The visual book of card magic
Learn the classic
card tricks, properly.
652+ tricks from Hugard's legendary Encyclopedia of Card Tricks — rebuilt as illustrated lessons, interactive deck diagrams, and a practice game built around real skill.
Illustrated
Every trick gets its own engraved plate, plus deck-state diagrams that show exactly where each card goes.
Organized
Tricks connect to principles, props, difficulty, and chapters — so you always know what to learn next.
Gamified
Earn XP for practice, not page views. Build streaks, unlock badges, and grow a real repertoire.
Featured path · for true beginners
First Night With a Deck
You have a borrowed pack and twenty minutes. This path walks an absolute beginner from 'I know no tricks' to a small handful of clean, self-working wonders you can show a real person before bed.
You'll be able to: Perform three impossible-looking card tricks with an ordinary, shuffled deck — no sleight of hand.
Signature interaction
See the deck actually move
Reading about a cut is one thing — watching the cards travel is another. Our teaching-first 3D deck lets you split, cut, deal, and reveal, so the method stops being abstract. Drag to look around.
- The selected and key cards are always labelled.
- Clear, slow animations built for learning, not flash.
- 2D fallback for reduced-motion and low-power devices.
Open the pack
A few to learn tonight
Card Detectives
Two cards in your pockets mysteriously identify the two cards a spectator pocketed, through pure sympathy.
The Magic Thrust
A spectator pushes a card into the deck behind their own back and somehow finds their own chosen card.
Twin Souls
Two written predictions, sealed before anyone chooses, exactly name the cards a lady and a gentleman freely arrive at.
Spelling A Card
A freely shuffled deck spells out the spectator's chosen card, landing on it letter-perfect.
Surpasso
A spectator buries their card in the cased deck while your back is turned, yet you instantly produce it.
Find The Queen
Five sealed envelopes are mixed, yet you unfailingly identify the one holding the Queen among four Aces.
The field guide
Learn the secrets behind the secrets
Most of card magic runs on a handful of beautiful ideas. Master a principle and dozens of tricks open at once.
Built on a classic of the literature
Every effect here is adapted and rewritten in our own teaching language from The Encyclopedia of Card Tricks (1937) — compiled by Gravatt, revised by Hugard. We credit inventors where known, draw original diagrams, and keep methods behind a Learn Mode gate out of respect for the art.