player ends with you dealing yourself an impossible grand slam.

The four aces are openly shown and even passed for examination, then set aside under a rubber band.

Five cards are freely chosen and lost in a shuffled deck, yet you read four minds and produce the last card in a striking finish.

Twenty high cards are openly mixed, hidden under a handkerchief, and you produce any Royal Flush the audience requests.

A spectator cuts the deck into three, pockets one pile, and you instantly announce exactly how many cards they cut.

A spectator pockets an unseen card and deals the rest into heaps, yet you name the hidden card from across the room.

A spectator riffle shuffles the deck and freely picks a card, yet it matches your prediction written beforehand.

You predict a number in a sealed envelope, then a freely chosen run of cards adds up to exactly that figure.

After thorough cutting and dealing, a spectator's freely cut card is revealed as one half of the only pair in his packet.

You predict a card in a sealed envelope, then a spectator's freely chosen color reveals exactly the card you named is missing.

Three spectators each pocket a card they cut to, and you name all three using a single 'detective' card.

A spectator stabs the Joker into the shuffled deck, and you name the card it lands beside at a glance.

Two halves of a shuffled deck are handed to spectators who freely choose several cards and shuffle them into the opposite piles.

A spectator reads a shuffled half-deck aloud once, and from another room you recite every card in order and name any position on demand.

Two spectators each merely think of something in a half-deck, and you divine both a freely chosen number's card and a freely thought-of card's position.

After a string of impossible-looking effects, the deck is handed out for free examination and found to be perfectly ordinary, leaving no trace of how anything was done.

An explanation of end-tapered stripper cards and the clean ways they let you control a chosen card.

Four twos repeatedly turn themselves face up inside a borrowed deck, even in total darkness with the deck never touched openly.

A spectator buries a card they chose into a packet, shuffles it themselves, and you find it instantly.

A spectator picks and shuffles a card into their own deck while you are out of the room, yet you find it at a glance.

Several spectators each freely select cards from a deck they shuffle, yet you cleanly find every one of them afterward.

A demonstration of dealing the second card from the top while the top card appears to leave the deck each time.

A spectator cuts a freely shuffled deck and the card they cut to is divined nearly every single time.

You appear to deal phantom 'second' cards, yet a spectator's hand keeps filling with Jacks every single round.

Six spectators each keep a freely drawn card, yet you name every one of their cards in turn without ever seeing them taken.

A small Buddha figure sits between four numbered glasses.

Four jacks are inserted every-which-way into the pack, yet at the climax they all turn out to be facing the same direction.

Anywhere, anytime, with a borrowed shuffled deck, you read cards by name with the pack hidden behind your back.

You let a spectator hand you the four Aces one by one, yet you still deal them straight into your own hand.

You deal a friendly poker game, lose hand after hand to better players, then reveal four aces wins it all.

You deal four poker hands, gather them, and deal again, with the winning hands changing dramatically the second time.

You demonstrate how a card sharp stacks the deck, dealing yourself unbeatable hands across two rounds of poker.

A spectator calls for any poker hand and you instantly produce it from cards taken straight out of your pocket.

You shuffle the deck in a perfectly ordinary-looking way and then deal a four-handed poker game.

After a few casual riffle shuffles and cuts, the dealer quietly arranges a winning poker hand to fall to himself.

You deal five poker hands face up from a borrowed and shuffled pack, showing them as nothing special.

Spectators freely call out poker hands, the cards are cut, and the dealer still ends up holding a Royal Flush.