The Trick Library

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

You write two card names in advance, and after a spectator freely cuts the shuffled deck, those exact two cards land on either side of your sealed prediction.

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

Following your instructions behind their own back, a spectator locates their own freely chosen card.

A spectator cuts, returns a card to the centre, and you reveal it, sometimes found reversed in the heart of the deck.

Three spectators pick cards, and one by one each card answers its name, appears on top, then turns over by itself.

A freely chosen card is lost, and when the spectator spells its name behind their back, the card appears face up on top.

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

A spectator thinks of a card from a small packet and later spells it out, finding it automatically.

After two convincing riffle shuffles, you spell every card of a chosen suit from Ace to King.

Two spectators each lose a card, then one finds the other's card reversed in the deck and spells straight to its match.

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

Working in unison, you and a spectator each reverse cards in your own packs, and the reversed cards match.

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.

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

A spectator freely chooses a card and loses it in the deck, which is shuffled and cut.

You write a prediction in advance, and a freely chosen card is found counted down to that exact number.

A spectator merely thinks of a number, peeks at the card there, and you produce that exact card from your pocket.

Three cards are shown, the Queen is laid aside face down, yet she mysteriously flips face up among the others.

Spectators freely cut the deck several times, yet the random cards they land on spell out a number you predicted.

A signed selection is placed back into the deck the right way, yet it is later found mysteriously reversed.

A chosen card mysteriously turns face up in the deck on command, then reveals an impossibly mismatched back color.

An initialed card vanishes, another card reverses itself in its place, and finally the signed card reappears reversed in the spectator's own hands.

A freely chosen card reverses itself deep in the deck, then magically travels to be spelled out letter by letter.

A flowing five-part routine where cards change color, refuse to stay put, and reverse themselves on command.

A freely chosen card is shuffled back into the deck and is later found turned face up in the middle.

A chosen card flips itself face up in a face-down deck, and does it again on command.

A freely chosen card is lost in the deck, yet when the cards are spread it sits face down between two reversed cards.

A spectator stops you at a random spot and freely removes a card, yet it is exactly the card you intended.

Three freely chosen cards are pushed back into the deck, and when the cards are dealt off, those three have turned themselves face up.

Two cards repeatedly seem to swap which back belongs to which face, then make one final impossible color change.

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

A spectator inserts a card anywhere and a sealed prediction names the two cards landing on either side of it.

You make a chosen card flip face-up by tossing the deck, then a smug volunteer fails to repeat it.

A small packet of giant cards, dealt face-up and face-down, all snap to face the same way on command.

A spectator cuts the deck wherever they please and ends up holding the exact card or cards you chose.

A spectator pushes a card into the deck and freely chooses the two cards on either side, exactly as you planned.

Two cards dropped into a hat trade places with one that mysteriously turns face up inside the deck.

A spectator mirrors your every action with their own five cards, yet their packet keeps disagreeing with yours.

A freely chosen card is lost in the deck, yet a single card flips over and points straight to it.

Two freely lost cards each turn themselves face up in the deck, one after the other, matching a pair.

A card turns itself over in the deck to point at a page and word a spectator reads aloud.

A freely stopped-at Ace stubbornly transforms into a King, then mends itself face up inside a banded packet.

A freely chosen Ace is sealed in an envelope and burned, only to rise unharmed and face up inside the deck.

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

You borrow a deck, deal it openly, fail to spot a card, yet a hidden order quietly snaps into place.

A spectator shuffles, freely picks a card, buries and shuffles again, yet you locate it without ever touching the deck.

Blindfolded, you plunge a borrowed knife into a shuffled pack and skewer the very cards spectators chose.