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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.
16 tricks match your filters
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.
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.
The Queen Turns Over
Three cards are shown, the Queen is laid aside face down, yet she mysteriously flips face up among the others.
Reversed Color Surprise
A chosen card mysteriously turns face up in the deck on command, then reveals an impossibly mismatched back color.
Diachylon Super Color Change
A freely chosen card is found by the audience's combined thought, then visibly changes its back color when they blow on it.
Double-Backed Card Routine
A flowing five-part routine where cards change color, refuse to stay put, and reverse themselves on command.
The Sympathetic Card
A card pulled from the blue deck is rubbed against the red deck and visibly takes on a red back.
Sundry
A card seen as one value visibly transforms into another, or rises wrong and then corrects itself before your eyes.
New Card Monte
A card placed in a spectator's pocket keeps changing identity, baffling them about which card they are actually holding.
Red Or Black
A fanned deck looks entirely black, then with a blow and a turn instantly transforms into all red cards.
The Three Heaps
A chosen card vanishes from one pile and chases across three heaps before finally turning up on top of the deck.
The Advantages of the Stripper Pack
This is a teaching discussion rather than a single trick, explaining what the stripper pack makes possible: cards genuinely vanishing from the deck, sure forces that survive a real shuffle, and effort
Magnetic Mental Control
A blue card is buried in a red pack, yet the card a spectator freely touches turns out to be that very blue-backed card.
Movie Color Cards
Two packs, one blue and one red, apparently trade places entirely while sealed in their matching cases.
A Color Change
A freely chosen card is buried, found under impossible conditions, then revealed to be the only card with a different colored back.
Card In The Orange
A signed, torn playing card vanishes and is discovered whole inside a borrowed-looking orange, with one corner still missing.