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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.
31 tricks match your filters
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.
The Vanishing Pair
Two named cards vanish from a shuffled packet and reappear inside the card case sitting in plain view.
The Sequel
Two numbers you wrote down in advance turn out to mark the exact spots where two freely thought-of cards end up.
The Flying Card
A chosen card vanishes from the shuffled deck and reappears inside a previously empty card box.
Ace Transposition
Two aces sealed in separate glasses on opposite sides of the table magically trade places on command.
Remote Control Improved
A spectator merely points at any face-up card in a red deck, and that very card turns out to be the blue-backed, initialed card they chose minutes earlier.
A Real Magical Vanish
A red-backed Queen visibly travels from a separate blue deck across the room to rejoin two Aces tucked in a spectator's pocket.
Transposition Extraordinary
A brief look at the gaffed card that launched a whole family of double-back card mysteries.
Transposition Extraordinary
A spectator's chosen card appears in one deck while the matching card in another deck vanishes and trades places.
Insto-Transpo
A spectator's initialed card and the performer's initialed card instantly trade pockets across the table.
U Can't Do As I Do
A spectator copies your every move with their own cards, yet their packet never ends up matching yours.
Hat And Card Change
Two cards dropped into a hat trade places with one that mysteriously turns face up inside the deck.
The Funny Pack
You borrow a deck and show that, impossibly, it contains two of the same card.
Kings And Aces
Four Kings and four Aces, placed in completely separate spots, magically trade places under a borrowed hat.
A Transposition
A King dropped into a hat and an Ace placed in a covered glass mysteriously trade places.
Diabolical Transposition
Two spectators mentally pick cards from packets they hold, yet those cards vanish and reappear in two other packs.
The Unseen Card
Two cards trade places: one buried in the deck and one a spectator has been holding in their pocket all along.
Card Into Pocket. A Second
A freely chosen card is signed off, lost in the deck, then vanishes and reappears in your pocket.
Cards And Slates
A freely chosen card vanishes from the deck and is discovered trapped between two slates shown empty moments before.
Card Through Handkerchief
A chosen card melts right through a handkerchief that completely wraps the deck.
Reunion
Two cards chosen from neighboring positions are buried apart in the deck, yet they magically find each other again.
Movie Color Cards
Two packs, one blue and one red, apparently trade places entirely while sealed in their matching cases.
Transpo Color Change
A red pack and a blue pack placed in opposite pockets invisibly trade places.
Three In One Card Trick
A freely chosen card is predicted on a slip, appears at a freely named number, then vanishes to a second packet.
The Case Of The Four Kings
Four Aces and four Kings are dealt into two piles, yet the families magically trade places.
Transposition — Box to Envelope
One spectator draws a card and seals it inside a small card box; another spectator has a card placed into an envelope.
Satan's Mail
A freely chosen card vanishes from the pack and is found sealed inside an envelope across the room.
The Great Pearl Mystery
A story of four queens, their precious pearls, a sneaky robber, and a sleepy guard told entirely with cards in glasses.
Parade Of The Queens
Four queens are paraded between glasses and at the finish they have mysteriously all gathered into a single tumbler.
The Double Lift
You show what seems to be the single top card, yet it behaves impossibly, returning or changing on command.
To Spell Any Card Called For
A spectator names absolutely any card, and you spell it out letter by letter until that exact card turns up at the end.