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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

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

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
Prepared deck

The Queen Turns Over

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

Reversal15m
Ch. VILearn it
Prepared deck

Reversed Color Surprise

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

Reversal15m
Ch. VILearn it
Prepared deck

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.

Transformation15m
Ch. VILearn it
Gaff cards

Double-Backed Card Routine

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

Transformation60m
Ch. VIILearn it
Gaff cards

The Sympathetic Card

A card pulled from the blue deck is rubbed against the red deck and visibly takes on a red back.

Transformation15m
Ch. VIILearn it
Gaff cards

Sundry

A card seen as one value visibly transforms into another, or rises wrong and then corrects itself before your eyes.

Transformation15m
Ch. VIILearn it
Gaff cards

New Card Monte

A card placed in a spectator's pocket keeps changing identity, baffling them about which card they are actually holding.

Transformation25m
Ch. VIILearn it
Ordinary deck

Red Or Black

A fanned deck looks entirely black, then with a blow and a turn instantly transforms into all red cards.

Transformation15m
Ch. XIILearn it
Special pack

The Three Heaps

A chosen card vanishes from one pile and chases across three heaps before finally turning up on top of the deck.

Transformation8m
Ch. XIIILearn it
Special pack

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

Prediction25m
Ch. XVLearn it
Special pack

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.

Discovery15m
Ch. XVILearn it
Special pack

Movie Color Cards

Two packs, one blue and one red, apparently trade places entirely while sealed in their matching cases.

Transposition15m
Ch. XVILearn it
Prepared deck

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.

Discovery15m
Ch. XVIILearn it
Ordinary deck

Card In The Orange

A signed, torn playing card vanishes and is discovered whole inside a borrowed-looking orange, with one corner still missing.

Discovery40mNo setup
Ch. XVIIILearn it