Card Tricks

How to Use Card Tricks

Card Tricks is a free, browser-based card magic tutorial teaching 12 advanced self-working card tricks — real magic you can perform with any standard 52-card deck. No sleight of hand or finger skill required; clever mathematics and secret set-ups do the work.

▶ Watch

Tap any trick card, then watch the animated demonstration. Use Play/Pause, the step arrows, Restart, and the speed button to study every move at your own pace.

📖 Learn

The Learn tab gives you the exact, numbered performance instructions — including any quick secret set-up — so you can do the trick with your own playing cards.

🔑 Secret

The Secret tab reveals why the trick works — the hidden principle behind the magic, from the 21-card principle to the Gilbreath principle and Gergonne's pile theorem.

⭐ Track Your Progress

Tap the star on any trick to mark it mastered. Your progress, sound and music settings are saved automatically on your device.

About Card Tricks

Card Tricks is an interactive card magic learning app and trick library for beginners and aspiring magicians. Master a dozen classic self-working card tricks — mathematical card tricks, prediction tricks, mind-reading effects and story tricks — each with a slick animated walkthrough, step-by-step instructions, and the secret principle explained.

What Makes It Special

• 🃏 12 advanced tricks that genuinely work with any real deck of cards
• 🧮 Self-working magic — powered by maths, not slippery fingers
• ▶ Animated demonstrations you can pause, step and replay
• 📖 Clear Learn instructions plus the Secret behind every effect
• ⭐ Mastery tracking with automatic local save
• 📱 Plays great on desktop, tablet and mobile, with full-screen mode

Great For

Party tricks, breaking the ice, impressing friends and family, learning the foundations of close-up card magic, or just exploring the beautiful mathematics hidden inside an ordinary pack of cards.

Developed by Vinish Kapoor — https://vinish.dev

Disclaimer: This app is for entertainment and educational purposes only. The tricks presented are based on well-known mathematical principles in the public domain. We make no guarantees of performance results. Use responsibly and respect your audience. No personal data is collected — all progress is stored locally on your device.