The Encyclopedia of Card Tricks
Originally Compiled by Glenn Gravatt
Revised and Expanded by Jean Hugard
Chapter I ~Miscellaneous
Tricks~
Card and Crystal Ball, The
Card Detectives
Card Doctor, The
Card Miracle-Certain, The
1. Tucker's Version
2. Abbott's Version
3. The Nelson Downs Original
Cards Of Chance
Color Divination
Cut in Detection
"Easy" Card in Wallet, The
Find The Queen
Finger Points, The
Five Card Mental Force, The
In His Pocket
"Just Think" Mental Mystery
Magic Breath, The
Magic Thrust, The
Matching The Aces
Naming Cards in the Dark
New Card Discovery
Prediction
Push
Reversed Court Card
Sagacious Joker Nº1, The
Sagacious Joker Nº2, The
Sagacious Joker Nº3, The
Sagacious Joker Nº4, The
Secret Mathematician N° 1, The
Secret Mathematician N° 2, The
Self Control
Sleight Of Foot
Smart Location, A
Stampedo
Super Card Prediction
Surpasso
Thought Card from Pocket
Trio, The
Twin Souls
U Find Your Card
Unknown Leaper, The
Vanishing Pair, The
Whispering Queen, The
Chapter II ~Spelling Tricks~
Another Thought Spelling
Automatic Speller, The
Card Spelling 'De Luxe'
Double Speller, The
Duplex Comedy Speller
Easy Speller, An
Farelli's Impromptu Speller
Frank Squires' Speller
Gwynne's Speller
Howard's Simplex Speller
Impromptu Speller
Improved Chevalier
Improved Spelling Trick
Incomprehendo Speller
Joker Speller, The
Joker Spelling Routine, The
Knock Out Speller
Lazybones
New Spell, The
Peculiarities of the Pasteboards
Perfect Spelling Trick
Quadruple Spelling
Seller's Speller Idea
Single Speller, A
Spell It
Spell It Yourself
Shuffled Spelling Bee, The
Spelling A Card
Spelling Any Card Called For
Spelling Bee, The
Spellino
Spellino Climax
Superlative Speller
Sure Winner Spelling Bee
System for Arranging Cards for any Spelling Combination
Think of a Card
Thought Spelling
Think It - Spell It
U Spell Your Card
Variation Of Joker Spelling
Whispering Speller, The
Wizard Spelling Master
You Selected the ....
Chapter III ~You-Do-as-I-Do Card Mysteries~
Another Do As I Do
Another Marvelous Coincidence
Backs Up
Card Sympathy, A
Close Work Discovery, A
Coincidence
Coincidence (Different from above)
Coincidence Again
Do As I Do In The Dark
Domination of Thought
Follow Me
Follow Me (Different from above)
Follow-Up Effect, A
Identical Thought
Lloyd's Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
Mental Coincidence
Paradox Of Pairs
Peculiar Coincidence, A
Strange Coincidence, A
Sympathetic Sympathy
Synthetic Sympathy
Two Souls with a Single Thought
Variation Of The Above, A
You Do As I Do
Chapter IV ~Card Subtleties Utilizing Key
Cards~
Card and Number, The
Comedy Twin Card Prediction
Count Down Mystery, A
Couple Of Cards Get Together, A
Demon's Detection
Detected By Fingerprints
Devilish Cards
Double Prediction
Face-Down Detection
Impenetrable Stop Trick
Indetecto
Infallible Detection
Master Mental Mystery
Mental Vision
Mephisto's Prediction
Mystic Seven, The
Nervous Card, The
Nifty Key, The
Phenomenal Thought Cards
Quartette, The
Sequel, The
Think Of A Card
Three Heaps, The
Tone Control
Up Your Sleeve
Chapter V ~Slick Principles in Card Magic~
Counting By Eye
Everybody's Card
Half Moon Location, The
Location Plus
Master Card Speller, The
Mystic Cut, The
Odd Or Even
"Slick" Card, The
Slick Card Routine, A
Stage Location
Chapter VI ~Card Mysteries Employing
Diachylon~
Ace Transposition
Acme Spirit Test, The
Another Diachylon Force
Card In Pocket
Diachylon Book Test - Forcing A
Number
Diachylon Do As I Do, The
Diachylon Force
Diachylon Stop Trick
Diachylon Super Color Change
Flyaway Cards
Flying Card, The
Melrose
Mesmerized Cards
Missing Card, The
Number Please
Queen Turns Over, The
Real Magical Vanish, A
Remote Control Improved
Reversed Color Surprise
Sympathetic Pair-No. 1, The
Sympathetic Pair-No. 2, The
Sympathetic Pair-No. 3, The
Turno
Twin Aces
Two Viewpoints
Chapter VII ~Double-Back Principles in Card
Magic~
Alice In Wonderland
Chameleon Backs
Comedy Relief
Double-Back Card Force
Double-Backed Card Force
Double-Backed Card Routine
Easy Coin Switch
Giant Acrobatic Cards
Initialed Card Telepathy
Insto-Transpo
Perfect Force, The
Remote Control
Repeating Card Turnover
Reverse Location, A
Reversi
Satan Behind You
Single Card Force
Sympathetic Card, The
The Double Card Prediction
Transposition Extraordinary
Turnover
Chapter VIII ~Magic Utilizing Double-Faced
Cards~
Book Test, A
Changing Card, A
Double-Faced Cards
Double Reverse
Four Aces, The
Funny Pack, The
Hat And Card Change
Improved Burned Card, The
Kings And Aces
New Card Monte
Spirit Message, A
Spotter Cards, The
Sundry
Transposition, A
Triangle Trick, The
U Can't Do As I Do
Chapter IX ~Card Mysteries Using a One-Way
Back Design~
Alternate Detection, The
Call Me Up Sometime
Card Is Found Once More, A
Card Location Supreme
Challenge Of The Year
Count Down Discovery, A
Counter Location, A
Cut Pack Location, The
Divination Supreme
Drunk Plays Bridge, The
Eight In A Row
Elimination Extraordinary
Find The Lady
Fingertip Discovery, The
Five Senses, The
Five-Card Stabbing Mystery
Four-Pile Location, The
Gardener's Unique Principle
Hummer Detection
Incomprehendo
Instant Mind-Reading
Living And Dead Test
Marked Pack, The
Miracle, A
Ne Plus Ultra Location
New Kink, A
No Dice
Odd Or Even
One In Ten Detection
One-Way Back Design
One-Way Key, The
One-Way Packs
Pack That Isn't, The
Perfect Guesser, The
Phantom Stab, The
Premo Detection
Principle In Disguise, A
Reading The Cards
Red Or Black
Say When
Siamese Twins
Simple Triple Location
Subtle Method Of Setting The Pack Openly
Think Stop
Thought Card Prodigy, A
Thought In Person
Thought Transference
Transcendental Vision
Twentieth-Century Sorcery
Uni-Mentality
Vanishing Mirror, The
Your Card, Your Number
Chapter X ~Mysteries Using Reversed
'Ordinary' Cards~
Behind the Back
Coincidence
French's Extraordinary Aces
Haley Reversed Card, The
In the Dark
Reverse Count Down Trick, The
Simplified Reverse
Sure Locator
U Bite
Under Cover
Upside Down
Simplified Reverse
Chapter XI ~Calculation Tricks With
Ordinary Cards~
52 Card Trick, The
Assistance Card Trick
Card and A Number, A
Coincidence Extraordinary
Easy Card Discovery
Easy Card Divination
Flush Trick, The
Four to One Detection
Hourglass Cards
Improved Super Memory
Keystone Card Discovery
Knock Out Counting Trick
Long Distance Mind-Reading
Magi's Detection, The
Mentalo
Modernism in Mentalism
Ne Plus Ultra
Necromantic Calculation
Out on Location
Prediction, A
Projected Thought
Psychic Card Feat, A
Spectator's Choice
Two Card Location
Uni-Mentality
Weirdo
Chapter XII ~Mysteries of a Prearranged
Ordinary Pack of Cards~
$1,000 Test Card Location
Adventures of Diamond Jack
Amazing Memory
Another Impossibility
Another Sympathetic Mystery
Between the Lines
Cagliostro's Vision
Card and A Number, A
Card Divination
Card Memory
Cards and Pockets
Circle of Cards, The
Count Down Detection
Count the Cut
Count Your Cards
Cremo Card Restoration
Dead Easy Location
Diabolical Transposition
Discard Trick, A
Divining Pack
Divino
Double Divino
Dual Sympathy
Excello Card Discovery
Eyes All Around
Fair and Square
Fate and the Joker
Fathomed Thought
Fifteenth Card, The
Four-Fold Sympathy
From Another Pack
Improved Marvellous
Prediction
Knock 'Em Dead
Knockout, The
Location
Mediumistic Stunt No. 1
Mediumistic Stunt No. 2
Mephisto's Message
Mephistopheles' Touch
Missing Pair, The
Moving Revelation, A
Mysterious Detective
Name O' Card
Naming Chosen Card
New Pack Detection
New X-Ray Trick
Novel Card Discovery
Odd or Even
One in Fourteen
Out of Sight
Pair Detection, The
Perfect Card Divination
Pre-Arranged Pack That Can Be Shuffled, A
Premier Book Test
Premier Card Discovery
Presentation
Prophesied Discovery
Prophesied Spot Total
Psychic Card Test
Psychic Prediction
Psycholia
Psychological Discernment
Pythagoras
Quadruple Pack Mystery
Quaint Happening, A
Ready Reckoner
Red and Blue Back Mix-Up
Red or Black
Seeing With the Fingertips
Self Working Mystery
Sensational Card Mystery
Sensitive Thoughts
Shark Food
Simple Location, A
Six Piles
Stop and Think
Strange Coincidence
Super Count Down
Switching the Pack
System
Telepathic Control
Thought Foretold
Transposed Cards, The
Trick Without A Clue, A
Two Person Location
Unique Telephone Test
Williams's Card Trick
Winning the Cut
Wizard's Dream, The
Wizard's Will
Wonder Force, The
Your Card
Chapter XIII ~Magic With a Svengali Pack of
Cards~
Any Heap
Card Stabbing
Cards and the Dice, The
Cutting the Pack With a Knife
Eye Popper, The
Mirage Pack
Mirage Principle, The
Mystery Problem, The
Prize Winner, The
Reversed Card
Siamese Svengali Pack, The
Simple Effects
Svengali Clairvoyance
Svengali Force
Svengali Mind-Reading
Svengali Pack, The
Svengali Prediction
Switching Packs
Think of A Card
Three Heaps, The
Unseen Card, The
Various Methods of Handling the Pack
Wrapped Pack, The
Chapter XIV ~Magic With a Mene-Tekel Pack
of Cards~
Card and Number
Card Into Pocket - A Second Method
Cards and Slates
Coincidence Mene-Tekel
Controlling Several Cards
From A Hat
One in Four
Pocket Rising Card, The
The Mene-Tekel Pack
Chapter XV ~Magic With a Stripper Pack of
Cards~
Acrobatic Jacks
Advantages of the Stripper Pack, The
Ambitious Card, The
Animated Card, The
Another Rising Card
At Any Number From Pocket
Blown Card, The
Captain Card, The
Card and Plate
Card Divination
Card From Spectator's Pocket
Card in the Hat
Card Through Handkerchief
Cards From The Air
Companionable Kings
Court Cards, The
Cut Count, The
Cutting At A Chosen Card
Divination Effect, A
Educated Die
End Strippers
Finding A Card in Any Position
Finding All But A Chosen Card
Finding Any Number of Selected Cards At Once or Separately
Finding Three Cards
Flying Card
Four Ace Trick, The
Four Aces, The
Four Kings, The
Just the Reverse
Lifting Any Number of Cards Called For, No. 1
Lifting Any Number of Cards Called For, No. 2
Like Thoughts
Magnetized Card
Naming the Cards
Out of the Room Discovery
Passing A Card Through A Table
Positions Unknown
Red or Black
Reunion
Rising Card
Reversible Cards
Satan's Mail
Selected Cards Pass Through A Handkerchief
Shuffled Speller, The
Startler, The
Stop Discovery, A
Stop Me At Any Time
Stripper Pack, The
Stripper Stabbing
Sympathetic Numbers
Three Card Reverse
To Separate the Red Cards From the Black
Turned Card, The
Chapter XVI ~Magical Mysteries With Special
Packs, etc.~
Automatic Second Deal
Blind Man's Buff
Card Stabbing
Card Telepathy
Card X
Coincidentally
Duo-Mentality
Fourteen Pack, The
Get it in the Dark
Great Psychic Card Feat
Impossible Card Discovery
Impromptu Detection
Invisible Flight
It's Up To You
Limit Four Ace Trick, The
Magicardo
Magnetic Mental Control
Mental Masterpiece
Mentalist's Card Staggerer
Midnight Marvel, The
Miracle Card Location
Miracle Code
Miracle Location Club Version
Movie Color Cards
Neat Card Detection
New Card Locator
Nine in Ten Detection
Novel Card Problem, A
One Ahead
Sight Unseen
Speaking of Pink Elephants
Stereotyped Reading the Cards
Telepathic Cards
Telepathic Selection
Telepathy?
Thought Card Discovered
Three in One Card Trick
Toy Telephone Reading
Transpo Color Change
Whispering Envelope, The
Zen's Card Miracle
Zens' Miracle Pocket to Pocket Trick
Chapter XVII ~The Use of Short Cards in
Magical Effects~
Another Force
Behind the Pack
Card From Nowhere
Color Change, A
Cut Card Force
Double Location
Horoscope Card Force
Locator, The
On the Top
Reversed Location, A
Short Card, The
Spelling Trick, A
To Any Number
Vanishing Card
X-Ray Eyes
Chapter XVIII ~More Miscellaneous Tricks~
Another Poker Set-Up
Another Simplicity Ace Trick
Any Time, Any Day, Card Reading
Banner Card Discovery
Belt Trick, The
Buddha Whispers, The
Buried Alive
Card Detected By Pulse Beat
Card From The Pocket (2nd)
Card From The Pocket, The
Card Through the Handkerchief, The
Card and Envelope No. 2
Card and Envelope
Card in the Orange
Case of the Four Kings, The
Clock Trick, The
Conjurer's Touch, The
Double Poker Deal
Dream Card
Eclipse Vanish, The
Effective Poker Deal
Elimination
Everywhere and Nowhere
Face Up Location
Faces or Backs, Which?
Gambler Is Back Again, The
Gambler in Person, The
Get Thee Behind Me, Satan
Great Pearl Mystery, The
Hindu Miracle
Imitation Seconds
Impromptu Poker Deal
Infallible Prediction
Inseparable Aces
J. M. Rising Card, The
Klondyke Poker
Life Saver, The
Like Seeks Like
Magnetized Cards (4 methods), The
Master Card Location
Master Riddle, The
Means To An End, A
Memory Feat
Mental Card Mystery
Miracle Card Location
Miraskill
Modern Card Reading
Mystery Card Reading
Number Please
Original Stop Trick, The
Paint Brush Card
Parade of the Queens
Penetrating Cards, The
Perpetual Almanac or The Soldier's Prayer Book, The
Poker Demonstration
Poker Player's Deal
Poker Set-Up
Poker Shark, The
Princess Card Trick, The
Psychological Force
Psychological Stop Trick
Quadruple Poker Trick
Read Them Off
Reading Cards--Mirror Method
Reading the Cards--Another Method
Reading the Cards
Reversed Cards
Satan's Mail
Say When
Simplicity Four Ace Trick
Slap Trick, The
Slates and Aces
Spectator Finds Your Card, The
Subtle Set-Up
Super-Reverse Problem, A
Tearing the Pack
Think 'Stop'
Transposition--Box to Envelope
Trend of the Times, The
Triple Card Mystery
Tuned Minds
Two Card Slate Prophecy
Two Pile Trick
Voice of the Spirit, The
Watch His Elbow
X-Ray
Chapter XIX ~Indispensable Sleights~
Double Lift, The
False Cut, A
Glide, The
Good Location, A
Knife Method, The
Methods of Forcing Cards
Overhand Shuffle, The
Palming A Card
Riffle Shuffle, The
Simple Pass, The
Sleights
Chapter XX ~The Nikola Card System~
All Trumps
Argument
Cards By Weight
Curriculum
Locating
Nap
Poker
Sense of Touch, The
Spelling Bee
Spelling
Stop--To Apparently Count the Cards in Riffling
Subtle Game, A
System, The
Thought Anticipated
To Name The Position of Any Card Called For
To Pick Out Any Card Called For
To Produce Cards Called For From The Pocket
To Spell Any Card Called For
Unconscious Thought Transmission
Utility
Weighing Chosen Cards
Whist or Bridge
Wizard's Whist